American Maidan 2020: a brutal struggle for power between two semi-criminal factions of the USA neoliberal elite
American Maidan is a vivid demonstration of sophisticated class warfare conducted on a grand scale to discourage solidarity
across lines that might otherwise threaten the system. It also serves as a distraction from the problem of chronic
unemployment under neoliberalism.
Like in Kiev events, there is not good guys in this Maidan. It looks more and more like Russiagate 3.0: the third stage of color revolution against Trump: yet another hijacked and redirected
from the ills of neoliberalism and financial oligarchy rule protests orchestrated via Clinton mafia in intelligence agencies
and local governments and used for the Clinton wing of Democratic party to regain
power
When the political reaction comes, as it inevitably will, it will come on little cat feet. And the nation’s elites, secure
in the thought that the systemic racism charge has worked brilliantly in intimidating any lingering dissenters into submission,
won’t see it coming.
Steele's idea is that in the 1960's, many of the hypocrisies of the United States become laid bare: a society partly build
on racism and sexism but professing to believe in equality of opportunity, that professed liberty for all but inserted itself
in the affairs of other nations. In acknowledging these hypocrisies - and Steele thinks the acknowledgement was appropriate -
belief in the United States and its values lost the moral authority it once had. To fill the void, that moral authority was claimed
by those who challenged the values of the United States. Instead of making capitalism more just, overthrow it. Instead of civil
rights movement's goal of integration into American (white) society, the Black Power movement would challenge whether that society
was even worth joining.
"A devastating critique of affirmative action, and other government interventions which, since the sixties, have reinforced
stereotypes of racial inferiority by keeping minorities in states of dependence. A fascinating analysis of the symbiosis between
white guilt and left-wing leverage. "
The sad destiny of Ukrainian people after EuroMaidan should be a warning to all Americans. The currency dropped almost 3 times
against dollar, pensioners starved, infrastructure became decrepit as there were no money for repairs and updates. The country became
the debt slave of the West and the most valuable assets were privatized and sold for pennies on a dollar. Just a different group of
more pro-Western predatory oligarchs got to power and
abuses it to enrich themselves. The single most important element in this population control strategy is to keep the "deplorables"
fissured and divided. As well as distract them with the convenient scapegoat from the problems of neoliberal society they live in.
In no way color revolutions can solve the problem of chronic unemployment under neoliberalism -- the key
problem of any neoliberal society. Attempt to incite blacks against whites is just a skillful and evil distraction: "Look Squirrel!"
type of maneuver of financial oligarchy.
“Colour revolutions” are manufactured from existing grievances (which are abundant under neoliberalism; this is anti-working
people society at the core) along with a well coordinated and financed outside assistance.
In foreign countries embassies are usually serve an focal coordinating points and provide cash funding (delivered via diplomatic mail); upon inspection, there are
always well staffed "control and coordination centers" within embassies. In other words "Uncle Sam" ears are often protruding over the head of extras of “spontanius mass protest". Soros
with his fake "Open Society" foundation
is one well known player in color revolutions in xUSSR space, the person well connected to intelligence agencies. Looks like he also got an assignment
for the American Maidan too.
In the USA the role on the USA embassy assumed intelligence agencies and remnant of Obama administration stooges in them.
Along with the majority of neoliberal MSM, control of which is like the air dominance in the colonial wars.
In a general sense such event as American Maydan is a form of intra-elite competition. Extras can fight each other and police on
the streets with Molotov cocktails and occasional gun violence. But the core of events is a bitter, New York gang style fight
between two oligarchic groups. King of replay of Goodfellas. Mafia and New York has always been a match made in heaven. Not the same
is true about Washington and two political mafias.
The fight is about which group will plunder the country for the next four years. After Hillary fiasco neoliberal group of
"globalists" -- oligarchs who benefits from the neoliberal globalization -- which stand behind Clinton and include Silicon Valley
moguls decided that enough is enough. Madam Pelosi does not support BLM out of purity of her heart,
she supports it in order to topple Trump and restore the power of neoliberal Dems, or more correctly oligarchs who stand behind the
Clinton wing of Dems. The sad reality is that color revolutions usually
drastically lower the standard of living of working and lower middle class.
And, not infrequently, false flag operation are conducted by intelligence agencies and their proxies to increase the level of violence and topple the
government -- mysterious
"snipers on the roof" events are classic now. Look at EuroMaydan "snipergate" as one of such operations.
Katchanovski’s research on the “Heavenly Hundred”
people killed by snipers during Kiev EuroMaidan uprising showing pretty convincingly that the shootings were “a false flag operation involving “an alliance of the far right
organizations, specifically the Right Sector and Svoboda, and oligarchic parties, such as Fatherland." I highly recommend you to
read the whole article, but here is the "money quote" -- nobody was brought to justice, culprits remain unpunished and this is not
accidental:
it is remarkable that five years after this massacre shook the world, no one has been sentenced for any of the Maidan
killings.
This was the best-documented case of mass killing in history, broadcast live on TV and the internet, in the presence of
thousands of eyewitnesses. It was filmed by hundreds of journalists from major media in the West, Ukraine, Russia, and many other
countries as well as by numerous social media users.
Yet, to this day, no one has been brought to justice for this major and consequential crime.
Now in the USA the
Deep state is throwing the kitchen sink at Trump... So everything is possible. That's one reason why current resentments were
exploited and why we have massive, well-funded and organized protests across the US during
an election year. My point of view that they bears strong similarities to EuroMaidan. Is the level of violence, which
correlated with EuroMaidan a coincidence? Nope.
The key issue here is that Neoliberal Dems manage to replace discussion about alternatives to neoliberalism and taming financial oligarchy with the "oppression of blacks".
As soon that his happens Wall Street bankers uncork an expensive champagne, as nobody will investigate their crimes.
The key issue here is that Neoliberal Dems manage to replace discussion about alternatives to neoliberalism and
taming financial oligarchy with the "oppression of blacks". As soon that his happens Wall Street bankers uncork an expensive champagne,
as nobody will investigate their crimes. This is much better
deal with identity issues than with demands for jobs, restoration of the New Deal Social protection and the role of unions, progressive taxation and taming
investment banks, hedge finds, private equity sharks and other parasites. Substituting those issue with racism and LGBT issues make
financial oligarchy much happier.
Creating and financed by financial oligarchy (and most probably by intelligence agencies) an anarchists movements like Antifa (Essentially a
Maoist/Trotskyite group), and "racial protest" movements BLM (a curious mixture of Maoism and black nationalism) is
nothing new. "The historian believes that
"for 15 years, from 1919 to 1933, the Anglo-Saxon elite actively interfered in German politics, with the intention of creating
an obscurantist movement, which could later be used as a pawn in a great geopolitical intrigue… It was not England and America
that created Hitlerism, but they created the conditions in which this phenomenon could survive and prosper."
There are three interconnected factors working in the current protests:
Protests against neoliberalism and the level of inequality in the USA as well as the real issue of police brutality toward the
population.
The third stage of the color revolution against Trump, facilitated by usual suspects from Democratic Party and intelligence
agencies, both interesting is return to "classic neoliberalism" and who view "national neoliberalism" by Trump an abomination,
and Trump himself as a usurper.
Degeneration (look at Trump-Biden duo) and the loss of the legitimacy of the neoliberal elite as a part of the general crisis
of neoliberalism which started in 2008. In this sense defeat of Hillary Clinton (the favorite of neoliberal establishment
in 2016 elections) and the current protests are links of the same chain.
IMHO, what’s happened with the sudden deification of petty criminal George Floyd, in the Seattle Maydan and riot in NYC,
Atlanta and Portland was, without irony, the third stage of a
color revolution against Trump. Which suggest that riots were staffed with paid extras -- both Antifa members and
fringe semi-criminal groups like football hooligans in Europe , often imported from the other states.
The level of remuneration is unclear,
but the source might well be Soros Open Society foundation, which for a long time (at least since 1980th specializes is such things.)
In reality Neoliberal Democratic Party elite promotes racial division solely as the tool
to return to power. This is a very dangerous game with unpredictable consequences,. Things can go out of control. What is more
interesting is that most of them secretly hate African Americans. And if the assumption that this is a color revolution is
true, the financing comes from usual suspects ( Donald Trump vs. the Deep State Revolution, by Israel
Shamir - The Unz Review ):
Our colleague Andre VItchek
suggested we should not describe the process going on in the US, as a ‘colour revolution’. Firstly, the
protesters shouldn’t be discouraged, let alone ridiculed. Secondly, all these revolutions are different, he
says. These are weak arguments. First, I endeavour to understand and explain events, and I leave encouragement
to others. Second, colour revolutions are revolutions made for the benefit of oligarchy. They remove
the ruler who is too strong-willed or social-minded for the billionaires’ liking. And they utilise legitimate
grievances of the people. They ride on the people like a rider rides a horse. It
means that a colour revolution can shift and turn into the real thing, like a horse can throw down the rider
and gallop away, but this is not the usual turn of events.
The Mask Revolution in the US has too
strong a support from corporations to be anything else but a colour revolution. “Black Lives Matter Receives
$100 Million from Foundations, in addition to more than $33 million in grants to the Black Lives Matter movement
from George Soros through his Open Society Foundations”, says
Policemag (the article was removed but can be accessed via archives.com.)
It can’t be decoupled from the COVID pandemic,
or rather, from the lockdowns. These unusual means of disease control are deadly for small businesses and for
free-lancers. Big corporations survive and even grow fat; small ones die. Control over the population increases.
Free-lancers are forced to join the regular labor force and work for a large corporation; or die. The actors
of the revolution will be destroyed by the success of their enterprise. We shall know the revolution became
a real one, when the revolutionaries fight the corporations. Likewise, the enemies of the colour revolution
should not fight Blacks and minorities; they should fight the corporations that use the Blacks as their cannon
fodder.
Because of this connection between lockdowns and the Mask Revolution, Trump should end the lockdowns.
If there is one thing we have learned from first half of the year it is that lockdowns do not help. We have
to live with the virus, even if it that means dying. If you have no lockdown, you’ll have no second wave. The
Swedes did it; everybody can do it. Those who want to lock us down would lock us down forever.
And now, another reason why I disagree with Vltchek. It is not that BLM or DNC are better or worse than Trump’s
warriors. DNC and BLM are close to a hegemonic power. They are loved by the media, by the Masters of Discourse.
If the Democratic candidate wins the 2020 elections, the West will be united behind him. He will humiliate China,
Russia, Venezuela, Iran; the Deplorable will be deplored; European nationalists will be eliminated; the New
World Order will proceed at double speed. No, thank you, Andre. It is better to have America and the West divided
under Trump rather than united under the DNC.
It looks like Democratic party operatives, especially majors of cities were riots took place, are heavily involved in facilitating
the protests. Just look at Seattle city council role in facilitating the creation of CHAZ and its "summer of love" as well as Washington state governor
behaviour, who initially even denied that he know the CHAZ exists ( yet another time demonstrating the above average level of hypocrisy
typical for any USA politician ).
Some observers see more direct analogies, especially in the role of Democratic operatives and donors in organizing and financing
the protests:Ford Foundation is rumored to give BLM connected entities enormous $100 million grants, Soros and the OSF have been another principal
financier of the riots. (American Maidan
as a trump card in presidential elections):
American Maidan as a trump card in presidential elections
Presidential election will be held in the United States on November 3, 2020. The main rivals are incumbent President Donald Trump
and Democratic candidate Joe Biden. The main task of Trump is to maintain stability and order in the country, his competitor is interested
in a situation that demonstrates the incumbent president’s inability to ensure this order.
Now dozens of US cities are hit not just protests but real pogroms with robberies, fires and vandalism. The toughest clashes between
police and protesters took place on June 2 in New York. Manhattan, the heart of the city, is destroyed. Demonstrators beat showcases
and robbed shops on Fifth Avenue. There are many videos on the Web where “protesters” smash windows, take things out of stores, and
set fire to what they were not able to take away.
Riots in
New-York
It is extremely interesting to know that there are organized groups of people who deliberately direct the crowd into clashes
with the police and demolitions of shops without taking a direct part in them.
During his press conference,
US Attorney General Bill Barr said that "it seems that in many places the violence is planned, organized." According to Mr. Barr,
these forces "take advantage of the situation to implement their own, violent program."
The New York Post columnist Miranda Devine says, "There are a lot of videos in social media that show ‘mysterious persons’
breaking store windows but not stealing anything, or cutting through the fencing of police stations but not overturning these fences."
According to Devine, these are "domestic terrorists who have captured peaceful protests across the country."
Interestingly, not only white residents of the United States, but also African Americans are affected by pogroms – the ones "whose
lives matter”. In this video, an outraged black man addresses his compatriots:
“You are doing wrong! I'm from the ghetto too. Did
you rebel because of the injustice of whites? Why ruin my business? Why did you break my truck? Why did you steal my computer? I
tried to live like normal people, tried to feed my family, can’t you understand that?! ”
Meanwhile, Joe Biden is photographed with black demonstrators, kneeling, thereby showing that "he is with the people."
Joe Biden during his meeting with the protesters. Photo: Twitter
The politician also claims that the “peaceful protesters” are now on the streets of the USA: “When peaceful demonstrators are
dispersed on the order from the threshold of the People’s House, the White House, using tear gas and stun grenades, when they want
to organize a photo session at a noble church, one can forgive us for the conviction that the president is more interested in power
than principles.”
Ukrainian and American Maidans – is there any difference?
Now a joke is spreading on the Web: “In connection with quarantine, color revolution specialists are forced to work at home.”
We will not evaluate the level of wit of this phrase; we recall only that in every joke there is some truth.
There are a number of obvious analogies between the current situation in the USA, which we have already dubbed the “Black Maidan”,
and the events of Euromaidan in Ukraine.
Both Maidans began shortly before the presidential election in their countries.
In both cases, the opposition of the ruling power has a vested interest.
Both Maidans were accompanied by large-scale media support, in which citizens are made to believe in justified protests
and even their necessity.
The presence of organized groups streamlining protests in the right direction.
In Ukraine and in the USA there were no unconditional reasons for mass protests and especially riots. The level of prosperity
of Ukrainians in 2013 was an order of magnitude higher than after Euromaidan, while the accession to Europe promised by the protest
leaders did not happen. In the United States, there is no problem of racism, at least inasmuch serious as to cause such widespread
unrest.
It is obvious that the events of both countries are triggered by political strategists who are skillfully inflating the indignation
of citizens and pushing them in the right direction.
On June 3, another analogy with the Ukrainian Euromaidan emerged in the USA – support for protests by some religious organizations,
in particular, by the hierarch of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, Archbishop Elpidophoros.
The Mask Revolution in the US has too
strong a support from corporations to be anything else but a colour revolution. “Black Lives Matter Receives
$100 Million from Foundations, in addition to more than $33 million in grants to the Black Lives Matter movement
from George Soros through his Open Society Foundations”, says
Policemag (the article was removed but can be accessed via archives.com.)
The previous two stages of the color revolution against Trump (
Russiagate and
Ukrainegate ) were more like an attempt to stage a palace coup d'état.
Here we see features clearly more similar to Ukrainian Maydan: an attempt to exploit real resentment and grievances of the people with
the current social system to topple Trump.
In case of Maydan trained far right shock troops were intermingled with paid (literally per day) protestors bussed mainly from Western
Ukraine and recruited mainly from students and unemployed. In case of the USA it looks like Antifa members freely travel from
one hot spot to another, but for some reason this movement is not controlled by FBI. How many "protesters" were paid and how many
were driven by real grievances currently is unclear. But with the level of unemployment due to COVID19 epidemic the "cannon fodder"
for protests was available in abundance, anyway.
Behaviour of police also has many similarities with Maidan: partially they were paralyzed by local authorities. Sometimes their actions
were borderline with open provocation. Attempt of Trump to use National Guard in Washington was sabotaged by the Pentagon brass.
Who pays for the tickets and accommodations or "professional revolutionaries" clearly present in the
riots?
Why nobody investigated how pallets of bricks and frozen bottled of water in large cans were delivered to
the places of protest?
The suspicious placement of
pallets of bricks in the proximity of numerous protest sites have spurred rumors of sabotage by everything from white supremacist
groups to “Antifa” to law enforcement itself.
...Believe it or not, there could be a kernel of truth in accusations coming mostly from the political right as to the possible
role of the notorious liberal billionaire investor and “philanthropist” George Soros and his Open Society Foundation (OSF).
...The Hungarian business magnate’s institute, like other NGOs involved in U.S. regime change operations such as the National
Endowment for Democracy (NED), is largely a front for the CIA to shield itself while destabilizing U.S. adversaries, the spy agency’s
preferred modus operandi since the exposure of its illicit activities in previous decades by the Rockefeller Commission and Church
Committee in the 1970s. In the post-Soviet world, nations across Central Asia, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and beyond have become
well acquainted with the political disruptions of the international financier and his network. In particular, governments that have
leaned toward warm relations with Moscow during the incumbency of President Vladimir Putin have found themselves the victims of his
machinations.
Under Putin’s predecessor Boris Yeltsin, Soros made a killing off the mass privatization of the former state-run assets in the
Eastern Bloc, as journalist Naomi Klein
explained in The Shock Doctrine...
In any case, we can assume that Antifa. BLM and several similar organization play the role of shock troops during the protests, while
then mass of "extras" with their often legitimate grievances is just used for nefarious purposes.
Emerging just two years later, the roots of Black Lives Matter were not just in community organizing but partially took inspiration
from the Occupy movement.
Unfortunately, the similarities between them were not limited to a shared lack of clarity in their demands
but facing the same dilemma of being absorbed into the system. While OWS was quickly suppressed after hopeful beginnings, the BLM
leadership became career-oriented apparatchiks of the Democratic Party and left grass-roots organizing behind. Through the non-profit
industrial complex, the Democratic Party has mastered bringing various social movements under its management on behalf of Wall Street
in order to funnel public funds into private control through various foundations. Along with the Ford Foundation which has given
BLM enormous $100 million grants, Soros and the OSF have been one of the principal offenders. Still, many who correctly identify
right-wing protests such as the Tea Party movement and the recent ‘anti-lockdown’ demonstrations as the work of astro-turfing by
the Koch Brothers and Heritage Foundation seldom apply the same scrutiny to seemingly authentic progressive movements assimilated
by corporate America.
One figure who mysteriously appeared on the scene in the early days of OWS connected to Soros was the Serbian political activist
Srđa Popović, the founder of Otpor! (“resistance” in Serbian) and the Center for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies (CANVAS)
political organizations which led the protests in 2000 which ousted the democratically-elected President of Serbia, Slobodan Milošević,
known as the “Bulldozer Revolution.” Not long after Popović’s consulting of activists in Zuccotti Park, Wikileaks documents revealed
the Belgrade-born organizer’s
significant ties to U.S. intelligence through the global intelligence platform Stratfor (known as the “shadow CIA”), exposing
the real motives behind his involvement in U.S. politics of outwardly supporting OWS while trying to sabotage the popular movement.
Since their role as instruments of U.S. regime change in Serbia, Otpor! and CANVAS have received financial support from CIA intermediaries
such as the NED, OSF, Freedom House and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), as well as the Boston-based
Albert Einstein Institute founded by the American political scientist, Gene Sharp.
Despite ostensibly professing to use the same civil disobedience methods of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr., Gene Sharp‘s
manual for “non-violent resistance” entitled From Dictatorship to Democracy has been the blueprint used by political organizations
around the world that have only served the interests of Western imperialism. Beginning with the Bulldozer Revolution in Serbia, the
successful formula which ousted Milošević spread to other Central Asian and Eastern European nations overthrowing governments which
resisted NATO expansion and the European Union’s draconian austerity in favor of economic ties with Moscow. These were widely referred
to in the media as ‘Color Revolutions’ and included the 2003 Rose Revolution in Georgia, the 2004 Orange Revolution in Ukraine and
its 2014 Maidan coup d’état follow-up, as well as the 2005 Tulip Revolution in Kyrgyzstan, among others.
Subsequently, Srđa Popović and CANVAS also lent their expertise in Egypt during the predecessor to its Arab Spring in the April
6 Youth Movement which appropriated Otpor!’s raised fist logo as its emblem. In preparation for the organization of anti-government
demonstrations, the activists poured over Gene Sharp’s work in coordination with Otpor! whose fingerprints can be found all over
the Arab Spring uprisings which began as protests to remove unpopular leaders in Egypt and Tunisia but were carefully reeled in to
preserve the despotic Western-friendly systems that had put them to power initially. Where Sharp’s “non-violent” template failed,
countries with U.S. adversaries in power such as Libya and Syria saw their protests rapidly morph into a resurgence of Al-Qaeda and
a terrorist proxy war with catastrophic consequences. This recipe has also been exported to Latin America in attempts to remove the
Bolivarian government in Venezuela, with self-declared ‘interim president’ and opposition leader Juan Guaido having received training
from CANVAS.
And concentrating of "Black life matter" rhetoric (partially protest from oppression, partially black racism, partially some flavor
of Maoism of China Cultural Revolution vintage with a new generation of Hongweibing on the streets (with the requisite statues topping
as well as acts of vandalism and violence) it is also great diversion from the real problem that the country faces.
And the real reason for the current crisi is the ciris of neoliberalism and general impoverishment of the US population since
1980 as well as decination of the New Deal Capitalism Social Protections. And it is pretty funny that back people, who suffered most
from the dismateling of the NEw Deal Capitalism now are used to get hot potatoes for the Democratic Party, which under Clinton w
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nstrument of neoliberal elite for dismantling of the New Deal. With Biden playing outsised role in putting black people into
jails.
So now the USA has problem connected with destabilizing level of inequality (relected inthe valuelue of
GINI coefficient ) and the problem with out of control
self-enrichment of financial oligarchy. Along with brutal attempts to intimidate into submission the part of working class, which voted
for Trump in 2016 (aka deplorables)
The destabilization caused by the lootings is most useful for the Democratic Party establishment as a tool to mobilize people for
vote in 2020 elections (note Pelosi participation in Floyd deification) and partially even to Republican Party too. Like the fog
of war it covers their crimes against American people.
There are deep analogies with Ukrainian EuroMaidan and Mao Cultural revolution here. In both case this is open and brutal struggle
for power between factions of ruling elite, where students (the major part of protests foot solders) are just pawns, who at the end
will lose the standard of living they enjoyed before.
In case of EuroMaydan the Ukrainians currency soon dropped three times impoverishing lower 80% of population to African level of
poverty when over 80% of population lives on around $2 a day and pensioners simply starve. In case of Mao the result were even
worse: after Cultural revolution people faced real hunger and many died form it. Hongweibings brutally assaulted intellectuals and party
functionaries which has doubt in Mao cult and the usefulness of the continuation of his leadership. We see some elements of this
in the USA in assaulted on independently minded professors who proved to be not woke enough. Some of them were fired.
Later Hongweibings were exiled to the dirt poor countryside as they performed their role and now represented the danger to the ruling
elite. When a new generation of Hongweibing (translated as Red Guards; can be called Black Guards in the case of the USA)
arrive on the streets you can be sure that neoliberal Democrats led by Clintons and Obama are behind them.
Mao made use of the group as propaganda and to accomplish goals such as destroying symbols of China's pre-communist past, including
ancient artifacts and gravesites of notable Chinese figures. Moreover, the government was very permissive of the Red Guards, and
even allowed the Red Guards to inflict bodily harm on people viewed as dissidents. The movement quickly grew out of control, frequently
coming into conflict with authority and threatening public security until the government made efforts to rein the youths in. The
Red Guard groups also suffered from in-fighting as factions developed among them. By the end of 1968, the group as a formal movement
had dissolved.
That was noted by several prominent foreign observers. Alastair Crooke noted a couple of interesting analogies:
Most notable, are the ubiquitous palettes of bricks that mysteriously appear in the background to many videos of the protests
(see here
for a typical selection). Who is positioning them? Who is paying? U.S. commentator, Michael Snyder, too has
noted
the “complex network of bicycle scouts to move ahead of demonstrators in different directions of where police were, and where police
were not, for purposes of being able to direct groups from the larger group to… where they thought officers would not be.”
He observes too, the anticipatory raising of bail money; the preparing of medical teams, ready to treat injuries; and of caches
of flammable materials (suitable for torching official vehicles), pre-positioned in places where protests would later occur. All
this – with simultaneous protests in more than 380 U.S. cities – in my experience, signals much bigger, silent backstage
organization. And behind ‘the organisation’, the instigators lie, far back: maybe even thousands of miles back; and somewhere out
there will be the financier.
... ... ...
Tom Luongo presciently suggests
that should we wish to understand better the context to these recent events – and not be stuck at stage
appearances – we need to look to Hong Kong for indicators.
Writing in October 2019,
Luongo noted that: “What
started as peaceful protests against an extradition law and worry over reunification with China has
morphed into an ugly and vicious assault on the city’s economic future. [This is] being perpetrated
by the so-called “Block Bloc”, roving bands of mask-wearing, police-tactic defying vandals
attacking randomly around the city to disrupt people going to work”.
An exasperated local man
exclaims: “Not only you [i.e. Block Bloc protestors are] harming the people making their living
in businesses, companies, shopping malls. You’re destroying subway stations. You’re destroying our
streets. You’re destroying our hard-earned reputation as a safe, international business centre. You’re
destroying our economy”. The man cannot explain why there was not a single police officer in sight,
for hours, as the rampage continued.
... ... ...
Perhaps an earlier ‘end of Époque’ metamorphosis shows us how readily an old-established elite can swap horses in order
to survive. In the historical Sicilian novel, The Leopard, Prince Salina’s nephew tells his uncle that
the old order is ‘done’, and with it,
the family is ‘done’ too, unless … “Unless we ourselves take a hand now, they’ll foist a republic on us. If we want things to stay
as they are, things will have to change”.
As another example, Russian President Putin (who probably is also well informed about events) noted in his recent interview(
Zero Hedge, Jun 14, 2020):
"In the USA the President says: we need to do so-and-so, and on the ground, the governors say: go away. It seems to me that
the problem is that group party interests, in this case, are placed above the interests of the entire society and the interests of
people,"
The danger is the start of internal defragmentation of the US into Dominican Republic and Haiti.
Was rection to the murder of Floyd justified?
There is no argument about whether the treatment of George Floyd was appropriate behavior from police. Both sides (protesters and
Trump/his supporters) agree it was not. There is no argument about whether police brutality in the US is a problem. Both sides agree
that it ockquote>
Lance Mannion ->
BakersfieldRedneck •
6 days ago
I think virtually everyone agrees Floyd from all accounts didn't need to die and the officers involved should face charges, but I
also don't believe his death should be politicized to push the left's agenda. This apparent murder does not represent anything other
than a crime by one police officer against one suspect. There are no wide-reaching implications or reasons to indict all police or
our society because the fact is incidents like this are incredibly rare.
The most plausible narrative so far that it was some kind of a personal vendetta between the cop and Floyd, not a racial issue. Floyd
was a brutal serial criminal, with a long file of past arrests and fines.
Floyd had landed five years behind bars in 2009 for an assault and robbery two years earlier, and before that, had been convicted
of charges ranging from theft with a firearm to drugs,
the Daily Mail reported.
They worked together in a night club, and probably Floyd at some point crossed the cop, hence the revenge. But maybe the white cop
was simply incompetent or simply frustrated by trying to subdue someone so big and powerful? Perhaps it had nothing to do with race?
Such questions are ignored. The Clinton neoliberals and their MSM already has their narrative ready to go about how the event is a manifestation
of white racism and blacks are being brutally oppressed by white racism and murdered by racist white cops every single day. And
this must stop!!!
Converting popular revolt against economic terrorism of financial oligarchy into a new Maydan
Any kind of popular revolt against economic terrorism and plundering instituted by the neoliberal elite and protected by the full
spectrum of state institutions including a police force was snatched right before our eyes even before we could react.
Instead we got St George beatification theater. The well-funded controlled-opposition groups such as BLM and Antifa seized on the
opportunity to declare this a racial matter (and probably enjoyed some injected for this specific purpose funds).
As part of its series of undercover videos exposing left-wing organizations like Antifa, Project Veritas released footage claiming
to show far-left Democrat activists bragging about George Soros funding and political connections. Tom Steyer – who unsuccessfully
campaigned for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination for 2020 – and liberal financier George Soros are both named as financial
contributors in the new clip on Refuse Fascism, an organization dedicated to removing President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike
Pence from office.
Andy Zee, national organizer for the group, mentions during the seven-minute video that Steyer "may not want to be directly connected"
to the group because he has "political ambitions" that may be hurt by such a relationship, but Zee says the group is in communication
with Steyer's assistant and "main adviser on impeachment."
Riots purposefully alienated over 50% of the U.S. population, what we call the middle class, and working class.
There can be no racial justice minus true economic justice
There can be no racial justice minus true economic justice. This means the need for reaching out to the white working class and building
a broad-based alliance. Currently this is impossible dure the radicalism of Antifa and BLM who are the driving force bheind the protests:
Forget all the news-noise in recent days about thuggery, police brutality, frankly ridiculous white middle-class virtue signalling,
and chucking statues in harbours. While the violence and looting was probably driven by opportunism and boredom, the underlying grievances
are about fundamental human emotions.
The real issues are much bigger. Perceptions of rising inequality are rising – in terms of opportunities, rights and
of income. Inequality has been magnified over the last 12 years – as a consequence of the last market crash - and societies
are likely to become even more unequal as this recession plays out.
This growing sense of injustice and unfairness will hit across economies. As the virus bites harder in less developed economies,
the pressure and unrest is likely to escalate. As the global economy deteriorates, unemployment rises and i
... ... ...
The riots demonstrate that tensions are high and rising. As the recession bites, there is a risk of further division and
populism creating political instability...
Meanwhile the neoliberal establishment continues to use identity politics to keep working people permanently divided. Here is one
comment:
Liberal cities today will defund and disband their police. Let me tell you right now, when black on black violence grows worse
and property crimes drive tax payers out, the mantra will be, systematic racism caused this. It will be used as an excuse for the
failures of new liberal social justice policies.
Some questions about the current riots
Several legitimate questions arise:
Cue bono? With PRISM and NSA in full boom is it so difficult to decipher plans, the modes of operation, communications,
networking, and finances of the Democratic donors involved, as well as Soros and Co, and use incriminating evidence to squeeze bad
actors? Why nothing at all was done?
Who is responsible for organizing the riots, allowing them to explode out of control, and spread all over the country?
Who supplied the pallets of brick hidden behind fake construction site signs, at places of protests in multiple cities?
What about the discovery of weapons such as pipe bombs, pipes, etc, all hidden in areas close to the pre-planned
protest sites? There are videos of these
What is the real reason Antifa (and other groups of anarchists and Maoists) are allowed to operate by FBI?
Why there is a push by the woke crowd to defund the police departments? After all Floyd was not a saint, but a hardened
criminal.
Why many arrested for violence participants were released? Should not they be kept without bail as they represent a danger
to public order. Who sanctioned their release?
Is not the slogan "Black Lives Matter" a blatant black exceptionalism. Why not "Black Lives Matter too"?
Protesters will be royally fleeced
If Maydan is any model for the current protest, there is no doubts that protesters will be royally fleeced and will end in much worse
economic conditions than before. Which is given taking into account the Coronavirus lockdown disproportionally affected the city poor.
At the same time most people remains completely ignorant about the evil nature of this kabuki theater and dirty tricks of neoliberal
propaganda machine. Which is pretty capable of gaslighting the whole nation. This happened first of all due to the depth of neoliberal
indoctrination which is taking place in our college system and increasingly, in our primary schools. In the thick smoke of the multicultural
and neoliberal propaganda all of Americans find ourselves in, it becomes almost impossible to see the real evils of the system and trace
them back to the origins, to the root case of what went wrong with the USA society.
Like in Kiev EuroMaydan uprising legitimate grievances are now exploited for nefarious purposes: setting scores in the vicious
fight of two neoliberal clans. It is easy to incite rage against the police among some categories of black people and white unemployed
youth. As well as use assorted anarchists and Maoist grup as storm troopers to vandalism. Looting was taken care by criminal gangs.
People resentment with the system was skillfully exploited. Protests were well financed and organized. It is undeniable fact tha
pallets of bricks were delivered at places of protest in multiple cities -- by whom? For what ? Both questions remain unanswered, and
as in Maydan probably never will be.
Curfews were imposed in major cities around the U.S., including Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle.
About 5,000 National Guard soldiers and airmen were activated in 15 states and Washington, D.C. Still miraculously protest went out
of control and mass looting at night, when policy force was withdrawn (by whom?) occured. Again the question is classic "Que bono?"
At least 4,100 people have been arrested over days of protests, according to a tally compiled by The Associated Press. Arrests ranged
from looting and blocking highways to breaking curfew.
The key role of Anarchist and Maoist elements
Protests were clearly were violent and on the ground probably led by Anarchists an Maoist elements, such as Antifa. funny that at
one point they really thetened White house. Trump was wicked to the bunker. MSM tried to hide this fact emphazing only the fact that
Trump went to the bunker.
I disagree when he says there were a 'few violent protests', the majority were violent, the problem is the MSM are not publishing
them, wanting to keep up the farce that these are peacheful protests. What about the discovery that weapons such as piles of bricks
hidden behind fake construction site signs, weapons, pipe bombs, pipes, etcetc are all hidden in areas close to the pre-planned
protest sites, there are videos of these; these protests and this violence has been planned for a very long time.
Has anyone
seen the videos of the actual riots in NY and Santa Monica at the least? Dozens and dozens of stores were smashed open and completely
looted, we are talking about Bloomingdales/Rolex/Chanel/Dior/Foot Locker/Best Buy/GAP/Louie Viutton/GUCCI and the list is long.
It was so serious in downtown NYC that every single store in uptown NY, all along 57th Street and from Madison all down 5th
Avenue and on to the West Side is completely boarded up, completely.
Does anyone show these videos? When has anyone seen NY like this? Santa Monica was just looted there are videos that the whole
length of stores are destroyed.
...vandalism and looting were initiated and encouraged by hired agent provocateurs. They delivered bricks to strategic locations
and they dispatched saboteurs to break windows -- remember, at least one with an umbrella was caught on video. Where is the investigation
into these crimes? Don't expect one, because it was part of the plot.
Social media platforms are being used by Soros funded groups like Antifa and Black Lives Matter to organize and to get out their
orders, but when those that wanted to promote rallies about the unconstitutionality of stay-at-home orders and the lockdowns and shutdowns
, or god forbid question vaccine safety , Facebook and Twitter censors or threatens to block accounts.
The key role of protests and now any help to the black population, they are about helping to return to power by neoliberal Dems
in November 2020
Tucker Carlson is one of the few commentators who sensed the real undercurrent below the protests and got it mostly right (although
he is deeply mistaken about composition of sponsors of the protest -- they included elements of Republin Party too)
Now suddenly, it is obvious. It should have been obvious on the first day. This is about
Donald Trump. Of course, it is. We just couldn't
see it.
For normal people, Donald Trump is the president. You may like him, you may not like him, but either way, there will be another
president at some point, and we will move on as we always have.
But for Donald Trump's enemies, there is nothing else. Everything is about Trump. Everything.
Donald Trump defines their friendships, their careers, their marriages. Donald Trump affects how they raise their children. Trump
occupies the very center of their lives. As long as Donald Trump remains in the White House. They feel powerless and diminished and
panicked. So they cannot be happy.
In everything they do, their overriding goal is to remove Donald Trump from office. And that's exactly what they're trying to
do now. That's what these riots are about. The most privileged in our society are using the most desperate in our society to seize
power from everyone else.
Got that? That's the nub of it. The most privileged are using the most desperate to seize power from the rest of us. They are
not seeking racial justice. If they were seeking racial justice, they wouldn't be denouncing their fellow Americans for their race,
which they are. It has nothing to do with it.
What they are seeking is total control of the country. And it goes without saying that none of this has anything to do with
George Floyd. Shame on those who pretended that
it did -- those who fell for the lie and those who knew better but played along because they are cowards. There are many of those.
You know who they are, and someday we will look back on all of them with contempt.
Meanwhile, the many people promoting this chaos remain clear-eyed. They are not lying to themselves. They never do. They know
exactly what's going on, and they know what they hope to achieve by it. With every night of rioting, they grow bolder. Now, they
are openly defending violence on television.
Bakari Sellers, CNN political commentator: People worry about the protesters and the looters. And it is just people
who are frustrated.
Don Lemon, CNN anchor: They are frustrated, and they are angry, and they are out there. And they're upset. You shouldn't
be taking televisions, but I can't tell people how to react to this.
Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.: I'm
proud of the protests, and I think it is part of the tradition of New York. The violence is bad, reprehensible, and it should
be condemned, but it is not the overwhelming picture in New York.
Nikole Hannah-Jones, The New York Times: Destroying property which can be replaced is not violence.
Chris Cuomo, CNN anchor Too many see the protests as the problem. Please, show me where it says that protests are supposed
to be polite and peaceful.
You're crushed by this. You can't believe what's happening to your country. But for the people you just saw, the real problem
is that the rioting in some rare places is being stopped by police, and their aim is to fix that. They would like to eliminate all
law enforcement for good.
In everything they do, their overriding goal is to remove Donald Trump from office. And that's exactly what they're trying
to do now. That's what these riots are about. The most privileged in our society are using the most desperate in our society to
seize power from everyone else.
... ... ...
In the absence of law enforcement, the answer is no. It means thugs are in charge. The most violent people have the most power.
They can do whatever they want to you. That's the reality. Everyone obeys the violent people, or they get hurt. The mob literally
rules.
That probably sounds like a nightmare to you, because it is. But the people pushing this idea don't see it as scary because they
don't fear the mob, because they control the mob. That's the key. And they see violence as an instrument of their political power.
With mobs in the streets that they control, they will finally get what they want -- Donald Trump out of office and a hammerlock
on the country. That's what's happening.
Is this a replay of Maydan and Hong Cong color revolutions ?
It is funny how close are events at the Independence Square in Kiev during EuroMaydan and events in Seattle and the creation of CHAZ
In case of Maydan protesters erected tent camp on the square. In order to provide sanitation and food distribution protesters captured
the Trade Union Building which stands on the side of the square (later the building was burned). In case of Seattle it is unclear what
sleeping quarters the protester have and who provides sanitation and food
The designated zone is located in the city's Capitol Hill district and surrounds the Seattle Police Department's East Precinct.
Police opened the area to protesters on Monday after previously closing the streets following violent demonstrations that took place
following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
...One sign outside the area,
which takes up several blocks, reads,
"You are now leaving the USA." Some participating in the occupation have presented a
list of demands that includes abolishing the Seattle Police Department.
In both cases protesters are pawns of oligarchic clans. In Kiev protested also occupied the City Hall and the same
is true for CHAZ (“Capital Hill Autonomous Zone” which is a repetition of the same scheme with different actors.
In both cases subtle support from the government was evident. In case of Maydan city authorities and some government official sabotaged
the President efforts to deal with protests on one hand, and staged violent clashed with police to aggravate the situation of the other.
In case of CHAZ "Washington Gov. Jay Inslee said he was unaware of protesters setting up a police-free zone in Seattle when asked by
reporters." Jay Inslee on
Seattle's police-free zone 'That's news to me'
I spoke with @MayorJenny and her team about the situation on Capitol Hill. Although unpermitted, and we should remember we are
still in a pandemic, the area is largely peaceful. Peaceful protests are fundamentally American, and I am hopeful there will be a
peaceful resolution.
— Governor Jay Inslee (@GovInslee) June 11, 2020
I can’t stop laughing. I’ve been reading comments on Twitter for the last 10 minutes about this.
Raz(mattaz?) was being filmed while he was trying to convince the guy to stop spray painting. It didn’t
work, so then a scuffle ensued.
He chased his ass down the block and beat him up.
Then they slapped around the guy with the camera and broke his glasses.
You know someone infiltrated the group already. Too much info is coming out. lol
What’s the ETA on the power and water cut off? lolol
...Jay Inslee Laughs About Antifa’s Rebellion in Seattle as He Demobilizes National Guard
During Euromaydan large part of protesters were paid actors, mostly students, bussed from different (mainly Western) regions
of Ukraine. They "worked" in shifts. In case of Seattle, the core are students but whether they are paid or not is unclear. Looters
definitely self-enrich but they are tiny percentage of protesters. There was no looting during Maydan, but protesters burned several
buildings.
In Seattle they get food somehow, so some shadow channel of financing the protests is avilable.
In case of EuroMaydan, violent clashes were well financed and preaching the slogan "Power comes from the barrel of the gun", violent
groups were the core of the protesters (although they ideology was completely different)
This makes no sense. To the Communists, the Hong Kong protests are evil and violence will be used to suppress them. So is Xi
giving Trump permission to use violence?
Or if the Minnesota riots are about how corrupt the US is, then isn't also the Hong Kong protests about fighting a corrupt
regime?
This is the end state of radical propaganda. You end up showing just how evil you are.
If the Chicoms are right I have an idea. Why don't they give us the Hong Kong protestors and, in return, we can give them the
Black Lies Matters and Antifa thugs. The Hong Kong protestors are protesting the "workers paradise" while the thugs here are protesting
"capitalism". If those thugs go to China they can have socialism AND there are very very few white people there. Meanwhile, the
Hong Kong protestors want freedom, which the US offers. Seems like a win/win for the US and China.
No comparison. Hong Kong is not a riot. Just a protest against China..
Minneapolis is not a protest, it is a group of punks and cowards that are a disgrace to the human race and are out to destroy
the United States. Time to take off the gloves and treat them as they are treating others. Time to put an end to what the Democrats
started!
It is strange that this started right after Pelosi went to China and is just the kind of thing the Chinese government is known
for.
In the past, I've used to sympathize and support their movement as they are peaceful protestors with reasonable demand with
HK and China's Central Government. But when they decided to use violence, then it's different story. If they think violence it's
the answer, they gotta go Mainland China and confront the PLA.
Below is the description of the gear used by Hong Cong protesters. There are some analogies here two, especially with Antifa.
"... He defines "wokeism" as a creed that has arisen in America in response to the "moral vacuum" created by the ebbing from public life of faith, patriotism and "the identity we derived from hard work." He argues that notions like "diversity," "equity," "inclusion" and "sustainability" have come to take their place. ..."
"... "Our collective moral insecurities," Mr. Ramaswamy says, "have left us vulnerable" to the blandishments and propaganda of the new political and corporate elites, who are now locked in a cynical "arranged marriage, where each partner has contempt for the other." Each side is getting out of the "trade" something it "could not have gotten alone." ..."
"... Wokeness entered its union with capitalism in the years following the 2008 financial panic and recession. Mr. Ramaswamy believes that conditions were perfect for the match. "We were -- and are -- in the midst of the biggest intergenerational wealth transfer in history," he says. Barack Obama had just been elected the first black president. By the end of the crisis, Americans "were actually pretty jaded with respect to capitalism. Corporations were the bad guys. The old left wanted to take money from corporations and give it to poor people." ..."
"... The birth of wokeism was a godsend to corporations, Mr. Ramaswamy says. It helped defang the left. "Wokeism lent a lifeline to the people who were in charge of the big banks. They thought, 'This stuff is easy!' " They applauded diversity and inclusion, appointed token female and minority directors, and "mused about the racially disparate impact of climate change." So, in Mr. Ramaswamy's narrative, "a bunch of big banks got together with a bunch of millennials, birthed woke capitalism, and then put Occupy Wall Street up for adoption." Now, in Mr. Ramaswamy's tart verdict, "big business makes money by critiquing itself." ..."
"... Davos is "the Woke Vatican," Mr. Ramaswamy says; Al Gore and Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock , are "its archbishops." CEOs "further down the chain" -- he mentions James Quincey of Coca-Cola , Ed Bastian of Delta , Marc Benioff of Salesforce , John Donahoe of Nike and Alan Jope of Unilever -- are its "cardinals." ..."
"... He describes this sort of corporate imposition -- "a market force supplanting open political debate to settle the essence of political questions" -- as one of the "defining challenges" America faces today. "If democracy means anything," he adds, "it means living in a one-person-one-vote system, not a one-dollar-one-vote system." Voters' voices "are unadjusted by the number of dollars we wield in the marketplace." Open debate in the public square is "our uniquely American mechanism" of settling political questions. He likens the woke-corporate silencing of debate as akin to the "old-world European model, where a small group of elites gets in a room and decides what's good for everyone else." ..."
"... The wokeism-capitalism embrace, Mr. Ramaswamy says, was replicated in Silicon Valley. Over the past few years, "Big Tech effectively agreed to censor -- or 'moderate' -- content that the woke movement didn't like. But they didn't do it for free." In return, the left "agreed to look the other way when it comes to leaving Silicon Valley's monopoly power intact." This arrangement is "working out masterfully" for both sides. ..."
"... Coca-Cola follows the same playbook, he says: "It's easier for them to issue statements about voting laws in Georgia, or to train their employees on how to 'be less white,' than it is to publicly reckon with its role in fueling a nationwide epidemic of diabetes and obesity -- including in the black communities they profess to care about so much." (In a statement, Coca-Cola apologized for the "be less white" admonition and said that while it was "accessible through our company training platform," it "was not a part of our training curriculum.") ..."
"... Nike finds it much easier to write checks to Black Lives Matter and condemn America's history of slavery, Mr. Ramaswamy says, even as it relies on "slave labor" today to sell "$250 sneakers to black kids in the inner city who can't afford to buy books for school." All the while, Black Lives Matter "neuters the police in a way that sacrifices even more black lives." (Nike has said in a statement that its code of conduct prohibits any use of forced labor and "we have been engaging with multi-stakeholder working groups to assess collective solutions that will help preserve the integrity of our global supply chains.") ..."
"... Mr. Varadarajan, a Journal contributor, is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and at New York University Law School's Classical Liberal Institute. ..."
"... Seems to me in a nutshell he is saying that these woke corporations are all hypocrites. No surprise there hypocrisy is a defining characteristic of the woke left and you need to assume that characteristic yourself to be able to work within their bounds. ..."
"... Wokeists argue that theirs is not a religion because it doesn't center on a transcendent being. I see Wokeism as a religion that gathers multiple Secularist sects into a big tent. These sects include Environmentalism, Genderism, Anti-Racism, and more. ..."
"... One thing all religions share in common is the elevation of questionable premises to unassailable truths which they defend with religious zeal. Some questionable premises elevated to unassailable truths by Wokeism are that humans are making the Earth uninhabitable, gender is an individual choice, and race is the most important human characteristic. There are more. ..."
A self-made multimillionaire who founded a biotech company at 28, Vivek Ramaswamy is every
inch the precocious overachiever. He tells me he attended law school while he was in sixth
grade. He's joking, in his own earnest manner. His father, an aircraft engineer at General
Electric, had decided to get a law degree at night school. Vivek sat in on the classes with
him, so he could keep his dad company on the long car rides to campus and back -- a very Indian
filial act.
"I was probably the only person my age who'd heard of Antonin Scalia, " Mr. Ramaswamy, 35,
says in a Zoom call from his home in West Chester, Ohio. His father, a political liberal, would
often rage on the way home from class about "some Scalia opinion." Mr. Ramaswamy reckons that
this was when he began to form his own political ideas. A libertarian in high school, he
switched to being conservative at Harvard in "an act of rebellion" against the politics he
found there. That conservatism drove him to step down in January as CEO at Roivant Sciences --
the drug-development company that made him rich -- and write "Woke, Inc," a book that takes a
scathing look at "corporate America's social-justice scam." (It will be published in
August.)
Mr. Ramaswamy recently watched the movie "Spotlight," which tells the story of how reporters
at the Boston Globe exposed misconduct (specifically, sexual abuse) by Catholic priests in the
early 2000s. "My goal in 'Woke, Inc.' is to do the same thing with respect to the Church of
Wokeism." He defines "wokeism" as a creed that has arisen in America in response to the "moral
vacuum" created by the ebbing from public life of faith, patriotism and "the identity we
derived from hard work." He argues that notions like "diversity," "equity," "inclusion" and
"sustainability" have come to take their place.
"Our collective moral insecurities," Mr. Ramaswamy says, "have left us vulnerable" to the
blandishments and propaganda of the new political and corporate elites, who are now locked in a
cynical "arranged marriage, where each partner has contempt for the other." Each side is
getting out of the "trade" something it "could not have gotten alone."
Wokeness entered its union with capitalism in the years following the 2008 financial panic
and recession. Mr. Ramaswamy believes that conditions were perfect for the match. "We were --
and are -- in the midst of the biggest intergenerational wealth transfer in history," he says.
Barack Obama had just been elected the first black president. By the end of the crisis,
Americans "were actually pretty jaded with respect to capitalism. Corporations were the bad
guys. The old left wanted to take money from corporations and give it to poor people."
The birth of wokeism was a godsend to corporations, Mr. Ramaswamy says. It helped defang the
left. "Wokeism lent a lifeline to the people who were in charge of the big banks. They thought,
'This stuff is easy!' " They applauded diversity and inclusion, appointed token female and
minority directors, and "mused about the racially disparate impact of climate change." So, in
Mr. Ramaswamy's narrative, "a bunch of big banks got together with a bunch of millennials,
birthed woke capitalism, and then put Occupy Wall Street up for adoption." Now, in Mr.
Ramaswamy's tart verdict, "big business makes money by critiquing itself."
Mr. Ramaswamy regards Klaus Schwab, founder and CEO of the World Economic Forum in Davos,
Switzerland, as the "patron saint of wokeism" for his relentless propagation of "stakeholder
capitalism" -- the view that the unspoken bargain in the grant to corporations of limited
liability is that they "must do social good on the side."
Davos is "the Woke Vatican," Mr. Ramaswamy says; Al Gore and Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock , are "its
archbishops." CEOs "further down the chain" -- he mentions James Quincey of Coca-Cola , Ed Bastian of Delta , Marc Benioff of
Salesforce , John
Donahoe of Nike and
Alan Jope of Unilever
-- are its "cardinals."
Mr. Ramaswamy says that "unlike the investigative 'Spotlight' team at the Boston Globe, I'm
a whistleblower, not a journalist. But the church analogy holds strong." He paraphrases a line
in the movie: "It takes a village to raise a child, then it takes a village to abuse one. In
the case of my book, the child I'm concerned about is American democracy."
In league with the woke left, corporate America "uses force" as a substitute for open
deliberation and debate, Mr. Ramaswamy says. "There's the sustainability accounting standards
board of BlackRock, which effectively demands that in order to win an investment from
BlackRock, the largest asset-manager in the world, you must abide by the standards of that
board."
Was the board put in place by the owners of the trillions of dollars of capital that Mr.
Fink manages? Of course not, Mr. Ramaswamy says. "And yet he's actually using his seat of
corporate power to sidestep debate about questions like environmentalism or diversity on
boards."
The irrepressible Mr. Ramaswamy presses on with another example. Goldman Sachs , he says with obvious relish,
"is a very Davos-fitting example." At the 2020 World Economic Forum, Goldman Sachs CEO David
Solomon "issued an edict from the mountaintops of Davos." Mr. Solomon announced his company
would refuse to take a company public if its board wasn't sufficiently diverse. "So Goldman
gets to define what counts as 'diverse,' " Mr. Ramaswamy says. "No doubt, they're referring to
skin-deep, genetically inherited attributes."
He describes this sort of corporate imposition -- "a market force supplanting open political
debate to settle the essence of political questions" -- as one of the "defining challenges"
America faces today. "If democracy means anything," he adds, "it means living in a
one-person-one-vote system, not a one-dollar-one-vote system." Voters' voices "are unadjusted
by the number of dollars we wield in the marketplace." Open debate in the public square is "our
uniquely American mechanism" of settling political questions. He likens the woke-corporate
silencing of debate as akin to the "old-world European model, where a small group of elites
gets in a room and decides what's good for everyone else."
The wokeism-capitalism embrace, Mr. Ramaswamy says, was replicated in Silicon Valley. Over
the past few years, "Big Tech effectively agreed to censor -- or 'moderate' -- content that the
woke movement didn't like. But they didn't do it for free." In return, the left "agreed to look
the other way when it comes to leaving Silicon Valley's monopoly power intact." This
arrangement is "working out masterfully" for both sides.
The rest of corporate America appears to be following suit. "There's a Big Pharma version,
too," Mr. Ramaswamy says. "Big Pharma had an epiphany in dealing with the left." It couldn't
beat them, so it joined them. "Rather than win the debate on drug pricing, they decided to just
change the subject instead. Who needs to win a debate if you can just avoid having it?" So we
see "big-time pharma CEOs musing about topics like racial justice and environmentalism, and
writing multibillion-dollar checks to fight climate change, while taking price hikes that
they'd previously paused when the public was angry about drug pricing."
Coca-Cola follows the same playbook, he says: "It's easier for them to issue statements
about voting laws in Georgia, or to train their employees on how to 'be less white,' than it is
to publicly reckon with its role in fueling a nationwide epidemic of diabetes and obesity --
including in the black communities they profess to care about so much." (In a statement,
Coca-Cola apologized
for the "be less white" admonition and said that while it was "accessible through our company
training platform," it "was not a part of our training curriculum.")
Nike finds it much easier to write checks to Black Lives Matter and condemn America's
history of slavery, Mr. Ramaswamy says, even as it relies on "slave labor" today to sell "$250
sneakers to black kids in the inner city who can't afford to buy books for school." All the
while, Black Lives Matter "neuters the police in a way that sacrifices even more black lives."
(Nike has said in a statement that its code of conduct prohibits any use of forced labor and
"we have been engaging with multi-stakeholder working groups to assess collective solutions
that will help preserve the integrity of our global supply chains.")
... ... ...
Mr. Varadarajan, a Journal contributor, is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute
and at New York University Law School's Classical Liberal Institute.
Rod Drake 53 minutes ago
Seems to me in a nutshell he is saying that these woke corporations are all hypocrites. No
surprise there hypocrisy is a defining characteristic of the woke left and you need to assume
that characteristic yourself to be able to work within their bounds.
In addition, I have been
saying for some time discrimination based on political belief desperately needs to be
included as a prohibited basis. Where are the Republicans, while the greatest civil rights
violation of our time is going on right under their noses?
Terry Overbey 1 hour ago
I love reading stories about people who are willing to take on the woke political class. For
most people, even if they strongly disagree, their only option is to bite their tongue and go
along. People aren't stupid. If you buck the system, you don't get promoted, you don't get
good grades, you don't get into elite schools, you don't get the government job.
Thank you Mr Ramaswany.
James Ransom 1 hour ago
Well. If nothing else, he just sold me a book. I think we should say that "Wokeism" tries to
"Act Like" a religion, not that it is one. Because of this fakery, we do not need to give it
"freedom" in the sense that we have "Freedom of Religion."
These misguided Americans perhaps need to be exposed to a real religion. Christianity and
Buddhism would be good choices; I don't know about Hinduism, but my point is that "Wokeism"
is more like a mental disorder. We should feel sorry for its victims, offer them treatment,
but not let them run anything.
marc goodman 1 hour ago
Wokeists argue that theirs is not a religion because it doesn't center on a transcendent
being. I see Wokeism as a religion that gathers multiple Secularist sects into a big tent.
These sects include Environmentalism, Genderism, Anti-Racism, and more.
One thing all religions share in common is the elevation of questionable premises to
unassailable truths which they defend with religious zeal. Some questionable premises
elevated to unassailable truths by Wokeism are that humans are making the Earth
uninhabitable, gender is an individual choice, and race is the most important human
characteristic. There are more.
Humans need to believe in something greater than themselves. We fulfill this need with
religion, and historically, the "greater something" has been a transcendent being. Wokeism
fulfills this need for its adherents but without a transcendent being. Ultimately, Wokeism
will fail as a religion because it can't nourish the soul like the belief in a transcendent
being does.
Grodney Ross 2 hours ago (Edited)
Judgement will be passed in November of 2022. I don't see this as a Democrat vs Republican
issue. I think it's a matter of who is paying attention vs. those who are not. We live in a
society where, generally, the most strident voices are on the left, along with the most
judgmental voices. When the "wokeless" engage in a manner that conflicts with views of the
woke, they are attacked, be you from the left or the right, so you keep your mouth shut and go
about your day.
I believe that this coming election will give voice to those who are fatigued and fed up
with the progressive lefts venom and vitriol. If not, we will survive, but without a meaningful
first amendment,14th amendment, or 2nd amendment.
Barbara Helton 2 hours ago (Edited)
Being woke, when practiced by the wealthy and influential, can be extremely similar to
bullying.
Wokism is an attempt on financial elite to distract and divide and distruct people from the
crisi of neoliberalism in the USA. This is a pretty dirty game.
There are lots of reasons why wokeism spread like wildfire once America lost its collective
mind during the pandemic, quarantine, self-induced recession, and rioting of 2020.
Wokeism was never really about racism, sexism, or other -isms. Instead, for some, it
illustrated a psychological pathology of projection: fobbing one's own concrete prejudices onto
others in order to alleviate or mask them.
So should we laugh or cry that Black Lives Matter's self-described Marxist co-founder turns
out to be a corporate grifter?
Patrisse Cullors has accumulated several upscale homes and is under investigation by the IRS
for allegations of the misuse of funds from one of her foundations.
Is it the case that the more Cullors professes Marxist ideology and damns toxic whiteness,
so all the more she feels at home living in a $1.4 million Topanga Canyon home, in an almost
exclusively ritzy white neighborhood?
Consider outspoken liberal icon Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.). He's one of the
Senate's most woke. Yet Whitehouse turns out to be a mostly unapologetic member of a de facto
all-white prestigious "beach club" of elites in Newport, Rhode Island. Is Whitehouse committed
in the abstract to rooting out white privilege so he can concretely relax amid it with fellow
bluebloods?
Barack and Michelle Obama occasionally venture out of either their multimillion-dollar
Washington, D.C. mansion or their Martha's Vineyard estate to lecture the country on its
systemic racism. They express worry over the dangers that apparently white people pose to the
very safety of their own daughters.
Does such sermonizing square the circle that the Obamas have no desire to return to their
Chicago home""a city where nearly 700 African-American males were murdered in 2020, the vast
majority by other black men? So far, Chicago in 2021 is on a trajectory to suffer over 30
percent more murder victims than last year.
Joe Biden about every two weeks lectures America on its racism. And he unleashed the
bureaucracies of the federal government to root out mythical white supremacist
conspiracies.
Does Medieval penance explain Biden's fixation on systemic racism? After all, when he
condemns anonymous white racists, does his outrage mitigate his son Hunter's habitual use of
the N-word and anti-Asian riffs?
No Washington politico has compiled a longer record of racialist put downs than Joe Biden.
So apparently, the more Biden hunts for a white racist under every bed, the less necessary it
becomes to look in the mirror or at least to beg his son Hunter to knock off his racist
slurs.
The second catalyst of wokeism is the distraction it provides from scary problems that
threaten the very existence of American civilization. While the country consumes itself in
demanding more than 12 percent representation of black actors in television commercials, it is
nearing $30 trillion in national debt. Eventually, the astounding red ink will require
recessionary belt-tightening, more inflationary money printing, or both.
The woke Biden Administration cannot stop 2 million immigrants this year from crossing
illegally and with exemption into the United States. Almost all are in need of free American
health care, housing, food, and legal subsidies. Violent crime is spiking at an astonishing
rate. Yet few dare say why that is""or how to stop it.
America also cannot face the likely truth that Chinese researchers engineered a
gain-of-function virus""with oversight from the Communist Chinese military, and subsidies from
Drs. Anthony Fauci and Peter Daszak.
So instead of offering real solutions to these crises, we war with each other whether the
deceased children's book author Dr. Seuss or the plastic toy Mr. Potato Head was racist or
otherwise exclusionary.
When our elites are clueless about national debt, inflation, illegal immigration, crime,
soaring gas prices, and a global pandemic, they reassure themselves that at least they can
cancel out Father JunÃpero Serra or knock down another statue of Robert E. Lee.
Finally, the hysterias of wokism are being channeled for profit""if they do not already
reflect the reality of many of our most woke being the richest among us.
One reason why Oprah Winfrey, Meghan Markle, and LeBron James hype charges of white racism
is that their oppression reminds America that one can become rich as Croesus yet remain
sympathetic victims.
For next-generation grifters, like Ibram Xolani Kendi (a.k.a. Ibram Henry Rogers) and Robin
DiAngelo, to claim that America was, is, and always will be racist, means more than just
speaking gigs and book sales.
The solutions for the pseudo-crises they invent are mass reeducation of self-confessional
whites""with lucrative consulting fees for both, and tens of thousands of others.
America is systematically being conned by those who disguise their hypocrisy, who manipulate
the guilt-ridden, who have no interest in solving America's most dangerous problems, and who
get or stay richer by hyping an America in need of massive rebooting - and with it their own
careerist remedies.
It seems that the wokesters who claim that they are "anti-racists" still can't tolerate the
memory of a man who defeated history's most murderous racist. The Thursday defacing of a statue
in Canada is the latest effort to cancel Hitler's implacable foe.
A Downtown statue of Sir Winston Churchill has been vandalized after someone dumped red paint
all across the replica of the former British prime minister...
Churchill, who served as prime minister from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955, is
seen as a national hero for his leadership during the Second World War but held many views
that would be deemed racist.
Perhaps the 20th century's greatest adversary of communist and fascist dictatorships,
Churchill has of course been found wanting by today's dictators of political fashion. This
week's vandalism follows several such instances over the last year involving a U.K. statue of
Churchill in London's Parliament Square. In Canada, Mr. Labine reports:
Elisebeth Checkel, the president of the Sir Winston Churchill Society of Edmonton, said this
is the first instance of the statue being vandalized that she's heard of and was disappointed
to see it happen.
She said Churchill has a complicated legacy and believes it is important to look at him in a
balanced way.
"If we look at any historical figure, we will find the same thing," Checkel said. "If we look
at almost any person from the 1880s, we would find their views were if not repugnant to us
nowadays, we would find they were disagreeable for sure. If you look at Churchill's later
actions and life as he grew, as we all hope to do, his views did change. The balance should
be celebrated because without Churchill we would not even have the right to protest in this
country."
Licia Corbella
writes in the Calgary Herald that this week's vandalism of the statue is "another act of
woke totalitarianism." She adds:
Mark Milke, president of the Sir Winston Churchill Society of Calgary, says it's chilling to
contemplate what the world would be like now had Churchill not been there.
"Imagine if Churchill hadn't been there and the United Kingdom either did a peace treaty with
Hitler or fell during an invasion," said Milke...
"Nazi Germany would have controlled much of Europe... with the Soviet Union controlling the
other half and Imperial Japan raping Asia. Canada and the U.S. would have been pretty much
alone in the world..."
"Churchill is not a Civil War general from the South fighting to protect slavery. He's not
Joseph Stalin or Chairman Mao or Adolf Hitler," continued Milke.
No he's not. In fact Churchill was a stalwart opponent of the ideologies promoted by all
three of the 20th century's most infamous mass murderers. "For the historically illiterate who
like to throw paint on statues," Ms. Corbella notes the bloody legacy of Churchill's enemies
and adds:
What never seems to get mentioned is these statues are works of art. This destruction is not
unlike the Taliban destroying the Buddhas of Bamiyan in 2001. These woke folk are
Talibanesque.
As for Churchill, Ms. Corbella asks: "If we allow his legacy to be torn down, whose, pray
tell, can stand?"
Fortunately Ms. Corbella is not standing alone. Alberta Premier Jason Kenney tweets :
People should continue to debate Churchill's complex legacy & record, but vandalizing
public property like this is shameful.
No member of the greatest generation can meet the standards of contemporary wokeness. But we
should still honour those who secured our peace and freedom.
Canadian Parliament member Pierre Poilievre adds :
Don't schools teach history anymore?
Now the woke warriors attack the statue of Winston Churchill--the greatest anti-fascist of
all time. He beat Hitler and Mussolini for crying out loud.
Do these vandals wish he had lost?
Coincidentally it was on this day 81 years ago when Churchill addressed the British House of
Commons after the German army had overrun France. Said
Churchill:
I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival
of Christian civilization. Upon it depends our own British life, and the long continuity of
our institutions and our Empire. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be
turned on us. Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war. If
we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward
into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United
States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new
Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science.
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British
Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, "This was their
finest hour."
If wokesterism could last for a thousand years, would it ever result in a great
civilization?
"Stop indoctrinating our children. Stop teaching our children to hate the police. Stop
teaching our children that if they don't agree with the LGBT community that they're homophobic.
You have no idea each child's life," she said, adding "You don't know what their family
lifestyle consists of, you don't know the makeup of their life."
https://youtu.be/zxu3wdiXRF0
Ibrahim shut down school board members' objections several times - in between calling out
two teachers for posting their political beliefs online. When board members told her she wasn't
allowed to reference people by name, Ibrahim claimed those teachers called "for the death of a
former president," and that students who don't support Black Lives Matter should be "canceled
out."
"Why are we not allowed to say names? Why am I not allowed when they purposefully expose
themselves on social media, talking about calling for the death of a former president, or
saying that any child who doesn't believe in Black Lives Matter should be canceled out. Is this
what my tax dollars are paying for?" she asked.
"You're emotionally abusing our children and mentally abusing them," Ibrahim continued
RDinSC 1 hour ago
Never vote for anyone at any level of political office who does not openly and sincerely
oppose CRT and any and all woke indoctrination.
RedDog1 1 hour ago
I'm a super anti-racist. I'm especially against woke neo-racism.
BLOTTO 52 minutes ago (Edited)
Wait until she finds out that Drag Queen Roxy is reading 'The Hips on the DQ go swish
swish swish' to the kids at the local library.
Pooper Popper 1 hour ago
She Rocks!!!!!
Bang!!
high5mail 36 minutes ago
When I listen to this woman and look around me at all the fools who buy into the
"system" as it is, too scared to do what she is doing, it saddens me at the apathy and
cowardice of the general public which will sell their souls for protection on a non deadly
virus and take an unproved vaccine to virtue signal.
She is a modern day Joan of Arc. I would stand beside her in an instant. How many others
would do that or demand the same things she is demanding? Most are too busy trying to
figure out what gender they think they should be or trying on racist social agendas in the
"woke" category.
"... The Black Liberation Movement has made millionaires out of their grifter leaders and enabled the left to remain in power in every city in which rioting occurred. Their local opposition has been cleansed or cowed into submission. The movement continues its success as seen by its adoption by corporations seeking to reduce the power and influence of middle class Americans and by politicians seeking to entrence their power electorally. ..."
The continuing hypocrisy of Black Lives Matter was displayed vividly over the past
weekend– BLM
declared solidarity with Hamas but said nothing about a slew of murders and shootings
targeting black
communities .
There were at least 11 mass shootings in the country over the weekend that combined left
at least 17 people dead and 35 more wounded, according to CNN reporting and an analysis of
data from Gun Violence Archive (GVA),
local media and police reports.
I found it curious that none of the reporting made any mention about the race of the victims
or the perpetrators. Left me wondering so I did some digging. It appears that the majority of
these mass shootings involved black Americans as perpetrators or victims.
At least 55 people were shot across Chicago over the weekend, 12 of them fatally,
including a 15-year-old boy who
was shot in the head on the front porch of a home in Lawndale, and three double
homicides.
These shootings took place in predominantly black neighborhoods.
Of course. Much political and social capital has been squandered in recent years, all in
an attempt to adumbrate the singular reality that the deeply engrained social pathologies
in the "black community" have more to do with their failure to thrive than white systemic
racism does. We, meaning white America, cannot help them with this no matter how much self
abnegation we indulge in. Black America needs to adopt standards of belief and behavior
that are socially, culturally, and economically functional and they need to teach their
children those values. I have seen this happen with a certain fragment of that demographic,
but it needs to happen more widely. This may be offensive to some readers, but there is
truth in it.
Reply
Do blacks themselves need to be uniquely empowered (and protected) to speak up against
black on black violence? What has prevented the peace-seeking black community members from
taking charge of their own neighborhoods.
What Reign of Terror are they living under that those of us outside these communities do
not understand.
Latino gangs terrorize latino communities as well. The violent tyranny of the few
against the decent lives of the many is very, very wrong and should not exist in our
country. But it is a daily reality in our rapidly devolving inner city neighborhoods.
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These minority neighborhoods can't have it both ways:
They can't object to successful methods like stop and frisk and then complain
about crime. "Snitches get stiches" is another "cute" saying encouraging crime.
After a time trying to help people who won't help themselves and are often openly
hostile, the cops grow cynical and less proactive; can you blame them?
Because it's "racist" to criticize any form of minority behavior, there can not be an
honest discussion about solutions to this problem and the beat goes on.
People (including the self-hating, phony "guilty" white liberals, BTW) who can live in
segregated neighborhoods continue to live in segregated neighborhoods.
I used to live in CT – very liberal blue state – totally segregated; BLM
signs on the "right" lawns.
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TV
Yes here in Mpls the same blue haired tattooed
Nose ring wokes make up a large majority of
The BLM protests. The obligatory signs festoon
Whole neighborhoods. Do they march or picket
The areas where the majority of the shootings occur
And whose victims are all black? Ha! Too dangerous.
The near North side aka Nomi has had continuous
Gunfire for near 1200 days. Now they have running
Gun battles with "Ak" type fully automatic weapons.
It's become a tragedy writ large. Not a virtue
Signal to be seen.
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Yes, it's hard to believe that so many are taken in by the rhetoric of Black Lives
Matter when there's evidence on a near-daily basis of black-on-black violence and murder.
It's truly a crime that so-called leaders don't decry it and demand a call to action for it
to stop, a crime that there's so little public discourse about underclass blacks basically
exterminating each other with impunity. It's a taboo subject, and can't be broached without
accusations of racism. We only hear righteous outrage when a member of the black underclass
is killed by a cop.
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Why does the charge of "racism" cause so many to immediately recoil and retreat? It is
just a word, yet it has risen to weaponized effectiveness.
What does this word trigger in so many people who will immediately back down and
retreat. Pretty powerful tool -until more don't blink and don't stand down at its mere
mention.
Always felt there was an implied threat of "black violence' that accompanied every one
of Obama's political moves. We need to cleanse that threat out of our own psyches or else
this nation will be held hostage by a mere word.
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Isn't this an interesting bit of Democrat deja vu, including charges of rigged
voting machines in 2008 the GOP would use to prevent Obama from winning and thereby
triggering a Second Civil War -- "the streets will run with blood .if Obama loses
.."
Thanks to two great political pundits – Erica Jong and Jane Fonda. They did
capture the zeitgeist of the times however, and continue to do so. The threat of black
violence, if you don't do what we went.
Fast forward to 2020 – and the world yet again feared "the streets would run
with blood", but this if Trump won re-election and Democrat Biden did not win.
But this time it bloody well appears it was the Democrats who rigged the voting
processes. Yet again it appears it is the Democrats accusing the GOP of what they were
already doing themselves.
Reply
The Black Liberation Movement has made millionaires out of their grifter leaders and
enabled the left to remain in power in every city in which rioting occurred. Their local
opposition has been cleansed or cowed into submission. The movement continues its success
as seen by its adoption by corporations seeking to reduce the power and influence of middle
class Americans and by politicians seeking to entrence their power electorally.
Some people who were black were shot by others who were black? Quit saying that, you,
you, what's the word: racist!; as none of that has been proved in court. Did any of these
'leaders' care about all those shootings in the Sanctuary City of Chicago when President
Hope and Change was in charge? (2016)
Total shootings 4379 Shot and wounded 3664 Shot and killed: 715
Assailant race by percentage
Whoa: you're saying the left behaves hypocritically and is willing to take losses in
order to get what they want?
Such insight!
Ethnic hypocrisy is the ancient problem here, but this focus on contemporary black
antics obscures the issue and is simply another avoidance strategy.
The recent missile duel in the eastern Mediterranean has shown that white conservatives
are more willing to stand up for the safety of non- or dual-citizens overseas than they are
for safety of their own white constituents, whom they refuse even to name.
There is nothing wrong with Obama with his financial success to buy in predominantly
white Martha's Vineyard. The question that blacks should ask however is are those leaders
who use racism and race to gain political power doing much to alleviate the social and
economic issues they face?
There are many successful blacks in all walks of life. Why aren't they celebrated and
used as role models instead of someone like George Floyd?
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When you first went on the "BLM website" you immediately were linked to ActBlue
– a fund-raising arm of the Democrat party. There was no independent or "private"
donation link for BLM. Calling BLM "private" in this case would be a stretch for me
after that initial experience with BLM.
So the bigger question is, why is the State Dept etc pushing an arm of the Democrat
Party fund-raising machine within government operations? Did BLM formally dissociate
completely with ActBlue?
Reply
Because the State Dept., like the rest of the Democrat party, has accelerated
faster and faster to the left.
They've been selling out America for decades and now, like the rest of the Democrat
party, the last mask has dropped.
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Having grown up in Chicago and still living nearby I would say "predominantly black"
neighborhoods is a media fiction, part of the narrative to displace the blame onto others
than black. I assure you these are black neighborhoods, once white now ruined for
generations. I have sympathy for blacks, so much so that I suggest we organize to supply as
much ammo as possible to help them rid the hood of evil doers. Mostly 9mm, drop off crates
in front of playgrounds and street corners so they can be easily found.
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Larry's point that BLM doesn't care about Black lives is graphically shown and described
by this Officer Tatum podcast (it's short) of local newscasts, not shown by national news,
of Black children murdered by Blacks.
Florida's Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis said Friday that he opposes teaching critical race theory
in the state's public schools, calling the ideas pushed by its advocates as "based on false
history" and "teaching kids to hate their country and to hate each other."
DeSantis made the remarks at a Friday press
conference in Pensacola, where he announced the
signing of a bill temporarily establishing several statewide tax-free periods on items like
storm supplies and back-to-school products.
"It's offensive to the taxpayer that they would be asked to fund critical race theory,
that they would be asked to fund teaching kids to hate their country and to hate each other,"
DeSantis said.
Floridа Gov. Ron DeSantis is seen during a meeting at the governor's office in
Tallahassee, Fla., on April 1, 2021. (The Epoch Times)
In a
recent interview on NTD's "Focus Talk," Yiatin Chu, an Asian mother of two and co-chair of
the New York chapter of the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism (FAIR), described
critical race theory as pushing the idea that disparate outcomes, such as academic competency
scores, can be reduced to a single variable""race.
Advocates of the theory, which she said is increasingly being taught at pre-college levels,
push the socialist notion of equality of outcome, and blame differences in outcomes on
entrenched privilege while dividing people into "oppressors" and their victims, the
"oppressed."
Republicans across the nation are trying to prevent the teaching of critical race theory in
classrooms.
Recently, South Dakota's Republican Gov. Kristi Noem took aim at both the "1619 Project" and
critical race theory and, like DeSantis, voiced opposition to their incorporation in school
curriculums.
"The 1619 Project relies upon the concept of Critical Race Theory to further divide
students based on the color of their skin," Noem wrote in a series of tweets
Friday.
"This is inappropriate and un-American. It has no place in South Dakota, and it certainly
has no place in South Dakota classrooms."
In this screenshot from the RNC's livestream of the 2020 Republican National Convention,
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem addresses the virtual convention on Aug. 26, 2020. (Courtesy of
the Committee on Arrangements for the 2020 Republican National Committee via Getty Images)
The "1619 Project," inaugurated with a special issue of The New York Times Magazine,
attempts to cast the Atlantic slave trade as the dominant factor in the founding of America
instead of ideals such as individual liberty and natural rights. The initiative has been widely
panned by historians and political scientists, with some critics calling it a bid to rewrite
U.S. history through a left-wing lens.
Nikole Hannah-Jones, creator of the 1619 Project, responded to the GOP criticism
of the project during an interview with MSNBC on May 3, saying the 1619 curriculum being
allowed in schools is a matter of free speech.
"This isn't a project about trying to teach children that our country is evil, but it is a
project trying to teach children the truth about what our country was based upon, and it's
only in really confronting that truth""slavery was foundational to the United States, we,
after the slavery, experienced 100 years of legalized discrimination against black
Americans," said Hannah-Jones.
"Mitch McConnell and others like him want for our children to get a propagandistic,
nationalistic understanding of history that is not about facts, but it is about how they
would want to pretend that our country is."
Proponents of critical race theory
have argued that it's needed to demonstrate what they say is "pervasive systemic racism"
and facilitate rooting it out.
Critics draw parallels between critical race theory and Marxism, arguing that the concept
advocates for the destruction of institutions, such as the Western justice system, free-market
economy, and orthodox religions, while demanding that they be replaced with institutions
compliant with the critical race theory ideology.
"... If you find it useful that some counties are leaving Oregon and joining Idaho, or the conflict between the left and the right, democrats vs republicans, or whites vs blacks, or whites vs muslims, or vs lations is meaningful, you are simply doing the bidding of the masters, who thrive on pitting communites against each other, and are responsible for destroying the whole country. The easiest and the most fruitful way to bring about a real, benficial change to America would require bringing the American people, regardless of their color or creed together, to easily get rid of their overbearing masters. Regardless of what you claim to be, the fact that you embrace and advance the destructive strategy of pitting the American people agianst one another, and also spew so much hatred of Muslims, exposes your real agenda! ..."
"... The United States doesn't have "rulers" in as much as it has "owners". Consider ..."
One of the most promising movements, " Greater Idaho ," just won a huge
victory. Five counties
voted to leave Oregon and join Idaho. More counties in eastern Oregon may
join . Idaho Governor Brad Little admits creating a new state may be difficult but
says , "They're
looking at Idaho fondly because of our regulatory atmosphere, our values. That doesn't surprise
me one bit."
This should be just the beginning. Frederick County in western Virginia could join West
Virginia. West Virginia State Senator Charles Trump
supports the idea. It could also be a compromise to the DC statehood question. Northern
Virginia is a cancerous outgrowth of federal employees. Booting it
out of real Virginia and tying it to a DC state would mean greater self-government for both
regions.
... ... ...
Existing institutions can be the basis for reform and revolution. From the Parliament that
challenged the king in the English Civil War, the Continental Congress that made the American
Revolution, and the state legislatures that voted for secession, we see a clear pattern in the
way we Anglos operate. We are legalistic, even when it comes to revolution. We don't have the
French tradition of mass protests to topple governments. Our revolutions are according to
Robert's Rules of Order. Even the January 6 protesters who marched into the Capitol did so
because they thought they were saving democracy.
I can understand the frustrations and rage of certain folks.
If you're a worker on an oil rig, a truck driver, a policeman, or some such jobs, there's
bound to be moments when you're angry as hell. So, even though such people say crazy things
once a while, I can understand where they're coming from. They need to blow off steam.
But the professor class? These lowlife parasites sit on their asses and talk shi*. They
produce nothing and make a living by spreading nonsense. And yet, they act like they are
soooooooooo angry with the way of the world. If they really care about the world, why hide in
their academic enclaves?
Academia needs a cultural revolution, a real kind, not the bogus "˜woke' kind made up
of teachers' pets.
Hopefully we can reform into a nice looking North American Federation once this mess hits
a bloody climax of some sort or another. Greater Idaho sounds wildly fun. I still wish we
formed the States Cascadia and Arcadia, personally.
The empire WILL become weaker if it promotes incompetents to positions of high
responsibility and authority and enlists women into the armed forces. An empire cannot
sustain itself with sub standard soldiers, administrators, leaders and law makers. This woke
crap will destroy itself. Historians in the future will look back and say "what the hell were
they thinking?".
If the IQ of officer candidates drops below 110 (it's 120 on average currently for the
Marine Corps and has been declining for 40 years) then the positions will be left vacant.
Dumb people can't do the job.
Since Cromwell and even more so the overthrow of James 2 by the invader Dutch William 3
the Amsterdam Jew banker puppet Britain has been nothing more than a Jewish banking
headquarters.
If you find it useful that some counties are leaving Oregon and joining Idaho, or the
conflict between the left and the right, democrats vs republicans, or whites vs blacks, or
whites vs muslims, or vs lations is meaningful, you are simply doing the bidding of the
masters, who thrive on pitting communites against each other, and are responsible for
destroying the whole country. The easiest and the most fruitful way to bring about a real,
benficial change to America would require bringing the American people, regardless of their
color or creed together, to easily get rid of their overbearing masters. Regardless of what
you claim to be, the fact that you embrace and advance the destructive strategy of pitting
the American people agianst one another, and also spew so much hatred of Muslims, exposes
your real agenda!
Dear Mr. Hood, anything undertaken to change a nation's political organization will always
lead to violence. If there is one thing history shows, it is precisely that. If you are
trying to change Idaho's state borders, that qualifies as a drastic change in the US
political organization, if only because if successful, it would set an example that would
find many, many followers, as you are implying yourself.
What the US promotes and condones abroad (secession of Panama from Colombia in 1903,
occupation of Cyprus by Turkey in 1980, occupation of the Western Sahara by Morocco in 1976,
secession of Kosovo, creation of Southern Sudan, etc., etc.) it does not want to see at home.
Of course you are also aware that in the 1860s, Secession has been met with brutal
violence.
In this respect, it comes as a relief lo learn that the Deep State is busy trying to turn
the US Army and the CIA into open psychiatry wards.
Very interesting that video ad on the girl "raised by two moms." Poor thing: knowing only
two dykes (her father must certainly be Hans Brinker), all her life she has been yearning to
meet real men. Apparently, she did not find them in college, where the boys are being
terrorized by feminists and forced to become faggots. Thus only the army remains as a place
where one might still find a few real men, the kind that one sees so finely portrayed in the
Russian army ad.
(Come to think of it, that US army ad may also be an attempt at subversion of prevailing
policy!)
America is in danger, not because of some external threat, but because our rulers
are the Republic's greatest enemies.
The United States doesn't have "rulers" in as much as it has "owners". Consider
it private property to put things in proper perspective "" then! Stake your claim. Forget the
law(they own that too) and the idea of a republic "" owners don't like to share. The banking,
tax code, and debt have got you by the balls, and they'll always keep you thumbed under.
Rep. Maxine Waters of California, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, joined
demonstrations this weekend in Minnesota. She told supporters that if the Chauvin trial
verdict goes the wrong way, "we've got to not only stay in the street but we've got to fight
for justice."
You may recall a president got pilloried a while ago for urging his supporters to "fight"
for their desired outcome. It was noted then that the term is a well-worn rhetorical phrase
that doesn't necessarily amount to a literal incitement to violence. But there can't be much
doubt about the import of what Ms. Waters said. She made her remarks in Brooklyn Center, a few
miles from the barricaded Minneapolis courthouse where the Chauvin trial is taking place and
the site of the killing last weekend of a black man by a police officer. The place has been
aflame for the past week in an orgy of rioting.
The Handler standard, or the Maxine maxim "the idea that we don't really need a trial to
know whether someone is guilty of a heinous crime" has always had its adherents. There have
surely been miscarriages of justice "acquittals of guilty people and convictions of innocent
ones" throughout history. The jury system is never perfect.
But what's frighteningly new about our current climate is that the rejection of apparently
unwelcome trial outcomes is now part of the dominant progressive critique of our longstanding
political and civic order. If U.S. institutions are the product of white-supremacist
exploitation "as is essentially the consensus of the people who run the government, most
corporations, and leading cultural institutions" then the judicial system itself is inherently
and systemically unjust. If the principle of equality before the law is to be supplanted by the
objective of "equity" in outcome, then only outcomes that serve the higher objective of
collective racial justice can be considered legitimate.
So trials that produce the "wrong" verdict are not just miscarriages of justice. They are an
indictment of the entire system.
The ascendancy of this new progressive radicalism adds a frightening element to the unease
the nation feels this week as the jury deliberates in Minneapolis. By all accounts the trial of
Mr. Chauvin has been rigorous, methodical and fair. The prosecution seemed to make a strong
case that Mr. Floyd died at least in part as a result of the officer's actions. The defense may
have sowed some doubts about whether Mr. Chavin's intent rose to the level of culpability
required of the most serious charges.
But under our new rules, the jury's verdict will be tolerated only if it goes the "right"
way.
This rejection of the legitimacy of the judicial process is rooted in the same neo-Marxist
ideology""a race- and identity-based interpretation of structuralism""that holds sway over the
minds of much of our ruling class.
To the old Marxists, the capitalists were the exploiters. In "The ABC of Communism,"
published in 1920, Bolshevik leaders Nikolai Bukharin and Yevgeni Preobrazhensky used language
that sounds strikingly familiar today. They denounced the courts as instruments of "bourgeois
justice," which was "carried on under the guidance of laws passed in the interests of the
exploiting class," and recommended instead the establishment of "proletarian courts."
In one of the more savage ironies of history, some two decades later the authors themselves
were tried by such courts under Josef Stalin and sentenced to death.
Yet even Stalin thought some kind of judicial proceeding was necessary. Our modern
revolutionaries would dispense even with show trials.
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Eli Hauser SUBSCRIBER 2 weeks ago (Edited)
Red Queen Rules. Sentence. Verdict. Accusation. Admission of Guilt.
Mark Robbins SUBSCRIBER 2 weeks ago
Liberals have no need for trials with an assumption of innocence. At all times, they KNOW
what is right.
Chris Madison SUBSCRIBER 2 weeks ago
We are living through a "throw the baby out with the bath" moment. Extremists are labeling
anything which doesn't go their way as "systemically racist." If there is no jurisprudence
and due process, no system of laws addressing a variety of crimes, but only the cry for
"justice now" without defining what justice looks like according to law, then anarchy has
taken the place of justice. Ms. Handler is entitled to her opinion. I am glad she is not in a
position of leadership. Congresswoman Maxine Waters likes to make statements which "stir the
pot," potentially raising the "rage level" across our nation. She should know better, but
doesn't. Our nation is on the cusp of a moment when we must intentionally decide who we are
legally, morally, and Constitutionally. Emotions are insufficient for this moment.
Christopher Jones SUBSCRIBER 3 weeks ago
This essay would have tremendous weight if there was not a video of the murder. Absent that
it is stupefyingly ignorant. "The prosecution seemed to make a strong case that Mr. Floyd
died at least in part as a result of the officer's actions." Really, sir? A video literally
showing the officer kneeling on Mr. Floyd's neck until he passed out and later died. Are you
suggesting that he would have died on his own had the officer not done this?
You are attempting to seem reasonable with your pleas for due process, but you just come
across as obtuse. A video of a man murdering another man and your like, no I don't believe
it. There has to be another explanation.
Tad Story SUBSCRIBER 2 weeks ago
So your saying Mr. Floyd's use of a Highly addictive and equally deadly narcotic on top of
already severe heart condition to which your camera did not display played no role as to the
outcome? Considering the use of Fentanyl is 900 times more deadly than crack-cocaine I feel
it needed to be discussed and weighed, to which it was but the mob had their torches ready
and that carried as much or even more weight, Maxine made sure of that..
beryl silver SUBSCRIBER 2 weeks ago (Edited)
The article failed to mention the words protesters need "to get more confrontational" Maxine
Waters used.
Michael Lapolla SUBSCRIBER 3 weeks ago
It has been obvious to us that the state of Minnesota offered Derek Chauvin as a sacrifice on
the altar of expediency. Witness the immediate and joyous victory laps by the state AG. It
just took a while and a show trial. It is obvious that the jury had no stomach for another
outcome. This is what you vote for - this is what you get.
And we have a Capitol police person murdering an unarmed trespasser, but our DOJ sees and
hears no evil and utters not a word.
What a national embarrassment. Go back to sleep Minnesota.
FRANK HERMAN SUBSCRIBER 2 weeks ago
He wasn't on his neck. Even the prosecution witness admitted, that when looked at from other
angles, that the cop was on his shoulder blade.
Tim Taylor SUBSCRIBER 3 weeks ago
Something to think about in the current culture of policing:
Most dangerous jobs in U.S. 1. Logging 2. Aircraft pilots/flight engineers 3. Derrick
operators 4. Roofers 5. Garbage collectors 6. Iron workers. 7. Delivery drivers 8. Farmers.
9. Firefighting supervisors 10. Power linemen 11. Agricultural workers 12. Crossing guards
13. Crane operators 14. Construction helpers. 15. Landscaping supervisors 16. Highway
maintenance workers. 17. Cement masons 18. Small engine mechanics. 19. Supervisors of
mechanics 20. Heavy equipment mechanics. 21. Grounds maintenance workers 22. Police
Officers.
What Maxine does not seem to understand is that demonizing the police works against gun
control efforts.
The more that the citizenry believes the police cannot be trusted to protect them, the
more citizens will seek to protect themselves, including purchasing and carrying
firearms.
Kenneth Gimbel SUBSCRIBER 3 weeks ago
Whew. I guess Minneapolis won't be torched tonight. Or, maybe, just a little bit to satisfy
the mob.
Verne Thibodeaux SUBSCRIBER 3 weeks ago (Edited)
There are a lot of "undocumented shoppers" who are very disappointed today.
Michael Havey SUBSCRIBER 3 weeks ago
As I've been saying since the first day of the trial, only the dumbest, most gullible, least
informed Americans believed that Derek Chauvin was innocent.
DK Brand SUBSCRIBER 3 weeks ago (Edited)
All that without due process being applied? See, you are the problem when the vast majority
of people who saw the video were horrified and felt the officer was guilty of his death. But
we have a system of laws and due process protects everyone, even the seemingly obviously
guilty. There are people who are caught red handed every day who receive the same due
process. So stop crowing about your imaginary opponents and accept that our system has worked
as designed.
William Coburn SUBSCRIBER 3 weeks ago (Edited)
innocent
He did not need to be found innocent, just not guilty.
Nidge M SUBSCRIBER 3 weeks ago (Edited)
Talk about dark comedy ........
IF Chauvin is convicted the seemingly not very legally au fait Maxine Waters just handed
his team perfect grounds to appeal against any conviction.
The whole situation is peturbing at a frightening number of levels 'though.
What will US cities do if 10%, 20% even 70% their Cops quit?
What will they do even if they don't quit but 'work to the letter of the rules' and slow all
action to a crawl?
Its not too unthinkable given the record of violence the very large man Chauvin was
kneeling on in the course of the arrest.
And add to that the somewhat inept but from the video plausible Police woman now
incacerated for shooting instead of tasering another career criminal .......... Which from
this distance appears to be a based on political rather than legal considerations.
Would you be a cop?
Meanwhile politicians from both main US parties appear to be giving their blessing to
those who wish to userp the rule of law .......... That's viable is it?
Nidge M SUBSCRIBER 3 weeks ago (Edited)
No, Floyd was not resisting arrest actively & constantly for 9 minutes.
But
Floyd was a very large male with a record of extream violence, drug abuse and
unpredictability.
Its hardly novel for an aprehended person to fake placidity, then when their restrainers
relax to explode into extream violence.
I am not asserting what Chauvin did was right or wrong ........ But I do think its a
reaction which anyone who has had to deal with violent offenders would regard as a pretty
understandable reaction.
I also wonder might those who are so ready to jump on the bandwagon, grandstanding &
howling in condemnation precipitate something far beyond their expectations.
I wonder too what would happen if the majority of those so quick to condemn were handed
responsibility for doing the policing job people like Chauvin have to do.
How would you do it?
Lori Crossley SUBSCRIBER 3 weeks ago
I don't think anyone wants policing like Chauvin did it. It led to the death of a man. There
were a lot of potential outcomes to this arrest. I would not blame any officer for being
overly cautious based on Floyd's arrest record - and yes, it does count.
But Chauvin was not alone in making this arrest. He had assistance which was not utilized.
Do people fake injury to get away from police officers? I am sure they do.
But there were 9 long minutes when that was not happening. There are thousands of police
officers who leave their homes each day to walk into potentially violent situations. And they
do their job and go home at night (with little thanks) and did not make the same choice
Chauvin did. His trial was fair and the verdict is in. The process worked for Chauvin - not
so much for Floyd.
Mark Allen SUBSCRIBER 3 weeks ago
I grew up on the block where the police station is located, in an apartment often captured in
the footage of the rioting. And while it did make the local papers, the national news has
failed to report that the folks living in those apartments cannot sleep (due to the rioters)
and have to put wet towels over their windows to keep out the teargas (due to the police).
And the irony in this is that the overwhelming majority of those apartment dwellers are
working-poor, persons of color.
Let that sink in.
Scott Mote SUBSCRIBER 3 weeks ago
For the regressives and BLMers, those apartment dwellers are just collateral damage. Maybe
BLM will move them into a BLM mansion.
John Smith SUBSCRIBER 3 weeks ago
Great insights Mr. Baker.
Strange how video evidence clearly convicts the subject in the minds of leftists. They
appear to be able to assign motive and punishment based on their emotional appraisal. We have
a sitting California Congresswoman stating this on video tape.
Well, we are not to believe every video tape. Remember Jussie Smollett? They did the same
to the unnamed racists, who assaulted Mr. Smollett - according to his version of events. All
muscular non black males were guilty, until individually cleared. The usual leftists in
politics, media, and entertainment joined Jussie.
Unfortunately, Jussie's version of events was false. He hired two black men to "assault"
him, then put together his soap opera version of the script. Since both stories could not be
true, no one went to jail. This is what politicians with law degrees have contributed to our
Republic.
Yes, he still faces felony charges. But it is more than two years hence. Speedy trial?
Paul Stroud SUBSCRIBER 3 weeks ago
For all of most of our lives we've been able to rely on a civil society that recognized its'
faults, if even after a period of time, and took hard steps to correct them. This is now at
risk as acceptable "civil disobedience" becomes "violent disobedience". We can no longer look
at other parts of the world that are continually wrenched apart by violent, factional
conflict and destruction and think, "oh, at least it can't happen here". It is happening
here, and it is escalating. I hope I am wrong, but I fear for our children and grandchildren.
"... My life story is very similar to yours -- blue collar upbringing, worked graveyard shift in factories during college, made it all the way to Wall Street --- and I completely agree with you. The Democratic Party might have been the party of the working-class families many years ago, but it's absolutely not that now. ..."
"... The most interesting aspect of party realignment in almost every country is the movement of the Anglo-Saxon elites to the parties of leftist authoritarianism, whether in the UK, US, or Canada. Since elites have always had “fluid” political values, one can only assume that they see tyranny as our destiny. ..."
I am a retired attorney but was reared in a blue collar home. I have not lost the values I
learned where my father returned home from work six days a week as a railroad brakeman.
Thanks to my pre-law curriculum I am well read in history and literature. My undergrad major
was history and my minor literature.
Having acquired a love for reading in college I have read both all my life but it has not
changed me from the son my father reared. I worked construction and general labor jobs to
help pay for college and law school and am very aware of how hard those jobs are and I have a
healthy respect for the men and women who provide us with the essential goods and services we
all need.
I therefore have no use for attitude of most on the left and some on the right who have no
respect for average working people and small business.
It seems many in Britain have the same outlook. My Dad was very proud I became a lawyer
but I am just as proud of the job he performed to give me that chance.
SUBSCRIBER 5 hours ago
I therefore have no use for attitude of most on the left and some on the right who have no
respect for average working people and small business. It seems many in Britain have the same
outlook.
My life story is very similar to yours -- blue collar upbringing, worked graveyard
shift in factories during college, made it all the way to Wall Street --- and I completely
agree with you. The Democratic Party might have been the party of the working-class families
many years ago, but it's absolutely not that now.
SUBSCRIBER 4 hours ago
Most democrat leaders are career politicians like Obama, Biden, Pelosi and Schumer. They
never had a real job and paid any taxes. They love raising taxes for big government and dole
out. Can’t wait for midterm election and take back the congress. R
SUBSCRIBER 14 hours ago
The most interesting aspect of party realignment in almost every country is the
movement of the Anglo-Saxon elites to the parties of leftist authoritarianism, whether in the
UK, US, or Canada. Since elites have always had “fluid” political values,
one can only assume that they see tyranny as our destiny.
"Inside BLM co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors' million-dollar real-estate buying binge.
Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors has gone on a real-estate buying binge in
recent years, snagging four high-end homes for $3.2 million in the US alone, according to
property records.":
This one-to-one replay of Red Guards - Wikipedia but with quite
different sponsors ;-) "Hóng Wèibīng was a mass student-led paramilitary social movement mobilized and guided by Chairman Mao
Zedong in 1966 through 1967, during the first phase of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
Notable quotes:
"... there is an on-going effort to create fads/movements in which the public becomes caught-up and distracts the from reality. ..."
"... The more binary and controversial the better. Red/Blue. I used to be a big fan of sports but have the opinion it is a pointless waste of time and my life is better for that realization. ..."
"... Characteristics of the Woke: They always attack, especially with insults, like "paranoia nonsense". They never address the actual point made, instead they reinterpret the point to make it appear pure evil. Which allows them to attribute the worst possible motivations on the person they are attacking. Naturally they invent things the other person hadn't even mentioned, like climate change. ..."
"... Again the whole woke 'identity' culture that cancels dissent and promotes 'minorities' in positions of power is simply woke fascism. Just as military recruitment is about turning violent video games real for young men, so too is CIA recruitment about inviting the 'woke' for murder and mayhem in the name 'freedom' without which the woke could not wake. ..."
I think that there is an on-going effort to create fads/movements in which the public
becomes caught-up and distracts the from reality.
The more binary and controversial the
better. Red/Blue. I used to be a big fan of sports but have the opinion it is a pointless
waste of time and my life is better for that realization.
Additionally/tangentially, I feel there is a habit in the English language in particular
to create new words to describe things these words are not well define and generate a lot of
discussion and heat about things that nobody knows what they are actually talking about and
end up arguing the meaning of the words.
People who don't know the new words must try to catch
up or be left out of the discussion. I don't direct this at your discussion. I just wonder how
we might see things if we were constrained to a limited vocabulary - as I am as a programmer
of sorts.
Characteristics of the Woke: They always attack, especially with insults, like "paranoia
nonsense". They never address the actual point made, instead they reinterpret the point to
make it appear pure evil. Which allows them to attribute the worst possible motivations on
the person they are attacking. Naturally they invent things the other person hadn't even
mentioned, like climate change.
Again the whole woke 'identity' culture that cancels dissent and promotes 'minorities' in
positions of power is simply woke fascism. Just as military recruitment is about turning
violent video games real for young men, so too is CIA recruitment about inviting the 'woke'
for murder and mayhem in the name 'freedom' without which the woke could not wake.
I will believe that any of this is worth a shit when Snowden wades in with his
opinion...until then its just another distraction
The CIA is why we can't have "wokeism" about the right issue like global private/public
finance.....where is Occupy 2.0?
The current wokeism is like the pet rocks of old days.....would want folks to focus that
woke on the inherited class structure of the private property West, would we?
"...they are terrorists. They hate me. They hate my uniform. They don't care if I die
..."
We have been
discussing the termination of public employees and others for their postings on social
media or public displays. The latest case is out of New Jersey where former Hopewell Township
police officer Sara Erwin was fired recent over a June 2020 posting on Facebook in which she
referred to Black Lives Matter (BLM) protesters as "terrorists."
There remains an uncertain line of what political or social views are tolerated and what are
barred on social media. Indeed, Sgt.
Mandy Gray was suspended and demoted for simply liking the June 2020 post.
Gray was the first female officer hired in Hopewell Township and became the first female
sergeant in 2019, according to
NJ.com.
Erwin insists that she posted the statement after she and her colleagues were faced with
violent protests and family members who were traumatized by images on television of officers
being attacked. Erwin reportedly wrote i:
" Last night as I left for work I had my two kids crying for me not to go to work. I don't
think I've ever felt the way I did last night. And then I watched people I know and others I
care about going into harms way. I love my police family like my own. So when you share posts
and things on Facebook I'd really appreciate if you'd THINK before doing so. I've seen so
many black lives matter [sic] hashtags in these posts. Just to let you know -- they are
terrorists. They hate me. They hate my uniform. They don't care if I die. "
Hopewell
Township Mayor Julie Blake and the town's council made the decision to fire her in an
unanimous vote to accept the recommendations of a hearing officer.
As will come as little surprise to many on this blog, my default is in favor of free
speech.
My concern is the lack of a consistent rule. For example, would the town have fired Erwin if
she said the same thing about another group like the Proud Boys or the NRA?
I can understand the objection to the posting. BLM is a group committed to fighting police
abuse and regularly engages in protests. For an officer to express such bias against BLM can
exacerbate tensions in such protests. However, officers also have a right to be able to express
themselves . The balance of those interests should, at a minimum, have favored a reprimand
rather than a termination for Erwin. If not, the town should establish a clear standard as to
what public employees are allowed to express on political and social issues. This includes
whether certain groups can be criticized but not others.
The action taken by Hopewell Township raises more questions than answers on where this line
is drawn in terms of free speech.
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Billy the Poet 1 hour ago
I can understand the objection to the posting. BLM is a group committed to fighting police
abuse and regularly engages in protests. For an officer to express such bias against BLM can
exacerbate tensions in such protests. However, officers also have a right to be able to
express themselves. The balance of those interests should, at a minimum, have favored a
reprimand rather than a termination for Erwin. If not, the town should establish a clear
standard as to what public employees are allowed to express on political and social issues.
This includes whether certain groups can be criticized but not others.
Turley reminds us that rules must be followed consistently if they are to have validity
but I think the larger point is that there are no rules anymore. The former rule book is now
used exclusively as a bludgeon by entitled parties.
A federal politician travels to the scene of a controversial trial to threaten a riot if the
jury doesn’t deliver the “correct†verdict.
Rule of law is such an antiquated idea.
In front of God and country (and journalists with cameras) Rep. Maxine Waters â€"
from behind a face mask/face shield combo for COVID safety, of course â€"
declared:
“We’re looking for a guilty
verdict… If nothing does not happen [sic], then we know that we have got
to… stay in the streets…I hope we get a verdict that
says guilty, guilty… And if we don’t, we cannot go
away.â€
When asked what she thinks protesters should do, Waters explicitly told them to
“get more activeâ€:
"We’ve got to stay on the street. We get more active,
we’ve got to get more confrontational . We’ve got to make
sure that they know that we mean business.â€
The subtext, of course, is that previous protests were not confrontational or
“active†enough. What exactly would a “more
active†Minneapolis riot round #2 look like?
Maxine Waters, incidentally, theoretically represents LA â€" quite a long drive
from Minneapolis or, for that matter, Washington, D.C. Waters most likely flew in on a
chartered jet, though, and left the driving to the proletariat.
The judge in the case, Peter Cahill,
replied to Chauvin’s lawyers’ motion that he declare
a mistrial due to Maxine Waters’ threatening rhetoric on the streets of
Minneapolis:
“I wish elected officials would stop talking about this case, especially
in a manner that’s disrespectful to the rule of law and to the judicial
branch and our function… I’m aware the Congresswoman
Waters was talking specifically about this trial… if (representatives) want
to give their opinions, they should do so in a manner that is consistent with their oath to the
Constitution to respect the co-equal branch of government… Their failure to
do so, I think, is abhorrent .â€
This is practical proof that the trustees of the fictitious democracy fantasy we are all
forced to accept don’t believe in the legal process or rule of law
â€" as if Americans required more evidence of their Congressional
representatives’ failings, over and over and over.
Outside of rule of law, the federal government and the corporations that functionally own it
treat the American citizenry to a host of abuses:
Warrant-free mass surveillance
Endless foreign wars with no legal declaration of war
‘In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a
speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State.â€
Imagine, for a moment, the mental process of a juror in the Floyd case, a resident of
Minneapolis â€" the same city in which Maxine Waters threatened mass violence if the
jury you belong to fails to render a “guilty†verdict. Perhaps
you live in one of the same neighborhoods that was essentially leveled in the riots of June
2020.
Maybe, for some masochistic reason, you enjoyed shopping at your local Target before
“protesters†pillaged it and you couldn’t
buy waffle batter and Korean electronics or whatever.
Or, maybe you really liked the guys at the local AutoZone who helped you out with sourcing
car parts â€" the ones who don’t have a job anymore because they
don’t have a building to work in
after protestors torched it .
Yes, you have been instructed not to view news surrounding the trial as all jurors are. But
now, after coming home from a long day at court, Waters’ tirade is all over
your social media as you scroll through your newsfeed.
How could it not be? A sitting member of Congress not only sanctioned but encouraged riots
in the same case that you, again, are charged with rendering an impartial verdict in.
Even if you wanted to ignore Waters’ threats to remain in good faith as a
juror and try your best to deliver justice, you couldn’t. Humans, however
Stoic, are not robots.
What are you going to do? Is impartiality possible in such circumstances when
it’s your own city, maybe even your own neighborhood, on the chopping block
at the whim of a faceless, nameless mob?
Or are you going to bow to the pressure and give the mob the verdict it wants â€"
and hope and pray that’s enough to satisfy them and prevent more lootings
and burnings (though that’s certainly no guarantee).
If Waters believed in rule of law, a basic Constitutional function of the government, why
would she not let the process finish?
In the weeks leading up to her calls for riots on the streets in the event of an acquittal,
every legal analyst worth his or her salt predicted a guilty verdict on all counts.
So, why would you disrupt the process days before the guilty verdict demanded by the mob,
tainting the jury pool potentially and, as a result, nullifying the entire court proceedings
and mandating a retrial?
“Congresswoman Waters may have given you something on appeal that may
result in this whole trial being overturned.â€
Of course she gave cause for appeal, by any rational standard or analysis. A sitting member
of Congress traveling to the scene of active protests to fan the flames of rage and threaten
riots on camera that almost literally everyone â€" including the jurors in the case
â€" have seen.
This is not a mere case of Congressional misconduct â€" those happen every day.
This is the instantiation of mob rule as a substitute for law. Justice is now dispensed at the
whim of popular opinion, which is not gauged by any scientific means like polling but rather
through raw expression of power on the streets.
Where this ends is anyone’s guess, but it’s not likely
to be anywhere decent. Some more multinational corporations that worship at the altar of
neoliberalism might get their Minneapolis stores torched along with rule of law, at least, and
no one will mourn the loss.
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This stupid woman is doing nothing but foment increased racial tension and disgust for
black culture. Black leadership of the likes of Sharpton, Jackson and this evil brain dead
congresswoman is disgraceful and self serving. Their idiotic messages are never about
self-reliance, living by acceptable moral standards, abiding by the law, valuing education,
valuing family, treating others with respect, etc.........but rather always hate filled,
victimhood mentality, and that someone else is responsible for keeping you down. Why on earth
are these self serving pieces of shyte leaders not seen for who they are (race baiting,
hustlers with no real agenda for improving race relations) by their black constituents?
Bioweapon 6 hours ago remove link
Why isn't she arrested for inciting violence? You know it's all aimed at White people and
their businesses and homes of which the remain the vast majority across the state.
left blank 8 hours ago (Edited)
maxine waters refuses to live in Compton neighborhood she represents.
just like the others' in a long list of California politicians who take orders from the
annual bohemian grove meeting of corporations , who then use taxpayer funded govt agencies to
impose their list of 25 rules - to overthrow and topple the usa
In China’s Cultural Revolution, Mao and his extreme leftists sought to
grab power and keep their opposition and public in a state of confusion by extremist
political sloganeering, creating constant chaos, and attacking tradition and rule of law.
They do it without fear of retribution because they cover themselves in sanctimony and
victimhood.
Waters isn’t very smart, but she knows what she’s
doing here.
optimator 6 hours ago (Edited)
a dedicated ruthless 10% of the population that means business is usually enough to grab
control of the government. Russia 1918, American Revolution, etc.
Events of the last few days have made one thing crystal clear: The Democratic Party (and
therefore the nation) is being led by two doddering old fools who should be domiciled in a rest
home, not the Oval Office and the Speaker's Chamber.
How that baleful reality coexists with Wall Street's expectation of an awesome economic
future and stock prices which never stop rising to the sky is one of the great enigmas of our
times. Or maybe it's just because $10 trillion of fiscal and monetary "stimulus" in the past
year can turn the proverbial sow's ear into a silk purse. For a time.
By now, of course, we expect idiocy from Sleepy Joe, especially on the economic front.
Accordingly, at his virtual global summit he will be reading-out from the White House
teleprompter the demented agenda of the Climate Change Howlers. Therein he will promise to cut
greenhouse gases by 50% by the end of this decade, which calamity we can also promise would cut
America's debt-entombed economy to its knees.
That comes after Tuesday's White House contretemps when he first prayed for a guilty verdict
in the Chauvin trial even as the jury was sitting in its deliberations, and then, afterwards,
made the risible claim that this tragedy was the spawn of systemic racism.
In fact, Nanny State over-reach was the underlying cause of George Floyd's arrest and unjust
death -- just as it is the source of most of America's unfortunate violence between police and
unarmed citizens, back, white and otherwise.
In both cases, of course, we find Sleepy Joe fronting for the hideous core agenda -- race
baiting and climate hysteria -- of a Democratic Party which has lost its way and has been taken
over by a camarilla of woke zealots.
Indeed, if there were any doubt about the latter, Nancy Pelosi's truly venal deification of
George Floyd should remove it once and for all.
Yes, the man was a victim, but he was also a drug-addicted criminal lout and grifter, who
deserves no place of honor anywhere; and who's estranged family deserves sympathy and support,
but not a $27 million gift of blood money from a woke city council that takes Minneapolis one
step closer to its demise every time it meets.
"And thank God, the jury validated what we saw, what we saw," Pelosi said in front of the
U.S. Capitol Building as she delivered remarks with the Congressional Black Caucus. "So,
again, thank you George Floyd for sacrificing your life for justice. For being there to call
out to your mom. How heart-breaking was that? To call out to your mom, 'I can't breathe.' But
because of you – and because of thousands, millions of people around the world who came
out for justice – your name will always be synonymous with justice."
For crying out loud. George Floyd didn't sacrifice himself in the cause of justice. He got
hopped up on a lethal dose of fentanyl and then foolishly resisted arrest when the original
officers on the scene attempted to place him in the backseat of a squad car.
That is to say, the entire narrative culminating in Nancy Pelosi's hideous idolization of
George Floyd has been blatantly wrong from the get go. This case is not about racial justice at
all, to say nothing of striking a blow against so called "white privilege".
For want of doubt, we need to repeat the facts. That's because they show that episodes like
the George Floyd case do not fit the stereotypes of either the BLM and its race-card playing
progressive/Dem allies or, for that matter, the Foxified Right's knee-jerk defense of the
nation's over-empowered, over-budgeted, over-militarized police.
Needless to say, the George Floyd case was not an aberration. During the recent past there
were 38 such police killings of unarmed black citizens in 2015, and then 19, 21, 17 and 9
during 2016 through 2019, respectively. That's 104 black lives lost to the ultimate abuse of
police powers.
Of course, the number should be zero police killings of unarmed citizens. There is no
conceivable excuse for heavily armed cops -- -usually working in pairs or groups -- to cause
the death of lone, unarmed civilians, regardless of race or anything else.
And in this case that was especially so, and not withstanding several mitigating
factors.
For instance, the Minneapolis police officers originally attempted to put George Floyd
safely in the back seat of a squad car after his arrest for the petty crime of attempting to
pass a counterfeit $20 bill, but he resisted them intensely for up to five minutes. That's
plain as day in the other videos -- those from the cops' body-cams.
The trial evidence from these body-cams also showed that during this struggle around the
squad car Floyd said he couldn't breath six times owing to a severe medical reaction to the
fatal level of fentanyl in his blood and the methamphetamines that he had ingested shortly
before the incident. These reactions were surely compounded by the man's "severe" and
"multifocal" arteriosclerotic heart disease and clinical history of hypertension, which the
Minneapolis medical examiner said was the underlying cause of his death.
Yet after Floyd was cuffed and placed prone on the street, as he himself had requested, and
the officers had called for an ambulance owing to his obvious medical distress, the arrest went
haywire and Chauvin exposed himself to Manslaughter 2, at least, for no plausible or
justifiable reason.
That's because Floyd had been unarmed throughout the incident, was hand-cuffed and incapable
of flight or harming others and was surrounded by four armed officers. Accordingly, he was no
threat to them, nor anyone else, and he therefore presented no policing reason for the extended
knee-hold on the back of his neck -- especially after the surrounding crowd had warned the
police that Floyd was in self-evident dire distress.
So as we see it, Chauvin's conviction on second degree manslaughter does indeed comport with
the Minnesota statute, which reads as follows:
..by the person's culpable negligence whereby the person creates an unreasonable risk ,
and consciously takes chances of causing death or great bodily harm to another;
But here's also where the Woke/Progressive Left narrative goes even more haywire. Floyd's
death was due to an arrest which shouldn't have happened and bad police behavior that has
nothing to do with race .
As to the former point, what should have been on trial in this case was not "systemic
racism", but the Nanny State for grotesquely excessive use of force to enforce a petty
counterfeiting complaint that should not be police business in the first place. It's the job of
retail store owners to handle petty counterfeiters or people who unknowingly pass bad
greenbacks and to absorb the cost of self-protection just like they do in the case of refusing
charges on bad credit cards.
So there is zero reason why George Floyd should ever have been arrested.
As to bad police behavior, you do not have to look too hard to see that it's essentially
color-blind and that being non-black is no guarantee against the same unjust fate.
During the same five-year period in which 104 black lives were lost, a total of 127 unarmed
white lives were wasted by the police, as well. That included 32 white killings in 2015
followed by 22, 31, 23 and 19 in 2016 through 2019, respectively.
Overall, 302 unarmed citizens were killed by the police during those five years, with the
balance accounted for by 71 deaths among Hispanic and other victims. That is, the real issue is
illegal and excessive police violence, not racial victimization.
Indeed, the fact that 34% of these police killings involved black citizens compared to their
13% share of the population is not primarily a sign of racism among police forces, although it
is continuously construed to be.
It's actually evidence that the Nanny State, and especially the misbegotten War on Drugs, is
designed to unnecessarily ensnare a distinct demographic -- young, poor, often unemployed urban
citizens -- in confrontations with the cops, too many of which become fatal.
Alas, young black males are disproportionately represented among this particular
inharms'-way demographic, and that's the reason they are "disproportionately" represented in
the 302 cases cited above.
Stated differently, the Nanny State results in too many black victims of plain old
injustice, even if that is not necessarily the intent of the crusaders and zealots who have
launched the state into anti-liberty wars on drugs, vice and victimless iniquities and
peccadillos.
That is to say, statism in the sphere of law and order is every bit as dysfunctional as it
is in the realm of economics, yet neither conservatives nor progressives recognize it.
Conservatives want way too much law and police empowerment in the service of cultural norms
that are none of the state's damn business in the first place; and progressives confuse the
often brutal and unjust over-reach of law enforcement agencies as a manifestation of racism,
when it is actually just policing expectorations in behalf of inappropriate missions such as
the enforcement of drug laws.
Indeed, the main trouble in America today is not overt racism or even simmering racial
animosity. The real evil is the relentless aggrandizement of state power in the form of the
Nanny State -- a conflation of too many laws, crimes, cops, arrests and thereby opportunities
for frictions between the state and its citizenry and for abuse by the gendarmes vested with
legal use of violence.
In a word, some citizens sometimes can't breathe their last breath because in far too many
instances liberty can't breathe in today's unhinged Nanny State, either.
Among the most recent notorious cases, of course, are George Floyd's fatal arrest for
allegedly passing a counterfeit $20 bill; Eric Garner (NYC 2014), subdual for selling untaxed
cigarettes; Rayshard Brooks for falling asleep drunk in his car at a subsequently incinerated
Wendy's in Atlanta; and Breonna Taylor of Louisville for being awake in her own apartment at
1:30 AM when police barged in with guns blaring in a drug enforcement raid.
These are anecdotal cases, of course, but the big picture statistics tell the same story. In
the most recent year of complete data (2018), there were 9.3 million arrests in the US
excluding traffic enforcement charges of DUI. Yet among this massive number of arrests, those
involving serious crimes against persons and property accounted for just 521,000 or 5.6%. These
included:
Negligent murder and manslaughter: 11,970;
Rape: 25,205;
Armed robbery: 88,128;
Aggravated assault: 395,800;
That's it. That's the contribution to core public safety delivered by the 850,000 sworn law
enforcement officers in the USA -- about 0.6 arrests per year for serious crimes per law
enforcement officer.
As for what they were doing the rest of the time and the other 8,777,000 arrests that
occurred in 2018, we can say this: They clearly provided more occasion for conflict between
citizens and the gendarmes and for policing actions to go haywire, as in the George Floyd case,
than any additional increments of public safety.
After all, the single largest category of arrests in 2018 was for drug abuse violations,
which totaled 1,654,282.
In fact, while total arrests for all crimes in 2018 were no higher than they were in 1977
despite a 100 million/50% growth in the US population, and had actually dropped from a peak of
nearly 13 million in 2006, the opposite trend was extant in the case of the nation's
misbegotten War on Drugs arrests.
As shown by the chart below, drug arrests in 2018 were nearly at peak levels and were up by
more than 171% since 1977 -- the vast majority of which are made for drug possession generally,
and marijuana possession most often.
War on Drugs Arrests, 1980-2016
Not surprisingly, the next largest arrest category after drugs is one called "other
assaults" for which 1,063,535 arrests were made in 2018. Yet the FBI's own definitions raise
considerable doubts as to why these are even a proper matter for law enforcement by the
state:
Other assaults (simple) - Assaults and attempted assaults where no weapon was used or no
serious or aggravated injury resulted to the victim. Stalking, intimidation, coercion, and
hazing are included.
Then, of course, we have all the victimless and vice crimes, including the following number
of arrests:
Prostitution and commercialized vice: 31,147;
Sex offenses excluding rape and prostitution: 46,937;
Gambling: 3,323;
Liquor law offenses: 173,152;
Curfew and loitering law violations: 22,031;
Vagrancy: 23,546;
Public drunkenness: 328,772;
Disorderly conduct: 329,152;
Forgery and counterfeiting: 50,072;
Weapons carrying and possession: 168,403;
All other offenses: 3,231,700.
The latter huge number tells you all you need to know. The UCR lists 27 enumerated
categories of crime including all of those itemized above–plus the usual suspects like
fraud and embezzlement for which there were about 135,000 arrests in 2018. Yet when the whole
lists is exhausted, 32% of arrests occurred for crimes that are so minor even the FBI is
embarrassed to enumerate them!
So, yes, we do think there are way, way too many crimes and cops, and that decriminalizing
and de-funding law enforcement are the only route to reducing police violence.
But by the same token, the unwarranted and often mendacious racializing of police
malfeasance, which the George Floyd case has brought to a fever pitch, will only insure
retrogression. That is, it will unleash a blind rallying to the defense of law enforcement by
conservative Republicans, blue collar whites and the Foxified Right, thereby insuring a
continuing failure to attack and drastically curtail the Nanny State regime, which is the real
source of policing injustice.
Of course, don't expect Nancy Pelosi or Sleepy Joe to be any more enlightened on the matter
than Sean Hannity. These doddering old fools are now enthrall to the wokedom of the
progressive-Left; and, as Maxine Water's blatant performance as agent provocateur in
Minneapolis the night before the verdict makes clear, these people want the problem to fester
and metastasize, not be alleviated.
Indeed, it is probably not too far fetched to say that Congresswoman Waters' call for a
guilty verdict or else a new round of violent uprisings amounted to an insurance policy. Three
guilty verdicts could not trigger the latter, but a judicial appeal resulting in a mistrial
order surely would.
In other words, the Democratic Party has fallen into the grip of vicious leftist zealots and
power-hungry authoritarians. And the events of the last two days suggest that two dangerously
wrong-headed and ugly narratives -- -race-baiting and climate hysteria -- now stand at the
center of the Dem agenda because the party's two supreme leaders are too weak and too senile to
resist the mob.
So we'd say to the feverish punters of Wall Street, yes, embrace the putative Economic Boom
impending and buy the Greatest Financial Bubble in history, if you must.
But, really, if the events which culminated in Tuesday's triumph of mob justice do not scare
the living bejesus out of you, then, well, you probably deserve to suffer the thundering
financial gotterdammerung which is surely coming your way. 60,006 194 NEVER MISS THE NEWS
THAT MATT
As Townhall.com's Spencer Brown details , Chauvin's lawyers pointed out that jurors were
not sequestered during the case and therefore may not be free from outside influence in the
form of news updates they may have inadvertently or purposefully seen along with ongoing
violence in the community surrounding the Chauvin trial and approaching verdict.
Among their concerns, Chauvin's defense team pointed to Waters and her appearance with
demonstrators in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, over the weekend.
Even though the judge denied the defense's motion for mistrial, he highlighted the damage
her rhetoric may have done, saying "Congresswoman Waters may have given you something on appeal
that may result in this whole trial being overturned."
"... The guy with the badge didn't kill Floyd, he committed suicide by ingesting an overdose of Fentanyl. The Autopsy showed he had a level of 11ng/ml and 3 ng/ml is a Lethal Level. I don't see how the Medical Examiner didn't rule cause of death was Fentanyl. ..."
Didn't the life of the 7 year old Chicago girl shot in the head while in line at a McDonalds
by a gang member "matter"?
Scott Manson CPA JD SUBSCRIBER 14 minutes ago
Unfortunately not
If she had been shot by a Caucasian cop than it would matter
Yes I am sure - is shot or Caucasian the offending word of the day
EDWARD HINES SUBSCRIBER 6 minutes ago
Exploitation value is all that "matters" to these people.
Chloe Kelley SUBSCRIBER 10 minutes ago
Will that gang member go to jail? Will hundreds of people try to justify the murder as just.
Was the little girl somewhere she shouldn't have been? Was she breaking the law? Was it past
curfew?
These are questions no one asks when a little girl gets shot. Its obvious that murder is
wrong. Her killer is caught and tried and goes to jail.
When I cop kills someone in cold blood in front of your eyes, you are still willing to and
actually search for reasons other than the obvious. It isn't the murder but the reaction to
it that people protest.
Scott Manson CPA JD SUBSCRIBER 5 minutes ago (Edited)
so its less new worthy and therefore better for a gang member to shoot a little girl than for
a felon to die while resisting arrest
Interesting way to view things
Andrew T SUBSCRIBER 16 minutes ago (Edited)
Get ready for more Democrat riots. Remember Maxine Waters' "get more confrontational" call to
protesters.
Jerome Ogden SUBSCRIBER 17 minutes ago
The daily threats and attacks on Chauvin defenders must be having a deep psychological impact
on the unsequestered jury.
A guilty verdict for even the least serious charge of manslaughter will surely trigger an
appeal of the decision not to allow a change of venue. And I believe it will have a good
chance of success. Here's why:
Jack Ruby's conviction by a Dallas jury in 1964 for killing Oswald was overturned on
appeal because Ruby's motion for a change of venue was denied. The appeals court judges
recognized that holding the trial in Dallas denied Ruby an impartial jury, because jurors
residing in that city would feel a unique duty to remove the stain that the Kennedy and
Oswald assassinations had left on their city. (google)
Jurors residing in Minneapolis are human. They cannot be impartial under constant mob
intimidation.
I'm betting the appeals court will grant Chauvin a new trial if found guity.
Anything less would mean our judicial system itself is bowing to mob rule.
RICHARD MARTIN SUBSCRIBER 21 minutes ago
"Beyond a reasonable doubt," is the legal bench mark, and it hasn't been met no matter how
frustrated you are about the restraint technique used the police in this instance. Mr.
Floyd's drug use was a contributing factor to his death whether Maxine Waters thinks so or
not.
A. James Tagg SUBSCRIBER 22 minutes ago
Watching politicians gas light minorities is so funny to watch, just wait to see the results
of the power vacuum created by the lack of a police presence in these communities. The
result..... one of the worst crime waves that is just gonna SHRED they're community for
years.
Scott Manson CPA JD SUBSCRIBER 16 minutes ago
crime in Minneapolis has been on the rise all year. At one point I remember an article in
which the MInneapolis police chief asked for assistance from other law enforcement agencies
because of all the retirements and lack of funding did not have enough cops to handle the
crime ridden city
Jerome Abernathy SUBSCRIBER 29 minutes ago
At the point Floyd lost consciousness, Chauvin's partner checked Floyd and said he couldn't
find a pulse, yet Chauvin stayed on his neck for over 3 minutes more. He knew Floyd was
unconscious, he knew he had no pulse, yet he stayed on his neck. He didn't administer aid, he
continued grind his neck into his neck. None of the other evidence matters for 2nd degree
murder.
Violet Liskey SUBSCRIBER 25 minutes ago
Sufficient in my mind for a second degree manslaughter conviction.
Mac Moore SUBSCRIBER 23 minutes ago
Abernathy writes, "At the point Floyd lost consciousness, Chauvin's partner checked Floyd and
said he couldn't find a pulse, yet Chauvin stayed on his neck for over 3 minutes more."
So, what? Are you looking for evidence to support your hate? How is that helpful? They
jury has all of the facts. The Prosecutors and Defense delivered excellent arguments and
supported them with facts. It seems all of your evidence is of only one perspective. The Jury
has both. I will await their decision, not yours.
Rick Krieger SUBSCRIBER 23 minutes ago
And the Floyd family will skip town with $27 million from the citizens of Minnesota.
Bruce Rado SUBSCRIBER 11 minutes ago
Thank Chauvin for that. The city settled because the bar for a civil award is only "the
preponderance of evidence," and anyone with two functioning eyes could see that Floyd's death
was "wrongful," and that Chauvin's actions were the proximate cause of Floyd's death.
Ellyn Oys SUBSCRIBER 2 minutes ago (Edited)
That is the fascinating part. I awaiting news as to how they spend it. Will they start with a
row of pink Cadillacs?
D REYNOLDS SUBSCRIBER 19 minutes ago
People who don't make a habit of getting high, committing crimes, then resisting arrest have
nothing to worry about.
John Bartlett SUBSCRIBER 9 minutes ago
Especially after ingesting a lethal dose of Fentanyl, Floyd's blood showed 11 ng/ml and
3ng/ml is considered a lethal level.
BRUCE MONTGOMERY SUBSCRIBER 32 minutes ago
Interesting final arguments by the prosecution which just wrapped up.
Next up, the Defense, then rebuttal by the State before the case concludes and jury begins
its deliberations.
The prosecution highlighted the pain suffered by Floyd under Chauvin's knee. Floyd
complained that he couldn't breath and about the pain in his stomach and neck.
According to the Mayo Clinic website, symptoms relating to an "enlarged heart," often
include shortness of breath and may also include chest pain, discomfort in other areas of the
upper body (one or both arms, neck, back, stomach and severe shortness of breath which may
indicate a heart attack), and fainting.
It is inexplicable, however, why Chauvin did not take his knee off Floyd when he had no
pulse. . .
EDWARD HINES SUBSCRIBER 44 minutes ago
National Guard in DC are playing video games on their phones.
As Minneapolis is largely unprotected, sacrificed for a political agenda.
Violet Liskey SUBSCRIBER 45 minutes ago
Bad closing prosecutor argument is going to justify a stronger reaction if the decision does
not go in the direction of the mob - we needed Steve to do a better job for all concerned
ted williams SUBSCRIBER 41 minutes ago
Which mob? The Jan 6 mob?? I'm confused
Kevin Burke SUBSCRIBER 37 minutes ago
The summer of love mob.
Richard Acuti SUBSCRIBER 52 minutes ago
The verdict and the sentence are irrelevant.
More rioting and violence will occur no matter the output of the trial.
This is a tragic tale of a lousy human being being killed by another lousy human being
with a badge. Neither of these guys are any good.
John Bartlett SUBSCRIBER 45 minutes ago
The guy with the badge didn't kill Floyd, he committed suicide by ingesting an overdose
of Fentanyl. The Autopsy showed he had a level of 11ng/ml and 3 ng/ml is a Lethal Level. I
don't see how the Medical Examiner didn't rule cause of death was Fentanyl.
John Bartlett SUBSCRIBER 9 minutes ago
The Medical Examiner is at fault for not listing Fentanyl as the cause of death, Floyd's
Autopsy showed he had 11 ng/ml and 3 is considered Lethal. An overdose of Fentanyl causes the
persons respiration to slow and even stop and that's what happened to Floyd.
Jerome Abernathy SUBSCRIBER 28 minutes ago
"This is a tragic tale of a lousy human being being killed by another lousy human being with
a badge."
Floyd was addicted to opioids like millions of other Americans. That didn't make him a
lousy human. But, I do question what type of person would accuse him of such.
Scott Manson CPA JD SUBSCRIBER 26 minutes ago
he was also a felon who was in the process of committing a crime -
does that qualify as a lousy human?
Maria Thompson SUBSCRIBER 20 minutes ago
... Conviction for first degree home-invasion robbery where he pointed a gun at a pregnant
woman's abdomen
the Media doesn't mention it much
EDWARD HINES SUBSCRIBER 1 hour ago
Looting And burning Footlocker basketball shoe stores will make everything better.
paul grunder SUBSCRIBER 1 hour ago
Maxine Waters was despicable in what she did by encouraging rioters. Then I also think Chris
Cuomo of CNN should be fired for basically saying, unless white children are shot there will
be no justice Why would anyone encourage the deaths of any children? We have a sicko nation.
p's wife
Albert Griffith SUBSCRIBER 1 hour ago
The prosecution's closing argument is way too long. He's playing to the cameras.
EDWARD HINES SUBSCRIBER 1 hour ago
He wants a CNN show when this is all over.
mitch wilkerson SUBSCRIBER 1 hour ago
how much pressure was the knee on his back? That's the 64 dollar question. I see not enough
to kill him but merely to restrain as he was high
Violet Liskey SUBSCRIBER 1 hour ago
I don't think there is any way to know - only the best guess of experts who may nor may not
be influenced by other factors
Keith Dowling SUBSCRIBER 1 hour ago
I wonder, did the defense point out that G. Floyd said he couldn't breath before he was put
on the ground? That seems to be proof that the restraining hold had nothing to do with his
breathing issues.
The other factor is, what impact did the crowd have on delaying the paramedics in
accessing and treating Mr. Floyd? They said they did a "load and scoot" due to the unruly
crowd.
Mac Moore SUBSCRIBER 1 hour ago
Dowling writes, "I wonder, did the defense point out that G. Floyd said he couldn't breath
before he was put on the ground?"
Yes. The Defense has been excellent. Both desks, Defense / Prosecutors, presented their
positions very well. The Jury has a good balance of facts and arguments to work with. I don't
know how they will find, but my guess is that at least one or more jurors will not be able to
conclude murder / manslaughter by the police.
EDWARD HINES SUBSCRIBER 1 hour ago
A 7 year girl in Chicagoland was shot in the head yesterday by a gang member and killed.
She was not fighting with police or under the influence of fentanyl.
Was in line at a McDonalds.
No media coverage.
D REYNOLDS SUBSCRIBER 1 hour ago
I read about it on Fox News. Didn't see it mentioned on CNN however.
karen graham SUBSCRIBER 1 hour ago
It's on CNN.
Scott Manson CPA JD SUBSCRIBER 1 hour ago
so where are the "peaceful protests"
Thomas Fowler SUBSCRIBER 46 minutes ago
There won't be any because if a black is killed by another black, there's no political gain
to be had. This just proves that black lives don't matter unless a white (or maybe Asian) is
involved.
Gregory Weinman SUBSCRIBER 1 hour ago
Based on the evidence I would acquit murder charges. Murder requires an intent the
prosecution has not proven. Involuntary manslaughter in Minnesota is called manslaughter in
the second degree. That seems the appropriate charge. Based on Officer Chauvin's negligence
in the death of Mr Floyd I would convict.
Representative Waters was filmed inciting riot if the jury acquits on murder. She did this in
Brooklyn Center MN, a city already in flames If Minneapolis erupts in riot will she face
sanction or dismissal? I wouldn't bet on it.
Jerome Feldman SUBSCRIBER 1 hour ago (Edited)
Is anything going to be done to protect the anonymity of the jurors...as is done in mob
trials?
Not that anything can be done in this day and age. It is likely that the identity of each
juror is already public knowledge.
(Mrs. JF)
M Ruri SUBSCRIBER 47 minutes ago
That is a major issue as to an appeal of the verdict I believe.... because many selected
jurors did say they were worried about their safety in being selected.
John Harris SUBSCRIBER 1 hour ago
Q: Why were those "9 minutes" necessary?
A: Because he had been successful in forcibly resisting arrest (involving the entire police
force available) during the earlier 20 minutes ... just BEFORE!
...... Summary: It's that SIMPLE!
Violet Liskey SUBSCRIBER 1 hour ago (Edited)
I think Floyd passed out at 20:24-5 and was not resisting for the last 3 mins of the 9 mins.
And that is the best prosecutors case for at least second degree manslaughter.
Violet Liskey SUBSCRIBER 1 hour ago
So far prosecutor's closing argument has been disappointing - playing the jury -- by
misleading claims 9:24, 9:24, 9: 24 or superhumans do not exist in real life or (I know, not
the defense, what Chauvin knows) he knew, he knew, he knew, mock, mock, mock -- guess Steve
figures the jury has the intelligence of 8 year-olds and he is willing to yank their strings
.. although not saying he is wrong
Joseph Areeda SUBSCRIBER 1 hour ago
I can't help but think the reaction of the mob will hang over jury deliberations.
Imagine the press reaction if Trump had used language similar to Maxine Water's on Jan
5
We've got to stay on the street and we've got to get more active, we've got to get more
confrontational. We've got to make sure that they know that we mean business.
I pray Mr. Chauvin gets a fair verdict than depends on his actions and the law
not on expected mob reactions, but I don't see how that's possible.
Girish Kotwal SUBSCRIBER 1 hour ago
Will police officer Derek Chauvin get proper justice from a jury that is being ferociously
intimidated to give a guilty verdict by an organized mob and filthy politicians like Maxine
Watters? It will be the responsibility of the judge and the justice department to assure that
the intimidation should have no influence on the verdict and the jury will be protected from
any repercussions of their verdict no matter what it is. Jury protection measures should be
in place until the mob calms down. I don't think that some of the organizations that were
rioting which are the poodles of the Dems are going to be rioting no matter what the decision
is because after the summer riots they got what they wanted which is the installation of
Biden in the white house. So now they have their puppy in the white house and he is doing
exactly what they want him to do.
The Dems have sowed the seeds of race wars and mass shootings that they cannot blame
Trump. Crime is a crime and deserves to be punished.
karen graham SUBSCRIBER 1 hour ago (Edited)
Do you know who the jurors are? This is obviously a high profile case, but who do you think
is intimidating them?
And how did you get Trump into this?
D REYNOLDS SUBSCRIBER 1 hour ago
Perhaps the mob gathering outside the courthouse?
Randall Digby SUBSCRIBER 1 hour ago
and a US Representative from the state of California that the moderators will not allow to be
named.
Alan Pronesti SUBSCRIBER 2 hours ago (Edited)
A couple of years ago I watched a documentary on PBS on African American voters, and it said
that if Black participation rates in elections drops just a tiny % (don't remember the
number) Democrats would get killed in elections. If it wasn't for that we wouldn't know who
George Floyd is.
Once that changes the Democrats, Media, and Liberals will throw African Americans under
the bus.
This is not about race it's all about elections for Democrats.
Michael Dulaney SUBSCRIBER 1 hour ago
No. It was if the death of Floyd was caused only by the action of the police officer or if
there were other factors that, had they not existed, would not have resulted in death.
Floyd's body was full of drugs.
We will see if, in the United States today, Justice is Blind or Justice is now Mob
Rule.
Scott Manson CPA JD SUBSCRIBER 2 hours ago
Let the
"peaceful protests" begin
ALAN SEWELL SUBSCRIBER 2 hours ago
They already have. Somebody left a severed head of a porcine animal in the driveway of a
defense witness last night.
Scott Manson CPA JD SUBSCRIBER 1 hour ago
did it have an apple in its mouth?
Michael Dulaney SUBSCRIBER 1 hour ago
Our democratic cousins.
Jason Miller SUBSCRIBER 2 hours ago
Chauvin was already convicted in the media before stepping into court. The majority of the
public also convicted him before knowing all of the facts. So I hope the jury is doing their
job, not judging him from a biased media perspective that has plagued our nation for years.
Either way, there will be riots, whether he's found guilty or not guilty.
Michael Dulaney SUBSCRIBER 1 hour ago
Retail outlets need to board up before "shopping" begins when the verdict is read.
Michael Schmitt SUBSCRIBER 1 hour ago (Edited)
Chicago stores (in all neighborhoods) started boarding up last week. Who wants to go shopping
in person any more? Between rioting, carjackings, personal attacks, homeless on every corner,
it's dangerous and not pleasant. Online shopping will take over. Retail, real estate and
insurance industries need to step up and call out this destruction.
K R HANINGTON SUBSCRIBER 2 hours ago
I would hope that everyone would be willing to accept the verdict of the jury, no
matter what the outcome.
This is foundational for our justice system and indeed for our country. People who have
not you been in the courtroom to hear all the testimony, to see all the evidence should
accept the Judgment of the jury. You don't have to be happy with it but you should accept it.
Outside agitators, such as Representative Maxine Waters, should be held in contempt.
Michael Dulaney SUBSCRIBER 1 hour ago
Maxine Waters is calling for protests against the government. Don't know about Minneapolis,
but in Washington DC she called this an "insurrection".
Maybe she should be tried for treason.
Rachel Glyn SUBSCRIBER 2 hours ago
I'm not sure whether anybody can be unbiased enough to judge to what extent Chauvin, as
opposed to George Floyd's drug use and heart condition, caused Mr Floyd's death. Radical
supporters of BLM are convinced that Chauvin murdered Floyd and it was racially motivated.
Some on the Right discount any involvement from Chauvin and blame it all on Mr Floyd. Even if
I were on the jury to hear all the scientific evidence, I might not feel qualified to
decide.
I also am unsure whether any jurors can really make an unbiased decision. Even in a worst
case scenario, if Chauvin is racist and evil and deliberately cause Mr Floyd's death, the
jury should decide based on evidence and not mob threats. I'd like to know if the jurors have
heard outside news and if they fear for their own safety.
karen graham SUBSCRIBER 2 hours ago
Jurors are instructed not to listen to outside news. Juries tend to take their
responsibilities very seriously.
AM Losee SUBSCRIBER 1 hour ago
I think a lot of people are convinced this was murder. People were screaming at Chauvin to
get his knee off his neck. How much more blatant can it get?
Because you and other right wingers hate Floyd, you are making excuses for a bad cop, a
really bad cop, who already had 17 marks against his record, some for excessive
punishment.
The guy should have been thrown off the force.
Mac Moore SUBSCRIBER 1 hour ago
Losee writes, "I think a lot of people are convinced this was murder."
That is the sad truth. When your lens is blinded by hate, one has difficulty seeing it any
other way.
Michael Dulaney SUBSCRIBER 1 hour ago
The broad generalization you make against "right wingers"...."hating Floyd" shows that racism
is indeed alive and well in your neck of the woods.
Bruce Anderson SUBSCRIBER 1 hour ago
AM - how do you know who hates Floyd?
you are a mind reader with a crystal ball?
what a dum statement.
no one heard of Floyd before and now they hate him ?
Charles McGill SUBSCRIBER 1 hour ago
yes AM and leftists are mind readers and not only that but are righteous, always correct, and
think all sheep should stand quietly and get fleeced.
Joseph Rosenberger SUBSCRIBER 2 hours ago
What a sad mess.
Mac Moore SUBSCRIBER 2 hours ago
The flame throwers, Obama, Sharpton, Jackson, James, BLM, and, their enablers in the MSM ....
have poisoned the waters of rational thought in America. They have far too many citizens
viewing this event through a racist lens that they created for political malfeasance to gain
power. It is sick.
Floyd was there as a culminations of hundreds, if not thousands, of bad choices of his own
making. The police were there as a request. If Floyd had chosen to comply with the police,
the outcome would have been completely different. How the police acted to gain submission is
in question, but it is political theatrics to call it murder.
For an acquittal, the defense must similarly convince all 12 jurors that the prosecution
failed to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. But it takes only one juror to "hang" the
jury. That means that if 11 jurors want to vote to convict on at least one of the charges
against Chauvin, but one juror doesn't believe the government has met its burden of proof,
there won't be a verdict. Instead, there will be a mistrial, and although the government can
retry the case down the road, a hung jury involves delay and the risk that as the evidence
ages, the prosecution's case may become weaker.
OMG. I just watched 2 strong young black men have a conversation
without screaming RACISM. All they talked about was our freedoms and
our rights. I love watching Lawrence, he is a breath of fresh air in
the media. We need more people like these 2 men to keep the
conversation going about protecting everyone's rights.
It's sad that money was used to help people not for her to buy four
houses I don't understand I work in Brooklyn a lot of people would
need those donations. Sad 🥺
The Great Commission to Uplift the American Negro is a long-running national project that
goes back at least to the 1850s. It's recurred in cycles that always eventually founder,
creating at best a "talented tenth"-type elite and leaving the great mass of the black
underclass where they are or worse.
It can only continue to the extent that it does because of willful ahistoriocity on the
part of its adherents, at least with respect to past cycles.
As our esteemed host has pointed out time and again, liberals are forbidden to know of any
history relevant to blacks prior to the 21st century other than slavery, Jim Crow, redlining,
and Emmett Till.
Why crime rises and falls is a devilishly complicated question.
In journalism, always a blaring alarm that a thumb-sucking pile of BS is about to follow.
In fact, insert anything you want in front of "is a complicated question." But crime in
particular is not complicated to explain. It's just unpleasant and embarrassing to face up
to.
The George Floyd incident is illustrative. Police were not being brutal or confrontational
when they approached Floyd. Floyd escalated the situation by refusing to comply with simple
instructions. This is at the root of almost all police/public confrontations.
Police are required to investigate a violation of the law. If you hinder that
investigation, physically resist or flee things go south. They can't just let you go if they
believe you did something illegal. Had Floyd cooperated he would have likely ended up with a
misdemeanor charge of passing a counterfeit bill,booked at the jail and bonded out in a
couple of hours.
Underclass negroes simply refuse to take the easy way out believing they can talk ( lie )
their way out of a situation of their own making or, failing that, flee and everybody will
just forget about it.
"... It turns out that Floyd had a long criminal record, including an armed robbery in which held a gun to the stomach of a pregnant woman. In short, George Floyd was a real piece of shit. ..."
"... I don't think it is likely Chauvin will get any justice. Presumably the upgraded murder charge works in his favor as he's more likely to get off, but considering the media attention, the state of thinking in America, and the corruption of the justice system, it seems likely that he's going to get railroaded. ..."
"... Actually, he might not have been lying. Covid19 patients are known to have difficulty breathing. Add to that Fentanyl, which also causes sudden death. I wonder if the autopsy included a review for blood clots around his heart, which is not an uncommon cause of death for Covid19 patients. ..."
"... The author of this piece is every bit as much a cry baby as BLM pricks painting up the streets. ..."
"... Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said that he did not want to release the videos because it might hurt his attempt to prosecute the officers. Get that, he's not interested in justice but to get the pre-determined result: WHITE MAN guilty of racist murder. ..."
"... Agreed that George Floyd got justice, but please remember that it's not the role of police to hand out justice. Agreed that he was not killed by the police, but just what does the author mean by saying that Floyd got what he deserved, ..."
"... Fentanyl is a respiratory suppressor in itself. Some of its analogues are particularly so. Floyd had multiple fentalogues in his system I believe there were also some variety of benzodiazapines as well. These combined are more than lethal at surprisingly low doses for a normal adult male. That doesn't even start to consider all the meth, and metabolites of it, coursing thru his veins. Metabolites will have an effect in this mix, in terms of toxicity. ..."
"... Of course it's a lie. The Mockingbird Media has been lying for decades running about damned near everything. Why is anyone surprised? It's like the old joke in the USSR about Pravda (Truth) and Isvestia (News): There's no truth in the news and no news in the truth . ..."
"... Yes this is very true. Breanna Taylor of Louisville was an actual case of such reckless abuse of power (no knock warrant where the cops killed an innocent black woman). Haven't seen the usual suspects complaining very much about that one. Yes there have been a few scattered BLM riots – but only after the tragic ascension of St. George the Breathless. She didn't get tens of millions via Go-Fund-Me and a state funeral with a gold-plated casket like St. George. Guess St. George serves a higher purpose than Breanna – apparently a mere paramedic rather than the Kang of Wokeundumb Kangz. ..."
"... Honestly, to most Europeans, neither George Floyd nor the cop who knelt on his neck can inspire sympathy. Both are loathsome. Most of us don't like American police methods, they're brutal and dishonourable for a country that pretends to be free, and most of us don't like criminals who are fake victims of racism either because most of the racism we see is against us and our civilisation nowadays. ..."
The cries for justice over the deaths of Trayvon Martin and
Michael Brown were
hoaxes. Both men were criminals who died because they were dumb enough to assault men with
guns. The same is true of Ahmaud Arbery
.
There are more than forty million black people in America. Can't Black Lives Matter find at
least one actual victim of racism?
Now, with the leak of the police body-camera footage of the arrest of George Floyd, we have
confirmation of what sensible people suspected all along: George Floyd was not a victim of
police brutality or injustice.
The story we had been sold was that, for no good reason, Floyd was thrown to the ground by a
brutal cop, Derek Chauvin, who then put his knee on Floyd's neck for nearly nine minutes while
Floyd pled that he could not breathe, choking him to death.
Based on this story, Derek Chauvin was fired and indicted for murder, and the three other
cops who assisted him were fired and indicted for aiding and abetting murder.
Also based on this story, America has been convulsed by more than two months of race riots,
which have killed dozens, injured countless others, and destroyed billions of dollars in
property and countless livelihoods.
There were many facts that did not fit this story, however.
George Floyd's autopsy revealed that he wasn't suffocated. Instead, he died of heart
failure. He was suffering from heart disease and COVID-19. He also had the opioid fentanyl in
his system as well as methamphetamine. The medical examiner said these drugs contributed to
this death. (He also had traces of cannabis.)
Beyond that, Floyd was apprehended before he could drive off, clearly intoxicated, after
trying to pass a counterfeit bill. Should the police have allowed him to just drive away?
Obviously not. They had to do something to get Floyd out of his car and away from the public so
he could not endanger himself or others.
The person who called the police reported that Floyd was acting strangely, which in all
likelihood meant that he was intoxicated or mentally ill, thus not to be trifled with.
It turns out that Floyd had a long criminal record, including an armed robbery in which
held a gun to the stomach of a pregnant woman. In short, George Floyd was a real piece of
shit.
Moreover, putting a knee on an uncooperative suspect's neck is an approved police control
technique, so how could Chauvin be indicted for murder?
Finally, there was never any evidence that race played any role in Floyd's death. He
was not arrested because he was black, but because he committed a crime. He was not forcibly
restrained because he was black, but because he was uncooperative. Two of the four officers
were non-white. The claim that race had anything to do with Floyd's death at all was simply
a baseless assertion amplified and endlessly repeated by the media and BLM
agitators.
But now we know that it was all a fraud. What does the police body camera footage
reveal?
First of all, it reveals that George Floyd was dishonest, uncooperative, and acted deranged
and scary.
Floyd claimed that he had just lost his mother (he hadn't). He claimed to be too
claustrophobic to get in the police car, which was a lie because he was not too claustrophobic
to sit in his own car. He claimed twice that he was not on drugs, falsely. He refused
repeatedly to allow the police to cuff him. He refused repeatedly to get in the police car. He
claimed multiple times that he could not breathe before he ended up on the ground with
Chauvin's knee on his neck. Obviously he was lying before that, so it made sense for Chauvin to
disbelieve him when Floyd was on the ground. And, in any case, remember that the medical
examiner said Floyd did not die of asphyxiation.
Second, the video reveals that the police dealt with Floyd with a level of patience and
professionalism that I certainly could not have mustered. One cannot say that Chauvin lost his
patience or lashed out at Floyd.
Ask yourself, dear reader, would you have been able to maintain your cool in the same
situation? I know I would have snapped. I was thinking "Couldn't we just arm police with
tranquilizer darts to bring these beasts down?" This video gives me nothing but respect for the
police who have to deal day in and day out with deranged criminals like George Floyd.
Was George Floyd a victim of injustice? No, he died because (1) he committed a crime, (2)
refused to comply with the police, and (3) was so high on drugs that he was not up to the
rigors of being forcibly arrested. If he hadn't done any of those things, he -- and a lot of
other people -- would still be alive today. George Floyd's death was entirely his fault.
It wasn't murder. It was the predictable result of Floyd's own bad character and bad choices.
It was his just desserts.
George Floyd got justice.
Now we have to secure justice for Derek Chauvin and his fellow officers, as well as for the
millions of Americans whose lives have been turned upside down by this massive hoax perpetrated
by the government of Minneapolis, the State of Minnesota, Black Lives Matter, the mainstream
media, and the far Left -- aided and abetted by the craven eunuchs of the mainstream Right.
If I were Donald Trump, I would invoke the Insurrection Act, then spend the next few weeks
arresting the leaders of BLM and antifa, as well as their collaborators in state and municipal
governments, for the crimes they have already committed. Once the Leftist beast is decapitated,
I would pardon Derek Chauvin and his fellow officers. Then I'd grab some popcorn.
"But we could never do that! Blacks would burn the country down!"
If that is your initial reaction, I want you to reflect on it. Derek Chauvin, his fellow
officers, and the whole planet have been victimized by a blatant hoax. If we can't do the right
thing and call a stop to it, then aren't we admitting that we have to choose between having
justice and having black people in America ? Well I choose justice. Which is reason number
one-hundred-million-and-one why I believe that blacks and whites in America need to go our
separate ways. We need
a racial divorce .
"I was thinking 'Couldn't we just arm police with tranquilizer darts to bring these
beasts down?'"
That would've killed him flat out, what with a lethal/near-lethal dose of fentanyl in him
already. It seems they'd decided to let EMS deal with him, which was absolutely the correct
decision. Strap the maniac down on a gurney.
I can't find any fault with this assessment. After watching the eight minutes of Floyd
lying about claustrophobia and struggling against the attempt to simply get him safely into
the police vehicle, it makes me sick that I bought into part of the narrative being sold at
the time.
There's not much doubt left that a combination of drug abuse and poor health killed the
man. Chauvin and the others should be released with a clean record.
Which is not to say that no policing reforms are needed. Too many innocent people are
killed by cops. Floyd just wasn't one of them.
I don't think it is likely Chauvin will get any justice. Presumably the upgraded
murder charge works in his favor as he's more likely to get off, but considering the media
attention, the state of thinking in America, and the corruption of the justice system, it
seems likely that he's going to get railroaded.
If he does that will be the saddest part of this whole affair – a cop just doing his
job to police the community gets (presumably life, at least his life ruined) because he was
sent to deal with a deranged, intoxicated negro.
This video shows a silverback coming to the realization that he is going to jail, yet
again, and acting like a typical low I.Q. Negro. He was a career criminal P.O.S. that got
just what he deserved. It's a travesty of justice to charge the cops with anything.
It ought to be a wake up call for any cop that the powers that be need you collectively
but will throw you individually under the bus if it's politically expedient.
He claimed multiple times that he could not breathe before he ended up on the ground
with Chauvin's knee on his neck. Obviously he was lying before that, so it made sense for
Chauvin to disbelieve him when Floyd was on the ground.
Actually, he might not have been lying. Covid19 patients are known to have difficulty
breathing. Add to that Fentanyl, which also causes sudden death. I wonder if the autopsy
included a review for blood clots around his heart, which is not an uncommon cause of death
for Covid19 patients.
I agree with you Greg, yet ANOTHER hoax. Whew. Like you said, they can't even find ONE
legit victim of oppression. I blame Keith Ellison, but most of all I blame the jewish media
for inciting the whole bullshit scam. With the covid scam, two big scams going at once, the
creepy jews have our citizens on their fucking knees.
I've had it. I'm at the not gonna take any more stage, and I suspect that many people feel
the same way I do.
This is what you get when jews run your country incessant lies and hoaxes and gaslighting
and nonsense and chaos and crime and murder.
And one day, for no reason, the entire German populace decided, "Gee ..I don't think I
like the jews anymore ."
Unfortunately the police are proving impossible to love. They bow down to the people who
hate them and want to strip them of their jobs (if not their lives), but then arrest people
who defend themselves against a violent mob. In big cities they have no qualms against
assaulting people for not wearing a mask, nor to enforcing illegal "red flag" laws. They are
the definition of anti heroes:
Violent and oppressive toward peaceful and productive whites, but meek and subservient toward
violent and destructive blacks and communists.
I'm aware that there are exceptions, such as a few rural sheriffs refusing to enforce this
crap. But they're getting tarred by association, simply because you can never tell whether
your district will be run by a patriot or a petty tyrant.
If I were Donald Trump, I would invoke the Insurrection Act, spend the next few weeks
arresting the leaders of BLM and antifa, as well as their collaborators in state and
municipal governments, for the crimes they have already committed. Once the Leftist beast
is decapitated, I would pardon Derek Chauvin and his fellow officers.
This is brilliant. If Trump did this, he would win big -- if they don't alter the results.
If Trump did this, he would become a historical icon akin to Daniel Boone or George
Washington.
If Trump did this, and ground the Government's boot on the throat of every race agitator,
including celebrities like Winfrey and Cannon, as well as NBA/NFL ingrates, he would forever
change the hustle of blacks to game the system. He would alter America on a cellular level,
and exponentially for the best.
Alas,Trump will never do this. He cares too much (perhaps in a prurient manner) what his
daughter Ivanka thinks and her cunning conniving husband, Jared.
Note: Ron Unz has MAXIMUM backbone to run this fabulous, truth telling piece.
So the marchers are completely correct. There will be no justice. There will be no peace.
They will make sure of both no matter what. At least they tell us of their plan. Veteran
coppers smell what's up. Many have gone fetal. Others are retiring earlier than expected. All
are disgusted by the bullshit they see with this case
George Floyd was dishonest, uncooperative, and acted deranged and scary
.
Stop the presses! Acting scary is too much! Especially if it's a scary nigger! Kill the
scary nigger! Aaaaahhhhhh!!
The world has become soft, and everyone is just one big victim of every action and
inaction. The author of this piece is every bit as much a cry baby as BLM pricks painting
up the streets. Take your "I suck blue dick" cause on down the road – you're bound
to find followers.
We have to thank the leaker of the body cams video. Minnesota Attorney General Keith
Ellison said that he did not want to release the videos because it might hurt his attempt to
prosecute the officers. Get that, he's not interested in justice but to get the
pre-determined result: WHITE MAN guilty of racist murder.
Ellison was humiliated when he lost the election to the chair of the Democratic National
Committee to Tom Perez because of his affiliation to the Nation of Islam. As a consolation
prize Perez made him Deputy Chair, a meaningless title for a worthless person. I am sure that
if he can deliver a murder conviction of a white police officer the black caucus will demand
a cabinet post for this house muslim.
Yes! Yes! Yes! But you do not understand. The largest crime was not committed by Floyd.
The largest crime was committed by totally criminal media. Particularly CNN.
Agreed that George Floyd got justice, but please remember that it's not the role of
police to hand out justice. Agreed that he was not killed by the police, but just what does
the author mean by saying that Floyd got what he deserved, "his just desserts"? Was
death the form of justice he deserved? Could there have been another path made available to
"salvage" him and turn him into a benefit rather than a detriment to society?
What forces, internal and external, acted on Floyd from the time of his birth to his death
to make him become what he was, behave as he did? Can we build a society in which someone
like Floyd never exists and never needs to be put out of his and our misery?
In Floyd's life and death should we see racism or societal failure? In the reaction to his
death what should we see?
The video will of course be used by BLM and other leftists to enhance their whiny shit.
They'll say that trying to stuff him into the back of the cop car after he told them he was
claustrophobic was cruel, and just exacerbated the situation. They'll also say the cops
should have just let him sit on the ground till the amberlamps arrived.
They'll bitch about the cop pulling his gun on an "unarmed black man," and "they wouldn't
do that to a White guy." Then they'll say something really intelligent like "trying to pass a
fake 20 doesn't deserve the death sentence."
It would have been so simple to pop Floyd in the head while he was sitting in the car,
like they do in Brazil or Mexico. Or what fellow negroes do to each other every weekend. At
least then he would have died once, and the cops certainly would have been justifiably
crucified. But this case will go on and on, and we will have to endure from multiple angles
his dying. And of course the kangaroo court theatrics that will go with it all. Add to that
the scapegoats,( sacrificial pigs).
@AnonymousFentanyl is a respiratory suppressor in itself. Some of its analogues are particularly
so. Floyd had multiple fentalogues in his system I believe there were also some variety of
benzodiazapines as well. These combined are more than lethal at surprisingly low doses for a
normal adult male. That doesn't even start to consider all the meth, and metabolites of it,
coursing thru his veins. Metabolites will have an effect in this mix, in terms of
toxicity.
IMHO dude was a goner, they just showed up too early. And all hell has broken loose over
another opioid overdose not much different than hundreds of others that week but for a video
that looks bad to the unknowing
Weimar Amerika has a problem, it is called the Jewish run media that spreads lies and
causes harm to the nation. We the people have the right and moral duty to remove all Jews
from the press, the tv, from newspapers, etc.
The damage done by the George Floyd hoax is nothing compared to this stupid Covid
insanity, they are actually shutting down schools over nothing. Governments are being run by
insane lunatics, there are no adults in the room making any rational decisions.
This comment gets 5 stars
This is what you get when jews run your country incessant lies and hoaxes and
gaslighting and nonsense and chaos and crime and murder.
And one day, for no reason, the entire German populace decided, "Gee ..I don't think I
like the jews anymore ."
The trial of Chauvin will be interesting. If they do the right thing and acquit him we
might be in for some stormy times. However, sending an innocent man to prison to appease all
the extremists out there isn't something we should be forced to swallow. Buckle up your seat
belts, round two coming up.
It won't matter. This entire issue is based on complete nonsense and fantasy. All of
modern woke identity politics is intentionally fantastic and mystifying and completely
divorced from reality. As many have pointed out, the entire notion of objective truth is
considered simply a form of white supremacy (this is an actual quote from a woman with a PhD
discussing racism in math: "the idea of 2+2 equaling 4 is cultural and because of western
imperialism and colonization, we think of it as the only way of knowing"). Just as the news
will not say a suspect is black or show his face, any discussion AT ALL of actual crimes
committed by "POC" have become verboten on the woke left, and they control the narrative. If
issues were presented and discussed openly and honestly, none of this would have ever
happened anyway. So this video will simply be memory holed or, better yet, edited to somehow
portray Floyd as a victim, just as people still think of Michael Brown as a victim and all
the rest. It just won't matter.
That kind of job cannot be done by a president : there was never such thing as a honest US
president. A honest US president is a president who resigns to avoid his country the shame of
impeachment. Such a job can only be done by a Lucky Luke or so who identifies with the
president and whom the president has no choice but to support.
Of course it's a lie. The Mockingbird Media has been lying for decades running about
damned near everything. Why is anyone surprised? It's like the old joke in the USSR about
Pravda (Truth) and Isvestia (News): There's no truth in the news and no news in the truth
.
The Pulitzer Prize committee has never rescinded Walter Duranty's prize for his lies from
the 1930s about the great abundance of milk, honey and happiness in the Ukrainian SSR under
the tender care of Stalin's good boy (((Lazar Kaganovich))). Oh what's that? Never heard of
those 8-10 million being starved to death under the machine guns of those nice (((NKVD
men)))? Just another damned conspiracy theory ! (Mentioning this will get you jail
time in the "free country" once known as France – for minimizing the holycost!)
This truthful article is about the big lie regarding the ascension of St. George the
Breathless but that lie is far from the only one told. Along with the holy man's long
criminal record there's the lie about those 4 White cops when only Chauvin was
actually White. One was Black, one was Asian and a third was of mixed ancestry. Almost as big
a lie as the whopper printed about the notorious white soopremaciss involved in the
tragic ascension of St. Trayvon of Skittles and Arizona Iced Watermelon Juice – a
Peruvian octaroon named George Zimmerman. The Germans had the perfect term for our lovely
comrades at the Ministry of Truth: Lügenpresse
Which is not to say that no policing reforms are needed. Too many innocent people are
killed by cops. Floyd just wasn't one of them.
Yes this is very true. Breanna Taylor of Louisville was an actual case of such
reckless abuse of power (no knock warrant where the cops killed an innocent black woman).
Haven't seen the usual suspects complaining very much about that one. Yes there have been a
few scattered BLM riots – but only after the tragic ascension of St. George the
Breathless. She didn't get tens of millions via Go-Fund-Me and a state funeral with a
gold-plated casket like St. George. Guess St. George serves a higher purpose than Breanna
– apparently a mere paramedic rather than the Kang of Wokeundumb Kangz.
If he hadn't been pulled over, he probably still be alive today. I guess blaming the
nigger is a satisfying way for white Americans to cope with the obvious, ongoing decline of
their civilization.
Everyone I know flashes their high beams to warn other drivers of speed traps. The same
hypocrites in this thread massaging cop balls are certainly greateful for it. They only love
the cops when their abusing blacks or their political opponents, not when they're burning
down Waco.
Hmmm well, I'm not seeing the same idiots that came here before to embarrass themselves
with comments insisting that the cop murdered Floyd. Hang your heads in shame, wherever you
are.
You stupid cunt ..Floyd ingested a huge amount of fentanyl AND meth AND cannabis.
The cops were insanely patient with that crazy negro, and then the jew media LIED about
the incident for months creating an entirely false narrative that resulted in horrible loss
of life and property.
It's not "crying" to speak the truth about what happened and to lament the fact that we
were hoaxed yet again.
They DIDN'T kill the crazy buckwheat; he killed himself.
EXCLUSIVE: Police bodycam footage shows moment-by-moment arrest of George Floyd for
the first time – from terror on his face when officer points gun at his head, sobbing
before he's shoved into squad car and begging to breathe as his life drains away .
Worth a look. I think Gould must moonlight on violin.
@Tusk of thinking
in America, and the corruption of the justice system, it seems likely that he's going to get
railroaded.
He will most likely get railroaded by a jury that is afraid of another riot.
The prosecution won't be able to argue that he died by asphyxiation. They will have to
argue that he might have OD'd but the knee on the neck was a factor. Well that's manslaughter
at the most.
They'll probably give him 6-10 and let him out early. I think he should just be fired.
I really don't know why anyone would take a police position under a left-wing mayor.
If I were Donald Trump, I would invoke the Insurrection Act, spend the next few weeks
arresting
The media conglomerates, as others have said, and the education conglomerates.
Scrap higher education and go back to the tech schools we had before. It's too late to
save the old system; PC infestation and weird sex rot have ossified them all. When the
country even pretends to be civilized again, we can give it another shot.
All of the media and most of the Antifa's paleface contingent are graduates of our
overweening Institutions of Higher Indoctrination. Defund them all.
@Avianthro d the
meth and fentanyl up his rectum. That's the fastest way to get any drug, legal or not into
the vascular system.
After his last prison term in Texas, he moved to Minneapolis for drug dealing and
counterfeit money passing.
People like you, endlessly posturing and weeping about dangerous thugs like Floyd are more
responsible for " societal failure" than the useless, dangerous thugs you want to cuddle and
care for as if they were babies abandoned in a snowstorm.
Get a rescue dog or cat to lavish your love and care on, instead of defending the likes of
Floyd
Liberals blacks and Jews claim 2 of the officers got into the back seat with him and beat
him up. Yeah right, 3 men, including the giant Floyd in the back seat.
Remember White Justine Dimond also of Minneapolis. An affirmative action black officer
shot her dead as soon as he saw her, the woman who called the police about a possible
disturbance. Took more than a year to even charge and arrest him.
Lets get this straight. The police did not go over to Floyd and ask him a few questions
about his transaction in the store and then tell him he had to come with them or be arrested
for passing fake money. They just went up to his car GUNS IN HAND, and started demanding he
showed his hands. The people from the store had already been over to the car and talked to
him before this happened, they did not seem to think he was dangerous.
He refused repeatedly to allow the police to cuff him.
The police did not tell him what it was about.They swore at him and pointed a gun at him
and then started pulling him out the car, It was several minutes after he was pulled out and
handcuffed they tell him that this was an arrest on a charge about the counterfeit bill.
He refused repeatedly to get in the police car
Yes he did that.
He claimed multiple times that he could not breathe
Yes he was trying a variation on the old I'm having a heart attack ploy. Maybe the COVID
19 epidemic and the froth at the corners of his mouth ought to have made Chavin think twice
about what he was going to do.
He claimed multiple times that he could not breathe before he ended up on the ground
with Chauvin's knee on his neck. Obviously he was lying before that, so it made sense for
Chauvin to disbelieve him when Floyd was on the ground.
Excuse me? Floyd had three cops on top of him and three knees on his back when he was
prone on the pavement. Chauvin was scoffing that "It takes a lot of oxygen to talk" and told
Floyd to stop yelling about how he could not breath.
One cannot say that Chauvin lost his patience or lashed out at Floyd.
I can and am going to, because in my opinion the most likely thing is Chavin decided to
give Floyd good reason to complain about his breathing and that is why Floyd and his hapless
stooges put him down and knelt on him. They only got off 9 minutes later when they were
told he was not breathing . What was Chauvin trying to achieve, and how long did he plan
on keeping Floyd like that?
Moreover, putting a knee on an uncooperative suspect's neck is an approved police
control technique
The use of knees technique is authorised to a purpose that is not what Chavin was using
the technique for. Chavin got his and his two colleagues' knees on Floyd and kept them there
for 9 minutes 30 seconds while resting his hands on top of his own legs.
how could Chauvin be indicted for murder?
He is charged with felony murder meaning the prosecution merely have to show that he used
the "approved police control technique" in a way that crossed the line into assault. It is
not necessary to show intent for anything but the felony for a felony murder conviction,
George Floyd's death was entirely his fault. It wasn't murder. It was the predictable
result of Floyd's own bad character and bad choices.
One could say the same of many murder victims.
It was his just desserts
He messed with the wrong guy in Chauvin. But Chauvin also messed with the wrong guy. If
Chauvin had done his job properly none of this would have happened.
"In Floyd's life and death should we see racism or societal failure?"
We should see neither, for neither had any demonstrable bearing on his life or death. As
the sage is reported to have said to the seeker: "Some have good fates; some bad. Yours was a
bad one."
The author did not actually suggest that tranquilizing Floyd with darts was the best way
to deal with him. He merely stated the thought would go through his head if he had to deal
with individuals like Floyd, as he would not be able to muster the saintly patience and
forbearance of Derek Chauvin and the other officers.
It's another one of those cases where the narrative is important, not the actual story. In
a real world, with a real press with intelligent reporters, we would have discussed how
horrible the death was. How it was an accidental event but was hard to avoid. They wouldn't
use his death to inflame passions, race bait, try to forement racial hatred, strife, and race
war. Floyd's death wouldn't be an event used by the Beast to get Orange man, because
ultimately, everything the media has done the last 4 years has been one version or another of
"Orange Man Bad". We might be talking about real issues like asset forfeiture or police
immunity from crimes. How police unions weld too much political power and abuse their sacred
position of trust in society. In other words, in a real world, we wouldn't have a
manipulative propaganda organ to make Orwell's head spin like a top. We'd have intelligent
and thoughtful readers that really take a part in debate and help steer the course of
society.
No that would be asking too much I suppose. Eat your gruel, prol.
I agree with that statement but it seems that sometimes the Universe blindly hands out
justice to people. Floyd seem to be one of those. When you consider the toxicology report and
the type and amount of drugs in his system it seems likely that if he had never had any
interaction with the police at all he would have still died that day. By his own hand. But of
course not one black in a million can see it because blacks are not a people that let logic
and truth stand in the way of them venting their constant rage against the White man.
@Biff nd BLM are
producing far worse consequences than merely a deceptive message or a wrong-headed
article.
The BLM circus is not only excusing, but giving credence to, and animating violent,
low-life negro culture which often kills innocents, ruins lives, destroys businesses, debases
entire neighborhoods, and undermines the rule of law. This is worrisome trend.
The spiraling costs associated with the unintended death of one stupid criminal is already
in the billions. And BLM is still on the warpath. It's time to vigorously resist this mob,
not appease them.
People will believe what people want to believe. Curiosity killed the cat, I did a search
to find out what George Floyd's autopsy said.
After all, the whole BLM thing spread over the ocean and came to Europe for no reason
whatsoever. Americans have a shtick to export every piece of shit they crap. Some time ago
they produced some useful stuff, now they manufacture gay prides, surrogate child bearing,
gay marriage, "humanitarian" military interventions, and their latest product, "anti-racism".
Coming from a country that has abolished segregation only half a century ago, it's rich.
Honestly, to most Europeans, neither George Floyd nor the cop who knelt on his neck
can inspire sympathy. Both are loathsome. Most of us don't like American police methods,
they're brutal and dishonourable for a country that pretends to be free, and most of us don't
like criminals who are fake victims of racism either because most of the racism we see is
against us and our civilisation nowadays.
Though George Floyd's autopsy did say that "he died of heart failure" and that he "was
suffering from heart disease", it didn't say that he suffered of COVID-19, it said the
opposite, that he was tested positive to the coronavirus causing it two months before but
that he remained asymptomatic and likely was still so at the time of his death.
To top it, George Floyd's autopsy didn't reveal "that he wasn't suffocated", it said that
there were "no injuries of anterior muscles of neck or laryngeal structures", in other words
that there were no signs of trauma associated with forcible asphyxiation which doesn't mean
that his heart failure wasn't eventually caused by lack of oxygen, even if drugs in his
organism contributed to it.
As I see it, this video proves nothing either way and will only enhance each side's views
because each side will pick from it just what suits it.
Why can't the racist boot-licking authoritarians here just admit that they love seeing a
black man humiliated and murdered? Step up, you crybaby cunts, embrace your depravity. You
don't care about justice or the rule of law or anything else. The cops easily got the cuffs
on him and easily got him in the car but we can hear the author trembling behind his keyboard
at the big scary black man. The worldview of you idiots guarantees that the US will
periodically burn.
Could there have been another path made available to "salvage" him and turn him into a
benefit rather than a detriment to society?
No, career criminals have no interest in reforming or becoming productive members of
society.
All they care about is getting that easy gimmi dat from the welfare center while getting a
llit of extra cash on the side by selling drugs and robbing other people.
@aandrews after
the police leaders denied that Chauvin was acting to procedure, posted the department police
training manual and noted Chauvin was a trainer and the other officers his trainees that day.
This was all from the police department website! Brilliant.
The media ignored this, of course. Even UNZ missed it.
The Libertarian Institute also pointed out no one is investigating his Floyd's real
murderer, namely whoever sold him the defective drugs. What was being covered up?
Since then, we have world riots to shut down the police department. Why are the
Libertarian fans the only ones noting this looks like a massive cover-up, perhaps the
far-left again getting in bed with far-right and now Islamic organized crime across
borders?
No country for white men,first there were those Indian savages, attacking peaceful
settlers, then there were Africans, refusing to take a place, assigned to them by God,then
came Chinese, pretending, they were invited to build Transatlantic railroad,then came
Latinos,claiming that this is their country,since they came first!And there were also those
Russian commies, pretending, they are as white as they could be!
@Biff Race has
been merely one part of a wider Elite effort (ie Nixon's "Southern Strategy" was a new
phase).
Indeed, the US is itself entering a new phase: massive unemployment, massive drops in
productivity, mass evictions, mass poverty, massive (dangerous) belligerence towards
international competitors, mass business failure .and so on. And again, only one group seems
to be profiting from this nightmare.
Articles like this one, plus the lunatic & vicious shenanigans of BLM etc are merely
speeding the country towards a precipice beyond which no one knows the depth of the eventual
drop.
You've got at least 45% of the voting population who will never see things your way, and
all the organs of media working overtime to influence as many of those on the fence as
possible to buy into the narrative despite any narrative collapse.
As much as it would be justified in a sane world, Trump using the Insurrection Act and
rounding up the leaders of yet another coup in America would play into the narrative and
would lead to a landslide defeat. Unfortunately for Trump, acquiescing isn't doing anything
to make a case for his re-election, but at least it isn't fanning the flames to burn him out
of office for being a dictator. The mayors and governors of these hell holes are all on the
D-team, and the D-team knows the best way to beat Trump is to make him look like a monster
(buffoon just hasn't been working), and so they keep whipping up those flames the best ways
they can.
The rounding up of people should have started with the Russiagate coup conspirators in
2017, but Orange Man was no doubt told by his handlers that that would look like political
revenge and that he should just let it go. That is where everything went off the rails. 2020
would not have gone to hell if 2017 had been handled correctly, forcefully, and
aggressively.
You're reading too much into this. I think it's futile to keep finding reasons why
diversity doesn't work and to try new solutions. It all ends up just being welfare programs
for blacks. Separation is the only sensible solution.
Yet another piece of trash being trotted out of UR, that is increasingly assuming the face
of White supremacy. Yet UR's merciless – and justifiable – criticism of Zionist
Israel as an apartheid, racist entity seems to fly in the face of this blatant diatribe
against minorities in general and Blacks in particular. The purist White "analyses" being
touted here speak of a reality that has never existed in this country and never will. Live
with that.
@Gleimhart
Mantooso eyes of the masses of conservatives who went along with the story because of the
bad optics in the first video. It will allow them to second guess their judgement and for a
new opinion.
You can almost never change closed minds of the zealot liberal left, nothing will do that,
and this should not be the goal. This is more of a confirmation that thinking people are on
the right path and that their detest of the never ending pandering is right on point.
So it is still good that it came out. The cops are vindicated as well as the disbelievers
in the sensationalist coverage.
Having wasted two generations since the Civil Rights Acts were passed and the negro was
invited to fully participate in American life, the negro today senses time and money have run
out. Worse still, while he bitched and moaned about 'racism' he now realizes he has been
replaced by hispanics for low skill labor. With neither the education or talent necessary for
high paying jobs he, no doubt, realizes he has become superfluous to the American economy.
The covid virus has shut down the only lucrative gigs his race had- professional sports and
entertainment. His only option is to take up the inane slogan of BLM even as he realizes they
don"t.
Note to Tarantino. "Django 2020, Buying Cigarettes in Crackertown". Script half compete.
Artistic license required for completion. Studies show wide acceptance with young white
female demographic.
@Anonymous
Cigarette smoking involves sucking in nasty smelling smoke into your lungs, which from my
naive way of thinking, sure as heck is not going to do anything except add to whatever
breathing problems he had due to the Fentanyl he had in his system.
Unless, of course, he was buying those cigarettes for the other guy who was in the SUV
with him.
I am still wondering where he got that counterfeit $20 dollar bill in the first place.
Last time I mentioned this, my comment disappeared down the memory hole – for the first
time ever on this website. Why might that be, I wonder?
Racial divorce is not the issue. The white Leftist are white. They are freaks and
monsters. Their race does not alter that a teeny bit.
Along those lines you must face the fact that the Negro was made Numinous by Yankee WASP
Elites. The very crowd that idiots like the VDARE bunch would have you serve and emulate
created the Negro Problem in order to use the Negro as weapons and tools to wage culture war
against the non-WASP whites the WASP Elites hate most.
Jussie Smollet and Bubba Wallace were hoaxers painting themselves as victims of hate
crimes. But fake hate crimes are real hate crimes against whites. Both men's careers should
be canceled, and they should end up in jail for their crimes.
That is correct but that is not what will happen.
Now, with the leak of the police body-camera footage of the arrest of George Floyd, we
have confirmation of what sensible people suspected all along: George Floyd was not a
victim of police brutality or injustice.
Exactly. Now where is that asshole, Mercer's retraction?
No sympathy for the cops. They have been using excessive force on ALL kinds of people for
decades. They haven't done a thing to "protect and serve" any of the victims of these
riots.
Doesn't matter that the democrat mayors told them to stand down. They know what the right
thing to do is. They could have gone to their unions and bitched that they weren't allowed to
do their jobs, their precinct houses were being attacked etc. Could have went to the media
etc.
They did nothing to apply any pressure on these mayors or police chiefs.
They want to cruise around the suburbs, go after soft targets and collect their fat pensions
nothing more!
Cops are well known to take a routine traffic stop and poke and prod at the driver to
escalate a situation until it becomes a physical altercation, and the cops then have an
excuse to arrest and charge the driver with assault.
They like to taze grandmother's in Texas
Karma's a bitch as they say
"Papers please" has been going on in the U.S. for a long time, cops pulling people over just
to ask "where you going, where'd you come from?"
Cops are petty tyrants, the kind of guys who got their jock straps Ben Gay'd, in high school
or their heads swirly'd in the toilet, and now that they have a little power, their going to
exert it maximally using anything as pretense to exert it.
That said, the dirt bag Floyd got justice, Antifa and BLM need to be put down by the
military.
If you can use the military to force whites to have to put up with black degenerates in their
schools, you can use the fucking military to put down riots. There is already plenty of
precedent for the use of military troops to put down riots and insurrection. What BLM and
Antifa are doing is the very definition of insurrection.
Don't dare get together to actually peacefully protest the unjustified, and unconstitutional
Covid lockdowns and other assorted bullshit if your white however That's treason!
The U.S. government as far as I'm concerned has rendered itself "null and void."
Firstly, there is absolutely no reason for his arrest. They did not ask him for ID. They
did not ask him his name. They did not ask him about the $20.00 bill.
You do not get arrested for passing a $20.00 bill. You get arrested for "knowingly" and
with "intent to defraud" pass a counterfeit bills. .
Where is there an iota of evidence that he did it with intent to defaud. The evidence they
had was insufficient to make an arrest.
They did not even ask him any questions about passing the bill before taking out a gun and
arresting him.
But he also knows that the Elites love him and will always use him to terrify the white
middle class and to batter the white working class.
The Numinous Negro knows that that he is, and had ben since roughly the late 1830s, the
beloved pet of the Elites of the Anglo-Zionist Empire, who despise the vast majority of the
whites they rule.
The police asked him and his friends (more than once) 'what he was on'? It appears that
both G.F. and his friends declined to say. He (or perhaps his friends) maybe could have saved
G.F.'s life if he (or they) just would have told the police he was on opiates. They probably
could have given him naloxone. In many jurisdictions the police have that on hand (but I'm
not sure if that is police policy in Minneapolis). But probably it is, according to this
link:
Maybe the more accurate angle on this whole thing is that the friends should be
investigated, as to what they knew about his drug use that day. If it could be determined
they knew, perhaps the correct angle is manslaughter (it being the friends as the guilty
ones).
@mark green
teacher's unions and welfare bureaucrats who in the latter case take for themselves 70% of
every dollar supposedly going to help inner-city negroes, so you can take it to the bank both
groups have accounted for the largest number of demonstrators of any color. The white
parasite machinery was out in numbers as well with all the obvious dykes with a hatred of
male-dominated society despite their continued existence relying on white male sympathy
toward such effed up and sexaully disgusting women. But, the worst of it all is that it all
could have been shut down on day one if urban police hadn't proved themselves uniformed
bureaucrats who serve the Democratic political machinery and none other.
But it will open the eyes of the masses of conservatives who went along with the story
because of the bad optics in the first video. It will allow them to second guess their
judgement and for a new opinion.
Tucker Carlson still thinks Derek Chauvin should be charged with something. Carlson is the
best Whites have in the MSM but he is still lacking immensely.
We need to make some distinctions. The police should act differently than bandits. It's
not the competence of the police to decide permanently what is justice or not and also not to
impose and execute death penalties.
In a Rechtsstaat the police only uses violences according to what is allowed by the
law and not more than necessary in a certain moment to restore order.
I don't see any need to use violence of any kind in this case. It's not very probable that
the police arrived there a few seconds or minutes after being called. I think that the
article in the Daily Mail says that Floyd wasn't trying to run away during the time that it
took for the police to come. He was sitting in his car. Second, I don't understand that the
police arrests somebody only because someone accused him of something. How can the police
arrive in some place and know immediately who is guilty of what? It was a petty offense
anyway. The police should speak with him, confront him with an accusation and he could answer
or not answer. After that the police should ask his identification card, write his name down
and go away. Later a prosecutor would see if there is a reason to write him to call him for
an interview, or not.
If the rules allow the knee on the neck, then there will be more people who should answer
for murder besides Chauvin. Could the author of the article explain what Chauvin was doing?
And what for? Why stay with his knee for almost 9 minutes on the neck of someone on the
floor? How can it be that 4 policemen aren't able to arrest one man who has shackles on his
hand? If this was the case, why didn't they call for more policemen to come?
Floyd was free and apparently the police wasn't looking for him. But even if he was a
criminal, criminals have rights. Many Americans seem to think that citizens don't have
rights. Chauvin is now accused of a murder and there is a lot of evidence against him. If I
remember correctly and if what I read was right, then Chauvin had a history of abuse of
authority. To say that Floyd got what he deserved is cynical.
@Tucker I believe
Fentanyl is used medically in obstetrical anesthesia.
Fentanyl may be the choice on the street now because of its potency.
Regardless, if you are getting it and doing it on the street, "recreationally," you are no
stranger to drugs and most likely a junkie. Who in Floyd's case is also doing meth. Going the
full John Belushi.
There is a saying that nothing goes better with cocaine than more cocaine and another
cigarette. This in general holds true across the board in this crowd.
He probably wasn't following his doctor's advice. Any of it.
American justice is a joke–Ofc. Chauvin will only be its latest victim, just like
the Tsarnaev brothers blamed for the Boston marathon bombing, justice like the victims of
America's response to 9/11. But list is a long one
Obviously, those in power in this deeply democrat state had all the tapes and all the
information about how St George died pretty quickly. They parsed it and twisted for a
specific reason, they think angering up the Negro will get them out to vote. The whole bs blm
nonsense, is idiot dems willing to destroy the country so they get elected. They did the same
thing with the Ferguson nonsense in 2014 as the mid-term election was coming up. And Negroes
fall for it every time. If I was sitting in a spaceship, watching this on alien television,
I'd say it was cliche and played out. But it never ends. Low IQ or not, stay off drugs, don't
have kids without being married, obey the law and go to work every day, you'll do fine in the
USA. Why doesn't some Negro preacher say that?
Yes, even if Chauvin et al are acquitted, they will be considered forever guilty by the
same mobs who consider Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin to be murder victims.
St George had 19 nanogram/ml of fentanyl and metabolites in his system. That works out to
19 ug/l. The volume of distribution of fentanyl is 6 liters/kg. Assuming he weighed in at
over 100 kg the amount of fentanyl in his system would be a minimum of 12 thousand micrograms
or 12 mg. The retail street value would be thousands of dollars. The wholesale value would be
less. This suggested he may have been dealing and consumed his stash to avoid prison
time?
*You can always count on Negroes to mouth-off.
*Black Live Matter–except to their bros in the hood.
*Pelosi, Schumer, the Black Caucus and the woke folk will press to have the Lincoln Memorial
replaced by the George Floyd Memorial.
" turns out that Floyd had a long criminal record, including an armed robbery in which
held a gun to the stomach of a pregnant woman. In short, George Floyd was a real piece of
shit"
Apparently St G of da 6 Felonies would beat his hoes as badly as Meg would the etard if he
didn't grovel hard enuf whilst takin da knee to a swarthy Hollywooder.
@anastasia You do
not get arrested for passing a $20.00 bill. You get arrested for "knowingly" and with "intent
to defraud" pass a counterfeit bills. .
Where is there an iota of evidence that he did it with intent to defaud. The evidence they
had was insufficient to make an arrest.
They did not even ask him any questions about passing the bill before taking out a gun and
arresting him.
This is BS. This was completely staged.
He was behind the wheel of a car in a highly intoxicated state. Of course there was reason
to arrest him.
@UncommonGround
wasn't trying to run away during the time that it took for the police to come. He was sitting
in his car. Second, I don't understand that the police arrests somebody only because someone
accused him of something. How can the police arrive in some place and know immediately who is
guilty of what? It was a petty offense anyway.
The call to the police indicated that Floyd was either nuts on or drugs. He was either nuts
or on drugs (in facts, minutes from dying from an overdose) behind the wheel of a car, a weapon
weighing how many pounds? Of course there was good reason to restrain
him.
If he hadn't been pulled over, he probably still be alive today.
Well, the excitement of the arrest didn't help his survivability prospects but I'm not
even sure what you're proposing here. Your argument is so stupid that I'm unsure if it's
coming from a human being. It's like watching an ant twitching his antennae. I know it's
trying to say something but it all translates into gibberish.
Are we supposed to ban arrests because one in a 100K perps might be too sick and/or
drugged-up to survive the ordeal?
To put it simply, blacks were being self-destructive, and elite whites decided not to stop
them because that would be "racist." And now our elites are going further down that path by
glorifying a criminal, George Floyd.
Had our elites fifty years ago used tough love instead of pampering, few blacks would turn
to criminal activities. George Floyd likely would have sold insurance or become a pharmacist
or something else harmless and even productive. Too bad it didn't turn out that way, but it's
impossible to get through to our elites that they are the problem.
@Priss Factor And
CNN, all of them, are pure opinion and propaganda. Made up concern. Not news. No actual
people actually care about this stuff.
Who will give a shit about George Floyd in 2021? There will be another school shooting by
then. Or better, a fucked up election to talk about.
No charges for the officer who shot Michael Brown. No reaction from anybody. No "riots."
Nobody even burned down a Wendy's. Because nobody knows who Michael Brown is. They found all
the statues and Confederate flags. They forgot the thing with Michael Brown. You can't take
them seriously.
@TKK g incidents
like this for crass political purposes.
What's different this time, besides cabin fever from the lockdown, is Trump.
A word to the wise, be a little less credulous about the "Oh, it's just the blacks again"
narrative when purportedly peaceful protests over "systemic racism" quickly become a violent
assault on the White House, with Democrats, Allied Media, and resistance scum like Mitt
Romney and Mattis egging them on.
Apparently, all it took was painting 'BLM' in front of the White House and Trump Tower for
many here to take the bait.
@Robert Dolan
those white nationalists that was over on Unz's The Political Bankruptcy of American White
Nationalism thread, pissing and moaning how he got it wrong too.
Another thing that white nationalists seem to piss and moan about is how wrong the State
is. Constantly deriding big bad government. Yet when big scary black man comes along, it's
straight to the jackboot to wimpier behind. I recognized the same thing when the twin towers
were coming down – save us from those scary Araabs no matter what it takes! or what
you take from us. – Suckers then and Suckers now.
@Alden He didn't
shoot her immediately AFAIK. She, unarmed and in her pyjamas, was taking to the other officer
when this Somali Muslim killed her from inside his car, across his partner.
The biggest red flag for me was the fact that his layers refused to release a statement
after interviewing him. What he did was indefensible so everyone expected some variation of
"I thought I saw something" excuse but his story was, apparently, so bad that they decided to
say nothing.
Needless to say, that case disappeared from the MSM like Jimmy Hoffa. I've heard somewhere
that the killer was convicted but that's all. I still don't know what the Somali Muslim told
his defenders.
There was certainly no reason to restrain him the way it was done. Did the police tell him
why he was being arrested? Did the police know for sure that he was on drugs? How? Or is it
enough that someone tells something about someone and you are arrested? In any case, I
thought he had been arrested because of the 20 dollar bill. Was there a talk between the
police and Floyd or they just came to arrest someone and decided that they would arrest him?
Don't Americans have rights? Can the police jump on your necks and tell the reason later in
case you haven't died?
@Realist Also
take in consideration that in America the justice system by no stretch of the imagination
lives outside of politics. They HAVE TO charge him with something, and it's probably good
that the charges were upped to 2nd degree murder because it will be far harder to prove. Now
the problem is that the courts might end up finding him guilty with an mostly black picked
jury. If that happens white Americans should no longer oppose riots in big cities, or even
care for preserving the police, all of it should go down the drain the sooner the better
because the system will clearly be a openly SJW one against whites.
@Rich he
Cloward-Piven Plan that we see unfolding before our eyes obviously has nothing to do with
justice and everything to do with a hatred and vengeance so great the leftists will burn the
country down around themselves to destroy everything whites have created. This is a point
Nietzsche made long ago, that vengeance and resentment are always the actual motives of those
marching under banners calling for social justice. I'd take the prophesy by a Russian monk
during the height of the Christian massacres in Russia a century ago to heart; namely, that
what the Jews were doing to Christians in Russia was a mere prelude to what they will attempt
to do to Christians in America a century hence.
This idea comes from a view of history that telescopes slave ships, pre-civil war plantation
stories, KKK, Watts Riots and MLK to the year 2010. I think there might once have been white
people who feared to allow large black men to be peacefully questioned about a crime. There
have been almost 80 years of integration, whites voting for blacks and close contact between
the races at work, school and in the military. We know each other well. We're not afraid of
black people.
Where has everybody been since 1940? Not in the country I know well.
was Ellison & Co not releasing the bodycam vids they should be charged as inciting a
population to riot under the PATRIOT ACTS I & II, and the willful obstruction of
justice.
Bravo!! You have, with your article, tremendously helped the public good. What the
incompetent press do is to cherry-pick "items" to support their agenda. Recently, the
Herald-Tribune of Sarasota, Florida published a similar hatchet job. Fortunately, on page 6,
they published six real cases, and I concluded what you have in your excellent article. I
sent a comment to the newspaper that the Sarasota police department used appropriate force in
sub-doing the six who were resisting arrest. I had the same question that you express in the
article: What would I do if I was the arresting article?
Even the Jesuit mouthpiece, America Media, joined the cacophony of ridiculous
"reporting"
If a double dose of fentanyl did not bring him down, they would have needed an elephant
tranquilizer.
But your point is one worth exploring. The key is a drug with fast kinetics. Something
that paralyzes one almost instantly yet last only five minutes. Wouldn't that worth a govt
grant somewhere.
The divorce attorneys for the other side are Jewbaum, Jewberg and Jewfeld, LLP and the
presiding judge will be none other than Dishonorable Jewstein do you see a favorable ruling
for the plaintiffs? I don't think so
Alternative ending: The police never showed up, and Floyd slowly died behind the wheel of
his vehicle as his companions tried to shake him awake.
Cause of death: Meth, fentanyl, Covid, and a bad heart. The fentanyl alone would have
slowed his breathing down to the point of death. As his circulatory system shut down, he
would have fell unconscious and unresponsive. His friends would have panicked, but they also
would have been reluctant to call 911 for obvious reasons.
Of course there are those who believe Floyd was a superman who could have laughed off a
lethal dose of fentanyl that day, "if only the cops hadn't held him down ".
No. He was destined to die of an overdose and he did. The cops holding him for the
paramedics were trying to save his life and should be commended for their
professionalism.
@Moi Ever since
Keith Ellison first ran for Congress in 2006, he has characterized his relationship with
Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam as a sincere but misguided youthful dalliance. Though
Ellison said he was proud of his 18-month association with the Nation of Islam in preparation
for 1995's Million Man March, he wrote to concerned Jewish leaders in May 2006, saying, "I
have long since distanced myself from and rejected the Nation of Islam due to its propagation
of bigoted and anti-Semitic statements and actions of the Nation of Islam, Louis Farrakhan,
and [Farrakhan aide] Khalid Muhammed."
Strawman argument. Everyone here knows that blacks, gays, cat ladies, etc. are simply
tools wielded by the Jewish program that has been going forward for 120 years.
I don't see any need to use violence of any kind in this case.
That's because you're living in some weird, out of touch bubble. A guy like that –
text-book example of someone who'll explode into violence at any second – must be
restrained for everyone's sake and the cops did it professionally.
If the rules allow the knee on the neck, then there will be more people who should answer
for murder besides Chauvin.
What? You don't see a problem with throwing a guy in jail for following the rules? Do you
have any idea how a justice system should work in a normal country?
@Realist d. It
would have been easier to just ignore it.
Do you think that Tucker should be judge and jury and proclaim Chauvin innocent? If he did
that, he would deserve to be fired, and I would be all for it. Would Tucker off the airwaves
be fine with you?
Most of Tucker's more discerning fans understand that he must be careful in his language
if he wants to keep his job. The Cancel Culture Left is out for his scalp every day, and will
use any phony excuse to get him removed. If you think that Tucker's a sell-out and is
"lacking immensely," I have an obvious answer. QUIT WATCHING!
I haven't seen that Tucker made any sort of reply to this newest video. It would
surprise me if he didn't respond with asking whether the rioting had a just cause, or
something along that line.
Upon doing a search on Tuckers recent programs I can find no comment that I attributed to
him. It appears I confused comments made by Hannity with Carlson.
Don't forget to blame white Minnesotans who thought it was a good idea to elect a black
Muslim leftist with credible accusations of domestic abuse against him.
Those white racist supremacists, I'll tell you what.
He had some more bills that he (they) shoved in the seat cracks after being stopped. I do
not know, but it is possible the stashing operation kept his hands busy and why there was a
delay showing his hands and was the cause for guns to come out.
We've got an election coming up, or don't you read the papers.
These events were no surprise, Trump was on track to garner a game-over 20% or more of the
black vote.
Heck, the Democrats and their Allied Media even rolled out their old favorite David Duke,
once again shouting that he so wants Trump to win he's available any time for CNN and MSDNC
to tell everybody so.
People like you, endlessly posturing and weeping about dangerous thugs like Floyd are
more responsible for " societal failure" than the useless, dangerous thugs you want to
cuddle and care for as if they were babies abandoned in a snowstorm.
They do this Every. Single. Time.
When the hoax blows up, they tell us how the point still stands that Blacks are victims of
evil racist White society because reasons.
Get ready for round two
Injustice or insurrection.
It will define the USA for decades to come.
Justice, if it clearly prevails – will immediately unleash bloodletting, arson,
robbery, rape, murder and unprecedented mass civil revolution.
If it doesn't prevail it will unleash bloodletting, arson, robbery, rape, murder and
unprecedented mass civil revolution as a chronic ongoing and increasingly vile, corrupt
society.
Either way- the old America is gone to just a hatefilled, brainwashed cesspit of violence and
crime and to civil war – if white people there have the guts to hold their ground and I
wouldn't bet on that.
The USA has become George Floyd – the nation.
Criminal, brutal. drug ridden, and the gun he holds to a pregnant woman's belly symbolises
the gun held to much of the defenseless planet as the USA plunders and murders across the
globe.
Floyd is the USA.
Let us hope it meets the same fate.
@TimeTraveller If
he hadn't been pulled over, he probably still be alive today
That's an assumption. Could very well have smashed into a car full of kids and all we would
have heard was the "tragedy" bracketed by more reports on Kim Kardashians fat ass.
I've had the cops abuse me in my own house in front of my wife and kids over what was
essentially a phoned in SWATing by some anonymous bastard. So I have no love for cops and their
abuse of power. And as far as people flashing their lights its a sign by people who are
systemically abused for non crimes to be on the lookout for the badged
thieves.
Media is by and large nothing more than an echo chamber of propaganda and disinformation.
I've observed for nearly five decades the consistently increasing volume of BS uttered out of
their pie holes. Its gotten to the point that they no longer even pretend.
Because the purpose of these riots is not to actually address issues with cops, it's to
expand the power of the Police State by getting rid of local cops who might be familiar with
their community and have federal police from elsewhere to act like an occupying army. That
is, of course, the antithesis of what libertarians are all about.
May 27, 2020 New video shows Minneapolis police arrest of George Floyd before death
Four white officers involved in the death of George Floyd have been fired from the
Minneapolis Police Department, but Mayor Jacob Frey is saying that one of the officers should
be arrested for pressing his knee on Floyd's neck.
July 6, 2020 End Qualified Immunity from the Bottom Up
While states can't end a federally-imposed legal fiction on their own, a new state law to
reform the practice can serve as a model for getting something done.
A staff member rushes up to the two officers waving the banknote. 'Before they drive
off, he's parked right here, it's a fake bill from the gentleman,' he tells the cops
Well so glad the cops were able to serve up swift justice for poor Hadji there wouldn't
want this fine looking American to have to go to Friday Prayers with a fake twenty in his
pantaloons, now would we ?
Was reading obit of Herman Cain. His mother taught Cain that what matters is what you
start off with spiritually, not materially. His dad managed to buy a house and did all right.
I've met blacks like Cain's parents. They are solid people. There used to be a lot more of
that type of black.
I think some level of civil war may well be inevitable at this point. However, if Trump
did try that there would be 100% chance of civil war right now. The situation is not dire
enough to declare a state of emergency and may well encourage a coup d'etat by the CIA (who
has ultimate political power and is profoundly hostile to Trump and populism) and allied
elements in the military. Trump today has little room to do much of anything even if he wins
the next election.
They had already run the nogs plate and what do you know An armed violent offender red
flag is burning bright on his his arrest sheet right there on their computer screen. What do
suppose they should have done?. Walk over to the vehicle with a bundle bundle of balloons and
a lollipop.
The worthless nog had children in Texas that he never paid a penny of child support to yet
he's doping it up, making porn and driving around in a fucking Mercedes. He lived the life
and he died like a filthy mutt.
Alternative ending: The police never showed up, and Floyd slowly died behind the wheel
of his vehicle as his companions tried to shake him awake.
Alternative alternative ending: Floyd drove off in his car, had a heart attack or passed
out from drugs, and plowed into another car or a pedestrian or two before coming to a
stop.
We have laws against driving drunk for this reason.
@Anonymous e
story makes it clear that the police had reason to believe he was lying. The police
wouldn't know if he had Covid 19, when he was infected, and whether or not he was
symptomatic.
If Floyd knew he was infected and knew he was symptomatic, why was he not self quarantining?
As studies from around the world have shown, "having Covid 19" means little, as 50% of those
tested and found to have been infected, have no symptoms, and majority of those infected have
mild to moderate symptoms. If Chauvin and the other cops not done their job, Floyd would have
been counted as a Covid death.
Floyd says 'I'm dying man..'. I don't agree here – the cops were not compassionate
in his arrest. They had guns, he had muscle. Sure, one could have ended up with a broken rib
if they surrounded him and told him to calm the fuck down, but none of them, were really ever
at risk of death – like he was.
He was an imperfect citizen, even an imperfect human being, if you like, but the state
should aim to improve the lives of, and even the individuals themselves.
This is not what the cops did here. The issue is not racism, or even police brutality. It
is US society. Guns, no guns, genetics, culture – something must make US society so
violent that citizens kill cops, and cops kill citizens.
There are enough nations (China, Russia) where there is a melting pot of ethnicities and
cultures, where this kinda shit is much rarer. Why, violence is so exponentially prevalent in
US society (and not say UK society, where 3% of the population is Black), is a question.
In my personal opinion guns without education about guns – an aggressive state
policy, breeds aggressive citizens, white or black – they behave as they are led.
Three cops with guns on one druggy with muscles – either they are pussies or they
are psychopaths. In both cases, they need to either retrain, quit, or be arrested for
intentional harm.
There exists in males what I call a "delayed compliance" reaction. The football coach says
"everyone line-up for wind sprints" and no one, of any color, immediately moves. A brief
delay; a few seconds. It satisfies the ego; creates a false sense of voluntariness: Well,
okay, I will comply, but it is only because I choose to. Authority figures -- coach, the
teacher, parents. A harmless delay game. But whites seem to sense that a policeman is not the
football coach; when a policeman gives an instruction, you comply instantly. Instantly. For
some reason, Blacks think that the policeman is the football coach. Poor, uneducated,
intoxicated Whites, in their stupor, nonetheless seem to know this is not the football
coach.
You are being too kind.
The "societal failure" has been, and is, the negrification of virtually every aspect of life,
and claiming it is normal. That ranges from unintelligible ebonics to dressing like pimps, with
drug usage, lax sexual morals, etc along the way. It's all courtesy of the tribe. https://www.jpost.com/Jewish-World/Jewish-News/Sacks-Multiculturalism-threatens-democracy
Some people don't understand that.
@neprof e
allergies and prior conditions police know nothing about so using any sort of tranquilizer
carries a high risk as does using 'less than lethal' weaponry as you don't know how a person
will fall.
I am reminded of the Dylan song about the prizefighter Davey Moore. Moore was knocked down
but his fall was 'broken' when the base of his skull caught the bottom rope of the boxing
ring. He got back on his feet and finished the round. He even gave a post fight interview but
then lapsed into a coma in his dressing room and soon died. Apparently that lower rope
injured his brain stem
@anonymous ents
don't matter. Science doesn't matter. Only The Narrative™ matters.
So put Chauvin on trial, convict him, and sentence him to thirty years in prison. Then
pull a Witness Protection gambit: give him a new identity, a million bucks for his trouble,
and release him into South Dakota.
Nobody ever follows up on anything anymore, and if Cuomo can get away with murdering
thousands of vulnerable Covid patients in nursing homes, I'm sure the Minneapolis penal
system can carry a phony name on the books for a few years.
Voila, justice. Or at least what passes for it in The Day of Cthulhu.
New elites were emerging with new ideas, and one of them was to pamper blacks instead of
using tough love. Anything blacks did was ok with them, even if it did them no good.
It's called multiculturalism, and it's been the death of every European based country and
society.
@Trevor Lynch .
It doesn't mean they arrest you. They just do it so you don't try to run off or fight back.
So in this case putting cuffs on Floyd was justified as they had evidence of wrongdoing, and
just wanted him neutralized until they figured out what happened. Floyd freaked out, went
crazy, when they even tried to talk to him. It was a tragic event, but I don't see how the
cops really did anything wrong. They followed procedure. Floyd should have remained calm, but
he was too high, mentally unstable, afraid because he knew he messed up, had a panic attack
and a heart attack. Floyd killed Floyd.
He claimed to be too claustrophobic to get in the police car, which was a lie because he
was not too claustrophobic to sit in his own car.
There is a huge difference between sitting in a vehicle that you can freely leave, such as
one's own car, and sitting handcuffed in the backseat of a police car with a grate across the
front–which Floyd could not leave.
I would imagine that there are many people who can handle a car that they are free to
leave–and that can also take them many places , thus easing any sense of confinement,
and being *locked* in the back of a police car.
Other than that, I find myself sympathetic to much in the article. In particular, I have
sympathy for the other police officers who tried to get Chauvin to stop kneeling on Floyd's
neck and who are now facing serious crimina charges.
However, since Floyd did not pose a threat to the safety of the police officers–none
reported being injured–he should not have been killed. And I don't believe he died of
*entirely* natural causes, as there are conflicting autopsies. I think we should wait and
see.
Even by the account given in this article, Floyd was being difficult, not dangerous, and
being difficult does not deserve being knelt on while begging for breath and calling for
mother.
@Emily k of gas
are going to find themselves frostbitten and being shot at with no food and nowhere to lay
their head.
You are a woman. We've seen what happens once or twice when some blubbery black teen
female got caught shoplifting in a Korean store and assaulted the Korean woman and she simply
hauled off and shot the girl dead.
When screeching BLM come into suburbs and some black girl throws a rock through the wrong
window some non-white woman is going to simply blast her.
The AG has already he is withholding evidence in order to get a conviction. This is
against everything the prosecution is supposed to be about. He should be disbarred after this
at a minimum but this puts the whole prosecution into jeopardy at the appeals level.
Don't forget to blame white Minnesotans who thought it was a good idea to elect a black
Muslim leftist with credible accusations of domestic abuse against him.
Minnesota is about 85% white, and yet they elect a black supremacist Muslim uber-liberal
who doesn't pay his own taxes.
If they put it to a state-wide referendum, that all white males in Minnesota must be
castrated at birth, I wonder by what margin it would pass. 85%?
If he hadn't been pulled over, he probably still be alive today.
No, more like if he hadn't been pulled over he would probably be dead from the fentanyl
overdose the stupid bastard took. Blaming stupid niggers for their stupid nigger behavior is
quite rational and the fact that you seem to think it inappropriate indicates you have an ax
to grind.
He was high on drugs. He was passing a fake 20 and he had a rap sheet as long as a porn
stars schlong. What part of that did you fail to understand?
That's nine too many right off the bat. And although it's not in your face in media, cops
kill people other than blacks. Many more whites than blacks die during encounters with cops.
I'm not saying it is our biggest problem but there is room for improvement.
@jsinton or "put
cuffs" on anyone they want. It's enough that someone tells something about you (maybe not
even this is necessary). The police may also say that you might get uncoperative at some
point in the future because you are a "text-book example of someone who'll explode into
violence at any second" even if your hands have been tied before and the police has not read
any textbook or got any special education. Did the police make any test, make any question to
know if Floyd had taken drugs, was drunk? No. Did they tell him why they were arresting him?
Not necessary because people don't need rights.
@Ilya G
Poimandres voidance. That's why the cop has his gun out right away.
Police departments develop rigid, inflexible procedures to minimize risk, that leaves less
room for judgement and humanity.
For instance, police have not rescued drowning people on several occasions, because it was
against procedure.
I don't know about Russia, but police in China are notoriously brutal and rights are few
and unenforceable – worse than America, and there is a general callousness towards
human life.
Its hypercapitalism – anywhere hustling and the profit motive is king, human life is
cheap.
@bruce county
rofessional law enforcement officers kneeling on his torso and another on his legs. As for
the cervical spine, Joe Rogan says anyone putting their shin across a training partner's neck
like that in a Jiu Jitsu class would be instantly told get it the fuck off. Did Chauvin
maintain his position only for the few minutes until Floyd had became weak as a kitten and
begged to be allowed to stand up, or until Chauvin noticed Floyd had suddenly expired?
Neither, Chauvin stayed on top of Floyd for two minutes after medics had found Floyd
had no pulse. A medic had to tell Chauvin to dismount the dead man.
Some commenters mention Jewish support of BLM, and this interests me as someone who has
read Philip Roth. A Roth list of Jewish traits would be something like this: Contentiousness,
dissension, oppositional, hyper-touchiness, hyper-criticalness. Displaying these traits, says
Roth, "Puts a spring in their heel." (is it any wonder that Jewish people do not do very well
in the military?). It seems to me that BLM embraces the very same traits. So maybe Jews see
BLM as colleagues, sharing the same sensibility.
@Jefferson Temple
e needed. Too many innocent people are killed by cops. Floyd just wasn't one of them.
But Duncan Lemp was. And all of these fuck whitey riots have refused to acknowledge his
murder. We STILL don't have bodycam footage. The "defend the police" crowd have no problem with
police or even police brutality. They are upset that blacks get arrested at all. They cheer on
police when they murder white dissidents and seize the guns of law abiding citizens. The crowd
of rioters don't give a damn about police reform, other than to turn the police into a
commisariat to persecute whites
It is about BOPE an elite police squad in Brazil.
One commentator writes
"saw the movie, surely the best movie i've seen in a long time. impressive story. my country
needs BOPE definitely. saudações da Sérvia. respeito!"
Movies of super macho Cops who bash up criminals black and blue are super popular here in
India.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/mp-XqCrCi6I?feature=oembed
Super Hit super cop movie Singham.
After his last prison term in Texas, he moved to Minneapolis for drug dealing and
counterfeit money passing.
Criminals out on parole often move to another state since they won't be known to the
police. That is why George Floyd moved from Texas to Minnesota and not because he was just a
good guy who made some mistakes and seeking a "fresh start" as the jewsmedia tried to frame
things.
As I wrote in a previous commentary, the attorney general of Minnesota has no case against
these 4 police offiicers. They were merely acting in that incident in accordance with the use
of force protocols of the Minneapolis Police Department. That is simply the best defense they
have. Further, although I am not an attorney. I don't see how any judge could even allow this
to go to trial. There is no legal case. And if it does go to trial, they will surely be
acquitted.
Beyond that, these 4 officers should sue the hell out of the city of Minneapolis, the
state of Minnesota, the mainstream media, both verbal and print, as well as these black
organizations like Antifa, Black Lives Matter, these fake civil rights attorneys like
Benjamin Crump and others of his ilk. And any other entity or entities that were responsible
for this charade and outrageous defamation of character. They should take a leaf out of the
Nick Sandman playbook. Each of these officers could easily wind up with tens of millions of
dollars and be independently wealthy for the rest of their lives.
You're a spineless, virtue signaling nigger loving lunatic. These fucking filthy
primitives do not care about you. When SHTF will you genuflect to you Black invaders. They
will slaughter you and your nigger loving family mercilessly. Your wife and family must be so
proud of you.
@AaronB Caught On
Camera: Cops from Utter Pradesh State mercilessly Beat Up Boy With Cricket Bat
This is so normal, something like this probably happens everyday in the country.
Also applying electric shocks to genetilia etc is common practice here. Before you jump in
say how evul Indian police are, Indian police themselves are brutally beaten up the public
often.
This is how it is and this is how it will always be here.
As the US population becomes more brown and more multiracial and mixed, this will be
future that will await the West. It is inevitable.
@JessicaR not
deserve being knelt on while begging for breath and calling for mother.
He was bullshitting. He lied about his mother. He lied about doing drugs. He was lying about
being unable to breathe. But you want to construct an elaborate rationalization for him not
lying about claustrophobia. And who cares?
Should we disband the police because blacks start claiming they have "jailophobia."
You strike me as a nice person. We have police to protect nice people from horrible people
and ugly realities. Just thank them for their service and go back to thinking happy
thoughts.
His breathing difficulty was most certainly due to the lethal levels of fentanyl in his
bloodstream, which, including both fentanyl and it's active metabolite, norfentanyl, was
about 16.6 ng/mL. The average lethal concentration found in one recent study of opioid
related ODs was 9.8 ng/mL. We're not even sure Floyd was accustomed to opioids, because a
naive user can succumb even at much lower levels. Per the autopsy he had signs of advanced
atherosclerosis, which means he was a ticking time bomb considering his use of illicit
substances.
The merchant victim of the bogus bill asked Floyd to void the transaction by returning the
cigarettes and the change for the bill he passed. Floyd refused and that's why the merchant
called the cops on his black ass.
@NobodyKnowsImADog
ayments that let them stay in the city and not vote while the political professionals vote
"Democrat" that claim to represent the inert mass / mob, but don't.
Time to end this farce, and it's time because the money has run out to even support the
present system. Supposedly Trump and the Democrats are negotiating a COVID-19 welfare package
that will amount to 2.5 trillion dollars, if the negotiations don't fail. 2.5 trillion
dollars, all borrowed when the Democrat run States and cities (supposedly the richest in the
country) are effectively all bankrupt. The phrase "Dead, but too stupid to fall down" comes
to mind.
It's not the usual beast with a brain to remove. Like ISIS, it's a starfish with arms that
will grow back.
George Floyd was not a victim of police brutality or injustice.
Like the rest of us, he was a victim of the Covid lockdown. He was passing a bad bill
after losing his job. That wasn't his fault, but the DFL governor and mayor's.
@Malla stranger
wanted to start a fight with me in a bar. None of that would ever happen in America, despite
its supposed culture of violence.
America only doesn't look so great when compared with Western Europe (and Eastern?) and
Japan, but police brutality is obviously much less severe in America than in China and
India.
But America should be compared to the most developed places, not India or China or
Thailand or Poland, and it is more brutal than places in that comparison.
Sweden and Norway seem to have worked out a good approach to policing.
Which is reason number one-hundred-million-and-one why I believe that blacks and whites
in America need to go our separate ways. We need a racial divorce.
There needs to be separation because there's certainly no shortage of stupid dysfunctional
blacks like Saint George Floyd or indoctrinated/cucked whites who will take up for them.
Once the former are gone, we can focus entirely on the latter.
@animalogic t of
the divide and conquer strategy. Seems to me Trump has done his job (for his handlers) better
than even Obama; he's the most divisive President by far. I know, the media creates the
controversies, but Trump gets to play his part. He's an actor, taking direction, just like
every Pres. since Kennedy. I've noticed a steady progression beginning with Billy boy, and
reaching new heights of division with Trump.
People who still think "we" elect our President, or that it makes any difference at all
who gets elected,
gotta be deluded or distracted or just not paying attention.
The situation in the United States that this entire George Floyd event crystallizes into a
microcosm of our society even has such people as Dr. Gary Null, a noted researcher on the
Left side of the political spectrum up, in arms.
What is he angry about? That such organizations as BLM and many others of the Left,
concentrate on their own victimhood instead of concentrating on those issues that concern all
of us, together as one nation.
In this afternoon's radio broadcast, Dr. Null leveled a broadside against the Left that
would have had everyone on the Right standing up and cheering
The merchant victim of the bogus bill asked Floyd to void the transaction by returning
the cigarettes and the change for the bill he passed. Floyd refused and that's why the
merchant called the cops on his black ass.
LOL
Typical Nigger Behavior.
Unrestrained arrogance + Unmatched ignorance.
Look how many of them will gun each other down over the slightest notion of
"disrespect"
Some people will chose death over incarceration, but the duties of police and correctional
officers as properly discharged are to make the aforementioned option a very difficult one in
practice. The guards in the Epstein case are being prosecuted and so are the cops in the
Floyd case. They were paid to do a job.
@AaronB , cops in
America are far more rude than cops in Britain or the rest of Europe or Japan on average. For
some reason, I have never had any problems with police anywhere, for some strange reason cops
and airport officials are nicer to me than others (I have noticed). For example being let off
without fines for bringing in forbidden food products (the food products were confiscated
ofcourse) at airports while all my Indian friends having to pay fines.
But even I found American cops a bit rude compared to Western Euro/ Japanese cops. British
cops are extremely friendly and nice.
While the entire narrative concocted by the Lügenpresse is of course a massive lie,
there are nevertheless real questions to be asked about the tragic ascension of St. George
the Breathless.
*Big-city cops aren't usually very concerned with things like some drugged up hoodlum
passing a fake 20-dollah bill. They usually have better things to do and leave this nonsense
to the feds. (Yes we know they are supposed to enforce all laws – federal included
– except immigration violations which they routinely are ordered not to enforce by the
criminals who issue their orders.)
What was so important about this particular drugged up negro felon when there are so many
out there? Why was this fake 20 so important?? (They're all really fake 20s of course but
we're only referring here t0 those who are not legally entitled to counterfeit versus those
who are.)
*Officer Chauvin and St. George might very well have known each other as they both worked
security for an establishment called El Nuevo Rodeo, which seems to have some interesting
owners connected to the famous representative in our Clown Congress – one Ms. Ilhan
Omar, a paper Murikan from Somalia. Chauvin supposedly worked as outside muscle while St.
George served as inside muscle for this fine, upstanding pillar in a top-notch Minneapolis
neighborhood.
*Did St. George ingest all that Fentanyl, etc. himself or did someone help him?? Given his
saintly lifestyle self-medication seems most likely but still if a loose end needs to be tied
up it needs to be tied up.
*Chauvin's record of excessive-force complaints (18) in über-leftist Minneapolis
seems unusual for someone still allowed to work at the pleasure of the Politburo there. Is
this unusual or are they so desperate to keep foot soldiers they'll overlook the number of
complaints (many of which could be nonsense in that environment) despite his being a
crackah?
*I've read some reports of a massive counterfeiting operation centered in Minneapolis. Did
St. George, Derek Chauvin and the owners of El Nuevo Rodeo have anything to do with this? Is
there any possibility Chauvin was merely making certain that St. George's OD was permanent in
nature??
@Sulu worth an
article on Unz because the drug manufacturers are white (so the Chinese or Blacks can't be
blamed). The victims are also white.
It seems obvious that what these people need is medical attention and mentorship. In
Europe, that's what they would have gotten. It probably won't happen, however, because
blaming the victims is easier and more satisfying.
Seeing this shithole country finally crumble makes this a great time to be alive. Hit that
shard pipe, wrap yourselves in the flag, and find other losers to commiserate with you.
At least Hadji was working to build a business instead of Saint Floyd who was working hard
at hardly working. But tbeiving and being an ignorant dope fiend was "job 1" for the
beneficent giant.
" Four white officers " SNIP! And that my friends is where all of this crap falls apart.
When these clowns reporting this nonsense can't even get that right then everything else, all
of the subsequent lies, follow.
@FB dn't want
this fine looking American to have to go to Friday Prayers with a fake twenty in his
pantaloons, now would we ?
Arabs are the ones keeping the lights on in a lot of these areas.
A lot of those mini mart owners are actually refugee Coptics. This is especially true for
Detroit where a Coptic community runs half the businesses. Ironically the Blacks chased out
the Jews in the Detroit riots and the Gov replaced them with Coptics (Not a conspiracy, it's
done through green card requirements).
Muslims don't like handling pork or alcohol unless they have to.
@Anon This is why
I suspect that the smaller prefrontal cortex is really the main issue. We are supposed to
believe it's just a coincidence that this is the area of the brain that is responsible for
self-control. Harsh to talk about but I don't see blaming Whitey as a long term solution.
The obsession alt-right has with IQ tests is corrosive and leaves too many questions
unanswered. I used to live near a group home for severely mentally limited adults and they
were harmless. They were happy to help with anything but weren't able to care for themselves
since they were mentally around 6 or 7.
The Germans and Hitler were right. I wish Germany would have won the second WW. Jews do
not want to join the peoples of the world. Their hog wash ( gods chosen people) keep them
from becoming citizens on the level playing field of world peoples .that leaves one defense
for us non jews get rid of them ..had the Germans won the second WW, there would be no small
state of Israel .and look what a murderous monster state of terrorism it is today
The jews take over of the us Fed Reserve is not acceptable .they run the US congress .through
their lobbys .they steal billions from the US taxpayer .this way .and there you have it .they
are thieves ..period. Get Rid Of Them
Prefrontal cortex executive function would be overthinking it in emergencies. That is why
it gets disconnected under conditions of extreme stress. If you are brought up around chronic
stress, you become programmed to react very instinctively to any threats, even ones to social
status.
That's the flip side of the same "logic" that says that anybody who champions their rights
actually hates themselves and/or wants to have sex with them.
@John Johnson
decline as long as this continues.
Here, biker gangs make and distribute this drug. I guarantee that none of the "pro-white"
commenters here are going to be calling for cops to manhandle them, or even to take any
action at all, since seeing a white guy on a Hayim Davidstein motorcycle that he wouldn't
otherwise be able to afford is fine no matter how many white kids' lives he ruined.
Whites here would rather cry over a Jewess that was killed by a Somali cop, and my thesis is
that no race or community can survive with the problems that white Americans continue to
have.
@anon is what
this "article" is designed to do, to set one group against the other. "Let's you and him
fight." That is how we make color revolutions by the training manual. Look! A plane hit the
building! You didn't see it? Something wrong with your eyes. Look at the video. BLM and
Antifa should think twice when they are sent out because their own trainers may shoot them in
the back for special effects. Of course, it's not just about the Trump Biden election. It's
about who rules the world. The World Trade Center is now "One World Plaza." And to think this
is our own government doing this to us.
@AaronB
prostitutes where some police accused me of soliciting and actually drew their guns on me.
But I was polite and kept my hands away from my pockets (Which makes cops nervous) and in
five minutes they said I was free to go.
Its a kind of utter buffoonery. An oafishness.
On the female side its a grotesque public spectacle. As anyone who has seen a 300 pound
hooker knows. Sure, there are Jewish sex workers. Lots of Gentiles beat off to Joanna Angel
or Nina Hartley films.
But Joanna is not screaming on the sidewalk "The streetlight makes my p((ssy hair glow in
the dark"
I met Joanna Angel once at an electronic trade convention. She was polite and nice.
@anastasia ss a
single counterfeit bill is arrested. The matter is immediately referred to the federal
agency, Secret Service which investigates.
If the arrestee is deemed an innocent person who's innocently acquired the bill. He's not
charged. If the investigation finds the person has acquired the bill from either the
counterfeiters or another passer of counterfeit bills he is charged with knowingly passing a
counterfeit bill.
Floyd was a career criminal. There's a major counterfeiting operation In Minneapolis. As
evidenced by the seizure of 900,000 counterfeit bills recently.
In 1993 on a trip to Spain I saw four cops (one female) club the living shit out of some
Moroccan in Puerto del Sol Madrid. They beat him until two bricks of "mugre" dropped out of
his pants on the sidewalk, slung him in the back of a patrol car and sped off. From first
verbal contact to everybody gone was less than two minutes.
Another hoax perpetrated by the dishonest f media going unpunished for inciting subsequent
hate crimes and destruction against white weaklings and founding fathers images. Racist Lemon
and his colleagues from the CNN together with MSNBC are leading this police onslaught.
The use of police body cams that the Obama administration pushed for and which were
supposed to prove the narrative that police, and especially white police, are
stopping/targeting and killing blacks for no other reason than they are
driving/walking/jaywalking while black, is actually debunking the narrative and showing that
blacks invited and deserved the force that was used against them based on their erratic and
violent behavior.
Not sure who made the prediction but years ago they said that the widespread use of body
cams would do precisely this (debunk the far left narrative), so there would be a new push to
eliminate the use of body cams since it would show blacks acting like animals on the set of
the wild kingdom.
This is a great article but Greggy went soft on the Jewish owned drive by media and if not
for their slanted and propagandistic coverage and false claims the nation wouldn't have been
set on fire for months now. An honest media (Jew free) would have put events in their proper
context and waited for more facts to emerge instead of screaming "racist killer cops"
24/7.
@Sean they puled
him out because he'd give them the virus in the closed space. Then they called the paramedics
to take care of him. While waiting, one of the cops held him down with a knee on the BACK OF
Floyd's neck, preventing him from turning around and spraying the cop with viruses.
Cops aren't personal maids or nurses, asking them to take care of infectious drug addicts
would require a lot more cops and they wouldn't be cops anymore – that would be a
horrendous way of wasting taxpayer's money. Why didn't you go and take care of the drugged
criminal? At your own expense? His death is your fault
You'll notice that the media, even FOX, hasn't breathed a word about the Hennepin County
Medical Examiner's report. That's because the report contradicts the media's claims that
George Floyd died of asphyxia due to Chauvin's knee on his neck. The medical examiner's
report makes clear that Floyd had no internal or external injuries to his neck. If the
medical examiner's report had claimed Floyd died as a result of Chauvin's actions the leftist
media would be quoting from it every night.
Instead it has been memory holed and the media myrmidons hope everyone will just forget
about it so they don't go looking for it to read it and learn they've been lied to for
months. This way they can convict the four officers in the media with damnable lies.
@anonymous le,
who had murder on their mind. All the Alt-Right and White Nationalists did was complain. No
competent defense attorney volunteered to defend him. Fields wound up with an incompetent
Public Defender who did nothing to try to get him off.
If Chauvin is found guilty, which I'd bet a thousand dollars he will be, again his White
supporters will do nothing but complain on the pages of Unz and like websites. IMO, there is
a much better case to convict Chauvin than there was for sad sack James Fields. Chauvin needs
a top notch Black defense attorney. Unfortunately Johnny Cochran is dead.
" the police dealt with Floyd with a level of patience and professionalism that I
certainly could not have mustered. would you have been able to maintain your cool in the same
situation? This video gives me nothing but respect for the police who have to deal day in and
day out with deranged criminals like George Floyd."
Yup. Browse among the literally thousands of hours of cam footage online showing how
blacks typically react to police in routine stops. Blacks love lying and shouting and
violently resisting. They genuinely believe they have a right to resist lawful arrest, and
have for at least the last ten years.
No way I could be a cop. I would never find the patience to put up with even five minutes
of it. God bless law enforcement.
@Sean It used to
be accepted that Black boys needed harsher punishments. This was accepted by both Blacks and
Whites.
Now modern egalitarians have decided that all children are the same. Well how is that
working out? Have you read the essay on what it is like to teach black children? For all
indications Black kids were better off in the 40s when Whites had lower expectations. In
today's classroom White liberal teacher lets a few of them run wild and then ruin the class
for the sake of liberal feelings. The Black kids with potential get to college and find out
they are well behind. This happens everywhere.
James Fields plowed his car into a group of protesters, killing one. Your point of view is
the result of the cognitive dissonance between your imagined reality and your observable one.
Taking such indefensible positions has to be understood in the context of your mind
protecting your ego.
Being on drugs did not make Floyd deserving of death. Neither did having a criminal past,
or resisting arrest. This entire situation, where police could apply arbitrary force against
Floyd, resulted from Floyd passing a fake $20 bill. I dont know if you've noticed, but the
FED has been passing trillions in fake twenties these last few months. How can you
counterfeit something that is worth nothing, backed by nothing, signifying nothing, endlessly
created out of nothing? If anything, by injecting his own worthless currency into the
economy, George Floyd was saving the FED some work. He was providing a valuable service,
which is keeping this dead economy afloat.
The author writes that knee on neck is an approved restraint technique, and thus cannot be
illegal, without seeming to realize that this is the CORE of the issue and why many people
are upset and protesting in the first place. George Floyd was not cooperating but he was also
not being violent. Whereas Chauvin used violence to subdue Floyd. It doesnt matter if Floyd
died of heart failure. Do you think his heart would have failed if he didnt have an armed man
kneeling on his neck?
Justice happens in a courtroom buddy, and it's the cop's job to make sure a perpetrator
makes it to a courtroom.
Of course its probably all psychological warfare from top to bottom. The cop's name is
practically Chauvinist for crying out loud. The end result is how we may judge the motive of
the incident. And the end result appears to be the defunding of police departments. Just as
COVID is defunding the rest of the economy.
Whoever is left holding the fake cash loses everything.
If the Feds abused their power in Waco and Ruby Ridge, then they also abused their power
in Portland.
As far as people flahing their high beams, I think it's a pretty clear sign that the people
who do it want the rest of us to avoid a bad encounter with the police.
Sadly, it continues to be fashionable to take whichever side of an issue makes you feel
better about your country and your identity. Here is where nationalism reveals itself as a
bankrupt ideology good for manipulating feelings rather than arriving at any useful
results.
Blacks love lying and shouting and violently resisting. They genuinely believe they have
a right to resist lawful arrest, and have for at least the last ten years.
Golly, I wonder (((who))) put those kinds of RADICAL ideas in their heads?
@Robert Dolan
unable to see through liberalism. If anything they used their intelligence to delude
themselves. This is mocked in the joke about how only someone born really smart can write a
book about how intelligence isn't genetic.
I would trust my local Mexican gardener to craft racial policy over any White liberal with
a Harvard degree. I don't think we are dealing with a lack of intelligence in liberals. I
think the theory of liberals having religious and egalitarian genes make the most sense. This
then overrules their rationality. So in that context I'm really not impressed with
intelligence tests.
Lol if George Floyd really threw the entire "Free World" into spasms of K*ll-the-Boerism
because he pulled a Juice WRLD and ate his stash (which happened to be, I assume, laced with
a lethal amount of fent) to hide it from the porkers welll, that's pretty darn funny. Besides
all the k*ll wypipo stuff, of course.
The truth is that the Leftists don't care what caused Floyd's death. The truth is
irrelevant. A negro died while a white cop was restraining him. The damage that Floydgroids
do to society is stuff we deserve, don't you see? There shouldn't be any cops, unless it's
gentile whites defending themselves, then there needs to be a police state to keep them
defenseless.
@John Johnson
have good jobs and live with wives and kids aren't good parents as a whole judging by the
criminal records drug habits etc the children of so many affirmative action blacks have.
But black fathers are strong, violent rageaholics
So they can keep the little ones in line. But once boy is 5'8 140, beatings I doubt more
beatings will import him. In the old days he could leave home and do farm labor or other
work.
Nowadays the 14 year old thug lives with mamma because of the welfare money. And if the
critters don't go to school, the welfare department cuts off the money.
@TimeTraveller e
an English class. Your I.Q. must be very low to not recognize the use of a simile.
Just the fact that you want this country to burn tells me that you are a looser from an
economic as well as an intellectual standpoint. You're on the bottom and you think if there
is revolution that some how things will get better for you. I can assure you, especially if
you are black, that things are never going to get better for you. As a matter of fact, if you
do happen to be black, things will probably get a lot worse for you before it ever gets
better.
Yes. I didn't comment much on this because, like pretty much EVERY OTHER "racist" incident
the last several years, I figured, if we waited long enough, the truth would come out. Of
course, waaaay after the narrative was set, and the damage was done. I'm curious. Are the
powers that be pushing this b.s. because they genuinely feel blacks face injustice or are
they using the blacks to aid in their attempt to destroy our culture? Either way, the blacks
will ultimately suffer. They're so put upon they have to manufacture countless "crimes"
against them. As if there eventually won't be a backlash bringing on the prejudice they
supposedly wish to stamp out. Lol. Popcorn indeed.
So, George Floyd is 'The Boy Who Cried Wolf'. That make sense because he kept saying
(lying) that he could not breath seems the beginning then those police will not trust him
anymore, and when he truly begin to unable to breath by the kneeing on neck with ton of human
meat on his back and butt, so those police think he lied and didn't trust him and they didn't
even think to double check.
(Note: There is other version with the conclusion is that the boy is eaten by wolf, not
sheep)
Sorry, the leak video:
1.George Floyd is an Temper Tantrum and his mind is really sane to me, he is not even in
the state of 'drug addict'.
2.It does not prove that George Floyd is killed by the Fentanyl. The leak video, in fact,
proves that Derek Chauvin had accidentally killed George Floyd due to the 'The Boy Who Cried
Wolf' effect, and ignorant on how dangerous kneeing on neck is. I think George Floyd is
killed by the combination of Fentanyl and Kneeing On Neck.
Question:
1.Why the police does not release the leak video from the beginning? The video, in fact,
can give Derek Chauvin more excuses to save him from being jail or just get him fire only or
he even able to keep his job due to the police qualified immunity and it can prevent
riot.
My own answer for this is that this is literally divide and conquer tactics, make those
anti-police, with many right reasons, like a bunch of idiot and the leak video also cover the
true problem, police abusing power. The police abusing power is usually unable to discussed
and the MSM always turn it into 'police beat black people'.
2.Why the redacted video, which is recorded at the same places, has the date '05/26/2020'
meanwhile the leak video has the date '05/25/2020′? Can anybody explain to me? I truly
curious about this.
That fat (360 pounds) tub of crap Eric Garner had the cops trying to get him to comply
with his arrest for 45 minutes before they laid a hand on him. He had been arrested more than
30 times by the NYPD on charges such as assault, resisting arrest, and grand larceny. Less
than a year before he died, in August 2013, he was charged with aggravated unlicensed
operation of a vehicle, false impersonation and marijuana possession. He was out on parole
for that.
He already had three more pending charges for illegally selling cigarettes–and then
was caught again the day that he died. He was (correctly) afraid that this time he'd be
busted on a parole violation.
He would not just sell the loose cigs–he positioned himself by the store's entrance
and threaten people who would go in and buy legal cigarettes inside.
He had no job due to his obesity and health issues-plus his own wife said on TV that he
was "lazy" (her word). Not totally–he did have 6 kids-with 4 different women.
He was being arrested for counterfeiting. The cops routinely cuff you even when they want
to interrogate you for a possible crime. I see it all the time. Then later they uncuff you
and let you go. What is so hard about that?
Too many cops have been shot going up to a car where they can't see the guys hands. That
is why there is always a cop in the back with his gun drawn in case you try to spin around
and take a shot. Sorry, but that is the way is is because of the people being stopped.
I also have no doubt that liberals would much rather divide children by IQ than
acknowledge that race exists. They would put well behaved White kids with unruly Black kids
for not scoring high enough.
It makes more sense to argue that Whites simply have a right to exist as a people and that
includes all Whites regardless of intellect. There are numerous European gene differences
that are related to cultural preferences and they should not be forced to subject themselves
to some egalitarian dystopia that hates them, especially when said Whites built the empire in
the first place.
@frontier y are
you speaking for cops? David Layman the ex cop and former supermax guard YouTuber, who
deliberately broke fingers until convicts submitted, and once was struck by a colleague to
get him to stop baton choking a rampaging convict to death said the duration of what Chauvin
did to Floyd was nothing like what would be done in the line of duty, clearly unnecessary,
and Chavin knew it because he was resting his hands on his thighs. Relative to the education
and amount of training required to qualify, cops are far better paid than nurses. But that is
going to change because even one Chauvin is too much.
Having a gun out shows they were self-dramatising cops in a fantasy world.
No, you see this all the time when there are two cops on a traffic stop. One approaches
the window and the other hangs back in the guys blind spot with either his gun already drawn
or with his hand on it.
@Sulu se
granddaughter killed herself because of meth isn't even able to grieve properly for his
granddaughter because conservatives declared her the enemy and declared a war on her for the
sake of law and order. His political ideology estranged him from his own seed, and any nation
that makes this the norm is doomed to failure. Its flags deserve to be burned and its
monuments deserve to be defaced.
I guarantee that the old man sympathizes more with Wall Street and Israeli Jews than his
own daughter, and sides with property against life and injury. Such a nation has an
appointment with famine and has no future.
He wasn't really trying to kill anyone if the only person he managed to kill was a
4′ 11″, 330 lb. chain smoker. If he had been black, a mestizo illegal alien or a
major D Party donor his sentence would have been no more than 10 years. The 419 year sentence
was the tell that this had been a political show trial.
Floyd was not "murdered" by the police. How simple to watch and conclude that.
Expose and expose and expose the restraint they show they used on a crazed, resistant and
potentially violent person.
If reason does not prevail here, if the crazed, resistant and potentially violent
person(s) still want to use this as an excuse for violence and destruction, then time to
arrest every one of them, by defending the police, not stupidly "defunding" the police.
To watch the wormy and pompous Jeffrey Nadler utter, "Shame on you," to AG Barr shows what
Nadler would do to efforts to maintain order: encourage rioting, violence and
destruction.
Go to Israel, Mr. Nadler. That's where you belong! And take Antifa with you.
@Alden ers are
just as bad as the media. They know full well it is a lie and hate that we don't go along
with it. That hate us more than anything. They would happily send us to camps and shut off
the internet in the name of equality.
So they can keep the little ones in line. But once boy is 5'8 140, beatings I doubt
more beatings will import him. In the old days he could leave home and do farm labor or other
work.
Well that is also when 8th grade was the goal and not high school graduation.
From what I have read Blacks really start having problems around junior high.
@TimeTraveller I
agree that America has major problems and a hell of a lot of it can be laid at the feet of
the Jews. But if things go to hell in this country(Civil War) your benefits won't be worth
the paper it's printed on. I don't think this country needs to burn so much as certain groups
within it need to burn.
But I suspect all this civil unrest is little more than poor Kabuki theater designed to
assist in getting Trump out of office. If Biden wins I bet Covid-19 and riots just magically
go away. If Trump is re-elected it's anyone's guess what will happen.
Almost a year ago exactly, yet another drunk-driving illegal alien killed another
American citizen. This time, it was Sarasota, Fla., and the vehicular killer will spend 13
years behind bars.
He pled guilty to the federal charges, not to the sate charges. Presumably he pled guilty
to the federal charges because he didn't want to face the death penalty.
And no, these people don't give a damn about justice. The idea of the great reset is to
continue to push the US into a collectivist state of mind and a China like economic set up
with a fully authoritarian government and no political freedom. Scamdemic lock down and media
manufactured race war are two ways to push us in that direction.
If it looks like a conspiracy and smells like a conspiracy .
I would invoke the Insurrection Act, then spend the next few weeks arresting the leaders
of BLM and antifa, as well as their collaborators in state and municipal governments,
You forgot to arrest the media owners. The one's who have for 4 years, made our
president's life miserable, through lies and innuendos. And, while you're at it grab False
Fauci and his master, Billy boy Gates, thereby putting to an end the entire charade.
There's enough video, and print evidence, available of powerful jews clamoring for the
eradication of white Christians. It's time for those who speak of our genocide, be it a
rabbi, a professor, politician, newscaster, or whomever, to be charged under the hate speech
laws that they themselves rammed through congress.
@John Johnson
inistrators big black mammas, black preachers, and NAACP ADL AJC ACLU lawsuits hovering
about, it's basically illegal to impose discipline on black kids. Just as it's impossible to
fire incompetent troublesome blacks in the workplace.
The White women are stuck in the classroom with the monsters . The black women sit in the
school district office as consultants, coordinators and counselors at high salaries. And
behind them are the Jewish legal foundations and administrators at the state level aiding and
abetting the savages who destroy the schools and make them unsafe for Whites.
Immigrants are fortunate. Most of them come from nations that are free of blacks.
Irrespective of their economic shortcomings, nations such as this offer a peace, security and
tranquility that once they arrive in the US they will never know again. And since so many
immigrants are destined to operate small businesses in the United States, their interactions
with this conflict and crime driven group will be a central part of their lives in the US.
But that's only if they decide to call the years they'll spend interacting with black America
as living.
I didn't have to use DuckDuckGo to find this vid. It was first, right at the top, using
the Carlson episode title as a search phrase. Enjoy:)
Once again, the cop didn't "point a gun" at George Floyd, which is clearly evident in the
video. The pistol is pointed slightly down and to the side. If the trigger had've been pulled
during that segment of the video, the bullet would've struck the hinge area of the opened
door. Look at the trigger guard to get a good idea of the pistol's long-axis alignment.
Tucker's Unreal George Floyd Comments The Young Turks
Aug 5, 2020
These teachers are no different than the scumbags in media in that they believe
egalitarian lies are better than admitting that those other Whites are probably
correct. They can't stomach that outcome so the unspoken plan is to lie and suppress while
hoping that miscegenation somehow evens it all out someday. The unspoken plan is to hope they
just breed out the curve.
Public teachers are part of the problem and they know it. All it would take is a dozen of
them to setup hidden cameras and the system would crash.
Chauvin will no more get justice than has James Fields (he of Charlottesville, Va.), whose
victim wasn't even black (and she wasn't his victim, either).
The mob is in full control, now.
Presumably, he pled guilty because he knew the evidence against him was insurmountable
(i.e., he knew he was guilty) . That would be the simplest presumption to make.
Along those lines you must face the fact that the Negro was made Numinous by Yankee
WASP Elites.
The Unz Jew haters can't handle that reality.
There must have been a Jew in the cupboard or something when Lincoln decided to go to
war.
The same Jew in the cupboard must have forced him to only give lip service to the Liberia
plan.
At Unz the Jews are able to magically transverse time and space, filling the innocent
minds of Anglo leaders with egalitarian delusions even where Jews didn't exist or didn't have
influence.
The guy is flippin' out and the officers have a handful, to say the least. I also have to
admit that according to this footage, they are being as accommodating as possible considering
the situation.
Like the author, I have to question the claim of claustrophobia, in particular. They are
not putting him in a prowler, but an SUV, as far as I can tell.
And for LAW God fearing common people that believe in karma divine justice and their
simpleton infantile mind that in the battle of good vrs evil and lies vrs TRUTH good shall
prevail over evil and only the TRUTH shall makes us all FREE that divine binary covenant has
been broken. LIES and evil reign supreme and their godless troops in the MSMedia,
politicians, and other lords of darkness not only claim victimhood but make profits in the
process..WE simple deplorables find it incredible that our sacred News media affirms lies,
glorifies lies, certified lies , and if you dont believe lies then you are racist, bigot,
conspiracy lunatic BUT then if LIES win then the truth is irrelevant then it follows that GOD
is a fraud Why is the Black god fearing communities so silenced? all moral religious
INSTITUTIONS whose main source of sustenance is their defense of PEACE, morality, ethics,
GOODNESS, etc.condened BLMANTIFA From Jesus Christ, to Thoreau, MLKING, Mandela, the JUSTICE
and TRUTH ha been the crux of their MORAL force Today the political, religious, civil, MEDIA,
allied themselves with the LIES .its shameful, repugnant While terrorists are financed with
millions$$$ and celebrated in MSM Hollywood WashDC, an honorable man probably alone
devastated with a lifetime career in ruins Derek Chauvin he probably made the same mistake
that most simple humans made ,he believe in GOD that was his demise..IF you believe and hope
in god .you shall perished waiting
@fnn out, and
turned into the wrong street. His car was mobbed, his back window broken out, and he
accelerated into, as it turned out, another mob. That's what happened, I studied the
video.
The acceleration was a panic response. The people responsible for the resulting death were
the people who induced panic in James Fields, not James Fields. Had he not been mobbed and in
justifiable fear of his life, there would have been no death.
Field's trial and conviction were simply not legal. They weren't even a lynching. they
were simply a demonstration of life and death power by the Charlottesville Left. We've seen
quite a few of those demonstrations since then.
One in the chest and one in the head. Sorts all kind of problems out.
Ok where I live, Sweden, the police would have beaten the shit out of him for resisting
arrest. Police don't easily draw their firearm here, but they are quick to draw their baton
and use it. But on the other hand, people arrested here do as the police say, making scenes
as in the video only worsens your case.
Policemen here are respected, and you can always ask a policeman if you are lost for your
way.
Most people here understand they do a hard and health wise taxing job.
I had a girlfriend a long time ago, who was a police officer ( 3,5 years education, minimum
college to entry) she got in a fracas, and was so much she had to quit. And she was not
petite 1,80 cm, really well built, athletic and of course a blonde.
She is now 30 years later a cripple, because of a bad arrest.
They should have shot the motherfucker! I would.
@UncommonGround
heir pods) encounter here on a regular basis, largely due to a black population unleashed by
liberal and media permissiveness. (You will soon though, when the levels of foreigners with a
migration background but no integration interest rise.)
There are some sadistic cops and they cause trouble (lots of white victims too) and
policing attitudes are bad, but blaming these cops on the death of a hopeless, disgusting
figure like St. George of the Gutter is unfair. Chauvin did ok, even if he did have priors. I
hope he doesn't get fucked over completely and I pray for him and the rest of us here.
Negroes are criminals. they may not have committed a crime yet, but they will soon.
"You can take a man out of the bush, but you can't take the bush out of a man"
Rhodesian proverb.
Niggars was a failed offshoot in making of the white man. It was a dead end, really. Just
like Gorillas and Chimps, will mostly not evolve further.
Once they they movi into your neigboorhood its time to move, same goes for bloody arabs,
sandniggars, bad people.
He didn't plead guilty for the state trial and was sentenced to 419 years by the
State/Commonwealth of Virginia. He risked the death penalty if found guilty in the federal
trial. I know it sounds crazy, but some guys would rather rot in prison than be put to
death.
@John Johnson
maybe they're more honest with me? They are also continually bullied by the black teachers
who just love to hear how the blacks curse defy and hit the White teachers.
A montage of videos showing black behavior in the public schools would be great great
great. If it were not taken down from the internet the first day.
I've seen plenty of internet posts and comments from White teachers describing the
horrendous behavior of blacks from K-12.
Once you've worked with blacks, whether kindergartners or attorneys, you realize the truth
about them.
@John Johnson
were bribed / financed by oil companies. No joke, no conspiracy theories, not "mystic
powers", just businessmen with oil/gas concessions that would go broke under nuclear
competition but managed to bribe the environmentalists to destroy nuclear. Granted, the word
"jewish" is never mentioned, and should have been if only as minor participants, but the
principals were not jewish.
Simple reality is horrifying beyond reason -- we are in a competitive society, like it or
not, and everybody competes ruthlessly. Far more comforting to believe that somebody
somewhere will prevent anything too bad from happening. The puppet masters need puppets, the
people complaining thus have a steady job.
Most ridiculous post I've seen in months. It's the black preachers who are the biggest
problem. They're not really clergymen. They're black racist activists using their churches as
a base from which to operate their political activities.
Mandela was a communist terrorist. MLK was trained at a communist activist school and was
a complete charlatan, grifter con artist and wife and sex partner beater.
The FBI had recordings in his home and there are many tapes of him pounding on his wife.
Source; retired FBI man a relative knows.
Fed Criminals commit crimes against countries, but it's the George Floyds us petty
assholes have to deal with on a daily basis and yes, he was being violent.
I guess replying to a "gay troll" makes me stupid too, but it won't happen again.
It's more likely that during interrogation they told him that the murder conviction was
cinched, that everyone at every level in the country, when they discussed the incident, they
prefaced it with "when the cops killed George Floyd" or some variation. They told him (like
they do people) that he needs to take the "smart" option that is least destructive and
"safer". To me, a plea-bargained acceptance of a penalty has little relation to the truth of
the matter let alone guilt.
It probably very safe say that those cops are under bizarre pressure and it's
semi-ridiculous to pontificate about what they should do, but they need to keep their traps
shut and go to trial. The video that's been released shows the majority of what actually
happened. They did nothing wrong. The only quibble is Chauvin using his knee to keep that
whigged-out nut in position, and it's a permitted technique according to the formal police
guidelines, used against people who are resisting arrest, as Floyd was.
But they all could be sacrificed, especially if the Democrats win (the trial is set for
next spring). Actually, that's probably what he was told. "They're going to kill you
[essentially] and you'd better agree to this before they have a chance."
"Presumably, he pled guilty because he knew the evidence against him was insurmountable
(i.e., he knew he was guilty) . That would be the simplest presumption to make."
@Ilya G
Poimandres ed use their fire arms under the law in that case and if they had the shooting
wouldn't have been a blip on the radar screen given King's actions. Instead, to save King,
they used batons as they were trained and brought a man stated to be under PCP, wildly strong
and deranged under control without killing him or inflicting permanent debilitating injury.
(The two other men with him complied and there was no problem). Officer Koon thought the
whole thing, being taped, would be used as a text book case of how to handle such a
situation. So basically they did what you suggest. How'd that turn out?
What scares me is the insouciance and apathy to the loss of a human life shown by the
white people here. BLM have a point.
Only psychopaths would dwell on the technicalities of how he died and the events that led
to it. Does it matter now? he is dead.
These are two fundamental questions for me.
Would George Floyd has died if he didn't had the encounter with Dave chauvin? Would he
have just died anyway?
Did he deserved to die?
Most reasonable people would say no. People here try to justify his death when there is
nothing to justify here. Watching white people justify his death with cold rationality and a
total lack of empathy gives me the shivers.
The Chinaman is probably just as racist as whites against blacks but George Floyd didn't
do anything to deserve this fate.
Think about how it felt like to die from suffocation under that knee for 9 minutes? What
if it were you ? Would you want someone to help you if you said " I can't breathe"?
She's the one who had a meltdown and had to leave the set and go smoke a big fat hooter
when Trump won the count on election night. And she's the one that bandies about the epithet,
"trash". It's on Youtube, somewhere. It's hilarious.
A montage of videos showing black behavior in the public schools would be great great
great. If it were not taken down from the internet the first day.
And that's what false flag with Capitol ransacking accomplished. It fives Clinton/Obama/Biden
clique card blank for suppressing the dissent
This false flag operation like shooting protesters by snipers during Ukrainian Maydan is a
logical end of American Maidan and pursued the same goals -- deposing the current president,
hijacking political power and consolidating it via repressions.
Notable quotes:
"... That is why we are witnessing the fussy, aggressive actions of the Democrats - a ridiculous re-impeachment of the president, who will leave the White House in a week, the most severe censorship and suppression of dissent. There is no need for the real winners of fair elections to behave like that, as they are aware of their legitimacy and are confident in themselves (relying on the real, not imaginary, support of the majority of the population). ..."
From the "Biden Exploits His Capitol Gains" article:
Joe Biden's own language certainly sounded less like a magnanimous winner uniting his
people than like that used by autocrats and dictators to hold onto power, argues Diana
Johnstone.
Diana Johnstone's opinion is quite reasonable. In fact, a "creeping"/"bureaucratic" coup
d'etat took place in the United States. And it wasn't Trump at all, but Biden & Co. The
fact that "Joe Biden's own language sounded like that used by autocrats and dictators to hold
onto power" is further confirmation of this.
If you are in the majority and you win the election honestly, then there is no need to act
the way the Democrats did. The current aggressive rhetoric of Biden (and other Democrats) is
evidence that the elections were stolen/falsified. Biden knows this very well, and therefore
his language is as cruel, irreconcilable and repressive as possible. After the illegitimate
elections, the task is to consolidate own's power and suppress all those who reject what
happened. In fact, this is what happened in Ukraine after the Maidan 2014.
That is why we are witnessing the fussy, aggressive actions of the Democrats - a
ridiculous re-impeachment of the president, who will leave the White House in a week, the
most severe censorship and suppression of dissent. There is no need for the real winners of
fair elections to behave like that, as they are aware of their legitimacy and are confident
in themselves (relying on the real, not imaginary, support of the majority of the
population).
Globalization has made the United States a hollow giant. It has produced an enormous
wealth gap, and this inequality is producing a breakdown in social cohesion. They have faced
crisis before in the form of political polarization, economic hardship and racial tensions,
but the situation now is a combination of every one of the mentioned before amplified by
orders of magnitude by the pandemic.
The power of the MIC, Wall Street and Big Tech along with their MSM minions acting in a
concerted way is the only thing preventing an implosion of the country. Either that or the
notion of "American Exceptionalism" is truly implanted in the hearts and minds of the people,
whether they realize it or not.
Nothing in this year's elections surprises me. I predicted all this over four years ago in
August 2016. The only thing that surprised me was that Trump was sworn in on January 20,
2017. For a short time I believed that the United States was a democracy where elections
could change policy. It is not!
(I originally
wrote this as comment to Andrew Korybko's Facebook post on August 15, 2016.)
Why Trump can't win
Even if Trump gets a majority of the votes the chances of him actually becoming
President are slim. Here are some of the tactics and tricks the Hillary camp could use to
block his election. I cannot say what is the probability of these options, but they have
all been tested in previous US sponsored color revolutions.
Massive propaganda campaign will pressure the electorate to vote against their
favorite candidate.
If Trump still gets over 50% of the vote, the vote count will be falsified.
(Something similar seems to have happened in the Austrian presidential election.)
If the election results actually show a victory for Trump, the results will be
annulled. DNC will claim that "Putin" hacked the voting machines. The Supreme Court will
declare Hillary the winner.
If all else fails, Hillary will call for a Maidan-style occupation of Washington DC.
The revolutionaries will take over the Capitol and the White House -- with the support of
pro-Hillary officials.
I continued in the original post on August 16, 2016.
Trump cannot be allowed to win precisely because -- as you say on the video -- he
represents the non-system opposition. He does not even have the support of his own party.
This is not a simple question of counting votes. For him to actually become president, he
has to win by a large margin.
Andrew, you are an expert on hybrid war. Why would Hillary not unleash the full array of
hybrid war weapons on Trump? In fact they are doing it already. Trump has been labeled the
"Manchurian Candidate". Ukraine fell to Maidan because no one in Ukraine was willing to
defend the institution of the presidency or the Ukrainian constitution. Why would the US be
any different.
You write: "4 wouldn't fully succeed because of the counter-Color Revolution technology
that the Trump supporters could organize in their own demonstrations and movements" You are
wrong. These are not "Trump supporters" but "Putin Trolls". Why would any mainstream media
give any voice to these people?
For an anti-Trump Maidan or coup to fail, Trump would personally have to lead the
opposition. In doing so he would be putting his life, liberty and fortune at risk. He can
be pressured or "advised" to give up the fight. In fact it would be easiest to just
assassinate him.
Many things can happen before we are at scenario 4. The simplest option is to escalate a
crisis or war with Russia, Hillary's anti-Trump strategy is already framing the election as
between her and Putin. In a crisis scenario Trump would simply be dismissed as a Russian
enemy agent.
***
Why am I writing all this delusional stuff about a coup in the US or even of potential
civil war?
Democracy requires a free press. That no longer exist in the West. Instead the Powers
that Be have created an enormously powerful hybrid war machine that they have turned on
Libya, Syria, Russia (and on European democracy). They are able to manipulate reality like
never before. They are a huge danger to any state or any democracy.
I am just trying to imagine what would happen if these tools were turned on the USA.
"... You do know a guy name Milton Friedman was the architect for Reagan economics? For the record we are currently living thru long term dystopia effects of Reagan economics. ..."
Biden and Kamala are mere figureheads put in office by a stolen election. Any agenda they
think that they have is irrelevant. Here is the Establishment's agenda:
First: Prevent any political organization of the "Trump Deplorables." Any who attempt to
form a real opposition party will be made an example of. In America it is child's play to frame
up anyone. We saw the show in Russiagate, and Trump will now be exhausted with endless frameups
as the Establishment pursues him into oblivion. If the President of the United States can be so
easily framed up, an unknown political organizer in the red states can be disposed of at
will.
... ... ...
Fourth: The Establishment will increase its fomenting of racial and gender conflict in order
to keep Americans too divided to resist its increasingly odious control measures, whether they
be the use of Covid to suppress freedom of movement and association, charges of being a foreign
agent in order to suppress free speech as in the Assange case, or round up and internment of
Trump Americans trying to organize a political party that represents the people instead of the
Establishment.
Modern weapons in the hands of the state are devastating. Mass spying and control techniques
that exist today go beyond those in dystopian novels such as Orwell's 1984 . Free speech
is a thing of the past. Free speech no longer even exists in universities. As I write Twitter,
Facebook and the presstitutes are suppressing the free speech of the President of the United
States, and the President of the United States is powerless to do anything about it.
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/533027-twitter-locks-trumps-account-for-at-least-12-hours?rnd=1609978506
The Establishment's control over the media means that no charge against President Trump is
too extreme to cause a protest. The enormous support shown for Trump in Washington on January 6
with estimates of participants ranging from 200,000 to 2,000,000 was easy for the Establishment
to turn into a liability by infiltrating the rally.
It was naive for President Trump and his supporters not to realize that infiltration was
guaranteed as it was necessary for the Establishment to turn massive support into a massive
liability. This would achieve two purposes. One purpose was to terminate the challenge to the
electors in the Senate, and it succeeded. Here, for example, is Republican Senator Mike Braun
from Indiana dropping his intent to object to the electors from the swing states where the
election was stolen: "I think that today change things drastically. Yeah, whatever point you
made before that should suffice. Get this ugly day behind us," he said. Even Rand Paul was
intimidated: "I just don't think there's going to be another objection. I think it's over at
that point."
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/533033-gop-senators-hopeful-theyve-quashed-additional-election-challenges?rnd=1609980353
Here is Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler whose reelection to the Senate was stolen from her
acquiescing in Trump's and her own stolen elections: "When I arrived in Washington this
morning, I fully intended to object to the certification of the electoral votes. However, the
events that have transpired today have forced me to reconsider and I cannot now, in good
conscience, object," Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.).
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/533052-congress-affirms-biden-win-after-rioters-terrorize-capitol
The other purpose served was to insure that Trump would not go out as a president whose
reelection was stolen but as an insurrectionist. And it has succeeded.
Internationally Trump was denounced by NATO secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg for not
respecting democracy. "The outcome of this democratic election must be respected," declared
Stoltenberg. Stolen or not it is democracy to be rid of Trump. https://www.rt.com/usa/511743-uk-france-nato-condemn-capitol/
British prime minister Boris Johnson declared that the US is the world symbol of Democracy
and that it is vital there is a peaceful and ordered transfer of power, as if there was an
actual insurrection taking place and an election not stolen.
The French President Macron declared: "What happened today in Washington, DC today is not
American, definitely." In other words, it is unamerican to protest a stolen election that the
Establishment refuses to address. [I watched presentations by independent experts to the
Arizona, Georgia, and Michigan legislatures that proved beyond all doubt the presidential
election was stolen. Half of the professional presenters were people of color.]
Republican senators themselves, former members of Trump's cabinet, and a former chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff jumped on Trump with both feet. The no longer Senate Majority Leader
Mitch McConnell said that Trump's "unhinged thugs" "tried to disrupt our democracy. They
failed. This failed insurrection underscores how crucial the task before us is" to restore
Establishment control.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/533039-mcconnell-after-rioters-storm-capitol-they-tried-to-disrupt-our-democracy
Republican Senator Richard Burr from North Carolina said: "The President bears
responsibility for today's events by promoting the unfounded conspiracy theories that have led
to this point."
Trump's Secretary of Defense James Mattis told the presstitutes that "Today's violent
assault on our Capitol, an effort to subjugate American democracy by mob rule, was fomented by
Mr. Trump. His use of the presidency to destroy trust in our election and to poison our respect
for fellow citizens has been enabled by pseudo political leaders whose names will live in
infamy as profiles in cowardice."
General Joseph Dunford, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Trump administration
said Republicans "who have continued to undermine a peaceful transition in accordance with our
Constitution have set the conditions for today's violence."
The presstitutes had a field day with misleading and lying headlines. One of the worst
offenders was The Hill , formerly a source of real news on what was going on in
Congress, but today a highly partisan Trump-hating source of Establishment propaganda.
With the American Establishment's foreign puppets, Republicans, Trump's own cabinet members,
military leaders, and the presstitutes speaking with one voice setting up President Trump as an
insurrectionist threat to democracy, the Democrats' wild charges seemed credible.
Democrat Senator Schumer from New York, the new Senate Majority Leader, Democrat House
Speaker Pelosi, and a large number of Democrat members of Congress, together with the New York
Times, have called for Trump's impeachment or his removal from office by invoking the 25th
Amendment. Here is the new Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (N.Y.) making the case:
"What happened at the U.S. Capitol yesterday was an insurrection against the United States,
incited by the president. This president should not hold office one day longer," Schumer said
in a statement.
Here is Adam Smith, Democrat from Washington state and chairman of the House Committee on
Armed Services, calling for Trump's removal from office: "President Trump incited &
encouraged this riot. He & his enablers are responsible for the despicable attack at the
Capitol. VP Pence and the Cabinet should invoke the 25th amendment to remove Trump, otherwise
Senate Republicans must work with the House to impeach & remove him.
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/533136-house-armed-services-chair-calls-for-removing-trump-from-office
For the New York Times , it doesn't not suffice to remove Trump from office. He must
be prosecuted as well.
To understand the extraordinary hatred of President Trump by the Establishment, listen to
his inaugural address. He described the Establishment accurately as a force arraigned against
the American people, a force that he intended to dismantle and restore America to the American
people. This was a revolutionary challenge, a reckless one as Trump is a populist, not a
revolutionary leading a determined movement. Moreover, Trump was so uninformed about Washington
that he never succeeded in appointing anyone to his government, other than General Flynn (an
immediate casualty of the Establishment) who agreed with his agenda of normalizing relations
with Russia, bringing the troops home from the Middle East, ending NATO, and bringing the jobs
home that American corporations had exported to China. Here was Trump unarmed taking on the
American Establishment. This was an act of suicide as it has turned out to be.
People who think in terms of party politics have no likelihood of understanding the
situation. The struggle is not Democrats vs. Republicans. or red states vs. blue states. It is
the Establishment against the people. If you have any doubt about this, note that the US
National Association of Manufacturers, always a throughly Republican organization, agrees with
Schumer and Pelosi that Trump must be removed from office. Here is the organization's
statement: "Vice President Pence, who was evacuated from the Capitol, should seriously consider
working with the Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment to preserve democracy."
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/532988-democratic-lawmakers-call-for-pence-to-invoke-25th-amendment-remove
The National Association of Manufacturers want Trump out because they are the ones responsible
for China's rise, the US trade deficit and the destruction of half of the US middle class. All
the goods and services imported from offshored production count as imports. It is the offshored
production that is responsible for America's trade deficit, not China.
The presstitutes throughout the Western world have intentionally misrepresented the January
6 rally in Washington in support of Trump. The rally had to be misrepresented, because no one
in politics today anywhere in the Western World can demonstrate such massive support other than
Donald Trump. No one turned out for Biden or Kamala during the presidential campaign. Their
events, soon cancelled, had no attendees. Yet, they won the election? What saps people are. Who
turns out for Merkel, Macron, Boris Johnson. No one even knows who the leaders are in the rest
of the Western World.
Trump could not be permitted to leave office with such a massive showing of support -- a
terrible embarrassment to the corrupt scum who "speak for the people." So the support had to be
discredited by turning it into an insurrection ordered by Trump against Democracy, a holy word
that is observed nowhere in the Western World.
Here is a description of agitators who suddenly appeared and provoked the entrance into the
Capitol by a few Trump supporters who, unlike the rioters in Minneapolis, Chicago, Detroit,
Seattle, Portland, Atlanta and elsewhere, did not behave as rioters and did no damage. The
report is from a person present not as a Trump supporter but as a person to film the event. The
report was sent to NYU professor Mark Crispin Miller. I have left the person's name off so that
he doesn't get investigated by the FBI:
"I was in Washington, D.C. today filming the Trump rally and related events. I also ran
across your post concerning the Capitol demonstration tonight. Perhaps this short account
will help you assess what others are saying in a small way.
"I was also at the Capitol before the crowd appeared setting-up my camera on a stone wall
around the perimeter of the back of the capitol (the rear facing Constitution Avenue). Then I
waited for President Trump's speech to end and for supporters to walk-up Constitution Avenue
to the Capitol. I was located at the precise location where supporters first rushed up the
slope towards the back of the Capitol after casting aside a section of the first Capitol
perimeter barrier. Supporters gathered roughly at the center of the back of the capitol, but
a circle began to grow around the perimeter as the crowd grew larger. I had no sense that the
growing crowd intended to rush the Capitol.
"After a large crowd emerged at the perimeter a man in perhaps his late 30's or early 40's
showed-up, pacing quickly to his left then to his right before the crowd, and essentially
began hurling insults at the crowd challenging their political wisdom. He excoriated the
crowd for thinking that their attendance would be taken seriously by members of congress.
(Hard to say that he was wrong about that, whoever he was). I cannot recall his precise
words, but for a very short period he engaged in a shouting exchange with supporters, and
suddenly supporters pushed aside the first barrier and rushed towards the back of the
Capitol. Others on the northern edge of the perimeter followed suit. But the first rush was
right at the center of the back of the Capitol. I followed the rush to the bottom of the
Capitol back steps, and began filming again from atop an inner perimeter stone wall.
"The police, so it appeared, were a little surprised by the rush, and this gave supporters
an opportunity to race up the steps. One or two men even made it as far as the steps leading
up to the scaffolds on the south side of the Capitol before police arrested them. By this
time, five or ten men had climbed to the top of the tall steel tower structure facing the
Capitol. Then the police erected and lined-up behind a new barrier perimeter at the foot of
the Capitol steps. Police at the top of the Capitol steps aimed rifles down on the crowd
(perhaps rubber bullet rifles, I could not tell). The crowd began arguing with police and
pressing hard against the new barrier. The police sprayed men pressing directly against the
barrier with tear gas from time to time causing them to retreat. "Meanwhile, the men at the
top of the tower began rallying the crowd to challenge the new barrier (over bull horns) by
filling any gaps between the barrier and the stone wall that I was using as a filming vantage
point. Another man worked the crowd with a bull horn immediately in front of me and also
encouraged supporters to climb over the inner perimeter stone wall (my filming vantage point)
and create a wall of pressure on the new barrier at the bottom of the Capitol back steps.
"After about 30 minutes to an hour I dropped to the bottom of the stone wall to reload my
camera when suddenly the barrier gave way and police attempted to fortify it by blasting tear
gas into the area between the stone wall and the barrier. I was hit by the gas myself and
struggled back over the stone wall in order to breathe. The gas threw many crowd members into
a panic. And I was nearly trampled as I struggled to lift my camera and heavy gear bag over
the wall after two women began pulling desperately on the back of my coat to pull themselves
up and over the moderately high wall in retreat.
"After the second perimeter barrier gave way, the men with the bull horns began working
the crowd very hard to fill-up with Trump supporters the steps of the Capitol and the
scaffolding on both sides of it. At this point one of the calls, which the men with bull
horns repeated from time to time in order to encourage people to climb the Capitol steps was
"this is not a rally; it's the real thing." Another frequent call was "its now or never."
After about a two hour effort peppered with bull horn calls of this nature the entire back of
the Capitol was filled with Trump supporters and the entire face of the Capitol was covered
with brilliant small and very large Trump banners, American flags, and various other types of
flags and banners.
"Sometime after the rush on the back of the Capitol, people were apparently able to enter
the Capitol itself through the front. But I was not witness to anything at the front or
inside the Capitol.
"One clearly bona fide Trump supporter who had apparently entered the Capitol himself was
telling others emotionally and angrily (including press representatives of some sort, even a
foreign newsman) that he witnessed someone inside the Capitol encouraging violence whom he
strongly suspected was not a legitimate Trump supporter (apparently on the basis that the man
showed no signs at all of Trump support on his apparel). I did not pay that close attention
to his claims (for example the precise claim of the violence encouraged) because, naturally,
I had not yet read your post and it had not occurred to me that professional outsiders might
play a role in instigating particular violent acts in order to discredit the event.
"I overheard one Trump supporter (who followed the rush on the Capitol himself) say aloud,
"I brought many others to this rally, but we did not sign on for this" as he watched matters
escalate.
"Still, from my seat, I would say that large numbers of very legitimate Trump supporters
felt that it was their patriotic duty to occupy the Capitol in light of their unshakable
beliefs that (1) the 2020 election was a fraud, (2) that the vast majority of the members of
congress are corrupt and compromised, and (3) that the country is in the throes of what they
consider a "communist" takeover (although many use the expression "communism" as a synonym
for "totalitarianism"). They are also convinced that the virus narrative is a fraud and an
essential part of an effort to undermine the Constitution –in particular the Bill of
Rights. They have a very real fear that the country and the very conception of any culture of
liberty is on the verge of an irreparable collapse. For most (if not a very large majority)
rushing the Capitol was a desperate eleventh hour act of partiotism –even of the order
of the revolution that created our nation. Some Trump supporters sang the Star Spangled
Banner and other patriotic songs as others climbed the Capitol steps. They also demonstrated
a measure of respect for the Capitol itself. I saw no attempt by anyone to deface the Capitol
simply for the sake of defacing it.
"The incontrovertibly compromised press has called this event a riot. But from what I saw
and heard this would indeed be a gross and intentionally misleading oversimplification at
best. At least from the standpoint of supporters, if their Capitol event was a riot, then so
was the Boston Tea Party. It also seems to me that some professional help (very aware of deep
sentiments) might have come from somewhere to make sure that the party happened."
When I was on the Stanford University faculty, I remember rich and pampered Stanford
students occupying the university president's office in a protest either against the Vietnam
war or the name of the Stanford Football Team (Stanford Indians) and destroying the papers in
the president's files of his life's work. Despite the liberalism of the university president,
the presstitutes regarded the protest justified and well intentioned.
The rioters and looters who rampaged through many of America's major cities suffered no
media condemnation, only support and encouragement. This is because, unlike Trump, Antifa and
Black Lives Matter are financed by and controlled by the Establishment and thus represent no
threat.There is no FBI investigation or intended prosecution of any of the rioters who
destroyed billions of dollars of property in America's cities.
But the Trump supporters provoked into entering the Capitol are in for it says the
Establishment figure Trump, in yet another of his mistakes, put in charge of the FBI.
It is difficult to defend Trump when he consistently puts in charge of his security agencies
and Department of Justice members of the Establishment who hate his guts.
Here is Trump's appointee describing the people who elected the man who appointed him:
"The violence and destruction of property at the U.S. Capitol building yesterday showed a
blatant and appalling disregard for our institutions of government and the orderly
administration of the democratic process," Wray said in a statement.
"As we've said consistently, we do not tolerate violent agitators and extremists who use
the guise of First Amendment-protected activity to incite violence and wreak havoc," he
continued. "Such behavior betrays the values of our democracy. Make no mistake: With our
partners, we will hold accountable those who participated in yesterday's siege of the
Capitol."
Wray announced that the bureau "has deployed our full investigative resources" and is
working with law enforcement partners "to aggressively pursue those involved in criminal
activity" on Wednesday.
"Our agents and analysts have been hard at work through the night gathering evidence,
sharing intelligence, and working with federal prosecutors to bring charges," he said.
He requested the public send in any information about Wednesday's events to the FBI, noting
"We are determined to find those responsible and ensure justice is served."
Notice that Wray, the Establishment's servant, not the servant of the rule of law, aligns
the First Amendment with "violent agitators and extremists" and thus discredits the First
Amendment as a tool of insurrection.
Everyone who was not at the US Capitol building on January 6, which is the entire world
except the Trump supporters, has been brainwashed, by a corrupt, despicable collection of media
whores serving an Establishment of Oligarchs, that Donald Trump intended an insurrection, but
it was defeated. By Whom?
It was Trump who called out the National Guard and who told his supporters to leave the
Capitol and to go home.
What kind of people can present this as an insurrection that requires Trump's removal from
office and prosecution? The answer is totally evil people who have not only the United States
but the entire Western World in their clutches.
The Western World is dead. It is now Mordor.
Trump appointees realize that, unless they add to his orchestrated embarrassment and setup
by resigning, they are targeted for reprisals. Seeing permanent unemployment facing him, US
Deputy National Security Advisor Matthew Pottinger has resigned in response to Donald Trump's
handling of the crisis on Capitol Hill. "Other people named as likely to abandon the sinking
Trump ship are National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien and Deputy Chief of Staff Chris
Liddell." https://www.rt.com/usa/511769-white-house-officials-resign/
Everyone everywhere is participating in Trump's destruction. The English language Russian
press loves embarrassing America. The fun and games leaves the world in ignorance of the
extraordinary consequences of what the stolen election and demonization of Trump and his
supporters means. The end of the Western World is a big event, and it will affect everyone.
Addendum: Here is an example of the lies the presstitutes constantly deliver. Every
prestitute organization reports that Trump incited a mob of his supporters this week to storm
the U.S. Capitol: "House Democrats are racing toward impeaching President Trump for a second
time after he incited a mob of his supporters this week to storm the U.S. Capitol and halt
Congress's constitutional duty to certify President-elect Joe Biden's victory." https://thehill.com/homenews/house/533340-democrats-poised-to-impeach-trump-again
Clearly, the dumbshits at The Hill, Bloomberg, and everywhere else let their hatred of Trump
run away with them. What would be the point of halting the certification process? It could only
be a temporary halt. The National Guard ordered in by Trump would clear the Capitol and the
process would go forward, as it did. If Trump intended to halt the certification by having
supporters occupy the Capitol, why did he call in the National Guard and tell his supporters to
leave the Capitol? Clearly The Hill's presstitutes are devoid of reasoning ability. What Trump
wanted to happen was to have the electors from the stolen swing states rejected by Congress on
the basis of the evience. It was an unlikely thing to happen, but Trump had no choice but to
exhaust the legal means available.
Trump was too conflicted to lead a populist revolt. He was too mobbed up with wealthy
Zionists and right-leaning factions of the Jewish establishment. Now they'll quickly throw
him under the bus. He's finished, and politically homeless. Not even the Deplorables will
want anything to do with him, given the fact that he betrayed them time and again.
Trump might have been a populist leader had he immediately abandoned his Jewish handlers,
fully adopted the white right, the military and veterans, Christians, Constitutionalists,
small business, Main Street, America First industry and working class, etc. and oriented his
entire administration in their direction. But given that New York Jews were part of his
family, that wasn't going to happen.
A true populist will eventually emerge from the People, and do what Trump should have done
but lacked the guts and integrity to do. And the Deep State will do all it can to strangle
him in the cradle, but will fail, because like Golden Calf Hebrews from the Bible, or like
Cyclops if you prefer Greek fables, it and its sycophants are sick, blind and insane now
beyond any possibility for redemption, intoxicated by their own narcissism.
How long the white knight will take to emerge is hard to say, but he's eventually coming.
Count on it.
The US always had an establishment. So does every country. And in the past, there were
patriotic American establishments that cared about the people. What happened? Jews took over
as the new masters and severed the ties between white elites and white masses. White elites
now exist to serve Jews than to represent the American People.
Elites are formed by social selection. Fish rots from the head. As Jews at the top favor
the most craven and venal goy cucks for promotion, the result is that the elites get filled
up more and more with venal and craven people. And as people don't want to admit they're
craven and venal, they convince themselves that they're on the side of angels and 'liberal
democracy' even though all they do is serve Wall Street, spread worship of sodomy, and push
for Wars for Israel.
When social selection to the top is predicated on patriotism and national unity, a better
kind of people make it to the top. But when selection is based on obeisance to Jews and all
their agendas(anti-white politics, globo-homo degeneracy, magic negro worship, and etc), then
the result is the elites that the US has today.
There was a time when someone like Pat Buchanan and Paul Craig Roberts could serve in the
US government or work in elite industries. But today, even the most 'right-wing' Republican
would rather be dead than be seen anywhere near such individuals.
The Trumpet hasn't been a victim of any "color revolution", he's been the catalyst for the
US Ziocorporate regime's new phase of "democratic" government:
What's so populist about the Trumpet besides his speechwriters' style? He barely repealed
Bombamacare's forced payment of premiums to corporate health peddlers, but not before
doubling down on the Obama/Biden-backed war on Yemen and giving Ziodi Arabia's royal Salafi
headchoppers $400 billion more in weapons, among other pearls of "populist anti-swamp"
policies.
People had to occupy their local and state capitols, not the federal Ziocorporatists'
temple of corporate governance masquerading as public office. Why even leave your own
property unguarded to go fight for some billionaire with a tad too much fake tan, or for his
walking corpse president-elect "rival" for the other side of that same coin, though I doubt
anyone would fight for Kameltoe Biden without being paid in advance.
Great Reset was coming with Trump as it is with Biden either way, there wasn't any time to
be an ignorant partisan tool. Things won't be getting any easier now. Even Mexico with its
CIA/DEA-managed druglord wars is looking tame in comparison.
Trump is a moderate and inherently self-contradictory populist, not a phony populist, but
a flawed populist, and in terms of complete program a meager populist. But give him credit,
his tepid, flawed brand of populism has been spectacularly – popular – with tens
of millions of Americans, and countless others around the planet.
One of his advantages has been that the political leadership stage in not just the United
States but in the 'West' is occupied largely by corrupt pathetic figures who do political
theater, scripted, banal, dishonest political puppetry on behalf of transnational agendas and
powers that be, and their personal advantage. Trump populist program has included giving
priority voice to the 'outdated' concepts of national sovereignty and national interest. He
has been an implicit and explicit critic of the global 'full spectrum domination' American
establishment agenda.
In the land of political midgets a person of even modest stature seems a giant.
But more importantly, Trump is actually a great and singular revolutionary, not in normal
terms, of political ideology, or political program, but in terms of the ability to change and
animate public perceptions. His has been a needed revolution in terms of style and substance:
he has been by far the most effective critic on Earth of and enemy of the mass media mind
control system, a system indispensable to establishment power and agenda.
To the political class and the politically minded who demand and depend upon and find
their comfort in adherence to normal ritualistic banality and bromides, Trump's bombastic out
of bounds style is outrageous, he tossing shocking mental hand grenades like confetti on the
nation, his ejaculations sometimes truthful sometimes false, but often refreshing
entertainment for some and outrageous for others.
Recall for example when he merely stated the obvious about the annual joint military
exercises at the borders of North Korea: he described them as provocative. Howls of foreign
policy outrage over this lapse from scripted normality. How dare Trump utter a simple truth
contradicting our investment of decades of on message propaganda on the subject.
And truth – even little bites of truth – is the great nemesis – the
forbidden fruit that must not be allowed to be shown let alone bitten by the public –
of the corrupt system of public mind control and public exploitation and subjugation.
As response to his fundamental, effective if not outright deadly attack on the mind
control system, and for his espousal of national sovereignty over transnational hegemony, he
has been under continual establishment attack since – actually even before – his
2016 inauguration. Public belief in the veracity of mass media's reliability when it comes to
fairness and accuracy has never been as low.
And something else has happened during the last four years: the public perception of the
ethical rot, the stench, of the cesspool that the establishment occupies has grown greatly.
Beyond Pizza gate and Jeffrey Epstein, there is a greatly increased public opinion and
suspicion and perception that elite power is dependent upon and suffused with and tainted
with that which goes beyond mere typical variations of corruption: that there exists
widespread hitherto unthinkable unspeakable evil that preys on children and innocence.
But now, with the obvious massive coordinated election fraud that was engineered against
what was in fact one of the – if not the – greatest landslide presidential
victories in American history, another great service has been rendered by Trump. And this
service goes far beyond his particular case: The legitimacy of all US elections since the
advent of electronic voting machines is now cast into doubt. That is, the entire US political
class, state, local and federal, has had their legitimacy appropriately undermined. And the
call for election procedures which ensure reasonably fair elections will now be ongoing.
Funny how the MSM apparently missed Trump commuting Jonathan Pollard's sentence and
allowed him to fly back to Israel where he disembarked from his plane and kissed the
ground.
I think it might have been George W. Bush who was considering pardoning Pollard and the
various intelligence agencies told him there would be a mutiny if he did. And he didn't.
But now ..crickets?
Pollard should have been in federal prison for life with no parole or executed.
But Trump won't pardon Assange for being a journalist or Snowden for alerting the American
people we are all being surveilled 24/7?
"People who think in terms of party politics have no likelihood of understanding the
situation. The struggle is not Democrats vs. Republicans. or red states vs. blue states. It
is the Establishment against the people."
My dear Mr. Roberts, you hit the nail on the head.
Thanks PCR. My exact thoughts. Definitely DC rally was infiltrated with sole intention of
discrediting Trump and his supporters. And the chorus of "leaders" from US vassals like UK,
Germany, France and others is proof of well choreographed scheme. Where were they when
BLM/Antifa with clear support of Dem politicians rampaged through US cities including DC
itself?
I wonder whether people of the US would still consider voting as one of the most important
civic duties. This election steal has shown that even with a landslide win, the establishment
will get its way. Sad.
I watched presentations by independent experts to the Arizona, Georgia, and Michigan
legislatures that proved beyond all doubt the presidential election was stolen.
That the counting was manipulated electronically was proven for me by Shiva Ayyadurai
(MIT) in his interesting video showing the statistically impossible change in voting trend in
the early morning counting.
It is difficult to defend Trump when he consistently puts in charge of his security
agencies and Department of Justice members of the Establishment who hate his guts.
This is a real oddity. At the outset he had a good selection of very loyal people to
choose from – but he dumped them all in favour of Establishment people who have
predictably backstabbed him – even his own Vice President. The only explanation that I
can find is that he doesn't really sympathize with the Deplorables at all (certainly never
spends any time with them) and was just using them as an alternative route to a top
Establishment position. The surprise was that the Establishment then rejected him, despite
his best efforts to ingratiate himself.
What's undeniable, is that the ZioGlob US is starting to look, socially and economically,
like an international basket case. Much of the ROW (Rest Of the World) is moving to separate
from it as fast as possible – ref. trade agreements/international payments/currencies
etc.
The filthy old swindler could have easily won re-election if he had done even one tiny
thing for the vast demographic making under $34k per year (the median wage) i.e. the working
poor. He could have pushed for a federally mandated $15/ hour minimum wage. He could have
pushed for a universal basic subsidized medical plan instead of trying to take one away. How
about federal money for a new system of trade schools and vocational training institutes?
Instead, he signed off on massive tax cuts for himself and his wealthy jew sponsors. He
signed off on trillions of dollars for his wall street pals, goosing the stock market into
the stratosphere. The old coot played golf while half the nursing home population was wiped
out by the wu-wu. He started a pointless trade war with China after listening to three of the
dumbest jews on the planet: Munchkin, Krudlow, Koshner jews so stupid they couldn't figure
out how to cheat rubes at a corner furniture store. Endless demagoguery, fake religiosity,
phony nationalism, counterproductive race baiting, shameless nepotism, constant lying .but
then what else would you expect from a former WWE wrestling promoter?
This was a "False Flag" as evidenced by Speaker's Pelosi's 'Purple" dress as she elbow
bump's Pence after he did his dirty deed for the Coup.
Look the whole 'Kabuki' was a set up with Capitol Building guards opening the way for
crowds to mill forward after the professional black block antifa gang made the first assault
on police lines and subsequently forced entry
Trump had told people at the rally to be peaceful and we know that message has been
censored.
The Republican Party has been exposed, and all seems like all is lost as it appears, as is
the case that the whole fraud has been accomplished in the open, but I think the wrestling
match is not over, which is why impeachment and or 25th Amendment is what seals the coup, or
unseals sealed indictments, full disclosure and the Seals.
As a lawyer, I am convinced the election was stolen from Trump. I am absolutely stunned at
the total denial of this fact by all and sundry in the Establishment and by the citizenry in
both the USA as well as the West who believe the weaponized press and media. In addition the
Roman Catholic Church has now officially joined this political Establishment.
Post-modernism and multiculturalism have come home to roost.
Truth has been banished from the Western Establishment. What an achievement!
Whether they realize it fully or not, there is nowhere else but Hell that bids them on.
From the real God-fearing understandings of Reality, the anti-Christ/Dajjal now rule the
world.
MAGA couldn't be allowed to Continue.
MAGA had to be cut down.
MIGA couldn't Persist with MAGA. Unfortunately, Trump was a MIGA Player First before being a
MAGA Leader.
Catholics couldn't Persist with MAGA – they gained a POTUS and a SCOTUS Seat this Round
– with a mostly Catholic SCOTUS refusing to hear Electioneering Case Arguments.
OpenBorders wouldn't happen with MAGA.
DNC couldn't Persist with MAGA.
GOP_NeverTrumperz couldn't Persist with MAGA.
McConnell+Chao couldn't Persist with MAGA.
MSM couldn't Persist with MAGA
OffShoring couldn't Persist with MAGA.
FB/TWTR couldn't Persist with MAGA.
This article is above brilliant. Nobody can see the situation as clearly as PCR.
I am glad that Trump is gone. There will be no more somebody for MSM to serve as punching
bag.
It is unbelievable to me that Trump did withstand such a deluge of abuse from MSM and
Democrats and deep state. Trump did not have any real support from his coworkers. he was
standing alone.
I agree with Mr. Roberts; a bit of anger increased by the repeat of the "steal" in
Georgia, and a large dollop of agents provocateurs, including the famous viking with an
American flag, created an incident being blown up by the real fascisti, the establishment, as
a new Reichstag fire to set up a permanent dictatorial regime based in Washington. They are
in your face and probably hope for unrest because its suppression will consolidate this
odious regime. The only hope is that temporary instability will instigate a loss of control
over the vassal states and/or economic collapse caused by the authoritarian lockdown policies
will weaken the yankee state enough so that it loses influence. Otherwise, unfortunately, Dr.
Roberts' view of the future unfortunately looks accurate to me.
@Abdul
Alhazred the Capitol Police. She told him that a lot of people feel the police didn't do
enough the day before. He told her that at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday morning he was told to go
home, along with his fellow policemen. He thought this odd, considering there was going to be
a huge rally taking place that day, but off he went home. After hearing of the breach on the
news, he subsequently returned, but he did this on his own; he hadn't been asked to return.
Makes you wonder if they didn't intentionally short-staff the Capitol Police that day in
order to ensure the outcome they got. Made it much easier for the agent provocateurs to get
through.
The leftwing, or the fraud that passes for one, thinks it is now in the money. This is a
naive expectation. The Establishment is in charge, and there will be no leftist agendas
unless they serve the Establishment. If Antifa and BLM cut up, their funding will be cut
off, and the presstitutes will be sicced on them.
I don't believe this is quite true. The attempt by establishment in the US to use
non-Whites and radical leftists for their own ends brings to mind the attempt by the
establishment of the Weimar Republic to use the Nazis in the same way. When you put
power-hungry people in charge of the levers of power, you shouldn't expect them to pull those
levers according to your instructions.
Trump was so uninformed about Washington that he never succeeded in appointing anyone to
his government, other than General Flynn (an immediate casualty of the Establishment) who
agreed with his agenda of normalizing relations with Russia, bringing the troops home from
the Middle East
I was totally opposed to the railroading of Flynn, and while it is true that he
represented a breath of fresh air on Syrian and Russian issues, unfortunately, he–like
pretty much everyone else in Washington–is an Iran-hawk. Thus, I doubt he was actually
in favor of a total ME pull-out, though it is probably true that he would have pulled us out
from Syria if he could have.
Because of his brash, entertaining style of hitting back against the entire
MSM, it seems so much easier now to spot the stringpullers and start connecting the dots. Why
does the media speak with one voice always in support of the Establishment? Why is everything
portrayed by them so falsely and one-sidededly? Who is benefitting from the trajectory being
so relentlessly pushed by them? I see Trump's legacy as having awakened a sleeping giant,
despite the many ways he betrayed the ideals of his moving inauguration speech. How will the
Establishment's coming suppression of free speech for the purpose of attempting to put this
genie back in the bottle be resisted?
Schulosi know that the 25th Amendment move could easily be foiled by Trump long enough to
run out the clock. What they really want and it is being loudly telegraphed in the media is
for Congress to go the Impeachment/removal/bar from future Federal office route as a
dubiously legal Bill of Attainder to prevent Trump from ever again ascending to the pinnacle
of power. Mr. Biden's remarks yesterday seem to suggest Mr. Trump is not going to get the
same professional courtesy that Mr. Trump showed to the Obama regime saboteurs who worked
from well before the 2016 and well into the Trump administration to bring it down.
Trump has been entertaining, much like the old train wreck shows in days of old, but now
he has to accept that his brand has been thoroughly derailed...
The mainstream media and the Harris/Biden gang won't leave Donald Trump and his family
peace until he is destroyed. Craig Roberts described in his excellent article that the script
transforms the US into a "benign" dictatorship. There won't ever be fair and democratic
elections in the so-called beacon of democracy. The Democrats, their Billionaire instigators,
and their storm troopers such as BLM and ANTIFA will transform the US into a living hell for
whites. The brainwashing of the public and the President's framing has been started with
Trump's victory over a corrupt and criminal Hillary Clinton in 2016. In retrospect, it will
look like a child's play what's in the offing for the country in the future.
What happened on Capitol Hill was people power. The phony US political class supported
people power in Georgia, Serbia, Belarus, Ukraine, Venezuela, Moldova, Iran, Hong Kong, to
name a few, not to forget the so-called color revolutions and the Arab spring that were
instigated and organized by George Soros' "Open Society," the CIA and their Western
intelligence supporters.
On every American, Gender ideology will be forced on them. If it doesn't work, reeducation
camps such as in North Korea will be welcome them.
Don't be naïve. Israel's self-proclaimed 'guardian,' Chuck Shumer, is now Senate
Majority Leader. The zio-state will do just fine. Wish I could say the same about my own
country.
I am not surprised by this. In fact, nothing that happens surprises me anymore. I expect
bad things to happen in a world like this.
Perhaps I can understand the thinking of Trump supporters such as the ones in the above
image. They believe that the electoral process has been subverted and that an election that
should have been Trump's has gone to Biden instead. They are outraged. They are rioting and
revolting in response. Unfortunately, these people are misguided.
1, Trump is a Snake and has been a HORRIBLE President. Why fight to defend him? I could
see defending him if he actually did something for America but he did nothing but Tweet. He
does not deserve another four years of the same.
2. The entire American political process is owned by Jewish interests. It was this way
long ago and it is certainly this way now. Whoever wins serves Jewish interests and the Jews
make damn well sure of it. Nobody who is hostile towards Jews stands of chance of getting in
the White House. Only Jewish puppets become President. So stop crying Trump supporters and
wake the fuck up.
3. There are reasons to Revolt against the System but this is not one of them. If you are
going to revolt, revolt for the right reason, not in defense of a lying Jewish scumbag like
Trump.
4. Trump is directly to blame for this violence. He incited his followers to do this and
then he accepts no blame for it afterwards. Very typical behavior for a lying narcissist like
Trump who wraps himself in the American Flag when he is really just a selfish Bastard who
wants to remain in the White House for his own Egotistical reasons.
5. As a former Trump supporter, all I can tell current Trump supporters is that you have
to wise up and realize that the man you are supporting is not worthy of being supported. You
have to wake up to Trump as I had to wake up. He is not who he says he is. He is a liar and
deceiver who plays on your ignorance and uses your Patriotism to get you to support him
personally. See through his con game.
6. I suspect that this rioting in Washington D.C. is not spontaneous but has been
carefully planned in advance by the Jews who use Trump Supporters the same way as they use
Antifa. Its all controlled opposition being used to sway the opinion of the American public
in a direction that the Jews will use in their favor to further divide Americans from each
other. IMO the above image was Staged meaning that these riots were planned and executed in
the same way as the George Floyd riots were. Never trust a lying scheming Jew not to be
one.
I agree with the writer of this comment and his criticism of Coulter. US subservience to
Israel began under harry Truman, who recognized Israel in 1948 with this comment: "I have
600,000 Jews and no Arabs." We have seen academia, politics, and industry all become
pro-Zionist despite Washington's comment in his Farewell Address that the US should not
became attached to any foreign nation or permanently hate any foreign nation. The hated
nation has become Russia, and the Democrats have blamed Russia for Trump. But it was
Americans who voted for Trump, and fortunately the EC went in his favor. No wonder Hillary
wants to abolish it.
After all of Trump's promises to "drain the swamp" and "make America great again" he's
managed only to usher in a post-democratic America. In typical Trump style he incited his
supporters and after promising to lead them not only abandoned them but disavowed them and
sent in the troops to quell them.
On the 20th Joe Biden will be inaugurated as president of the corpse of America.
Considering the shameful circumstances of his "victory" it will be fitting that he wears a
mask for the occasion.
@SamwiseGamgee
roy (the ones that, until recently, were independent and therefore a threat).
So, obviously from my last point, I'm not denying their destructive power. Not at all.
It's only too easy to see. I'm denying their ability to manage themselves now that there is
absolutely no obstacle to that power. No obstacle in the West, that is.
They might be partners in crime with The CCP. But it's a dependent relationship and in no
way a friendly one. No one kisses the ass of a friend. Say what you want about The CCP, it
does not, unlike the now completely defeated host populations of the West, strike one as
being all that into power-sharing.
As a final going away present Agent Orange turns on his own supporters. This fraud has no
right to complain about stolen elections or how Pence let him down. None of our problems will
be solved by voting.
You do know a guy name Milton Friedman was the architect for Reagan economics? For the
record we are currently living thru long term dystopia effects of Reagan economics.
Well I'm now depressed, and I voted for the color flag revolution. I didn't predict this
milquetoast one. The storming of the capital was kinda lame, although it did make me laugh.
Guess when you control both sides you really don't need to go hot. The deep staters must be
thrilled they could protect their left wing assets with this one by using Qtards instead.
However there are a lot of things that make you "hmm?". My favorite being the black cop and a
Maga protester doing a slow walk up some stairs with a guy above them taping everything. Odd
but hilarious. Speaking of odd, where were all the Proud Boys? Seems they went poof to live
another day.
Sadly the peculiar and unnecessary murder of Ashli Babbit seems to give Qanon life after
Trump with a martyr. Give the deep state credit they do think ahead. Guess I have cheered
myself up, apparently they aren't done with us yet. My guess is they still need us to keep
the lights on and sewer systems running. Also burly white dudes seem to be the preferred
choice for private security.
So CIA wins again. They stole the election and stuck Biden's reanimated corpse in there.
And now they'll shake him around like a Barbie and make him talk while they blow shit up.
All Trump did was tease them about killing JFK and knocking down the WTC, which everybody
already knows. And Trump wouldn't sit still for their brainwashing briefings, at first. Trump
was no Nixon, turning CIA inside out with Schlesinger at DCI. Trump had no one in congress
like Pike or even Church.
Back then CIA purged Nixon. Don Gregg threatened congress with martial law. And that was
nothing. Look what the ratfuckers at Langley were willing to do to get Trump out. They framed
Flynn to cut him off from Turmp. They took SARS-COV-2 off the shelf and used it on us,
destroyed the economy and killed us, 300 thousand of us and counting. They infected the whole
world to cover their tracks, killed 1.7 million human beings so far. CIA did everything they
could to start a war with Russia and called Trump a Russian agent, making shit up to frame
him too.
Now we see how CIA controls us. We know now that there is nothing CIA won't do to stay in
power. It's like Zappa said: when they were ready, they took away the stage set and left us
looking at a blank brick wall. It's like Rockefeller said: They Control it. All of it.
At this point, anybody who won't face this totalitarian state is not worth listening to
for a second, they're not worth a pound of warm shit. Prouty told you fifty years ago, the
whole world knows who runs this country. CIA.
So just cut the shit. Face facts. They stormed the wrong capitol. We can't escape. We need
the outside world to free us.
...Trump is a populist, not a revolutionary. And when faced with a revolution moment he
had no clue what else to do. I believe Trump supporters, the Deplorables, are the real
substantive patriots. They are sensible and want a stable America. Unfortunately their
opponents the Dems/Leftists and all other assorted groupings just want to win even if they
burn the whole of US. These people worship god of mammon and nothing else...
It seems to me the intent of the Trump supporters was merely to occupy the Capitol and
according to those who were interviewed "make their voices heard". I think those were the
words of Ashli Babbitt about an hour before she was gunned down by a black cop as well as a
few other interviews I came across.
That's neither intent to commit treason nor sedition. At most they are guilty of
trespassing on federal grounds which apparently is now a grievous federal offense if you hold
right of center political opinions. The person who killed a Capitol police officer and those
who destroyed property have some additional legal problems but that's still a far cry from
sedition.
But let's reverse all this and say that Trump was accused of stealing the election from
Joe Biden because of the suspicious and massive ballot dumps 95-100% for Trump in all
battleground states between 1am and 6:34am after election day along with other
irregularities. Then when legal remedies were sought the corrupt state and federal courts
refused to hear or allow discovery in the vast majority of them using "laches", standing and
other pretexts.
Radical left mobs would have stormed the capitol building and it would be encouraged and
supported by the media and all Democrats. Chris Cuomo or some other leftist shitlord would be
telling us that "this is what happens when Republicans steal an election." Republicans would
be so intimidated that they would probably overturn the election in favor of Joe Biden.
If a female black Biden protester was shot by a white Capitol cop then it would be "say
her name" and the white cop would be immediately fired and probably in FBI custody for a hate
crime. Blacks would destroy D.C. again while authorities did little.
@Katrinka PCR
thinks Trump is the victim of a color revolution when in fact Trump is leading a color
revolution.
The basis of a color revolution is a claim of a fraudulent election, this was the case in
Ukraine, Venezuela, and Belarus. It is Trump who claimed the election was fraudulent, and if
you follow StormFront you'll know that the Trumpers are now claiming that the entire voting
process in the US is a fraud and worthless.
In the US it is Trump and Trumpers like PCR who are now ripping apart the fabric of US
society, on the basis of endless allegations of a fraudulent election that evaporate with a
moments scrutiny.
The owners of America have decided. You plebes will do as you are told and the owners will
do what they want.
Trump's owners, the military industrial complex and the zionist lobby, have thrown him
under the bus. Bummer dude but you don't get to be "the one". It is so easy to manipulate ego
maniacs.
What deal did they cut with Biden's owners (media (all 6), med-mafia (pharma on top), tech
and CIA+lawfare (DOJ, FBI, IRS))?
1) Biden will NOT end the sanctions against Iran. He may say "we'll negotiate" but it will
drag on forever.
2) The MIC gets to keep the "civilian special forces" and most importantly control of the
NSA.
So after doing all the dirty work Trump gets thrown under the bus. LMAO. Will he be a
broken man like LBJ or Nixon or will he drift off into irrelevance like most of the rest?
transformation of the United States from a democracy accountable to the people to an
oligarchy of entrenched vested interests.
That transformation happened decades ago. The only difference is, in 2020 (both before the
elections and in November massive fraud) the beast showed its ugly mug more clearly than
before.
Seeing those geriatric demonrats on their knees with their kente cloths, paying homage to
a dead drug addict was one of the more hysterical moments of 2020.
Ducks 8 hours ago
Its a disgusting image. and my Black American peers agree.
Is-Be 9 hours ago
The word missing is "chutzpah".
bobroonie 9 hours ago
Watching scummy democrats in pro slavery garb bend the knee for a POS that OD'd is comedy
gold.
u25dtp1 8 hours ago
Is that what they were doing, I thought they were looking for Nancy's Ben and Jerrys.
Sorry, My irrationality
radical-extremist 8 hours ago
They do it because it works. Democrats love the theater. They don't mind being lied to if
it benefits them. Many of them actually believe it's not theater and that their political
heroes are being authentic and sincere....with crocodile tears, feigned outrage and other
drama techniques. I would have to give Adam Schiff an Oscar, but Chuck Schumer definitely
gets second place.
"... On the other side in Kiev was a hesitant, slothful and – it has to be said – corrupt, President, who failed to rouse and organise his supporters. Which is why they put up no resistance to the mob of neo-Nazi thugs who did for the elite in Maidan Square what their Antifa and BLM counterparts are on standby to do outside the White House. ..."
"... This didn't happen overnight, the (((social engineers))) started putting on their (((small hats))) and really gearing up the game shortly after "winning World War II" and "saving the World from fascism." ..."
"... Presidents like Reagan and Trump didn't do America any favors when all is said and done, and both were/are feckless and worthless at the end of the day ..."
The moment Donald Trump drove through the MillionMAGA march to play golf was the moment
America's fate was sealed. It was as if the Continental Army had marched to Valley Forge, only
to see Washington saddle up and head back home for the winter, giving his men a kind word and
dismissive wave as he rode away.
First the positives. Despite widespread attempts at sabotage by NGOs, law enforcement
agencies and Democrat activists, the turn-out was fantastic. In Britain and online, the
absolute silence by the right-wing flagship the Daily Mail, and the sneers and absurd lies
about numbers from the Guardian, Independent and the BBC, spoke volumes for how shocked the
liberal elite were by the endless convoys and the vast and enthusiastic crowd. And, at the end
of a great day, despite waiting until they could pick off stragglers, the paid and cowardly
thugs of Antifa frequently got the painful lesson they so richly deserve.
But we have to be realistic; the historically significant highpoint of the day was the
President's failure to join his vast army of loving, angry and motivated supporters. This was a
terrible and tragic error which will cost Donald Trump and America dear.
What should have happened? At the very least, the President should gave given up an
afternoon's golf and spent a couple of hours with his crowd, chatting and giving the lucky few
the selfies of their lives. A couple of hours returning the love and telling the faithful to be
on standby and to get organised. This isn't exactly political rocket science, it's just common
sense and decency.
You can measure the missed opportunity and the mentality of the man by asking: what would
George Washington have done? Or Teddy Roosevelt, or JFK, or even Reagan or Obama? Anyone of
them would have stood on the back of a pick-up, taken a bullhorn and given the speech of his
life, the speech that made all the difference. Donald Trump gave a few waves and went off in
his armoured limo to play golf.
Purple Revolution
It was vital to seize that opportunity. This is not a time for golf, or any other game. We
are in the middle of the moment that is set to end America as a free Republic under the rule of
law. Not just Donald Trump, but the whole of the USA faces a shattering coloured
revolution.
Soros, Hillary and the rest of the core conspirators have already even picked the hue; it's
to be named after the favourite, preachy liberal movie, The Color Purple. But the real colour
is red, the colour of the innocent blood that will flow when their rough beast sinks its fangs
into the exposed throat of the old America these people hate.
The coloured revolution road map has already been tried and tested by the Washington liberal
Deep State, most dramatically and bloodily with Victoria Nuland/Kagan taking the steering wheel
in the Ukraine. There too, nearly half of the population wanted the 'revolution' against their
democratically elected government, while the other half were strongly opposed to it. But the
'revolutionary' side were backed by the lovely Victoria with her bag of cookies. Plus George
Soros and the Deep State machine which "invested $5 billion to promote democracy in
Ukraine".
On the other side in Kiev was a hesitant, slothful and – it has to be said –
corrupt, President, who failed to rouse and organise his supporters. Which is why they put up
no resistance to the mob of neo-Nazi thugs who did for the elite in Maidan Square what their
Antifa and BLM counterparts are on standby to do outside the White House.
Only once the capital had already fallen, and once the black block death squads had murdered
scores of the defeated President's supporters in Odessa and elsewhere, did a disorganised
resistance emerge. The result was civil war and secession by the eastern core of the
anti-liberal block.
In the case of Ukraine, the anti-liberal rebels were able to hold their own, largely thanks
to the help of their Christian big brother in neighbouring Russia. Ordinary Americans driven to
attempt secession from the coming Harris tyranny would, by contrast, face not just cowardly but
highly organised Marxist militias, but a highly politicised and weaponised FBI, and a military
in which the purge of traditionalist officers initiated by Obama will go into overdrive the
minute Joe Biden is sitting in the Oval Office wondering where he is, and why the dusky tea
lady keeps giving him papers to sign.
America and her people face an existential danger. And if Donald Trump wants to avoid an
Epstein-style death in prison, he needs to do much, much more. The revolutionary time calls not
for golf, nor even giant but essentially aimless protests, but for real leadership and a
counter-revolution.
A Moment to Organise
The huge pro-Trump march should have been used to create instant grass-roots organisation.
Speaking to the crowd, President Trump should have announced that his mass communication to his
followers would from then on be not enemy-run and –censored Twitter, but Parler,
Telegram, Gab and at least one free speech Facebook alternative.
He should have had teams out there making direct contact with pick-up truck drivers,
collecting names, phone numbers, emails and social media handles. These men are the natural
officers and NCOs of a grass-roots movement. They are already self-selected not only for
loyalty but also for personal competence. They are overwhelming self-employed businessmen with
drive, respect and track records of success. Between them they own the biggest fleet of
go-anywhere, do-anything vehicles in the world.
He should have told them to choose delegates there and then, and got them to an
organisational meeting. It would have been huge and difficult to handle; making absolutely the
right contacts would have been hit and miss, but those who stepped forward would all at least
have been truly onside. If Donald Trump belatedly sees the need for a nationwide network of
Stop the Steal clubs, he now has little choice but to call for volunteers through Twitter. Even
if Jack Dorsey lets him do it, it's guaranteed that those responding would include a pack of
Fed stooges and Democrat trolls.
The President should have co-opted Stop the Tire truckers' movement by calling for a short,
symbolic total lockdown of fuel and supply chains to Democrat-run cities – to show that
whatever chaos BLM can bring, it's nothing compared to what Middle America can do if the elite
and mobs of parasites steal the last majority presidency before demographic change finishes the
job anyway. Even if the truckers' protests leaders proved reluctant to make such a political
move, some of their rank-and-file owner-drivers would certainly answer such a call – as
would thousands of pick-up drivers.
Donald Trump should have spoken to the vast crowd of the fate of America's farmers at the
hands of a climate-obsessed, meat-averse, fuel-taxing Democrat junta. The farmers have the
means and motive to make an enormous practical contribution to a conservative revolutionary
struggle. But only if they are asked and organised, and there will never be anyone with the
authority and pulling power the current President of the United States had that day and with
that crowd in Washington DC.
While creating such a sword of Damocles to hold over the heads of his opponents, Trump
should have concentrated primarily on announcing a rolling series of giant rallies, four or
five a day, criss-crossing the country, building the grass-roots machine.
Missed Opportunity
All this and more was there for the taking but, as we know, the priceless opportunity was
missed. Could the man responsible suddenly wake up, learn from his mistake and seize the moment
next time? In theory, yes, and if Donald Trump happens to read this and belatedly decide to
act, all those thousands of people – and more – would come again if he asked them
personally.
But we must be realistic. Why would he change? It was a revolutionary moment, and a
revolutionary leader would have seized it. Imagine Paul Revere, Smedley Butler, Father
Coughlin, Huey Long, or even Martin Luther King – what they would have done? But Donald
Trump is a populist, not a revolutionary. And we have to assume that he is incapable of
change.
He's not a revolutionary, he's a businessman and naïve patriot who rode- at great
personal cost – the last desperate wave of anger and worries over the elite's murder of
America. Or – just possibly – he does actually get it, but doesn't want to get
shot, although in fact that would surely beat dying in prison.
Whatever the underlying reason for his missing the great opportunity, he let it slip through
his fingers. Instead of resolute action we saw a flurry of tweets, blaming the Democrat mayor
for failing to protect his supporters from the jackal packs of leftists who came out once most
of the protesters had left.
It's the same behaviour pattern as his referencing the Proud Boys while letting the Feds
jail patriots for defending themselves. The repeated complaints about liberal social media
censorship, followed by doing nothing to stop his support base being massacred online. Or that
Wall, which was then going to have gates through which illegals could pour to undercut the
wages of his poorest and most needy voters. Bluster. Promises. Inaction. The pattern has been
set for a long, long time.
So if he now does anything at all, it is clear that Donald Trump is going to rely in the
first instance on courts. His calculation is presumably that three of the nine Supreme Court
justices are his appointees, while Clarence Thomas was viciously slandered by then-Senator Joe
Biden during his 1990 confirmation. If Chief Justice John Roberts, once upon a time an
arch-conservative, goes for Trump, that is 5-4.
It would be wonderful if The Donald manages to get a decisive set of actions into the
Supreme Court and if the arithmetic worked out like that. Then we'd just have the question of
the Purple Revolution Maidan mobs to answer.
But this, remember, is the legal system which – despite now supposedly being in the
hands of 'conservatives' – specifically opened the way for the mass mail-in ballots which
facilitated the Great Steal in the first place. They have already sold the legal pass to fraud.
And that was without the huge psychological weight which would be thrown at the judges by
gigantic and ultra-violent Antifa/BLM demonstrations if a couple of unexpected decisions in
Trump's favour began to put Biden's supposed majority in jeopardy.
In a similar vein, Trump may still believe he can win through the constitutional procedure
where each state casts one vote in a contested election outcome. After all, goes this line of
thought, 31 of the 50 states are Republican-controlled. True, but how many senior Republicans
are actually on the side of the populist President who commandeered their vehicle four years
ago? It's not just the open Never Trumpers who will stab him in the back if it comes to
this.
Others who still have faith in President Trump are pinning their hopes on recounts. I can
inform this debate with personal experience. During my time electioneering with the British
National Party, I spent years fighting leftists who were armed with swamping quantities of
mail-in ballots. One of the key reasons we horrified them by winning elections against the odds
for ten solid years was that we made the effort to master the same techniques and, as far as
possible given our very limited resources, to use them ourselves.
... ... ...
Just look at the behaviour of the US Army during Obama's utterly disgusting and truly wicked
war against secular, democratic, tolerant Syria. The generals and the intelligence services
were delighted to arm and train thousands of cut-throat Islamist scum, knowing full-well that
their precious 'moderate rebels' would use their Operation Timber Sycamore arms bonanza to
slaughter Syrian Christians with even more enthusiasm than they would murder other minorities
and pro-Assad genuinely moderate Muslims.
While the top brass went along with the revolting plan, it was ordinary Green Beret non-coms
who did what little they could to salvage a shred of moral decency for America by deliberately
sabotaging the training operations they were ordered to run in Jordan for Secretary of State
Clinton's pet Jihadis. But not even they openly disobeyed orders; they merely did as little as
possible while obeying them.
... ... ...
Nick Griffin, a graduate in History & Law from Cambridge University, is a former Member
of the European Parliament and one-time leader of the British National Party.
There is a vast difference between the USA and America. Trumps preference for Golf over
tending to those who exerted the effort to show up at his political death bed shows clearly
shows how little the office of the president cares about America, its all about the USA and
the commercial feudal lords that own the USA and this condition is basically them same nation
states of the western world. .
The American victim of private public media propaganda causes the media infected American
to believe somehow that the USA government, which is a republic owned by oligarchs, is
somehow a democracy just waiting to serve the interest of those it governs.
No part of the election is national. The states conduct the voting for the House o
Representatives, for the two senate seats, and the organizes and appoints the members of the
electoral college and then oversees the election result of the electoral college.
So Americans are given three votes to vote 3 persons to fill one each of the 527 elected
places in the government: one vote for one member of from their voting district (1 out 424
other house members) and 2 votes ( but there are 98 other Senators voters cannot vote for),
one for each of the two Senators from the home state of the voter.
Graham Greene wrote that most men's lives have a turning point; a point of no return. (He
added that they do not recognize it at the time.) I have always believed that this can be
said of institutions and countries. Many commenters on this webzine have likewise been
interested in this concept during recent years. These commenters have speculated upon when
that moment occurred for the United States. Please correct me if you disagree, but I believe
that the most common candidates for "the moment" of death were: (1) The Kennedy
assassination, and (2) The immigration act of 1965. Of course, it can be logically argued
that (2) occurred as a consequence if (1).
The non-occurring rallying speech by Mr. Trump was not the moment America died, because
America's fate was sealed a long time ago. The unraveling was already quite irreversible.
@mister wong litist
leaders especially one like the orange idiot, who openly murders a leader of a foreign
country, part of a volume of nasty, anti-popular policies of his administration.
the peoples angry mood precipitated by long term elitist exploitation/oppression, peaking
at this fake SARS-Covid moment, should simply refocus, rather redirect to a focus on the
system itself to attacking the system fully, along with the entire elite – including
Trump: With the intent and purpose of killing the system, removing the elite from the social
power, and creating in the vacuum a form form of society relevant to popular need, which in
general participatory process they carry comprehensively and unstoppably forward
I remember watching a video of you talking about how Zionists and banking interests
approached you and the BNP in order to make the movement sell out, by not talking about the
interest slavery and foreign wars. I wonder if you could one day write an article on this
encounter, it would be hugely informative to get a first hand account of how nationalist
movements are subverted and in the case they do not kowtow to Jewish power, are ultimately
destroyed.
Well, boys and girls, welcome to the club. Watching the march live streamed online was a
vivid reminder of the protests I joined in the Sixties. Same excitement, same camaraderie,
same sense of speaking out in public against grotesque injustice. And the same, virulently
hostile media coverage: the legitimacy of the grievances never acknowledged. The size of the
demonstrations always way, way underestimated. And way back when, the longest TV interviews
were always with some weirdo "lone counter-protestor" guy. And the cops, you'll find, are
more than happy to crack your head no matter what your politics are.
Funny how the obvious conclusion, that Mr. T has no respect the people he's been lying to
for four years, has eluded this partisan author. I am expecting one accomplishment from
Sleepy Joe, to do what today seems impossible, but what every American president has done
since Nixon: he'll make his predecessor look like a competent statesman by comparison.
We're not going back to any place we've been -- that much, I can see.
You're right, as is Mr Griffin. All Western societies are going through the bottleneck at
this period. Much of what we have cherished will not survive this experience. Other things
will be misshapen and barely recognisable as a result. We are going to a place we have never
been before. Traditional solutions will not, as you say, put Humpty Dumpty back together.
You're more pessimistic than I am. But time will tell. I only wish I were younger and could
take a more active role in the coming struggle.
If Trump is so adamant about draining the swamp one small jester he could perform is the
pardon of Assange and Snowden. Not much chance of that happening.
@The
Spirit of Enoch Powell e unbowed. I don't think any columnist or commenter at UR has
faced that sort of ordeal. There can be no criticism of the man's courage.
He was always of an independent cast of mind and has altered his views in the light of
events, as all historians should. So I was very pleased to read his thoughtful article here
at UR. Hopefully, there will be more.
He was always a very capable organiser, which is what he is saying White Conservatives should
do from the grass roots. He reformed, re-organised and made the BNP electorally relevant
almost single-handedly. Nick Griffin may be finished with politics, but I don't think
politics is finished with him.
You clearly know nothing about Antifa. They are thugs, but deeply cowardly. There wouldn't
have been a single one in the midst of that vast crowd during the day.
An unscheduled appearance there would have been about the safest place Trump could ever
be. And, in any case, he's what, 74, and facing years or worse in prison if he loses. How
much of a deterrent should the chance of getting shot atbe? Plus he's part Scotch-Irish so
for all his faults, I doubt he's a coward.
Meanwhile The Glorious Leader wants to attack Iran as a parting gift to his benefactors.
How that would further the cause of white emancipation is for the dear reader to figure
out.
Trump could have addressed his fan crowd from behind bulletfree glass, like for example
this guy:
And continuing his journey to his golf course while his people need him, is testimony to
his selfish and narcissistic character. Trump is a failed Messiah.
To qualify as "far-right" by current Western media, politicians and "academics", one only
needs to have circa 1990 conservative social and political views.
To be labeled as extreme or ultra far-right one only needs to have circa 1975 conservative
social and political views.
I'd place myself in about the 1985 bracket – so I guess I'd be considered very
far-right.
All utter bollox, of course, but we need to face facts and know that it's the Left that
holds the public microphone.
Thanks Nick, a fantastic article that really puts everything in place. For years, many
nationalists have been saying "we're not voting our way out of this", and it's as true as
ever.
Trump's supporters came from all over America last weekend to show their love for Trump
and their country and all they got in return was a brief wave from the limo as Trump went to
play golf. And that pretty much sums up how Trump regards the common, working class White
Americans who are his key supporters. Even with the security risk, could he not have at least
shouted a few words of encouragement from the limo? Could he not have cancelled his precious
game of golf and worked to at least show he cared?
Doesn't matter now. Trump, his wife and kids are all going to lose their wealth or end up
in prison.
Trump had a chance to save America and himself (and his family) and he blew it. Now we
have to focus on survival.
This is one of those essays that ought to be read top to bottom several times by every
responsible American. It apparently requires the perspective of an active man from an ancient
civilization to properly analyze this moment in time.
Correct about the MAGA march moment. Trump betrayed his followers many times over during
the last four years, but it could always be attributed to some sense of the politics of the
moment. The Saturday head fake was the most egregious because no temporary tactical advantage
was at stake. It was pure strategic opportunity and would have been grasped by any genuine
leader of men.
The story of the Trump presidency is clear. He saw an opening to a grand new egotistical
adventure in 2015 and, like any exploiter of feminine emotion, gripped the bit in his teeth
and galloped through. (Mixing metaphors is a good thing). He had no intention of marrying the
woman.
Your discussion of the mechanics of balloting is especially informative. Once a ballot is
counted or in the box, there is nothing to differentiate it as one that's been cast in
person, mailed, forged by an office worker or gathered by Democrat operatives. Still, I
suspect that the cheating was all done legally, as you say.
I think that the key moment in the election was when Trump gave credence to the Wuhan Flu
pandemic. He singled out Generalissimo Fauci as the man in charge of the nation and stood
with him every day as the fear-mongering bastard ripped into our work, our worship and our
human solidarity. If Trump had the balls or the brilliance he advertises, he'd have squelched
that crap at the start.
UNFORTUNATELY, this article is SPOT ON. America and Trumpstein MISSED AGAIN. Cue: Phil
Collins " I Missed Again" circa 1981.
I've been holding on and looking for the great American comeback, but I think even I felt
it wasn't going to happen. Been feeling it wasn't going to happen for a long time now.
Started way back when I saw the Rodney King riots of 1992. I watched as a feckless Pappy Bush
sat on his hands while "teens" rampaged, burned, looted, attacked and murdered at will in the
City Of Angels for days. We saw a feckless police force "stand by" and offer little if any
meaningful opposition to the thugs. Whites being attacked for wearing the wrong skin color. A
year later, Waco, then the following year, OJ walks and a crowd of Blacks gathered outside
the court house cheer as the double murderer walks free of all charges. The Mexican invasion
in my neck of the woods, Florida at the time, started becoming more obvious by the day about
the time Dubya stole the election from Gore. Not a Gore fan at all, but this was another
OBVIOUS stolen election, and believe me, I think there have been more than a couple IF we
knew the truth. It seems that the Mexicans ( as well as Haitians) really started a run for
the border as soon as old Dubya got in, I mean Florida wasn't Montana, had plenty of
(((diversity))) but other than the seasonal fruit pickers, it wasn't known for Mexicans.
This didn't happen overnight, the (((social engineers))) started putting on their (((small
hats))) and really gearing up the game shortly after "winning World War II" and "saving the
World from fascism."
I really noticed how they kicked it up a notch or two in the Nineties
and how they have went ALL OUT in the last decade. Could've, should've, would've, existed
back in the 1980s really and America or better yet, TRADITIONAL AMERICA was too busy being
coked up yuppies and worshiping an ex-(((Hollywood ACTOR))) named Ronald Reagan, who
basically followed the (((same program))) as others before him while being everyone's
favorite grandpa.
Presidents like Reagan and Trump didn't do America any favors when all is
said and done, and both were/are feckless and worthless at the end of the day. Hey, what did
you expect, (((an ex-actor))), and a (((New York businessman, television star.))) "Come on,
man."
The slogans against open immigration to the US remind of the premature attempts at
abolishing serfdom in Russia. At the end of the 18th century, a German-born Russian empress
convened an all-Russia assembly re serfdom to learn that all societal layers preferred to
have serfs. In the US, all businesses want to have super-cheap labor.
Massive crowds of people converged at Freedom Plaza in Washington on Saturday, joining other
rallies around the country to show support for President Donald Trump and ask for fairness in
the election process.
As The Epoch Times' Allen Zhong reports , the participants marched to the U.S. Supreme
Court holding signs that read "Stop the Steal," "Make America Fair Again," and "Trump 2020."
Before the start of the march, the crowd heard speeches from prominent Trump supporters
including Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) and My Pillow founder Mike Lindell. Several other
prominent figures including Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) and former Trump advisor Sebastian Gorka
were also on the speaking list.
Participants chanted slogans calling to "stop the steal," which is also the name of the
grassroots movement organizing the event in part. Organizer Ali Alexander told The Epoch Times
in a previous interview that the events are a grassroots effort by a coalition of about a
hundred activists and influencers to show "support for President Trump and fair elections and
transparent counting."
Similar events, although smaller in scale, were organized in around 50 other states on the
same day.
Everything was very peaceful (not just mostly peaceful) until the crowds started to disperse
and groups of BLM and Antifa activists began to appear, agitating attendees, and eventually
turning to violence... even against children.
The most disturbing piece of footage depicts a family being attacked by Antifa. A mother is
seen attempting to flee the area with her small daughter. He daughter is eventually thrown to
the ground in the middle of a fight.
So - when will the media admit that the boarding up of stores/businesses/homes ahead of the
election was not out of fear of a Biden victory, but a Trump win and the inevitable
mostly-non-peaceful attacks and looting that would inevitably follow.
Norma had been vocal about her support for President Donald Trump before the election, and
sees no reason to stop now. "I'm supporting Trump right up until the very end," Scott said in
her Trump shirt and buttons, carrying a flag.
ay_arrow 2 Macho Latte , 12 hours ago
Some footage shows people crying in fear as they are pursued by the militants.
Pathetic
FingerInTheDarkness , 12 hours ago
Was it only women that went?
Leakanthrophy , 9 hours ago
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
It is about time for good folks to start getting their hands dirty.
The problem with "good folks" is that they always count on others to fix things for them.
For 4y they counted on Trump to move his magic wand and fix things for them. Now they feel
the burn. There's no Dirty Harry, there's no John Rambo, there's no John McLane, there's no
Walt Kowalski coming to cover your ***.
Don't let anyone mess with you, you mess with them!
PS Learn from a teenager: Kyle Rittenhouse. The kid had more balls than all that million
MAGA circus parade.
Leroy Whitby , 2 hours ago
OK, macho guy. You want women to man up and not cry? Not everyone is a warrior. Those who
are though better see this and know that this is the moment. If they steal this election
there is no other. If we win, don't forget and go back to sleep.
ImGumbydmmt , 11 hours ago
Anyone notice the guy with the Gadson Flag,
Came along side the mom with the stroller to defend her, and was assaulted by BLM thugs
for doing so, and he was knocked down and into the little girl, as soon as this happens the
cop jumps his *** and drags him off the fence line, few seconds later you can see he is back
to fence about to be arrested and like:
"WHAT? Why did you jump me when they are the agresser?".
Expect nothing better from the police ANYWHERE in the USA when the time comes.
If I'm ever doing to be arrested for a felony, My only hope they have to trip and stumble
over a $hit ton scattered of brass and empty mags all around me when they come.
At which point, they'll still to deal with my E-tool.
Being nice hasn't gotten us anywhere so now it's time to put the smack down! And if this
is what they want, then that's what they're going to get but their handlers Arent gonna be
able to control what they're going to unleash!
they've gotten soft and overconfidence and that will be their undoing
nmewn , 11 hours ago
Yeah.
Nothing says "Black Lives Matter" like...BLM & Antifa thugs assaulting an interracial
couple pushing their babies in a stroller while their preteen children cry in fear.
Well done commies, you're giving this new young generation something to despise you for
even more than I do.
JRobby , 9 hours ago
They are essentially total cowards. They never go after anyone or a group that WILL fight
back, ever.
It's always single younger or older people, women and now that they know they are losing,
even children.
nmewn , 8 hours ago
@JRobby, this is true.
In my previous fights with these communist thugs their modus operandi is to pick out one
or two victims, then harass them...only for the purpose of...getting them to fixate on the
harassers to the front of them...while...others sneak up from behind with a sucker punch or a
weapon.
They DO NOT FIGHT mano a mano (with or without weapons) because they always lose that
way.
A word to the wise, if they are confronting you, ALWAYS look behind you, because at least
one is coming from there ;-)
eftian , 11 hours ago
The military is on our side dip****.
Quia Possum , 10 hours ago
The Obama-installed generals and admirals sure aren't. The enlisted? They have large
contingents of gang members and foreigners seeking citizenship, neither of whom are on our
side. And I seriously doubt many of the other enlisted, even ones who in their hearts are "on
our side", are going to risk refusing to follow orders from said Obama generals.
This sounds awfully like the quasi-religious belief that the police are "on our side",
which didn't last long beyond the video of cops standing back and watching as antifa and BLM
burned, looted, and beat up and even murdered conservatives. The police and military are on
the side of getting paid, nothing else.
Okienomics , 9 hours ago
Millions of veterans say otherwise, starting with this one.
Quia Possum , 8 hours ago
Veterans aren't the military.
Pretty sure the left is unfrightened of a bunch of middle aged guys running around with
rifles and no logistics, no secure comms, no air cover, no artillery, and no leadership.
Izzy Dunne , 3 hours ago
Exactly.
The cops and military are the enforcers for the 1%.
Their job is to protect the Elite.
HelluvaEngineer , 13 hours ago
The people at the top win regardless. Civil wars rarely result in more freedom.
Doomster , 13 hours ago
The last one sure didn't!
HelluvaEngineer , 13 hours ago
In the US you mean, I assume. I've seen some great analyses of that and other "civil
wars". Without foreign support, it's nearly impossible to win. Which country in the world
might support a free USA movement? All but a few are on the same team, the globalist team.
They have unlimited money and quite a bit of manufacturing capacity.
Thurston Howell IV , 13 hours ago
BLM = making the least racist white people hate blacks since 2015.
TBT or not TBT , 11 hours ago
Both organisations are explicitly racist, but in the lefty Orwellian way we live now, are
considered paragons of anti racism. Similarly Antifa, a classic fascist brown shirt
organization, is considered anti-fascist. The left destroys the meaning of words for a
reason, a tyrannical one.
Quia Possum , 10 hours ago
Every black person I know hates Antifa. They see them as a bunch of white kids who
hijacked black people's protests against discriminatory policing. And they absolutely do not
want the police defunded, just cleaned up and subject to real accountability. They also hate
the police unions of course.
TBT or not TBT , 11 hours ago
They enjoy the anonymity of masks. But when you get booked in Project Mayhem, you have a
name. They're making those lists now. Might be a moment to list some names of theirs. These
Bassholes always keep coming back.
Death2Fiat , 13 hours ago
The march was peaceful, completely and totally representative of how a political movement
should be.
Of course the thugs come out once the crows disperse. They are mentally deranged
cowards.
wolf pup , 11 hours ago
They're also the most dull-witted, brain-dead ignoramuses. Low or no IQ. Abysmal idiocy.
Thick. Just so damned thick. The Stupid just oozes off of them.
J S Bach , 13 hours ago
For those of you unfamiliar with the tumultuous history of Weimar Germany, the Communists
and National Socialists had epic violent battles which the latter won handily once the
rightfully enraged German citizenry and Freicorps veterans unified to defend their nation's
culture and very existence. Let us hope that enough semi-educated and instinctively patriotic
Americans have the same fortitude to defend the vestiges of their once mighty Republic.
Orphan , 13 hours ago
People took an economic hint in Weimar Republic. Along comes antifa to fight the fascists
by looting and burning businesses. Angry citizen implore Hitler to help. He does. The people
are happy and help Hitler gain power. It's backfiring again. Antifa hates free speech. They
are as fascist as Hitler.
HelluvaEngineer , 12 hours ago
See my note above. Without foreign support and an unlimited money supply, it's not
possible.
My advice is to look for an Achilles heel. Take down the entire system. Very few have the
aptitude to rebuild society.
J S Bach , 12 hours ago
The National Socialists did it without any "foreign support and unlimited money supply".
They triumphed because they had right on their side and nothing to lose. We, too, have right
on our side and will very soon have nothing to lose as well.
Quia Possum , 10 hours ago
Farg off, Nazi. Fascism and socialism are the same thing, differing only in rhetoric and
choice of scapegoats they use to destroy liberty and individualism.
I don't throw that "N" word around loosely, but you are explicitly defending that
historical movement, so farg off I say again. (censors don't want me to use the f word that
was intended)
Jim in MN , 13 hours ago
DNC stole black men's votes by the hundreds of thousands in Detroit, Philly and
elsewhere.
DNC imposes savage lockdowns that have caused over 10,000 mostly black folks to be killed
or maimed in shootings.
DNC/BLM/Antifa only believe in ONE thing: Power at any cost.
HopeToLearn , 10 hours ago
Thank you Zero Hedge for calling it what it is...
Trump supporters Attacked!
these were NOT CLASHES... Trump supporters were beaten and assaulted in unprovoked attacks
for exercising their constitutional rights...
SHAME ON DC ESPECIALLY MAYOR MARIEL BOWSER! She is a sickening human being..
sleeping on a volcano , 11 hours ago
We're trying to let the system work, most people are just now waking up, unfortunately.
Most people have been clueless to how corrupt and perverted our government has become. We
know that once the hell of our wrath is unleashed there is no putting it back in the bottle,
everything will change permanently, we will have to do things that will change us and our
nation forever, we will have to live with the carnage we inflict. The time is rapidly
approaching that we will have to do our duty, we implore our enemies to back off so we don't
have to destroy you.
JackOliver4 , 13 hours ago
SOROS and his BLM army are frankly, TERRORISTS !!
youshallnotkill , 10 hours ago
Violence was anticipated, shops were bordered up. The DC police expected clashes.
All of this was public knowledge. Yet, folks like you would subject your children to
this.
Sincerely hope you are not a parent.
youshallnotkill , 10 hours ago
What am I making up? Direct quote from DC police chief
Newsham said he's concerned about the potential for clashes between the rallygoers and
counterprotesters
So which of the following leftist talking points is true?
BLM protesters are peaceful.
Bringing your kid to a Trump rally is endangerment because BLM will attack them.
Can't be both. I mean, it can be both in your f-ed up leftist doublethink mind, but in the
real world it can't be both.
Quia Possum , 8 hours ago
Bringing kids to a Trump rally is child endangerment.
However, sending your kids on foot from Guatemala through Mexico to the US border is an
act of love.
iamresurrected , 12 hours ago
If you watch the videos you will notice not one jogger attacks from anywhere but from
behind. It's their way. Numbers or blind cheap shots. Fvcking eggplants!
Kudos to the old guy in the black and orange jacket. A real man!
KnightOfSwords , 10 hours ago
And they hunt in packs, similar to Chimpanzees
overmedicatedundersexed , 10 hours ago
just got back from DC rally..Peaceful at the Supreme court with Antifa controlled by
Capital Police..once I moved out of area
lost my trump gear and wore black coat and hat..nobody looked twice at me..the thugs were
waiting to pick off single folks
some good folks just walked into them..it seems..the rally was great with the best people
you will ever meet.
RedNeckMother , 10 hours ago
Why weren't people helping those who were attacked?
dirty dolphin , 10 hours ago
It appears they were separated from the pack and surrounded and outnumbered.
ADB , 10 hours ago
Tford: "Proud boys hid and did nothing."
Actually, scumbag, they're steamrolling Antifa right now. Antifa are running away and
hiding behind police lines.
Afternoon: Antifa attack women, children and the elderly.
Evening: Antifa get BTFO when Patriot men respond.
Don't bother replying, vermin. You're on ignore.
el_buffer , 13 hours ago
I'm in Portland and everything is STILL boarded up because of BLM and Antifa violence and
rioting.
Haven't seen one MAGA hat event devolve into what the Biden-bloc is responsible for night
after night.
Fiscal Reality , 10 hours ago
BLM/Antifa use wolf-pack/hyena tactics. Look for the weak one(s) separated from the herd
and attack en masse. They surround, some losers kick and punch from behind while a wildebeest
screams into a megaphone.
BLM/Antifa attackers (if arrested) get an immediate no-bail release and charges
dropped.
Law97 , 3 hours ago
Wash Po, NYT, CNN reporting the violence was instigated by Trump supporters. Blatant lies
... being gobbled up by the lefties. The Wash Po story on the unrest has 18K comments almost
universally agreeing with the story that the Trump people are at fault. Total cognitive
dissonance.
bohunkus1 , 12 hours ago
How do you like the Biden Brownshirts?! This how the Biden/Harris administration are going
to deal with people that do not agree with them and they will not prosecute any of the BLM or
Antifa!
boca jon , 1 hour ago
I am ready to completely pummel and destroy these excrements who hide in human bodies.
Democrats were at one time the party of the people
King of Ruperts Land , 3 hours ago
The actual march was the most censored on the internet thing I have ever hardly seen. On
you tube I had to watch a German channel and RUPTLY.
Aristotle'sDisciple , 10 hours ago
I WANT TO APOLOGIZE TO ZH READERS : I have been posting anti Trump comments these last two
days, but watching these videos make my blood boil.
These antifa are the scum of the earth.... attacking kids, families... that's... wow.. no
word
They deserve to be hunted like the feral dogs they are and be put down.
Absolute disgrace to attack innocent people on streets, especially kids.
Jury_rggd , 13 hours ago
Paid agitators leading the braindead social justice "warriors" to their own
destruction.
MerLynn , 13 hours ago
same **** different country
dognuts , 13 hours ago
So, a fat white BLM woman attacks a black pro Trump woman and her daughter. A sign of
things to come.
walküre , 2 hours ago
The good news:
More Americans went out yesterday across the nation, to support President Re-Elect Donald
J Trump than all the Biden/Harris supporters combined during their entire campaign of several
months.
DESPITE a global media effort proclaiming Biden/Harris and pretending the election was
legitimate. DESPITE the Bolshevik propaganda to discredit any allegations of fraud and
denying any evidence. Typical modus operandi for Bolsheviks. There's reality and history and
then there's Bolshevik propaganda.
DESPITE a Democrat party that setup the imaginary "president elect Joe Biden HQ" and all
the phoney talk about a "transition team"
PATRIOTS are not being deceived by globalist media proclaiming and distorting 24/7 on
every MSM channel.
Encouraging movement yesterday and there's a lot more where this came from.
BLM/Antifa aka the "brown shirts" of the Bolshevik revolution will do the only thing they
know. Deceive, intimidate and destruct or destroy.
NOTHING THE BOLSHEVIKS CAN DO WILL EVER EXTINGUISH THE ETERNAL FLAME OF FREEDOM IN THIS
COUNTRY!
captain noob , 2 hours ago
Using the word Bolsheviks to describe these entitled retards just shows a lack of
education
walküre , 1 hour ago
striking similarities between today and the beginnings of Bolshevism in Russia
the shoe fits
walküre , 2 hours ago
Lots of cameras at the scene.
78 million supposedly voted for this ****? Riiiiight
Calling it BLM Plaza was a mistake. All those woke and virtual signalling ordinary folk
who wear any BLM insignia or take that stupid knee, have no idea what Bolshevism means.
Bolshevism knows no mercy. They've had to be taken down before because dialogue and
diplomacy are impossible.
walküre , 2 hours ago
on the surface it would appear that way
add Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht to the mix
all the figureheads came from privilege and had intellectual family roots
whatever their intentions were, what role did their heritage play in this?
it contradicted their own family's (or tribe's) financial and capitalist influences
their intellectual ambitions caused a class-war and the downfall for millions of their own
family's heritage
almost seems to be a long lasting family feud at everyone's expense
ultramaroon , 2 hours ago
"BLM Plaza", my rosy red ***. BLM is a Communist Corporation.
It should be safe to bring children to an America political event. Then again, 1/6th of
Iraq's children should not have been slaughtered by perverted cultists operating from D.C.
for that nation's oil and Sumerian artifacts, although America's Secretary of State at the
time (interviewed on ABC by Diane Sawyer) said "it was worth it". You will not find that
infamous statement any longer on YouTube, btw. Her words have been replaced by gibberish.
They're always thinking of you.
Shut. It. Down. , 10 hours ago
Fights Breakout at Trump Rally Between Violent White Supremacists and Peaceful BLM
Protesters
~ MSM
ScratInTheHat , 13 hours ago
I went to DC with the TEA Party protests. There is zero chance I would go there now. I
won't go anywhere around these clowns unarmed and you can't carry anything in DC. The F-N
COPs are doing nothing to stop these rioters from attacking people.
Jim in MN , 11 hours ago
The 'educated liberal set' has now become completely useless to either side.
No one cares what they think about anything, ever again.
SurfingUSA , 11 hours ago
IYI
Intellectual Yet Idiot
Jim in MN , 11 hours ago
Remember: NO more explaining to them.
Just shut them down and shut them out.
No more 'confusion' allowed.
And Facebook is for cat pictures ONLY.
the question , 13 hours ago
Calling people cowards, over and over, from the safety of your keyboard. Highly ironic
captain noob , 2 hours ago
People who have contributed something to society don't behave like this
These are political pawns, unemployables
walküre , 2 hours ago
The universities have spent years in forming this class of privileged BLM/Antifa followers
and protesters.
They're pawns of course but they are being employed across many layers of the educational
systems, the media and political landscape of course.
Bolsheviks occupying positions at polling stations. That's how it's done quasi in broad
daylight without anyone noticing. If it weren't so obvious, they would have gotten away with
it.
At the bottom of the Bolshevist pit are the brutal vermin. They're easy to recruit with
the promise of a day in the sun or a free phone.
Capt.Ahab , 5 hours ago
What a bunch of opportunist cowards. These groups need to be put down. No matter your
beliefs you have the right to gather and peacefully protest. Those who waited to attack those
on their way home are the scum of the earth. I lean left on government sponsored universal
health care and college/trade school tuition for those who test high enough to get into
programs, as well as women's choice, breaking up monopolies and tax policies like we had in
the 50s and 60s. After that everything else is up to the individual. In other words, earn
your way, but havesafetynets in place. There are laws on the books against all
discrimination. I don't care about your sexuality, religion, race, etc. Stop playing the
victim role and get to work. If someone tries to violate your rights, use the system to fight
back. If republicans would support those initiatives, they would have have my vote and the
majority across the country.
Helg Saracen , 5 hours ago
Those who waited to attack those on their way home are the scum of the earth.
!!!
ADB , 6 hours ago
So a million Trump supporters turn up in the enemy heartland, despite the social media
censorship. Antifa are reduced to trying to pick off isolated women, children and
grand-parents after the rally is over and people disperse. Then in the evening the Proud Boys
and others run BLM/Antifa out of "BLM Plaza", because once they're up against fighting-age
men, BLM have to run and hide behind the cops they want to defund. BLM/Antifa revealed to be
utter pu$$ies in a fair fight!
"Insurmountable election results??" Really? A few thousand votes separates Trump from
outright sweeping all the battleground states whose vote totals are very sketchy and this
is 'insurmountable?'
This is what I mean by the pressure campaign having gone plaid. There is no responsible
journalism left within the major media outlets.
Only those who were forced out on principle or corruption have the ability to speak
their mind now.
[...]
"Insurmountable election results??" Really? A few thousand votes separates Trump from
outright sweeping all the battleground states whose vote totals are very sketchy and this
is 'insurmountable?'
This is what I mean by the pressure campaign having gone plaid. There is no responsible
journalism left within the major media outlets.
Only those who were forced out on principle or corruption have the ability to speak
their mind now.
[...]
Never in a million years would I look to Megyn Kelly for the voice of rationality. But
it looks like being excommunicated from the inner circle does wonders for one's ability to
tell the truth.
The division today was cynically stoked and nurtured for this current operation to
effect this exact result. The bigger point Megyn doesn't articulate is that this division
is exactly the kind of 'secondary goal' desired if Trump prevails in the courts or through
the Electoral College.
Regardless of the outcome that division cuts deep enough to ensure an America
permanently weakened, ripe for a complete remaking into a hellish place. There is a
full-court press on right now across the world to attack sovereignty of important states
whose populations are dissident to The Davos Crowd's Great Reset -- notably the U.K., the
U.S., Poland and Russia.
[...]
The media will never concede they were wrong, will never report on anything fairly. They
are in on the grift. Looking for them to admit anything is a waste of energy and time.
Simply turn them off and become #Ungovernable.
This is a psychological war now, designed to rob you of your reason and sap your
willingness to fight by creating an overwhelming picture of Trump as the bad guy,
Quixotically clinging to power we're being told he's already lost.
But Megyn Kelly is right in telling people that there will be no reconciliation without
acceptance. And since, at its core, leftism is a religion without the ability to forgive,
since it is vehemently anti-Christian, there will be no acceptance back into the fold,
including for her.
It will be marginalization, retribution and continued vitriol of all Trump supporters
and anyone not down with being reset into the grand vision of the New Soviet Green Man.
They haven't even secured the presidency yet and BLM/Antifa are already turning on white
Biden supporters who are urging peace.
[...]
Nothing shields you from the mob once the mob gets going. I hope this person's
conscience is clean that he did his part to stop Orange Man Bad because once this is over,
that's all he'll have left.
Klaus Schwab told you this. You'll Own Nothing and be Happy.
Or else.
The choice was struggle sessions or Trump rallies. I told you months ago you would be
faced with the Hobson's Choice of accepting their dystopic future or having your house
burned down.
Millions chose poorly last week and they will have massive buyer's remorse as the plans
are rolled out and they are sacrificed.
Don't believe me? Ask Ukrainians if they are better off six years after their color
revolution or not? That one was successful.
When the Maidan revolutionaries drove away Ukrainian President Yanukovych, they tried to
force the East of Ukraine to recognize Poroshenko as the new president. The East firmly
answered them that they did not know Poroshenko and did not want to know. Then the new
President Poroshenko threw the army, the national guard and even aviation to the East. And
the revolutionaries from the Maidan began to create volunteer and nationalist battalions and
moved forward to pacify the disobedient.
In response, the inhabitants of the East, ordinary taxi drivers, miners and teachers took
away weapons from the police and some of the military. Then they took away part of the tanks,
guns and even multiple launch rocket systems from the Ukrainian army. All of 2014 and 2015
there were fierce battles. The defenders of the East surrounded and beat the Ukrainian army 8
times, Poroshenko crawled to Minsk 2 times asking for mercy and an armistice.
I wonder if there is a civil society in the US and if they can resist the usurpers? Or are
they divided and atomized and no one cares at all?
The Russian inhabitants of the East of Ukraine are hard as stone and strong as metal, they
cannot be intimidated.
I'm wondering what the descendants of cowboys and settlers are made of, traditional real
Americans? I hope not from snot and ****.
Video of real battles in 2014, the scene of the East of Ukraine.
I don't need to see the videos. I was IN Lugansk at the time (April 2014) and my Ukrainian
girlfriend was an active member of the Party of the Regions. They were PISSED OFF as hell
about the government overthrow that had occurred in Kiev and they knew it was US sponsored
with directions coming over social media directly from the US Embassy. They also staged
protests in Lugansk against the Poroshenko regime being forced on them, and the protests were
similar to those staged in Kiev because they thought that was best to get the attention of
the world. They built tire barricades and set some on fire. They took over government
buildings. They stopped traffic carrying large sticks. My girlfriend had many friends who
were participating. We brought them tea and bread. (She gave them the stuff. As an American I
just accompanied her and kept my mouth shut.)
I had to leave to catch a plane out before the military actually attacked but I saw the
attack helicopters coming in and the troops. They boarded my bus and checked our IDs.
And I want it pointed out that John Brennan, notorious US CIA Director was making a very
unsecret "secret visit" to Kiev at the time and is widely believed to have been behind the
decision the Ukraine government took to have troops move against the "mostly peaceful"
protesters.
Black, BLM member beats crap out of liberal white woman at pro-Biden rally. Eating their
own. Protesters try to stop police from arresting because ... he is black.
JOHN: "Human nature does not change" ( 10:00 ) is not a conservative
insight. It is a 'religious' insight, which conservatism recognises. But no 'religion'
analyses human nature, and recognises it for what it is, better than the teachings of a young
Galilean around two thousand years ago. Unfortunately his teachings on our 'human-ness' were
important for the first two hundred years after his death and resurrection; but have, since,
been absorbed, and subsumed, into the image of the 'Christos', in order that the 'leaders' of
the Church might achieve POWER. We see these pathetic 'career-clergy' men and women clinging
to their 'clerical power' to this very day: but covid has found their empty gospel
wanting.
Very good interview and excellent questions. Dan is very intelligent and has a common
sense, down to earth, moral attitude to life and as a congressman. Do not agree with all of
his judgements politically but respect his thorough investigation and research into the
matter. Really respect his mature attitude and personal comport. Do not agree with his
disdain for the Pres even when agreeing with the Pres actions. There is a personal problem
due to an encounter or some other personal conflict on a deeper level. Credit due to
separating it from the office he holds.
"SYSTEMIC RACISM" EXISTS! 11:58 It's called "Affirmative
Action" -- allowing the skin color of an applicant to weigh in on whether or not to accept
the applicant.
As far as BLM and CHAD and racism is concerned look at South Africa today and what's
happened in South Africa since Mandela and the AMC took power in South Africa after
Apartheid!
It took to nearly the end of the interview to state what is truly missing from public
discourse, and that is the understanding that a person's moral compass, a party's moral
compass, a nation's moral compass, depends upon something higher than themselves, for some it
is God, for others it is themselves, in the form of the State. Therein lies the conflict -
between absolute truth and relative truth, between eternal morals and situation ethics,
between thankfulness and entitlement, between forgiveness and condemnation, between love of
country and betrayal. And right now that conflict in the USA is reflected on the political
battlefield between Republicans and Democrats.
The one thing you never hear from the left today, is the idea of personal responsibility
for your own actions and behaviors, which is the cornerstone of freedom. I recently saw a
video of a drug store, where two men came into the store and shoplifted from the store, the
store manager called the Police. The Police had the shoplifters give back what they'd stolen
and were not arrested for their actions. Afterwords a woman got out her phone to record and
began to badger the store manager for his actions. She said to him that he was endangering
the lives of black men because they could have died at the hands of the Police that day.
Never once did she acknowledge that they shouldn't have shop lifted and it was their actions
that should be in question, not the store manager. She got downright nasty with the manager
and later people protested in front of the drug store for the injustice of calling the Police
on shoplifters. Think about that for a second, we've swung completely upside down as a
society with this type of thinking. Recently a Policeman shot and killed a crazed man as he
came charging out a front door wielding a knife over his head running at the officer to kill
him with the knife, the officer ran away but eventually had no choice but to turn and shoot
this man, and people came out in large numbers and protested the officers actions. I guess he
was supposed to sacrifice his life to the black lives matter movement. So in the vocal black
community there is absolutely no need for personal responsibility anymore, no matter what
someone does it's always everyone else's fault, or our racist societies fault, but never
their own due to their own behavior. Now that's some scary shit.
13 minutes "Systemic Racism" Let me start by saying I'm self educated, my observations my
own, I follow no one, and I have no followers :) People are misunderstanding the reasons for
their economic problems (meaning poverty), and inability to ever improve conditions, and
describing it as Systemic Racism. Truth is we all have limited horizons. Parochial, whether
by geography or class, or both. Where I live I see a mix of all race/ethnic- mostly caucasian
(white) Americans, impoverished , homeless, miserable, who tried and failed so much they have
given up. Black people see the same thing but it's mostly black people where they chose to
live. Same with Asians, South Americans, Somalians (Ilhan Omar :( and so forth. Whats stuck
everyone in the mud is called NAIRU (natural anti inflation rate of unemployment), a rule
adopted by all the central banks around the world including the USA and Australia in the last
half of the 1970"s. Search & find dozens of varying descriptions of what NAIRU is about.
That was when or first homeless appeared (generally "overpaid" union American farm workers at
first) It means permanent high unemployment, adjusted by the central banks, leaving workers
in surplus, in order to keep wages flat or slightly declining. In the USA add to that mass
runaway immigration of low skilled workers accustomed to minimal wage. Think of it as a game
of musical chairs. The number of chairs (jobs) is slowly increasing, but the number of people
looking for chairs increases faster. Thus our large and seemingly permanent population living
in alleys and street sidewalks, never able to find employment, and given in to despair. Trump
has turned off NAIRU at our central bank, and greatly slowed the excessive and illegal
immigration, and until the Pandemic shutdowns, turning everything around. A tighter labor
market had employers rehabilitating older homeless workers and employing them, plus raising
wages to attract workers
16:48 Fascism- characterized by
dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition and strong regimentation of society and
of the economy. Anarchism - is a political philosophy and movement which is skeptical of
authority and rejects all involuntary, coercive forms of hierarchy. Communism - a
socioeconomic order structured upon the ideas of common ownership of the means of production
and the absence of social classes, money and the state. It looks like the congressman is
putting negative words together without understanding they are opposites of each other. He's
become a politician.
Yes! FINALLY someone is contradicting the false claim of "both sides are doing it" with
censorship and cancel culture. Now, if only people would talk specifically about how CRT
fuels the insanity, we would have a chance to pull our country out of this spiral of
destruction. A sane person in Portland needs a little help here!
For 40 years I paid a large chunk of my Paycheck into Social Security. How can Dan call
this an Entitlement. I guess the paycheck that I worked for is an Entitlement too. When did
the labor that I provide become an entitlement. Entitlements are when something of value is
given to those that did nothing to earn it, like welfare checks.
Interesting analysis! Systemic racism is everywhere,🙄 is in the institutions?,
**but it's in you 😳and you don't know it?** So you have to change the institutions
and make the UNEQUAL👹? in order to create
equality🥴😂🤣😂😆😂😂 Isn't Radical Left =
Socialism?
The defunding of the police is to set the way for a national police as proposed by
President Obama in 2009 governed by DC. In its place temporarily, the strong arm of this
movement are Antifa and BLM. I equate these groups to the Brown Shirts of the Nazi party in
the 1930s. Once the German police were pacified and converted to the ideals of the party an
SS was created along with a Ghestappo which made the Brown Shirts an irrelevant and dangerous
group. It was destroyed in The Night of the Long Knives. Now you truly have the recipe for
central control and the tendency towards repression of those that will not conform.
Crenshaw spoke disingenuously about "the debt crisis, " blaming it on seniors. Surely he
realizes we have a fiat money system -- the bankers and other mega-corporate interests seized
TRILLIONS recently in two massive "Covid" heists." Bankers got trillions in October in a REPO
rescue, which was barely reported. Add their 2008 bailout, costing $21 trillion. And don't
forget defense industry payouts PLUS an even larger stealth siphoning revealed in the
delinquent Pentagon audit -- it exposed more TRILLIONS missing! And #Unappropriated by
Congress ! Their excuse: oops, "clerical" Why doesn't Rep Crenshaw complain about trillions
disappeared by the military? Or going to rich bankers? Yeah. Blame it on Boomers living on
Social Security... and who had FICA taxes removed from their paychecks for decades.
Social security is not an entitlement but money that the working class had taken out of
their paychecks for the time they worked for me 35 plus years but maybe your too young to
know about that...do your home work
The globalist technological revolution that we are in the midst of has pulled the economic
and cultural rug out from under the vast majority of citizens of western capitalist
democracies. Many people feel as though they no longer have anything of value to provide
others in a society based on the free and voluntary exchange of goods and services, or if
they do, that someone in China will provide it for far less. This reality has set the stage
for the attractiveness of Marxist ideology. We have made the average person in the West
obsolete or superfluous.
If we start with perception management, we can propose something patently absurd: the
Artificial Creamer Party.
Recognize any familiar tactics in the following campaign strategy?
1) We shall insist on the separation of milk and state, and bar any organization affiliated
with milk from being eligible for public subsidies.
2) The rights of dairy farmers to marry, adopt children, and openly serve in the military
shall be considered morally objectionable and debated at every opportunity.
3) In the event of an election, the multiple evils of milk shall be used to distract the
public from questioning the candidates on anything.
4) Think tanks, foundations, and the political correctness police shall enforce the world's
perception of Artificial Creamer as a "bridge to the future," "the salvation of the global
village," "the right of the human family," "the key to sustainable development," and "the path
to lasting peace."
5) Artificial Creamer will win a Nobel Prize, in light of everything it might do to fill the
world with sparkle ponies.
See? Something for everyone. But that's just perception management. Here's the net
effect.
The only ones to benefit will be the 0. 13% who are lactose intolerant and the 7% who make
megabucks. It won't create U. S. jobs because it will be made in Botswana at the emancipating
wage of twenty- three cents a day so 40% of Americans can afford to buy it at Walmart. For the
50% who are destitute, the FDA will declare Artificial Creamer a food group so it can be
purchased with WIC and Food Stamps, lest there be a riot against unfairness or Artificial
Creamer should fail to cash in on its share of national social programs.
Aren't we ingenious? We might demand that great- grandpa bag groceries on an oxygen tank,
thirty years into retirement, to afford his hypertension medicine, and reduce his Social
Security if someone gives him a five dollar tip that puts him over the income limit.
But, by God, he can have Creamer -- in any flavor he wants it. This is a land of choice and
opportunity, damn it.
Which is all fine and good, but when Artificial Creamer doesn't prove to be everything it
said it was, we'll go back to milk (again). And milk will get carried away in an orgy of self-
indulgence until we return to Artificial Creamer (once more). Either way, we'll have the
satisfaction and euphoria of empowerment.
Or something, anyway.
If you're confused about U. S. principles and who's supposed to benefit, you may not be to
blame. We've responded to boom and bust cycles inherent to our development choices and other
countries' criticisms with different programs and palliatives over decades of continuity.
But it doesn't take a genius to see that the tyranny of science is fighting to replace the
tyranny of royalty- teamed- with- religion we rejected in the eighteenth century. Science is
the power that buttresses democracy and capitalism, also in the name of "progress." Not that we
won't play the God card when corruption is so glaring that it requires another support system
which is conveniently available in the form of religious sanction.
It's a function of self- esteem to seek affirmation of our beliefs and share safety in
numbers, but the existence of like- minded people who hold the same fears, hopes, values and
disappointments is what makes them predictable targets and therefore most vulnerable to
strategic manipulation. It's like handing over the remote control to your decision- making
power or wearing a badge on your sleeve
"... Vyacheslav Volodin, Speaker of the State Duma believes that Navalny has been too outspoken: "This guy is a competely shamless fraud." And pointing out how much was done to save his unworthy ass: From the pilots who emergency-landed the plane in Tomsk; to the doctors and nurses who fought ferociously to intubate him; to the President himself who personally gave permission to fly this recidivist to a prestigious German clinic Dante should have designed a special circle in Hell for such an ingrate, who now spits on the entire Russian nation. ..."
"... Putin's Press Secretary Peskov: "We should clarify that CIA specialists are working with Navalny, and give him various instructions. And moreover, this is not the first time, either." ..."
"... Navalny was upset by Peskov's words, he blustered back saying that Peskov is skating on very thin ice [little joke there], and said he planned to sue the man for libel: "He must prove that I actually have ties with American intelligence." Well, that's easy: Just ask Pompeo. ..."
"... Akopov himself believes that Navalny is more than just a "CIA project", he is more like a "joint venture" with all the Westie agencies. And this project also includes the Russian Neo-Liberal elite and the Westernizing section of the Oligarchy. ..."
"... Everybody who has studied Navalny and Navalniada, know what is actually going on here: Navalny and his neo-Liberal kreakle supporters represent that class of bourgeois intelligentsia who came along maybe 5 or 10 years too late to participate in the Yeltsinite plundering of the Russian people. ..."
"... They are only millionaires now, but they want to be billionaires. [yalensis: Although some evil tongues claim that Navalny has actually lost his fortune somehow and is fleeing from his creditors; hence the current crisis.] Putin stands in the way of the kreakles because he (and his caste of functionaries) have somewhat curbed the openly pirate proclivities of the Russian bourgeoisie; partially nationalized them, made them go to Church, and forced them to follow certain rules. ..."
Этот Германн, --
продолжал
Томский, -- лицо
истинно
романическое: у
него профиль
Наполеона, а
душа
Мефистофеля. Я
думаю, что на
его совести по
крайней мере
три злодейства.
Как вы
побледнели!..
"This Hermann fellow," Tomsky continued, -- "a truly romantic-era personality, the profile
of a Napoleon, and the soul of Mephistopheles. I believe that on his conscience lie at least
three crimes.
Oh my, you just turned pale!" -- Pushkin, The Queen of Spades "And that's not even counting
KirovLes!" Tomsky should have added.
Dear Readers: Today concluding my review of this piece by reporter/analyst Petr Akopov.
Where we left off, we saw that Navalny may have overstepped the line (just a tad) by
directly accusing Putin of poisoning him.
According to my blog-commenter James, Navalny is now busy on the talk-show circuit, doing a
full Ginsburg on all the imperialist propaganda media.
Describing what it feels like to be poisoned – "Ow! it hurt so much!" in full
pathos.
And Westie Navalny Goes Va Banque – burghers no doubt lapping up this farce because
it's more entertaining than the circus. –Meanwhile, back in Russia, members of the
government are not very happy with Navalny's wild improvised performance.
Vyacheslav Volodin, Speaker of the State Duma believes that Navalny has been too
outspoken: "This guy is a competely shamless fraud." And pointing out how much was done to save
his unworthy ass: From the pilots who emergency-landed the plane in Tomsk; to the doctors and
nurses who fought ferociously to intubate him; to the President himself who personally gave
permission to fly this recidivist to a prestigious German clinic Dante should have designed a
special circle in Hell for such an ingrate, who now spits on the entire Russian
nation.
For 7 long days, Navalny lay in a fake-coma does that work for the 7 card? Furthermore, in a
no-shit kind of epiphany, Volodin opines that this whole poisoning scenario was scripted by the
Westies: "In order to create tension within Russia, and to prevent Belorussia from asserting
its sovereignty." Captain Obvious concludes with: "Navalny himself clearly works with the
special services and organs of goverments of [various] Western countries."
After such a shocking utterance, the Kremlin felt the need to clarify: Uh, it's not so much
that Navalny works for the CIA; as the CIA works for him! Uh huh, that makes perfect sense. As
comedian Yakov Smirnov might say: In America, Secret Agent works for CIA. But in Russia, CIA
works for him!
Putin's Press Secretary Peskov: "We should clarify that CIA specialists are working with
Navalny, and give him various instructions. And moreover, this is not the first time,
either."
Navalny was upset by Peskov's words, he blustered back saying that Peskov is skating on
very thin ice [little joke there], and said he planned to sue the man for libel: "He must prove
that I actually have ties with American intelligence." Well, that's easy: Just ask
Pompeo.
Akopov himself believes that Navalny is more than just a "CIA project", he is more like
a "joint venture" with all the Westie agencies. And this project also includes the Russian
Neo-Liberal elite and the Westernizing section of the Oligarchy.
They are all in this together as partners. [yalensis: And these knuckle-heads couldn't come
up with anybody better than Navalny as their Leader?] Akopov would not even want to venture a
guess, which one of these "partners" holds the "controlling interest" in Mr.
Navalny's person.
Although it is plausible that shares might be redistributed during Navalny's stay in
Germany. The question du jour is whether or not Navalny will return to Russia. Gentlemen and
Countesses, you are free to place your bets on this one. Akopov believes that, yes, Navalny not
only will, but must, return to Russia. Why? To complete his Quest. What is his Quest? To change
the internal political structure and geopolitical vector of Russia.
Here is how Navalny himself describes the pathos of the current situation: "A struggle is
taking place between those who stand for Freedom, and those who wish to push us backwards. Into
the Past, into that strange Orthodox imitation of the Soviet Union, only decorated with
Capitalism and Oligarchs." "I win!" Hm I hate to admit it, but Navalny's words actually have a
ring of truth to them, which is why, if they were to come out of the mouth of a real
freedom-fighter, then they might bear some weight.
But you know what people say: If you want to sell a lie, then you have to sprinkle it with
truth.
Everybody who has studied Navalny and Navalniada, know what is actually going on here:
Navalny and his neo-Liberal kreakle supporters represent that class of bourgeois intelligentsia
who came along maybe 5 or 10 years too late to participate in the Yeltsinite plundering of the
Russian people.
They regret this, and wish for an opportunity to make their own fortunes, on the backs of
said Russian people.
They are only millionaires now, but they want to be billionaires. [yalensis: Although
some evil tongues claim that Navalny has actually lost his fortune somehow and is fleeing from
his creditors; hence the current crisis.] Putin stands in the way of the kreakles because he
(and his caste of functionaries) have somewhat curbed the openly pirate proclivities of the
Russian bourgeoisie; partially nationalized them, made them go to Church, and forced them to
follow certain rules.
This is what drives Navalny and his ilk crazy. They want it all, and they want it now!
Putin, for his part, in his endless balancing act, trying to maintain two incompatible things,
as Pushkin might have said (=capitalism and Russian patriotism) has scrambled to win the
support of the patriotic bourgeoisie and the clergy, the two pillars of the Lost Russia he
strives to re-build.
Navalny again:
"A part of society repeats Putin's rhetoric about how the country needs to follow its own
path. They are talking about restoring a kind of monarchy, based on certain spiritual values.
And against them stand such people as myself, who consider this to be a lie and hypocrisy, and
who are convinced that Russia must develop only according to the European model."
Ah, Navalny! You had me at "monarchy" but lost me at "European model" – you wretch!
"It's curtains for you, buster!"
Akopov, it goes without saying, is one of those intellectuals whom Navalny despises as
supporting the "Putinite" model of Russian development: Rely on a strong Russian state (which
Navalny mockingly calls an "imitation of the USSR"), lean on the Church, develop one's own
geo-political vector, etc.
Navalny and his crowd regard these types as complete zombies, whose proposed model is
worthless.
But the only thing that Navalny counter-punts are equally worn-out ideas of what Lenin would
call "the highest stages of capitalism" and which would, in reality, demote Russia to the level
of an American colony.
Same as the rest of Europe! Akopov concedes, however, that Navalny's "vision", if one could
call it that, of a European Russia imbued with "democratic values" does, in fact, enjoy mass
support -- among the Muscovite intelligentsia.
This kreakle mass [Akopov does not say, but there are estimates that the Navalnyite program
enjoys as much as 30% support among the residents of Moscow, not so much in the rest of the
country] believe in exactly the same things that Navalny does.
And have been "fighting" for this program (in one way or another) for the past 30 years.
This section of the Russian bourgeois intelligentsia punts against Putin's "national
project" and now awaits eagerly for the return of their poisoned, and poisonous, hero. [THE
END]
Creacl (креакл) is the latest addition to a list
of existing euphemisms used to describe the phenomenon of a middle class in Russia. Other terms
include creative class , network hamster ( setevoi khomiak) , office
plankton(offisnyi plankton), moral elite (nravstvennaia elita).
The ironic term is an acronym of creative class
(креативный
класс) but also refers to Greek mythology: in Russian ,
creacl rhymes with Gerakl (Hercules). In one of its first appearances, the term was
used by levsharansky2, a popular LiveJournal blog (which is believed to be run by
pro-Kremlin bloggers) to describe the twelve labors of Creacl :
brainstorming in the hipsters' cafe Jean-Jacques ; attending gay pride parades; taming
lumpen supporters of the Putin regime; or purchasing a new i-Phone or i-Pad.
[1]
If we look at the methods of creating humor in Russian satire, it often depends on the
incongruity of applying a lofty style to describing a routine, e.g. Est' mnenie, chto nado
pomyt' posudu (There is an opinion that you need to do the dishes). Here the jargon of the
Soviet partocracy and propaganda is applied to a household chore thereby producing an ironic
effect. Similarly, the term creacl appeared at the time when the definition creative
class became a cliché overused in political polemics, while an unexpected
connotation of grandeur, encrypted in the word form of creacl unmistakably brought about
a humorous effect and assigned new meanings to the definition.
The term took on popular use in January 2013 in connection with Aleksei Kabanov's criminal
case. Kabanov, a popular blogger and chef, was the co-founder of the Project O.G.I. (1998-2012)
literary cafes in downtown Moscow that gathered Russia's bohemians, prominent writers,
musicians, and humanities students. In January 2013, Aleksei Kabanov launched a Facebook
campaign amongst his 1500 friends to help him search for his wife, Irina Cherska, who,
according to him, went missing after a family quarrel. While volunteers and police searched for
the woman, Kabanov kept updating his Facebook account with emotional posts: "Irka still
missing" ("Irka ne nashlas'"). When investigators found body fragments of Cherska in a car that
Kabanov borrowed from a friend a few days later, he confessed to committing the murder. He
revealed that he strangled and then dismembered his wife, hoping to get rid of her body later.
Kabanov was detained and faces up to 15 years in jail for murder. Irina Cherska was 39, and the
mother of three young children.
Kabanov family' tragedy sparked a polemic about the controversial nature of the formation of
the Russian middle class casting doubt on the very possibility of its existence. In a
post that further promoted the usage of
the term creacl, Pavel Prianikov noted that the Kabanovs were seen by many as model
representatives of creative class : both were intellectuals, active participants in
anti-Kremlin protests, prolific bloggers, and emerging small business owners. However, as
Prianikov further suggested, what most people didn't see behind this façade, was a large
family with three kids who rented a small studio apartment in the suburbs, barely had any
income through scarce freelance journalist jobs, and went bankrupt in an attempt to open their
own restaurant in Moscow.
[2] The discussions surrounding Kabanov's crime centered on the deep sociocultural and
economic problems that impede the normal functioning of the "middle class" in Putin's Russia at
all levels, including property ownership, income, socioeconomic values, and stability. Many
Putin supporters gloated over the opposition revealing its real face (especially after the
protesters denounced the violence at the May 2012 Bolotnaya Square demonstrations, declaring
themselves a peaceful group). The Kabanov tragedy should be understood not as an insight into
the opposition, but as a structural absence of opportunities for a thriving middle class in
Russia.
The phonetics of the word creacl further emphasizes this idea: based on the satirical
device of the elevation of the low, the greatest irony of the term is that it might as well
reveal the nature of something that in fact never existed.
Class Issue and Creacls in Recent Russian Cinema
Paradoxical as it might seem, recent Russian cinema has not clearly revealed class
difference as a realistic aspect of Russian social fabric. Until recently (and especially in
the films released in 2011), the class issue was, at best, replaced with the idea of
generational conflict. Here the focus was either on a lost generation of those born in the
60s-70s and unable to adjust to a new social reality ( Gromozeka, 2011 ), or on
post-Soviet Russians born in a country that no longer exists, who are eternally nostalgic for
the totems of their youth, such as young pioneers, Moidodyr ( a magical creature from a
1923 Soviet poem by Kornei Chukovsky ) or medved'-kosmonavt (the Cosmounaut Bear)
( Chapiteau-Show, 2011 ).
When the issue of class difference finally began to appear in the films of 2011-12 --
Elena (2011), Kokoko (2012), Twilight Portrait (Portret v sumerkakh, 2011), The White Moor
(Belyi Mavr, 2012), Dukhless (2012), An Office Romance: Our Time (Sluzhebnyi roman: Nashe
Vremia, 2011) -- we can't help but notice that the representation of class in the majority
of these films was reduced to the depiction of either lumpens from the city outskirts or
the upper classes and minigarchs from the prestigious zones of the city. In the latter
case, the directors and producers appeared to unequivocally accept that this group of people
inhabiting Moscow's suburbs Rublevka and Zhukovka are numerous enough to represent a vast
social phenomenon of the upper class in Russia. This stands true even for the films with a
clearly articulated agenda of social awareness, such as Elena and Twilight
Portrait. What was obviously lacking in the films mentioned above was a representation of a
middle class: qualified specialists -- representatives of intellectual professions, or midlevel
managers and small business owners.
Creacl5.jpg Creacls of Kokoko at a political rally
Some serious reservations have been recently expressed by sociologists over the existence of
a middle class in Russia (Samson, Krasil'nikova 2012),
[3] who argue that generally accepted socioeconomic and ethical values of "middle class"
that correspond to Western understanding of the concept have not been formed in contemporary
Russia. The same hesitation is obvious in cinematic representations of the middle class. In
fact, many contemporary Russian films are dealing with comical re-enactments of multiple
euphemisms that exist in the rhetoric of the state today to describe the Russian middle class
: creacls, office plankton, network hamsters, creatiff, etc. We may take a look at the
entire gallery of cartoonish creacls presented in the symposium films to get this
message: the inert, inactive, and almost extinct intelligentsia of Kokoko;
representatives of the opposition or rather a group of idiots without a single clearly
articulated political message in Dukhless; or the faceless office plankton floating in
the background in An Office Romance: Our Time. Most of these films about the
contemporary "middle class" share the narrative structure of a collage of loosely connected
stories, e.g. Short Stories ( Rasskazy , 2012 ), Gromozeka, Chapiteau Show
. Contrary to the Russian tradition of favoring longer narrative forms, such collage stylistics
might also point to the fact that Russia lacks sufficient economic and socio-political grounds
for singling out a unified group with an established collective identity that could be called
"middle class."
Generation P (2011) poignantly captures the lost optimism of the 90s, when the
formation of middle class not only seemed a viable possibility for the Russian intelligentsia,
but also a driving force behind social, economic and cultural transformations in post-Soviet
Russia. "Kreatorom, eto tvortsom, esli perevesti?" asks Vladelen Tatarsky, the main protagonist
of Generation P, his potential employer at the advertising agency. "Tvortsy nam zdes' na
khui ne nuzhny! Kreatorom, Vovan, Kreatorom!" answers the agency director. The post-Soviet
Russian intelligentsia aspired to create something significant and eternal, but instead
were reduced to advertising canned pickles. The sad truth is that the contemporary creative
class haven't given up on these aspirations and are still trying really hard to bring social
and political changes to their country, however their prospects for democratic change become
more and more doomed.
All this nonsense started after Bill Clinton drank with Yeltsin and the Moscow Treasury
looted for London and other locales. Bill and Hillary did well ( the foundation) and the boys
in Trump Tower bailed Donnie . Now this is what they want -- -USA to implode and it puzzles
me why WHITE Portland has been so BLM -- -something not adding up
Judging from comment ZH audience does not like Critical Race theory one bit :-). Does this
mean Trump 2020-2024?
It is also clear that the tide of white public opinion that's to BLM and Critical Race Theory
turned against the blacks and turned drastically. In a way founders of BLM did a very bad service
to community. It proved to be extremely divisive for the country.
Schools that teach " white privilege " as fact are breaking
the law , the equalities
minister has told MPs.
MP Kemi Badenoch said the underpinning ideology of critical race theory "sees my blackness
as victimhood and their whiteness as oppression."
"This government stands unequivocally against critical race theory," she
told MPs during a debate on Oct. 20 in which Labour MP Dawn Butler had called for the
curriculum to be "decolonised."
https://www.youtube.com/embed/KtXshJDqJOw
Badenoch, MP for Saffron Waldon and also minister for equalities, said the rise of
critical race theory was a "dangerous trend in race relations."
"We do not want to see teachers teaching their white pupils about white privilege and
inherited racial guilt," she said.
"Any school which teaches these elements of critical race theory or which promotes
partisan political views such as defunding the police, without offering a balanced
treatment of opposing views, is breaking the law."
The defunding of police has been a demand of many key members and supporters of Black
Lives Matter.
"Some schools have
decided to openly support the anti-capitalist Black Lives Matter group, often fully aware
that they have a statutory duty to be politically impartial," said Badenoch. "Black lives
do matter -- of course they do. But we know that the Black Lives Matter movement, capital
B, L, M, is political."
Some Black Lives Matter leaders and groups, including the UKBLM group, are explicitly anti-capitalist.
"What we are against is the teaching of contested political ideas as if they are
accepted facts," said Badendoch.
"We don't do this with communism. We don't do this with socialism. We don't do it with
capitalism."
'Not America'
Badendoch also warned against importing the rhetoric on race from America.
" Our history of race is not America's history of race. Most black British people who
have come to our shores were not brought here in chains, but came voluntarily due to their
connections to the UK and in search of a better life. I should know. I am one of them.
"We have our own joys and stories to tell. From the Windrush generation to the Somali
diaspora, it is a story that is uniquely ours."
During the debate on education and race, MP Dawn Butler had earlier called for the
curriculum to be "decolonised," saying that "history is taught to make one group of people
feel inferior and another group of people feel superior."
Former Windrush passengers and members of the RAF Donald Clarke, George Mason, Sam King
MBE, and Allan Wilmot in the Imperial War Museum in London on June 12, 2008. (Cate
Gillon/Getty Images)
But Badenoch said the curriculum did not need decolonising for "the simple reason that it
is not colonised," adding, "We should not apologise for the fact that British children
primarily study the history of these islands."
In the United States, the Trump administration recently
banned agencies or contractors from "conducting training that promotes race stereotyping,
for example, by portraying certain races as oppressors by virtue of their birth."
"This ideology is rooted in the pernicious and false belief that America is an
irredeemably racist and sexist country; that some people, simply on account of their race
or sex, are oppressors; and that racial and sexual identities are more important than our
common status as human beings and Americans," Trump wrote, later calling the ideology
"divisive."
The UK government last month issued guidance
which says schools should not use resources "produced by organisations that take extreme
political stances on matters."
Examples of unacceptable stances include "a publicly stated desire to abolish or overthrow
democracy, capitalism, or to end free and fair elections," as well as opposition to free
speech or the use of racist or anti-Semitic language. Materials "promoting divisive or victim
narratives that are harmful to British society," were also included as an example.
Lt. Frank Drebin , 1 hour ago
A rare example in these surreal times. I salute you ma'am.
Nothing , 36 minutes ago
Not that rare. Ive heard numbers of blacks and latinos speak out like this. But these
voices are systematically suppressed by Google, by Facebook, and also by the blocking of
peaceable assemblages and by simple conversation with strangers without being muzzled with
the excuse given of coronaphobia.....
Dickweed Wang , 1 hour ago
If all races are so equal why is it that when Europeans first went to the African
continent the people there were not using the wheel?
Yippie21 , 1 hour ago
Now do American Indians; same
CriswellSpeaks , 1 hour ago
If whites are superior to blacks then why didn't the white race completely supplant the
black race in Africa? Short answer, same reason the black race never built any great cities
in Africa, tropical diseases. Geography is destiny and being located at the equator,
tropical diseases have prevented black Africans from creating any great civilizations until
the present era. When the whites of S. Africa attempted to migrate north much past Rhodesia
they were stopped dead in their tracks(literally) by tropical diseases. Imagine what a
society would look like if it got hammered by the Black Death every century and you have
black Africa.
DeathMerchant , 1 hour ago
********! There was no enviromental incentive to progress in equatorial regions. No need
for warmth, food or advanced tools to progress beyond ability to provide basic necessities
which were available to them year round. Compare that to the northern climes which had
minimal seasonal opportunities to provide those things and the development of capability to
cope with such.
CriswellSpeaks , 1 hour ago
Critical Race Theory is a form of back handed racism directed at minorities. According
to CRT, as a white person I possess this magical power to oppress all black people that I
was born with. No matter what black people do, they are powerless is the face of my absence
of skin pigmentation. Seriously, if you do a little digging into the founders of CRT you
will probably find the law firms/lawyers/political lobbyists who were responsible in the
1960's for opposing the abolition of Jim Crow laws. After they lost to color blindness and
integration, they infiltrated the Communists, claimed racial harmony was preventing a
Marxist revolution and had to be reversed for it to happen. CRT would drag race relations
back to the post civil war era.
PCShibai , 32 minutes ago
Ask yourself this, " if ' white privilege ' is the real reason
why blacks cannot get ahead in the US, then why aren't blacks successful in all the other
black-lead nations on the planet?" I mean...... there's ZERO history of ' white privilege '
keeping down Uganda, or the Congo, or ANY other black-lead nation...... and yet they are
all failing their people miserably and have ALWAYS failed their people miserably!
WHAT DO ALL THOSE BLACK NATIONS BLAME " THEIR " CONTINUOUS FAILURE ON? The
Samoans???
" White
privilege " is the CRUTCH that is used by the black race for their own failures.
Failure to maintain a family that raises children properly, failure to insist that their
children are properly educated, failure to integrate into the successes of the surrounding
culture, failure to accept the fundamentals that make people economically successful.
Until they eliminate the CRUTCH and accept their responsibility for their own success
& their own failures, they will continue to be the one failed culture throughout the
entire world!
cvp , 9 minutes ago
I do not disagree with the point your making; I would like to add, the people who
migrate from the African continent to the United States are some of the happiest people
I've met and worked with in my life. They are not interested in what BLM is selling! Jus
say'n...
5onIt , 40 minutes ago
None of the black people in this country were brought here in chains either. They are
free to leave whenever they damn well please.
greatdisconformity , 30 minutes ago
The institution of slavery gave black lives a value they did not otherwise have in
Africa.
Africans simply sold the losers of tribal wars, or their own slaves, to the coastal
markets.
It was either the auction block, or the killing fields.
I do not feel any guilt at all.
Without slavery, these people would not exist in any form; here or with descendants in
Africa.
They owe their existence in its most fundamental form to slavery.
They should be glad.
Whitey is being played. Big time.
Spetzco , 19 minutes ago
Especially as most of the major slave traders in Africa were BLACK themselves.
greatdisconformity , 35 minutes ago
The language of Critical Race Theory is the language of Genocide.
Historically, when an ethnic group is singled out for a savage take-down like Critical
Race Theory, it has been a prelude and pretext for mass killings.
Of course, this time things will be different.
Shifter_X , 14 minutes ago
It's the same playbook the Boshies Nazis and Maoists used. Yes, genocide and wiping out
history, that's their specialty.
St. TwinkleToes , 1 hour ago
When you're a race hustler filled with the dripping hatred of Whitey, and all you have
going in life are endless victim grievance bs regurgitated to get a head in life, it all
makes sense. It's not enough that Blacks have their own BET, endless Black This & Black
That Awards, staring roles in most all feature films, Two term POTUS, no, they want it all.
They want Whitey to live in imaginary Black World Wakanda as indentured Servants as
reparations for slavery 150 years ago. They want to drag us in chains down roads of endless
Persecution until we are no more.
Phuc Critical Race Theory, and Phuc Black Lives Matter.
SunsteintheSodomite , 58 minutes ago
Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, and South Africa showed the world that you can build a complete
NATION with infrastructure, economic supply routes, trade deals, agriculture, technology,
EVERYTHING...
...then drop off the keys and an instruction manual...
...and within 5-10 years it will be beyond repair.
Throughout their history, blacks have had only one route to civilization:
Follow WHITEY.
Rest Easy , 23 minutes ago
And van jones has the nerve to say white people have a virus. Maybe so van. We are too
nice.
Is there a US city and unfortunate surrounding suburbs that has a large percentage of
black persons not causing havoc? Ruin. Just generally weird stupid bs. Morning noon and
night. Tip toeing through the daisies trying to keep the young black kids fun down to a
dull roar. If you are "lucky". Get a little uppity and the klan with a tan comes a
knocking. Sometimes just being white around black Nazis is more than sufficient.
At least teach students about what happened in Rwanda.
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Misean , 4 minutes ago
Or Rhodesia, the bread basket of Africa.
After changing it's name to Zimbabwe, the black rulers have reduced the nation to abject
poverty. From feeding much of sub Saharan Africa, the nation now depends on massive food
imports, most of which is given by western nations at great expense.
The population of productive whites and blacks have either left or been killed by roving
bands of bandits. The bandits "reclaimed" commercial farms at gun point, took girls as
slaves killed all makes, and raped then murdered the women.
Having no clue how commercial farming works, but assured by their leaders that
traditional African farming was superior, they sold the farm equipment to smarter thugs,
for dimes on the dollar (the buyers exported the equipment to better run countries, for
sizable profits, this depleting the country of the farm capital necessary to turn things
around).
The farm bandits, with stone age farming techniques, destroyed the soil quickly. Most of
the fertile top soil has washed away, what's left is exhausted.
nsurf9 , 1 hour ago
The only "privileged" our country is suffering under - is not already ending the
Affirmative Action Act of 1986. It had it place 25 years ago. Now, it is nothing more than
a prima facie Government sanctioned systematic discrimination against Caucasians - that's
now well past being justified by any stretch of a "compelling state interest" argument.
If you are being wrongfully discriminated, you have the Equal Protection Clause of the
14th Amendment and State law to pursue your claim - like the rest of us.
SmokingArgus , 25 minutes ago
If you have a "Minister of Equalities" you've already lost.
Shifter_X , 1 hour ago
"" Our history of race is not America's history of race. Most black British people who
have come to our shores were not brought here in chains, but came voluntarily due to their
connections to the UK and in search of a better life. I should know. I am one of them"
What a steaming pile of ********.
The settlers who came to America in 1560 (not 1619 as the fictitious farcical revised
"history" claims) and thereafter brought their slaves WITH THEM FROM THE UK
The UK was happy to pass the slave trade on to the colonies.
But make no mistake, the UK was up to its *** in slavery well before the colonies were
even formed.
DieSocialJusticeWankers , 1 hour ago
A Biden win and there will be affirmative action and CRTheory on steroids. The USA will
die for young white people. Vote Trump white people, or you're fkkkkked!
1. As recently as June of 2019, Biden praised the "civility" of the segregationist
senators he worked with in Congress to pass anti-busing legislation.
2. Biden praised the notorious segregationist politician George Wallace, boasted about
how Wallace once honored him with an award in 1973, and told a Southern audience in 1987
that "we [Delawareans] were on the South's side in the Civil War."
3. Biden opposed busing in the 1970s and expressed fears that it would lead to a "racial
jungle."
4. Biden voted to protect the tax-exempt status of private segregated schools.
5. Biden told black radio host Charlamagne tha God, "If you have a problem figuring out
whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't black."
6. Biden told the Asian and Latino Coalition of Des Moines that "poor kids are just as
bright and just as talented as white kids."
7. While delivering remarks before a black audience in Delaware, Biden launched into a
meandering story about a gang leader named Corn Pop and claimed that he "learned about
roaches" while working at a community pool in a black neighborhood.
8. In 2008, Biden referred to then presidential candidate Barack Obama as "the first
sort of mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean."
9. In 2006, Biden told C-SPAN, "You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless
you have a slight Indian accent."
10. Biden falsely claimed to have "marched" in the civil rights movement.
Still waiting on Trump's racist comments, been like 6 years.
Brits had slave's just as almost every other country in the world has, in the past even
white slaves (Irish). Brits have no higher ground to stand on than anyone else looking at
their indiscretions in India and China and elsewhere. Such as the opium wars in China.
Silly British. They should realize it has NOTHING to do with race. It's all about
COMMUNISM, they are just as in danger from the cancer of communism as anyone else.
rmogabe , 27 minutes ago
She said it is a political movement.
artytom , 1 hour ago
Thank Goodness. Very surprised to see this coming out of the UK government - but...
Is the tide turning.
Have the World Bank run out of bribes?
Have we passed the tipping point and they have taken off the pressure because they know
there is no going back?
Are they satisfied that the economies are in free fall and won't bounce back?
Are they simply covering their asses (the most likely of all).
DeathMerchant , 1 hour ago
In 1959, AAMD set the IQ threshold for mental retardation at < 85. The civil rights
movement of the next decade forced psychologists to rethink this boundary, because half the
African American population fell below it. In 1973, responding to this concern, AAMD (by
then AAMR) changed the threshold for retardation from IQ < 85 to IQ < 70. The
boundary moved south by one standard deviation! The proportion of blacks below the
threshold instantly dropped from about 50 percent to 12 percent. Subsequent refinements
made it still more difficult to meet the criteria for retardation.
When Binet in 1905 produced the first IQ test, it promised to revolutionize the diagnosis
and treatment of mental retardation. A half century later it came under attack for reasons
Binet could not have imagined. Could any of the pioneer psychometricians have foreseen
Larry P. v. Riles (1979), a California class-action suit that focused on IQ testing of
young black children? The court held that IQ tests were not valid for African Americans. It
banned California from using the tests for placing black students in classes for the
"educable mentally retarded" or equivalent categories on the grounds that the tests were
biased. After a series of appeals, the district court ruled that no special education
related purposes exist for which IQ tests could be administered to black pupils. Though
only a California ruling, the case began a political assault on standardized testing that
has spread beyond the IQ test to college entrance exams, promotional exams and more.
A Case History of Government Intervention
In 1996, The Office for Civil Rights placed 16 school districts nationwide under review for
potential discrimination. The districts were charged with violating the civil rights of
minorities, especially African Americans, because blacks were found to be overrepresented
in special education programs, especially those for the mentally retarded. Five of the 16
districts were in Maryland. Ironically, Maryland is a very liberal state very much in tune
with the goals of the Civil Rights Office. Maryland is also almost 30 percent black. The
offending districts included Baltimore, Howard, Harford, Montgomery and Prince Georges
counties. OCR detectives uncovered "discrimination" by looking at school records. The
offending data appear in Table 1. The irritant is in the last column. Black children were
classified as retarded at 1.5 to 2.2 times the rate of whites. OCR ordered the counties to
find a "remedy."
Fortunately teaching Critical Race Theory or any other invented marxist propaganda is
going to get a lot of people killed.
They'll find they deployed the subversion before gaining a sufficient majority, or
sufficient technological control among a highly educated peasantry.
And by the end of all that killing, there will be a brighter future for European
descendants, darkness relegated to its corner of the Earth.
By that time, all the people who would otherwise wish they'd never uttered a word of
critical race theory will simply be no longer.
Fight back.
You have the moral law on your side and you will win.
GreatUncle , 18 minutes ago
UK Government ... ROFL.
The UK government last month issued guidance
which says schools should not use resources "produced by organisations that take extreme
political stances on matters."
Because see we the UK government do that ... ain't you noticed? So as we do it then it
is all legal like mass immigration to destroy the indigenous population...
MadameDeficit , 1 hour ago
Oh boy, can't wait for the hypocrites to tell her why she's wrong.
Maghreb2 , 1 hour ago
She's right but she should shut her mouth either ways because she's a tory sell out
bitch and we know that because we know the Tories and the
Freud-Murdoch run P.R firms they get their polices from . Real racial theory would have
David Lammy lynched by everyone but the Chinese. Starting teaching the little white boys
about
Jimmy Savile in Leeds infirmary and we'll have them ready to suicide bomb Buckingham
Palace and go after the nearest member of "the people who will n
ot be blamed for nothing " minority .
Tell them that is what Mi5 are for.
To protect White Privileges and the weaker ones will kill themselves when they see what
they have planned for them in the future. By the Divine right of the Windsors suicide isn't
even legal and just remember that is why he was in the infirmaries. She should remember how
similar the white monkeys are to the black monkeys in their natural habitat .
The west is past imported racial talking points. Blood for the money will be new mantra
after the war starts but we wouldn't expect the people in parliament to have ever
understood that in way because they can't see the real world. Rivers of Blood Libel these
days. Play them this song and we'll see which music turns them into hardened killers over
night. Tell them Guy Burgesses and Rothschild used to go to the
Gargoyle club and the stories about Dolphin Square .
Victim ideology as broadcast by media, politicians and schools is the true divider and
oppressor that reinforces the odious legacy of slavery. The only way people move beyond
what was unacceptable in the past is to release and bury it. Those who are vested in
maintaining the old ugly status quo are the ones who won't let it go. that's the cabal and
all their minions. Enough.
GeezerGeek , 1 hour ago
How many black slaves were needed on Britain's cotton plantations? Duh...
How many black slaves were brought to Britain's colonies in America (not just on the
continent) before it became an independent (at least that's the story) nation? Duh...
As an aside, isn't one particular candidate for VP this year the descendant of a slave
owner in a former British colony?
Compare slaves brought to British colonies against slaves brought into the USA after
independence. Which number is greater and which process lasted longer?
For fun, we can then consider black slaves brought to other places in the Americas, both
North and South, plus the nearby islands.
At least she had the courage to attack CRT, which strikes me as another example of the
soft bigotry of low expectations. How long do you think it will be before she finds herself
looking for a new job?
What is never mentioned is that poor whites suffered from slavery. Depressed wages.
Being forced to man "slave patrols" or risk jail time. That system robbed everyone
Faustus B. , 2 hours ago
The left got so worked up about intelligent design being taught in the classroom, but
apparently it was just political. We must never forget that they'll ram racial
pseudo-science down kid's throats the minute they get the chance.
SergeyBodrov 14 hours ago What a harmonic peaceful country. Is this the same country that
wants to "Lecture" Belarus in how to be a 'non violent' democracy? Eh, nah thanks. We are good.
Reply 38 5 fstthttr SergeyBodrov 9 hours ago Not the people,,, Richland Yabitches" 17 hours ago
Considering those Private Security Gaurds arrested in Belarus who Masquerade as Russian were
actually Ukrainian, too bad none of them got shot but same Terror Club as Antifa/BLMuts" Reply
12 BlueArgonaut 16 hours ago Ukrainian scenario re-enacted. TWOFilms 15 hours ago Who would
have thought things could deteriorate so fast because a criminal black man gets killed by an
uneducated and badly trained cop? The Revolution has started except now it's unorganised,
chaotic and at this rate, will transfer the USA into another 3rd world dictatorship with a huge
arsenal of nukes. Great! Reply 4 Show 1 previous reply JPSCUSA TWOFilms 6 hours ago If it's any
consolation, the people who do this kind of thing are not in a position to launch any missiles,
and wouldn't be able to figure it out given unlimited access to launch facilities. shadow1369
TWOFilms 8 hours ago Floyd's murder was just the trigger, the gun had been loaded already by
the DNC. Most of theses thugs are only doing what they are told, and enjoying looting stuff.
Reditus_sum 3 hours ago A domestic TV station feels the need to employ private security to
protect their staff, they must consider their country to be a war zone. Reply SoTexGuy 6 hours
ago Not enough deaths yet to cause any real upheaval or change. Americans have been normalized
to violent deaths by decades of horrific death perpetrated by us on mostly brown people in far
away places as well as the complacency of Officials to murder cities here. Hollywood also a
factor. A hundred violent, political deaths in a day might do to rouse the sleeping and
cowering majority. Reply Stranded 12 hours ago Private security guard who screams I got a White
Supremacist? What kind of news agency did he work for? Al Jazeera? no_right_turns 9 hours ago
Cops, private or otherwise, are as FA as it's possible to be. The only way one could be
associated with ANTIFA is as an agent provocateur. ununou 13 hours ago White people...black
people...are people! Some smart...most really dumb...but people! Hint...look for the real enemy
and stop killing youself..."most really dumb"....
Recall that in late May as George Floyd and Black Lives Matter related protests reached a
peak, so did reports of mass theft targeting high end neighborhoods of New York known for
luxury boutiques.
In one particular instance the NYPD had over the summer sought looters responsible for
stealing $1,511,000 in merchandise from the Celine clothing store . It was similar to other
"smash and grab" operations
widely reported in SoHo, the East Village and Lower Manhattan throughout the early summer,
which sometimes began as brazenly and as simply as someone hurling bricks through store front
windows.
But far from a thing of the past, new reporting in the New
York Post finds the problem has continued, even now becoming a "weekly" pattern , often
with store owners loathe to report the theft for fear they'll be labeled as racists .
play_arrow Gobble D. Goop , 36 minutes ago
In the latest incident, thieves twice plundered Moncler on Prince Street -- which sells
down jackets for nearly $2,000 -- on Thursday, Oct. 1, according to the sources.
In the first incident, two individuals grabbed nearly two dozen down jackets, the
businessperson told The Post. A few hours later, at 6 p.m., thieves snatched "more than
$50,000" in merchandise and sped off in a white Jaguar and a black Audi , the law enforcement
source said.
Well, now that everbuddys got a down jacket they just can't be woith as much.
These folk devalue property everywhere they go.
ebworthen , 1 hour ago
I imagine this kind of thing happened in Rome towards then end.
Bam_Man , 1 hour ago
Yup.
But it was the Legions (which were largely non-Roman mercenaries by then) doing the
looting because they were no longer being paid.
bigdumbnugly , 51 minutes ago
we sure are suckers for paying for anything nowadays aren't we?
sgpbulion , 1 hour ago
How is it racist to stop a thief?
If you think it is racist to stop a thief - then aren't you the one automatically assuming
which race is thieving?
Specific Heat , 1 hour ago
Black privelege.
motley331 , 26 minutes ago
Global owners want America burned to the ground. There is no other rational
explanation.
Robespierre2020 , 1 hour ago
Armed guards, citizen's arrest at gunpoint.
Who cares what scum say from prison?
ten_bagger , 1 hour ago
Prisons can't be built fast enough.
CheapBastard , 2 hours ago
Why not furnish them with a few buses and their Uncle Obama's address up in Cape Cod?
He and Aunt Wookie would love to see his relatives.
"... The hatred of Donald Trump, which certainly to some extent is legitimate if only due to his ignorance and boorishness, has driven a feeding frenzy by the moderate-to liberal media which has made them blind to their own faults. ..."
"... Just as the Israel Firsters in Congress and in the state legislative bodies have had great success in criminalizing any criticism of the Jewish state, the mainstream media's "fake news" in support of the "woke" crowd agenda has already succeeded in forcing out many alternative voices in the public space. ..."
"... This type of "thought control" has been most evident in the media, but it is beginning to dominate in other areas where conversations about policy and rights take place. Universities in particular, which once were bastions of free speech and free thought, are now defining what is acceptable language and behavior even when the alleged perpetrators are neither threatening or abusive. ..."
"... Recently, a student editor at the University of Wisconsin student newspaper was fired because he dared to write a column that objected to the current anti-police consensus. ..."
"... The worst aspect of the increasing thought control taking place in America's public space is that it is not only not over, it is increasing. To be sure, to a certain extent the upcoming election is a driver of the process as left and right increasingly man the barricades to support their respective viewpoints. If that were all, it might be considered politics as usual, but unfortunately the process is going well beyond that point. The righteousness exuded by the social justice warriors has apparently given them the mandate to attempt to control what Americans are allowed to think or say while also at the same time upending the common values that have made the country functional. It is a revolution of sorts, and those who object most strongly could well be the first to go to the guillotine. ..."
Once upon a time it was possible to rely on much of the mainstream media to report on
developments more or less objectively, relegating opinion pieces to the editorial page. But
that was a long time ago. I remember moving to Washington back in 1976 after many years of
New York Times and International Herald Tribune readership, when both those
papers still possessed editorial integrity. My first experience of the Washington Post
had my head spinning, wondering how front-page stories that allegedly reported the "news" could
sink to the level of including editorialized comments from start to finish to place the story
in context.
Today, Washington Post style reporting has become the norm and the New York
Times , if anything, might possibly be the worst exponent of news that is actually largely
unsubstantiated or at best "anonymous" opinion. In the past few weeks, stories about the
often-violent social unrest that continues in numerous states have virtually disappeared from
sight because the mainstream media has its version of reality, that the demonstrations are
legitimate protest that seek to correct "systemic racism." Likewise, counter-demonstrators are
reflexively described as "white supremacists" so they can be dismissed as unreformable racists.
Videos of rampaging mobs looting, burning and destroying while also beating and even killed
innocent citizens who are trying to protect themselves and their property are not shown or
written about to any real extent because such actions are being carried out by the groups that
the mainstream media and its political enablers favor.
The hatred of Donald Trump, which certainly to some extent is legitimate if only due to his
ignorance and boorishness, has driven a feeding frenzy by the moderate-to liberal media which
has made them blind to their own faults. The recent expose by the New
York Times on Donald Trump's taxes might well be considered a new low, with blaring
headlines declaring that the president is a tax avoider. It was a theme rapidly picked up and
promoted by much of the remainder of the television and print media as well as "public radio"
stations like NPR.
But wait a minute. Trump Inc. is a multi-faceted business that includes a great number of
smaller entities, not all of which involve real estate per se. Donald Trump, not surprisingly,
does not do his own taxes and instead employs teams of accountants and lawyers to do the work
for him. They take advantage of every break possible to reduce the taxes paid. Why are there
tax breaks for businesses that individual Americans do not enjoy? Because congress approved
legislation to make it so. So who is to blame if Donald Trump only paid $750 in tax? Congress,
but the media coverage of the issue deliberately made it look like Trump is a tax cheater.
And then there is the question how the Times got the tax returns in the first place. Tax
returns are legally protected confidential documents and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is
obligated to maintain privacy regarding them. Some of the files are currently part of an IRS
audit and it just might be that the auditors are the source of the completely illegal leak, but
we may never know as the Times is piously declaring "We are not making the records
themselves public, because we do not want to jeopardize our sources, who have taken enormous
personal risks to help inform the public." Jacob Hornberger of the Future of Freedom Foundation
wryly observes that when it comes to avoiding taxes "I'll bet that the members of the
Times ' editorial board and its big team of reporters and columnists do the same thing.
They are just upset that they don't do it as well as Trump."
Just as the Israel Firsters in Congress and in the state legislative bodies have had great
success in criminalizing any criticism of the Jewish state, the mainstream media's "fake news"
in support of the "woke" crowd agenda has already succeeded in forcing out many alternative
voices in the public space. The Times has been a leader in bringing about this departure
from "freedom of speech" enshrined in a "free press," having recently forced
the resignation of senior editor James Bennet over the publication of an op-ed written by
Senator Tom Cotton. Cotton's views are certainly not to everyone's taste, but he provided a
reasonable account of how and when federal troops have been used in the past to repress civil
unrest, together with a suggestion that they might play that same role in the current
context.
This type of "thought control" has been most evident in the media, but it is beginning to
dominate in other areas where conversations about policy and rights take place. Universities in
particular, which once were bastions of free speech and free thought, are now defining what is
acceptable language and behavior even when the alleged perpetrators are neither threatening or
abusive.
Recently, a student editor at the University of Wisconsin student newspaper was fired
because he dared to write a column that objected to the current anti-police consensus.
Washington lawyer Jonathan Turley
observes how the case was not unique, how there has been " a crackdown on some campuses
against conservative columnists and newspapers, including the firing of a
conservative student columnist at Syracuse , the public condemnation of a
student columnist at Georgetown , and a
campaign against one of the oldest conservative student newspapers in the country at
Dartmouth. Now, The Badger Herald , a
student newspaper at the University of Wisconsin Madison, has dismissed columnist Tripp Grebe
after he wrote a column opposing the defunding of police departments." Ironically, Grebe
acknowledged in his op-ed that there is considerable police-initiated brutality and also
justified the emergence of black lives matter, but it was not enough to save him.
The worst aspect of the increasing thought control taking place in America's public space is
that it is not only not over, it is increasing. To be sure, to a certain extent the upcoming
election is a driver of the process as left and right increasingly man the barricades to
support their respective viewpoints. If that were all, it might be considered politics as
usual, but unfortunately the process is going well beyond that point. The righteousness exuded
by the social justice warriors has apparently given them the mandate to attempt to control what
Americans are allowed to think or say while also at the same time upending the common values
that have made the country functional. It is a revolution of sorts, and those who object most
strongly could well be the first to go to the guillotine.
NSSF's September 2020 adjusted NICS figures are 1.6 million, a 61 percent increase over
September 2019, where figures came in at just over 1 million. This elevated trend is in
keeping with what the firearm industry has witnessed since March, when adjusted NICS
figures topped 2.3 million, an all-time one-month record.
Yes, The USA Today is now fact-checking memes detailing black on white crime, to
try and downplay the reality of just how bad black on white crime is in America. [
Fact check: Rates of white-on-white and Black-on-Black crime are similar , USA Today,
September 30, 2020]:
A
viral meme purports to list homicide statistics by race in the United States, as
follows:
Whites killing Blacks -- 2%
Police killing whites -- 3%
Whites killing whites -- 16%
Blacks killing whites -- 81%
Police killing Blacks -- 1%
Blacks killing Blacks -- 97%
The page behind one viral version of the post, I Support Law Enforcement Officers, had
over 611 shares on its post. USA TODAY has reached out to the page for comment.
Some versions of the meme include this line: "America does have a problem. But it's not
what the media tells you it is."
Rates of white-on-white and Black-on-Black homicide are similar, at around 80% and 90%
Overall, most homicides in the United States are intraracial, and the rates of
white-on-white and Black-on-Black killings are similar, both long term and in individual
years.
Between 1980-2008, the U.S. Department of Justice found that 84% of white victims were
killed by white offenders and 93% of Black victims were killed by Black offenders.
In 2018, the
Federal Bureau of Investigation reported that 81% of white victims were killed by white
offenders, and 89% of Black victims were killed by Black offenders.
In 2017, the
FBI reported almost identical figures -- 80% of white victims were killed by white
offenders, and 88% of Black victims were killed by Black offenders.
Though the numbers differ year-to-year, the stark difference that the viral post attempts
to portray between the rates of white-on-white and Black-on-Black homicide -- which it puts
at 16% and 97%, respectively -- is inaccurate.
Both numbers tend to hover between 80% and 90% and remain within 10 percentage points of
each other.
Rates of Black-on-white and white-on-Black homicide also within 8 points
Likewise, the post attempts to portray a gulf in the rate of Black-on-white and
white-on-Black homicide -- which it lists at 81% and 2%, respectively.
Statistics from the FBI in 2018 and 2017 contradict that claim.
In 2018, 16% of white victims were killed by Black offenders, while 8% of Black victims
were killed by white offenders.
Similarly, in 2017, 16% of white victims were killed by Black offenders, while 9% of Black
victims were killed by white offenders.
In both years, the numbers remained within eight percentage points, a much smaller gap
than the 79% alleged in the viral post.
Black on white crime isn't as bad as white people believe it to be on social media, when
they share viral memes, but as The USA Today admits, it's still pretty bad.
But white people noticing how bad it is well, that's the real crime in the eyes of The
USA Today .
Speaking of whites killed by blacks, an attractive white lady working at a 7-11 has been
shot and killed in Waldorf, MD, which is one-third orc. The description of the murderer left
out the race but mentioned a hoodie, a strong indication that it's another dindu crime,
especially since she was killed despite the fact that she was cooperating with the killer's
demands.
Excerpt: Richardson said the suspect was dressed in a hooded sweatshirt, surgical mask and
jeans.
"He approached her, he produced a gun, it looked like she was complying and he shot her at
that time," Richardson said.
I have read of countless similar encounters over the years. Being a white woman working
alone at 1 a.m. in a convenience store must be one of the most dangerous jobs in America.
(((fake news ))) will either do nothing and let the facts fade from normie memory, or
goysplain that all black crime is YT's fault, even black-on-black violence, because YT
exists.
Put nothing past them. Hell, they're gaslighting antifa's riots as 'right-wing
violence.'
Could it be possible that we could learn some important lessons by looking back at how
Americans lived 70 years ago?
Of course there has never been any era in our history when everything has been perfect. But
without a doubt, things are vastly different today than they were back in 1950
In 1950, Texaco Star Theatre, The Lone Ranger and Hopalong Cassidy were some of the most
popular shows that Americans watched on television.
In 2020, a Netflix film entitled "Cuties" is so trashy and so disgusting that four states
have sent a letter to Netflix asking for it to be removed because it is "fodder for those
with criminal imaginations, serving to normalize the view that children are sexual
beings."
In 1950, television networks would not even show husbands and wives in bed together.
In 2020, "adult websites" get more traffic than Netflix, Amazon and Twitter combined.
In 1950, people would greet one another as they walked down the street.
In 2020, Americans are too enamored with their cellphones to be bothered with actual human
contact.
In 1950, gum chewing and talking in class were some of the major disciplinary problems in our
schools.
In 2020, youffs are literally gunning down police officers in the streets.
In 1950, people would make an effort to dress up and look nice when they would go out in
public.
In 2020, most of the population has become utter slobs and "People of Walmart" has become one
of our most popular memes.
In 1950, the typical woman got married for the first time at age 20 and the typical man got
married for the first time at age 22.
In 2020, the typical woman gets married for the first time at age 27 and the typical man gets
married for the first time at age 29.
In 1950, a lot of people would leave their homes and their vehicles unlocked because crime
rates were so low.
In 2020, many that live in urban areas are deathly afraid of all the civil unrest that has
erupted, and gun sales have soared to all-time record highs.
In 1950, Americans actually attempted to parent their children.
In 2020, we pump our kids full of mind-altering drugs and we let our televisions and our
video games raise our children.
In 1950, Baltimore was one of the most beautiful and most prosperous cities on the entire
planet.
In 2020, Baltimore regularly makes headlines because of all the murders that are constantly
occurring. Of course the exact same thing could be said about many of our other major
cities.
In 1950, 78 percent of all households in America contained a married couple.
In 2020, that figure has fallen below 50 percent.
In 1950, about 5 percent of all babies in the United States were born to unmarried
parents.
In 2020, about 40 percent of all babies in the United States will be born to unmarried
parents.
In 1950, new churches were regularly being opened all over the United States.
In 2020, it is being projected that 1 out of every 5 churches in the U.S. "could be forced to
shut their doors in the next 18 months", and the mayor of Lubbock, Texas just said that
opening a new Planned Parenthood clinic is like starting a church.
In 1950, we actually had high standards for our elected officials, and people actually did
research on the candidates before they cast their votes.
In 2020, more than 4,000 people in one county in New Hampshire voted for a "transsexual
Satanic anarchist" in the Republican primary, and she is now the Republican nominee for
sheriff in Cheshire County.
In 1950, children would go outside and play when they got home from school.
In 2020, our parks and our playgrounds are virtually empty and we have the highest childhood
obesity rate in the industrialized world.
In 1950, front porches were community gathering areas, and people would regularly have their
neighbors over for dinner.
In 2020, many of us don't know our neighbors at all, and the average American watches more
than five hours of television a day.
In 1950, Americans used words such as "knucklehead", "moxie" and "jalopy".
In 2020, new terms such as "nomophobia", "peoplekind" and "social distancing" have been
introduced into the English language.
In 1950, the very first credit card was issued in the United States.
In 2020, Americans owe more than 930 billion dollars on their credit cards.
In 1950, one income could support an entire middle class household.
In 2020, tens of millions of Americans have lost their jobs and filed for unemployment, and
more than half of all households in some of our largest cities are currently facing "serious
financial problems".
In 1950, the American people believed that the free market should govern the economy.
In 2020, most Americans seem to believe that the government in Washington and the Federal
Reserve must endlessly "manage" the economy.
In 1950, "socialists" and "communists" were considered to be our greatest national
enemies.
In 2020, most of our politicians in Washington have eagerly embraced socialist and communist
policy goals.
In 1950, the U.S. Constitution was deeply loved and highly revered.
In 2020, anyone that actually admits to being a "constitutionalist" is considered to be a
potential domestic terrorist.
In 1950, the United States loaned more money to the rest of the world than anybody else.
In 2020, the United States owes more money to the rest of the world than anybody else.
In 1950, the total U.S. national debt reached the 257 billion dollar mark for the first time
in our history.
In 2020, we added 864 billion dollars to the national debt in the month of June alone. In
other words, we added over three times more to the national debt in that one month than the
total amount of debt that had been accumulated from the founding of our nation all the way to
1950.
In 1950, most Americans were generally happy with their lives.
In 2020, the suicide rate is at an all-time record high, and it has been rising every single
year since 2007.
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Where you from Kev? Ever live in or near a black neighborhood, maybe go to a school with a
high black population? Or did you spend your life in a lily White suburb where the only
blacks you ever met were domestic help or on TV? Try living the life of an average White
person stuck near a violent black population center, then get back to me. You are clueless
about race relations in the US.
@Mr. Rational e SHR data provide additional details about each homicide incident,
including the jurisdiction, month, year, victim and offender demographic characteristics,
weapon, the circumstances surrounding the incident (e.g., argument, robbery, gang-related),
and the relationship between the victim and offender, if known.
But that would not adequately account for your interaction point.
Another element I think should be added is relative risk from non/strangers of different
races. How many of the white on white murders are strangers compared to how many of the black
on white murders? Because I think the most obvious question is how to evaluate risk for random
interactions. Non-strangers can be evaluated as individuals to a larger degree.
One of the things about FBI/Justice Dept. violent crime statistics that has infuriated me
for decades is their damnable habit of lumping Hispanics and who-knows-what into the "White"
offender category.
Kevin is a kind hearted person, and I know he is coming from a place of not wanting to speak
ill of his circle of friends.
But the reality of life in America is that (murder aside) blacks violently attack white
people more than 1,500 times per day, each and every single day. (USBOJ Household survey)
Now, that is a very serious problem. Many of these black on white attacks are in ways that
are unbelievably serious, and would be completely unthinkable to white people, ie slashing or
gang beating someone just for "fun" and laughing while while you are doing it.
If noticing reality all around us and thinking that something should be done about it makes
someone racist, I guess I am racist, too.
@Rich ly beginning to gentrify) neighborhoods in San Francisco in the 1980s, when crime
rates were considerably higher than they are now. Also lived at the corner of Oakland, Berkeley
and Emeryville in 1992-3. I played pickup basketball with mostly black guys regularly
throughout many of those years. Subbed in the SF public high schools including one that was
majority black or close to it. Went to quite a few mostly-black parties in the Lower Haight. I
generally got along at least as well with black folks as with white folks.
Also when I lived in Paris in 1988-89 I hung out with and played on the Paris 8 basketball
team with mostly Africans. Our best player was a black guy from NYC.
Overall black folks are at least as nice as white folks, and in certain ways, more real.
Maybe you guys just haven't been hanging out with the right black people?
@Kevin Barrett er wrong action. Only white people are responsible for their own actions,
but not blacks because blacks are like good-natured children who lack full mental capacity and
only respond to their environment, which of course white people created. When you ask racist
liberal weenies like Kevin to point to low-crime black societies anywhere in deep Africa, they
cannot of course. Then white colonialism gets blamed. That there might be black moral turpitude
or at least deeply ingrained cultural patterns of depraved behavior in blacks is automatically
eschewed by racist liberal weenie circles in academia from whence Kevin came. And so because
the data will not be looked at nor new approaches considered, the problem of black criminality
has reached the point where it threatens the survival of America.
“Between 1980-2008, the U.S. Department of Justice found that 84% of white victims
were killed by white offenders and 93% of Black victims were killed by Black
offenders.”
So white victims were over 2x more likely to have been killed by blacks than vice-versa (16%
and 7% of cases). That white number also includes hispanics. The article also omits mention of
the black homicide rate being 8 times higher than whites+hispanics.
The argument that black-on-black violence is a greater problem than police violence entirely
misses the point. If I am confronted with a criminal, I have the legal right to defend myself.
If I am confronted by an aggressive police officer, I can invoke no such right.
Have you not ever had an interaction with a policeman? Did you enjoy how they disrespect
you, provoke you, dare you to defy them so they can assault you? They’ve done this to me,
a harmless white man who generally travels around in jeans and sneakers, maybe looking a little
rough around the edges even though I own rental property and a business. So it doesn’t
take much to picture how the thuggish bully-boy element so prevalent in the oinking fraternity
would act out against someone they consider without status.
Breaking the power of the policemen’s unions is an essential first step to remedying
rampant abuses in the system. The police are not members of the working class. They are agents
of state power and as such must be held to a very strict standard of conduct. In a republic,
there can be no greater crime than abuse of authority, be it by violence or corruption, by
those whom, in Thomas Jefferson’s memorable phrase, “we are obliged to entrust with
power.”
Such a betrayal of the public trust, by men entrusted with the power of life and death over
the citizenry, is the only transgression for which the death penalty is the truly appropriate
punishment and deterrent.
@Kevin Barrett 8221; – meaning me. They didn’t like it that the big white boy
was dunking on them.
I was then attacked by about 12 groids in a pre-meditated manner, and I know this for a fact
because I heard their planning.
The statistics are what they are, and people like you who are in la la land are annoying.
You are not connected to reality when you let your exceptional experiences overcome what others
are noticing.
I don’t allow my negative experiences with blacks overcome my ability to see many of
them as people. But, on the other hand, I don’t ignore the crime statistics.
Your willful ignorance is dangerous. Clown world is bad enough already without illogical
“exceptions makes the rules” blathering.
USA Today seems unaware of this and thinks they are clearing the air by trying to get to
the truth about race and crime. Hilarious.
Yes.
And the interracial crime stat they harp on helps hide the scope of Black crime.
There’s roughly six times more Whites in the US than Blacks, so a truly equal society
would have six times as many Blacks killed by Whites and vice versa.
So, per the 2018 stats, if twice as many Whites are killed by Blacks as vice versa, then
Blacks are killing at twelve times the rate of a “fair” society.
One factor these statistics oversimplify is that there is a topological overlay to the
issue. Vast sectors of the country are still overwhelmingly white, for example the north west
and southwest. That’s a huge area where any homicide will be by definition white on
white. And most blacks are de facto segregated into large inner cities, where most crime will
be black on black. These differential homicide rates pertain to the narrow border zones where
white and black interact.
Unfortunately, I live in precisely such a place and the relative homicide rates seem to me
to be like the meme. There have been paltry few white on white murders and these are mostly
within families, such as a guy killing his wife. Some drug related. The one white on black
murder I know of was more in the nature of manslaughter and was drug related. This received
national media attention! The black on white murders on the other hand are predatory, vicious
and comparatively common. If you are walking down the street you are much more afraid of a
black male than a white. That’s the reality from a deplorable on the ground like me.
You were good enough at basketball to be paid to do it, so good enough to run rings round
those SF black pick-up players and make a complete fool of some of them. I suspect you quickly
became careful not to do that, because you knew a humiliated male African American individual
would react with quite a bit more hostility that a white would have. Similarly, had you had been
getting a huge amount of attention from all the women at those mostly black Lower Haigh parties
the other men there would get very annoyed, and you would feel less threatened by the white ones.
You did not have that problem because you conducted yourself with humility and self control,
which was easier for you than a black athlete, AOTBE. CAL2 , says:
October 3, 2020 at 2:29 pm GMT
Out of white murders, 2,677 were committed by whites. However, 803 Hispanics are lumped into
the murder category. Let’s say half are white Hispanics. That means white-on-white
murders drop to 2,276 or 68%. Using the same model, black-on-black is at 86%. That is a more
significant difference.
@lavoisier before I got my growth spurt, I could out-run the black kids. They would also
say “catch that m-fuc!r” then as well. I took a lot of beatings, and it was always
5,6 or 7 to 1. Sometimes the numbers were much higher. The white liberal adults who ran the
school were completely out of their depth with regards to the black problem.
White men that don’t get it have not lived the same experiences… and further
they are ignoring data that is right in front of their face.
To ignore overwhelming data is quite a feat of denial. Denial on that level borders on a
form of pathology. Maybe they don’t want to admit the world is the way it is?
The races are different. The sexes are different. Liberalism is a mental disorder.
@PO'd in PG County . It actually means that while only 11% of black victimes are killed by
non-blacks, 19% of white vicitms are killed by non-whites, so nearly twice as many whites are
killed by blacks as vice versa, but since black population is only about 1/5 of white
population, it means that per capita blacks are killing almost ten times as many whites as vice
versa. (This leaves out the Hispanic obfuscation mentioned above.)
As others might have already said blacks are indeed about 8 times more likely to murder
whites based on percentages of the population using the 2018 statistics. I’d like to
think that most racially aware whites already know this, but the normies need to know.
USA Today frames the statistics in such a way to make it appear that there is parity
between blacks and whites and that “racist” whites are all up in arms over nothing
and it’s really all much ado about nothing.
A problem with the stat that 80% of whites are killed by whites and 90-93% of blacks are
killed by blacks is that it doesn’t factor in the number of whites killed by hispanics
since most years the FBI does not break them out as a separate racial category. If they did I
believe the true white on white murder rate would drop to between 60-70%.
The other area that the 80% for whites and 90% for blacks metric is misleading is that
whites commit less than half the homicides of blacks while being 4.5x numerous. Blacks commit
murder at about 8-9x the white rate when hispanics are factored out of the white rate.
The other thing mainstream outlets avoid is the dreaded 13/56, or blacks commit 56% of the
murders while only being slightly over 13% of the population. Meanwhile, assuming hispanics
commit murder at roughly their percentage of the population (18%) this means that blacks and
hispanics account for 76% of the 15-16K annual murders while whites account for just 24% while
being 59-60% of the population.
Without blacks and browns America truly would have crime rates more resembling Sweden or
Norway.
This guy. Sheesh.
I worked with hundreds upon hundreds of blacks @ FORDS FRAP. Many of whom were temps from
Detroit. I can speak from experience they are a net drain on a business or town/city.
The language.
The poor approach to job performance.
Lousy attitude/ demeanor.
I am owed and entitled.
Filthy break areas and cafeterias.
Theft of products and supplies.
Theft of time, they are almost genius at scheming in various ways to escape job duties.
The entrances and approaches, roadways and highways near the plant are dangerous. Especially
aftershift.
The fraudulent medical claims must cost FOMOCO enough to fund a small nation.
@Anonymous population 6 times that of blacks… blacks kill whites at a rate 1,5 times
higher than whites kill whites. So, only correcting for population size we get 50% higher rate
of black on white murder instead of USA Today’s 8%…
Further, given the still strong separation between races, assume that white-white encounters
are 5 times more prevalent than white-black encounters. That’s an extremely low-ball
estimate and the real number is somewhere between 10 and 20. With that correction, on
population and encounter basis, blacks are around 8 times more likely to kill whites than
whites – whites.
Let’s compare the USA Today number of 0.08 to the real number of 8… USA Today
lied 100 times over… fake media indeed.
I had essentially the same experience at a job that became infested with lower class blacks
from the hood except they’d scream racism any time they were held to account for any of
their misbehaviors and lack of performance. Plus they’d try to shift their workloads off
on every white person they could and-again -- any complaints about it and they’d screech,
“Racist!”
I learned to despise them for the content of their character. Any comment on their low life
character was immediately met with not only shrieks of racism but also shrieks of, “You
goan respeks me!” They were the foulest of the foul and were utterly contemptible.
@El Dato versa. A Hispanic was eight times more likely to attack a white person than vice
versa.
– in New York City, a black was 31 times more likely than a white to be arrested for
murder, and a Hispanic was 12.4 times more likely . For the crime of “shooting”
— defined as firing a bullet that hits someone — a black was 98.4 times more
likely than a white to be arrested, and a Hispanic was 23.6 times more likely.
– If New York City were all white, the murder rate would drop by 91 percent, the robbery
rate by 81 percent, and the shootings rate by 97 percent.
– In an all-white Chicago, murder would decline 90 percent, rape by 81 percent, and
robbery by 90 percent.
Since the largest threat facing the country is white supremacists, according to FBI Director
Chris Wray and Homeland Security acting chief
Tom Wolf , the Department of Homeland Security has agreed to provide $10 million in grants
to organizations which combat 'far-right extremism and white supremacy , ' according to the
Wall Street Journal .
The department's Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention program will fund groups such as
Life After Hate - founded by reformed white supremacists, which helps people trying to do the
same. Another group, the School of Communication at American University, will develop a
strategy to combat disinformation 'circulated by the far right online,' and others. Life After
Hate was awarded nearly $750,000, while the School of Communication received a $500,000
grant.
One of the largest grants, nearly $750,000, went to Life After Hate, which was founded by
former white supremacists and neo-Nazis and works with people trying to leave violent
far-right movements. The group was first awarded funding under the Obama-era program but had
its grant rescinded soon after Mr. Trump took office. -
Wall Street Journal
Life After Hate says they will use the funding for its ExitUSA initiative. Executive
director Sammy Rangel says their work "has never been more important," adding "This project
follows years of innovation in a space that was largely uncharted."
Another group, the Counter Extremism Project, was awarded $277,755 to collaborate with
Parallel Networks, which works with inmates at a San Diego County correctional facility who
adhere to both white supremacist of jihadi ideology .
The video of Daniel Shaver's murder was horrifying. It raises an important point. Studies
have shown that the police kill white suspects at the same or slightly higher rate than they
kill black suspects. Black police officers kill black suspects at the same rate that white
police officers kill black suspects. The people the police are killing are almost exclusively
poor people. The poverty rate of blacks is substantially higher than it is for white. That is
why they are disproportionately the victims of police violence. I will probably get flamed
for writing this but what we have in this country with respect to the cops killing black
people isn't a race issue. We have a police problem. Too many cops are trigger happy or just
too unstable to do the job. The man who killed Shaver should never have been allowed to be a
cop. Shaver was doing everthing he could to comply. He was murdered. There is no other word
for it.
I agree with you about George. Before anyone renders judgement, there has to be a trial.
It is hard to make the case that it was the cops intention to kill him. They had already
called for an ambulance. It isn't at all clear that he suffocated because of the knee on his
neck. Pressure on the side of the neck does not obstruct breathing. He was compromised with
Covid and he had a significant dose of fentanyl. Acquitals will set the country on fire.
Re: "Trump who gassed protesters demanding justice for George Floyd; murdered by police
suffocation"
I presume by that statement that you have no respect for the principle that a person
should be presumed innocent until proven guilty. As far as I am aware the trial has not yet
taken place. Personally I am always a little suspicious when conclusions are drawn and
announced by the media as if they were unarguable facts before all the evidence has been
revealed. i am also aware that I will be denounced as some sort of heretic for saying that
much. As the saying goes I 'may as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb'. For anyone who
hasn't seen the footage of the events leading up to the iconic scene, you can see it
here.
For anyone who is prepared to risk the heresy of doubting the sacred testament and
actually watch the video, the following becomes clear:-
George Floyd lied to the police repeatedly, he claimed he had just lost his mother, he
hadn't. He refused to sit in the police car claiming to be claustrophobic, yet when the
police arrived he was happily sitting in his own car, with the windows shut.
He was also clearly in an abnormal mental state, either intoxicated or mentally disturbed or
both. It is astonishing that someone so obviously paranoid about the police would refuse the
chance he was given to make good the transaction made with a counterfeit note, thus involving
the police in the first place.
He also clearly claimed that he couldn't breath before he was on the ground.
He asked to lay on the ground.
Additionally the toxicologists report suggests that he had a level of fentanyl in his blood
which would normally be regarded as a fatal dose, one of the effects of which is difficulty
breathing.
That video was deliberately withheld on the grounds that it might prejudice the trial, a
ludicrous decision given that the trial was already irredeemably compromised. I expect all
manner of indignant strawman attacks, accusations and insults to be aimed at me, for that is
the fate of heretics generally. I haven't the time or the inclination to carefully list all
the things that I am NOT saying, that would take forever. What I am saying is that a trial
has not yet happened and I am tired of hearing the event casually described as if it was a
clear cut deliberate public execution.
Perhaps people might like to view the following video for comparison and ask themselves
who they would prefer as an arresting officer.
Despite committing no crime and doing his best to cooperate totally with the police,
Daniel Shaver was gratuitously executed. Few people have even heard of him, he was not buried
in a golden casket with local dignitaries weeping and nobody burned down the neighbourhood.
The officer involved was exonerated and returned to duty until he was retired with a pension
due to the trauma that the incident had caused him.
The video of Daniel Shaver's murder was horrifying. It raises an important point. Studies
have shown that the police kill white suspects at the same or slightly higher rate than they
kill black suspects. Black police officers kill black suspects at the same rate that white
police officers kill black suspects. The people the police are killing are almost exclusively
poor people. The poverty rate of blacks is substantially higher than it is for white. That is
why they are disproportionately the victims of police violence. I will probably get flamed
for writing this but what we have in this country with respect to the cops killing black
people isn't a race issue. We have a police problem. Too many cops are trigger happy or just
too unstable to do the job. The man who killed Shaver should never have been allowed to be a
cop. Shaver was doing everthing he could to comply. He was murdered. There is no other word
for it.
I agree with you about George. Before anyone renders judgement, there has to be a trial.
It is hard to make the case that it was the cops intention to kill him. They had already
called for an ambulance. It isn't at all clear that he suffocated because of the knee on his
neck. Pressure on the side of the neck does not obstruct breathing. He was compromised with
Covid and he had a significant dose of fentanyl. Acquitals will set the country on fire.
"... AP is hardly the Ministry of Truth, dictating Newspeak under the penalty of torture. As it turns out, it doesn't have to be. A bit of updated style – and thought – guidance announced on Twitter from time to time will do. ..."
Used as the journalism Bible by most English-language media, the AP Stylebook has updated its guidance for employing the word 'riot,'
citing the need to avoid "stigmatizing" groups protesting "for racial justice."
While acknowledging the dictionary definition of riot as a "wild or violent disturbance of the peace," AP said the word
somehow "suggests uncontrolled chaos and pandemonium."
Worse yet, "Focusing on rioting and property destruction rather than underlying grievance has been used in the past to stigmatize
broad swaths of people protesting against lynching, police brutality or for racial justice " the Stylebook account tweeted on
Wednesday.
The claim that something has been used in the past in a racist way has already led to banishing many English terms to the Orwellian
"memory hole." It certainly appears the AP is trying to do the same with "riot" now.
Instead of promoting precision, the Stylebook is urging reporters to use euphemisms such as "protest" or "demonstration."
It advises "revolt" and "uprising" if the violence is directed "against powerful groups or governing systems,"
in an alarming shift in focus from what is being done towards who is doing it to whom .
There is even a helpful suggestion to use "unrest" because it's "a vaguer, milder and less emotional term for a condition
of angry discontent and protest verging on revolt."
Translated to plain English, this means a lot more mentions of "unrest" and almost no references to "riot," in media
coverage going forward, regardless of how much actual rioting is happening.
Mainstream media across the US have already gone out of their way to avoid labeling what has unfolded since the death of George
Floyd in May as "riots." Though protests in Minneapolis, Minnesota turned violent within 48 hours, before spreading to other
cities across the US – and even internationally – the media continued calling them "peaceful" and "protests for racial
justice."
Yet in just the first two weeks of the riots, 20 people have been killed and the property damage has
exceeded $2 billion , according
to insurance estimates – the highest in US history.
AP is no stranger to changing the language to better comport to 'proper' political sensitivities. At the height of the riots in
June, the Stylebook decided to capitalize"Black" and "Indigenous" in a "racial, ethnic or cultural sense."
A month later, the expected decision
to leave "white" in lowercase was justified by saying that "White people in general have much less shared history and culture,
and don't have the experience of being discriminated against because of skin color."
Moreover, "Capitalizing the term 'white,' as is done by white supremacists, risks subtly conveying legitimacy to such beliefs,"
wrote AP's vice-president for standards John Daniszewski.
The Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law, as its full name goes, has effectively dictated the tone of English-language
outlets around the world since it first appeared in 1953. It is also required reference material in journalism schools.
So when it embraces vagueness over precision and worrying about "suggestions" and "subtly conveying" things over
plain meaning, that rings especially Orwellian – in both the '1984' sense of censoring speech and thought and regarding the corruption
of language the author lamented in his famous 1946
essay 'Politics and the English language.'
AP is hardly the Ministry of Truth, dictating Newspeak under the penalty of torture. As it turns out, it doesn't have to be.
A bit of updated style – and thought – guidance announced on Twitter from time to time will do.
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"... The reason that the "mainstream" parties are in decline is that they are no longer willing to represent the interests of ordinary people. Both are the captives of special interest groups ..."
"... What I see happening seems to me to be less explained by Hannah Arendt than by Eric Hoffer in his book The True Believer. ..."
"... They are not accepting an evil, just banality of evil that goes unrecognized as evil for its very banality. They see the extremes, and as Hoffer wrote they are drawn by that extreme; that is the very appeal of it, not just something they excuse as if banal. ..."
The one thing I see in Maoist China, Nazi Germany and Czarist Russia/Soviet Union is that "freedom was curtailed" and the government
cracked down on "law and order." If you look at the intimidation tactics of individuals, couples, families at restaurants and
the assassinations of Police Officers, the violent riots, arson and looting in american cities you can see the justification for
the government to "crack down on freedoms" and restore "law and order" similar to Maoist China and Pre-War Germany but for different
reasons and justifications. If you look at the lefts handling of the Chinese biological weapon of terrorism COVID19 and the resulting
lock down of the economy and the enforced government closing of churches, synagogues and mosques then you can see similarities
in Maoist China, Nazi Germany and Bolshevik/Stalinist Soviet Union (and its satellites) but for different reasons and different
justifications.
-The radical elements pushing for civil war and revolution in the US arent reacting to hunger or the economy as they did in
Germany or Russia.
-The radical elements pushing for civil war and revolution in the US are fundamentally Marxist and are using feminism to pit
men and women against one another, to destroy marriage and family to abort children. Marxists are using Gay Rights to pit sexual
orientation of gays against sexual orientation of straights. Marxists are using the prejudice of minorities against the whites.
Marxists are again pitting poor against rich. Marxists fracture society into entitled and embittered tribes. Radical elements
are pushing for reparations and re-indoctrination as well as civil war and revolution. This is very close to the tactics of Maoist
China and it has been proven that George Soros and Peoples Republic of China are financing Antifa and Black Lives Matters..China
was too weak to fight the Maoist Communists so many fled to Taiwan. Russians were bribed to revolt against the Czar and put the
Bolsheviks into power. Germans were desperate and the Pre-Nazi government was to weak to restore the economy. Americans aren't
desperate. Americans are rich fat entitled and ridden with guilt for their blessings to the point where they are self destructive
so Americans dont have motivational similarities to the Germans or the Russians for revolution.
Strong Correlation to today
Todays indoctrination youth with their rabid faces and penchant for violence remind me much more of indoctrinated Maoists destroying
Chinese culture, attacking Chinese business owners and property owners to enforce a Cultural Revolution.
There was a fairly large economic diaspora during the Reagan years, as the heavy manufacturing (steel) and assembly (auto)
factories in what became know as the Rust Belt closed down and people moved South and West for better opportunities. (One of the
results of that diaspora s the nationwide popularity of the Pittsburgh Steelers, as thousands upon thousands of fans left western
PA and moved elsewhere but maintained their loyalty.)
"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction
between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards
of thought) no longer exist."
Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
Now, is it the right or left that is more anti-science and anti-fact? Who lies to us more, the right or left? Check PolitiFact
or any other reasonably balanced fact checker before you answer (No, Media Matters doesn't count). Which party's leader said:
"Just remember, what you are seeing and what you are reading is not what's happening,"
I mean neither have a clean slate here, they are human and are politicians, too. But Trump's avalanche of lies and unsupported
claims in Tuesday's "debate" makes it ridiculous to argue that Trump is on the side of fact, truth, and evidence.
Bingo. I live in an overwhelmingly liberal suburb of NYC. This place is sleepier than Mayberry. My wallet (with over $200 inside)
slipped out of my pocket while I was riding my bike. The police had called me to pick it up before I even realized that it was
missing.
Last week a two motorized skateboards were stolen, and someone shoplifted 5 cigars from the local tobacconist.
There is little sexual adventurism, no visible celebrations of perversion, and sexuality is largely a private matter. If you
told an off-color sexual joke at the local bar, you'd likely be asked to leave.
For a guy who cautions against living by lies, Rod would do well to engage some social and intellectual elites on a regular
basis. Visit places like Potomac, Maryland, or Princeton, New Jersey, or Swampscott, Massachusetts. The reality is that it's out
in "Christian America" that all of this stuff is running rampant.
"Democratic norms are under strain in many industrialized nations, with the support for mainstream parties of left and
right in decline."
The reason that the "mainstream" parties are in decline is that they are no longer willing to represent the interests of
ordinary people. Both are the captives of special interest groups (ethnic minorities and the radical Left in the case of
the Dems, and corporations and wealthy individuals in the case of the GOP). Middle America no longer has any place to go.
Thanks for this overview of Hannah Arendt's thought and its relation to current circumstances. Very insightful. I've been wanting
to read her book for a while now but have not yet done so.
"who today talks about totalitarianism?"
Political libertarians and social conservatives have for over 100 years been warning us of this coming totalitarianism. One
was even so astute as to see past the absolute dictatorships of the 20th century to what we have at our doorstep today.
"Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications
and to watch over their fate. That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident, and mild. It would be like the authority
of a parent if, like that authority, its object was to prepare men for manhood; but it seeks, on the contrary, to keep them
in perpetual childhood: it is well content that the people should rejoice, provided they think of nothing but rejoicing. For
their happiness such a government willingly labors, but it chooses to be the sole agent and the only arbiter of that happiness;
it provides for their security, foresees and supplies their necessities, facilitates their pleasures, manages their principal
concerns, directs their industry, regulates the descent of property, and subdivides their inheritances: what remains, but to
spare them all the care of thinking and all the trouble of living? Thus it every day renders the exercise of the free agency
of man less useful and less frequent; it circumscribes the will within a narrower range and gradually robs a man of all the
uses of himself. The principle of equality has prepared men for these things;it has predisposed men to endure them and often
to look on them as benefits. After having thus successively taken each member of the community in its powerful grasp and fashioned
him at will, the supreme power then extends its arm over the whole community. It covers the surface of society with a network
of small complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot
penetrate, to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided; men are seldom forced
by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting. Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it
does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing
better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd." - Alexis de Tocqueville
Another Tocquevillian quote that commands attention today:
"What good does it do me, after all, if an ever-watchful authority keeps an eye out to ensure that my pleasures will be tranquil
and races ahead of me to ward off all danger, sparing me the need even to think about such things, if that authority, even
as it removes the smallest thorns from my path, is also absolute master of my liberty and my life; if it monopolizes vitality
and existence to such a degree that when it languishes, everything around it must also languish; when it sleeps, everything
must also sleep; and when it dies, everything must also perish? There are some nations in Europe whose inhabitants think of
themselves in a sense as colonists, indifferent to the fate of the place they live in. The greatest changes occur in their
country without their cooperation. They are not even aware of precisely what has taken place. They suspect it; they have heard
of the event by chance. More than that, they are unconcerned with the fortunes of their village, the safety of their streets,
the fate of their church and its vestry. They think that such things have nothing to do with them, that they belong to a powerful
stranger called "the government." They enjoy these goods as tenants, without a sense of ownership, and never give a thought
to how they might be improved. They are so divorced from their own interests that even when their own security and that of
their children is finally compromised, they do not seek to avert the danger themselves but cross their arms and wait for the
nation as a whole to come to their aid. Yet as utterly as they sacrifice their own free will, they are no fonder of obedience
than anyone else. They submit, it is true, to the whims of a clerk, but no sooner is force removed than they are glad to defy
the law as a defeated enemy. Thus one finds them ever wavering between servitude and license. When a nation has reached this
point, it must either change its laws and mores or perish, for the well of public virtue has run dry: in such a place one no
longer finds citizens but only subjects."
You know, I'm a full Republican conservative, but in a way, I kinda think that maybe it wouldn't be a bad idea to have a similar
economy like what's in Venezuela, Cuba, Haiti, Iran, North Korea, etc, etc, etc, so that idiots that think that kind of life style
is good. THEN when they find out what it's like living in a WORKER'S PARADISE, they'll know.
What I see happening seems to me to be less explained by Hannah Arendt than by Eric Hoffer in his book The True Believer.
We are surrounded by the extreme emotions of people feeling desperate. They are grasping at whatever is on offer, and equally
likely to grasp at anything else offered.
They are not accepting an evil, just banality of evil that goes unrecognized as evil for its very banality. They see the
extremes, and as Hoffer wrote they are drawn by that extreme; that is the very appeal of it, not just something they excuse as
if banal.
The emotions are running to such extremes that politics breaks up longstanding friendships, and even families, as we saw in
the American Civil War. That did not happen in Germany's banal acceptance of evil and power.
Control requires widening the net, which requires expanding the parameters of government, which requires centralizing government
power, which when done in boiling frog manner, can take a couple of centuries or so. Yet here we have arrived.
It took a long time to get from there to here and getting from here to there will require tough duty.
Sensible people might opt for a modernized Articles of Confederation with reasonable limited taxation privileges and a modified
defense arrangement but of course sensible people are in low demand.
Should quoting you include that perhaps as many as 5 million Russian POW's also perished in the holocaust, and that it was
a good thing? I am saving this RD article much more for the commentary than what rod said. Anti-fascists and the radical left?
Yeah, right. Okay folks, show of hands. How many out there, identifying themselves as left or right, wish that world war 2 had
lasted longer? Bone spur patriotism seems to be on full display here.
"At universities within the University of California system, for example, teachers who want to apply for tenure-track
positions have to affirm their commitment to "equity, diversity, and inclusion" -- and to have demonstrated it, even if it
has nothing to do with their field."
It isn't just the U.C. schools. Here in Thousand Oaks, California, sits the campus of California Lutheran University - a private
institution ( though no longer "Lutheran" or indeed "Christian" in any meaningful sense of those words ). The faculty and staff
are undergoing frank re-education, in preparation for the loyalty oath. And, those who dare resist ( sadly, there are few ) are
simply shown the door. Any dissent is labelled "racist", "homophobic", etc., etc. The jackboots are echoing even in the quiet
streets of suburbia...
And the so-called California Ethnic Studies Curriculum ( based on critical race will soon be introduced as a mandatory high
school class. No class, no graduation. It's utterly chilling.
Hannah Arendt books is junk, as elements of totalitarim are present inmst modern sociery,
espcally neoliberal. The USA after 9/11 is one example.
Notable quotes:
"... Some émigrés who grew up in Soviet-dominated societies are sounding the alarm about the West's dangerous drift into conditions like they once escaped. They feel it in their bones. Reading Arendt in the shadow of the extraordinary rise of identity-politics leftism and the broader crisis of liberal democracy is to confront a deeply unsettling truth: that these refugees from communism may be right. ..."
"... Regarding transgressive sexuality as a social good was not an innovation of the sexual revolution. Like the contemporary West, late imperial Russia was also awash in what historian James Billington called "a preoccupation with sex that is quite without parallel in earlier Russian culture." Among the social and intellectual elite, sexual adventurism, celebrations of perversion, and all manner of sensuality was common. And not just among the elites: the laboring masses, alone in the city, with no church to bind their consciences with guilt, or village gossips to shame them, found comfort in sex. ..."
"... Heda Margolius Kovály, a disillusioned Czech communist whose husband was executed after a 1952 show trial, reflects on the willingness of people to turn their backs on the truth for the sake of an ideological cause: It is not hard for a totalitarian regime to keep people ignorant. Once you relinquish your freedom for the sake of "understood necessity," for Party discipline, for conformity with the regime, for the greatness and glory of the Fatherland, or for any of the substitutes that are so convincingly offered, you cede your claim to the truth. Slowly, drop by drop, your life begins to ooze away just as surely as if you had slashed your wrists; you have voluntarily condemned yourself to helplessness. ..."
"... You can also surrender it by hating others more than you love truth. ..."
"... In 2019, Zach Goldberg, a political science PhD student at Georgia Tech, found that over a nine-year period, the rate of news stories using progressive jargon associated with left-wing critical theory and social justice concepts shot into the stratosphere. The mainstream media is framing the general public's understanding of news and events according to what was until very recently a radical ideology confined to left-wing intellectual elites. ..."
"... For a man desperate to believe, totalitarian ideology is more precious than life itself. "He may even be willing to help in his own prosecution and frame his own death sentence if only his status as a member of the movement is not touched," Arendt wrote. Indeed, the files of the 1930s Stalinist show trials are full of false confessions by devout communists who were prepared to die rather than admit that communism was a lie. ..."
"... Similarly, under the guise of antiracism training, U.S. corporations, institutions, and even churches are frog-marching their employees through courses in which whites and other ideologically disfavored people are compelled to confess their "privilege." Some do, eagerly. ..."
"... "Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intellect and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty," wrote Arendt. ..."
"... President Donald Trump is a rule-breaker in many ways. He once said, "I value loyalty above everything else -- more than brains, more than drive, and more than energy." ..."
"... Trump's exaltation of personal loyalty over expertise is discreditable and corrupting. But how can liberals complain? Loyalty to the group or the tribe is at the core of leftist identity politics. This is at the root of "cancel culture," in which transgressors, however minor their infractions, find themselves cast into outer darkness. ..."
"... Beyond cancel culture, which is reactive, institutions are embedding within their systems ideological tests to weed out dissenters. At universities within the University of California system, for example, teachers who want to apply for tenure-track positions have to affirm their commitment to "equity, diversity, and inclusion" -- and to have demonstrated it, even if it has nothing to do with their field. ..."
"... De facto loyalty tests to diversity ideology are common in corporate America, and have now found their way into STEM faculties and publications, as well as into medical science. ..."
"... A Soviet-born U.S. physician told me -- after I agreed not to use his name -- that social justice ideology is forcing physicians like him to ignore their medical training and judgment when it comes to transgender health. He said it is not permissible within his institution to advise gender dysphoric patients against treatments they desire, even when a physician believes it is not in that particular patient's health interest. ..."
"... Like the imperial Russians, we Americans may well be living in a fog of self-deception about our own country's stability. It only takes a catalyst like war, economic depression, plague, or some other severe and prolonged crisis that brings the legitimacy of the liberal democratic order into question. ..."
"... If totalitarianism comes, it will almost certainly not be Stalinism 2.0, with gulags, secret police, and an all-powerful central state. That would not be necessary. The power of surveillance technology, woke capitalism, and fear of losing bourgeois comfort and status will probably be enough to compel conformity by most. ..."
"... At least at first, it will be a soft totalitarianism, more on the Brave New World model than the Nineteen Eighty-Four one -- but totalitarianism all the same. ..."
n 1951, six years after the end of World War II, the political philosopher Hannah Arendt
published The Origins of Totalitarianism , in an attempt to understand how such radical
ideologies of both left and right had seized the minds of so many in the 20th century. Arendt's
book used to be a staple in college history and political theory courses. With the end of the
Cold War 30 years behind us, who today talks about totalitarianism? Almost no one -- and if
they do, it's about Nazism, not communism.
Unsurprisingly, young Americans suffer from profound ignorance of what communism was, and
is. The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, a nonprofit educational and research
organization established by the U.S. Congress, carries out an annual survey of Americans to
determine their attitudes toward communism, socialism, and Marxism in general. In 2019, the
survey found that a startling number of Americans of the post-Cold War generations have
favorable views of left-wing radicalism, and only 57 percent of Millennials believe that the
Declaration of Independence offers a better guarantee of "freedom and equality" than The
Communist Manifesto .
Some émigrés who grew up in Soviet-dominated societies are sounding the alarm
about the West's dangerous drift into conditions like they once escaped. They feel it in their
bones. Reading Arendt in the shadow of the extraordinary rise of identity-politics leftism and
the broader crisis of liberal democracy is to confront a deeply unsettling truth: that these
refugees from communism may be right.
What does contemporary America have in common with pre-Nazi Germany and pre-Soviet Russia?
Arendt's analysis found a number of social, political, and cultural conditions that tilled the
ground for those nations to welcome poisonous ideas.
Loneliness and Social Atomization
Totalitarian movements, said Arendt, are "mass organizations of atomized, isolated
individuals." She continues:
What prepares men for totalitarian domination in the non-totalitarian world, is the fact
that loneliness, once a borderline experience usually suffered in certain marginal social
conditions like old age, has become an everyday experience of the ever-growing masses of our
century.
The political theorist wrote those words in the 1950s, a period we look back on as a golden
age of community cohesion. Today, loneliness is widely recognized by scientists as a critical
social and even medical problem. In the year 2000, Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam
published Bowling Alone , an acclaimed study documenting the steep decline of civil
society since midcentury and the resulting atomization of America.
Since Putnam's book, we have experienced the rise of social media networks offering a
facsimile of "connection." Yet we grow ever lonelier and more isolated. It is no coincidence
that Millennials and members of Generation Z register much higher rates of loneliness than
older Americans, as well as significantly greater support for socialism. It's as if they aspire
to a politics that can replace the community they wish they had.
Sooner or later, loneliness and isolation are bound to have political effects. The masses
supporting totalitarian movements, says Arendt, grew "out of the fragments of a highly atomized
society whose competitive structure and concomitant loneliness of the individual had been held
in check only through membership in a class."
A polity filled with alienated individuals who share little sense of community and purpose,
and who lack civic trust, are prime targets for totalitarian ideologies and leaders who promise
solidarity and meaning.
Losing Faith in Hierarchies and Institutions
Surveying the political scene in Germany during the 1920s, Arendt noted a "terrifying
negative solidarity" among people from diverse classes, united in their belief that all
political parties were populated by fools. Likewise, in late imperial Russia, Marxist radicals
finally gained traction with the middle class when the Tsarist government failed miserably to
deal with a catastrophic 1891-92 famine.
Are we today really so different? According to Gallup, Americans' confidence in their
institutions -- political, media, religious, legal, medical, corporate -- is at historic lows
across the board. Only the military, the police, and small businesses retain the strong
confidence of over 50 percent. Democratic norms are under strain in many industrialized
nations, with the support for mainstream parties of left and right in decline.
In Europe of the 1920s, says Arendt, the first indication of the coming totalitarianism was
the failure of established parties to attract younger members, and the willingness of the
passive masses to consider radical alternatives to discredited establishment parties.
A loss of faith in democratic politics is a sign of a deeper and broader instability. As
radical individualism has become more pervasive in our consumerist-driven culture, people have
ceased to look outside themselves to religion or other traditional sources of authoritative
meaning.
But this imposes a terrible psychological burden on the individual. Many of them may seek
deliverance as the alienated masses of pre-totalitarian Germany and Russia did: in the
certainties and solidarity offered by totalitarian movements.
The Desire to Transgress and Destroy
The post-World War I generation of writers and artists were marked by their embrace and
celebration of anti-cultural philosophies and acts as a way of demonstrating contempt for
established hierarchies, institutions, and ways of thinking. Arendt said of some writers who
glorified the will to power, "They read not Darwin but the Marquis de Sade."
Her point was that these authors did not avail themselves of respectable intellectual
theories to justify their transgressiveness. They immersed themselves in what is basest in
human nature and regarded doing so as acts of liberation. Arendt's judgment of the postwar
elites who recklessly thumbed their noses at respectability could easily apply to those of our
own day who shove aside liberal principles like fair play, race neutrality, free speech, and
free association as obstacles to equality. Arendt wrote:
The members of the elite did not object at all to paying a price, the destruction of
civilization, for the fun of seeing how those who had been excluded unjustly in the past forced
their way into it.
One thinks of the university presidents and news media executives of our time who have
abandoned professional standards and old-fashioned liberal values to embrace "antiracism" and
other trendy left-wing causes. Some left-wing politicians and other progressive elites either
cheered for the George Floyd race riots, or, like New York mayor Bill De Blasio, stood idly by
as thuggish mobs looted and burned stores in the name of social justice.
Regarding transgressive sexuality as a social good was not an innovation of the sexual
revolution. Like the contemporary West, late imperial Russia was also awash in what historian
James Billington called "a preoccupation with sex that is quite without parallel in earlier
Russian culture." Among the social and intellectual elite, sexual adventurism, celebrations of
perversion, and all manner of sensuality was common. And not just among the elites: the
laboring masses, alone in the city, with no church to bind their consciences with guilt, or
village gossips to shame them, found comfort in sex.
The end of official censorship after the 1905 uprising opened the floodgates to erotic
literature, a prefiguration of our century's technology-driven pornographic revolution. "The
sensualism of the age was in a very intimate sense demonic," Billington writes, detailing how
the figure of Satan became a Romantic hero for artists and musicians. They admired the diabolic
willingness to stop at nothing to satisfy one's desires and to exercise one's will.
Propaganda and the Willingness to Believe Useful Lies
Heda Margolius Kovály, a disillusioned Czech communist whose husband was executed after a 1952 show trial,
reflects on the willingness of people to turn their backs on the truth for the sake of an ideological cause: It is not hard for a totalitarian regime to keep people ignorant. Once you relinquish your
freedom for the sake of "understood necessity," for Party discipline, for conformity with the
regime, for the greatness and glory of the Fatherland, or for any of the substitutes that are
so convincingly offered, you cede your claim to the truth. Slowly, drop by drop, your life
begins to ooze away just as surely as if you had slashed your wrists; you have voluntarily
condemned yourself to helplessness.
You can surrender your moral responsibility to be honest out of misplaced idealism. You can
also surrender it by hating others more than you love truth. In pre-totalitarian states, Arendt
writes, hating "respectable society" was so narcotic, that elites were willing to accept
"monstrous forgeries in historiography" for the sake of striking back at those who, in their
view, had "excluded the underprivileged and oppressed from the memory of mankind."
For example, many who didn't really accept Marx's revisionist take on history -- that it is
a manifestation of class struggle -- were willing to affirm it because it was a useful tool to
punish those they despised. Consider the lavish praise with which elites have welcomed The
New York Times 's "1619 Project," a vigorously revisionist attempt to make slavery the
central fact of the American founding.
Despite the project's core claim (that the patriots fought the American Revolution to
preserve slavery) having been thoroughly debunked, journalism's elite saw fit to award the
project's director a Pulitzer Prize for her contribution.
Along those lines, propaganda helps change the world by creating a false impression of the
way the world is. Writes Arendt, "The force possessed by totalitarian propaganda lies in its
ability to shut the masses off from the real world."
In 2019, Zach Goldberg, a political science PhD student at Georgia Tech, found that over a
nine-year period, the rate of news stories using progressive jargon associated with left-wing
critical theory and social justice concepts shot into the stratosphere. The mainstream media is
framing the general public's understanding of news and events according to what was until very
recently a radical ideology confined to left-wing intellectual elites.
A Mania for Ideology
Why are people so willing to believe demonstrable lies? The desperation alienated people
have for a story that helps them make sense of their lives and tells them what to do explains
it. For a man desperate to believe, totalitarian ideology is more precious than life
itself. "He may even be willing to help in his own prosecution and frame his own death sentence if
only his status as a member of the movement is not touched," Arendt wrote. Indeed, the files of
the 1930s Stalinist show trials are full of false confessions by devout communists who were
prepared to die rather than admit that communism was a lie.
Similarly, under the guise of antiracism training, U.S. corporations, institutions, and even
churches are frog-marching their employees through courses in which whites and other
ideologically disfavored people are compelled to confess their "privilege." Some do,
eagerly.
One of contemporary progressivism's commonly used phrases -- the personal is political --
captures the totalitarian spirit, which seeks to infuse all aspects of life with political
consciousness. Indeed, the Left today pushes its ideology ever deeper into the private realm,
leaving fewer and fewer areas of daily life uncontested. This, warned Arendt, is a sign that a
society is ripening for totalitarianism, because that is what totalitarianism essentially is:
the politicization of everything.
Early in the Stalin era, N. V. Krylenko, a Soviet commissar (political officer), steamrolled
over chess players who wanted to keep politics out of the game.
"We must finish once and for all with the neutrality of chess," he said. "We must condemn
once and for all the formula 'chess for the sake of chess,' like the formula 'art for art's
sake.' We must organize shockbrigades of chess-players, and begin immediate realization of a
Five-Year Plan for chess."
A Society That Values Loyalty More Than Expertise
"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their
sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intellect and creativity is still the
best guarantee of their loyalty," wrote Arendt.
All politicians prize loyalty, but few would regard it as the most important quality in
government, and even fewer would admit it. But President Donald Trump is a rule-breaker in many
ways. He once said, "I value loyalty above everything else -- more than brains, more than
drive, and more than energy."
Trump's exaltation of personal loyalty over expertise is discreditable and corrupting. But
how can liberals complain? Loyalty to the group or the tribe is at the core of leftist identity
politics. This is at the root of "cancel culture," in which transgressors, however minor their
infractions, find themselves cast into outer darkness.
Beyond cancel culture, which is reactive, institutions are embedding within their systems
ideological tests to weed out dissenters. At universities within the University of California
system, for example, teachers who want to apply for tenure-track positions have to affirm their
commitment to "equity, diversity, and inclusion" -- and to have demonstrated it, even if it has
nothing to do with their field.
De facto loyalty tests to diversity ideology are common in corporate America, and have now
found their way into STEM faculties and publications, as well as into medical science.
A Soviet-born U.S. physician told me -- after I agreed not to use his name -- that social
justice ideology is forcing physicians like him to ignore their medical training and judgment
when it comes to transgender health. He said it is not permissible within his institution to
advise gender dysphoric patients against treatments they desire, even when a physician believes
it is not in that particular patient's health interest.
Intellectuals Are the Revolutionary Class
In our populist era, politicians and talk-radio polemicists can rile up a crowd by
denouncing elites. Nevertheless, in most societies, intellectual and cultural elites determine
its long-term direction.
"[T]he key actor in history is not individual genius but rather the network and the new
institutions that are created out of those networks," writes sociologist James Davison Hunter.
Though a revolutionary idea might emerge from the masses, says Hunter, "it does not gain
traction until it is embraced and propagated by elites" working through their "well-developed
networks and powerful institutions."
This is why it is critically important to keep an eye on intellectual discourse. Arendt
warns that the twentieth-century totalitarian experience shows how a determined and skillful
minority can come to rule over an indifferent and disengaged majority. In our time, most people
regard the politically correct insanity of campus radicals as not worthy of attention. They
mock them as "snowflakes" and "social justice warriors."
This is a serious mistake. In radicalizing the broader class of elites, social justice
warriors (SJWs) are playing a similar historic role to the Bolsheviks in prerevolutionary
Russia. SJW ranks are full of middle-class, secular, educated young people wracked by guilt and
anxiety over their own privilege, alienated from their own traditions, and desperate to
identify with something, or someone, to give them a sense of wholeness and purpose.
For them, the ideology of social justice -- as defined not by church teaching but by
critical theorists in the academy -- functions as a pseudo-religion. Far from being confined to
campuses and dry intellectual journals, SJW ideals are transforming elite institutions and
networks of power and influence. They are marching through the institutions of bourgeois
society, conquering them, and using them to transform the world. For example, when the LGBT
cause was adopted by corporate America, its ultimate victory was assured.
Futuristic Fatalism
To be sure, none of this means that totalitarianism is inevitable. But they do signify that
the weaknesses in contemporary American society are consonant with a pre-totalitarian state.
Like the imperial Russians, we Americans may well be living in a fog of self-deception about
our own country's stability. It only takes a catalyst like war, economic depression, plague, or
some other severe and prolonged crisis that brings the legitimacy of the liberal democratic
order into question.
As Arendt warned more than half a century ago:
There is a great temptation to explain away the intrinsically incredible by means of
liberal rationalizations. In each one of us, there lurks such a liberal, wheedling us with
the voice of common sense. The road to totalitarian domination leads through many
intermediate stages for which we can find numerous analogues and precedents. . . . What
common sense and "normal people" refuse to believe is that everything is possible.
If totalitarianism comes, it will almost certainly not be Stalinism 2.0, with gulags, secret
police, and an all-powerful central state. That would not be necessary. The power of
surveillance technology, woke capitalism, and fear of losing bourgeois comfort and status will
probably be enough to compel conformity by most.
At least at first, it will be a soft
totalitarianism, more on the Brave New World model than the Nineteen Eighty-Four
one -- but totalitarianism all the same.
A Czech immigrant to the U.S. who works in academia told me that this "is not supposed to be
happening here" -- but it is.
"Any time I try to explain current events and their meaning to my friends or acquaintances,
I am met with blank stares or downright nonsense," he says. His own young adult children, born
in America and indoctrinated into identity-politics ideology by public schooling, think their
father is an alarmist kook. Can anyone blame a man like this for concluding that Americans are
going to have to learn about the evils of totalitarianism the hard way?
I grew up under a socialist authoritarian state and I recognized it in the US 20 years
ago. In the Patriot Act, to be more precise. It was the very same kind of law that I saw
enacted in the early 70s back home that turned the tide of the regime to full out repression.
You're noticing it just now because authoritarianism became bipartisan, though you have been
quite comfortable since your tribe started it.
The week after 9/11, I wrote President Bush asking him not to let something like the
Patriot Act happen. I never got a reply and wondered ever since if it went astray (it was via
email) or if anyone even read it.
<sigh> There are credible arguments to be made against the drug war, for sure, but
how exactly did the Bill of Rights get "dumped"? OK I'm willing to concede that the Fourth
Amendment got stretched beyond recognition to accommodate no-knock warrants and the like.
Which of the rest of the Bill of Rights got dumped by the drug war?
If only liberals actually understood and believed in the 9th and 10th amendments, OTOH, we
might be able to restore federal governance to something resembling sanity.
Both the 9th and 10th Amendments were finally destroyed due to the drug war. The 2nd is
collateral damage due to the increased use of home invasion raids by law enforcement see the
"firearm enhancements". It can easily be argued that the increased militarization of law
enforcement due to the drug war is a violation of the 3rd Amendment. The long sentences due
given to people for possessing or selling a plant are a violation of the 8th Amendment. The
right to a jury trial has been gutted via voir dire and the refusal of courts to recognize
the natural right of all citizens to nullify unjust laws.
I am a liberal in the sense Patrick Henry was a liberal. We should have stuck with the
Articles of Confederation.
It can't be easily argued that the drug war runs into the 3rd amendment, that is
ridiculous. Nor is the 8th amendment really a great argument, although I do get where you're
coming from.
It's obviously completely contemptuous of the idea of enumerated powers like you said
before though. Why would you not mention the 4th, 5th, and 6th amendments, which had to be
gutted for it, or the ways it runs afoul of the 14th, or basically ignores the precedent set
by the 18th and 21st amendments.
I too see where you're coming from, though I think the 9th and 10th amendments were
already in tatters long before the drug war began. For that blame the now 100 year plus build
up of the administrative state (particularly under FDR and LBJ) and the Court's enabling of
it through imaginative readings of the Commerce Clause, delegation of powers, etc. Also blame
Congress's total dereliction of duty per the above.
Add on the scheme by which the Federal govt takes everyone's money, shuffles it around and
then hands it back to the states, but only under the condition that they do what the Federal
govt tells them to do. Thus no state actually gets to build/maintain roads, develop housing
programs, expand educational access or testing, and essentially anything else without
following a million federal edicts.
The very fact that a website like this exists, and we comment on it, suggests that.. No,
we are nit under Totalitarian oppression or even an authoritarian regime. Would Stalin or
even Brezhnev have tolerated a TAC critical of the ruling party? How about Hitler, Mussolini
or Franco?
Excellent point. There are, however, concepts such as "controlled opposition" and "soft
totalitarianism" as outlined recently in Rod Dreher's piece. The latter concerns me more.
As long as Americans believe that they are getting the carrot they will not notice the
slow encroachment of the stick, particulary if it's in the hands of large
mega-corporations.
You, sir, are correct. The totalitarianism rampaging toward us is going to be a
paradoxical mix of Sexual Revolution, Cultural Marxism, and Globalist Vampire Capitalism. It
will feature elements that seem to have been predicted in Zamyatin's We , Huxley's
Brave New World , and Orwell's 1984 . It also has been foretold in Robert Hugh
Benson's Lord of the World .
I'm sure you are well aware that Rod is not suggesting such a regime is here or coming. He
has described how censorship will work / is working in painfully repetitive detail (because
obviously people need to hear it over and over again).
Under soft totalitarianism, you will make the wrong response or refuse to affirm or refuse
to attend the required re-education workshop and your job and livelihood will be gone. Don't
pretend you don't understand Rod's argument.
Jonf is for the woke soft totalitarianism, a dangerous element in the church, we Orthodox
Christian's need to be on guard with Catechumens , and their motives for joining the Church,
as well as Cradle liberals who dominate institutions in jurisdictions like GOARCH
It had bipartisan support in Congress. Do you understand how the US legislative system
works? Presidents don't unilaterally introduce and approve legislation.
It wasn't introduced by Bush, but by a nobody Republican in Congress. The act has the paw
marks of Republicans through and through. Just 3 Republican congressmen voted against.
There's no point hiding behind the bipartisan curtain.
There is much yet to be answered for in the Patriot Act origins and how it came to be
passed before anyone voting on it had a chance to read it once much less review it with
propper staffing.
That Act was sitting on a shelf, like a time bomb, waiting for its chance. I suspect it
was part of the preparations for an apocalyptic, dystopian America after a nuclear war.
It was pulled off that shelf because it was what they had on the shelf, it was there so
they used it.
"Can anyone blame a man like this for concluding that Americans are going to have to learn
about the evils of totalitarianism the hard way?"
Americans have never learned anything the easy way. They don't learn the hard way
either.
"Among the social and intellectual elite, sexual adventurism, celebrations of perversion,
and all manner of sensuality was common."
Let no future commisar say that I didn't do my part for the revolution! I stand ready to
humbly serve the people in the creation of an appropriate ministry for perversion.
Those who will have less than five sexual partners a year and do not switch gender in over
two years will be chastised for the term of 10 years by legislation.
When you remove God from your life, the inner desire implanted by God to look for the true
meaning in life, & the desire to do good instead of evil remain strong. For most people,
the "obvious" path is to give meaning to one's life is to follow the feel-good "social
justice" road, a form of false humanism (for man & by man alone), ie, social justice
without God that tries to create a paradise on earth (same way that communism tried to create
a utopia without God).
Many young Americans no longer believe in God's relevance & His authority over their
lives. This normally starts with the loss of respect for the authority of parents who
represent God in the home (even Jesus was obedient to his mortal parents). The gradual
destruction of the "domestic church", the family, in American homes is one of the immediate
goals of radical agenda (eg, gender conflicts & confusion, gender id, gender choice,
abortion, contraception, women liberation, etc) that results in increasing number of divorce
& single-parent homes.
The only way to correct the path to a radical secular future is for people, esp the young,
to regain their faith in God. The question is how. Evangelization is one. One can evangelize
by words &or by acts. St Franscis of Assisi is often quoted to have said: When you
evangelize, sometimes you need to use words. I think Rod is doing both through his books.
If God isn't implanted in a child's mind at a young age, it most likely never will.
People, in there 20's, who never went to church are unlikely to ever become Christians. If
you don't believe Heaven and Hell exist, why do you need a Savior? Look at the number of
young families with young children at Church, and consider how many aren't there. That's the
future.
The idea of God doesn't need to be implanted in a child's mind. A child (and every person
for that matter) intuitively knows that there has to be a Creator, an afterlife, and Divine
Justice. As proof, I offer the fact that every civilization that has ever existed has had a
religion with the aforementioned elements. Atheism did not appear until Marxism, and even
then, in the Soviet Union / Russia, it did not succeed in eradicating faith and religion,
which are as innate as love and sex.
Unfortunately for you atheism long predates Marxism. Look to the early Greeks for the
first recorded instances of non-believers. Try
https://en.wikipedia.org/wi... for a overview.
>"The only way to correct the path to a radical secular future is for people, esp the
young, to regain their faith in God."
Exactly the thinking powering Daesh. What is wrong with people being able to decide for
themselves what religion if any they want? Why is a secular state a radical idea? The US is a
secular state and it has served the US well.
So Revolution or Civil War?
I keep hearing about one or the other, but only on the Internet.
I am of the opinion that we Americans are far too comfortable and have no stomach for
privation.
We will continue to lurch along as always.
Does it really matter what "Americans" want? The very thesis of the article is that 'we'
will do the bidding of the influential elites, regardless of whether we a) approve of their
objectives, or b) are even aware of them. Like the article says, the vast majority of
Americans mistakenly think that, so long as they have their routine, their job, their kids,
their personal little patch of America complete with white picket fence, then, hey, how can
things go wrong? "We" won't, wouldn't, couldn't, allow such a revolution or civil war to
happen---why, there isn't even enough time to worry about it!
When a riotous mob of crazed BLM/ANTIFA soldiers comes marching up your peaceful street,
you will become part of the 'revolution', like it or not.
Totalitarian Romanov Russia united with secular pluralist France against Germany in the
lead-up to WWI. Similarly in WWII, totalitarian Marxist Russia united with the Western
democracies to defeat Nazi Germany. The pattern is common place in history. Alliances reveal
countries' motivations for war. And all are motivated by power.
https://www.ghostsofhistory...
I'll ask again (serious question): for conservatives who think we live in "Weimar
America", isn't one of the major lessons for conservatives from Weimar Germany that when
you're faced with the distasteful option of allying yourselves with liberals and the
center-left, or allying yourselves with fascists and their street militias, it's important
not to make the decision that German Nationalists did in the early 1930s?
We were allied with one of the biggest mass murderers in history during World War 2.
Joseph Stalin. Facts are facts and the facts are fascism is a leftist ideology.
To be fair, you can 'love' someone's ruling style and still go to war with them. Politics
and warfare are about seizing power, not expressing admiration for the qualities of
rivals.
To clarify, I didn't mean "love" in a personal or an emotional sense. In the case of World
War II, democratic nations were opponents of fascist nations.
I don't know what histories you have been reading but Adolph Hitler had no use for FDR as
like many other European politicians of the day, they saw FDR as a relatively ignorant
man.
The Nazis were basically 1848 (leftist) revolutionaries, who supported egalitarianism for
German men and ethnonationalism (which was a very leftist idea when it was new). True
reactionaries, like the King of Prussia in 1848, definitely did not share those values.
Can someone explain to me what the point of these arguments are? I always see people
saying the Nazis were leftists, but even if I agreed with the claim what difference does it
make to massappeal's point?
Most commentators put the Nazis on the far right. They themselves considered Nazism to be
a "third way" between Capitalism and Communism. It's clear that the defining traits of Nazism
are totalitarianism, nationalism, social darwinism, and virulent anti-semitism. Like
communism and other forms of Facism, it is a revolutionary political movement. They also
supported massive government spending and social welfare programs for "aryans", in a kind of
state-dominated capitalism. It is also true that Ernst Rohm and the SA wanted a socialist
revolution to follow the Nazi's national revolution, but they were betrayed and Rohm was
executed for being too radical.
There's the truth. Facts are Facts. So what if they are leftist or rightist? I really
don't understand the value of this argument. Is this a way to link Democrats to Nazis? Seems
as ridiculous as trying to link Republicans to them.
The point is obfuscation of reality from the US right, which has increasingly become
enmeshed in world divorced from reality. Of course no respected historian places the Nazis as
a Left ideology. There is some argument as to whether fascism/Nazism was Right, or neither
left or right. But as an ideology, fascism and Nazism are illiberal, nationalist, and
concerned with "natural hierarchies" which are anathema to "left" thought.
Anyone stating otherwise is either exceedingly stupid or not arguing in good faith. Either
way, there is no point in engaging them or in giving them any platform to spout their
nonsense. Shut them down, block them, mock them, and move on.
And conservatives wonder why they've "unwelcome" in academia...If you want to be taken
seriously, you need to think seriously.
Penetrating insight. Of course, I am sure you are right. I want to give people a chance to
defend themselves though, because I would truly love to be proved wrong and shown something
of which I am ignorant.
I really appreciate the response. I read the synopsis and gather that the argument is
somewhat similar to one which I have heard before, which is that all modern political
movements are borne of the enlightenment, which is something I certainly agree with. There
are certainly underpinnings under every modern party that find their root in the
enlightenment.
The book you provided seems to be not quite that exact theory though, and of course I
haven't read the whole thing...yet. But I honestly will, and I really appreciate the
recommendation! Truth is truth, and it has no ideology. I will read it with an open mind.
The history of right and left, nationalist and internationalist, liberal and conservative
is very complex and confusing. And it is different in America than it is in Europe. America
started out mostly Protestant and Liberal (in the classical sense), so any right wing or
conservative movement in the US would have these foundations. In Europe, conservatives were
Catholic and Monarchist.
But Monarchy gets a bad rap in American public schools and universities, dominated as they
were by Protestant and Liberal thinking at their founding and by Progressive and Socialist
thinking now.
Here is a definition of the Right by EvKL (in the book):
"The true rightist is not a man who wants to go back to this or that institution for the
sake of a return; he wants first to find out what is eternally true, eternally valid, and
then either to restore or reinstall it, regardless of whether it seems obsolete, whether it
is ancient, contemporary, or even without precedent, brand new, "ultramodern." Old truths
can be rediscovered, entirely new ones found. The Man of the Right does not have a
time-bound, but a sovereign mind. In case he is a Christian he is, in the words of the
Apostle Peter, the steward of a Basileion Hierateuma, a Royal Priesthood"
And here the difference between Right and Left:
"The right stands for liberty, a free, unprejudiced form of thinking, a readiness to
preserve traditional values (provided they are true values), a balanced view of the nature
of man, seeing in him neither beast nor angel, insisting also on the uniqueness of human
beings who cannot be transformed into or treated as mere numbers or ciphers; but the left
is the advocate of the opposite principles. It is the enemy of diversity and the fanatical
promoter of identity. Uniformity is stressed in all leftist utopias, a paradise in which
everybody should be the "same," where envy is dead, where the "enemy" either no longer
exists, lives outside the gates, or is utterly humiliated. Leftism loathes differences,
deviation, stratifications. Any hierarchy it accepts is only "functional." The term "one"
is the keynote: There should be only one language, one race, one class, one ideology, one
religion, one type of school, one law for everybody, one flag, one coat of arms and one
centralized world state"
"The rightists are "federalists" (in the European sense), "states' righters" since they
believe in local rights and privileges, they stand for the principle of subsidiarity."
Beautiful quotes, my friend, I especially appreciate the latter one. I have not gotten far
in the book, only 60 pages or so but I already find it fascinating, and I have gotten to that
quote exactly, actually.
As a passing note, I will say that I doubt WilliamRD meant what you mean, though I could
be mistaken. And I think defining Nazism as a leftist philosophy requires a semantic
argument, which redefines "right" and "left" into something different than popular American
political discourse defines it. And in fact, under these definitions, the Republican Party is
at least partially leftist.
However, EvKL is clear that this is what he is doing, and you were clear yourself that we
need to break out of these definitions. I couldn't agree more with you on that. Thanks for
sending me the link, you've made me wiser.
You are a rare and beautiful soul! I can't believe you've already read that far into the
book. I will try and learn from your example, the next time someone sends me a link.
And yes, the Republican party has been infiltrated by Leftism. I'm going to give you a
book link on this too, but you don't have to read it right away! Just download it, and put it
away in your files for later. It's a true story that is important to know and it gets to the
heart of the American Conservative / Neoconservative divide.
Fair enough. To me it's analogous to listening to someone try and argue that 1+1=7. I'm
just not sure that someone attempting such a calculation has the rational faculties to
provide anything worth hearing, and I don't like lending legitimacy to every silly position
that a person can take. Life is short, and I prefer to hear from people who demonstrate that
they're playing with a full deck and arguing in good faith. The "Leftists are the Real
Racists" crowd is certainly neither of those.
Edit: And hilariously, there is an actual RW goofball on this article's comment section,
posting Nazi/Fascist sympathies (@Raskolnik) . So, the proof is in the TAC comments I
guess...
The genetic fallacy definition can be found many places. If you read it, you might sound a
little less dumb in public. And the AAIHS is not a racist journal. I know anything with
"African American" in it seems to set off a very fragile segment of aggrieved whites, but I'm
sure you could judge the article based on its content. I'd link to some others, but given
what you've said so far, it seems unlikely you have access to JSTOR or any other legitimate
academic resources. At this point all you're really accomplishing is offering more evidence
that Right Wingers are almost allergic to information that contradicts their indoctrination.
There's a reason your numbers are falling in legitimate academic institutions, and it isn't
due to the secret cabal of communists that seem to haunt your daydreams. It's that your
positions are asinine and you're incapable of arguing effectively and supporting your
positions with evidence.
I'm just applying the same rules to blacks as get applied to whites. Imagine what the ADL
or SPLC would say of an online journal called "White Perspectives" that teaches "white
history."
I have not committed the genetic fallacy. I not only attack the source of Leftism. I
attack it's present manifestation and the false Left / Right paradigm those in its service
have constructed in order to lead us ever leftward.
Leftism's founding principle is equality. Stated synonymously, and with much historical
affirmation, this means uniformity.
The modern Left supposedly prides itself on diversity but this diversity is only skin
deep. It still craves uniformity. It has just learned that it needs brown skin in positions
of power to supplant white nonconformance, it's main opponent. The Left cannot even tolerate
the opinions of those it disagrees with. This is why it labels everyone who disagrees with
it's radical social engineering program a deplorable or a racist or an outright Nazi.
An actual theocratic monarchist reactionary would consider Nazism to be leftist, and ideas
of 'racial superiority' or 'racial guilt' or whatever to be very modern ideas.
Please expurgate your naïve realism - it's all a matter of perspective. To someone
with current mores, the Nazis, a rehash of the ethno-nationalist 1848 Revolutions in Germany,
are unspeakably reactionary. To someone with pre-Enlightenment values, they're beyond far
left. Please read something written by someone who was a 'leftist' in his own day, and it
will almost always be unspeakably reactionary by the contemporary standards of even those
'white supremacists' that you so hate. Here's some anti-immigrant racist Benjamin Franklin
for you:
"Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will
shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will never
adopt our Language or Customs, any more than they can acquire our Complexion.
24. Which leads me to add one Remark: That the Number of purely white People in the World
is proportionably very small. All Africa is black or tawny. Asia chiefly tawny. America
(exclusive of the new Comers) wholly so. And in Europe, the Spaniards, Italians, French,
Russians and Swedes, are generally of what we call a swarthy Complexion; as are the Germans
also, the Saxons only excepted, who with the English, make the principal Body of White People
on the Face of the Earth. I could wish their Numbers were increased. And while we are, as I
may call it, Scouring our Planet, by clearing America of Woods, and so making this Side of
our Globe reflect a brighter Light to the Eyes of Inhabitants in Mars or Venus, why should we
in the Sight of Superior Beings, darken its People? why increase the Sons of Africa, by
Planting them in America, where we have so fair an Opportunity, by excluding all Blacks and
Tawneys, of increasing the lovely White and Red? But perhaps I am partial to the Complexion
of my Country, for such Kind of Partiality is natural to Mankind. "
This block of text is nothing but another incoherent rambling from a markedly unserious
thinker. You've outed yourself repeatedly as an idiot or an ideologue. Either way, you're not
worth another breath of response.
Yes, if you simply throw out all logic and available evidence, Hitler and Mussolini were
on the political left. And if you simply redefine the entire color spectrum, the sky is green
and the sea is orange.
This is like History 101 people, get with the damn program.
Jack, if there is a nail and a head---you HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD!
People do seem to try to put all of this in a left-right mindset which is more "tribal
identity" than reality.
Broadly speaking ...repeat....broadly speaking----Russia and Stalin were an economic
system-philosophy while Hitler carried on the German culture model of Martin Luther, which
was much more GERMAN NATIONALISM -with a well documented anti-Semitism on steroids.
One was economic systems and the other one was nationalism. To put either into a
leftist-rightist camp doesn't work with today's terminology.
The same way that it is not possible to call Trumpicans either conservative or liberal.
The economic policies put in by Trump are reckless and certainly not conservative.
The 'point' is to establish stigma by association. History is only useful in politics when
it can used against one's enemies, either by associating with something valued or associating
stigmatized history with one's enemies. It's also possible for history to be stigmatized due
to its use by political enemies.
The point is to score points for your tribe. I find the terms "left" and "right"
increasingly useless. If they ever had value, that value is largely lost. This is especially
true in the US, where left and right seem determined to degenerate into each's caricature of
the other.
The point is to break out of the Left / Right paradigm as it's been presented to us by
those who mean to rule us. Anybody who seriously opposes the Leftwing's steady march towards
Communism, is labeled a far-right winger, and is put in the company of Nazis. They then
become untouchable by normal people who have not devoted any time into historical or
ideological inquiry.
This game forces normal people into the middle, and in the middle they pose no meaningful
threat to the Leftward march of the establishment, because the middle cannot find the
leverage to arrest its progress. The middle's only hope is to slow it down somewhat.
Fascism has perhaps not been 'on the Left' because, historically it has always arisen to
fight communism, which is the farthest Left you can get (so anything opposed to it seems, by
comparison, Right), but it is fully a child of the radical Left nationalism born of the
French Jacobins. It's certainly not a grandchild of the European monarchies, though
conservatives have at times had to ally with it as the lesser of two evils when confronted by
communism.
In the end it was a catastrophic economic meltdown--in their case taking the form of
metastatic inflation--which sent Germany off the edge of the cliff and into the abyss. So it
will be with the US. Pray we don't have a recurrence of 2007. Or worse!
There was a thing called the Great Depression that started in America but spread to Europe
quickly in 1929. Hitler came to power when millions of German workers lost their jobs and had
no way of supporting themselves and their families.
Yep. And Hitler came to power because German Nationalists (the conservative party) formed
an alliance with him, rather than with the center-left and liberal parties.
Nationalism, German or otherwise, is not particularly conservative. The most intelligent
conservative since Burke was Prince Metternich, who regarded nationalism as his greatest
enemy, especially German nationalism.
Yes, the actual hyperinflation did indeed end around that time but by then the economic
die had already been cast. The cumulative effect upon the German middle and, especially, the
working class, farmers, "petite bourgeoisie" etc.,would devastate the country through the
remainder of the 20s and into the 30s (my father and his parents, who were working class
Social Democrats, had to get out by 1928 and were lucky to gain admittance into the US as the
doors were being closed on immigration at the time). As to 2007 I totally agree that
inflation was not a factor. I was evidently unclear but--that really wasn't my point. The
absence of inflation notwithstanding, we know that the economy went into the soup in 2007--so
much so that, to date, we have not fully recovered. My main point is to express the fear that
if it were to happen again for whatever reason, if you factor in the "Kulturkampf" within
which American society is currently embroiled we are going to have one HELL of a mess on our
hands.
And given that, isn't it all the more important to try to avoid the political mistakes
German conservatives made in the early 1930s when they chose to ally themselves with the
Nazis?
Yes, it is. As we see here, conservatives like Rod think they can control the extremists.
No snark this time, they really believe that.
They couldn't even control Trump.
I think the bigger concern is the alliance of the center left with two marxist movements
especially considering the right cannot ally with nazis as there are no comparable nazi
organizations available
One of the three co-founders of BLM stated in an 2015 interview that she, Patrice Collers,
and one other cofounder, Alizia Garza, are trained marxists. If the leadership claims they
are marxist, then what is the BLM movement?
Anarchists and Marxists simply have different methods of achieving the same goal. For an
example of anarchist goals, see the collectivist actions of the Catalonian anarchists during
the Spanish Civil War.
These are both anti-democratic and dangerous movements which the center left is happy to
work with.
It was the ruinous inflation of 1923 COMBINED with the high unemployment in 1932 that
encouraged millions of ordinary Germans to vote for the Nazis twice in 1932. Some wealthy
Republicans seem to forget this as they lobby for more tax cuts and foreign aid to Israel.
They also appear to forget that the period 1871-1914 was something of a "Golden Age" for
German Jews. Germany's defeat in WWI AND the harsh peace treaty imposed on it by the other
side were more than enough to offset the benefits of a new democratic constitution adopted in
Weimar in 1919.
It is hard to believe that two decades ago, the US budget actually turned positive for a
brief period of time, that the national debt was expected to be paid off in a decade or so
and that some economists were wondering how the Fed would conduct monetary policy if there
were no Treasury securities to buy and sell. They need not have worried. These days, the
national debt is out of control. Instead of worrying about the future, I can take consolation
in the fact that I have outlived (by more than a decade) all of my father's relatives who
were still living in Poland in 1939. For them, the end of the line was an extermination camp
called Belzec.
It wasn't just the 1929 Depression that caused so much hardship in Germany. In 1933 after
Adolph Hitler came to power and Germany was just beginning to crawl out of the shock of their
own depression, the international Jewish Community (Zionists) launched its economic war on
Germany, which native, German Jews pleaded with their western brethren to not do. Ignoring
the German Jews requests, the economic war against Germany persisted, causing massive
economic disruptions as the popularity of this endeavor was picked up around the world...
The first anti-Jewish measure put in place by Nazi Germany started on April 1, 1933 when
Aryan Germans were encouraged by the government to boycott Jewish businesses in Germany. The
boycott was the first of many anti-Jewish measures taken by the Nazis over the next 12 years.
This boycott was followed on April 7, 1933 with the forced retirement of most non-Aryan (i.e.
Jewish) civil servants in the country and a book burning of books by Jewish authors on May
10. There is a whole list of anti-Jewish measures taken by Nazi Germany in the museum catalog
"Jews in German under Prussian Rule". Used copies are available at Amazon.
The economic response by Jews living outside Germany was a failure. It was the Battle of
Stalingrad and the brutal Russian winter of 1942-43 that turned the tide of WWII in
Europe
Bit off topic but not long ago I read that of all the major industrial countries the one
that supposedly suffered the least from the effects of the Depression-- was England!
The conservatives (right-liberals) have done nothing but ally with the left-liberals
against the "fascists" (actual right wing) since 1945. Their entire raison d'etre is to lose
gracefully while preventing the actual right wing from ever coming anywhere near power.
I would call that "overfitting," expecting to find exact matches among the parties
involved. My lessons:
- people can be given scapegoats in lieu of hope. "Yes, we've gutted manufacturing and
flooded the country with low-skill illegal labour, but what's keeping you down is systemic
racism. There is a secret hatred for the colour of the skin inside all white people. They
can't even see it themselves, but it's there. Just look at all these stories from the Jim
Crow era and get angry about them again, and you'll find that if you don't for me you're not
really black."
- nothing's more dangerous than a well-meaning good person convinced they're better than
everyone else, led about by skilled propagandists with total control of news and
entertainment.
- projection and false flag operations are at the top of the propagandist's toolbox. If
you're "fighting racism," you can see race everywhere and treat it as the defining aspect of
every person you meet and the source of all their opinions. If you're "fighting fascism" you
can dress in black and run around starting fires, attacking Senators, and shooting people for
their political beliefs. If you convince everyone "white supremacist terror groups" are the
biggest threat to the country you can unleash rioters on every major city to fight one rather
well-behaved seventeen-year-old in one city. You can unleash a steady stream of hoaxes:
Russiagate, a short clip of the longer George Floyd video that obscures why he died, the
Covington Catholic Smirk of Supremacy, bleach and "This is MAGA country." It doesn't matter.
The bigger the better: people will always believe the big lie.
You should think about your own role in all this. What part of Weimar are you playing?
Thanks for your thoughtful response. To answer your question, I play a
small-to-the-point-of-insignificance role these days, trying to lower the political
temperature in this time of pandemic, and trying to make the case for small 'd' democracy as
the best (and highly imperfect) method for dealing with the challenges we face.
It's in that context that I find hope in the growing number of conservatives (most
recently, former Montana governor and RNC chair Marc Racicot) who are placing "country over
party" and stating their support for Biden, not because they agree with his policies but
despite their disagreement with them.
These folks are not putting "country over party". They are tied into the Uniparty ruled by
the oligarchs doing the bidding of their masters.
Putting "country over party" would require them calling for the arrest of all those who
were involved in the Russian collusion hoax, Spygate, and everything else, from Obama on
down.
Putting "country over party" would require them to put the well-being of the citizens
first and support an end to endless war and to support enforcing immigration law and fixing
trade.
No, these every alleged Republican or conservative supporting Biden is showing that they
are and have always been a fraud who doesn't believe what they preached and would rather
continue in the good graces of the rich and powerful that really rule the country.
Support for country over politics and personal gain. Going back to the "normalcy" of the
pre-Trump political order. Pick one. You don't get both.
Anyone who tells you how important it is for "the good of the nation" to go back to the
long list of careerist politicians, hacks, and establishment elite who have governed it
towards its ruination must first make the case that the "norms" of American political culture
were good and righteous or (even from a strictly amoral view) practically useful. They never
do, though.
It's always asserted as if it is a self-evident fact that we need to go back to the days
of Bushes, Clintons, and Bidens, but nobody can really explain why.
Leftists don't want us as allies, and the 'street militias' are almost entirely leftist.
Institutional elites in Germany supported National Socialism, while in the US today they
support leftists.
Thanks for your response. Sure, there are those on the left who want nothing to do with
centrists and conservatives. (Heck, some of them barely tolerate liberals.) But the
Democratic party chose its most moderate candidate as its standard-bearer in this election,
and Biden has made clear he welcomes the support of centrists and conservatives and
Republicans.
(As for militias, per the FBI (not known as a bastion of liberalism) right-wing militias
are by far the largest domestic terrorism threat.)
Like the Republican party in the Trump era, there is no longer such a thing as the
Democratic party in its traditional sense. As the GOP is an empty vessel now filled with
Trumpism, the Democratic party is an empty vessel being filled with progressivism (an ongoing
process). The traditional Democrats (like old-school moderate African-Americans) who put
Biden over the top in the primary are otherwise powerless in the party.
Biden has made it clear that he will not push back against the far Left in any way - in
his refusal to comment on packing SCOTUS, ending the Senate filibuster, ending the electoral
college (the lack of an answer to these being itself an answer), in his absorption of much of
Bernie's platform into his own, in his silence on urban riots and looting until campaign
people told him it was affecting polling (and his response since has been tepid at best).
He lied gleefully (Trumpily?) during the debate about the prog platform - his own campaign
website lists support for GND and an expanded "reimagining" of the suburbs among many other
progressive goals which Trump is too inarticulate and ignorant to frame sensible arguments
against.
The Democrats are planning to govern on the basis of vengeance and revolution. The mood of
the base could not be more clear.
Thanks for your response. Unlike the Republican party, the Democratic party still has a
party platform that extends beyond (far beyond, 90 pages beyond) fealty to its party leader.
As Biden won a majority of the delegates, the platform those delegates adopted reflects the
views of the factions that chose Biden more than it does any other faction in the party.
Biden has pointedly and repeatedly distanced himself from the policy wishes (e.g.,
Medicare for All, Green New Deal, defund the police) of the left-wing of the Democratic
party.
Vice President Biden knows there is no greater challenge facing our country and our world.
Today, he is outlining a bold plan – a Clean Energy Revolution – to address
this grave threat and lead the world in addressing the climate emergency.
Biden believes the Green New Deal is a crucial framework for meeting the climate
challenges we face. It powerfully captures two basic truths, which are at the core of his
plan: (1) the United States urgently needs to embrace greater ambition on an epic scale to
meet the scope of this challenge, and (2) our environment and our economy are completely
and totally connected.
Biden will implement the Obama-Biden Administration's Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing
Rule requiring communities receiving certain federal funding to proactively examine housing
patterns and identify and address policies that have a discriminatory effect. The Trump
Administration suspended this rule in 2018.
Giving Americans a new choice, a public health insurance option like Medicare. If your
insurance company isn't doing right by you, you should have another, better choice. Whether
you're covered through your employer, buying your insurance on your own, or going without
coverage altogether, the Biden Plan will give you the choice to purchase a public health
insurance option like Medicare. As in Medicare, the Biden public option will reduce costs
for patients by negotiating lower prices from hospitals and other health care providers. It
also will better coordinate among all of a patient's doctors to improve the efficacy and
quality of their care, and cover primary care without any co-payments. And it will bring
relief to small businesses struggling to afford coverage for their employees.
I don't deserve your thanks, kind sir. You're vastly overestimating the social importance
of presidential elections, imo. And I don't believe the FBI. Every other institution in
American society is virtue signaling support for the woke left, so why not them? They know
who is going to run the country next year. Do you believe that the rioting and destruction
this summer was caused by right-wingers? I have heard that conspiracy theory before, and I
suppose it's the closest thing we'd ever get from leftists to an admission that the events
were negative.
I think that there is definitely a strong double standard when it comes to media reporting
and institutional acknowledgment of violence based on the demographics and politics of the
perpetrator. There was a huge mass shooting in the city I live in last year, but the shooter
(DeWayne Craddock) was black and had a stereotypically black given name. There was very
little reporting on it as compared with the Texas church shooter that occurred at about the
same time.
No, because we on the Left are always the greater evil.
Always.
The (few) bad tendencies of (some, very few) people on the Right can be contained and
governed by the other conservatives.
/SNARK
In Germany, the national socialists and communists were battling for totalitarian control.
Both of them were on the left. Dictatorship either way.
The real question today in the US is whether old fashioned liberals [belief in free
speech, political discourse without threats or actual violence, natural American patriotism,
etc] will disavow the violence and intimidation from the leftist totalitarianism that is the
democrat party today.
The rioting, the burning, the street violence, the death threats of lining people against the
wall, etc., etc., is pretty much all from the totalitarian left. I could give you hundreds of
examples, the most recent the former CEO of Twitter wanting to shoot political opponents.
This hate-filled rhetoric from the totalitarian left is an attempt to dehumanize people
they disagree with, to hate them. This is simply preparing for the stage that those the
totalitarian left disagrees with should be sent to gulags at a minimum, or killed.
This is all with the approval and help of the "mainstream' democrat party. Denying this
just makes you not credible.
p.s. Biden, at best, is a partial senile figurehead, whose function is to mask what the
totalitarian left really wants to do.
Oh what Jonah Goldberg has wraught with this "NAZI's we're leftists" horseshit. I guess
when you be been absolved of the notion that right wing thought had anything to do with the
rise of fascism in Europe, you can say any horrible thing you'd like about people of another
race, ethnicity, or religion ruining your pretty Lilly white country.
From Wikipedia:
"As the eldest son of Bertha Krupp,
Alfried was destined by family tradition to become the sole heir of the
Krupp concern. An amateur photographer and Olympic sailor, he was an
early supporter of Nazism among German industrialists, joining the SS in
1931, and never disavowing his allegiance to Hitler."
Thanks for your response. In case anyone else still isn't clear, and just for the record,
the Nazis were not "on the left".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wi...
The national socialists were on the left. You may lie about it, I can't stop you.
But what is definitely clear is the national socialists were brutal evil totalitarianists
[new word?]. Just like the communist dictatorships in russia, china, cambodia, cuba, etc.
This is the leftists/wokesters blm antifa [the brownshirts of today] in the US, with the
tacit/explicit approval of democrat leadership.
They would not have been better off aligned with Stalin, which was the other side in their
domestic political extremes. It too was rioting in the streets.
The middle got too narrow to survive. That does not mean the other extreme was an
acceptable choice, much less a better choice.
No. For example, the Nazis and the Communists *combined* only accounted for 40% of the
parliamentary seats after the 1930 election. If the center-right, centrist, and center-left
parties had formed an alliance, they could have governed the country.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wi...
I'm not really a conservative, but I share many concerns and values with conservatives. I
do agree that it's better to ally with liberals and the center-left than to join right-wing
authoritarians, and for that reason I have, however reluctantly, cast my mail-in vote for Joe
Biden.
That said, I think you misinterpret the choice that ultimately faced German nationalists
in 1932. By that time, the liberals and center-left had shrunk to powerlessness at the
national level, and the republic itself was dead in all but name. The choice as the German
nationalists saw it, and very likely as it actually was, was to join the communist KPD or the
fascist National Socialists, both of whom were determined to kill the republic. Even a
friggin' restoration of the Kaiser would have found more support at that point than the
continuation of a liberal center-left republic which had been thoroughly repudiated by all
the strongest players.
In retrospect, we know that even the KPD might have been less bad than the National
Socialists, because the KPD probably wouldn't have blundered into another world war
like the National Socialists did (Stalin, after all, avoided war with the USA and UK). But
that would have been hard for German nationalists to foresee in 1932. The obvious question
for them in making their choice was "Whose death list am I on?" If you were a business owner,
independent farmer, or churchman, your chance of survival seemed better under the National
Socialists; if you were nonwhite, or gay, or Jewish (always remember many German Jews were
fervently nationalist; some of the men murdered in the camps had won Iron Crosses in World
War I), you would have a better chance of survival under the KPD. If the businessmen, farmers
and churchmen could have foreseen that the National Socialists were going to throw away their
lives in another pointless war, they might have taken their chances with the communists
instead.
Switching now to modern America, it seems as hard to predict now as it was for the Germans
in 1932 which party will get us into a massive bloodbath overseas. Trump talks the
nonintervention talk sometimes, but he never withdraws troops, twice came within a micron of
getting us into a war with Iran, and consistently behaves bellicosely with foreign powers.
Biden's record in supporting the Iraq War and the Libya intervention show that a vote for
Democrats is no sure vote for peace either. In any case, dying in a conventional war is a
very remote risk for most Americans; our forces are too strong and technologically advanced.
Nazi Germany lost seven times more dead just invading Poland than America lost in the whole
Afghanistan war. The true nightmare scenario for America is nuclear war with Russia, and
there's no dispute about which party is more hostile to Russia.
My point is, if we've truly reached 1932 Weimar, it's already too late to ally with
liberals and the center-left. The far right and the far left were their only options, and
both led to disaster.
My fervent hope is that we're still closer to 1929 Weimar than 1932. The republic is sick,
perhaps dying, but not everyone has lost faith in it; below the level of the political and
media elites, confidence in the republic is still strong. The US military still supports the
republic to an extent the Reichswehr never did. Biden is no fire-breathing radical; he's an
establishment man to his bones. He has no idea how to cure the republic, and his policies
helped bring it to this low ebb, but at least he isn't out to murder it. That's why I was
willing to vote for him. But it's merely a stopgap measure. The far left is busily taking
over Biden's party, and far from resisting it, he sees it as a useful ally against the right.
The far right, of course, has long been doing the same to the Republican Party. We may not
have arrived yet at 1932's dreadful choice between cutthroats, but we are speeding down that
road, and it is crazy to imagine that a mere presidential vote for either of these two clowns
is going to change our course.
What will change our course? I have only the haziest idea, and I'm eagerly looking forward
to Rod's book for suggestions.
This is the best answer, but radicals will just look at your "whose death list am I in"
argument and say "yep the bourgeoisie should die, and so should anyone who supports
them".
Agreed that this is a thoughtful response. While I may even more reluctantly cast my
ballot for a despicable lunatic instead, I relate to much of the above.
In the 1928 German elections, 15 political parties won seats in the Reichstag
(parliament), with the Nazi party winning fewer than 3% of the seats. Germany's proportional
system of allocating seats meant that even small parties could end up with a small number
seats. Two years later, 15 parties again won seats in Reichstag elections. The Nazi party
made the biggest gain in seats at the expense of more centrist parties. In both national
elections held in 1932, 14 political parties won seats, with the Nazi party winning the most
seats. The popularity of the Nazi party grew as economic conditions in the country
worsened.
In 2020, the Covid-19 virus may have merely accelerated trends which were already in place
in the US.
That's a stupid false equivalency and a scarecrow argument in one, maybe even a no true
scotsman to go with that. You're aware that there were several conservatives opposing Hitler,
right? Opposition wasn't just carried out by the far-left, some of which were in the
SA/The Nazi party themselves . See: strasserism.
Rod, I agree with you about Arendt and her classic work, the best work in political
history/theory of the 20th Century imo. But there is a reason why no one quotes it today. You
mention only the last chapter of TOoT, but in Part II she goes into great detail about how
capitalism led to imperialism which used racism as a means to that end. The "mob" originates
with those displaced by The Great Transformation (Polyani's term) brought about by capitalism
and the rise of bourgeois society . . . it is this mob that later forms the basis for
totalitarian movements. Arendt's analysis covers a period of about 400 years, not simply the
aftermath of World War I which was a result of the crisis that had already begun, that is the
dissolution of the nation state . . .
But that would be uncomfortable to point out, as it is the rise of right wing economics
that was destroyed the middle class in this country, and lead us to this parlous state.
For a long time, the right has happily embraced the culture wars to hide the destruction
of the libertarian economic policies, that as always are looking for a way to crush labor
power.
An anaylsis of the Communist takeover of Eastern Europe and East Asia that leaves out the
World Wars is like an American history text that leaves out the Civil War. In every single
Eurasian country from Hungary east to North Korea where the Communists came to power WWI
and/or WWII was a key factor. No war, no Communist takeover. (And it regards to the Nazis in
Germany WWI is also a crucial factor on their coming power)
What would play the role of those wars in our future if some manner of totalitarian
government of the Left or Right junked the Constitution and seized power by force?
To be sure, none of this means that totalitarianism is inevitable. But they do signify that
the weaknesses in contemporary American society are consonant with a pre-totalitarian
state. Like the imperial Russians, we Americans may well be living in a fog of
self-deception about our own country's stability. It only takes a catalyst like war,
economic depression, plague, or some other severe and prolonged crisis that brings the
legitimacy of the liberal democratic order into question.
Again, why are you responding to an argument that Rod is not making? He didn't write The
Handmaid's Tale,
What were the catalysts for Cuba or Venezuela? Or the many socialist regimes in Africa,
the Middle East and Latin America during the postwar decades?
Revolutions against outside imposed dictatorships left over from a soft imperialism.
Platt Amendment, Banana Wars, School of the Americas and coups for days set up the
conditions for people to not trust there near neighbor oppose to its distant enemies during
the Cold War and the legacies from it created the social conditions for. We as a state
literally supported death squads in Central America. Leading to the weak states and strong
gangs in the region. The seeds of any empire bear bitter fruits. It is also where the police
state we now see was created and imported home.
As is so often the case, there are various partial truths in what you say but they don't
add up to the simplistic conclusion. BTW Venezuela was a relatively wealthy and successful
country when Chavez took over; the factors you list were long before and not involved. Rather
what happened was existing inequities and problems were utilized to enable a power grab. In
the same way that poor blacks and other minorities are being used to enable the current power
grab, divide and conquer as always - in the end, they will be just as removed from power as
they are now. Like all the woke white chicks, they are just considered useful idiots for the
progressives seeking power.
We as a state literally supported death squads in Central America. Leading to the weak
states and strong gangs in the region. The seeds of any empire bear bitter fruits.
Not that simple. The weak states and strong gangs came first. The weak states and corrupt
governments and deep inequities created the instabilities that motivated insurgencies. Lack
of a rule of law and the inability of the state to protect you forces people to turn to (and
form) gangs for protection. All of this played out against a backdrop of a global conflict
between two empires, two ideologies which further fueled all the conflicts.
There were death squads and all sorts of other abuses on all sides. There are no clean
hands in such a conflict. It was not possible to remain neutral unless you were Swiss.
All of the problems you cite concerning central america are an outgrowth of the
"governments" the US government/business imposed on those countries. The societies of central
and south america were and are highly stratified with "Europeans"--ancestry--occupying the
highest rung and receiving the lions share of the wealth. That's the reason Castro and Chavez
had such an easy time overthrowing the governments and why there is so much resistance to a
return of the previous conditions.
International relations and history are a lot more complicated than you think they are.
The endless desire for Americans to find quick and dirty feel-good good vs bad answers to
everything goes a long ways towards explaining the degrading of this society and its
governance.
I note again that Venezuela was in a rather different state than pre-Castro Cuba. But yes
having a large underclass that feels disconnected and deprived of what the rest of a society
has goes provide fertile fuel for revolution.
MS13 and Barrio 18 were born in the US from refugees fleeing our dirty wars in Central
America. Poor wealth distribution leads to it. So glad you realize wealth focus is bad. Also
oligarchs are bad. We supported those corrupted governments leading to the revolutions
leading to the net result. Ever hear of United Fruit and the banana men? Imperial Companies
support weak government because they can influence it.
Well the catalyst for Cuba was Batista staging a coup, seizing power, and destroying the
democratic process (with full US support) in 1952. Less than 10 years later, a popular
revolution overthrew him. That revolution has proven a much tougher nut to crack. It's almost
as if overthrowing democracy and giving into a strongman's appetite for power has
consequences down the road.
One could also say that trying to jump start / leap frog your way into equality and
"justice" also has consequences down the road. A lesson that humans absolutely refuse to
learn, thus condemning generation after generation into misery.
No one "gives into a strongman's appetite for power". People make choices based on
incentives and possible outcomes. Rod uses the Franco example often. People often have to
choose between two terrible outcomes - in which case they choose the one that has a better
chance of their own survival or the survival of what they care about.
I can't comment about east Asia because I don't now enough about it, but as the great
historian John Lukacs never tired of saying, the only country in Europe where the Bolsheviks
triumphed politically was Russia. The Spartacists and the Bela Kun horror fizzled out. After
the second war the Communists needed the Red Army to set up puppets. There was no
"revolution" in Poland, Czech, Hungary or anywhere because nobody wanted it. Yugoslavia may
be a partial exception, but look what happened to Yugoslavia.
Good point. I guess we could make the argument that the Red Army sweep over Eastern Europe
and absorption of all those countries into the Soviet empire required WW2 to occur, but that
seems like not the argument that Jon is making in response to Rod's thesis.
I was agreeing with him. But "what would play the role of those wars in our future" would
be...a war. Which Biden (or, the Pentagon) has up his sleeve ("America is Back"). Experto
crede. Do you not believe that the Kagan/Rubin/Boot crowd would shy from a shooting war with
Russia? Because I don't.
Thankfully empty-headed blabbers like Rubin and Boot are well removed from actual power
(and even, I would say, influence - in fact it is unclear to me why anyone publishes their
rantings). The people with influence in a Biden administration will be people like Harris,
Warner, AOC, etc. I don't think they're really aching for a war.
But the point is that you don't need a war - the catalyst can be another major event like
economic depression, a global pandemic, etc, etc.
Well, we're asking the who/whom question only one way, it seems to me. Everybody is
rightly convinced that on social and economic issues AOC and Princess Tiger Lily will have
the wheel in a Biden administration. But who's to say that in foreign policy Gersonism won't
prevail? All these never Trumpers are going to be looking for their rewards. Remember,
Hillary destroyed Libya as a resume enhancer. And the Army has gone left. One of the things
Trump mideast deal has done is set up a Sunni/Shia showdown. Why not follow through?
Fair enough. I suppose that's possible, and the young AOC type progs barely know where
anything on the globe is outside the US so they might be happy to let the old "experts" take
back over foreign policy. Not where their interests lie, for sure.
I disagree about the mideast deals, though - a Sunni vs Shia conflict has been baked into
the cake from the beginning (see: Iran Iraq war), and it was Obama's crazy Iran deal that
started everyone back on that path by strengthening Iran and trying to push it into place as
a regional hegemon. That was never going to go down with the Sunni countries.
The apparently not actually so naive Kushner was able to take advantage of new incentives
that Obama's machinations created. I see this as quite positive.
We'll agree to disagree about the mideast, which I really just brought up e.g. The one
they're really lusting for is a shooting war with Putin. Have you read Gerson on that
subject? What's the outcome of Mrs. Sikorsky's bellicosity but that? What else has all this
NATO expansion been for, anyway?
Haven't read Gerson in a while. I see your point, though I don't really think any of these
people are quite reckless enough to lust for a war with a nuclear power.
Partially correct. Czechoslovakia was an exception: Communists came to power as a result
of a free election in 1946. But it was something of an outlier, probably the most left-wing
country in Europe.
It was Bush 43's costly Middle East adventures at a time when he was cutting income taxes
that set the US economy on the terrible path it is on now. Our national debt is out of
control. Many young people will leave college with massive student loan debt, poor job
prospects and, in many areas, very expensive housing. We have paid and will continue to pay a
very high price for trying to be the world's policeman.
Obama, the wild eyed leftist spender, cut the 1.2 trillion dollar deficit that W ran up
with his tax cuts and catastrophic war down to 585 billion. By the end of '19, before any
Covid-19 spending took place, Trump had run it back up to 984 billion. Growth has been a
meager two tenths of one percent higher in the first three years of Trump's presidency than
it was during the last three years of Obama and it has come at a high cost.
"...which seeks to infuse all aspects of life with political Consciousness."
Which explains the absurd phenomenon of polically-correct stand-up comics. Guess what?
They're not funny. 'Whimsy' won't get you belly laughs. Trump still gets the belly laughs.
Even from me, and I hate his rotten stinking guts with the white hot fury of a thousand
suns.
A hundred years ago, Newtonian physics got nuked. Goodbye ordered universe, hello entropy
and chaos. And we've been mopping up the fallout ever since. Ironically, years before, The
Enlightenment had already started this dissolution process. So can you blame Picasso and
Joyce for just trying to see things as they really are(?)
Griel Marcus traces this process in his great book Lipstick Traces. From The Brethren of
the Free Spirit to the Cathars to St. Just to the Paris Commune to Duchamp and right up to
The Sex Pistols, we are either fallen, or trying to achieve the colliding energy of a mere
collection of atoms. The Lettrists even took a cue from Finnegans Wake and carved up the damn
language, for Chr--sakes. And they've been doing it ever since.
So can you blame the great Stockard Channing, in Six Degrees of Seperation, 1993, for
meditating on a Kandinsky and then coming to the same conclusion that many of us poor
benighted souls have in these absurd times: 'I am all random.'
Arendt's fine. But I'll go with Carville's "It's the economy stupid".
When a young man who isn't "college material" has no economic future, he's going to find a
way to make one. If it requires totalitarianism, so be it. Indeed, totalitarian ideologies
can only flourish in an environment when bored, penniless young men have the time to read up
on them.
Imagine all of those black guys rioting or white skinheads having to get up early in the
morning for 10 hours of hard-work at the factory or on someone's roof. A couple of beers
after work and your ready for bed, not revolution. Hence the great America of the '50's - the
'80's.
I have no idea what's coming, but we are trying to reduce our exposure by moving out of
the city, as far as we can reasonably go for now until retirement. We are frantically trying
to get our house on the market and hoping that thanks to the magic of "gentrification"
(hopefully prospective buyers won't notice the giant "F*** Gentrifiers" spray painted on a
nearby wall) we can trade our overvalued home into two properties - one in a distant town
past the outer suburbs and another somewhere overseas where we can run to when things get
really bad. That's the dream, at least. But the city we have already left and won't be going
back.
I'm sure the overseas locations will be absolutely overjoyed to have a couple of US
refugees, with no ties to the country or area, who don't speak the language or have any
cultural understanding or background, and expect to instantly be fully integrated into the
economic and social fabric, showing up.
Have you considered that you'll be akin to a Central American family moving into the outer
suburb neighborhood you desire to live in, albeit one with more resources and legal
status?
"Trump's exaltation of personal loyalty over expertise is discreditable and corrupting.
But how can liberals complain? Loyalty to the group or the tribe is at the core of leftist
identity politics."
Just when you thought the hypocrisy and the double-standard had reached the limits of what
is humanly possible, Biden takes it up a notch.
After spending the last few months tearing up cities and threatening to burn down the country
if they don't win in November, the Democrats now accuse Trump of putting the Proud Boys on
stand-by???
Even my dog is laughing at this.
[How do these kooky communists even get elected to dog-catcher???]
Just saying both sides are playing this game. One is just doing it with more guns and
state security support. The left has greater cultural focus cause those are the positions
that interest them. This is the creation of capitalism.
If Rod paid more attention to all the data and not just those that feed his hysteria, he'd
learn that there are all kinds of backlash within liberal and far left circles to the
excesses he rightly decries. In fact, I think there is more self-correction and
self-regulation going on within "the left" than on Rod's side of the spectrum
Do you have any examples of this self correction? I've been living in a far left
neighborhood in a permanent liberal Democratic city for decades, and I don't see it (well now
we fled so I can't speak for what happens next).
There are occasionally people who will whisper something in my ear or my wife's ear that
suggests they recognize some lunacy that's going on. But they would never admit that
publicly. And all evidence suggests there are still very few of such people.
The whole point of Rod's thesis is that the vast majority of people will go along with the
tide even if they don't believe it - they will live their lives by lies. Very few people have
the courage to take a stand in such circumstances, as history makes all too clear. The
progressive left, again as has been made clear over and over, now owns all the institutions
that matter in the US - with woke capitalism being the final crown. What Rod says is coming,
is coming.
Without the '65 "immigration reform" act none of this would be happening. This isn't the
result of personal loneliness, it's the inevitable result of becoming, in Eugene McCarthy's
phrase, a colony of the world. The radical turn to the left is a direct result of anti-white
bloc voting by immigrants. (Indeed you have to be willfully blind not to notice the high
percentage of spokesmen for the extreme left who are immigrants or the children of
immigrants.) This is a race war against white America, in which the cultural establishment
and the government they shape are the leading protagonists. Classic racist colonialism, with
the bizarre twist that perhaps a third of the white population supports the annihilation of
their own peoples and cultures. For the others it's simply a Scramble For America, a rush to
get money, territory, and power with the natives footing the bill.
Irrelevant. It's the immigrant vote that puts them over. The vast majority of immigration
is non-white. It's immigration that has California not electing a Republican to statewide
office in 15 years, and nothing else. Don't take my word for it, the left itself has been
telling Republicans for decades that the demographics are against them. It's an
acknowledgement of the reality of identity bloc voting and the reason they support open
borders. In any case, I mentioned you when I wrote about that mentally ill third of whites
that supports self-annihilation.
"""It is probably as true that violence breeds fanaticism as that fanaticism begets
violence. Fanatical orthodoxy is in all movements a late development. There is hardly an
example of a mass movement achieving vast proportions and a durable organization solely by
persuasion. It was a temporal sword that made Christianity a world religion. Conquest and
conversion were hand in hand. Reformation made headways only where it gained the backing of
the ruling prince or local government. The missionary zeal seems rather an expression of some
deep misgivings. Proselytizing is more a passionate search for something not yet found than
to bestow upon the world something we already have. The proselytizing fanatic strengthens his
own faith by converting others.
A true believer is eternally incomplete and eternally insecure.
Mass movements do not usually rise until the prevailing order has been discredited. A full
blown mass movement is a ruthless affair, and its management is in the hands of ruthless
fanatics. A Luther who when first defying the established church, spoke feelingly of "the
poor, simple, common folk," proclaimed later when he allied with the German princelings, that
"God would prefer to suffer to government to exist no matter how evil, rather than allow the
rabble to riot, not matter how justified they are in doing so."
"Hatred is the most accessible and comprehensive of all the unifying agents. Mass
movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a
devil."
However, the freedom the masses crave is not freedom of self-expression and
self-realization, but the freedom from the intolerable burden of an autonomous existence.
They want freedom from the arduous responsibility of realizing their ineffectual selves and
shouldering the blame for the blemished product. They do not want freedom of conscience, but
faith -- blind, authoritarian faith. """"""
Biden of course is scarcely a totalitarian figure--Trump is more suited to that role. But
Biden would fit nicely as a von Hindenburg for the Loony Left.
How in the hell is Trump a totalitarian figure? I hear this calumny hurled at him time and
time again, but without any specifics. Tell me, what specific totalitarian actions has he
actually taken?
Support for violent white supremacist groups. Using the Dept. of Justice to target
political enemies. Adopting a Republican platform that consists solely of fealty to the party
leader.
Over the past 6 months or so, my husband has been listening to a lot of Jordan Peterson
and I have definitely noticed a shift in his thinking. A good one! I, myself, just finished
listening to his book, 12 Rules For Life and am now going through his Podcast episodes. It's
quite fascinating! Rogan has also received a lot of flak for having Peterson on his show
several times.
I went and listened to the episodes with Abigail Shrier and Douglas Murray (at your
suggestion) and now have their books (as well as your's) sitting in my audible library.
Most of what you say is true, save for the usefulness of the "experts", the credentialed
ones who have shown themselves to be absolute morons, incompetents and political hacks.
(Think, Fauci.)
Imagine if one hundred years ago you told the founding stock of this nation that every
American institution would be weaponized against their own history and heritage. Imagine if
you told them our universities, media, churches and immigration system were all being used to
demonize and demographically displace their own posterity. They must be rolling over in their
graves because that is exactly what is happening.
In 1920? Large numbers of them absolutely would have believed it. In fact, millions of
them *did* believe it. The country was being overrun by Italians, Poles, Greeks, Serbs,
Russians. A frightening number of them were Jews and Catholics. They smelled funny, spoke
weird languages, had bizarre beliefs and customs, cooked and ate strange foods. They were
lazy bums who were taking all our jobs. At a rally in Rhode Island, the Grand Imperial Wizard
proclaimed to thousands that the KKK stood for undying opposition to "Koons, Kikes, &
Katholics".
And it's come true! Look, for example, who's on the Supreme Court.
Not to mention that the Jews were over-running colleges. Keeping them out required changes
to admissions practices to make things other than pure academic ability deciding factors.
Hence the emphasis on "the whole person", where a good background, good family, athletic
ability, and being someone you'd want to associate with in your club began to over-ride
performance on the academic tests that had previously been used to determine admissions.
Just soft totalitarianism? That seems incredibly pollyann-ish - delusionally
optimistic.
If Biden wins, the USA, the EU and Red China will move swiftly to exterminate the remnants of
Christian Civilisation - and anybody associated with it.
Bishop Vigano seems to share this view. (
https://www.lifesitenews.co...
[Anyway, we ALREADY have "soft totalitarianism". Need proof? Just go down to your HR
department and tell them that you believe homosexual activity is immoral.]
As much as somebody may dislike Trump's personality, Biden is just not an option.
Biden = ethno-cultural extinction
As adults, we don't get to indulge our own childish sensitivities. We don't get to
participate in this political fantasy-land alt-universe - where monstrous evil is praised as
virtuous, and goodness is labelled as vice.
Just go down to your HR department and tell them that you believe homosexual activity
is immoral.
I imagine you'll get a reaction similar to that if you went down to HR and ranted about
how sex outside of marriage is immoral, or lectured how sodomy is a crime against nature and
its practitioners deserve to burn in Hell.
I used to have a Ukrainian woman on my staff. When my younger staff all started in 2016
expressing support for Sanders she freaked. Then she freaked over Trump.
We are screwed. My decision to vote for Biden is predicated upon the hope that a boring
gaff prone Biden presidency will allow a return to normalcy.
A vote for Biden is a vote for the radical totalitarian left. Packing the supreme court.
Ending the Senate Filibuster and open borders. The country as we know it will be over.
Certain end of the First and Second amendments. I don't find you credible at all
California's
Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom has approved the creation of a task force to examine paying
reparations to the descendants of slaves, the first such proposal ever passed by a state
government.
Newsom signed AB 3121 into law on Wednesday, creating a nine-member task force to study
possible reparations for black Americans. While the governor lamented that the legislation
hadn't been passed "decades ago," he hailed the bill for establishing a "paradigm
that we hope will be resonant all across the United States."
"This is not just about California, this is about making an impact, and a dent, across
the rest of the country," Newsom said moments after signing the bill.
While the bill itself commits the state to no particular payments, it will launch a task
force to consider how reparations could be implemented in California. The task force is
required to hold its first meeting by next June, and will submit its recommendations to the
government one year later, which will not be binding.
The law also does not specify what form the reparations must take, proposing various
alternatives to direct cash payments, such as forgiving student debt, financing job training or
other public works projects.
Though California is the first state government to pass such legislation, similar proposals
have been floated by lawmakers in Texas, New York and Vermont, but none have yet passed. On a
more local level, city administrations in both Asheville, North Carolina and Providence, Rhode
Island approved measures related to reparations in July. Asheville City Council passed its plan
unanimously, mandating payments in the form of public investments, while Providence Mayor Jorge
Elorza signed an order vowing to create a framework for reparations in the future.
California's history with slavery is somewhat ambiguous. While the state constitution
explicitly prohibits both "slavery" and "involuntary servitude," records suggest
chattel slavery was largely practiced in the open – namely after the gold rush of the
mid-1800s, which brought thousands of white settlers out west, many bringing slaves with
them.
"California has come to terms with many of its issues, but it has yet to come to terms
with its role in slavery," said Assemblywoman Shirley Weber (D-San Diego), who authored the
reparations bill. "We're talking about really addressing the issues of justice and fairness
in this country that we have to address."
Newsom's decision to sign the proposal into law was hailed by a number of locals, including
rapper and LA native Ice Cube, who thanked the governor for giving it the green light.
Some residents were up in arms over the bill, however, questioning whether it would
"change the past," while others insisted they would not pay reparations for historical
abuses they find abhorrent and had no role in.
"Respectfully, how will this change the past or help the future? Will the indigenous
people of this state receive reparations? They seem first in line in my books!" one netizen
wrote
.
Other critics noted that despite the fact California is already "broke" – while
also dealing with widespread homelessness, power outages and rampant wildfires, among other
issues – the governor still "can't spend taxpayers' cash fast enough."
Think your friends would be interested? Share this story! 56 historystudent 2 hours
ago I am a Californian, born and raised. Will someone please inform our history-disadvantaged
governor California entered the United States as a free state! And its citizens fought in the
Union Army against the slave-holding South. I'll certainly sign any recall petition over this
matter. Joaquin Montano 3 hours ago "California's Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom has
approved the creation of a task force to examine paying reparations to the descendants of
slaves ..." It's called demagogy, folks. Democrats, the way I see it, are very busy kicking
a dead horse ... telecaster58 Danmeldon 2 hours ago ...the reparations were already paid...in
blood.....150 years ago on the civil war battlefields. But that war was white and black
PATRIOTS of the North fighting racists in the south. Today's civil war is white and black
haters of the country and of the constitution fighting those trying to save the country (black,
white, hispanic, asian, Native americans). And by the way, the black and white divide is the
distraction of the real issue ,rich and poor. And check out all the virtue signalers giving up
their white privilege with words when the real issue is about have and have nots...are they
giving up their wealth...no, just their white privilege...how easy is that. Words vs $$$$. i.e.
Chelsea Clinton. "ALL Black Lives Matter"......crickets times05 35 minutes ago Any suffering
descendants of slaves can join this "task force" and as a form of reparations collect paycheck
until June 2022 (task force meets in June, then supposed to come up with proposal a year
later... so June 2022) for doing a totally useless task. At which point the "task force" will
be dissolved, as it will have served its "task". Reply a325 3 hours ago Insanity defined
....... Reply 2 fozbotz 2 hours ago These people have got to be smoking crack laced with LSD.
Reply 2 NegroWhisperer 1 hour ago Anyone who earns more than 500,000 per year or has a net
worth higher than 2 million dollars should be forced to give up 40% of their wealth...
I understand that President Donald Trump must try to win black
votes. "Outreach" doesn't offend me. If he can win over just 10 percent of blacks, that may be
enough to take Pennsylvania or Michigan. Nonetheless, "outreach" is pointless if it doesn't
also turn out white voters, especially the Rust Belt working class that broke the Midwestern
"Blue Wall" in 2016. There's no sign President Trump's campaign is doing that. Instead, he's
got a race-specific "
Platinum Plan " for blacks that would mean hundreds of billions in handouts. This is an
insult to whites.
The Platinum Plan would:
Juneteenth "
a federal holiday Make the Minority Business
Development Agency permanent, increase the number of black-owned government contractors,
and increase loans and technical assistance Promote "second-chance hiring to get
rehabilitated citizens with a criminal record back on the job," thus building on the "
First Step
Act " "Eliminate long-standing healthcare disparities," whatever their cause
"Continue to protect the vital role of Historically Black Colleges and Universities "
There are many other provisions, for a total price tag is $500 billion. There are about
44,270,000 blacks. Why not just mail each black man, woman, and child a check for $11,295? Some
of them would probably vote for him.
Another section of the plan says that the KKK would be designated a terrorist organization
and lynching would become a federal hate crime. The KKK is impotent, and already infiltrated by
federal agents; the FBI brags about
this. The KKK is a boogeyman for the media. We don't need a federal anti-lynching law. In case
the President hasn't noticed, murder is against the law in every state.
The Ku
Klux Klan on parade down Pennsylvania Avenue, 1928.
Designating any group a "domestic terrorist organization" because of its beliefs is
ominous . It would not stop with the KKK. Such a legal weapon would probably be used
against white advocates, Second Amendment groups, and possibly even Christian and pro-life
groups. We've seen "mission creep" before. The National Organization of Women used the RICO
Act, originally intended to fight the Mafia, to launch a civil suit against a pro-life
group.
President Trump's "Platinum Plan" would also designate antifa a terrorist group. It's an odd addition and is
perhaps intended to show (with some accuracy) that most antifa are
white . President Trump's campaign is probably trying to create a wedge between black
protestors, who want police reform and white anarchists who want property destruction and
revolution. However, there are three problems with the "antifa" terror designation.
said he would declare antifa a
terrorist group in May; nothing happened. Second, antifa is more of a "brand" or front group
than a formal organization. Antifa groups clearly have hierarchies, funding sources, and
organization, but there's not one ruling Antifa™ group that can be held
accountable. (I say this with
authority .) Finally, we don't want the government creating "domestic terrorist groups"
based on ideology. It will be used against us. Much as with illegal immigration, the
government doesn't need new laws. It needs to enforce the ones that exist. Anarchists should
be arrested and charged if they assault people, destroy property, or commit other crimes.
They shouldn't be charged simply for being anarchists. The federal government is already
persecuting
people based on ideology rather than actions, and we don't want another tool it can use
against white
advocates .
The Platinum Plan probably won't make more blacks vote Republican. A recent poll suggests
that black support for Joe
Biden , already overwhelming, is intensifying.
The $500 billion price tag is ridiculous. Republicans in Congress are fighting a second
coronavirus stimulus bill because they say they are worried about cost. The
gap between the two sides is about $500 billion. It would make far more sense for President
Trump to spend the $500 billion on another stimulus bill. Sending Americans, especially
working-class whites, more stimulus checks is better politics. If President Trump and his team
aren't worried about spending this much money,
adopting Mark Cuban's plan for $1,000 biweekly payments for the duration of the pandemic
would also be more effective.
However, ultimately, it's not really about winning the black vote or economic populism. It's
about us. Where's our cut?
Whites are neglected by "our" own government, including "our" political leaders. Most
politicians don't even discuss basic nationalist measures such as eliminating race preferences,
making English the official language, and enforcing immigration laws. Instead, the American
Right is asking whites to support this "Platinum Plan," which looks like a stepping stone to
reparations . Evidence
suggests whites are net taxpayers, while blacks and Hispanics are a net drain. Our media,
academic, and cultural elites keep telling us about " white privilege " even though people are
faking
their racial identity to become part of the "oppressed."
Ensuring whites have a future may require vast change. We should demand the
impossible, because romanticism and idealism inspire men to act. And while we are still in this
system, we must advance demands as whites for whites. We can't let any party take
our vote for granted nor should we keep propping up a system that is hostile to us.
What would some of our demands look like? Call it the "
Rhodium Plan" for whites.
South
Africa , especially Afrikaner farmers, should get refugee
status. The federal government persecuted German-Americans and during World
War II and especially World War
I . Japanese-Americans
got reparations; German-Americans should too. There should be payments to residents of
once-white cities who fled to the suburbs because of demographic change . White Americans
living in suburbia
lose uncounted hours driving to work in the city, have to pay transportation costs, and must
rebuild the infrastructure left behind in cities such as Birmingham ,
Baltimore , and
Richmond . Because
whites are net taxpayers, white families should get subsidies once they have had their third
child. Hungary's
policies could be a model. Historically White Colleges and Universities should get the
same treatment as Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Most Anglosphere nations
recognize December 26, "Boxing Day," as a public holiday. The United States
should too , not just because it would give Americans a day to recover from Christmas,
but because it would recognize the WASP founding stock. The government should tell Americans
to fly the " Grand
Union " flag on this day in recognition of our British roots. Establish a White
Congressional Congress to analyze all legislation for its effect on whites. Give white and
other segregated neighborhoods the right to stay that way. If we must have race preferences,
whites should have quotas in public employment. Washington Metro employees are
almost monolithically black . Whites are more
than a third of the city's population, so they should get a third of the jobs. Racial
quotas must apply to professional sports. It should be illegal to fire any white person for
his or her private pro-white advocacy. Given the anti-white
messag e in popular media, every crime committed by a black person against a white should
be investigated for possible hate crimes charges. There must be federal action to find out
why so many whites are dying of " deaths of despair ." All
American businesses must do business in English. No one should be denied a job because he
doesn't speak Spanish unless there is a specialized requirement for a foreign language. We
need our own flag and anthem. Desecrating or insulting them would be a civil rights
violation.
Whites and whites alone have no representation or protection, even though we built and
sustain this country. If we must live under this system, we want the same rights as others.
Would that break the system? Yes. Let it break, and let the various peoples go their separate
ways. If the rules can't be applied equally, we should have our own country
.
A few posts below, teamtc has a post that is interesting. But I want to add something. For
the first time in my life, what I see is people with american flags for trump. Its like not
yard signs anymore. its the flag. Democrats hate the flag I have found out. I am being serious
here. You dont need a trump sign, you just need a flag. In my opinion, if you are FOR the
United States and the Constitution and the Flag, then you are a trump supporter. If you dont
have one, well, either you are poor and lazy or you are a democrat. This is the first year in
my 63 years that I see a president who loves the U.S. and a contender that hates it. usually
both love the country but have different ideas how to run it..Not this time. Democarats hate
america, it is so obvious to me. A country that abolished slavery long ago, discrimination
laws, black actors, news anchors, sports figures, and the list goes on. I dont get it. And I do
not see racism except maybe from police. But the police find that most crime is from blacks so
they somewhat have a reason to be racist. At the same time, I do hope that things change for
the blacks, but the blacks have to help out a bit. For instance BLACK MEN WHO HAVE BABIES
SHOULD TAKE CARE OF THEM INSTEAD OF RUNNING OFF TO GO GET HIGH.. sorry I know this is harsh and
much hate will come my way for saying so, but dear lord, I know its true and the only way to
address this situation is to look at the truth.
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Teamtc321 , 1 hour ago
Make Libtards Cry Again!!!
condotdo , 1 hour ago
maybe if blacks did not commit 85% of all violent crimes police would not bother them, I
dont see ASIANS filling jail cells
pinkfloyd , 1 hour ago
my point exactly a few posts above yours...you helped my comment and thank you
pinkfloyd , 1 hour ago
May I add. Just from my experience working and living near a black neighborhood. I found
most of the black women were awesome. I held high respect. Usually christian woman who took
their kids to church and prayed for the dad. They worked and cooked and took care of the
kids...I really did have much respect for most. Not all, but most..They joined the choir and
tried to make something of themselves. That is what my church group did and why I know. Our
church group went and mowed their lawns and spruced things up a bit. All of the BLM people
can kiss my ***. Go clean up their yards, maek the women of children proud and the men will
possibly change there ways...BUT, and this is important. Because of open borders, hispanics
started coming in with gangs and such, and we just quit because the violence got too bad..The
borders should have been closed long ago. The borders being open, in my situation, ruined all
the work we did in Inglewood California, hopme of the l.a. raiders, I remember it well even
tho it was 40 years ago.
Recruiting for military is much easier if there is no jobs.
Notable quotes:
"... They want to eliminate the EPA, vacate the State Dept and many other Depts, except for a few high-placed cronies, wipe all financial, labour, consumer and environmental regulations off the books; eliminate or reduce to a bare minimum federal health insurance, medicaid, medicare and Social Security, crush public education, privatize everything they can sell, and so on. They are not in power to "govern" but to destroy government. This is all being done with a fairly unified agenda: to free "the market" from any restrictions whatsoever, so that they -- global elites -- can make as much money as possible. It's a cabal of global corporations, militarists, Christian sovereign white supremacists, fossil fuel giants and bankers ..."
I wonder if any of the commentators here have considered that the [neoliberal] cabal now
in power in the US (not elsewhere) are not in power to "take power" except for a temporary
period. They don't want to run the federal government, they want to destroy it, except for
the police state and the military.
They want to eliminate the EPA, vacate the State Dept and many other Depts, except for
a few high-placed cronies, wipe all financial, labour, consumer and environmental regulations
off the books; eliminate or reduce to a bare minimum federal health insurance, medicaid,
medicare and Social Security, crush public education, privatize everything they can sell, and
so on. They are not in power to "govern" but to destroy government. This is all being done
with a fairly unified agenda: to free "the market" from any restrictions whatsoever, so that
they -- global elites -- can make as much money as possible. It's a cabal of global
corporations, militarists, Christian sovereign white supremacists, fossil fuel giants and
bankers , and I think there's a high degree of cooperation for the agenda. The
revolution is the cabal run by Trump/Bannon who are more extreme and ideological than any
previous faction, who have no tolerance for compromise. They have an apocalyptic vision of
grinding it all down to a bare minimum police state.
Recent criticism of Trump by George W Bush and other former Republican figures confirm the
depth of anti-Trump feeling within the party. So, too, does the recent endorsement of Biden by
former Republican senator John McCain's widow. They are not running for office, so they can say
what they think.
Hard-core Trump supporters, of course, will never accept a Biden victory and they will take
to the streets to protest.
And does anyone seriously believe that Biden (or Kamala Harris) is capable of doing anything
to heal the deep-seated divisions destroying American society?
A Biden victory will see the Ocasio-Cortez faction within the Democratic Party become more
powerful, which can only make these problems even more intractable.
What will happen if
Trump wins clearly?
The Democratic Party is likely to fracture altogether. The Ocasio-Cortez faction will either
attempt to take over the party or split from it. In either case, this will be a disaster for
the Democrats, because they need support from both the Ocasio-Cortez and Biden voter bases to
win elections. Amidst the chaos, conservative Democrats are likely to drift back to the
Republican Party (as they did in 1968 and during the Reagan years).
As for the Republicans, it will be four more years of rule by a now emboldened and more
powerful Trump.
That is hardly a recipe for social stability. Trump has done nothing to heal America's
wounds in the last four years, and nothing will change during his second term. In fact, he is
likely to deal with his opponents more forcefully than before.
Ocasio-Cortez and her supporters, of course, will never accept a Trump victory and will
intensify their campaign of destabilisation, using and encouraging movements like Black Lives
Matter and Antifa.
And if the Supreme Court (with Justice Barrett now on the bench) rules that abortion is
illegal (thereby overturning its 1973 decision in Roe v Wade), this will, by itself, provoke
widespread protests and riots which will rival the BLM protests in intensity.
There is a third (and more likely) scenario, however, and it portends an even graver
crisis.
Assume that the result of the election will not be clear in November; that Trump will
challenge the legitimacy of the election and try to hold on to power; and that Justice Barrett
has been appointed to the Supreme Court.
We know that the election will probably be close, and that postal votes won't be counted for
some time. Trump has consistently said that an election permitting widespread postal voting is
not legitimate, and has repeatedly refused to commit to a peaceful transition of power. And his
nominee to the court is likely to be confirmed before the election.
If this scenario occurs, America would be plunged into a protracted political crisis that
could drag on for months – similar to the Nixon Watergate crisis of 1974, but with
important differences.
Unlike Nixon, Trump has not engaged in transparent corruption, so his position would be much
more secure. Nixon was clearly corrupt, and his refusal to hand over the Watergate tapes, and
his sacking of Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox and the resignation of Attorney-General Elliot
Richardson, sealed his fate.
The Supreme Court unanimously ordered Nixon to hand over the tapes, and a substantial number
of principled Republican politicians made it clear to him that they would vote in favour of his
impeachment. Nixon then had no alternative but to resign.
Would a significant number of Republican politicians desert Trump in the circumstances
outlined above?
Probably not. After all, they have supported him for the last four years. It is interesting,
however, that last week Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell did commit the Republican
Party to an orderly handover of power – while Trump again refused to do so. One thing is
certain – Trump will never resign.
The Supreme Court would inevitably become involved in such a crisis – the very Supreme
Court that the Democrats accuse him of improperly stacking with conservative appointees,
including the newly appointed Justice Barrett.
Recent anti-Trump decisions of the court (which Trump foolishly condemned), Chief Justice
Roberts' emotional eulogy for Justice Ginsberg last week, and the court's fundamental need (in
such a crisis) to reassert its own independence and integrity, suggest that it probably would
not.
Trump, being Trump, no doubt thinks that any judge he appointed would automatically support
him – but that is to completely misunderstand how the Supreme Court operates. The history
of the Court is replete with conservative appointees who later asserted their judicial
independence.
But whatever way the Supreme Court ruled, there would be a very substantial portion of the
American populace that would simply refuse to accept its decision, unlike in 1974.
A political crisis of the kind outlined above would inevitably result in further social
disintegration and more mass violence and lawlessness on the streets of America – fuelled
by the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
The riots and killings that have occurred in Portland, Louisville and other cities across
America in recent months make this clear. If this has occurred pre-election, it is frightening
to imagine what will happen during a protracted post-election political crisis.
Whatever happens in November, America's future is bleak.
Because they are both embedded in America's toxic political culture, neither Trump nor Biden
(or Harris) have the capacity to deal with the looming political and social crises.
And, even if the Supreme Court and the conservative wing of the Republican Party intervene
to resolve any immediate political crisis, they would be powerless to contain the broader
social crisis it will engender.
We could well be witnessing the initial stages of the complete unravelling of America.
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Truth be told: political operatives own and run our MSM. This is why the press is called
the 'Fourth Estate'.
They are more correctly described as a Fifth Column , one far more open and sworn to
destroy our country and its foundational citizens – and taxpayers – as any that
ever operated during World War II. You would think this would be of vital interest to people
who loudly declare themselves to be "Nazi-punchers", but who time and again show themselves to
be merely low-level street terrorists informed and inspired by Mao's Red Guard and the
irredeemable thugs of the African National Congress.
One wonders what's preventing them from
mimicking the Red Terror waged by the leftists of Spain, when the battle for "freedom" involved
the disinterment of the graves of Catholic clergy to better pose the corpses in blasphemous
positions. Imagine how depraved those Mostly Peaceful protesters had to have been for even a
leftist-supporting site such as Wikipedia to baldly state
The violence consisted of the killing of tens of thousands of people (including 6,832
Roman Catholic priests, the vast majority in the summer of 1936 in the wake of the military
coup), attacks on the Spanish nobility, industrialists, and conservative politicians, as well
as the desecration and burning of monasteries and churches.
Directly in the crosshairs this time are small and medium-sized owner-operated businesses
– the true backbone of American freedom and prosperity – who have largely been
sacrificed in exchange for the knock-kneed offerings of Danegeld from our giant conglomerates,
all of whom have prospered immensely from the suffering and privation brought on by the
Democratic lockdown of society – and the total shutdown of our economy.
Think! – have you read a single article charting how the government war on small
business directly enriched Amazon.com and
world's richest autocrat, Jeff Bezos? . who then funnels his windfall into a newspaper that
blatantly pimps for the Democratic Party, which translates into a vast payday for the DNC, not
least from its newly-approved partnership with the shadowy and many-tentacled Soros-surrogate
group, BLM?
The result is what you'd expect when a fringe group operates with the full cooperation and
partnership of major industry and both political parties (don't confuse Trump with a
standard-issue Republican, please – he may have terrible flaws, but that isn't one of
them) – 10% of the population holding the other 90% in a chokehold with only one set of
rules: no arrest and prosecution for Bolshevik violence and terror ..but the zero-tolerance
heavy hand of corrupt Leviathan coming down hard against any and all citizens who fight back
or, eventually – inevitably – who even struggle against their restraints.
Short of the sudden arrival of celestial horsemen to punish the guilty and reward the
set-upon, it has become clear that the only answer is the one that the Powers That Be claim to
be dead set against: racial separatism. (Particularly when we consider that all that will be
necessary to turn America into Hell on earth will be the adoption of Ibram Kendi's First Law,
sometimes known as equality of outcome :
To fix the original sin of racism, Americans should pass an anti-racist amendment to the
U.S. Constitution that enshrines two guiding anti-racist principals: Racial inequity is
evidence of racist policy and the different racial groups are equals.
Could any "amendment" be more terrifyingly totalitarian than this?)
White and black separation would, instead, accomplish two goals, both more important than
Kendi's quick fix: we would learn soon enough about actual equality of outcomes (which
is why no Communist, black or white, wants anything to do with the creation of one more failed
basket-case black state), and much more importantly, white families can sleep secure in their
beds at night, without worrying about Apache raids at midnight, egged on and recorded for
"posterity" by that Fourth Estate/Fifth Column referred to up top. Because the fact of the
matter is that, even should some combination of government and law-enforcement halt the burning
and looting of America – as things stand now, none of the worst malefactors will ever see
the inside of a prison cell .which means any ceasefire will only be temporary, to be violently
ripped asunder the moment they sense white Americans have at last lowered their guard once
more. And living in perpetual paranoid readiness for violent uprisings and mindless destruction
is no way to live at all.
Trump has it half right, a border wall is the answer: only it needs to run
lengthwise , between the Southern and Northern borders. If we don't use the next four
years to plan out such a separation, fretting over our children's children will be a fruitless
exercise – those who aren't murdered will be captured and 'go native' .and in case you
haven't looked at a globe lately, there's no place left to run.
As a recovering journalist, I can point out that even on a rinkydink rag in a small city,
where I got fired for being a real journalist back in the early '70's; he who owns the
presses and distribution networks calls the tune. It's a matter of working-class (no matter
how middle-class your income or social-status) versus the ownership class. The latter wins
every time.
It's getting scary out there, people. Everywhere you turn, Trump haters are venting their
wrath against Trump supporters, as if supporting President Trump is an unforgivable sin.
They're projecting and gaslighting - blaming Trump and his supporters for everything they're
doing.
It's madness, but at long last, they might have awakened the sleeping giant they're trying
to hunt down and destroy.
MSNBC's Joy Reid tweeted, "Genuine question: what will be the relationship between the
majority of Americans, and Trumpists after this long, national nightmare ends -- and it will
eventually end -- do people anticipate simply letting bygones (be) bygones with people who
joined the Trump personality cult?"
What bygones? Who's doing what to whom? What are we Trump supporters doing to you Trump
haters, Joy? We are trying to mind our own business and stay safe. Are you and yours?
MSNBC's Donny Deutsch likened a Trump rally to a Hitler rally from the early '30s: "Well,
basically you had a destruction of the belief in the free press. You had a blurring between the
executive branch and the Justice Department. You have creating an other, whether it's Muslims,
whether it's Mexicans, whether it's congressmen who weren't born in this country. And then you
have the destruction of free elections. And we're here."
This is screaming insanity.
Trump supporters aren't censoring people on social media.
They aren't threatening their opponents' civil liberties.
They aren't violating the separation of powers, which leftists routinely do, including
through their activist courts and lawless executive orders (under former President Barack
Obama).
They're not demonizing other races, as you maliciously accuse. Quit belching that
vicious slander.
And they are not the ones threatening the integrity of the electoral process.
add territories to the union to increase its electoral prospects;
circumvent the Electoral College;
obliterate the integrity of the voting process through rampant unverifiable mail-in
ballots and the elimination of voter ID rules;
and lower the voting age to 16.
Republicans aren't the ones threatening to lawlessly invoke impeachment to block Trump's
lawful Supreme Court nominee.
Increasingly deranged, intolerant, hateful, and unhinged actor-turned-artist Jim Carrey
said, "Too many Americans support Trump because he appeals to their basest and most primitive
urges."
This is a direct indictment of millions of Trump supporters -- many of whom have been your
fans. Tell me, Jim: What base and primitive urges do you mean? Our commitment to the
Constitution, law and order, equal protection under the law for everyone, liberty, prosperity,
and a strong national defense? Protecting the borders to ensure orderly and legal immigration?
Are these commitments racist and sexist to you, Jim? If you really believe that, you are
obviously blinded into irrationality by your hatred and need of therapy and prayer. Please get
the tree trunk out of your own eye. In the meantime, sketch a picture of your own dark
heart.
And how about the now-famous Leo Guinan, who publicly bragged that he told his parents
neither he nor his children would visit them because they had placed Trump signs in their yard.
After receiving blowback for this self-indulgent and heartless act, he publicly apologized.
We have obnoxious leftist "protestors" in St. Petersburg, Florida, taking over peaceful
diners' tables from restaurant to restaurant, ratcheting up the despicable practice they began
a few years ago to harass Trump supporters.
And, once again, we have violent leftists rioting in the streets of Louisville, where two
policemen were shot trying to keep the peace.
How can things be more surreal? I'll say it again: The left is projecting its own darkness
onto Trump and his supporters. Countless leftists accuse Trump of inciting violence and hate
while displaying their own intolerance and hatred and committing violence. Trump is trying to
stop the violence, while Democratic governors and mayors are fanning the flames.
Fair-minded Democrats, please don't fool yourself into rationalizing that these things are
happening equally on both sides of the aisle. It simply is not true. And don't fall into the
insidious trap of Trump Derangement Syndrome, which now possesses large swaths of Americans
because of the left's concerted effort to smear Trump and his supporters as racists for
political gain.
How many Trump supporters are burning down cities, murdering cops, threatening mayhem if Joe
Biden is elected, bullying Biden supporters out of restaurants, accosting people with Biden
caps or yard signs, threatening to withhold their children from their Biden-supporting parents,
and stirring up racial disharmony throughout the nation? When have Republican lawmakers ever
tried to destroy the character of a Democratic president's Supreme Court nominee?
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Yes, Republicans say they're ready to defend themselves, but I know of none who are
threatening to commit violence and mayhem if Trump loses.
I don't know how people can be so warped as to condemn Trump for allegedly inspiring
violence simply because they don't like him, when they themselves are actually committing
violence or enabling those who are. I don't know how they can rage against Trump as a dictator
when he is doing nothing but exercising his lawful authority in office and appointing justices
who will uphold the Constitution and rule of law, and when they are openly promising to thwart
the Constitution in countless ways if they regain power. Notwithstanding the planted trick
question, Trump will not resist the peaceable transition of power, but he might legally contest
a stolen election. Meanwhile, prominent Democrats are promising not to accept a Trump victory
-- just like they never accepted his 2016 victory.
No, Joy Reid, we Trump supporters are not part of a cult, no matter how much Trump haters
have convinced themselves otherwise. But we do see him as the last best hope to restore
America's greatness -- and that includes liberty, peace, and security for all, not just for
those who agree with us, unlike many on your side believe. We are relying on him to lawfully
prevent the left's destruction of the nation, its violence and lawlessness, and its abolition
of liberty.
Imported protesters is the usual story in color revolutions. Also like in Ukraine tens of
millions without work is a prescription for chaos – it has always been.
"BLM Bolsheviks" (actually the majority of them s white) who are foot soldiers of the recent
protest should learn the lessons of October Revolution first before joining the protests again.
They are simple: those who were oppressed will be oppressed even stronger.
What is interesting there is no good guys here: "... both political parties are complicit in
this entire societal breakdown and civil unrest. The democrats for openly encouraging it, the
republicans for not doing anything to stop it and pretending their hands are tied. It's all just
another divide and conquer tactic."
Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron announced Wednesday that there will be no charges
filed against two of the Louisville police officers involved in the shooting of Breonna Taylor,
while the third is being charged with "wanton endangerment." Protesters ran over to a parked
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"What country before ever existed a century and half without a rebellion? And what country
can preserve it's liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their
people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right
as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The
tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
It is it's natural manure." - Thomas Jefferson
So why no investigation by "investigation reporters", find who supplied a 🚚 truck
of riot supplies, pallets of bricks, etc. How about the FBI investigate this? Isn't it a
federal issue? FBI seems to be as incompetent as MI6 investigating Me-again Antoinette
😂.
So why no investigation by "investigation reporters", find who supplied a 🚚 truck
of riot supplies, pallets of bricks, etc. How about the FBI investigate this? Isn't it a
federal issue? FBI seems to be as incompetent as MI6 investigating Me-again Antoinette
😂.
As far as I'm concerned, both political parties are complicit in this entire societal
breakdown and civil unrest. The democrats for openly encouraging it, the republicans for not
doing anything to stop it and pretending their hands are tied. It's all just another divide
and conquer tactic.
The founder of a Black Lives Matter group in Atlanta has been charged with misappropriating
donations solicited through Facebook on behalf of the social justice cause.
32 year old Sir Maejor Page has been arrested by the FBI on fraud and money laundering
charges after he used $200,000 in BLM donations on "food, dining, entertainment, clothing,
furniture, a home security system, tailored suits and accessories," according to
Fox News .
He was arrested in Toledo after the Toledo FBI office opened an investigation last year on a
tip they received from a cooperating witness. Page founded Black Lives Matter of Greater
Atlanta in 2016 and had taken in more than $466,000 in total donations in June, July and August
alone.
FBI agent Matthew Desorbo said in the agency's complaint against Page: "In sum, Page has
spent over $200,000 on personal items generated from donations received through BLMGA Facebook
page with no identifiable purchase or expenditure for social or racial justice."
Page took in the donations "for George Floyd" according to his Facebook page. Instead the
money was diverted to things like a home security system ( ironic, given the looting and riots
), dining and clothing. He also used $112,000 of the money to purchase a house for himself in
Toledo, Ohio.
BLM of Greater Atlanta lost its tax exempt status in 2019 for failing to submit its IRS 990
tax returns. Despite this, Page had become a "familiar face" at BLM marches in Atlanta. He was
even part of a group that ultimately met with former Atlanta mayor Kasim Reed to demand changes
in policing.
What are you going to tell us next, that throwing a brick through the window of an Old Navy
and stealing T-Shirts isn't a path to racial justice either?
If we allow the Black Lives Matter movement to become America's Bolshevik Revolution, we
will lose our liberty, and many of us will likely lose our lives, as well, for daring to
question them. This was never about racism. It has been about power anBlack Lives
Matter is a Modern Totalitarian Revolution
Classic totalitarian regimes share a number of common characteristics. The
rise of these regimes began with a cultural revolution, aimed at angering the citizens against
the current system. During that period domestic enemies are designated, and the people in the
radical movement aiming at overthrowing the old system rally together against those common
enemies, calling it a common struggle, as they adopt a new official ideology that stands
significantly apart from the old one. They seek to control every aspect of the lives of their
people, enlisting everyone they can to participate in the struggle. Even persons who may belong
to enemy classes or groups join up, hoping to receive mercy when the new regime gains control.
In Stalin's Russia and Mao's China the enemies were anyone who reminded them of the old system,
and anyone who could challenge them if left with enough power. The state enemies were the
capitalists, landlords, richer peasants and foreign agents of all kinds. Nazi Germany included
those outside the national community, which included socialists (even though Nazism was a form
of socialism) and communists, Jews, Christians, and any ethnic minorities that did not fit into
the German model of a loyal elite specimen.
The goal of each of the totalitarian regimes of the past were to eliminate the old system,
eradicate any history or remnant of the old regimes, and create a dominant single party that
stood as a rebellious alternative of the traditional State. Then, once in power, the perceived
enemies were murdered or imprisoned, as were many of their allies for the crime of knowing too
much. The younger generation was used as a controlling mechanism, taught to tattle on their
older counterparts for not being one hundred percent in favor of the new party in charge. The
youngsters were uniformed and organized into militias to turn their energies towards advancing
the party line, and improving upon the power of the new political elite.
In each case anything that even resembled the free market was eliminated, and the new
government controlled the economy. They took over the means of production either by taking
control of it and nationalizing it, or through heavy regulations (as we saw in Italy and
Germany). The immigration structure was altered, they orchestrated a break-down of morality and
what were considered moral norms in their culture, they worked on the destruction of the
nuclear family, they forcibly reallocated farmland, they formed a socialist economy that was
designed to redistribute the wealth away from the designated domestic enemies into the hands of
those revolutionaries who deserved some kind of reparations for what was allegedly lost at the
hands of the domestic enemies, and early on looting and rioting was encouraged and championed.
Interestingly, the list I just gave you was not just something the NAZIs and communists did,
but is also a list of demands currently being voiced by Black Lives Matter.
Public expression was also controlled by past dictatorial regimes so that no dissent could
emerge. If dissent was spotted, the party members acted as a mob, actively mobilized to quell
the dissent in the name of the "people's struggle" against a constant list of enemies. Again,
Black Lives Matter fits the bill on this one, too.
These regimes exaggerated real problems, and real aspects of human nature, and created an
on-going revolution against their enemies. It was a common struggle to liberate the people from
whomever the leadership designated as an enemy. To not pull the party line was to be socially
asleep, or an agent of the enemy, which then would place the person under great scrutiny, and
if they remained uncorrected, they would be ridiculed, shamed, and eventually jailed, or
murdered.
The fuel was passion, and anger, and a common demand for answers.
Sound familiar?
Black Lives Matter is an embodiment of everything that the 20th Century dictatorships
were
Eventually, Black Lives Matter will lose its appeal, and the players will grow weary of the
struggle. The regime will weaken, and when they try to invigorate their revolutionaries for a
new fight in order to strengthen the resolve of the regime and its followers, they will find
that all of their enemies are dead or in exile, and the problem can no longer be blamed on
others. However, it could take half a century, or more, before that happens, and in a Black
Lives Matter America the damage will already have been done. The death of liberty and the
annihilation of the free market will have left a long path of sorrow and misery following it.
By then, the enemy will only be themselves, and as all regimes in history, the struggle will
turn inward, and the murders will be against their own. Through the paranoia imaginary enemies
will be concocted, where nobody is safe from the suspicions of one's neighbors or children.
People begin to vanish, and the party begins to struggle to hold on to control.
Black Lives Matter, like all past dictatorial regimes, has successfully unleashed the
passions of many members of the public. The campaigns of terror are in full swing, in the name
of protesting, in the name of social justice, and in the name of standing against racism. They
claim that science and reason are in their corner, when, like Stalin and Mao of the Soviet
Union and Communist China, it is all a great big lie. They claim whites have unfair privilege
and must be forced to kneel to their true overlords, as Hitler did with the Jews when he
believed it would allow him to create a better Germany. In the end, as with all violent
totalitarian regimes, violence will bring them down just as violence brought them into
power.
Tucker on the incredible popularity of Black Lives Matter
Islamic totalitarianism solidifies in the Middle East, and works to spread across the
nations of Europe
As Islamic totalitarianism solidifies in the Middle East, and works to spread across the
nations of Europe, Black Lives Matter totalitarianism is working its way through its birthing
canal in the United States. Both bear all of the markers of totalitarianism. They work to
control the lives, speech, and actions of those below them. They terrorize and murder,
committing themselves to endless struggles against a long list of designated enemies. They pose
as more than an ideological challenge. They are poised to bring down Western Civilization,
which has prospered due to America's Liberty, and free market capitalistic system.
Should we fall, to where may one escape? There is no other place to go. Black Lives Matter
is a real threat, an enemy who desires to overthrow America and control this country. There is
no criticizing Black Lives Matter. The mobs threaten anyone who holds dissent. It is already
happening. People are losing their jobs for criticizing Black Lives Matter, and they are still
only a political movement. Black Lives Matter is enjoying complete immunity from criticism
while they are not in power. Imagine what will happen if they ever gain a hold on the reins of
our system.
It has gone beyond a demand for equality. Equality is no longer acceptable. If one were to
say "All Lives Matter," for example, that is now unacceptable, and racist. Only "Black Lives
Matter" we are told. White lives don't matter because of what your ancestors allegedly did a
couple hundred years ago. Christianity and the American System is based on the idea of equality
in the eyes of God, and equality in opportunity (or at least the attempt to create a system
that accomplishes such), but now if you say that out loud, you are called a racist, and your
very life could be at risk. Dissent is hate speech. You could be fired from your job, or in
some cases, fined and jailed for daring to speak out against the rising totalitarian regime
known as Black Lives Matter because such murmurings could be considered "hate speech".
The latest demand by Black Lives Matter is ridiculous, yet it is happening. It began with a
chant, "defund the police," and now has advanced to cries to abolish the police. The City of
Minneapolis is in the process of doing exactly that. When asked on CNN who, then, if the police
were gone, should we call in the middle of the night while our house is being burglarized,
a member of the Minneapolis city council said that the question "comes from a place of
privilege." In other words, if some feel like law enforcement is not on their side,
everyone should feel that way, otherwise, you have an unfair privilege, and you are racist.
Black Lives Matter is enjoying a rise to power largely because of the liberal media
Black Lives Matter is enjoying a rise to power largely because of the liberal media. Any
counter-arguments against their claims are going unheard. CNN, MSNBC, NPR, the alphabet
networks, and any of the other liberal outlets aren't going to report any criticism of Black
Lives Matter. And as Hitler's team explained, if you tell a lie often enough, it becomes the
truth. In this case, if you tell one side of the story, and the other side is never heard, it
becomes true.
Unchallenged claims must be true, therefore, Black Lives Matter must be on to something. The
polls say so.
Black Lives Matter is achieving their power in the same way past revolutionaries did.
Through force. They break things, they burn things, and they hurt anyone who gets in the way.
They believe they deserve whatever they want, and if you don't give it to them, they will take
it. Then, on the way out, they will set your business on fire. They occupy, they terrorize, and
nobody is willing to stop them, because if you do, you are a racist. They know this. They know
you are paralyzed by your fear of them, and fear of being considered racist. They have a
message. Step out of line and we will hurt you, your family, or your business. That is the
strategy of Black Lives Matter, and it is becoming the strategy of the Democrat Party. If you
are afraid to defy the mob, the mob rules.
The Framers of the U.S. Constitution created this system to protect us from the mob. That is
why they created a constitutional republic, not a democracy (as some people like to say).
Democracy is historically a transitional type of government. When the mobs of democracy begin
to take control, which usually accompanies a continuous vote for benefits from the treasury,
liberty breaks down and dictators begin to take control.
If we allow the Black Lives Matter movement to become America's Bolshevik Revolution, we
will lose our liberty, and many of us will likely lose our lives, as well, for daring to
question them. This was never about racism. It has been about power and control since the very
beginning. Black Lives Matter seeks to overthrow the U.S. Constitution, and replace our system
with a Marxist-based government that destroys liberty and the free market, and places their
radical leaders in control of the country. If we don't stop it, and recognize the revolutionary
nature of what is going on, America will disappear forever. And, if there is no America,
Liberty dies worldwide.
Douglas V. Gibbs of Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary,
has been featured on "Hannity" and "Fox and Friends" on Fox News Channel, and other television
shows and networks. Doug is a Radio Host on KMET 1490-AM on Saturdays with his Constitution
Radio program, as well as a longtime podcaster, conservative political activist, writ
Several people were injured on Saturday after a car plowed through a group of Trump
supporters who were counter-protesting a Black Lives Matter rally in Yorba Linda,
California.
The driver raced down the street as people carrying Thin Blue Line and American flags chased
her, only to be faced with a line of police cars. She then continued down the wrong side of the
road for a stretch before he was arrested.
According to the
OC Register , the BLM march took place on Imperial Highway - while counter-protesters
gathered on the other side. The conservative group crossed over to the BLM protesters to
confront them when the white sedan 'came tearing through the crowd.'
ConcernedCitizen33 , 11 minutes ago
Attempted homicide. Throw the book at her.
somecallmetimmah , 8 minutes ago
Released on $1 bail in 5,...4.,,,3,.....2,.....
ToWo , 1 minute ago
It is the democrat slums ... San Francisco and has a Soro$ DA
Wild Bill Steamcock , 56 seconds ago
Why in the hell is the driver wearing goggles?
These people are clearly mentally insane or mentally deficient
The surprise is how they hold a Public Office seat in America. He is not a mayor (works
for good of the pll) but a destroyer to identify NYC strengths and weaken them in tandem w
Cuomo. All Americans mourn the loss of many who died and suffer great loss because of 2
heinas controlling the gates. Let God arise and his enemies be scattered. Vote Trump
2020-2028!
"Then there is the possibility that federal authorities would use force to suppress
secession or that violence would spontaneously erupt. Missouri, a closely divided state
featuring bloody guerrilla warfare, was an outlier in 1860. If the country splits and things
turn violent today, there will be many Missouris. Moreover, in most of the country, the
barbarity of the Civil War was mitigated by the predominant use of regular armies following the
laws of war, and by the common moral and religious underpinnings of the combatants. A modern
version would look more like Bosnia than Gettysburg.
If we were lucky, things would not devolve into open war. But terrible consequences would
still follow. There would be millions of refugees flowing in both directions, though more out
of the blue zones, which will be afflicted by Portland-style disorder or insufferable
progressive power unconstrained by the Bill of Rights. Continental commerce would be
interrupted and basic security endangered.
The west coast would reach for international allies, and we might eventually find Chinese
troops on North American soil. All of the reasons for union recited in Federalist #1-10
would come back to haunt us. And there would be other difficult issues to resolve, such as how
to divide the national debt and the nation's nuclear arsenal." Andrew Busch
---------
"No one wanted war, but war came."
TTG thinks (or hopes) that war will not come. I am not so sure.
Where I sit in Alexandria, I see the ties that bind in; culture, sentiment, shared history
and societal goals being systematically dismantled by a majority population of newcomers and
minorities.
The same thing is happening all down the I-95 corridor to Richmond where the dismantling is
proceeding rapidly.
This is occurring without regard to the opinions and wishes of the rest of the state. "And
here's to brave Virginia, the Old Dominion state..." No more. No more.
This pattern of potential division is repeated on a grand scale across the country. We are a
federal republic and by that very structure we are built for dissolution as a united country.
The UK can split along national lines; England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, but the
United States is made up of 50 potential countries. Or, perhaps more if other states divide
internally as Virginia might.
If such a process of dissolution began, how would the forces of order fare? The National
Guard? The Regular forces? The police? If you think you know the answer to that question, you
probably do not. pl
As with all of the S&^% Shows going on....No one will be held accountable, and the law does not apply if you are in "Office".
I really feel we are at a breaking point in this country.
Tomorrow should be interesting here in Portland. Proud Boys having huge rally, and Antifa is having one also 3 miles away...get
the popcorn. The Oregon State Police as well as the Sheriff have declined to help Portland Police control this because our Mayor
Ted Wheeler has taken away and banned tear gas.
This is Daryl Turner, the head of the Portland Police Association. He is a good person that has NO SUPPORT from our piece
of s$%^ Mayor or Governor. I wrote him a letter thanking him for speaking out against what is going on...he came into one of my
stores to thank me.
I understand many of you that say "This is what you get"....or "You voted for this" or "Why are you there"
These are very easy words to type....I wish I could get out.......I did not vote for this....This is a small group of corrupt
leaders taking this city into the sewer. And the Rioters that are causing havoc every night are uneducated kids combined with
losers that have nothing else better to do. This is their "Fun".....at the cities and neighbors expense. Our city in some areas
is a disaster because of this. But in most areas of Oregon it is business as usual. Friends.....I do not have the answer. Something
needs to happen. Of too work...have a great day.
Seattle is 8% black. Portland is 6%. Both below the national average of 13%. It's mostly
college-indoctrinated pale faces bashing windows and setting fires in a penitent ritual.
"There's so few blacks here! We must be guilty of undiversity!"
Where I live, Ft. Worth is 18% black and Dallas is 24%. There were a few protests after
George Floyd, but nothing going on now, no sieges of federal courthouses, no riots, nothing.
When a BLM/Antifa mob marched in San Antonio, intent on redecorating the Alamo with their
spray-can graffiti, the Texas Freedom Militia got wind of it and showed up, declaring "The
first 4 rounds in our guns are rubber. After that, lethal rounds." That stopped them until
the police showed up.
If Seattle and Portland, and Washington and Oregon want to experiment with a police-free
Marxist utopia, have at it. State's rights diversity! Of course, it will end up exactly like
CHOP. But it's not going to happen in Texas and most other states.
"The scheme smells of rotten fish and there's an attempt to deflect attention from the real
problem which centers on a corrupt 'secret society' of jurists. The right waves its hands in our
faces while the left plunges the knives in our backs. Who are Donald Trump's handlers?"
" This is definitely not where the [neoliberal] elites wanted things to end up four years
after 2016."
@NemesisCalling 11
"recent BLM and urban riots are entirely funded and sewn by Democratic-party alligned
elite."
Prove it. Perhaps you're confusing the DNC BLM national organization with the autonomous
BLM actions in the streets. Two very different animals.
Your problem is that you still think the two parties are separate entities. There is only
one party in this country, the Property Party, and it has two right wings, the Democrats and
the Republicans.
"At some point it becomes imperative for you to think about that and wonder if DJT
really is the only one standing btw the people and utter tyranny."
Only morons wonder about such things. No one here wants to read your delusional Qanon/MAGA
bullshit.
This nationalist upsurge the world over is bad news for ethnic and sectarian minorities.
Everywhere they are facing greater oppression and less autonomy from national governments
maximising their power. At best they face marginalisation and at worst elimination. This is
true for the Uighur in Xinjiang province in China
I don't know about the author's other claims, but this one just re-states one of Mike
Pompeo's innumerable lies and which our media turned into a full-blown campaign to like their
Iraq WMD effort.
There's no more evidence of Uyghur mistreatment than there was of WMDs. None. The current
campaign is being waged precisely because America's 70-year campaign of terrorist sponsorship
there failed to elicit the hoped-for 'brutal crackdown,' and there hasn't been a terrorist
incident there in years. All that money down the drain!
Here's US Ambassador Chas. H. Freeman, Director for Chinese Affairs at the U.S. Department
of State from 1979-1981:
The CIA programs in Tibet, which were very effective in destabilizing it, did not
succeed in Xinjiang. There were similar efforts made with the Uyghurs during the Cold War
that never really got off the ground. In both cases you had religion waved as a banner in
support of a desire for independence or autonomy which is, of course, is anathema to any
state. I do believe that people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones applies
here. I am part American Indian and those people are not here (in the US) in the numbers
they once were because of severe genocidal policies on the part of the European
majority.
Before Patrick Cockburn wants to talk about oppressed minorities of other nations, he
should look at how minorities are treated in the west.
America is on the verge of a civil war where blacks are tired of being killed by cops.
Asian Americans have seen an 800% increase in hate crimes against them and hispanics are seen
as foreigners in their own country.
Look at how America treated Japanese Americans during WW2 or how America slaughtered the
Native Americans.
I don't see the media talking about Canada's treatment of native populations from forced
sterilization, mass rape, and all of the missing ie murdered natives. Same for Australia.
But let's keep talking about the Uighers so we can start to bring up the wests crimes.
Nationalism is on the rise, and will continue to grow, because people don't want
globalism. Multiculturalism and the politics of victimhood in the service of international
finance and free trade are an unmitigated disaster. We're tired of being crushed down to the
lowest possible denominator in the name of "equity." We are done.
@Tor597 lso tally the development of useful technologies: refrigeration, modern
vaccination, combustion engines, advanced metallurgy, transplantation and transfusion
technology, industrial farming techniques. All of these were inordinately useful in improving
the lives of darkies all over the world and make their struggle to survive far less arduous.
Now what exactly is the point in condescending to a race that has overcompensated for any
suffering it has caused? What motivates you to be such a little shit about this one race? If
you would so kindly oblige, I would appreciate it if you could identity your racial and/or
ethnic makeup. I would like to prepare a list of insulting epithets by which to mock you.
Cockburn is perhaps not "beyond contempt", but definitely narrow-minded.
I stopped at his phrasing " Look at the trouble a century ago that the Irish and the Boers
caused the British Empire at the height of its power"? Wouldn't one rather think that it was
the British Empire that caused trouble to the Irish and the Boers?
Cockburn is an eager defendant of globalism which means that he has a soft spot for Empires
and disdains national states and movements, making "nationalism" the scapegoat for all and
everything.
Furthermore, bi-nationalism is unworkable given current realities and historic
animosities. With historically high birth rates among the Palestinians, and a possible
influx of Palestinian refugees and their descendants now living around the world, Jews
would quickly be a minority within a bi-national state, thus likely ending any semblance of
equal representation and protections. In this situation, the Jewish population would be
increasingly politically – and potentially physically – vulnerable.
It is unrealistic and unacceptable to expect the State of Israel to voluntarily subvert
its own sovereign existence and nationalist identity and become a vulnerable minority
within what was once its own territory.
And yet these people are behind supporting BLM and fervant immigration to America. Pat
sides with non-Whites and Jews.
The 25-year-old suspect was identified
on Tuesday as Marquise Love, and a manhunt is underway after police tried unsuccessfully to
contact him and left messages telling him to turn himself in. Social media users previously
identified Love and posted his personal information – though police have urged members of
the public not to contact Love because it could be dangerous and said details circulating on
social media may be false.
The victim, Adam Haner, may have been trying to help a transgender woman who was being
robbed when the incident began, police said. The same group involved in the robbery then
allegedly assaulted Haner and his female companion. Haner tried to drive away, but he crashed
as the group chased him down, and was dragged from his white pickup and struck by multiple
assailants while others rifled through his belongings. One man then kicked Haner in the head,
leaving him unconscious in the street.
The suspect seen on social media videos of the attack wore a black vest with
"security" written across the front. Love's Facebook page, since deleted, listed him as
an armed security guard at Portland International Airport. He wore a similar black security
vest in a Facebook photo.
Haner was hospitalized but has since been released and is recovering from his injuries. A
GoFundMe page set up
by his brother, Brian Haner, had raised more than $80,000 as of Tuesday evening.
Social media users complained prior to Tuesday's statement by Portland police that no one
was being held accountable for the assault. "It's been over 24 hours since a BLM activist
attempted to murder an innocent man," radio host Matt Walsh said. "The assailant still
has not been arrested. We still have not been given any update on the condition of the victim.
No major media outlet has even told us the name of either man involved."
The war of words between Democrats and the White House ramped up this week as Trump moved to
defund cities that prevent police "from doing their jobs." Will this partisan brinkmanship lead
the US straight to the abyss in November?
The Democratic mayors of New York City, Portland and Seattle
issued a joint statement earlier this week in which they accused Donald Trump of
"playing cheap political games" after the US leader disqualified their cities from
receiving billions of dollars in federal support. Some may argue Trump was right to act as he
did, considering that the mayors slashed the budgets of their police forces at the very same
time radical activists were burning and looting Main Street.
This week, Trump's attorney general, William Barr, chastised the Democratic leaders for
refusing to "undertake reasonable measures to counteract criminal activities" amid the
Black Lives Matter and Antifa protests that erupted across the country following the tragic
death of George Floyd at the hands of a white police officer in May.
"We cannot allow federal tax dollars to be wasted when the safety of the citizenry hangs
in the balance," Barr
wrote in a statement on the Department of Justice website. "It is my hope that the
cities identified will reverse course and become serious about performing the basic function of
government and start protecting their own citizens."
Although there is considerable doubt as to whether Trump has the legal authority to deprive
cities of federal cash – New York City, for example, receives $7 billion
annually from Washington – the Republicans are not about to miss an opportunity to
reprimand the Democrats, especially when the country is heading into the final lap before
Election Day. With that said, however, Trump seems to have ample justification for punishing
the Democrats for their handling of this hot protest season.
Although politicians would be expected to demand that their police forces display restraint
amid the BLM protests, a line must be drawn at full-blown anarchy. In some Democrat-run cities,
however, that line never seemed to exist. And if it did exist, it was drawn so far down the
road as to be altogether meaningless.
Consider, for example, the decision by Seattle authorities in June to let protesters seize a
six-square-block zone – dubbed the 'Capitol Hill Occupied Protest' (CHOP) – which
Mayor Jenny Durkan downplayed as the "summer of love," a remark that has not aged well.
Seattle's brave experiment in anarchistic, police-free living came to a screeching halt in just
a matter of weeks after
sporadic shootings left two people dead and several others injured.
New York City also made Barr's blacklist, thanks to Mayor Bill de Blasio's decision to
cut
$1 billion from the New York Police Department's annual budget at a time when shootings have
soared 165 percent in the Big Apple and murders are up by almost 50 percent.
Meanwhile, across the country in Portland, city residents just marked a grim milestone: 100
consecutive nights of protests, marred by the destruction of public and private property,
violence, and even death. Incredibly, however, Mayor Ted Wheeler – who was forced to find
a new home after repeated protests and even an arson
outside the condominium complex where he was residing – has forbade law enforcement from
using tear gas, perhaps the most effective deterrent against mob violence short of deadly
firearms.
At this point, it must be asked: "What in the hell are the Democrats thinking?" Few
people would doubt the need for overhauling trigger-happy police departments. But reducing
their budget to the point of redundancy, as the Democrats are doing, does not seem to be the
best remedy; courting the mob at the very same time you are disparaging and decreasing funding
for law enforcement is fraught with risk. So why haven't the Democrats taken a no-nonsense
stance against the troublemakers?
One possible explanation is that the Democrats, who have been trying to oust Donald Trump
since before he even set foot in the White House, had set a trap for the Republican leader. It
seems they were anticipating that the brash, tough-talking Trump would eventually lose his
patience as the rioters continued with their wave of destruction, which the mainstream media
has gone to
great lengths to sanitize. In an effort to restore some semblance of law and order, Trump
would send in the cavalry with both guns blazing and a blood bath would predictably ensue
– exactly the sort of calamity that would destroy any hope of reelection.
If that is the game the Democrats were playing, they seriously underestimated the US
leader... again. Against the advice of many Republicans, Trump has taken limited and measured
actions against the rioters, letting the Democrats simmer in a stew of their own making. At the
same time, he is constantly reminding Americans that the Democrats are to blame for the mayhem,
which shows little sign of abating. That leaves the Democrats with just one option: blame Trump
for the violence in return.
By now, readers are no doubt familiar with the sight of angry mobs smashing windows, looting
stores, and harassing pedestrians and street diners around the country , supposedly in the name
of advocating for the rights of black Americans. Around the country, these mobs are diverse and
have diverse motives, ranging from simply wanting to loot and get free stuff to being driven by
deeply held ideological beliefs. However, one can't help but notice that in many places a
significant number of those causing disturbances are not the subjects of the state oppression
in question, but are often white and sometimes even affluent, and as a result are almost
completely isolated from the consequences of their destructive sprees.
Portland, site of over a hundred straight days of protests and often violent rioting, seems
like the poster child for this phenomenon. Portland is, in fact, the whitest big city in the US.
In New York City, the Daily Mail
reported on the recent arrest of seven members of the New Afrikan Black Panther Party, a
revolutionary Maoist group, after a rioting spree that caused at least $100,000 in damages.
Every one of them appears to be white from their mugshots , and among them are an art director
who has done work for Pepsi and Samsung, a model and actress, and the son of famous comic book
writers. The New York Post profiled one
rioter, twenty-year-old Clara Kraebber, and discovered that her mother runs her own
architecture firm and her father is a psychiatrist who teaches at Columbia University. The
family paid $1.8 million in 2016 for their New York City apartment and also own a home in
Connecticut with four fireplaces.
Or consider Vicky Osterweil, the white author of the much-discussed book In Defense of
Looting , who is also the daughter of a college professor. As Matt Taibbi reports in his review of the
book, "there's little evidence the author of In Defense of Looting has ever been outside" and
"she confesses to a 'personal aversion to violence,' lamenting a 'refusal to attack property'
that 'does not lessen the degree to which I benefit from systems of domination.'" In Taibbi's
words "this is a 288-page book written by a Very Online Person in support of the idea that
other people should loot, riot, and burn things in the real world."
Rioting by the affluent is not limited to white people either. Consider the
case of the two nonwhite attorneys, one of whom received his law degree at Princeton, whose
arrest for throwing a molotov cocktail at a riot in New York City made the headlines precisely
because of their high-status, well-paying jobs.
What all of these examples have in common is that the rioting and destruction, or advocacy
for the same, is being perpetrated by people who have no skin in the game and will not be
exposed to the long-term consequences for the people and communities that they are ostensibly
trying to help. Neighborhoods that suffer through riots often
end up economically depressed for decades to come, but people like Clara Kraebber will not
have to worry about such things.
In the last century, there has been a great deal of scholarship attempting to discover the
roots of these kinds of widespread revolutionary movements. In Liberalism , Mises discusses the
idea of a Fourier complex, where antiliberal revolutionary ideas are adopted by people as a
means of dealing with their own inadequacy in the face of reality. Political theorist Eric
Voegelin (who attended Mises's Vienna seminars) also posits a similar, though more complex,
explanation with his theory of gnosticism.
The classically liberal sociologist Helmut Schoeck also makes a similar argument in his book
Envy . Envy, Schoeck
argues, stems from an individual's reaction to a personal inadequacy and a desire to find a way
to shift the blame to anyone or anything other than himself. Like Mises and Voegelin, Schoeck
explores the ways in which this attitude is detrimental to society, but he also explores why
some people engaged in revolutionary movements are themselves well off and not members of the
toiling masses they seek to "liberate."
In these cases Schoeck argues that such people are not afflicted with envy, but rather with
a fear of envy or the guilt of being unequal. He argues that "the guilt-tinged fear of being
thought unequal is very deeply ingrained in the human psyche," and that it can be observed
everywhere from offices to schools in the way in which people who excel at something will
consciously or unconsciously lower their performance. This phenomenon is unfortunate enough
when it comes to the workplace, but when it comes to politics the consequences can be much more
serious.
Schoeck argues that such guilt may lead a person to forgo their old life in order to serve
the less fortunate but that many times such a person does not seek to extirpate their guilt by
leaving their own comfortable station, but rather by insisting that the entire world must join
them in eradicating inequality. In his words "I have no doubt that one of the most important
motives for joining an egalitarian political movement is this anxious sense of guilt: 'Let us
set up a society where no one is envious.'"
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No doubt even Schoeck would be impressed by the degree to which our current upheavals are
driven by those wracked with the guilt of being unequal rather than those filled with envy
itself. To be sure, there is no shortage of such envious people running around these days, but
there can be no doubt about which group is the driving force.
Hopefully, as social life slowly returns to normal and as the weather gets colder, the
guilt-ridden rich kids will tire out from playacting as revolutionaries and return home. But
until then, it seems that the rest of us will be forced to suffer as they work out their
psychological problems through some window-smashing therapy.
DEDA CVETKO , 2 hours ago
Just a friendly reminder to the author of the article:
Some of the most vicious and violent revolutionaries throughout human history were the
scions of aristocracy or descendants of extremely rich and affluent families: Jean-Paul
Marat, Girolamo Savonarola, Felix Dzerzhinsky, Simon Bolivar, Fidel Castro, Sun Yat-Sen,
Che Guevara, Louis Auguste Blanqui, Oliver Cromwell, Friedrich Engels, etc, etc....all
either came from the very rich family background or descended from the blue-bloods and
nobility. Mao Zedong's father was one of the richest farmers in all of China, just as
Trotsky's dad was one of the richest farmers in Russian Ukraine. Mohandas Gandhi was a
brahmin. Count Mirabeau was a, well...count. Ataturk's father was one of the richest people
in Salonica, Greece. Louis Philippe II - who sided with Robespierre - was of the royal
blood, the first cousin of Louis XVI whose trial and execution he personally endorsed and
supported. And, oh....lest I forget...Nelson Mandela was no slouch in the class pedigree
department, either.
I could go on forever and ever.
In fact, impoverished and pauperized revolutionaries were always but a tiny subset of
the revolutionary class. People like Stalin, Gramsci or Tito were always an aberrant group,
an exception to the general rule.
One can probably write a very thick tome about the rich and aristocratic abandoning
their social stratus in order to side with the dispossessed and disenfranchised. This is
far from being a new and heretofore unknown phenomenon.
I am leaving it to the historians and political psychologists to explain why this is so.
Personally, I think that the inherent cynicism and hypocrisy of their own families is a
perfectly good reason to switch sides. Another possible reason is that the poor and hungry
people are typically too busy surviving and feeding themselves to be organizing violent
overthrow of the ruling class.
truth hound , 1 hour ago
They are knowingly in on the psyop. By DECEPTION, though shalt do war.
DEDA CVETKO , 1 hour ago
Possibly some but definitely not all. It would require a much more detailed
psychological profile to figure out what went on in these people's heads. I myself am just
visiting this cluster**** of galaxies, what the fvck do I know about how and why the humans
behave?
Blue_Rock , 1 hour ago
A very good post. I will add anger and rebellion by the youths. The realization that
they somehow don't measure up and that they might not be able to use that gender studies
lesbian basket weaving diploma to get ahead. I have personally seen more than one inherited
fortune lost and business run into the ground by spoiled entitled heirs.
DEDA CVETKO , 1 hour ago
I have personally seen more than one inherited fortune lost and business run into the
ground by spoiled entitled heirs.
This is the Law of Entropy on display: each subsequent iteration is only a paler and
paler version of the preceding one. This is why the caste and class-based societies can't
endure forever: the forces and ideas that guide them simply aren't genetically suited to
perpetuate themselves in their original, integral form. Sooner or later, the integrity of
the founding father(s) dissipates into degeneration and devolution.
algol_dog , 2 hours ago
An interesting note to history. The initiators of these movements are the first to go
once the new regime takes over. Once the new leaders get in charge they realize the danger
of having them around and quickly dispense with them. Examples being the Stalin purges and
Hitler's breaking of the SA.
Utopia Planitia , 2 hours ago
"What's With The Rich-Kid Revolutionaries?"
Safe spaces, exclusively female teachers, participation trophies, no siblings (nobody to
kick you in the face growing up when you are being an asswipe), never a harsh word, no
discipline, constantly being told you are "special", etc. etc. That's just a start.
not dead yet , 1 hour ago
Long before there were the things you mentioned there were rich kids doing rioting and
looting. Back in the sixties it was rich kids made to feel guilty about being rich by their
commie professors. Came from good families with a decent upbringing gone bad by propaganda.
Same kids would go home during breaks and argue with their families how they made their
money off the backs of the workers. Typical commie stuff. Unlike today back then they made
bombs and blew stuff up killing people with many of the bomb makers rich kids. Robberies
for the cause. The parents of the slimy San Francisco DA are serving life for killing a
guard while robbing an armored car. Idiot was then raised by Bill Ayers after his parents
were arrested.
motley331 , 3 hours ago
ALL of these people are useful idiots for the likes of Soros...
truthseeker47 , 1 hour ago
Leader of the violent Weather Underground and self-described communist revolutionary
Bill Ayers came from a very upper class suburban Chicago family.
Ignant Bastad , 1 hour ago
neglected and unloved as a child, so he spends his life "getting back at" his parents?
just a guess.
PGR88 , 2 hours ago
More importantly, those rich white kids out there burning 7-11s downtown are displaying
yet more entitlement. They've never faced consequences their whole life. Imagine if some
counter-protestor swung a bat at them, or small businessman defending his property shot
them? It would be an quick education in consequences.
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Arctic_Fox , 1 hour ago
When they don't get shot, it's another manifestation of their white-assed privilege.
Plus, Progressive mayors tell the cops not to play hardball with the rioters, and even
if a few get busted the Soros-backed DA drops charges. Then if it does go to court, some
faculty lounge kook is on the bench as judge, and there are OJ juries to nullify the
prosecution... so they walk.
Privilege from start to finish...
Kind of makes you wonder why we even bother with this government-thing.
hoffstetter , 2 hours ago
People learn from their friends. I know tech millionaires that don't have a clue about
what's going on outside their own circle jerk echo chamber of "friends" that repeat leftist
talking points as if they were Catholics reciting the rosary. Occasionally, I get one to
admit that the stuff they're spouting is completely unsupported after tossing them a few
videos or transcripts that contradict what they thought was reality, but they just find
something else to which they can redirect that is completely unsupported and irrefutable as
it's nonexistent. These aren't kids. They've been around for decades but never left their
cubicles or their monitors and were extremely competent in their jobs, so now they think
they know everything because they knew one thing. It's extremely common.
hmmmm , 2 hours ago
Maslow's hierarchy of needs explains why a disproportionate amount of shallow thinking
rich kids are involved in such causes. Regular folks are not focused on self
actualization.
charlie_don't_surf , 2 hours ago
They are unaccomplished jealous little a-holes that can only tear down others to pretend
to elevate themselves.
Why123 , 2 hours ago
Alexis De Tocqueville analyzed the United States in the early 19th century, before
Germany was a country under the Kaisers. He predicted that the United States and Russia
would be the world's superpowers in the 20th century. With respect to the United States, he
predicted that we would be a preeminent superpower because 1) we didn't have permanent
concentrations of wealth (for example, if a rich guy had six kids, his plantation would be
evenly distributed in at least two generations) and 2) we focused exclusively on practical
education, not the theoretical ******** that dominated European academia, and which could
only benefit the aristocracy and absurdly intelligent proles (think Euclid or Gauss). With
respect to both Russia and the United States, he saw that both populations had the capacity
to sacrifice and overcome adversity (although different types of adversity). Those
advantages have been eviscerated. We don't focus on practical education. We have permanent,
feudal levels, of wealth, and the population has no will to sacrifice. The university
system and institutionalization of the United States was fundamental towards achieving
those aims.
It comes down to the needs of every human being, rich or poor, to feel achievement and
the specific needs of the rich. These kids have real money because they own assets that
replicate more money, without work. I won't get into tax, trade and immigration policies
that take an already advantageous position enjoyed by these pricks to the next level of
oligarchy. But that isn't enough. You have to impose your value system and "skills" as the
objective value system. You see, these kids want the advantage of the wealth, but they want
to demolish the path to achieving wealth by others. The university system has to be the
ONLY functioning economic path. What would happen if kids knew from a young age that the
name of the game is to save and acquire asserts, and all other pursuits are meaningless? Do
you think we would have a student loan problem? Do you think we would have an inequality
problem? The answer is a resounding "no." The education system is designed to destroy. It
blinds you to this indisputable truth. There are people who see through the BS though (more
on this later). As long as there is some freedom, these problem will rise up the dominance
hierarchy. These rich kids don't like that. These rich kids and their academic professors
deeply resent that. This is why they have to tear down the system. Their privilege will be
preserved, but the rest of the population will be enslaved. If they have their way, every
single young person in the United Stares will have the "benefit" of attending university
and having a "fulfilling career." Well have people in school until their thirties, learning
useless crap, and in permanent debt bondage. This cements the rich kids' status,
Anecdotally, I was speaking to friends from high school. Most of us are professionals.
Some work in law enforcement, some work as engineers, some as lawyers, a few unionized
tradespeople and one doctor. The unionized trades people blow all of us out of the water,
but that's not the startling thing. One of our friends went straight to work at 16. He's
not even a real "tradesman." His father, mother, three sister and himself worked three jobs
and saved aggressively. They bought a first multifamily in 2005. They now have 70
buildings. The first building, as my one friend put it, "caused a snowballs effect." That's
the American way. That's the American dream. The American dream is not going to school
until you are in your fu**** late twenties or mid thirties to go churn and burn on a W-2.
For the prick with an inheritance, that may be useful because he or she has wealth, and he
or she can, especially in light of Boomer cultural norms, pretend that the source of wealth
is the education, but deep inside they know the truth, and they resent the system because
it still allows it and a small number of people manage to rise as a result. These people
are at the top of the food chain. This offends these rich university assholes.
I chuckled when my friend who works for Homeland Security (Democrat) and my friend who
works as an engineer for the Defense Industry (Republican) both stated "why didn't they
teach us that in school?" Rofl. The point of the schools is that so you don't know the
source of success. The point of school is to cement the rich kids advantage and destroy
you. This causes a dual resentment: the poor kids feel resentment because they see they
were sold a bag of goods and the rich kid feels resentment because he or she can't pretend
the success is self induced.
I'll leave everyone with this: Donald Trump was called a racist, rapist, crook, liar,
etc by Clinton in the 2016 campaign. That didn't bother him. The only thing that got him
angry, ever, was when Clinton said he inherited money, which was the only thing that was
true.
Dying-Of-The-Light , 2 hours ago
Kind of ironic that you have the thick-as-shxt, criminal end of blacks who want lots of
bling without working for it, marching with middle class whites who have all the toys these
blacks want. A real match made in hell. The sooner these black and white retards are given
long prison sentences the better.
createnewaccount , 2 hours ago
Ironic? Maybe for the moment but watch this space, I expect the old Minsky quote also
applies to the body politic.
" stability breeds instability "
-Hyman Minsky
Eastern Whale , 2 hours ago
The US government especially Trump, Pompeo and Nancy Pelosi seem to like the "peaceful"
violence in Hong Kong. Nancy Pelosi even coined it a ""a beautiful sight to behold".
What goes around comes around, beware of what you are promoting overseas. Violence and
War all in the name of WMD, Democracy and National Security.
Herodotus , 3 hours ago
Same thing was going on in 1968.
Also, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were rich kid revolutionaries.
fackbankz , 3 hours ago
George Washington was not from a particularly rich family. Jefferson was though.
Jack's Raging Bile Duct , 1 hour ago
It's pretty simple. Rich kids are idle, don't understand the value of anything, and
commonly lazy. This is fertile ground for half-baked ideologies that run h
awesomepic4u , 3 hours ago
Revolutionary leftism is
contemporary Western society's operating definition of nobility and heroism. Social elites
have always justified themselves as being the people who fully live up to the ideal, and
their young men in particular are supposed to earn their aristocratic honors by being the
ones who run towards both good and evil rather than shrinking from them. Violence gets
justified as being the ultimate test of personal commitment to an ideal, and it's a short
road from there to arguing that violence must therefore be virtuous in itself.
If these kids feel guilty of anything, they feel guilty of sitting in classrooms and
offices rather than exercising their powers to the fullest. A moral crusade with lots of
opportunities for adrenaline-soaked adventure is an irresistible temptation.
Cheap Chinese Crap , 1 hour ago
I forget the exact context but I remember the story about an American couple who
wondered if they should send their kids to an American or British university.
"That depends," their British friend replied,"on whether you want them back as radicals
or homosexuals."
Now you get both.
sbin , 2 hours ago
Would be fun to move those BLM white tards to the real black neighborhoods.
Would produce a lot of racists.
My black friends do not want to live in a black majority neighborhood.
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stinkypinky , 3 hours ago
Abused and angry children, lashing out at "the system" around them, being used by true
revolutionaries (Marxists). The abuse angle is key - they want all vestiges of "the power
structure" around them to be torn down, to get back at it all. Racism doesn't matter,
sexism doesn't matter, none of these causes are actually cared about one iota. They would
riot because it's Tuesday and 60 degrees outside as long as someone had a bullhorn, an
umbrella and a brick. It certainly helps that racism is a thought crime you can accuse
ANYONE OF, and it's been so loaded with meaning that it's a devastating attack of character
which can't be defended against.
Bottom line: to understand why these rich kids are rioting look to how they've been
abused.
4Y_LURKER , 2 hours ago
Yeah they are in reality human shields for the corporate apparently communist coup which
is ongoing.
1Y4NixfGQ4MbMO4f , 3 hours ago
I think they are called "Useful idiots" or more descriptive would be "Disposable
Idiots"
GRDguy , 29 seconds ago
Another generation of sociopaths, born to and indoctrined by sociopathic parents.
"Behind every great fortune lies a great crime," and a great number of victims.
smacker , 9 minutes ago
I believe there's a long history of rich kids being involved in revolutionary
conduct.
They are invariably brought up in the shadow of dominating strict rich white parents and
get to
an age where they want to cut out their own slice of life to establish themselves as
independent
individuals, not clones. Adopting political extremes and crime is an easy way to do
that.
Angular Momentum , 48 minutes ago
The industrial revolution has made life safe bland and comfortable for the middle class.
It's easy to be moral when life is easy. In rough dangerous times and places living a life
of integrity was a challenge and those who did it earned respect. But how can you be a hero
in Suburbia? By heroically challenging common sense. The stupider the cause the harder it
is to accept its ideas and thus the more heroic.
fcd443 , 58 minutes ago
Because these dipsh!ts didn't create their own wealth and they feel bad for all of their
parents/generational wealth. They don't know the first thing when it comes to creating
something and coming from nothing.
They want to feel as relevant as their priors so they do what they know best, throw a
tantrum. In this case, it's called a peaceful protest aka black lives matter.
LeftandRightareWrong , 1 hour ago
Many people just want to be relevant. Why do sites like Facebook work?
Psychological, psychiatric pandemic in full force.
darkstar7646 , 2 hours ago
Couple of ideas:
They know the game is over and that they will "fail" to live up to the legacy of
their parents, costing their families everything in the process (which see the scam
college-admissions scandals).
They are trying to provoke a reaction among the White Right Militias ( agent
provocateurs ).
They feel they can get away with anything and are actually acti
Linda Hand , 3 hours ago
The education system is infested with communists.
DancingDragon , 3 hours ago
You mean the democrat party and their MSM sycophants
Antifa and BLM are just shows with stunts designed to distract people from the level they are
fleeced by MIC and financial oligarchy. As well as restore the legitimacy of Clinton wing of
neoliberal oligarchy which was badly shaken during 2016 election, when their candidate was send
packing.
Nicholas Kristof is member of "Clinton gang of neoliberals" and a part of this effort to
distract people. The number of people who pay attention to Nicholas Kristof bloviations is
astounding. Few understand that we do not know the facts and the real issue if the tight grip of
MIC and financial oligarchy on the society. What is interesting is that s in California, there
are 8.5 million residents born outside the country and about 150,000 homeless. "The melting pot
burned over. It is now a ... salad.
For example, if money spend on wars were used to manage thoseforests with difficult terrain
and perioc drauts, would the outcome be different?
Can those fires and destruction be viewed as God punishment for war the USA unleashed? As
Thomas Jefferson said "I tremble for my country when I consider that God is just."
BTW, the number of commenters with Russian paranoia symptom is frightening. Of course NYT
attracts specific audience, but still. In this sense NYT columnists including Nickolas Kristof
are just warmongering bottom feeders of MIC crumps. It is pathetic how he tries to hide the lack
of money for forest management and mismanagement if this issue by Oregon Dem politician under the
broad banner of "climate change" Existence of climate change does not mean that fire should burn
uncontrollably.
MIC steals half trillion dollars and then financial oligarchy steals probably another half,
if not more. What is left is not enough for proper maintenance of land, water and environment in
general. Stupid situation, but this is neoliberalism my friend, where "greed is good". And people
chose this mousetrap themselves in 1970th by electing first Carter and then Reagan and then
Clinton , allowing financial oligarchy to dismantle New Deal Capitalism. Clinton presidency was
especially destructive, In a way he should be views as the top villain in this story, a real
criminal boss.
Below I selected only more or less sane comment (which constitute probably less 1% of the
total)
Notable quotes:
"... How about a judicious Forrest management? ..."
"... So much for our useless 750 Billion dollar military budget. ..."
"... Amazing how ,close minded people become when, for them, everything is political. ..."
Wouldn't the conspiracy theories and concerns about antifa be lessened if progresses were as
vitriolic about violence committed in the name of equity, diversity and inclusion as they are
about violence committed in support of MAGA? Would the right have anything to crow about if
the NYT was as critical of physical altercations caused by social justice warriors as they
are of white supremacists? Wouldn't we all have more trust in MSM if they investigated the
facts before accusing Nick Sandman of racism or claiming a garbage pull was a noose? One
sided reporting and editorials like these fan the flames rather than squelch them.
It's amazing. You can write a column in the NY Times full of conspiracy theories -- all fully
believed by the left -- and accuse the right of being prone to believing conspiracy theories.
From Russia - collusion to rubes in the red states --a majority of dems share a set of
beliefs that are as delusional as anything a small group on the right might believe. But,
that's Kristof and the Ny Times for you.
People seemed to have lost a sense of what is plausible. While few of us know the news first
hand, we have to both trust and evaluate what is reported. Nothing is absolute. Jurors are
asked to decide cases beyond a reasonable doubt. That is how I feel taking in the news. But
within that sliver of doubt, within the fact that nothing is absolute is where conspiracy
theories begin to fester. It is where some have found solace to confirm what they want to
choose to believe despite how much there might be to question that. Events like this create
an opportunism to demonize those you hate and in doing so the essence of what we should be
debating is lost. How to prevent these fires in the first place? We will probably continue to
debate it despite the evidence on climate change, whether there is a deep state trying to
discredit Trump, whether the seriousness of covid is a hoax. Yes there is no absolute
certainty but there is taking an educated guess as opposed to an emotional response. I'll go
with the educated guess. If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, I
will say it is a duck and accept that sliver of possibility I might be wrong.
Why do people attach themselves to "conspiracy theories?" It's actually quite simple. Take
QAnon for example: it is functionally just another religion competing for adherents. As with
any religion, it offers its believers an explanation of what they deem is wrong while
offering a path to right those wrongs. Certainty and simplicity: those are the essential
elements of cults/religion/bumpersticker politics. And the internet guarantees that whatever
you believe will be "validated." "Conspiracy theories" are, for the most part, not theories,
merely assertions. A theory is subject to proof and disproof by evidence. In a world where
truth has no inherent monetary value, don't expect it. Why the rapid spread? To paraphrase
Bill Clinton, "It's the internet, Stupid!" Follow the money: Agenda + Clickbaitability =
Profit That is the business model of the internet, a medium where "news" is whatever will
produce the most clicks. As in profit. Unless and until the youngest generation developes a
means of communication that does not depend on megacorporations, nothing will change. In the
Sixties, a generation which disbelieved and had no honest access to the traditional media,
created its own, the "alternative press." Hopefully, today's teenagers will develope their
own way to communicate that is reliable. It is 100% guaranteed that if their "opposition"
becomes an actual threat to the profits of Facebook, Google, Apple, Twitter, and the rest of
their ilk, they will be cut off.
The antifa movement has grown since the 2016 United States presidential election. As of
August 2017, approximately 200 groups existed, of varying sizes and levels of activity.[73]
It is particularly present in the Pacific Northwest.[74] Wikipedia
In an age when the US Justice Department is anything but just, more closely resembling
something akin to "just us," I call to mind Thomas Jefferson, in a somewhat different
context: "I tremble for my country when I consider that God is just."
We spend hundred of billions of dollars every year on the types of weapons that won WWII,
while the real threat to our Republic and yes, our civilization, is ,,, It's funny and
tragic, simultaneously.
Antifa has done a lot of things. They have chosen to step into the arena. Whether they did it
or not, this is accusation is a result of wading into the fight. If Antifa doesnt like to be
accused of things and cant handle it, then Antifa should step off. Or does Antifa only want
praise? Because that isnt going to happen. Many people dont like Antifa nor trust Antifa. And
rightfully so. Ask any career criminal how many times they've been wrongfully accused of
something. If an individual or group doesnt want to be accused of things, then dont get
involved from the start.
Except that about a dozen people have been arrested and charged with starting the forest
fires. Shouting "without evidence!" doesn't make it so. Facts matter.
@JQGALT There are always people who are setting fires whether accidentally or intentionally.
Do you have any proof that these arsonists were politically motivated I any way ?
Yet the Almeda fire in Oregon that destroyed more than 2,300 homes was, according to NYT
reporting, caused by human activity and is subject of a "criminal investigation." Perhaps it
would be wise to reserve total judgment until that investigation is completed.
Who needs rumors? The organization showed what it is made of when it created its free zone in
downtown Seattle and had the highest crime and murder rate per capita in its short life in
the country.
Rational people know that Antifa is not staring forest fires. However, burning and looting
and using fireworks as weapons in the recent riots make even the dumbest claims of Trump
supporters more believable.
Leftwing activists have literally been arrested for starting some of these fires. There is
video of arsonists being caught, yet the media ignores this, and actively denies it. Gee, why
could that be?
@LV Do you have any proof that these people were were left wing activist or just the kind of
people who are always starting fires ad they have in the past ?
The [neoliberal] left spends 24/7 preaching to their choir about Trump fascists dictatorship,
an illegal government installed by a foreign power, destroying the constitution while
preparing to seize power and ignore coming election results. There is a zero factual evidence
for it, such as a refusal to follow judicial injunctions for example, but their well educated
audiences are buying it whole day long. So what is so baffling that a rural audience after
watching night after night Portland burning by arson and accompanied by "peaceful protest"
graphics on TV would buy into arson speculations and rumors and ignore your disclaimers?
Facebook needs to be regulated since it has effectively organ-harvested the critical thinking
skills of a significant portion of the population. It'd be better if thinking people simply
deleted Facebook and let Facebook shrink and become the right-wing agit-prop tool that it
truly is. Mark Zuckerberg is happy to to destabilize society with his little toy invention.
You'd think with all that money, he could afford a conscience. What a wrecking ball Facebook
is.
"All this rumormongering leaves me feeling that the social fabric is unraveling, as if the
shared understanding of reality that is the basis for any society is eroding." Ya think?
@California Scientist Amen. We are more like an international terminal at this point. A bunch
of people gathered by happenstance, heading in different directions, and often with very
little in common.
@California Scientist: It is even worse than when Adlai Stevenson noted that there aren't
enough educated people to elect a liberal government in the US.
@LV - The point is that "urbanites" aren't able to boss anyone around. It's the low
population rural areas that have outsize political power thanks to the unfortunate design of
our government. Every state gets two senators, regardless of population, and that also
factors into the allocation of Electoral College votes, so that an EC vote from WY is worth 4
times as much as an EC vote from CA, for example. In 2016, Senate Democrats got 20 million
more votes than Senate Republicans, yet Republicans kept control. In 2018, Senate Democrats
got "only" 11.5 million more votes, and consequently lost seats. We're being governed by a
minority in may areas of the country, and nationally, yet the "rural rubes" or whatever you
want to call them, insist that they don't have nearly enough power.
Strange that anyone living in or just knowing the west would NOT know that arsonists could
not burn down huge chunks of forest if they where not so very dry.
Augury Unhappy Bird Watcher, State of Grave Doubt
Sept. 20
The ugly truth of Oregon's political past is asserting itself...we aren't in "Portlandia"
anymore Nick.
Ominous! There are two information ecosystems in this country and Americans increasingly live
in different realities. Much of the media is in the business of massaging the egos of their
readers by feeding them stories that confirm their biases and make them feel clever. There is
less and less fact based news and more and more propaganda. A lot of people aren't really
interested in facts. They just want to be told how right they are and how stupid and evil the
people who disagree with them are. Media corporations are providing the market with what it
desires, and what it desires is poisonous.
There is a reptilian brain need to believe this nonsense and to propagate it- because the
believers are so terrified of the facts of the truth (and the lack of knowing what might be
done to address those facts). The people who are true believers are pointless to discuss.
They are too frightened. They need to believe this stuff. It is hopeless to address them.
Dark times, indeed.
With the natural buildup of combustible matter, combined with houses everywhere now and
little land management, these fires will happen and will cause problems. Lots of things can
start them and they will.
You left out "a century of zero-tolerance policies toward wildland fires (creating
precariously dense underbrush), and resistance to traditional controlled burning at the
human/wilderness interface". It's not the whole story, but neither is climate change which,
due to global technological leveling, is evermore the responsibility of China and India than
Western civilization. Signed, a moderate progressive endlessly frustrated with breathless
liberalism
If only there were no arsonists. Here is a video of a woman who found a man on her property
with matches in his hand (and no cigarettes, which was his excuse for having matches in his
hand). She made a citizen's arrest. This happened in peaceful Oregon. Don't listen if you
can't handle harsh language by a woman who is trying to save her property. Arson is real, and
it is no joke. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJW_M4pBCnY
A man was arrested for arson in Southern Oregon. His fire damaged or destroyed numerous
homes.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/man-charged-arson-connection-almeda-fire-southern-oregon/story?id=72960208
Rumors of antifa notwithstanding, people in Oregon were looking for arsonists because there
are arsonists.
"Conspiracy theories" are, for the most part, not theories, merely assertions. A theory is
subject to proof and disproof by evidence. In a world where truth has no inherent monetary
value, don't expect it. To paraphrase President Clinton, "It's the internet, Stupid!" Follow
the money: Agenda + Clickbaitability = Prominence That is the business model of the internet,
a medium where "news" is whatever will produce the most clicks. As in profit. Unless and
until the youngest generation developes a means of communication that does not depend on
megacorporations, nothing will change. In the Sixties, a generation which disbelieved and had
no honest access to the traditional media, created its own, the "alternative press."
Hopefully, today's teenagers will develope their own way to communicate that is reliable. It
is 100% guaranteed that if their "opposition" becomes an actual threat to the profits of
Facebook, Google, Apple, Twitter, and the rest of their ilk, they will be cut off. As to why
people attach themselves to "conspiracy theories", it's actually quite simple. Take QAnon for
example: it is functionally just another religion competing for adherents. As with any
religion, it offers its believers an explanation of what they deem is wrong while offering a
path to right those wrongs. Certainty and simplicity: those are the essential elements of
cults/religion/bumpersticker politics. And the internet guarantees that whatever you believe
will be "validated."
"Conspiracy theories" are, for the most part, not theories, merely assertions. A theory is
subject to proof and disproof by evidence. In a world where truth has no inherent monetary
value, don't expect it. To paraphrase President Clinton, "It's the internet, Stupid!" Follow
the money: Agenda + Clickbaitability = Prominence That is the business model of the internet,
a medium where "news" is whatever will produce the most clicks. As in profit. Unless and
until the youngest generation developes a means of communication that does not depend on
megacorporations, nothing will change. In the Sixties, a generation which disbelieved and had
no honest access to the traditional media, created its own, the "alternative press."
Hopefully, today's teenagers will develope their own way to communicate that is reliable. It
is 100% guaranteed that if their "opposition" becomes an actual threat to the profits of
Facebook, Google, Apple, Twitter, and the rest of their ilk, they will be cut off. As to why
people attach themselves to "conspiracy theories", it's actually quite simple. Take QAnon for
example: it is functionally just another religion competing for adherents. As with any
religion, it offers its believers an explanation of what they deem is wrong while offering a
path to right those wrongs. Certainty and simplicity: those are the essential elements of
cults/religion/bumpersticker politics. And the internet guarantees that whatever you believe
will be "validated."
" All this rumormongering leaves me feeling that the social fabric is unraveling, as if the
shared understanding of reality that is the basis for any society is eroding." You betcha.
(Palin doesn't look half bad compared to the current batch.) It's a simple formula: social
media driven disinformation + extreme capitalism which leaves us with no real will to address
it + legitimate grievances like racism and financial insecurity = craziness on all sides,
fanned by a president whose personal agenda takes precedence over absolutely everything. All
societies are constantly dealing with potentially destabilizing threats. Their institutions,
media, leadership, and understanding of a common good are their immune system. Ours is
compromised, we are destabilized.
How about a judicious Forrest management? We live in a period of global warming
because of our planet axis precision, aggravated by the presence of an unprecedented
population explosion needing more water, more food, the production of which needs more arable
land, cutting trees, displacing wild animals, exhausting the aquifer. Cutting trees increases
the CO2 in the atmosphere. More people in India, more cattle emitting methane, more old
fashioned way of cooking food and producing more CO2 ... Permanent frost melting also sends
more methane in the atmosphere ... The climate is extremely complex to permit exact modeling,
but it is clear that if we want to stay healthy, it is vital to regularly clear our western
forests of dead wood in order to prevent today's disaster of millions of people, particularly
children with asthma and old people breathing the heavily polluted air. It is time to move to
solar, wind power, electric trucks, cars etc. The technology is here. Let's hope that Biden
will support clean air as means to better health. If all these years instead of using
abstract terms like global warming or climate change, we have been appealing to people to
keep the air clean in order to have better health, perhaps they would have stopped buying the
behemoths cars, producing so much pollution?
As Nicholas and many readers on this page already know, this commentary is more evidence of
how needlessly and recklessly polarized our country has become. When tribal instincts push
people to look for anything - fact, fiction or fantasy - on social media or "rage commentary"
that supports and validates their identities they will glom onto it faster than maggots on
dead flesh. It is a sad state of affairs when so many people of all political persuasions
will not take the time - even a few minutes - to question and investigate the latest "truth"
being promoted. The new culture of low information consumers seems to be spreading as fast as
a pandemic despite the heroic efforts of honest journalism. I wonder if low information
consumption was so endemic to the citizens of Ancient Rome and Greece - long before Twitter,
Facebook and Rage TV? People, please take a moment to "click" one step further to see if the
latest conspiracy story is true. Why help propagate lies? It will only come back to haunt
you, or your children.
Antifa or not, at least some of the big fires have been started by arsonists. Of this fact we
have video proof. By downplaying or even denying it, the media are just as bad as the
conspiracy theorists in promoting disinformation.
This reminds me of a time when people saw "Reds" behind anything that was going wrong in the
country. Nothing new, but just as pathetically paranoid. I wonder how many people, or their
parents, fit into both groups?
Here's another urban myth. Ok, more a lefty myth. That we can just keep adding people to this
country (urban, suburban, rural, big city, anywhere and everywhere) and it won't have any
effect. With the corollary that it's just a matter of "green new deal" or everybody getting a
Prius or the dummies in the sticks realizing climate change is real and then we can just go
on like this forever. We can't. Not only is our much hated lifestyle, which from what I can
see, nobody really wants to give up, killing us, but believing 330 million Americans that add
2-3 million more a year is not a problem at all. Our entire way of life: endless population
and economic growth is unsustainable. We don't need to wait until 2050 to see it. Just step
outside.
It is very difficult to teach people that "research," doesn't mean you go to some TV show or
website you like and root around for stuff that tells you what you want to hear. One prob
seems to be really simple: it takes actual work to do it right. Another is that research,
done well, has an ugly habit of forcing you to think at least a little about whether your own
ideas make any sense. And a third is that people really, really don't like it when their
political views start getting contradicted by reality. It seems to be easier to change
reality than to change views, even a little. Oh, and another prob? Too few Americans really
read anything worth reading. I'm all for funsies (and I've probably read more crummy science
fiction than all y'all put together) but one of the joys of walking around in Paris is seeing
that the kiosks and bookstores still sell a ton of stuff on philosophy, lit, economics, and
that everywhere, people actually read them. Books teach thought. Newsmax don't.
@Beer Can Boyd: As a native-born American, I think the US fell down when the Congress put
"under God" into the Pledge of Allegiance in 1953, ostensibly to preclude anyone thinking
about Godless communism, and gave itself a stroke.
The melting pot burned over. It is now a word salad. But appears there is a method to the
madness. It is hard for the world to tell the madness from the method
@Carolyn then there are the lies and the demonization of China and Russia by both parties to
top it off. How can voters believe anything and decide before they vote?
Supporting this atmosphere of potential violence are some of my republican friends. They are
mostly educated and not stupid. Yet they continue to support a man whom I think holds the
responsibility for most of the violence if it comes. Now I want to get down to my point about
these supporters. I believe they have succumbed to a cult-like dynamic. I say this because no
rational person could possibly support Trump. Religious cults create this same addiction and
irrationality. When my friends disagree with me, they try to put our friendship hostage to no
further discussion of politics. They are unwilling to even be confronted with objections to
their support of Trump. I have decided that I can always make new friends. What I do not want
to do is take on the task of building a new country because I stayed silent.
@Harcourt "They are mostly educated and not stupid." In my opinion, educated persons who
behave as you describe never benefited from their education. Even worse, to me it seems like
persons who behave like that are of the opinion that what they learnt in school is only for
the purpose of writing the exams they needed to pass to get out of school. It was all just
noise to them.
You nailed it. There is no longer "a shared reality" in America. So we have wildly different
views of who Joe Biden and Donald Trump are. And how serious climate change is. And whether
it's important to wear a mask. And if left-wing anarchists set forest fires. Thank you,
Internet. Thank you, social media barons who refuse to ban Russian propaganda and manipulated
videos. Thank you FCC that does not rein in Fox News and their promotion of lies. Who will
step in and stop this madness?
@CA I agree with you completely except for the refusal to stop Russian interference. We
can't. We can't unless we stop US interference in the process. The problem is that US
interference, and rumor mongering, are the business model of these platforms which happen to
be some of our largest companies. Extreme capitalism is preventing us from addressing any and
all issues propagated by these companies. Russia is just a speck.
Antifa adherents and wildfires ? Seems pretty far-fetched. Even ridiculous. But setting fire
to occupied apartment buildings in Portland ? Oh yes, definitely. It happened, and more is on
the menu, as well as municipal and federal buildings. Don't believe it ? Read the news
releases for yourself, on the Portland Police Bureau's website.
An excellent discussion of the perils of social media. Although newspapers, TV, radio,
magazines have a historical principal of "generally" telling the truth, social media has
opened up the world to every single Tom, Dick and Harry who with to spread their message. I
believe that how we, as a nation, as a species, handle social media will define what happens
over the next decade.
The state of this country is absolutely terrifying. While the shift to ever more
conservative, insular, xenophobic, coroporate-controlled government has been going on for
years, with the faux election of trump democracy is what has become fake, while common sense,
empathy, and both fiscal and environmental responsibility have virtually disappeared. The US
has gone off the deep end...
Years ago I read a science fiction short story that is unsettling in its analogy to this
situation. I starts with aliens visiting the Earth and accidently leaving behind a device
that can allow metal to be manipulated by softening it, then hardening it. The device gets
copied and mass produced. When they returned a year later, they come back and cannot fathom
how their device could have resulted in anarchy. THAT is the internet. 5 Recommend Share
Let me ask you all a question. If your neighbor told you the fire in a nearby Oregon town was
started by antifa, how would you disprove it? Since you cannot provide evidence for a
negative statement, it's difficult. There is actually some evidence that antifa did start the
fire: a voice said it on the radio, and tv showed them lighting fireworks in Portland. This
isn't very good evidence, but it is evidence, and you can't produce any evidence that antifa
did not do it (because there can't be any.) So you are in the position of asking your
neighbor to look at the quality of the evidence. This is something very few outside the legal
and scientific world are capable of. But that is all you have. Ultimately, it really does go
back to belief. How many of us could independently prove that the earth turns around the sun?
Those of us who aren't astronomers choose to accept this belief based on what we've been
told, and that's how it is with antifa starting the fires.
Kristof is afraid that fires in the West represent the new normal. The evidence suggests that
this fear is well-founded. He is concerned about the government's paralysis. That is partly
due to Trump, who stands a good chance of being reelected on November 3. He is worried about
ordinary citizens seeking oversimplified answers and finding them in the conspiracy theories
presenting the fire as the work of antifa. I am more worried about the breakdown in
credibility of news sources like the NY Times, which finds itself in competition with Fox
News and a host of online sources. Indeed, you-tube and facebook will select news stories for
you, confirming whatever bias you bring to your reading of the news. There is no guarantee
that democracy will survive. One of the things that keeps me up at night is the realization
that not only the right, but the left, is subject to oversimplified presentations of global
warming. Global warming is a consequence of too much population growth. But as we argue over
freedoms for LGBTQ minorities liberals have neglected the importance of freedom of speech.
And voices which have warned about population growth have been simply ignored by the left. It
isn't enough to shift from Fords using gasoline to Teslas running on electricity. We also
need to control population growth. The population of earth will double again by 2072 if
current rates continue. Population growth threatens to overwhelm the attempts to move to
clean energy. 2 Recommend
The scientific consensus will also conclude that not allowing wildfires to burn compounds the
problem. While what I am about to type is not science, continued development in fire prone
areas amplifies and compounds every aspect of the problem. From my perspective the system has
evolved to socializing cost and privatizing cost in every way. I don't see it getting better,
until such time as individuals are held accountable this should be considered normal.
@secular socialist dem PG&E just paid billions in fines and PLEADED GUILTY in starting
last year's Paradise fire. They also have already admitted fault in several fires started by
their faulty, untended grid. "Individuals" don't need to be held accountable unless there are
rules in place for them to follow regarding wildfire. There already are. Most already do. Why
do folks act so proud about their 'anti-science' opinion? It's not like this conversation
isn't ongoing; nobody argues that development in fire prone areas' carries risks. So does
rebuilding in Oklahoma, Florida and Louisiana..... You're right (although confused) about
socializing RISK and privatizing PROFIT. See PG&E above.
Unsure how people lighting fires directly indicates climate change is corroborated. The
fellow who was arrested in Tacoma, WA: https://thepostmillennial.com/antifa-activist-charged-for-fire-set-in-washington
Looking to past wildfires, like the one's in Montana & Idaho in 2008, 5.5 million acres
were burned and certain interest groups advocated for them to burn out because it's apart of
the natural cycle. Federal government shouldn't send assistance unless it's possibly to
communities in threat of burning, who are humans to say we ought to stop mother nature? It's
natural to let these fires burn, if you try to hinder it's course you are stopping the cycle.
Doug Terry Maryland, Washington DC metro
Sept. 20 Times Pick
Why do people believe wild stupid things more than actual facts? Partly it is because they
like the wild stupid thing more, it gives them some weird comfort. It is also because people
are busying with their lives and don't have time to gather enough information to counter the
wild rumor that flies around faster than the speed of sound. The most important aspect of
successful conspiracy theories is they impart to the person holding them the idea that they
are smarter than other people and have "cracked the code" that explains everything or a lot
of big things that people don't understand. Reading, thinking, considering and re-considering
can seem like hard work, particularly if it is foreign to one's experience and life training.
Why not just lock on to a cool idea that comes around, even if it is weird? .
This story highlights for me an equally growing problem, the "selective framing" by media
outlets on the left and right (NYT and Fox as just two examples). To read Mr Kristof's
version, you may believe that arsonists are wild figments of the unhinged radical right
imagination. To read the same story on Fox, Antifa arsonists are working their way up your
street.
"...the shared understanding of reality that is the basis for any society is eroding." And
yet reality still exist. Normally, if someone starts to exhibit the kind of behavior that
these "vigilantes" are - screaming about boogeymen, thinking people are out to get them,
engaging in aggressive behavior based on paranoid fantasies, creating self-reinforcing
delusions, becoming obsessed with baseless conspiracy theories - we would rightly diagnose
them as being mentally ill, and to the extent that they represent a danger to others, confine
them. I don't think we can afford to see this as just a time of extreme differences of
opinion. Facts, truth and reality are still actual, tangible things. And those who have
become so disassociated from them that they are stopping vehicles and hunting down their
fellow citizen need to be dealt with appropriately.
We have been witnessing the start of the Second Civil War in America. If we accept the
definition of a civil war as a conflict between factions of citizens for either secession or
control of the government--including organizations within the existing government--then we
are in the beginning stages of a Second Civil War. The question is what the level of violence
will be (not will there be violence, but how much violence). We are beginning to see
indications of that level. When naturally or accidentally caused wildfires are attributed to
one faction as a way to stoke the fires of civil violence, then physical violence between
factions is a heartbeat away simply because of the falsity and extremity of the accusations.
The era of peaceful protest has passed because of the intensity of feelings on both sides;
the anger produced when a government begins denying civil rights, e.g., Freedom of Speech and
the Right to Assemble, through legal actions where protest organizers could be charged with
sedition (see Barr's comments, 9/16/2020, NYT), which then suggests that all protests become
illegal, the fires of violence are stoked. With a heavily-armed populace on both sides,
gunfire is a hair-trigger pull away. If Trump and the Republican's intention was to remake
America in their image (I leave it to you to supply that image), they are succeeding. If
Putin's intention was to bring down America, he is succeeding. If Xi's intention was to
dominate the world, he is on that path. Vote 33 Recommend Share
... There's an old saying "Those who the gods would destroy they first make mad." I have come
to the conclusion that America has gone qute a long way down that road.
And yet, Mr. Kristoff, you never make mention of the real threat that groups like Antifa and
other radical left rioters pose to this country (forgetting about attacks on federal
buildings in Portland? Attempts to firebomb courthouses? Violence against law enforcement
officers?). No, instead it's always Trump, or Trump supporters who are your focus. I do not
know whether Antifa has been involved in any of these recent fires, but I do know that these
violent elements on the left pose a massive danger to our democracy. You are correct about
one thing, though: We should brace ourselves. It's just "what" we need to brace for that is
off mark in your article...
It's heartbreaking to watch these three West Coast states burned. For days, the sky was red
and the air was unbreathable. But the saddest part was the feeling of helplessness.
40 years ago, I hitchhiked around the Pacific Northwest during the summer after Mt. St.
Helens blew up. Mt. Rainier was ash-coated, as were the wild blueberries I often ate. Epic
and Biblical are words inadequate to describe that destruction near Mt. St. Helens, with
millions of huge, old trees blown down, piles of mud, and rivers diverted. Yet I and others
knew that eventually, that land would regrow, and it did.
I see a lot of egotism and self-love on both sides. The so-called progressives in our
community are breeding at baby boom levels, driving SUVs, and, before the pandemic, you'd see
a dozen school buses idling outside every school. Development is out of control as people
flee from the city, and people flee from here, or downsize, and breed and breed and breed.
Two years ago, we had a flash flood and our street was under water, and there was a lot of
damage all over town. Hurricane Irene in 2011 left many with over a foot of water in their
basements. And let's not even start on Sandy. My friend lives in Pensacola; their downtown
area is under three or four feet of water from Hurricane Sally. It's not just fire, it's
floods, and it's not just the GOP which is the problem...
I don't blame anyone for guarding their roads if they think arsonists are about. The
Tillamook Burn was larger and more devastating than these fires but are we to blame climate
change ? Environmentalists and Liberals who do not even live out West, who did not rely upon
Logging, placed their concerns about the Spotted Owl and Virgin Forests about the danger of
Forest Fires and the livelihood of Loggers and the Towns and Peoples who depended upon
Logging. Managed Logging of Forests is not an inherently evil act. Clearing the bush and dead
trees is not bad in and of itself. Let Logging companies responsibly manage sections of the
Forrests, let Towns clear fire breaks around their perimeters. Place large Water towers in
strategic points throughout the Forests, huge mounds of dirt/sand/gravel next to them so that
the Firefighters have what they need to fight the fires. Force developers to build houses 50
feet apart. Require fireproof roofs, require thinning of trees in housing developments.
Require volunteer Fire Departments in every neighborhood so that if they do nothing else,
they can cut a fire break, water down the grasses around their neighborhoods, chase and
extinguish embers, something/anything versus fleeing their homes without putting up a fight.
"... dry conditions exacerbated by climate change coupled with an unusual windstorm ..." May
I add that a couple of other things have also contributed to making the fires worse or making
them harder to manage? For a century or so, in California, Oregon and Washington we have not
been letting the normal, periodic fires burn. Consequently, a great deal of fuel has built up
on the forest floor. Second, folks have increasingly been building homes or even
neighborhoods in places which have historically seen such normal, periodic fires.
@Robert Yes. But now controlled burns are a bit problematic, given the droughts, the heat,
the massive fuel loads from all the dead trees. It's just so easy for the controlled burns to
get out of control.
Hi, I am from Clackamas County metro. Every time a FaceBook "Friend" (and I personally know
all of mine) posted a rumor, I tried to find the footage from any of our 4 local news
stations to depute their post but they just shared another one. One said she didn't trust KGW
8 the local NBC station and when I told her the same story was on KPTV 12, the local Fox
station. She said, "I'm just stressed"
@David Biesecker Remember that half the people are of below average intelligence. That may
answer the existence of the small percentage of conspiracy theorists. One problem is social
media provides free and outsized loudspeaker systems that enables them to find each other.
@M.i. Estner First, let me identify myself as a liberal Democrat who has a masters degree. I
find it more than disheartening when half of the country, or half of rural or not formally
educated folks are said to have low intelligent quotas, critical thinking skills or
analytical abilities. You better believe that when a highly trained Eastern Oregon
firefighter is assessing how to save peoples lives, homes and land, has to quickly act with
their many faceted skill set and are calling on abilities you or I would not be able to
fathom. Same with farmers of large pieces of complicated crops and land. Same with city
managers, librarians, and social workers for the elderly--all having low city budgets. What
about the veterinarians, doctors and nurses in rural areas? This is exactly the same as
calling Black or Hispanics people of lower intelligence. And, there are different types of
intelligence. I know a literary critic, a liberal Democrat, who doesn't have the critical
thinking skills to run her own home or raise her children. If you look, you can see these
same differences in any group. It has to do with the way people are raised, what they are
using their skill sets for, what information they are used to consuming, money, ideology,
etc...And it has to do with being devalued for growing your food, producing your meat,
chicken and eggs. I'm not excusing the violence, guns, racism and hatred. These divides have
been with us for ages. Please don't stoke the fires.
If we have a selfish federal government, then we will have selfish states and people.
Everyone is for himself or herself. No one will think about other people or public good. It
all started from the top
In 2017, 2018, and 2019 northern California's new phenomenon of forceful 40 to 60 miles per
hour winds - in Fall, no less - caused old and aging electrical equipment to malfunction. As
a consequence, too much of Santa Rosa burnt to the ground, and the entire town of Paradise
ceased to exist. This year during the heat of a hotter than usual summer following yet
another dry winter, we had dry lightning strikes from Sonoma County to Santa Clara County and
beyond.
Yes, the science is clear and you fail to mention it. The forest fires reach critical mass
and spread because of the surplus of dead or dying trees. They are there because the federal
government essentially no longer allows logging on its vast landholdings and also fails to
allow controlled burns to clean out the tinderbox. I won't bother attaching a link because
any Google search proves the point. Why focus on hysteria and rumermongering among the
Deplorables? Come on, Mr. Kristof, you were a Deplorable once (when you were a kid growing up
in the countryside) as was I. Please defend them sometimes, particularly when the actual
causes are so well documented.
@Stuck on a mountain Western States are working to clear the brush from forests where, due to
our previous incomplete understanding of forest ecology, fires were suppressed for a century.
However, the cost is astronomical and there are millions of acres left to clear. Spending
their entire forest management budgets fighting current wildfires doesn't help. We've been
doing controlled burns for decades but in many areas, they're now too dangerous. Dry forests
and a dense understory can quickly turn a "controlled burn" into a conflagration. Many
ranchers and timber companies who profit from our state and national forests seem unwilling
to pay to keep those forests healthy. People who live in or near forests mostly have incomes
too low to pay for forest management. The National Forest Service, Department of the Interior
and USDA have made some progress, but the problem is huge. Saying we can prevent forest fires
by allowing larger timber harvests is an oversimplification. No solution to this complex
issue will be simple, perfect or cheap.
Wacky conspiracy theories to explain seemingly bizarre and unusual occurrences have been
around since the dawn of human cognition. But in an electronic/social media age, these get
spread even faster than a wind-blown fire climbs a canyon hillside. Previously, they were
spread one set of ears at a time; now millions of eyes can read them every second. And that
is a major part of the problem.
As a grad student in sociology, having lived through the 60s and participated in the
counterculture, I was deeply intrigued by the social construction of reality - how we come to
share a taken-for-granted world. This is a long-standing concern within sociological social
psychology. We examined how language, interpersonal communications, media and social
structure shaped ones perception of one's self, what is real, what's important. At the time,
however, this was considered theoretical and academic. 40 years later, understanding how
Americans' realities have come to diverge is no longer armchair social science. It's urgent
and in our faces, as is the question of how can we heal this terrible fracturing of our
world?
@DeHypnotist Yes. When studying for the degree in and then teaching sociology in my early
years, I learned that, too. But, I have to admit, it's actually taken all the decades of life
since then, and now the obvious confirmation of it by this current 'reality' to actually
realize, deep down in my guts, that we 'make up' our so-called 'social reality' simply to
serve the most basic of biological requirements: the need to dominate in the deadly
completion with the other 'tribes' of our species just to survive. We are, after all, animals
like all the others, no matter how much we blab about how much 'smarter' we are.
@Alex B The primal driver, deep in the core of our brain, is usefully thought of as
"reptilian." Cold-blooded. Egoistic. Hedonistic. And, in extreme cases, narcissistic, and,
heaven forbid when all three are present...
I lived for a few years in Brazil when it was a dictatorship. The similarities between Brazil
and what is happening in the US is startling. The police were being used to quell peaceful
protesters and the justice system co-opted by authorities, fear mongering were present, just
as now in the US....
I didn't live in the US from 1977-1999, only visiting on short trips. That enabled me to see
changes in society that were slow and not seen by those residing here. And when I came back
permanently I could feel immediately a deep change....
Perhaps an apt metaphor for the "danger sign ahead" is the approach of a Category three
hurricane and it's increasing in intensity. One of the stark disconnects is between the
message in an article like this and the politicians and citizens who are little concerned
about tempering rhetoric and elevating the importance of eschewing misinformation. We are in
the Misinformation Age and the victims of a cyber war, evolving into a civil war.
@ML What is happening here? These are the beginnings of what happened in Germany in the 30s.
Over there the reason was the loss of WWI. Here, is the obvious decline of the American
lifestyle and we have not seen anything yet. The range of the economic decline is covered by
7 trillion dollars in phony money. I fervently hope and pray that is not too late to stop the
process. All men and women of goodwill have to rally to restore a sane, and one, country .
Stay safe! It is going to get worse before it gets better.
@FunkyIrishman Right on. Water is an enormous issue waiting to happen here -- and Wisconsin
is estimated to have between 10 and 20 percent of the world's fresh water (depending on how
it's calculated and whether that includes some of Lakes Michigan and Superior. A Dept. of
Climate, Weather and Water would be a logical cabinet department.
@FunkyIrishman And polluting the potable water continues sometimes by the most resolvable
modern approaches: sewers and water treatment plants. Reagan ended federal funding for sewers
leaving septic systems (and now ancient sewers) where sewers would lead to protected fresh
water. All the medicines, chemicals, and toxins seep unseen but very real into fresh and also
salt water. We are not a modern nation any more.
Two Louisville police officers have been shot amid chaotic protests over the lack of murder
charges linked to the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor. One suspect has been taken into
custody. The officers are expected to survive.
As groups of protesters squared off with police around Louisville on Wednesday night,
multiple shots went off. Two officers were shot, Louisville Metro Police Department Chief
Robert Schroeder has confirmed, noting that their injuries appear to be
non-life-threatening.
Police received calls about shots fired near a local college around 8:30pm, the chief said,
adding that "as they were deploying to investigate what was going on... shots rang out and
two of our officers were shot."
I'm very concerned about the safety of our officers
One of the wounded officers is "alert" and "stable," while the other is in
surgery, but is also expected to survive. One suspect has been brought into custody, Schroeder
added, though declined to identify the individual.
One of the officers was reportedly struck in the abdomen, below his bulletproof vest, while
the other was shot in the thigh, according to a reporter
with a Louisville Fox affiliate, Jason Riley, who cited anonymous sources.
... ... ...
The local FBI office said it had deployed a SWAT
team to respond to the shooting and that it would assist the police investigation, but also
offered no other details about the officer or his condition.
As news of the shooting made the rounds, the acting head of the Department of Homeland
Security (DHS), Chad Wolf, denounced the violence against
law enforcement, saying it "is NEVER acceptable in a civil society," and that he is now
"praying for the well being" of the injured officers.
Arson, smashed windows &
ransacked cafes as anger spills into streets
The protests in Louisville erupted earlier on Wednesday after the officers involved in the
fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor were not charged for her death, with only one officer facing
charges for "wanton endangerment" linked to his indiscriminate firing into apartments
adjacent to Taylor's home. The 26-year-old medical technician was killed during a March police
raid as plainclothes narcotics officers attempted to serve a search warrant at her
apartment.
While the officers involved in the incident were fired, the lack of charges over Taylor's
death has stoked outrage around the country, prompting crowds of protesters to descend on
Louisville on Wednesday afternoon. They were seen preparing for clashes with police, with
footage showing activists distributing shields and other gear from the back of a U-Haul
truck.
Ahead of the city's 9pm curfew, demonstrators were filmed as they set fires and smashed
windows around Jefferson Square park and elsewhere in downtown Louisville.
Police responded to the disturbance around the park just before the curfew went into effect,
seeing a large group of officers clad in riot gear march into the area, where they fired
concussion grenades and tear gas to clear out the protesters.
While the unrest has died down in some areas, protests continue sporadically in the city,
where some 500 National Guard troops have also been activated. The soldiers were seen deployed
in various locations, including around the hospital where the injured officers are believed to
have been taken for treatment.
Remember, already in November 2016, a media manipulation company headed by the master of
Agit-Prop, David Brock, raised more than 100 million dollars to destroy the image of the
President-elect
before he was inagurated . Since then, before he could do anything about it, the
international press has portrayed the U.S. president as incapable and an enemy of the people.
Some newspapers have even called for his assassination. For almost four years, his own
administration has constantly denounced him as a traitor paid by Russia and the international
press has violently criticized him.
Currently, another group, the Transition Integrity Project (TIP), is planning scenarios to
overthrow him in the 2020 election, whether he loses it or wins it. The case has become
national in scope since TIP founder Professor Rosa Brooks leaked a lengthy article in the
Washington Post to which she is a regular contributor .
The TIP organized four role-playing games last June. It simulated various results to
anticipate the reactions of the two candidates. All the participants were Democrats and
Republicans (ideologically speaking, not "Republicans" in the sense of party membership), none
of them Jacksonian. Unsurprisingly, all of these personalities believe that "the Trump
administration has consistently undermined basic standards of democracy and the rule of law. It
has adopted many corrupt and authoritarian practices. They therefore concluded that President
Trump would attempt a coup d'état and imagined that it was their duty to pre-emptively
devise a
"democratic" coup d'état .
... ... ...
The TIP has highlighted just about everything that could happen in the three months between
the election and the nomination. It acknowledges that it will be very difficult to determine
the results given the use of absentee voting in times of epidemic. The TIP deliberately did not
explore the possibility that the Democratic Party would announce Joe Biden's election despite
an undercount and that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi would swear him in before Donald Trump could
be declared the loser. In such a case, there would be two rival presidents, which would mark
the beginning of a Second Civil War.
This eventuality encourages some to consider seceding, to unilaterally proclaim the
independence of their state. This is particularly true on the West Coast. To prevent this
process of disintegration, some advocate dividing California in order to give more members of
the Electoral College to its population. However, this solution is already a stance in the
national conflict because it favours popular representation at the expense of the power of the
governors.
These different points of view attest to the deep crisis that the United States is going
through. The "American empire" should have disintegrated after the dissolution of the Soviet
Union. This did not happen. It should have reinvented itself with financial globalization. It
did not. Each time, a conflict (the ethnic division of Yugoslavia, the attacks of September 11)
came to rekindle the dying. It will no longer be possible to postpone the deadlines for much longer
.
Rioters in the Oregon capital are turning their sights on residential
suburbs, demanding that homeowners pledge allegiance to their cause or have their houses burned down. Why aren't we doing something
to stop these anarchists?
Of all the cities in America that have suffered from constant rioting and violence, Portland might have it the worst. The city
that was once lauded as being one of America's best places to live has endured more than 100 consecutive nights of
rioting involving vandalism, chaos, and death –
including the slayingof a supporter of President Donald Trump
– since the killing of George Floyd, with no end
in sight.
Disturbingly, there have been recent reports of the Antifa rioters there moving away from the city center and beginning to
target residential areas and threaten people in their homes.According to the New
York Times, activists have been demanding that people come out of their houses and pledge allegiance to their cause. They attacked
one property that was flying the American flag, demanding that it be removed or they would come back and burn the house down.
The 'direct action' protest included the handing out of leaflets titled 'Why Break Windows', 'I Want To Kill Cops Until I'm Dead',
'Piece Now, Peace Later: An Anarchist Introduction to Firearms', 'In Defense of Smashing Cameras', and 'Three-Way Fight: Revolutionary
Anti-Fascism and Armed Self Defense'.
Conservative news platform Hot Air managed to find the sort of
pamphlets on offer, one of which reads: "Police Officers must be killed, the families of Police Officers must be killed, the
children of Police Officers must be killed, the friends and supporters of Police Officers must be killed."
The atmosphere at this protest, however, was described by the New York Times, in its usual style, as being like a "carnival
in the dark." Sorry, what?
The tactics employed by these activists fall in line with their idea of preemptive self-defense. Before you ask, yes, it is an
oxymoron, and, yes, it goes over their heads. It is also an excuse to hurt anyone that they decide is a fascist, which just happens
to be everyone who disagrees with them. All of this reeks of the tactics of those who wish to subvert the current government and
bring anyone they consider a dissenter under their heel.
What I find interesting and horrifying simultaneously is that these tactics are simply described as divisive. Isn't it a little
bit obvious, when someone walks up to you and says they want to kill a police officer, that you're going to have a strong reaction?
At that point, your opinion of that person is going to change radically, because there's a good chance that they're not just quoting
an NWA record. Personally, I have much more colorful language for such actions, with the first word coming into my head being 'psychopathic'.
One of my biggest issues since the death of George Floyd and the beginning of the riots has been the complete and total lack of
honesty when it comes to Antifa. This is not just a group of people that dislikes far-right politics. Their name stands for anti-fascist
action, but it is intellectually dishonest to look at what they are doing and think this has anything to do with fighting fascism.
Their goal is revolution, and it's likely that if you were to ask them if they think that Pol Pot did anything wrong, their answer
would be no.
I use Pol Pot because a strong example is needed. Because of the rampant dishonesty about what these people want, very little
has been done about them in Portland. So, my question is simple. At this point, who needs to die before someone realizes they need
to be stopped? There is blame in all directions. The US government should have declared Antifa a domestic terror group long ago.
When these riots started, there should have been strong action to stop them. Instead, we have these people roaming the streets, threatening
law-abiding, peaceful, and patriotic citizens and discussing the need to slaughter cops and their families. What else is needed for
the authorities to act?
I'm not a fan of hyperbole and I tend to adhere to Hitchens's razor quite a bit. However, the evidence is right here in front
of me. In fact, it's right in front of anyone who reads the New York Times, Hot Air, the Daily Wire, or this article. If an immediate
solution is not pursued, I fear some half-cocked psycho is going to murder a police officer. There may not even be just one killing,
but many. If the purpose of law enforcement here in America is to protect life, liberty, and property, then something needs to happen
to make sure lives are not lost.
There's a duty to American citizens that's not being fulfilled here, and an innocent person shouldn't have to pay the price before
that happens.
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@MindofMicahC
Looks like neoliberal Dems are playing with fire. Another couple of such success stories and
Biden can safely enroll to the assisted living senior citizen community where he belongs. This is
an excellent way to mobilize Trump voters. Just look at the comments section of this story.
This is somewhat similar to hysteria in Germany in 1930th.
Notable quotes:
"... And Costco was once a retail store. Bravo! Today transformed into a political party? ..."
Costco has halted sales of Palmetto Cheese, a popular brand of pimento cheese spread that
had been offered in over 120 of its stores, after the company's owner triggered outrage with a
Facebook post criticizing Black Lives Matter.
A sign posted at a store in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, indicates that Palmetto Cheese has
been discontinued and will not be ordered again by Costco. The retailer hasn't made a statement
on its decision, but the move came after consumers called for a boycott of the brand because of
social media comments by Palmetto Cheese's owner, Brian Henry.
"This BLM and Antifa movement must be treated like the terror organizations that they
are," Henry said in an August 25 Facebook post that has since been deleted. He wrote the
message in response to the alleged shootings of three white people by a black man in
Georgetown, South Carolina. He complained that BLM and Antifa were being allowed to
"lawlessly destroy great American cities and threaten their citizens on a daily basis"
and declared "All lives matter. There, I said it. So am I a racist now?"
The reaction on social media was swift, with commenters calling Henry a racist. Activists
jumped into action with a boycott campaign against Palmetto Cheese. A Twitter account was set
up mocking the company as "Appropriation Cheese," because of its use of a black woman on
its packaging who worked for the company before dying earlier this year.
Activists on the Appropriation Cheese page celebrated Costco's decision and pressed for
more. One commenter on Tuesday thanked Costco and demanded that Kroger, Lowes Foods and other
retailers cancel Palmetto Cheese. Another boycott supporter called on Publix Super Markets to
drop the product, saying: "Costco pulled Palmetto Cheese because of the open racism of its
owner. We are hoping you are considering the same." Still another said: "Attention
Corporate America. This is how you ally."
But others lamented Costco's move and the divisiveness it represents. "This is how
divided the country has become," one commenter tweeted. "Even store chains are picking
sides now. This is insane." There were those who defended Henry, saying that criticizing
the group doesn't mean that one is racist.
Henry, who also is mayor of the small South Carolina coastal town of Pawleys Island, may
have squandered a chance to inspire a boycott-backlash movement – like that which Goya
Foods enjoyed after its owner was vilified for praising President Donald Trump – when he
issued an apology on September 3.
He said his comments were "hurtful and insensitive."
"I spent the last 10 days listening and learning," Henry said. "The conversations
I have had with friends, our staff, the community and faith-based leaders provided me with a
deeper understanding of racial inequality and the importance of diversity
sensitivity."
Henry added that his family and company will donate $100,000 in the first year of a new
foundation set up to improve race relations, and Palmetto Cheese will rebrand its product
"to be more sensitive to cultural diversity." In addition to having a picture of a black
woman, the current packaging refers to Palmetto Cheese as "the pimento cheese with
soul."
The company sold more than 15 million units last year in about 4,000 stores. Henry warned
that a boycott would only hurt the hundreds of people employed by the company in South
Carolina.
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uncledon 8 hours ago
I
guess I'm a racist as I believe all lives matter! I believe that people have a reason and the
right to peacefully protest. People do not have a right to murder, to plunder, to destroy
properties and businesses, to loot and set fires! If these things are done under the BLM
movement it is lawlessness. If we are to have a peaceful and productive society we need law and
order not total chaos. If the BLM wants to make change, (and change is sorely needed) then sets
some rules in your organized protest that gives it strength and power. Every smashed window,
every fire, every looted business and every intimidation to innocent bystanders is a reason for
people like myself not to support your cause.
KarlthePoet 9 hours ago
It's too bad that the
American consumers haven't started a boycott of the Jewish Banking Cartel, which ultimately
controls the US government and Wall Street. A cheese spread isn't the problem in America.
JG1547 10 hours ago
And the stupidity continues. Sad
CrabbyB 7 hours ago
Avoid social media
other than trying to garner sales. Avoid any chit-chat or opinions, just bare minimum contact
that suits your business purpose and that's it. The mob harmed but using Fakebook as a soapbox
was the big mistake
VillageIdiot34 4 hours ago
Keep it up amerimutts.
With this rate of
acceleration we are talking civil war before Christmas. I can already see it; the corporate
communists, backed by every globalist for-profit corporations against "real capitalism has
never been tried" gang. Less fighting abroad, more fighting domestic. It's a win/win for
everyone else
Jack The Man 3 hours ago
Absolutely right and principled action by
Costco. And BTW, who on earth would like to eat this processed garbage anyway?
rightmove 5
hours ago
And Costco was once a retail store. Bravo! Today transformed into a political party?
I'm in Australia and won't be shopping at Costco. The customer can decide if the BLM impacts
their choice of merchandise, not the damn seller.
Mistermal 6 hours ago
According to Webster's
Dictionary: "The use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, especially for political
purposes." Costco CEO simply told the truth. BLM is an openly racist, violent hate group.
Alan
Hart 3 hours ago
Will Costco also ban Israeli goods - because of their criticism of PLM
(Palestinian Lives Matter)...??
Flyingscotsman 3 hours ago
Simple, boycott Costco. I bet all
these so called republican white Supremacist racists spend more there , than all these keyboard
woke warriors!
Augury Unhappy Bird Watcher, State of Grave Doubt
Sept. 20
Oregon's racial demographics White alone, percent 86.7% Black or African American alone,
percent 2.2% Alabama's racial demographics White alone, percent 69.1% Black or African American
alone, percent26.8%
Minneapolis has declared a state of emergency. For a week now, protests have raged on
unabated in Minnesota's largest city at the police murder of unarmed black man George Floyd.
Initially peaceful, the protests have quickly escalated into clashes with the police, looting
and arson.
President
Trump has condemned the protests , of course, but he has not yet taken significant
measures, deciding instead to hand over complete control to the local authorities –
especially as the state of Minnesota, where it all began, is run by his Democratic opponents.
The situation is complicated: a harsh crackdown on the protests will lead to a fall in ratings
(including among African Americans, whose votes will be key in the forthcoming elections), but
continued unrest will shake the confidence of Trump's nuclear electorate.
The protests are being supported by opponents of Trump, led by
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden , albeit with reservations. It seems that,
alongside the coronavirus, they will become a central theme of the election race. Whatever
happens, developments in the country are extremely reminiscent of the techniques of
a colour revolution .
Update (1534ET): Mayors of the three cities targeted by AG Barr's order have released a
joint statement blasting the Trump Administration's label of "anarchist" cities.
The cities' mayors - Bill de Blasio of New York, Ted Wheeler of Portland and Jenny Durkan of
Seattle - rejected the threat as "thoroughly political and unconstitutional."
"The President is playing cheap political games with Congressionally directed funds," they
wrote in a joint statement. "Our cities are bringing communities together; our cities are
pushing forward after fighting back a pandemic and facing the worst financial crisis since
the Great Depression, all despite recklessness and partisanship from the White House."
Barr accused the mayors of endangering the lives of innocent citizens by treating the
vandals and criminals mixed in with the 'peaceful protesters' far too gently.
"When state and local leaders impede their own law enforcement officers and agencies from
doing their jobs, it endangers innocent citizens who deserve to be protected, including those
who are trying to peacefully assemble and protest," Barr said in the release. "We cannot
allow federal tax dollars to be wasted when the safety of the citizenry hangs in the
balance."
Gov Cuomo also dismissed reports of the administration's plans. "Is it going to happen? No,
because it's illegal and it's unconstitutional," Cuomo said in a call with reporters. "But it's
politics. It's politics for the next few weeks going up to the November election. That's all
this is."
The governor compared it with the administration's previous threats to withhold money from
so-called "sanctuary cities", an issue which New York won against the administration in
court.
"If they actually do this, we will challenge it legally, and he will lose again," Cuomo
said.
City law department head Jim Johnson insisted: "The president does not have the authority to
change the will of Congress."
"We're prepared to fight this in court if he actually takes concrete steps to withhold
federal funds. What we have in New York City is not anarchy. What we have is a city moving
forward under difficult circumstances."
Is the US really a land
teeming with 'white supremacists', or are malicious forces working to crowbar the racial divide
for their own ulterior motives? Whatever the case, America needs to get a handle on the issue,
and fast.
Watching the video of George Floyd dying on the street under the knee of Derek Chauvin, a
white police officer, forced many people to ask themselves: is this yet another case of police
brutality that has become so prevalent on the streets of America, or is it symptomatic of
something even worse? Without any debate, the mainstream media had a ready-made answer for mass
consumption: America is racist to the core and deserves whatever it gets. It was a simplistic,
knee-jerk response at a time when America was already suffering under a lockdown due to a
pandemic.
Before continuing, it is necessary to ask: does America really suffer from 'systemic
racism', also known as institutional racism? As a white American who grew up in a multiethnic
neighborhood and was later employed at several racially diverse workplaces, I would have to
disagree. While the proverbial 'melting pot' still has some cooking to do, relations between
black and white people have been stable for many years.
While the nation will never remove the scar of slavery, the creation of a welfare state,
together with numerous government programs such as Affirmative Action, was designed to end the
discrimination of minorities. And as every American will say, the United States is a 'nation of
immigrants', an idea reinforced by the passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965,
for example, which opened the door to millions of people of non-European descent. Those sorts
of initiatives indicate that Americans are not the hooded pack of white supremacists that many
now say they are. This does not mean, of course, that the scourge of racism has been stamped
out; there is no shortage of racists and bigots in the US, but to call the problem 'systemic'
seems overblown.
At the same time, however, it cannot be denied that we are now living in radical 'woke'
times, an entirely new animal. Thus, instead of responding to the outbreaks of violence in the
wake of police killings with a unifying message of calm and civility, many politicians, in an
effort to appease the angry social justice warriors that keep them in office, are stoking the
fires of racial dissent with their rhetoric. You don't have to read between the lines to
understand their message – just listen to Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee for the
vice presidency.
" Everyone beware, " Harris remarked in a recent interview with Stephen
Colbert. " They [the protesters] are not going to stop before election day in November, and
they're not going to stop after election day They're not going to let up, and they should not,
and we should not. "
It would be difficult to cite a more irresponsible comment from any individual, and
especially one who has a high chance of becoming – considering Joe Biden's advanced age
– the first female president of the United States. This strange new willingness for
Democratic leaders to court the mob reared its ugly head again this week, when Portland Mayor
Ted Wheeler banned police from using tear gas to quell riots that have plagued the city for
more than three months. Mind you, this is the very same mayor who was forced to vacate his
condominium last week after rioters set fire to the building.
Meanwhile, behind the scenes, a number of influential individuals have declared their
support for Black Lives Matter and Antifa. Few would be surprised to know that the financier
George Soros, for example, donated almost a quarter of a billion dollars to several racial
justice groups, including BLM. He was motivated by " systemic discrimination against blacks
that can be traced back to slavery. "
On the other end of the spectrum, Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream, owned by the global Unilever
Company, announced
it was launching a podcast that prompts listeners to " dismantle systemic racism " and
white supremacy. Shouldn't Americans be entitled to a national conversation on the question of
'systemic racism' first, before an ice cream company (ice cream!) practically declares it a
full-blown fascist regime? After all, the 'race problem' could be a symptom of the deplorable
state of the police forces, which are, arguably, both overworked and undertrained to handle
their assigned tasks. The theory at least deserves much greater attention, but that would
deprive the left of an opportunity to appear holier-than-thou in the most consequential
presidential election in many decades.
In any case, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand that if these protest groups
– which, incidentally, have a large number of misguided white
youths among their ranks – believe they can act with impunity, while also receiving
massive injections of cash and ideological support, things are going to spiral out of control
real fast.
Just this week, BLM protesters descended upon my hometown of Pittsburgh, where they harassed
a group of diners enjoying the afternoon on a café patio. One of the female activists
somehow thought it would be a great idea to gulp down one of the beverages on a table where an
elderly couple was seated. Earlier, across the country in Portland, Oregon, BLM showed up in
the middle of the night to inform 'privileged' suburban residents – not all of them
white, by the way – that they were living on "occupied" land. If BLM really wants
sympathy for its cause, those methods are certainly not the way to get it. In fact, they could
trigger an ugly backlash, igniting the very racism that the group declares itself to be
fighting in the first place.
On that note, more white citizens are coming around to the conclusion that they are the ones
being subjected to a 'reverse' form of racism – or, at the very least, are not permitted
to defend themselves from physical harm. That appeared to be the lesson for many after Mark and
Patricia McCloskey, two lawyers from an upscale neighborhood in St. Louis,
brandished firearms after protesters smashed through a gate and trespassed onto their
property. Guess who was charged with a crime? Not the protesters. St. Louis Circuit Attorney
Kim Gardner, who received funds for her campaign from none other than Mr. Soros, filed a felony
count against the McCloskeys for unlawful use of a weapon.
Overnight, it appears that Americans have awakened to a nightmare world turned upside down,
where all of the old rules of law and order have been thrown out the window. It's a place where
political leaders no longer allow the police to perform their duties; citizens are condemned as
criminals for protecting themselves, and all the while, "fiery yet mostly peaceful protests"
are permitted to rage. Before the situation hits the point of no return, America really needs
to have a calm discussion about 'systemic racism' to determine if it even exists in the first
place. In the meantime, find a way to maintain law and order on the streets and, most
importantly, trust the police; the majority are not bad apples. America's future peace and
prosperity depends on it.
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"... We are witnessing a political game of chess where the only pieces being moved are the pawns, while the king and queen sit safely on a different board. ..."
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6:29
""There needs to be unrest in the streets as there is unrest in our lives"" When the elite oligarchy ignore peaceful
protests, you get aggressive uprisings. It's human nature and good ol' fashioned patriotism.
Bodies need to start dropping. The only way to settle these terrorists down is to bring the guns up. Sad to say but it's
the truth. That's the only way the Vietnam war protests ended. Unfortunately most casualties were innocent bystanders
Another 200 talented and determined Trump election volunteers in action. With such successes
in his re-election campaign Trump probably can save all the money for advertizing. MSM will do it
for him. Amazing.
From comments: "Vote for Joe Biden so you can experience the BLM/Antifa riots right from your
own front porch."
Around 200 demonstrators marched through the city on Saturday night, with some individuals
smashing windows and applying graffiti on buildings. A bank, a restaurant and a Starbucks
coffee shop were among the businesses targeted, the Portland Police said in a statement. No
arrests were made, but the acts of vandalism are under investigation.
Protesters were also filmed burning an American flag as they chanted "black trans lives
matter." In another incident, they torched a pro-police 'thin blue line' flag as they
shouted "blue lives splatter."
Elsewhere in the city, online footage shows demonstrators stopping a truck and then ordering
one of its passengers to raise his fist and say "black lives matter." The vehicle's
windows were reportedly later smashed by the protesters.
Portland's chaotic streets had quietened down due to poor air quality resulting from nearby
forest fires, but protests resumed earlier this week. On Friday, 11 people were arrested after
demonstrators targeted an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in the city.
Oregon's biggest city had previously seen more than 100 consecutive nights of racial
injustice protests following the death of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis Police
in May.
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KarlthePoet 4 hours ago 20 Sep, 2020 12:55 PM
The Jewish Banking Cartel ultimately controls the US government. They are not 'for' the
people of America. They are 'for' profit. They also control Wall Street. The reason society
is breaking down in America and in Europe is due to the fact that the economy only works for
a small percentage of people. When the economy is stable, society develops. The economy is no
longer stable. Things will get much worse after the election, no matter who wins. The
collapse has been triggered.
ariadnatheo 3 hours ago 20 Sep, 2020 02:02 PM
The best "peaceful demonstrations" money can buy: George Soros's Open Society Institute
donated $650,000 to Black Lives Matter.. .According to one watchdog group, "In 2016
organizations in the Black Lives Matter movement received $33 million in grants from the Open
Society Foundations, founded by Hungarian hedge fund manager George Soros in 1993
Wally Downey 4 hours ago 20 Sep, 2020 01:31 PM
Vote for Joe Biden so you can experience the BLM/Antifa riots right from your own front
porch.
"... these "contested election" scenarios we are hearing so much about play perfectly into the Color Revolution framework sketched out Revolver News' first installment in the Color Revolution series. ..."
"... the man who implemented the David Brock blueprint for suing the President into paralysis and his allies into bankruptcy, who helped mainstream and amplify the Russia Hoax, who drafted 10 articles of impeachment for the Democrats a full month before President Trump ever called the Ukraine President in 2018, who personally served as special counsel litigating the Ukraine impeachment, who created a template for Internet censorship of world leaders and a handbook for mass mobilizing racial justice protesters to overturn democratic election results, there is perhaps no man alive with a more decorated resume for plots against President Trump. ..."
"... Indeed, the story of Norm Eisen – a key architect of nearly every attempt to delegitimize, impeach, censor, sue and remove the democratically elected 45th President of the United States ..."
"... In Norm Eisen's case, the "same people same playbook" refrain takes an arrestingly literal turn when one realizes that Norm Eisen wrote a classic Color Revolution regime change manual, and conveniently titled it "The Playbook." ..."
In our report on Never Trump State Department official George Kent, Revolver News first
drew attention to the ominous similarities between the strategies and tactics the United
States government employs in so-called "Color Revolutions" and the coordinated efforts of
government bureaucrats, NGOs, and the media to oust President Trump.
Our recent follow-up to this initial report focused specifically on a shadowy, George
Soros linked group called the Transition Integrity Project (TIP), which convened "war games"
exercises suggesting the likelihood of a "contested election scenario," and of ensuing chaos
should President Trump refuse to leave office. We further showed how these "contested election" scenarios we are hearing
so much about play perfectly into the Color Revolution framework sketched out Revolver News' first installment in the Color
Revolution series.
This third installment of Revolver News' series exposing the Color Revolution against
Trump will focus on one quiet and indeed mostly overlooked participant in the Transition
Integrity Project's biased election "war games" exercise -- a man by the name of Norm
Eisen.
As the man who implemented the David Brock blueprint for suing the President into
paralysis and his allies into bankruptcy, who helped mainstream and amplify the Russia Hoax,
who drafted 10 articles of impeachment for the Democrats a full month before President Trump
ever called the Ukraine President in 2018, who personally served as special counsel
litigating the Ukraine impeachment, who created a template for Internet censorship of world
leaders and a handbook for mass mobilizing racial justice protesters to overturn democratic
election results, there is perhaps no man alive with a more decorated resume for plots
against President Trump.
Indeed, the story of Norm Eisen – a key architect of nearly every attempt to
delegitimize, impeach, censor, sue and remove the democratically elected 45th President of
the United States – is a tale that winds through nearly every facet of the color
revolution playbook. There is no purer embodiment of Revolver's thesis that the very same
regime change professionals who run Color Revolutions on behalf of the US Government in order
to undermine or overthrow alleged "authoritarian" governments overseas, are running the very
same playbook to overturn Trump's 2016 victory and to pre-empt a repeat in 2020. To put
it simply, what you see is not just the same Color Revolution playbook run against Trump, but
the same people using it against Trump who have employed it in a professional capacity
against targets overseas -- same people same playbook.
In Norm Eisen's case, the "same people same playbook" refrain takes an arrestingly
literal turn when one realizes that Norm Eisen wrote a classic Color Revolution regime change
manual, and conveniently titled it "The Playbook."
Just what exactly is President Obama's former White House Ethics Czar (yes, Norm Eisen was
Obama's ethics Czar), his longtime friend since Harvard Law School, who recently partook in
war games to simulate overturning a Trump electoral victory, doing writing a detailed
playbook on how to use a Color Revolution to overthrow governments? The story of Norm Eisen
only gets more fascinating, outrageous, and indispensable to understanding the planned chaos
unfolding before our eyes, leading up to what will perhaps be the most chaotic election in
our nation's recent history.
... ... ...
A deep dive into Eisen's book would exceed the scope of this relatively brief exposé.
It is nonetheless important for us to draw attention to key passages of Eisen's book to
underscore how closely the "Playbook" corresponds to events unfolding right here at home. Indeed, it would not be an exaggeration to say that regime change professionals such as
Eisen simply decided to run the same playbook against Trump that they have done countless
times when foreign leaders are elected overseas that they don't like and want to remove via
extra-democratic means -- "peaceful protests," "democratic breakthroughs" and such. ... ... ...
So, it appears the War on Populism is building
toward an exciting climax. All the proper pieces are in place for a Class-A GloboCap color
revolution , and maybe even civil war. You got your unauthorized Putin-Nazi president, your
imaginary apocalyptic pandemic, your violent identitarian civil unrest, your heavily-armed
politically-polarized populace, your ominous rumblings from military quarters you couldn't
really ask for much more.
OK, the plot is pretty obvious by now (as it is in all big-budget action spectacles, which
is essentially what color revolutions are), but that won't spoil our viewing experience. The
fun isn't in guessing what is going to happen. Everybody knows what's going to happen. The fun
is in watching Bruce, or Sigourney, or "the moderate rebels," or the GloboCap "Resistance,"
take down the monster, or the terrorists, or Hitler, and save the world, or democracy, or
whatever.
Police in Louisville,
Kentucky, have arrested a man for shooting three men dead in a bar. The killer apparently
struck without motive, and some commentators have accused the press of burying the story.
Michael E. Rhynes Jr, 33, was arrested just after midnight on Saturday and charged with
three counts of murder, after he allegedly walked into Bungalow Joe's Bar and Grill, pulled a
handgun, and shot three men dead at point-blank range.
"Nobody had ever seen this guy before," bar owner Joe Bishop told
WRDB News . "It was a totally random act. I didn't think I'd be scrubbing blood off my
patio on a Saturday morning."
According to journalist Cassandra Fairbanks, the suspect made several social media
posts supporting
the 'Black Lives Matter' cause.
Little is known about the case so far, and Rhynes Jr's political beliefs remain the stuff of
online speculation. However, the national media has been accused of turning a blind eye to
black-on-white killings before, most recently when five-year-old Cannon Hinnant was brutally
executed by his neighbor, a black man, in North Carolina in August. Hinnant's killing was the
talk of Twitter for more than a week before it was picked up by national news networks.
UnableSemen 24 minutes ago 20 Sep, 2020 05:40 PM
Foreign media (like RT) is the only place where you will hear stories like this. The US media
will bury this.
sukmiwangyak 38 minutes ago 20 Sep, 2020 05:26 PM
It was raciest based as well as a hate crime, I will not be surprise if they let him go these
days. BLM is nothing more than a terrorist organization with a licenses. There is no more
Media in US, let's stop referring them as news networks, they are part of the Propaganda
efforts from the swamp.
omyomy sukmiwangyak 10 minutes ago 20 Sep, 2020 05:54 PM
The juice owned media supports BLM unconditionally. So who are the racists again?
Trump represent new "national neoliberalism" platform and the large part of the US neoliberal elite (Clinton gang and large part
of republicans) support the return to "classic neoliberalism" at all costs.
Highly recommended!
The essence of color revolution is the combination of engineered contested election and mass organized protest and civil disobedience
via creation in neoliberal fifth column out of "professionals", especially students as well as mobilizing and put on payroll some useful
disgruntled groups which can be used as a foot soldiers, such as football hooligans. Large and systematic injection of dollars into
protest movement. All with the air cover via domination in a part or all nation's MSM.
He served as US ambassador in Chich Republic from 2011 to 2014. Based on his experience wrote that book
Democracy's Defenders published by The Brookings Institution, a neoliberal think tank, about the role of US embassy in neoliberal
revolution in Czechoslovakia (aka Velvet Revolution of 1989) which led to the dissolution of the country into two. BTW demonstrations
against police brutality were an essential part of the Velvet Revolution
Notable quotes:
"... Same tactics - color revolutions they (Soros, Nuland/Kagan, Eisen, McCain when alive) used to overthrow Orthodox countries in Eastern Europe. Belarus the latest. Ukraine (Orange, Maidan) 2014. Georgia (Rose rev). Serbia, Montenegro. Use young people who have bad sense of history and are more sympathetic to the "West." ..."
This is, without ANY question, one of Tucker's most important segments that he has ever done. IT IS EXTREMELY-RARE THAT
"""they""" ARE EXPOSED, BY-NAME, SO OPENLY AND DIRECTLY, BUT, IT HAPPENED, TONIGHT.
Please bring back Dr. Darren Beattie back. More info. on the color revolutions, Mr. Eisen, crew, and their relationship
to mail in voting fraud and their impact on the 2020 election is needed. If Mr. Eisens methods are to be used in the 2020 election
mass awareness is needed.
This is not about Trump. The endgame of the deep state is to enslave people through social division. The election is a wrestling
match for entertainment.
Sheesh, he looks scared. I hope he's being well protected now. Darren is a very brave man who is trying to tell the citizens
of the US that there is malice aforethought towards the President and this election. It is now not a choice between Republicans
or Democrats, it is a fight between good and evil. I'm sure Trump and his team are aware of the playbook and will do everything
they can to sort this, with God's help. It may get hairy, but trust the plan.
I have a feeling dems will "rig for red" to frame republicans for voter fraud, overlooking the overwhelming amount of voter
fraud in favor of Biden Harris. Causing outrage and calls to remove the President from office and saying Biden actually won.
When he really did not. Be prepared. Stay strong.
Same tactics - color revolutions they (Soros, Nuland/Kagan, Eisen, McCain when alive) used to overthrow Orthodox countries
in Eastern Europe. Belarus the latest. Ukraine (Orange, Maidan) 2014. Georgia (Rose rev). Serbia, Montenegro. Use young people
who have bad sense of history and are more sympathetic to the "West."
american people still don't know and can't understand what's happening and what their government is doing, even right now
it's happening in Belarus, it happened in Ukraine, Venezuela, Hong Kong and etc. and now it's happening in your own country,
wake up people and don't forget who's behind all this - a NGO founded by CIA called NED (National endowment for democracy),
Soros and his NGOs and the deep state.
On Monday, I return to work from an
extended vacation (I didn't miss much it seems). I'm refreshed and ready for what will
likely be one of the craziest periods for the markets since the COVID Crash.
I realize I'm the guy who has gone out there and said you have a free shot on goal ever
since late March. I even called it "Project Zimbabwe," as it
was so obvious that you only had two acceptable exposure options, long and very long.
That said, now is a time for a bit of caution leading into the election.
Longer term, markets are going much, much higher because no matter who wins the Presidency,
both parties are committed to the sort of fiscal and monetary expansion that only Banana
Republics can countenance.
"Project Zimbabwe" is very much the playbook here.
That said, over the next few weeks leading up to the election, there will almost certainly
be volatility.
The election itself may be undecided in the first day. Who knows what happens if one side
does not accept the outcome? Markets abhor uncertainty.
With all of that in mind, this is your friendly reminder to de-gross a bit.
Increased liquidity equals free optionality. Besides, it's not like I think I'll miss much
upside leading into election day.
In summary, I've been a seller over the past few weeks. I'm letting Event-Driven trades run
off and I'm hesitant to add new ones unless they're somehow hedged. I am also going to
let
my September paper roll off and will not re-load for November -- not unless implied
volatility spikes into election day.
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This isn't a call to panic sell or get short. It's still "Project Zimbabwe" out there.
Rather, much like going into the
COVID Crash , this is a time to go through your book and ask if you're confident in each of
your positions, or if there are a few that ought to be jettisoned. Remember, most of the money
is made buying the panic dips -- do you have room to add on a violent pullback?
In summary, I want some extra room in case this election turns into a complete
klusterfuk.
A Black Lives
Matter activist in Washington has gone into social media hiding after her efforts to dox a CVS
drugstore manager for calling the police on two suspected shoplifters didn't go over as
swimmingly as she planned.
The chain of events began when the woman, Charity Sade, started recording police who were
questioning two black men outside a CVS store. At one point, an officer warns one of the
suspects not to interrupt him while he's talking to the other man, saying "His freedom is
dependent on your actions." Sade then interjects, asking the officer for his name and badge
number.
She then films another video of herself confronting the CVS manager inside the store for
calling the police. The manager explains that it's company policy to contact the police when a
shoplifter exits the store without paying for merchandise. He added that he chose not to press
charges against the men, but asked the police to inform them that they could no longer shop at
his store.
Sade then berates the manager, saying, "It's not your merchandise. It's the store's. So,
you know what happens... You decided to call the police on two black people that stole, that
allegedly took something from the store because you're willing to uphold the policy, and they
could have lost their lives."
When the manager replied that he follows CVS policy, not the woman's policy, Sade said,
"So you're willing to risk someone's lives for what, $30,000 a year?"
The manager told her that he saw no such risk, thanked her and began to walk away, at which
point Sade asked for his name. When he refused to answer, she asked another employee. The
manager shot back: "No one's going to tell you my name when you're in here videotaping us so
that you can try to elicit some sort of violence. It's not going to happen." Sade then
attempted to turn the tables, accusing the manager of trying to elicit violence against the
black men by calling the police.
The woman, who identifies herself as a comedian, activist and teacher, posted the videos to
her Twitter account on Thursday, including a picture of the CVS manager and the policeman's
badge number, along with hashtags #BLM and #PeopleOverProperty. To her surprise, reaction was
overwhelmingly negative and she later made her Twitter account private and deleted her
Instagram account. She also attempted to organize a protest outside the store on Facebook.
Twitter users saved Sade's videos before access to her accounts was blocked, enabling the
discussion of her conduct to continue. Author and media critic Mark Dice called her a BLM
"Karen," while conservative commentator Ben Shapiro said anyone who disagreed with
the CVS manager's explanation "should be institutionalized." Journalist Jessica
O'Donnell of The Blaze said that lowering standards
for black people, suggesting that they should be allowed to shoplift, is "actually the
racist thing in the scenario."
"I have taken up space as a black person while knowing I am white," Cole admitted
this week in a Facebook post . "I
have used blackness when it was not mine to use. I have asked for support and energy as a black
person."
Cole, formerly known as Jennifer Benton and born to two white Indianapolis parents in 1975
– and who was born female but uses 'they/them' pronouns – changed her name
in 2010 and began identifying as black. Cole became active in black and LGBT groups and was
frequently interviewed by local media as a leader in the black community.
A 2017 article by LGBT rights group Freedom Indiana featured an interview with Cole,
alongside a picture with a black man identified as
Cole's father . The activist was honored this year as a grand marshal of the Indianapolis
Gay Pride Parade.
But Cole's true background was exposed this week in an article by black online news outlet
Black Indy Live . The article alleged that Cole also misappropriated thousands of dollars
of activism funding received since 2018.
Cole is the latest in a bizarrely long line of imposters who have misrepresented their
ethnicity – at least in some cases for career advancement – from US Senator
Elizabeth Warren to activist Rachel Dolezal, who was exposed as being white in 2015.
More recently, George Washington University history professor Jessica Krug admitted that she
had been pretending to be black for almost her entire adult life. Krug, who is white and grew
up Jewish, also worked as an "Afro-Latina" activist in New York City under the alias
Jess La Bombera.
Another white academic who pretended to be black, University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate
student CV Vitolo-Haddad, was
outed earlier this month in an anonymous post on Medium.com, the same place Krug chose to
reveal her true background. Vitolo-Haddad, who also goes by 'they'/'them' pronouns and
was identified as an Antifa activist in the blog post identifying "them," took to
Medium.com on Sept. 8 and admitted to Italian lineage.
"I am deeply sorry and regretful to the people I deceived by inserting myself into black
organizing spaces I didn't belong in," Vitolo-Haddad said. "That deception was parasitic
and harmful." The academic resigned from her teaching job at
the university and from her position as president of the Teaching Assistants' Association.
Like Krug and Vitolo-Haddad, Cole was apologetic, vowing to take whatever steps possible to
repair the damage done: "I am sorry for the hurt and the betrayal I will do what I can to
show that I want to be a better person."
The recent spate of white people pretending to be black has left observers wondering what's
behind the phenomenon. One Twitter user said, "This must be some kind of illness."
Another asked, "They're apologizing for helping themselves to some black privilege,
correct?"
"Critical race theory and
intersectionality proponents need to explain why white women near the top of the dominance
hierarchy they've described keep choosing to shuffle their way down to the bottom," another
Twitter user said.
The temper of a mob is fickle, as a group of Antifa protesters have demonstrated in
Philadelphia. In an apparent case of mistaken identity, the mob chased one of their own with
hammers, smashed his car, and terrorized his dog.
The leftist protesters gathered in Philadelphia's Clark Park on Saturday to protest a rally
organized by the right-wing Proud Boys. As conservative commentator James Klug was talking on
camera to the leftists, one masked man approached him with a baseball bat and slammed it into
the ground beside him.
According to Blaze TV's Elijah Schaffer, the mob mistook the bat-wielding man for one of the
right-wingers, and chased him out of the park, to his car.
The leftist protesters gathered in Philadelphia's Clark Park on Saturday to protest a rally
organized by the right-wing Proud Boys. As conservative commentator James Klug was talking on
camera to the leftists, one masked man approached him with a baseball bat and slammed it into
the ground beside him.
According to Blaze TV's Elijah Schaffer, the mob mistook the bat-wielding man for one of the
right-wingers, and chased him out of the park, to his car.
Surrounding the vehicle, the masked mob smashed its windows with hammers and kicked in its
panels. Though the man can't be seen inside the car, Schaffer claimed he was the same man who
was chased out of the park, as did journalist Kalen D'Almeida.
As the rioters pounded on the car, a dog inside began barking, lunging for the smashed rear
window and snarling at the mob. "F**k you and your dog," one man shouted as the driver
pulled away.
According to D'Almeida, who filmed the smash-up, none of the Proud Boys actually showed up
to the park as planned. D'Almeida wrote on Twitter that "Antifa was waiting ready to attack
anyone for any reason today," while Schaffer shared a video of the masked
miscreants physically assaulting right-wing reporter Lisa Reynolds Barbounis.
The working assumption should be that BLM is FBI infiltrated and controlled organization. The
leadership consist of typical NGO parasites, so they are puppets by definition. That raise
unpleasant questions about current FBI leadership. And if Soros would do something FBI or CIA do
not like, he would soon deeply regret about that. He has too many skeletons in the closet to act
independently. So he is just yeat another CIA/FBI controlled fund -- money that can be directed
where they needed them to be directed without extra publicity.
So, let's see if we can figure out "why" wealthy elites and their giant charitable
foundations would choose to dump millions of dollars into an organization that claims to be
Marxist. Could be that .
They are genuinely committed to social justice for black people?
They think "racist" cops are the Number 1 problem facing black people today? They think the
massive protests are raising consciousness which will have a transformative effect on the
country? They need a flashy social justice organization (BLM) to divert attention from widening
inequality, spiraling unemployment, ballooning poverty, shrinking growth, and the savage
restructuring of the economy that is creating a permanent underclass forced to scrape by at
food banks, homeless shelters and tent cities that are sprouting up across the country but
which are religiously ignored by our prostitute media?
If you chose Number 4, you guessed right. The protests, demonstrations and riots are all
part of a spectacular "Product Launch", the most impressive Madison Avenue-type extravaganza of
all-time. BLM has exploded onto the scene just months before the election eliminating all of
the 10 Top issues listed by Gallup that voters really care about, and skillfully shifting the
public's attention to race, race relations, social justice and cops. What an astonishing
turnaround! In the old days we would have called this the "old switcheroo", an art-form that
has been perfected by BLM (and their Democrat handlers) who have turned the election on its
head by burning down half the country, then claiming they are the victims. How's that for
twisted logic?
So, what can we say definitively about BLM? What does the group really believe and what is
it trying to achieve? Having spent a fair amount of time on their website, I'm still puzzled.
The website contains a number of emotive videos with pulsing background music and lively
narration. But–like everything else with this shadowy group– there doesn't seem to
be much substance. The emphasis seems to be on appearances rather than policy, slogans rather
than remedies, and catchy monikers (Black Lives Matter) rather than thoughtful recommendations
for real change. So, where's the beef? Who is Black Lives Matter and what do they
want?
Are they a civil rights group in the tradition of Martin Luther King?
No.
Are they a black power group in the tradition of Malcolm X and the Black Panthers?
Nope.
Are they "Marxists" like they say?
Of course not. Have you ever heard them talk about "historical materialism", "social
relations", "capitalist accumulation", or any of the other concepts that are central to Marxist
ideology? No. Heck, they don't even talk about the glorious "revolution" that's supposed to
topple the capitalist system and pave the way to "socialist utopia".
Why would anyone call themselves a Marxist when they never talk about revolution, wage-labor
or class struggle? Why?
Because it's a silly affectation that appeals to leftists, that's why. It's like wearing a
beret to an art exhibit, it's a meaningless display of ideological conformity. The Marxist
label is a glitzy designation that is intended to mislead the public about who runs the group,
how it is organized, what its leaders believe and what their true intentions are. The idea that
a "trained Marxist" –who wholeheartedly believes that society is broken into "classes
whose interests stand in irreconcilable opposition"– would create a group whose views are
entirely shaped by race and race relations is patently absurd. It is a contradiction in terms.
These are not Marxists leaders and this is not a "social justice" movement. So, what are
they?
They're an NGO, a non-governmental organization which provides services to its members and
its patrons. Like many NGOs, they have won the public's trust, which makes them a useful proxy
for stakeholders who remain largely in the shadows. In short, BLM is corporate-funded,
agenda-driven franchise performing the tasks that best promote the interests of its deep-pocket
contributors. The grassroots social justice stuff is mostly baloney.
And who are the contributors? Check out this excerpt from an article at The Unz
Review :
"In the wake of the racial unrest which followed Freddie Gray's death in Baltimore in
2015, George Soros's Open Society Institute donated $650,000 to Black Lives Matter..
.According to one watchdog group, "In 2016 organizations in the Black Lives Matter
movement received $33 million in grants from the Open Society Foundations, founded by
Hungarian hedge fund manager George Soros in 1993, and the Center for American Progress,
founded by former White House chief of staff and Hillary Clinton campaign chair John Podesta
in 2003." According to the Washington Times, access to Soros money insured another
$100 million from "a series of wealthy liberal foundations including The Ford Foundation,
in addition to $33 million in grants from the Open Society Foundations, with additional
grant-making from the Center for American Progress." ( "The Invisible Man at the
Race Riots" , E Michael Jones, The Unz Review )
Is it safe to assume that the money flowing into BLM from these uber-Capitalists is not
being provided to support a "Marxist" revolution?
Yes, that's a fair assumption. Big donors don't hand out millions of dollars to groups
that want to overthrow capitalism and redistribute their wealth to the struggling proles.
That's NOT why they're funding BLM. They're funding BLM because it is an effective vehicle for
achieving their political ambitions while hiding behind the fig leaf of "social justice" .
That's what's really going on. BLM is just a mask behind which the elites operate.
And what do these donors get for their money?
They get a logistically-sophisticated, well-trained, fully-mobilized domestic insurgency
which is capable of inflicting massive damage on cities or towns across the country at a
moment's notice. They also get an activist militia that uses military-type tactics while taking
advantage of a highly-developed social media infrastructure which is second to none. Finally,
they get an experienced band of street-smart hooligans capable of prosecuting a hybrid war on
the state, the objective of which is to undermine confidence in government institutions, roll
back critical civil liberties protections, plunge the country into a protracted, fratricidal
war, replace the existing Constitutional Republic with a new authoritarian order and spread
social unrest and mayhem from sea to shining sea. If you are a foreign oligarch who wants to
transform America into an impoverished Third World Shithole, BLM is not a bad place to put your
money.
Of course, according to Wikipedia, there are no "Financial transparency issues". Take a
look:
"Some observers have stated that the Black Lives Matter nonprofit does not adequately
disclose what their financial contributions are spent on. Executives from Black Lives Matter
have denied that it uses ActBlue to donate to the Democratic National Committee. In an
AskReddit thread, Black Lives Matter indicated that their expenditures include " civic
engagement, expansion of chapters, Arts & Culture, organizing and digital advocacy
resources and tools." ( Wikipedia) "
"Civic engagement"?!?
Is that like 'burning down a furniture store in Kenosha' or beating a 70 year-old Asian
woman to death with a 2×4? The group needs to clarify.
The funding issue is not going to go away nor should it. The American people need to know
who is providing the resources for the massive rampage that took place in over 700 cities
across the country. As yet, not one US corporation has withheld donations pending an
investigation of whether BLM was responsible for the damage or not. Why is that, do you
think?
Is it because these foundations and plutocrats are getting exactly what they paid for?
Uh huh. What we know for certain, is that the riots were the worst in the nation's history
and that the insurance payouts already exceed $2 billion. Check it out from RT :
"The tidal wave of arson, vandalism, and other property crimes that swept across the
nation in the aftermath of the Floyd killing left between $1 billion and $2 billion in
damages , as measured by insurance claims paid out by the industry .
While that figure represents only the damage done between May 26 and June 8 –
meaning the real figure taking into account the destruction in cities like Portland and
Kenosha is likely much higher – it still represents the worst riot damage in
insurance industry history, according to the report. Previously, only natural disasters
like hurricanes and floods had resulted in over $1 billion in damage claims." (" George
Floyd riots cost insurance companies as much as $2 BILLION – more than any in HISTORY,
industry claims ", RT )
We also know that BLM was at the center of the action despite the pathetic coverup by the
Democrat-owned media. Here's more background from an article at The Federalist :
" Contrary to corporate media narratives, up to 95 percent of this summer's riots are
linked to Black Lives Matter activism , according to data collected by the Armed Conflict
Location and Event Data Project (ACLED). The data also show that nearly 6 percent -- or more
than 1 in 20 -- of U.S. protests between May 26 and Sept. 5 involved rioting, looting, and
similar violence, including 47 fatalities .
Of the 633 incidents coded as riots, 88 percent are recorded as involving Black Lives
Matter activists .BLM activists were involved in 95 percent of the riots for which there is
information about the perpetrators' affiliation
the data shows just how widespread the summer BLM-linked rioting has been. It has not been
limited merely to anarchist strongholds such as Portland, Oregon but has stretched across
both major and minor U.S. cities and included dozens of locales with no violent police
incidents this summer. ("
Study: Up To 95 Percent Of 2020 U.S. Riots Are Linked To Black Lives Matter ", The
Federalist)
See what I mean? So, don't be confused by the media's obfuscation. These riots have BLM
fingerprints all over them.
Fortunately, 50 House Republicans have asked Attorney General Barr to investigate this
summer's riots and determine where these groups are getting their money. In their letter to
Barr they said:
"It is clear that these individuals are well-funded and supported by a national network of
left-wing activists committed to perpetrating violence and furthering anarchy in our streets
As such, we urge you to immediately open an investigation to identify and prosecute all
individuals and groups responsible for funding and organizing these terroristic acts that are
wreaking havoc on our nation. " ("
House Republicans Demand DOJ Investigate Organized Riots",The Federalist )
It's clear, that the Republican congressmen are referring to Antifa and other Black Bloc
groups, but it probably won't matter. Once the investigation begins, BLM's finances will come
under greater scrutiny and we'll finally see the source of their funding and how it filters
through the organization. I'm not at all convinced that BLM is the leaderless
"non-hierarchical" organization they pretend to be. That's another "leftist" fable. Large piles
of money are not handed off to clerks in the back of the plant. They are given to trusted
leaders who distribute the loot in a way that meets the requirements of the donors. BLM is
not a charity, it's a franchise, which means it's probably run like every other top-down
business.
The most damning critique of BLM appeared in an April, 2017 article at the World
Socialist Web Site titled "Black Lives Matter cashes in on Black Capitalism". The article
is an excellent investigative piece that provides essential information for understanding how
BLM is set-up, who provides the funding, how the group has aligned itself with elite
organizations, and how it is being used to splinter the working class consistent with the
Democrats "divide and conquer" political strategy. Here's an extended excerpt from the piece
which is "must read" material:
"Last summer, the Ford Foundation, one of the most powerful private foundations in the
world, announced that it was organizing to channel $100 million to the Black Lives Movement
over the next six years In a statement of support, Ford called for the group to grow and
prosper. " We want to nurture bold experiments and help the movement build the solid
foundation that will enable it to flourish."
From the beginning, the "mothers of the movement" Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal
Tometi specifically opposed uniting blacks, whites and immigrants against the brutal
class-war policies of the capitalist state. Instead, the group did its best to confine
anti-police violence protests within the framework of the capitalist system and push a
racialist and pro-capitalist agenda.
Even prior to 2013, however, all three of t he cofounders had developed close ties to
corporations, foundations, academia and/or government-sponsored agencies. Tometi, in
particular, was a well-known quantity in these circles. She had spoken at the UN had been to
the White House and met with Obama liaison Heather Foster, and addressed the Aspen
Institute, a high-level think tank associated with the US military and intelligence
community .
The real substance of the group's policies is the unremitting injection of racial
divisions and animosity into the movement of opposition to police violence. It aims to update
the age-old tactic of divide and conquer, seeking to prevent the unity of the working class
-- black, white and immigrant -- from challenging the capitalist system, the source of the
deepening social and political oppression.
..The Ford Foundation -- with its long history stretching from its CIA fronts in
the 1940s and the promotion of black capitalism in Detroit in the aftermath of the 1967 riots
-- provided a financial anchor for BLM's expansion.
The Ford Foundation enlisted other such "philanthro-capitalists": the Hill-Snowden
Foundation, Solidaire (Ford Foundation and Leah Hunt-Hendrix, granddaughter of the oil and
gas tycoon H.L. Hunt), the NoVo Foundation (started by Warren Buffett's son Peter and
daughter-in-law Jennifer Buffett in 2006), the Association of Black Foundation Executives
(Kellogg Foundation and JPMorgan Chase and its Black Organization for Leadership Development
[BOLD]), the Neighborhood Funders Group–Funders for Justice (also funded by Ford),
among others.
The media and the state
While spontaneous protests began to adopt the #BLM hashtag as opposition to police
violence developed, it was the promotion by the bourgeois media that brought #BLM into
national prominence . As data accumulated by killedbypolice.net and other news media
sources underscored the fact that police killings were directed against poor and
working-class whites as well as inner-city blacks, the issues of social inequality, poverty
and class began to take center stage. The more universal slogan "All Lives Matter" came into
wide use.
BLM denounced the specter of growing class unity and decried "All Lives Matter" as
illegitimate and even racist.
BLM personnel meanwhile were being groomed for top-level official positions. Leading Black
Lives Matter spokespersons made repeated trips to the White House in 2015 and 2016 to hold
meetings with President Obama and his representatives. The Democratic Party was conferring
official authority upon the group.
Later in July, at a separate meeting with Obama, Mckesson and Packnett agreed that Packnett
would serve as an official representative on Obama's Task Force for 21st Century Policing
These remarkable meetings of top Black Lives Matter associates with the US president
and his top police agencies demonstrated that the group had no objection to being
incorporated into the state apparatus. Indeed, a "seat at the table" was their aim .
BLM's hostility to the working class and reactionary rhetoric play an ever more dangerous
role in the current political climate, dovetailing with the extreme right wing and
legitimizing racialism .
Their assessment of the election of Donald Trump demonized the white working class, a
view also promoted by Hillary Clinton, the New York Times and other pro-Democratic Party
media. Utterly hostile to the unification of the working class against the class-war policies
of the new government, BLM sees the possibility of "opportunities" under the Trump
administration . Vowing to train 300 black leaders to take positions on "school boards,
city councils, neighborhood councils, and every branch of government," the group looks to a
further political future within the Democratic Party."
( "Black
Lives Matter cashes in on black capitalism" , World Socialist Web Site )
Does it sound like BLM is a cog in a much bigger corporate-political-elitist machine?
Yes, it does.
Does it sound like they are being used to fragment and suppress the emerging populist
movement that supports Trump's nationalism over the Democrat's globalism?
Yes, again.
Then, what can we glean from this article in the WSWS?
We can assume that BLM is largely an invention of ruling class elites to divert attention
from the collapsing economy and the unprecedented human catastrophe that will follow shortly
after the election. The plan involves shifting public attention to divisive racial issues that
put working people at each other's throats while concealing the vicious class war that is being
prosecuted behind the shield of a fake social justice movement .
Bottom line: BLM is not the friend of working people, in fact, it is funded by their sworn
enemies. They are the footsoldiers in the War on the Deplorables.
BLM is indeed extremely well organized, and mysterious, with no definitive public
personality or universally recognized spokesperson. I think it or an organization like it
are crucial to steer us out of our festering racial status quote.
But their efficiency is disturbing. A friend works for a small west coast Catholic
school and they got the boilerplate BLM shakedown letter: a list of academic demands from
BLM. BLM sets up this letter by gathering supporters from the targeted school's alumni, so
the pressure on the school is already in place. It's a rationally executed national grab
for power. To what end? BLM as misdirection tool for corporate America is clear, but what
benefit does BLM itself get from shaking down schools? Is it for the $$ from their
sponsors?
If US was an MMA ring, which match would the elites rather see: Deplorables vs.
Deplorables or Deplorables vs. Adorables? Quite a humanists they are.
If races didn't exist, they would have to be invented in the US, because race comes very
handy for diverting attention from the elites who decided to socially distance themselves
from both kinds of deplorables – white and non-white.
The racism issue that they are pushing as a number one agenda is a class struggle within
the same class, the resolution of this "injustice" is supposed to come at the expense of
the white deplorables.
The white adorables are untouchable, they are the ones driving the social justice
crusade because it's not supposed to come at their expense. It makes sense, because as we
know from history, the ancestors of the white deplorables are the ones who started the
racial struggle, they are the ones that brought the African hardworking volunteers to
America, the elites present and past had nothing to do with it ever. They were preaching
racial equality from day one. For them white deplorables are equal to the colored
deplorables, and they themselves are exceptional. How much more socialist than that can you
get?
"Does it sound like they are being used to fragment and suppress the emerging populist
movement that supports Trump's nationalism over the Democrat's globalism?"
Put this in simple, concrete terms for me, please.
Soros wants to use the above tactics to turn American into a 3rd World shithole
because______________________________________________.
@JimDandy
nts to use the above tactics to turn American into a 3rd World shithole
because______________________________________________.
To weaken or be able to eliminate any movement against his power, money, influence. To be
able to destroy any kind of organized labor union before it starts. King of a shithole is a
much better position than a white collar criminal in the dock.
The collective power of the population is much more powerful than one rich guy, and he
knows it. His fears are driving him to invest in divide and conquer tactics and if it
destroys the entire universe then so be it.
Antifa and BLM violence could have been aborted rapidly with a aggressive police response
(this is not the 101st Airborne Division or 1st Marine Division we're dealing with here).
That response was prevented by Democratic politicians and the diddling of the Trump
administration. Trump had better up his game if he wins in November because the violence then
will make the recent conniptions look like a tea party.
A major study out of Rutgers refutes the FBI director's claims that Antifa is not
organized and points to the publicly available evidence that shows Antifa is an organized
group/network:
The NCRI researchers also identified several far-left militia groups and uncovered signs
of coordination with rioters in several cities.
They noted that on July 25, anarchist networks, using the hashtag #J25, "prepared,
executed and propagandized" simultaneous rallies in more than 20 cities, leading to riots
in four -- Portland and Eugene, Oregon; Richmond, Virginia, and Seattle, Washington.
Among the organizing networks was "Anonymous," a digital hacker collective; the Youth
Liberation Front, which describes itself as a "decentralized network of autonomous youth
collectives dedicated to direct action toward total liberation;" and "It's Going Down," one
of the largest online sources of anarchist news, according to the report.
In Portland, the Youth Liberation Front's Twitter feeds, cited in the report, directed
"mob preparations" and provided tactical information.
In Seattle, local anarchist Twitter feeds called for the sacking of a local police
precinct, leading rioters to throw explosives and rocks at officers and laying siege to the
station.
"Courthouses and police precincts were targeted by agitators in each case," the report
said.
It looks like DNC/Soros are throwing Antifa under the bus in preparation for the rapidly
approaching election. My bet is that FBI will quickly adapt to the new party line.
Follow the money. I bet these protesters make $100.00 a night. Who writes the checks?
Duc888 , 2 hours ago
BLM was infiltrated by FBI just like the Tea Party. Left or Right, the minute you
organize, you've got a red dot on your forehead.
SDShack , 1 hour ago
Anarchists are very good at planning destruction because they are motivated by the rush
they get from it. They think like addicts or criminals. They lack the self-regulating
functions that normal people have regarding cause/effect of destructive behavior. They are
mentally defective and a threat to society because of it. Also, their lack of their awareness
makes them useful idiots and foot soldiers for TPTB that then exploit them. TPTB are the
sociopaths.
Bay of Pigs , 1 hour ago
ZHers already knew this.
Sad the amount of MSM brainwashing that is taking place these days. Most people are
totally f#cking clueless.
rockdoc76 , 1 hour ago
Wait a minute, I thought that our ace FBI director just testified the the white
supremacists were responsible for these terrorist attacks. Does that mean that the BLM is a
white supremacist organization? I am so confused.
Schooey , 1 hour ago
Antifa starts the riots, BLM finishes them, can't help themselves. Break one shop window,
walk away and watch the theft and destruction begin. A George Soros production and directed
by Dems. Everyone has seen this show already.
A new study by Princeton University's US Crisis Monitor shows that the U.S. experienced 637
riots between May 26 and Sept. 12, and 91% of those riots were linked to the Black Lives Matter
movement.
Riots are defined by the project as "demonstrations in which any demonstrators engage in
violently disruptive or destructive acts (e.g. violence, looting, vandalism, etc.), as well as
mob violence in which violent mobs target other individuals, property, businesses, or other
groups."
"Forty-nine states, not counting Washington, D.C., experienced riots during that time
period, the study found. California led the nation with 86 riots during that time, closely
followed by Oregon with 79 riots during that time period, the data show," reports the Daily
Caller .
Mainstream media talking heads have repeatedly asserted that the riots were either not
happening on any large scale or were "mostly peaceful."
The statistics suggest otherwise.
Despite attempts to spin the riots as peaceful protests, more and more Americans aren't
buying it.
"A majority of U.S. adults (55%) now express at least some support for the movement, down
from 67% in June amid nationwide demonstrations sparked by the death of George Floyd,"
reported Pew.
"The share who say they strongly support the movement stands at 29%, down from 38% three
months ago."
When one considers the level of intimidation and bullying metered out to those who refuse to
express support for BLM, the real figures are probably much lower in terms of support for Black
Lives Matter.
It's no surprise that Democrats like Nancy Pelosi are only now condemning riots, arson and
looting after 4 months of mayhem.
After initially ignoring or justifying the violence, Democrats have seen the polls and
performed a total 180.
Controlling a man with knee pressure to the side of his neck is a humane police
technique for subduing an uncooperative perp. I emphasis "side of the neck" because the
technique used on George Floyd is widely assumed to have consisted of applying pressure to
the front of the neck . I saw and heard that assumption reported by Joe Rogan who you would
be expected to know better as he is said to have been a professional wrestler at some time in
the past. The video of Floyd clearly shows him restrained by pressure on the side of his neck
yet is not remembered that way.
Try this experiment. Apply pressure with your fist to the front of your neck. It will be
obvious that that pressure crushes the airways to the lungs and would likely be fatal in short
order if maintained. Now try the experiment of applying pressure with your fist to the side of
your neck. I expect that you will be very surprised at discovering how strong the tendons and
understructure of the side of the neck are. That technique does not interfere with
breathing. Restraint using that technique is not time bound. Whether 1 minute, 9 minutes or 45
minutes, it simply restrains an uncooperative perp.
The article above faults the evil Israelis for teaching that technique. Presumably the
author believes that Derek Chauvin restrained George Floyd with his knee on the front of his
neck. So to mix metaphors he will seize any stick to fustigate these evil disgusting spawn of
the devil Israeli jew cops.
Conclusion: article is yet another example of the jew hating propaganda that Ron Unz
delights in publishing.
"However this knee restraining technique seems stupid and evil."
Not if it is done without put weight on the knee.
When dealing with people having seizures or 'excited delirium', it's important to
immobilize their head so they don't hurt themselves while thrashing around.
When done correctly, the knee does not crush the neck. In order to stop air, pressure must
be applied to the front, not the back or side. Officer Chauvin's relaxed posture indicates he
was not attempting to injure Floyd, but only to keep a man in medical distress immobile until
medical first responders could take over.
Who within the Deep state is supporting the riots? This is the question. Antifa would not
last a a couple of months, if all repressive power of the state fall on the head of its
brainwashed children of the middles class, who constitute the majority of it members. All members
probably are well known to FBI and the organization was infiltrated long ago.
America went through its own bout of Dionysian intoxication in the days following May 25,
when a Minneapolis cop by the name of Derek Chauvin knelt on the neck of a 46-year-old Black
man by the name of George Floyd, causing his death. Corrupted by 66 years of bad education,
America's Black Lumpenproletariat erupted in an orgy of rioting that brought the rule
of law to an end in many of America's large cities. As of this writing, Antifa, a group which
Donald Trump has designated a domestic terrorist organization, is still in control of a
six-square block section of downtown Seattle, which they have designated the "Capitol Hill
Autonomous Zone." In Minneapolis, the town where the rioting started, their Pentheus, Mayor
Jacob Frey, was denounced by one of the Bacchant women who spoke in the name of Black Lives
Matter after he refused to defund the Minneapolis police department. Frey was not torn limb
from limb, but he was expelled from the crowd and had to take refuge with the police he was
ordered to defund.
The race riots of May and June 2020 were only the latest installment of what might be called
the regime of governance by crisis which began four years ago, when the Deep State decided to
do whatever was necessary to depose Donald Trump. That campaign began with Russiagate, followed
by the impeachment, followed by the hate speech campaign of 2019 which sought to ban "unwanted
content" from the Internet, followed by the Covid-19 pandemic. What united all of these crises
was oligarch unhappiness with the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States
and a desire to replace the institutions of representative government with ad hoc committees of
crisis managers masquerading as scientific experts and/or aggrieved minorities.
By now it should be obvious that the racial narrative writes itself whenever a Black man
dies at the hands of a white cop. Floyd's body was still warm when the mainstream media took up
the story which had already been written and declared him a saint, complete with halo and
wings. In reality, Floyd was a violent felon who died with traces of fentanyl and cocaine in
his system, but the BBC described him as someone who "was simply trying to live life as any
other American, in search of betterment in the face of both personal and societal challenges."
[1] He then
became "the latest totem of the ills that plague the country in 2020." After growing in wisdom,
age, and grace, Floyd's life suddenly "took a different turn, with a string of arrests for
theft and drug possession culminating in an armed robbery charge in 2007, for which he was
sentenced to five years in prison." Missing from the BBC account was any mention of Floyd's
incarceration, drug dealing, violence against pregnant women or his role as a porn star,
[2] but no one
needed to tell a graduate of America's public school system that he was witnessing the latest
installment of the ongoing saga of American racism in action.
... ... ...
Both sides of the racial conflict which George Floyd's death ignited were controlled by
Jews. The ADL has consistently played a double game by condemning the racial violence that
their training seminars have created. According to the Democratic Socialists of America, "The
police violence happening tonight in Minneapolis is straight out of the IDF playbook," adding,
"US cops train in Israel." [20] After
the death of George Floyd, the ADL, eager to avoid any association with the violence their
police seminars wrought among Blacks, tweeted: "As we continue to fight for justice for
#GeorgeFloyd, we also need to fight for justice for #BreonnaTaylor, who was murdered in her own
home by police. We need justice for everyone who has been a victim of racist policing &
violence." [21]
At the same time that the ADL was demanding justice for George Floyd, they made no mention
of the death of Iyad Hallaq, an autistic Palestinian man who was gunned down after pleading for
his life while on the way to his special education class in occupied East Jerusalem. [22] The
Electronic Intifada, which did mention Hallaq's death, then singled out the Anti-Defamation
league as "a major player in the industry of bringing US police junkets to Israel for
'counterterrorism' and other kinds of joint training." [23]
Docile Negroes at traditionally Jewish organizations like the NAACP routinely get praised
for their work against racism, but as soon as Black Lives Matter began its Black solidarity
with Palestine campaign, the Israeli government and its lobbies in America attempted to disrupt
the Black Lives Matter movement in retaliation. In 2018 Al Jazeera's documentary The
Lobby -- USA revealed how The Israel Project "pulled strings behind the scenes to
get a Black Lives Matter fundraiser at a New York City nightclub canceled." [24]
So on the one hand we have American policemen being trained to treat their fellow citizens
in the same way that Israelis treat Palestinians, including the knee holds that will subdue and
sometimes kill them. This explains the white cop side of the equation. But on the other hand,
we have George Soros funding Black Lives Matter and the insurrections which follow incidents of
police brutality as the black side of the equation. Taken together both Jewish-funded groups
perpetuate the cycle of increasing violent racial conflict in America, while remaining all the
while invisible.
Black Lives Matter was a reincarnation of the Black-Jewish Alliance, which began with the
founding of the ADL after the lynching of Leo Frank and has continued to this day, with
time-outs taken for the World Wars of the 20th century. Shortly after World War II, Louis
Wirth, a Jewish sociologist from the University of Chicago began implementing his plan to
"integrate" housing in Chicago. When Chicago's ethnic neighborhoods understood that
"integration" was a euphemism for ethnic cleansing, riots ensued, beginning with the Airport
Park riots of 1947 and culminating in the arrival of Martin Luther King in Marquette Park
almost 20 years later. As one more indication that Black Lives Matter was the reincarnation of
the Black-Jewish Alliance, Alicia Garza, one of the founders of Black Lives Matter, was born in
1981 to a white Jewish father and a Black mother.
Black Lives Matter was funded by George Soros to promote race war in the United States, but
BLM also promoted sexual deviance, another cause dear to the heart of the world's most
prominent Hungarian Jewish philanthropist. In their recently published manifesto, BLM situates
its attempt to be "unapologetically Black in our positioning" within a matrix of sexual
deviance, including attempts "to dismantle cisgender privilege and uplift Black trans folk," by
disrupting "the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure" and putting in its place a
"queer-affirming network." [25]
If that jargon sounds familiar, it's because it stems from the university gender studies
programs which provide the matrix from which groups like BLM and Antifa get both their ideas
and their recruits. The ultimate cause of the uprising which took place in city after city in
the wake of George Floyd's death was bad education. Beginning in the late 1980s, literature
departments had been taken over by "tenured radicals" who have used critical theory, derived
from thinkers like Foucault, Derrida, and Gramsci, to undermine the validity of all structures
of authority. This essentially Nietzschean transvaluation of all values transferred moral
superiority to anyone who could claim oppression according to oligarchic endorsed categories
like race and gender, allowing the tenured radicals to take over one department after another
and, more importantly, allowing the proliferation of new departments, invariably ending in
"studies," as in gender studies, which drove the traditional liberal arts from academe turning
traditional universities into Maoist inspired re-education camps. The takeover of academe
reached its bitter culmination when Antifa led groups of disaffected, badly educated young
people, who were aware of nothing more significant than their grievances, into the streets in
what became an uncanny replication of the Chinese cultural revolution of 1966. One of the most
unlikely leaders of that revolution in China was an American Jew from Charleston, South
Carolina by the name of Sidney Rittenberg.
The academic pedigree of Rittenberg's successors became apparent when Antifa warlord Joseph
Alcoff got apprehended in Philadelphia in 2017 for assaulting a group of Hispanic Marines.
Alcoff's arrest shed light on one of the main figures in a society that remained literally
faceless because of their habit of wearing masks at the protests they disrupted by their
violence. Alcoff, who was known as the leader of Antifa in Washington, DC, was the child of
radical academics and had co-authored an academic paper with his mother Linda Alcoff in Volume
79 of Science and Society in the special issue on "Red and Black: Marxist Encounters
with Anarchism," entitled "Autonomism in Theory and Practice." [26] Radical
theory in the mind of Linda Alcoff led to violent praxis in the life of her son. As with Black
Lives Matter, the ADL has played a double game with Antifa, condemning its tactics while at the
same time defending it against accusations that it was morally equivalent to the "white
supremacists" it attacked in the streets of Charlottesville in 2017.
Continuity between the generations was made possible by the Jewish revolutionary spirit. The
fact that Alcoff was a Jew got suppressed in virtually every mainstream account of his
activity, [27] which
sanitized his communist connections by linking him to the Democratic Party through figures like
Nancy Pelosi and Maxine Waters. Alcoff was more forthright when he spoke in his own voice,
saying on one Youtube video, "I'm a Communist, motherf***er," before spitting into the camera.
[28]
Christians for truth portrayed Alcoff as "a self-styled modern-day Leon Trotsky" and attributed
the suppression of his ethnic identity to the fact that "Antifa's political manifestations are
funded by the billionaire Jew, George Soros." [29]
Andy Ngo, who was severely beaten by Antifa thugs in Portland in the wake of the 2016
presidential election, claims that "prominent media figures and politicians glamorize and even
promote Antifa as a movement for a just cause. CNN's Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon have defended
Antifa on-air. Chuck Todd invited Antifa ideologue Mark Bray onto Meet the Press to
explain why Antifa's political violence is "ethical." [30] Ngo goes
on to mention Joseph Alcoff as one of the most visible figures in what is otherwise a
clandestine organization, and claims that he had access to Democrat Representative Maxine
Waters in 2016. [31] He also
mentions Adam Rothstein, who is associated with the Rose City Antifa group which assaulted him
in 2016. Rothstein conducted a series of "secret lectures" at a Portland bookstore where local
recruits learned how to "heckle" opponents and make them "look ridiculous, make them feel
outnumbered," and convinced that the "Trump thing is gonna go by the wayside." [32]
Armed with political clout of this magnitude, Antifa can easily overwhelm local police
forces, which is what happened in Portland in 2016. The result is that "city government and
police lack the political will to protect citizens." What happened in Seattle in 2020 with the
creation of the "Capital Hill Autonomous Zone" was only the logical conclusion to what began in
Portland in 2016 and spread all over the Pacific Northwest, "where Antifa is especially
active." In its attempt to destabilize and destroy the nation state and its sovereign borders,
Antifa drew support from "mainstream progressive politicians, such as Rep. Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez, who normalize hatred of border enforcement and sovereignty as such." [33]
Antifa has continued to be successful in disrupting local government and thwarting police
attempts to bring them under control because it is a Jewish organization which can always count
on favorable press from the Jewish-controlled mainstream media, which renders the connection
invisible. The same cannot be said for the Jewish press, which cites Antifa's Jewishness with
thinly-disguised ethnic pride.
When Donald Trump referred to Antifa as a terrorist organization, the Israeli newspaper
Ha'aretz came to their defense, "Trump's Attacks on Antifa Are Attacks on Jews."
[34]
According to an article which appeared in the Forward , Antifa activism "is an
affirmation of Jewish identity, both religious and secular" [35] which
stretches all the way back to 1897 with the founding of Bundism, which "sought to organize the
working-class Jews of Russia, Poland, and Lithuania." [36] After
members of a specifically Jewish Antifa group defaced a plaque in New York City honoring the
president of Vichy France Philippe Petain, they left a note which defended the rationale behind
their act of vandalism:
With Monday's actions, Jewish antifascists and allied forces have served notice that fascist
apologism will not be tolerated in our city in 2019; that anti-Semitic ideology and violence
will be confronted with Jewish solidarity and strength; and that the Holocaust will be
remembered not only with sadness and grief but also with righteous anger and action: 'We will
never forget. We will never forgive.' [37]
In the final analysis, Antifa is a Jewish organization in the same way that Bolshevism and
Neoconservatism were Jewish political movements. Not every member of Antifa is a Jew, but Jews
invariably find their ways into leadership roles in places like Portland, Washington, DC, and
even in China, as was the case during the Cultural Revolution of 1966, because they have an
advantage over non-Jews in embodying the Jewish Revolutionary Spirit which is the hidden
grammar of all revolutionary movements.
Interesting article, not the least surprising the Usual Suspects are playing both sides.
Like WW2?
One picky point is the Yanez shooting, the victim did have a gun, he had a permit for it.
He didn't show his hands and died with his hand near the gun. This was the one his GF put out
on Facebook Live to it incited two police massacres right away, the one everybody knows about
in Dallas (where they killed the shooter with a robot bomb) an another in Louisiana.
I'm a witness the SF Bay Area as a model of the racial obsession/gender bending schemes.
What a mess the place is–the signature of the Left-wing establishment that runs the
place is how the education system fails to fulfill the simple market demands for labor in
their own locale, at the high end Silicon Valley runs on Indian/Pakistani B-1s and at the
other the booming (until now) construction business runs on mostly imported Hispanics.
They spend more per pupil than the rest of the world and the whole system runs on
immigration.
I couldn't finish this article after reading this garbage:
"Floyd was a violent felon who died with traces of fentanyl and cocaine in his system"
It was announced two weeks ago that he had a lethal dose. His toxicology report was
finally made public and shows that he had a lethal dose of the dangerous pain killer fentanyl
in his system. This caused his lungs to fill with fluid, which explains why he told arriving
cops "I Can't Breath" and did not cooperate as he was delusional and dying. The cops wrestled
him to the ground and cuffed him as he died from a fentanyl overdose. Floyd would have died
right there even if the cops had not shown up.
This is why coroners wait for toxicology results before declaring the cause of death, but
in this case he bowed to political pressure and announced his death was caused by the knee to
the neck. This news is so big that our corporate media, which has promoted the riots, refuses
to air the truth. Details can be read here.
https://spectator.org/minnesota-v-derek-chauvin-et-al-the-prosecutions-dirty-little-secret/
In fair and normal world, the accused cops would be immediately freed and rehired with a
bad mark for Chauvin using an improper neck hold. Let's see what happens, but I don't expect
justice.
Floyd said "i can't breathe" several times BEFORE he was put on the ground. The cops did
nothing wrong and were trying to help him. It's all another monstrous media lie like the
mueller report and jussie smollett and rayshard brooks and the covington kids and bubba
wallace and the KY gun range video.
The American Deep State can destroy anti-fa if it wanted. Hunting down all the leaders of
this terrorist organization is not that hard. But of course the American Deep State will not
do so because anti-fa is a branch of the deep state, just like how Hollywood and the media
are (& have been for a long time) arms of the American (Globalist) deep state.
This is one of Jones' many indispensable articles. The opening alone is required reading
of anyone slightly bothered by what is going on. Dionysius sparks sexual revolution, and it
leads to debauched riot and murder and then to either social collapse or else brutal
tyranny.
The American Left and the Neocons both demand tyranny, as brutal as possible. They serve
anti-Christ.
It is either Christ and Christendom or the chaos of anti-Christ.
If Jones would realize that the Novus Ordo Mass and Vatican II are at best impotent before
Dionysius and return to Tradition, he could serve much better.
It cannot be repeated too much: we live in the Anglo-Zionist Empire 2.0. The first phase
of Anglo-Zionist Empire was the British Empire. The Brit WASP Empire spread philoSemitism
across the globe: cultural Zionism that was the inherent fruit of Anglo-Saxon Puritanism,
which was a Judaizing heresy that was the final and most defining part of Modern English, and
Anglophone Protestant, culture.
The reality is that we are in the eyes of the Anglo-Zionist Empire's elites what Irish
Catholic were to archetypal WASP Oliver Cromwell and what Palestinians are to Israelis. They
wish us exterminated or made serfs forever, and the base reason predates Freud, Darwin, Marx
and the French Revolution. It is Judaizing heresy birthing monsters to war against historic
Christianity and peoples who have any legacy in the building and maintenance of Christendom
and therefore do not serve Zionism.
WASP culture serves Zionism and always will.
When Kevin McDonald realizes all of that and the necessary inferences, his work will
become worth the effort.
There's a sure way to curb the influence that certain (((individuals))) have on American
culture and politics; it's called the "wealth tax." It's a tax on the assets of the rich and
also on foundations set up to circumvent the inheritance tax. Both Bernie Sanders and
Elizabeth Warren proposed a wealth tax but it is not included in Biden's platform. Instead,
he's proposed raising the maximum income tax rate to 39.6%. There are lots of loopholes that
individuals can utilize to reduce their income tax obligations. It won't stop their meddling
in social and political affairs. Only a very stiff wealth tax (at least 10% per year) will
curb their meddling.
Paid protesters were the driving force of EuroMaydan. It was well documented. Cash was
shipped via diplomatic mail to embassies and then channeled to opposition parties. Police
confiscated a large stash of dollars in the office of Batkivshchina. So the mechanism of paying
protestors during a color revolution is well polished.
The question is whether this infrastructure (and Soros's Open Society is a part of this
infrastructure) was activated in the USA riots.
Following accusations that paid protesters are hijacking the George
Floyd protest s and inciting riots, George Soros' Open Society Foundation has issued a rare
statement claiming that [niether] he – nor anyone else, is funding the chaos.
Soros' statement comes days after a hoax flyer appeared in Washington State claiming that
the Thurston County Democrats was seeking "
a professional anarchist " with funding supplied by the Open Society Foundation.
While that was [a hoax], this wouldn't be the first time leftists have conspired to disrupt
otherwise peaceful events.
In 2016, Clinton operative Robert Creamer – who visited the Obama white house
nearly 350
times – 'stepped back' from his role as an organizer after a Project Veritas
undercover video revealed a discussion on paying agitators to
incite violence at Trump rallies in 2016.
"One of the things we do is we stage very authentic grassroots protests right in their faces
at their own events.
Like, we infiltrate ," said Creamer's former minion, Scott Foval.
Soros has donated early
$90 million to feminist groups which were behind January, 2017 protests of Donald Trump's
inauguration.
HA HA HA HA. That video is PRICELESS. Every single American should know about GEORGE
SCHWARTZ and his role in FUNDING THE ANTIFA/BLM riots. Apparently even "conservative," Faux
News is 100% KOSHER APPROVED like all the others.
The Jewish role in taking down America is all over the map for decades and counting. From
Susan Rosenberg now to Ethel and Julius Rosenberg back in the Fifties. Look at the leaders of
those far left hippie radicals back in the 1960s and 1970s, they all had a kosher feel to them.
(((The Weather Underground))), Abbie Hoffman, Alan Ginsburg, feminist like Gloria Steinem,
etc., even the NAACP had a Jew heading up that organization until the 1970s. You want spies and
espionage, people, we had the Jonathan Pollard case, the 5 dancing Israelis, the USS Liberty,
Jews like Emanuel Celler and Jacob Javits pushing to flood America with nonwhites through the
Immigration Reform Act, etc. WE HAVE A PATTERN HERE FOLKS, AND EVEN STEVIE WONDER WOULD BE ABLE
TO SEE IT. And lest we forget the Epstein/Maxwell honey pot that has been all but forgotten
because of the (((current revolution.)))
From the so-called "French Revolution" to the so-called "Russian Revolution" to the current
"Revenge Of The Nerds Revolution" in America, we keep seeing the (((usual suspects))) every
single time. The modus operandi is always the same as well, DIVIDE AND CONQUER. Whether
(((they))) pit rich vs. poor or Black vs. White or straight vs. gay, it is always the same
theme of "social justice." In the end, (((their))) goal of "social justice" is for Jews to rule
over a divided and conquered people, stripped of their identity, racial pride, history,
religious beliefs, etc. Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it. Unfortunately
most Americans have been spoon fed their history from Jewish or shabbos goy (((historians)))
who have their work published by Jewish publishing companies. Everything you were told about
WWII in school is basically a LIE, people. REPLY AGREE/DISAG TGD says: September 17,
2020 at 3:28 pm GMT • 100 Words ↑
There's a sure way to curb the influence that certain (((individuals))) have on American
culture and politics; it's called the "wealth tax." It's a tax on the assets of the rich and
also on foundations set up to circumvent the inheritance tax. Both Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth
Warren proposed a wealth tax but it is not included in Biden's platform. Instead, he's proposed
raising the maximum income tax rate to 39.6%. There are lots of loopholes that individuals can
utilize to reduce their income tax obligations. It won't stop their meddling in social and
political affairs. Only a very stiff wealth tax (at least 10% per year) will curb their
meddling. Katrinka says: September 17,
2020 at 4:29 pm GMT • 200 Words ↑ @Katrinka
It gets better.
Mary Harf tells panelists interviewing Newt to stop allowing him to blame Soros for funding
the protests. She served as the Senior advisor of Strategic Communications to U.S. Secretary of
State John Kerry at the United States Department of State, leading the Iran nuclear
negotiations communications strategy. Harf also was Acting Spokesperson and Deputy Spokesperson
of the State Department. Harf attracted controversy for an interview she gave on Hardball with
Chris Matthews on February 16, 2015 following the release the day before of a video by the
Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) showing the beheading of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians
in Libya. In response to questioning from Matthews on the U.S.'s strategy toward ISIS, Harf
said, "We cannot kill our way out of this war. We need in the medium to longer term to go after
the root causes that leads people to join these groups, whether it's a lack of opportunity for
jobs, whether " Her critics ridiculed her on social media with the hashtag "#JobsForISIS",
which became a top 10 trending topic on U.S. Twitter
Karl Marx said that " Philosophers have hitherto only
interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it ." I doubt very much that
you will know which changes you need to make if you don't have a very good idea about your
starting point. In his book Factfulness and in his many excellent online presentations, the
late Swedish Professor of International Health Hans Rosling identifies a lot of the ways things
have gotten better , especially for the world's poorest.
Suppose, for example, that you encounter the name " Milton Friedman ,"
perhaps in connection with lamented "neoliberalism" and maybe in connection with human rights
abuses perpetrated by the brutal Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. Friedman has been denounced
as the "father of global misery," and his reputation has taken another beating in the wake of
the fiftieth anniversary of his 1970 New York Times Magazine essay " The Social Responsibility of Business is to
Increase its Profits ," which I suspect most people haven't read past its title. But what
happened during "The Age of Milton Friedman," as the economist Andrei Shleifer asked in
a 2009
article ? Shleifer points out that "Between 1980 and 2005, as the world embraced free
market policies, living standards rose sharply, while life expectancy, educational attainment,
and democracy improved and absolute poverty declined."
Things have never been so good, and they are getting better , especially for the world's
poor.
In 2008, there was a bit of controversy over the establishment of the Milton Friedman
Institute at the University of Chicago, which operates today as the Becker Friedman Institute (it is also named for Friedman's
fellow Chicago economist Gary Becker ). In a
blistering
reply to a protest letter signed by a
group of faculty members at the University of Chicago, the economist John Cochrane wrote, "If
you start with the premise that the last 40 or so years, including the fall of communism, and
the opening of China and India are 'negative for much of the world's population,' you just
don't have any business being a social scientist. You don't stand a chance of contributing
something serious to the problems that we actually do face." Nor, might I add, do you stand
much of a chance of concocting a revolutionary program that will actually help the people
you're trying to lead.
2. What makes me so sure I won't replace the existing regime with
something far worse?
I might hesitate to push the aforementioned button because while the world we actually
inhabit is far from perfect, it's not at all clear that deleting the state overnight wouldn't
mean civilization's wholesale and maybe even perpetual collapse. At the very least, I would
want to think long and hard about it. The explicit mention of Frantz Fanon and Che Guevara in
the course description suggest that students will be approaching revolutionary ideas from the
left. They should look at the results of populist revolutions in 20th century Latin America,
Africa, and Asia. The blood of many millions starved and slaughtered in efforts to "forge a
better society" cries out against socialism and communism, and
macroeconomic populism in Latin America has been disastrous . As people have pointed out
when told that "democratic socialists" aren't trying to turn their countries into Venezuela,
Venezuelans weren't trying to turn their country into Venezuela when they embraced Hugo Chavez.
I wonder why we should expect WLU's aspiring revolutionaries to succeed where so many others
have failed.
3. Is my revolutionary program just a bunch of platitudes with which no
decent person would disagree?
In 2019, Kristian Niemietz of London's Institute of Economic Affairs published a useful
volume titled Socialism: The Failed Idea That Never Dies , which you can
download for $0 from IEA . He notes a tendency for socialists and neo-socialists to pitch
their programs almost exclusively in terms of their hoped-for results rather than in terms of
the operation of concrete social processes they hope to set in motion (on this I paraphrase
my intellectual hero Thomas Sowell ).
Apply a test proposed a long time ago by the economist William Easterly: can you imagine
anyone seriously objecting to what you're saying? If not, then you probably aren't saying
anything substantive. Can you imagine someone saying "I hate the idea of the world's poor
having better food, clothing, shelter, and medical care" or "It would be a very bad thing if
more people were literate?" If not, then it's likely that your revolutionary program is a
tissue of platitudes and empty promises. That's not to say it won't work politically–God
knows, nothing sells better on election day than platitudes and empty promises–but you
shouldn't think you're saying anything profound if all you're saying is something obvious like
"It would be nice if more people had access to clean, drinkable water."
... ... ...
7. How has it worked the other times it has been tried?
Years before the Russian Revolution, Eugene Richter predicted with eerie prescience what
would happen in a socialist society in his short book Pictures of the Socialistic Future (
which you can
download for $0 here ). Bryan Caplan, who wrote the foreword for that edition of Pictures
and who put together the online " Museum of Communism ," points out
the distressing regularity with which communists go from "bleeding heart" to "mailed fist." It
doesn't take long for communist regimes to go from establishing a workers' paradise to shooting
people who try to leave. Consider whether or not the brutality and mass murder of communist
regimes is a feature of the system rather than a bug. Hugo Chavez and Che
Guevara both expressed bleeding hearts with their words but used a mailed fist in practice
(I've written before that "irony" is denouncing Milton Friedman for the crimes of Augusto
Pinochet while wearing a Che Guevara t-shirt. Pinochet was a murderous thug. Guevara was, too).
Caplan points to
pages 105 and 106 of Four Men: Living the Revolution: An Oral History of Contemporary Cuba
. On page 105, Lazaro Benedi Rodriguez's heart is bleeding for the illiterate. On page 106,
he's "advis(ing) Fidel to have an incinerator dug about 40 or 50 meters deep, and every time
one of these obstinate cases came up, to drop the culprit in the incinerator, douse him with
gasoline, and set him on fire."
... ... ...
9. What will I do with people who aren't willing to go along with my
revolution?
Walter Williams once said that he doesn't mind if communists want to be communists. He minds
that they want him to be a communist, too. Would you allow people to try capitalist experiments
in your socialist paradise? Or socialist experiments in your capitalist paradise (Families,
incidentally, are socialist enterprises that run by the principle "from each according to his
ability, to each according to his needs.")? Am I willing to allow dissenters to advocate my
overthrow, or do I need to crush dissent and control the minds of the masses in order for my
revolution to work? Am I willing to allow people to leave, or will I need to build a wall to
keep people in?
10. Am I letting myself off the hook for questions 1-9 and giving myself
too much credit for passion and sincerity?
The philosopher David Schmidtz has said that if your best argument is that your heart is in
the right place, then your heart is most definitely not in the right place. Consider this quote
from Edmund Burke and ask whether or not it leads you to revise your revolutionary plans:
"A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood. He would feel some
apprehension at being called to a tremendous account for engaging in so deep a play, without
any sort of knowledge of the game. It is no excuse for presumptuous ignorance, that it is
directed by insolent passion. The poorest being that crawls on earth, contending to save
itself from injustice and oppression is an object respectable in the eyes of God and man. But
I cannot conceive any existence under heaven (which, in the depths of its wisdom, tolerates
all sorts of things) that is more truly odious and disgusting, than an impotent helpless
creature, without civil wisdom or military skill, without a consciousness of any other
qualification for power but his servility to it, bloated with pride and arrogance, calling
for battles which he is not to fight, contending for a violent dominion which he can never
exercise, and satisfied to be himself mean and miserable, in order to render others
contemptible and wretched." (Emphasis added).
Looks at the people whom Trump surrounded himself and his actual deed during the presidency
(large increase of Pentagon budget, tax cut for the rich, etc) and you will understand a lot more
then this simplistic narrative. People are the policy. This is a cage fight between two groups
equally hostile to people elite, two political mafias. Let's assume that Trump supporting group
is Military industrial mafia, some rich Zionists, some old money and industrialists vs.
SiliconValley and FARA mafia of Clinton camp.
In now way this can be interpreted as good buys vs bad guys.
So, do we know who the leaders of this (TIP) group are?
Well, we know who their two main spokesmen are: Rosa Brooks– Georgetown law professor
and co-founder of the Transition Integrity Project, and Ret. Col. Lawrence Wilkerson,
Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Government and Public Policy at the College of William &
Mary, and chief of staff to former Secretary of State Colin Powell. According to an article by
Whitney Webb:
" (Rosa) Brooks was an advisor to the Pentagon and the Hillary Clinton-led State
Department during the Obama administration. She was also previously the general counsel to
the President of the Open Society Institute, part of the Open Society Foundations (OSF), a
controversial organization funded by billionaire George Soros.Zoe Hudson, who is
TIP's director, is also a former top figure at OSF, serving as senior policy analyst and
liaison between the foundations and the U.S. government for 11 years .
OSF ties to the TIP are a red flag for a number of reasons, namely due to the fact that
OSF and other Soros-funded organizations played a critical role in fomenting so-called
"color revolutions" to overthrow non-aligned governments, particularly during the Obama
administration. Examples of OSF's ties to these manufactured "revolutions" include Ukraine in
2014 and the "Arab Spring" ..
In addition to her ties to the Obama administration and OSF, Brooks is currently a scholar
at West Point's Modern War Institute, where she focuses on "the relationship between the
military and domestic policing" and also Georgetown's Innovative Policing Program. She is
a currently a key player in the documented OSF-led push to "capitalize" off of legitimate
calls for police reform to justify the creation of a federalized police force under the guise
of defunding and/or eliminating local police departments. Brooks' interest in the
"blurring line" between military and police is notable given her past advocacy of a military
coup to remove Trump from office and the TIP's subsequent conclusion that the military "may"
have to step in if Trump manages to win the 2020 election, per the group's "war games"
described above.
Brooks is also a senior fellow at the think tank New America . New America's
mission statement notes that the organization is focused on "honestly confronting the
challenges caused by rapid technological and social change, and seizing the opportunities
those changes create." It is largely funded by Silicon Valley billionaires, including Bill
Gates (Microsoft), Eric Schmidt (Google), Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn), Jeffrey Skoll and Pierre
Omidyar (eBay) . In addition, it has received millions directly from the U.S. State
Department to research "ranking digital rights." Notably, of these funders, Reid Hoffman was
caught "meddling" in the most recent Democratic primary to undercut Bernie Sanders' candidacy
during the Iowa caucus and while others, such as Eric Schmidt and Pierre Omidyar, are known
for their cozy ties to the Clinton family and even ties to Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign."
("
"Bipartisan" Washington Insiders Reveal Their Plan for Chaos if Trump Wins the Election
", Unlimited Hangout )
Is it safe to say that Rosa Brooks is a Soros stooge overseeing a color revolution in the
United States aimed at toppling Trump and replacing him with a dementia-addled, meat-puppet
named Joe Biden?
Political analyst Paul Craig Roberts seems to think so. Here's what he said in a recent post
at his website:
"I have provided evidence that the military/security complex, using the media and the
Democrats, intends to turn the November election into a color revolution The evidence of
a color revolution in the works is abundantly supplied by CNN, MSNBC, New York Times, NPR,
Washington Post and numerous Internet sites funded by the CIA and the foundations and
corporations through which it operates.. All of these media organizations are establishing
the story in the mind of Americans that Trump will not leave office when he loses or steals
the election and must be driven out.
With Antifa and Black Lives Matter now experienced in violent protests, they will be
unleashed anew on American cities when there is news of a Trump election victory. The media
will explain the violence as necessary to free us from a tyrant and egg on the violence, as
will the Democrat Party. The CIA will be certain that the violence is well funded .
What is a reelected President Trump going to do when the Secret Service refuses to repel
Antifa and Black Lives Matter when they breach White House Security?
American Democracy is on the verge of being ended for all times, and the world media
will herald the event as the successful overthrowing of a tyrant." ( "America's
Color Revolution" , Paul Craig Roberts )
So what else is new? Given that Americans had fomented countless color revolutions or
regime changes on dozens of countries, imo, it is fitting that they try it on themselves. The
world would be happy that it is not done onto others instead.
Well, I guess, it is too late for Trump to surround himself with people he and the
majority American people voting for him can trust who would uphold the Constitution and the
laws of the land. It all started with him firing Steve Bannon and keeping instead that
God-awful, idiotic Kushner in the White House. What does Ivanka think if she thinks at
all?
Treason is not an objective concept: it depends on how history goes.
If a traitor fails its mission, get caught and condemned, then yes, it was treason.
But if the traitor succeed, then there was no treason, he's an hero and savior, those who
opposed him are the bad guys that must be punished.
Doesn't matter what's written in the law or the constitution – it matters who has the
money to steer the judge.
"... Seeking to impose on others the conformity it enforces in its ranks, articulate only in a boilerplate of ritualized cant, today's lumpen intelligentsia consists of persons for whom a little learning is delightful. They consider themselves educated because they are credentialed, stamped with the approval of institutions of higher education that gave them three things: a smattering of historical information just sufficient to make the past seem depraved; a vocabulary of indignation about the failure of all previous historic actors, from Washington to Lincoln to Churchill , to match the virtues of the lumpen intelligentsia; and the belief that America's grossest injustice is the insufficient obeisance accorded to this intelligentsia. ..."
"... Today's cancel culture -- erasing history, ending careers -- is inflicted by people experiencing an orgy of positive feelings about themselves as they negate others. This culture is a steamy sauna of self-congratulation: "I, an adjunct professor of gender studies, am superior to U.S. Grant, so there." Grant promptly freed the slave he received from his father-in-law, and went on to pulverize the slavocracy. Nevertheless . . . ..."
"... Today's gruesome irony: A significant portion of the intelligentsia that is churned out by higher education does not acknowledge exacting standards of inquiry that could tug them toward tentativeness and constructive dissatisfaction with themselves. Rather, they come from campuses, cloaked in complacency. Instead of elevating, their education produces only expensively schooled versions of what José Ortega y Gasset called the "mass man." ..."
"... A barbarian is someone whose ideas are "nothing more than appetites in words," someone exercising "the right not to be reasonable," who "does not want to give reasons" but simply "to impose his opinions." ..."
"... The barbarians are not at America's gate. There is no gate. ..."
A nation's gravest problems are those it cannot discuss because it dare not state them. This
nation's principal problem, which makes other serious problems intractable, is that much of
today's intelligentsia is not intelligent.
One serious problem is that the political class is terrified of its constituents -- their
infantile refusal to will the means (revenue) for the ends (government benefits) they demand.
Another serious problem is family
disintegration -- e.g., 40 percent of all births, and 69 percent of all African American
births, to unmarried women. Families are the primary transmitters of social capital: the
habits, dispositions and mores necessary for flourishing. Yet the subject of disorganized
families has been entirely absent from current discussions -- actually, less discussions than
virtue-signaling ventings -- about poverty, race and related matters.
Today's most serious problem, which annihilates thoughtfulness about all others, is that a
significant portion of the intelligentsia -- the lumpen intelligentsia -- cannot think. Its
torrent of talk is an ever-intensifying hurricane of hysteria about the endemic sickness of the
nation since its founding in
1619 (don't ask). And the iniquities of historic figures mistakenly admired.
An admirable intelligentsia, inoculated by education against fashions and fads, would make
thoughtful distinctions arising from historically informed empathy. It would be society's
ballast against mob mentalities. Instead, much of America's intelligentsia has become a
mob.
Seeking to impose on others the conformity it enforces in its ranks, articulate only in
a boilerplate of ritualized cant, today's lumpen intelligentsia consists of persons for whom a
little learning is delightful. They consider themselves educated because they are credentialed,
stamped with the approval of institutions of higher education that gave them three things: a
smattering of historical information just sufficient to make the past seem depraved; a
vocabulary of indignation about the failure of all previous historic actors, from Washington to
Lincoln to
Churchill
, to match the virtues of the lumpen intelligentsia; and the belief that America's grossest
injustice is the insufficient obeisance accorded to this intelligentsia.
Its expansion tracks the expansion of colleges and universities -- most have, effectively,
open admissions -- that have become intellectually monochrome purveyors of groupthink. Faculty
are outnumbered by administrators, many of whom exist to administer uniformity concerning
"sustainability," "diversity," "toxic masculinity" and the threat free speech poses to favored
groups' entitlements to serenity.
Today's cancel culture -- erasing history, ending careers -- is inflicted by people
experiencing an orgy of positive feelings about themselves as they negate others. This culture
is a steamy sauna of self-congratulation: "I, an adjunct professor of gender studies, am
superior to U.S. Grant, so there." Grant promptly freed
the slave he received from his father-in-law, and went on to pulverize the slavocracy.
Nevertheless . . .
The cancelers need just enough learning to know, vaguely, that there was a Lincoln who lived
when Americans, sunk in primitivism, thought they were confronted with vexing constitutional
constraints and moral ambiguities. : Too much learning might immobilize the topplers with
doubts about how they would have behaved in the contexts in which the statues' subjects
lived.
The cancelers are reverse Rumpelstiltskins , spinning problems that
merit the gold of complex ideas and nuanced judgments into the straw of slogans. Someone
anticipated something like this.
Today's gruesome irony: A significant portion of the intelligentsia that is churned out
by higher education does not acknowledge exacting standards of inquiry that could tug them
toward tentativeness and constructive dissatisfaction with themselves. Rather, they come from
campuses, cloaked in complacency. Instead of elevating, their education produces only
expensively schooled versions of what José Ortega y Gasset called the "mass
man."
In 1932's "
The Revolt of the Masses ," the Spanish philosopher said this creature does not " appeal
from his own to any authority outside him . He is satisfied with himself exactly as he is.
. . . He will tend to consider and affirm as good everything he finds within himself: opinions,
appetites, preferences, tastes." (Emphasis is Ortega's.)
Much education now spreads the disease that education should cure, the disease of
repudiating, without understanding, the national principles that could pull the nation toward
its noble aspirations. The result is barbarism, as Ortega defined it, "the absence of standards
to which appeal can be made."
A barbarian is someone whose ideas are "nothing more than appetites in words," someone
exercising "the right not to be reasonable," who "does not want to give reasons" but simply "to
impose his opinions."
The barbarians are not at America's gate. There is no gate.
"... despite her pretensions, she is not the holder of either science or wealth or belonging to a lineage. She is a commoner, a half-scientist and lives on emoluments. She dreams of oligarchy, but she only has the power of " henchman " ; she is auxiliary, Lackey, second-rate, she serves soup infinitely ... as a good shepherd dog, she admonishes, sermons, reprimands, everything she considers to be at the bottom of the scale ..."
"... This caste of half-educated, false scholars, "fast thinker", "little whites of culture" serves to exorcise "the power of those who have no more title to govern than to be governed". ..."
"... Published by Le Bougnoulosophe at 2/05/2013 ..."
Special dedication to Caroline Fourest, cheerleader of the "superstructure" and the dominant
order...
A new caste was born. One would have to be blind not to notice its emergence. It aspires to
the outsourcing of "pastoral power". And the flock is the people. This caste does not
appreciate popular claims: of poujadism. She does not like too "tanned" manifestations:
communitarianism and Islamism. She is outraged when one criticizes Israel or the United States:
of anti-Semitism and " conspirationism ".
Faithful to her masters, she cannot stand criticism of the powerful: envy and resentment.
She does not like the internet: "freaks, maniacs, fanatics, megalomaniacs, paranoiacs, nazis,
informants, who find there a way to spread their delusions, their hatreds, or their obsessions
worldwide.". She hates democracy, in its noble sense ; to put it simply, she hates it. She is,
most often without announcing the color, Zionist, Atlantist and a little Islamophobic. If,
rather, it is found in the media, it is flexible and adapts to all contexts. It is one and at
the same time multiple. Within it we observe all the nuances, history to occupy all niches, way
to interest all sensibilities.
Despite her great airs, despite her pretensions, she is not the holder of either science
or wealth or belonging to a lineage. She is a commoner, a half-scientist and lives on
emoluments. She dreams of oligarchy, but she only has the power of " henchman " ; she is
auxiliary, Lackey, second-rate, she serves soup infinitely ... as a good shepherd dog, she
admonishes, sermons, reprimands, everything she considers to be at the bottom of the scale
... neither scribe, nor prophet, nor Mandarin, she likes to illuminate with her "false
lights".
She demands that we listen carefully. She orders that we obey her. It does not tolerate
contradiction or debate. Its mission in the end: to allow the oligarchy to rule in the name of
the people and to establish this society that regulates the power of the commodity. This
caste of half-educated, false scholars, "fast thinker", "little whites of culture" serves to
exorcise "the power of those who have no more title to govern than to be governed". But
she is more and more helpless as her strings are big and her intellectual means limited
Trump has allowed the violent protests to continue for months because it is helping him
politically in the 2020 election. Joe Biden is incapable of reining in these people. It has
gone too far.
Once this country is engulfed by the looming catastrophe, it will be up to each of us to
ride it out as best we can. I don't think things are going to settle down and return to normal
after the election. We're at the point where the shooting has begun and the violence is being
celebrated by mobs.
I'm not a survivalist. I can't help you there and even if I tried it is probably too late.
We're less than two months from the election. If Trump is reelected, which seems increasingly
likely, that is when I expect the leftwing violence to really jump off. I'm expecting
something like Northern
Ireland in The Troubles . I don't think the vast majority of Americans are interested in
Civil War 2, but I can see the violent Left developing into an insurgency against the police
and the government in a Trump second term. Portland has foreshadowed a bloodier conflict
between violent leftists and the state in our major cities.
If you live in one of these big cities where the violent leftwing protests have been
occurring since George Floyd died and where Democrats have allowed the mob to take over like
Portland or Charlottesville, I shouldn't have to tell you that it is probably wise to exit as
soon as possible. The government had to crush violent anarchists before during the Palmer Raids
in the Wilson administration.
It will be our job during this catastrophe to explain to our fellow citizens why and how
this disaster came about and why the country ultimately lost cohesion and disintegrated. Why
are people assassinating police officers? Why are mobs surrounding hospitals and celebrating
murderers and cheering for the death of innocent people? Why has the media been cheering on the
mobs? Why are Democratic cities abolishing police departments to appease the mob? That already
requires an explanation.
The explanation is this: antiracism has brought about this Crisis. It is why America will
lose control of its cities which will descend into anarchy. The reconquest of the cities by the
government and crushing the leftwing insurgency will necessarily be a fight against antiracism
and anarchism.
Following the horrific premeditated shooting of two Sherrif's deputies in LA Saturday,
conservative commentator Candace Owens tore into "pea-brained celebrities" who have enabled
"racist," "anti-cop" rhetoric by throwing their support behind extremists using the label Black
Lives Matter.
"Why does this happen?" Owens asked in a tweet, further explaining "Because pea-brained
celebrities that are idolized like [LeBron James] tell young black men that they are 'literally
being hunted.' "
"This is the natural result of such hyperbolic, dishonest rhetoric, " Owens urged.
"The racist, anti-police, black lives matter LIE is to blame," she asserted.
"Why else does this happen? Because when pea-brained athletes put the name of an alleged
RAPIST on their helmets and jerseys, criminals begin believing they are acting as heroes,"
Owens tweeted, referring to Jacob Blake from Kenosha, Wisconsin.
"BLACK LIVES MATTER AND THE COMPLICIT MEDIA ORGANIZATIONS, ATHLETES, AND ENTERTAINERS ARE TO
BLAME," Owens declared.
The two deputies, aged just 31 and 24, were attacked without motivation while sitting in a
cruiser. They underwent emergency surgery for their injuries Saturday night and are expected
to survive .
As the sheriff's department tweeted, protesters blocked entries and exits to the hospital,
with some engaging in physical confrontations with officers.
ByTony Cox, a US journalist who has written or edited for Bloomberg and
several major daily newspapers. Black Lives Matter may finally have found its bridge too
far – the point of absurdity and overreaching vileness that finally destroys support for
the "Marxist" political movement in all but the most extreme reaches of the left.
BLM has offered up many self-fails in recent weeks, the sort of anecdotes that stick in the
minds of observers and turn the tide of public opinion against a cause that millions of
Americans were eager to support initially. Even more than the group's nonsensical demands --
such as defunding police departments and "remaking" the US political system – its
tactics are making it impossible for politically independent Americans to support.
Those tactics have included spreading false rumors about an Aug. 10 police shooting in
Chicago, then racing downtown to loot the city's most posh retailers, then defending the theft
as
"reparations." Then there was the mob attack on a white motorist in Portland, who was
pulled from his truck and brutally beaten before
being left motionless in the street, and the torching of black-owned businesses around the
nation.
Other incidents have brought the senselessness closer to home for many Americans, such as
the BLM groups that marched through residential streets of such cities as Seattle and Portland
late at night, threatening homeowners and chanting such messages as, "Wake up, wake up, wake
up motherf***er, wake up." Other BLM mobs have descended on outdoor restaurants from
Washington to Rochester, New York, screaming at diners and demanding displays of obedient
solidarity, such as raising a fist.
But Saturday night's BLM debacle was the
clincher, as protesters blocked the emergency room entrance and exit at a Los Angeles hospital
after two Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies were ambushed and shot repeatedly in their
parked patrol car for no apparent reason. The protesters blocked the ER while yelling "We
hope they die," prompting the Sheriff's Department to send out a tweet saying, "People's
lives are at stake when ambulances can't get through."
As if that wasn't bad enough, as deputies tried to arrest a protester who refused to
disperse, a reporter for government-funded National Public Radio interfered and had to be
arrested, the Sheriff's Department said. The reporter,
Josie Huang , did not identify herself as a journalist and didn't have any press
credentials with her, the department said.
Protesters taunted police outside the hospital, saying such things as, "You're all f***ing
dying one by one ."
A video on social media also showed a celebratory reaction at the scene of the shooting,
where a smiling witness said repeatedly, "They just aired the police out, ni**a."
Evidence of the damage that the anti-racism protest movement is doing to itself is showing
up in polling, including President Donald Trump gaining ground on Democrat challenger Joe Biden
in the presidential race. In Oregon, where violent protests have dragged on for more than 100
straight days, 66 percent of respondents in a DHM
Research poll said they disapprove of the demonstrations. To put that in perspective, a
Republican presidential candidate hasn't won in Oregon since 1984.
Trump has had some success in painting Biden and other Democrats as enablers of rioting. The
shifting political winds prompted CNN host Don Lemon to sound an alarm late last month, saying
Democrats were trying to ignore the problem and risked losing votes in November.
Biden has tried to take a more strident tone against rioting since then and said Sunday that
the Los Angeles shooting was "cold-blooded" and "unconscionable." He said the
shooter "must be brought to justice." Trump took the excoriation further, saying that if
the deputies die, "fast trial, death penalty for the killer – only way to stop
this."
Understanding that they'll need strong voting support from people in the protest movement,
Democrats are trying to walk a fine line between condemning rioters and condoning violence.
Their hope is that the pieces can be picked up after the election.
"I'm voting for the guy who knows how to restore justice and peace, not the guy who
incites more violence," financial adviser Lili Balfour said on Twitter.
"If Trump wins, we'll be in a civil war for the next four years. I'm ready for peace and
reconciliation."
Therefore Biden speaks out against shooting police, but he's quiet about celebration of
shooting police and wishing death upon them.
But actions like what we witnessed Saturday night in Los Angeles are just too repugnant to
look the other way. Americans who are asked to raise a fist in support of BLM or vote for the
demonstrators' chosen candidate can't help but cringe about the conduct of whom they're
standing with.
"... The triumph of Brexit is the clearest example of the conquest of Conservatism by an idea which, whatever one thinks of it, is not primarily justified by a reasoned economic calculation. It is instead a moralist's statement of how the world ought to be. Britain ought to be a sovereign country; it ought to have an independent weight in the world; its historic values equip it to thrive; they need to be liberated. ..."
"... the underlying point is that the political class as a whole, across all parties, is now infected with the same tendency. ..."
"... Politics has been hollowed out into a war of words, now that a parliamentary career has become less attractive to men and women from other walks of life. It currently attracts in disproportionate numbers what used to be called the lumpenintelligentsia: earnest types who enthuse about ideas, simplify them and believe fervently that their crude and wholesale application will solve complex social problems. ..."
The Age of Decadence: Britain 1880 to 1914
by Simon
Heffer . Random House, 912 pp., £30, September 2017, 978 1 84794 742 0
... ... ...
Only rarely since then has the vision of a disinterested Millite clerisy directing national
counsels gained political traction. Some have suggested that Asquith's government was beholden
to an ideology of 'New Liberalism', but this is dewy-eyed: like 'New Labour', it was a
political triangulation strategy rather than an intellectual endeavour. For most of the 20 th
century, abstract ideas were kept in their place. Within parties, and particularly within the
Labour Party, policy-making was delegated to committees, which were rarely temples of
high-mindedness. Keith Middlemas described the politics of industrial society as a battle of
economic interests – capital and labour – that became bureaucratised and
accommodated within the processes and institutions of government. Parties appealed to voters
mostly in straightforward terms – talk of jobs, wages, living standards and social
services – and there was a continuing subsidiary role for ethical appeals to various
kinds of loyalty, moral respectability and aspiration loosely based on traditional ideas of
patriotism, religion or class solidarity. As Morgan Phillips observed, the Labour Party owed
more to Methodism than to Marxism. Large swathes of the Conservative Party continued to
deprecate ideas, and to prioritise pragmatism even when applying the ideas they recognised,
such as free market economics. The party's main claim on voters' loyalties was its basic offer
of economic competence and stability.
The process by which the Conservative Party has become addicted to ideas is one of
the most significant and least studied political developments of the last quarter-century. It
clearly owes something to the legacy of Thatcher and the appeal of free market ideology,
bolstered by the process of globalisation.
But the craving for an ideas-driven Conservatism
can't be explained simply in terms of the triumph of a particular economic worldview. On the
contrary, it could be argued that at no time since 1914 has the Conservative Party demonstrated
less concern with economic competence than it does now. This can be attributed to a range of
pressures: the unattractive economic choices imposed by post-2008 austerity politics; the
dependence on a particular unproductive vested interest, old age pensioners; and, above all,
the allure of Brexit.
The triumph of Brexit is the clearest example of the conquest of
Conservatism by an idea which, whatever one thinks of it, is not primarily justified by a
reasoned economic calculation. It is instead a moralist's statement of how the world ought to
be. Britain ought to be a sovereign country; it ought to have an independent weight in the
world; its historic values equip it to thrive; they need to be liberated.
This is the language of newspaper columnists who in a thousand words must put the world to
rights. It is the language of Heffer himself, when writing about Brexit, and it is the language
of Michael Gove and Boris Johnson, who both spent their whole pre-political careers as
journalists. Yet Brexit is merely the most striking example of the way in which the press
– and some quasi-intellectual policy advisers in the mould of Oliver Letwin – have
remoralised the Conservative offering. Gove's attack as education secretary on 'the blob', his
term for the forces in charge of school education, was shaped by years of indignant columns
about the barriers to excellence and competitiveness imposed by school bureaucracy and
political correctness. George Osborne's abolition of the 50p tax rate in 2012, which in one
month knocked six points off the Conservative share of the vote in the opinion polls, owed more
to pro-Laffer-curve journalism than to conclusive Treasury data on the subject. This is now a
world in which Osborne, for six years the second most powerful man in Britain, can think that
the best means of resisting Brexit is the editorship of a London freesheet. And it is a world
in which leading Conservative political columnists – Tim Montgomerie, Matthew d'Ancona,
Iain Martin – respond to the party's current parlous position by urging a turn to 'new
ideas', as if the current ones hadn't done damage enough.
Abandoning hard-headed economic realism allied to the sceptical rebuttal of utopian
moralism, and replacing it with something approaching its opposite, is a course that seems at
best electorally retrograde and in all likelihood completely suicidal. Yet the underlying point
is that the political class as a whole, across all parties, is now infected with the same
tendency.
Politics has been hollowed out into a war of words, now that a parliamentary career
has become less attractive to men and women from other walks of life. It currently attracts in
disproportionate numbers what used to be called the lumpenintelligentsia: earnest types who
enthuse about ideas, simplify them and believe fervently that their crude and wholesale
application will solve complex social problems.
Hence, among other consequences, the paradox
that Brexit appeals to resurgent Corbynites on the grounds that it might one day bring about
socialism in one country and to Conservative free marketeers for the opposite reason. Clearly
both can't be right, and almost certainly neither will get as far as they hope towards
implementing their vision. But it is ironic that 150 years after Carlyle and Mill fretted about
how best to secure the rule of the high-minded in an era awash with money, the ideas men
– and it is perhaps telling that they are nearly all men – have finally taken over
politics. Though Heffer may disagree, I have a feeling that neither of those venerable sages
would think our new political class quite up to it.
"... On the strength of Adrian Vermeule's review last month (" Liturgy of Liberalism ," January 2017), I picked up Ryszard Legutko's The Demon in Democracy: Totalitarian Temptations in Free Societies . Legutko sees many parallels between the communism that dominated the Poland of his youth and the political-social outlook now treated as obligatory by Eurocrats and dominant in America, which he calls "[neo]liberal democracy." ..."
"... One parallel struck me as especially important: "Communism and [neo]liberal democracy are related by a similarly paradoxical approach to politics: both promised to reduce the role of politics in human life, yet induced politicization on a scale unknown in previous history." We're aware of the totalitarian dimension of communism. But liberalism? Isn't it supposed to be neutral with respect to substantive outlooks, endorsing only the constitutional and legal frameworks for free and fair political debate? Actually, no. Liberals always assert that liberalism is the view of politics, society, and morality "most adequate of and for modern times." ..."
"... [Neo]Liberalism, Legutko points out, is committed to dualism, not pluralism. He gives the example of Isaiah Berlin, who made a great deal out of the importance of the pluralism of the liberal spirit. Yet "Berlin himself, a superbly educated man, knew very well and admitted quite frankly that the most important and most valuable fruits of Western philosophy were monistic in nature." This means that liberalism, as Berlin defines it, must classify nearly the entire history of Western thought (and that of other cultures as well) as "nonliberal." Thus, "the effect of this supposed liberal pluralism" is not a welcoming, open society in which a wide range of substantive thought flourishes, but "a gigantic purge of Western philosophy, bringing an inevitable degradation of the human mind." ..."
"... The purge mentality has a political dimension. Since 1989, European politics has shifted away from a left vs. right framework toward "mainstream" vs. "extremist." This is a telling feature of [neo]liberal democracy as an ideology. "The tricky side of 'mainstream' politics is that it does not tolerate any political 'tributaries' and denies that they should have any legitimate existence. Those outside the mainstream are believed to be either mavericks and as such not deserving to be treated seriously, or fascists who should be politically eliminated." ..."
"... Lumpenproletariat ..."
"... Legutko speaks of "lumpenintellectuals." These are the professors and journalists who buttress the status quo by rehearsing ideological catechisms and exposing heretics. We certainly have a lumpenintelligentsia ..."
"... I regularly read two lumpenintellectuals in order to understand the orthodoxies of our political mainstream: Tom Friedman over at the New York Times and Bret Stephens at the Wall Street Journal . The former is a cheerleader for today's globalist orthodoxies, complete with ritual expressions of misgivings. The latter eagerly plays the role of Leninist enforcer of those orthodoxies ..."
♦ Boys and girls are different. There, I've said it, a heresy of our time. We're not
supposed to suggest that a woman shouldn't fight in combat, or that an athletic girl doesn't
have a right to play on the boys' football team -- or that a young woman doesn't run a greater
risk than a young man when binge drinking. We are not supposed to reject the conceit that the
sexes are interchangeable, and therefore a man can become a "woman" and use the ladies'
bathroom.
Male and female God created us. I commend this heresy to readers. Remind people that boys in
girls' bathrooms put girls at risk, and that Obergefell is a grotesque distortion of
the Constitution. True -- and don't miss the opportunity to say, in public, that men and women
are different. This is the deepest reason why gender ideology is perverse. As Peter Hitchens
observes in this issue (" The Fantasy of
Addiction "), there's a great liberation that comes when, against the spirit of the age,
one blurts out what one knows to be true.
♦ Great Britain
recently announced regulatory approval for scientists to introduce third-party DNA into the
reproductive process. The technological innovation that allows for interventions into the most
fundamental dimensions of reproduction and human identity is sure to accelerate. Which is a
good reason for incoming President Trump to revive the President's Council on Bioethics. (It
existed under President Obama, but was told to do and say nothing.) We need sober reflection on
the coming revolution in reproductive technology. Trump should appoint Princeton professor
Robert P. George to head the Bioethics Commission. He has the expertise in legal and moral
philosophy, and he knows what's at stake. (See " Gnostic Liberalism ,"
December 2016.)
♦ On the strength of Adrian Vermeule's review last month (" Liturgy of
Liberalism ," January 2017), I picked up Ryszard Legutko's
The Demon in Democracy: Totalitarian Temptations in Free Societies . Legutko sees many
parallels between the communism that dominated the Poland of his youth and the political-social
outlook now treated as obligatory by Eurocrats and dominant in America, which he calls
"[neo]liberal democracy."
One parallel struck me as especially important: "Communism and [neo]liberal democracy
are related by a similarly paradoxical approach to politics: both promised to reduce the role
of politics in human life, yet induced politicization on a scale unknown in previous history."
We're aware of the totalitarian dimension of communism. But liberalism? Isn't it supposed to be
neutral with respect to substantive outlooks, endorsing only the constitutional and legal
frameworks for free and fair political debate? Actually, no. Liberals always assert that
liberalism is the view of politics, society, and morality "most adequate of and for modern
times."
This gives [neo]liberalism a partisan spirit all the more powerful because it is denied.
Although such words as "dialogue" and "pluralism" appear among its favorite motifs, as do
"tolerance" and other similarly hospitable notions, this overtly generous rhetorical
orchestration covers up something entirely different. In its essence, liberalism is
unabashedly aggressive because it is determined to hunt down all nonliberal agents and ideas,
which it treats as a threat to itself and to humanity.
[Neo]Liberalism, Legutko points out, is committed to dualism, not pluralism. He gives the example
of Isaiah Berlin, who made a great deal out of the importance of the pluralism of the liberal
spirit. Yet "Berlin himself, a superbly educated man, knew very well and admitted quite frankly
that the most important and most valuable fruits of Western philosophy were monistic in
nature." This means that liberalism, as Berlin defines it, must classify nearly the entire
history of Western thought (and that of other cultures as well) as "nonliberal." Thus, "the
effect of this supposed liberal pluralism" is not a welcoming, open society in which a wide
range of substantive thought flourishes, but "a gigantic purge of Western philosophy, bringing
an inevitable degradation of the human mind."
♦ The purge mentality has a political dimension. Since 1989, European politics has
shifted away from a left vs. right framework toward "mainstream" vs. "extremist." This is a
telling feature of [neo]liberal democracy as an ideology. "The tricky side of 'mainstream' politics
is that it does not tolerate any political 'tributaries' and denies that they should have any
legitimate existence. Those outside the mainstream are believed to be either mavericks and as
such not deserving to be treated seriously, or fascists who should be politically
eliminated."
♦ Karl Marx coined the term Lumpenproletariat . Lumpen means "rag"
in German, and its colloquial meanings include someone who is down-and-out. According to Marx,
this underclass has counter-revolutionary tendencies. These people can be riled up by
demagogues and deployed in street gangs to stymie the efforts of the true proletariat to topple
the dominant class.
Legutko speaks of "lumpenintellectuals." These are the professors and journalists who
buttress the status quo by rehearsing ideological catechisms and exposing heretics. We
certainly have a lumpenintelligentsia , left and right: tenured professors,
columnists, think tank apparatchiks, and human resources directors.
♦ I regularly read two lumpenintellectuals in order to understand the orthodoxies of
our political mainstream: Tom Friedman over at the New York
Times and Bret
Stephens at the Wall Street Journal . The former is a cheerleader for today's
globalist orthodoxies, complete with ritual expressions of misgivings. The latter eagerly plays
the role of Leninist enforcer of those orthodoxies.
♦ Bill Kristol recently stepped down
as day-to-day editor at the Weekly Standard . .... As he put it with characteristic humor, "Here at The Weekly Standard , we've
always been for regime change."...
"... Shcharansky earned his chops by popularizing words and expressions suitable for flaying the Soviet and now Russian dissident intelligentsia, aka "The Scorpions in the Nest" ™. In Russian the word is Рукопожатный (ruko-po-zhat-ny), from "ruka" ("hand") and "po-zhat" ("to press"). This "internet meme" of the "handshakeable person" is defined as "a person to whom the Russian liberal Opposition is inclined to shake hands with". ..."
"... Since XIX century the so-called liberal intelligentsia in Russia was fashionably in opposition to the Regime – and it was the first to crawl begging said regime to suppress the revolting masses, which more than anything else had frightened them. ..."
You and I have wandered together on this long journey through the Inferno of Lyttenburgh's
brain. We reached the epicenter of Russian cultural Hell, where a Satanic Gerontocracy ™
of handshakeable kreakles impose their pornographic "Visions" of High Art upon a
mouth-breathing bydlo who only want to see trite spectacles, and who are incapable of
appreciating the True Genius of the Artistic Mind.
A singing dancing porno Jesus? A kangaroo eating jelly at the Last Supper? Why not!?
Which reminds me, I should probably explain those terms up there which I put in italics. For
those not in the know, " handshakeable " is another of those winged words invented by,
probably, dissident blogger Lev Shcharansky . Who, as I mentioned before, has
exerted more influence over the modern Russian language (well, at least its Internet version)
than Ilf, Petrov, Griboedov, and Pushkin combined.
Shcharansky earned his chops by popularizing
words and expressions suitable for flaying the Soviet and now Russian dissident intelligentsia,
aka "The Scorpions in the Nest" ™. In Russian the word is
Рукопожатный
(ruko-po-zhat-ny), from "ruka" ("hand") and "po-zhat" ("to press"). This "internet meme" of the
"handshakeable person" is defined as "a person to whom the Russian liberal Opposition is
inclined to shake hands with". Quite simple, no?
As for "bydlo", that is an ancient Slavic, and even Indo-European word. The ancient
Indo-European root was something like *bʰuH , and it meant "to be". As in Hamlet's
"to be or not to be". Russian and all Slavic not to mention most European languages use the
same verb, namely, "byt". In West Slavic languages, such as Polish and Czech, a derived word
"bydlo" came to mean a place where people settled. Then the meaning shifted from "place" to
"property or stuff", like household stuff, and from there to "domestic animals". In this sense
of the meaning, the word was borrowed from West Slavic
into Russian . Russians, always on the lookout for new ways to insult their friends and
neighbors, were, like, "We need a word just like that to describe our domestic animals, and
also certain persons who look and behave like domestic animals". Hence, bydlo .
With that bit of house-keeping out of the way, let us return to Lyttenburgh. Having passed
the epicenter of Inferno, we are now in the field of reverse gravity. What seems up is down,
and vice versa. Who knows, we may yet emerge, popping out of some volcanic crater in Iceland or
New Zealand, or somewhere like that.
Part V
Senseless and Merciless
"The skies gonna open
People going pray and crawl
It's gonna rain down fire
It's gonna burn us all"
– Christian Kane, "L.A. song"
This happened a year and a half ago. As time will tell us – no one learned anything
from this earlier incident. Maybe because at the moment of its eruption in February-March of
2015 there were plenty of other issues closer to home to occupy the general discourse of
Russian people. Hence a scandal in the cultural sphere just failed to generate a significant
resonance at the time to produce a serious discussion within society.
All sides of the conflict were dissatisfied with its resolution. The artistic intelligentsia
warped the whole story into the now well-known myth about "creeping censorship" and continued
to enjoy their Fronde . The people were dissatisfied that they were ignored, scoffed at
and offended by the self-proclaimed new High Priesthood of the Art. Real members of the real
world religions made their views on the scandal abundantly clear. This also raised the ire of
the kreakls, who saw no controversy in demanding a limit to the clergy's right of freedom of
speech. With the conflict not resolved, with tensions still high and simmering just beneath the
surface of deceiving calm, with lessons unlearned and the State aloof and unresponsive to its
role as the keeper of peace and high arbiter, new scandals and conflicts were bound to
happen.
When the people don't have a voice they tend to lash out. This is a fact of life, a fact of
history and a fact of the present day, as a lot of exalted alien beings inhabiting safe spaces
of Facebook, Tumblr and politically correct hangouts found to their stupefied dismay only
recently, and who, probably, will keep finding it in the future till they learn the lesson and
change some of their dearly held preconceptions. Lashing out in question is always an ugly,
destructive affair. Revolting peasants of the Jacquerie, German Peasant War, Khmelnitsky's uprising and
Pugachev's
rebellion committed uncountable number of violent crimes and atrocities. They were
criminals by anyone's standards, and the Powers That Be had to suppress them. Yet, dismissing
them outright without recognizing both the pressing issues that made people rise up and the
fact, that they were denied any say in legally addressing their grievances, puts these events
out of context.
Desperate people are prone to desperate measures. Lacking a clear moral authority to lead
them and rein in the worst expressions of violent urges, then something else entirely,
something less benevolent and more unhinged is bound to attempt to ride this tiger of an
awakened, self-conscious and angry population. Some con artists, fanatics, goofballs and
demagogues are bound to appear and attempt to hijack the legitimate protest or even try to
discredit it while overstepping the law.
Bydlo Fight Back
Due to the all-prevailing narrative, which places squarely all possible and impossible
crimes against humanity on Stalin; and to the generally cherished ignorance of history --
people forget that it was in the reign of the "Dear and Beloved" Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev that the
atheist and anti-religious propaganda reached an exorbitant and all penetrating level in the
Soviet Union. This is all part of our history, which is always better to know than pretend it
never happened.
Look out! Enteo is out of his cage!
It's anyone's guess what were the driving imperatives of the people, organizing the
exhibition in Manezh expo-hall in Moscow in August 2015, when they decided to feature mainly
"sculptures" on religious themes of the so-called nonconformist artists from 1954-68. The
exhibition was attacked by one man freak show Dmitry Tsorionov aka
Enteo . Former liberast, proponent of the alternative spiritual practices (read: sects and
cults) and a connoisseur of mind-expanding ingredients (read: drugs) Enteo is the violent,
always angry born again self-proclaimed zealot of the true Christianity in the form of his
organization "God's Will". The official Church and the authorities showed him their silent and
tacit support, while his group was disrupting attempts to hold gay-prides (not that it would
require a lot of manpower or effort), but what he did at Manezh clearly shocked and dismayed
them. Enteo and his own cultists entered the hall where the exhibition was taking place,
screeched out their displeasure with what they saw and attempted to deface the objects of
"art".
Thankfully, like virtually anything produced in the USSR back then, said "statues"
proved to be nigh indestructible, so Enteo and Co succeed only in smashing an Ikea made plate,
on which one of the "exhibits" was standing. Security did absolutely nothing to stop them.
As the result of this escapade Tsorionov lost even the tacit support of the officials, and
the public opinion of him and his vigilantes became much more negative. Manezh expo-hall
filed an official request to the police , accusing Enteo of vandalism and hooliganism. One
month later, he was found guilty of
petty hooliganism and sentenced to 10 days of arrest. Same people, who deemed Pussy Riot's
and "artist" Pavlensky's escapades a form of "creative protest" and "modern art-events", while
bemoaning any attempts of the state to characterize their actions as unlawful, were less
forgiving in Enteo's case with his very own "happening" and "performance". But, as said Dmitriy
Anatolyevich Medvedev in his capacity as then president of Russia (and as was aptly
demonstrated in cases of Enteo, Pavlensky and the former art-director Mezdrich, who won't
answer for the mysterious disappearance of the state funds in his opera) – "The System
must learn how to forgive".
Again – nothing came out of that, sides of the conflict exchanged volleys of
accusations and no lessons were learned. Again everyone had been left guessing when and what
will explode next time. Surely enough, something exploded, riling up two clearly incomparable
in numbers sides even more in their non-acceptance of each other.
Dmitry Zakharov protests against art depicting Ukrainian National Guard as heroes
In September 2016 a group of Byelarussian members of the artistic intelligentsia (and local
Fronde to bat'ka Lukashenko) held a photo-exhibition at the Sakharov Center, Moscow,
depicting "Heroes of Donbass". In their version – members of the so-called volunteer
battalions of the National Guard were these heroes. People, killing their former countrymen,
women, children and elderly – depicted as smiling, nice, hearty persons. This most
"balanced" and "neutral" exhibition proclaimed them as the people, fighting against the
"Separatists" – all in accordance to the Vision of the Artist. Needless to say, that such
interpretation was met with
most loud protests from the people of Russia. Equally unnecessary would be pointing out,
that we are talking about an "event" sanctioned by our always shy and hands-off Ministry of
Culture in their own building. It turned ugly very soon – photos were sprayed with red paint
by one of the enraged visitors – an artist himself.
Sergeii Lukashevsky: Always fair and balanced.
Most progressive intelligentsia of Russia deemed these actions of protest "barbarous", once
again confirming everyone's suspicions about whose side they were supporting in the Ukrainian
civil war. [yalensis hint: Russia's "progressive intelligentsia" mostly supports the
Ukrainian government side in that war, although they won't always admit it out loud.]
Art-Director of the Sakharov Center
Sergey Lukashevsky admitted that he knew what kind of reaction such an exhibition could
produce. Still, he decided to stage it, arguing that last year his center produced a similar
exhibition, only from the People's Republics side – he was just striving for "balance"
and "neutrality".
More Scandals Involving Children And Animals
At the same time, another scandal was in full swing, once again polarizing society into two
numerically unequal camps. Again, it was because of yet another example of the generous
permissiveness of our Ministry of Culture. Photo exhibition of Jock Sturges "art" drew a
proverbial tsunami of people's wrath. The artistic intelligentsia couldn't just deny itself the
pleasure of prodding a tiger, safely locked behind bars. While pointing out that from a purely
judicial point of view the exhibit was not violating any Russian laws. The people answered with
stating the obvious – there are underage completely nude girls on this photo exhibition.
How can any normal, non-pervert person claim that taking photos of them and then making their
photos available for "appreciation" among the connoisseurs of such things is normal? Kreakls
answered with wailing, gnashing of teeth and condemnation of the "spiritual paupers", incapable
of seeing and understating the Art. In their opinion, it was the Regime's guilt. If only it
could cough up more money and make the "appreciation of culture" taught at schools then the
people will grow up as highly-artistic persons, with broad views on reality at large and new
sets of values. These suggestions were made live, on state owned "Kremlin-controlled" TV
channels with no ill consequences to the members of artistic intelligentsia. What is more
important, IMO, is that no one dared to ask these fine specimens and results of countless
generations of "progress" and "higher culture", how do they suggest an underage kid would be
taught to appreciate the "positive artistic eroticism" of photos of equally underage
kids.
Jock Sturges art photography
Again the Ministry of Culture stood aloof, again nothing was done on the official level
– because Russia, no matter what the detractors say, has no censorship. Some people
staged one-person protest against the exhibit – to the apparent displeasure of the
so-called Russian liberals. Others went much far and beyond the law. A group calling itself
"The Union of Russian Officers" (with no official status or even real officers among their
numbers) organized a picket at the entrance of the expo-hall, and one of their number entered
the accursed placed armed with a can full of urine, to consecrate the exhibits with its
content. He succeeded in this endeavor, which later translated into his detainment and arrest.
Aristocrats of the Spirit responsible for this scandal wallowed (and enjoyed!) in their newly
acquired status of Victims of the Regime – because how else can you explain their
decision to have no security on site, or that they did not call the police the first moment
they saw trouble brewing on the horizon?
It was exactly against this that Konstantin Raikin decided to raise his voice. Being a
member of the Aristocracy of the Spirit he and the likes of him never doubted for a moment that
all protests against the sacred Art were fake, staged, paid by the Regime, which uses these
fake protestors as cat's-paws in its quest to squash already threatened Freedom of Expression
in This Country. The idea that there is such thing as self-aware narod , instead of a
silent quietly mewling herd of mostly stupid and submissive bydlo never crossed his or
other's minds. For them it is all old "The Artist vs the State" struggle, and the people,
public, society, spectators – they do not fit into the narrative. Since XIX century the
so-called liberal intelligentsia in Russia was fashionably in opposition to the Regime –
and it was the first to crawl begging said regime to suppress the revolting masses, which more
than anything else had frightened them.
"Ladies and gentlemen: On your right is an Old Master painting. On your left, a stuffed dog
wearing a birthday cap."
A Ministry of Culture self-contradictory passive, all permissiveness and unable to defend
their own official program, an ossified if not degenerative modus Vivendi of the vast
majority of representatives of the so-called creative classes and the un-diminishing anger and
rejection of both the "post-modern values" and the legislation, paradoxically protecting it, by
the people deprived of any say, would mean only one thing – such scandals will happen
more and more in the future. Just to demonstrate that even the nearly universal condemnation of
Raikin's haughtiness by the common people is not a big deal to the Aristocracy of the Spirit,
yet another scandal
erupted last week . Russian society, still reeling after the criminal affair featuring
girl-students from Khabarovsk
mutilating animals on-line , now was not prepared for a state-sanctioned, highly artistic
dead-animal mutilating fete – in the Hermitage, Saint-Petersburg, of all places! The
Hermitage is ruled by a true Aristocrat – the infamous M.B. Piotrovsky , who, literally,
inherited the title of the head of one of (if not the) most important museums of Russia from
his father. No scandal or accusation ever harmed his handshakable status or deprived him from
the favour of the Ministry of Culture. Surely, a person who allowed enormous graft and theft of
objects of art in Hermitage in the past will survive the present day scandal unscathed, while
accusing all those opposing this most wondrous exhibition as "hired slanderers".
The day after the elections , Russians
got together to rally against election fraud. Even though the United Russia party, according to
preliminary results, is to lose some 77 seats compared to the previous Duma, most of the
protesters considered the election to be neither fair, nor free (see our previous reports on
the web crackdown
and massive
violation reports).
After the polls closed on Dec. 4, Solidarnost movement invited protesters to
Chistye Prudy metro station in Moscow, while the Communists, also unhappy with the election
results, organized their rally at Pushkinskaya square. Solidarnost movement represenatives,
most of whom have no political arena except street actions and the blogosphere, managed to
bring thousands of people together (while crowd estimates vary significantly, the most balanced
assessment seems to be from 8,000 to 10,000 people).
Chistye Prudy
People began gathering for the Solidarnost event at around 19:00 MSK. Georgiy Alburov
posted a picture of the
line to the site of the rally:
Line to the Chistye Prudy rally. Photo by Georgiy Alburov
Thousands out in cold/rain baying for free elections, Putin to be sent to prison. Never
seen anything on this scale. Definite change of mood
The overall coverage was chaotic as the mobile Internet stopped working in the area and
people couldn't upload videos and pictures. LiveJournal kept the chronology of the events
here [ru].
Only later in the evening people were able to upload videos [ru] from the rally and particularly
the speech [ru] by
Alexey Navalny, who was among the most popular politicians of the event. His speech probably
best describes the essence of the current events:
And then: "They can call us microbloggers or net hamsters. I am a net hamster! And I'll bite
[these bastards' heads off.] We'll all do it together! Because we do exist! [ ] We will not
forget, we will not forgive"
The reference to 'net hamsters' (a pejorative term for politically-engaged Internet
commenters) and their political will to change the country has destroyed the myth of the
slacktivist nature of political engagement online. Navalny has specifically emphasized
'forgetting/forgiving' to show that netizens do not necessarily have a short attention span
often ascribed to them.
On to Lubyanka
After several speeches made by the opposition politicians, the crowd moved on towards
Lubyanka Square, where the head office of the Federal Security Service is located. The
video [ru] uploaded by
user bigvane depicts Muscovites moving to Lubyanka and chanting "Free elections":
Most of the activists, however, were soon stopped on their way. Ilya Barabanov tweeted a
picture of the blocked road:
Blocked road. Photo by Ilya Barabanov
Twenty minutes after the aforementioned photo was made, Alexey Navalny was detained by the
police. Ilya Barabanov was detained three minutes after Navalny. (See this great photo report
made by ridus.ru correspondents here [ru].)
But even the detention didn't break the rebellious and quite positive spirit of the
protesters. Navalny, while sitting in a police bus together with other activists, shared an
instagram photo of the cheerful detained protesters:
'I'm sitting in a police bus with all the guys. They all say hi.' Photo by Alexey
Navalny
Another video , also shot
inside a police bus, showed protesters discussing the salaries of police officers, laughing a
lot.
The Hamster Revolution
The most interesting part of the post-election rebellion is not its peaceful manner (also an
important feature compared to violent nationalist riots), but its new demographics. Tvrain.ru
field reporter said that the crowd consisted mainly of the "intelligentsia, hipsters, and young
people." "It is a fashionable rally," said the reporter. Later, these observations were added:
the age of the protesters was between 16 and 33 and for many of those who were detained this
was the first street action experience. As Vera Kichanova tweeted :
Lyosha Nikitin writes that he is the only one of the 16 people in the police bus who had been
detained before. Others were taking part in a rally for the first time!
***
Meanwhile, levada.ru, the site of Levada Center polling and sociological
research organization, has been DDoSed [ru] and the contents
of epic-hero.ru were removed [ru] by the hosting provider.
Brainwashed net hamsters are typical foot soldiers of any color revolution. Nothing new here.
Notable quotes:
"... Meet Clara Kraebber, who was arrested for felony rioting and misdemeanor possession of graffiti instruments after being identified as one of the people causing more than $100,000 worth of damage during an early September window-smashing spree. ..."
"... Kraebber, aged 20, is a history major at Rice University in Houston, Texas. She's the daughter of an architect and a child psychologist and comes from a family so wealthy that they own a 1.8 million dollar co-op with river views on the Upper East Side in Manhattan, as well as a country home built in the 1730s in exclusive Litchfield County, Connecticut. ..."
"... Kraebber's mother, Virginia Kindred, runs Kindred Arch.Works, a Manhattan architect firm that has designed spaces for Columbia University and NYU, and worked on numerous school and business spaces throughout the city. ..."
"... Her father is Markus Kraebber, an Upper East Side child and adolescent psychiatrist who teaches at the Columbia University Department of Psychiatry. ( source ) ..."
"... She seems to be a prime example of a person who drank the Koolaid of the kind of misguided indoctrination many young people are facing right now. ..."
"... So we have more brainwashed, privileged kids touting communism who will one day hold positions of power. Kids with these backgrounds will be on boards of directors. They'll hold corporate jobs. They'll handle funds. ..."
When you hear about Black Lives Matter protests taking place in New York City, you might expect those taking lead roles to be
Black people.
It appears this isn't necessarily the case, and some of the worst damage and most violent ideologies are instead the products
of privileged white kids who are rampaging in the streets.
Meet Clara Kraebber, who was arrested for felony rioting and misdemeanor possession of graffiti instruments
after being identified as one
of the people causing more than $100,000 worth of damage during an early September window-smashing spree.
Kraebber, aged 20, is a history major at Rice University in Houston, Texas. She's the daughter of an architect and a child
psychologist and comes from a family so wealthy that they own a 1.8 million dollar co-op with river views on the Upper East Side
in Manhattan, as well as a country home built in the 1730s in exclusive Litchfield County, Connecticut.
Kraebber's mother, Virginia Kindred, runs Kindred Arch.Works, a Manhattan architect firm that has designed spaces for Columbia
University and NYU, and worked on numerous school and business spaces throughout the city.
Her father is Markus Kraebber, an Upper East Side child and adolescent psychiatrist who teaches at the Columbia University
Department of Psychiatry. ( source
)
She seems to be a prime example of a person who drank the Koolaid of the kind of
misguided indoctrination many
young people are facing right now.
What police found in her belongings
When Kraebber was arrested, police found dozens of handwritten pages of plans to "redistribute wealth" in what she called a "revolutionary
strategy that appears to have been inspired by Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin – whose totalitarian government has been widely condemned
for overseeing mass repressions
, ethnic cleansing, deportations
, hundreds of thousands of executions, and famines
that killed millions
( source ) – and Communist revolutionary Leon Trotsky.
From a NY Post report, here are some of the writings found in her handwritten manifesto.
In her notes, Kraebber pointed to the "HUGE number of empty units" in "white flight apts, new luxury buildings" that and include
the instruction to "study tactics of clearing buildings."
There are repeated references to "scouts" to find vacant apartments and locksmiths to help break in, as well as the need to
"prep for SWAT-style eviction efforts" through the use of movable "barricades" and "bricks on roofs as weapons," sources said.
A page titled "Revolutionary Strategy" and dated Aug. 21 includes notes that say "Stalin -- defend USSR at all costs" and "Trotsky
-- United front of all working class but don't let capitalists in," sources said.
There are repeated references to the Spanish Civil War, including an assertion that the failure of the Spanish revolution of
1936 was a "failure of leadership," sources said.
"Some think actual revolution will be lead by more deliberate leadership," Kraebber wrote.
Kraebber also faulted the protests over the police killing of George Floyd, writing, "Minneapolis -- lots of spontaneous radical
energy but no leadership."
Her notes contain multiple mentions of "Abolition Park" -- or "AP" -- which refer to the anti-cop encampment that activists
set up outside City Hall during the recent battle to defund the NYPD, which resulted in a total $1.5 billion in cuts to its operating
and capital budgets.
"All cops are bad because they work for a system that thrives off the oppression of marginalized communities. Asking 'what
about the 'good' cops?' is like asking what about the good slave masters," according to the Abolition Park website. (
source
)
So to be clear, this rich kid wants to find vacant apartments and also forcibly evict residents to give the homes to others she
feels are more worthy of living in them. She wants to defend this violently and has already been arrested for destroying property.
And she's awaiting trial in her family's luxurious second home.
Her notes led the NYPD to issue a warning to police officers.
Kraebber's violent plans led the NYPD to issue a warning to police officers about possible tactics that could be used against
them.
The discovery of Kraebber's notes led the NYPD to warn cops in a Wednesday email that they could face future incidents during
which anarchists blend in with peaceful protesters to incite violence before changing into all-black clothing, sources said.
The "Officer Safety Alert" also said that anarchists could listen in on police communications and stash rocks on rooftops to
hurl at cops.
In addition, the NYPD said that the homes of police brass could be targeted. (
source
)
During the riot, hundreds of people chanted, "Every city, every town, burn the precinct to the ground."
She's not the only wealthy kid who was arrested.
Several of Kraebber's "comrades" also come from privileged backgrounds.
Fox News reported:
Frank Fuhrmeister, 30, of Stuyvesant Heights, charged with rioting and possession of a graffiti instrument, is a freelance
art director who's designed ads for Joe Coffee and has also worked for Pepsi, Samsung and The Glenlivet, among other high-profile
brands, his LinkedIn profile and
portfolio shows. He studied fine arts with a concentration in
photography at Florida State College in Jacksonville, according to his LinkedIn, and his most recent address is a stately home
on Reed Island Drive in the city's tony Beacon Hills and Harbour Neighborhood, public records show
Adi Sragovich , 20, is a student at Sarah Lawrence College from Great Neck, L.I., according to police and her family. Before
joining the protest, Sragovich was an accomplished musician who spent time performing in local theater groups and at the Sea
Cliff Yacht Club, according to the
Great Neck Record , which
photographed her during a 2017 show.
Claire Severine, 27, who lives in Washington Heights and was charged with rioting, appears to be a signed model with the
We Speak agency who had the ability to jet between Montreal, Quebec, and Dublin, Ireland, before settling in the Big Apple
to "pursue a career in acting," according to a
modeling profile with the same name
Etkar Surette , a 27-year-old from Brooklyn who summered in Europe as a kid, is charged with rioting and possession of
a graffiti instrument.
Elliot Rucka, a 20-year-old from Portland, Oregon, charged with rioting, is the son of
famed comic
book writers Greg Rucka and Jennifer Van Meter, according to his father's online bio. Greg penned the comic book series
"The Old Guard," which he then adapted for a Netflix film of the same name -- and co-created the "Stumptown" comic series that
ABC optioned into a TV show last year. (
source )
The hypocrisy of these people wanting to redistribute the wealth of others is simply mind-boggling.
There's a pattern here.
Earlier this summer, Toby Cowern wrote about how the change
of names from CHAZ to CHOP was extremely significant. I think we're seeing the same pattern with these young people as we did
with the Occupy Wall Street protestors.
Think back to 2009-2011 – this was the real peak of the Occupy movement. We're now in 2020. We're nine years on.
So those young, idyllic people that were the main rank and file of that movement are 10 years older now. Those who were quite
high profile students from good universities were getting behind this, what positions are they in nowadays? They're going to be
sitting at mid, or high-level management in major corporations. They're going to have a whole other sphere of influence.
Or they might be on the city council.
A Seattle City Council member, Kshama Sawant, was part of the original Occupy Wall Street protests and is also part of this
one.
While the protest does have some loose leadership, there are few formal structures. Sawant compares the space to the "Night
of 500 tents" during the Occupy Wall Street movement in Seattle in October 2011, of which she was a part. Back then, Occupy protesters
were able to
drive police from their space before police returned and cleared out the area where the protests took place.
Already, said Sawant, CHOP has outlasted what they were able to achieve with that Occupy action, which only lasted three days.
But she said she expects police to clear the area sometime in the near future. "I don't think that we can in any way assume that
the police will not come back and specifically attack this space," she said. "I think we should expect that that could happen
at any moment, because that's exactly what happened in Occupy." (
source )
No longer is this about wearing a funny t-shirt and waving a flag on the street and feeling the reward of being 'part of the
crowd' anymore. These people have progressed into places that they have major corporate clout.
So we have more brainwashed, privileged kids touting communism who will one day hold positions of power. Kids with these backgrounds
will be on boards of directors. They'll hold corporate jobs. They'll handle funds.
But I'd be willing to bet they won't be turning over the keys to their own Upper East Side co-ops if the opportunity rolls
around to reallocate property. They'll just be coming after everyone else's hard-earned property in the name of "revolutionary strategy."
dogismycopilot , 8 hours ago
These aren't kids. They are adults who have accepted the rights of being an American without accepting the responsibilities.
These people need to be punished by the Federal government. If they are released I can promise you it will only burnish their
credentials and feed their insanity.
This is a Communist Insurrection. The Communists have hijacked the Democratic party.
If Joe Biden were to win, he will not be in control. The Communists will. The first thing they will do is eliminate the filibuster.
Then they will pack the supreme court by adding more judges. The electoral college would go bye bye. They will redistribute senators
based on population – imagine California with 30 sentators. Illegal immigrants and residents will be given voting rights.
This election is not a Democrat v Republican. This is about a radical left progressive party (communist-democrats) who wish
to fundamentally alter the US. They want to erase 1776 and they want to go for a Jacobian French revolution complete with guillatins.
These people need to be punished severely.
Yen Cross , 7 hours ago
I digress, these adults have the mental acuity of a 15 year old child 75 years ago. When I was 20, I was running a business
out of my garage.
TBT or not TBT , 6 hours ago
Colonial America was balkanized into various Protestant Christian variants. So balkanized that even after the 1st amendment
was ratified various states maintained state recognized state religions. Fully constitutionally by the way, as the Establishment
Clause only applied to Congress, not the states. Any brand of Protestant Christianity could be and was recognized by state and
local government.
Roger Casement , 5 hours ago
...Commiefornia gangsters have been openly criminally discriminating against white American citizens since the 70s. 30% of
the students in their publicly funded colleges are white while over half their population is/was white. That's some massive, blatant,
anti-American discrimination and racist RICO theft. The gangsters are getting away with this everywhere since the Clintons.
By Diana Bruk , a Russian-American journalist living in New York, who has written for The
New York Times, The Paris Review, Cosmopolitan, Esquire and Elle, amongst other
publications.
Many people who previously would have never considered voting for Donald
Trump will now do so due to the excesses of the social justice brigade. The Left's failure to
understand basic human psychology could decide the election.
I've always considered myself a soft Liberal. But the last few months have really brought
out my conservative side, and I'm not the only one. I've recently spoken to several working
class people who were told they were being laid off just before getting an email saying the
company was looking to "diversify its staff," and their responses were all the same:
"F**k this, I'm voting for Trump."
One of my issues with social activism has always been that it centers around an idea and
doesn't take basic human psychology into account. I understand that racism in America exists
and should be eradicated. I understand and agree with the fact that there should be more people
of color in white collar positions. I also understand that white, working-class people have
families to feed and bills to pay, and that the only natural response to being fired and
replaced by a person of color is to vote for Trump as a means of revenge.
I'm ashamed to say I've had to fight off the same thoughts in the last few weeks. I'm white
and well-educated, so, by Liberal standards, I'm automatically privileged. But I don't have
family money to fall back on, and need and want to work. I used to get a decent amount of
assignments and opportunities from a Facebook group for female writers, but, lately, every post
says "BIPOC writers only." Theoretically, I'm all for it. If I were lounging around
daddy's pool posting socially aware updates all day, I'd be even more for it. But I'm not and I
also need to eat.
Russian-American immigrants have been more pissed off than I've ever seen them lately, and I
understand why. In addition to all of the usual issues, they have to deal with feeling like
they're black and white at the same time. To be light-skinned means getting fired or otherwise
attacked for not being a person of color. But to have an accent and need to work to make a
living makes you a minority. Social media makes it seem like everyone is either a 'Karen' or
'Straight Outta Compton,' but there's a lot of in between, and those are the people who are
being forgotten. And they're the ones who vote.
When I tell my social justice friends that there are a lot of working class white people who
feel marginalized right now, their response is always the same: "Well, that's how black
people have felt for a long time." I totally get that and I agree. But there's a difference
between justice and revenge. And it's also an election year. The Black Lives Matter movement is
important, but it's so poorly timed that, were I a conspiracy theorist, I would say that the
Republicans were behind it all along.
So this is my message to all of my social justice friends: I know you mean well, but be
smart about this. None of us wants Trump to get re-elected. We're already stuck with Acceptable
Under the Circumstances Joe Biden because of all of the in-fighting between Elizabeth Warren
supporters and Bernie Sanders aficionados.
You have to understand that being antagonistic is just going to make the Other Side feel
defensive and lash out. This is, once again, basic human psychology, and it will not get you
the results you want, and then you're just going to whine and moan about it as usual.
I saw a viral Simpsons clip recently that summed things up nicely. An elephant runs through
the Republican National Convention, which has banners saying "We want what's worst for
everyone" and "We're just plain evil." Then it runs through a Democratic National
Convention, which has banners saying "We can't govern" and "We hate life and
ourselves." I get that you feel guilty for being white and wealthy and having a lot when
others have so little. Recognize that, own it, and stop being so self-righteous about it.
Recognize that posting hateful comments on the walls of people whose opinions differ from
yours is cyber-bullying, which you are purportedly against. Recognize that hating on people who
are having anxiety attacks over wearing masks and the general situation means bullying people
with mental health issues, which you are also purportedly against. And recognize that if you
are going to make large swaths of people feel attacked by Democrats, you are pushing them right
into Trump's stiff, unstable embrace.
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Color Revolution is the term used to describe a series of remarkably effective CIA-led
regime change operations using techniques developed by the RAND Corporation, "democracy" NGOs
and other groups since the 1980's. They were used in crude form to bring down the Polish
communist regime in the late 1980s. From there the techniques were refined and used, along with
heavy bribes, to topple the Gorbachev regime in the Soviet Union. For anyone who has studied
those models closely, it is clear that the protests against police violence led by amorphous
organizations with names like Black Lives Matter or Antifa are more than purely spontaneous
moral outrage. Hundreds of thousands of young Americans are being used as a battering ram to
not only topple a US President, but in the process, the very structures of the US
Constitutional order.
If we step back from the immediate issue of videos showing a white Minneapolis policeman
pressing his knee on the neck of a black man, George Floyd, and look at what has taken place
across the nation since then, it is clear that certain organizations or groups were
well-prepared to instrumentalize the horrific event for their own agenda.
The protests since May 25 have often begun peacefully only to be taken over by well-trained
violent actors. Two organizations have appeared regularly in connection with the violent
protests -- Black Lives Matter and Antifa (USA). Videos show well-equipped protesters dressed
uniformly in black and masked (not for coronavirus to be sure), vandalizing police cars,
burning police stations, smashing store windows with pipes or baseball bats. Use of Twitter and
other social media to coordinate "hit-and-run" swarming strikes of protest mobs is evident.
What has unfolded since the Minneapolis trigger event has been compared to the wave of
primarily black ghetto protest riots in 1968. I lived through those events in 1968 and what is
unfolding today is far different. It is better likened to the Yugoslav color revolution that
toppled Milosevic in 2000.
Gene Sharp: Template for Regime Overthrow
In the year 2000 the US State Department, aided by its National Endowment for Democracy
(NED) and select CIA operatives, began secretly training a group of Belgrade university
students led by a student group that was called Otpor! (Resistance!). The NED and its various
offshoots was created in the 1980's by CIA head Bill Casey as a covert CIA tool to overthrow
specific regimes around the world under the cover of a human rights NGO. In fact, they get
their money from Congress and from USAID.
In the Serb Otpor! destabilization of 2000, the NED and US Ambassador Richard Miles in
Belgrade selected and trained a group of several dozen students, led by Srđa Popović,
using the handbook, From Dictatorship to Democracy, translated to Serbian, of
the late Gene Sharp and his Albert Einstein Institution. In a post mortem on the Serb events,
the Washington Post wrote, "US-funded consultants played a crucial role behind the scenes in
virtually every facet of the anti-drive, running tracking polls, training thousands of
opposition activists and helping to organize a vitally important parallel vote count. US
taxpayers paid for 5,000 cans of spray paint
used by student activists to scrawl anti-Milošević graffiti on walls across
Serbia."
Trained squads of activists were deployed in protests to take over city blocks with the aid
of 'intelligence helmet' video screens that give them an instantaneous overview of their
environment. Bands of youth converging on targeted intersections in constant dialogue on cell
phones, would then overwhelm police. The US government spent some $41 million on the operation.
Student groups were secretly trained in the Sharp handbook techniques of staging protests that
mocked the authority of the ruling police, showing them to be clumsy and impotent against the
youthful protesters. Professionals from the CIA and US State Department guided them behind the
scenes.
The Color Revolution Otpor! model was refined and deployed in 2004 as the Ukraine Orange
Revolution with logo and color theme scarves, and in 2003 in Georgia as the Rose Revolution.
Later Secretary of State Hillary Clinton used the template to launch the Arab Spring. In all
cases the NED was involved
with other NGOs including the Soros Foundations.
After defeating Milosevic, Popovic went on to establish a global color revolution training
center, CANVAS, a kind of for-profit business consultancy for revolution, and was personally
present in New York working reportedly with Antifa during the Occupy Wall Street where also
Soros money was reported.
Antifa and BLM
The protests, riots, violent and non-violent actions sweeping across the United States since
May 25, including an assault on the gates of the White House, begin to make sense when we
understand the CIA's Color Revolution playbook.
The impact of the protests would not be possible were it not for a network of local and
state political officials inside the Democratic Party lending support to the protesters, even
to the point the Democrat Mayor of Seattle ordered police to abandon several blocks in the
heart of downtown to occupation by protesters.
In recent years major portions of the Democratic Party across the US have been quietly taken
over by what one could call radical left candidates. Often they win with active backing of
organizations such as Democratic Socialists of America or Freedom Road Socialist Organizations.
In the US House of Representatives the vocal quarter of new representatives around Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Rashida Tlaib and Minneapolis Representative Ilhan Omar are
all members or close to Democratic Socialists of America. Clearly without sympathetic
Democrat local officials in key cities, the street protests of organizations such as Black
Lives Matter and Antifa would not have such a dramatic impact.
To get a better grasp how serious the present protest movement is we should look at who has
been pouring millions into BLM. The Antifa is more difficult owing to its explicit anonymous
organization form. However, their online Handbook openly recommends that local Antifa "cells"
join up with BLM chapters.
FRSO: Follow the Money
BLM began in 2013 when three activist friends created the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag to
protest the allegations of shooting of an unarmed black teenager, Trayvon Martin by a white
Hispanic block watchman, George Zimmermann. Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi
were all were connected with and financed by front groups tied to something called Freedom Road
Socialist Organization, one of the four largest radical left organizations in the United States
formed out of something called New Communist Movement that dissolved in the 1980s.
On June 12, 2020 the Freedom Road Socialist Organization webpage states, "The time is now to
join a revolutionary organization! Join Freedom Road Socialist Organization If you have been
out in the streets this past few weeks, the odds are good that you've been thinking about the
difference between the kind of change this system has to offer, and the kind of change this
country needs. Capitalism is a failed system that thrives on exploitation, inequality and
oppression. The reactionary and racist Trump administration has made the pandemic worse. The
unfolding economic crisis we are experiencing is the worst since the 1930s. Monopoly capitalism
is a dying system and we need to help finish it off. And that is exactly what Freedom Road
Socialist Organization is
working for ."
In short the protests over the alleged police killing of a black man in Minnesota are now
being used to call for a revolution against capitalism. FRSO is an umbrella for dozens of
amorphous groups including Black Lives Matter or BLM. What is interesting about the
self-described Marxist-Leninist roots of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) is not
so much their left politics as much as their very establishment funding by a group of
well-endowed tax-exempt foundations.
Alicia Garza of BLM is also a board member or executive of five different Freedom Road front
groups including 2011 Board chair of Right to the City Alliance, Board member of School of
Unity and Liberation (SOUL), of People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER), Forward
Together and Special Projects director of National Domestic Workers Alliance.
The Right to the City Alliance got $6.5 million between 2011 and 2014 from a number of very
established tax-exempt foundations including the Ford Foundation ($1.9 million), from both of
George Soros's major tax-exempts–Open Society Foundations, and the Foundation to Promote
Open Society for $1.3 million. Also the cornflake-tied Kellogg Foundation $250,000, and
curiously , Ben
& Jerry's Foundation (ice cream) for $30,000.
Garza also got major foundation money as Executive Director of the FRSO front, POWER, where
Obama former "green jobs czar" Van Jones, a self-described "communist" and "rowdy black
nationalist," now with CNN, was on the board. Alicia Garza also chaired the Right to the City
Alliance, a network of activist groups opposing urban gentrification. That front since 2009
received $1.3 million from the Ford Foundation, as well as $600,000 from the Soros foundations
and again, Ben & Jerry's ($50,000). And Garza's SOUL, which claimed to have trained 712
"organizers" in 2014, when she co-founded Black Lives Matter, got $210,000 from the Rockefeller
Foundation and another $255,000 from the Heinz Foundation (ketchup and John Kerry family) among
others. With the Forward Together of FRSO, Garza sat on the board of a "multi-racial
organization that works with community leaders and organizations to transform culture and
policy to catalyze social change." It officially got $4 million in 2014 revenues and from 2012
and 2014, the organization received a total of $2.9 million from Ford Foundation ($655,000) and
other major
foundations .
Nigeria-born BLM co-founder Opal Tometi likewise comes from the network of FRSO. Tometi
headed the FRSO's Black Alliance for Just Immigration. Curiously with a "staff" of two it got
money from major foundations including the Kellogg Foundation for $75,000 and Soros foundations
for $100,000, and, again, Ben & Jerry's ($10,000). Tometi got $60,000 in 2014 to direct the group .
The Freedom Road Socialist Organization that is now openly calling for a revolution against
capitalism in the wake of the Floyd George killing has another arm, The Advancement Project,
which describes itself as "a next generation, multi-racial civil rights organization." Its
board includes a former Obama US Department of Education Director of Community Outreach and a
former Bill Clinton Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. The FRSO Advancement Project
in 2013 got millions from major US tax-exempt foundations including Ford
($8.5 million), Kellogg ($3 million), Hewlett Foundation of HP defense industry founder ($2.5
million), Rockefeller Foundation ($2.5 million), and Soros foundations ($8.6 million).
Major Money and ActBlue
By 2016, the presidential election year where Hillary Clinton was challenging Donald Trump,
Black Lives Matter had established itself as a well-organized network. That year the Ford
Foundation and Borealis Philanthropy announced the formation of the Black-Led Movement Fund
(BLMF), "a six-year pooled donor campaign aimed at raising $100 million for the Movement for
Black Lives coalition" in which BLM was a central part. By then Soros foundations had already
given some $33 million in
grants to the Black Lives Matter movement . This was serious foundation money.
The BLMF identified itself as being created by top foundations including in addition to the
Ford Foundation, the Kellogg Foundation and the Soros Open Society Foundations. They described
their role: "The BLMF provides grants, movement building resources, and technical assistance to
organizations working advance the leadership and vision of young, Black, queer, feminists and
immigrant leaders who are shaping and leading a national
conversation about criminalization, policing and race in America."
The Movement for Black Lives Coalition (M4BL) which includes Black Lives Matter, already in
2016 called for "defunding police departments, race-based reparations, voting rights for
illegal immigrants, fossil-fuel divestment, an end to private education and charter schools, a
universal basic income, and
free college for blacks ."
Notably, when we click on the website of M4BL, under their donate button we learn that the
donations will go to something called ActBlue Charities. ActBlue facilitates donations to
"democrats and progressives." As of May 21, ActBlue had given $119 million to the campaign
of Joe Biden.
That was before the May 25 BLM worldwide protests. Now major corporations such as Apple,
Disney, Nike and hundreds others may be pouring untold and unaccounted millions into ActBlue
under the name of Black Lives Matter, funds that in fact can go to fund the election of a
Democrat President Biden. Perhaps this is the real reason the Biden campaign has been so
confident of support from black voters. What is clear from only this account of the crucial
role of big money foundations behind protest groups such as Black lives Matter is that there is
a far more complex agenda driving the protests now destabilizing cities across America. The
role of tax-exempt foundations tied to the fortunes of the greatest industrial and financial
companies such as Rockefeller, Ford, Kellogg, Hewlett and Soros says that there is a far deeper
and far more sinister agenda to current disturbances than spontaneous outrage would
suggest.
F. William Engdahl is strategic risk consultant and lecturer, he holds a degree in
politics from Princeton University and is a best-selling author on oil and geopolitics,
exclusively for the online magazine "New
Eastern Outlook."
It was bound to happen eventually. The CIA/State's color revolution process has found its
way back home. The color revolution is better described by the foreign observers who say "are
externally fueled acts with a clear goal to influence the internal affairs that destabilize the
economy, [2] conflict with the law and
represent a new form of warfare". Something happens, protests occur that switch from the event
to the regime, next thing you know the the regime has either changed entirely or has caved on a
specific policy. We see this happening right now in America.
Let us cover the timeline
A small time crook in the major metropolis of a Midwestern state is arrested, and in the
arrest, is manhandled by a cop and dies later. This is caught on film. This becomes protests
in the city, and some online outrage. This inspires peaceful protests that morph into riots,
burning down a good bit of commercial real estate. The officer is arrested for third degree
murder, which does not appease the crowd because the lawyers for the victim (why do victims
have advocate lawyers) wanted first degree murder. Minnesota's officials float out the white
supremacists infiltrating protests to cause chaos, which was easily shot down, but showed
that even the left establishment is worried about blowback. This mushrooms into copycat
solidarity protests in other cities that turn into riots. The riots burn down and destroy
much of commercial real estate in the cities, with media coverage as peaceful protests
despite burning buildings, deaths and shootings sometimes within camera view. Mayors and
Governors do not crackdown, which is odd since these same cities and states all have
lockdowns against gatherings greater than 25 people and were ordering cops to arrest moms,
restaurant owners and hairdressers a couple weeks ago. This puts the problem on Trump's lap
to say if needed he will invoke the Insurrection Act and help the police restore order. This
then causes a media manufactured crisis of PRESIDENT WILL ORDER TROOPS TO FIRE ON CIVILIANS.
Once this ball is in motion, including lies from the media that the President gassed
protesters for a speech and photo op, the debate is in the media about using the military.
The last two presidents made statements of no confidence in Trump. Obama even said he saw
more change in the last few weeks than his lifetime. This is an obvious lie, so the esoteric
meaning is the line being a reference to Lenin's weeks/decades statement. All the former
intel community men in media now are all in on this. We now have seen former generals like
Gen. Mattis say Trump is a threat to the Constitution as well as active heads of the
military, National Guard and even Joint Chiefs of Staff write memos about protecting the
Constitution and being against racism. This is an appeal to every soldier who swears an oath
to defend the Constitution. To go one step further, the highest enlisted men of different
branches are openly saying to "take appropriate action" when the time is right or what
Floyd's death means to them. Politically, Trump's shakiest Senator announced that Mattis'
statement moved her. On top of all of this, the capitol is swarming with armed men of
multiple agencies and even some men of no agencies (Academi or Dyncorp?). This sets up quite
the weekend, with the anniversary of D-Day when Americans stormed the beaches taking down the
dictator that the media has compared Trump for the last five years.
That is a long paragraph but has it all. Each of the steps are there. Even the pundits
cannot help give it away by saying Trump wants a Tiananmen moment , implying
he wants to shoot on Americans. Tiananmen was a color revolution in an attempt to collapse the
CCP as the Soviet sponsored communist bloc crumbled. The media trying to say peaceful
protesters gives that away too, because people support putting down rioters. Does it sound
strange that a random arrest leads to this anxious week? It shouldn't.
Tunisia's color
revolution that kicked off the Arab Spring started over a confiscated street vendor
cart.
There is no real policy goal that was the excuse for the regime change in Ukraine in 2014 or the
Cedar Revolution
in Lebanon when Syria exited the nation. Should this be surprising? Not really since we have
tens of millions made unemployed by corona lockdowns, which is distressing like the massive
food inflation that hit the middle east before the Arab Spring. There is an element to the
Nika Riots here, too. It
balloons and balloons quickly.
In a normal world with feedback mechanisms that had give and take, the Bernie and Trump
campaigns would have warned the elite that they needed to respond to the millions of upset
natives. They saw those expressions of frustration as a sign that the destruction of the
heartland and the old stock must be accelerated. This is the entire drive of the last five
years. You do not control your nation or your destiny, we the bureaucrats and intelligentsia
do. Right now they are sending the lumpenproletariat and the lumpintelligentsia after the
cities and after social media posters.
What is the goal? Notice nothing is out there but this is vague rage over the horrible
plight of the blacks. There is nothing concrete. This could all be to gin up the voter turnout
in the fall, which is strange for a party whose nominee is ahead in polls. Why would they need
to resort to this, which could backfire? The age bracket Biden was doing well in was over 65,
which is also the age bracket that recoils from video of blacks burning, looting and rampaging
onscreen. It could be to make Trump a sacrifice or scapegoat on the altar of racism for the Big
Vote as if pulling the lever in '16 will absolve whites of racism like it did in '08. Because
there is nothing concrete, there are insane proposals floated out like abolishing police or
reparations of $350,000 per black. Policy change is not the goal even if Jared Kushner is
eagerly working on a dramatic sellout of the base.
Maybe the goal is not to gin up the voter turnout but remove Trump entirely. All actions
point to this more than driving voter turnout. Why though? Most of the left enthusiasm and even
the middle's aversion to Trump is Trump himself so a Pence-Biden match up would actually favor
Pence. It would likely enrage the Trump voter base, too. Plus if Pence runs and wins, well,
shucks the left would have quite the fight internally for four years and face a nondescript,
mild mannered guy for potentially two more elections.
Socially, this is a mass delusion moment within the Cultural Revolution that we have been
discussing since the left's hysterics of 2017. There are struggle sessions. There is digital
maoism. There is virtue signaling. There are online shamings. There are sick displays of
cult-like behavior from the left. The left has shifted from merely requiring passive tolerance
for their garbage ideas and monthly memes to positive approval of everything they say and do.
What might be most frightening of all is how fast everyone riding the masks on-stay inside line
switched to full throttled support for mass protests in the very cities with the highest
infection rates. The herd is the herd.
... ... ...
On to the links
Way out of post-truth
– I want to believe this is possible but power does not care. This is a great
sequence describing today, " Post-truth, as I define it, signifies a moment of sharply
divergent perspectives on every subject or event, without a trusted authority in the room
to settle the matter. A telling symptom is that we no longer care to persuade. We aim to
impose our facts and annihilate theirs, a process closer to intellectual holy war than to
critical thinking ."
A more disciplined empire – The US Empire must be more disciplined if it is to
confront China. Stop just stop. The US Empire is a psychopathic elite content to ruin its
natives, import the refuse of the third world and sell out positions, perks, companies and
anything it can to the Chinese. You cannot defeat a rival that half your elites are in hock
to.
America the
failed state – Some liberal biases of course like saying Obama tried to run a
foreign policy that extracted us from the Middle East, but this is a good explanation for
why America is a failed state. Police precincts overrun by mobs of looters. Police
departments publicly bitching out their civilian leaderships, forget the color rev
crap.
Handling
black violence – This is like Derbyshire's talk but even more entertaining and
correct. Most of the media myths about blacks work on people never around them. Once you
are used to them, you understand the patterns.
Lind on White
Leftist Rioters – The white liberal contingent as a part of rioters is throwing
normies off. These are still mostly black riots, but it is undeniable that there are plenty
of whites mixed into the crowds. The more performative crap has many many more whites.
Exactly who are they? Lind answers this.
Avoiding Global Lobotomy
– Meta-nomad knocks it out here on the brain melt that has been forced on people with
media and tech. My favorite read of all the links.
A covid fraud that kneecapped HCQ – The science community lied to destroy HCQ.
Lies. Completely ridiculous lies that could be spotted using some LinkedIn searches. This
is akin to the N = 4 study saying masks do not work.
Racism
& the anti-white left – This is a nice run down of how the left's
anti-whiteness works. It is not as pro-outgroup as it is anti-ingroup.
"... "America's Own Color Revolution," a June 29, 2020, Geopolitics article explains how "Hundreds of thousands of young Americans are being used as a battering ram to not only topple a U.S. President, but in the process, the very structures of the U.S. Constitutional order." ..."
All lives matter in Trump's constitutional America. Only elite lives matter in the 2020
radical leftist Democrat party.
revolution is a known tactical CIA operation that uses a seemingly spontaneous act as the
precipitating event to destabilize a country and effect regime change. Color revolution is what
is happening in America, and its front line soldiers are Antifa and Black Lives Matter
(BLM).
"America's Own Color Revolution," a June 29, 2020, Geopolitics article explains how
"Hundreds of thousands of young Americans are being used as a battering ram to not only topple
a U.S. President, but in the process, the very structures of the U.S. Constitutional
order."
The organization Black Lives Matter (BLM) is not about black lives...
"... The greatest social divide in the United States is that between the overclass with at least a four-year college education, about a third of the national population, and the working class whose education ends with a high school diploma and perhaps a few more years of education or vocational training, regardless of income. These broad categories can be broken down further. ..."
"... In hub cities like New York and San Francisco, the overclass is divided between what might be called the upper overclass -- the well-paid managers and professionals in business and finance -- and the lower overclass -- made up of civil servants like public school teachers and government administrators who accept modest salaries in return for de facto job tenure and good benefits, including public pensions. ..."
"... The hub city working class is even more fragmented. Foreign-born immigrant diasporas provide much of the low-wage workforce. In New York and Los Angeles and San Francisco, between 30% and 40% of the residents are foreign-born. Some of these immigrants are self-employed and own businesses, but many of them work as menial domestic servants, health aides or insecure gig workers without fixed schedules or employer-provided benefits. ..."
"... Finally, what might be called the "upper working class" in hub cities is dominated by a different group of public servants, particularly police, first responders, and jail and prison guards. This stratum of the working class increasingly is racially diverse. Law enforcement officers tend to be from working-class families, but are unionized and tend to earn more and have better benefits than low-income immigrant workers or the native urban poor. In some parts of the country the police and fire fighters can afford to live in low-end suburbs and commute to work in the cities. ..."
"... What is new about the nationwide riots of the last week that have followed the death of George Floyd is the convergence of these two previously separate streams -- traditional urban riots in poor neighborhoods triggered by police-related incidents, and the ideologically motivated vandalism by young white members of the overclass in downtown districts. This convergence is the result of hub city gentrification. ..."
What is behind the riots? The violent riots emerging from peaceful protests that have swept liberal, Democratic big cities
across the United States in the aftermath of the horrifying death of George Floyd in the custody of the Minneapolis police on
May 25 can only be understood in the context of the evolving class structure of American and Western European society. In my
recent book
The
New Class War
and the essays on which it was based in the journal
American
Affairs
, I have explained that in the United States and other North Atlantic democracies, the greatest geographic divide
is between high-density hub cities and low-density heartlands. The riots are a hub city phenomenon -- and so are their most
striking participants, affluent young white rioters dressed like ninjas.
Most factories, warehouses, distribution centers, and new industrial structures like server farms are located in the
low-density heartlands, along with industrialized agriculture and energy and mining. The class system in the heartlands tends
to be more egalitarian, if only by default, because these regions have relatively fewer rich and poor people as a share of the
population than working-class residents. Native-born white citizens are the majority in the decentralized exurban heartlands.
However, contrary to the outdated equation of "urban" and "minority" and "poor," most African Americans and Hispanic Americans
belong to the working class and live in the suburbs, exurbs, and small towns.
The hub cities have a radically different social structure than the heartlands. At the top are affluent members of the
managerial-professional overclass, which includes well-educated immigrants as well as natives. Their incomes vary, but people
with college or post-graduate educations dominate the upper rungs of corporate management, finance, business and professional
services, government and the nonprofit sector in hub cities like New York, Washington, San Francisco, Atlanta, Seattle, and
Austin.
As young adults, the children of the overclass often spend their 20s in the same few cities, living in gentrified bohemian
neighborhoods that used to be factory or tenement districts. Often as they work their way up the
cursus
honorum
of their class, they benefit from elite apprenticeships in the form of unpaid or underpaid internships, which are
not available to young people whose parents cannot afford to subsidize them.
The greatest social divide in the United States is that between the overclass with at least a four-year college education,
about a third of the national population, and the working class whose education ends with a high school diploma and perhaps a
few more years of education or vocational training, regardless of income. These broad categories can be broken down further.
In hub cities like New York and San Francisco, the overclass is divided between what might be called the upper overclass -- the
well-paid managers and professionals in business and finance -- and the lower overclass -- made up of civil servants like public
school teachers and government administrators who accept modest salaries in return for de facto job tenure and good benefits,
including public pensions.
The hub city working class is even more fragmented. Foreign-born immigrant diasporas provide much of the low-wage workforce.
In New York and Los Angeles and San Francisco, between 30% and 40% of the residents are foreign-born. Some of these immigrants
are self-employed and own businesses, but many of them work as menial domestic servants, health aides or insecure gig workers
without fixed schedules or employer-provided benefits.
Minneapolis, May 28, 2020
KEREM
YUCEL/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
In addition to immigrant diasporas, in many American cities there are pockets of concentrated African American poverty. Many
of their residents are descendants of people who migrated from the rural South between WWI and the 1960s to work in industries
that no longer exist or have been offshored to other regions of the United States or other countries. Following
deindustrialization, many of these families have lacked the resources to move. Trapped in derelict neighborhoods, they suffer
from a lack of employment, poor access to amenities like stores, and local organized crime, in addition to the effects of real
but gradually diminishing racism in American society as a whole.
Finally, what might be called the "upper working class" in hub cities is dominated by a different group of public servants,
particularly police, first responders, and jail and prison guards. This stratum of the working class increasingly is racially
diverse. Law enforcement officers tend to be from working-class families, but are unionized and tend to earn more and have
better benefits than low-income immigrant workers or the native urban poor. In some parts of the country the police and fire
fighters can afford to live in low-end suburbs and commute to work in the cities.
The two groups that dominate the public sector -- the lower overclass of civilian public servants and the upper working class of
law enforcement personnel and first responders -- form a kind of human barrier between the mostly nonwhite poor and the mostly
white economic elite in American hub cities. Public school teachers interact on a daily basis with low-income urban student
populations, while many affluent whites, including elite progressives, put their kids in private urban schools or suburban
schools. Meanwhile, police and first responders are summoned on a daily basis to deal with crimes and disputes in the poor
urban neighborhoods.
These interactions between the native and foreign-born urban poor and the frontline public sector employees in big cities can
create suspicion and hostility on both sides. In order to qualify for means-tested programs like food stamps and Medicaid,
poor people have to deal with civil servants in bureaucratic agencies who are often burned out and indifferent. Police forces
and jails and prisons have always attracted some bullies and criminals, and the stress and danger of their jobs brutalizes
others. The populations that are means-tested and policed often feel under siege while those doing the means-testing and
policing can feel disrespected and endangered.
Thus the kindling accumulates until it is ignited by some incident at the interface between the urban public sector and the
urban poor. Usually a police killing or beating triggers an eruption of protest in a hub city. Even if the protest is peaceful
at first, it is often hijacked by criminal gangs for whom it is an opportunity for looting. This was the story of major U.S.
urban riots between WWII and the 21st century. (Most so-called "race riots" in the United States between the Civil War and
WWII were different; they were violent pogroms by working-class whites against black competitors for jobs and neighborhoods,
who were sometimes brought up from the South by industrial corporations as strikebreakers.)
Beginning in the 1960s and the '70s, with the Weather Underground terrorists, and continuing in the 1990s, with "black bloc"
vandals traveling around the world to smash office and hotel windows at global financial meetings, there has been a violent
subculture on the radical left in the United States and Europe. For the most part, the members of groups like Antifa, the
latest incarnation of the violent left, have always been the pampered children of the white overclass. Twenty-somethings who
are poor and working class lack the money to buy fancy black ninja outfits and the leisure to spend time plotting in advance
of demonstrations. This is nothing new; as a veteran '60s leftist told me, "Your Mom and Dad had to have a lot of money, for
you to take part in the Summer of Love."
What is new about the nationwide riots of the last week that have followed the death of George Floyd is the convergence of
these two previously separate streams -- traditional urban riots in poor neighborhoods triggered by police-related incidents, and
the ideologically motivated vandalism by young white members of the overclass in downtown districts. This convergence is the
result of hub city gentrification.
The deindustrialization of the cities and rising real estate prices have forced most of the working class of all races out of
hub cities into low-income suburbs and exurbs. The children of the white urban elite -- some of them downwardly mobile for life,
some of them just going through the underpaid intern phase of professional careers -- have colonized rowhouses where workers once
lived and have converted former factories and warehouses into settings for
la
vie bohème
.
This group of 20- and 30-somethings in the new urban bohemia are the constituency for the new progressive left. Children of
the managerial overclass join the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and engage in purges and cancellations on Twitter and
move to Brooklyn on allowances from their parents. They demand that the billionaires be soaked to pay for socialism
(translation: Mom and Dad need to increase my allowance).
Gentrification explains why there are so many white young adults, both ordinary protesters and anarchist vandals, compared to
African Americans in the videos we see of protests and riots in big cities across the United States, compared to images of
urban riots in generations past. Thanks to rising rents, young white leftists and liberals have been displacing the nonwhite
working class and poor, many of them social conservatives, in places like Brooklyn and Oakland and Austin. While the initial
occasion of a protest may be the death of a member of a minority group in police custody, affluent young white leftists are
more interested in symbolic violence against capitalism or patriarchy or whatever.
These children of the economic elite end up harming those on whose behalf they pretend to be speaking. Like the
upper-middle-class hippies of the 1960s who called police officers "pigs," today's affluent hipsters despise the police, many
of whom are their age but are more likely than leftist radicals to be from working-class backgrounds and to be nonwhite.
Slogans of elite radicals like "Abolish the Police and Prisons" and comparisons of the Border Patrol to the Gestapo are
insults to the unionized, working-class Americans of all races employed by those institutions.
Dressing up as revolutionaries like children on Halloween, the sociopathic heirs of the overclass, already living in
neighborhoods from which the working class was forced out by economic privation, take part in the vandalization, looting, and
burning of local businesses, many of them owned by immigrants or members of minority groups. If they get arrested, the
fortunate among them can count on being bailed out after phone calls to their indulgent liberal or moderate conservative
parents, who live in expensive, nearly all-white urban and suburban neighborhoods and denounce racism and fascism on their
Facebook pages.
It will take years for the American hub cities damaged by the riots, along with the pandemic and the lockdown, to recover, if
they ever recover. The black poor and working class first had their urban industrial jobs taken away from them by corporate
executives in the white overclass who offshored them to Mexico or China. Then they were replaced in their former urban
neighborhoods by the hipster children of the white overclass. Now even their grievances like protests against horrific police
brutality are stolen from them by their supposed allies in the white overclass and turned into an occasion for
virtue-signaling or vandalism by the elite.
Many of today's big city riot ninjas will look back in the future with pride on their nights of prancing around in black
leotards and spraypainting "BLM" and "Fuck Trump" on downtown buildings. A decade from now, the most successful will have
well-paying jobs, many of them in the politically progressive sectors like the universities and NGOs. The unlucky ones may
still be working at Starbucks -- perhaps at the very stores whose plate glass windows they once spray-painted or smashed.
A black teenager allegedly stabbed an AutoZone employee after watching videos of
police-involved incidents and had "the need to find a white male to kill," said
prosecutors.
Police said in court that Jayvon Hatchett, 19, of Columbus, Georgia , allegedly stabbed an AutoZone employee
in an unprovoked attack on Aug. 25, according to WRBL
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Creepy Joe used to be a stanch neoliberal, who promoted open militarism, empowerment of
multinationals at the expense of working people; two feature of neofascism.
The Left justifies extreme and violent action by framing Trump as an existential threat to
America...
It might not seem immediately apparent that Joe Biden would have anything in common with
insurrectionary anarchists. After all, Biden has been deeply entrenched in the uppermost
echelons of American political power for nearly five decades straight -- whereas
insurrectionary anarchists generally seek to overthrow those systems, by violent force if
necessary.
The former Vice-President is not exactly the type you would imagine clad in all-black
combat-style street apparel, hurling commercial-grade fireworks at police officers. Rather, he
drafted the infamous 1994 omnibus crime bill in concert with the National Association of Police
Organizations. He is even known to venerate the arcane institutionalist ethos of the US Senate
-- whereas to insurrectionary anarchists, such institutions could only be tools of
oppression.
But the Trump Era has an odd way of bringing about unexpected ideological convergences. In
the announcement video that formally kicked off his 2020 presidential campaign, Biden
paid homage to what he called the "courageous group of Americans" who descended upon
Charlottesville, VA in August 2017 to confront an assembly of Right-wing rally-goers. Among
that "courageous group" were Left-wing activist factions broadly classified under the banner of
"antifa".
For Biden, what transpired in Charlottesville was a "defining moment," and formed the basis
for his decision to launch a third campaign for the presidency at age 76. While Biden did
herald generic American idealism in that announcement video -- which would be anathema to most
insurrectionary anarchists -- in the gravity he assigned to the Charlottesville episode, he
also affirmed a core tenet of the "antifa" worldview: the notion that a uniquely pressing
fascistic threat has gripped the country, and crushing this threat is a matter of unparalleled
world-historic urgency.
Certainly, if you picked any "antifa" member at random, there'd be an almost 0% chance that
they would express any kind of personal enthusiasm for Joe Biden. But there'd be a virtually
100% chance that they'd express a great deal of enthusiasm for the theory that "fascism" is an
accurate characterisation of America's current state of governance. Biden would be similarly
enthused to present a variation of this analysis, albeit from a slightly different ideological
angle. He typically intones things like, "This is not who we are", rather than "All Cops Are
Bastards".
Still, where Biden is united with "antifa" is in assigning such outsized importance to the
role of small-time "fascist" agitators like the ones who gathered that weekend three years ago
in Charlottesville (despite ultimately being outnumbered by Left-wing activists) on account of
the validation they are purported to have received from Donald Trump. For both Biden and
"antifa," this dynamic constitutes the chief prism through which contemporary American
political affairs must be viewed.
And for both Biden and "antifa," this mode of analysis has been hugely successful. "Antifa"
has succeeded in stoking nationwide insurrectionary fervour on a scale unseen in decades. Given
their opposition to Trump as the alleged fascist-in-chief, as well as their appropriation of
the "Black Lives Matter" protest mantle, they've received an extraordinary amount of mainstream
liberal legitimation.
Democratic Party operatives have even gone so far as to exalt "antifa" activists as the
modern-day equivalents of US soldiers fighting in World War II -- while apparently exhibiting
no embarrassment for invoking this comparison.
Another clear beneficiary of the "fascism" panic, somewhat paradoxically, has been Biden. A
supreme irony of the outsized role that "anti-fascism" has played in post-2016 US political
discourse -- as popularised by both liberals and leftists, who often claim to be at odds with
each other but nonetheless overwhelmingly agree on the underlying "fascism" prognosis -- is
that it has ultimately limited the possibility of actual Left-wing policy reform.
Democratic presidential primary voters had been traumatised by the non-stop barrage of
Trump-related hysteria churned out each and every day by profit-driven corporate media outlets,
and laboured under the sincere belief that Trump's America bears some bonafide relation to
Weimar Germany. As such, a plurality were understandably uninterested in foundational reform to
the Democratic Party.
That was bad news for socialist Bernie Sanders, who ended up losing handily in the 2020
primaries to a former Vice President whose entire campaign was predicated on little more than
restoring the pre-2016 Democratic Party to power.
And in a way, you can't particularly blame those Biden voters. Because if your main sources
of information tell you for years on end that the reins of state have been seized by an
out-and-out fascist, who is fuelling a siege of "Nazi" street agitators, whatever deficiencies
the Democratic Party might have at the moment are of little or no concern. Now even Sanders
himself has called for a "united front" against Trump ahead of the election, seeming to suggest
that the precedent of Francisco Franco is historically apt. Wasn't the whole problem with
Franco that he couldn't be voted out?
Never mind that Trump would have to be quite a feckless fascist to allow himself to be
constantly maligned in the country's major media, plotted against by his own administration
underlings, and impeached. The decidedly unsexy reality is that Trump has been a fairly weak
executive, at least relative to his predecessors in the postwar era.
But his radically unorthodox communications style belies any dispassionate assessment of
this record, thus the fascism-mongering persists more-or-less unabated. And for all the
warnings of a Reichstag Fire moment always supposedly being around the corner, the past six
months of Covid and riots were a missed opportunity for any genuine fascist seeking to
consolidate power. Trump appears largely content with issuing inflammatory tweets.
So as riots continue around the country, and corporate news networks describe post-protest
scenes with raging infernos as "mostly peaceful", the temptation can be to write this off as
mere partisan side-taking. Certainly there's an element of that -- most journalists desperately
don't want to see Trump win in November.
But thanks to the prevailing "fascism" framework, their opposition to Trump isn't just a
matter of ordinary election-year preference. It's imbued with existential,
civilisation-altering significance. How could anyone in their right mind not do everything
within their capacity to ensure the defeat of fascism? Once you accept the premise that fascism
does in fact accurately describe the current state of American governance, all bets are off --
journalistically and otherwise.
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So even if the "anti-fascists" in the equation are burning down cities, they will still
never exist on the same moral plane as the actual "fascists" whose champion occupies the White
House. Hence, riots which result in the destruction of huge swaths of Kenosha, WI magically
become a "mostly peaceful" affair according to CNN and the New York Times .
Yes, journalists also presumptively ascribe a certain virtue to any protests that occur with
the imprimatur of "Black Lives Matter". But racial disparities have been a fact of American
life since the dawn of the republic. The unavoidable explanation for why they've taken on such
frantic energy in the past several months is the alleged spectre of fascism, namely Trump. With
a Democratic President, even one as vanilla as Biden, there will doubtless be future race-based
controversies. But they won't have the cosmic weight as those that occur when a "fascist"
president also looms.
Adding to the growing list of ironies, Trump's primary conception of the presidency has less
been Fuhrer, than "Pundit-in-Chief", whereby he proudly brandishes the role of world's loudest
media critic -- with media criticism having been one of his life-long passions. Given that
experience, Trump knows how to expertly pry at tensions in how pundit narratives get
constructed, and the "peaceful protest" cliché provides all the material that could ever
be desired in that respect. Kayleigh McEnany, in tweeting a photo of a
recent Trump air hanger rally in Pennsylvania, described the attendees (only half-jokingly) as
"peaceful protesters".
The reason she did this is because if one follows the recent patterns of media nomenclature,
any and all "peaceful protesters" should be painstakingly accommodated, even if their
gatherings produce widespread arson attacks or increase the Covid-19 infection rate. There is
no impartial explanation for why the "peaceful protests" of this past summer deserved praise,
adulation, and rousing defences from the standpoint of pandemic mitigation. Again, only does
this make sense when inserted into the blinkered fascism vs. anti-fascism context.
One wonders if these protesters and rioters have ever paused to consider why it is that so
many establishment media outlets are so consistently eager to advocate on their behalf, with
the phrase "largely peaceful" having been stretched well past the point of absurdity. And one
also wonders why so many powerful forces are so willing to join in affirming their
"anti-fascism" worldview -- up to and including, in his own way, Joe Biden. For all the talk
about dismantling systems of oppression, those who actually wield power in 2020 America seem to
view the "fascism vs. antifascism" dichotomy as awfully convenient to their own self-preserving
interests.
In short black people are used as pawns in the political struggle between two neoliberal
clans fighting for power, using students without perspectives of gaining meaningful employment as
a ram. We saw this picture before in a different country. And riots do reverse gains achieved in
civil right struggle since 1960th, so they are also net losers. Racial tensions in the USA
definitely increased dramatically.
Notable quotes:
"... Bottom line: "Critical Race Theory", "The 1619 Project", and Homeland Security's "White Supremacist" warning represent the ideological foundation upon which the war on America is based. The "anti-white" dogma is the counterpart to the massive riots that have rocked the country. These phenomena are two spokes on the same wheel. They are designed to work together to achieve the same purpose. The goal is create a "racial" smokescreen that conceals the vast and willful destruction of the US economy, the $5 trillion dollar wealth-transfer that was provided to Wall Street, and the ferocious attack on the emerging, mainly-white working class "populist" movement that elected Trump and which rejects the globalist plan to transform the world into a borderless free trade zone ruled by cutthroat monopolists and their NWO allies. ..."
"... This is a class war dolled-up to look like a race war. Americans will have to look beyond the smoke and mirrors to spot the elites lurking in the shadows. There lies the cancer that must be eradicated. ..."
"... The current situation cannot exist without the complicity of the secret services and the police. The heads of the secret services are either part of the cabal or close their eyes in fear ..."
"... There can be no single oligarch. It must be a larger group but very united by fear and a common goal. This can only be achieved if they are all Jews or Masons. Or both under a larger umbrella like some kind of pedo-ritual killing-satan worshiper. Soros can't do it alone. ..."
"... Of course politicians are corrupt and complicit but usually they are not the leaders ..."
Here's your BLM Pop Quiz for the day: What do "Critical Race Theory", "The 1619 Project",
and Homeland Security's "White Supremacist" warning tell us about what's going on in America
today?
They point to deeply-embedded racism that shapes the behavior of white people They
suggest that systemic racism cannot be overcome by merely changing attitudes and laws They
alert us to the fact that unresolved issues are pushing the country towards a destructive race
war They indicate that powerful agents -- operating from within the state– are inciting
racial violence to crush the emerging "populist" majority that elected Trump to office in 2016
and which now represents an existential threat to the globalist plan to transform America into
a tyrannical third-world "shithole".
Which of these four statements best explains what's going on in America today?
If you chose Number 4, you are right. We are not experiencing a sudden and explosive
outbreak of racial violence and mayhem. We are experiencing a thoroughly-planned,
insurgency-type operation that involves myriad logistical components including vast, nationwide
riots, looting and arson, as well as an extremely impressive ideological campaign. "Critical
Race Theory", "The 1619 Project", and Homeland Security's "White Supremacist" warning are as
much a part of the Oligarchic war on America as are the burning of our cities and the toppling
of our statues. All three, fall under the heading of "ideology", and all three are being used
to shape public attitudes on matters related to our collective identity as "Americans".
The plan is to overwhelm the population with a deluge of disinformation about their history,
their founders, and the threats they face, so they will submissively accept a New Order imposed
by technocrats and their political lackeys. This psychological war is perhaps more important
than Operation BLM which merely provides the muscle for implementing the transformative "Reset"
that elites want to impose on the country. The real challenge is to change the hearts and minds
of a population that is unwaveringly patriotic and violently resistant to any subversive
element that threatens to do harm to their country. So, while we can expect this propaganda
saturation campaign to continue for the foreseeable future, we don't expect the strategy will
ultimately succeed. At the end of the day, America will still be America, unbroken, unflagging
and unapologetic.
Let's look more carefully at what is going on.
On September 4, the Department of Homeland Security issued a draft report stating that
"White supremacists present the gravest terror threat to the United States". According to an
article in Politico:
" all three draft (versions of the document) describe the threat from white
supremacists as the deadliest domestic terror threat facing the U.S. , listed above the
immediate danger from foreign terrorist groups . John Cohen, who oversaw DHS's
counterterrorism portfolio from 2011 to 2014, said the drafts' conclusion isn't
surprising.
"This draft document seems to be consistent with earlier intelligence reports from DHS,
the FBI, and other law enforcement sources: that the most significant terror-related
threat facing the US today comes from violent extremists who are motivated by white
supremac y and other far-right ideological causes," he said .
"Lone offenders and small cells of individuals motivated by a diverse array of social,
ideological, and personal factors will pose the primary terrorist threat to the United
States," the draft reads. "Among these groups, we assess that white supremacist extremists
will pose the most persistent and lethal threat."..(" DHS
draft document: White supremacists are greatest terror threat " Politico)
This is nonsense. White supremacists do not pose the greatest danger to the country, that
designation goes to the left-wing groups that have rampaged through more than 2,000 US cities
for the last 100 days. Black Lives Matter and Antifa-generated riots have decimated hundreds of
small businesses, destroyed the lives and livelihoods of thousands of merchants and their
employees, and left entire cities in a shambles. The destruction in Kenosha alone far exceeds
the damage attributable to the activities of all the white supremacist groups combined.
So why has Homeland Security made this ridiculous and unsupportable claim? Why have they
chosen to prioritize white supremacists as "the most persistent and lethal threat" when it is
clearly not true?
There's only one answer: Politics.
The officials who concocted this scam are advancing the agenda of their real bosses, the
oligarch puppet-masters who have their tentacles extended throughout the deep-state and use
them to coerce their lackey bureaucrats to do their bidding. In this case, the honchos are
invoking the race card ("white supremacists") to divert attention from their sinister
destabilization program, their looting of the US Treasury (for their crooked Wall Street
friends), their demonizing of the mostly-white working class "America First" nationalists who
handed Trump the 2016 election, and their scurrilous scheme to establish one-party rule by
installing their addlepated meat-puppet candidate (Biden) as president so he can carry out
their directives from the comfort of the Oval Office. That's what's really going on.
DHS's announcement makes it possible for state agents to target legally-armed Americans who
gather with other gun owners in groups that are protected under the second amendment. Now the
white supremacist label will be applied more haphazardly to these same conservatives who pose
no danger to public safety. The draft document should be seen as a warning to anyone whose
beliefs do not jibe with the New Liberal Orthodoxy that white people are inherently racists who
must ask forgiveness for a system they had no hand in creating (slavery) and which was
abolished more than 150 years ago.
The 1619 Project" is another part of the ideological war that is being waged against the
American people. The objective of the "Project" is to convince readers that America was founded
by heinous white men who subjugated blacks to increase their wealth and power. According to the
World Socialist Web Site:
"The essays featured in the magazine are organized around the central premise that all of
American history is rooted in race hatred -- specifically, the uncontrollable hatred of
"black people" by "white people." Hannah-Jones writes in the series' introduction:
"Anti-black racism runs in the very DNA of this country. "
This is a false and dangerous conception. DNA is a chemical molecule that contains the
genetic code of living organisms and determines their physical characteristics and
development . Hannah-Jones's reference to DNA is part of a growing tendency to derive
racial antagonisms from innate biological processes .where does this racism come from? It
is embedded, claims Hannah-Jones, in the historical DNA of American "white people." Thus, it
must persist independently of any change in political or economic conditions .
. No doubt, the authors of The Project 1619 essays would deny that they are predicting
race war, let alone justifying fascism. But ideas have a logic; and authors bear
responsibility for the political conclusions and consequences of their false and misguided
arguments." ("The New York Times's 1619
Project: A racialist falsification of American and world history", World Socialist Web
Site)
Clearly, Hannah-Jones was enlisted by big money patrons who needed an ideological foundation
to justify the massive BLM riots they had already planned as part of their US color revolution.
The author –perhaps unwittingly– provided the required text for vindicating
widespread destruction and chaos carried out in the name of "social justice."
As Hannah-Jones says, "Anti-black racism runs in the very DNA of this country", which is to
say that it cannot be mitigated or reformed, only eradicated by destroying the symbols of white
patriarchy (Our icons, our customs, our traditions and our history.), toppling the existing
government, and imposing a new system that better reflects the values of the burgeoning
non-Caucasian majority. Simply put, The Project 1619 creates the rationale for sustained civil
unrest, deepening political polarization and violent revolution.
All of these goals conveniently coincide with the aims of the NWO Oligarchs who seek to
replace America's Constitutional government with a corporate Superstate ruled by voracious
Monopolists and their globalist allies. So, while Hannah-Jones treatise does nothing to improve
conditions for black people in America, it does move the country closer to the dystopian dream
of the parasite class; Corporate Valhalla.
Then there is "Critical Race Theory" which provides the ideological icing on the cake. The
theory is part of the broader canon of anti-white dogma which is being used to indoctrinate
workers. White employees are being subjected to "reeducation" programs that require their
participation as a precondition for further employment . The first rebellion against critical
race theory, took place at Sandia Labs which is a federally-funded research agency that designs
America's nuclear weapons. According to journalist Christopher F. Rufo:
"Senator @HawleyMO and
@SecBrouillette have
launched an inspector general investigation, but Sandia executives have only accelerated
their purge against conservatives."
Sandia executives have made it clear: they want to force critical race theory,
race-segregated trainings, and white male reeducation camps on their employees -- and all
dissent will be severely punished. Progressive employees will be rewarded; conservative
employees will be purged." (" There is a civil war erupting
at @SandiaLabs ." Christopher F Rufo)
It all sounds so Bolshevik. Here's more info on how this toxic indoctrination program
works:
"Treasury Department
The Treasury Department held a training session telling employees that "virtually all
White people contribute to racism" and demanding that white staff members "struggle to own
their racism" and accept their "unconscious bias, White privilege, and White
fragility."
The National Credit Union Administration
The NCUA held a session for 8,900 employees arguing that America was "founded on
racism" and "built on the blacks of people who were enslaved. " Twitter thread here and
original source documents
here .
Sandia National Laboratories
Last year, Sandia National Labs -- which produces our nuclear arsenal -- held a
three-day reeducation camp for white males, teaching them how to deconstruct their
"white male culture" and forcing them to write letters of apology to women and people of
color . Whistleblowers from inside the labs tell me that critical race theory is now
endangering our national security. Twitter thread here and original source
documents
here .
Argonne National Laboratories
Argonne National Labs hosts trainings calling on white lab employees to admit that they
"benefit from racism" and atone for the "pain and anguish inflicted upon Black people. "
Twitter thread here .
Department of Homeland Security
The Department of Homeland Security hosted a Training on "microaggressions,
microinequities, and microassaults" where white employees were told that they had been
"socialized into oppressor roles. " Twitter thread here and original source
documents here
." (" Summary of
Critical Race Theory Investigations" , Christopher F Rufo)
On September 4, Donald Trump announced his administration "would prohibit federal
agencies from subjecting government employees to "critical race theory" or "white privilege"
seminar. ..
"It has come to the President's attention that Executive Branch agencies have spent
millions of taxpayer dollars to date 'training' government workers to believe divisive,
anti-American propaganda ," read a Friday memo
from the Office of Budget and Management Director Russ Vought. "These types of 'trainings'
not only run counter to the fundamental beliefs for which our Nation has stood since its
inception, but they also engender division and resentment within the Federal workforce The
President has directed me to ensure that Federal agencies cease and desist from using
taxpayer dollars to fund these divisive, un-American propaganda training sessions."
The next day, September 5, Trump announced that the Department of Education was going to see
whether the New York Times Magazine's 1619 Project was being used in school curricula
and– if it was– then those schools would be ineligible for federal funding.
Conservative pundits applauded Trump's action as a step forward in the "culture wars", but it's
really much more than that. Trump is actually foiling an effort by the domestic saboteurs who
continue look for ways to undermine democracy, reduce the masses of working-class people to
grinding poverty and hopelessness, and turn the country into a despotic military outpost ruled
by bloodsucking tycoons, mercenary autocrats and duplicitous elites. Alot of thought and effort
went into this malign ideological project. Trump derailed it with a wave of the hand. That's no
small achievement.
Bottom line: "Critical Race Theory", "The 1619 Project", and Homeland Security's "White
Supremacist" warning represent the ideological foundation upon which the war on America is
based. The "anti-white" dogma is the counterpart to the massive riots that have rocked the
country. These phenomena are two spokes on the same wheel. They are designed to work
together to achieve the same purpose. The goal is create a "racial" smokescreen that conceals
the vast and willful destruction of the US economy, the $5 trillion dollar wealth-transfer that
was provided to Wall Street, and the ferocious attack on the emerging, mainly-white working
class "populist" movement that elected Trump and which rejects the globalist plan to transform
the world into a borderless free trade zone ruled by cutthroat monopolists and their NWO
allies.
This is a class war dolled-up to look like a race war. Americans will have to look
beyond the smoke and mirrors to spot the elites lurking in the shadows. There lies the cancer
that must be eradicated.
A good article, but no mention of who exactly these oligarchs are. Or why so many of them
are Jewish.
Or why so many Zionist organisations support BLM and other such groups.
Mike, not mentioning these things will not save you. You will still be cancelled by
Progressive Inc.
This seems like a good explanation of what is happening. I wonder whether too many people
will fall for the propaganda, though. It is the classic effort to get the turkeys to support
thanksgiving.
The deserved progress and concessions achieved by the civil rights struggles for the Black
community is in danger of deteriorating because Black leadership will not stand up and
vehemently condemn the rioting and destruction and killing, and declare that the BLM movement
does not represent the majority of the Black American culture and that the overexaggerated
accusations of "racism" do not necessitate the eradication and revision of history, nor does
it require European Americans to feel guilt or shame. There is no need for a cultural
revolution. The ideology and actions of BLM are offensive and inconsistent with American
values, and Black leaders should be saying this every day, and should be admonishing about
the consequences. They should also use foresight to see how this is going to end, because the
BLM and their supporters are being used to fight a war that they can never win. And when it's
over, what perception will the rest of America have of Black people?
@sonofman g to TPTB. Better to have an amorphous slogan to donate money to than an actual
organization with humans, goals and ideas which can be held up to the light and critically
examined.
The whole sudden race thing is a fraud to eliminate the electoral support Trump had
amassed among blacks before Corona and Fentanyl Floyd. In line with what Whitney says, the
globalists need to take down Trump. And the race card has always been the first tool in the
DNC's toolkit. When all else fails, go nuclear with undefined claims of racism.
Almost every big magazine has a black person on the cover this month. Probably will in
October too. Coincidence? Sure it is.
They indicate that powerful agents -- operating from within the state– are
inciting racial violence to crush the emerging "populist" majority that elected Trump to
office in 2016 and which now represents an existential threat to the globalist plan to
transform America into a tyrannical third-world "shithole".
I'm shocked that they're trying to sell this Q-tier bullshit about Trump fighting the deep
state.
The reality about Trump is that he is the release valve, the red herring designed to keep
whitey pacified while massive repossessions and foreclosures take place, permanently
impoverishing a large part of the white population, and shutting down the Talmudic
service-based economy, which is all that is really left. It is Trump's DHS that declared a
large part of his white trashionalist base to be terrorists.
The populist majority never had anyone to vote for. This system will never give them one.
They aren't bright enough to make it happen.
Agree. Barack Obama in particular will go down in history a real disgrace to the legacy of
the US presidency. He is violating the sacred trust that the people of the United States
invested in him. What a fraud!
Good post Mr. Whitney especially about "white supremacy" garbage .which has only been
going on since the 90s! You know, Waco, Ruby Ridge, Elohim City and Okie City, militias,
"patriot groups," etc. This really is nothing new. And, since so many remember the "white
supremacy" crapola was crapola back in the 90s, I'd say everyone pretty much regardless of
race over the age of 40 knows there is, as it says in Ecclesiastes in the Bible, "there is
nothing new under the sun." And, if you home schooled your kids back then, then you kids know
it as well. Fact is this: the DHS as with every other govt. agency is forced to blame "white
supremacy" for every problem in this country because who the heck else can they blame? Jews?
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahh when pigs fly After all, Noahide just might be around the
corner ..
Sheriffs have a lot of legal power. Ultimately, the battle is privatized money power
vs Joe Citizen/Sheriffs.
This sheriff is working a Constitutional angle that says: Local Posse (meaning you.. Joe
citizen) working with the Sheriff department to protect your local community. Richard Mack is
teaching other Sheriffs and (some Police) what their Constitutional power is, and that power
doesn't include doing bidding of Oligarchs.
Sheriffs are elected, and their revenue stream is outside of Oligarchy:
So Donald Trump suddenly discovers that racial Bolshevism is the official policy of
his own executive branch – a mere 3 years and 8 months after assuming the
position
... Looks like the same old flim-flam they pull every four years. No matter who wins, the
Davos folks continue to run the circus and fleece the suckers dry.
Because it is. Substitute "the ethnic Russian middle class are class enemies" for
"Anglo-American are all racists" and there you have it. Permission for a small organized
minority to eliminate a whole class on ideological grounds...
I live in a former communist country in Eastern Europe with corrupt politicians, oligarchs
and organized crime.
America was a country with a minor corruption and in which the oligarchs, although
influential, were not united in a small group with decisive force. Now America is slowly
slipping into the situation of a second-hand shit-hole country.
Is that I can see the situation more clearly than an American citizen who still has the
American perception of his contry the way it was 30 years ago.
Essential thing:
1) The current situation cannot exist without the complicity of the secret services and
the police. The heads of the secret services are either part of the cabal or close their eyes
in fear .
2) There can be no single oligarch. It must be a larger group but very united by fear and
a common goal. This can only be achieved if they are all Jews or Masons. Or both under a
larger umbrella like some kind of pedo-ritual killing-satan worshiper. Soros can't do it
alone.
3) Of course politicians are corrupt and complicit but usually they are not the
leaders
4) BLM are exactly the brown shirts of the new Hitler.
Soon we will se the new Hitler/Stalin/ in plain light.
Thirty black children murdered recently; zero by police / BLM & 'the media' say
nothing: https://www.outkick.com/blm-101-volume-7-the-lives-of-innocent-black-kids-do-not-matter/
BTW:
– Last year, the nationwide total for all US police forces was 47 killings of unarmed
criminals by police during arrest procedures.
– 8 were black, 19 were white.
Though blacks, relative to their numbers, committed a vastly higher number of crimes, hence
their immensely greater arrest rate.
@Justvisiting urally, it is nonsense -- nasty, power-hungry, censorious nonsense.
It is the opposite of scientific or empirical thought -- science can not accept theories
which are not capable of falsification. (Take astrology -- actually, don't ! -- what ever
conclusion it comes to can never be wrong : Dick or Jane didn't find love ? Well, one
of Saturn's moons was retrograde & Mercury declensed Venus (I don't know what it means
either) . or Dick went on a bender & Jane had a whole bad hair week.
Frankly, to play these pre-modern tricks on us is just grotesquely insulting. That some are
falling for it is grotesquely depressing.
Another ringer from Mike Whitney! Keep 'em comin', brother.
We are not experiencing a sudden and explosive outbreak of racial violence and mayhem.
We are experiencing a thoroughly-planned, insurgency-type operation that involves myriad
logistical components including vast, nationwide riots, looting and arson, as well as an
extremely impressive ideological campaign.
Yup. TPTB have been grooming BLM/Antifa for this moment for at least 3-4 years now, if not
longer. Here's a former BLMer who quit speaking out three years ago about the organization's
role in the present 'race war':
It is very clever politics and (war) propaganda. You break down and demoralise your
enemies at the same time as assuring your own side of it's own righteous use of violence.
This is a class war dolled-up to look like a race war. Americans will have to look
beyond the smoke and mirrors to spot the elites lurking in the shadows.
Nailing it.
4. They indicate that powerful agents -- operating from within the state– are
inciting racial violence to crush the emerging "populist" majority that elected Trump to
office in 2016 and which now represents an existential threat to the globalist plan to
transform America into a tyrannical third-world "shithole".
Which of these four statements best explains what's going on in America today?
If you chose Number 4, you are right.
If we believe this – we need to act like it. These are "enemies, foreign and
domestic ". This isn't ordinary politics, it arguably transcends politics.
What hope is there without organization?
And whatever is done – don't give them ammunition. The resistance must not be an
ethno-resistance.
But he is either naive or a bad manager, as his hires are deadly to his aims. And the
management criticism is big, because as a leader that is mostly what he does.
That he gets information to affect US policy for good, from outside of his circle of
trusted personnel, is a sad state of affairs.
@Robert Dolan ds that it would have ended on day one were it not officially sanctioned
and the rioters protected from prosecution. Why hasn't the Janet Rosenberg/Thousand
Currents/Tides Foundation connection with the BLM/DNC/MSM cabal, as well as with Antifa and
social media, been the major investigation on Fox News? Why haven't Zuckerberg, Zucker, et al
been arrested for incitement to commit federal crimes, including capital treason to overthrow
the duly elected president? (Just a few rhetorical questions for the hell of it.) What's so
galling is that the cops and federal agents are being used as just so many patsies who are
deployed, not to protect, but deployed to look like fools and be held up for mockery as
pathetic exemplars of white disempowerment.
The officials who concocted this scam are advancing the agenda of their real bosses, the
oligarch puppet-masters who have their tentacles extended throughout the deep-state and use
them to coerce their lackey bureaucrats to do their bidding.
Agree, but where is President Trump? He was supposed to appoint undersecretaries and
assistant secretaries and deputy undersecretaries and Schedule C whippersnappers on whose
desks such outrages are supposed to die.
I've thought from the beginning that this lack of attention to "personnel as policy" --
with Trump overestimating the ability of the ostensible CEO to overcome such intransigence --
was one of his major failures. I am sympathetic, as there are not many people he could trust
to be loyal to his agenda, much less to him, but this is a disaster in every agency
Few years ago I watch a clip secretly recorded in Ukrainian synagogue where Rabi said
"first we have to fight Catholics and with Muslims it will be an easy job" ...
Thanks to Mr Whitney for being able to cut through the fog and see what's going on behind
it. The term "white supremacist" wasn't much in public use at all until the day Trump was
elected then suddenly it was all over the place. It's like one of those massive ad campaigns
whose jingle is everywhere as if some group decided on it as a theme to be pushed. They're
really afraid that the white working class population will wake up and see how the country is
being sold out from underneath their feet hence the need to keep it divided and intimidated.
Like all the other color revolutions everywhere else they strike at the weak links within the
country to create conflict, in the US case it's so-called diversity. There's billions
available to be spent in this project so plenty of traitors can be found, unwitting or
otherwise, to carry out their assignments. The billionaire class own most of the media and
much else and see the US as their farm. They have no loyalty whatsoever and outsource
everything to China or anywhere else they can squeeze everything out of the workers. They
want a global dictatorship and admire the Chinese government for the way it can order its
citizens around.
You are exactly right. Trump is doing his part (knowingly or unknowingly, but probably
knowingly) to accomplish the NWO objectives. He was not elected in 2016 in spite of NWO
desires, as most Trump supporters think, but rather precisely BECAUSE of NWO desires.
The NWO probably also wants him to win again this year, and if so then he will win. The
reason the NWO wanted him in 2016 (and probably wants him to win again) was primarily to
neutralize the (armed) Right in this country so they wouldn't effectively resist the COVID-19
scamdemic lockdown tyranny and BLM/Antifa riots.
@Trinity While I tend to agree with you that it looks like a race war, the question is
why is it happening now? If it were just a race war promoted by radicals in BLM and Antifa,
it does not explain the nationwide coordination (let's face it the faces of BLM and Antifa
are not that smart or connected), the support and censorship of the violence by the MSM and
the support of Marxist BLM by corporations to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars.
This is a color revolution in the making and may come to a peak after Nov. 3rd. Whitney is on
to something, there is much more going on behind the "smoke and mirrors" and AG Barr (if he's
not part of it) should be investigating it.
They indicate that powerful agents -- operating from within the state– are
inciting racial violence to crush the emerging "populist" majority that elected Trump to
office in 2016 and which now represents an existential threat to the globalist plan to
transform America into a tyrannical third-world "shithole".
I keep reading such nonsense in the comments above. the so-called populist majority does
not get it, Trump is not placed here to stop the Globalist agenda, that is an electioneering
stunt. Look at what he has actually and really done.
How has he stopped the Globalist move forward?? By the Covid plandemic being
allowed to circle the globe and shut down the US economy and social norm? By moving our high
tech companies to Israel? Giving Israel and their Wall Street allies what is left of US
credit wealth? Draining the swamp with even more Zio-Neocon Swamp creatures in the govt than
ever? Moving the embassy to Jerusalem and all requests per Netanyahu's wish list? A real
anti-Globalist stand? Looting the Federal Reserve for the Wall Street high fliers, who
garnered more wealth during the crash test run of March-April and are sure to make out with
even more for the coming big crash?
Phoney stunts of stopping immigration or bashing China. Really? China is still rising
propelled by Wall Street and Banker funds. I have not seen any jobs coming home, lost more
than ever in US history this year. Only lost homes for the working and middle classes.
How is Populist America standing up for their constitutional rights which is being
shredded a little more each day? Standing up for their Real Interests, which are eroded and
stolen on an almost daily basis by Trump's NY Mafia and Wall Street Oligarchs. Jobs gone for
good and government assistance to the needy disappearing, as that is against the phoney
Republic individualism, that you must make it on your own. Right just like the big goverment
assistance always going to the big money players and banks, remember as they are too big
to let fail!
Dreaming that Trump is going to save White America from the Gobalists is just
bull corn . From whom BLM? Proven street theatre that will disappear on command. I
actually have come to learn that some Black leaders are speaking out intelligently for street
calm and distancing themselves from BLM.
Problem with the USA is the general population is so very dumbed down by 60 years of MSM
– TV s and Hollywood mind control programming that the public prefers professional
actors like Reagan and Trump over real politicians, and surely never chose a Statesman or
real Patriotic leader. the public political narrative is still set by Fox , CNN and
MSNBC .
The deep state is so infiltrated and overwhelmed with Zio and Globalist agents, that it is
now almost hopeless to fix. Sorry to point out but Trump is best described as the Dummy
sitting on his Ventriloquist's lap (Jared Kushner).
Situation is near hopeless as even here on Ron Unz Review the comments are so
disappointing, almost 80% are focused on the Race as the prime issue and supportive of Trump
fakery (not that I support Biden and Zio slut Kamil Harris either).
In sum, beyond putting their MAGA hats on, White America is more focused more on
playing Cowboy with their toy guns, AR's and all than really getting involved politically to
sort things out to get American onto a better track. Of course, this is not taken seriously
as it might call for reaching out to other American communities that are even more
disenfranchised: African- Americans and Latinos.
@David Erickson nted him in 2016 (and probably wants him to win again) was primarily to
neutralize the (armed) Right in this country so they wouldn't effectively resist the COVID-19
scamdemic lockdown tyranny and BLM/Antifa riots.
Covid and BLM/ANTIFA are just window dressing for the financial turmoil. "Look over here
whitey, there's a pandemic" and "look over here whitey, there's a riot" is much preferred to
whitey shooting the sheriff who comes to take his stuff.
Wave the flag and bible while spreading love for the cops, and the repossessions and
evictions should go off without a hitch. Yes, Trump is a knowing participant.
"My impression is that BLM, Antifa and other protestors are well aware of this"
Like all good Maoists the cult white kids of antifa rigidly adhere to the mission statement
and stick the inconvenient truth in the back of their mushy minds. BLM ... is a mercenary.
Can you imagine any other groups rioting and destroying American cities for over 3 months?
Imagine if the Hells Angels or some other White biker gang was doing what Antifa and BLM are
doing? Hell, imagine if it were a bunch of Hare Krishnas pulling this shit off? Hell, I think
the local mayors, police, and other law enforcement employees wouldn't even take this much shit
even if the rioters were Girl Scouts. We are talking 3-4 months of lawlessness, assaults,
rapes, murders ( cold blooded premeditated murders at that) and still the people in charge let
this shit go on night and day. IF the POTUS doesn't have the authority or the power to stop
shit like this from going on then what the hell do we even vote for anyhow? Granted, I see the
reason for not being ruled by a dictatorship, but who in the hell can justify letting these
riots go on? One can only assume that both the republicants and the demsheviks are fine with
these riots because no one seems in a hurry to shut them down or arrest the hombres funding
these riots. Who is housing and feeding the rioters? Who is paying their travel expenses? I'm
sure most everyone in Washington knows who the people are behind these riots but don't expect
any action anytime soon.
This is a class war dolled-up to look like a race war. Americans will have to look beyond
the smoke and mirrors to spot the elites lurking in the shadows. There lies the cancer that
must be eradicated.
That's true to a large degree, but
It is indeed an attempt to liquidate the working and lower middle class. Most of the
American working and lower middle class, obviously not all, is White. So predictably we have
these calls for White Genocide. Agreed and good to see the tie-in with the Coronavirus Hoax
lock downs, too, which also spread the devastation into minority communities under the guise of
public safety.
The one question that remains unanswered is why the major cities were targeted for
destruction. Obviously these are the playgrounds of the oligarchs and have been decimated. We
will learn soon enough.
The Reverend William Barber is the only genuine black leader I am aware of.
And he makes a pointn of not speaking only for blacks, but for all disadvantaged communities,
including poor whites. IMO he is the real deal, and I very much hope he takes the lead in
articulating genuine community values of respect and equality for all, including basics such as
decent health care and food access.
The pressure exerted on someone like Barber by the BLM forces in the media and other
institutions is enormous.
I wish Ron Unz would invite him to write something for the UR.
If after reading the headline you thought that is is one of the Russian universities got
financing from NED and is preparing to teach our grant-eaters "the science of color
revolutions", then you are mistaken.
It is the USA Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, which now offers 101 of
color revolution preparation in a course called "Overthrow the State" for its American students
and the subject of the course is the USA, not the xUSSR space.
According to the course description, it "puts every student at the head of a popular
revolutionary movement that seeks to overthrow the current government and create a better
society." Among questions discussed:
How will you gain power?"
How will you communicate with the masses?
How do you plan to improve people's lives?
How will you deal with the past?
These are the questions that the University course answers. To get a diploma in the course
"how to overthrow the state" you will need to pass 3 tests. It will be necessary to write your
"Manifesto" after studying historical examples and revolutionary thought from Franz Fanon to
Che Guevara, Mahatma Gandhi and representatives of the revolutionary movement. You will also
have to "write a compelling essay about rewriting history" and a "white paper" (white paper is
a kind of business plan, but it is written for an audience that is not related to
business).
Univrsity of Washington and Lee is so
progressive, that in July the faculty voted to remove the name of Robert Li from the name of
the University.
The incident unfolded about 11:30 a.m. local time in the 20600 block of Ventura Boulevard,
as the torrent of cars with Trump supporters was streaming past Woodland Hills, a neighborhood
in the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles, California.
Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) said that a woman, who was not part of the pro-Trump
caravan, but was driving alongside the rally, reported that her tire was damaged after she
heard sounds resembling that of gunfire.
There were reports of a person brandishing a firearm from a balcony near the scene of the
incident, police said, according to local media.
A witness told police that they saw a gunman in the apartment block at Ventura Boulevard.
Police confirmed to the Los Angeles Times that they had obtained a photo showing the suspect
with a rifle on the balcony.
Police sent a SWAT unit to locate the suspect, which led to a protracted standoff that ended
about 5 p.m. when the officers breached the apartment where three people, the alleged shooter
and two others, were believed to have been holed up.
However, police said that that they found no one inside, with the suspect is believed to
have fled the scene and is currently on the run.
A police helicopter was spotted hovering over the scene.
No injuries have resulted from the incident, with the only known damage so far being a
pierced tire.
A day before the incident in Los Angeles, the arrival of a caravan of Trump supporters in
Portland, Oregon resulted in scuffles as Black Lives Matter activists confronted them. Amid the
tensions, a member of the pro-Trump group Patriot Prayer was shot dead. The circumstances of
the homicide are still being investigated.
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america is a very violent society and always has been. the combination of unemployment,
homelessness, drug addiction, hundreds of millions of armed citizens and police over reach is a
heady combination setup for massive violence. the state agencies have done a very good job of
setting up the perfect violent storm... Reply 14 1 billy brown far_cough 15 hours ago Was
peaceful till demographics changed. Even now if you remove the 5 most violent cities which are
filled with non Americans, it is equivalent to Switzerland. The police overreach and support it
gets is going to lead to a righteous war though and thankfully unlike the rest of the sheep, we
are armed for the task. Going to be tough though because wicked DC is supported from all over
the world Reply 5 1 jcbmatua 1 day ago Be careful what you wish for. Los Angeles streets is no
joke. Antifa is bottom of the totem pole, media broadbrush creation. There are far more very
dangerous and lethal packs running around. Very territorial, and armed to the teeth, with a lot
of experience of killing each other. And the killing doesn't end there. It is inside prisons,
too. So... Go ahead and play. Reply 21 1 Show 5 previous replies Bardi Jonssen jcbmatua 11
hours ago As someone who actually walks the streets of downtown Los Angeles, I can say that you
are ignorant, completely. Reply 1 Ahmedan jcbmatua 21 hours ago my question is if they can
shoot at trump caravan, does that mean you can shoot at anti trump caravan? Reply 7 1 WannaBGod
1 day ago Thank you RT for this up to date article. At least you do not spin this into being
Trumps fault. Reply 20 3 huell WannaBGod 16 hours ago Who else's? Reply 4 Show 1 more replies
dontdenythe 1 day ago If any place on earth needed sanctions then it's USA - the whole place is
unsafe and corrupt Reply 24 1 Show 2 previous replies PeterOchoa dontdenythe 20 hours ago
Jamaica has a 99% black population and is viewed as a black paradise. Jamaica's homicide rate
for 2018 was 47 per 100 000 . The USA homicide rate for 2018 was 5 per 100 000 The number of
people shot and killed by police in Jamaica in 2018 was 140 in a country with a population of
2.6 million or 0.54 per 100 000. The number of people of all races shot and killed by the USA
police last year was 991 in a country with a population of 327 million or 0.003 per 100 000.
0.54 vs 0.003 it seems like black lives matter but only sometimes Reply 10 1 Show 3 more
replies PeterOchoa dontdenythe 20 hours ago The 2013 FBI Crime Report expanded homicide table 6
has the number of Blacks killed by whites at 0.77 per 1 million (members of the murderers race)
whereas the number of whites killed by blacks is a staggering 9.83 per 1 million. This means
that means that a white person is about TEN TIMES more likely to be killed by a black person
than visa versa despite the fact that black people comprise only 16% of the USA population.
Reply 5 KarlthePoet 22 hours ago As the US economy continues to collapse, so does society. Wall
Street, the Federal Reserve, and the US government are responsible for America's demise. Fraud,
greed, and deep corruption has destroyed America. Reply 7 Show 1 previous reply Eviscerate
KarlthePoet 15 hours ago In case you haven't figured it out the whole worlds economy is
crashing. The bankers are meeting in France in January 2021 at a meeting called the Great
reset. Please try to keep up. Reply billy brown KarlthePoet 15 hours ago media is complicit as
well. We need to figure our who is in control of it. Then we will see who is behind the
problems Reply 2 Show 1 more replies apothqowejh 1 day ago Well, we're at the bullets stage,
now. Reply 10 FelixTcat 1 day ago Not sure what a "protracted standoff" is . Is that where you
stand outside of an empty building with a bullhorn shouting " come out with your hands up".
Reply 12 1 Vargus_A_MS FelixTcat 21 hours ago Good question. An 'extracted standoff' would be
when you shout at the sniper operative from the front door while letting him 'escape' out the
back. Reply 4 1 J Slade 1 day ago 3 blind mice... Reply 6 1 rick70540 1 day ago no matter who
you are if this is not fake news we are in trouble this is where the media will cause many
deaths they will be laughing not realizing their hatred of trump is and will be like before a
country sinking into the insidious, maladaptive ,incipiant, and terror to control uninformed so
called citizens i just saw where doc rivers owns 3 homes over 10 million apiece he is selling
one of them god bless him the NBA is probably 70 % black only michael jordan is a sole owner
shaq owns 5%of the kings jzee owns 1%of brooklyn 1% 5% that is nothing when none of the blacks
players express wanting ownership imagine the community of green bay own the packers if the
black community in cities where they are in economic distress they would be able to employ a
multitudious amount of people, coordinated with why would people see a video of jacob blake in
kenisio, wi. walking away from police knowing he has a warrent of domestic violence, sexual
assault, ignoring police after wrestling with the police like the WWF being tased , having his
kids in his car, how can any normal person parent no matter what race not see that this is
wrong to not let the law play out to be shot 7 times in the back while totally ignoring the
police as if they did not exist at that moment that is out of touch with reality these
shootings will continue your politicians hatred of trump sink them to a rating of 13% that is
sick Reply 4 1 Jewel Gyn 18 hours ago With millions having weapons, you can expect a sizeable
number of lone wolfs. And millions of reasons why they would open fire. Expecting so many
people to abide by the gun laws is not realistic.
With "first after the post" election rules no third party can succeed.
Highly recommended!
Notable quotes:
"... "major new corporate-free political party in America." ..."
"... "There is only one choice in this election, and that is the consolidation of oligarchic power under Donald Trump, or the consolidation of oligarchic power under Joe Biden," ..."
"... "The oligarchs with Trump or Biden will win again, and we will lose." ..."
"... Only one thing matters to the oligarchs, it is not democracy, it is not truth, it is not the consent of the governed, it is not income inequality, it is not the surveillance state, it is not endless war it is the primacy of corporate power, which has extinguished our democracy and left most of the working class and the working poor in misery. ..."
"... We have reverted to aristocracy; it is now a corporate aristocracy. ..."
"... "It is health insurance companies, it is big pharmaceutical companies, it is big oil, it is food companies and of course, it is the military industrial complex," ..."
"... "we are in a fight for our lives and for future generations," ..."
"... "We don't believe in the lies and the bribes and the contentment in a lousy peace," ..."
"... "How can we have peace in moments like this, when over 90 million of our sisters and brothers are either uninsured or underinsured?" ..."
"... "How can we have peace when on the streets of America right now, black lives have been reaching out, calling out the racism and the white supremacy and the bigotry of a system that was created for black lives to languish." ..."
"... How can we have peace when you got a Congress that goes on recess while millions of people are facing evictions from their homes? ..."
"... "We need a third or fourth entity to step in. The lesser of two evils is still evil," ..."
"... "We are living in a moment of massive imperial meltdown, spiritual breakdown, and we need prophetic fight-back," ..."
Fed up with decades of two-party rule, hundreds of thousands of Americans tuned in for the People's Convention, where they
voted to form a new political alternative unbeholden to corporate power or the military-industrial complex.
The event drew
more
than 400,000 viewers
to its livestream on Sunday, organizers said. It continued to trend on Twitter through more than 5
hours of speeches that culminated in a vote to create a "major new corporate-free
political party in America."
Among the speakers at the
convention were several disgruntled Democrats, from Sen. Bernie Sanders's 2020 national co-chair Nina Turner to a candidate in
this year's primaries, Marianne Williamson. The roster of speakers also included former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura,
comedian Jimmy Dore, and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges, who summed up the spirit of the convention in a fiery
address.
"There is only one choice in this election, and that is the consolidation of oligarchic
power under Donald Trump, or the consolidation of oligarchic power under Joe Biden,"
said Hedges, who also hosts RT's '
On
Contact
.'
"The oligarchs with Trump or Biden will win again, and we will lose."
Only one thing matters to the oligarchs, it is not democracy, it is not truth, it is
not the consent of the governed, it is not income inequality, it is not the surveillance state, it is not endless war it
is the primacy of corporate power, which has extinguished our democracy and left most of the working class and the working
poor in misery.
The People's Convention
was held on the heels of the Republican and Democratic national conventions earlier this month, which event organizers said
"erased
the needs of poor and working people in a time of mounting national crisis."
It ended with a vote to create the People's
Party in 2021, in which some 99 percent of its 400,000 viewers took part.
Williamson, who made an
unsuccessful bid for Democratic nominee in the 2020 race, slammed an economic system that for decades has stranded
"millions
of people without even a life vest,"
concentrating massive amounts of wealth upward and leaving the American middle
class
"completely devastated."
We have reverted to aristocracy; it is now a corporate aristocracy.
"It is health insurance companies, it is big pharmaceutical companies, it is big oil, it
is food companies and of course, it is the military industrial complex,"
she said.
A former Ohio state
senator and a senior figure in the Sanders campaign, Turner told the convention that
"we
are in a fight for our lives and for future generations,"
adding
"We don't believe
in the lies and the bribes and the contentment in a lousy peace,"
quoting from a 1938 poem by Langston Hughs.
"How can we have peace in moments like this, when over 90 million of our sisters and
brothers are either uninsured or underinsured?"
Turner asked.
"How can we have
peace when on the streets of America right now, black lives have been reaching out, calling out the racism and the white
supremacy and the bigotry of a system that was created for black lives to languish."
How can we have peace when you got a Congress that goes on recess while millions of
people are facing evictions from their homes?
"We need a third or fourth entity to step in. The lesser of two evils is still evil,"
said
Ventura, who was elected Minnesota governor on a third-party ticket in 1998 and has since been involved with the Libertarian
and Green parties. Ventura has also hosted RT's '
Off
the Grid
' (ending in 2015) and '
The
World According to Jesse
.'
Harvard professor and
social critic Dr. Cornel West also addressed the event, calling to
"transform the
American empire into a more democratic space,"
while dubbing the two major parties the
"neo-fascist"
and
"neo-liberal"
wings
of the
"ruling class."
"We are living in a moment of massive imperial meltdown, spiritual breakdown, and we
need prophetic fight-back,"
West said, arguing the new party would provide just that.
The Movement for a
People's Party, the organization behind the project, now says it is working to establish local branches around the US, which
will
"form the building blocks of state parties"
and work through the long and
often arduous process of securing ballot access. The group has set a lofty goal for the new anti-corporate outfit, hoping it
will be
"poised to sweep Congress and the White House"
by the next election cycle
in 2024.
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Sinalco
16 hours ago
Sadly, it's the same all over the world - the corporations have bought all politicians... Governments & Politicians no
longer work for us; they work for the highest bidder...
ratfink222 Sinalco
3 hours ago
In the USA it is even worse, CEOs give themselves multimillion dollars raises and bonuses for screwing up and screwing
Americans. Their pay is at least 10,000 times higher than employees. They act like they are laying golden bricks but
they are robbing everybody.
GottaBeMe
venze chern
5 hours ago
This one will be a grassroots organization and has pledged to never accept corporate donations. They are planning to get
online funding from individuals as did Bernie Sanders. It can be done. When they have enough momentum, they will work to
eliminate corporate money from politics. You should watch their convention. I saw all but the first 45 minutes. It was
inspiring.
Juan_More
15 hours ago
There are already other parties running in the election it is just that these also ran parties can't get any traction
against the two main parties. Part of the reason that RT got trouble last time is that they gave airtime to these also
ran parties. Ross Perot made a good try at it but he failed. These also ran parties have to start winning elections at
lower levels and building momentum. The other would be to get a high profile candidate with name recognition like Jesse
Ventura or Oprah
GottaBeMe
Juan_More
5 hours ago
Certainly the game is rigged against alternative parties.
They are not allowed to participate in debates, the media
tries to ignore them, election rules are designed to make it nearly impossible to get on a state ballot. (This is why I
vote 3rd party in the absence of a decent D or R candidate: a threshold of votes can provide a bit of financial relief
and if enough, could mandate ballot access.) I truly hope the People's Party succeeds. I intend to support it as much as
I can.
Alan Ditmore
Juan_More
5 hours ago
No. ONLY ONE viable strategy and that is to get 1000 MAYORS before running any higher, for which you need a municipal
platform.
houses
13 hours ago
Workers' parties are the only alternative to corporate parties.
The British Labour Party was just that, but it was infiltrated by tory fifth columnists and turned into
tory lite, thus depriving the electrorate of any meaningfull choice.
Corbyn is real Labour, and was voted
leader by a landslide of the national membership, but the Blairites in the PLP simply undermined
everything he did, contradicted everything he said, supported tory fake news and lies, and even
campaigned openly against him at the general election. The fact is the corporate fascists will not ALLOW
any opposition to their kleptocratic establishment.
When Violence Is Justified To Defend Civil Society
The Kyle Rittenhouse shootings aren't about property versus lives, but about protecting
norms that the left is trying to tear down. A police officer stands next to a building buns
during a riot as demonstrators protest the police shooting of Jacob Blake on Monday, August 24,
2020 in Kenosha, Wisconsin. (Photo by Joshua Lott for The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Teenager Kyle Rittenhouse's shooting of three men in Kenosha, Wisconsin, has sharpened the
debate between left and right over whether rioting can be justly met with violence. Opinions
about Rittenhouse's attempt to interpose himself and his AR-15 between rioters and buildings in
Kenosha have become entangled with beliefs about the relative value of property versus people,
a juxtaposition dishonestly advanced by the left.
Writing in The Nation , R.H. Lossin captured the Left's point of view artfully,
proclaiming: "Plateglass [sic] windows don't bleed. They don't die and leave loved ones
grieving. They don't contribute to the collective trauma and terror experienced by their
communities. They just break, and then, at some point, they are replaced by identical sheets of
glass."
Leaving aside her comical lack of curiosity about where, exactly, sheets of glass come from,
Lossin expresses a widespread sentiment, and it has a certain indisputable logic: things are
not, after all, people.
The response of too many on the right, unfortunately, has been to take the bait. They're
ably represented by National Review editor Rich Lowry, who argued that the
person-property distinction neglects how people depend on their property for shelter and
sustenance. Destroy or steal it, and you inflict physical harm.
This argument, while true, is the ante in a utilitarian shell game, wherein we must weigh
the value of property against the cost of harming someone who wants to take it. Whether a store
owner can resist people trying to burn down his business suddenly turns on whether he has
insurance. Or his track record in the community, as when the author of the newly released book,
In Defense of Looting (on sale in soon-to-be looted stores near you!) told NPR that
small, locally owned businesses don't do enough for workers, and are therefore no more
deserving of protection than large chain stores. This property versus people framing pushes
conservatives into a losing corner: if you're really pro-life, how can you justify firing a
shotgun at someone who just wants to smash a window and take some of your stuff?
As with so many other debates, conservatives lose the moment they adopt the left's
materialism. What's at stake in these riots is not property, but the civic order. The most
honest, ardent leftists admit as much. Looting is imperative, writes R.H. Lossin, "not because
property destruction has any moral or political value in itself, but because it is coercive. It
is an actual threat to order and a very real threat to capital." Describing looting advocate
Vicky Osterweil's point of view, her fawning NPR interviewer exclaims that rioters "are
engaging in a powerful tactic that questions the justice of 'law and order,' and the
distribution of property and wealth in an unequal society."
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This calls to mind Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's observation in The Red Wheel , his
history of the Russian revolution: "Revolutionary truths have a great quality: even hearing
them with their own ears, the doomed don't understand."
While we quibble with a leftist intellectual vanguard about the relative value of plate
glass windows versus human life, mob rule is being solidified as the new norm in our cities.
The question is not whether this should be met with force because of the inherent damage it
inflicts on property. The question is whether civil society is worth preserving with
violence.
This question answers itself. When civil society disappears, individualized violence is the
only means of resolving disputes. In the state of nature, red in tooth and claw, might makes
right. Withdraw the police long enough, and you get Kyle Rittenhouse. The shame of it is that
so many able-bodied men in Kenosha relied on a boy from Illinois to defend their streets. The
danger is that masses of them will begin to feel similarly responsible for confronting hoodlums
-- as witnessed recently in the streets of Portland.
Rittenhouse is, of course, the left's newest monster. The sleight of hand their spokesmen
play, as they demand his prosecution, is to assert a cardinal ordering of rights in which
personhood trumps property. But this can only arise out of the very civic order they make no
secret about wanting to destroy. The claim that a carjacker's life is worth more than my car
depends for its enforcement on an undergirding agreement about values and mutual submission to
democratic processes that enforce those values. Abolish this order, and we each choose the
restraints that suit us. Am I immoral for shooting him? Who's to say? The law? God? My
carjacker has abandoned the former, and now he's free to seek redress with the latter. No
peace, no justice.
Violence is justified against marauders not because of the relative value of property versus
life, but because of the essential purpose and fragile composition of civil society. For
centuries, we in the West have largely forsaken arms, trusting the state to protect us and
adjudicate our disputes. We've crafted a set of democratic institutions to keep the state, in
turn, at least somewhat accountable. Most of us, at any given time, have a litany of complaints
about the results of our democratic processes, but this is itself proof our civic order works
fairly well. Now the left demands we sit idly by while they smash that order, pleading a
primacy of human life that only finds actualization in its midst. They are "modern barbarians,"
according to political philosopher Willmoore Kendall, characterized by "the wish to live off
our Civilization and benefit from the commitments it imposes upon others, but not live within
them."
"Any civil authority," Andrew Sullivan wrote recently, "that permits, condones or dismisses
violence, looting and mayhem in the streets disqualifies itself from any legitimacy." The
appearance of a makeshift militia in Kenosha, and MAGA truck caravans in Portland, suggests at
least a few Americans agree. What happens when thousands more decide they agree, too? Absent
courage on the part of elected officials to deploy police -- and give them appropriate leeway
to use violence against the violent -- we will return to armed citizen militias. The Second
Amendment will once again be justified for a purpose many thought antiquated.
And people will die. Many more will die, most likely, than would be the case if our civil
officials performed their chief duty. The question is whether enough of them have the moral
fortitude to do so. Or will they stay cowering in their offices, persecuting a Kyle Rittenhouse
when they can, bleating that defenders are attackers, marauders are demonstrators, and war is
peace?
Tony Woodlief is a writer who lives in North Carolina.
I think there needs to be an acknowledgement that problem here is not just the few
depraved thugs that tried to hunt down this kid, it's the lawyers, the politicians, the great
cowardly mass of sad little bureaucrats afraid to defend the people they claim to represent
from a mob, but ready to persecute some poor seventeen year-old for not wanting to die.
Amen. One can argue that the kid should not have been there, but the that inevitably leads
to -why wasn't the government doing it's job?
There, he ended up defending himself from a mob attack.
Leave the kid alone.
I don't much care what happens to this "kid" or his victims. They all pretty much deserve
each other, but you all end up defending the use of violence and deadly force in the streets.
That makes them no better than the petty criminals and gang bangers. Fine. If that's the kind
of place you want to live. Be my guest, but be careful what you wish for.
This pathetic excuse for a human being will probably be acquitted. If I were on the jury,
I'd be tempted to do just that. But he committed a crime or 4 and so due process should be
followed. You all want law and order? That's what law and order is. Arrest, trial, and
verdict.
You want to be left alone. You leave people alone too. You don't go looking for trouble.
That's what criminals do.
False equivalency.
Protecting businesses and protecting your own life from a mob, is not the same as
participating in wanton destruction, arson and looting.
The "kind of place you want to live" is spectacularly irrelevant.
It's the kind of place we have at the moment.
I may wish the rabid doberman charging me was a friendly chipmunk, but that does eff-all when
he latches on my throat.
These mobs could be gotten under control in a single night by municipal governments.
If they continue to not do that, what then?
Leftists live in a kind of la la land, apt to think a stuffed cute tiger at the zoo is the
same as a real TIGER.
These mobs could easily be gotten under control, Leftists fail to understand that when you
concede to a mob, you don't quell the situation, you embolden them. I venture that the
President took less than 0.1 nanoseconds to make that calculation.
So what?
What about the thousands of anarchists and mostly peaceful rioters?
Should they have been there?
Why do leftist aggressors have a right to demonstrate, but not those who'd defend
civilization?
I don't think that's his point. He's saying that because the local officials, and police
won't protect the social order, you will have vigilantes like Rittenhouse. Of course, if
police become too oppressive, and no one steps in, then people will become violent against
them. However, the standard peaceful protests, and elections could have handled the power
structure in Ferguson, Missouri for example.. The local government decided that a way to
gather funds would be to harass citizens (67% of whom were black) and fine them for
infractions. That lead to police oppression. The citizens of that town had the power to vote
out the local government officials, and fire the police force. That they didn't suggests that
the leftist activists there were like the ones in the current riots. They just wanted to
destroy the social order in the name of a larger revolution.
There is no moral consistency to the writer's argument. I suspect that he wants violence
against people that he disagrees with, but would condemn the same action if it occurred for
the same reasons from the other side. It's the intellectual equivalent of saying that I
should get to cheat in a chess match, but you shouldn't, because it's good when I win and
it's bad when I lose.
Don't think property matters go find a nice Cadillac Escalade with fancy rims in the hood
or barrio and try to steal those rims or key that car. Don't think property matters go and
try to rip off a drug dealer in the hood. These NPR Leftists are so full of ****! Lets send
the rioters and looters to their neighborhoods. Lets send them to the mansions of the
Democratic pols who protect them. The rest of us will cling to Our Flag, Our Constitution,
Our Bibles and Our AR's. No negotiation with Democrat traitors and Antifa terrorists! God
bless Kyle Rittenhouse. Us Patriots need to stand by that kid and get him out of jail.
So anarchy is justified if the other side is doing it too? Taking violence into your
hands, as Rittenhouse chose to do when deciding to travel to Kenosha, is pro-anarchy and
against the civic order. If you are pro civil order, your only tool is calling for peace and
deescalation and exhorting that the government's execution of its monopoly on violence is
held to the highest standards.
The only exception against this is when the more powerful legislate violence against the
less powerful - something which cannot, then, be civilly opposed. This is what drove the
American Revolutionary War, for instance. The test, therefore, is whether you are punching
down or punching up.
If the government decides to abdicate its use of violence to enforce basic civil order,
what are we to do? Just let the rioters do what they will?
Our government recognizes the inherent right to self-defense. Even in the best of
circumstances, there's not always going to be a cop around to stop criminals. In those
circumstances, you have the right (and I'd say moral duty) to defend your life, the lives of
others, and your property.
Maybe Rittenhouse was doing just this. Maybe he was just killing people in a vigilante
way. I'll let the courts decide. But in principle, I absolutely support citizens in their
right to step in to defend their lives and property when the cops are unwilling or unable to
do so.
Ah yes. The cleansing violence that restores the right order of things. From a righteous
representative of the 'people'. This mag is a petri dish for revanchist garbage. Luckily for
the the US and the rest of the world, the poor mans Benito will be gone after November 3. I
estimate 27% of the electorate supports this crap. At least one gets the real, anti
democratic and violent underpinning of the so called 'christian conservative movement' uncut
at this place. Clarifying, and illuminating. Also, dangerous, illiberal, anti democratic and
authoritarian garbage.
After ample media jaw-jawing over whether the Democratic presidential nominee would loudly
and proudly repudiate some of the present violent protesting in America's streets, Joe Biden
(if briefly) denounced the hard Left on Monday. "Rioting is not protesting. Looting is not
protesting. Setting fires is not protesting," the former vice president said in Pittsburgh, in
a rare day trip from Delaware; he has rarely traveled since the dawn of COVID-19 in the United
States. "None of this is protesting -- it's lawlessness, plain and simple. And those who do it,
should be prosecuted."
"Violence will not bring change," Biden continued. "It will only bring destruction. It's
wrong in every way. It divides, instead of unites. It destroys businesses -- only hurts the
working families that serve the community. It makes things worse across the board, not better."
And, in the signature line of the speech, Joe Biden summed up a lifetime of political appeal:
"You know me. You know my heart. You know my story. Ask yourself, do I look like a radical
socialist with a soft spot for rioters?"
It was effective. Still, Biden's address Monday hardly tied up all loose ends.
After his speech, fresh polling implied additional trouble for his campaign.
Emerson College , respected in the field, released research that found President Trump down
only two percent in the contest, with a double digit performance with African-Americans and
support among Hispanics nearing forty percent, both surprising. It's one poll, but it's
startling stuff. Since Biden declared his candidacy in 2019, his duel with Donald Trump has
been one-sided.
Despite press incentives to couch the race as anybody's game, Trump vs. Biden so far had had
all the makings of a rout, and without a traditional campaign, even a boring one at that (a
shocking statement on anything that involved Donald Trump). From the president's termination of
internal pollsters last year that showed him to the ex-veep losing badly, to Biden's astonishing,
intimidating comeback in the primary to the Democratic nominee's record of utter political
dominance since crisis opened up in America, it had not been a pretty picture for the White
House.
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But that's now plainly shifted. Some partisans in early summer made the case that
relative administration restraint on violent protests in America's cities (including the
capital of Washington, D.C.) would lay bare the nature of certain left-wing tactics.
Politically, at least, it's beginning to look prescient. While overdone analogies to the mayhem
of 1968 abound -- the Nixon-Humphrey race occurred in a time closer to World War I than the
current year -- it's clear, now, that some devotees of the Democrats are, in fact, undermining
the cause.
Americans are fleeing the
city. Bad news for the donkey: some might argue that's a tacit rejection of liberal
politics. And it's certainly a reality Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien is licking his chops
to exploit. Urban America is almost monolithically controlled by the Democratic Party. And, in
a stunning reversal after decades of urban triumph, the city has become a political albatross.
Biden notoriously made his bones in his early political life as a sensitive ear on the
anxieties, reasonable or not, of white suburbanites. Speculation about senility aside, he would
seem to know what's up.
That's why Biden made a tactical error, in later veering off-message -- after the initial
upbraiding of his own side. He repudiated violence, but then engaged in both-siderism. He
implied the canard that anti-fascist chaos has been met with equal, odious might by the far
Right. It hasn't. The most recent, known victim of political violence was a
Trump-supporting man in Portland, Oregon. Whatever you think of his politics, he was
apparently essentially executed in the streets of a major American city.
Images of burned-out ruins in Kenosha, Wisconsin permeate cyberspace. Add in, for instance,
insane reports (if true) of laser attacks on law enforcement, and it's not hard to see how this
gets dicey in a hurry for the Democrats. The party's monofocus on police killings of
African-Americans, an essential issue, falls flat with the public when there is a failure to
also address the larger toxic brew that is the country's problems right now. So, true to form,
Biden strayed further from his initial path by talking, at bizarre length, about Russian
President Vladimir Putin and the dubious
Russian bounties story, where plenty of regional experts say the dust is far from settled.
"Donald Trump is determined to instill fear in America," Biden closed. "That's what his entire
campaign for the presidency has come down to: fear."
The former vice president then declined to take questions, failing to allay fears that he
only speaks when he absolutely has to.
Senator Harris did not say "riots'. To claim that she did is to promote a clear falsehood.
She said "protests". No American should have a problem with protests.
I don't really like either candidate and was all set to write in another name as a protest
(Andrew Basevich). Here is what changed my mind:
https://cwbchicago.com/2020... Click on the embedded video. This attack was folllowed up
by another vicious attack on a senior a couple of days later:
https://cwbchicago.com/2020...
I am not expecting any miracles in a second Trump term but I am one of many voters who
think Biden is a mere placeholder for the more radical Harris.
Trump's best hope for re-election are a) more examples of urban unrest/local politicians
failing to keep order and b) Biden continuing to show he is losing his marbles, particularly
in a debate. He will probably get both, but he would help himself out by hesitating just a
bit every time he feels like shooting off his mouth, which turns of a lot of people,
particularly wavering voters.
Last July I was invited to lunch at the Middle Temple by a friend of mine, a slightly
eccentric QC who is also a brilliant raconteur. The temple was originally the headquarters of
the Knights Templar and after their disestablishment in 1312 it became the haven for lawyers it
still is. The panelling in the dining hall is covered with the painted coats of arms of, I
think, the original noble families although as my friend said, with a straight face, that it
had been "redecorated" about 1600 pointing out half a dozen suits of Spanish armor, trophies
from the armada, hanging under the high window sills. We talked about his favourite subject -
Brexit then the subject of violent political controversy, including murder, such as America is
now experiencing.
The discussion ranged to the survival of society in such situations and my friend offered
the following intelligence confided to him by a scion of a very old English family; when
violent controversy arose in Britain, from the time before the Tudors, to the present day, the
family rule was that the eldest son was always required to side with and support the opposing
party while the family continued to support the conservative side. That way, as history
proved, the family had its interests somewhat protected, no matter who won. I would therefore
like to suggest, in that same spirit if you like, for the benefit of our blood pressure and
mental health, that SST should consider the possibility, remote if you like, that the
Democrats, BLM, Tlaib, Ocasio-cortez, Sanders and even Antifa supporters may have some valid
points, however vile their expression. In my opinion, such an understanding may lead to a way
forward to the benefit of the country.
On a warning note, I fail to see how America can maintain its current economic and military
dominance in the long term if the tensions now on display are not resolved. I suspect that
maybe Gen. Milleys memo was an admission that such tensions already exist in parts of the armed
services and if unchecked they will have a negative effect on effectiveness. There is no
existential threat to bind us together in common defence at present.
Yes, I know the Democrats are vile scum sucking communists, so what? There are major issues
that need to be addressed if America is going to continue to thrive.
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and under the pressure of the pandemic these tensions are surfacing now. As a local nobel
laureate has pointed out, these communities no longer have the energy and resilience to
bootstrap themselves into a better life so parables about the American dream don't help. They
now have very little to lose and what's worse they see the Amazon's, Googles, Facebooks, AI,
robots and other new technologies and their super rich overlords preparing to permanently
suppress them as China is now doing to its citizens.
Make no mistake, the very rich lead a very scared existence and they will make use of their
political power to protect themselves. The days when labourers - the vast portion of the
population, were valuable enough to be listened to and paid a living wage are long gone. Left
to themselves, our politicians and their rich and powerful backers are going to turn the
majority of the population into serfs again, with credit cards and mobile phones if you will. I
say again, look at China. Our overlords are looking too - with envy!
I think whoever is in power needs to focus on decent jobs, education, healthcare,
infrastructure and of course good public administration. If we focus on buzz words, identity
politics, political phobias like "fascism " and "socialism" we are doomed. I also believe that
despite his weaknesses, President Trump has a good understanding of what is required, a least
better than his Democrat opponents, mired as they are in identity politics.
I agree with your premise that identity politics and nonsensical attention to it should
take a back seat and allow common sense arise from the ashes of today's mindless hatred and
politicized despair.
To be honest, I blame 'democratist' intellectuals of the 60s and 70s for today's problems
who put identity politics at the forefront of every social malady in the world and don't
value common sense and pragmatism at all.
Enjoyed this article.
Well spoken and clear eyed opinion on American maladies.
American congressional leadership looks remarkably like CCCP politburo in the early 80s.
America will do the right thing after they have tried everything else.
$860 billion dollar June budget deficit is not sustainable.
There will be a correction regardless of political nonsense.
I was a young man in the 60s. The social discord then is nothing compared to what we see
today.
I've been at a loss to explain why the political and media establishment hate Trump so
much that they do everything in their power to vilify him. Including an attempted coup by the
national security apparatus. He's done nothing to curb their influence and financial gains.
He's been even more profligate with future generations money that has mostly gone to the
Party of Davos. Why are they so upset and petulant? None of the coup plotters have been
indicted.
The problems with American governance have been building for decades. None of the issues
are new. From the offshoring of the industrial base and the decimation of the working class
to massive transfers of wealth to the Wall St financial elites under the guise of economic
sophistry are all fundamental issues that have been supported by both political parties and
the media-governmental and big business complex.
The American voter keeps voting for the same guys and expect different outcomes. Isn't
that reportedly Einstein's definition of insanity?
"Last July I was invited to lunch at the Middle Temple...."
I am heartned to hear a solid middle class Australian knows just how Americans should kneel
in submission. It certainly looks like a solid half century or more of shit getting rubbed in
thier faces is finally causing red blooded Americans to take action, thus creating a bit of
trouble for the utopian nobility of the pro-globalist order. So good of you to take
notice.
"The deck is stacked against the poor, the blacks and perhaps other minorities and under
the pressure of the pandemic these tensions are surfacing now. "
I agree that many have been betrayed by Barack and the Change We Can Believe In. He was
enabled in this betrayal by:
Biden, 44 years in office: Schumer, 38 years in office: Pelsoi, 32 years in office. At the
state level there are current Governors Cuomo, Murphy, Whitmer, Walz, Brown, Inslee, Newsom.
There are Mayor de Blasio, Lightfoot, Frey, Wheeler, Durkan, Garcetti; just to name a
few.
"the very rich lead a very scared existence and they will make use of their political
power to protect themselves. "
Really? What have victim of American oppression, Ophrah, JZ, Kapernick, the NBA
players,the NFL players, the team owners, been doing all those years they were getting rich?
Opposing immigration so that "The days when labourers - the vast portion of the population,
were valuable enough to be listened to and paid a living wage are long gone." would not be
gone due to devaluation of labor due to a massive influx of people willing to supply labor at
lower wages? How about the UAW, Teamsters, SEIU, AFL-CIO, AFSME? Where o where were they and
who, whom, were they supporting.
I sure hope someone with a better degree from a better school that modest ole me with an
MBA from an elite school - the University of Florida - could chime in and let us know who got
all those donations. Maybe they could enlighten us on what teachers were teaching as budgets
and federal aid increased from, say 1980, to 2016? Anyone have an inkling of how many black
studies/womens studies/gender studies degrees student visa recipients from China were awarded
during those decades? How about the quality of American schools as english as second language
students were mainstreamed into classes - for their benefit, of course? Anyone? Perhaps one
of you from a proletarean school like Yale could chime in? Maybe a PHD economist could tell
us why 10,000+ colleges and universities in America can't turn out enough trained talent so
that US firms would not need a million plus H1B visa's for foreign nationals who are going to
get the jobs American's just aren't getting the 'edumacation' to obtain?
"If we focus on buzz words"
You mean like "decent jobs, education, healthcare, infrastructure"? (Biden's campaign buzz
words for 44 years) Which politicians promoted NAFTA and the TPP agreements? Yes, I know, I
left out McCain, Flake and Romney, along with a few other never-Trumpers who left office
rather than go down in flames in 2018, and of course, the US Chamber of Commerce.
"I say again, look at China. Our overlords are looking too - with envy!"
China, source of the Wuhan flu and a great deal of seditious interference in America, and
hundreds of thousands of deaths due to Chinese fentynol; to that I say: China delenda
Est.
Maybe the problem goes much deeper than politics. The physical fact of polarity is that it
is two sides of the same dynamic and that applies to liberalism and conservatism. One could
go to any society in the world, or in history and there will be those pushing the existing
order and those subscribing to it. What drives society is the energy bubbling up through it,
while the civil and cultural forms it evolves give it structure and direction. Too much
energy and it's anarchy. Too much structure and it's tyranny.
It's like the cycles of the seasons, expansion and consolidation, youth and age.
We have this consumer culture, where all our desires and impulses are promoted in order to
sell things, so there isn't much cultural appreciation for asceticism, from the top to the
bottom. If a little is good, more must be better, yet nature is cyclical. What goes round,
comes round.
How does that conversation get started when we are linear, goal oriented creatures, who think
it's all about the pot of gold at the end of the narrative arc? Nature is so profuse and
dense, because it isn't a monoculture. We better get some sense of the processes by which
nature works, because imposing ours on it is reaching its limits. The future we have been
borrowing against has arrived.
I would like to share this link to the latest post from the Zman blog, a post entitled
"Irreconcilable Differences".
He lays out the Founders apprehensions about "factionalism" and the measures that they
settled on to limit its dangers, Federalism. Well, it didn't last long, as the railroad
lawyer, Lincoln (the 19th century's version of a member of the Borg), and his Yankee
Exceptionalists crushed Federalism into the dust in the War of Northern Aggression. Since
then, the ratchet has turned only in one way, toward the aggrandizement of central government
against functional state/local independence. An interesting post, one worthy of consideration
by the members of this Committee of Correspondance in my estimation.
There's a certain type of European Oligarchy, especially British, who consider some misty
version of the Middle Ages as the platonic ideal of human political economy. What's needed,
as echoed in your post, is some version of the Treaty of Westphalia. Doesn't seem like we
(and I mean the whole of humanity), have a political class that is serious or intelligent
enough to complete such a fraught and Herculean task.
good rant walrus.... i see constantly polarized viewpoints with some who appear unwilling
or incapable of finding common ground with others... everything gets broken down into riding
a red of blue horse ( usa politics) - til both horses die i guess... no thought of finding
middle ground.. it's all about what horse you are or aren't riding.. in an atmosphere such as
this, i can't see it ending well... now, i would like to be wrong and maybe i am reading the
present day picture in the usa in particular wrong.. i hope so..
With all due respect Mr Walrus, do you know anything about our nationwide, open
enrollment, public community college system in the US? I don't believe anything like this
exists in the UK.
This system is why we remain a Land of Opportunity for all. Any continuing "class
divisions" in the US melt in its face, since anyone can, and many do, get a college education
and/or vocational training certificates regardless of color, background financial status or
origins for minimal or no cost.
The ticket to at least the middle class is found through our community college system,
across the nation. Even "hands up" Michael Brown was due to start a community college auto
tech program the day after he decided to get high and stupid the night before. Right in the
exact same neighborhood where he lost his life attacking and threatening a police officer.,
after roughing up a shot keeper and stealing from that store.
Drugs, are the problem in 99% of these police confrontation issues. Much like the induced
addiction the UK had during the Opium Wars with China. Perhaps you can share your knowledge
how to also end our own induced addiction issues in this country. What did China have to do
to get the UK pushers out of their neighborhoods?
A remarkably supercilious and condescending bag of hot air. The notion pushed by the
Democrats and our overseas Anglo betters that Blacks, Latinos, and other minorities are held
down by deliberate or even non-deliberate discriminations is just wrong. These populations
need to get up off their haunches and take advantages of all the opportunities available
here. A lot have done that ,but a sizable portion of the population including a lot of White
kids from privileged background would rather take up a vicious Marxist street fight to simply
take what is not theirs.
Example, we have a remarkably good public high school in this town, TC Williams (the
Titans) Its population is mostly minority since Black and White middle class people send
their kids to private schools which are excellent. The school has a large and well funded
trade school department for; construction arts, commercial electrician, commercial cooking,
automotive skills plumbing ,etc., etc. I have made it a practice to take one course a year
from the trade school department. As a result I can do a lot of things around the house or
could. The teachers all tell ne the same thing. Their classes are very thinly taken by
minority student who say that what they want is real opportunity to study for jobs that will
pay 100k+/year. That opportunity is there for them if they can do the work, and some do.
I must correct you. I am already tolerating a large number of people who I think to be
sentimental, romantic, fools. I tolerate them because they are suitable foils.
Will I accede to the idea that an earthly paradise can be created in which hard work is
not necessary and milk and honey flow freely without application. No, I will not.
Jack:
The media and establishment (swamp) hates Trump for a variety of reasons - boorish,
"outsider" - but the real reason can be boiled down to that Trump actually likes America and
believes in US interests first.
The swamp is NOT pro-America and generally has nothing but contempt and dislike for the
American citizenry.
Gun sales were up 72% compared to this time last year, with first-time buyers leading the
pack. Americans are likely sensing that something is horribly wrong with the rigged system we
are forced to live under.
With social upheaval, political overreach and power grabs, and any number of other issues
2020 has thrown at the public, Americans appear to at least somewhat be willing to fight for
their right to live freely.
The foundation
's current surveys revealed that 58% of all firearm purchases were among Black men and women,
the largest increase of any demographic group . Women comprised 40% of first-time gun
purchasers. Retailers also noted that they are seeing a 95% increase in firearm sales and a
139% increase in ammunition sales over the same period in 2019. –
th e The Washington Post
...The general consensus seems to be that with four months left in 2020, we have yet to see
the true scope and depravity of the elites who claim to own everyone and everything.
Fluff The Cat , 3 hours ago
Americans can see the writing on the wall. Between the BLM/Antifa riots and looting, the
Fed's reckless printing, government's sabotaging of the economy, the destruction of hundreds
of thousands of businesses, tens of millions of lost jobs, a record amount of illegals, H1-Bs
and green cards, institutionalized anti-white racism, a fake pandemic with Gates and
co...
takeaction , 2 hours ago
My UPS driver and my brother in law...both were leaning liberal/dem...now first time gun
buyers. No more Liberal.
Both got Glock's
My UPS driver told me the gun store was out of 9mm...So I reached into the lake and gave
him a couple boxes...
GoldmanSax , 1 hour ago
Good man. Sharing is caring.
dcmbuffy , 24 minutes ago
you're badass- peace brother!!
"If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace; and this
single reflection, well applied, is sufficient to awaken every man to duty."
Good ole' dad rest his soul. I'm down here at my parent's place doing some cleaning and
found his old 1911AI in the safe and enough 45 ammo in the gargage to refight the Alamo.
chubbar , 1 hour ago
Gee, what do you think it might be? Naggers out beating white people? Rioting because a
black was shot resisting arrest? Looting and burning down police precincts? Cops standing
down and allowing them to pull white people out of their truck and beating them half to
death? Antifa essentially doing the same ****?
I mean if you don't think there is a problem then it's your ability to perceive
danger.
sessinpo , 1 hour ago
And sadly, all groups, have been propagandized for decades so that no one goes after the
real culprits. If things were really going to turn around for the positive (without the many
deaths of the ordinary citizenry, all these groups would be going after Congress and the
financial institutions that Government as licensed and authorized.
Both Government and the financial institutions (as well as other corporations) benefit
from a divided public
Ben A Drill , 1 hour ago
Buying excessive amounts of ammo are fine with me. I ran out of room in my second gun safe
so I'm done buying ammo. I will not leave my rifles, pistol or any ammunition just laying
around the house. Everything is locked and bolted down.
TheBigCluB , 1 hour ago
****.. i sleep with 2 loaded weapons and have an AR and a shotgun in corners and ammo
available for each.
Then the closet is full and not to mention under the bed.
What am I afraid of?
not a fvkn thing
Ben A Drill , 1 hour ago
All I have at my bedside is a Ka-bar fighting knife. That's all I really need. I won't
wake up the neighbors is a bonus.
TheBigCluB , 1 hour ago
knives to a gun fight never seem to work well
I like shotguns with 2000 lumen lights and green lasers
a 45 with crimson trace as a back up if I cant get to the AR with laser
I am Groot , 1 hour ago
A knife is better than a skateboard.......
God hates fornicators , 1 hour ago
Depends on skills. Skateboard can be used as a shield against a knife. Although a knife is
indispensable in a survival situation.
Ben A Drill , 1 hour ago
You realize that I go to work 5 days a week. Leaving guns and ammo just laying around the
house worries me more than a home invasion. I know how to fight hand to hand. 8 year veteran.
Not a hero, just a guy who doesn't want to give bad guys free guns and ammo when I'm not
home.
God hates fornicators , 1 hour ago
Get some good hiding places like a hidden safe and an alarm system.
TheBigCluB , 1 hour ago
i understand.. tho i always carry guns n ammo with me everywhere and the wife stays home
or i hide the rest of my weapons behind a false wall i have designed that is invisible to the
untrained eye
Cloud9.5 , 1 hour ago
Buy a steel gun cabinet. They are relatively cheap.
Hey DNC voters, I heard from the reliable sources, most of all from her Illustrious
Eminence Hillary Clinton, that it is the Trump supporters who are marching right behind the
peaceful BLM and Antifa protesters, doing all the burning, beating and looting. They use the
shoe polish on their faces (the contemporary Minstrels) to hide their white supremacist
identities....
As for the 17 year old... lots of statements being made with very little facts.
He was videotaping people looting when attacked. It's on at least two videos.
He was assaulted and also had a Molotov cocktail thrown at him.
I have heard other "stories" up to this point, but nothing that has been proven yet.
After he shot one man attacking him, he stopped and called police from the scene while the
man was being tended to. At the point the rioters can be heard yelling things like "there he
is. Get him!". The kid pro proceeded to run away from the crowd (to police).
Again, this is all on video.
While running from the crowd he tripped and fell. At that point he was assaulted by a man
with a skateboard. Two others closed in, one grabbed the rifle. The kid shot the guy sleep
assaulted him, they guy who grabbed the gun and a guy with a handgun closing in on him on the
ground..
Again, this is all on video.
Killed were a registered sex offender and a felon who beat women.
Shot was a felon in possession of a gun.
It's of now no conclusive link has been made to the kid and any white supremacy group.
These are just facts. Quite a few people here are reporting fantasy.
I have heard additional details from people who were participating in the protest and Law
Enforcement as well. As of this point, none of what i have heard has been substantiated so i
will not share it to stoke the flames of either side.
Before we start with accusations of murder lets look at the actual laws in the State of
Wisconsin with regards to self-defense:
939.48 Self-defense and defense of others.
(1) A person is privileged to threaten or intentionally use force against another
for the purpose of preventing or terminating what the person reasonably believes to be an
unlawful interference with his or her person by such other person. The actor may
intentionally use only such force or threat thereof as the actor reasonably believes is
necessary to prevent or terminate the interference. The actor may not intentionally use force
which is intended or likely to cause death or great bodily harm unless the actor reasonably
believes that such force is necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm to
himself or herself.
(ar) If an actor intentionally used force that was intended or likely to cause death or
great bodily harm, the court may not consider whether the actor had an opportunity to flee or
retreat before he or she used force and shall presume that the actor reasonably believed that
the force was necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm to himself or herself
if the actor makes such a claim under sub. (1) and either of the following applies:
1. The person against whom the force was used was in the process of unlawfully and
forcibly entering the actor's dwelling, motor vehicle, or place of business, the actor was
present in the dwelling, motor vehicle, or place of business, and the actor knew or
reasonably believed that an unlawful and forcible entry was occurring.
2. The person against whom the force was used was in the actor's dwelling, motor
vehicle, or place of business after unlawfully and forcibly entering it, the actor was
present in the dwelling, motor vehicle, or place of business, and the actor knew or
reasonably believed that the person had unlawfully and forcibly entered the dwelling, motor
vehicle, or place of business.
(2) Provocation affects the privilege of self-defense as follows:
(a) A person who engages in unlawful conduct of a type likely to provoke others to
attack him or her and thereby does provoke an attack is not entitled to claim the privilege
of self-defense against such attack, except when the attack which ensues is of a type causing
the person engaging in the unlawful conduct to reasonably believe that he or she is in
imminent danger of death or great bodily harm. In such a case, the person engaging in the
unlawful conduct is privileged to act in self-defense, but the person is not privileged to
resort to the use of force intended or likely to cause death to the person's assailant unless
the person reasonably believes he or she has exhausted every other reasonable means to escape
from or otherwise avoid death or great bodily harm at the hands of his or her
assailant.
(b) The privilege lost by provocation may be regained if the actor in good faith
withdraws from the fight and gives adequate notice thereof to his or her assailant.
(c) A person who provokes an attack, whether by lawful or unlawful conduct, with intent
to use such an attack as an excuse to cause death or great bodily harm to his or her
assailant is not entitled to claim the privilege of self-defense.
So the relevant questions are does the defendant have a duty to retreat since the attack
did not occur in the defendant's dwelling, motor vehicle, or place of business, did the
defendant engage in unlawful conduct to provoke such attacks, and was the force used to repel
such attacks reasonable? These questions must be answered first before dismissing an
affirmative defense and going straight into a prosecution.
I like it how people who claim "Well, they have a criminal record, but it's because they're
poor and lived in crappy neighborhood" don't realise how mightily insulting this is to the
vast majority of people who lived through the same shitty upbringing yet did NOT turn to
crime and violence and tried to play by the rules and the law.
As for the US, the country is indeed doomed to civil war. The election will obviously be
contested, and this will only accelerate the process.
As for that teenager shooting people, this is also inevitable - in the long run, if chaos
increases and the State can't maintain order, people will growingly try to keep some order
and security on their own. Basically, if you're too ridiculously soft on crime for too long,
you ensure that militias will arise to replace the failed State. It's like people never heard
of what happened in the past, for instance some European countries in the early 20th century,
or some Latin American countries in the later 20th.
@72 Gruff
That was some nice shooting, an old west style gunfight and the guy with the faster weapon
lost. If the prosecution pushes for homicide, they are likely to lose, as the kid was
attacked first in both shootings, the first time with a molotov cocktail, the second time
with a skateboard and a .45. Don't bring a skateboard to a gunfight I guess.
I am trying to find the specific laws regarding the kids right to open-carry in Wisconsin
as a citizen of Illinois. Depending on how the law is written will determine if manslaughter
charges will stick. I am originally from the North Chicago area and Kenosha is in practical
terms a suburb of Chicago, although in legal terms that probably doesn't matter.
Regardless of the intentions of the rioters, the civil disorder plays into Trump's hands
as far as the politics of the Midwest goes and could likely lead to a repeat of the 2016
election.
That kid is going to be a hero, a star. Not saying I agree mind you, although as someone said
he does seem to be well-trained and "familiar with his weapon". But I already see people
going all googly-eyed over him, the White Right is going to go nuts.
Perhaps I should have more patience but as of reading half way through these comments nobody
has mentioned that one need be at least 18 years old to carry a weapon in Illinois.
Further, b's euro culturalization or whatever is a bit of a give away that he's not up on the
language of discourse in the first slave republic where there is distinction made between
"riots" (the first race riots were by euroamericans], rebellion, and, not on the program,
revolution, against unjust rule.
Most of us trying to survive and if possible thrive under adverse circumstances made worse
by a predatory system all about "profit" with little concern or consideration for everyday
people.
Within 48 hours of the shooting more and more evidence is coming out that supports a legal
arguement of self defense (im not sure if he will be acquitted, but this is no slam dunk case
for the prosecutor). Him getting such excellent legal defense within a short time also makes
me think that there were organizations already waiting in the wings for a case like this (i.e
armed citizen takes a stand vs BLM rioters) and that they will be flooding his legal defense
fund with money making a conviction less likely (you want justice in the US make sure you
have money first). I suspect this will be pled out to some minor charge (like dangerous
discharge of a firearm or something)
@115 Moe Lester
The boy's "victims" just have the familiar profile of the regime changing troops from
Yugoslavia, Venezuela, Ukraine and all other colour revolutions (very few in Belarus so far).
That the boy was charged with the first degree murder (and five other charges) is only proof
that the "authorities" are protecting their looting, burning and murdering troopers, even
more than the sometimes abusive police. It is the most interesting packing order: the useful
criminals above the police and citizenry. We never find out where those Antifa and BLM
troopers come from, because they are usually recruited and trained in large cities and driven
to the locations of the revolution, together with bricks, iron bars, hand guns and Molotov
cocktails in car boots or bus carriages, not in little towns like Kenosha. Soon the phantom
snipers will appear too, shooting at both sides.
Gene Sharp read all Lenin's revolutionary manuals before he wrote his book. This criminal
fodder of the "revolution'" loses its value only after the revolution. Every revolution eats
its children - I just cannot imagine what kind of money and privilege could quite them
after.
It is going to be the hottest Fall ever in the whole history of North America and totally
deserved. The colour revolution is coming back to its chosenite home .
You guys have got it pretty much on the money regarding K. Rittenhauser. He is on the
clear. It was self-defense and nothing more. The video evidence is incontrovertible. No
matter how the brilliant brains here like to "interpret" them. What is interesting is that he
was obviously the youngest and weakest looking of the vigilantes that night and that fact did
not escape the Antifa thugs. He was singled out thinking he is the weakest in the herd. Wolf
in the sheep's clothing, is what they got.
The kid actually showed amazing restraint that I can only attribute to good training. He
only shot the people who physically threatened him with his life. You can clearly see him
after shooting the armed thug, there is a guy with raised hands in front of him and the kid
spared him. Who can think straight like that when an angry mob/criminals bearing down on
you?
Furthermore, why would he call the police if he was there on a shooting spree? Again,
training and restraint.
Based on the video evidence, nothing points to more than a kid who was there to protect
local businesses. And nobody here is going to make me have any kind of sympathy for a repeat
sex offender, a domestic-violence felon and a thug in violation of his felony by carrying
illegal arms, posing as "BLM protesters". Good riddance.
Question, the rest of the barflies should be asking, is how are these felons and criminals
being recruited into burning and destroying our cities. Why are majority of the "BLM
protesters" white, between 18-24, members of LGBT and many of the them with criminal records,
fully trained in the urban warfare tactics and obviously on a payroll? How is that even
happening?
BLM is a compromised movement and the black communities have woken up to that fact.
Grievances with respect to police, poverty and racism are legitimate but their cause has been
hijacked, as usual. Malcolm X said, the worst enemy of a black man is a white liberal. Still
holds true today.
To karlof1, Jackrabbit and etc....you are concentrating on the wrong individuals. Perhaps
on purpose. Who knows?
Antifa needs to be weeded out. Without exception. For they are not here to be reasoned
with or bargained with. Destruction and chaos is the agenda of their paymasters and
puppeteers and that cannot be tolerated.
I am with you on that a 100%. Also, against racism, police brutality and
discrimination.
But I am afraid your comments regarding the kid and the events in Kenosha cannot be
substantiated based on the video evidence. Maybe we are looking at different videos. Plus,
more is coming out by the hour, that is further proof that these criminals had it coming.
Especially, the pedophile who was goading the vigilantes earlier in the night by telling them
"shoot me Ni**er". Thankfully, He got his wish.
Right now, I am concentrating on the Antifa, wanting them wiped out. They are a force for
evil and are dragging us into a civil war based on the agenda of their paymasters. I am sure
you will agree that cannot come to pass, no matter how bad our problems are. There are other
solutions.
Antifa is a movement/criminal organization designed to distract us from the agenda you are
concentrating in your post. They are my aspirations as well.
I'm sorry but I do not feel much empathy for looters and rioters. Just like I do not feel
much empathy for people who do not pay their rent. I am very happy there are cops around who
put these deadbeats down.
Anyone holding a gun, is going to get what is coming to them; whether that be a bullet or
many many years in jail.
The problem goes way back to Cointel Pro, MK Ultra and the way black areas (and anti war
protesters) were intentionally criminalized and destabilized by drugs produced in labs and
brought in by CIA linked warlords.
The US started off as a colonial society and there is no way to overcome this birth defect
as long as they continue to try and colonize the world. I hear "Chinese" is the new
enemy.
You can bet that "antifa" is not anti-fascist but a secret service agent-provocateur
operation.
No one likes being defined by the way they look, their sex, their age, their sexual
orientation, their parents, the area they live in or by their job.
Managers have been trained in diversity but when you look at board rooms the majority of people
tend to look the same . It is not as bad as in the 1950's but still.
It is an interpersonal problem that can be solved by culture but not by politics.
Despite increasingly large percentages of voters in the USA polled expressing concern with
violent crime on par with covid, the Dems failed to address it during the convention. Thus
the supposed lead Sloppy Joe had is no more. Add to that many USAns see the Dems as overtly
and/or covertly supporting the BLM/Antifa consortium and are none too pleased about it.
Granted the RED-BLUE uniparty is a ruse, but there does seem to be factionalism of exactly
what nature I cannot say for sure.
If I were a gamblin man, I would place bets on a landslide for the Orange Man Bad.
Some of the more more refined EU types have expressed exhasperation at the notion that
USAns have access to firearms and that is in some way barbaric. Taken more broadly,
possession of weapons systems has throughout history has been a great equalizer (amongst
other things). I often ask the the broader question of 'who gets to own and operate weapons
systems'....
In the case of the USA, guns are deeply embedded in the culture. As the final stages of
unravelling begin, firearms will play a crucial part. The biggest gun-buy in history is
happening right now. A small group of lefties advocating that armed goons confiscate weapons
from citizens is more of the fantasy or "magical" thinking mentioned by posters above.
What needs to be understood is that everybody in the USA(minus the pseudo pacifistic
lefties) owns firearms, criminals included. With the police castrated there is very little
deterrent left, and violent crime is doubling and growing from there. To all the posters who
are decrying self defense and justifying the violence and destruction on the part of the
mostly peaceful protests: There comes a time when reality kicks in. It may be when you are
personally threatened, or someone of something nearby you is harmed. All the whining and
keyboard exhasperation will not help you or keep you safe. If you have nothing to worry
about, then that is great, but perscribing behavior to people who's situation you neither
relate to nor understand is misguided and a bit pompous. In reality without defense you are a
victim.
I keep hearing all the outrage about the young man who engaged in CQB and managed to
escape after dispatching the assailants. I wont wade into this (I'm with Gruff et.al.) but I
will note that if you dont wanna get shot it's best to stay outta the way. Nobody in the
situation is innocent. Watch as these situations unfold around the nation more and more, and
you will note that fortune favours the prepared. If it matters so much to the keyboard SJWs,
then go out there and express your outrage.
No? That's what I thought. Then your options are slinging words, or just STFU.
The legitimate state organs appropriately trained to use force to stop violence (police,
national guard, etc.) are being prevented from acting by Democrat politicians in the places
where the riots and mob violence is occurring. So others are now taking up that role.
The rioting is occurring exclusively in areas controlled by the left, therefore the weight
of evidence is against your assertions.
I'm not a young man and I used to be a liberal, for all the usual reasons that appealed to
classic US liberals. What you fail to grasp is that the people behind this have nothing in
common with classic liberals, and those who once sought to bring the benefits of society to
more people, to make a more inclusive, fair and just society, will be unable to ever make
common cause with them. The useful idiots out burning cities seek rather the destruction of
the society, not the improvement of it. They are manipulated into this so as to remove any
remaining coherent social identity, leaving only fragmented, isolated and weak tribal groups,
and thus there will be no way to oppose the consolidation of power at the top. The foolish
Democrat officials in these states are also useful idiots, thinking perhaps this is just a
tool to win power in the next election, but it is far more than that. They will all
ultimately find that they have been conned into destroying their own worlds for the benefit
of others, but that will be too late.
Of course normal left-leaning people don't condone rioting and looting, they are simply
too slow to understand what is happening, and to wedded to their "team" ideology to adapt
rapidly enough to avoid the trap.
Looting and arson are recurring events within what the Situationists called the
"overdeveloped world." They are the mark of overdevelopment, of the quantitative expansion
of production outstripping the qualitative transformation of everyday life, of desires
spinning their wheels, without traction in the elaboration of needs. The proximate causes
may vary, and are usually to do with the thuggery of the police and the indifference of the
state.
What the Situationists point to is the consistency and persistence of what follows, the
twin forks of seize it all, or burn it down. Sometimes, the riot takes a different form,
and passes toward rebellion, even toward revolution, or perhaps those in the middle of it
think it does. This is why May '68 has a special place in not only the theory but also the
mythology of the Situationists. It was more than a riot. It was the fabled general
strike.
There is a lot that is missing from Debord's account of Watts: The thirty dead, the
thousand injured, the four thousand arrests. Still, it might have interested him that later
investigations upheld his hunch that while the riots were leaderless they were not without
organization. Impromptu meetings in the park after dark coordinated movements, for example.
Riots are neither irrational, spontaneous outbursts, nor the secret workings of some
conspiracy or other.
They, are rather, the working out of an inner tension in commodified life.
Reactions from all sides were most revealing: a revolutionary event, by bringing existing
problems into the open, provokes its opponents into an inhabitual lucidity. Police Chief
William Parker, for example, rejected all the major black organizations' offers of
mediation, correctly asserting: "These rioters don't have any leaders." Since the blacks no
longer had any leaders, it was the moment of truth for both sides. What did one of those
unemployed leaders, NAACP general secretary Roy Wilkins, have to say? He declared that the
riot "should be put down with all necessary force." And Los Angeles Cardinal McIntyre, who
protested loudly, did not protest against the violence of the repression, which one might
have supposed the most tactful policy at a time when the Roman Church is modernizing its
image; he denounced "this premeditated revolt against the rights of one's neighbor and
against respect for law and order," calling on Catholics to oppose the looting and "this
violence without any apparent justification." And all those who went so far as to recognize
the "apparent justifications" of the rage of the Los Angeles blacks (but never the real
ones), all the ideologists and "spokesmen" of the vacuous international Left, deplored the
irresponsibility, the disorder, the looting (especially the fact that arms and alcohol were
the first targets) and the 2000 fires with which the blacks lit up their battle and their
ball. But who has defended the Los Angeles rioters in the terms they deserve?
We will. Let the economists fret over the $27 million lost, and the city planners sigh
over one of their most beautiful supermarkets gone up in smoke, and McIntyre blubber over
his slain deputy sheriff. Let the sociologists bemoan the absurdity and intoxication of
this rebellion. The role of a revolutionary publication is not only to justify the Los
Angeles insurgents, but to help elucidate their perspectives, to explain theoretically the
truth for which such practical action expresses the search.
Haiti, as far as the US is, or has been, concerned is a social laboratory for the US think
tanks.
A self sufficient country in 1985, in many respects, was turned into a Neo Liberal
Paradise, after a successful color revolution ousted a nationalist and popular leader.
Neoliberal provisions were enacted. no more import permits were neccessary, plus reduction
of custom duties opened the contry to uncontrolled imports.
New tariffs made it cheaper to import candles than their components.
would you believe?
Haitian productors were doomed to extintion.
Since then, HAiti has been into a downward spiral punctuated by assasinations, armed
robberies, house invasions, and a failing law and order apparatus.
The peasant class was destroyed since importation of foreigh goods was no longer
controlled. Cities swelled with indigent farmers looking for work that was, and stil is,
nonexistent. Local factories were vanquished by imported goods and so are urban workers.
A considerable amount of arms and munitions was and is still"smuggled"? in the country.
Indigents are somehow armed and banditry is common place.
In their desperate attempt to live, those trying to survive extract money and blood
through robbery, murders, kidnappings, you name it.
The attitude of the 1% in the US is akin to what they have perpetrated in Haiti on their
own citizens. Progressive poverty, loss of economic opportinities, expatriation of work spots
and favoritism of Us Government towards the wall street parasites.
This will generate the same turmoils as a similar policy did to Haiti.
Haiti was the laboratory (expendable niggers) were the experiment has been validated.
From the linked Romanoff article:
A few good schools or universities in an entire nation do not make it a world leader, the
proof residing in the highest level of functional illiteracy of all major nations (25%) and a
truly legendary level of ignorance
A similar fraction of the US population as MAGA hat-wearers, no? I wonder how much overlap
there is between the two groups...
"... 'Mostly peaceful protests' are like the 'moderate rebels' in Syria - propaganda constructs that do not exist in the real world. The people who owned the burning cars and whose businesses were destroyed will not be relieved by such phrasing. ..."
"... Joe Biden's attempt to swing Republican voters to his side has failed . At the same time he has rejected many of the issues progressives favored. This will hurt the election turn out the Democrats will need. Add to that the unrest which plays into Trump's hands. The Democrats who fear that are right ..."
"... he sole focus on Antifa as the problem Imo just shows the power of the media and politicians to shape the narrative. ..."
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler said Wednesday he hasn't done enough to focus on damages caused
by some city protests over the last three months and the fallout from coronavirus. He
called on the community to help him come up with better solutions to city issues.
During the last months the Magnificent Mile in Chicago
was looted - twice. Yesterday new riots and looting occurred in Minneapolis after a rumor
of another police killing incited some people :
Police Chief Medaria Arradondo tried to dispel rumors that spread on social media about the
death of the unidentified Black man, who was suspected in a Wednesday afternoon homicide
and fatally shot himself on the Nicollet Mall as officers approached several hours later.
His death, which was captured on city surveillance video and released by police within 90
minutes, nonetheless sparked protests and unrest in the heart of downtown.
The video confirmed the police account of what happened and showed the man glancing over
his shoulder before pulling out the gun and firing, then collapsing to the ground as a
half-dozen witnesses ran away with their hands in the air. The officers, one of whom had
his gun drawn, shooed a remaining witness away and kicked the suspect's gun away before
performing chest compressions.
Last Sunday police in Kenosha, Wisconsin proved to be too incompetent to arrest a man
they had already had under control . They shot him 7 times into the back when he was
trying to get into his car. Nights of rioting followed. Buildings were burned down and businesses
were looted.
Yesterday a white teen with a semi-automatic weapon had the stupid idea to join others in
'protecting the businesses' in Kenosha from further looting. He ended up killing two people
and wounding more after he was attacked by some of
the rioters. The teen was arrested and he is facing charges but I doubt that he is guilty of
more than sheer stupidity and manslaughter in self defense.
The cycle of violence will likely continue. There are too many racist in the police and the level
of U.S. police training seems to be abysmal. There is also too much tolerance for violence
within the general community.
Politically this plays into Trump's law and order campaign. The Democrats have lauded
Black Live Matters and the protests but have hardly spoken out against the rioting and
looting that comes with them.
This CNN chyron from yesterday
evening is an expression of their position:
'Mostly peaceful protests' are like the 'moderate rebels' in Syria - propaganda
constructs that do not exist in the real world. The people who owned the burning cars and
whose businesses were destroyed will not be relieved by such phrasing.
Joe Biden's attempt to swing Republican voters to his side
has failed . At the same time he has rejected many of the issues progressives favored.
This will hurt the election turn out the Democrats will need. Add to that the unrest which
plays into Trump's hands. The Democrats who
fear that are right :
"There's no doubt it's playing into Trump's hands," said Paul Soglin, who served as mayor
of Madison, on and off, for more than two decades. "There's a significant number of
undecided voters who are not ideological, and they can move very easily from Republican to
the Democratic column and back again. They are, in effect, the people who decide elections.
And they are very distraught about both the horrendous carnage created by police officers
in murdering African Americans, and ... for the safety of their communities."
Trump, of course, is positioning himself as the antidote to urban unrest. "So let me be
clear: The violence must stop, whether in Minneapolis, Portland or Kenosha," Vice President
Mike Pence declared in his Republican convention speech Wednesday night, with Trump looking
on. "We will have law and order on the streets of this country for every American of every
race and creed and color."
Republicans had chided Joe Biden and other Democrats for not calling out the violence in
the aftermath of the Blake shooting. Biden immediately addressed the shooting, but didn't
condemn the ensuing violence until Wednesday in a video posted on social media.
Despite Trump's failure to bring the pandemic under control his job approval rating
continues to be high
while Biden's lead in the polls
is shrinking . The United States seem to have a higher tolerance for avoidable death by
guns or viruses than other societies have. It is not the only point that makes it exceptional .
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thanks b... it really looks like an empire in fast decline.... i don't believe the usa
constitution took into consideration the idea of corporations... also as you note - the
tolerance for violence or death as with covid is indeed much greater... i guess more people
have to have guns as it is in their constitution, and so much for public medicare... it is
like a dream about public finance and somewhere way off in the distant future... i don't
believe it is going to matter who wins this coming election, as the divisiveness is so
pronounced, it will be hard to build bridges.. it seems like no one is interested in building
bridges between the opposing sides either... all the politicians are mostly looking after
corporations and special interest lobbies - israel and etc. etc... sad kettle of fish...
Very fair analysis, I enjoyed this piece. You are absolutely right, the terrible training
and general ineptitude of the police is at the core of the problem. The protesters recognize
this and there are many salient examples to fuel the outrage. However, the solutions they
call for don't address this root problem and alienate many moderate voters. Defund the
police? This will make the police more responsible? The whole thing is a mess with no real
solutions in sight.
In my opinion, the problem is the hiring and personnel practices in US police departments.
Police officer is a critical job, you must often make snap judgments in tense situations, and
you have the power to do violence to others. But police officers are paid similarly to car
mechanics, not even as much as many private security guards! The most responsible and wise
Americans do not become police officers, they pursue other careers where their talents are
better rewarded. Then, if a great person makes it into the police force, there is no way to
distinguish themselves by excellent performance and rise quickly through the ranks. The red
tape in the personnel system is suffocating. The best officers leave for private
opportunities, leaving the police force to make do with the rest.
Given the US political system, where decisions are made based on which simple slogan can
rally the crowd, I don't see any hope of this improving. It would take a redesign of the org
structure and personnel management of the entire system. Far more likely that leaders make
some symbolic, token changes so they can claim to have "done something." The dysfunction of
the US government is starting to be noticeable in almost every area...
Thanks for this insightful essay and thanks for the last link to the chilling must read
essay by Larry Romanoff on the Unz Review. I simply don't know the answer to the multiple
problems faced by the US but isn't that the job of the professional politicians? It seems
none would even begin to address any of the mind blowing issues raised by Romanoff. In a
previous era many of those crucial issues would be career ending third rail, touch and die.
Times have been forever changed by events. I have the feeling the general populace won't put
up with the present archaic and parasitical structures for long. Hang on for a bumpy
ride.
The conclusion is unfortunately correct, but t he sole focus on Antifa as the problem
Imo just shows the power of the media and politicians to shape the narrative. Who do you
believe is more dangerous, Antifa or White Supremacist militias? The Feds are well aware that
WS groups are using the protests to destroy property and trying to set off a race war, but
the media and politicians are remarkably silent about the role of White Supremacists in the
violence, unless something happens that is too hard to ignore, like 'Umbrella Man.'
... as for antifa, what exactly have they done? who are they? is there an
organization?
My pet theory is that they are an off-shoot of JDL. Ready to turn any legitimate protest into
a riot for the evening news. Because Zionists need to protect the Zionist asshats that run
USA/Empire.
That's why they're (still) so mysterious. That's why the US government can never seem to
understand who they are. Antifa are the domestic "White Helmets" ready to support YOUR
protest. Except not.
the problem is
a. the hiring and personnel practices in US police departments by sabre <= @ 5.
b. the inner economic contradictions arising from secular decline. <= vk @ 7
c. media focus on Antifa <= according to B.
d. events and failures orchestrated to heightened economic oppression <= norecovery @
21
e. Business as usual while the country burns AU1 @ 34
f. repressive authoritarian state militancy and Trump @ 37..
g. All three shooting victims <= self-defense<= white, <= felons. gm 48
h. A JDL offshoot.. Jackrabbit @ 58
I say the problem of "unsatisfied rising discontent" is to be expected When anyone in a
democratic society fails to be heard, by all concerned, little recourse remains to those with
a grievance but to ....XXXXX
A very strong constitutional issue exists in these riots =>. The First Amendment
<=was not in the Federalist construct of Aristocrats and the corporate empires they owned.
The effort to control America is hidden deep inside the words and court interpretations since
the Constitution of the United States of America was imposed on Americans.
The Aristocrats in America wanted a British Colonial government without British
Aristocrats ; they wanted a government with a strong army so it could protect them from
Angry Americans! The Aristocrats and their corporations still in America after Britain was
defeated wanted to control the profits that could be made in America, much in the same
fashion as the British Colonial Government had helped its corporations, investors, and
bankers before the war to control who got the profits that were made in America.
The Federalist wanted a government the Aristocracy could use to exploit America ;
the federalist wanted to govern the behaviors and direct the toils of those in America in
such a way that only one federal government could do. In fact the so called Framers wanted a
royal government, tried to make George Washington, King.
Remember the Declaration of Independence was in 1776 , the America states defeated
the British Government in 1778, the Constitution of the USA did not come into being until
1788. During that 10 years John Hanson was the first President of the United States of
America.. Samuel Huntington, Thomas McKeeny, and others were President of the United States
of America. The British were gone, George Washington was appointed general to remove the
British corporations, Investors, and bankers from America, that was accomplished in 1778. The
American Aristocrats wanted to own America. George Washington was selected to be the general
of the Army because his wealth made him famous enough to attract mercenaries to fight the
British at Valley Forge. At the time the Constitution in Philadelphia was developed, George
was in Mt. Vernon.
The Aristocratic Convention in Philadelphia, was a meeting, designed to terminate
involvement by the newly emancipated American in American politics. The result of the
Convention in Philadelphia was a document which outlined how control of America could be
returned to the American Aristocrats, a document which would make the Aristrocrat powerful
again, the same Aristocrats who had previously used the British Government, to control
Americans. Check it out what were George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, and the
like doing in America while America was a British Colony (before 1776)? The Aristocrats
wanted a government that would allow America Aristocrats to direct and a government they
could use to control Americans.
The anti-federalist tried to refuse ratification of the denial to be against the
peoples involvement in their own government but the best the anti-federalist could do
against, the strong powers behind the Constitution, was to force the Federalist to add to
their regime change Constitution ten basic promises, <=these promises were in the form of
amendments and are known as the Bill Of Rights [BOR]: Anyway the first amendment of the BOR
reads.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting
the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right
of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of
grievances.. But, but but it does not say Congress will make every law necessary to
enforce the protection of the first Amendment.
So why can't those who are protesting be allowed to live so they can be heard? Why can't
their grievances be listed and placed on the national ballot? Let everyone be heard.. explore
every aspect of their concerns and accommodate those with a Grievance to rejoin our
democratic society, ask the nation to settle the issues dissenters have ? When the
Aristocrats use the government to impose their will on risings, they do so by eliminating
bystander awareness and deny everyone but a few to be involved; worse, they allow media to
promote, one side of the issue (no must carry rule).. this narrowing of participants happens
until nothing remains but conflict between bottom up grievance . . and top down power.. and
believe me that is the goal.. to divide and conquer.
"... BLM and Antifa having corporate sponsers makes them a little fascist, too, not to mention ideologically intolerant. The daughtets and sons of the spoiled upper-middle class. ..."
"... he sole focus on Antifa as the problem Imo just shows the power of the media and politicians to shape the narrative. ..."
BLM is not a protest movement, it's not even a civil rights movement. It's a Trojan
Horse funded by sinister globalist troublemakers
BLM is blamed for Antifa violence.
The Democrats and the media have encouraged this madness from the very beginning by
praising the protests while downplaying the magnitude of the damage.
That the rioting helps Trump and that establishment Democrats (Republican-lite)
support Trump is completely overlooked.
But it will change and change won't be pretty. The state will deploy all its assets
to reclaim its monopoly on violence. You can bet on that. Security will be reestablished
with brute force and an iron fist. A Crackdown is coming and the innocent are going to be
crushed along with the guilty.
Just as I said @Aug28 13:47 #199. Antifa+militia violence are a prescription for a
stronger police state.
@102 Karlof...i agree, your analysis is spot on, but where does a leftist put their
political energy when the two options are right-wing fascist and right-wing fascist-lite?
BLM and Antifa having corporate sponsers makes them a little fascist, too, not to
mention ideologically intolerant. The daughtets and sons of the spoiled upper-middle
class.
I would love a more sharing society, don't know how to get there. USA is probably a lost
cause, and as VK states, that is probably a good thing for the rest of the world.
Here is something to chew on. I live in portland and the first time I saw Antifa spring up
was back in 2009. Rose City Antifa organized a boycott of a local cooperatively owned bike
shop. They plastered the town and all the bike racks in the city saying to boycott the worker
owned business. What was it's crime you ask?, to get such treatment. The bike shop hosted a
meeting and speakers forum held by Portlanders for 911 truth. Draw your own conclusions
here.
What many are doing here, in the heat of battle, is forgetting that this is not a "civil
war," it is class war. The ruling class is pursuing its classic tactic of "divide and
conquer." Those divided are under the influence of the propaganda of the ruling class, and
continue to damage each other, rather than their true enemy the ruling class. This must be
made clear, in order to unite the working class, that they may exercise there true power and
crush the ruling class. There is no other way.
The conclusion is unfortunately correct, but t he sole focus on Antifa as the problem
Imo just shows the power of the media and politicians to shape the narrative. Who do you
believe is more dangerous, Antifa or White Supremacist militias? The Feds are well aware that
WS groups are using the protests to destroy property and trying to set off a race war, but
the media and politicians are remarkably silent about the role of White Supremacists in the
violence, unless something happens that is too hard to ignore, like 'Umbrella Man.'
... as for antifa, what exactly have they done? who are they? is there an
organization?
My pet theory is that they are an off-shoot of JDL. Ready to turn any legitimate protest into
a riot for the evening news. Because Zionists need to protect the Zionist asshats that run
USA/Empire.
That's why they're (still) so mysterious. That's why the US government can never seem to
understand who they are. Antifa are the domestic "White Helmets" ready to support YOUR
protest. Except not.
actually, there is NO such thing as "Antifa". Antifa is as made up as ISIS/Ali Queda is.
Antifa is a vague term loosely applied toward a group of people who are fed up with all the
fake "Capitalism" and are willing to fight against it.
Some may even not be "Antifa" but fake "Antifa" created for propaganda purposes. Exactly how
the notorious "red brigade" in Italy who kidnapped Aldo Moro and killed him. And the Red
Brigade was supposed to be Communist also; finny that, since Aldo Moro was about to create a
coalition with the Communists and he is prevented from accomplishing that by
"Communists".
But b is essentially correct, the average American moron™ is now fed up with all the
riots and looting and is siding with trump. But that's only because the Average American
moron™ (I have trademarked it, so dont try to steal it) is so stupid, they cannot even
think about anything, they live in a very simple good vs bad world.
"As I was riding here in this city I noticed a lot of damage. It doesn't reflect my son
or my family. If Jacob knew what was going on as far as that goes, the violence and
destruction, he would be very unpleased," she said.
Related: Blake, 29, was shot in the back by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in a
videotaped incident that has sparked protests.
She encouraged everyone to "examine your hearts" amid the civil unrest.
"We need healing. As I pray for my son's healing, physically, emotionally, and
spiritually, I also have been praying even before this for the healing of our country," she
said.
"My family and I are very hurt and quite frankly disgusted," Jackson said in a
televised interview.
"And as his mother, please don't burn up property and cause havoc and tear your own
homes down in my son's name. You shouldn't do it. People shouldn't do it anyway, but to use
my child or any other mother or father's child, our tragedy to react in that manner is just
not acceptable," she added.
Jackson also addressed US President Donald Trump, apologizing for offensive remarks
aimed at him by an unnamed family member, as well as for the extreme violence perpetrated in
her son's name, but without her family's support.
"And also, for President Trump, I'm sorry I missed your call because had I not missed
your call, maybe the comments that you made would have been different. And I'm not mad at you
at all. I have the utmost respect for you as the leader of our country," she
said.
Frankly, there is a lot of ominous messaging going on. Watched a "Lincoln" something or
other PAC warning us that if Trump wins, America will end. Worse yet, Trump has been warned
that, regardless of the election results, he will be removed from office, by force if needed.
The presumption that a Trump victory can only be due to Russian hacking (can't find the story
in question). Insanity is now the norm.
I read that Blake story today; he was walking back to his car and was apparently unarmed
when two officers with their guns drawn pursued him and shot him in the back in front of his
three sons. I don't know what they thought they saw that they might believe justified that
level of force, but I daresay we will hear the official story soon enough. Blake was not
killed, and is in stable condition in hospital.
From 9000 miles away, I hope readers will forgive me for making two observations about the
Kenosha shooting of Jacob Blake.
(1) I don't know for sure about American Police recruitment practices, but the old fashioned
requirement here was that Police had to be Six feet tall or more and of a fitness and demeanour
that was intimidating. Potential offenders knew that they were unlikely to be unscathed if they
decided to argue with a member - that is without firearms.
Those requirements were modified many years ago to cater for "gender equality". While
fitness standards are still very high, there is nothing very intimidating about a five foot
something police person. This has led to more than one offender deciding to argue and in the
case linked below an irate female anti - masker allegedly smashing the head of a female police
person into a concrete pavement several times before she was subdued.
Folks, over here, in my opinion, this is going to end in more Police shootings because other
options, like physically subduing an offender are no longer available. My guess is that
occupational health and safety considerations may eventually lead to higher physical police
standards.
And Jacob Blake? Why wasn't he flat on the ground within seconds of deciding to argue with a
Police officer? He walked unimpeded around the car, with a Policeman scuttling behind him
pathetically clutching at his shirt tail, then he appeared to reach in to his car - for
what?
(2) There are reports in the media, complete with video and sound, of various citizens of
Kenosha allegedly firing warning shots to deter arsonists, rioters and looters. There are also
allegedly video and sound of rioters threatening white property owners.
I am concerned that at some stage a potential victim is going to decide, rightly or wrongly,
that enough is enough. They will shoot to kill and depending on their capabilities and the
situation, a new tragedy will unfold. I don't know enough to judge the temper of the community
but the current situation has a number of outcomes that are not going to be pleasant for the
black community or the protesting groups. I am reminded of the anti - Chinese riots in the
Australian goldfields from 1857 - 1861.
What strikes me in summer of 2020 is absence of any police, or none in view at all when
folks have been blasting bull horns waking people up in middle of night by agitators, in
residential areas of USA.
Why are they not there, who are making these decisions banning police: when agitators invade
residential neighborhoods for sole purpose of harassing and, I think, trying to goad residents
into attacking them?
This is a basic police function: To Keep The Peace.
Following Rodney King verdict, what happened in South Central LA is instructive.
Then police chief on purpose ordered officers out of the area. Asian businesses
destroyed.
Area, destroyed: $4 billion in damages.
Asian business owners did use guns on the rioting mobs.
Walrus, I recommend you view the police cam video in this RedState link - two minutes of
trying to subdue a suspect after the taser failed, when two police tried to take him to the
ground, but the suspect did break away and run to his car, grab his gun, then shoot the two
policeman and actually finally drive off all of this taking place within two minutes along a
very busy Highway 33.
Walrus,
IMO, there is truth to what you say about the size and strength of America law enforcement as
well as the reasons for the trend toward smaller and less physically capable.
That said, I don't see it as the cause of the Blake incident. First, Blake, like most of
these guys who become "victims" of alleged police misconduct, is a convicted violent felon who
has in the past used guns to assault and threaten people. He also attempted to pull a gun,
while in a vehicle, on cops in a previous incident. Second, he had warrants out for his arrest.
So a violent felon with motivation to not be arrested. Don't listen to the BLM activist
"witnesses", lawyer Crump or the liberal media. Blake wasn't just there to break up a fight
between two women. And he couldn't just leave due to the warrants. Police knew exactly who he
is as what he is all about.
Police tased Blake when he wouldn't comply and he just shook it off (drug induced
numbness?).
Police do not want to get down on the ground wrestling with someone like Blake because
someone like Blake could - and would - get ahold of a police pistol or other weapon during the
tussle. Wrestling with a dangerous perp is, well, dangerous. Why should police put themselves
at that kind of risk? For the likes of a Blake?
Blake apparently had a knife (that he grabbed from the car?). There is a second video and
police can be heard telling Blake to drop the knife. A witness also says that police were
shouting at Blake to drop the knife. The fist video shown by Crump, BLM and lefty media - like
the Floyd video - was edited and incomplete. These people are quick to start the info
operation. Crump was on this case before the blood was even dry. Too many people are way too
ignorant and way too gullible when it comes to these incidents.
Did you watch the Highway 33 police-suspect shootout video posted here, walrus. We have a
lot of freedoms in this country, which include the freedom to be very, very stupid.
We assume there will be personal responsibility and shared mutual conduct standards. This
is our country's biggest weakness because both are not universal, and we don't preemptively
demands it upfront with a gun; but occasionally need to reinforce it with a gun
To put a coda on Eric Newhill's last point, the first thing to be done is for
opportunistic, a$$hole politicians of a certain political party to stop jumping to immediate
and incendiary conclusions in their public pronouncements. This is unquestionably a tacit
invitation to convene in the streets and tear things up/burn things down. Governor Evers'
statement was a blatant political ploy - " While we do not have all the details
yet , what we know for certain is he is not the first Black man or person to have
been shot or injured or mercilessly killed at the hands of individuals in law enforcement in
our state or in our country." This is irresponsibility of the highest order from a public
official. And he wasn't the only one. They ALL did it. Not a single Democrat even called for
calm let alone denounced the outright destruction. They can't bring themselves to do it, so
it will keep happening. By their own standards these days, "silence is violence" so it's fair
to say they condone and invite this lawlessness.
As to the police, I can't immediately comment on this particular incident, but I will
agree with the notion that their efficacy has very likely been hampered by lack of physical
aptitude standards in recruitment and hiring. I've known a few black guys from the ghetto who
always said they'd rather run up against a linebacker cop than a 5'2" female because the
linebacker is less likely to rely on deadly force. He's more confident in his ability to
control a situation without resorting to his gun. I've also known capable male cops who've
admitted the liability of having physically slight female partner. They simply can't count on
her to perform in the same way under duress that a 6'2", 190lb man could.
Reminds me of a video I recently saw of a very small, female Army captain attempting to
complete a combat medic course.
This was a 35lb. dry-weight road ruck for 12 miles. To begin, 35 lbs is simply not much
weight for a fit and capable man. It's a very basic load. While casual observers cheered her
determination, professionals correctly point out that she is now nothing but a dead weight
liability, completely incapable of performing ANY duty, let alone rendering medical aid in a
combat situation. You'll notice the male soldier strolling past her as though on his way to
breakfast. This is case-in-point evidence that degraded efficacy is the natural result when
organizations that rely on physical prowess in the course of their duties and that also deal
with physical conflict as an inherent part of their operation begin to institute things like
"diversity" and "inclusivity." I don't know why the police forces would be considered any
different in this regard.
"I wonder if many young people who protest on behalf of BLM know that blacks are
disproportionately responsible for homicides, and that their victims are mostly other
blacks." Do you think they care? What they are looking for in Portlandia episodes are
opportunities for agitprop mob action along the road to their attempts to take power from
Biden. it will be interesting to see what shows up in Kenosha.
Blue Peacock:
Apparently Trump's references to "draining the swamp" threw the swamp denizens into a frenzy
knowing full well that their exalted positions are based on lies and thievery.
The DOJ and FBI being protectors of the swamp reacted accordingly.
A white backlash? The left have been campaigning on that theme since the '60s. Like your
reference to the gold field riots in Australia a century and a half ago Americans have to go
back generations to find a racially based white-on-black pogrom. The agit-prop we are seeing
is opportunistic but well orchastrated to take advantage anything that can be misconstured in
incidents just like this.
"police recruitment policies"
As you've conveniently forgotten after all the other discussions of policing here there are
fifty states with different state policies for screening, mininum recruit training, and
ongoing training. There are even more minicipalities. Thanks to the violent left and media
coverage police are all considered collectively guilty, the political leadership in the
cities the left control are collectively guiltless, however, as they have proclaimed thier
ritual support of BLM and Social Justice in order to cleanse themselves from responsibility
for oversight of the police they are now disavowing. (Other than the ones sent to guard the
Mayor Chicago, Minneapolis, Seattle, and of course, NYC.)
Congrats to the left though, the DNC and their press outlets finally have something to
talk about for 70 days, rather than addressing Biden's dementia, Kamala's filling the jails
with Black Americans, or the economy destroying lockdowns ordered by Democratic governor's of
multiple states.
In a scene that played out several times Monday, a Black Lives Matter protest that began in
Columbia Heights confronted White diners outside D.C. restaurants, chanting "White silence
is violence!" and demanding White diners show their solidarity.
This type of mob badgering of ordinary citizens dining is not conducive to more support
but creates the environment for public demands to come down harshly on these wokesters.
"I don't know for sure about American Police recruitment practices, but the old fashioned
requirement here was that Police had to be Six feet tall or more and of a fitness and
demeanour that was intimidating. "
That hasn't been the case for decades. It was found to be too difficult to achieve the
diversity goals while maintaining the height requirements.
"This type of mob badgering of ordinary citizens dining is not conducive to more support
but creates the environment for public demands to come down harshly on these wokesters."
My hope (in my more optimistic moments) is that this type of behavior over the next two
months will result in a sizable electoral mandate for Trump and Congressional Republicans,
and they will cash in that political capital and do just what you mention above. The
alternative is that the population at large will do it eventually, and we've seen it begin
already last night in Kenosha.
IMO, Kyle handled the situation like a pro. Rioters attempted to throw a Molotov cocktail
at or near him. He or an ally shot that rioter. That is self-defense - and, I don't know
about WI, but in AZ prevention of arson is a legal reason to shoot someone.
Then he is chased. Rather than mowing down his persueres, he attempts to escape and evade.
He trips and falls in the process of escaping the situation. The rioters begin to assault him
and he is kicked in the head. He shoots the rioters that are threatening his life and calmly
walks away, backwards, prepared to to shoot anyone that comes after him. However -and this is
key - he doesn't shoot anyone else. He only shot those endangering him and only shot them
enough to stop the attack (e.g. he didn't pump a bunch of rounds into the guy he shot in the
arm because that guy ceased the assault). The shot in the arm guy had a pistol. It's right
there in the video for all to see.
Picture perfect self-defense.
The rioters are crazy idiots. They chase a guy with a rifle who has proven he is prepared
to fire that weapon in self-defense. And young Kyle is an exemplary individual.
If the govt won't do its job, then there will be a lot more Kyles stepping up.
State police would have the same enforcement power as local police, wouldn't they? If the
subject is how to diffuse situations like this, I'd say allow statutes to suspend people from
out of area (TBD) for a period of time to keep the agitators out.
Either we give the police at all levels the power they need or we have militias from
neighboring areas come in and duke it out. Rittenhouse was not invited, he was from a
neighboring town.
Rittenhouse wasn't looking for trouble. He was trying to stop it by protecting the
property and life of decent citizens. You are correct that if the LEO and NG were allowed to
do their job he would not have been there. In the 67 riots in Detroit these people had no
hesitation in shooting rioters, as it should be.
The satisfying part of this event is that all 3 antifa punks shot were wiggers. If he is
prosecuted hopefully the jurors will be acquainted with the principle of jury
nullification.
In the absence of effective suppression of rebellion, expect the people to rise and fight
for their country as my ancestors always did. I was a corporal in the Me. Army National Guard
at 17. Do not look to me for encouragement in defeatism with regard to the Marxist rebellion.
I remember an air Force kid, about the same age who was killed at an airfield in VN by
multiple mortar fragments that shredded his chest. I was there waiting for a ride on a
transport C-130. The enemy put a recoilless round through the tail of the aircraft which was
on short final. It slid burning past the PSP ramp on which I was sitting in a jeep with one
of my men. At the same time the enemy but a dozen 82mm mortar round into the ramp. Well done!
I rolled under my jeep with my man when the first round hit. We could hear him screaming.
When the fire lifted, I went to him. He murmured . "No. No. No," through blood frothed lips
and then died. I have a lefty woman neighbor who once told me that in that war "All the good
people went to Canada." I will never forget.
"There is a point where laws have to be enforced to prevent vigilantism. "
You mean no one should be allowed to stop rioters, who can go where ever they want when
ever they want. They can even do so in Atlanta with Ar15s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH8E7pfxjLY
They want the violence. They love it. They relish it. It brings them power and prestige.
To maintain their power, as the systems they've built fail, they have set us against each
other: paid looters and rioters to become cannon fodder in their war against common decency,
culture, communities and family.
All for control over the levers of political power.
In 2016 we tried to tell them, peacefully, enough was enough. We elected Donald Trump, of
all people, to be our standard bearer. We did it the way we were taught was the right way,
through the ballot box.
It was supposed to be the hallmark of our enlightenment, the peaceful transfer of power.
It's been anything but.
For four years we've endured a non-stop parade of political venality unmatched in modern
history. The quest for regaining the power of the White House brooked no holds being
barred.
And if Trump wouldn't go willingly and we didn't learn our lesson, then they would activate
every cell to flood the streets with disaffected and nihilistic youths to loot and rob; using
their outrageous sense of entitlement as fuel for their rage against a machine they are,
unwittingly, the main cogs of.
But having watched one young man clear in his purpose to defend his town from roving thugs
in Kenosha be forced (under clear conditions of self-defense) to kill two people is a dividing
line we're not coming back from.
Wars are only profitable for those that promote them. Those that fight the wars are the real
victims. This kid, a hero by my personal reckoning, is also a victim and there's no coming back
from what he's had to do.
Killing while justified is still killing. It scars you, no matter if you wear a blue
uniform, fatigues or a green t-shirt.
The animals I see on the streets under the auspice of what the media calls 'peaceful
protests' beating people to within inches of their lives for the crime of being white and
defending their property have no humanity.
My livestock have more decency than these people.
And yet, in order for us to survive this dark period of history, we will still have to reach
out to them and offer them peace and assistance back from the insanity that grips them now.
That will be the hardest thing for us to do, while also maintaining the resolve to do what
we feel is necessary to preserve something of what we've built.
That is the dividing line for many of us.
Only you know where that limit is. There are a lot of people out there right now confronting
that limit for the first time.
As my dad used to say, as NYPD, "I'd rather be judged by twelve than carried by six."
We are up against people who brook no limit on their behavior. Everything is justified in
the pursuit of their righteous cause. You can see in it all the video footage.
And they know it. They know that we'd rather not fight back. That, unfortunately, to people
empowered by the mob and turned into bullies, is misinterpreted as weakness.
Having humanity is not weakness. It is strength.
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And nothing bursts the bubble of false bravado on display by Anfita/BLM at this point than
strength of character, which defines limits, creates boundaries and establishes
consequences.
The sad truth is that this is only the beginning of what's to come. The line is crossed and
from town to town, that line will be more difficult to assess than ever before.
The myth of policing is failing. There aren't enough cops to quell these riots. The State
has been revealed as their enablers.
The law has been used against property owners told they shouldn't defend themselves or their
businesses.
They've been afraid of being the ones who cross the line while the looters overwhelm the
streets. That impulse will continue to wither. This anarcho-tyranny will not stand for much
longer.
That's what we saw it on the streets of Kenosha.
We'll see more of it, until a new form of order asserts itself.
How retarded do you have to be to think killing minorities in the US is acceptable when
each thug committing suicide by cop becomes a national conversation is beyond me, especially
when blacks pretty much slaughter each other and everyone else in crime stats.
There is no need to speculate any longer about the odd similarities between 'color
revolution' regime change operations overseas and the current protests across the US, when a
leading purveyor of 'Russiagate' outright admits it. What the US is experiencing now is "more
like the nonviolent movements that earned broad societal support in places such as Serbia,
Ukraine, and Tunisia," the Atlantic's Franklin Foer said on Saturday, in a piece titled 'The
Trump Regime Is Beginning to Topple'.
Foer doesn't go into the details of the events in Serbia and Tunisia, and he only brings up
Ukraine in the context of the 2013-14 protests that turned violent and resulted in armed
militias taking control in Kiev. In his telling, these were all genuine popular movements that
overthrew 'dictators', which just so happened to be guided by a 93-page pamphlet written by US
political scientist Gene Sharp.
He makes no mention of the US government's role in any of these events – even in
Ukraine, where US diplomats handed out cookies to "protesters," and senators like John McCain
shared the stage with their leaders.
Nor does he gush about a US operation of "engineering democracy through the ballot box
and civil disobedience" emerging as a "template for winning other people's elections," as the
Guardian described the 2004 turmoil in Kiev, and directly linked with the 2000 events in
Serbia.
America masterminded 'color revolutions' around the world. Now the very same techniques
are being used at home Instead, Foer says it's "astonishing" that the events in the US over the
past week have "traced the early phases" of Ukraine's 2014 Maidan revolt. He cites Sharp's
advice to revolutionaries to focus on destroying the "regime" by turning the media, business
elites, and police against it. Twitter's censorship of Trump was a "hinge moment," he says, and
other major corporations followed when it turned out "there was little price to pay for the
choice."
This was then followed by state and local authorities rejecting Trump's call to bring out
the National Guard, the public denunciation by former generals, culminating when Trump's own
secretary of defense "explicitly rejected" the threat of deploying the military to the streets.
(Fact check: Not true.)
Foer's self-professed astonishment is interesting, given that the Atlantic actually
provided the platform for retired Admiral Mike Mullen and retired General Jim Mattis to
denounce the president.
Then again, he is not just any ordinary journalist, but the famous author of the article
(published by Slate in October 2016, just before the election) alleging that communications
between a Trump Organization email server and Russia's Alfa Bank were proof of his "collusion"
with the Kremlin.
Alfa Bank and Donald Trump both denied it right away. The FBI actually said in February
2017 there was nothing to it. The Mueller Report, published in April 2019, said there was
nothing to it. No matter: the Alfa Bank story kept turning up in 'Russiagate' circles, like a
bad penny.
Though it was eventually revealed that the Alfa Bank story was sourced from the infamous
Steele Dossier, the salacious but entirely unverified document authored by a British spy paid
by the Hillary Clinton campaign through a series of proxies, Foer was never called out on
it.
As late as last month, he was still insisting Russia meddled in the 2016 election and will
do so again in 2020.
So when someone with such connections in the circles of Trump's political and media
critics says the current protests are really about overthrowing the president, and writes
approvingly of the tactics involved without once noting they are a weapon previously wielded by
both Democrat and establishment Republican administrations overseas, there is no reason not to
believe him.
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Last weekend
we detailed how over a mere three day period from Aug.13 through Aug.15, a whopping 49
people were shot, which was five times more than the eight who were shot during the same 72
hours last year, according to data in the
Washington Examiner .
And tragically the trend appears not some aberration but signals the city is fast becoming a
war zone
now with another deadly subsequent weekend. NYPD sources and local media already
count more than 30 people shot so far this weekend .
This brings NYC to more than 1,000 total shooting incidents across the city year to date,
already
double all of last year, and the summer is not even over -- a summer which ironically has
witnessed a supposed heightened consciousness and awareness of police shootings of black
Americans given the ongoing George Floyd and Black Lives Matters protests.
But in the case of New York City's explosion of gun violence, people are being killed with
the police far away from the scene, though in one instance over a week ago, it was a black
police officer shot in Queens
while looking for a parking spot merely a mile from his home.
Citywide, there were at least 25 shootings that injured 31 people on Friday and Saturday,
police said. Officers responded to 16 shootings on Saturday and nine on Sunday.
At least
three of those shootings happened within just blocks of each other in Coney Island,
according to police.
Among these, there were seven deaths between Friday and Sunday morning , according the NYPD,
including a 25-year-old mother of three children .
Priscilla Vasquez was described
in local reports as shot in the back of the head by an unknown gunman in the early morning
hours of Saturday while standing on a sidewalk in front of a public school, just around the
corner from her Bronx home.
Underscoring the senseless and often random nature of much of the violence, her friends and
family don't think she was the intended targeted , also given the gunman appeared to fire
wildly and haphazardly
.
In another incident, a man in Queens was shot and killed while simply playing in a
basketball tournament that was also part of a barbecue at a local park. Interestingly, news
reports accompanying the tragic death actually blame lack of police presence for the violence
there. Local residents are reportedly angry that police routinely "stay away" -- something, it
should be noted, that national BLM protests have demanded all along.
"We've been complaining about that park forever. It's always dark,"
said nearby resident Elaine Bailey. "That park is notorious. It's been like that for years.
It's a known drug location," she said of the site near 207 St. and Hillside Ave. in Hollis. "We
complain about the drug dealing. Nobody does anything. This was bound to happen. If you're
going to commit a crime, it's the best place to commit a crime."
And one of the largest single shootings involved four victims shot in Coney Island Sunday
morning, with the youngest victim, a 27-year old man, dying of his injuries.
@Realist he case early on, sooner or later why they won't cooperate will become an issue
in itself. Cooperation would eventually be demanded of the candidates and control shifts away
from the political parties.
As the parties lose their stranglehold on the process, candidates could be discovered from
the population at large to run for office as they produce a platform only via the written
words on the site and their names, sex, age, race, etc are disguised just as our handles here
are how we interact with each other. The winner will be revealed as a real person.
I've thought this out in my capacity as a professional software developer and anarchist,
but it's too lengthy to post the evolution of this system here as a comment.
@Realist e of the lucky ones (if foresight may be conflated with luck) because we (me,
hubby and a handful of like minded friends) have enough resources to ensure our survival.
Though to what end is anybodies guess. I've called till I'm blue in the face for others to
join us, with only very limited success, even amongst my wide awake friends. Maybe, when the
time comes, this can be a place for refugees from the system or from the revolution and this
little alternative can grow into something of benefit to more than just us few.
Or maybe we'll head back to Blighty, to explode the belly of the beast
Or maybe I' just write my book and have done with it all.
"... Now, what I think is, charging blacks and injuns and all for every white invention they use, one at a time would be a motimgator long job and use more paper than eating a McDonald's hamburger. It could lead to enough of what that Wall Street newspaper calls cross licensing ..."
"... I mean, you could charge a nickel every time Lateesha or Deewan or Lasagna read a book, which might bring in twelve dollars a year, or used a Smith and Wesson, for whole boxcars of dollars. Probably the easy thing would be to rent the whole damn civilization with only one license, like driving a car. ..."
"... I reckon we'd haul in enough money to buy enough rockets to blow up a thousand weddings and little children in Afghanistan and Eye-ran and maybe some kindergartner kids in Venezuela, wherever that is. Then they'd all have American values and love us. ..."
"... I figure when she's yowling into a microphone that probably Abraham Lincoln or Moses or somebody invented, it's that Cultural Appropriation again and she owes money. I mean, without that microphone shed have to go back to smoke signals or drums. ..."
"... Anyway, women are taking over everything, most of them crazy. Along with Rachel Tension and Oprah, we've got that Clinton woman ..."
"... And now we've got Joe Biden, who ain't nothing but a titless Hillary on days when he can remember who he is, and pretty much nothing at all the rest of the time. ..."
If some people can't go as Bugs Bunny, then nobody can't go as anything. Fair is fair. So if
you little sister goes as Aunt Jemima that makes pancakes, the BLM bandits will try to lynch
her.
I reckon black folks ought to be a little quieter. Since they didn't invent writing, or
reading, or 'rithmetic or electricity or clothes or pretty much anything, then any time they
use them things they're doing Cultural Appropriation. It's just common sense. Of course, I
guess a Chinaman could say whites do it too when they use paper and gunpowder, without the
which we couldn't have bombs and rockets and federal forms nine pages long that no one since
Adam can figure out.
Now, what I think is, charging blacks and injuns and all for every white invention they use,
one at a time would be a motimgator long job and use more paper than eating a McDonald's
hamburger. It could lead to enough of what that Wall Street newspaper calls cross licensing,
Mr. McWilliams said, and he knows everything, to keep a whole rat pack of lawyers in business
forever instead of drowning them, that would be better.
I mean, you could charge a nickel every
time Lateesha or Deewan or Lasagna read a book, which might bring in twelve dollars a year, or
used a Smith and Wesson, for whole boxcars of dollars. Probably the easy thing would be to rent
the whole damn civilization with only one license, like driving a car.
I reckon we'd haul in enough money to buy enough rockets to blow up a thousand weddings and
little children in Afghanistan and Eye-ran and maybe some kindergartner kids in Venezuela,
wherever that is. Then they'd all have American values and love us.
But we got other news to gnaw on. I keep reading about this gal Rachel Tension and how she's
causing all kinds of bile along with Oprah. I don't know about Rachel but Oprah's gone all
skinny on us and I reckon it makes her want to make more fuss about whatever she's thinking
about. Oprah used to be all porked up and looked like three hundred pounds of fatback with legs
and if you'd had a oil well you wanted to shut down you could have used her for a plug. I hear
there's less Oprah now, though. Which is about how much I can use.
Anyhow, she's running on these days about how white people is criminals and brutes and they
need to get in touch with what they're feeling, that might mean their girlfriend or I don't
know what, but she don't like them. White people, I mean. Well, I guess. But I figure when
she's yowling into a microphone that probably Abraham Lincoln or Moses or somebody invented,
it's that Cultural Appropriation again and she owes money. I mean, without that microphone shed
have to go back to smoke signals or drums.
Anyway, women are taking over everything, most of them crazy. Along with Rachel Tension and
Oprah, we've got that Clinton woman that's even older than Ann Coulter and probably sleeps all
day in some cave, hanging by her toes, and Elizabeth Warren, that used to be a Injun but cured
it with a shot of DNA. And now we've got Joe Biden, who ain't nothing but a titless Hillary on
days when he can remember who he is, and pretty much nothing at all the rest of the time. Which
might be a good reason to vote for him. We've had a long string of Presidents who did know who
they were, and it ain't been real satisfactory.
Finally the world' s gone soft in the head, like Aunt Minnie that granddad used to keep in the attic. I just saw where Walt
Disney, that I thought was dead but anyway, he's going to make a movie about Peter Pan and he want's Mike Tyson to be Tinker
Belle. She´s kind of like a lightening bug in a little green dress and throws sparks everywhere. Now if I remember right, Tyson
weighs about two-forty buck nekkid and holding a helium balloon so it's hard to imagine him twinkling around in the air and
flashing like a fifty cent flashlight with a loose switch, but I don't know much about movies. Anyway there was this woman, I
think her name was Lupita Marimacha or anyway some Meskin thing, that talked for Mr. Disney, that I thought was dead. She said
these times are progressive, which I think means soft in the head, and we can't be heteronormative or chromapejorative and we
had to be gender fluid. I saw it in the newspaper or I couldn't spell it. I wasn't sure what kind of gender fluid she meant but
I knew I didn't want to think about it. I guess it means we´ll have to watch Mike Tyson flying around in some kind of girly
clothes, which is all right on a girl but I worry about them on Mike, and maybe it worries him too.
... ... ...
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Google don't disappear your letter.
Portland Oregon BLM requested that whites step aside in the George Floyd murder protests.
I seriously wonder how it is that the approximately 95% whit Portland population finds that
the only thing worthy of protesting in America, or white people in other cities. I have been
to my share of protests and none of them ever accomplished anything so I do not recommend
protests as a way to change policy from my own experience. People often infiltrate protests
for nefarious reasons and often to incite violence to seize the narrative back, because if
the protesters are viewed as violent radicals they will not have sympathy and will not get
their message through. They rarely work, particularly with the militarized police state, I
could not in good faith urge people to risk their lives. The days of the original Boston Tea
Party are long gone.
Just raising hell without a clear direction or path forward is not a good idea. Is the
governmemt corrupt? Yes. Will protesters convince the government or police to change for the
better? I do not think so. In fact, the government has used protests as a reason to illegally
revoke rights over the past 100 years. So especially for that reason, I do not encourgae
people to go to protests after seeing that and never gaining anything else from the protests.
Not because oppose protesting but because I oppose wasting my time.
In Chicago the looting that centered on the high-end Miracle Mile Michigan Avenue shopping
area was so bad that that part of the city had to be closed off by raising the city's bridges.
Twelve policemen were injured and more than a hundred looters were arrested. U-Haul trucks were
even brought in by the rioters and stolen cars were used to smash open shop windows. It was the
second major trashing of the area in the past three months.
Illinois Retail Merchants Association president Rob Karr
released a statement on the following day which included: "There's a limit to how many
times retailers are willing to be kicked. It will be difficult after retailers who have
invested millions in reopening to have to do it again. There has to be a lot of confidence that
they can be protected and, so far, that confidence is lacking."
Chicago's flagship Macy's outlet on the avenue has already indicated that it is
considering closing due to the shoplifting, looting and general lack of security. In short,
many American cities are no longer able to make even an effort to protect the
persons and property of their citizens and taxpayers. Was the Chicago story important
enough to report by the New York Times ? Yes, but only late in the day on a back
page.
Chicago is reportedly responding to the crisis by creating
a special task force on looting , but
the follow-up coverage in the national media was predictably pretty toothless. On the day
after Michigan Avenue was laid waste, Black Lives Matter (BLM) held a rally outside the police
station where some of the arrested rioters were being held. Fox News alone among
national media covered the story, reporting how one BLM organizer Ariel Atkins described the
estimated $60 million dollars-worth of looting as really just "reparations." She said "I don't
care if someone decides to loot a Gucci or a Macy's or a Nike store, because that makes sure
that person eats That is reparations. Anything they wanted to take, they can take it because
these businesses have insurance." Presumably the rioters, who did not on this occasion loot
supermarkets for food and instead chose to steal luxury items will be able to eat their Gucci
loafers.
In a similar vein, the New York Times did have something to say about businesses
shutting down or leaving Manhattan. A long article
entitled "Retail Chains Abandon Manhattan: 'It's Unsustainable'" described how many restaurants
and shops, including major chains and department stores, are closing due to unaffordable high
rents that can no longer be paid due to a lack of tourists and office workers' business as a
result of the pandemonium. The article does not mention a lack of security due to the city
government's permissive attitude towards demonstrations that sometimes turn violent, a curious
omission as friends of mine who live in Manhattan have observed the results of random looting
and arson in many parts of the city, leading to boarded-up shops and sharply diminishing retail
activity. Some long-time residents describe it as a "return to the '70s" when the city became
unlivable for many.
America's newspaper of record the Washington Post promotes its product with a phrase
"Democracy dies in darkness." In reality, the darkness is created by the media itself, which no
longer reports what is taking place in an objective fashion. What does appear in the papers,
online and on television and radio, no matter what the political orientation, is a product that
is engineered to send a certain message. That message is itself disinformation, not
substantially different than what takes place in the controlled media put out by so-called
totalitarian regimes. In fact, news sources like Russia Today are likely to be much more
reliable than CNN or FOX on many issues.
Opinion polls suggest that the American public has largely figured things out and reveal
that few trust the media to do its job in an objective fashion. In that light, articles like
the recent
Politico piece have appeared that have questioned how it can be that the Trump White
House is optimistic over the prospects for the November election when opinion polls suggest a
large margin of victory for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. If journalists were doing their jobs
and were actually getting out on the streets and talking to people, they would discover that
people are really worried about the future of the country and what it all will mean for their
children and grandchildren. And many of them blame the unrest on the Democratic Party coddling
of radical groups that are actively fomenting ethnic and racial divisions for political gain,
not on the Republicans. Trump's playing on those fears might well have a great impact when it
comes time to vote. Someone who responded to an opinion poll the week before saying he or she
would vote for a safe choice Biden might well go into the voters' booth and instead pull the
lever for Trump.
Philip Giraldi, Ph.D. is Executive Director of the Council for the National
Interest.
The looting seemed to be centered in Streeterville and North Michigan Avenue, but some
looting was reported on State Street in the Loop and on the Near North Side. By 4 a.m.
police appeared to be getting things under control.
But some vandalism continued into the daylight hours, and the CTA suspended train and
bus service into downtown during the morning rush, while the Illinois state police blocked
off ramps from expressways. Bridges across the Chicago River were raised, except for the
one on LaSalle Street for emergency vehicles.
Regarding the US as a third world country, I would have to agree, but also point out what
Murgan, @8 described. Having lived here all my life I would agree with Colin Woodward who
wrote the book, "American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North
America" that we are really eleven nations, which are very, very different, and are quickly
growing away from the Federal Government, due to it's ineptitude and corruption.
Chris Hedges also wrote an article about this today over at Consortium News, and as usual
his prose is stunning and his outlook very dismal. It is very much worth a read.
My feeling is that the States or collection of states will increasingly distance
themselves from DC, due to it's handling of Covid-19, and economic consequences. Ultimately
this will break up the Union when they start not paying their taxes, and try to stop Federal
troops from entering.
The big question in my mind when will it become evident that we can no longer support 800
bases around the planet, and the trillion dollar budget required for such foolishness?
My own opinion about being a third world country is due to the mishandling of the virus.
We have always as a culture been anti-science, and non-rational, which does contribute to the
situation. Being anti-science is a direct contradiction of the solution to this problem and
in the end the virus will bring the empire down.
When people rant about Americans becoming an Anti-science or Anti-rationalism I'm always
shocked that they never make connection that Americans are increasingly
anti-science/rationalism as a direct result of the US become a more centralized, bureaucratic
technocracy where common citizens have no influence upon the government which is constantly
dictating to them. The government trots out their preferred "experts" on whatever subject
(medicine, the economy, trade, foreign relations) they want to lecture the people on. This by
itself who be fine, the problem though is 1) these policies clearly are failing to improve
the lives of the majority of the common people (i.e. the Chicago school of Neoliberalism) 2)
many aspects of government policy are clearly corrupt and lying on many subjects (Iraq WMDs,
the Clinton foundation) and 3) the government and big tech are actively working to suppress
other sources of information (youtube & googles purge of the independent media like
globalReseach).
Simply put, scientists, doctors, scholars and other experts get their legitimacy to advise
on a subject from the trust of the people, if a corrupt government cherry picks experts based
on their support for what the government already wanted to do and these policies fail, then
the people's trust in science or rationalism will decline (especially if alternative views
are so blatantly supressed). When experts become shills for corrupt governments and their
policies, the legitimacy of all experts suffer. Obviously, governments (even weak ones) have
huge resources to push failed narratives forward, but eventually when that push fails or
weakens, the push back will be all the stronger and it will steamroll over a huge segment of
the sciences (In 15 years I think "elite" US universities will see their attendance
halved).
Interesting post and comments !
Regarding the U.K. There are major concerns that like the us we in Britain will turn into a
military dictatorship. At present there is no effective political opposition. Holding the
govenment to account.
Watch this short vid, take a glimpse at what is coming our way. Be scared, be very scared.
And then save the link for future reference particularly for the names and groups. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JczxkZ185rI
Also note the comparisons with what is happening in America.
The 3rd world has descended upon Eugene Oregon. Large homeless encampments exist in city
parks, on freeway and bridge ramps, and along river banks. Yesterday I drove by a ramp that
was lined for 100' or so with left behind debris.
The local thugs, er cops, regularly sweep these areas, but it's just shuffling chairs on
the rapidly sinking disaster-struck liner America. We got heavily armed right-wing militias
backing the storm troopers, er cops, at BLM protests, brandishing weapons, etc.
And in another sign of 3rd worldism, we are in a civil war with these racist deplorables,
and Trumpism in general.
I read the article and yes it does read like a cross between a court intrigue and a
Saturday Night Live skit. I've always been a fan of Robert Parry, so I followed this closely
through his stories since June, 2016, and found the entire thing to be preposterous.
I would at times complain to my wife about this, and she would tell me that no one she
encounters gives a s*it. She meets with country folk everyday as a part of her job, and their
concern is primarily of survival. The entire business of DC is as far from them as the moon,
as they have much more immediate concerns. I now agree with her.
Another reason I think the virus may be the downfall of the US is that short of a
miraculous vaccine appearing, conquering the disease will require continuous cooperation
between individuals to protect each other, and that type of behavior has been pretty much
extinguished from a great deal of our culture in the past 40 years.
Since the "Age of Greed" in the 1980s everyone has been programmed to lookout for
him/herself. In this culture psychopathy and narcissism are richly rewarded and necessary to
climb the "ladder of success". The end result are politicians who ONLY look out after
themselves, and cannot think beyond their stock portfolios, and people who do not understand
the need to take care of each other, even if they do not know them.
Also, people have been programmed to think emotionally and not rationally. The result is
magical thinking, and an inability to understand the value of cooperative efforts without
being called a "Commie".
Recently, I had a chance encounter with a corporate type who spent some time in Japan, and
he complained about the Japanese being brainwashed into wearing masks, and I understood his
inability to think beyond his dogma and understand experience and culture.
This results in what Chris Hedges describes. People will eventually learn, but by then the
horse will have left the barn, and a lot of people will have died unnecessarily.
It would be interesting to see how many of inhabitants of CHAZ zone, who experinced the "summer of love" will vote for Trump in
Novemebr.
Notable quotes:
"... The land of soy milk and honey was disbanded on July 1 and was duly eulogised by the usual suspects as basically an extended block party. A month on, the NY Times finally got around to sending a reporter to speak to the people who lived and worked in the area before the protestors moved in and produced an admittedly excellent piece of reportage on the situation. ..."
"... The piece, as journalist Michael Tracey observed on Twitter, would have been dismissed as right-wing propaganda just a month ago and shows that this little experiment in anarcho-communism was a million miles away from paradise. ..."
"... The picture painted by the residents is one of gangs of armed thugs running protection rackets and widespread vandalism. The first person mentioned in the piece, a gay man of Middle Eastern extraction named Faizel Khan, reveals that to get to the coffee shop he runs he had to get permission from "gun wielding white men" who at one point barricaded him and all his customers in the store. ..."
"... In his pre-CHOP days, Mr Hearns was a security guard for many years, but after the police vacated the area (their precinct was taken over by protesters and then promptly set on fire) he became part of the "Black Lives Matter Community Patrol". This patrol had locals "pay for their protection." ..."
"... It doesn't sound like they were particularly good at ensuring community cohesion either, considering six people were shot under their jurisdiction and two of them died. ..."
"... Observers also noted that rather than being a multi-racial melting pot of equality, the CHOP turned into a "white occupation" as the numbers of Antifa activists began to outnumber the BLM protesters. They also established "black only segregated areas" within the CHOP, making it frightening similar to the Confederacy, which also, coincidentally, seceded from the union. ..."
"... The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of RT. ..."
Following
an investigative report the paper of record has revealed that business owners who were stuck in the Capitol Hill Organised Protest
'aren't so sure about abolishing the police'. No sh*t Sherlock.
The New York Times has done something distinctly out of character and actually produced some decent journalism. Taking a break
from getting editors sacked for allowing Republican senators to write op-eds and forcing out the few remaining sane people on their
staff for not quaffing the identity politics Cool-Aid enthusiastically enough, they dispatched a reporter to
Seattle to pick through the remnants
of the CHOP , a month after it closed.
The Capital Hill Organised Protest, formally CHAZ (Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone), was the area of the city that, for 23 glorious
days, declared independence from the United States. A bunch of Black Lives Matter and Antifa radicals hoofed out the police and decided
to try and run the area as some sort of Marxist utopia. What they actually established was a gang run hellhole that made the Wild
West look like Switzerland.
It wasn't described as such at the time of course. Seattle's mayor said the city was in for a "summer of love"
and most
of the left-wing press would have had you believe that it was pretty much a hippy commune full of free vegan food and urban collective
farms.
The land of soy milk and honey was disbanded on July 1 and was duly eulogised by the usual suspects as basically an extended block
party. A month on, the NY Times finally got around to sending a reporter to speak to the people who lived and worked in the area
before the protestors moved in and produced an admittedly excellent piece of reportage on the situation. It was headlined,
"Abolish
the Police? Those Who Survived the Chaos in Seattle Aren't So Sure." The piece, as journalist Michael Tracey observed on Twitter,
would have been dismissed as right-wing propaganda just a month ago and shows that this little experiment in anarcho-communism was
a million miles away from paradise.
To say they "aren't sure" has to be the understatement of the year. The picture painted by the residents is one of gangs
of armed thugs running protection rackets and widespread vandalism. The first person mentioned in the piece, a gay man of Middle
Eastern extraction named Faizel Khan, reveals that to get to the coffee shop he runs he had to get permission from "gun wielding
white men" who at one point barricaded him and all his customers in the store.
Mr Khan's experiences during these three and a bit weeks of lawlessness were so horrendous that he and a host of other small business
owners, described as "lonely voices in progressive areas," are suing Seattle after the local police force refused to respond
to their calls for the duration of the CHOP. And as the litany of horrors they were subjected to is laid bare in the NY Times article,
it is not hard to see why.
Another character we meet in this saga is Rick Hearns. In his pre-CHOP days, Mr Hearns was a security guard for many years, but
after the police vacated the area (their precinct was taken over by protesters and then promptly set on fire) he became part of the
"Black Lives Matter Community Patrol". This patrol had locals "pay for their protection." Now what other organisation does
that remind you of? If you can't think of it, may I suggest you watch virtually any Martin Scorsese movie and I think you'll get
the picture.
It doesn't sound like they were particularly good at ensuring community cohesion either, considering
six people were shot
under their jurisdiction and two of them died. Interestingly, since they were replacing the "institutionally racist"
police force, (run by a black woman incidentally but why let facts spoil it) one of the victims was a black teenager.
Observers also noted that rather than being a multi-racial melting pot of equality, the CHOP turned into a "white occupation"
as the numbers of Antifa activists began to outnumber the BLM protesters. They also established "black only segregated areas"
within the CHOP, making it frightening similar to the Confederacy, which also, coincidentally, seceded from the union. Oh, and
they had a Warlord, Raz from CHAZ, too, just as an icing on the cake.
Quite why these so-called activists felt the need to see how anarchy turns out in a world where Somaila exists is beyond me, and
frankly any sane person who is even vaguely aware of history. I'm sure if they'd managed to get hold of the port it wouldn't have
been long before they decided to give piracy on the high seas a try, but alas they didn't have the time.
This just makes the tone of the NY Times piece all the more baffling. While it does chart the horrors of the zone well, framing
the notion of "abolishing the police" as anything other than irredeemably stupid is frankly ridiculous. I suppose they do
deserve praise for finally telling the story, but in no way does it make up for the way they have fomented and given succour to the
absurd and dangerous ideas that gave rise to the CHOP for so long.
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WASHINGTON -- Russia is using a range of techniques to denigrate Joseph R. Biden Jr.,
American intelligence officials said Friday in their first public assessment that Moscow
continues to try to interfere in the 2020 campaign to help President Trump.
At the same time, the officials said China preferred that Mr. Trump be defeated in November
and was weighing whether to take more aggressive action in the election.
But officials briefed on the intelligence said that Russia was the far graver, and more
immediate, threat. While China seeks to gain influence in American politics, its leaders have
not yet decided to wade directly into the presidential contest, however much they may dislike
Mr. Trump, the officials said.
The assessment, included in a
statement released by William R. Evanina, the director of the National Counterintelligence
and Security Center, suggested the intelligence community was treading carefully, reflecting
the political heat generated by previous findings.
The White House has
objected in the past to conclusions that Moscow is working to help Mr. Trump, and Democrats
on Capitol Hill have expressed growing concern that the intelligence agencies are not being
forthright enough about Russia's preference for him and that the agencies are introducing
China's anti-Trump stance to balance the scales.
The assessment appeared to draw a distinction between what it called the "range of measures"
being deployed by Moscow to influence the election and its conclusion that China prefers that
Mr. Trump be defeated.
It cited efforts coming out of pro-Russia forces in Ukraine to damage Mr. Biden and
Kremlin-linked figures who "are also seeking to boost President Trump's candidacy on social
media and Russian television."
China, it said, has so far signaled its position mostly through increased public criticism
of the administration's tough line on China on a variety of fronts.
An American official briefed on the intelligence said it was wrong to equate the two
countries. Russia, the official said, is a tornado, capable of inflicting damage on American
democracy now. China is more like climate change, the official said: The threat is real and
grave, but more long term.
Democratic lawmakers made the same point about the report, which also found that Iran was
seeking "to undermine U.S. democratic institutions, President Trump, and to divide the country"
ahead of the general election.
"Unfortunately, today's statement still treats three actors of differing intent and
capability as equal threats to our democratic elections," Speaker Nancy Pelosi and
Representative Adam B. Schiff, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said in a
joint statement.
Asked about the report during a news conference on Friday night at his golf club in New
Jersey, Mr. Trump said, "The last person Russia wants to see in office is Donald Trump because
nobody's been tougher on Russia than I have." He said that if Mr. Biden won the presidency,
"China would own our country."
Aides and allies of Mr. Biden assailed Mr. Trump, saying that he had repeatedly sided with
President Vladimir V. Putin on whether Russia had intervened to help him in 2016 and that he
had been impeached by the House for trying to pressure Ukraine into helping him undercut Mr.
Biden.
"Donald Trump has publicly and repeatedly invited, emboldened and even tried to coerce
foreign interference in American elections," said Tony Blinken, a senior adviser to the former
vice president.
It is not clear how much China is doing to interfere directly in the presidential election.
Intelligence officials have briefed Congress in recent days that much of Beijing's focus is on
state and local races. But Mr. Evanina's statement on Friday suggested China was on weighing an
increased effort.
"Although China will continue to weigh the risks and benefits of aggressive action, its
public rhetoric over the past few months has grown increasingly critical of the current
administration's Covid-19 response, closure of China's Houston Consulate and actions on other
issues," Mr. Evanina said.
Mr. Evanina pointed to growing tensions over territorial claims in the South China Sea, Hong
Kong autonomy, the TikTok app and other issues. China, officials have said, has also tried to
collect information on the presidential campaigns, as it has in previous contests.
The release on Friday was short on specifics, but that was largely because the intelligence
community is intent on trying to protect its sources of information, said Senator Angus King,
the Maine independent who caucuses with the Democrats.
"The director has basically put the American people on notice that Russia in particular,
also China and Iran, are going to be trying to meddle in this election and undermine our
democratic system," said Mr. King, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Intelligence officials said there was no way to avoid political criticism when releasing
information about the election. An official with the Office of the Director of National
Intelligence said that the goal was not to rank order threats and that Russia, China and Iran
all pose a danger to the election.
Fighting over the intelligence reports, the official said, only benefits adversaries trying
to sow divisions.
While both Beijing and Moscow have a preference, the Chinese and Russian influence campaigns
are very different, officials said.
Outside of a few scattered examples, it is hard to find much evidence of intensifying
Chinese influence efforts that could have a national effect.
Much of what China is doing currently amounts to using its economic might to influence local
politics, officials said. But that is hardly new. Beijing is also using a variety of means to
push back on various Trump administration policies, including tariffs and bans on Chinese tech
companies, but those efforts are not covert and it is unclear if they would have an effect on
presidential politics.
Russia, but not China, is trying to "actively influence" the outcome of the 2020 election,
said the American official briefed on the underlying intelligence.
"The fact that adversaries like China or Iran don't like an American president's policies is
normal fare," said Jeremy Bash, a former Obama administration official. "What's abnormal,
disturbing and dangerous is that an adversary like Russia is actively trying to get Trump
re-elected."
Russia tried to use influence campaigns during 2018 midterm voting to try to sway public
opinion, but it did not successfully tamper with voting infrastructure.
Mr. Evanina said it would be difficult for adversarial countries to try to manipulate voting
results on a large scale. But nevertheless, the countries could try to interfere in the voting
process or take steps aimed at "calling into question the validity of the election
results."
The new release comes on the heels of congressional briefings that have alarmed lawmakers,
particularly Democrats. Those briefings have described a stepped-up Chinese pressure campaign,
as well as efforts by Moscow to paint Mr. Biden as corrupt.
"Ahead of the 2020 U.S. elections, foreign states will continue to use covert and overt
influence measures in their attempts to sway U.S. voters' preferences and perspectives, shift
U.S. policies, increase discord in the United States, and undermine the American people's
confidence in our democratic process," Mr. Evanina said in a statement.
The statement called out Andriy Derkach, a pro-Russia member of Ukraine's Parliament who has
been involved in releasing information about Mr. Biden. Intelligence officials said he had ties
to Russian intelligence.
Intelligence officials have briefed Congress in recent weeks on details of the Russian
efforts to tarnish Mr. Biden as corrupt, prompting
senior Democrats to request more information.
A Senate committee led by Senator Ron Johnson, Republican of Wisconsin, has been leading an
investigation of Mr. Biden's son Hunter Biden and his work for Burisma, a Ukrainian energy
firm. Some intelligence officials have said that a witness the committee was seeking to call
was a witting or unwitting agent of Russian disinformation.
Democrats had pushed intelligence officials to release more information to the public,
arguing that only a broad declassification of the foreign interference attempts can inoculate
voters against attempts by Russia, China or other countries to try to influence voting.
In
meetings on Capitol Hill , Mr. Evanina and other intelligence officials have expanded their
warnings beyond Russia and have included China and Iran, as well. This year, the Office of the
Director of National Intelligence put Mr. Evanina in charge of election security briefings to
Congress and the campaigns.
Intelligence and other officials in recent days have been stepping up their releases
of information about foreign interference efforts, and the State
Department has sent texts to cellphones around the world advertising a $10 million reward
for information on would-be election hackers.
How effective China's campaign or Russia's efforts to smear Mr. Biden as corrupt have been
is not clear. Intelligence agencies focus their work on the intentions of foreign governments,
and steer clear of assessing if those efforts have had an effect on American voters.
The first reactions from Capitol Hill to the release of the assessment were positive. A
joint statement by the Republican and Democratic leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee
praised it, and asked colleagues to refrain from politicizing Mr. Evanina's statement.
Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, the acting Republican chairman of the committee, and Senator
Mark Warner of Virginia, the Democratic vice chairman, said they hoped Mr. Evanina continued to
make more information available to the public. But they praised him for responding to calls for
more information.
"Evanina's statement highlights some of the serious and ongoing threats to our election from
China, Russia, and Iran," the two men's joint statement said. "Everyone -- from the voting
public, local officials, and members of Congress -- needs to be aware of these threats."
Maggie Haberman contributed reporting from New York.
I recently wrote about an old
1984 interview with former communist Yuri Bezmenov, who described the "ideological
subversion" that could eventually take down America.
It sounds like the stuff of conspiracy theories - until one realizes that his predictions of
"demoralization," "destabilization," and "crisis" are all unfolding before our eyes .
Pondering his prophetic words, I hunted up an old book a friend mentioned to me years ago: "
The Naked Communist ." The title, I admit, is chuckle-worthy, but the words inside are no
laughing matter, particularly when one reads the section titled, "Importance of the
Psychological War."
Written in 1958, some of the "current strategy goals which the Communists and their fellow
travelers are seeking to achieve" seem dated and read like a history book from the past. But
then one comes to item number 17:
"Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current
Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the
party line in textbooks." (Emphasis added.)
That part in bold especially caught my attention. Haven't Americans been suspicious for
years that public school curriculum has been dumbed down? Prominent
public figures have certainly made this claim , while a comparison of middle
school reading lists from today's schools and those of 100 years ago provides further
evidence.
Things take a step closer to home by encouraging the use of "student riots to foment public
protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack." We've had not a
little experience with riots and protests lately, many of which have been heavily attended by
young people. Are they mere tools in the hands of an ideology we don't realize is pulling the
strings?
Even more terrifying, the list progresses from student riots to the cancel culture and
statue bashing we are also currently experiencing.
"Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression,"
item number 22 commands, while number 31 calls for Communists to "[b]elittle all forms of
American culture and discourage the teaching of American history ."
The document also suggests discrediting both the Constitution and the Founding Fathers.
Of the latter, it says,
"[p]resent them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the 'common man.'"
Sounds similar to the "slave-holding racists" that the Founders are now portrayed as, does
it not?
The list is extensive and many of the items listed as eventual goals are now accepted parts
of our culture. There is one more, though, that deserves a closer look:
"Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American
tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use 'united force' to
solve economic, political or social problems."
Since the death of George Floyd, protests and violence have become commonplace. The large
gatherings banned by our governments during the COVID-19 pandemic suddenly
became necessary for fighting racism .
Indeed, systemic racism is increasingly labeled as a "
public health crisis " that Black Lives Matter must wage war against. Furthermore, complete
unity is demanded from the public. Those who refuse to go along -- or fail to
say anything at all -- are immediately ostracized.
Where does this leave us?
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Should we start running around screaming, "The Communists are coming! The Communists are
coming!"?
No. Now isn't the time to lose our heads. Rather, we should look at this historical list,
recognize the parallels it has with our current culture, and ask ourselves whether there's an
ideology working to undermine the values, history, and ideas upon which America was
founded.
If we conclude that there is, we have a decision to make.
Do we accept that ideology and allow it to take over America?
If so, it's time to join the throngs of corporations, politicians, and average citizens in
agitating for change.
But if we decide that ideology isn't in line with what we believe , nor with the direction
we want to see America go, then we must be ready to choose the road less traveled.
This road is one of standing up for truth and justice. It also involves warning others of
the consequences that come from giving way to an ideology completely opposed to what America
has sought to protect and advance over the years.
As "The Naked Communist" implies, the alarm bell has been sounding for many years. Now, we
just need the ears to hear and respond to it.
"... Anyone who has ever overcome any obstacle in life knows that if you spend all your time worrying about how insurmountable it is, you will never overcome it. ..."
"... I am not going to spend my time begging the white man to undergo unconscious bias training, it'll distract me from doing what does work, which is getting kids to learn their algebra, turn up on time and deliver. ..."
"... You're some PR guy, you work in town, you earn a nice bit of money, you have a nice flat and car. But you put a black box on Instagram and you're now a cool non-racist. You're a good guy. ..."
"... Actually doing good takes a lifetime. The thing about doing good is that it gets you enemies. You're not part of the group. ..."
"... expected to accept and acknowledge that they've been unavoidably socialised into racism, that they have internalised white supremacies and they need to affirm this in meetings and talk about how they are to dismantle the system of whiteness. ..."
"... expected to testify to a particular kind of racism that they are experiencing in almost every sphere of their lives and if they fail to do this then they either have internalised white supremacy or are callously trying to advantage themselves at the expense of other people of colour. ..."
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he toxic ideology of the BLM movement is promoted by its race campaigners at the expense of
any other idea. Unless you agree with its false claims and the underlying belief that Britain
is intrinsically racist, you are the enemy.
Negotiating your way around any conversation centred on race has become a social minefield.
Say the wrong thing and 'boom!' you're treated as a card-carrying member of the Ku Klux Klan
and ostracised from your bien pensant pals for life.
BLM campaigners in the UK push one line: black people are the permanent victims of
oppression, white people are collectively guilty of perpetuating discrimination.
That's it. No ifs, no buts, no grey areas, no dissent. Own it!
In this country, BLM is a secretive, opaque umbrella
organisation of many different groups with no distinct leadership yet, somehow, through
marches, pulling down statues and by seizing hold of the narrative on social media, they have
become the arbiters on race matters.
But maybe some relief is here. The newly-launched Equiano Project , named after the 18th Century former
slave Olaudah Equiano , the British African
community's first political activist, brings a cool breeze of common sense into the stifling
atmosphere created by the UK adherents of the Black Lives Matter movement and their toxic,
imported brand of identity politics.
Founded by 24-year-old Inaya Folarin Iman, a writer, campaigner and former Brexit Party
candidate, the project wasted no time
getting down and dirty on this hot topic, with an online event this week that could have a
lasting effect on the tone and content of the race conversation in Great Britain.
London head teacher Katharine Birbalsingh
tore into the notions of unconscious bias training, decolonising the school curriculum and
making the study of historical black figures compulsory, pointing out that the latter is just
the sort of institutional racism that BLM decries.
She said " Anyone who has ever overcome any obstacle in life knows that if you spend all
your time worrying about how insurmountable it is, you will never overcome it.
" I am not going to spend my time begging the white man to undergo unconscious bias
training, it'll distract me from doing what does work, which is getting kids to learn their
algebra, turn up on time and deliver. "
Miss Birbalsingh, admittedly, does have form on the race debate, as the head of what the BBC
calls 'Britain's
strictest school.'
Speaking in June about Instagram's 'Black Box Day' – where users posted a black box
image on their account – the head teacher unloaded on the woke middle classes posting
messages online.
She said, " You're some PR guy, you work in town, you earn a nice bit of money, you have
a nice flat and car. But you put a black box on Instagram and you're now a cool non-racist.
You're a good guy.
" Actually doing good takes a lifetime. The thing about doing good is that it gets you
enemies. You're not part of the group. "
Ah, Miss Birbalsingh, you are a gem! But I digress...
Back at the Equiano Project event, academic Helen Pluckrose also took aim at BLM, explaining
the effects of their poisonous dogma on both sides of the race divide.
White people are, she said, " expected to accept and acknowledge that they've been
unavoidably socialised into racism, that they have internalised white supremacies and they need
to affirm this in meetings and talk about how they are to dismantle the system of
whiteness. "
Meanwhile, members of the BAME community were " expected to testify to a particular kind
of racism that they are experiencing in almost every sphere of their lives and if they fail to
do this then they either have internalised white supremacy or are callously trying to advantage
themselves at the expense of other people of colour. "
Pluckrose, something of an avid Twitter user, has hit the nail bang on the head. So maybe
the Equiano Project, a broad collection of, let's face it, mainstream liberals and
similar-minded academics, will prove to be the advance guard. Their input into the narrative on
race in Britain is certainly welcome.
Because, as a direct result of the deeply divisive BLM dogma, we saw the emergence of the
FF Force in London at the weekend, with their paramilitary gear, balaclavas, raised fists
and aggressive posturing all pushing the claim that Britain is so racist that the only hope
black people have is to organise their own resistance.
Forgive me for being blunt, but all this is garbage of which it now seems I'm not the only
one disinclined to digest. So thank heavens that the reinforcements for the voices of sanity
have arrived.
And not a moment too soon.
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By now it is abundantly clear that the Democrats will do just about anything to ensure
Trump's defeat in November. That would include the proliferation of violence in major American
cities to provide optics to the narrative that the US leader has been an unmitigated disaster
for the United States. Will Portland, Oregon become Donald Trump's Maidan?
During the public grilling of Attorney General William Barr on July 28, the Democrat's
pushed one argument above all others: Democratic cities had been enjoying their 'summer of
love' that saw righteous folks peacefully protesting against police abuse until Darth Trump and
his 'storm troopers' crashed the party with tear gas and pepper spray.
To quote Judiciary Committee chairman Jerry Nadler (D., N.Y.): "The protests began to wind
down before you marched in and confronted the protesters. And the protesters aren't mobs; they
are mothers and veterans and mayors. Now you are projecting fear and violence nationwide in
pursuit of obvious political objectives."
Of course that was a deliberate distortion of reality that pretends riots were not happening
every single day. The situation in Portland has been out of control since May, and was getting
progressively worse. Here is a snippet from local Oregon media, dated May 31 st
detailing the aftermath of a public vigil service to George Floyd.
"As the march moved south, protesters began to break windows and graffiti buildings along
Martin Luther King Boulevard and eventually, when they reached downtown, some began torching
cars and public buildings, breaking windows and looting stores."
The Portland Business Alliance
estimated that between the property damage, looted inventory and lost wages from that
'protest,' Portland's businesses and community suffered "tens of millions" in damages.
The peaceful protests did not end there, as clashes between the local police and rioters
continued through the torrid month of June. It should be remembered that during this time,
protesters were calling for police departments to be defunded and even disbanded altogether.
Eventually, the city fathers got their wish. The Portland City Council
passed a budget in late June that cut some $15 million from the police bureau. Now, when a
Portland resident places a 9/11 call in an emergency situation an "unarmed, trained responder"
will likely appear at their door. In other words, an actual deterrent to criminal behavior
– the knowledge that a would-be offender might be arrested and sent to jail for his or
her actions – no longer works to prevent illegal activities. Lawbreakers will come to the
conclusion, and sooner rather than later, that they may act with a large degree of
impunity.
As if that were not enough, days later, the activist group 'Don't Shoot' won a temporary
restraining
order against the Portland Police Department, which stipulated that law enforcement
officers were forbidden to use non-lethal munitions in crowd-control (i.e. riot) situations.
Thus, the police lost their ability to confront looters and lawbreakers with the FN-303 anti-riot gun , flash-bang
grenades, pepper spray and Long Range Acoustical Devices. Ironically, short of confronting the
looters and rioters with deadly firepower, the exact sort of scenario the protesters were said
to be protesting against, the police were left with no other options when it came to restoring
law and order. No surprise, then, that local, state and federal property in Portland, like the
federal court house, became a natural target of the mob.
A lawsuit put forward by the ACLU on behalf of aggrieved protesters described the
situations as follows: "They are intentional acts by a lawless president, who has sent his
paramilitary forces to shoot up the streets of Portland, choke downtown in a haze of toxic
chemical fumes, and generate reelection soundbites – in blatant disdain of public safety,
the rule of law, and the most fundamental principles of our Constitution."
Now that is certainly rich considering it was the White House struggling to enforce the
"rule of law" in an American city where rioters, looters and vandals have taken control of the
streets. We already saw the results of such unbridled freedom in the Republican of CHAZ in
downtown Seattle, which was forced to cancel its short-lived 'summer of love' due to an
unfortunate climb in homicide rates, which tends to happen when mental health workers instead
of police officers respond to emergency calls.
In light of all this unmitigated mayhem, certainly the mayor of Portland supports Trump's
offer of federal intervention. Think again. Not only did Mayor Ted Wheeler order his police to
stand down against the rioters, he was actually in the very center of the mob that had gathered at the Mark O.
Hatfield United States Courthouse. Then there are the so-called 'Wall of Moms,' a group of 'concerned mothers' that
suspiciously sprung to life just as Trump was warning he would be forced to intervene if local
authorities failed to do their jobs.
Maidan, American style?
It does not seem to have escaped the attention of the Trump White House that Portland may be
a Democrat trap – at the minimum designed to portray the US leader as a "lawless
president," to quote the ACLU, who resorts to the use of "paramilitary forces" to crush
innocent protesters. This is exactly the sort of stage that was set for former Ukrainian
President Viktor Yanukovich, who was forced from power following a massive uprising in
2014.
Although the circumstances confronting Donald Trump are completely different, the dynamics
are similar. Yanukovich, who incurred the wrath of the political opposition (not to mention the
United States, which dispatched John McCain to Kiev where he
instigated the crowd) after he refused to sign an association agreement with the European
Union, was eventually forced to activate riot police to quell the crowd.
What happened next is a mystery that may never be resolved – the protesters came under
sniper fire and dozens were killed. It had been assumed at the time that the Ukrainian riot
police had been responsible for the shootings. However, years later, long after Yanukovich was
forced out of power, an Italian documentary presented
evidence that Georgian mercenaries had been brought into Kiev specifically for the purpose of
shooting protesters. Whatever the truth of the matter, the result was the same: Yanukovich was
vilified and lost any remaining public support he may have had.
Back in Portland, Democrats are attempting to make Trump's efforts to restore law and order
look like a page torn from the Nazi Party playbook.
"The use of stormtroopers under the guise of law and order is a tactic that is not
appropriate to our country in any way," railed Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.
Majority Whip James Clyburn echoed Pelosi's sentiments, saying: "Nobody asked the federal
government to come into Portland This is something that's made up of whole cloth by this
administration as an excuse for sending in stormtroopers to incite the people."
Thus far, the Trump administration, despite the outlandish claims made by the left, has
shown itself to be handling the attacks on federal property in Portland as prudently as
possible. All footage coming from the scene shows the federal forces responding with non-lethal
tactics – even arresting suspects away from the maddening crowd to avoid any volatile
situations – against a mob that seems very intent on taking the violence to a new
level.
Radicals have never had a sense of humor. They are unbalanced. "In jest, there is truth". --
Roman proverb. Radicals has problems with truth. Therefore, they don't like humor.
"... Monty Python was the pinnacle of contemporary comedy precisely because it drew attention to the absurdity of modern society and it pompous hypocrisy ..."
big female BLM supporter wearing a nappy mask that says "i can't breathe" on it
soccer mom says "well take the stupid mask off"
MartinG , 3 hours ago
How many Wokesters does it take to change a light bulb?
One to complain that the light bulb is white.
One to complain that the light is white.
One to blame boomers for wearing out the old bulb.
One who doesn't know how.
And one Wokester who says there must be change as he changes the bulb.
tardpill , 3 hours ago
the only one that can possibly change the bulb with it out being a racist privilege is not
available because they are too busy burning **** down
DaBard51 , 2 hours ago
You forgot:
--One who complains that there isn't enough diversity in light bulbs.
--One who says "Bulb Lives Matter!"
--One who complains that screwing the bulb is sexist.
--One who can't decide whether the bulb is DC or AC.
When nine hundred years old you become, look this good you will not.
<edit> whoever up-voted, my thanks. Shadow-banned, I am not, now, I see...
Roger Casement , 3 hours ago
They are the joke.
philipat , 2 hours ago
Yes, and that is why humor is so important, especially at the margin. Politicians,
especially Democrat politicians, don't like comedy because it draws attention to the
absurdity of most of what they do.
Monty Python was the pinnacle of contemporary comedy precisely because it drew attention
to the absurdity of modern society and it pompous hypocrisy. It gave me more laughs more
consistently than anything I have come across since. 'God speed John, you stay with what you
believe and ***k the humorless wokesters who need to get a life and lighten up for their own
sake and for that of all the rest of us!
45North1 , 2 hours ago
An Antifa member, a BLM'er and a Proud Boy go into a Bar.....
EvlTheCat , 2 hours ago
"Woke" in itself is a joke and a oxymoron, which if you know the definition makes it
ironic also. Touches all bases John.
Moral
reformation by abuse is not going to work. Frankly, the actual irrelevance of this to
ownership of the country is one reason why it is allowed, a way to neuter real opposition. It
prevents solidarity between the lowers, while fostering illusions about select minorities. Wasn't there some guy who actually
wrote about the Obama, who betrayed all communities including black, under the title We
Were Eight Years in Power?
Notable quotes:
"... Defund is a stupid idea......changing the operating rules makes more sense. I blame the MSM for pushing minority headlines. ..."
"... It's not up to blacks on whether police are defunded or not. It's up to "woke" and privileged, liberal white lawmakers who think they know better than their constituents, both white and black on what's best for them. ..."
"... Has anyone else noticed that as the protests have developed, that those protesting and demanding defunding of the police are predominately white people of university enrolement age? Paid to protest by whom? ..."
"... Our guess is most probably George Soros, US Democrats and our friend Bill Gates. All for what the destruction of the society that allowed them to become obscenely wealthy. ..."
"... The state of US domestic insecurity: citizens don't trust the enforcers of the power structure, but don't want to be thrown to the wolves, whether it's black or white. ..."
Despite Black Lives Matter protests raging across the country and moves to defund police departments or cut back their budgets, a
new poll suggests black citizens don't support the efforts to remove cops from the streets.
The Gallup
poll
,
released Wednesday, was conducted throughout July and involved over 36,000 adults across the US.
A whopping 81 percent of
black respondents said they want police to spend the same amount of time in their neighborhoods that they already do or to have
even more of a presence. The results are similar across races, with 88 percent of white Americans, 83 percent of Hispanic
Americans, and 72 percent of Asian-Americans all saying the same thing.
The poll also confirmed that
black Americans are more likely to see police presence in their communities, with 73 percent of respondents answering that they
notice cops in their neighborhoods
"sometimes"
or
"very
often."
That's compared to 65 percent of non-black respondents.
While that gap could be seen as supporting the charge that black communities are overpoliced, it had little impact on whether
citizens wanted more or less police presence.
"The slightly elevated frequency with which
Black Americans see police in their neighborhood has limited impact on their preferences for changing the local police presence,"
Gallup
wrote in their findings.
About a third of black
citizens who responded that they
"often"
see police in their neighborhoods said they
would like there to be less of a presence, but over 50 percent in that category don't want any change.
The poll did also show that
very few black Americans are confident a run-in with a police officer will go well. Only 18 percent said they were very confident
such an encounter would go well, while 43 percent said they were somewhat confident. That distrust of police actually jumps over
to the general public, with 48 percent saying they were very confident an encounter with an officer will go well, while 37
percent were only somewhat confident.
While the results show a
general apprehension to trusting police, especially among black Americans, there is little from the poll that supports the
efforts in cities across the US that are either
slashing
police
department budgets or moving to completely
abolish
them.
"The majority of all other Black Americans, including those who are 'not too confident'
about receiving considerate police treatment, want the police to spend the same amount of time, with additional percentages
favoring more time,"
Gallup concludes.
Since the death of George
Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25, Black Lives Matter protests have taken place in major cities across the country, with some in
places like Portland, Oregon, turning violent and requiring a federal response.
But if Gallop's results are
to be trusted, defunding police is not the answer most citizens support, even black Americans.
Defund is a stupid idea......changing the operating rules makes more sense. I blame the MSM for pushing minority headlines.
Colin
39 minutes ago
It's not up to blacks on whether police are defunded or not. It's up to "woke" and privileged, liberal white lawmakers who
think they know better than their constituents, both white and black on what's best for them. Same old Democratic story that's
been playing for over a century.
Alpoz
42 minutes ago
Has anyone else noticed that as the protests have developed, that those protesting and demanding defunding of the police are
predominately white people of university enrolement age? Paid to protest by whom?
Our guess is most probably George Soros, US
Democrats and our friend Bill Gates. All for what the destruction of the society that allowed them to become obscenely
wealthy.
As i quote from Issac Asimov, The Stars Like Dust. "They don't want equality, they want to rule."
pogohere
2 hours ago
The state of US domestic insecurity: citizens don't trust the enforcers of the power structure, but don't want to be thrown to
the wolves, whether it's black or white.
Guldar Tate
14 minutes ago
Why is this even an issue? A vocal minority of mostly fake leftist caucasians are the main ones pushing this
"defund the police" issue. Just like how nearly half the people you see at BLM rallies are caucasians. The
founder and funder of BLM, George Soros is a caucasian as well. Then someone finally does a poll, that
shouldn't need to be done, to show what should be obvious to a normal human being, that most so called black
people want police.
D Green
2 hours ago
Irrelevant, really. As long as there is a state, there will
be enforcers so
we'd better learn to love them...full stop! Indeed, the reason for our present predicament stems from one
critical edict that we've largely eschewed: as citizens, our primary task is to OBEY.
Obedience
is our raison
d'être. In the exceedingly rare event the justice system gets it 'wrong,' wait patiently in your comfortable
jail cell until the state generously offers you a tough-but-fair plea deal, or, if you're really lucky, grants
you the privilege of sorting it out before an impartial judge and a jury of your wise peers. Why is that so
hard for some people?
It also begs a series of increasingly absurd questions: is a person who's only 1/16th black
"allowed" to use the n-word? What if they're another dark-skinned minority, but not technically
black? The arguments over whether white rappers or fans of hip-hop culture are "allowed" to use
the word can be downright farcical, and completely gloss over the real issues - generational
poverty, separate-but-unequal race-based policing tactics, mass incarceration, the
school-to-prison pipeline - that continue to cause immense suffering in black communities, even
as corporations pour millions of dollars into the coffers of Black Lives Matter and other
race-grifters.
Adopting melanin-based double standards only fans the flames of racial animus. It's become
painfully clear that the leaders of the BLM organization do not really want a post-racial
society where all groups live together in harmony - they want division along every "
intersectional " line in existence, and are willing to invent a few to further atomize
the working class while collecting fat checks from corporations terrified of running afoul of
the new thought police.
This aim does not reflect the wishes of the vast majority of black activists, a growing
number of whom are speaking out
against BLM's cooptation of their efforts. But those who profit off racism will do anything to
ensure it continues.
First there was the transcript. I wrote about that on 11 July (see here). Now we have the
video. Floyd was complaining of not being able to breath at least five minutes before the
police were forced by Floyd to put him on the ground. The transcript I posted on the 11th shows
clear evidence that George Floyd was complaining of not being able to breath. This video
provides the visual proof. George Floyd was not killed by police. He was suffering respiratory
distress caused by a Fentanyl overdose. His inability to breath had nothing to do with the neck
restraint applied by the Minneapolis police.
Now we know that the entire premise of the Black Lives Matter riots was based on a false
claim of police abuse. Derek Chauvin did not murder George Floyd. George Floyd, a criminal and
drug addict, killed himself by ingesting a drug that Doctors use to shutdown a patient's
respiratory system.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/YPSwqp5fdIw
As I noted on July 11th, the transcript exonerates the police. This is why the Minnesota
Attorney General tried to keep the public from seeing the video evidence for themselves.
I am re-posting the transcript so that you can compare it with the video. The video starts
with two Minneapolis Police officers approaching Floyd's vehicle from the driver's side. One of
the officers has his pistol drawn and pointed in Floyd's direction. However, per standard
practice, his finger is not, I REPEAT NOT, on the trigger. If the finger is not on the trigger
the gun will not fire itself.
Also worth noting that the police were not physically aggressive with Floyd. They did not
punch him or jerk him around. Floyd, in his drugged state, was not cooperative. It is a shame
that the officers who detained Floyd lacked clairvoyance or the ability to read Floyd's mind or
mentally test the chemical content of his blood. That kind of knowledge might have given them
an early clue that Floyd was a dead man walking because of the toxic brew of illegal drugs he
had shoved into his system. Here's the
link to the full transcript.
The incident starts with a store manager reporting that George Floyd had just given him a
counterfeit bill.
The two officers (Kueng and Thomas Lane) go outside and begin the investigation by trying to
get George Floyd out of his car:
Floyd was not cooperative. He was disoriented and not acting rationally. Floyd was
accompanied by another black man. In contrast to Floyd, the other gentleman followed police
instructions:
George Floyd was not passive nor cooperative despite media claims to the contrary. The video
that fueled outrage across America tells a very misleading story. The words of the transcript
are not lies. In the next relevant bit of conversation, Floyd concedes that he passed a bad
bill to the shop owner who called the police and admits he was not following police
instructions.
On page 12 of the transcript we get the first evidence that Floyd is high on something and
is "foaming" at the mouth. Officer Kueng is very concerned about Floyd's erratic
behavior:
Floyd claims he was "hooping" earlier. According to the Urban Dictionary , "hooping"
refers to smuggling/transporting something that is inserted in one's rectum.
Floyd's erratic behavior escalates as Officer Kueng and Lane try to put him in the police
car:
Pages 15-21 of transcript record the futile effort of the Officers to get Floyd into
the police car and Floyd's drug-induced frenzy and paranoia. On page 22 of the transcript Floyd
starts to claim that he cannot breath. He has not been placed on the ground. In fact, he ASKS
THE POLICE TO PUT HIM ON THE GROUND. Cops are not Docs. They do not have magical powers to
diagnose whether or not someone is actually having a medical emergency or faking it. Up to this
point in their interaction with George Floyd, they had little evidence to trust anything Floyd
said:
The transcript and the video are damning for all arm chair prosecutors who jumped to the
unwarranted and unsupported claim that the police killed George Floyd. The did not. tFloyd's
respiratory crisis was caused by the Fentanyl he had ingested before the police showed up on
the scene. That evidence also is reflected in the autopsy report. Those who have rushed to
judgment in condemning the Minneapolis Police Department will have to do some major mea
culpas.
I don't think Chauvin will be exonerated, but there is no question advocates of the racist
police brutality narrative are ignoring facts.
The conclusion of the private autopsy requested by the family was wrong. They didn't know
the results of the toxicology report. One of the experts hired by the family, who kept making
television appearances (including on Hannity), didn't even look at the body. To the best of
my knowledge, this man only saw the video and ruled it a homicide on that basis alone.
Another expert hired by the family saw the body, but again she didn't see the toxicology
report. The lawyer for the family, Ben Crump, is an ass for calling the toxicology report a
red herring.
The fact is when the store clerks called the cops, they said Floyd appeared drunk. He was
clearly inebriated or intoxicated. The fact he handed off an obviously fake $20 bill suggests
he wasn't all there. There is no denying the toxicology report which does prove he was
intoxicated. And the police were right to apprehend him. This Floyd was inebriated or
intoxicated while sitting behind the wheel of a car, so he clearly represented a danger if he
began to drive.
With all that being said, despite the fact he had trouble breathing beforehand doesn't
exclude that the manner he was being detained had contributed to his death. The second
autopsy (I'm not talking the private one, but the official second autopsy) officially did
rule his death a homicide because the manner he was held down was deemed a contributing
factor in his death.
In my personal opinion, I think there is a case to be made that Chauvin did recognize
Floyd and deliberately kept Floyd on his stomach, with his face pointed downward, so that
Floyd wouldn't recognize Chauvin. Maybe Chauvin was also trying to pass Floyd out or induce
Floyd to vomit something he may have swallowed to hide from the police, who knows, but the
manner Floyd was held down, even if it is considered accepted albeit rare procedure, will not
hold in front of a jury. Procedures aside, there has to be common sense.
There is no question Chauvin's actions were excessive and he should be disciplined for
that. However, unless his actions were the primary cause of death it is not murder. It is all
a moot point though. Everyone on that jury knows if they vote to acquit their life and
livelihood will be at risk as well as those of their close family members. Hopefully there
will be at least one courageous juror with integrity but I doubt it.
So not in this context os it a reference to playing basketball. And do you really think it
likely that this overweight guy with circulatory problems, a long time drug user, and by his
own claim just coming off of a dose of WuFlu was recreating himself playing basketball
earlier on?
If the police officers are acquitted in a state trial, they will be found guilty in a
federal civil rights trial. These four officers are going to spend years in prison, as will
the officer in Atlanta. The politicians, POTUS included, will be happy to ensure this
outcome.
It would be better if the officers were turned over to the mob, shot to death, and then
set afire. The mob can drag their charred remains through the street, chanting slogans, and
then hang their remains from a bridge. There's a great bridge on the outskirts of Fallujah
that served this purpose in the past.
Things are what they are, not what they should be.
According to a poster in another blog comment section, "hooping" can also refer to
ingesting drugs by means of an enema, actually an effective way to absorb them into the body.
Millions of AIDS sufferers (and sufferers from other STDs) can't be wrong! This area is a
weak link in the body's defenses against intruders, whether viral, bacterial, or chemical.
Besides, ingestion via enema avoids problems such as visible track marks (awkward to explain
to LEOs or parole officers), and being found in possession of "works", i.e., syringes, spoons
for "cooking" with a lighter, or hydrating the drugs into an injectable form.
As a long term convict, I am sure George was quite familiar with secreting items in his
rectum, so an enema would be child's play.
fakebot,
"There is no question Chauvin's actions were excessive?" His actions appear to be consistent
with his training and MPD policy, and yet you've figured out that the actions were
excessive?
Every elected official who claimed the police killed Floyd and every media report that
claimed the police killed Floyd, and everyone who republished this claim need to be sued-
slander per se, false accusation of a crime.
I assume there will be no problem claiming damages, and even punitive damages due to
willful intent to defame, by all the wrongly accused police officers.
This lynching of the police officers was media defamation of the Covington Catholic
Kids...... on steroids.
By charging him with murder and not manslaughter, the DA was intentionally putting Chauvin
into a good position to get off. I'm no BLM supporter, but watch the tape and tell me that
Chauvin is not guilty of manslaughter.
fakebot, "homicide" means a person died, and that it did not initially appear to be a
suicide. However OD by drugs could be called a suicide. We also have the cruel phenomenon of
"suicide by cop" where someone sets up a scenario to die at the hands of a police officer, or
a passing train, or motor vehicle.
You are reading way more into this incident than supported by the facts in evidence. Why
is that? Or even supported by the facts in evidence when the toxicology report first came
out. It was not clear from that point forward how in fact Floyd died.
Now that the embers have died down, vicious political lines drawn, the Nation convulsed,
the additional bodies counted, and the damages assessed to the point the Minnesota Gov is now
begging for a federal bailout, it is a strange time to finally officially release this
contemporaneous and potentially exculpatory evidence.
Larry,
I mostly agree. First, the hold that Cauvin used was, as you have noted, is approved by
department policy. It would have been used to keep both Floyd and the cops safe. It might
look terrible to the untrained eye and present as the ultimate archetype in a paranoid ink
blot test, but it is a safe and effective means of controlling someone when used properly. I
demonstrated to some friends recently by having my wife (125 pounds +/-) apply the hold to me
(200 + pounds, mostly muscle). I could not get up or thrash too much. I was a controlled, yet
unharmed. The assumption has been from the beginning that Chauvin was applying his total
weight to Floyd's neck. With one knee on the ground, the amount of pressure applied by the
other knee, to the neck, can be completely regulated and need not be excessive. Anyone can
verify this by simply trying it instead of repeating what they have been told by the media.
If you are worried about hurting a partner, try it on an inanimate object. Everyone is so
into "science", but then unwilling to test a basic hypothesis before virtue signaling
away.
Where I think Chauvin screwed up is in not giving Floyd CPR, etc once he stopped
breathing. However, that is not murder. The excessive charges are a set up for subsequent
riots; probably worse than the first round, when Chauvin is acquitted at trial or on appeal.
Maybe that is intentional.
Terence Gore,
The problem is that people resisting arrest often say things like, "I can't breath". Often
enough that cops see it as crying wolf. Besides, what were the cops supposed to do with
someone who is thrashing and resisting arrest and saying he can't breath? Let him thrash and
hurst himself and/or cops? All they could do was control Floyd for safety while waiting on
the EMTs.
Based on the comments ahead of me, there will be no resolution of this matter that is not
democratic - in other words, a compromise both sides hate.
The 'racism' narrative never did fit; their previous work history together is not spoken
of at any length; their former employer and the background of that establishment is also very
interesting.
Multi-racial myself, this entire BLM things is fueled more by wealth or opportunity
disparity than anything else. It's a game many of us just refuse to play any longer, but
nobody can fix stupid - it has to fix itself.
Understood, I was trying to make the point MSM is not taking a deeper look the is at the
issue.
"Some drugs produce undesirable effects with an oral application. With rectal
administration, a person who typically feels nauseous from taking a certain substance orally
may be able to avoid that feeling. A person may also want to experience the "high" more
quickly in certain situations. For example, a person may seek social competence and emotional
awareness associated with MDMA when at social gatherings, and may want to produce the effects
of it more quickly than usual. Or a person who wants the relaxed and calm feelings associated
with alcohol may want to orally administer it to have the effects of it while not emitting
the smell on his breath.
This is a trend becoming more and more popular with teens as a way to get the desired
effects while hiding (at least for a while) the evidence of abuse. Whatever the reason a
person may rectally abuse substances, there are blatant side effects ranging from mild to
severe."
Floyd was inebriated from his drug ingestion and once apprehended needed to be restrained
due to his impairment. Once on the ground, his suggestion, Chauvin applied a restraint to
Floyd's scapula and repeatedly applied pressure in a throttling manner. Was it the neck and
not the scapula, that's in the eye of the viewer and camera angle. Never believe what you
think you see as there always Is another angle. Oh, yes he did slip it to the neck but for
how long time will tell.
He applied the restraint way to long, he did not allow the body to be turned as suggested and
reacted poorly to the growing crowd. A professional law enforcement trainer of restraint
holds could answer most questions and will in court but with the quick condemnation by law
enforcement agencies answers most questions. Homicide 1st or 2nd degree only in
Minneapolis.
Congratulations to Keith Ellison, former congressman, former vice chair of the DNC, and
current Attorney General of Minnesota. Suppressing this evidence was essential in ensuring
the myth of George Floyd was spread around the world before even a flicker of fact
emerged.
"We found a weed pipe on him, there might be something else with it. Might be like, PCP or
something."
Tomas Lane, Minneapolis PD. That's the "systemicly racist" police department in that city run
by the Democratic Farm Labor party, which, like the Attorney General's office of the State of
Minneapolis, has been in charge for half a century or more.
Congratulations Democrats. You have shown the world that you believe that individual
idenity must be rejected in favor of group identity, guilt for things done in the past is
inheritable, and only one group has lives that matter. History must be replaced with the new
reality, the Democratic party's belief that America was founded on racism, it's institutions,
codes of law, and culture must all be swept asside to be replaced with the ideals of the
"democratic socialist" wing of the party.
Chaz, Chop and CNN couldn't frame a better narrative to run for election on in 2020.
Better get some Covid cover stories going lest people start asking why men and women are
fined or arrested for trying to open barber shops, walk without a face burka in public, or
otherwise excercise freedoms yet looters, arsonists, and destroyers of public monuments walk
free; along with tens of thousands of criminals who were released from prison. Certainly no
one wants to know why FISA abuse has gone unpunished, why DOJ lawyers can make up evidence,
withhold other material from defendants - repeatedly, yet none are arrested or otherwise held
to account. We certainly don't want to know what Joe Biden and his boss were doing those 8
years they were in office; or all the other years Joe spent in the House and Senate.
Fentanyl and other opioids do NOT cause respiratory distress or shortness of breath. They
generally depress all activity of the brain and especially the area that control respiration.
In a large enough dose you first pass out and then stop breathing. That is why most opiate
overdoses are simply found dead. A guy foaming at the mouth, agitated and wanting to lie down
is sick, and should be treated as such. He should not be cuffed with his hands behind his
back (also a stress position which impedes the motion of the chest and hence effective
breathing), made to lie prone (also an impediment to ability to breathe) with a knee on the
back of the neck which will compress the upper airway. This guy may have been a SOB and a
MOFO but did not deserve this for any reason let alone passing a bad $20 bill. It was not
murder in the first, but some blame needs to be allocated.
Out of the way, it's a busy day
I've got things on my mind
For want of the price of tea and a slice
The old man died
First, let me explain that I am a retired Cardiologist (ABIM Certified in both Internal
Medicine and Cardiology). As such, have on thousands of occasions helped in the ER's when
people come in on drugs....and I have seen the panic in their eyes and the physiologic
changes that occur (severe hypertension, Adrenalin release, heart attacks, strokes).
When I read the available reports from Floyd's autopsy I was struck by the fact this
fellow had ingested a large quantity of dangerous drugs; combinations of stimulants and
opioids (fentanyl...one of the most dangerous drugs on the street...we even have to be
careful with it in the hospital). He wasn't able to react appropriately to the circumstances
and those officers aren't doctors. The officers were trapped. The only decision they could
make was to control the subject and try to prevent him from injuring himself or them...or
someone else. From what I read in the Minneapolis PD manual the use of the neck restraint (as
they used it) was trained and approved.
Factually, this probably didn't cause an injury. I think the defense will probably utilize
this; perhaps they will get a 'slap on the hands'...but they did what they were trained to do
with a large, strong, resisting subject. I am worried that it will result in a ' Rodney King'
response with riots and destruction. I don't see a good 'end' here.
I am reminded of a piece by Art Buchwald, in which, he quoted the response of a governor
of Illinois to a prison riot: " we need a better class of prisoners."
I suppose we need a healthier and more responsible-acting class of miscreants, who could
endure incidents of police brutality and not inconviently dying and besmirching the sterling
reputation of the police - causing riots among the feeble-minded population.
Charlie Wilson, why the intentional misinformation campaign when we all have search
engines at our fingertips?
"........According to the Drug Enforcement Administration, this powerful drug is 100 times
more potent than morphine and 50 times more potent than heroin. Along with targeting the
opioid receptors in the brain that control pain, the opioid receptors that control breathing
and heart rate are also affected. This can lead an individual to stop breathing all together
if too much Fentanyl is taken.........
EMT was called, he was being symptomatically treated. He did not die because of a bad $20
bill. He died because from the moment he woke up that day he made one fatal decision after
another, all bad. Including buying cigarette with his bad $20 bill, when he claimed on tape
he had "post-covid breathing" problems. He set his own fate in motion.
Might want to wait for the start of the woke NFL season before doing any more Monday
morning quarterbacking.
Methamphetamine most often causes a general feeling of wellness (euphoria) that is most
often called a "rush." Other symptoms are increased heart rate, increased blood pressure, and
large, wide pupils.
If you take a large amount of the drug, you will be at higher risk for more dangerous side
effects, including:
Agitation
Chest pain
Coma or unresponsiveness (in extreme cases)
Heart attack
Irregular or stopped heartbeat
Difficulty breathing
Very high body temperature
Kidney damage and possibly kidney failure
Paranoia
Seizures
Severe stomach pain
Stroke
Long-term use of methamphetamine can lead to significant psychological problems,
including:
Delusional behavior
Extreme paranoia
Major mood swings
Insomnia (severe inability to sleep)
Other symptoms may include:
Missing and rotted teeth (called "meth mouth")
Repeated infections
Severe weight loss
Skin sores (abscesses or boils)
The length of time methamphetamines stay active can be much longer than for cocaine and other
stimulants. Some paranoid delusions can last for 15 hours."
"Common signs of opiate or stimulant overdose are:
foaming at the mouth or a foam cone
loss of consciousness
seizures
difficulty or stopped breathing
Overdose causes foaming at the mouth because organs like the heart and lungs can't function
properly. Slowed heart or lung movements causes fluids to gather in the lungs, which can mix
with carbon dioxide and come out of the mouth like a foam."
"The excessive charges are a set up for subsequent riots; probably worse than the first
round, when Chauvin is acquitted at trial or on appeal. Maybe that is intentional."
I thought this the moment I heard the charges were bumped up from 3rd to 2nd degree
murder. IMHO, this was also unquestionably a prime motive for the Atlanta DA to rush to
charge that officer with felony 1st degree murder. I don't know how a prosecutor could prove
to an impartial jury that this was first degree, pre-meditated murder, given the indisputable
facts of the case.
I firmly believe both of these cases have been deliberately set up to fail in prosecution
in order to effect a truly cataclysmic round of domestic unrest upon the results of the
trials. The need the system to fail in order to prove their contention that it is inherently
racist. These people want power at all costs. They do not care one bit about the citizenry of
their municipalities who undoubtedly will suffer mightily once these trials play out to
acquittal or at best a hung jury.
The owner of a Cuban restaurant in Louisville has decried a list of 'diversity demands sent
to him and dozens of other small business owners by Black Lives Matter activists - which
include guaranteeing that at least 23% of staff are black, 23% of the business's supplies are
from black-owned retailers, and 1.5% of their net sales go to black charities. They also need
to publicly display a sign showing their support for the movement.
If they don't comply, the business owners face a series of "repercussions," including social
media shaming, 'invasive reclamation' where black owned businesses would set up competing
'booths and tables' outside the stores, and they would have 'their storefronts fucked with,'
according to the
Daily Mail .
The letter was sent to business owners in the city's 'NuLu' East Market District during a
July 24 protest which forced some area businesses to close. BLM argues that the neighborhood
was only able to flourish after a housing project was demolished in the 2000s, which 'robbed
the black community of opportunities and wiped out their homes,' according to the report.
Beatscape , 20 minutes ago
This is BLM trying to see how far they can push their agenda -- do they have such a
universal mandate that they are now above the law? Per the legal code:
Extortion is a felony offense that is punishable by up to three years in prison. If the
defendant has made extortion demands but the victim never complied or consented, he or she
can be charged with attempted extortion.
In the current environment, anyone that dares to criticize even a fine point of the BLM
movement in public is in danger of losing their job and being ostracized. No wonder BLM wants
to defund and defang the police, they want to engage in various criminal activities with
impunity. And, the 'white guilt' crowd is actually fighting to allow this to happen.
Unreal...
OGAorSAD , 37 minutes ago
Formal extortion that will go unpunished....
Revolver2019 , 24 minutes ago
This guy is capitulating way too much! You cannot have it both ways with Marxists. You
cannot support BLM, but then offer your own terms to them to be negotiated.
He of all people should know that Marxists do not negotiate and there is no limit for what
they demand and what they want from you. You give an inch, they will then demand a mile. If
you draw a line they will steam roll you and take you out . Its all or nothing with
Marxists!
People need to realize this for their own safety. I see too much of it. People want to
appease, but on their terms. WAKE UP!! This guy is doing nothing good for his restaurant or
community because he says he supports BLM, but.... There is no BUT - All or you die! Having
both ways is quick recipe for disaster.
Grow some cajones and take one side - fully! Preferable to be the good side.
jughead , 1 hour ago
Sounds like a RICO case to me. Book em Donald.
LightBeamCowboy , 53 minutes ago
Isn't making threats or committing violence to achieve political ends the legal definition
of terrorism?
aloha-snackbar , 56 minutes ago
And lastly a cash payment due weekly for protection from nefarious and organized thugs who
may due harm to you and establishment... Chicago beer wars 1930... and today...
TheDayAfter , 41 minutes ago
Brilliant Point. Slap the RICO Act on BLM and Antifa, and see them run into Oblivion.
Stu Pedassle , 3 minutes ago
Who are the officers / decision makers? Gotta hand it to the Soros crowd, one thing they
have gotten right is keeping this movement going apparently without a definable structure /
command center to go after by the DOJ
neidermeyer , 1 hour ago
If it were me I'd burn the place down , collect the insurance money and go someplace safe,
the business is effectively worth nothing at this point... The local government is complicit
and you just can't win in that scenario.
LetThemEatRand , 1 hour ago
The worst nightmare of the Blue Team is that BLM splits the party by targeting Hispanic
voters, who will shift Red Team.
Welfarebum , 36 minutes ago
BLM is now a political party. But they are a unique political party, in that nobody is
allowed to criticize or oppose them or their views. Because of this unique status, they have
become extremely dangerous and need to be scrutinized by all critical-thinking,
freedom-loving citizens. I am not a racist in opposing BLM any more than I'm a rapist for
questioning the motives of the me too movement. y_arrow
DaBard51 , 54 minutes ago
BLM demands quotas? Illegal. per US Supreme Court (2009)
Not sure how the Cubans do business, but if the BLM tries this extortion **** with Mexican
restaurants around here, then some headless corpses of BLM activists are going to start
appearing around the place.
Musum , 1 hour ago
He took to Facebook to accuse them of 'mafia tactics'
Neoconservatism is BLM in Jewish face.
"Mafica tactics" is how we conduct ourselves on the geopolitical stage.
Welcome to America.
BaNNeD oN THe RuN , 49 minutes ago
Exactly, this is just a "lite" version of Trump threatening to ban Tik-Tok, then
encouraging Microsoft to buy it for a reduced price. Or demanding that Germany pay more
tribute to their troops occupying the country for 70+ years.
Leading by example, or the Art of the Deal (shakedown).
Yes the stupidity of Daniel Heintz
is obvious. Neoliberal Dems use Antifa and BLM as tool acting as a ram, similar to Ukrainian oligarchs,
expecting no repercussion. But than Crimea and Donbass happened all at once.
Just change the name Maidan in CHAZ :-) CHAZ did not last that long, though. But Portland might be another story.
Notable quotes:
"... The physical layout of Maidan is both impressive and inspiring. Piles of sandbags, tires, household furniture and concrete paving blocks form the barricades that guard the entrances to the square. Inside are countless tents and makeshift shelters which people have occupied for nearly four months now. ..."
Suspecting that neither Ukrainians nor people elsewhere were being given an accurate portrayal of what has been going on in Kyiv,
I felt I had no choice but to travel there and offer an honest portrait of Maidan as I saw it.
The physical layout of Maidan is both impressive and inspiring. Piles of sandbags, tires, household furniture and concrete paving
blocks form the barricades that guard the entrances to the square. Inside are countless tents and makeshift shelters which people
have occupied for nearly four months now. Graffiti, fliers and stickers, written in Ukrainian, Russian and English, cover any vacant
space on walls; dozens of Ukrainian flags flap in the wind And there's no way you can miss the flowers.
Piles upon piles of flowers, spread all over Maidan, commemorate those who lost their lives there. Scattered among the flowers
you can find photographs of Maidan's lost 'Heavenly Hundred', with a constant flow of family members, friends and fellow countrymen
quietly mourning nearby.
Reminds me the events during Kiev Maidan. A large part of protesters were football hooligans.
Was he a paid protester, like was the case in Kiev, or volunteer?
" Agard-Berryhill has been released without bail, pending his trial. "
A felony conviction for when he was 15, just out of juvi jail and already doing this. Yet
the local court releases him with no bail.
Yippie21 , 39 minutes ago
They'll scare him with crazy charges and try to get a plea deal. The kid will have a
well-paid Antifa attorney this time, not like whatever happened before when Grandma had to
pay for one. Plus, we all know the system in Portland is skewed a tad left, so yeah... he'll
prob get " another chance " to turn his life around... cough cough
PGR88 , 59 minutes ago
an olive vest with word "ICONS" that she bought for him. While she supports Trump, she
wanted to protect him after he was hit by rubber bullets. "I got this for my grandson who's
a protester downtown, he uses it every night and says it does the job."
I never cease to be amazed by the stupidity of some American women.
Grosvenor Pkwy , 53 minutes ago
I know that black lives matter, but what about little white punk lives?
toady , 33 minutes ago
"He told police that he was told to throw had "yellow cardboard packaging with blue
stripes, was the size of a small 'V8' can, and had a green fuse.""
It's hard, no, impossible, to describe how stupid this individual is... 99.9% of people
would say "no way, are you crazy?" to someone telling them to throw a bomb, let alone
ANYTHING, at the police.
And 100% of people are too smart to confess this to the police, especially those already
on probation/parole.
This kid is too stupid to live. He needs a death sentence for treason/terrorism
charges.
Minimum life anal rape sentence at gitmo!
benb , 54 minutes ago
Did he have a job and a career (protesting in his free time) or was vandalism, arson, and
rioting his only chosen calling?
[Besides of course commanding a Starship in a video game]
otschelnik , 32 minutes ago
BLM, DNC, and Soros are running these LARPing useful idiots. Products of reform schools
and our other various and sundry public education. Same place where Hitler recruited the
brown shirts.
dustinthewind , 1 hour ago
"Someone" told these people to throw a explosive device at a building with the potential
for damaging property or even people and you do it? How is that a defense? Even if it was a
firecracker it stills has the potential of during harm like eye or hearing damage if it
ignites close enough.
Md4 , 41 minutes ago
" "The device I've been accused of allegedly throwing was allegedly given to me by an
unknown protestor with full face coverings. I was allegedly told that it was a strobe
firework that wouldn't damage the building or harm anyone around it. Law enforcement has not
contacted me for any alleged crime as of right now."
W hy " White protesters, many of them young, have become foot soldiers in the racial justice
movement here focusing on the federal courthouse."
MSN reporting is exact replica of reporting of events in Kiev Maidan during Nuland Color
revolution in Ukraine. You can replace Portnal with Kiev and phasing would be exactly the
same.
Navy veteran Adam Winther holds a flag while forming a "Wall of Vets" during a Black Lives
Matter protest at the Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse on Friday in Portland, Ore.
(Noah Berger / Associated Press)
"I'm a middle-aged white guy. I've got a house, two kids, a dog," said Adam Simmons, 43, a
former Army medic in Iraq. "I really don't need to be here."
But there he was, along with a dozen or so other veterans -- both white and Black -- to bear
witness and protect demonstrators' right to protest.
Often called the "whitest" U.S. big city -- more than 72% of the population is white --
Portland has transformed into a national center for a movement that might seem more at home in
Chicago, New York, Los Angeles or another more diverse locale.
"Black lives matter" has become a ubiquitous rallying cry in a city where only 6% of the
population is Black -- while 9% is Latino and 7% of Asian ancestry.
... White protesters, many of them young , have become foot soldiers in the racial
justice movement here focusing on the federal courthouse.
...
Earlier, demonstrators targeted a seemingly benign statue of a stately elk that stood in a
downtown park for more than 100 years. The sculpture went from being a source of civic pride to
a symbol of colonialism and dispossession.
"Stolen land!" was one of the protesters' chants, referring to territory taken from the
region's original Indigenous inhabitants. "Give it back!"
Authorities removed the statue last month after its base was damaged during the protests.
Some criticized the demonstrators online, wondering if the elk had exhibited signs of racism or
white supremacy.
Many residents here complain that the national focus on the protests has distorted the image
of the city, playing into Trump's
hand of declaring it a hotbed of "anarchists and agitators" from the anti-fascist movement
known as Antifa, which in actuality has no central organization or membership roll.
... "Everyone wants to be a victim now," said Shelly Fenner, 51, a pro-police demonstrator.
"I think a lot of them are indoctrinated, politically and educationally. They want us to feel
guilty about something that happened to Black people's ancestors. That's not our fault."
"We are coming to dismantle this deeply oppressive, racist, sexist, utterly bankrupt system of capitalism. We cannot and will
not stop until it is dismantled, and we replace it with a socialist world, based on solidarity, genuine democracy, and equality."
Kshama Sawant, ( "Red Sammie" , YouTube)
Seattle City Council, District 3
"To make the individual sacred we must destroy the social order that crucifies him. And this problem can only be solved with
blood and iron." Leon Trotsky, Terrorism and Communism, 1920
Here's a question for you: When a young man dressed entirely in black, uses a racial justice protest to conceal himself so he
can break windows, incinerate retail shops and cafes, pelt cops with bottles, rocks and fireworks, and spread mayhem across the city,
what is the political message he is trying to send?
1– He is honoring the death of George Floyd
2– He is expressing his support for racial justice
3– He is attacking the system that protects ordinary people from criminal violence
4– He is a paid agitator funded by liberal organizations that seek to intensify social unrest for their own political objectives
If you chose 3 or 4, you're probably right, there are undoubtedly paid agitators operating on behalf of wealthy outsiders, just
as there are many "true believers" who see the riots as a springboard for a broader revolt that will topple the existing system.
In other words, there are competing agendas at play in these violent outbursts. The least likely answer is Number 1, that "He is
honoring the death of George Floyd." The riots have nothing to do with George Floyd, he's merely the fig leaf that hides the true
motives of the perpetrators.
Isn't it odd that –after 60 days of protests and riots– the media has never once asked what these activists want, what their actions
mean or who they are?
This shouldn't surprise us, after all, the media is in the 'narrative-shaping' business, their job is to tweak events so they
jibe with their political agenda. And that's what they're doing. They see the protests as another stick to beat Trump in the upcoming
elections, and that is precisely how they are using them. They don't want people to figure out that these massive, nationwide protests
were the largest and most destructive riots in US history. They want you to believe that they were "mostly peaceful", a sobriquet
that's designed to dull perceptions and lull people back to sleep. Which is how propaganda usually works. Nothing to see here, move
along. Check out this excerpt from an article by Michael Tracey who visited many of the cities that were decimated by the riots.
See if you can spot the discrepancy between the media's fabricated storyline and real events:
" In Minneapolis. First place I stop, most of the block is still boarded up . This grocery and tobacco store is owned
by an Iranian, neighbor tells me. "They took everything." Owner is deliberating whether to permanently close after the riots
Just next door, a small Vietnamese music shop has been closed since the riots Just down the street, a Malaysian restaurant
is boarded up, but has resumed business. As has a Vietnamese sandwich shop, which just re-opened a few days ago. Nearby a Halal
market is boarded up. Its next-door neighbor, a child care center, has signs in the windows asking to be spared What remains
of the Minneapolis Third Police Precinct building, looks like Bosnia This is just one tiny block -- and it just happened to
be the first place I stopped . Rioters even smashed the hipster record store!" (Many photos of the damage,
"Threadreader", Michael Tracey )
These scenes were repeated in over 400 cities across the country many of which are still either in ruins, boarded up, or in some
phase of digging out. On a strictly financial basis, the losses are incalculable, much more than many small businesses will ever
be able to manage. On a psychological level, however, the damage is much worse. Imagine watching everything you've worked for your
entire life callously destroyed in a senseless orgy of mob violence that lasts maybe just a few hours. The trauma can't be fixed
by simply installing new windows or sweeping up the broken glass. It will last for as long as you live. Thousands of families have
seen their futures go up in smoke while the perpetrators slipped away entirely unscathed. It's shocking. And what's more shocking
is that minority-owned businesses suffered the greatest losses. Here's Tracey again:
" Of the dozens and dozens of randomly-selected black Americans that I have so far spoken to across the United States, only
two expressed what one might call a "positive" view of the riots , and they were both young men. Everyone else I have encountered
is unabashedly scornful of rioting, and many even express apprehensions about the basic logic of a movement referred to as "
Black Lives Matter" which incongruously appears to them to have caused increased suffering in their predominantly black
neighborhoods .
Here's Tony in Milwaukee, who describes what it was like to escape from a riotous mob on his way home from work. " It's
crazy man. I really don't understand it. Cuz they sayin' Black Lives Matter and all this stuff," he said. "But man, you're hurting
the black community."
. an immigrant from Sierra Leone, said the following: "I grew up in a war zone, and I've never seen anything like it." the
primary victims -- meaning those who feared for their safety, suffered severe material losses, and whose lives were upended
-- are themselves minorities, and were targeted by activist whites." ("
Corporate Media Is Ignoring Broadest Riots In U.S. History, But Americans Hurt By These Riots Aren't ", The Federalist)
Here's more from an article at Fox News:
"The national media might have "moved on" from the riots in Minneapolis, but residents have nowhere to go. Much of the Twin
Cities is still in ruins. Boarded-up storefronts still display makeshift notices that read "black owned" or "minority owned"
to ward off further destruction. Many locals are reluctant to speak on the record, but some are eager to do so.
"It's been agony," says Mohamed Ali, a native of Somalia. "I respect the public anger, but I think we carried it too far, to
burn our city." At the height of the chaos, rioters set a large fire in front of his apartment, which sits atop several streetside
shops. He spray-painted desperate appeals onto plywood affixed to the storefront windows: "Don't burn please Kids live upstairs."
The media could care less about the devastation and ruined lives. What they care about concocting a storyline that hurts Trump's
chances for reelection. That's all that matters to them, not the colossal damage that has been done to our cities, our businesses
or individual lives. Just the politics, because political messaging is the fast-track to power, and power is the prize that must
be recaptured whatever the cost.
Of course, that doesn't tell us who broke the windows, looted the stores and lit the fires. For that we turn again to Michael
Tracey, the only journalist who went from city to city asking locals what they actually saw. As it happens, he got the same answer
over and over again:
" According to multiple accounts relayed to me, those who instigated these most extreme acts of destruction appeared to
be white left-wing activists who were not from the area . This then created a vacuum that enabled a portion of the local,
largely black and minority populations to engage in opportunistic looting." (The Federalist)
Surprise, surprise. Who woulda' known?
We saw the same phenom play out in Seattle although Seattle has a sizable compliment of its own homegrown radicals who undoubtedly
played a large role in the destruction of the downtown area and Capitol Hill. Once again, we need to ask ourselves what political
message these "activists" are trying to send when they attack Federal Buildings, courthouses, and police precincts?
It's not hard to figure out, is it? They're attacking the symbols of state power. They are challenging the legitimacy and authority
of the government, the judiciary and the people that are employed to enforce the law. There's nothing random or slapdash about
their choice of targets. They are attacking the symbols that they despise because they represent the biggest obstacle to their frenzied
power-grab. And the same rule applies to defunding the police which many people still fail to understand. "Defund the police"
is not the impulsive demand of a petulant child. No. It is a sinister political tactic designed to undermine security in order to
destabilize the state. A weaker state provides more opportunities for criminal mischief aimed at overthrowing the government which
is the ultimate objective. See how it works?
This is not the benign, Bernie Sanders, work-within-the-system-type socialism. This is Bolshevism, there's a big difference. The
smoldering downtown corridor and the ruined lives of thousands of merchants attests to that difference. What we're seeing is the
resolute actions of a thoroughly-committed group of violent extremists who want to obliterate the system and impose their own vision
of socialism. If you don't believe me, then listen to what Seattle City Councilman Kshama Sawant (District 3) said just two weeks
ago:
"We are coming to dismantle this deeply oppressive, racist, sexist, utterly bankrupt system of capitalism. We cannot and will
not stop until it is dismantled, and we replace it with a socialist world, based on solidarity, genuine democracy, and equality."
It doesn't get much clearer than that, does it?
Alot of people will dismiss this hyperbolic rhetoric as attention-seeking blabber, but I disagree. I think Sawant should be taken
seriously. We've already seen these groups take control of the streets, terrorize the city, and attack the organizations that provide
for public safety, security and justice. Sawant even used her Councilman key to allow 400 protestors into City Hall where she used
the venue as a platform for one of her trademark incendiary speeches. She also helped establish CHAZ, (Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone)
the "police-free" Shangri-la that devolved into a homicidal hellhole just weeks after its founding. Here's some background on CHAZ
from Christopher Rufo at The City Journal:
"The CHAZ saga began on June 8, under the premise that capitalism, police brutality, and the "fascist regime" of Seattle mayor
Jenny Durkan were upholding a social order that systemically oppressed African-Americans. Black Lives Matter and Antifa-affiliated
activists hoped to create a new regime based on a "reverse hierarchy of oppression," implemented race-based segregation in public
spaces, and maintained a "police-free zone" that they believed would protect "people of color" from the depredations of the state.
As it turns out, however, maintaining public order is a complex undertaking and can't be replaced by academic symbolism Ultimately,
the problem of violence -- and a dangerously naive understanding of policing -- doomed the CHAZ. Over its 24-day history, the
autonomous zone saw two gun homicides and four additional shooting victims. All the identified victims were black men -- precisely
the demographic for whom the CHAZ had claimed to offer protection. In the absence of a legitimate police force, armed criminal
gangs and untrained anarchist paramilitaries filled the void.
In the end, the homicide rate in the CHAZ turned out to be -- nearly 50 times greater than Chicago's .
What are the ultimate lessons of the CHAZ? .the true legacy of the CHAZ will be the memory of two black men who died under
the false promise of utopia." (" The End of CHAZ" , Christopher
Rufo, City Journal)
And don't think that CHAZ was just a "one off" experiment by leftist revolutionaries. It's not. It's a blueprint for the type
of society that will unavoidably replace our own if we don't stop this nonsense and restore order. The problem is that our liberal
mayor (Durkan) and our liberal governor (Inslee) think they can play pattycake with these fanatics to help pave the way for a Biden
victory in November. But this is a grave miscalculation. These are hard-boiled extremists with a penchant for violence. They are
not to be trifled with. Here's a snapshot of their activities from a local news station KIRO 7:
"Nearly four dozen people were arrested, and more than 55 officers were injured Saturday after protests turned violent with
trailers set on fire, windows at businesses smashed, cars damaged, and explosive devices thrown at police .
During the march, Seattle police said about a dozen people went on a rampage of destruction as they marched past the King County
Youth Detention Center at 12th Avenue and Alder Street, targeting the site. Some rioters carried sledgehammers and began shattering
workers' car windows in the parking lot. At the same time, a row of construction trailers next door on 12th Avenue were firebombed
after some rioters scaled a fence.
Fire crews responded and reported that five construction trailers were on fire. They were all destroyed.
The destruction did not end there. Seattle police said some protesters spray-painted the East Precinct at 12th and Pine Street,
tried to disable cameras and caused damage after someone breached a fence line. Moments after the breach, a device exploded, leaving
an 8-inch hole in the side of the precinct, according to police.
A crowd threw rocks, bottles and mortars at officers during the protests, according to police. During the violent protests,
59 officers were injured on Capitol Hill, including one who suffered a leg injury caused by an explosive device, authorities said.
Most were treated for their injuries and returned to work." (
"49 arrested, 59 injured in Seattle protests that turned violent" , Kiro 7 News)
These aren't protests, this is political warfare the likes of which we haven't seen since the 1960s. Peaceful protesters" do not
attack police stations with crowbars and firebombs, they don't vandalize Starbucks and retail shops, and they don't lay siege to
public land and declare their own sovereign state. These are fanatical ideologues who believe the system must be obliterated and
replaced. They are today's Bolsheviks and they mean business. Here's a short recap of Russia's grim experience with Bolshevism some
103 years ago. This an excerpt from an article in the Washington Post:
"At the beginning of 1917, on the eve of the Russian revolution, most of the men who later became known to the world as the
Bolsheviks were conspirators and fantasists on the margins of society. By the end of the year, they ran Russia. Fringe figures
and eccentric movements cannot be counted out . If a system becomes weak enough and the opposition divided enough, if the
ruling order is corrupt enough and people are angry enough, extremists can suddenly step into the center, where no one expects
them. And after that it can take decades to undo the damage. We have been shocked too many times. Our imaginations need to
expand to include the possibilities of such monsters and monstrosities .
In October 1917, they began using that mass violence . Many in Russia came to embrace the destruction. They argued that
the "system" was so corrupt, so immune to reform or repair, that it had to be smashed . Some welcomed the bonfire of civilization
with something bordering on ecstasy . The beauty of violence, the cleansing power of violence: these were themes that inspired
Russian poetry and prose in 1918 .
In the United States, the Marxist left has also consolidated on the fringes of the Democratic Party -- and sometimes not even
on the fringes -- as well as on campuses, where it polices the speech of its members, fights to prevent students from hearing
opposing viewpoints, and teaches a dark, negative version of American history, one calculated to create doubts about democracy
and to cast shadows on all political debate . As in Britain, they don't remember the antecedents of their ideas and they don't
make a connection between their language and the words used by fanatics of a different era." (
"100 years later, Bolshevism is back. And we should be worried ", Anne Applebaum, Washington Post)
In Seattle, the threat of violence is quite real, the social order is beginning to collapse, and the Bolsheviks are greatly emboldened.
They have battled the police and the politicians and they have prevailed. Now they will develop a strategy to further destabilize
the system so they can seize more power, weaken their rivals and shape the political agenda. These are smart, motivated people
who know what they want and have an almost-instinctive grasp of the times in which we live. They will not hesitate to impose the
dramatic changes they seek if they are given even the slightest opportunity. Which is why they must be stopped. Here's how Sheila
Fitzpatrick summed it up in her book, The Russian Revolution 1917-1932:
"It may well be that the Bolsheviks' greatest strength in 1917 was not strict party organization and discipline (which scarcely
existed at this time) but rather the party's stance of intransigent radicalism on the extreme left of the political spectrum.
While other socialist and liberal groups jostled for position in the Provisional Government and Petrograd Soviet, the Bolsheviks
refused to be co-opted and denounced the politics of coalition and compromise. While other formerly radical politicians called
for restraint and responsible, statesmanlike leadership, the Bolsheviks stayed out on the streets with the irresponsible and belligerent
revolutionary crowd. As the 'dual power' structure disintegrated, discrediting the coalition parties represented in the Provisional
Government and Petrograd Soviet leadership, only the Bolsheviks were in a position to benefit. Among the socialist parties, only
the Bolsheviks had overcome Marxist scruples, caught the mood of the crowd, and declared their willingness to seize power in the
name of the proletarian revolution." (Sheila Fitzpatrick,
"The Russian Revolution 1917-1932" )
Time to wake up, America. Social disintegration is serious business.
You've said that Antifa and BLM are revolutionary socialists and new Bolsheviks. Other writers have said that BLM is funded
by the Ford Foundation, that they and Antifa are proxies and useful idiots for certain business interests (like Amazon).
These scenes were repeated in over 400 cities across the country many of which are still either in ruins, boarded up, or
in some phase of digging out.
Red Cities in Red States did well. Blue Cities in Blue States experienced 90%+ of the damage.
Making the Democrats live up to the damage they caused is the path to eradicating the SJW Globalist DNC. The loud & woke are
actually a tiny fraction of U.S. voters. The majority of citizens want Law & Order . And, I do not mean the TV series.
All of them. Same as in 1917 Russia and 1930's Germany and 1920's Italy.
You missed the closest match.
Antifa and BLM are most like the Islamic Revolutionaries of 1970's Iran. Their core beliefs are diametrically opposed to the
Judeo-Christian values of Main Street America.
"The media could care less about the devastation and ruined lives. What they care about is concocting a storyline that hurts
Trump's chances for reelection. That's all that matters to them, not the colossal damage that has been done to our cities, our
businesses or individual lives. Just the politics, because political messaging is the fast-track to power, and power is the prize
that must be recaptured whatever the cost."
This is absolutely correct. But it is a dangerously foolish gambit on the part of the Dems and the CIA media. The mobs have
already marched on some of these Dems' homes, such as that of Seattle mayor, Jenny Durkan, immediately prompting her to put a
halt to the shenanigans. They think they can ride the tiger to nationwide election victory in the fall. But can they?
What will they do in the event of a Dem victory and a continuation of the violence? Will they send in the cops? You bet they
will. But if the violence suddenly ends, we will know it was aided and abetted by the powers-that-be. Especially because Biden
and the likely VP candidate Susan Rice are of the worst imperialist warmongering ilk, the very kind of people these bourgeois
bolshies are supposed to be against. Therefore if these far leftists are true far leftists, they should carry on the struggle!
If they don't, we'll know they were bought and paid for.
More likely, however, the Dems will have dug their own electoral graves. The tactics marshalled to stump Trump–Russiagate,
Ukrainegate, Covid, and now the police standdowns–will probably lead to a Trump victory, if the election is fair. Most people
don't want this shite, no matter how anti-system or anti-Trump they might be.
And if Trump wins, all bets are off. Will the Deep State continue its onslaught? You bet it will. The flaccid ineffectual Trump
will have to grow a pair and start prosecuting, or else risk far worse than he's seen so far.
@A123 esbians who founded
OBLM are all Marxists. Antifa are basically anarchists in the Bakunin sense. Neither has anything to do with Islam. The Antifa
are consciously copying the Bolshevik model of 1917 if you look closely enough. Including the foreign money supplies. As the OP
made quite clear.
Plus: Who is their Ayatollah Khomeni sending cassette tapes of revolutionary sermons from Paris?
There isn't such a person, because OBLM and Antifa already have that internalized.
Their core beliefs are diametrically opposed to the Judeo-Christian values of Main Street America.
"Judeo-Christian" is part of the problem. "Main street America" doesn't really exist anymore.
Respectfully your analysis is way off. These antifa and protests are funded by the neo-liberal corporate structure itself.
As someone has already written they are funded by Ford Foundation, by Amazon, receive moral support by Walt Disney, Coca Cola
and the international Anglo-American media (CNN, BBC), so what are you talking about socalist takeover?
The takeover is not socialist, communist etc. This is the culling out of mainstream America, predominently White America in
order to usher in the post-modern neo-liberal state in its purest form. You must of never been to a true third world country where
the middle class is so small it is almost non-existent and the majority are poor with a buffer of working class. That is where
America is going (in fact it is already here).
Therefore BLM Antifa and the rest of them are both a distraction and point of the neo-liberal spear in order to cause social
destruction and racial conflict. All these white kids who are out there in the streets screming Black Lives Matter are right where
the neo-liberal state wants them. They need to be culled, all their energy sapped in drug abuse, interracial passion faith and
lover affair for the black body combined with a self-loathing of their whiteness so in other words those effemineate white boys
in the streets and white girls with a dozen tattooes are damaged goods.
That is the goal of the neo-liberal state to develop the majority for the core America (white and black) into damaged self-loathing,
drug abusing and depressed human beings. Because that is the only way the mass of American can be transitioned into the class
of useless people that the neo-liberal corporate state will need them to be in order for corporate state to survive in the direction
it it going.
To put it more simply, there are no more reliable jobs for the amount of people, no loans, bad healthcare etc. If BLM Antifa
white fragility the worship of George Floyd and the rest did not exist, than America would truly face the change of a real revolution.
So I am amazed that the write concludes that antifa and BLM and the rest of them are actual agents of a communist socialist
movement. If the American deep state is Czar Russia than our socalist rioters are funded by the Czar himself in order to stop
the real Americans from experiencing the depravation that is to come with a sober mind because if that was to happen the Czar
would be in danger. So instead the Czar (silicon valley, wall streets, amazon, george soros, disney, cnn, etc) has created the
opiate of the masses known as racial conflict identity politics (this identity politics also goes for White America) so let the
race war and the rest of the opiates that will sap our moral and ethical energy begin! Goodbye folks
And if any Corporations are funding any rioters in destruction and vandalism: Should these Corporations be charged as "Accessories
after the fact" See links below for more info:
Well, at least a smoldering, deindustrialized, drug-addled empire on the ropes -- peopled with illiterate Third-World illegals,
hipsters, trannies, SJWs, obese cat ladies, and Antifa -- will not be in any position to provoke a big new war against China,
Russia and Iran, at the behest of the Usual Suspects.
What stands in the way of conversation between exploited people of different races is the
white noise of liberal nonsense, which, incidentally, seems to be growing exponentially
because it never runs up against reality and its rasping frictions.
The national conversation about race needs to be short and simple: " All colours and
ethnicities are subject to the exploitation of members of a ruling class that knows no
barriers of race, culture, religion or sex. Which has in common only bad behaviour. A ruling
class which owes its continued existence and its impunity, despite its evident criminality,
to the refusal of its victims to unite and act in their own interests."
And these are among the least original thoughts on offer. Humanity has known these things
since the days when it lived in caves and sent Birthday Cards to chimpanzees.
Let us put this Hydroxychloroquine nonsense to bed for the last time.
Whilst any form of fever mitigation is likely to have a place, however small, in the nurses'
quiver of helpful practices, the promotion of this particular drug, which is known to have
often mortal side effects in vulnerable people, is dangerous and dishonest. Chicken soup and
lime juice are other much less dangerous alternatives over which the Pharmaceutical
Protection Racket has no control. The same can be said of a regime of patient care, loving
attention and good accommodation- full time staff in properly equipped facilities working in
an atmosphere in which the loss of any life is recognised as a social tragedy and a
defeat.
"... Besides strange funding sources, also note that in this country we can't sneeze without Alphabet or "alphabet-soup" agencies being aware of it. ..."
"... The one revolution I lived through as a child looks eerily familiar. BBC provided the 'communication and propaganda support' services for that one. The middle class of the nation in question was sitting on its hands (clueless as all middle class everywhere) as spectators, while the nation was turned upside down in less than a year. The first color revolution. ..."
To put it more simply, there are no more reliable jobs for the amount of people, no loans, bad healthcare etc. If BLM
Antifa white fragility the worship of George Floyd and the rest did not exist, then America would truly face the change of
a real revolution.
I agree with this analysis.
Besides strange funding sources, also note that in this country we can't sneeze without
Alphabet or "alphabet-soup" agencies being aware of it. (TOR was designed by US Navy,
darling.)
The one revolution I lived through as a child looks eerily familiar. BBC provided the
'communication and propaganda support' services for that one. The middle class of the nation in
question was sitting on its hands (clueless as all middle class everywhere) as spectators, while
the nation was turned upside down in less than a year. The first color revolution.
My advice to middle class reader is: Don't be a spectator.
A few years ago I watched a documentary about homeless youth living in Portland. It's a
mecca for teenage runaways and vagabonds. There are at least 25,000 homeless youth (ages
18-24) living scattered throughout Oregon. They've been converging on Portland taking
advantage of the opportunity to smash shit.
Same goes for Seattle.
They are about as revolutionary as the shit I take while typing this.
Exactly like in Ukraine Maydan. Yanukovich was completely corrupt and considered personal
enrichment as one of his major tasks (so in a way his regime was a kleptocracy). Still he somehow
managed to maintain the standard of living of population and avoid getting county into the status
of IMF debt slave. The population was poor and was completely fleeced by oligarchs. So resentment
of the population was real. But it was exploited for nefarious purposes and when people realized
that they were taken for a ride only when it was too late. Standard of living dropped three times
after the "revolution"
This fellow, who came from a Minneapolis suburb, had no real articulable political
motive and got swept up in the moment. However, he did witness the ideologically-driven
element of the white rioters conduct a concerted campaign of arson attacks, including on
minority businesses He also gives an account of Minneapolis Police ripping people out of their cars,
breaking their windows, and slashing their tires during the height of the riots -- insane
tactics which only inflamed the situation even further, and incited many non-rioters to
become rioters
This has been my suspicion – it ain't about getting the hair sniffer elected or
about George Floyd's last act. People are fed up with the Police State and the systematic
failures of corrupt institutions that not only fail to deliver anything that they constantly
promote, but are the opposite , they have become instruments of extraction and
extraction only – that is all they do. It's no secret that law enforcement seizes more
wealth and property than the criminals, so where's the peace and security that they keep
promoting themselves with?
Every government institution eventually evolves into its opposite doppelgänger
– the War on Poverty set up the first tent city, and on and on
Why do guys like you persist in this fear of a black riot nonsense. Its a shame because
guys like you diagnosis the core problem right but always revert to thisidea of a black
menance. Black people who have guns use it against themselves.
The young blacks who are out in the streets during the day peacefully protesting are
college students mostly from lower middle class and working class backgrounds who have never
held a gun and probably have never been in a fight with the majority of those day time black
protestors being females, gay men and black "mullato." And at night the major of looters are
under class over weight poor disorganize welfare dependent black women and young no father
having underweight black boys (between the age of probably 15 – 25). And they are
looting and rioting in their own neighborhoods.
Than of course I take you back to the fact that the majority of the rioters are these
young white antifa in Minnesota, Philly, Oakland, Portland, Seattle, NYC, you get the
point.
There is no threat from black people because black people are only related via their skin
color. There is no black religion, no black political party, no black political philosophy,
no black conspiracy, because black people are black in America due to their origins being
from Africa and that is it. To put it more simply black people have NO AGENCY IN AMERICA.
So how can a collection of people be a threat or as you quote "the whip hand." You and I
know damn well that if BLM goes into the suburbs it is not because they have the power to do
so its because they are faciliated by other actual powers. Again BLM is essentially
underweight and effeminate white boys, gay black young men, lesbian white and black females
and the black portion againt are mostly mixed race people. So how is "BLM" therefore a
product of a black menace or a "whip hand" in relationship to black America.
You and I know the issue is not about accomodating blacks. The majority of black people
are not being accomodated they don't even interact with white people. They are in the "black
ghetto" and are in the large part segregated from white America. People like you seem sacre
to confront the real threat that funds BLM that enables the media to obfuscate BLM and riots
and excuse them. You want to pretend that the media is some how afraid of BLM.
If you are a political analysis of any kind you well know that power only concedes to
power – and that power only comes from military arms and financial power or power in
numbers. Black American and even pseudo black american in the form of BLM in of itself has
none of the 3. So I really wonder are guys like you really ignore in analysing the situation
or you are you working on behalf of the same people looking to breed a "race war." Because
all your talk makes me think that is what you see this dialetic as. When in fact black people
are just a combination of scape goats and useful idiots in this equation. Only relevant in
this entire conversation because the real antagonist in this battle for a more equal and fair
America for all are using them just like they are using those endebted self hating young
whites out their in the streets.
This is not to excuse anything these people are doing – this is to point out that
they are mercenaries who don't even know they are mercenaries. Why don't you write an article
about those people.
You should pick up the book "Deaths of Despair," and see how White America as a national
group is dying off. What role is Black American playing in that death? ZERO. Black America
does not control the banks, they don't produce the opioid drugs not did they gut the
heartland of its industral jobs. In fact you will find out the epidemic of violence and drugs
that peaked in Black America in the 70s and 80s was due to the fact that the urban inner core
was the first places in America who lost their factories. You should take a drive through a
inner city one day. Those factories did not close down because of race. They relocated. From
the time black people migrated to the North up until the 50s black communities where for the
most part peaceful places and the majority of families had a father in the home.
Today's inner city is the desolate left over remains of the 80s 90s crack and crime
epedemic which occured on the back of inner city deindustralisation. So while you harp on
about black people, White America is going through its own version of 80s 90s Black America.
With White Americans mortality rate going down for the first time in history. Opiods is White
America's crack cocaine and in a decade (its already started) the vast majority of white kids
will be born in a single family household raised by mama and will never know their father. So
how is this due to black America? SMDH!
Do these Bolsheviks ever protest Israel and their racism against brown Palestinians? Do
these Bolsheviks ever protest Black racism against Whites? They claim to be anti-racist, do
they not? Do they ever protest Jewish Privilege in America and Europe? Are these
neo-Bolsheviks like the old school Bolsheviks in that they only attack and desecrate
Christian churches while leaving synagogues untouched? So these Bolsheviks are kind of like
ISIS, they never call out the Israelis or Jews? I mean did ISIS ever attack Israel? Hmm,
strange. These Bolsheviks claim to be fighting against racism and yet they don't call out
Jewish or Black racism. They claim to stand with "colored" people but yet they don't care if
brown Palestinians are tortured in Israel. Me thinks these people aren't really sincere or
genuine in their fight against racism and fighting for justice. What do you think,
troops?
No, they're not Bolsheviks. Ideology never explains anything. The rioters are the usual
mix of Deepstate operatives stirring up chaos, ordinary criminals taking advantage of the
chaos, and young "activists" working for Deepstate while believing they're working for
revolution. This pattern is constant through history. Every protest and revolution is built
the same way. Deepstate changes its "ideological" fashion statements from year to year, but
nothing changes in reality.
"We are coming to dismantle this deeply oppressive, racist, sexist, utterly bankrupt
system of capitalism. We cannot and will not stop until it is dismantled, and we replace it
with a socialist world, based on solidarity, genuine democracy, and equality." Kshama
Sawant, ("Red Sammie", YouTube) Seattle City Council, District 3
Translation: "Basically, I am an arrogant Indian and Western civilization gives me an
inferiority complex feeling. I hate Western civilization but want to live in the West and
take advantage of all the inventions of the West. " -- Kshama Sawant' mind
There you go.
@Big Dan he
numerous articles here at UR on the issue.
Else from the article:
They're attacking the symbols of state power. They are challenging the legitimacy and
authority of the government, the judiciary and the people that are employed to enforce the
law.
This explains in a nutshell the agenda behind the Covid19 bullshit. The authorities that
are supposed to keep our societies together have gone on a rampage and are hurting and even
destroying the lifelyhood of their people. As a result, ever more people will come to
distrust and even hate the state – with all consequences.
"We are coming to dismantle this deeply oppressive, racist, sexist, utterly bankrupt
system of capitalism. We cannot and will not stop until it is dismantled, and we replace it
with a socialist world, based on solidarity, genuine democracy, and equality." Kshama
Sawant, ("Red Sammie", YouTube) Seattle City Council, District 3
"To make the individual sacred we must destroy the social order that crucifies him. And
this problem can only be solved with blood and iron." Leon Trotsky, Terrorism and
Communism, 1920
Communists reject Critical Thinking the way Dracula rejets the light of day.
Both quotes are filled with vague abstractions, glittering generalities and absurd
absolutes...
I'm not sure about Bolsheviks, but the term has come to mean something of a modern rebirth
of the Palace economy, as for ancient states like Mycenae..
I think it can be said that monitoring technology has caught up to the complexity of human
society in the 21st, and the possibility of enforcing total law on individuals, like in
ancient times, is again present, and those that run the world again want to impose such a
system (of course).
It's not as new as Bolshevism or Marxism. These ares just newer flavours of the Palace
economy.
That these supposed anarchysts wish for a 'true Democracy', which they don't name as
semi-direct (or even direct, or anything descriptive, beyond slogans), implies their
democracy is the same as North Korea's – back to total control by the state.
@Big Dan
are absolutely fed up with it all, doesn't it seem strange that the authorities do so little?
No one is suggesting a blood bath, but the Police have numerous ways of dealing with rioters
that full short of actual gun fire.
This is not about Bolsheviks or 1917 -- its the same anti-Trump program that has been going
on from the day he won the election.
I will agree with Mike on one aspect here: there is a chance that the Mob might slip their
reins. But given the coming cold weather & the increasing chances of a Biden victory my
bet is that the Mob will lose its usefulness & either wither away or be liquidated.
If this is Bolshevik Revolution 2.0 we should expect the royal family, Trump and Ivanka
being gunned down by the Jewish revolutionaries. Not likely, and it is confined to some Left
Coast Cities like Seattle and Portland. But think about it, isn't the Trump family sorta like
the Romanov family, the glitz and the gold? Ivanka the Anastasia wave repeat?
I think I read somewhere that 455 Jews from New York State went to Russia with a train
load of gold to pull off the Marxist Communist coup and execute the czar and his family. Jews
from Amerika were involved, and what did Solzhenitsyn say in Gulag Archipelago? 66.6 million
peasants murdered. Well them same Jews might be planning on killing 200 million this time
stateside.
I am troubled by Anne Applebaum trying to solve the bolshevik problem. It gives me the
impression that the fox is trying to guard the henhouse.
On the one hand we have the problem of Soros funded BLM destroying the cities. On the
other hand, we also have the problem of Israeli trained police trained to be brutal against
the population, which has plenty of valid reasons to rise up (although the racism the MSM
talks about is not one of them).
The BLM-antifa narrative is that people must rise against the oppressive racist sexist
order and build a new one. This captures many people. The problem is there is oppression
(mostly by those who fund BLM and antifa), there is racism (again, mostly by those who fund
antifa), and there is sexism (women are not aloowed to be women, motherhood is denigrated as
an aspirration, becoming a CEO is presented as the most desirable prospect).
The narrative of the other side is to bring the "marxists" under controll, because they
want to destroy our Judeo-Christian heritage. The problem is there is no Judeo-Christian
heritage. One is either a follower of the ideas which led to the crucifixion, or a follower
of Christ. Those are two sets of values which are mutually exclusive.
The problem of Western history is the infinite tolerance of the latter for the former. The
followers of Christ build functioning, prospering, stable societies, based on tolerance, and
the idea of "love thy neighbor". The followers of the ideas which led to the cricifixion of
Christ end up destroying them, by spreading hatred. Bolshevism is one example. What is going
on in the US is another
Besides strange funding sources, also note that in this country we can't sneeze without
Alphabet or "alphabet-soup" agencies being aware of it. (TOR was designed by US Navy,
darling.)
The one revolution I lived through as a child looks earily familiar. BBC provided the
'communication and propaganda support' services for that one. The middle class of the nation in
question was sitting on its hands (clueless as all middle class everywhere) as spectators,
while the nation was turned upside down in less than a year. The first color revolution.
My advice to middle class reader is: Don't be a spectator.
"The media could care less about the devastation and ruined lives. What they care about is
concocting a storyline that hurts Trump's chances for reelection. That's all that matters to
them, not the colossal damage that has been done to our cities, our businesses or individual
lives. Just the politics, because political messaging is the fast-track to power, and power
is the prize that must be recaptured whatever the cost."
This is absolutely correct. But it is a dangerously foolish gambit on the part of the Dems
and the CIA media.
"Dear you all, you are right, it is 'socialism' which is promoted, but those who organize
the movement tend to install 'corporate socialism'.It is quite different."
"If one understands that Socialism is not a 'share the wealth' program but is in reality a
method to consolidate and control the wealth, then the seeming paradox of super rich men
promoting Socialism becomes no paradox at all. Instead it becomes logical, even the perfect
tool of power-seeking megalomaniacs. Communism, or more accurately Socialism, is not a movement
of the down-trodden masses but of the economic elite."
From: "None Dare Call It Conspiracy" -Gary Allen
@animalogic u
are duping yourself. Sure, these people in the front lines are mostly directionless idiots, but
they are _useful_ idiots.
They are being directed from behind the scenes to cause social mayhem and therefor and act
as cover for the real hard-core murderers/killers who can follow in and then do their bloody
work [assassinations of judges, mayors, police, politicians, media personalities etc.] behind
the scenes and accrue no blame.
Those crimes will then be blamed on the useful idiots of BLM, Antifa, NFAC etc. That's the
way it always rolls as far as I can see.
We are in the early stages of an attempted Marxist overthrow of the entire US and what
little remains of its limited government constitutional republic structure, seems to me.
The best article on the CHAZ was written by the International Socialist Alternative because
it's in the first person. Sawant is a member of a subsidiary party, the Socialist Alternative.
Why she isn't being investigated for FARA for belonging to a foreign political party is beyond
me.
For grins one of her campaign donors in 2019 worked at Ike's Pot Shop, which sells
marijuana. Considering marijuana is federally illegal putting the drug money in a bank is
illegal. If it was mailed then the postal inspectors will also have fun.
If George Papadopoulos went to jail for going to a meeting then Sawant should definitely be
investigated for inciting a riot.
A Bolshevik revolution supported by the mega rich and wall street tycoons? This must be the
joke of the century.
What a joke of an analysis . This is another desperate piece to generate support for a
fading dictator wannabe ,a billionaire, whose core supporters are mainly either extreme racists
or likes of Sheldon Adelson and other Zionists.
Ron Unz Article about the moral bankruptcy of "white nationalism" summed it up well and
Whitney's attempt to generate support for the orange god of fake white "nationalism" falls flat
on it's face.
Seattle has gone from a radical gay man, who liked underage black streetboys, as mayor to a
Trotskyite from the Indian subcontinent in less than 3 years. What is in that Puget Sound
water?
Move over, San Francisco. There's a new lunatic on the block.
"... Does the mass media think they can “hide the ball” while Seattle turns into a war zone? Seriously–in the Internet age? They _can’t_ be that stupid, can they? ..."
Does the mass media think they can “hide the ball” while Seattle turns
into a war zone? Seriously–in the Internet age? They _can’t_ be that
stupid, can they?
(When I put on the tin foil hat it whispers to me “they know, they are lying on
purpose, they want Trump re-elected to improve their ratings, and they want to anger voters
by lying about Seattle”. Then I take off the tin foil hat and I say
“Na–they really are that stupid.”)
Navy veteran Adam Winther holds a flag while forming a "Wall of Vets" during a Black Lives
Matter protest at the Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse on Friday in Portland, Ore.
(Noah Berger / Associated Press)
"I'm a middle-aged white guy. I've got a house, two kids, a dog," said Adam Simmons, 43, a
former Army medic in Iraq. "I really don't need to be here."
But there he was, along with a dozen or so other veterans -- both white and Black -- to bear
witness and protect demonstrators' right to protest.
Often called the "whitest" U.S. big city -- more than 72% of the population is white --
Portland has transformed into a national center for a movement that might seem more at home in
Chicago, New York, Los Angeles or another more diverse locale.
"Black lives matter" has become a ubiquitous rallying cry in a city where only 6% of the
population is Black -- while 9% is Latino and 7% of Asian ancestry.
Reminds me the events during Kiev Maidan. A large part of protesters were football hooligans.
Was he a paid protester, like was the case in Kiev, or volunteer?
" Agard-Berryhill has been released without bail, pending his trial. "
A felony conviction for when he was 15, just out of juvi jail and already doing this. Yet
the local court releases him with no bail.
Yippie21 , 39 minutes ago
They'll scare him with crazy charges and try to get a plea deal. The kid will have a
well-paid Antifa attorney this time, not like whatever happened before when Grandma had to
pay for one. Plus, we all know the system in Portland is skewed a tad left, so yeah... he'll
prob get " another chance " to turn his life around... cough cough
PGR88 , 59 minutes ago
an olive vest with word "ICONS" that she bought for him. While she supports Trump, she
wanted to protect him after he was hit by rubber bullets. "I got this for my grandson who's
a protester downtown, he uses it every night and says it does the job."
I never cease to be amazed by the stupidity of some American women.
Grosvenor Pkwy , 53 minutes ago
I know that black lives matter, but what about little white punk lives?
toady , 33 minutes ago
"He told police that he was told to throw had "yellow cardboard packaging with blue
stripes, was the size of a small 'V8' can, and had a green fuse.""
It's hard, no, impossible, to describe how stupid this individual is... 99.9% of people
would say "no way, are you crazy?" to someone telling them to throw a bomb, let alone
ANYTHING, at the police.
And 100% of people are too smart to confess this to the police, especially those already
on probation/parole.
This kid is too stupid to live. He needs a death sentence for treason/terrorism
charges.
Minimum life anal rape sentence at gitmo!
benb , 54 minutes ago
Did he have a job and a career (protesting in his free time) or was vandalism, arson, and
rioting his only chosen calling?
[Besides of course commanding a Starship in a video game]
there is a difference between Prudent speech and Free speech.
When punishment for voicing dissenting opinion includes physical assault it doesn't much
matter how rare the actual instances of physical violence are
Notable quotes:
"... Of course, it is not (yet) possible to determine the exact racism quotient of each individual, so exemplary cancellations are the means of influencing individuals to modify their behaviour. I appreciate that "racism quotient" and "exemplary cancellation" make me sound like one of those right-wing Orwell cosplayers, but I can't think of a better way of putting it. ..."
Cancel culture, I suggest, matters most when our ability to access diverse opinion is
curtailed as a result of speech policing, either by algorithms or individuals, especially in
the run-up to an election. Self-censorship in universities is equally important. When Chomsky
signed the Harper's letter, he reported he receive a great many letters of support from
academics terrified of being cancelled.
We're coming out of a certain kind of (neo-)liberal consensus in which politics was viewed
as a mostly technocratic business of setting laws in the abstract. That perspective was
sufficient to get some things right: many blatantly discriminatory laws have been repealed
across the Western world over the last 70 years. But it turns out that racism and sexism
don't require explicitly racist or sexist laws on the books: they can subvert neutral-seeming
laws to their purposes, and can bias the behaviour of individuals and networks of individuals
to the extent that widespread discrimination can continue...
The other strand focuses on the moral reform of white people. It proceeds from the
assumption that the law has only a limited role in moral conduct, and that the evidence of
the last 50 years is that removing explicitly racist legislation, and even legislating
anti-racism (e.g. affirmative action) isn't enough to secure good outcomes. If your
individual acts have the practical outcome of furthering or defending racist interests, then
you are part of the problem. The demands here are much harder to define. Rather than focusing
all attention on a specific reform that can be enacted in a single moment by an executive or
legislature, attention is cast broadly across all actions occurring at all times by all
people. Of course, it is not (yet) possible to determine the exact racism quotient of
each individual, so exemplary cancellations are the means of influencing individuals to
modify their behaviour. I appreciate that "racism quotient" and "exemplary cancellation" make
me sound like one of those right-wing Orwell cosplayers, but I can't think of a better way of
putting it.
All of this intersects with the modern reality of social media: things that "normal"
people might be able to say in a bar or a cafe discussion with friends or colleagues are now
part of the permanent public record, searchable and viewable by millions. Social media
provides excellent tools both for taking things out of context and re-contextualising them.
Secondly, "brands" or organisations are now direct participants, and can be subject to public
pressure in much more visible ways than previously.
I'm a big fan of biological metaphors; they keep one humble about the inevitability of
unintended consequences. The metaphor gets strained when it moves from external viral spread
to internal immune response, though; in the former, we're assuming a team of informed medical
professionals, seeing things from the "outside" with the authority implied by specialized and
objective knowledge. I'm not sure who these people correspond to in the world we inhabit,
where even the real doctors have trouble getting traction.
The internal immune response feels like a closer match, as surface protein markers are
proxies for identity, microbes display "false flags" to avoid detection, and auto-immune and
inflammatory responses often do more damage than the threats they're reacting to.
On both levels of metaphor, it seems clear that the structure of social media is explicitly
designed to create and exploit "virality"; we need to rethink what this means for us.
More:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/29/social-distancing-social-media-facebook-misinformation
" No one seems to reflect here that silencing people because of their politics is
historically and usually the preserve of those with the power to silence – that is,
conservatives. Be careful what you wish for."
And here we have the cancel culture "problem" in a nutshell. The complaint isn't that
Musgrave lost a job or is literally forbidden to speak or even lacks reasonable ways to be
heard. The complaint is that blog found him distasteful and doesn't want him commenting
there. This isn't a right to speak issue, it's a demand to be heard issue.
Far worse things are done to BLM protesters. Being denied a blog posting? Try being denied
the right to even assemble, and shot with tear gas and rubber bullets. That didn't stop me
from protesting. Being denied a blog post and hearing some harsh criticism is nothing.
I broadly agree with the points about free speech in the post, and Waldron's arguments,
but I don't think it's right to equate the debate about "cancel culture" with these
issues.
John's understanding of it is even more dismissive (and imo off-target).
being cancelled means having to read rude things said about you by lots of unimportant
people on Twitter, as opposed to engaging in caustic, but civilised, debate with your peers
in the pages of little magazines
It seems to me cancel culture is both an ethos and a tactic. The ethos involves a zero
tolerance approach to certain ethical transgressions (eg overt expressions of racism) and an
absolute devaluation of people who commit them. The tactic is based around achieving cultural
change by exerting collective pressure as consumers on managers of corporations (or
corporation-like entities, like universities) to terminate transgressors, as a way of
incentivising other emplpoyees to fall into line. It seems to me to be heavily shaped by and
dependent on American neoliberalism as the ethos is both punitive and consumerist and the
tactic is dependent on at-will employment and managers' deference to customer sentiment, and
while most of its current "successes" have been broadly of the Left there's no reason to
assume that will be the case in future. I think it does represent a weakening of liberal
norms of freedom of discussion and I think Chomsky's right to be concerned.
There's nothing new about speech codes. Puritans and others refused to employ the Book of
Common prayer demanded by the Act of Uniformity of 1662. Scolds and speech police can be
found among agnostics, people of faith, and across the political spectrum. Nor is the common
sense exercise of good judgement regarding when, or if, to suggest to a friend he, she, or
they might like to lose a little weight, or to refrain from pointing out the questionable
personal grooming habits of a colleague, client, superior, or family member.
Do I need to declare my beliefs and opinions on every topic freely in every forum. In my
own case, no. And there's a big difference between being shunned and being imprisoned, or
executed, for mocking the wrong text or monarch.
As I courtesy, I might well avoid broaching topics I'm aware may distress another. But
that's a far cry from what's happening in modern old media. Bari Weiss evidently had her
privileges to write and edit others freely severely curtailed. And, yes, I'm aware that she
had cancellation issues of her own. But forcing James Bennett to resign, who put Ta-Nehisi
Coates on the cover of the Atlantic, for permitting a US senator to publish an op-ed in the
NYT?
We need a diverse set of values and beliefs, argues Henry, J. S. Mill, and others. The
head of Google is just now trying to explain why "Washington Free Beacon, The Blaze,
Townhall, The Daily Wire, PragerU, LifeNews, Project Veritas, Judicial Watch, The Resurgent,
Breitbart, the Media Research Center, and CNSNews" somehow disappeared from the Google search
engine.
https://thefederalist.com/2020/07/29/google-ceo-dodges-question-on-blacklisting-of-conservative-websites/
Cancel culture, I suggest, matters most when our ability to access diverse opinion is
curtailed as a result of speech policing, either by algorithms or individuals, especially in
the run-up to an election. Self-censorship in universities is equally important. When Chomsky
signed the Harper's letter, he reported he receive a great many letters of support from
academics terrified of being cancelled.
When punishment for voicing dissenting opinion includes physical assault it doesn't much
matter how rare the actual instances of physical violence are. I spoke with an American
colleague employed this week who stated that any dating which is going on among staff and
adults of one kind or another on campus is done in secrecy, if at all. Do Democrats feel that
they're better off having thrown Al Franken under the bus?
Adhering to speech codes and surrendering to a tiny, highly vocal mob seems a very bad
idea to me, and I suspect, many, many others. We don't quite know what to do with the
screaming adolescents of varying ages, but we wish they'd stop yelling.
The good news is that we live in societies, for the most part, which permit the upset to
act out freely. I wonder whether the folks currently trying to burn down the US federal
courthouse in Portland believe their rights to privacy must be respected? The
double-standards on display roil what should be reasonable debate. It should be possible to
disagree civilly with anyone.
Trying to get someone fired, or shunned, for any reason, is about the saddest waste of
energy and time I can imagine – I mean, talk about a poverty of imagination. It's
happened to me here on occasion. When the pitchforks come out, I know my opponents 'got
nothing.' That's small solace, however, when watching those I'd prefer to respect do their
best to stifle debate.
Relative to other nations, we enjoy liberties others can only dream of. These liberties
are worth protecting. I'm not sure we're doing such a good job.
With all due respect, you – like the great majority of people – fail to
understand the dynamics involved. 'Cultural Marxism' isn't political Marxism. It is a method
– a tool if you wish – used by the oligarchs who wield true power to 'divide and
rule' (not least by deflecting attention from the yawning gulf that lies between their own
excesses and monstrous wealth on the one hand, and the increasing indigence of the great mass
of people on the other). It is called 'Cultural Marxism' purely because it uses Marx's
technique of dividing society into a small clique of 'oppressors' and 'the masses' who are
'oppressed'. Marx, of course, had the capitalists in mind when he wrote of the oppressors,
and the proletariat naturally were the oppressed.
Today, the last thing the oligarchs desire is a unified and organised proletariat with
'agency': that would constitute a serious threat to their existence. Instead, they divide the
sacred role of 'the oppressed' into a multitude of more or less fissiparous groups, whom we
are all aware of, but of which those comprising 'BAME' are perhaps the most useful. Others
include feminists (more or less all young women in today's world), homos, those suffering
from sexual dysphoria (that's 'trannies' in today's 'Newspeak') and the disabled.
These groups will never discover any common ground between themselves, and thus will fight
among themselves for the scraps thrown from the oligarchs' table. No danger there, and that's
just how they planned it. As for the 'oppressors', there are no prizes for guessing that they
are White, heterosexual (i.e. normal) males.
So much for your fear of actual Marxism. As for 'the government', it is important to
understand that no government in today's West is invested with any meaningful power. Not only
are they not 'sovereign' but they are little more than puppets, dancing to their masters'
dismal tunes.
Who are these oligarchs – these Masters of the Universe? That's a story for another
day. But you won't go far wrong if you place the word 'oligarchs' in triple parentheses
Chicago saw a
dramatic increase in homicides and shootings in
the first seven months of 2020 and a particularly remarkable increase in July, reflecting a
growing trend in the U.S. that raised questions about potential police reform in major
cities.
Just in case anyone needed any further proof that BLM is just a silly sidearm of the
Democratic party, railing against any perceived injustice to their preferred identities,
here is a story that shows BLM staged a protest at Nike headquarters in a Portland suburb
to protest what? Slave labor? Globalist inequities of extraction? Nah...just unfair hiring
where blacks aren't landing enough administration jobs.
Nike and other giant apparel companies are fine, they say, as is, we just want more of a
taste.
I haven't bought a nike product in decades. And I have begged my wife to stop buying these
illmade things by them, which is now little more than a marketting company.
@ Posted by: NemesisCalling | Aug 1 2020 14:56 utc | 108
Most of the relevant movements in the USA post-1970s are "astroturf". I don't know why the
conservatives/Republicans keep pretending the BLM's example is unique or exclusive to their
political enemies. In fact, the concept of astroturf movements were a conservative
innovation: the first documented case in the USA is the global warming denial movement,
sponsored by the conservatives.
@71 psychohistorian - "Do they understand the West is top/bottom and not
left/right?"
That's an excellent formulation. One almost suspects that asking anyone, within a bit of
context, if "the banker" is a left/right entity or a top/down entity would get the same
answer. How to explore and expand this potential common ground?
I have no answers, but it would be instructive to devise the way to ask this group, or any
group - and every group - that question, and then to offer the formulation as you put it, in
a way that makes sense to them, so that they understand where the true enemy is.
In other words, what you're asking seems to be the key to abandoning lateral struggles
within the oppressed class and healing all rifts to create solidarity against the oppressor -
switching from a horizontal struggle to a vertical one.
Such a simple thing, and the source of all revolutionary success, but could it be simply
conveyed?
How this can be done, and who can move such things forward, I don't know but I do know
that the effort to make things ever more clear is never wasted effort, and this is one key
part of the puzzle.
@71 psychohistorian - "Do they understand the West is top/bottom and not left/right?"
I'd say intuitively they do have some understanding of that, but in general aren't
economically/politically savvy/educated enough to frame it that way.
There seems to be a basic belief that the contradictions in our crony and corrupt
capitalist system are what is driving the inevitable collapse, and least amongst a
segment...it is a pretty diverse group.
Just a few weeks ago the idea of "peaceful riots" would have seemed absurd, but the American
media is nothing if not inventive these days.
Earlier this week, ABC News reported , "Protesters in
California set fire to a courthouse, damaged a police station and assaulted officers after a
peaceful demonstration intensified." Legal scholar Eugene Volokh wonders
how this terminology would work in the real world: "You are being charged with an intensified
peaceful demonstration, in the second degree. How do you plead?"
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President set to unveil plan to reopen the government
Indeed, the media's commitment to tempering their descriptions of violent riots sweeping the
nation as "mostly peaceful" is relentless – that particular phrase has become
a media cliché practically overnight . Of course, America's police officers could
also be accurately described as "mostly peaceful," but any journalist who dared to give cops
the same generous benefit of the doubt would likely cause a riot in their own newsroom.
That's why it was almost shocking to read an Associated Press report earlier
this week from reporter Mike Balsamo, who embedded with federal law enforcement protecting the
Mark O. Hatfield courthouse in downtown Portland.
" I watched as injured officers were hauled inside. In one case, the commercial firework
came over so fast the officer didn't have time to respond. It burned through his sleeves and
he had bloody gashes on both forearms. Another had a concussion from being hit in the head
with a mortar," Balsamo reported .
"The lights inside the courthouse have to be turned off for safety and the light from
high-powered lasers bounced across the lobby almost all night. The fear is palpable . Three
officers were struck in the last few weeks and still haven't regained their vision."
Despite the obvious evidence of organized violence, Balsamo's report is about the only
good-faith effort from the national press attempting to inform the public about the current
plight of law enforcement. Meanwhile, the media have spent weeks going out of their way to
portray rioters as unambiguous freedom fighters.
When protesters in Portland organized a "Wall of Moms" to stand between federal marshals
protecting the courthouse and the rioters throwing bricks and shooting fireworks, it prompted
gushing media coverage. Columnist Jonathan Alter called the Wall of Moms a "brilliant tactic
that may forever change social protest," apparently unaware that groups such as Hamas have been
cynically using human shields for decades. Following their 15 minutes of fame, you will not be
surprised to learn that the group has descended into " Judean People's Front " infighting over the
leader's allegedly insufficient fealty to
Black Lives Matter . In spite of media wish-casting, the Wall of Moms was never a morally
serious effort.
Naturally, the big beneficiaries of this one-sided media narrative about riots are
Democratic Party politicians. On Wednesday, acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf
announced that the federal government had reached a deal with the city of
Portland to downsize the federal law enforcement presence at the courthouse that was
clashing with protesters. However, Wolf's statement made it clear that the deal was contingent
on the city stepping up its own police presence to protect the building, which was all the
federal government had asked the city to do months ago
.
Rather than admit the deal was a tacit acknowledgement Portland had failed its basic
responsibility to maintain law and order, Oregon Gov. Kate Brown pretended it was a victory
against jackbooted feds who " acted as an occupying force and
brought violence ."
But Brown's rhetoric is dishonest, as she knows better than most. There were nightly riots
for weeks before the feds arrived in downtown Portland. Along with Minneapolis and Seattle,
Portland holds the dubious distinction of being a city that has failed to protect its own
buildings. Rioters had already burned
the Multnomah County Justice Center jail and the Portland Police Bureau headquarters , just
a few blocks away from the federal courthouse.
Speaking as an Oregonian and former resident of Portland, I'll note that the city's problems
go far beyond the recent riots. Business leaders have been begging City Hall to address law and
order issues for years. In 2017, the CEO of Columbia Sportswear, one of Oregon's most beloved
companies, wrote a blistering op-ed about the city's problems.
"A few days ago, one of our employees had to run into traffic when a stranger outside our
office followed her and threatened to kill her," Tim Boyle
wrote .
"On other occasions our employees have arrived at work only to be menaced by individuals
camping in the doorway. And our employees have had so many car break-ins downtown that we
have started referring to parking in Portland as our 'laptop donation program.' Given these
experiences, it is a relief when the only thing we are dealing with is the garbage and human
waste by our front door. Think about that for a minute. This is outrageous and
unacceptable."
Anyone who has spent time in Portland comes to understand the mutually beneficial
relationship between the homeless and itinerant gutter-punks who are the main source of the
city's crime and violence and the left-wing activists whose radical agenda of decriminalization
lets them control the streets. After police responded to Boyle's plea to keep excrement out of
the doorway of his business, Boyle found himself on the receiving end of organized protests, forcing
him to shut down Columbia's flagship store downtown.
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The city has also been capitulating to threats of left-wing political violence for years.
Also in 2017, Portland canceled its annual Rose parade
after "anti-fascists" threatened violence because members of the Multnomah County
Republican Party were among the many civic groups slated to march. It's one thing to claim that
violence is justified against unwanted federal officers invading your city – but
threatening local residents with violence because they are Republicans?
Even then, the city rolled over and in doing so conceded that violent left-wing activists
control Portland. That's not hyperbole – taking control of the city was literally one of
the threats made in the anonymous email that caused officials to cancel the parade: "You have
seen how much power we have downtown and that the police cannot stop us from shutting down
roads so please consider your decision wisely."
Who exactly is in charge in Portland? Well, it's not Mayor Ted Wheeler, who's spent years
openly disparaging and undermining
his own police force even as he let antifa direct traffic in his city. You'd think this
would endear Wheeler to the radicals he's trying to appease, but when he recently made a
supportive appearance at the courthouse protests downtown the crowd
booed and yelled at him to resign .
At this point, it's insulting to insist that American consumers of news can't distinguish
legitimate protest from violent rioting that has devastated Portland and dozens of other
cities. Similarly, there's plenty of room for criticism of heavy-handed federal and police
tactics, while still understanding that we can't stand by and let violent mobs burn
courthouses. But if covering a story from multiple angles used to be the norm in the media,
it's not anymore.
Ultimately, members of the media have a choice to make – you can be honest about the
alarming evidence of law and order breaking down in American cities. Or you can continue to
torch your credibility by downplaying the nightly violence for reasons that appear overtly
partisan. Please consider your decision wisely.
An important problem is the conflation of public opprobrium actual sanctions like being
fired. This is mainly a problem in the US because of employment at will
No. The cancel culture is just a new incarnation of the old idea of religious and
pseudo-religious (aka Marxist or Maoist) "purges". A new flavor of inquisition so to speak.
The key idea here is the elimination of opposition for a particular Messianic movement, and
securing all the positions that can influence public opinion. As well as protection of own
(often dominant) position in the structure of political power (this was the idea behind Mao
"cultural revolution")
You probably can benefit from studying the mechanic of Stalin purges. Mechanisms are the
pretty similar ("History repeats ", etc) .
If opposition to the new brand of Messianism is suppressed under the smoke screen of
political correctness, the question arise how this is different from Stalinist ideas of
"Intensification of the class struggle under socialism" and Mao Red Guards excesses (see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intensification_of_the_class_struggle_under_socialism
)
You can probably start with "Policing Stalin's Socialism: Repression and Social Order in the
Soviet Union, 1924-1953 (Yale-Hoover Series on Authoritarian Regimes)"
A new book which waits for its author can be similarly titled "Policing US neoliberalism :
Repression and Social Order in the USA 1980-2020") ;-)
Here is one thought-provoking comment from the Web:
GeeBee, August 1, 2020 at 7:42 am GMT
The government will eventually be Marxist
With all due respect, you – like the great majority of people – fail to
understand the dynamics involved. 'Cultural Marxism' isn't political Marxism. It is a method
– a tool if you wish – used by the oligarchs who wield true power to 'divide and
rule' (not least by deflecting attention from the yawning gulf that lies between their own
excesses and monstrous wealth on the one hand, and the increasing indigence of the great mass
of people on the other).
It is called 'Cultural Marxism' purely because it uses Marx's technique of dividing
society into a small clique of 'oppressors' and 'the masses' who are 'oppressed'. Marx, of
course, had the capitalists in mind when he wrote of the oppressors, and the proletariat
naturally were the oppressed.
Today, the last thing the oligarchs desire is a unified and organised proletariat with
'agency': that would constitute a serious threat to their existence. Instead, they divide the
sacred role of 'the oppressed' into a multitude of more or less fissiparous groups, whom we
are all aware of, but of which those comprising 'BAME' are perhaps the most useful. Others
include feminists (more or less all young women in today's world), homos, those suffering
from sexual dysphoria (that's 'trannies' in today's 'Newspeak') and the disabled.
These groups will never discover any common ground between themselves, and thus will fight
among themselves for the scraps thrown from the oligarchs' table. No danger there, and that's
just how they planned it. As for the 'oppressors', there are no prizes for guessing that they
are White, heterosexual (i.e. normal) males.
So much for your fear of actual Marxism. As for 'the government', it is important to
understand that no government in today's West is invested with any meaningful power.
Not only are they not 'sovereign' but they are little more than puppets, dancing to their
masters' dismal tunes.
Who are these oligarchs – these Masters of the Universe? That's a story for another
day. But you won't go far wrong if you place the word 'oligarchs' in triple parentheses
Where will America's productivity miracle come from?
Public education is not teaching students what they need to know to compete in the global
economy.
According to the National Center for Education Statistics, math scores of U.S. students rank
30th in the world. The East Asian peers of today's American students will eat their lunch in
the growth industries of tomorrow.
Here's where Black Lives Matter has a real opportunity.
The protests. The riots. The calls for reparation payments. Social justice wealth transfers.
White privilege taxes. All the nonsense. Where's the strategy? Where's the long-range
'strategery'?
No doubt, those selling BLM T-shirts in Walmart parking lots are exercising gumption. But
it's not gonna cut it. Moreover, like bingo winnings, reparation payments will be quickly
squandered while the unhappiness remains.
And as far as we can tell the BLM movement is empty of ideas and without
direction.
lay_arrow
chubbar , 14 minutes ago
"If BLM was strategic"?????? Holy ****, if they were strategic they'd be making damn sure
that testing, like SAT scores, were no longer accepted as proof of accomplishment or
learning. Oh, wait?.......
Let's all agree, blacks don't want a "head to head" test, EVER.
I don't give a crap what they say, they don't want to be judged on MERIT, they love the
skin color test. That way they can always claim racism instead of ability.
libtears , 40 minutes ago
The BLM Movement is definitely empty of ideas and clear leadership. Their supposed goals
are all over the map from day to day. They are rudderless mobs of filthy vagrants and
criminal elements make up most of their movement.
What's going on which is credited to BLM has nothing to do with black people for the most
part. Commies have co-opted this movement and are engaging in anarchy to take down the system
of government. They will do whatever they want at all costs because they believe they have
the moral high ground. They are radicals just like people call them.
The best thing that could happen is for these loser mayors and governors to enforce the
law against these mobs of filthy scum.
How can you even reason with a mob of idiots that don't even have one, if not a hierarchy
of leadership and clear goals that they agree upon?
These people are taking a page out of the Bolshevik book on revolution. And they're much
weaker than the Bolsheviks, mentally and physically. One good thump on the head and these
b!tches are crying.
The longer the public allows teaching institutions to promote BLM the worse this sh!t is
going to get.
...
JaxPavan , 42 minutes ago
The Ford Foundation gave BLM $100 million to engage in terrorism. Who do you think bought
all those ultra high end looting vehicles?
quanttech , 39 minutes ago
Indeed, the BLM organization is primarily funded by mostly white-run corporations and
foundations. The money rules.
HopefulCynical , 22 minutes ago
And WHO is in control of the Ford Foundtion? WHO?!
Board of Trustees - Ford
Foundation -- most are Wall Street types. So participation in color revolutions including
Russiagate (of which American Maidan is the third stage) and high level of influence of
intelligence agencies on decisions and financing is a natural thing. The board includes such
interesting figures as Chief Investment Officer and Vice President for Investments, The
Rockefeller University and Chairman and CEO, Cisco Systems. Foundation is a strong supporter of
LGBT+
Summary of eRumor:
The Ford Foundation has pledged $100 million in support to Black Lives Matter, leading to calls
for a boycott of Ford.
The Truth:
It's true that the Ford Foundation has pledged $100 million to the Black-Led Movement Fund
(BLMF), a coalition of social justice organizations endorsed by Black Lives Matter.
But the Ford Foundation hasn't been connected to the Ford Motor Company for more than 40
years.
First, we'll start out by providing some background about Black Lives Matter, BLMF and the
Movement for Black Lives since the connections between these organizing and fundraising
networks can be confusing.
In July 2016, the Ford Foundation
announced that it would partner with Borealis Philanthropy, Movement Strategy Center and
Benedict Consulting to found BLMF. In turn, BLMF will serve as a donor network supporting the
Movement for Black Lives
, a social justice movement endorsed by Black Lives Matter, according to a foundation blog
post:
The Movement for Black Lives has created an opportunity for philanthropy to see and learn
from new and dynamic forms of social justice leadership and infrastructure. To support and fund
this thriving movement, philanthropy itself has had to adapt. Meanwhile, leaders have kept
donors' good intentions in check with candid reminders of how philanthropy can hurt a movement,
as well as how it can help. Listening and learning is central to Ford's approach, as we strive
to be a thoughtful, effective social justice funder at this critical time.By partnering with
Borealis Philanthropy, Movement Strategy Center, and Benedict Consulting to found the Black-Led
Movement Fund, Ford has made six-year investments in the organizations and networks that
compose the Movement for Black Lives.
The Black-Led Movement Fund (BLMF), led by Borealis Philanthropy, is a collaborative and
pooled donor fund established by the Ford Foundation and Anonymous Donors. In partnership with
donors and activists, the BLMF aims to support philanthropic and field-building activities that
strengthen the next generation of social justice leaders. Specifically, the collaborative
effort supports the infrastructure, innovation and dynamism of intersectional Black-led
organizing that have become integral components of what many call the Movement for Black Lives
(M4BL).
Rumors about the Ford Foundation pledging more than $100 million to Black Lives Matter went
viral after the announcement. The Washington Times
reported that Black Lives matter had cashed in with the Ford Foundation's donation -- and,
aside from (falsely) implying that Black Lives Matter would receive the entire $100 million
donation, the report was factually correct. But, as similar reports spread across social media
and conservative news sites, details started getting fuzzy. Freedom Daily, a right-wing
website, demonstrates how that happened in a post
calling for a Ford boycott that was shared nearly 30,000 times on social media within a
week that begins:
Ford just donated $100 million dollars to Black Lives Matter.
The Washington Post reported: street uprising, Black Lives Matter is increasingly
awash in cash, raking in pledges of more than $100 million from liberal foundations and others
eager to contribute to what has become the grant-making cause du jour.
This story (and calls for Ford boycotts that followed it) made three critical errors: it
confused the Washington Post with the Washington Times , it confused the Ford
Motor Company with the Ford Foundation, and it confused the Black-Led Movement Fund with Black
Lives Matter.
In reality, the Ford Motor Company and the Ford Foundation are completely separate
organizations since the 1970s. Henry Ford's son, Edsel, started the Ford Foundation in 1936 with
an initial gift of $25,000. The foundation took in huge bequests from Henry and Edsel's estates
upon their deaths in the 1940s and grew to become the biggest philanthropy in the world at the
time.
Edsel's son, Henry Ford II, was involved in the Ford Foundation up until 1976, but the
foundation began selling off Ford stocks in the 1950s and moved its headquarters from Dearborn,
Michigan, to New York City in the 1960s. Ford II resigned over the foundation's " march to the
left " in 1976, and no Ford family member has served on the board of trustees since. Today,
the Ford Motor Company has a separate nonprofit arm, the Ford Fund , and is in no
way connected to the Ford Foundation.
In the end, the Ford Foundation and the Ford Motor Company are completely separate
organizations. And the Ford Foundation pledged $100 million to the Black-Led Movement Fund,
which is not the same thing as Black Lives Matter. That's why we're calling this one truth and
fiction.
Tucker Carlson described former President Obama as "one of the sleaziest and most dishonest
figures in the history of American politics" after his eulogy at the funeral of civil rights
icon Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) on Thursday.
Carlson, who also described the former president as "a greasy politician" for calling on
Congress to pass a new Voting Rights Act and to eliminate the filibuster, which Obama described
as a relic of the Jim Crow era that disenfranchised Black Americans, in order to do so.
"Barack Obama, one of the sleaziest and most dishonest figures in the history of American
politics, used George Floyd's death at a funeral to attack the police," Carlson said before
showing a segment of Obama's remarks.
A ridiculous assertion? Well, consider the words of Democratic stalwart Lanny Davis , tweeting on
July 27: "Violent protesters lighting fires and using violence in Portland should wear
@realDonaldTrump buttons.
That is who they are helping. Progressives in Portland need to call them out, including the
Mayor. ReTweet please. Don't allow violent people help @realDonaldTrump ."
Back on June 4, here at TAC ,
this author made precisely that argument: that Antifa wanted to Trump to win a second term,
following the revolutionary Leninist dictum of "the worse the better." That is, Trump is the
figure that Antifa wants in power, because in its view, the incumbent heightens the
contradictions of capitalism, white supremacy, and cis-patriarchy.
...
"This violence is a criminal act and destroys the moral legitimacy of the important messages
that peaceful protesters are in the street for. It desecrates the memory and affronts the grave
of the late American Hero John Lewis and it helps Trump."
Schmidt's denunciation led sly pundit Mickey Kaus to ask about
the street-fighting, "If these guys can no longer pretend it's not happening . . . Has Schmidt
maybe seen some polling on the violence?"
Indeed, there's some evidence that Antifa is driving a wedge inside the Democratic coalition
-- and that wedging could hurt Biden's chances. For instance, in a report on the ongoing of
violence in Seattle, CBS
News reported the reaction of one victim: "Daryl Breaux, whose car was seriously damaged in
the melee, said those using the demonstrations as cover for mayhem are drowning out the
positive meaning of the protests. 'Almost 45 years I've been Black. This is what Black Lives
Matter does? I'm not with it.'"
In fact, the split between mostly white Antifa types and blacks and others angry at the
police -- but who are not seeking a new Bolshevik revolution -- seems to be widening. Here's
Naveed
Jamali , an avowed progressive: "I'm a POC who lives in Seattle and has been covering these
protests. They have less and less to do with George Floyd or #BlackLivesMatter. It's a shame,
but this movement for equality has been hijacked."
Indeed,
E.D. Mondainé , president of the Portland branch of the NAACP, headlined his op-ed
in The Washington Post , "Portland's protests were supposed to be about black lives.
Now, they're white spectacle." As Mondainé put it, "As the demonstrations continue every
night in Portland, many people with their own agendas are co-opting, and distracting attention
from, what should be our central concern: the Black Lives Matter movement." Asking, "What are
antifa and other leftist agitators achieving for the cause of black equality?" Mondainé
had a blunt answer: nothing .
As of now, it's hard to show that this division is actually costing Biden votes, but plenty
of Biden supporters are worried -- after all, it's still more than three months till Election
Day. MSNBC host Joe Scarborough , who, way back
when, won four elections as a Republican Congressman, recently tweeted, "How does breaking
windows at a courthouse, setting fire to a federal building, firing guns in crowds, and
committing acts of vandalism forward any cause?" Scarborough is referring, of course, to
liberal and progressive causes; he's choosing to ignore Antifa's cause.
...
Yet in the meantime, of course, Trump is eager to conflate Biden, the Democrats, and Antifa.
The president has said , in fact, that Biden will be a "puppet"
of the radical left," and so, if he wins, "nobody will be safe." If Trump could truly make that
charge stick, he would, in fact, likely win the election.
Indeed, Trump is always upping the ante. Just on July 27, he tweeted , "Anarchists,
Agitators or Protestors who vandalize or damage our Federal Courthouse in Portland, or any
Federal Buildings in any of our Cities or States, will be prosecuted under our recently
re-enacted Statues & Monuments Act. MINIMUM TEN YEARS IN PRISON."
Here, Trump is referring not to an act of Congress, but rather to a June 26
Executive Order , parts of which read like a campaign speech, viz:
Anarchists and left-wing extremists have sought to advance a fringe ideology that paints
the United States of America as fundamentally unjust and have sought to impose that ideology
on Americans through violence and mob intimidation. They have led riots in the streets,
burned police vehicles, killed and assaulted government officers as well as business owners
defending their property, and even seized an area within one city where law and order gave
way to anarchy. During the unrest, innocent citizens also have been harmed and killed.
...So maybe that's why Biden is so quiet. Nobody thinks that he himself supports Antifa, but
maybe his strategists think that he must walk a fine line, such that he doesn't seem to
tolerating violence and yet, at the same time, doesn't seem to be siding with Trump. Great
politicians walk fine lines for a living -- so now we'll have to see about Biden.
Because in the meantime, the violence rages, not just in Portland and Seattle, but in just
about every big city in the country. And if the violence continues, the words of Elon Musk , a man
of indeterminate political views, will seem all the more true: "The left is losing the
middle."
James P. Pinkerton is a longtime contributing editor at The American Conservative,
columnist, and author. He served as longtime regular columnist for Newsday. He has also written
for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times,
USA Today, National Review, The New Republic, Foreign Affairs, Fortune, and The Jerusalem Post.
He is the author of What Comes Next: The End of Big Government--and the New Paradigm Ahead
(1995).He worked in the White House domestic policy offices of Presidents Ronald Reagan and
George H.W. Bush and in the 1980, 1984, 1988 and 1992 presidential campaigns.
Talk about ignoring the elephant in the living room! If al that was happening was the
upheaval in Portland ythis piece might have some validity. But the antics of the Antifa in
Portland affect a miniscule fraction of the US population. The Covid pandemic (and its
economic consequences) has affected the entire country. And Donald Trump has lost support
because of the pandemic and does anyone think a few dozen tantrum-throwing nutcases in
Portland will counteract that?
Man, you and JonF must have passed the same test on point-missing, or your hatred of all
things conservative has fogged your mind.
It doesn't matter at all why Trump's 2016 supporters might vote for him again in
November. Pinkerton's point is very simple: the further left that Biden is perceived to
track, the more that helps Trump among "undecideds" and among those who voted for him in 2016
who may be on the fence this time. If Biden came out strongly against Antifa and the violence
and looting, while not expressing negativity about the protests themselves, he would quell a
lot of fears of the people in the suburbs and the rust belt and rural areas who right now are
still on the fence. These people may not come out for Biden, but it would give them one less
reason to vote for DT
Note that if DT did the reverse -- expressed strong support for the aims of the protests
while equally strongly condemning the violence, he'd gain points. But as Pinkerton
says, he conflates Biden, the Democrats, and Antifa, which is a scare tactic that will work
with people who either already lean his way, or who don't pay attention to things outside the
Fox/GOP bubble, i.e., the many people who dislike Trump but get most of their info from Fox
nevertheless.
I say this as a person who has long been disgusted with both parties and doesn't care who
wins in November. The way I see it, just like in 2016, we're royally screwed either way.
C'mon, this isn't rocket science. Or epidemiology. People who are afraid of/fed up with
Antifa and the looting and rioting, and who (rightly or wrongly) link that to Biden, will be
more apt to vote for Trump because they'll see him (again, rightly or wrongly) as the lesser
of two evils. This will most likely not attract true moderates, but it will pull some of the
fence-sitters and right-leaning undecideds Trump's way. All Biden has to do to keep this from
happening is to come out strong against Antifa and the violence and looting, while expressing
clear support for the goals of the peaceful protesters.
Sigh. Not the point. It's the perceived threat of Antifa and the leftist violence
that matters, not what's actually occurred on the ground. You don't think DT will manipulate
the perceived threat to his benefit?
Of course I expect it. Mencken had it right with this one - " The whole aim of practical
politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by
menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
Feelings don't care about facts. The mass hysteria that's gripped
the Western world after the death of George Floyd can't be explained in rational terms. Police
are shooting fewer
unarmed black men each year, and most of the shootings are justified. Police are more likely to
shoot a
non-threatening white than a non-threatening black. In the Floyd case specifically, there's
nothing
that shows racial bias by police officers, and Floyd was on drugs and resisting
arrest . Minneapolis police procedure
allowed neck pressure in some circumstances. Former police officer Derek Chauvin's conduct
wasn't extraordinary. But the facts are almost irrelevant. We're dealing with faith ,
religious ecstasy. We're in the midst of BLMania.
Collective frenzies aren't new. Almost every American knows about the Salem witch trials,
during which Christians claimed they saw demons and devils. Evil had to be rooted out, whatever
the cost. Arthur Miller's fictional re-telling in The Crucible , originally meant to
criticize McCarthyism, now reads like a satire of SJWs .
In 1536, Anabaptists took over Münster, Germany, and tried to establish a divine
kingdom. Would-be prophet Jan Matthys cannot have been a charlatan; he must have believed he
was chosen by God, because he rode out almost by himself to attack a besieging army. He was
instantly killed, but that didn't shake the faith of his followers. In 1917, hundreds of people
in Fátima, Portugal, claimed they saw the sun dance in the sky. The Catholic Church,
which often debunks alleged visions and miracles, declared this "worthy of belief."
Still, because of the doctrine of Original Sin and man's fallen nature, Christians are
reminded not to " immanentize the eschaton " and
seek heaven on earth. If Christians are delusional, can go only so far. "Secular" movements
have no such restraints. During the last century, tens of millions were butchered in Russia,
China, Cambodia, and other places in the name of the Brotherhood of Man, with the
revolutionaries often creating cults of personality to replace older faiths and heroes. The
Revolutionary Communist Party, which can be found
burning American flags around the country, has its own cult of personality
around leader Bob Avakian .
During the French Revolution, a "Cult of Reason" was established, with Robespierre as high
priest. Busts of the assassinated revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat replaced crucifixes in some
churches. During the Spanish Civil War, anarchists burned churches, shot at statues of Jesus,
murdered clergy, and desecrated the dead to pave the way for a new order. The Communards
executed Archbishop Georges Darboy during the Paris Commune and destroyed the original
Vendôme Column because it glorified empire. The famous French protests of May 1968, which
strongly influenced the current intellectual climate, had a utopian, religious flavor. Would-be
revolutionaries destroyed property as they spray-painted the following slogans:
Ann Coulter analyzed mobs in her 2011 book Demonic . She heavily cited Gustave Le
Bon's famous 1895 book The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind . Miss Coulter said a
mob is "an irrational, childlike, often violent organism that derives its energy from the
group" and is "intoxicated by messianic goals." One chapter is called "Imaginary Violence From
the Right Vs. Actual Violence From The Left." This is especially prescient. CHAZ/CHOP
"security" in Seattle
murdered a black teenager and wounded another because they thought right-wing
paramilitaries would attack any second (no one has been arrested for these shootings). As
cities burn, NBC
reports that "an expert" thinks the real threat is "far right" violence.
The "messianic goal" Miss Coulter wrote of is human equality. The premise is that if
existing social institutions are removed, a natural and authentic human equality will emerge.
Even the past must be destroyed to make this possible. The French Revolution remade the
calendar, with 1792 as Year Zero. All culture and history from the past was irrelevant because
everything was to be built anew. Rousseau famously wrote that "man is born free and everywhere
is in chains." This comes from assuming that man is a blank slate and that people are born
equal. If there is inequality, it can only be because of unjust institutions or exploitative
social forces.
Who is the boogeyman? Many once believed it was the Church: Voltaire's "
infâme ." Some blamed kings; Jefferson's post-revolutionary writings show
paranoia about "monarchial" tendencies. Many believe capitalism is the enemy, but I'd argue
that most progressives today believe the fundamental problem is "whiteness."
What is whiteness? Psychology Today says
it's "an unfairly privileged exclusionary category, based on physical features, most notably a
lack of melanin." Many others who study "whiteness" say something similar. Whiteness is a
social construct used to justify domination, slavery, and economic exploitation today.
There are three obvious objections to this.
This
is clearly not true . Third, it assumes that those with power use white racism to
exercise privilege. However, almost every powerful corporation openly supports Black Lives
Matter and opposes white racial consciousness. Though "whiteness as property" is a common
theme in "whiteness studies," there are benefits
to being labeled non-white, which is why some whites fake their racial identity and some
groups
organize politically so the government won't call them white.
"Whiteness" has become the explanation for all "the evils of the modern world."
Critical race theorists are right to say that "whiteness" is socially constructed; what they
fail to understand is that they created its modern meaning.
Most race realists, Identitarians, and white advocates know Susan Sontag's quote that the
"white race is the cancer of human history." She also said America, which is "the culmination
of Western white civilization," is guilty of causing global suffering. The full context is even
more revealing: "The truth is that Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary
government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Marx, Balanchine
ballets, et al., don't redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the
world."
In this sentence, she concedes three things that would be politically incorrect today.
First, Western
civilization is white civilization . Second, despite the pathetic claims of
some
journalists and academics , Sontag recognized that white civilization isn't simply built on
domination of non-whites, and that it has produced things of great value. Third, Sontag admits
that some (if not all) progressive accomplishments such as "the emancipation of women" are
products of "this particular civilization." "Morgoth's Review" made this same point , noting that when
progressives try to destroy "whiteness," they are dynamiting the foundations of their own
liberal, universal worldview.
However, Sontag still thought white civilization was irredeemable because it "eradicates
autonomous civilizations wherever it spreads" and threatens the planet. Whiteness wasn't cancer
just because it was bad. Sontag meant that whiteness, like cancer, grows, metastasizes, and
consumes. It never seemed to occur to Sontag that this universalizing, homogenizing force
"eradicated" authentic European cultures too. If "Western culture" is Netflix, Amazon, and
Hollywood, I'm with the Third World anti-imperialists.
Still, at least Sontag recognized that whites had a real culture, at least in the past. Her
intellectual successors are worse. They accepted her view the whiteness is cancer while denying
any value to our culture and our standards. Instead, " Whiteness
Studies " and "Critical Race Theory" criticize "white" civilization because of its
standards. The National Museum of African American History and Culture identifies objective,
rational linear thinking, cause and effect relationships, and hard work to be "whiteness" and
therefore "racist." Everything can therefore be "racist" or in need of
"decolonization," including math ,
grammar ,
grades , SAT and
ACT tests ,
bar exams , and
artificial intelligence .
This ends in denying truth itself. Claire Lehmann found a slide at an education
conference in Washington that said that "if you conclude that outcomes differences [sic] by
demographic subgroup are a result of anything other than a broken system, that is, by
definition, bigotry." Actually, bigotry is "obstinate or intolerant
devotion to one's own opinions and prejudices." We've now come full circle, and define bigotry
as not being bound by opinions and prejudices. The way many academics and journalists
talk about whiteness is worse than anything Susan Sontag said.
This is the thinking of a fanatic religious sect, like the one Jim Jones
led . "We were too good for this world," Jones said before the infamous mass suicide. While
progressives haven't yet gone that far, they clearly enjoy the feeling of "woke" moral
righteousness, which has replaced the sense of being "elect" that some Protestant sects once provided .
Much as the French revolutionaries replaced saints with Jacobins during the Terror, today's
woke disciples are creating their own saints, with "Big George" Floyd taking the place of
Christ. Insufficient adulation for Floyd cost
one priest his job. BLMania is even consuming the churches themselves.
Black Lives Matter is more sacred than the American flag or Christ.
Federal agents , police , military ,
athletes , politicians , and many others
all genuflect before BLM. Many would never bow before God. This new, powerful faith even has a
liturgical
calendar and a hymn built on a sacred myth.
Worse, because this creed is impervious to truth, it must always seek new scapegoats (or
devils) for egalitarianism's continuing failure. Despite the constant funding, programs, and
repression, equality never arrives. The late Lawrence Auster's " First Law of Majority/Minority Relations In
Liberal Society " holds that "the more egregiously any non-Western or non-white group
behaves, the more evil whites are made to appear for noticing and drawing rational conclusions
about that group's bad behavior." Likewise, the more blacks fail, the more fictional portrayals
of black superiority must be created, from Black
Panther to
Black Is King . And the more whites give, the more fiercely they must be accused of
bigotry for wanting good
schools ,
classical music , or even
video games left alone.
The egalitarian revolution is a Permanent Revolution. BLMania will constantly devour its
children . It will continue until it is stopped by superior power. Even Robin DiAngelo,
author of White Fragility and high priestess of the Anti-Racist
Church of the Damned , is no longer pure enough.
The late Noel Ignatiev , editor of
Race Traitor , famously said that "treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity."
However, he said that this wasn't a call to violence against whites. "When we say we want to
abolish the white race, we do not mean we want to exterminate people with fair skin," he
said . "We
mean that we want to do away with the social meaning of skin color, thereby abolishing the
white race as a social category." I question this. If I cited Shlomo Sand's
The Invention of the Jewish People to deconstruct Jewish identity, religious claims,
and Israel, one might rightly suspect I had an anti-Jewish motive.
Still, let's assume Ignatiev was sincere. Could we "abolish the social meaning of skin
color" today? Skin color is more important as a social category than at any other time in
decades. Those with power may say whites are just a "social construct," but they have no
trouble telling who is white and who is not when it comes to affirmative action. The media view
almost all economic, political, and cultural issues through a racial lens. Indeed, with a
separate black
"national anthem ," graduation
ceremonies , and
separate events for non-whites , we're seeing the return of segregation. It may even be the
beginning of America's breakup along racial lines.
"Wokeness" holds that whites are racist no matter what we do. "White racism" is the new
original sin. Fighting one's own racism is a lifelong struggle -- one that ultimately can't be
won. "Whiteness" is also responsible for great evil. If all whites are racist and "whiteness"
is evil, isn't it best just to eliminate whites? Some whites may even want to join this racial
death drive, exhausted, ashamed, and despairing after decades of relentless anti-white propaganda . Even
those whites who don't want to surrender psychologically may see no hope, and become a "
defeated and despairing
race ," in Steve Sailer's words.
What can we call this death-cult? Some leftists, including Ignatiev, called for "abolishing"
the white race. It's tempting to call it " Abolitionism ." However, this word is
forever linked with (whites) ending slavery. Some leftists may eventually use the term,
but it will never catch on. Still, it is useful because of its vivid history. Many 19th century
abolitionists were not peaceful idealists but blood-crazed fanatics , who
cloaked their dreams of war and slaughter in apocalyptic, Biblical language. John Brown, whose
band began its infamous raid on Harpers Ferry by killing a free black man, is the primary
example.
The creed's violence, militancy, and destructiveness lead me to call it
Eradicationism. Like some Christian sects, whites who embrace it want collectively to abandon
the world, if not through suicide then by failing to reproduce. Instead of making the world
better "for ourselves and our posterity," they will expunge their blood guilt by ending their
line. White Saviors share a curious mix of self-hatred and self-exaltation, something we see
when white protesters post themselves indulging in BLMania online.
Eradicationism will be with us for some time. Regardless, our course is clear. Facts are
important, but statistics don't move mountains. Faith does. We must act with faith in victory , in
service to a great ideal. Our Western tradition tells us to do our duty to uphold
the cosmic order . This chaotic time will be an opportunity for racial rebirth. Steel
yourself against this death cult that has hijacked our civilization. Reject BLMania. We were
meant for something great. We shouldn't fear this time of struggle, which is demonstrating what
we've been warning of all along. We should welcome it. The American experiment in equality
couldn't have ended any other way.
Good summary of the points we are all familiar with by now.
"Whiteness" has become the explanation for all "the evils of the modern world."
If black people weren't so bad at practically everything, we wouldn't have to play this
game where everyone goes overboard to avoid talking about race realism, or scientific racism.
India encountered White Western Civilization, basically absorbed parts of it, and came out
the other side as the people they always were. Same with China. Same with Japan. Same with
Mexico. Etc. The Western World has also encountered other civilizations as the weaker party
to an extent, and likewise absorbed or fought back, and came out the other side still being
themselves. The Mongols and the Ottoman Turks, just to name a couple of examples, both
enslaved white people. We are not all sitting around moaning about it centuries later and
saying that's why we can read or do math. That realization forces people down a path where
they have to believe against all the evidence that there was something extremely different
about the way white people treated black people for them to turn out this way. And as a
corollary that there is something very different about white people that makes them uniquely
evil.
Or, alternatively, you could just think about your own actual experiences with real black
people you have met in life and notice that you generally have to talk to them like they are
special needs children and they are really really dumb and aggressive. And then it all makes
sense.
We are witnessing something extraordinary, the death of what some call 'liberal
progressivism' or what I prefer to call 'American atheistic humanism.' It's a hell of a thing
to watch. What's next is anybody's guess. It's going to get much worse before it gets better.
I'd like to share some of the things I do to maintain strength and sanity.
1 exercise and work out.
2 do not watch television.
3 associate with non-cucked Catholics and practice the Faith
4 read voraciously, especially the classics and lives of the saints.
5 flirt with women regularly (not the fat ones)
6 set aside resources for 'fallout.' If and when shit hits the fan I'm prepared for a long
winter.
This list could be a expanded. These are the big things I've integrated into my daily
life.
1. Exercise
2. Never watch television
3. Read books written before the "Woke" era and never any book written by a Jew, not even Ben
Shapiro. I always google the authors before I read anything.
4. Use bookmarks instead of search for the vast majority of the content you look at online.
Search is a tool Silicon Valley uses to "recommend" woke content.
Of course, these rules only apply in the current times of information warfare where
everyone is trying to demoralize you and subvert anything you think is valuable.
That civilization lasted for approximately 280 years, and disappeared without a trace
around 1400 AD.
As you walk around the ruins of an obviously civilized people, there is one question that
goes through everyone's mind.
What happened?
This was before there were settlers from Europe, and the land is empty for many miles
around so there are no obvious enemies anywhere to be found.
It is unlikely that an earthquake or flood or other natural event destroyed the
city–there seems to be no physical evidence to support that. Perhaps there was a long
dry period (since this is Arizona) but long enough to destroy the entire civilization?
Then there is the little voice in your head that says the most likely
explanation–"They must have destroyed themselves, probably based on some horrible
ideology or religious fervor."
Bottom line–insanity is toxic, and can destroy a civilization.
There is no arguing with insanity, there is no negotiating with insanity, there is no
solution for insanity.
Civilizations must have the will to remove the insane people from the territory before
they destroy it–or they will become just another forgotten ruin on the landscape.
The hatred for whiteness in America comes from 70 years of massive number of Jews who in
many parts of the country dominated public schools and universities in teaching and
leadership positions in academia.
Black person to white person: "your ancestors enslaved my ancestors"
White person to black person: "your ancestors along with the Arabs enslaved my ancestors
in the Ottoman Empire for over 400 years up until the 1800s"
White person to black person: "you have never been a slave and neither have I"
White person to black person: "all white majority nations have outlawed slavery, have
outlawed segregation, have enshrined equal rights into law, and have outlawed the taking of
land by force"
White person to black person: "many black majority nations have not outlawed slavery, have
not outlawed segregation, have not enshrined equal rights into law, and still take land by
force"
White person to black person: "man up like my ancestors did and go to Africa and free the
slaves, put your blood, sweat, and tears on the land and get it done like my ancestors
did"
White person to black person: "you can't blame white people for black criminality and for
black underperformance in society, most black people are not criminals and many black people
perform and overperform in society, so stop being racist towards white people and take
responsibility and build something"
The unemployed. Without hope and nothing to show for, members will do anything to proof
thy can. In history famous for doing the ting attacking the unarmed, on orders. Controlling
is their hidden desire. Makes them the ideal public servant. Handicapped only by lack of the
brain part called working IQ. In war of times of change, needed badly by ones who own a
little of that stuff wile steering the ship named state..
It seems some people(such as this author) are viewing the current situation through one
prism, and I think it has multiple causations.
1.Militarized police abuse of the general population is real – especially the
poor(soft targets). As incidents pile up, resistance grows.
2.Funding by various political entities are responsible for the political strengthening of
BLM and other groups as controlled opposition and used as divide and conquer tactics.
3.The progressive left is low hanging ripe fruit for the former, especially after the
election of Donald Trump.
4.An education system pumping out SJW's at an exponential rate.
5.Now just add poverty and depravity from a lockdown.
George Floyd or no George Floyd the current situation(or new religion) was just a matter
of time.
This anti-whiteness among Liberal whites reminds me of old Gnostic cults. They sought to
overcome the flesh to achieve heaven on earth. Some took it so far as to avoid reproduction.
I don't think any took it so far as to adopt the children of other races.
It is a privilege to read UNZ everyday. It is important for everyone who is kind at heart,
reading this article and others who are concerned about this actual insanity made sane, is
nothing more than a movement to draw foolish people, black, white and everyone else, to drink
just another flavor of Koolaid, into self-selecting their genetic discontinuation in the New
World. It is a sublime process supported by the powers that be – to thin the hierd.
Don't be alarmed by this. All shall pass. BLM is a part of the culling process – and
you may or may not be aware of it: opioids & legal & illegal drugs, obesity,
dumberism, political extremism on either side, China/Russia bashing, J bashing, and so on.
Stay sure-footed. Understand the motivations of the PTB, and truly understand WHY they must
take action for the good of the human race. It is only thru these operations, the wiser among
us can & must understand why the human herd must be culled. And if you have a problem
with that, please do stand first in line with the many lines & flavors of protesters,
refuseniks & freedom fighters. The New World will truly be a better place for better
human beings. Anyone who wants to get in to the New World & must first qualify with
kind-heartedness, a strong obligation responsibility to better oneself & the community in
which we live in. Forget all the political terms of democracy, freedom, liberty, capitalism,
& such. It will simply be a New World where people are healthy in mind, body & soul.
The crazies, psychopaths & criminals will not survive. It will be a much better world.
And, the Powers that be are creating every sort of selection process to sift thru humanity's
strata. If you are possibly fit for the New World, this comment will ring bells – and
all will be clear to you. If not, go ahead and disagree with me . G*d bless you – for
we will in time bow (or made to bow) to our Master(s). If you can't accept that, well, you're
not likely to make it, and neither will your progeny . Please discern.
@American
Citizen 2.0 rey.
BLM handlers know this and that is why it encourages ANTIFA and BLM to group together and at
the same time discourages for decades any attempt by whites to associate in leagues,
groupings, unions, sindicats etc. Look what hapenned to Proud Boys.
The second in which 100 whites joined together the ruling elite put the leaders in prison and
dismembered the white group.
United we surely stand, divided guaranteed to fall.
We must learn from the Jews – tribalism, fight for our kind no matter what.
They do not give a shit if you exercise, don't watch tv, read books etc. You are not a threat
to them.
A threat is 1000 sheep + one lion.
In the last year of his Presidency (2015) Barack Obama in an interview made the following
observation:
Obama: "What is also true is that the legacy of slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination in
almost every institution of our lives -- you know, that casts a long shadow. And that's still
part of our DNA that's passed on. We're not cured of it."
Interviewer: "Racism"
Obama: "Racism. We're not cured of it."
Few, if any of the cognoscenti who constantly lecture Americans 24×7 on the ubiquity
of "racism" and daily pounce on yet another politician or celebrity who breaks the strict
rules of "Diversity-Speak," bothered to decode the President's remarks so that the average
American might get a sense of what he was in for. They can be boiled down to: "Racism has
always been the defining feature of American life and will be far into the future." What
then, we might wonder, is the "cure," and who gets to say that it has been successful and the
patient is whole and released from treatment?
Obama chose the wrong metaphor. His view of race is better expressed in theological terms.
"Racism" is America's "original sin." It was, and still is, committed exclusively by white
people, and no matter what metaphor you care to use, consider it a permanent fixture of
American society. "We shall overcome someday." But, sorry Pal, not today. With sin comes
guilt, and white America now finds itself confronted with guilt, virtually unlimited
guilt.
@Miro23
motherland. Imperialism has been a long term disaster for the West.
Stupid white people – Yes, yes, people here blame the Jews but let's be honest here,
if it was the Jews who helped contribute, who happily lapsed it up and performed the dance?
The stupid white people! Had the stupid white people been more intelligent, they would have
put two and two together and stopped the madness along time ago. Instead they are worshipping
George Floyd.
Look, I'm no leftie liberal. I want white people to survive and prosper. But honestly, I
see alot of sins and ultimately stupidity at the white man's feet. I blame him more then
anyone else.
Democrats are playing pretty dangerous game. Most people who saw the video below will
probably never vote for them in November.
Nadler exposed himself again as a petty and vindictive DNC stooge, He was forced to see five
minutes of it via video in the hearing room on Congress, to which he chastised the ranking member
for not giving him 48 hours warning that truth would be shown.
Notable quotes:
"... Democrats forget how many were totally disgusted by the media's relentless gotcha shows in 2016. So watching all the Democrat congress people engage in the exact same sh*t show for three hours was disgusting. ..."
AG Barr testified today before the House Committee on the Judiciary. The chairman is Jerrold
Nadler. In his opening remarks he accused Barr of obeying President Trump, to which Barr
replied that as a member of the cabinet he is by law Trump's subordinate but that in matters
concerning criminal cases Trump abstains from directing or advising him. Nadler then demanded
to know if Barr had EVER discussed the coming election with Trump. When answered in the
affirmative Nadler radiated triumph.
Nadler then asserted that the Trump Administration has introduced "troops" into Portland for
the purpose of provoking violence that Trump wants as a spur to advance his chances in
November. The MarxoDems and their media allies like Neil Cavuto repeat the word "troops" over
and over again in the belief that eventually you will be persuaded that the deployed cops in
Portland are really soldiers.
The Ranking Member of the committee Jim Jordan of Ohio when given a chance for rebuttal of
Nadler showed the video linked below as a compendium of "peaceful protests" (irony). pl
Until the "Main Stream Media" is somehow bought out by people who are actually interested in
presenting news that is not filtered through a left-wing ideology, these horrible riots will
not stop. When people refuse to see exactly what is going on, more cities will be destroyed.
Where will the rioters show up nexxt? I'm afraid it will be outside my window.
I am sickened by all of this. I am growing more and more concerned that we won't be able to
bring things back to the middle ever.
I really do fear the turn to socialism or communism in this country. All those books that
were such popular reading when I was in college seem to be coming true: Brave New World, 1984,
Soylent Green--though the rise of the abortion on demand movement puts that one into doubt--are
the ones that come most quickly to my mind.
There wee many other that portrayed a country far different from the one the Founders
imagined.
I witnessed the degeneration of our public school system as a result of the decline in real
the colleges' and the universities' standards for research became more apparent.
I moved from teaching in public high schools into community colleges and universities and
found that what I taught in them required less thinking ability than what I had first taught in
ninth grade in 1974.
And I found there was far more restrictons on what could be said or what could not be said
in a classroom.
It seems parents aren't really aware, or they wouldn't send their kids to public school or
public colleges and universities.
I sent my older son to the Navy and my younger son to get a GED and then go on for
vocational training. That wasn't what I had hoped for them when they were born; but those
decisions worked out far better than keeping them in the educational system they would have
been in when they were still young.
And I had been so proud to receive my full-tuition / fees scholarship to college when I
graduated high school
One big gotcha show, offending everyone's sense of fair play. Appalling, but will play very
differently on both sides of the fence.
Democrats forget how many were totally disgusted by the media's relentless gotcha shows
in 2016. So watching all the Democrat congress people engage in the exact same sh*t show for
three hours was disgusting.
Thank goodness for both Barr and Jordan not losing their cool. Favorite line was Barr
claiming they could have held the hearing without him, when one complained how long they had
waited to "ask" him questions.
Hope someone with a more iron-clad stomach than mine will sort out how many minutes the
questioners used to talk and how many minutes Barr was allowed to respond to this
"hearing".
Additionally, I would like to know how many minutes each Democrat used on which topics. Plus
who in their right mind ever puts the NYT and WaPo into the record as a true recording of
anyone's alleged verbatim statements? The Lafayette Square "photo op" appeared to energize them
the most. Plus how many people are even sympathetic to these bratty white "protestors"?
It was like a room full of Kamala Harris's during the Kavanaugh hearings - I want a yes or
no answer, so I will presume your answer XYZ, because I am not interested in your explanation.
They all used the exact same verbal bullying techniques which I thought was odd. Staged with
rehearsals? Or just a coincidental gathering of total idiots. Yes or no?
Also interesting to see two of Biden's alleged top VP picks, Bass and Demmings , in action.
Hardly assets to any ticket.
I can only hope my sausages that I buy are not as toxic as watching this legislative body in
operation.
"... Color Revolution is the term used to describe a series of remarkably effective CIA-led regime change operations using techniques developed by the RAND Corporation, "democracy" NGOs and other groups since the 1980's. They were used in crude form to bring down the Polish communist regime in the late 1980s. From there the techniques were refined and used, along with heavy bribes, to topple the Gorbachev regime in the Soviet Union. For anyone who has studied those models closely, it is clear that the protests against police violence led by amorphous organizations with names like Black Lives Matter or Antifa are more than purely spontaneous moral outrage. Hundreds of thousands of young Americans are being used as a battering ram to not only topple a US President, but in the process, the very structures of the US Constitutional order. ..."
"... Alicia Garza of BLM is also a board member or executive of five different Freedom Road front groups including 2011 Board chair of Right to the City Alliance, Board member of School of Unity and Liberation (SOUL), of People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER), Forward Together and Special Projects director of National Domestic Workers Alliance. ..."
"... The Right to the City Alliance got $6.5 million between 2011 and 2014 from a number of very established tax-exempt foundations including the Ford Foundation ($1.9 million), from both of George Soros's major tax-exempts–Open Society Foundations, and the Foundation to Promote Open Society for $1.3 million. Also the cornflake-tied Kellogg Foundation $250,000, and curiously , Ben & Jerry's Foundation (ice cream) for $30,000. ..."
"... That front since 2009 received $1.3 million from the Ford Foundation, as well as $600,000 from the Soros foundations and again, Ben & Jerry's ($50,000). ..."
"... And Garza's SOUL, which claimed to have trained 712 "organizers" in 2014, when she co-founded Black Lives Matter, got $210,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation and another $255,000 from the Heinz Foundation (ketchup and John Kerry family) among others. ..."
"... Nigeria-born BLM co-founder Opal Tometi likewise comes from the network of FRSO. Tometi headed the FRSO's Black Alliance for Just Immigration. Curiously with a "staff" of two it got money from major foundations including the Kellogg Foundation for $75,000 and Soros foundations for $100,000, and, again, Ben & Jerry's ($10,000). Tometi got $60,000 in 2014 to direct the group . ..."
"... The BLMF identified itself as being created by top foundations including in addition to the Ford Foundation, the Kellogg Foundation and the Soros Open Society Foundations. They described their role: "The BLMF provides grants, movement building resources, and technical assistance to organizations working advance the leadership and vision of young, Black, queer, feminists and immigrant leaders who are shaping and leading a national conversation about criminalization, policing and race in America." ..."
"... Notably, when we click on the website of M4BL, under their donate button we learn that the donations will go to something called ActBlue Charities. ActBlue facilitates donations to "democrats and progressives." As of May 21, ActBlue had given $119 million to the campaign of Joe Biden. ..."
"... What is clear from only this account of the crucial role of big money foundations behind protest groups such as Black lives Matter is that there is a far more complex agenda driving the protests now destabilizing cities across America. ..."
"... The role of tax-exempt foundations tied to the fortunes of the greatest industrial and financial companies such as Rockefeller, Ford, Kellogg, Hewlett and Soros says that there is a far deeper and far more sinister agenda to current disturbances than spontaneous outrage would suggest. ..."
Color Revolution is the term used to describe a series of remarkably effective CIA-led
regime change operations using techniques developed by the RAND Corporation, "democracy" NGOs
and other groups since the 1980's. They were used in crude form to bring down the Polish
communist regime in the late 1980s. From there the techniques were refined and used, along with
heavy bribes, to topple the Gorbachev regime in the Soviet Union. For anyone who has studied
those models closely, it is clear that the protests against police violence led by amorphous
organizations with names like Black Lives Matter or Antifa are more than purely spontaneous
moral outrage. Hundreds of thousands of young Americans are being used as a battering ram to
not only topple a US President, but in the process, the very structures of the US
Constitutional order.
If we step back from the immediate issue of videos showing a white Minneapolis policeman
pressing his knee on the neck of a black man, George Floyd , and look at what has taken place
across the nation since then, it is clear that certain organizations or groups were
well-prepared to instrumentalize the horrific event for their own agenda.
The protests since May 25 have often begun peacefully only to be taken over by well-trained
violent actors. Two organizations have appeared regularly in connection with the violent
protests -- Black Lives Matter and Antifa (USA). Videos show well-equipped protesters dressed
uniformly in black and masked (not for coronavirus to be sure), vandalizing police cars,
burning police stations, smashing store windows with pipes or baseball bats. Use of Twitter and
other social media to coordinate "hit-and-run" swarming strikes of protest mobs is evident.
What has unfolded since the Minneapolis trigger event has been compared to the wave of
primarily black ghetto protest riots in 1968. I lived through those events in 1968 and what is
unfolding today is far different. It is better likened to the Yugoslav color revolution that
toppled Milosevic in 2000.
Gene Sharp: Template for Regime Overthrow
In the year 2000 the US State Department, aided by its National Endowment for Democracy
(NED) and select CIA operatives, began secretly training a group of Belgrade university
students led by a student group that was called Otpor! (Resistance!). The NED and its various
offshoots was created in the 1980's by CIA head Bill Casey as a covert CIA tool to overthrow
specific regimes around the world under the cover of a human rights NGO. In fact, they get
their money from Congress and from USAID.
In the Serb Otpor! destabilization of 2000, the NED and US Ambassador Richard Miles in
Belgrade selected and trained a group of several dozen students, led by Srđa Popović,
using the handbook, From Dictatorship to Democracy, translated to Serbian, of
the late Gene Sharp and his Albert Einstein Institution. In a post mortem on the Serb events,
the Washington Post wrote, "US-funded consultants played a crucial role behind the scenes in
virtually every facet of the anti-drive, running tracking polls, training thousands of
opposition activists and helping to organize a vitally important parallel vote count. US
taxpayers paid for 5,000 cans of spray paint
used by student activists to scrawl anti-Milošević graffiti on walls across
Serbia."
Trained squads of activists were deployed in protests to take over city blocks with the aid
of 'intelligence helmet' video screens that give them an instantaneous overview of their
environment. Bands of youth converging on targeted intersections in constant dialogue on cell
phones, would then overwhelm police. The US government spent some $41 million on the operation.
Student groups were secretly trained in the Sharp handbook techniques of staging protests that
mocked the authority of the ruling police, showing them to be clumsy and impotent against the
youthful protesters. Professionals from the CIA and US State Department guided them behind the
scenes.
The Color Revolution Otpor! model was refined and deployed in 2004 as the Ukraine Orange
Revolution with logo and color theme scarves, and in 2003 in Georgia as the Rose Revolution.
Later Secretary of State Hillary Clinton used the template to launch the Arab Spring. In all
cases the NED was involved
with other NGOs including the Soros Foundations.
After defeating Milosevic, Popovic went on to establish a global color revolution training
center, CANVAS, a kind of for-profit business consultancy for revolution, and was personally
present in New York working reportedly with Antifa during the Occupy Wall Street where also
Soros money was reported.
Antifa and BLM
The protests, riots, violent and non-violent actions sweeping across the United States since
May 25, including an assault on the gates of the White House, begin to make sense when we
understand the CIA's Color Revolution playbook.
The impact of the protests would not be possible were it not for a network of local and
state political officials inside the Democratic Party lending support to the protesters, even
to the point the Democrat Mayor of Seattle ordered police to abandon several blocks in the
heart of downtown to occupation by protesters.
In recent years major portions of the Democratic Party across the US have been quietly taken
over by what one could call radical left candidates. Often they win with active backing of
organizations such as Democratic Socialists of America or Freedom Road Socialist Organizations.
In the US House of Representatives the vocal quarter of new representatives around Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Rashida Tlaib and Minneapolis Representative Ilhan Omar are
all members or close to Democratic Socialists of America. Clearly without sympathetic
Democrat local officials in key cities, the street protests of organizations such as Black
Lives Matter and Antifa would not have such a dramatic impact.
To get a better grasp how serious the present protest movement is we should look at who has
been pouring millions into BLM. The Antifa is more difficult owing to its explicit anonymous
organization form. However, their online Handbook openly recommends that local Antifa "cells"
join up with BLM chapters.
FRSO: Follow the Money
BLM began in 2013 when three activist friends created the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag to
protest the allegations of shooting of an unarmed black teenager, Trayvon Martin by a white
Hispanic block watchman, George Zimmermann. Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi
were all were connected with and financed by front groups tied to something called Freedom Road
Socialist Organization, one of the four largest radical left organizations in the United States
formed out of something called New Communist Movement that dissolved in the 1980s.
On June 12, 2020 the Freedom Road Socialist Organization webpage states, "The time is now to
join a revolutionary organization! Join Freedom Road Socialist Organization If you have been
out in the streets this past few weeks, the odds are good that you've been thinking about the
difference between the kind of change this system has to offer, and the kind of change this
country needs. Capitalism is a failed system that thrives on exploitation, inequality and
oppression. The reactionary and racist Trump administration has made the pandemic worse. The
unfolding economic crisis we are experiencing is the worst since the 1930s. Monopoly capitalism
is a dying system and we need to help finish it off. And that is exactly what Freedom Road
Socialist Organization is
working for ."
In short the protests over the alleged police killing of a black man in Minnesota are now
being used to call for a revolution against capitalism. FRSO is an umbrella for dozens of
amorphous groups including Black Lives Matter or BLM. What is interesting about the
self-described Marxist-Leninist roots of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) is not
so much their left politics as much as their very establishment funding by a group of
well-endowed tax-exempt foundations.
Alicia Garza of BLM is also a board member or executive of five different Freedom Road front
groups including 2011 Board chair of Right to the City Alliance, Board member of School of
Unity and Liberation (SOUL), of People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER), Forward
Together and Special Projects director of National Domestic Workers Alliance.
The Right to the City Alliance got $6.5 million between 2011 and 2014 from a number of very
established tax-exempt foundations including the Ford Foundation ($1.9 million), from both of
George Soros's major tax-exempts–Open Society Foundations, and the Foundation to Promote
Open Society for $1.3 million. Also the cornflake-tied Kellogg Foundation $250,000, and
curiously , Ben
& Jerry's Foundation (ice cream) for $30,000.
Garza also got major foundation money as Executive Director of the FRSO front, POWER, where
Obama former "green jobs czar" Van Jones, a self-described "communist" and "rowdy black
nationalist," now with CNN, was on the board. Alicia Garza also chaired the Right to the City
Alliance, a network of activist groups opposing urban gentrification. That front since 2009
received $1.3 million from the Ford Foundation, as well as $600,000 from the Soros foundations
and again, Ben & Jerry's ($50,000).
And Garza's SOUL, which claimed to have trained 712
"organizers" in 2014, when she co-founded Black Lives Matter, got $210,000 from the Rockefeller
Foundation and another $255,000 from the Heinz Foundation (ketchup and John Kerry family) among
others. With the Forward Together of FRSO, Garza sat on the board of a "multi-racial
organization that works with community leaders and organizations to transform culture and
policy to catalyze social change." It officially got $4 million in 2014 revenues and from 2012
and 2014, the organization received a total of $2.9 million from Ford Foundation ($655,000) and
other major
foundations .
Nigeria-born BLM co-founder Opal Tometi likewise comes from the network of FRSO. Tometi
headed the FRSO's Black Alliance for Just Immigration. Curiously with a "staff" of two it got
money from major foundations including the Kellogg Foundation for $75,000 and Soros foundations
for $100,000, and, again, Ben & Jerry's ($10,000). Tometi got $60,000 in 2014 to direct the group .
The Freedom Road Socialist Organization that is now openly calling for a revolution against
capitalism in the wake of the Floyd George killing has another arm, The Advancement Project,
which describes itself as "a next generation, multi-racial civil rights organization." Its
board includes a former Obama US Department of Education Director of Community Outreach and a
former Bill Clinton Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. The FRSO Advancement Project
in 2013 got millions from major US tax-exempt foundations including Ford
($8.5 million), Kellogg ($3 million), Hewlett Foundation of HP defense industry founder ($2.5
million), Rockefeller Foundation ($2.5 million), and Soros foundations ($8.6 million).
Major Money and ActBlue
By 2016, the presidential election year where Hillary Clinton was challenging Donald Trump,
Black Lives Matter had established itself as a well-organized network. That year the Ford
Foundation and Borealis Philanthropy announced the formation of the Black-Led Movement Fund
(BLMF), "a six-year pooled donor campaign aimed at raising $100 million for the Movement for
Black Lives coalition" in which BLM was a central part. By then Soros foundations had already
given some $33 million in
grants to the Black Lives Matter movement . This was serious foundation money.
The BLMF identified itself as being created by top foundations including in addition to the
Ford Foundation, the Kellogg Foundation and the Soros Open Society Foundations. They described
their role: "The BLMF provides grants, movement building resources, and technical assistance to
organizations working advance the leadership and vision of young, Black, queer, feminists and
immigrant leaders who are shaping and leading a national
conversation about criminalization, policing and race in America."
The Movement for Black Lives Coalition (M4BL) which includes Black Lives Matter, already in
2016 called for "defunding police departments, race-based reparations, voting rights for
illegal immigrants, fossil-fuel divestment, an end to private education and charter schools, a
universal basic income, and
free college for blacks ."
Notably, when we click on the website of M4BL, under their donate button we learn that the
donations will go to something called ActBlue Charities. ActBlue facilitates donations to
"democrats and progressives." As of May 21, ActBlue had given $119 million to the campaign
of Joe Biden.
That was before the May 25 BLM worldwide protests. Now major corporations such as Apple,
Disney, Nike and hundreds others may be pouring untold and unaccounted millions into ActBlue
under the name of Black Lives Matter, funds that in fact can go to fund the election of a
Democrat President Biden. Perhaps this is the real reason the Biden campaign has been so
confident of support from black voters.
What is clear from only this account of the crucial
role of big money foundations behind protest groups such as Black lives Matter is that there is
a far more complex agenda driving the protests now destabilizing cities across America.
The
role of tax-exempt foundations tied to the fortunes of the greatest industrial and financial
companies such as Rockefeller, Ford, Kellogg, Hewlett and Soros says that there is a far deeper
and far more sinister agenda to current disturbances than spontaneous outrage would
suggest.
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What a terrific video of "peaceful protests" Jordan presented. Yowza. The leftist
gaslighting will continue in spite of it, but would it be fair then to label these "peaceful
protests", these "myths" (according to Chairman Nadler), The Unicorn Riots?
Seriously, is it possible the leftists are pursuing a winning strategy by either
ignoring/denying (at best) all of the violence and destruction or (at worst) by making excuses
for it and condemning those who are trying to maintain order? Will a majority of voters side
with the rioters? I refuse to believe we're that far gone as a country, refuse to believe the
polls that state Biden's in the lead everywhere. Instead, I'm beginning to suspect the polls
are a desperate attempt to make it look like a horserace when it's not.
I may be wrong, REALLY wrong of course - no doubt there are a lot of Trump and Deplorables
haters that would vote for a decomposed corpse rather than the POTUS, but still, these riots
surely aren't helping their cause and that's why they're feigning ignorance. Do they believe
campaigning on good old "Law and Order" is passe now, a no-no because it's unappealing to the
[obviously TERRIBLY unhappy] young anarchists/socialists/communists? Has the mainstream
Democratic Party turned into Vichyites?
...the target of the attack is Donald Trump, the brash New York real estate tycoon who was
swept into office in November 2016. The real target, however, is the office itself, the
universally-recognized "seat of power" which the enemy believes should remain under the control
of the people who own the country. These are the ruthless oligarchs whose octopus-like
tentacles are wrapped around Wall Street, the MSM, the courts, the Congress, the Democratic
Party, and powerful elements within the National Security State. They own it all and they have
no intention of putting it up for grabs by honoring the results of an arbitrary and scattershot
election that failed to produce the outcome they sought.
Once again, this isn't about Trump, it's about the unscrupulous people behind the scenes who
have secretly worked the levers of power for the last 4 years in order to roll back the 2016
elections and install the candidate of their own choice. If the
new revelations about Obama's involvement in the spying operation aimed at removing Trump
from office have not yet convinced you that senior-level officials (in the administration, the
FBI, the CIA, the NSA, the DOJ, the DNC and MSM) were all actively engaged in a coup on the
elected government, then you should probably stop reading this article now and put your head
back in the sand where it belongs. This is for the people who know how to pick through the
disinformation and figure out, in broad terms, what is actually going on. And what's going on
is a cold-blooded, take-no-prisoners power struggle, pure and simple.
Do you believe as I do that most of these crises will miraculously vanish just hours if not
days after the November balloting? Suddenly a life-saving vaccine will appear from the ether,
the legions of BLM activists will decide to pack it in and go home, and the economy will
magically rebound when the Dems take office promising another round of grueling austerity
followed by lavish handouts to Wall Street. Is that too cynical or are our rulers really
devious enough to concoct such a plan?
That question would be better put to the tens of thousands of victims of US barbarism around
the world. They're the ones who understand the lengths to which these mercenary puppet-masters
will go to tighten their grip on power to ensure that US multinationals continue to rake in
obscene profits. As Harold Pinter opined in 2005 in his Nobel acceptance speech:
"The crimes of the United States have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, but
very few people have actually talked about them. You have to hand it to America. It has
exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for
universal good. It's a brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis."
Only it's not so witty when the weapons are turned on Americans themselves and we suddenly
find our own tenuous existence in the globalist crosshairs. No one really expected that, but
then, here we are.
Have you watched the escalating street violence in Seattle and Portland? Have you wondered
why the police have stood down while black-hooded thugs destroy public property, topple
monuments and launch attacks on police precinct headquarters? Have you wondered why the mayor
and media continue to applaud the hooliganism and downplay the vast destruction to public and
private property? Is this really about George Floyd, police brutality and racial justice or is
this a premeditated insurrection executed by DNC shock troops aimed at destabilizing the
country in order to get rid of Trump and usher in an authoritarian police-state?
Who is served by BLM-generated violence and destruction? Who benefits from Antifa? A comment
by an anonymous reader at The Unz Review summed it up pretty well. He said:
"Antifa is supported by the State. FBI and CIA have long term contacts with them and
they are allowed to operate as a street militia for Neoliberalism against people the
State actually hates. The plan was to cause a civilian massacre to be used against Trump, so
far that has not panned out.
It is a joke. Antifa could be rolled up in days if the State turned against them .
Antifa operates with impunity on social media and chat servers because the FBI views them as
friendlies. This could change if Antifa ever did anything against the System, but for now
they are the attack dog of the Deep State. "
There's no doubt that the government knows who these troublemakers are. There's also no
doubt that the riots and looting are part of a political agenda aimed at spreading chaos and
racial violence far and wide in order to convince the weary public that the country is rapidly
devolving into an ungovernable free-fire zone. Of course, the danger for the Democrats is that
they might overshoot their goal and persuade voters that they're stealthily spearheading the
nation's descent into mayhem. And that's where the media comes in, it's their job to shape the
narrative by removing the Dems fingerprints from the murder weapon. So far, the strategy
appears to be working.
In short, the widening social unrest is not a spontaneous eruption of pent-up indignation
over the treatment of blacks in America. It's part of a sinister political ploy to beat
Trump and to discredit his mainly-white, working class supporters from the de-industrialized
American heartland that have been pummeled by the Democrats immigration and free trade policies
for the last 30 years, and who now represent the biggest obstacle to the globalist plan to
reduce the economy to rubble, rewrite the nation's history, and reassemble the state so that
balanced budgets and the free movement of Capital are adopted as the government's primary
organizing principles. In other words, elites are prosecuting a war on America to pave the way
to Capitalist Valhalla, the majestic temple of the insatiable Monopolists.
This also explains why the Dems are not emphasizing inclusion or assimilation in their
cynical analysis of the BLM phenom. It's because the Dems don't want inclusion or
assimilation, they want to use "identity" and "diversity" as truncheons to batter their
nationalist opponents, that is, the working class people who used to vote Democrat but switched
sides when they realized that the party would no longer give them even tables scraps for their
support. Keep in mind, nationalism or patriotism (whatever you choose to call it.) is the
arch enemy of globalism which envisions a borderless world in which multinationals dominate and
Capital flows unobstructed to any potential source of profit or investment around the planet. A
recent post by Paul Craig Roberts helps to clarify the conflict between "assimilation and
diversity". Here's what he said:
"Multiculturalism might have worked in America if the emphasis had stayed on
assimilation and had not been intentionally shifted to diversity. It was the white
liberals who destroyed the prospects of multiculturalism by teaching blacks to hate whites
for oppressing them. And it was the global corporations that dismantled the ladders of upward
mobility .
Multiculturalism can work if there are no strains and no animosities, but when strains and
animosities are intentionally created, there is no prospect of successful multiculturalism.
Antifa, Black Lives Matter, the white liberal media, and the white liberal Democrats and
professors are furiously at work making certain that multiculturalism in America fails. This
means, obviously, that the America that they hate will also fail." ("
White Liberals Have Destroyed the Prospects of US Multiculturalism" , Paul Craig
Roberts)
He's right, isn't he? And he's also right to suggest that the Democrats are fueling racial
animosities. They're not feeding these polarizing feelings because they intend to improve black
lives through better education, universal health care, higher-paying jobs, or basic security.
Oh no, in fact they won't even talk about these things. It's like they don't even exist.
Instead, BLM, Covid-19 and the sinking economy are being used to obliterate Trump's prospects
for victory and prepare the American people for the shocking economic reckoning that will take
place soon afterwards. It's all part of the Great Reset, an elitist scheme to restructure the
economy so more wealth flows upward to the parasite class.
...Check out this excerpt from an article by Russ Bangs at the Off-Guardian:
"Western civilization, led by the US government and media, has embarked upon a campaign of
mass psychological terrorism designed to cover for the collapsing economy, set up a new
pretext for Wall Street's ongoing plunder expedition, radically escalate the police state,
deeply traumatize people into submission to total social conformity, and radically aggravate
the anti-social, anti-human atomization of the people ..
So far, the people are submitting completely to a (Covid-19) terror campaign dedicated to
the total eradication of whatever community was left in the world, and especially whatever
community was starting to be rebuilt Any kind of human relations, from personal friendship
and romance to friendly social gatherings and clubs to social and cultural movements become
impossible under such circumstances. This threatens to be the end of the very concept of
shared humanity.. As Hannah Arendt said in The Origins of Totalitarianism:
'It has frequently been observed that terror can rule absolutely only over people who are
isolated against each other and that therefore one of the primary concerns of tyrannical
government is to bring this isolation about. Isolation may be the beginning of terror; it
certainly is its most fertile ground; it always is its result . isolated people are
powerless by definition. " ( "The Ultimate Divide
and Conquer ", The Off-Guardian)
So my personal opinion ? we will see a US regime chainge faster than a lot here predict.
Much faster.
Genuine question: What would the US regime look like after the regime change?
I don't see the present US riots as 'protests', I have no idea what they are 'protesting'
against. Certainly it is not 'racism'. As far as I can tell, the present riots are engineered
by one oligarch faction in order to destroy the US economy, the rule of law in order to bring
down the other oligarch faction (Trump).
Regardless who 'wins' this struggle, there will be no legitimate regime change in the US
because no such leaders are in sight. All you will get is accelerated destruction internally
and externally.
The montage included moments taken in Minneapolis, Chicago, Atlanta, and Portland. It shows
rioters attacking police officers with fireworks, rocks, and bottles. Video also showed the
looting that has occurred in various cities and it showed the moment when rioters set the 3rd
Minneapolis Police Precinct on fire in May.
In the first few days after George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police, rioters tore
through dense stretches of Minneapolis, St. Paul and other metro communities in retaliation,
causing millions in property damage to more than 1,500 locations.
In their wake, vandals left a trail of smashed doors and windows, covered hundreds of
boarded-up businesses with graffiti and set fire to nearly 150 buildings, with dozens burned to
the ground. Pharmacies, groceries, liquor stores, tobacco shops and cell phone stores were
ransacked, losing thousands of dollars in stolen merchandise. Many were looted repeatedly over
consecutive nights.
Other property -- like gas stations, restaurants and even parked cars -- was set on fire,
with much of it completely destroyed.
The full extent of damage to Twin Cities buildings -- including residences, churches,
non-profits and
minority-owned businesses -- could take weeks or months to calculate.
Already on the ropes from months of lost revenue during a global pandemic, some businesses
may never reopen as others are still temporarily or indefinitely closed.
Buildings along a 5-mile stretch of Lake Street in Minneapolis and a 3.5-mile stretch of
University Avenue in St. Paul's Midway area experienced some of the heaviest damage. While this
is an incomplete list, here's a look at some of those hardest-hit areas.
Looks like neoliberal Dems overplayed their hand trying to topple Trump. Because this all is
about elections in November, not so much about blacks. It is the stuggele of two group of US
oligarchs like in Ukraine BLM and Antifa are just extras.
Seattle radio host and self proclaimed "Cat Dad" Paul Gallant had
taken to Twitter back in June to respond to President Trump's handling of the protesters in
Seattle. Responding to a Tweet where the President was critical of the Seattle mayor, Gallant
responded "Chill dawg" before saying he saw "no burning, pillaging or deaths" in his city.
Today, Paul has taken to Twitter to sing another tune: "I feel like I need to buy a
firearm".
Why the change in attitude? Perhaps it was because rioters in his city trashed and looted
the downstairs to his apartment complex. Gallant arrived back at his apartment this weekend to
find it vandalized and looted.
"I feel like I need to buy a firearm, because clearly this is going to keep happening.
Enough is enough," he wrote in a subsequent Tweet. "Really angry right now," he continued.
"Great job assholes," he wrote in a subsequent Tweet.
Naturally, Gallant, who once thought he had "dunked" on President Trump, spent most of the
weekend being dunked on by the internet for his own hypocrisy.
Recall, this isn't the first we've seen of
hypocrisy in Seattle. The mayor dismantled the city's anarchist CHAZ/CHOP district not
after six shootings and two teenage deaths, as hedge fund manager and author James Altucher
notes - but rather, after protesters threatened to take over Mayor Jenny Durkan's 5,000 sqft.,
$7.6 million house .
And to Gallant, we only have one thing to say: chill dawg.
"... ...According to the UN Convention Against genocide, erasing a people's heritage, religion, culture, values traditions, and history is an act of genocide. ..."
Shaun King is a well known Black Lives Matter con artist who has grifted on racial grievance
for a decade even lying about his own family and race. Shaun King is white,
provably white , and he found his professional & financial niche by conning black
people, including Oprah Winfrey, into believing he is black. [ Shaun King ]
After spending several years drumming up racial division King attached himself to the very
first well publicized BLM effort in Ferguson Missouri. There was a lot of money to be made
selling the
completely false Mike Brown story; so Shaun King
hooked up with DeRay McKesson to create the new financial conduit known as Black Lives
Matter. His scams and cons are very well known to long-term CTH readers.
Together McKesson and King
sell a toxic stew of Marxism, racism, and hatred; and as a consequence their business model
intersects with Islamic extremism. As we noted earlier there is
a lot of similarity between 2010's Islamist Spring and 2020's BLM protests. Here's the
latest example courtesy of the lying, liar who lies for a living:
Under the ideology of Black Lives Matter Islam is the dominant and preferred religion;
Christianity is viewed as against their interests. The reason is simple, the doctrines of Islam
are political, the doctrines of the BLM movement are identically political.
Within the overall U.S. movement Antifa is essentially white ISIS and the Black Lives Matter
crowd are racial grievance activists funded by coastal liberals and Marxists.
Here's a video from about five years ago when Shaun King was exposed as a white man making
money from the "black movement". Watch how CNN anchor Don King instantly evolves into a
defender and apologist These people are sick, mentally.
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Yeah, but we're losing our heritage, our history, and our antiquities
Christian churches are next Shaun specifically mentioned "stained glass windows depicting
Christ as a white man"
If you attend a church with such stained glass windows, you outta be starting a
citizen-defense cadre in cooperation with your church and divvy up shifts to stand guard with
whatever firearms you're legally able and cartridges "with the most clips"
It not be too surprising to see history repeat itself.
Where I live the sad desecrated ruins of two wonderful mediaeval Abbeys are a stark
reminder of Satanism.
In the 1640 to 1650 decade a "gentleman" called Oliver Cromwell raped plundered and pillaged
all Catholic churches, monasteries, convents and country mansions which did not succumb to
the "New normal"
One of his most notable habits was to tether his famous cavalry to the altar rails of the
sanctuaries after desecrating and destroying all statues, pictures and murals – and
when leaving setting the buildings on fire.
So every town and city in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales has its sad reminder of that
era.
One of Cromwells other little legacies are to be found in North America. He had the habit of
kidnapping young fit men – mainly Irish for which he held a particular contempt –
and sending them overseas as slaves.
Most modern 're writers of history deny this and call them indentured servants. You can split
hairs if you wish.
So no – this white guy Davis (Welsh?) is a pathetic amateur – Cromwell, John
Knox, Calvin and The Taliban perfected the art of the destruction of Catholic icons long
ago.
For one thing the U.S. does not contain enough material of old to destroy.
Secondly I am sure it would be a bridge too far and the final awakening of American patriots
to say "Enough!!!,"
God bless America and President Trump – the last bastion.
...According to the UN Convention Against genocide, erasing a people's heritage, religion,
culture, values traditions, and history is an act of genocide.
Our City, State and Federal govts are allowing and thereby complicit in the mass murder of
the American people.
Genocide never stops until the all of the Nazis and conspirators -- like Gates and Soros
snd all of the public officials they bought off are dead.
"Every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the
process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists
except an endless present in which the Party is always right."- '1984,' George Orwell
One could say Orwell was prescient about the coming future. More likely is that the
globalists and Left read Orwell not as a dire warning, but as an instruction manual.
Following a call
from "anti-racist" activist Shaun King, several statues of the Virgin Mary have been vandalized
in the United States, particularly in Boston, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and
Sacramento.
On 22 June, former Protestant pastor Shaun King tweeted:
"All murals and stained glass windows of white Jesus, and his European mother, and their
white friends should also come down. They are a gross form white supremacy. Created as tools of
oppression. Racist propaganda. They should all come down. "
A controversial figure, Shaun King had his heyday during the presidential campaign of
Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders.
Retorting to King's tweet, Bishop Donald J. Hying of Madison pointed out that many statues
of the Black Madonna can be found in Europe and of the Black Jesus in Africa.
On the East Coast, several statues of the Franciscan saint Junípero Serra - canonized
by Pope John Paul II as "apostle of California" - were also vandalized and the San Gabriel
Mission burned down. The United States regularly experiences attacks on Jewish, black, and
Muslim places of worship. This wave of intolerance has now also reached Catholic places of
worship.
"Let the Cities Burn (or Not)" Real Clear Politics
" There is no police power in the federal Constitution. The police power is left to the
states. To the extent the President can send federal officers into Portland, Oregon, and other
cities, it should be to protect federal property.
The President cannot save Portland from itself, and he should not. He cannot save the other
cities either." RCP
"When people move out, the tax base collapses and crime goes up, the people will either
change their behavior or be democratically marginalized in their voting power. If life goes on
as normal, or more people move in to embrace what is happening, then they've chosen it, or the
problems have been exaggerated by conservatives, as they claim. Let the market decide by
letting the actions of a free people control their fate.
The President should withdraw from Oregon and not send supplemental help to these other
cities. Instead, he can campaign on their descent to chaos at the hands of Democratic
mayors.
A President sending in a police force to a city is a dangerous precedent that will be
expanded upon by future presidents, even though they lack a general police power. A city
allowed to choose its own fate is a positive precedent, from which we can all draw lessons.
Let Portland burn or not. Let the other cities descend into violence or not. But let the
cities decide without intervention from Washington." RCP
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There are federal police forces, but they all exist to deal with violations of FEDERAL law.
They were justified when created or developed as regulatory in nature and/or investigative
tools intended to provide information for decision making. The FBI began its existence as a
small group manned by lawyers and accountants. It stayed that way until Hoover found it useful
to his personal needs..
I agree with the opinion expressed by the author of this piece. The US is a federal
republic. Much power was denied to the federal government by the states who were and are the
contracting parties in the federal constitution.
The ever present consolidating US nationalists have striven endlessly to expand the power of
the federal government through the constitutional interpretative power of the federal courts by
using such devices as the commerce clause and the 14th Amendment but there limits to the
elasticity of the document.
And, of course, there was the outcome of the Civil War which might have settled the matter
in favor of federal power but did not because the victorious states found in the post-war years
that they needed the political support of the defeated states. To achieve that end the defeated
Confederates were restored to power as the occupation forces were withdrawn.
We should remember that there exists the "Insurrection Act" of 1807. It has often been used
in US history and it may be again although I would advise caution in its application.
Having always been an original intent constitutionalist, I would be a hypocrite if I
supported federal occupation and rule of cities and states that resist federal authority in
their internal affairs. pl
I agree. Let the cities handle their own problems. And if they don't handle them, let them
appeal to their governors. And if the governors don't help, let the citizens of those cities
vote with their feet, cars, or moving trucks. And let those people remaining fix the mess
they allowed to happen.
The political argument to let the cities so inclined to swing by their own petard does
have some superficial appeal. But the aim of ANTIFA, which is a fascist organization that
appears to be organized around nihilist principles, and blm, which is a fascist organization
that is organized around marxist principles, is to destabilize the Republic "by any means
necessary", which in practice we observe as beginning with riot and insurrection in the
cities. There are enumerated activities when undertaken interstate for the purpose of rioting
in a state that are felony violations of Federal law; Destruction of US Government property
is a violation of Federal Law; assault on a Federal Officer is a violation of Federal Law;
there are circumstances when the Destruction of a Motor Vehicle can be a violation of Federal
law. Regardless of whether it may be politically expedient for Trump to let certain cities
burn by their own choice, his job is to faithfully execute the laws of the United States. The
various states and the courts have, unfortunately, let too much water flow under the bridge
to act as though the states enjoy the degree of autonomy they did in 1789. As Ben Franklin
might say "they weren't able to keep it".
My argument is not a "political" argument. It is a constitutional argument. To enforce all
the provisions of federal law that you mention would require seizure of power in many places.
Do you want to live in the country that would do that? I found the Obama/Holder imposition by
intimidation of "consent decrees" to seize power to be deeply offensive. This would be very
like that.
A simple coordinated flag burning at these events would likely end the protests and soon
thereafter the media coverage would end. The catch is it just needs to be Israeli flags
I agree that the federal government has already become far too big and powerful. Many of
it's activities like mass surveillance are antithetical to the liberty of a free people as
contemplated in the constitution. Both the left and right in pursuance of their agendas have
driven the increasing scale, scope and size of government.
Let the people of Portland, Seattle, Chicago, Atlanta, Minneapolis and New York City
decide who they want to elect to city hall and if they want to defund their police. That
should be their choice. The federal government should only defend federal property if the
police are either unwilling or unable as their elected officials choose to stand down.
I'm very supportive of a much larger devolution of power from the federal government to
cities and counties. There are far too many partially funded & unfunded federal mandates.
The United States is just that, a union of states. It is not a unitary country like France.
We need to redouble our efforts to shrink the size of the federal government and the cesspool
of DC political culture. The cesspool of political culture in the states, counties and cities
should be enough. If people are too lazy and a small politically active lot elect radical
local politicians then the rest better get more active. As far as Trump and the Republicans
are concerned they can run on a platform of law and order. IMO, this is a brazen attempt by
the Democrats and the NeverTrump media to incite instability in their battle to sweep the
election.
If the protesters were shouting we need to change the law to defund the police and were
non-violent in their actions in my mind it would be simply the local governments arena to
adapt the protestors.
But when you have rioters screaming burn it down and having people actually try to burn
down a federal courthouse you have crossed the line into something else.
"And that's what people need to know about Antifa. They don't make demands because that's
working within "the system." Their unambiguous goal is to destroy all American institutions
and then the country itself. When they spray-paint or shout, "Burn it down," they really mean
it.
The Antifa ideology propagated in extremist zines, booklets and Web sites say the US is so
fundamentally wicked that no amount of reform can fix it -- it must be abolished. They see
law enforcement and military as the bulwark between them and their goal."
The size of the government (federal) was allowed to occur by its citizens, has the
pendulum swung to far it will swing back, who can make it reduce in size by their votes. The
occurrences in Seattle and Portland are different than what is occurring in Chicago and New
York. To me Portland and Seattle actions can and will grow and is a cancer that must be
eradicated in time. Crime increase in Chicago, New York and other cities Is on the rise but
still within its historical curves and needs its citizens to demand strong actions by its
elected officials to put it down. The Mayors of New York and Chicago leave a lot to be
desired and are short timers like many others.
I would build a wall around Oregon and Washington so them idiots that voted in those
political leaders that allowed this to occur do not pollute the rest of this country, but I
realize that will not happen. I'm sure many Virginians never thought they would see what is
occuring today in their great state but that is pollution of the voting base.
The actions of the militia in Louisville yesterday were a lesson all should learn which is if
you want to carry a firearm in public you better know the safe practices in using it as
others can be harmed on your own team.
Now to sending in Federal forces it should only be done if requested by the locals but if
they do not request it we have no business being there. Let them stew in their own pot.
I'm hoping this is the way forward -- we are in "in real time" here and are not afforded
the opportunity to debate legal niceties. Personally I favor Flavius' POV above to Col Lang's
strict constitutionalism. There have been numerous rulings, EOs, authorizations over the many
years which make that approach dated. I've seen interviews with people all over the country
saying that they are living in situations where traffic lights aren't even working. The local
authorities can't or won't enforce basic laws. Col Lang says insurrection act unwise to
invoke. If so then maybe Trump - Lightfoot as above is a way forward for now. I'm confused as
to why the national guard had not been used as in the sixties or the days of rodney King and
OJ Simpson trial - yes laws have changed, DHS was created , Patriot act etc. No one knows
what they are doing anymore, that much is clear. Aren't there laws against conspiracy to
overthrow the federal government? Could a case be made for their application?
Aren't those feds in Portland from DHS? So State's Rights are apparently overridden by the
Homeland Security Act. How can that be? The 'Acting' Secretary of DHS has never been
confirmed by the Senate even though he's been there for over eight months.
I find this question very interesting. To paraphrase Camus; it seems that suicide, at the
state or city level, may be the one truly serious constitutional problem.
The rights derived from freedom are accompanied by responsibilities, the most fundamental
of which is self preservation. In a federal republic citizens of free states & the cities
therein must be allowed the latitude to harm themselves if they are to be allowed to live the
life they choose. Imposing by force an outside version of "what is good for them" is the
oldest tyrannical trick in the book.
We may consider them delusional, but talk of autonomy and self-policing are laudable aims.
Who are we to say that such schemes cannot work? In the best American tradition these
experiments should at some level be allowed to be conducted. If they succeed we all may learn
something. If they fail, at least the prodigal cities, their mayors and state governors may
ultimately return to the fold with increased wisdom as to the limits of self government.
Antifa & BLM may want to subvert the US, but they will only stand any chance of doing
so if supported by the host population. Give Portland and the other places some rope with
which to hang themselves and let us (and as importantly the supporters of the radical Left)
see how these experimental socialist utopias work out.
I loved Seattle when I visited many years ago. It is a pity what it has become.
I have some problems with letting it go. They start with the effect on Boeing, Microsoft
and other international companies that are going to be seriously disrupted if this rioting
and related behaviour continues. That will have national and international implications -
which will not be good for America. For example the avionics in my aircraft come from
Seattle.
It is obvious that these and similar companies are going to forced to pay what passes for
"protection money", sorry, call it "reparations". Until they can escape.
I also would be concerned for the Puget sound Navy yard. Bremerton is home port for some
serious warships.
However, I think the country might find it most instructive to watch Seattle, Portland and
similar left wing enclaves burn to the ground. Trump should leave them to it.
Sir,
I am a strict constitutionalist myself but, at this time, I respectfully disagree with your
pov.
1. IMO, several cities - and possibly entire states - are in a state of insurrection and
the mayors and governors are part of the insurrection.
2. I'm not so sure that our form of government applies any longer. We appear to me to have
only a dead husk of what once was. I don't see how it can be rejuvenated at this point unless
an iron fist crushes the insurrection and all of those involved in it. It may be too late
anyhow. I'll take the iron fist over what socialists want as long as I get to be a finger of
the fist.
a secret deal has been made with pelosi and democratic elite. if the democratic governors
and mayors keep their bailiwick locked down and on fire through the election the hoped for
incoming democratic administration will bail out all state and municipal budget shortfalls
and pension systems.
it is a pure power play for the democrats who can see that socialism defined as endless
sovereign borrowing with no expectation of ever repaying the debt to further fund their
socialist agenda is coming to an end and is in fact here and now on its last legs.
pelosi and the demorats are playing texas no limit holdem and are now all in for
november!
it does not get MORE CORRUPT than the game the democrats are playing with millions of
innocent american lives and livelihoods all for a more power for themselves
"let the citizens of those cities vote with their feet, cars, or moving trucks."
The issue with this sentiment, though I agree with it in principle, is that those mobile
citizens bring their awful politics with them to their new "homes". To my understanding, you
are in Colorado, no? Is this not indeed what has happened there over the past two decades, as
refugees from the California insanity have moved in, only to change the political makeup of
the state for the worse? I see that Aurora's courthouse was on fire last night. Is that
something native Coloradans would have done 5 or 10 years ago? I would love to hear your
observations from someone on the ground how that state's transmogrification into a leftist,
insurrectionist cauldron took place. Denver was once a beautiful city, and I have fond
memories of the state as a whole from my youth. To me, it's very sad.
From what I see, the people who escape the bedlam that they themselves asked for by voting
for certain politicians and policies in place like LA, SF, Seattle and New York do not see
the folly of their ways. They are like tenants who trash an apartment, then complain to the
landlord about how run down the place is. Then they move and do it all over again. Col. Lang
has well documented how this has taken place in East California (neé the Commonwealth of
Virginia) with the influx of moneyed liberals from the northeast. In the west, Texas is their
next destination unfortunately. It's this observation that leads me to the conclusion that
left-wing political thought is indeed an infectious mind virus. It makes one completely blind
to the concepts unintended consequences and personal responsibility.
The US Marshals are the only feds there that are not part of DHS. And they are there to
protect the federal courthouse, and appear to be doing a good job of it. The only other known
federal agencies deployed to the Portland protests are "the Federal Protective Service, U.S.
Customs and Border Protection, and Homeland Security Investigations", all of which are part
of DHS.
Tom Ridge, the first Secretary of DHS and former Governor of Pennsylvania says "It'd be
a cold day in hell before he'd let 'uninvited' federal agents into PA" :
Trump should be careful with his criticism of Ridge for making that statement. Calling
Ridge a RINO as he did may cost him the 20 PA Electoral College votes. Plus it could cost him
backing by Republicans in the US Senate and House as Ridge is still well respected
there.
In addition to the DHS units I mentioned previously, DHS has also deployed air marshals to
Portland. The Federal Air Marshal Service is part of DHS. And apparently some Coast Guard
have been sent there also. Not clear which Coastie units? Perhaps a Coastie Law Enforcement
Detachment, or perhaps one of their Port Security Units. All are part of DHS.
We already have a national police force with the FBI. We don't need another. If this is an
insurrection, then nationalize the Oregon National Guard, or call out the 101st.
Colonel -
"... Do you want to live in the country that would do that?...".
Execise lawful power to enforce the laws? My answer is an unqualified yes. The citizens of
Portland, Seattle, and wherever else insurrectionists have organized riots which deny
citizens the protection of the laws deserve the full enforcement and relief of the law. That
they are being denied enforcement and relief by the refusal of state and local jurisdictions
to enforce the applicable state statutes is one matter; it is another matter entirely that
they should be denied the protections that are their right by virtue of their citizenship in
the Republic. They are entitled to the relief of full enforcement of the applicable Federal
laws.
I also think that it is long past time for the Federal Government to take ANTIFA and blm with
the seriousness with which they take themselves. I see abundant evidence of the seriousness
with which they take themselves; if there has been any evidence that they have been taken
seriously as threats to the established order, I've missed it. If anything, at the local
levels, the evidence shows that they are mischaracterized as benign or beneficial.
These are structured organizations with avowed national objectives and have a demonstated
taste to use violence as a tactic. I have seen nothing that leads me to think that they will
burn themselves out short of their objectives, which are confused and unobtainable. In short,
unchecked, they will be with us for a long time.
Canadian Member of Parliament from Carleton, Ontario, Pierre Poivlievre, has this dead
right.
IMO, both the left and right have supported bigger government and various forms of
socialism including big corporatism. Demagogues from both the left and right will continue to
mine the vein of angst as the working and middle class keep getting shredded in the economy
by and for the oligarchy. I'm convinced that the "culture wars" are intentionally designed to
distract those getting screwed.
When government controls who gets what, powerful interests invest in political influence to
make money.
That is why socialism and corporatism are two sides of the same coin.
All of these cities - and most other cities - suffer from the same problem:.
Most people do not vote in local elections and those that do tend to reflexively vote
Democrat.
Thus small groups of activists (always far left) can swing local elections and ergo De
Blasio, Lightfoot, Wheeler and other assorted left wing dimwits.
So the ones who voted - Democrat, of course - and those who didn't bother get to live with
destruction of their businesses and neighborhoods.
Life's tough, it's tougher when you're stupid.
Now for the bad news:
A lot of these people will flee the dysfunctional and violent places and end up in suburban
or rural places - where they will try to implement the same left wing disasters they just
left.
"Transplants" - people who move to a place and then try to turn it into the place they
left.
I generally agree there are too many three-letter agencies having wide-ranging police
powers. But that isn't to say the constitution provides no authority to the national
government at all. We have the Art I powers "To define and punish Piracies and Felonies
committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations" and "To exercise
exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, ... over all Places purchased by the Consent
of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts,
Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;"
The Judiciary Act provided for the appointment of marshalls for the judicial districts who
could execute orders from magistrates for arrests etc. And in 1850 that was extended to allow
appointment of "commissioners" charged with apprehending "fugitives from labor".
Of interest is that various mobs did attack federal property in January 1861 and Pres
Buchanan took a hands-off approach (this was before the affected states declared a
secession). It's impossible to say what would the result have been had he deployed federal
force instead. Of course the pres-elect would determine his policy to be not to surrender Fts
Pickens or Sumter but by March it was a different situation.
If I remember, the country was originally 13 colonies? More were grown and joined up for
common defense and some basic commerce. We spread west from there. Texas joined as a separate
republic. Alaska was bought from Russia.
When one looks back on history, we were not all together, and we were not always run in
the same fashion - the country was grown by the US offering things to Texas and the
Territories which they WANTED. They wanted to join.
The Civil War had states that could not find the relief they desired from the federal
government as it stood, and they WANTED to leave. Doesn't matter which issues you choose to
focus on - there were many. The Confederates WANTED to leave. When this was denied, the war
ensued.
Today we have the Left Coast, the East Coast ad a few bastions in the middle that seem to
want to leave. Not being contiguous, this is difficult. Having a debt burden that will soon
make the country crumble regardless of what happens, makes this almost seem like a
distraction.
If states, counties or cities want to leave, then they should be allowed. But leaving
should mean complete severance from Federal financial support - benefits, defense, loans,
free infrastructure, etc. If they truly want this, they need to put their Big Boy pants on
and get on with it. If they cannot do it alone, then they need to send ambassadors to other
like minded places and band together - get on with it.
The plain truth is Colonel, and most people with a working knowledge of tactics realize
this, if the government truly wanted to end this without firing a shot, a simple interstate
highway food embargo would end it in a matter of a week or two, if not in days.
Perhaps shutting them off from Federal infrastructure would open a few eyes, and it could
be done at the city, county or state lines without any legal repercussions.
Stop the crying and hand-wringing and get on with this one way or the other.
Let Portland and Seattle deal with their own problems, let them learn by doing so the
mistakes they made in creating the conditions that caused these two very liberal cities
to become what they've become. The same is true for Chicago--Obama territory.
Let them deal with their states' electied officials first to get any help they may
want. If the states have to fix the problems, maybe those states will learn how to
prevent those problems.
I don't want to be here in my state asking my federal government to fix those two
states.
I've been to both, and their states are beaautiful. Every state in the country has its
own special beauty.
But I am Republican. I want to maintain a republic.
Rome fell when the republican system for governing its many areas of power outside of
Rome and Italy was pushed out eventually by a more centralized power in Rome.
Pontius Pilate was reluctant to make the decision about Christ's crucifixion since he
felt Jesus was blameless and that the problems were local and should be dealt with
without Rome's interference. By eventually "washing his hands" he did finally allow the
masses to convince him to make the choice--and his hands were never clean again.
Should Pontius Pialte have remained out of the question in regard to Christ? I think
he should have. Rome did not in any way have to be involved then, but Rome took on the
guilt of the crucifixion because Pilate did not remain out of the controversy.
Trump needs to stay out of Portland and out of Seattle, and out of Chicago. Those
cities and their citizens need to learn some lessons in what might be better ways to
govern in their states.
After nearly 60 straight nights of violence, business
owners in Portland are sick and tired of riots. But as their stores go under, the coastal media treats the rioters to glowing
coverage and city authorities do nothing.
Portland is a liberal
stronghold, and as 'Black Lives Matter' protests fizzle out around the country, anger remains at boiling point in the Oregonian
city. The protests there have not been all banner-waving and slogan-chanting affairs though. Instead, droves of 'Antifa' types
have laid siege to the city's Justice Center for almost 2 months, tearing down barricades, lobbing fireworks, setting fires and
stabbing
each
other.
Most of those involved in the riots would probably say they're fighting police brutality or fascism, or something of the sort,
but besides those injured in that fight there are other victims of the unrest - local business owners have repeatedly complained
about the riots to the local media.
In articles published every
few days, these store owners, barmen and restaurateurs describe how the riots have driven them to the brink of bankruptcy. One
clothing store manager told
Oregon
Live
on Saturday that within days of coronavirus restrictions being lifted, he reopened his family's store, only to watch
rioters trash the premises in late May, days after the killing of George Floyd kicked off the season of unrest.
Other business owners told
the news site that the city's usually vibrant downtown is
"desolate,"
with tourism
down and even locals giving the city center a wide berth. One bar owner shut down his watering hole in early July, after closing
out one day with only $18.75 in sales.
Facts matter. According to the FBI, in 2019, only 49 police were killed in the line of
duty while dealing with felonious suspects. Forty nine. Nearly as many cops were killed that
year in accidents. On the other hand, nearly 1000 suspects/criminals were killed by police in
2019.
It is also true that only 9 unarmed Blacks were killed by police in 2019. On the other
hand, 20 unarmed Whites were killed by police that year.
Last year, Black perps killed over 8,000 Americans. The vast majority of the victims were
other Blacks. However, when interracial murders do occur, Blacks lead all other racial/ethnic
groups in this category. Blacks in America–who comprise about 13% of our nation's
population–commit over half of all the homicides. This racial pattern of violence in
America has been true for as long as crime records have been kept.
Conclusion: Blacks are apparently the most dangerous race. Even WEB Dubois complained
about the problem of Black violence a century ago. It persists.
Rioters will be no threat to America. Civil war takes millions of participants.
On the news you see maybe at a max, some 500-1000 people in various cities across America
rioting at 2am in the morning..burning shit. Even if Rioting is happening in 100 cities and a
thousand participants in each riot that is still only 100 X 1000 = 100,000 anarchist making
the news each night?????
America has 328,000,000.00 Citizens. Where is the Civil War??? The Media spins this shit
to epic proportions and scares and terrorizes everyone.
If the guns actually do come out and people start shooting the police and national guard,
trust me the return fire would put a stop to it very quickly.
What we are seeing now is the Police completely restrained and bunch of snowflakes
throwing temper tantrums. If the Police were actually activated and told to crack heads these
snowflakes would flee back to their Mom's basement and resume playing x-box.
A real civil war would mean the immediate arrest and detention of anarchist groups like
BLM. The Department of HomeLand Security would take over and these shit heads would simply
start disappearing arrested and offshored to some interrogation gulag under the Patriot Act
rules of engagement for fighting Terrorism.
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Why was the person holding the toddler down not arrested also?
As bad as that was, Isaiah Jackson is a criminal with a long record. You can imagine that he
is a depraved young man. But look at what a middle-aged special ed teacher in DeKalb County
(Atlanta) said about Jackson's stunt:
I don't suppose The New York Times , the Washington Post , NPR, or any of the
other mainstream media outlets will trouble themselves to notice this egregious act of racial
hatred a grown black man visited upon a crying white toddler -- all for the cause of Black
Lives Matter. Racial hatred and violence doesn't just go one way. Can you imagine having your
child (white, black, and otherwise) in Brian Papin's class? That man -- both these men -- have
so much race hatred in their hearts.
Whatever the sentiment behind the [BLM] signs and murals, they're triggering racists and
Trump supporters. In a nation built on devaluing and endangering Black people, even a
suggestion of compassion is more than some thin-skinned bigots can abide.
More:
White America needs every possible reminder of its culpability in pushing this nation to
the brink of disaster. Deface every Black Lives Matter mural, and it won't change the urgency
of a movement far bigger and more resilient than a single moment or slogan.
Besides, if politicians, business owners, and ordinary white people are serious about
change, they should replace those Black Lives Matter murals and billboards with another three
words that acknowledge and proclaim the only path toward eradicating systemic racism and
making this nation whole: "End White Supremacy."
Every possible reminder.
UPDATE.3: Another, less onerous case of child abuse on behalf of the BLM cause:
UPDATE.4: Seems to me that Isaiah Jackson might be exploring ways of instantiating
the thoughts and
theories of Prof. Tommy Curry, who has written that all whites are evil and cannot be
counted on to change, and that the only way to achieve black liberation from their malign
influence might be through violence. Would Tommy Curry approve of what this monster Jackson has
done to that child? I'm sure he would not. But this is where his hateful racist rhetoric leads.
If you hold people to be evil by virtue of their race, then in what sense is a child innocent?
Curry wrote in one of his academic papers that there are no innocents when it comes to racism
and colonialism. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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To dress it all up in politico-sociology speak, we are being fed the "Reduction ad
Hitlerum" fallacy by the MSM and compliant politicians.
In response to Martin Oline, the pre-January 30, 1933, disturbances in Berlin and other
large German cities featured street battles between "brownshirts" and "Reds", each of which
were battling to bring down the Weimar Republic, hoping to inherit the carcass. We are
witnessing a similar "weimarization" of American politics driven entirely by the
"blackshirts" on the left with no emergence, yet, of "brown shirts" on the right.
Mr Johnson - I see nothing but SOP here. Ride on the back of some peaceful demonstration
or march. Get something started - doesn't matter what, break some windows or something of the
sort. Law enforcement has to come in to sort it out and when that happens you're home and
dry.
Home and dry in that there will then always be some incident proving police brutality. The
video doesn't usually show what led up to the "brutality" and if it does there's always the
doubt as to who's really at fault.
And it's always possible to say - perhaps it's sometimes true, I don't know - that
sometimes the police put in agents provocateur to bring the matter to a head. The "man with
the black umbrella" was never identified, after all, so there's plenty of room for such
argument in that and other cases.
And as Graeber says, the "Black Bloc" that often gets the thing going isn't a formal
movement or organisation. It is no more than a "tactic". In as far as it is organised it's a
horizontal structure. Anyone can get together with a friend or several and do what the "Black
Bloc" formations are doing.
In that respect it's spontaneous and difficult to get a grip on. But it's not as
spontaneous as all that. I have no reason to doubt the authenticity of videos I've seen in
which small groups of people are instructed how to attack police officers. "Go for the eyes,
they're vulnerable" was a recommendation I remember from one of those videos. The instructor
in that video wasn't someone who found himself among a like-minded group by accident. That
was a formal course of sorts. So they have some sort of organised framework that can instruct
newcomers to the scene.
And money is needed no matter how spontaneous the action. Travel, accommodation,
implements, legal fees too sometimes I think. We read of vast sums being poured into the
various formal protest movements by the foundations and other donors and I think it unlikely
that some of that money does not go towards paying the costs incurred by those who employ
"Black Bloc" tactics.
So it could be stopped, the use of this type of tactic, but it's not being stopped. All
this against a background of generalised approval from many politicians and many who are in
positions of authority.
I don't therefore think the problem lies so much with those provoking the violence. Such
people are always around - I recollect, in my youthful protest days, being aware of them then
and it's no different except in scale now.
The problem lies with those in authority who either fail to speak out or who give covert
encouragement. They say the violence is a result of "social" or "attitude" problems. No doubt
it is on the ground, but the failure to deal with it results from Senators and Mayors who,
either for party political reasons or for ideological reasons, find their hearts are with the
"Black Bloc" elements and who do not therefore take the measures needed to suppress them.
I spent a little while yesterday watching various videos of the defence of the Grant Park
Columbus statue in Chicago. I think those videos were genuine. Eighteen police officers
injured, they said. I read that three police officers might have been blinded elsewhere.
Grotesque. Let the cities burn, if you must, or take the proper measures to stop these "Black
Bloc" tactics, but this half way house is grossly unfair to the police officers stuck in the
middle. Also unfair to those who want to protest peacefully.
For in the middle of that mayhem in Grant Park there was a protester with a megaphone
seeking, I think genuinely and at some risk to himself, to stop the attack. He had more guts
than many of those in authority. I thought, America can't be in that much of a mess if there
are still people like that around.
Vandalizing, burning and rioting in the wee hours has become recreation in Portland,
something to do late at night, no doubt by many college-"educated"-yet lower-wage workers who
are receiving $600/wk in COVID relief. The city, like Seattle, is a Mecca for leftist
Millennials who are often spoiled suburban youths and unabashed supporters of Bernie Sanders'
brand of socialism or communism. It seems to me that many decry capitalism because they've
been utterly unsuccessful in capitalizing on any skills that can afford them the lifestyles
to which they've been accustomed. I have a godson of this ilk. Many often carry large debt
for college educations that failed to prepare them for decent-paying jobs. Incidents like
George Floyd's death are just excuses for these arrested-development individuals to act out
like overgrown babies.
Maybe when those $600 checks stop being issued things may calm down. As it is, these
misguided folk seem to believe they should suffer no consequences for repeatedly breaking the
law. Political leaders in Portland have promoted the quirky " Portlandia " image of
the city, welcoming the ironically-named "Antifa" types who've been harassing and even
assaulting people and vandalizing property for the last several years. Law enforcement has
either been instructed to stand down or has itself chosen to do so. Thus, Portland's
"leadership" has created this monster. Why are they offended by federal efforts to deal with
repeated attempts to vandalize and burn down the federal courthouse? Is violent, destructive
anarchy okay with them now?
"Is violent, destructive anarchy okay with them now?"
Short answer is, yes. As long as it's directed toward the "right" targets.
"Why are they offended by federal efforts to deal with repeated attempts to vandalize and
burn down the federal courthouse?"
Longer answer to this - these weak, short-sighted politicians thought they could co-opt
these movements to their ends. The public struggle session the other day that included
Portland's execrable mayor being harangued and assaulted by anarchists was delightful to
watch. Same with Minneapolis' beta-male child mayor shortly after the George Floyd death. The
holy-high priestess progressive mayors of Seattle and Oakland had their homes vandalized by
these same mobs. I do not wish physical harm on any of these people, but short of that, they
deserve everything they are getting. So do the people who vote for them. And yet, they will
not learn. They are incapable of assimilating new information into their worldviews and
adjusting it accordingly.
BLM is mostly about black narcissism. Opportunities for blacks in the USA are not that bad.
And partially the fact that they are unable to use them and lift themselves from poverty like
immigrants from the USSR, who started here without money and knowledge of the language, did tell
us something important.
To a certain extent the live of the part of population in the USSR was as close to slavery
as we can get. And I am not talking only about prisoners of Gulag. Volga Germans (who actually
were invited to the country by Peter the Great) were definitely another such a group,
especially after the start of WWII.
So in some ways the current and previous generations of USA blacks are a privileged part of
the USA population who never experienced this level of hardships, persecution and lived
uneventful but free from severe deprivations life in comparison with the immigrants from the
USSR during this period.
I am the proud grandchild of Germans from Russia immigrants. They were called "Dirty
Russians" and were often paid less than the law required for their stoop work thinning beets
in the fields becaue they could not read English to learn how much they were supposed to be
paid. They had escaped the Bolsheviks who stole their farms for the failed communist
experiments in factory farming and communal farming.
They endured the prejudice with dignity and with a determination that they would work hard
so their children and grandchildren could enjoy the freedoms of the USA. I have the photos of
my grandparents on my mom's and my dad's side as they obtained their citizenship.
Thank you. I think a lot of emigrants from Russia/USSR during the period of 2017-1980 can
relate to this experience.
Cutting the defense budget by a modest 10 percent could provide billions to combat the pandemic, provide health
care and take care of neglected communities.
I've been saying that black is the new orange (revolution) but purple works to.
It's hard to know what is going on any more because the only people who talk politics are
yelling about it while the people I am most interested in hearing from in my personal life have
gone silent.
I think the neoliberals are more afraid of losing institutional control than they are losing
this or that election. Thus Trump's haplessness has been reassuring to them. If I were a
globalist, I would want Democrats to take the senate and Trump to win a narrow election that I
could say was illegitimate.
One thing I am interested in knowing is if/how divided the security and intelligence
agencies are about all of this. There are wild rumors going around to the effect that the CIA
is anti-Trump but the NSA is pro-Trump.
Personally, I have come reluctantly but now immovably to the idea that white identity
politics are inevitable and that whites must begin waging them en masse sooner rather than
later. The age of ideology is over and the demographic age has begun. The globalists understand
this (indeed, they arranged it), as do non-white elites. It is only the corrupt and incompetent
white elite that either can't or won't see this.
The institutional GOP is the biggest gatekeeper to a pro-white politics, and so it must
either be subverted, seized or destroyed. The clown car that is late-stage conservatism must be
diminished to the same stature as, say, the Fourth International over at wsws.org.
Those who want the GOP to remain a gate-keeping exercise - think Israelis like Hazony - are
now trying to concoct a sham called "national conservatism" to keep whites on the conservative
plantation but there are too many who already see this for what it is and so I expect it to go
nowhere.
It may be that normal people are so appalled by this globaist-sponsored and Democrat-abetted
violence that a backlash is building. If so, I can't see it.
likbez: The only "purple revolution" we are now experiencing in the US is the purple
tee-shirted SEIU types and the teachers unions against the blue line police unions.
This is simply a public sector union turf war we are now experiencing.
Covid hysteria reduced the tax dollar pie which long supported all three of them. Not they
are fighting over the size of the slices of the pie - with the police unions long getting the
largest slices. Defund the police --and divert those same funds, not back to the taxpayers, but
to teachers and other government support employee unions tells you all you need to know.
Using this lens to view events of the past few months in the US and everything finally makes
sense: Internecine public sector turf war.
Even WSJ editorial today admits Gov Newsom, when he speaks, is merely representing the
demands of the state teachers unions (CTA). Truth be told, and this is an existential election
year for the 44 million public sector union members - 99% all Democrats. OrangeMan must be
defeated., by any means necessary. They have all their skin in this game.
"... Yes, this is an engineered shift in societal values. What purpose? Well, my guess is to secure a complaint, atomized, population too self-absorbed to notice that they are getting fucked over. Throw in a large dose of homosexuality, transgenderism and sexual oddities (being nice here) and the result is a population interested only in sex. Not fairness, not family, not religion, just sex. ..."
"... Put men in roles that they are biologically and historically not suited (as a general rule) and do the same for women. Whadda'y get? We can start with incompetence, anxiety and depression. Best get that sex change operation – life will be easier in the New World – all female born or otherwise. ..."
"... And another thing, the only privilege that I am aware of is Wealth Privilege. No one dare talk about that. A wealthy black American has no lack of privilege AFAIK. It's the money, but nooo, don't bring that up. Its only about skin color and sexual orientation. Why ANYONE can have money so no discrimination there! Right. Meanwhile wealth inequity is zooming through the ozone layer. Now, that is what I call discrimination. ..."
Her Britannic Majesty's Royal Navy may have had the men back in the 1870's, when that
little ditty was sung in British music halls during the Russian-Turkish War 1877-1878, when
the Russian army was about to take Constantinople, but it certainly has no seamen now:
British Royal Navy Bans Terms 'Seaman' & 'Manpower' Over Fears of 'Sexism'
The actual words of the chorus of that jingoistic song:
We don't want to fight but by Jingo if we do
We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too
We've fought the Bear before, and while we're Britons true
The Russians shall not have Constantinople.
Not "will not have" -- a sure prediction, but "shall not have" -- a firm intention that
the Russians not take Constantinople!
Yes, I recently heard the Canadian Navy is headed the same way; the ranks of
Able/Leading/Master Seaman will be re-designated Able/Leading/Master Sailor. Wouldn't want to
get 'man' in there, which has become a foul word nobody is allowed to use. It has resulted in
some awkward constructions, although most are simply a shift to 'police officer',
'firefighter' and so forth. I see the aim – it's so that when you are reading a resume
or a career-impacting document such as a Personnel Evaluation Report (PER) on which promotion
depends, you can't tell if you are reading about a man or a woman. Since all the supervisors
and decision-makers will eventually be women anyway, that might just work in men's favour. I
suppose the pendulum must swing all the way to the opposite extreme, where women are the
breadwinners out battling the world on the job every day, while the men sit at home and mind
the kiddies and get dinner in the oven in time for the little woman's return. This will be
the result of the 'drive for equality', and there will be much snickering about the 'whining'
of 'poor men', because it's only discrimination when it's happening to women.
The re-engineering is widespread; I noticed an ad in the paper the other day, for some
consultancy or other. Once the ad would have featured mostly male office types, well-dressed,
well-groomed, and a token woman on the sidelines with a tray of coffee or something like
that. And that wasn't fair, I think everyone will agree. Then it trended to where there had
to be an equal number of women and men represented. Then diversity demanded that some of
these women and men be black, aboriginal, Asian, and so forth, to suggest a world of equal
opportunity – nothing wrong with that, either, if it is assumed to be a suggestion of
where we should go rather than a representation of current reality.
But it's also important what the figures in the ad are doing. If you have all your
operative roles assigned to one gender, then that's messaging, too, innit? In this ad, a
woman is seated at a laptop, obviously doing something brilliant that we can't see because we
are looking at the back of the lid. Three other women (various racial subsets) are standing
behind her with their arms folded. Two men are on the sidelines, one older, one younger, both
white, registering expressions of amazement – what lady do? Both are wide-eyed, and one
actually has his hands in the air as if he has just seen a Hobbit disappear. Twice as many
women as men, and all office-killer types, while the half-as-many men appear to have been
left behind somewhere around the invention of the wheel.
And of course there will be those – many, probably – who will say men are just
getting what they deserve, after repressing women for so long. And I personally will view
that in much the same context as I do Black Lives Matter. I'm ready to stipulate to the
wrongness of racism starting with slavery – in which I had no part or input, and yes,
I'm well aware this is one of the 'trigger responses' unfailingly attributed to the defenders
of 'white privilege' – and evolving to the widespread criminalization in America of
Black male youth. But I have to draw a line where I am supposed to kneel and acknowledge I
got where I am today through white privilege and I must atone by giving it all up and going
back to the Great Reassignment.
You see, my problem is that it was all done under the guise of 'equality'. Most people who
are fair, if they have achieved the place they hold in society through their own labour,
complete with chance-taking which sometimes resulted in advancement and sometimes in a costly
and time-consuming mistake, earnestly support all achieving the same standard through the
same methods, regardless of their colour or gender, even if that results in stiff competition
for themselves. That's why, I guess, there is nothing implicitly unfair in the term
'firefighter' when the administration is reviewing candidates – even a rule that all
candidates must refer to themselves as 'Joe' so you can't tell their gender from their name,
suit yourselves. They will find out soon enough the day that the candidates have to run up
three flights of stairs carrying a roll of canvas hose if the 'Joe' in the resume is a
120-pound girl in average shape. Or a transgender Zir with pink hair, of the same
displacement and in similar physical condition.
I'm reminded again of my Senior Leadership Course, during which our group was addressed by
a representative of the Chief of the Defense Staff in a speech which extolled the progressive
work the defense department was doing to recruit and integrate more women. After the wind-up,
he invited questions and comments. A sergeant named Lou Schoofs – known to his
intimates as 'Spooky Lou – stood and pointed out, "Sir, the Carl Gustaf (an anti-tank
recoilless rifle the army used to use) weighs 30 pounds. If you can carry it in the field,
welcome. If you can't, I don't need you in my squad". Which I thought was a succinct and
eminently-fair assessment; look critically and fairly at the job requirements, and ensure the
applicant can do them all to at least a minimum standard which actually represents doing the
requirement under actual envisioned conditions.
But that's not happening. There is intense political pressure to augment the ranks of
traditionally male-dominated fields with women who want to continue to look and act like
women, rather than becoming a steroid man that they would have to be to make up the physical
difference in upper-body strength. That's not to say no women can be, say, a firefighter.
Some women who are young and in exceptionally good physical shape can do it, and they should
get the same chance. But I can personally vouch for the different fitness standards applied
by the Canadian Forces to ensure women who were not as physically strong could pass the
initial and annual fitness test required of all serving members; the push-ups required of
women were fewer, and they could do what we called 'girlie push-ups', in which your knees are
allowed to be on the floor supporting you, so your arms are lifting only your upper body.
Fewer sit-ups. Lower figures on the tensionometer for the grip test. That persisted for
years.
That story, at least, has a happy and fair ending. The test was completely re-engineered,
and everybody has to achieve the same standard. Here it is.
I personally think the hardest objective for older people is the 20-meter rushes, because
you have to throw yourself to the floor and leap up again or you will not be able to complete
it in time. The hardest for those who are smaller and perhaps not that strong is the sandbag
drag. The Physical Education staff who administer the test therefore make sure that the
demonstrator of the sandbag drag (they show you how to perform each objective so you will
have no excuse for not doing it properly) is their smallest or skinniest girl, to show that
it can be done.
Anyway, I guess my major complaint is that the gender shift in power is coming under the
guise of equality. It's not. It's an enforced transfer of roles overseen by activists who are
determined to obliterate any trace of gender, while stealthily padding the supervisory and
administrative role of women through advertising.
From discussions with someone familiar with the practical issues, I am led to conclude
that many beneficiaries of relaxed standards of recruitment are play acting; when situations
become (or just threaten to become) "tasty" their usual keenness to promote themselves into
position for attention suddenly deserts them. And then they are content to let their big guy
colleagues actually get to grips with the tasks that ALL are supposedly capable of doing. And
for which they are all paid on the same scale.
Yes, this is an engineered shift in societal values. What purpose? Well, my guess is
to secure a complaint, atomized, population too self-absorbed to notice that they are getting
fucked over. Throw in a large dose of homosexuality, transgenderism and sexual oddities
(being nice here) and the result is a population interested only in sex. Not fairness, not
family, not religion, just sex.
Put men in roles that they are biologically and historically not suited (as a general
rule) and do the same for women. Whadda'y get? We can start with incompetence, anxiety and
depression. Best get that sex change operation – life will be easier in the New World
– all female born or otherwise.
And another thing, the only privilege that I am aware of is Wealth Privilege. No one
dare talk about that. A wealthy black American has no lack of privilege AFAIK. It's the
money, but nooo, don't bring that up. Its only about skin color and sexual orientation. Why
ANYONE can have money so no discrimination there! Right. Meanwhile wealth inequity is zooming
through the ozone layer. Now, that is what I call discrimination.
Male privilege? Does it apply to blacks or just to whites? And ..
"... There was a deeply held assumption that, when the countries of Central and Eastern Europe joined NATO and the European Union in 2004, these countries would continue their positive democratic and economic transformation. Yet more than a decade later, the region has experienced a steady decline in democratic standards and governance practices at the same time that Russia's economic engagement with the region expanded significantly. ..."
"... Are these developments coincidental, or has the Kremlin sought deliberately to erode the region's democratic institutions through its influence to 'break the internal coherence of the enemy system'? ..."
"... a false flag operation" involving "an alliance of the far right organizations, specifically the Right Sector and Svoboda, and oligarchic parties, such as Fatherland". There is little in Sharp's book to suggest that non-violent resistance would have had much effect on a really brutal and determined government. He also has the naïve habit of using "democrat" and "dictator" as if these words were as precisely defined as coconuts and codfish. But any "dictatorship" – for example Stalin's is a very complex affair with many shades of opinion in it. So, in terms of what he was apparently trying to do, one can see it only succeeding against rather mild "dictators" presiding over extremely unpopular polities. With a great deal of outside effort and resources. ..."
"... His "playbook" is useful to outside powers that want to overthrow governments they don't like. Especially those run by "dictators" not brutal enough to shoot the protesters down. ..."
Once I'd seen this mention of The Russian Playbook (aka KGB, Kremlin or Putin's Playbook), I
saw the expression all over the place. Here's an early – perhaps the earliest – use
of the term. In October 2016, the Center for Strategic and International studies (" Ranked #1 ") informed us of the "
Kremlin Playbook "
with this ominous beginning
There was a deeply held assumption that, when the countries of Central and Eastern
Europe joined NATO and the European Union in 2004, these countries would continue their
positive democratic and economic transformation. Yet more than a decade later, the region has
experienced a steady decline in democratic standards and governance practices at the same
time that Russia's economic engagement with the region expanded significantly.
And asks
Are these developments coincidental, or has the Kremlin sought deliberately to erode
the region's democratic institutions through its influence to 'break the internal coherence
of the enemy system'?
Well, to these people, to ask the question is to answer it: can't possibly be disappointment
at the gap between 2004's expectations and 2020's reality, can't be that they don't like the
total Western values package that they have to accept, it must be those crafty Russians
deceiving them. This was the earliest reference to The Playbook that I found, but it certainly
wasn't the last.
Of course, all these people are convinced Moscow interfered in the 2016 presidential
election. Somehow. To some effect. Never really specified but the latest outburst of insanity
is this video from the
Lincoln Project . As Anatoly Karlin observes: "I think it's really
cool how we Russians took over America just by shitposting online. How does it feel to be
subhuman?" He has a point: the Lincoln Project, and the others shrieking about Russian
interference, take it for granted that American democracy is so flimsy and Americans so
gullible that a few Facebook ads can bring the whole facade down. A curious mental state
indeed.
What can we know about The Playbook? For a start it must be written in Russian, a language
that those crafty Russians insist on speaking among themselves. Secondly such an important
document would be protected the way that highly classified material is protected. There would
be a very restricted need to know; underlings participating in one of the many plays would not
know how their part fitted into The Playbook; few would ever see The Playbook itself. The
Playbook would be brought to the desk of the few authorised to see it by a courier, signed for,
the courier would watch the reader and take away the copy afterwards. The very few copies in
existence would be securely locked away; each numbered and differing subtly from the others so
that, should a leak occur, the authorities would know which copy read by whom had been leaked.
Printed on paper that could not be photographed or duplicated. As much protection as human
cunning could devise; right up there with
the nuclear codes .
And so on. It's all quite ridiculous: we're supposed to believe that Moscow easily controls
far-away countries but can't keep its neighbours under control.
There is no Russian Playbook, that's just projection. But there is a "playbook" and it's
written in English, it's freely available and it's inexpensive enough that every pundit can
have a personal copy: it's named "
From Dictatorship To Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation " and it's written by
Gene Sharp (1928-2018) .
Whatever Sharp may have thought he was doing, whatever good cause he thought he was assisting,
his book has been used as a guide to create regime changes around the world. Billed as
"democracy" and "freedom", their results are not so benign. Witness Ukraine today. Or Libya. Or
Kosovo whose long-time leader has just been indicted for numerous crimes .
Curiously enough, these efforts always take place in countries that resist Washington's line
but never in countries that don't. Here we do see training, financing, propaganda, discord
being sown, divisions exploited to effect regime change – all the things in the imaginary
"Russian Playbook". So, whatever he may have thought he was helping, Sharp's advice has been
used to produce what only the propagandists could call "
model interventions "; to the "liberated" themselves, the reality is poverty , destruction ,
war and
refugees .
Reading Sharp's book, however, makes one wonder if he was just fooling himself. Has there
ever been a "dictatorship" overthrown by "non-violent" resistance along the lines of what he is
suggesting? He mentions Norwegians who resisted Hitler; but Norway was liberated, along with
the rest of Occupied Europe, by extremely violent warfare. While some Jews escaped, most didn't
and it was the conquest of Berlin that saved the rest: the nazi state was killed . The
USSR went away, together with its satellite governments in Europe but that was a top-down
event. He likes Gandhi but Gandhi wouldn't have lasted a minute under Stalin. Otpor was greatly aided by NATO's war
on Serbia. And, they're only "non-violent" because the Western media doesn't talk much about
the violence ;
"non-violent" is not the first word that comes to mind in this video of Kiev 2014 . "Colour revolutions" are
manufactured from existing grievances, to be sure, but with a great deal of outside assistance,
direction and funding; upon inspection, there's much design behind their "spontaneity". And,
not infrequently, with mysterious sniping at a expedient moment – see Katchanovski's
research on the "Heavenly Hundred" of the Maidan showing pretty convincingly that the
shootings were " a false flag operation" involving "an alliance of the far right
organizations, specifically the Right Sector and Svoboda, and oligarchic parties, such as
Fatherland". There is little in Sharp's book to suggest that non-violent resistance would have
had much effect on a really brutal and determined government. He also has the naïve habit
of using "democrat" and "dictator" as if these words were as precisely defined as coconuts and
codfish. But any "dictatorship" – for example Stalin's is a very complex affair with many
shades of opinion in it. So, in terms of what he was apparently trying to do, one can see it
only succeeding against rather mild "dictators" presiding over extremely unpopular polities.
With a great deal of outside effort and resources.
The Republican Party released a scathing advertisement against a Marxist Black Lives Matter co-founder.
Taking aim at Patrisse Cullors, the GOP played
a clip from a 2015 interview in which she identified herself and fellow co-founders of the organization as "trained Marxists."
"I actually do think we have an ideological frame. We are trained Marxists," the ad, released on Thursday, shows Cullors saying.
"... In Washington, a taxpayer-funded museum implicitly endorsed this radical rhetoric last week, when it described some basic tenets of American life – rationality and the justice system to name two – as traits of "whiteness" that should be "deconstructed." ..."
"... These catch-all buzzwords make it perfectly OK for rioters to tear down public monuments, loot and pillage stores and businesses, beat other minorities to a pulp, lay siege to police stations, and take up arms against the state. If you disagree with this, however, you're the racist. ..."
From 'blacks riding white penises' to 'let the white man do it,' BLM videos show movement's bigoted underbelly
Graham Dockery
is an Irish journalist, commentator, and writer at RT. Previously based in Amsterdam, he wrote for DutchNews and a
scatter of local and national newspapers.
19 Jul, 2020 16:40
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Вообще все
становится
очень серьезно.
То что США
засасываются
сильнейшим
системным
кризисом, я сужу
не по
демонстрациям,
погромам и
грабежам - с ними
дееспособное
государство в
соотоянии
справиться. Я
сужу по тому с
какой
легкостью
сейчас сдаются
существующие
элиты :
оставлять
города на
растерзания
погромщикам -
пожалуйста!
Громить
памятники и
символы
прошлого - нет
проблем!
Каяться в сотый
раз, целовать
ботинки - чего
изволите?
Сдавать своих
защитников
толпе бандитов -
так и надо!
Больше подачек,
больше
скачущих
"одобрямс"
разухарившейсся
толпе - обгоняя
друг друга,
авось пронесет.
Не пронесет. Это
процесс сейчас
не остановить.
Революции и
коллапс
существующего
порядка в
абсолютном
большинстве
случаев
происходит не
тогда когда
власть
наиболее
жестока, или
наиболее
несправедлива,
и даже наиболее
коррумпирована.
А тогда когда
власти (в
обобщенном
смысле - широкие
элиты) больше не
верят в себя и не
желают
защищать свое
положение, и
даже свои
шкуры.
Процитирую из
очень старого
своего поста О
социальной
мобильности :
...В этом смысле
знаменитое
ленинское
определение
"революционной
ситуации" как
"верхи не могут
управлять по
старому, а низы
не хотят жить по
старому" не
отражает сути.
Более
правильным
представляется
утверждение
что
революционная
ситуация - это
когда
"привилегии
верхов
обесцениваются"
, причём со всех
сторон. "Верхи"
не желают
больше
защищать свои
привилеги,
подтверждать
их
каждодневним
трудом и
доблестью. Их
обязанности
становятся всё
менее
обременительны,
а права всё
более
расширяются
формально, но
обесцениваются
фактически.
"Низы" же теряют
стимул
добиваться
привилегий
верхов: все
лучшие места
всё равно
заняты, а званий,
должностей и
знаков отличия
становится всё
больше, но из них
выхолащивается
реальный смысл.
Это и есть
"инфляция
привилегий"
которое делает
общество
сначала
инертным, потом
беспомощным,
потом просто
падшим.
It will be an example of the "Bradley Effect" only if this transparent effort to depress
turn-out succeeds and Trump supporters stay home because they think his re-election is
hopeless.
However, unless what we are seeing is some kind of rope-a-dope, the President's own
behavior so far may depress the votes among those who in 2016 put him over the top. I am one
of these.
That's true that Trump was a disappointment for many (probably majority) of low and middle
income voters who voted for him in 2016. But I think more powerful factors are now in play that
can override Trump inaptness and his betrayal of voters and his election promises.
The BLM movement codified the prejudices of black ethno-nationalists and is fully supported
by neoliberal Dems as the last desperate attempt to topple Trump. Kind of "stage three" of the
Purple color revolution (with Russiagate and Ukrainegate as previous two).
Effectively, neoliberal Dems decided that ethno-narcissism and in-group preference can serve
as a smoke screen of their coziness to Wall Street and their utter disregard of the interests
of common Americans in having decent jobs and stemming the sliding standard of living (which
led a large part of working class to vote for Trump in 2016).
They bet that can became the new ideology of Democratic Party creating rag tag coalition
from disaffected minorities and East and West Coast financial and technocratic elite as well as
selected groups of professionals. In short the groups who are net winners from neoliberal
globalization and are not that affected by outsourcing of jobs. I think this is a huge
mistake.
IMHO this might became a very powerful, may be the decisive factor that favors Trump in 2020
re-election.
In fact, I suspect that BLM enablers in the neoliberal MSM actually are working for Trump
re-election. In no way the rest of America will throw their support behind ethno-narcissism and
BLM bigoted underbelly with the new Red Guards running amok.
These catch-all buzzwords about racial justice make it perfectly OK for rioters to tear down
public monuments, loot and pillage stores and businesses, beat others who do not conform to
their views, lay siege to police stations, and take up arms against the state. If you disagree
with this, however, you're the racist. This trick will not work.
Truth be told, the USA criminal justice system, for all its faults, has been reasonably fair
and effective in creating a harmonious environment for the various tribes that exist in modern
USA.
And it egregious to call the USA a racist country, if we compare it for example with Israel
or even Russia, to say nothing about various "stans", or China.
The establishment's massive propaganda campaigns and psyops CANCEL the truth or make it
unrecognizable via coloring and half-truths. Russiagate, White Helmets, Skripals, MH-17,
Integrity Initiative, Assange, Russian Bounties & remaining in Afghanistan, "China
virus", hydroxyChloroquine, etc.
The Trump Administration has CANCELED entire countries via terminating peace treaties,
imposing sanctions, covert war, and conducting a propaganda war.
Where is the outrage from writers, artists, and academics about THAT?
has anyone commenting here actually been targeted by cancel culture?
I have and it's not fun having to talk to HR about why your boss is receiving anonymous
letters trying to get you fired for stuff said online. in my case it was the celebratory tone
I took upon hearing John McCain had died that inspired this gutless piece of shit to act
IRL.
even the New York Times got a piece of the action by threatening to name the blogger
behind Slate Star Codex.
this is from New Statesman:
Scott Alexander are the real first and middle names of the author, a psychiatrist based in
California, who had kept his full identity secret. However, as he revealed in a post this
week, a New York Times tech reporter decided to write about his blog and the community
around it, and intended to publish Scott Alexander's full name. In response, Alexander
decided to close down Slate Star Codex, claiming that revealing his identity would
undermine his ability to treat his patients, and expose him to death threats, something he
said he had already received in small numbers.
The response on Twitter, where many of the blog's readers often dwell, has been one of
outrage. Luminaries such as Steven Pinker described it as a "tragedy on the blogosphere".
Others such as software inventor and investor Paul Graham talked of cancelling their NYT
subscriptions. The title's "threat" has been widely described as "doxxing", a term more
commonly used for posting online the personal details of an individual behind a social
media account than publishing someone's name in a newspaper story.
by making things personal and consequential in real life, cancel culture is fanning
divisive flames that could one day turn into a real civil conflagration.
Does Cancel Culture intersect with Woke? The former's not mentioned in
this fascinating essay , but the latter is and appears to deserve some unpacking beyond
what Crooke provides.
As for the letter, it's way overdue by 40+ years. I recall reading Bloom's The Closing
of the American Mind and Christopher Lasch's Culture of Narcissism where they say
much the same.
What's most irksome are the lies that now substitute for discourse--Trump or someone from
his admin lies, then the WaPost, NY Times, MSNBC, Fox, and others fire back with their lies.
And to top everything off--There's ZERO accountability: people who merit "canceling" continue
to lie and commit massive fraud.
The Chinese and Russian Foreign Ministers just jointly agreed in a rare published account
of their phone conversation that the Outlaw US Empire " has lost its sense of reason,
morality and credibility .
Yes, they were specifically referring to the government, but I'd include the Empire's
institutions as well. In the face of that reality, the letter is worse than a joke.
The other turned out to be a 'Novelist'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zia_Ha
"Rahman was a college scholar at Balliol College,[6] one of the constituent colleges of
Oxford University, and received a first class honours degree in mathematics,[7] before
completing further studies in mathematics, economics, and law at the Maximilianeum, a
foundation for gifted students, and Munich, Cambridge, and Yale universities. He briefly
worked as an investment banker for Goldman Sachs in New York before practising as a corporate
lawyer and then as an international human rights lawyer with the Open Society Foundations
focusing on grand corruption in Africa.[8] He has also worked as an anti-corruption activist
for Transparency International in South Asia.[9]"
Perhaps a small sample but Culture Cancel and Crooke's Woke most likely intersect, perhaps
being one and the same.
What we are witnessing in these riots is the destruction of the Democrat Party. Staging
these protests was their Hail Mary, their half-court three point shot as the clock hits zero.
These events are only meant to divide the people, create a breakdown of order, and create
chaos.
From that chaos we would find a public reaction to the state's actions that is blamed on the
Oval Office, when it was local police chiefs appointed by Democrat mayors or National Guards
under the orders of Democrat mayors who provoked the public the most.
Of course the policemen in the big cities, and guards are not themselves liberal. They
aren't particularly conservative either, at least not in their propensity to resort to violence
first; here they are liberal with violence.
They are neither left nor right, the big city cops love big public spending when its on
their toys and weapons of public terrorism. They loved the militarization of the force that
Obama backed with all his power.
Just set them loose against the public, and the Democrats play good cop bad cop. Allow
corruption and institutional misanthropy to fester while departments pretend to conduct
'sensitivity training', and then set them loose on the people after order is allowed to
break-down on purpose. Then try to channel all those frustrations against 'right wing things'
to support more Democrats who make 'left wing promises'. Rinse, and repeat.
It divides the people among age lines, race lines, class lines, and geographic
lines.
The real reason people are looting is that people will always loot when there is a
break-down of order. We are only being pedantic if we insist on pointing out that there are
underlying conditions – unemployment, exclusion, alienation, nihilism, corruption, greed
– exacerbate these. Those are unresolved problems that society refused to address. That's
already the 'givens' of the situation before going into it. Anyone playing with that fire
already knows these are the givens.
By creating a society based on these tensions, a strategy of tension always works. This is
why the 'thin blue line' ideology of police is always reified and appears to be true from the
perspective of police culture.
Democrats are absolutely committed to destroying their party. They are attacked by the Trump
side for being socialists, when at the same time their lack of legitimacy among their own base
is the result of their decidedly anti-socialist and pro-corporatist politics.
The Democrats have intentionally soiled the public's perception of how public spending
works, precisely because they have always used it in the most corporatist and misanthropic,
divisive way possible. It would be too easy to create a type of public spending that would
message correctly to Heartland America. Messaging is done all wrong intentionally, and critics
are almost always right in pointing out the latent corruption in the lobbyist-expenditure
system.
Trump partly destroyed the Republican Party. It exposed rats like McCain and Bush and showed
how these neocons were part of the same team as Obama, Clinton et al.
Now its time to watch the Democrat Party now finish itself off. The Republican Party won't
be finished off until its deep state friends in the Democrat Party also implode. One requires
the other.
The staging of the Event 201 live exercise of the lockdown and quarantine, as a cover
narrative for a demolitioned economy, did not change the fact that unemployment skyrocketed
throughout the country
And after 90 some days in quarantine and without the ability to work, and the shuttering of
small businesses nation-wide, among the few things that congressional leaders could agree on
was a bailout of the too-big-to-fail companies.
The protests we are seeing are against the lockdown and covid-19 political economy.
Trump's initial proposal which bailed out the rich, also included a sum in payments that
would have totaled $9,000 USD per household of three adults paid out over a three month period.
Pelosi introduced a fight against that, proposed means testing and moneys instead to special
interests who would precisely be involved in organizing.
American politics suffers a problem in that the small business and blue collar core of these
parties bases are unable to speak a common language. The Color Revolution strategy exploits
these differences to implement a strategy of tension.
The economics of the plot against
the people
The Color Revolution strategy must accompany an economic component. When directed at other
countries by the US, it may be a period of economic sanctions that create more pressure on the
government. Now this strategy is being used inside the US.
The manufactured economic collapse has created a social crisis that we are realizing now
that lockdown is ending , but people don't have money to spend (or jobs to earn with). From the
POV of the powers that be, this is intentional as it slows down the velocity of money, in the
present scenario a surge in velocity would create inflation. So the aim is to keep money out of
people's hands.
Keeping money out of people's hands when they are also out of work, is a good way to create
a social crisis that can then be used by interested parties to direct that malcontent towards
target a particular office like the presidency, with the means of changing the whole government
this way.
The social mayhem we are seeing now is manufactured. It is now is being operationalized to
exploit the six primary intersecting demographics which predict divisions among the people:
geography, income, education, class, industry, and race.
This is so that a war of competing narratives makes impossible any meaningful common work at
the level of the whole people against the elite.
Right now a part of the American public is being gaslit, where liberal media and deep state
controlled DNC activism, are using the trauma of the economic collapse imposed on the country
by the banks and speculators as a point of entry. Through the entry point of that trauma,
another counter-narrative involving other on-going themes in the sphere can be injected, like
for example that Donald Trump is a very bad man who is uniquely part of a problem.
The greater the trauma, the greater the ability to insert a counter-narrative into the
thinking of the affected. Some aspects of the plot are attributed to matters of race, when
rather race is one factor across a series of intersecting factors.
Race as a Dividing
Tactic
This focus on race funnels genuine discontent from the Covid-19 scamdemic and the way it hit
urban communities through the lockdown, as a discontent directed towards Americans of the
heartland who resisted the lockdown through the use of protests and militia groups.
Conservative media may report on a public expenditure figure of money spent on urban
centers, out of proper context being the economic impact of Covid political-economy.
The natural component of this protest is fueled by the whole overarching socioeconomic
condition imposed through Covid political-economy.
Now that some of the Democrat strongholds in the country are staging violent riots to make
further unity of the people a difficult task, as agent provocateurs hide in the Antifa ranks,
we are confronted with Antifa being labeled a terrorist organization. We explained how it was
the least worst option and posed the potential to salvage BLM.
Therefore the power operating the Color Revolution strategems must work to divide the
presentation and understanding of urban communities in the way that provokes the worst reaction
from people across the the heartland.
We should expect very soon some dixie-flag waving stunt to be staged , or some neo-nazis to
say 'heil Trump'. This will be said to be a reaction to events transpired during the
protests.
Then, Antifa may try to react, and how that goes down will involve a response from the
president. This in turn will provoke a response, and so on.
Which is why the categorizing of Antifa as a terrorist group is appropriate because its
violence is openly directed towards the forcible overthrow of the executive administration and
its cabinet.
There are two BLMs at least, one is most certainly backed by powerful and moneyed, Democrat
Party connected NGO philanthropy from among the usual suspects. Think George Soros et al. For
its followers however, it is a hashtag, not a structured organization with accountable
leadership or 'bonafide' membership.
But it is an organization nonetheless, just one with magically appointed leaders that are
agreed to by the Deep State and social-media managers. These leaders are not electable nor
recallable.
The holy grail in a genuinely populist movement would surround the agreed interests of labor
and small and medium sized businesses that are not publicly traded.
What we are seeing now through the Instagram 'blackout' has been a broad discussion in the
black community of social media about the real history of Joe Biden. Across Instagram, more and
more black people are referring to the Democrat Party as a plantation. Issues like abortion
seem to resonate with the black community along conservative lines, in particular considering
the history of abortion being used as a eugenics and population control effort within their
community. Biden's role in the Clinton crime bill of '94 is also a major consideration.
The labeling of Antifa as a terrorist group opens up a method to remove those behind that
same networks who have influence on BLM, and control a whole wing of it and also, because of
Jack Dorsey, have the most preferred and largest BLM accounts on the media's website.
This will be realized as a direct fight with Twitter and Jack Dorsey. If that fight goes
well for team Trump, then we will see more presence of black republicans, not traditionally
conservative in terms of Jim Crow etiquette, make tremendous headway in gathering numbers and
growing their audience.
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This racially-baited uproar looks more like a non-partisan COINTELPRO operation of the US
Zioterrorist regime. If anything, Republicans could be more benefited from the declaration of
matial law, a state of emergency and cancelling of the elections until "law and order" are
fully imposed nationwide.
Trump has made zero efforts to enlighten the ignorant mobs of either party, and like the
Democrats, he uses the partisan ignorance and studity of Americans against Americans. Right
now, Americans are one "here's an antifa" shout away from going back to the lynchings that were
common in the US 100 yrs ago. Democrat and Republican elites steering their herds of idiots are
serving the purpose of imposing an all-out police-surveillance state with the covid1984
plandemic as a background to even microchip the taxcattle for better control.
Joaquin Flores seems to know what is really going on, what really matters at the moment. I
read his article almost without breathing... In times of serious crisis, as time passes, the
objective conditions change fast. Only insiders are genuinely aware of the details and the
possible direction the struggle is taking. Outsiders can only speculate, relying on
well-informed others to get an idea of the situation. Thank you for the excellent article!
Here's an article (in English) on the strange events that created the kickoff for the well
paid protestors across America. This is the work that true journalists should have done. -
http://chrisspivey.org/thin...
i quit reading to the end...
I lived decades in a communist country.
You say Democrats policy is anti-socialist.
Sorry, my life witnesses you are completely wrong.
If you do not see is PURE Marxism, ... cultural not ideological as source of Socialism....
sorry, go to the Library and dig into archives.
@Kevin
Barrett is peak arrogance to believe that your Cali / Madison experience in the 80s
reflects the reality of the modern American white boy. I have fought of gangs of ferals more
times than I can count.
College parties in my generation regularly shut down by house owners to avoid attracting
roaming bands of pavement people who had come to assault and pilfer yt.
I attended college at UW Milwaukee and had experiences that were in total contrast to your
claims. Wisconsin people especially need to realize that the ferals are out for blood. This
state needs a slap across the face to wake up to the real motive behind the psuedo-Marxist
dismantling of our culture. The least you boomers can do is get tf out of the way when the
rwds form up.
Just look at the cost of smartphone that they display at the riots and you instantly get a
certain impression about income of their parents
Notable quotes:
"... And their radicalism would be resisted, Lasch predicted, not by the upper reaches of society, or the leaders of Big Philanthropy or the Corporate Billionaires. These latter, rather, would be its facilitators and financiers." ..."
A section quoted by Crooke in the piece karlof1 linked to
"A social revolution that would be pushed forward by radical children of the bourgeoisie.
Their leaders would have almost nothing to say about poverty or unemployment. Their demands
would be centred on utopian ideals: diversity and racial justice – ideals pursued with
the fervour of an abstract, millenarian ideology.
And their radicalism would be resisted, Lasch predicted, not by the upper reaches of
society, or the leaders of Big Philanthropy or the Corporate Billionaires. These latter,
rather, would be its facilitators and financiers."
And Crooke's thoughts..
"So, what can we make of all this? The US has suddenly exploded into, on the one hand,
culture cancelation, and on the other, into silent seething at the lawlessness, and at all
the statues toppled. It is a nation becoming angrier, and edging towards violence.
One segment of the country believes that America is inherently and institutionally
racist, and incapable of self-correcting its flawed founding principles – absent the
required chemotherapy to kill-off the deadly mutated cells of its past history, traditions
and customs.
Another, affirms those principles that underlay America's 'golden age'; which made
America great; and which, in their view, are precisely those qualities which can make it
great again."
One problem with the Harper's Bazaar letter is its vague, generic character: it offers no
specific examples of the "cancel culture" persecutions it mentions, such as books being
censored for "inauthenticity" (while in the real world, truth is being censored and fake news
dominates), or a news editor at a prestigious newspaper having to leave over a controversial
opinion (while at the same time, the newspaper is sacking editors and reporters and
destroying decades of its own history and whatever standards it built up).
The fact that the letter is even published in a magazine like Harper's Bazaar - is that
not the same magazine that delights in front cover photos of Hollywood celebrities massed
together? - which rarely "hits up" at the rich and powerful but along with other mainstream
news media "hits down" on those without the money, power and influence to defend themselves,
should be one indicator that the open letter is not honest. This is the sophisticated version
of a phenomenon common in mainstream TV current affairs shows which run after small-time
scammers and shoddy tradespeople working on their own but which never pursue governments or
corporations poisoning thousands with toxic chemicals, bombing people in Asia or Africa, or
scamming viewers with fake news.
One should be asking why Noam Chomsky as a self-styled anarchist signed the letter along
with others who, as other commentators like Jonathan Cook have noted, have used their
positions as journalists, historians, activists or analysts often to promote fake news or
disinformation to promote their own agendas that are essentially anti-democratic. Chomsky is
probably being used as a scoop to capture his audience (many of them adoring female groupie
types in their 50s, 60s and beyond who live comfortable lives and have money) and that may be
one reason he was asked to sign the letter. In other words, Chomsky is a marketing tool for
Harper's Bazaar.
Since Chomsky married again, he has never been the activist he once was, even given his
age (online reporter Stephen Lendman at 87 years still going pretty well though his output is
much less) and one wonders how much influence Chomsky's wife (35 years his junior?) has over
him.
The real problem is the crisis of neoliberalism which affects all workers, while, brown and
black. This cultural revolution s just a destruction. Those jerks did not burn a single
investment bank or stock exchange :-)
Trying to blame whites is a distraction from the root of the problem -- the crisis of
neoliberalism, the level of inequality, and dominant political power of financial oligarchy in
the USA. The fact that financial oligarchy is predominantly white is as relevant as the fact that
a large part of it is Jewish. This is just a distraction, "identity wedge" to redirect the anger.
The real problem is political rule of financial oligarchy not with the color of skin of its
members.
But that makes current events something similar to persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany.
Notable quotes:
"... The motorcycle ramming event described in this article shows why the SJW approach to race relations of basically giving America a metaphorical bad yelp review only works in highly controlled, hierarchical settings like corporations or universities and not in the real world. ..."
"... Leftists essentially threaten people with ratting them out as being a racist to someone higher up the food chain who is expected to have a managerial interest in fairness and justice. ..."
"... The Chinese "Cultural Revolution" did not come out of thin air. It was a cold-blooded steely-eyed reaction of the Chinese government to deflect popular anger at the massive famine they had created onto imaginary enemies. Let the little people tear each other apart, the central party must rise above it. ..."
Is the "woke" United States, reeling from the officially-approved George Floyd riots and
accompanying outbursts of iconoclasm, undergoing its own version of the Chinese Cultural
Revolution? And will it lead to some form of genocide against people of European
ancestry?
Normally I would be the last guy at Unz Review to be asking such questions. The
white nationalist contingent here always whines about the alleged oppression of white people,
and my habitual response is to roll my eyes. It seems obvious to me that white Americans do
not rank highly among this planet's long list of oppressed, subjugated, and dispossessed.
Sure, a few white folks may get passed over for a black affirmative action hire here,
or lose a coveted Ivy League post to a less-qualified Jew there. But among the many
terrible and unfair things that can happen to people because they are members of the wrong
ethnic group, such injustices are fairly underwhelming.
Was the suspect, Daniel Navarro, 27, a racist lunatic -- or a plain old lunatic whose
paranoid fantasies were inspired by the current anti-white zeitgeist? "Navorro told
detectives he believed he had been intentionally poisoned by coworkers and by a neighbor;
that people drive by his house and rev their engines and squeal their tires to try to upset
him; and that people make racist comments towards him -- all because he's Hispanic,' (Sheriff
Ryan) Waldschmidt said. He added that, 'Navarro said if President Donald Trump and white
people are going to create the world we are living in, he has no choice and people are going
to have to die.'" [1]
I have been told I shouldn't talk about who really was behind 9/11 because some unstable
individual might shoot Dick Cheney or Paul Wolfowitz or Larry Silverstein and it would be my
fault. I have been told I should be careful how I talk and write about Jews and Zionism
because some nutjob might shoot up a synagogue and I would share responsibility. So does that
mean those who criticize white people's historical crimes (legitimate) and/or talk trash
about white people in general (not so legitimate) are responsible for the murder of Phillip
Thiessen?
It is becoming increasingly conceivable that the blind fervor of the woke generation could
one day inspire serious and widespread oppression of white people -- in the worst case
scenario, a white genocide. [2] As aids
to thinking about white genocide possibilities, two novels stand out: Mo Yan's Life and
Death Are Wearing Me Out (the literary last word on the Chinese cultural revolution) and
Doris Lessing's Shikasta (the ultimate white genocide sci-fi masterpiece).
the drunk-on-ideology insanity of the Cultural Revolutionaries ?
Ideology played a minor role in the Cultural Revolution, which was devoted to
emancipation of China's peasants.
By 1966, China was a people's democratic dictatorship in theory only. Land reform had
channeled excess production from private landlords to the State but otherwise, little had
changed: eighty-percent of people were still rural, semi-destitute, illiterate, without
access to basic needs, education or medical care.
In practice, all political and cultural power was held by scholarly and bureaucratic
intellectuals who commanded vast influence and prestige in Chinese society[1]. Urban
privilege, scholarly elitism, official impunity, corruption, and exploitation were rapidly
undoing early gains.
Mao warned often about peasant rebellions, "When frustrations burst forth in emotional
storms in which hatreds, resentments and a sense of hopeless desperation break through
social restraints in an overwhelming surge." He warned[3] officials, "If you alienate
yourself from the people and fail to solve their problems, the peasants will wield their
carrying-poles, the workers will demonstrate in the streets and the students will create
disturbances. Whenever such things happen, they must in the first place be taken as good
things. That's how I see them, anyway." Few officials were socialists, let alone Communists
and, though they embraced his theory of class struggle, they would desert him if it
threatened their positions.
A cultural revolution, he said, would spiritually revolutionize the people, especially
the youth, and revitalize the Revolution's socialist goals while employing the rhetoric of
class struggle. Through the power of ideology expressed in political slogans, he proposed
to direct the peasants' energy outward to "Break the shackles of repression with study and
convert thought into creative action."
He had no magic wand. If the peasants wanted freedom they would have to learn how
political forces work in society, the culture, and the world, for only through study and
effort could they grasp the link between their struggles and the wider world, "Democratic
politics must rely on everyone running things, not just on a minority of people running
things." Modernizing land ownership, infrastructure, agriculture, and industry were
secondary. If working people were not politically mobilized around broader issues they
could not transform the economy, management, and labor.
To gain control of their lives, they must also control intellectual capital so, having
eliminated the barriers to land ownership, he would now eliminate the barriers to knowledge
ownership. "Working men and women must have their own army of technical specialists and
professors, teachers, scientists, journalists, writers, artists and Marxist theorists..We
are calling for a technical revolution that is also a cultural revolution, a revolution to
do away with ignorance and stupidity. We can't do it without intellectuals, either. We
can't do it just by relying only on uneducated people like ourselves."
His rhetoric was radical but his revolution would be cultural, political, and
ideological. He prohibited the use of force and the disruption of economic production and
the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, the only successful social uprising of the
1960s, would be a ten-year saga in which hundreds of millions of peasants emancipated
themselves from second-class citizenship.
Long story short: the peasants emancipated themselves and the economy grew three times
faster than America's, then in its Golden Age.
The motorcycle ramming event described in this article shows why the SJW approach to
race relations of basically giving America a metaphorical bad yelp review only works in
highly controlled, hierarchical settings like corporations or universities and not in the
real world.
Leftists essentially threaten people with ratting them out as being a racist to
someone higher up the food chain who is expected to have a managerial interest in fairness
and justice.
For example I might threaten you by saying "if you don't do what I want I am
going to tell our director of HR that you are a racist". Outside of corporate-style
institutions, that kind of threat doesn't work on grown men who already have uneasy
personal relationships and it overly enrages grown men who already have an axe to grind.
So
then rather than there being a manager with an interest in fairness and justice
adjudicating a complaint for the sake of preserving a business interest, we get people
running each other over with cars and committing other acts of violence.
The Chinese "Cultural Revolution" did not come out of thin air. It was a cold-blooded
steely-eyed reaction of the Chinese government to deflect popular anger at the massive
famine they had created onto imaginary enemies. Let the little people tear each other
apart, the central party must rise above it.
So too, "Black Lives Matter" is I think primarily a means of deflecting anger at the
coming immiseration of the American working class away from the governing elites who are
actually responsible for this, and instead manufacture hysterical crises that pit the
working classes against each other. So far, it's working perfectly according to plan.
Mao orchestrated it to regain power, then marginalized the Red Guard by sending them to
the countryside. In the meantime a lot of stuff got trashed, but nothing really changed
until he died and the Party realized that rabid Maoism wouldn't work and lightened up a
bit. End of story.
Pride flag trans woman called Bill de Blasio a "transphobic bigot" and called for people to
support law enforcement.
BLM folks were screaming at them from behind barricades.
Notably, a cop walked behind them while they were doing it and didn't immediately stop them,
although ultimately they arrested four, at least two of them were the lady in the flag and the
black woman who poured the paint.
Now, had they been BLM folks who spray painted the street, I doubt they would have been
arrested at all, in all honesty. We've seen multiple instances of BLM folks spray painting
things without consequences.
Reportedly three were arrested, charged with criminal mischief and released with desk
appearance ticket.
De Blasio has seemingly paid more attention to the street lettering than he has to the
increase of shootings in New York City. Priorities.
"... these "protests" are just covers for the riots. This was a full-on planned assault on the police, not protest that got out of hand. Planned attack. And planned attempt to rip down the statue. ..."
There was a BLM 'protest' in Chicago, then came what appeared to be a coordinated effort to pull down a statue of
Christopher Columbus in Grant Park. That devolved into an all out attack on the police officers there to defend the statue.
Rioters
pelted the police, most of whom had no helmets on, with all kinds of bricks, rocks, sticks, bottles, even fireworks, you
name it, it looked like an incoming barrage.
One BLM guy
says "peaceful protest" but everyone else is just attacking the police trying to get over the wall to attack the statue.
They moved
the cops back with the barrage and made it over the wall.
Black flag
stands for anarchy.
Here's the
thing. This may have been a protest at one point. But now these "protests" are just covers for the riots. This was a
full-on planned assault on the police, not protest that got out of hand. Planned attack. And planned attempt to rip down
the statue.
It's about
time media start reporting the reality of it, that these are criminal attacks. They could have killed cops with what they
did, who knows how many were injured because of this.
But they
limped away, whining about pepper spray and how mean the police were. Play stupid games and attack cops, win stupid prizes.
Maybe don't attack the police next time. And those limping away were lucky. Several were arrested. These rioters are losers
that need to be locked up and given some real time.
After rioters destroyed parts of Minneapolis, Mayor Jacob Frey is seeking state and federal
aid to assist in rebuilding efforts, the Minneapolis Star Tribune
reported Friday.
In a
conference call with governors, President Trump held Mayor Frey responsible for the heavy
damage sustained to Minneapolis.
"And I don't blame you," President Trump said to Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN). "I blame the
[Minneapolis] mayor [Jacob Frey]. I mean I've never seen anything like it. Where the police
were told to abandon the police house and it was ransacked, and really destroyed. Millions of
millions of dollars are going to have to go back to fix it."
Minneapolis officials are still tallying the damage caused by rioters, warning current
estimates are likely to rise significantly. As of Friday, fires have destroyed at least 67
businesses and nearly 500 more in the Twin Cities area have experienced vandalism and looting,
the Star Tribune
reported . In hard-hit Minneapolis, local assessments are coming in around $150
million.
Gov. Walz and members of the state's congressional delegation, including Rep. Ilhan Omar and
Sen. Amy Klobuchar, are also lobbying the federal government for assistance.
The likelihood of Minneapolis or St. Paul receiving federal disaster money to clean up after
rioters does not look promising. The decision rests with President Trump, and cities have
inconsistently received federal funding in the wake of riots. The Star Tribune cited the
example of the 2015 riots in Baltimore following the death of Freddie Gray. FEMA denied Gov.
Larry Hogan's request of around $19 million for public agencies responding to the
unrest.
"To be realistic, the odds of that happening are, at best, very difficult," admitted Rep.
Betty McCollum (D-MN). "If it is demonstrated [that] outside provocateurs committed acts of
destruction, then there is a clear rationale for an emergency declaration by President
Trump."
Townhall's Julio Rosas was live on the ground in Minneapolis covering days of
destructive riots following outrage over the death of George Floyd.
Right now, BLM is a cash cow for the Democrats, earning them a whopping $1.67 billion in
corporate donations so far, with a billion of that coming from Bank of America.
Here's a chart of that HUGE donation pool on BLM:
However, the problem is that, if you go to the organization's webpage and hit the "donate"
button, you're not actually giving that money to BLM. Instead, it takes you to a page for a
group called ActBlue.
What is ActBlue?
ActBlue is a not-for-profit organization that "enables left-leaning nonprofits, Democrats,
and progressive groups to raise money on the Internet by providing them with online fundraising
software."
And they say their mission is to "empower small-dollar donors".
Somebody must have forgotten to tell corporate America that little tidbit.
But there's more
If you go to opensecrets.org, a site that tracks where the money goes in charity, you'll get
an idea of where ActBlue's money goes.
Now, this claim has been disputed by both ActBlue and BLM, but it's hard not to see how this
connection could be made between the money BLM is raking in and these massive ActBlue
donations. If this is true, if BLM is nothing more than a donation front for the DNC, would
that change anybody's mind about giving to them?
"... By David Kerans , historian of Russia and financial analyst. He has held appointments at Harvard, Stanford, and Yale Universities, as well as at Wall Street investment houses. ..."
"... "It sees America as in its essence not about freedom but oppression. It argues, in fact, that all the ideals about individual liberty, religious freedom, limited government, and the equality of all human beings were always a falsehood to cover for and justify and entrench the enslavement of human beings under the fiction of race. It wasn't that these values competed with the poison of slavery, and eventually overcame it . It's that the liberal system is itself a form of white supremacy ..."
"... "This view of the world certainly has "moral clarity." What it lacks is moral complexity. No country can be so reduced to one single prism and damned because of it. American society has far more complexity and history has far more contingency than can be jammed into this rubric." ..."
"... " the banks frankly own the place." ..."
"... "wall of propaganda" ..."
"... "racial capitalism" ..."
"... "cancel culture" ..."
"... "all lives matter" ..."
"... "silence is violence" ..."
"... "Putin apologist." ..."
"... " a new set of moral attitudes and political commitments that tend to weaken our norms of open debate in favor of ideological conformity" ..."
"... "a vogue for public shaming and ostracism", a "tendency to dissolve complex policy issues in a blinding moral certainty" ..."
"... "calls for swift and severe retribution in response to perceived transgressions of speech and thought." ..."
"... "resistance must not be allowed to harden into its own brand of dogma or coercion," ..."
"... "We are already paying the price in greater risk aversion among writers, artists, and journalists, who fear for their livelihoods if they depart from the consensus or even lack sufficient zeal in agreement. This stifling atmosphere will ultimately harm the most vital causes of our time." ..."
"... Think your friends would be interested? Share this story! ..."
By
David
Kerans
, historian of Russia and financial analyst. He has held appointments at Harvard, Stanford, and Yale
Universities, as well as at Wall Street investment houses.
Should the issue of racism really trump all of America's other flaws, such as runaway wealth inequality, out of control
military spending, a corrupt finance system, an oligarchic mass media, and a throttled democracy?
Headcounters inform us
that 15 to 25 million people have turned up in the past six weeks for demonstrations related to Black Lives Matter (BLM),
making this one of the biggest waves of civic engagement in American history. A few reforms to policing are under discussion,
and we see some shifts in political leanings – polls indicate enthusiasm for Trump ebbing, pessimism about the direction of
the country rising, and support for reduced funding of police departments. But surely something broader is afoot?
It isn't difficult to see
that the BLM movement is making a real mark in two ways. In the conceptual realm, many BLM-supporting scholars are promoting
an unabashedly narrow understanding of the driving forces of American history and power structures, ardently centered on
racial
oppression
.
On the ground, meanwhile, a strong current of left illiberalism has taken shape, wherein a minority of strident activists are
imposing their orthodoxy on race-related matters with a fervor approaching Red Scare McCarthyism.
Andrew Sullivan
, writing in The Intelligencer, has aptly characterized BLM's analytical approach:
"It sees America as in its essence not about freedom but oppression. It argues, in fact,
that all the ideals about individual liberty, religious freedom, limited government, and the equality of all human beings were
always a falsehood to cover for and justify and entrench the enslavement of human beings under the fiction of race. It wasn't
that these values competed with the poison of slavery, and eventually overcame it . It's that the liberal system is itself a
form of white supremacy
"This view of the world certainly has "moral clarity." What it lacks is moral
complexity. No country can be so reduced to one single prism and damned because of it. American society has far more
complexity and history has far more contingency than can be jammed into this rubric."
Allow yourself a moment to
survey the country's primary problems. Your list might include:
Runaway global warming,
plausibly a threat to all forms of life on earth within the foreseeable future.
A finance system that
fuels corruption and capital flight from all over the world to
"offshore"
banking
havens
–
meaning primarily UK dependencies and the US – thereby hollowing out their tax bases, and ours. The amounts are staggering, in
the tens of trillions of
dollars
.
Runaway wealth inequality,
which correlates
persuasively
to
every measurable human pathology, across every geography, across all wealth groups. The biological consequences of the
stresses accompanying inequality are heavy, and even punish the
rich
,
as Richard G Wilkinson and Kate Pickett elaborate throughout their book The Spirit Level.
About 150 million
Americans
live
with chronic disease, attributable partly to pollution from pesticides, plastics, pharmaceuticals, etc, and, likely also to
the stress effects of wealth inequality.
The Pentagon's colossal
budget –
unauditable
and
thus unaccountable to Congress – sucking out ever increasing resources, and inclining the US to stoke international tensions
so as to justify the river of money.
A higher-education constellation steered more to producing profit than mature citizens, with a consequent erosion of America's
human
capital
on
various planes.
A throttled democracy,
where the trivial controls over campaign fundraising allow big-money donors and corporations to influence politicians. Senator
Dick
Durbin
(D-Illinois) expressed his despair about crafting meaningful banking regulations back in 2009:
" the
banks frankly own the place."
And so the stimulus package gives hundreds of billions to Treasury Secretary Mnuchin with
virtually no
controls
and
with corrupt
outcomes
,
but without public uproar.
An oligarchic mass media
that erects a
"wall of propaganda"
(political commentator Cenk Uygur's phrasing)
against anything smelling like social democracy – and, I would add, any gesture of rapprochement with Russia, among other
taboo subjects, including climate change, and military
intervention
.
Are any of these issues
dependent on the legacy of American slavery? America has myriad challenges to face, the vestiges of slavery and racism among
them, not above them. Contorting analytical approaches to prioritize the perspective of racial oppression obscures more than
it illuminates. America needs citizens better informed on all of the crises listed above.
The trajectory of the
George Floyd demonstrations seems to illustrate the risk of BLM becoming myopic.
BLM
architects
in the academy insist that the goal is to end
"racial capitalism"
via a
color-conscious
version
of
social democracy, but the race-grievance dimension – once presented as all-eclipsing – drowns out all other messages. And so
the mass media has easily channeled the demonstrations into very narrow terrain: demands to reduce police budgets and ensure
accountability for rogue cops. (Not so long ago, be it noted, BLM leadership cozied up to numerous corporate donors, and has
looked decidedly not revolutionary to keen critics such as social commentator
Paul
Street
.)
Meanwhile, BLM's
self-righteous repudiation of America has found potent application in its culture wars. An armada of aggressive online
social-justice warriors has honed a seemingly unbridled
"cancel culture"
–
including iconoclasm (toppling statues, for example), conformity control (condemning the phrase
"all
lives matter"
, or anything
else
that
might somehow
dilute
anti-racist
messaging), demanding participatory anti-racism on their terms (
"silence is violence"
,
for
instance
), denunciations (branding any level of skepticism racist, and often insisting that beliefs straying from their
line threaten the physical safety of black
people
),
and punishment. Plenty of people accused of racism – or simply racial insensitivity, or
less
–
have been fired, some even after making self-abasing confessions to their perceived sins, because their employer fears the
wrath of the woke mob.
BLM did not invent any
dimension of cancel culture, ie, the exclusion of tainted persons, groups or institutions from communication venues or
respectful attention. Recall, for instance, the McCarthyist anti-communist witch hunts, or the establishment's branding of
anyone doubting the Russiagate narrative as a
"Putin apologist."
But BLM's
stridency and moral certitude has fomented cancel culture.
Cancel culture is not
risk-free to progressive causes. In 2017, its #metoo emanation claimed the career of Senator Al Franken, one of the most
progressive senators – an outcome many of his colleagues
regret
.
And this is not an epiphenomenon. On July 7, Harper's Magazine published an
open
letter
from more than 150 cultural luminaries, including left-wing icons Noam Chomsky and Gloria Steinem, expressing grave
alarm over
" a new set of moral attitudes and political commitments that tend to weaken
our norms of open debate in favor of ideological conformity"
,
"a vogue for public
shaming and ostracism", a "tendency to dissolve complex policy issues in a blinding moral certainty"
, and
"calls
for swift and severe retribution in response to perceived transgressions of speech and thought."
They warn that
"resistance
must not be allowed to harden into its own brand of dogma or coercion,"
and lament the cowardly obedience of corporate
and university leaders in bowing to digital woke-mob demands.
"We are already paying the
price in greater risk aversion among writers, artists, and journalists, who fear for their livelihoods if they depart from the
consensus or even lack sufficient zeal in agreement. This stifling atmosphere will ultimately harm the most vital causes of
our time."
Let's hope that message
gets through.
Think your friends would be
interested? Share this story!
The mob of extremists and rioters -- or "protesters," as the media have falsely labeled them
-- initially came together at Buckingham Fountain, which is about a third of a mile away, for a
so-called Solidarity Rally to call for the
defunding of the police .
The march was reportedly hosted by groups such as Black Lives Matter Chicago, the
Chi-Nations Youth Council, the Black Youth Project 100 and the Chicago Alliance Against Racial
and Political Repression.
Following the official march, at around 7:00 pm an estimated 1,000+ reportedly began walking
down South Columbus Drive toward Grant Park, where a statue of famous explorer Columbus has
been seated for 87 years. That's when the trouble began.
"Dozens of people in the crowd who were clad in all-black clothing rushed the nearby statue,
surrounding the short stone wall that circled it. Some began throwing objects, such as cans and
fireworks, at the officers. A few people tried to climb over the wall," the Chicago Tribune
reported .
As of Saturday morning, the statue still remained standing and intact, though not for a lack
of effort.
"Someone scaled the statue and caught a rope that was tossed up from the crowd, beginning
about a half-hour-long attempt to yank down the statue. At one point, demonstrators held onto
two lines of rope attached to the statue as the crowd cheered on, 'Columbus was a murderer.
Columbus was a thief,'" the Tribune reported.
Nice try, though.
The authorities reportedly held the extremists off as much as possible until about 7:40 pm,
when reinforcements arrived and their defense strategy turned into an offensive one.
"They were joined later by more officers, who soon released an aerosol that stung the eyes
of the crowd and led to some coughing in tears. Police forced out those inside the wall
surrounding the statue and circled the perimeter," the Tribune noted.
Watch scenes from the pushback below:
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The authorities managed to push the extremists down a hill, even as the extremists
reportedly tried wielding their bikes as weapons to stop them.
By 8:30 pm, a "heavy influx of police officers," as the Tribune described them, had
succeeded in pushing the extremists away from the statue.
A total of 18 officers were reportedly injured during the melee.
"Officers were there to not only protect the property, but they were to ensure the safety of
the protesters and their First Amendment right to protest peacefully when the crowd turned on
the police, literally ambushed the police with all their projectiles," Chicago PD police
spokesman Thomas Ahern said in a statement afterward.
As of Saturday morning, left-wing Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot had not yet responded to the
events of the previous evening -- perhaps because she was
too busy trashing members of the Trump administration for the crime of calling out
her incompetence .
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President Trump has denied a request from Minnesota's governor for money to rebuild parts of
Minneapolis that were destroyed during the riots following the death of George Floyd.
"The Governor is disappointed that the federal government declined his request for financial
support," Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz's office said in a statement. "As we navigate one of the most
difficult periods in our state's history, we look for support from our federal government to
help us through."
Walz, a Democrat, requested that Trump declare Minnesota a "major disaster" zone in a
request to the Federal Emergency Management Agency on July 2 after more than 1,500 buildings
were damaged by looting and rioting in the wake of Floyd's death, totaling over $500 million in
damages.
Are journalists deliberately ignoring the effects of these devastating riots?
Having spent the past month traveling around the United States -- from major cities to the
countryside -- the scale of the 'movement' which erupted in late May after the death of George
Floyd is almost incomprehensible . According to the New
York Times , which relays their finding with obvious excitement, the 'movement' (its
precise contours seldom defined) "may be the largest" in U.S. history.
That is certainly plausible. In which case, it would presumably be important to document how
ordinary Americans, especially those most directly affected, perceive the "movement" in
question.
Scan almost any of the popular media coverage over the past six weeks and you'll find that
journalists have been steadfast in their depiction of "protesters" as unassailably "peaceful."
While the vast majority of those who attended a state-backed demonstration
or some other event spurred by the 'movement' are unlikely to have committed any acts of
physical destruction, the term "peaceful protest" doesn't seem to quite capture the impact of a
society-wide upheaval that included, as a key component, mass riots -- the magnitude of which
have not been seen in the U.S. since at least the 1960s.
From large metro areas like Chicago and Minneapolis/St. Paul, to small and mid-sized cities
like Fort Wayne, Indiana and Green Bay, Wisconsin, the number of boarded up, damaged or
destroyed buildings I have personally observed -- commercial, civic, and residential -- is
staggering . Keeping exact count is impossible. One might think that a major media organisation
such as the New York Times would use some of their galactic journalistic resources to tally up
the wreckage for posterity. But roughly six weeks later, and such a tally is still nowhere to
be found.
A standard retort one often hears is that "the riots" must not be conflated with "the
protests," which is technically accurate in certain contexts. But the distinction is not as
obvious as the media like to make out . In
many locations, police and fire services were diverted to accommodate these massive protests,
which in turn created a vacuum that enabled the outbreak of riotous activity . As one resident
of Minneapolis explained to me ,
emergency services told him that they would simply be unavailable during the weekend of 29-31
May, while other locals recounted with amazement that police were totally absent as their
neighbourhoods burned.
In Milwaukee, a man described
being chased down by rioters after getting off the bus on his way home from work. He saw no
difference between protesters and rioters; the flippant idea that these groups can be so neatly
disentangled is wrong.
This view is just as likely to be espoused by black people and other minorities as anyone
else (the Milwaukee man was black), which renders the media's strident insistence to depict the
'movement' as entirely peaceful incongruous with the perceptions of working-class Americans (of
all races). So many of them experienced what transpired more as a painful tragedy than any kind
of wondrous harmony.
Indeed, the resulting destruction may have set their majority-minority neighbourhoods back
economically for months or years, if not longer. Most had already been struggling due to the
pandemic, with the riots interrupting fragile reopening plans. To exclude the perspectives of
these people from popular media narratives amounts to a kind of purposefully obfuscatory,
moralising snobbery. Talk about 'erasure'.
So why, exactly, has the scope of these riots been so assiduously downplayed, and the
opinions of those who experienced them first-hand been largely ignored? A number of potential
explanations ring true. For one, media elites desperately do not want to undermine the moral
legitimacy of a 'movement' that they have cast as presumptively righteous. And highlighting
that urban minority populations are generally less enthusiastic about a movement whose mantra
is "Black Lives Matter" would be embarrassing for obvious reasons.
The white liberals and Leftists who claim to be so sensitively attuned to the feelings of
minorities clearly spend very little time actually talking to working class non-white people --
or at least those who happen to fall outside their activist cohort. If they did, they would be
saddened to discover that, unlike them, working class non-whites frequently express "small-c"
conservative cultural attitudes.
For instance, black Americans whom I've spoken to on the street across America in
randomly-selected encounters were almost
unanimous in their approval of the National Guard deployments to their neighborhood during
the riots. If anything, their main criticism was that these deployments came too late to
prevent the destruction.
This certainly makes the emotional meltdown of coddled 20 and 30-something journalists, who
seriously claimed that they were "endangered" by a U.S. Senator's NYT column
advocating for a military presence to maintain order in cities, look especially disconnected
and bizarre. So one could understand why the media would be reluctant to feature the "voices"
of minorities who take an alternate view.
There's also the barely-hidden fear that properly depicting the after-effects of these riots
would somehow "help Trump" during an election year. Even if it could be established as true
that reporting on a historically significant event would "help" the incumbent president,
refraining from such reportage on that ground would obviously be wildly improper from a
journalistic perspective.
But even from a raw political standpoint, it's almost certainly not even true. Trump's
inability to convert this post-riot political environment into some kind of electoral advantage
is an irony unto itself, given the theme of his inaugural address -- which ominously (but not
entirely unjustifiably) invoked the specter of " American carnage ". For all the
non-stop hysteria painting Trump as some kind of maniacal fascist, it truly is a lousy fascist
who fails to leverage widespread social unrest and instability to consolidate power.
Needless to say, Trump is also currently presiding over a disastrous federal pandemic
response, and rapidly shedding support among elderly voters. So if one insists on behaving
purely as a partisan actor -- which many contemporary journalists certainly are -- any fatuous
"would it help Trump?" calculation ought to be irrelevant.
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Trump or no Trump, the lack of adequate coverage is the true affront. It should be more
widely known that large swathes of a major American metropolis, Minneapolis/St. Paul, still
lies in
rubble over a month after the riots. And the main perpetrators of this destruction --
namely those who committed the most incendiary arson attacks -- were, by many accounts relayed
to me directly, white Left-wing activists. Refusing to seek out and accurately present this
information reflects the mainstream media's propensity to operate under predetermined,
politicised assumptions that are antithetical to any rightly-understood conception of
journalism.
Travelling around Minneapolis, one frequently sees the anarchist "A" symbol scrawled on charred
and/or boarded-up buildings, as well as catchphrases like " Viva La Revolucion " --
expressions typical of Left-wing activists. Indeed, it's abundantly clear that there was a
strong ideological component to these riots, one that's also been under-emphasised by the
media, again likely because of the belief that it could in some vague sense "help Trump." I
spoke to numerous residents who are convinced that white out-of-towners were the ones who
instigated the most severe chaos, after which locals latched on opportunistically. Marianne
Robinson, a black woman who has resided in Chicago's South Side for decades, asked me if I was
familiar with "antifa" and blamed them for the riots.
Flora
Westbrooks of Minneapolis , whose hair salon was burned down, was likewise convinced that
the perpetrators could not have possibly been familiar with the neighbourhood given her
longstanding community ties there. The theory might be a tad over-simplistic, but it does seem
at least partially accurate. A (white) rioter I interviewed, who was present when the Third
Police Precinct building in Minneapolis burned, remarked to me that he found
himself in jail alongside people who came from as far as Missouri, Florida, Colorado,
California and other distant states. He said they ventured to Minnesota out of a mixture of
thrill-seeking and inchoate political grievance.
A police officer on foot patrol in Chicago's heavily-black West Side remarked to me how
perplexed she was by the lack of coverage of the damage in these neighbourhoods. Indeed, a
simple drive around such parts of Chicago reveals a stunning number of boarded-up
establishments, many of which appear like they will never return. The officer mused that she
enjoyed the social-work aspects of the job -- I watched her greeting various street-dwellers by
name -- and so, far from seeing the "Defund the Police" slogan and other expressions of
animosity as an existential threat to the Chicago Police Department, regarded it as so detached
from her everyday experience that she wasn't even bothered. Over the course of my ten days in
Minneapolis, I didn't see a single officer on foot patrol, which is highly unusual for a major
American city.
In Chicago, at the peak of the riots during the last weekend in
May , there were a record-breaking 18 homicides in a single 24-hour period -- the most
since such data started being collected in 1961. I mention this not to make a knee-jerk "what
about black-on-black crime" point, but simply to ask in general terms: why wasn't this historic
occurrence featured more prominently in the coverage of these protests?
Something extreme just happened in America. I could give dozens of additional examples of
reportorial tidbits which don't align with the prevailing media narrative that has flourished
in the wake of this "movement". And if you hadn't seen it directly, would you ever know?
Media and Journalism are dead.....there is only Propaganda.
The Trees have fallen....but no one has heard their sound.
Everybodys All American , 57 minutes ago
BLM is a extreme revolutionary arm or extension of the democrat party. The fund raising
for BLM went into largely democrat hands through ActBlue. Make no mistake these are Marxist
revolutionary people in the BLM and they intend to take over America. When you vote democrat
you are essentially voting for these Marxists now. This just may be our last free
election.
LEEPERMAX , 4 hours ago
BLM is actually a FUNDRAISING ORGANIZATION for THE DEMOCRAT PARTY
NAV , 7 hours ago
BLM is doing the work of major contributor George Soros, who, according to David Horowitz
and Richard Poe, owns the Democrat Party.
Ac cording to Richard Poe ,
co-author (with David Horowitz) of the 2006 book The Shadow Party:
"The Shadow Party is the real power driving the Democrat machine. It is a network of
radicals dedicated to transforming our constitutional republic into a socialist hive. The
leader of these radicals is George Soros. He has essentially privatized the Democratic Party,
bringing it under his personal control. The Shadow Party is the instrument through which he
exerts that control . It works by siphoning off hundreds of millions of dollars in campaign
contributions that would have gone to the Democratic Party in normal times, and putting those
contributions at the personal disposal of Mr. Soros. He then uses that money to buy influence
and loyalty where he sees fit. In 2003, Soros set up a network of privately-owned groups
which acts as a shadow or mirror image of the Party. It performs all the functions we would
normally expect the real Democratic Party to perform, such as shaping the Party platform,
fielding candidates, running campaigns, and so forth. However, it performs these functions
under the private supervision of Mr. Soros and his associates. The Shadow Party derives its
power from its ability to raise huge sums of money. By controlling the Democrat purse
strings, the Shadow Party can make or break any Democrat candidate by deciding whether or not
to fund him . During the 2004 election cycle, the Shadow Party raised more than $300 million
for Democrat candidates, prompting one of its operatives, MoveOn PAC director Eli
Pariser , to declare, 'Now it's our party. We bought it, we own it '"
This Portland cop backs up what Mike is saying here.
This cop a really good guy is BLACK..
"Portland police officer Jakhary Jackson has detailed the stunning abuse he has faced
during Black Lives Matter protests and blasted the "hypocritical" demonstrations for having
fewer minorities than the police they're fighting.
In a wide ranging discussion Officer Jackson laid out some of his experiences on the
frontline of the civil unrest which has unfolded in the city for nearly two months.
The cop reveals that he has been violently attacked with explosive devices, white
protesters have hurled racist abuse at him and protesters routinely label white officers
racists "without even knowing anything about them."
Jackson branded the protests as "bizarre" and said they often feature more minorities
wearing police uniforms than on the side of the demonstrators."
It says something when you're at a Black Lives Matter protest and you have more minorities
on the police side than you have in a violent crowd," Jackson explained. "You have white
people screaming at black officers, 'you have the biggest nose I've ever seen!' You hear
these things and you go, 'are they gonna say something to this person?' No."
The interview was released by the Portland Police Department this week after being
recorded earlier this month. The entire conversation is 27 minutes long but several of
Jackson's comments have gone viral in shorter Twitter videos."
These are terrorists paid by Soros Gates and other murderous billionaire Talmudists to
effect regime change on the US. By the time these psychopaths are done with is it will make
9/11 look like a cake walk.
Jeff-Durden , 7 hours ago
**** the Blue. They will never be here for team White.
While being arrested for a violent felony, White folks actually have a 25% PER CAPITA
chance of being killed. Look at the amount of energy wasted and the enthusiasm with which
every one of the White Power hoaxes are investigated.
Disband them, we can take care of ourselves and it will be a lot easier without them.
Notice there have still been no arrests regarding that White mother murdered in front of her
baby for saying "All lives matter". I'll guarantee they have a good idea who did it, but it's
not politically convenient to provide justice in this case.
Demeter55 , 8 hours ago
After decades of the Clinton Cabal's antics, and the complicity of the MSM every step of
the way, nobody should be puzzled, confused or clueless about recent events.
Porous Horace , 9 hours ago
"Are journalists deliberately ignoring the effects of these devastating riots?"
Opal Tometi is the daughter of Nigerian immigrants . She is the oldest
of three children and has two younger brothers. She grew up in Phoenix, Arizona , and now lives in
Brooklyn, New
York . She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from the University of Arizona[10] and a
Masters in Communication and Advocacy from Arizona State University . On May
7, 2016, she received an honorary doctor of science degree from Clarkson University . [11] Tometi is
a former Case Manager for survivors of domestic violence and still provides community education
on the issue.
Tometi worked as Co-Director and Communications Director, prior to becoming Executive
Director of BAJI. Her contributions included leading organizing efforts for a rally for
immigrant justice and the first Congressional briefing on black immigrants in Washington DC.
[ citation needed ]
Garza was born in Oakland, California , on January 4,
1981. She grew up as Alicia Schwartz in Marin County in a mixed-raced and
mixed-religion household, with a Jewish stepfather and an African American mother.
[1] Garza
identifies as Jewish. [2] The family ran an
antiques business, assisted later by her younger brother, Joey. [1] In her teens,
Alicia engaged in activism, promoting school sex education about birth control . [3] Enrolling in the
University of California,
San Diego (UCSD), she continued her activism by joining the student association and calling
for higher pay for the university's janitors. In her final year at college, she helped organize
the first Women of Color Conference, a university-wide convocation held at UCSD in 2002.
[4] She graduated in 2002
with a degree in anthropology and sociology. [5]
In 2003 she met Malachi Garza, 24, a transgender man and a community activist. In 2004,
Alicia came out as queer to
her family. In 2008, she married Malachi and took the name Garza, settling in Oakland . [1][3]
Career [
edit ]Black Lives Matter [
edit ]stop saying we are not surprised. that's a damn shame in itself. I continue
to be surprised at how little Black lives matter. And I will continue that. stop giving up on
black life. Black people. I love you. I love us. Our lives matter.
Alicia Garza's Facebook post on July 13, 2013, responsible for sparking the Black
Lives Matter movement [6]
With Opal Tometi and
Patrisse Cullors ,
Garza birthed the Black Lives Matter hashtag.
[7][8] Garza is credited
with inspiring the slogan when, after the July 2013 acquittal of George Zimmerman of murder in the death of
Trayvon Martin , she
posted on Facebook "I
continue to be surprised at how little Black lives matter... Our lives matter." Cullors shared
this with the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter. She was also struck by the similarities of Trayvon Martin to her younger
brother, Joey, feeling that it could have been him killed instead. [9] The organization
Black Lives Matter was spurred on by the killings of black people by police in recent media and
racial disparities within the U.S. criminal legal system. Concerns were over violence from the
police, mass incarceration ,
police
militarization , and over-criminalization . [10] In
particular, the movement was born and Garza's post became popularized after protests emerged in
Ferguson,
Missouri , where an unarmed black teenager was shot and killed by a white police officer.
[11]
Garza led the 2015 Freedom Ride to Ferguson, organized by Cullors and Darnell Moore that launched the building
of BlackLivesMatter chapters across the United States and the world. [12] However, Garza
does not think of the Black Lives Matter Movement as ever being created. She feels her work is
only a continuation of the resistance led by black people in America.
[10] The movement and
Garza are credited for popularizing the use of social media for mass mobilization in the United
States; a practice called "mediated mobilization". This practice has been used by other
movements such as the #MeToo movement . [13]
The
Movement for Black Lives was created following concerns over the way that Black Lives
Matter had become synonymous with the Ferguson riots . The Movement for Black Lives is the largest
group inside the Black Lives Matter movement's network. This group directs their activism based on Garza's advocacy style, [ dubious
– discuss ] which works
outside of the existing power structure as a way to avoid what they see as the organizational
failures of past black activist groups. They reject traditional tactics and avoid making
connections and compromises with politicians. The group also puts those with the most
marginalized identities in leadership positions. In 2015, The Movement for
Black Lives created the Policy Table in an attempt to translate their goals into a policy
platform. This involved initiatives that give bail money to black mothers who could not afford
it and a land-rights initiative. [10]
Cullors was born in Los Angeles, California. She grew up in Pacoima , a low-income neighborhood in
the San Fernando
Valley . [1] She became an
activist early in life, joining the Bus Riders Union as a
teenager. [1]
Cullors recalls being forced from her home at sixteen when she revealed her queer identity to her parents.
[2] She was
involved with the Jehovah's Witnesses as a child, but
later grew disillusioned with the church. She developed an interest in the Nigerian religious
tradition of Ifá ,
incorporating its rituals into political protest events. She told an interviewer:
For me, seeking spirituality had a lot to do with trying to seek understanding about my
conditions -- how these conditions shape me in my everyday life and how I understand them as
part of a larger fight, a fight for my life. [3]
She later earned a degree in religion and philosophy from UCLA . [1]
Career
Cullors teaches at Otis College of Art and
Design in the Public Practice Program. [4] She also teaches in
the Master's Arts in Social Justice and Community Organizing at Prescott College.
[5][6]
Cullors credits social
media being instrumental in revealing violence against African Americans, saying: "On a
daily basis, every moment, black folks are being bombarded with images of our death ... It's
literally saying, 'Black people, you might be next. You will be next, but in hindsight it will
be better for our nation, the less of our kind, the more safe it will be." [12]
"... in fact, the looting was so brazen that even The Minneapolis Star Tribune felt obligated to detail it on July 10; as the newspaper put it, "Near Hennepin Avenue and W. Lake Street, nearly 40 businesses were broken into or heavily looted, including large retailers like H&M, Timberland, an Apple store, Kitchen Window and Urban Outfitters." ..."
"... In fact, between Trump's opposition and Republicans on watch, it's likely that the Democrats will say little about rebuilding vandalized and looted cities -- at least until after the election. ..."
"... Then on July 12, Sen. Ted Cruz tweeted , "Minnesota Dems willfully allowed Minneapolis to burn & then blamed the police whom they demonized. Now, they want the fed govt to pay the bill. I'm introducing legislation to make local govt liable to private property owners if officials deliberately withhold police protection." ..."
"... Of course, the typical legislative response to a "poison pill" bill is not to vote on it. Indeed, both parties have grown skilled at the parliamentary art of obscuring unpopular items with "omnibuses" and "continuing resolutions"; that is, the money gets spent, but with no specific fingerprints on any particular line item. ..."
Remember all those
"peaceful
protestors," later amended to
"mostly peaceful
protestors" ? You probably recall, also, the Main Stream Media's determined effort to portray the people in the streets protesting
the death of George Floyd as nothing but well-meaning reformers -- until
pictures
and
video made the spin wear thin.
Indeed, now even Democratic politicians are conceding that this wasn't the
"summer of love."
With costly reality staring him in the face, Minnesota governor Tim Walz, on July 2, sent a
letter to President Trump, formally requesting $15.6 million in federal disaster assistance for the damage done to Minneapolis
and St. Paul during the protests/violence over the last two months. As Walz put it, "Nearly 1,500 businesses were damaged by vandalism,
fire, or looting." He added, "These corridors provide lifeline services like food, pharmaceuticals, health care, housing, and transportation
to thousands of Minnesotans."
In fact, Walz estimated that the total cost of the damage could be upwards of $500 million; he described the events in his state's
two largest cities as "the second most destructive incident of civil unrest in United States history after the 1992 Los Angeles riots."
Walz further observed, "The social and economic impacts of this incident will be felt for years, if not decades."
So who, exactly, did all this damage? Here, Walz had to walk a fine line. Good progressive that he is, he couldn't afford to be
too critical of the protestors -- because he might need their votes in his next election bid. Indeed, back in May, he tried to argue
that most of the violence was committed by non -Minnesotans.
This dubious assertion was quickly
knocked down , and yet in his letter to Trump, Walz offered a different slant on the same outsiders-did-it argument, writing,
"Individuals bent on destruction infiltrated otherwise peaceful protests and began to incite violence and vandalism." We might pause
to note that Walz seems to be de-emphasizing, here, a word that he mentioned only once in the letter: looting . Why? Perhaps
because looting is so singularly unattractive (to most people) that it's best minimized when looking for bailout.
Yet in fact, the looting was so brazen that even The Minneapolis Star Tribune felt obligated to
detail it on July 10; as the newspaper put it, "Near Hennepin Avenue and W. Lake Street, nearly 40 businesses were broken into
or heavily looted, including large retailers like H&M, Timberland, an Apple store, Kitchen Window and Urban Outfitters."
The Star Tribune further added that Walz's $500 million estimate might be on the low side: "The full extent of damage to
Twin Cities buildings -- including residences, churches, non-profits and minority-owned businesses -- could take weeks or months
to calculate."
Indeed, sometimes the damage done to a city in the wake of a riot unfolds over decades. For instance, Detroit has never recovered
from the riot of 1967; the population of Motown fell from 1.67 million in 1960 to 713,000 in 2010.
In the meantime, on July 11, the Star Tribunereported
that the Trump administration has turned down Walz's aid request. The report included a quote from Rep. Tom Emmer, a Republican representing
exurban Minneapolis as well as rural areas; it seems that Emmer had written a
letter of his own to Trump two days earlier, asking the administration to "undertake a thorough and concurrent review of my state's
response to the violence and provide recommendations so that every Governor, Mayor, and local official can learn from our experiences
and ensure appropriate plans are in place to prevent something like this from ever happening again." In other words, Emmer was seeking,
at minimum, to add strings to the aid.
As Emmer put it, the feds should analyze "the actions that were -- or were not -- taken by local and state officials to prevent
one of the most destructive episodes of civil unrest in our nation's history." And to drill the point even harder, he cited news
media headlines supporting his supposition of state and local fecklessness: "'They Have Lost Control': Why Minneapolis Burned," and
"Gov. Tim Walz Laments 'Abject Failure' of Riot Response."
Emmer, of course, is a conservative, not in tune with, for example, the Twin Cities' most famous lawmaker, Rep. Ilhan Omar, who
has embraced "defunding the
police." By contrast, on July 11, Emmer tweeted a
poll showing that 81 percent of residents in
the small city of St. Cloud, in Emmer's district, believe that the police there "have an excellent relationship with the community."
We might also note that Emmer is more than just a Republican lawmaker representing a conservative district. He is also the
chairman of the
National Republican Congressional Committee, the campaign arm of the House Republicans. Not surprisingly, the
NRCC Twitter feed regularly zings House Democrats, and it's a safe bet that
Emmer and his rapid responders are now poised to target those who might take a progressive position on the national response, including
financial aid, to recently afflicted cities. We can see the NRCC tweet now: "Rep. ___ supports bailout for mayors that looked the
other way while their cities were vandalized and looted."
In fact, between Trump's opposition and Republicans on watch, it's likely that the Democrats will say little about rebuilding
vandalized and looted cities -- at least until after the election.
However, if Joe Biden wins this November -- and the polls show him nearly 10 points ahead, which suggests Democrats everywhere
will do well -- then it's likely that a Biden administration will look more kindly on Walz's request.
Indeed, we could expect that the whole federal government, starting with the Department of Housing and Urban Development, will
seek to spend freely. After all, Biden tweeted
, just on July 5, "We won't just rebuild this nation -- we'll transform it." And
Sen. Bernie Sanders ,
fresh from his
policy mind-meld
with the Biden campaign, declares that Biden is shaping up to be the most progressive president since Franklin D. Roosevelt.
So one wonders: In such a heady ideological moment, how far could the Democrats go? Perhaps another "Great Society"? Or maybe
a "Marshall Plan" for the Other America? And can the Green New Deal be focused on blue dot cities?
Yet even if Republicans are out of power next year, they won't be without a voice. For his part, Emmer raises pointed questions
about urban aid, and so some Democrats -- especially those many now representing suburbs -- will have to think twice about voting
for blank checks to mayors and their lefty constituents. That is, if the city council in Minneapolis votes, as it did, unanimously,
to
defund the police , well, maybe most Americans will think that woke urbanites ought to be left to stew in their own crime juice.
Other Republicans, too, seem ready to pounce. On the floor of the Senate on July 2,
Mike Lee of Utah blasted "mob violence," including "dimwitted, phony drama addicts." Lest he be misunderstood, Lee went on to
rip "a privileged, self-absorbed crime syndicate with participation trophy graduate degrees, trying to find meaning in empty lives
by destroying things that other Americans have spent honest, productive lives building."
Then Lee got right down to the money issue: "The whole garbage fire that is the woke ideology depends on federal money. The mob
that hates America on America's dime. It's time to cut off their allowance!" So put Lee down as a loud "no" on any big bailout.
Then on July 12, Sen. Ted Cruz tweeted ,
"Minnesota Dems willfully allowed Minneapolis to burn & then blamed the police whom they demonized. Now, they want the fed govt to
pay the bill. I'm introducing legislation to make local govt liable to private property owners if officials deliberately withhold
police protection."
Cruz's bill won't pass this year, nor the next, and yet a line has been drawn. If Cruz and Republicans can figure out how to hold
a vote on that liability legislation -- or on other bills of a similar nature -- they will be putting Democrats in a tough spot.
Of course, the typical legislative response to a "poison pill" bill is not to vote on it. Indeed, both parties have grown
skilled at the parliamentary art of obscuring unpopular items with "omnibuses" and "continuing resolutions"; that is, the money gets
spent, but with no specific fingerprints on any particular line item.
Yet in the long run, the voters will figure out who voted to bail out looter-friendly cities -- and who didn't.
Still, in the shorter term, Emmer, Lee, Cruz, & Co. will be dismissed as mere gadflies, especially if the Democrats win big this
year. Indeed,
Biden is ahead in Texas , and
credible pundits even
speculate that he could win the biggest victory for a Democratic presidential nominee since 1964.
And if Democrats were to win big this year, they'd be high in the water, indeed, in the 117th Congress convening next year. Why
they might even seek to emulate the 89th Congress
, which convened in 1965, and which did, indeed, dream big.
If so, then Republicans will have to rely on smart Congressional critics such as Emmer, Lee, and Cruz. One's crystal ball for
the future is, of course, cloudy, and yet the record of the past is clear enough, and so we can recall that in the mid 60s, when
ebullient Democrats over-promised and under-delivered -- on everything from urban renewal to Vietnam pacification -- Republicans
were ready with their counterstroke. And the voters were ready with their backlash.
Thus just two years after their 1964 triumph, Democrats were drubbed in the 1966 midterm elections; one of the GOP winners that
year, we might recall, was that underrated actor-turned-underrated politician, Ronald Reagan.
Then in 1968, just four years after they had been crushed in the national election, Republicans won the the presidency.
Thus a half-century ago, Democratic hubris met Republican nemesis. Today, that's something for Democrats to ponder as many plan,
once again, to transform the nation.
James P. Pinkerton is a longtime contributing editor at The American Conservative , columnist, and author. He served
as longtime regular columnist for Newsday. He has also written for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The
Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, USA Today, National Review, The New Republic, Foreign Affairs, Fortune, and The
Jerusalem Post. He is the author of What Comes Next: The End of Big Government--and the New Paradigm Ahead (1995) . He worked in the White House domestic policy offices of Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush and in the 1980, 1984,
1988 and 1992 presidential campaigns.
The root cause of all those flash points are Anglo-American -Israelis Imperialism. Lets
not pretend US-UK-Israel are not joined at the hip. Thats where much of the anti-American
sentiment comes from. Most of the protesters are white who were ticked off at the lockdowns
and police excesses (arresting Moms taking kids to park) but MSM hijacked the narrative. Many
also are tired of our foreign conflicts and income inequality at home, not to mention
ridiculous incarceration rates for non violent crimes (highest in world).
The BLM narrative is an attempt to divide the country and prevent people from uniting
against a common enemy. They are the elite corporate-Government-philanthropic partnership
that seeks to restructure society and push through a global reset after destroying the real
economy. Order out of chaos.
"I am referring to how the US society will deal with a virulently anti-US coalition of
minorities which hate this country and everything, good and bad that it stood for in the
past. Right now the US elites are committing national suicide by not only failing to oppose,
but also by actively supporting the BLM thugs and everything they stand for: BLM & Co.
remind me of Ukronazis whose main expression of national identity is to hate everything
Russian – the BLM thugs do the same thing: their entire worldview is pure hatred of the
hetero White male and the western civilization; and just as the Ukies regale each other with
stories about the "ancient Ukrs" the BLM folks imagine that they will somehow turn the US
into a type Wakanda before expelling (or worse) all those who are not willing to hand over
their country to roaming gangs of illiterate thugs."
That nonsense is right out of the likudite divisive psywar front called american
conservative talk radio: limbaugh*, hannity, levin and the rest of the zionazi-(very)gay
extremist shills that make up the bulk of the neocon psywar machine. Sad to see saker reduce
himself to that very low level of neocon horse manure, but when massa calls, the beholden
comply
*limbaugh is dying of lung cancer, poor guy that Karma's a suka. ;-D
The saker is over exaggerating the impact of the US marxists inc BLM.
It's all media controlled, they control the heat at any given moment, when things start
getting out of hand or against the direction they want it to go they just launch a media
blackout. Simple.
All the media companies are controlled by the same people, just like our reality.
If / when Biden gets in you won't hear about BLM anymore, it's all switched off just like
that.
This article is good as always, but the conclusion has a fishy sheen of Economist
glibness: like the Economist, it sounds good, except when you know something about the topic;
then you start thinking, wait, maybe the arcane exotic stuff is all wet too.
The BLM analysis up there is pure ideology, and frankly silly. BLM is nerf protest,
pretend revolution, a feckless diversion from the aims of this authentic and spontaneous
rebellion. The black guys in the streets know it's bullshit and they say so. BLM is
Democrats frantically trying to climb on the bandwagon and hijack it, divert it toward
innocuous crap. Pulling down statues is the least threatening activity this regime can
imagine.
Statues have nothing whatever to do with American culture or folkways. Statues are civic
religion, not culture. BLM is government cheese, like Washington on a horse. You should be
watching M4BL, it's their rebellion. And what do they want? The one thing that will destroy
this regime. Peace. Not hippy-dippy peace but the human right to peace in the full meaning of
the Santiago Declaration before US satellites bowdlerized it as a resolution. M4BL and its
memory-holed NGO allies want to end state violence at home and abroad through struggle and
international solidarity. They're determined to stop US aggression and repression. That will
destroy the USA as we know it. Which is exactly what we need.
You're used to me saying it, but now read this stunning essay by writer Peter Savodnik,
writing in Tablet magazine, says that Woke America is like living in a 19th century
Russian novel. Savodnik begins by recalling a semester in 2012 spent at Middlebury College,
teaching Russian literature, and reflecting on what drew him there that year. More:
But there was something else, less obvious and more frightening, and that has become
clearer, more haunting, in the eight years since: The metaphysical gap between
mid-19th-century Russia and early-21st-century America is narrowing. The parallels between
them then and us now, political and social but mostly characterological, are becoming
sharper, more unavoidable.
We can reassure ourselves by repeating obvious truths: The United States is not czarist
Russia. The present is not the past. History does not repeat itself. But those facts are not
immutable laws so much as observations, and even though they are built on solid foundations,
those foundations are not impervious to shifting sands. We can go backward. We can descend
into a primal state we thought we had escaped forever. That is the lesson of the 20th
century.
The similarities between past and present are legion: The coarsening of the culture, our
economic woes, our political logjams, the opportunism and fecklessness of our so-called
elites, the corruption of our institutions, the ease with which we talk about "revolution"
(as in Bernie Sanders' romanticization of "political revolution"), the anger, the
polarization, the anti-Semitism.
But the most important thing is the new characters, who are not that dissimilar to the old
ones.
Consider Yevgeny Bazarov. To Bazarov, one of the sons in Turgenev's Fathers and Sons, the
whole of Russia is rotten, and anyone who can't see that is an idiot or a knave, and the only
solution is to raze everything. There is a logic to his thinking. Russia was ruled by a
backward-looking monarchy. The nobility was complicit in perpetuating grotesque inequality.
The Orthodox Church was allied with the ruling classes. And the ruling classes moved
glacially to liberalize. (In Western Europe, the feudal system started to collapse nearly
four centuries before it did in Russia.)
One can imagine arriving at the conclusion that Russia would never reform itself, that the
only way to liberate it from its medievalism was to start over. Bazarov, a doctor whose
empirical nature, we are led to understand, informs his nihilism, is convinced that Russia
must start over, and everything about him -- his sarcasm, his lack of empathy -- is meant to
convey disdain, destruction, a sweeping away of the old. He is openly disrespectful of the
fathers in the novel -- Nikolai Petrovich and Vasily Ivanovich -- because they're old.
They're fathers. They come before, so they are necessarily less developed. To Bazarov, those
who do not see the world exactly as he does -- most people -- are simply roadblocks or
enemies. They are not really people. They are not wholly human.
One wonders if Bazarov is that different from today's protesters and statue-topplers, the
20-somethings sowing discord in our newsrooms, the cancellers, the uber-woke, the sociopaths
who police our social media feeds, those who would massage or rewrite history in the service
of a glorious future. Like Bazarov, they are incapable of empathizing with those who do not
view the world the way they do. Like Bazarov, they assume that the place they come from
(America) is cancerous to the core -- regressive, hateful, an affront to right-thinking
people everywhere. Like Bazarov, there is about them a crude sarcasm (or snark). Like
Bazarov, there is a logic to their outrage: Today, we are witnessing Americans revolting
against the vestiges of a barbaric, racial hierarchy that was constructed four centuries ago.
That hierarchy continues to be felt. It is not unreasonable to wonder, When will we
finally transcend the past?
Savodnik goes through other characters from 19th century Russian novels. It's uncanny
, the parallels between then and now. I won't quote much more from this essay, because it's so
very rich that I want you to read every line. He goes on:
We know how this turned out, and for those who have forgotten, or for those who are too
young or ignorant to know, we should remind them over and over: Those who questioned the
revolution, objected to any of its ends or means, thought there might be something worth
preserving, were deemed hostile combatants or hapless chumps whose false consciousness
inhibited progress. In the end, they were all airbrushed. In the end, the way one escaped
this airbrushing was to signal, with a great and inauthentic virtue, that one was not a
hostile combatant by spotlighting the real enemies of progress. Whether these enemies were
real or "real" was immaterial. Only idiots worried about the truth. There was no truth. What
was most important was to keep one's head down and, if need be, accuse wantonly. Accuse!
Accuse! Accuse! Or as Americans like to say, the best defense is a good offense. Everyone
knew this would never lead to the place they had been promised it would lead to, but what
else was there to do? As the violence ratcheted up, it was necessary to signal with ever
greater ferocity, to name more names, to out more wrong-thinkers, until all that was left was
the pathetic, bloodless corpse of a country dislodged from itself.
This is us, y'all. This is where we are. This is who we are. But to my knowledge, we don't
have any Dostoevskys or Turgenevs to prophesy in art. Or do we? Who am I missing.
Read it all.
I cannot emphasize strongly enough how much you need to read this.
Of course this dovetails perfectly with my forthcoming book
Live Not By Lies . I feel sheepish promoting the book here, but I wrote the book
because I desperately want people, especially Christian people, to prepare themselves
spiritually and communally for the catastrophe likely to befall us. We don't have forever. If
it were up to me, I would do what I could to make the book available tomorrow. But publishing
moves slowly, and it won't be out till September 29. You can pre-order it, though, and have it
in your mailbox or on your Kindle the day it's released.
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Here are excerpts from my book that echo Savodnik's essay. Note that Savodnik says, as I do
in my book, that race and identity politics have taken the place for 21st century Americans the
role that Marxism played for 19th century Russians:
Younger Russians [of the 19th century] also keenly felt the shame of their liberal
fathers' failures to change the system. In the midst of Russia's decline, Marxism appealed to
restless young intellectuals who were sick of the old order, had lost faith in reforming it,
and who were desperate to tear the system down and replace it with something entirely
different.
Marxism stood for the future. Marxism stood for progress. The gospel of Marxism lit a fire
in the minds of prerevolutionary Russian radicals. Their priests and the prophets were their
intellectuals, who were "religious about being secular." Writes historian Yuri Slezkine: "A
conversion to socialism was a conversion to the intelligentsia, to a fusion of millenarian
faith and lifelong learning."
Far-left radicalism was initially spread among the intellectuals primarily through reading
groups. Once you adopted the Marxist faith, everything else in life became illuminated. The
intellectuals went into the world to preach this pseudo-religion to the workers. These
missionaries, says Slezkine, made what religious believers would call prophetic revelations,
and by appealing to hatred in their listeners' hearts, called them to conversion.
Once they had captured Russia's universities, the radicals took their gospel to the
factories. Few of the workers were capable of understanding Marxist doctrine, but the
missionaries taught it to those capable of translating the essentials into a form that
ordinary people could grasp.
You saw recently that
Oprah Winfrey signed an agreement to create entertainment content based on The New York
Times 's propagandistic 1619 Project? This is that.
More from Live Not By Lies :
The post-World War I generation of writers and artists were marked by their embrace and
celebration of anti-cultural philosophies and acts as a way of demonstrating contempt for
established hierarchies, institutions, and ways of thinking. Arendt said of some writers who
glorified the will to power, "They read not Darwin but the Marquis de Sade."
Her point was that these authors did not avail themselves of respectable intellectual
theories to justify their transgressiveness. They immersed themselves in what is basest in
human nature and regarded doing so as acts of liberation. Arendt's judgment of the postwar
elites who recklessly thumbed their noses at respectability could easily apply to those of
our own day who shove aside liberal principles like fair play, race neutrality, free speech,
and free association as obstacles to equality. Arendt wrote:
The members of the elite did not object at all to paying a price, the destruction of
civilization, for the fun of seeing how those who had been excluded unjustly in the past
forced their way into it.
Regarding transgressive sexuality as a social good was not an innovation of the sexual
revolution. Like the contemporary West, late imperial Russia was also awash in what historian
James Billington called "a preoccupation with sex that is quite without parallel in earlier
Russian culture." Among the social and intellectual elite, sexual adventurism, celebrations
of perversion, and all manner of sensuality was common. And not just among the elites: the
laboring masses, alone in the city, with no church to bind their consciences with guilt, or
village gossips to shame them, found comfort in sex.
The end of official censorship after the 1905 uprising opened the floodgates to erotic
literature, which found renewal in sexual passion. "The sensualism of the age was in a very
intimate sense demonic," Billington writes, detailing how the figure of Satan became a
Romantic hero for artists and musicians. They admired the diabolic willingness to stop at
nothing to satisfy one's desires and to exercise one's will.
One more clip:
One of contemporary progressivism's commonly used phrases -- the personal is
political -- captures the totalitarian spirit, which seeks to infuse all aspects of life
with political consciousness. Indeed, the Left pushes its ideology ever deeper into the
personal realm, leaving fewer and fewer areas of daily life uncontested. This, warned Arendt,
is a sign that a society is ripening for totalitarianism, because that is what
totalitarianism essentially is: the politicization of everything.
Infusing every aspect of life with ideology was a standard aspect of Soviet
totalitarianism. Early in the Stalin era, N. V. Krylenko, a Soviet commissar (political
officer), steamrolled over chess players who wanted to keep politics out of the game.
"We must finish once and for all with the neutrality of chess," he said. "We must condemn
once and for all the formula 'chess for the sake of chess,' like the formula 'art for art's
sake.' We must organize shockbrigades of chess-players, and begin immediate realization of a
Five-Year Plan for chess."
The other day, I wrote
about a teacher's call in Philadelphia to make "antiracism" into "the overarching theme" of
all public education in that city's schools. This same mentality -- infusing ideology into all
aspects of life -- is what has overtaken The New York Times and other newspapers. You
might recall
the Times 's town hall meeting last summer , in which an unnamed staffer confronted
executive editor Dean Baquet:
Staffer: Hello, I have another question about racism. I'm wondering to what extent you
think that the fact of racism and white supremacy being sort of the foundation of this
country should play into our reporting. Just because it feels to me like it should be a
starting point, you know? Like these conversations about what is racist, what isn't racist. I
just feel like racism is in everything. It should be considered in our science reporting, in
our culture reporting, in our national reporting. And so, to me, it's less about the
individual instances of racism, and sort of how we're thinking about racism and white
supremacy as the foundation of all of the systems in the country. And I think particularly as
we are launching a 1619 Project, I feel like that's going to open us up to even more
criticism from people who are like, "OK, well you're saying this, and you're producing this
big project about this. But are you guys actually considering this in your daily
reporting?"
Baquet did not have the courage to stand up for traditional journalistic standards here. And
we have seen since then that the newspaper has become even more aggressively and monotonously
centered around race, from a progressive point of view. We must finish once and for all with
the neutrality of journalism , Baquet might have said. We must organize shockbrigades of
journalists, and begin immediate realization of an antiracist plan for journalism.
If you want to read the whole thing, pre-order Live Not By Lies . It is essential reading both to understand the meaning of this
moment, and to prepare resistance. Of course I don't know how this is going to end. In his
piece, Savodnik talks about the nihilistic white-nationalist right as a part of the current
picture. Personally, I expect that as the left-wing cultural revolution proceeds, we will see
violent reaction from young white men who feel nothing but rage, and like they have nothing to
lose. My guess is that after a period of violence, the left-wing establishment will impose
peace with force of arms, and use the power of already existing surveillance technology (e.g.,
the means and methods of surveillance capitalism) to control and suppress dissent. This is the
world that Live Not By Lies is trying to prepare us for.
Don't dare allow yourself to believe that it can't happen here. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,
Vaclav Havel, Silvester Krcmery, and Hannah Arendt all said that that is the lie that people
living in modern Western liberal democracies tell themselves to avoid having to face reality,
and act to fight evil while there is time. One more clip from Live Not By Lies, about
how Russians of the late imperial era did not see what was coming until it was too late:
In retrospect, this seems almost unbelievable. How could the Russians have been so blind?
It was, in a sense, a problem of the imagination. Reflecting on the speed with which utopian
dreams turned into a grisly nightmare, Solzhenitsyn observed:
If the intellectuals in the plays of Chekhov who spent all their time guessing what
would happen in twenty, thirty, or forty years had been told that in forty years
interrogation by torture would be practiced in Russia; that prisoners would have their skulls
squeezed within iron rings, that a human being would be lowered into an acid bath; that they
would be trussed up naked to be bitten by ants and bedbugs; that a ramrod heated over a
primus stove would be thrust up their anal canal (the "secret brand"); that a man's genitals
would be slowly crushed beneath the toe of a jackboot; and that, in the luckiest possible
circumstances, prisoners would be tortured by being kept from sleeping for a week, by thirst,
and by being beaten to a bloody pulp, not one of Chekhov's plays would have gotten to its end
because all the heroes would have gone off to insane asylums.
It wasn't just the tsarists who didn't see it coming but also the country's leading
liberal minds. It was simply beyond their ability to conceive.
It can happen here, and it will happen here, unless we wake up and act decisively. Acting
decisively also means making preparations, like Father Tomislav Kolakovic and his followers in
pre-communist Slovakia, for how the church will survive under the coming totalitarianism. But
we will talk about that in depth once Live Not By Lies has been published. Something to get straight in your head now: do
not listen to people who tell you everything is going to be okay, that this is something
passing, and everything will get back to normal soon enough. It's a dangerous delusion.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Rod Dreher is a senior editor at The American Conservative . He has written and
edited for the New York Post , The Dallas Morning News , National Review ,
the South Florida Sun-Sentinel , the Washington Times , and the Baton Rouge
Advocate . Rod's commentary has been published in The Wall Street Journal ,
Commentary , the Weekly Standard , Beliefnet, and Real Simple, among other
publications, and he has appeared on NPR, ABC News, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, and the BBC. He lives
in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, with his wife Julie and their three children. He has also written
four books, The Little Way of Ruthie Leming , Crunchy Cons , How Dante Can
Save Your Life , and The Benedict Option .
A n open
letter published by Harper's magazine, and signed by dozens of prominent writers
and public figures, has focused attention on the apparent dangers of what has been termed a new
"cancel culture."
The letter brings together an unlikely alliance of genuine leftists, such as Noam Chomsky
and Matt Karp, centrists such as J. K. Rowling and Ian Buruma, and neoconservatives such as
David Frum and Bari Weiss, all speaking out in defense of free speech.
Although the letter doesn't explicitly use the term "cancel culture," it is clearly what is
meant in the complaint about a "stifling" cultural climate that is imposing "ideological
conformity" and weakening "norms of open debate and toleration of differences."
It is easy to agree with the letter's generalized argument for tolerance and free and fair
debate. But the reality is that many of those who signed are utter hypocrites, who have shown
precisely zero commitment to free speech, either in their words or in their deeds.
Further, the intent of many them in signing the letter is the very reverse of their
professed goal: they want to stifle free speech, not protect it.
To understand what is really going on with this letter, we first need to scrutinize the
motives , rather than the substance, of the letter.
A New 'Illiberalism'
"Cancel culture" started as the shaming, often on social media, of people who were seen to
have said offensive things. But of late, cancel culture has on occasion become more tangible,
as the letter notes, with individuals fired or denied the chance to speak at a public venue or
to publish their work.
The letter denounces this supposedly new type of "illiberalism":
"We uphold the value of robust and even caustic counter-speech from all quarters. But it
is now all too common to hear calls for swift and severe retribution in response to perceived
transgressions of speech and thought.
Editors are fired for running controversial pieces; books are withdrawn for alleged
inauthenticity; journalists are barred from writing on certain topics; professors are
investigated for quoting works of literature in class; The result has been to steadily narrow
the boundaries of what can be said without the threat of reprisal. We are already paying the
price in greater risk aversion among writers, artists, and journalists who fear for their
livelihoods if they depart from the consensus, or even lack sufficient zeal in
agreement."
Tricky Identity Politics
David Frum in 2013. (Policy Exchange, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons)
The array of signatories is actually more troubling than reassuring. If we lived in a more
just world, some of those signing – like Frum, a former speechwriter for President George
W. Bush, and Anne-Marie Slaughter, a former U.S. State Department official – would be
facing a reckoning before a Hague war crimes tribunal for their roles in promoting
"interventions" in Iraq and Libya respectively, not being held up as champions of free
speech.
That is one clue that these various individuals have signed the letter for very different
reasons.
Chomsky signed because he has been a lifelong and consistent defender of the right to free
speech, even for those with appalling opinions such as Holocaust denial.
Frum, who coined the term "axis of evil" that rationalized the invasion of Iraq, and Weiss,
a New York Times columnist, signed because they have found their lives getting
tougher. True, it is easy for them to dominate platforms in the corporate media while
advocating for criminal wars abroad, and they have paid no career price when their analyses and
predictions have turned out to be so much dangerous hokum. But they are now feeling the
backlash on university campuses and social media.
Ian Buruma, at right, with the writer Martin Amis at 2007 New Yorker Festival. (CC BY-SA
2.0, Wikimedia Commons)
Meanwhile, centrists like Buruma and Rowling have discovered that it is getting ever harder
to navigate the tricky terrain of identity politics without tripping up. The reputational
damage can have serious consequences.
Buruma famously lost his job as editor of The New York Review of Books two years
ago after after he published and defended an article that
violated the new spirit of the #MeToo movement. And Rowling made the mistake of thinking her
followers would be as fascinated by her traditional views on transgender issues as they are by
her Harry Potter books.
'Fake News, Russian Trolls'
But the fact that all of these writers and intellectuals agree that there is a price to be
paid in the new, more culturally sensitive climate does not mean that they are all equally
interested in protecting the right to be controversial or outspoken.
Chomsky, importantly, is defending free speech for all , because he correctly
understands that the powerful are only too keen to find justifications to silence those who
challenge their power. Elites protect free speech only in so far as it serves their interests
in dominating the public space.
If those on the progressive left do not defend the speech rights of everyone, even their
political opponents, then any restrictions will soon be turned against them. The Establishment
will always tolerate the hate speech of U.S. President Donald Trump or Brazilian President Jair
Bolsonaro over the justice speech of U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders or Jeremy Corbyn, the former
leader of the Labour Party in the U.K.
By contrast, most of the rest of those who signed – the right-wingers and the
centrists – are interested in free speech for themselves and those like them .
They care about protecting free speech only in so far as it allows them to continue dominating
the public space with their views – something they were only too used to until a few
years ago, before social media started to level the playing field a little.
The center and the right have been fighting back ever since with claims that anyone who
seriously challenges the neoliberal status quo at home and the neoconservative one abroad is
promoting "fake news" or is a "Russian troll." This updating of the charge of being
"un-American" embodies cancel culture at its very worst.
Social Media Accountability
In other words, apart from the case of a few progressives, the letter is simply special
pleading – for a return to the status quo. And for that reason, as we shall see, Chomsky
might have been better advised not to have added his name, however much he agrees with the
letter's vague, ostensibly pro-free speech sentiments.
What is striking about a significant proportion of those who signed is their
self-identification as ardent supporters of Israel. And as Israel's critics know only too well,
advocates for Israel have been at the forefront of the cancel culture – from long before
the term was even coined.
For decades, pro-Israel activists have sought to silence anyone seen to be seriously
critiquing this small, highly militarized state, sponsored by the colonial powers, that was
implanted in a region rich with a natural resource, oil, needed to lubricate the global
economy, and at a terrible cost to its native, Palestinian population.
Nothing should encourage us to believe that zealous defenders of Israel among those signing
the letter have now seen the error of their ways. Their newfound concern for free speech is
simply evidence that they have begun to suffer from the very same cancel culture they have
always promoted in relation to Israel.
They have lost control of the "cancel culture" because of two recent developments: a rapid
growth in identity politics among liberals and leftists, and a new popular demand for
"accountability" spawned by the rise of social media.
Cancelling Israel's Critics
Former Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn at campaign rally in Glasgow, December 2019. (Jeremy
Corbyn, Flickr)
In fact, despite their professions of concern, the evidence suggests that some of those
signing the letter have been intensifying their own contribution to cancel culture in relation
to Israel, rather than contesting it.
That is hardly surprising. The need to counter criticism of Israel has grown more pressing
as Israel has more obviously become a pariah state. Israel has refused to countenance peace
talks with the Palestinians and it has intensified its efforts to realize long-harbored plans
to annex swaths of the West Bank in violation of international law.
Rather than allow "robust and even caustic counter-speech from all quarters" on Israel,
Israel's supporters have preferred the tactics of those identified in the letter as enemies of
free speech: "swift and severe retribution in response to perceived transgressions of speech
and thought."
Just ask Jeremy Corbyn, the former leader of the Labour Party who was reviled, along with
his supporters, as an anti-Semite – one of the worst smears imaginable – by several
people on the Harper's list, including Rowling and Weiss
. Such claims were promoted even though his critics could produce no actual evidence of an
antisemitism problem in the Labour party.
Similarly, think of the treatment of Palestinian solidarity activists who support a boycott
of Israel (BDS), modelled on the one that helped push South Africa's leaders into renouncing
apartheid. BDS activists too have been smeared as anti-Semites – and Weiss again has been
a prime
offender .
Pro-Israel counter demonstration against the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions demonstration
outside School of Oriental and African Studies in London, April 2017. (Philafrenzy, CC BY-SA
4.0, Wikimedia Commons)
The incidents highlighted in the Harper's letter in which individuals have
supposedly been cancelled is trivial compared to the cancelling of a major political party and
of a movement that stands in solidarity with a people who have been oppressed for decades.
And yet how many of these free speech warriors have come forward to denounce the fact that
leftists -- including many Jewish anti-Zionists -- have been pilloried as anti-Semites to
prevent them from engaging in debates about Israel's behavior and its abuses of Palestinian
rights?
How many of them have decried the imposition of a new definition of anti-Semitism, by the
International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, that has been rapidly gaining ground in Western
countries?
That definition is designed to silence a large section of the left by prioritising the
safety of Israel from being criticised before the safety of Jews from being vilified and
attacked – something that even the lawyer who authored the definition has come to
regret .
Why has none of this "cancel culture" provoked an open letter to Harper's from
these champions of free speech?
Double-Edge Sword
The truth is that many of those who signed the letter are defending not free speech but
their right to continue dominating the public square – and their right to do so without
being held accountable.
Bari Weiss, before she landed a job at The Wall Street Journal and then The New
York Times , spent her student years trying to get Muslim professors
fired from her university – cancelling them – because of their criticism of
Israel. And she explicitly did so under the banner of "academic freedom," claiming pro-Israel
students felt intimidated in the classroom.
The New York Civil Liberties Union concluded that it was Weiss, not the professors, who was
the real threat to academic freedom. This was not some youthful indiscretion. In a book last
year Weiss cited her efforts to rid Columbia university of these professors as a formative
experience on which she still draws.
Weiss and many of the others listed under the letter are angry that the rhetorical tools
they used for so long to stifle the free speech of others have now been turned against them.
Those who lived for so long by the sword of identity politics – on Israel, for example
– are worried that their reputations may die by that very same sword – on issues of
race, sex and gender.
[Weiss just
quit her post at The New York Times , citing an illiberal environment. As part of
her full statement
she writes, "Twitter is not on the masthead of The New York Times. But Twitter has become its
ultimate editor. As the ethics and mores of that platform have become those of the paper, the
paper itself has increasingly become a kind of performance space. Stories are chosen and told
in a way to satisfy the narrowest of audiences, rather than to allow a curious public to read
about the world and then draw their own conclusions."]
Narcissistic Concern
To understand how the cancel culture is central to the worldview of many of these writers
and intellectuals, and how blind they are to their own complicity in that culture, consider the
case of Jonathan Freedland, a columnist with the supposedly liberal-left British newspaper
The Guardian . Although Freedland is not among those signing the letter, he is very
much aligned with the centrists among them and, of course, supported the letter in an article
published in The Guardian.
Freedland, we should note, led the "cancel culture" campaign against the Labour Party
referenced above. He was one of the key figures in Britain's Jewish community who breathed life
into the anti-Semitism
smears against Corbyn and his supporters.
Jonathan Freedland in 2013. (Chatham House, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons)
But note the brief clip below. In it, Freedland's voice can be heard cracking as he explains
how he has been a victim of the cancel culture himself: he confesses that he has suffered
verbal and emotional abuse at the hands of Israel's most extreme apologists – those who
are even more unapologetically pro-Israel than he is.
He reports that he has been called a "kapo," the term for Jewish collaborators in the Nazi
concentration camps, and a "sonderkommando," the Jews who disposed of the bodies of fellow Jews
killed in the gas chambers. He admits such abuse "burrows under your skin" and "hurts
tremendously."
And yet, despite the personal pain he has experienced of being unfairly accused, of being
cancelled by a section of his own community, Freedland has been at the forefront of the
campaign to tar critics of Israel, including anti-Zionist Jews, as anti-Semites on the
flimsiest of evidence.
He is entirely oblivious to the ugly nature of the cancel culture – unless it
applies to himself . His concern is purely narcissistic. And so it is with the majority of
those who signed the letter.
Conducting a Monologue
The letter's main conceit is the pretence that "illiberalism" is a new phenomenon, that free
speech is under threat, and that the cancel culture only arrived at the moment it was given a
name.
That is simply nonsense. Anyone over the age of 35 can easily remember a time when
newspapers and websites did not have a talkback section, when blogs were few in number and
rarely read, and when there was no social media on which to challenge or hold to account "the
great and the good."
Writers and columnists like those who signed the letter were then able to conduct a
monologue in which they revealed their opinions to the rest of us as if they were Moses
bringing down the tablets from the mountaintop.
In those days, no one noticed the cancel culture – or was allowed to remark on it. And
that was because only those who held approved opinions were ever given a media platform from
which to present those opinions.
Before the digital revolution, if you dissented from the narrow consensus imposed by the
billionaire owners of the corporate media, all you could do was print your own primitive
newsletter and send it by post to the handful of people who had heard of you.
That was the real cancel culture. And the proof is in the fact that many of those formerly
obscure writers quickly found they could amass tens of thousands of followers – with no
help from the traditional corporate media – when they had access to blogs and social
media.
Silencing the Left
Occupy Wall Street protesters engaging in the "human microphone," Sept. 30 2011. (David
Shankbone, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons)
Which brings us to the most troubling aspect of the open letter in Harper's . Under
cover of calls for tolerance, given credibility by Chomsky's name, a proportion of those
signing actually want to restrict the free speech of one section of the population – the
part influenced by Chomsky.
They are not against the big cancel culture from which they have benefited for so long. They
are against the small cancel culture – the new more chaotic, and more democratic, media
environment we currently enjoy – in which they are for the first time being held to
account for their views, on a range of issues including Israel.
Just as Weiss tried to get professors fired under the claim of academic freedom, many of
these writers and public figures are using the banner of free speech to discredit speech they
don't like, speech that exposes the hollowness of their own positions.
Their criticisms of "cancel culture" are really about prioritizing "responsible" speech,
defined as speech shared by centrists and the right that shores up the status quo. They want a
return to a time when the progressive left – those who seek to disrupt a manufactured
consensus, who challenge the presumed verities of neoliberal and neoconservative orthodoxy
– had no real voice.
The new attacks on "cancel culture" echo the attacks on Bernie Sanders' supporters, who were
framed as "Bernie Bros" – the evidence-free allegation that he attracted a rabble of
aggressive, women-hating men who tried to bully others into silence on social media.
Bernie Sanders' 2020 Campaign Co-chair Nina Turner at Los Angeles City Hall rally, March
2019. (Sara Mossman, Flickr)
Just as this claim was used to discredit Sanders' policies, so the center and the right now
want to discredit the left more generally by implying that, without curbs, they too will bully
everyone else into silence and submission through their "cancel culture."
If this conclusion sounds unconvincing, consider that President Donald Trump could easily
have added his name to the letter alongside Chomsky's. Trump used his recent Independence Day
speech at Mount Rushmore to make similar points to the Harper's letter. He at
least was explicit in equating "cancel culture" with what he called "far-left fascism":
"One of [the left's] political weapons is 'Cancel Culture' -- driving people from their
jobs, shaming dissenters, and demanding total submission from anyone who disagrees. This is
the very definition of totalitarianism This attack on our liberty, our magnificent liberty,
must be stopped, and it will be stopped very quickly."
Trump, in all his vulgarity, makes plain what the Harper's letter, in all its
cultural finery, obscures. That attacks on the new "cancel culture" are simply another front
– alongside supposed concerns about "fake news" and "Russian trolls" – in the
establishment's efforts to limit speech by the left.
Attention Redirected
This is not to deny that there is fake news on social media or that there are trolls, some
of them even Russian. Rather, it is to point out that our attention is being redirected, and
our concerns manipulated by a political agenda.
Despite the way it has been presented in the corporate media, fake news on social media has
been mostly a problem of the right. And the worst examples of fake news – and the most
influential – are found not on social media at all, but on the front pages of The
Wall Street Journal and The New York Times .
What genuinely fake news on Facebook has ever rivalled the lies justifying the invasion of
Iraq in 2003 that were knowingly peddled by a political elite and their stenographers in the
corporate media. Those lies led directly to more than a million Iraqi deaths, turned millions
more into refugees, destroyed an entire country, and fuelled a new type of nihilistic Islamic
extremism whose effects we are still feeling.
Most of the worst lies from the current period – those that have obscured or justified
U.S. interference in Syria and Venezuela, or rationalized war crimes against Iran, or approved
the continuing imprisonment of Julian Assange for exposing war crimes – can only be
understood by turning our backs on the corporate media and looking to experts who can rarely
find a platform outside of social media.
I say this as someone who has concerns about the fashionable focus on identity politics
rather than class politics. I say it also as someone who rejects all forms of cancel culture
– whether it is the old-style, "liberal" cancel culture that imposes on us a narrow
"consensus" politics (the Overton window), or the new "leftwing" cancel culture that too often
prefers to focus on easy cultural targets like Rowling than the structural corruption of
western political systems.
But those who are impressed by the letter simply because Chomsky's name is attached should
beware. Just as "fake news" has provided the pretext for Google and social media platforms to
change their algorithms to vanish leftwingers from searches and threads, just as "antisemitism"
has been redefined to demonise the left, so too the supposed threat of "cancel culture" will be
exploited to silence the left.
Protecting Bari Weiss and J K Rowling from a baying leftwing "mob" – a mob that that
claims a right to challenge their views on Israel or trans issues – will become the new
rallying cry from the Establishment for action against "irresponsible" or
"intimidating" speech.
Progressive leftists who join these calls out of irritation with the current focus on
identity politics, or because they fear being labelled an antisemite, or because they
mistakenly assume that the issue really is about free speech, will quickly find that they are
the main targets.
In defending free speech, they will end up being the very ones who are silenced.
UPDATE:
Noam Chomsky. (Duncan Rawlinson)
You don't criticize Chomsky however tangentially and respectfully – at least not from
a left perspective – without expecting a whirlwind of opposition from those who believe
he can never do any wrong.
But one issue that keeps being raised on my social media feeds in his defense is just plain
wrong-headed, so I want to quickly address it. Here's one my followers expressing the point
succinctly:
"The sentiments in the letter stand or fall on their own merits, not on the characters or
histories of some of the signatories, nor their future plans."
The problem, as I'm sure Chomsky would explain in any other context, is that this letter
fails not just because of the other people who signed it but on its merit too . And
that's because, as I explain above, it ignores the most oppressive and most established forms
of cancel culture, as Chomsky should have been the first to notice.
Highlighting the small cancel culture, while ignoring the much larger, Establishment-backed
cancel culture, distorts our understanding of what is at stake and who wields power.
Chomsky unwittingly just helped a group of mostly Establishment stooges skew our perceptions
of free speech problems so that we side with them against ourselves. There is no way that can
be a good thing.
UPDATE 2:
There are still people holding out against the idea that it harmed the left to have Chomsky
sign this letter. And rather than address their points individually, let me try another way of
explaining my argument:
Why has Chomsky not signed a letter backing the furor over "fake news," even though there is
some fake news on social media? Why has he not endorsed the "Bernie Bros" narrative, even
though doubtless there are some bullying Sanders supporters on social media? Why has he not
supported the campaign claiming the Labour Party has an anti-Semitism problem, even though
there are some anti-Semites in the Labour Party (as there are everywhere)?
He hasn't joined any of those campaigns for a very obvious reason – because he
understands how power works, and that on the left you hit up, not down. You certainly don't
cheerlead those who are up as they hit down.
Chomsky understands this principle only too well because here he is setting it out in
relation to Iran:
"Suppose I criticise Iran. What impact does that have? The only impact it has is in
fortifying those who want to carry out policies I don't agree with, like bombing."
For exactly the same reason he has not joined those pillorying Iran – because his
support would be used for nefarious ends – he shouldn't have joined this campaign. He
made a mistake. He's fallible.
Also, this isn't about the left eating itself. Really, Chomsky shouldn't be the issue. The
issue should be that a bunch of centrists and right-wingers used this letter to try to
reinforce a narrative designed to harm the left, and lay the groundwork for further curbs on
its access to social media. But because Chomsky signed the letter, many more leftists are now
buying into that narrative – a narrative intended to harm them. That's why Chomsky's role
cannot be ignored, nor his mistake glossed over.
UPDATE 3:
Apologies for yet another update. I had not anticipated how many ways people on the left
might find to justify this letter.
Here's the latest reasoning. Apparently, the letter sets an important benchmark that can in
future be used to protect free speech by the left when we are threatened with being
"cancelled" – as, for example, with the anti-Semitism smears that were used against
anti-Zionist Jews and other critics of Israel in the Labour Party.
I should hardly need to point out how naive this argument is. It completely ignores how
power works in our societies: who gets to decide what words mean and how principles are
applied. This letter won't help the left because "cancel culture" is being framed – by
this letter, by Trump, by the media – as a "loony left" problem. It is a new iteration of
the "politically correct gone mad" discourse, and it will be used in exactly the same way.
It won't help Steven Salaita, sacked from a university job because he criticized Israel's
killing of civilians in Gaza, or Chris Williamson, the Labour MP expelled because he defended
the party's record on being anti-racist.
The "cancel culture" furor isn't interested in the fact that they were "cancelled." Worse
still, this moral panic turns the whole idea of cancelling on its head: it is Salaita and
Williamson who are accused – and found guilty – of doing the cancelling, of
cancelling Israel and Jews.
Israel's supporters will continue to win this battle by claiming that criticism of Israel
"cancels" that country ("wipes it off the map"), "cancels" Israel's Jewish population ("drives
them into the sea"), and "cancels" Jews more generally ("denies a central component of modern
Jewish identity").
Greater awareness of "cancel culture" would not have saved Corbyn from the anti-Semitism
smears because the kind of cancel culture that smeared Corbyn is never going to be defined as
"cancelling."
For anyone who wishes to see how this works in practice, watch Guardian columnist
Owen Jones cave in – as he has done so often – to the power dynamics of the "cancel
culture" discourse in this interview with Sky News. I actually agree with almost everything
Jones says in this clip, apart from his joining yet again in the witch-hunt against Labour's
anti-Zionists. He doesn't see that witch-hunt as "cancel culture," and neither will anyone else
with a large platform like his to protect:
"... The cancel culture -- the phenomenon of removing or canceling people, brands or shows from the public domain because of offensive statements or ideologies -- is not a threat to the ruling class. Hundreds of corporations, nearly all in the hands of white executives and white board members, enthusiastically pumped out messages on social media condemning racism and demanding justice after George Floyd was choked to death by police in Minneapolis. ..."
The cancel culture -- the phenomenon of removing or canceling people, brands or shows from the public domain because of offensive
statements or ideologies -- is not a threat to the ruling class. Hundreds of corporations, nearly all in the hands of white executives
and white board members, enthusiastically pumped out messages on social media condemning racism and demanding justice after George
Floyd was choked to death by police in Minneapolis. Police, which along with the prison system are one of the primary instruments
of social control over the poor, have taken the knee, along with Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of the
serially criminal JPMorgan Chase , where
only 4 percent of the top executives are black . Jeff Bezos, the richest man in the world whose corporation, Amazon, paid no
federal income taxes last year and who fires workers that attempt to unionize and tracks warehouse laborers as if they were prisoners,
put a "Black Lives Matter" banner on Amazon's home page.
The rush by the ruling elites to profess solidarity with the protestors and denounce racist rhetoric and racist symbols, supporting
the toppling of Confederate statues and banning the Confederate flag, are symbolic assaults on white supremacy. Alone, these gestures
will do nothing to reverse the institutional racism that is baked into the DNA of American society. The elites will discuss race.
They will not discuss class.
We must be wary of allowing those wielding the toxic charge of racism, no matter how well intentioned their motives, to decide
who has a voice and who does not. Public shaming and denunciation, as any student of the Russian, French or Chinese revolutions knows,
is one that leads to absurdism and finally despotism. Virulent racists, such as Richard Spencer, exist. They are dangerous. But racism
will not end until we dismantle a class system that was created to empower oligarchic oppression and white supremacy. Racism will
not end until we defund the police and abolish the world's largest system of mass incarceration. Racism will not end until we invest
in people rather than systems of control. This means reparations for African-Americans, the unionization of workers, massive government
jobs programs, breaking up and nationalizing the big banks along with the for-profit health services, transportation sector, the
internet, privatized utilities and the fossil fuel industry, as well as a Green New Deal and the slashing of our war expenditures
by 75 percent.
Occupy Wall Street Sept. 25, 2011. (David Shankbone via Flickr)
Politically correct speech and symbols of inclusiveness, without a concerted assault on corporate power, will do nothing to change
a system that by design casts the poor and working poor, often people of color, aside -- Karl Marx called them surplus labor -- and
forces them into a life of misery and a brutal criminal caste system.
The cancel culture, with its public shaming on social media, is the boutique activism of the liberal elites. It allows faux student
radicals to hound and attack those deemed to be racist or transphobic, before these "radicals" graduate to work for corporations
such as Goldman Sachs, which last year paid $9 million in fines to settle federal allegations of racial and gender pay bias. Self-styled
Marxists in the academy have been pushed out of economic departments and been reborn as irrelevant cultural and literary critics,
employing jargon so obscure as to be unreadable. These "radical" theorists invest their energy in linguistic acrobatics and multiculturalism,
with branches such as feminism studies, queer studies and African-American studies. The inclusion of voices often left out of the
traditional academic canon certainly enriches the university. But multiculturalism, moral absolutism and the public denunciations
of apostates, by themselves, too often offer escape routes from critiquing and attacking the class structures and systems of economic
oppression that exclude and impoverish the poor and the marginal.
The hedge fund managers, oligarchs and corporate CEOs on college trustee boards don't care about Marxist critiques of Joseph Conrad.
They do care if students are being taught to dissect the lies of the neoliberal ideology used as a cover to orchestrate the largest
transference of wealth upwards in American history.
The cancel culture, shorn of class politics, is the parlor game of the overeducated. If we do not examine, as Theodor Adorno wrote,
the "societal play of forces that operate beneath the surface of political forms," we will be continually cursed with a more ruthless
and sophisticated form of corporate control, albeit one that is linguistically sensitive and politically correct.
"Stripped of a radical idiom, robbed of a utopian hope, liberals and leftists retreat in the name of progress to celebrate diversity,"
historian Russell Jacoby writes. "With few ideas on how a future should be shaped, they embrace all ideas. Pluralism becomes a catchall,
the alpha and omega of political thinking. Dressed up as multicultural, it has become the opium of disillusioned intellectuals, the
ideology of an era without an ideology."
The cudgel of racism, as I have experienced, is an effective tool to shut down debate. Students for Justice in Palestine organizations,
which almost always include Jewish students, are being banned on college campuses in the name of fighting racism. Activists in these
outlawed groups are often barred from holding any student leadership positions on campus. Professors that dare to counter the Zionist
narrative, such as the Palestinian American scholar Steven Salaita, have had job offers rescinded, been fired or denied tenure and
dismissed. Norman Finkelstein, one of the most important scholars on the Israel-Palestine conflict, has been ruthlessly targeted
by the Israel lobby throughout his career, making it impossible for him to get tenure or academic appointments. Never mind, that
he is not only Jewish but the son of Holocaust survivors. Jews, in this game, are branded as racists, and actual racists, such as
Donald Trump, because they back Israel's refusal to recognize Palestinian rights, are held up as friends of the Jewish people.
May Day 2015 demonstration at Union Square, New York City. (All-Nite Images, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons)
I have long been a target of the Israeli lobby. The lobby, usually working through Hillel Houses on college campuses, which function
as little more than outposts of American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), does not attempt to address my enumeration of the
war crimes committed by Israel, many of which I witnessed, the egregious flouting by Israel of international law, exacerbated by
the plans to annex up to 30 percent of the West Bank, or the historical record ignored and distorted by the lobby to justify Jewish
occupation of a country that from the 7 th century until 1948 was Muslim. The lobby prefers not to deal in the world of
facts. It misuses the trope of anti-Semitism to ensure that those who speak up for Palestinian rights and denounce Israeli occupation
are not invited to events on Israel-Palestine conflict, or are disinvited to speak after invitations have been sent out, as happened
to me at the University of Pennsylvania, among other venues.
It does not matter that I spent seven years in the Middle East, or that I was the Middle East Bureau Chief for The New York
Times , living for weeks at a time in the Israel-occupied territories. It does not matter that I speak Arabic. My voice and the
voices of those, especially Palestinians, who document the violations of Palestinian civil rights are canceled out by the mendacious
charge that we are racists. I doubt most of the college administrators who agree to block our appearances believe we are racists,
but they don't also want the controversy. Zionism is the cancel culture on steroids.
The Israel lobby, whose interference in our electoral process dwarfs that of any other country, including Russia, is now attempting
to criminalize the activities of those, such as myself, who support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. The lobby,
with its huge financial clout, is pushing state legislatures, in the name of fighting anti-Semitism, to use anti-boycott laws and
executive orders to punish companies and individuals that promote BDS. Twenty-seven states have so far enacted laws or policies that
penalize businesses, organizations and individuals for supporting BDS.
AIPAC gathering. (Wikimedia Commons)
The debate about the excesses of cancel culture was most recently ignited by a letter signed by 153 prominent and largely privileged
writers and intellectuals in Harper's Magazine
, a publication for educated, white liberals. Critics of the letter
argue , correctly, that "nowhere
in it do the signatories mention how marginalized voices have been silenced for generations in journalism, academia, and publishing."
These critics also point out, correctly, that signatories include those, such as The New York Times columnist David Brooks
and Malcolm Gladwell, with access to huge media platforms and who face no danger of being silenced. They finally
note that a few of the signatories
are the most vicious proponents of the Zionist cancel culture, including The New York Times editor Bari Weiss, who
led campaigns while at Columbia University to destroy the careers of Arab professors ; literary scholar Cary Nelson,
who was one of those who denounced the Palestinian American scholar Salaita as a racist; and political scientist Yascha Mounk,
who has attacked
Rep. Ilhan Omar as an anti-Semite.
I find the cancel culture and its public denunciations as distasteful as those who signed the letter. But these critics are battling
a monster of their own creation. The institutional and professional power of those targeted by the Harper's letter is insignificant,
especially when set against that of the signatories or the Israel lobby. Those singled out for attack pose little threat to the systems
of entrenched power, which the signatories ironically represent, and indeed are more often its victims. I suspect this is the reason
for the widespread ire the letter provoked.
The most ominous threats to free speech and public debate do not come from the cancel culture of the left, which rarely succeeds
in removing its targets from power, despite a few high profile
firings
such as James Bennet , who oversaw a series of tone-deaf editorial decisions as the opinion page editor at The New York Times.
These corporate forces, which assure us that Black Lives Matter, understand that the left's witch hunts are a harmless diversion.
Corporations have seized control of the news industry and turned it into burlesque. They have corrupted academic scholarship.
They make war on science and the rule of law. They have used their wealth to destroy our democracy and replace it with a system of
legalized bribery. They have created a world of masters and serfs who struggle at subsistence level and endure crippling debt peonage.
The commodification of the natural world by corporations has triggered an ecocide that is pushing the human species closer and closer
towards extinction. Anyone who attempts to state these truths and fight back was long ago driven from the mainstream and relegated
to the margins of the internet by Silicon Valley algorithms. As cancel culture goes, corporate power makes the Israel lobby look
like amateurs.
The current obsession with moral purity, devoid of a political vision and incubated by self-referential academics and educated
elites, is easily co-opted by the ruling class who will say anything, as long as the mechanisms of corporate control remain untouched.
We have enemies. They run Silicon Valley and sit on corporate boards. They make up the two ruling political parties. They manage
the war industry. They chatter endlessly on corporate-owned airwaves about trivia and celebrity gossip. Our enemies are now showering
us with politically correct messages. But until they are overthrown, until we wrest power back from our corporate masters, the most
insidious forms of racism in America will continue to flourish.
Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times
, where he served as the Middle East bureau chief and Balkan bureau chief for the paper. He previously worked overseas for
The Dallas Morning News , The Christian Science Monitor and NPR. He wrote a weekly column for the progressive website
Truthdig for 14 years until he was fired along with all of the editorial staff in March 2020. [Hedges and the staff had gone
on strike earlier in the month to protest the publisher's attempt to fire the Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer, demand an end to a series
of unfair labor practices and the right to form a union.] He is the host of the Emmy Award-nominated RT America show "On Contact."
:::stands up slowly::: :::starts a slow clap::: Reading Chris Hedges is like dancing with the truth. Well done, sir.
Chumpsky , July 14, 2020 at 19:34
Cancel culture comes across as more of a form of woke guerilla marketing than as a phenomenon supported by the economically
exploited. Ex. all the FAANG companies that are essentially propping up the stock market – see how quickly they've embraced this
"culture" when they realized it was excellent for business.
IMO, such is a trend, and it too, will pass -- when folks realize that the powers that be have hijacked their ideas for profit.
Lesson learned: when fringe goes mainstream it's all over – 1960's redux.
Litchfield , July 14, 2020 at 17:04
"I find the cancel culture and its public denunciations as distasteful as those who signed the letter. But these critics are
battling a monster of their own creation. The institutional and professional power of those targeted by the Harper's letter is
insignificant, especially when set against that of the signatories or the Israel lobby. Those singled out for attack pose little
threat to the systems of entrenched power, which the signatories ironically represent, and indeed are more often its victims.
I suspect this is the reason for the widespread ire the letter provoked."
Basically I agree with Hedges. But I cannot follwo what he is saying in this graf.
Also this:
"As cancel culture goes, corporate power makes the Israel lobby look like amateurs."
What? I thought the beginning portion of the piece was about the power of AIPAC and other Israel Lobby entities to shape narrative
and cancel out those who defend Palestinian rights.
IMO and for my understanding t he essay wanders toward the end until I am not sure who Hedges thinks is doing the actual canceling
and who is actually powerful: Israel lobby? corporate interests? Misguided young people?
Andrew Thomas , July 14, 2020 at 15:43
A beautifully written argument. Cheers to Chris Hedges and Robert Scheer and Consortium News.
Great article as always from Chris Hedges. Jonathan Cook also has an excellent article published today at Global Research regarding
the open letter from Harper's. Censorship is never the answer.
firstpersoninfinite , July 14, 2020 at 13:51
Chris Hedges and Cornel West are always worth listening to and/or reading. Very pleased to have the actual situation with "cancel
culture" brought into light with such clarity. We are living in the rarefied air of late-stage capitalism, in which an identifying
feature is more important than our collective humanity. When someone argues over their right to their particular piece of pie
while arguing against sharing the whole pie, I can't tell if they're an academic or a billionaire. All I hear is the ca-ching
of people protecting the last scraps thrown to them by an inhuman system.
DW Bartoo , July 14, 2020 at 13:34
Chris Hedges, in this article, lays out substantial portions of the many corruptions people of conscience and actual principle
must confront if a sane, humane, and sustainable global human society is to be established.
He briefly suggests that, in academia in particular, there are to be found very few articulated visions of what that society
could, should, and must be premised upon, how it might function, and what forms of critically necessary participatory democracy,
guiding such a society, would look, and feel, like.
He makes very clear that symbolic "progress" is simply a rhetorical deceit employed to ensure that the currently destructive,
and fully corrupt, "system" may prevail, even as many are lulled into believing that "things" are "improving", that semantic fiddling
will keep the fire, next time, harmlessly contained and its energy bent and dissipated into meaningless gesture.
As Hedges points out, were universities, indeed, all of education, dedicated to developing critical thinking, rather than to
breathlessly proclaiming the sandbox "politics" of childish bullies as being highly evolved example of social competence, or of
praising private equity as proof that vulture capitalism is the "end of history", or of touting Panglossian pronouncements of
U$ian virtue and exceptionalism as inevitably placing all of humankind in the pinker regions of a rose-colored present, then the
young might, intentionally, be provided with the tools of actually comprehending the massive fraud and corruption which controls
and curtails the lives of most human beings on this planet, to the immense benefit of approximately two thousand kakistocratic
elites.
In other articles, over the years, Hedges has stressed, time and again, that there is no guarantee of success in the struggle
which must be undertaken if humanity is to have any future at all.
Some may regard such sober assessment as "negative" or even "defeatist".
However, considering what we are up against, beyond the relatively "easy" target of symbols, it is the deeper recognition that
Hedges provides, which is the first real step toward understanding what must be changed and why.
And, unless, there is a clearly articulated destination, a coherent idea of where we wish to arrive, of the pathways, maps,
and a developed sense of the terrain that must be crossed, fraught, as it will be, with pitfalls and land mines of distraction,
and of being maliciously led astray, with "movements" being absorbed into dead end detours and dissipation, then a very real risk
of going nowhere, of becoming disoriented and fatally lost, is more than likely.
We may not envision defeat, yet it is foolhardy to assume success.
As there are, quite literally, no existing forums for such discussions and considerations as we must enjoin, it is to be hoped
that "education" will be understood as a group effort which, of necessity, involves listening quite as much as talking.
Frankly, we are not even to square #1, yet.
Getting there will not be easy.
And that, rather than toppling symbols, is only the beginning.
Clear strategy must evolve, which cannot happen until organization with the intent of engaging a coherent sense of collective
plight is first undertaken.
This process is not about saviors or awaiting some "one" who will magically provide a guaranteed plan of success.
Rather, it is about the hard slog of getting from the untenable moment of increasing precarity, to an shared awareness of individual
competence and wholeness, among the many.
That is the basis of the power and energy which we must bring into being.
We must find it in each of our selves and then encourage it in each other.
That may well sound both trite and obvious.
Yet it leads to a beginning, not of following, but of becoming.
James Whitney , July 14, 2020 at 13:13
Thanks to Chris Hedges for this informative article.
"Twenty-seven states have so far enacted laws or policies that penalize businesses, organizations and individuals for supporting
BDS."
BDS is also illegal in France since 2015 (not the fault of the dreadful president Macron, it was the "socialist" Hollande president
at that time). A reference is
which seems now to be no longer available, but the link indicates the content.
JOHN CHUCKMAN , July 14, 2020 at 11:39
Yes, Chris Hedges has it exactly right.
But look at so very much of American society – especially the young – involved in the almost game-like empty battles about
slogans on t-shirts.
Social media could almost have been a security services invention.
I don't know whose words can reach those people.
I'm afraid a great many have little more grasp of the realities of history and the shaping of their society than Trump has.
And in a sense, I think it is a continuation of a politics that rarely struggles with anything important. Too much invested
in wealth and serving wealth, as with the empire.
The question is : what is the role of FBI in organizing and driving the current protests,
especially the action of antifa?
Notable quotes:
"... It would be fitting justice for AntiFa to go the way the Red Guards ..."
"... Not quite nine years later, almost no one is talking about banksters, incredibly, although the country has been plunged into a much worse economic hell Broke and enraged, mobs swarm American streets, but instead of targeting those who are imploding their society, they pull down statues, break windows, deface walls, loot stores and attack cops or each other. ..."
"... Pelosi said even if DC burns down to the ground, the US will be 100% for Israel. Why not include Wall Street, the money bag of Jewish Power? ..."
"... In a way, what we are seeing is the Japanization of White America. This is why the US should not have dropped the nukes and forced unconditional surrender. They should have allowed Japan to surrender with honor. Make Japan give up its empire and military ambitions but let the Japanese keep their culture and sacred myths. But the US forced unconditional surrender, turned the Emperor into Tokyo Shoeshine boy, occupied Japan(and still has bases there), used Japanese women as whores & mistresses, and turned Japanese men into castrated cuck-wussies. Sound familiar? ..."
Though government infiltrators undoubtedly helped to fragment Occupy, most protesters
gleefully went along with their own gelding, because, to them, it was never about rallying the
99% towards common goals, as they vaguely claimed, but airing minority grievances. Most
importantly, they could look
cool doing it.
With visual evidence uploaded onto FaceBook, Tumblr and Instagram, etc., soy boys from strip
malled subdivisions could accrue street cred.
Since "Occupy Everything, Demand
Nothing " became Occupy's rallying cry, it achieved literally nothing, predictably. A month
after all tents were cleared from Zuccotti Park, Time Magazine anointed "The Protester" as
Person Of The Year, so for being symbolically homeless for two months, the sans cazzo got a
participation lollipop from the bossman.
Since then, unscathed and smirking Wall Street has only amped up its state-of-the-art shell
games, punctuated by bailouts. What's left of the country's wealth keeps flowing to the
top.
Although Occupy Wall Street exposed widespread discontent, it was deftly tamed by the state,
without addressing any of the issues raised. Worsened economic malaise is papered over with
fake news and statistics. Unable to afford even an efficiency, the young and not so young
resignedly or bitterly move back home. I'm sure you know a few.
Beneath each basement, there's another, even darker and danker, Americans kept discovering,
so they just had to suck it up and simmer on, when not overdosing on opioids. It's the new
normal.
Occupy Wall Street protesters were mostly under-35-year-old whites, with at least some
college education. Now, the same demographic is back on the streets, but instead of chanting
for economic justice and representing, at least in theory, the 99%, they're fighting Fascism
and racism. With their inclusive definitions of such sins, however, they're warring against
most of the country.
... ... ...
On August 14th, 2018, CNN reeducated us, "There is no
national antifa group. It is mostly made up of people who are far left of center, who make it
their mission to battle Fascists, racists and alt right extremists." It's a grassroot,
homegrown resistance to hate, that's all. "Behind the masks are people from all walks of life,
artist, mom, ordinary American, as well as anarchist." Four most gentle faces were shown.
On June 16th, 2020, CNN reemphasized
that antifa was a belief system that unified all anti-Fascists, whatever their color, age or
background, so how could you be against it, unless you're a Fascist?! A burly, genial black man
explained, "It basically means that you are against Fascism. If you are against Fascism, then
you are antifa."
In a BLACK LIVES MATTER muscle-T, a white wuss added, "Antifa is not a group. It's not like
everybody sits in, like, some basement, talking about how to overthrow the Fascist regime. I
walked around picking up trash yesterday, behind the protesters. That's what antifa looks
like."
Burly black guy, "White people have to be involved in fighting racism, in fighting white
supremacy [ ] But if you are a white ally, remember that you still have to follow the lead of
people of color."
The New York Times and Washington Post have also written sympathetically about antifa. When
the corporate media give you a positive spin, it must mean you're serving the establishment.
Mussolini had his Blackshirts, Hitler his Brownshirts and Mao his Red Guards. America's rulers
have antifa.
Far from threatening the 1%, antifa sows dissension among the 99%. Ignoring Wall Street,
antifa trashes one Main Street after another.
Zealously branding its enemies as racist or Fascist, antifa generates more racism and
Fascism.
Slammed by the economic crisis of 2008, Americans started to look more closely at Wall
Street, Goldman Sachs and the Federal
Reserve , etc., and they were enlightened by people like Ron Paul and Matt Taibbi.
In Rolling Stone, Taibbi wrote, "The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is
that it's everywhere. The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid
wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that
smells like money."
Banksters were scrutinized with increasing intensity. It was in this climate that Occupy
Wall Street was born.
Not quite nine years later, almost no one is talking about banksters, incredibly, although
the country has been plunged into a much worse economic hell, with millions suddenly laid off,
and millions of mom and pops permanently ruined. Thanks to another monster bailout, only Wall
Street is doing well.
Broke and enraged, mobs swarm American streets, but instead of targeting those who are
imploding their society, they pull down statues, break windows, deface walls, loot stores and
attack cops or each other.
When your tyrants can't even be identified, much less found, no coup, uprising or revolution
is possible, and it's pointless to assassinate an American president, since he is but a puppet,
so who should be shot?
The month I was born, two presidents were killed. Though Ngo Dinh Diem has often been
caricatured as an American puppet, he obviously broke his strings, or he wouldn't have been
shot. Kennedy, too, went off script. His death was a warning. It works.
American elections are cathartic farces. Drawn out and elaborately staged, they're designed
to give false hopes and stoke emotions. With the national mood already so volatile and foul,
however, this year's balloting promises to be a horror show. Unable to aim at their oppressors,
Americans will be reduced to shooting each other.
"Far from threatening the 1%, antifa sows dissension among the 99%. Ignoring Wall Street,
antifa trashes one Main Street after another."
Kudos. Well said!!!
"Who should be shot?" I answer the question in the purely hypothetical, I am not in any
way suggesting this line of response. But the answer is obvious.
When Tsar Nicholas and his family were murdered by the communists, it put the fear of God
(or fear of something) in the hearts of the western plutocrats and we got the New Deal and
more than a half century of the working class getting at least sort of a reasonable cut of
the proceeds.
"Who shall we shoot?" If the Jeff Bezoses and Zuckerbergs and Soroses etc. of the world
take a personal hit – if they begin to think that even they, in their well-guarded
bubbles, are not safe – only then will we get any sort of consideration from the top.
It is personal fear, not morality, that will cause the elites to again begin to value
stability and order over rapacious looting.
No I am not in any way suggesting violence. Not me, no how. But it remains true that only
the threat of personal violence directed at the elites, will cause them to reconsider their
current socially destructive path.
Though Ngo Dinh Diem has often been caricatured as an American puppet, he obviously
broke his strings, or he wouldn't have been shot.
The CIA recruited Diem to be the puppet ruler of a nation they had created. He was living
in New Jersey and then became head of South Vietnam without an election. He had attended the
same elite school in Hue as Ho Chi Mihn and meant well. When he saw that fighting was
increasing he wanted to cut a deal with Ho Chi Mihn, who had won the 1954 elections was the
legitimate ruler of all Vietnam after the temporary cease fire line that divided Vietnam
ended in 1956. The DMZ was an illusion created by the CIA and Pentagon.
This is why Diem was killed by a CIA coup, and was followed by other puppet leaders. The
CIA's attempt to create a new nation that became known as South Vietnam failed by 1964, which
is why American troops arrived.
Mussolini had his Blackshirts, Hitler his Brownshirts and Mao his Red Guards. America's
rulers have antifa.
The Black Shirts were able to gracefully fade away for the most part, but the other two
groups had a rather difficult go once they had served their purpose. It would be fitting
justice for AntiFa to go the way the Red Guards once President Abrams is safely
ensconced: After all, you can't feed a country with hooligan student revolutionaries roving
the streets rather than working the farms.
The month I was born, two presidents were killed. Though Ngo Dinh Diem has often been
caricatured as an American puppet, he obviously broke his strings, or he wouldn't have been
shot. Kennedy, too, went off script. His death was a warning. It works.
Liz Chaney is thwarting Trump's troop draw-down in Afghanistan with help from Dems as well
as Republicans.
House Democrats, Working With Liz Cheney, Restrict Trump's Planned Withdrawal of
Troops From Afghanistan and Germany
Not quite nine years later, almost no one is talking about banksters, incredibly,
although the country has been plunged into a much worse economic hell Broke and enraged,
mobs swarm American streets, but instead of targeting those who are imploding their
society, they pull down statues, break windows, deface walls, loot stores and attack cops
or each other.
Pelosi said even if DC burns down to the ground, the US will be 100% for Israel. Why
not include Wall Street, the money bag of Jewish Power?
In a way, what we are seeing is the Japanization of White America. This is why the US
should not have dropped the nukes and forced unconditional surrender. They should have
allowed Japan to surrender with honor. Make Japan give up its empire and military ambitions
but let the Japanese keep their culture and sacred myths. But the US forced unconditional
surrender, turned the Emperor into Tokyo Shoeshine boy, occupied Japan(and still has bases
there), used Japanese women as whores & mistresses, and turned Japanese men into
castrated cuck-wussies. Sound familiar?
Great article.
"Their movement fizzled out, however, because it degenerated into an endless display of
narcissistic posturing, with everyone making self-important speeches about his or her pet
cause, to an audience of fifty, tops, which is not how a revolution is ever made."
"Far from threatening the 1%, antifa sows dissension among the 99%. Ignoring Wall Street,
antifa trashes one Main Street after another."
Is it ANY wonder why Elites love the post-modern, the PC, & antifa so much. Talk about
the "magic pudding" & the gift that just keeps on giving .
Broke and enraged, mobs swarm American streets, but instead of targeting those who
are imploding their society, they pull down statues, break windows, deface walls, loot
stores and attack cops or each other .
Hey! What the 19th century robber baron said has finally come true:
"I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half." -- Jay Gould
They are being paid: BLM and Antifa people are being bankrolled. Just tote up the
corporate donations the BLM in the past week and flip. More money than most nations have in
the treasury. As to Antifa, Soros funded them for years. All to get rid of white people.
You left out the Media Jackals. They are the willing and ever ready mouthpieces for the
Satanic Cult the Financial Elites would turn America into. In fact, the Media liars have as
much culpability as any group in the country for our current disaster.
Who should be shot? Start with the neocons (particularly the Jewish ones). They are the
head of the snake in the West – especially the U.S. – today. Most evils are
downstream from their actions/policies, directly or indirectly.
Who should be shot? It's hard imaging Americans staging a revolution. The DOD says 75% of
young Americans don't quality to serve in the military, because they are too fat or too dumb.
Our protesters protest because they get to appear virtuous -- they need some kind of
participation award.
...Upthread someone mentioned Bezos as being in the 1%. While he is certainly uber
wealthy, I've always thought of him in a different way. In my mind the 1% are the wall street
guys who financialize everything, and if they all went away tomorrow our (main street)
economy would greatly improve. If Amazon goes away, I'd have to start buying all my crap in
person. Ugh
The same fools assume the 1 percent will hang around when things become very adverse in
the US. Nope. They'll do what wealthy South Africans did and the US lumpens will do what
Boers did.
Nobody cares if the poor in the gutters of Wall Street go on hunger strike The one percent
does not care if the poor go hungry anyhow.
Average middle class Americans are naive as to how callous and unconcerned the one percent
is. The blacks and Hispanics at the bottom of society are aware, of course. That is why laws
and customs mean nothing, nor bourgeois values. But it is the middle class who is actually
naive enough to believe the one percent gives a fat rat's ass about them, about America,
about their feelings.
Both Antifa and the Patriots have a huge red-blue target painted on their backs. Unless
they can identify their overlords clearly, they will fight each other.
Hey Americans, who is it that you cannot criticize?
Fed up with taxes? Angered and disappointed by corrupt leaders? How to Stage a Military
Coup lays down practical strategies that have proven themselves around the globe. David
Hebditch and Ken Connor examine, with a critical eye, successful as well as failed coup
attempts throughout the twentieth century with the aim of showing their readers just what it
takes to swiftly and soundly overthrow a government. Exploring coups from Nigeria, to Cuba, to
Iraq, and with true stories of SAS combat written by Ken Connor, the book gives an insightful
glimpse into this violent and rarely-seen world of shifting power.
How to Stage a Military Coup is a unique textbook for the armchair revolutionary, as
well as a practical guide for the idealist with a soft spot for the sound of artillery fire.
From evaluation of the political climate and investigation of potential allies, to recruiting
and training personnel, to strategies for ensuring timely transfer of power, the book leaves no
aspect of the coup unexamined.
This new edition features a new introduction from the author, and also includes appendixes,
notes, and even a "World Map of Coups d'etat."
Newt Gingrich has an informative article on FOX this weekend about the threat Trump has
posed to traditional Republican court hangers-on. He illustrates how this presidency has
destroyed the careers that many of these very wealthy and powerful members of the Deep State
saw as their dynastic inheritance. I point it out because Gingrich would know intimately how
those people feel.
Couple that with the clumsy approach Trump made to the china shop throughout his campaign,
is it any wonder that the FBI, a fundamentally stupid operation now and at all times in the
past, has been busting a gut? I came of age in the sixties and went to university at a center
of opposition to the Deep State that was then concerned with killing poor yellow peasants in
the rice fields of Southeast Asia. We all assumed they had us in dossiers they built and
studied carefully as they closed in on our coffee house discussions. Never happened.
Please keep in mind that these bureaucrats would never do anything that might krinkle the
crease in their trousers. Also bear in mind that the reports we read are written by English
Majors, probably affirmative action hires, in the lower bowels of unhealthy Washington office
buildings. The only people who read them are people who manage to pry them out of the sweaty
little fingers of desperately single women.
All of the Washington bureaucratic swamp is a manifestation of White Welfare, people hired
because they are related to somebody who wants to keep them from turning to prostitution.
At least 23 have been shot in NYC since Saturday, including three children
A one-year-old boy was shot and killed Sunday while attending a cookout in a
Brooklyn
,
New York park.
The shooting occurred on Sunday in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighbourhood. The child, Davell Gardner Jr, and three men were
injured in the attack.
According to the
New
York Post
, the child was initially expected to live, but eventually succumbed to his injuries.
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The child and the men were at the barbecue when a dark SUV with at least three individuals inside drove up to the gathering. The
men exited the vehicle and began shooting at attendees.
Davell was in his stroller when he was shot in the stomach, according to the police.
"... Inward espionage is the most valuable of anti-coup measures because there can be no sudden, overnight coup without prior agreements among the plotters; those agreements in turn require prior talks leading to detailed negotiations on who does what in the coup and who gets what the day after, when, power having been seized, its rewards by way of promotions and positions are divided up. ..."
"... His preconditions for the coup to be able to take place are that a society have a low level of political engagement--the masses having something of a "Meet the new boss/Same as the old boss" attitude; the country be independent (one that is a puppet state can't be overthrown without the consent of the power pulling the strings), and that is cohesive and centralized enough that seizing the capital will result in control of the country. ..."
In reviewing the text to determine what changes might be needed for the 2016 edition, I found many small details in need of updating
but also a major omission: corruption as the trigger of many a coup d'itat.
It is all a matter of incentives. In the absence of significant corruption, the coup plotters who risk their necks to overthrow
their seniors and seize control of the government can gain only an increase in status, but not vast wealth. The difference in salaries
and pensions between colonels and presidents is downright negligible as compared to the risks.
With corruption, however, those who seize power can enrich themselves enormously, sometimes by simply taking what they want from
the country's national bank with its foreign-exchange reserves, or, more discreetly, by taking their cut on all state purchases,
by exacting bribes from all who need anything from the government, by securing loans from state banks that are never repaid, or
by setting up family members as business agents -- indeed there are myriad ways of converting state power into self- enrichment.
The corrupt rulers of even the smallest and poorest countries can swiftly become billionaires. Corruption, therefore,
actually generates coups because if successful their material rewards can be so very large. One major change since the original
text was published in 1968 has been the widespread implementation of specific anti-coup precautions and provisions. To some
degree, they may have been stimulated by the original book itself -- or so I have been told by the security officials of more
than one country: while coup plotters have tried to benefit from its contents (more on this notion later), potentates and their minders have seemingly done the same
in designing their anti-coup measures.
By far the most important is to maintain distinct, indeed entirely separate military, paramilitary, and other security organizations
so that none has a monopoly of force. Typically, there is a "national," "presidential," or "revolutionary" guard equipped heavily
enough to resist the regular army, and also a militia of fellow ethnics in some cases. In addition, there is always some inner-core
palace security force of several hundred at least, but sometimes of thousands, exceptionally well trained or at least very well
equipped by local standards, and which must of course be commanded by a son or nephew of the ruler, with as many relatives, or
at least fellow clan members, as possible in their cadre of officers, and even the other ranks enlisted from the clan or at
least the ethnic group of the rulers. Sometimes openly labeled as a Presidential or Royal or Revolutionary guard division, brigade,
or regiment, such inner-core forces may also bear deliberately nondescript designations, even though everybody knows that, say,
the 12th Division or 27th Brigade or 355th Battalion is really the "it" force -- the one with all the latest equipment, above-average facilities, higher pay, and the ruler's relatives in command.
Even safely democratic countries keep a variety of distinct military and security forces wearing different uniforms despite
their overlapping functions. The difference, however, is that their distinct forces are constantly enjoined to communicate,
coordinate, and cooperate with each other, and usually come under "joint" commands staffed by all of them to better unify their
actions.
When diversity has an anti-coup function, however, there is no joint operational headquarters, and far from being enjoined
to cooperate, any communication among the different forces is discouraged, or even prohibited: social gatherings seemingly
as innocent as a birthday party may well evoke acute suspicion, followed perhaps by interrogations if officers of, say, army,
national guard, and gendarmerie are all present.
This politically imposed absence of intercommunication and coordination is a
major cause, incidentally, for the Arab military debacles that foreign observers routinely attribute to gross professional incompetence
alone.
The case of South Korea is also illustrative: It was precisely for the sake of better coordination in responding to the
threat of North Korean commando attacks that the United States pressed the South Koreans to merge their Army Security Command,
Navy Security Unit, and Air Force Office of Special Investigations into a single organization.
A fully integrated, authentically
joint Defense Security Command was ceremoniously inaugurated in October 1977. Two years later, its two-star commanding general,
Chun Doo Hwan, used his fully unified command and monopoly of immediate force to seize power when the country's president. Park
Chung Нее, was assassinated. There was no one to restrain him when Chun investigated, judged, and condemned the country's top
general, the army's chief of staff, and then jumped over all the three-star and four-star officers above him to make himself the
country's president.
It could not have happened if there had still been three competing security organizations instead of a monopoly.
Another anti-coup provision routinely employed in vulnerable countries is espionage of a particular kind, focused not
outwardly on foreign countries but inwardly on the country's own armed and security forces -- all of them, from the regular air force, army,
even navy, to the national guard, revolutionary guard, and the innercore security force of the regime as well.
Because inner-core
forces are literally closest to the ruler, they are also potentially the most dangerous. Inward espionage is the most valuable
of anti-coup measures because there can be no sudden, overnight coup without prior agreements among the plotters; those agreements
in turn require prior talks leading to detailed negotiations on who does what in the coup and who gets what the day after, when,
power having been seized, its rewards by way of promotions and positions are divided up. All this implies a great deal of
pre-coup communications that can be overheard -or even heard face-to-face -if agents of the regime insert themselves among the coup
plotters. Such agents can even initiate the plotting to identify potentially dangerous individuals who are best eliminated before
they have a chance to plot a real coup of their own.
The problem with espionage, however, is that those who spy on the coup plotters are in the best position to join them, with
all the incentives of power and riches if the coup is successful.
The remedy, of course, is to have multiple, entirely separate, inward espionage outfits to answer the ancient question of
who will guard the guardians. Once known, this multiplicity deters regime spies from joining the coup plotters because of the
possibility that the plotters include other regime spies who can expose them. Thus, in Syria, even before the civil war now
under way, the ruling regime of President Bashar al-Assad already had five separate and competing espionage services...
... ... ...
Multiplicity works as an anti -соuр measure, and it works best when there are competing armed forces, as well as rival internal
espionage outfits. But such arrangements, of course, greatly increase the costs of operating the regime, reducing its ability
to give out benefits to gain popularity and making it that much more likely that unrest will smolder, leading to violent repression,
resistance, and even civil war. That is what happened in Syria once the frozen immobility of prolonged dictatorship was shaken
in 2011 by news of earlier uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya.
Over the nearly five decades since the original publication of this book, 1 have been told from time to time that it served
as the guide for this or that coup (in the Philippines, its use has been documented in two successive coups). But the earliest
case of actual use for which there is firm evidence would make a poor advertisement: the coup in question was a total failure.
Its chief protagonist, Mohammad Oufkir, was Morocco's minister of defense and security plenipotentiary, the kingdom's most
powerful person after King Hassan II -- an exception he seemingly found irksome. On August 16, 1972, four F-5 jet fighters of
the Royal Air Force, reportedly acting on Oufkir's orders, intercepted Hassan's Boeing 727 jet as it was Hying back from France, firing
their powerful 20mm guns at short range. Their aim was remarkably poor, and Hassan's aircraft managed to land safely at Rabat's
airport. It was then strafed by air force jets, with the cannon killing eight and injuring forty, but not Hassan; loyal troops came to protect
him, while others soon proceeded to the Kenitra Air Base of the rebellious air force officers, where hundreds were arrested.
Oufkir was found dead of multiple gunshot wounds later that day. When his study was searched, a heavily annotated and blood-splattered
copy of the French edition of this book was found on his desk.
I could take refuge in the excuse that the book's prescriptions
were not followed with sufficient care, but in reality it was not my purpose to supply a bona fide do-it-yourself manual. My true
aim in writing this book was entirely different: it was to explore the meaning of politics in the many backward countries politely
described as "emerging." Some, including South Korea, have well and truly emerged since then, but many others have not -Islam
in particular seems to be an insurmountable obstacle to democratic governance.
When the ideas in this book were first conceived, the intellectual classes of the Western world were passionately interested
in the affairs of what they then called the Third World. There was an atmosphere of hopeful expectation about the new states of Africa
and Asia emerging on the world scene for the first time...
But there was one deficiency that was, and is, fatal -- a deficiency that would inevitably cause the new states to misgovern
at home while degrading international standards abroad. There was one thing that the new states lacked -- something they could
neither make for themselves nor obtain from abroad: this was a genuine political community. It is difficult to give a formal definition
of political community. Perhaps it is best to begin by evoking the familiar concept of "the nation" as opposed to that of "the
state."
The new states came into existence because the colonial authorities handed over their powers to political leaders who had agitated
for independence; more specifically, the new leaders were given control over the army, police, tax collectors, and administrators
who had worked for the colonial government.
The old servants of the empire served their new masters, ostensibly for new purposes. But their methods and their operational
ideology were those of the imperial power -- which were shaped by notions that reflected the values of its political community,
including legality. There was 110 organic nexus between the native cultures and the instruments of state power, and neither could
such a link be formed. For one thing, there were usually several native cultures, typically quite different and often inimical.
Moreover, the methods and operational ideologies that the native cultures would organically sustain were usually unsuited to the
needs of modern life -- that is. Western life. The problem was not that this dissociation would make the state apparatus weak,
but rather that it would leave it entirely unconstrained and much too strong.
The consequences soon became evident. The new rulers were vested with all the crushing powers over individuals that the entire
machinery of files and records, vehicles, telecommunications, and modern weapons gave to the departed colonial states they had
inherited. But their conduct was not constrained by any notions o f legality or by the ethical standards that any functioning
political community must enforce, even if only to the extent of requiring hypocrisy and discretion on the part of violators. Above
all, their conduct was not restrained by ordinary political resistance because the first leaders who gained office with independence
soon ensured their enduring monopoly of power. That was first asserted by outlawing or illegally shutting down any rival political
party, but it was better assured by the feeble opposition of the oppressed majority, which lacked the social frameworks for effective
opposition of any kind, whether peaceful or violent.
Misgovernment was thus preordained
Mr. F. Culfaz
5.0 out of 5 stars Yet excellent comparative analysis of different coups from the past
in ... Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 23, 2016 Verified Purchase Splendid and comprehensive book. Quite controversial
due to its detail. Yet excellent comparative analysis of different coups from the past in different regions and revised to consider
events up to end of 2015. The strength of the book is looking at the politics and conditions for a coup to take place, where it
is feasible and where it is not. Particularly interesting considering recent events in Turkey. A lot of technical detail on the
mechanics of a coup as well as a look at the strategic and tactical elements. >
Filpi Saveria 5.0 out of 5 stars really deep analysis Reviewed in Italy on December 13,
2018 Verified Purchase really deep analysis >
British Hospital Ship
Great for even the General Reader!
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great for even the General Reader! Reviewed in the United States on January 26, 2013
Verified Purchase Okay, before I begin this review, allow me to state that this review is coming from someone who is quite familiar
with everything military-related. So, even if you are just a general reader who enjoys everything from adventure to politics, and
history to law, then this book is for you all the same. Aside from an historical account of former laws and codes, this is a pleasant
read for the military historian, armed forces enlisted/officer, ex-military, history majors, law majors, political majors, strategists
and tacticians alike. I purchased this book and another one relating to similar topics because I'm a student at the American Military
University.
The text is arranged similar to a textbook, but is an overall good account of how the federal government (mostly the US, and some
reference to other Commonwealth nations) of how the government is first arranged, next is how the system works in "reality", and
how it "could work". The overall writing style is simple and clean, no hodge-podge nonsense that an everyday reader won't understand.
This book also serves as a good reference for coups that have happened historically, and what to look for in possible future coups.
The science of the coup is explained in depth here. I would also recommend if this is your type of reading, to purchase any of the
propaganda books made available through Amazon. 3 people found this helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Classic study of the coup phenomena Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2013
Verified Purchase This is a rational study into the coup d'etat, what kind of countries are vulnerable to them, how they are
organized and how they are conducted. This fascinating book looks at various issues which must be dealt with if a coup is to be successful,
why it is not necessary to have the entire armed forces backing your coup, political considerations, timing, security, etc.
A great book on this military topic. If there is a wekness in this work it is that it is out-of-date, and may not cover phenomena
such as social media. However, it is far better than any recent book I have seen on the topic. Illustrated with figures and tables.
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He starts out with a definition of the coup, pointing out that it generally involves a small group of insiders who seize the levers
of authority. Specifically--"A coup consists of the infiltration of a small but critical segment of the state apparatus, which is
then used to displace the government from the control of its remainder."
His preconditions for the coup to be able to take place are that a society have a low level of political engagement--the masses
having something of a "Meet the new boss/Same as the old boss" attitude; the country be independent (one that is a puppet state can't
be overthrown without the consent of the power pulling the strings), and that is cohesive and centralized enough that seizing the
capital will result in control of the country.
The three subsequent chapters address the strategy, planning and execution of the coup d'etat. One of the more interesting points
is how few soldiers may actually be necessary; the rule of thumb being that you only need to recruit, isolate or neutralize the forces
that can be in the capital within 12-24 hours of the start of the coup. The planning part includes an analysis of those government
figures who have to be arrested (generally those who have control of an organized force, which interestingly, includes ministers
of labor and education (presumably because of possible influence over worker and student organizations).
The book is clear-cut and well written. The only asterix one would attach to it is that the second, and most recent, edition was
published in 1979, so we don't have anything about dealing with the internet, mobile phone networks, etc. Presumably, a coup plan
would have to involve pressure on internet service providers. With luck, an authoritarian state may have internet control measures
in place that could simply be seized. That doesn't remove the fundamental soundness of the book. >
I first read this work at university shortly after it was published and have kept it near ever since. Edward Luttwak has in fact
written a "handbook" that in five chapters offers clear and concise insights into the theory and the mechanics of the transfer of
political power via the use or threatened use of armed force. In this surprisingly compact volume, he discusses what is a coup d'etat,
when is it possible, and how to plan and execute a coup d'etat. Furthermore, he links this analysis to the historical record, repeatedly
citing real world examples that were the basis for his work. Finally, he provides some 20 pages of appendices that provide much of
the historical record and analytical background to the book's main theses. I had an opportunity to test Mr. Luttwak's work in December
1979. I was then on duty as an intelligence watch officer at the Department of State in Washington as Soviet forces invaded Afghanistan.
Although the Soviet Union claimed that its forces had been invited in by the regime in Kabul, the arrival and movement of those forces
in Kabul made it soon evident that their actions, which meticulously followed Luttwak's script, were intended to give them full and
unimpeded sole control of Kabul and Afghanistan. This small volume represents a valuable contribution to the political scientist's
understanding of how armed political changes work and to the historian's understanding of how such changes have taken place over
the years - this book is highly recommended and may be one of the most valuable single volumes in your library. >
5.0 out of 5 stars
Valuable political technology Reviewed in the United States on September 15, 2004 Edward Luttwak's first and finest work, Coup
d'Etat is the product of the close study of how dozens of governments around the world were successfully overthrown.
By examining the successful and failed strategies and tactics of those who staged the coups, Luttwak synthesizes a step-by-step
guide to oust a regime and install a replacement. The political technology he develops, like military hardware, is value-neutral
- like a firearm, anyone can employ it for ends good or evil.
As long as there are tyrannical regimes, there will always be a need for good people to be able to stage or sponsor successful
coups d'etat. This volume is a practical handbook of immense value to the planning, execution, and long-term success of a regime
change. Likewise, it provides a real-world aid to devise defensive means of protecting a government against a coup d'etat.
Advances in information technology since the book was written enter new variables into the formula, but Luttwak's basic concept
remains fundamentally sound. As long as there will be coups d'etat, there will be a need for students and policymakers to study and
master this book. >
4.0 out of 5 stars
Need for a modern version Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2007 An excellent, if somewhat dated book. And here in
the South Pacific - complete with its coups and mutinies now - Luttwak seems downright wrong in a number of respects. Perhaps our
region is different from 60s Africa. Still, an immensely readable and frighteningly enjoyable book
Tucker Carlson escalated the ongoing war between FOX News and CNN Wednesday, bringing
attention to Don Lemon for breathtaking hypocrisy on issues of black family culture.
TUCKER CARLSON: If you're running a channel like CNN, you want dumb people on tv because
they are compliant. They will say what they are told. They will tell the audience with the
moment demands. They will level stray from the script and that's exactly what Mr. Lemon is
doing. Seven years ago it was a different country and people were kind of a lot to say what
they thought was true. At the time, here's what Don Lemon was saying about black communities.
Watch this.
DON LEMON: More than 72 percent of children in the African-American community are born out of
wedlock. That means absent fathers. And the studies show that lack of a male role model is an
express train right to prison and the cycle continues. So, please, black folks, as I said if
this doesn't apply to you, I'm not talking to you. Pay attention to and think about what has
been presented in recent history as acceptable behavior. Pay close attention to the hip-hop and
rap culture that many of you embrace. A culture that glorifies everything I just mentioned,
thug and reprehensible behavior, a culture that is making a lot of people rich, just not you.
And it's not going to.
TUCKER CARLSON: Wow. Can you imagine what would happen if Don Lemon or his bodybuilding
buddy over there or any of these people said something like that? On CNN tonight or MSNBC? It
would be their last live broadcast ever. They would be fired immediately. You can't express
views like that. So they don't.
National Review is "
defending America " in its latest issue. Unfortunately, its cowardice about race makes its
defense a laughable failure.
Editor Rich Lowry's introduction
tries to negotiate the terms of surrender. He is appalled to find that "we've gone from a
debate about the status of Confederate statues to the toppling defacing, and removal of statues
of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Teddy Roosevelt." It's way too late to have noticed
that. The "slippery slope" may be a fallacy in logic, but it's the rule in politics. Mr. Lowry
also says there were some "potentially worthwhile police reforms" we could be discussing
because of the George Floyd case. Why should conservatives discuss reforms at all before the
trial of Officer Derek Chauvin?
Contributor Richard Brookhiser says we must understand " America's
Founding ." He argues that egalitarianism is central to both the Declaration of
Independence and the Constitution. The ban on kings and aristocracy and the tributes to
equality limit power, he argues, because they remove the argument that a "different, superior
order of being" can "annihilate another's" power. He admits that the Founders accepted slavery,
though many questioned it and wanted it abolished. However, he is relieved that the
Constitution didn't specifically recognize and sanction slavery.
Mr. Brookhiser concedes that when the Founders said "all men are created equal," they might
have meant "men like themselves -- white men." "This was the argument advanced by racists,
south and north in the 19th century," he writes, "and oddly by BLM protesters today." He argues
that the question was answered "in every generation" by men like Frederick Douglass, Abraham
Lincoln, and Martin Luther King Jr. "who asserted that the founding documents were freedom
documents, setting a standard against the day when it might be met."
This is historically illiterate. First, the Declaration had a specific purpose: to justify
revolt against the crown. No one, especially not Jefferson, thought it laid out principles of
government. Once the Declaration had served its purpose and the United States was independent,
the document had no particularly revered place in American mythology. It became a holy relic
only later -- and only in the minds of strident egalitarians -- because of those five fateful
words: "all men are created equal." There is nothing else in it that people care about
today.
Second, the Founders clearly didn't think all groups were equal, which is why they
restricted the vote to white, male property owners. They took America's white identity for
granted .
Frederick Douglass
said in 1852 that the Declaration and the Fourth of July were "yours" (whites) not "mine"
(blacks.) Black protesters tearing down Lincoln statues are right when they claim
Lincoln was a white nationalist who pushed to expatriate blacks. Opposing slavery
forwhite
nationalist reasons made sense to Lincoln and virtually all abolitionists; they didn't like
slavery, but they didn't want to share the country with blacks. Why anyone evokes Martin Luther
King as an authority on anything escapes me, but he was not a Christian in conduct or belief
-- which matters a lot, since he cloaked himself in spiritual authority. In any case, he didn't
believe in colorblind law and would clearly be on the side of Black Lives Matter today.
Mr. Brookhiser's argument is not conservative. What kind of conservative claims his nation
is based on a dream of equality? There has never been equality and never will be. Since this
"standard" can never be met, the nation is forever illegitimate. So long as we don't have this
impossible state of equality, why not dismiss corrupt institutions, flawed heroes, or
outdated symbols that don't meet that standard and don't appeal to the new, non-white America
that clamors so insistently for the impossible? What grounds are there to oppose Black Lives
Matter?
Another contributor, David French ,
says America "has a long history of brutal and shameful mistreatment of racial minorities,"
but is still a great nation. Mr. French is on firm conservative ground when he says man is
fallen and imperfect. However, he then also praises "universal principles" and a "trajectory"
of expanding freedom from beyond "white male property owners" to everyone else. We are told "we
have far to go" to cash the "promissory note of freedom" and says "the best part of the
American story is yet to be told." Can he really believe that? This is a magazine that once
claimed to be "standing athwart History crying 'Stop!'"
When will we have finally paid off this "promissory note?" If simple legal equality is the
goal, we've had that for decades. The regime even discriminates against the whites. If the goal
is absolute socioeconomic "equality," then we'll have to become communists. Even with the most
procrustean egalitarian
measures, the country will always need ever more elaborate, preposterous explanations for
racial inequalities in a country that already offers non-whites race-based privileges.
Mr. Lowry, Mr. French, and Mr. Brookhiser all implicitly exclude Southerners from the
"American story." Mr. French celebrates the Union Army at Gettysburg and the 54th
Massachusetts's charge at Fort Wagner for their "defense" of the Founding. Blacks were "rising
up to seize their inheritance." Do they believe George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Patrick
Henry, George Mason, or any of the other Founders from the Old Dominion would have sided with
Union General George Meade rather than Robert E. Lee? If not, why celebrate one group of
slaveholders and condemn another?
"Washington as a Farmer at Mount Vernon," Junius Brutus
Stearns, 1851.
Philip Magness explores some interesting legal ground in " Slavery and
the Constitution ," arguing that the Constitution didn't specifically defend slavery. He
says the 1772 case of James Somerset, an American slave who was freed by a British court, set a
legal precedent that eventually led to abolition. The Founders' views on slavery were nuanced
and they regarded it, at best, as a necessary evil. The New York Times's "1619 Project"
claims the colonials fought the Revolution partially out of a desire to keep slaves. That is
wrong. Britain did not free the slaves in its empire until 1835, and the Founders would have
had to be prophets to fight a war to forestall something that was still 59 years in the
future.
Noemie Emery makes the remarkable claim that Washington was "in his essence a Northerner,
one who believed in the egalitarian, freewheeling, immigrant-friendly culture of the
Northeast." He was the "world's first and only Northern Virginian, which is why we revere him
today." That will be news to historians and, again, implies that the South wasn't part of
America.
Jefferson was a son of the South, but National Review turns him into a champion of the
Enlightenment . It praises him for creating the University of Virginia and using the phrase
"the pursuit of happiness." To author Myron Magnet's credit, he does not concede that
Thomas Jefferson slept with Sally Hemings (there is strong
evidence that he did not). Mr. Magnet also argues that UVA students who revile him today
don't appreciate what he gave them. Still, these are liberal arguments for defending Jefferson.
Given the mischief made with the phrases "all men are created equal" and "the pursuit of
happiness," it would have been better if Jefferson had simply written about "life, liberty, and
property."
Portrait of Thomas Jefferson by Edward Percy Moran, 1916.
Finally, there's Lincoln. Author Allen Guelzo manages to state the obvious: Lincoln freed
the slaves; the slaves didn't free themselves. "It was actually a surprise to many Northerners
that the slaves did not use the Civil War as an opportunity for insurrection," he wrote, though
he explains this by saying slaves were afraid. I'd argue that blacks' attitude towards
abolition may have been more complicated than many believe today; surviving slaves interviewed
in the 1920s had positive things
to say about slavery. Mr. Guelzo also contradicts himself, arguing that Lincoln was eager
to allow freedmen the vote, but also that slave runaways "had no voting rights, and thus no way
to influence Lincoln's decision on emancipation."
Lincoln was a canny politician. It's hard to believe he couldn't predict that freed blacks,
if they stayed in the country against his wishes, would become a GOP base in the conquered
South. Mr. Guelzo concludes that Lincoln was neither an extreme white racist nor a hapless
leader forced into action by blacks' "self-emancipation:" "If we have lost the mutuality that
Lincoln represents," he said, "we may very well have lost ourselves, black and white,
together." Lincoln was, by today's standards, a frothing white supremacist, and doing
contortions to argue otherwise concedes our argument: The idea of "ourselves, black and white,
together" was utterly alien to Abraham Lincoln. Trying to force an artificial identity is
futile and tyrannical.
Robert VerBruggen apparently thinks it's neither futile nor tyrannical. He writes in "
On Systemic
Racism " that we need to wage "a war on local zoning regulations" to "make it easier for
poor families to live in thriving neighborhoods." (Zoning is not "racist;" it recognizes only
that different people want different kinds of neighborhoods.) Of course, once that happens,
they probably won't be "thriving" anymore. We also need "school choice." And let anyone into
private schools? Does Mr. VerBruggen really think this kind of thing will help any more than
"midnight basketball" or enterprise zones? Mr. VerBruggen actually says that "address[ing]
racial inequities and speed[ing] our agonizingly slow pace of integration" should be
"conservative priorities." Why? What is conservative about forcing people to do things they
don't want to do?
Yuval Levin has some useful things to say in "
Immigration and Our National Crisis of Confidence ." He says mass immigration has created
pockets of mass ethnic poverty. However, he also says President Trump's rhetoric is too hard on
immigrants. He wants a "compromise" with Democrats on immigration -- whatever that might be --
rather than immigration law enforcement. Finally, he predicts the COVID-19 pandemic will slow
immigration and give us time to debate the issue. That isn't true. Illegal immigration
surged 40 percent in June and
could be driving the infection rate in the southwest. Illegals are coming north for
COVID-19 treatment. And 1965 is when we really should have debated immigration -- honestly
rather than in the underhanded way boosters of the Immigration Reform Act slipped it over on
us.
In " America, Warts and
All ," Joseph Epstein says: "Because of political correctness, one dare not speak the truth
about race, not even certain obvious facts: that the wider success of African Americans will
come about not by falling back on government programs, or through protests or reparations, but
by relinquishing victim status and relying on one's own efforts -- in the same way that any
other group in this country has managed to flourish, through strong family ties, hard work,
saving, future-mindedness."
That's as far as Mr. Epstein manages to get with his "obvious facts" that are truly
forbidden. He dares not say that the current status of blacks is what you would expect from
racial differences in intelligence. Without affirmative action and other government programs,
the black middle class would be smaller, and those programs don't much help the larger black
population. Strict policing, immigration restriction, and social conservatism would probably do
them a lot more good. However, Democrats will do them no favors, and Republicans are
increasingly afraid to propose anything that would actually help.
Dan McLaughlin defends America for its successful republicanism in his "
Exceptional First American Century ." He, too, is defensive about slavery and the "brutal
wars against Native Americans." Mr. McLaughlin praises America because it's "democratic,
republican, liberal, and constitutional." America's misdeeds must be understood in historic
context. America survived, and so now liberal democracies dot the globe.
However, the reason these National Review essays even had to be written is that
American identity is under attack. America's liberal democratic principles are arguably leading
to self-destruction. If that's so, what good are they? What's more, if America leads the West
and has imposed its principles on other white countries, isn't America leading our entire
civilization to annihilation? If the status quo is where liberal democracy leads, we would have
been better off if the first war for independence had failed and the second (for Southern
independence) had succeeded.
In essay after essay, "conservative" after "conservative" makes much the same argument:
America is worth saving because it advanced classically liberal principles and human equality.
However, Thomas Jefferson himself wrote that the world "belongs exclusively to the living," and
so any written constitution or political order can and should be changed every generation.
America was a settler colonist state built by exploration, conquest, and war. Why should
egalitarians honor that? And why is it the job of conservatives to convince liberals to be
patriotic?
The real conservative case for America is simple. We love America because it's ours. We
built it. We live here. We are a race of pioneers, settlers, and conquerors. Our nation existed
before the Declaration of Independence, and it will continue to exist if the government in
Washington D.C. (or whatever it will be named by then) fails completely. If we have to justify
our existence to our opponents, we've already lost. If conservatives can't defend America
except in universalistic terms, they were never serious about fighting for it in the first
place.
How about National Review saying that, given the history of US 'racism' and
'genocide'(against Indians), the US should stop supporting Zionism that did 'genocide' on
Palestinians and practices apartheid in West Bank? And what about that crazy Albright saying
it's worth it to kill half a million Arab kids for the sake of Israel?
But of course, NR is just a cuck-zine to Jewish supremacists.
But then, so is American Renaissance of Jared Taylor, that worthless cuck to Jewish Power
who won't allow comments on his site that are critical of Zionism or express sympathy for
Palestinians.
Difference between Lowry and Taylor is, thus, a matter of degrees.
In some ways, Taylor is more pathetic and wretched. After all, Lowry and his ilk have been
well-rewarded for cucking to Jews. In contrast, for all the cucking Taylor has done to Jews,
they utterly destroyed him and his reputation. Taylor can't use twitter and youtube, and
can't use financial services. But he still cucks to Jewish Power and purges voices on his
site that dare mention the JQ.
The authors appear to be a mix of typical neocon Jews with some flabby Catholics thrown
in. The first group doesn't want to 'conserve' America so much as turn it into a version of
Brazil that sends cannon fodder to fight Israel's wars. The latter pretty much lost the
culture battle when they were unable to stop the Jewish lobby from overturning obscenity
laws.
(American Renaissance won't let you talk about Jews and their penchant for subversion,
however).
All this talk about 'equality' is explicitly anti-conservative and diametrically opposed
to the cultures of the European peoples. Not that I claim much knowledge of history, but it
appears safe to assert that the European peoples lived in largely hierarchical societies. I
can't recall the Greeks bothering much with 'equality', and I seem to remember that the vote
in Athens wasn't given out to anyone who could fog a mirror.
"... The most interesting document of all is an intelligence assessment by DHS in the run up to the now famous Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, which starkly contradicts the mainstream media and FBI's narrative. ..."
"... In a document dated August 9th, 2017, DHS wrote "We assess that anarchist extremists' use of violence as a means to oppose racism and white supremacist extremists' preparations to counterattack anarchist extremists are the principal drivers of violence at recent white supremacist rallies." ..."
"... Ideological uniformity is important in the FBI's relationship with local law enforcement, a flyer sent to law enforcement personnel in Texas shows. ..."
"... As Douglas Valentine points out, these fusion centers are Phoenix centers, which CIA developed in Vietnam to eradicate independent civil society. You can see the CIA mannerisms they teach the Junior Spy Cadets at the fusion center: pretend classmarks: (U//LES), Roger, Wilco, Over and Out! Breathless dumbshit cops get to use U just like real spies, but they don't get get collateral access and they have to make up little codes to try and blow off public records law. ..."
The Boston Regional Intelligence Center (BRIC) reported
similar information in its investigation of the Boston Free Speech Rally on August 19th, 2017.
BRIC noted that the nationalist and free speech demonstrators, about 60 of them in total, had a
permit for the event, while the anarchist groups that showed up to heckle-veto them were there
illegally.
The leftist rioters began attacking the protesters, and later, began engaging in gratuitous
yet apparently coordinated violence against police officers attempting to intervene, causing
multiple injuries.
The most interesting document of all is an intelligence assessment by DHS in the run up to
the now famous Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, which starkly contradicts the
mainstream media and FBI's narrative.
In a document
dated August 9th, 2017, DHS wrote "We
assess that anarchist extremists' use of violence as a means to oppose racism and white
supremacist extremists' preparations to counterattack anarchist extremists are the principal
drivers of violence at recent white supremacist rallies."
... ... ...
The close working relationship between mainstream social media companies, the FBI and "NGOs"
(the ADL and SPLC) is clear and assumed, adding a new layer of understanding when it comes to
tech censorship and the power of privately run organizations that are not subject general
ethics or government accountability.
Ideological uniformity is important in the FBI's relationship with local law enforcement, a
flyer sent to
law enforcement personnel in Texas shows.
The event, hosted by the FBI for local cops, featured lectures on "hate" (which is not a
crime) from a former member of the Westboro Baptist Church and the ex-lead singer of a skinhead
rock band. The conference was hosted in December 2017, so one can only imagine this
indoctrination has gotten more intense since then.
Ultimately, we can gather from these documents a climate of incompetence, rejection of facts
for political reasons, and a culture of selective prosecution. Those who post memes making fun
of the election are treated as conspirators against the Constitutional rights of others, while
anarchists who actively conspire in the open to do the same are rarely prosecuted by the
FBI.
The most disturbing aspect of all this is how groups like the Anti-Defamation League appear
to have more sway over the FBI's investigative priorities than intelligence provided to them by
local fusion centers.
It appears that in defense of their power, our elites are willing to do away with all
liberal pretenses and take on "emergency orders" that ultimately punishes peaceful dissent
while allowing real criminals to go free.
Law enforcement is fully aware of who provokes the fighting and rioting at riots: the
left. The documents from fusion centers across the country (intelligence provided by local
police departments) repeatedly report this.
But
Both the FBI and to a lesser extent the Department of Homeland Security are far more
concerned with political ideology and creating propaganda than upholding the law.
As Douglas Valentine points out, these fusion centers are Phoenix centers, which CIA
developed in Vietnam to eradicate independent civil society. You can see the CIA mannerisms
they teach the Junior Spy Cadets at the fusion center: pretend classmarks: (U//LES), Roger,
Wilco, Over and Out! Breathless dumbshit cops get to use U just like real spies, but they don't
get get collateral access and they have to make up little codes to try and blow off public
records law.
This is why when asshole cops strangle you, you can't complain to the city. CIA controls the
cops, not the city. This is most obvious in NYPD, with actual CIA secret police like Sanchez
and Cohen, arresting you like cops to facilitate illegal CIA domestic spying. DHS and FBI are
in there too, of course, fishing for dissent to repress but they're controlled by CIA focal
points.
So next time a pig kneels on your head you can't just burn down the precinct, you have to
burn down the CIA fusion center, and Langley too.
Aside from siccing cops on the latest internal enemies, CIA also uses fusion centers to
propagate the party line to cops, who will credulously swallow it and pass it on to show off
their double-secret spy connections. For instance, they circulated alt media disinfo claiming
KGB killed JFK. This happened to coincide with Unz and other bravura JFK coup exposes, and with
CIA's Russiagate fiasco.
"We assess that anarchist extremists' use of violence as a means to oppose racism and
white supremacist extremists' preparations to counterattack anarchist extremists are the
principal drivers of violence at recent white supremacist rallies."
Is there a bigger political statement than this? The anarchist extremists aren't opposing
racism, they are opposing the government(s). "White supremacist" is a pejorative label used to
discredit people's right to free assembly. Clearly, the only investigating the FBI does is on
whom it decides are political opponents.
I find it incredibly frustrating that all of this scandalous information is out there
confirming what we already knew to be true and yet these organizations, the media, and
especially elected officials continue on as if this isn't the case. It's vexing. Frustrating.
Enraging.
If this was a dictatorship, at least we could rage against that, but because it has the
words "democracy" slapped onto it, we are supposedly able to change things. And yet,
representative democracy has proven that nothing changes if the elites do not will it. It's
just a vile scheme by plutocrats to keep us in chains of our own imagination: "well, we voted
for this so I have to live with the results," no we didn't, and do we truly?
I think Solzhenitsyn would respectfully disagree on behalf of the 66 million Russian
Christians who were tortured, raped and slaughtered during 1917-1989, not to mention the
fourteen years he spent locked up in the gulags run by Jewish Communists.
Might also be a few Ukrainians who disagree with your assessment given the 11-17 million
murdered by Jewish Bolsheviks in the 1932 Holodomor, which to my knowledge is still the single
biggest genocide in human history.
Then we'd have a position of strength from which to force the end to Jewish occupation of
America – which is necessary before the rest of the world's gentile populations,
particularly Europe, can take similar action.
America freeing herself will be good for America, but not necessary for other nations. For
instance, Putin freed Russia from her oligarchs, the overwhelming majority of them Jewish, well
before America had shown any progress on this matter. Actually, Russia freed herself in
spite of America!
White man's welfare, they call it. They hold pigs in contempt just like everybody else. But
this is how CIA finds the eager beaver cops who'll break the law to suck up and play James Bond
with them.
That beaner psycho Sanchez blabbed CIA's real intention while he was illegally spying
undercover as a NYPD pig: they don't just want to solve crimes, they want to keep you from
committing crimes in the first place. They think it's their job to to keep you under control.
These drug-dealing, gun-running, money-laundering, kiddy-pimping criminal scumbags rule your
country because they can kill you and torture you and get away with it. Even if you're the
president. Your government is CIA, and CIA is a totalitarian state. Until you storm Langley
like the Germans stormed the Stasi, all your reforms and revolutions are worth shit.
Antifa members routinely cross state lines to violate the civil rights of those they
perceive as "fascists" yet the FBI does nothing. Since it's obvious the FBI is dominated by
partisan leftists who are either sympathetic with antifa (and BLM) or actively colluding them
them against pro-white and right of center groups engaged in lawful but politically incorrect
activity.
The FBI is clearly taking their marching orders from the ADL who's lobbied them for years to
take a more active and hostile stance towards the pro-white and anti-semitic right. But given
the leftist ideological proclivities of the average special agent and their superiors this
wasn't that hard of a sell.
The FBI declared that it would begin investigating memes posted on Twitter intended to
satirize low civic education by telling people to vote for Hillary Clinton via text message
as a "Conspiracy Against Rights Provided by the Constitution and Laws of the United
States"
Yet the FBI did absolutely nothing about the black panthers intimidating voters at a Philly
precinct in 2008. Their illegal actions were witnessed by several poll watchers yet the
Obama/Holder DOJ promptly dropped the charges upon taking office.
The FBI is awash in naked partisanship and corruption and should have at least 25% of its
funding cut and be barred from surveilling or infiltrating groups engaged in politically
incorrect but lawful activity. It's become an appendage of the Democrat party and radical left
wing establishment and should be treated as such.
You are both right. Soviet Communism was far more murderous and brutal, BUT the West faces a
greater crisis. After all, communism didn't wipe Russia off the map, and indeed, Russians began
to regain control and power after Stalin's death. Also, Stalin had done much to check Jewish
Power, and there was a kind of cultural conservatism in many walks of life.
@Levtraro to HIM and had City of London-Israeli financing. So what actually happened is
that the Jews, who had been ousted from power by Krushchev and Brezhnev in the post-ww2 era,
got back into positions of economic power in Russia. A position that, as I noted, they had
lost. This idea that Putin is a nationalist is simply not true. He is a Jew-boy lapdog who
takes his orders from Tel Aviv and London..
The Soviet economy has significant State ownership. Part of what Putin did was to put the oil
industry back into the hands of the State so the State would have the Revenues. Most countries
do this with Oil and Gas revenue. It is very popular and provides employment and desperately
needed money to pay the paltry pensions many Russians subside on.
Russia hasn't been free since 1917 and is still not free. To believe otherwise is to be blinded
by Eastern Jewish smoke and mirrors.
Chabbad is not having the time of its life in Russia. Neither are Zion uber alles like in
our Congress. It quite different in Russia. Russia has a bit more freedom that we do from Zion
uber alles.
For the eighth time this past decade, Russian authorities told a foreign Chabad rabbi
living in Russia to leave the country.
Josef Marozof, a New York-born rabbi who began working 12 years ago for Chabad in the city
of Ulyanovsk 400 miles east of Moscow, was ordered earlier this week to leave because the FSB
security service said he had been involved in unspecified "extremist behavior."
The victim, 24-year-old Jessica Doty Whitaker, leaves behind a 3-year-old son.
An Indiana woman was
fatally shot
earlier this month following an alleged argument between her family and a group of Black Lives
Matter supporters, her family says.
The woman, 24-year-old Jessica Doty Whitaker, was walking along Indianapolis Canal Walk with
her fiancé, Jose Ramirez, and two other people around 3 a.m. on July 5 when someone in
their group used a racial slur,
Fox 59 reported .
A group of nearby strangers overheard the comment and confronted Whitaker's group, according
to the station.
Ramirez alleged that the group shouted "Black Lives Matter," to which either Whitaker or
someone else in their group reportedly responded with, "All Lives Matter."
A brief argument ensued until both sides separated after realizing the other was armed, Fox
59 reported. Ramirez claimed that both sides managed to resolve the argument before
separating.
But minutes later, someone reportedly opened fire from a nearby bridge, striking Whitaker,
before running away, the station said.
"It was squashed, and they went up the hill and left we thought, but they were sitting on
St. Clair waiting for us to come under the bridge and that's when she got shot," Ramirez
said.
Ramirez admitted to returning fire but did not hit anyone. He told Fox 59 that he has had to
explain what happened to Whitaker's 3-year-old son.
"It's hard to tell him his mom is in heaven and if you want to talk to her you have to look
up and say, 'I love you mom,'" Ramirez said.
Police have not
independently verified whether the supposed argument over "Black Lives Matter" occurred or if
the fatal shooting was even connected.
Fox News has made multiple attempts to reach out to the Indianapolis Metro Police Department
seeking comment.
The shooting marks the second homicide in the canal in a week. Police say they will increase
patrols there during overnight hours.
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EPNOTLiberal Leader 24s
Killed on the night of the 4th of July, out for a walk on Independence day.
Dr.StevenClarkBradleyPh.D Contributor 29s
Tax-Payer Funding of 'Teach for America' and Black Lives Matter Today, in schools,
throughout America, teachers, like those in 'Teach for America', are developing curriculum
that condemns America and our national values and that purports to teach that we are a racist
society that seeks to encourage White Supremacists to kill black people. This means that
Black Lives Matter's lies and falsehoods are being embraced, on the state and federal level,
legally and with our tax dollars. Allowing this form of Anti-American education has, as its
ultimate goal, the creation of a nation of Anarchists who hate the United States of America.
If you feel this is far-fetched or unimaginable, just turn on your TV or just look out your
window, if you live in one of America's large cities and behold the carnage, the violence and
the death being allowed to flourish right now. That should provide sufficient proof to
convince you of the veracity of the threat, to the republic.
SingSing76 Leader 36s
3 am. Just like the Seattle CHOP killings. Good news. These are all very easy to avoid.
Especially when you have every reason to be home with a toddler.
_NikolaTesla_ Leader 14s
SingSing76
We dont know why they were out at 3am. Even still, they have that right.
Angel_of_Death7246 Leader 38s
For a race of people that do not respect the country they live in, that claims they where
stolen, that claims they are mistreated, I dont see any of them packing bags to go back to
Africa
TRUMPET-BUMPET Leader 12s Angel_of_Death7246
We are ALL from Africa.
DARPA51 Leader 14s TRUMPET-BUMPET
Allegedly.
marxisbad Leader Now TRUMPET-BUMPET
You are, not fully developed humans
Deportallracists Leader 12s TRUMPET-BUMPET
Unknown at this time.
ggibson1803 Leader 44s
We didn't use the civil rights laws to crush the KKK just so we can replace them with the
black KKK.
Bill070 Leader 1m
Let's be honest. Conservatives are racists and they WANT all black people to miss out on the
America that whites know.
jester006 Leader 25s Bill070
How many bottles of dish cleaner did you guzzle down to come up with that drivel?
tkdfan638 Leader 15s Edited Bill070
If that isn't sarcasm it has to be the most idiotic comment of the day.... You might start
out by being honest yourself
RoadGlide620 Leader 13s Bill070
You gotta be kidding! There is not enough room here to list successful, esteemed black
Americans who give us sports, medicine, movies, government, entrepreneurs, etc...
ggibson1803 Leader 18s Bill070
Your cults fantasies will never be our Objective reality.
Bill070 Leader 21s Bill070
These nice people just accidentally let a slur slip? Racists!
RamAirGTO72 Leader 1m
Racial intolerance by people screaming for tolerance..
dumbald Leader 1m
You worthless cult magats are some lonely little cowards. Sucks to be y'all.
jester006 Leader 22s Edited dumbald
Who are the ones running around in masks and beating people up when they outnumber their
victims 20 to 1 because they cant win an honest fight? The terrorist group Antifa. Who has
endorsed that terrorist group? Democrats.
JimSmithAAA273 Leader 6m
When is BLM going to be designated a terrorist organization?
PeterJohn101 Leader 2m JimSmithAAA273
Soon, I hope!
OldTexan Leader 6m
Payback time
MerconD Leader 6m
According to who was a racial slur said? And even if a racial slur was said you shouldn't be
afraid to get shot. This is the problem, there are racist jerks on all sides, but we dont kill
them! America is about freedom, freedom to be a jerk even, but this blm racisct movement is not
for freedom. If I encounter such a group I will be locked and loaded ready to defend, because
your government and state, and city will not protect you. Blm needs to be met with force, if
they bring violence, Americans should bring it back 10 fold.
SJS-1981-07 Leader 17s MerconD
white Americans have ALREADY been bringing violence against blacks for a long time. They
never stopped since slavery was abolished. it's only recently that blacks started to return it
to you. And boy, you seem to hate it. Relax it's only the beginning. We need revenge for 400
years!
ssn590(ss) Leader 6m
Burn Loot Murder by the Black Lives Mafia.
Getajobliberal Leader 6m
This article is all about protecting black lies matter. You didn't even hear about the
suspect. What a joke.
Oldpeoplesuck Leader 6m
I used to sneak out of my house to go to parties. Now I sneak out of parties to go to my
house.
VEIronClaw Leader 5m Oldpeoplesuck
Lol!!!!
CaesarsLegionXIII Leader 6m
Blue Lives Matter. Refund The Police. Reject Liberalism.
Yscracker Leader 6m
Counselors can sort it out.
Ringersoll509 Leader 6m
☭ Black Lives Matter☭ is a Marxist organization that does nothing and intends to
do nothing to actually improve the lives of Black Americans Here are some of its stated goals:
1)Ending the nuclear family 2)Abolishing all police and all prisons 3)Redistribution of wealth
4) Immediate release and record expungement of all drug-related offenses ... See more
MamaSaurusRex Leader 6m Edited
Don't get me wrong. I don't think anyone should be shot over words. But, she had a 3 year
old at home, and she was out in the middle of the night? Nothing good happens after midnight.
Raise your kids.
Ringersoll509 Leader 6m Edited
Sticks, stones, and Black Lives Matter will break your bones...
MCaar Leader 5m Ringersoll509
blm are a bunch of criminals.
Trumplovechristians Leader 6m
You don't solve any problem by inciting violence you will get No sympathy from me unless
they shoot at you first
Dr.StevenClarkBradleyPh.D Contributor 6m
Yet, our young people, of all races, are accepting the deadly and racially-charged hate
policies of 'Black Lives Matter', and are even taught in our schools and universities that the
goals of 'Black Lives Matter' are right and good for the future of America. Why are such groups
allowed to indoctrinate our children and groups from religious-based organization not permitted
to do so? Black Lives Matter and Teach for America Indoctrination of America's Students It is
easy to show the duplicity of the indoctrination of our children and how, anyone, other than
black kids, are ostracized and made to regret their race, by groups, such as 'Black Lives
Matter'. For example, two radical voices that are very active in protests that have turned
exceedingly violent and who are vital voiced in schools that indoctrinate students are Brittany
N. Packnett Cunningham and DeRay McKesson. Brittany N. Packnett Cunningham is the former
Executive Director, of 'Teach for America', St. louis, which is, in reality, the indoctrination
arm of the 'Black Lives Matter' movement. 'Teach for America' recruits newly graduated
teachers, who are inexperienced in teaching and who have already been indoctrinated, in high
school and university, and are easily turned into megaphones for the radical, racial views that
tear children's individual confidence to shreds.
tazumus Leader 6m
When it says "Black life matter" it does not say "white life", "brown life" and "asian life"
matter or not. The police and non black american can not understand that racism is something
perpetrated against black only. The new normal is for all black to be treated with the respect
they ask for, no question ask, this is call re-education.
ShrikeII Leader 1m tazumus
No. BLM is a racist, black supremacy organization that is also communist and anti-American.
End of discussion.
Myride98 18s tazumus
I was taught to believe all lives matter; I learned to respect those who deserve it not
those who ask for it. As for racism being against blacks only, you should read more news.
Racism doesn't discriminate, it used against all races.
LanceLoire601 Leader 7m
Her murder sounds like a hate crime. Unfortunate event :/
Spenser47656 Leader 7m
Defund BLM
TheFickleMiddleFInger135 Influencer 7m
Animals do what animals will do
HumanBeing346 Leader 7m
oh Fox News...you never to cease to amaze me.
DFMalan Leader 6m HumanBeing346
Like it when blacks kill white women huh?
Jail45 Leader 7m
She should have been at home taking care of her child. Unmarried with three year old out at
3:00 a.m.
USKIWIdeplorable Leader 7m
This is yet another example of why Whites dont trust blacks at all. This isnt racism, its
MISSTRUST. Every white woman will feel scared when catching the subway late at night, specially
when theres blacks around. Whites put their wallets and purses away safely, many opting for
waist belts. Millions are training and purchasing handguns cause they feel unsafe. Until Black
Parents can teach their kids sense, but since they have such a high fatherless population, that
will seldom happen. Blacks Looting and killing whites over verbal tussles will never improve
race relations, so dont expect one day, the victims to snap.... See more
Mcnooblet Leader 3m USKIWIdeplorable
Blacks are estimated to be 12% of the population and account for nearly half the murders in
the whole country. That stat needs to be improved for trust to begin.
CollegeEducated475 Leader 5m USKIWIdeplorable
Our special tonight - Unabashed racism!
Dowreal Leader 16s USKIWIdeplorable
Bro, the reality is that democrats are just trying to fulfill Hitler qoute " i want raise a
generation of young stupid people, devoid of conscience, imperious, relentless and cruel". Am
black, from Africa, our politicians has perfected in Africa, i pray you people should wake and
fight before been woked or intimidated. Please all right thinking Americans, wake up and fight
before it is too late.
PoliticalIyIncorrect Leader 7m
If anyone is keeping score (which I apologize for such an abhorrent thought) but there are
now far more (confirmed) innocent victims of BLM than (unconfirmed) victims of police...
ChuckyS964 Leader 7m
Why is it that most of these shootings we read about with minorities seem to happen between
2am -5am?
DBH12768 Leader 5m ChuckyS964
You heard of the witching hour well from 2am to 5am is the shooting hours
HokeyPokey Leader 5m ChuckyS964
Maybe they get off their full-time jobs at midnight and need to rest awhile?
danielferry Leader 7m
The assailant should be executed in public. Antifa and BLM must be shown that lawlessness
will not be tolerated.
It's-ame,Mario! Leader 7m
Get the rope.
patriot34859 Leader 7m
If BLM continues with only black lives matter then the all lives matter will overwhelm them
and it will not be pretty.
tfanta05330 Leader 5m patriot34859
They have it coming!!!
Dr.StevenClarkBradleyPh.D Contributor 10m
What Logical Questions Can Explain Black Lives Matter? - Firstly, what does the name 'Black
Lives Matter' really mean? - Does the name of this radical and often violent organization imply
that only black people's lives matter? - Why do members of 'Black Lives Matter' get so furious
whenever anyone counters their name and says that all lives matter? - Do they really believe
that white or Asian lives or all other cultural or ethnic forms of life do not matter? - Is it
the platform, of 'Black Lives Matter', that the lives of black and white men and women, in
blue, do not matter? - Though nearly everyone would agree with black people wholeheartedly and
immediately say that killing a black man or woman just because they are black is evil and
inhuman. Then, why is it, and how could it be right for 'Black Lives Matter' adherents to
believe that the killing of police and how can the slaying of those, whom they believe and
determine to be White Supremacists be right? - Does not the name, 'Black Lives Matter' mean
that those who are members, of the growing and increasingly powerful racially-based
organization, mean that they, themselves, are Black Supremacists?... See more
aeweiss Leader 10m
I guess only black lives matter.
Ferrisite Leader 11m
So the story isn't clearly written. It would appear some blacks killed a white woman for
saying All Lives Matter. Doesn't take much to get those people riled up.
MAGAman501 Leader 4m Ferrisite
People??
kevsands20 Leader 11m
The official position of BLM:" "I just want black liberation and black sovereignty, by any
means necessary." Greater New York Black Lives Matter president Hawk Newsome If you violent
White Pride guys exist, do him first.
PrezJeffDavis404 Leader 11m
Burn it down.
AmericaTheBeautifulBaby Leader 11m
The irony is BLM is disbanding cops. Who's gonna protect them now?
TerrenceRoss2016 Leader 11m
It has nothing to do with the canal.
andydufresne1966 Leader 11m
To my Conservative / Republican friends – we are, beyond the shadow of a reasonable
doubt, under attack: 1) Take a firearm safety course. Right now, you may have to wait. The
current waiting list is approximately eight weeks, but more courses are opening every day. 2)
If you've never owned / fired a gun, think about buying a revolver. Don't worry about aiming.
Laser technology now makes it nearly impossible to miss your target. ... See more
CNNclowns Leader 11m
ALL LIVES MATTER.....ALL LIVES MATTER.....ALL LIVES MATTER.
Arny.Plumb Leader 3m CNNclowns
All Rights Matter. They are your ARM's
EPNOTLiberal Leader 10m CNNclowns
Not at this time, its time for war.
ChampagneReady Leader 11m
We have to revert back to busting heads. This has got to stop. If we don't, we are going to
have vigilantism on steroids
TDSallAmerican704 Leader 11m
White Lives Don't Matter
HUSSEINinthemembrane Leader 11m
This is a great reason to never be out after midnight. 3am? Crazy, stupid and good luck
ColHaugnaughty Leader 8m HUSSEINinthemembrane
There is a constitutional arrangement that allows for being out at 3am.
SoyBomb Leader 11m
Well? Time to run out by the tens of thousands and start protesting. Time for BLM to come
down. Time for BET to come down. Time for affirmative action to come down. Isn't that they way
this just worked over a terrible cop?
cupmoo 9m SoyBomb
several terrible cops. several racist people. people just really like hating people for
their skin color? wow.
Whaletails Leader 11m
The Silent Majority will soon be taking back our America from these democrat riot funded
Weatherman BLM the Gang of 8 and the anarchist sympathizers November will soon be here. God
Bless America
FOX-Capitulated-To-The-Left Leader 11m
Take note people, the democrats are the true racists, haters extremists and radicals. They
always say the right is extreme but all of the hate, rioting, murder, burning looting and
silencing of free speech comes form the left. You independent voters better wake up before it's
too late.
SallieMae321 Leader 12m
Filthy damn Leftists. BLM only fosters hate . What empathy there was for the black cause is
now dying in America because of their apalling, lawless behavior. The Civil War is close.
EnosEnos Leader 12m
Antifffffa , please help out BLM by throwing all those toppled statues on top of planned
parenthood buildings.
Dr.Dave443 Leader 12m
Black Lives Matter certainly is shaping up to be a terrorist group and should be outlawed.
This will only get worse with time until all people stand up and decide that civil discourse
and debate should never end in violence. Looking at the upcoming elections, the only real hope
for the country is Trump, holding the senate, and retaking the house.
bpaulg Leader 9m Dr.Dave443
The FBI has a huge report that says white supremacists are the worst terrorists in America.
Trump defends them every chance he gets. BLM s a human rights organization.
RespectfullyOld Leader 12m Edited
It's been made Very Evident, this group cares NOT for anyone except those that provide them
with funding. And eventually BLM will grow weary of waiting FOR MORE FUNDING because AS WITH
EVERYTHING Liberal, There's NEVER EVER ENOUGH of ANYTHING, especially FREE MONEY!
DFMalan Leader 12m
Her son will grow up and hate blacks for the animals they are.
Beingreasonable Leader 10m
Not quite, but w your code name, it is quite a bit drastic.
cupmoo 11m
do you just wake up and say " i'm gonna hate on a whole group of people for their skin color
"?
retireddist1b Leader 12m
The democrats are creating this mess by design. The Dem elite are very sick people.
Catshamer Leader 13m
The shooting marks the second homicide in the canal in a week. Police say they will increase
patrols there during overnight hours. Must be where the drug deals go down......which this
probably was.
EnosEnos Leader 13m
BLM, you are silly and flaccid. Planned parenthood and black on black murders decimate your
numbers yet you focus on a few cops. How dumb.
Nordicice Leader 13m
BLM is a group of Marxist thugs. And the Democrats are all in supporting them. REMEMBER IN
NOVEMBER! TRUMP 2020!!
In the grisly footage, the
suspect viciously attacked two men, knocking both to the floor of the carriage and slashing as they tried to fight back. One
victim managed to get to his feet and drive the attacker away, but had a knife thrust into his torso in the scuffle.
WARNING: DISTURBING VIDEO
Local news reports suggest
the incident took place last Sunday, and as the video spread around the internet on Saturday, NYPD Transit Chief Edward
Delatorre
explained
that
the suspect was
"arrested moments later, charged with multiple counts of felony assault,
menacing, and criminal possession of a weapon, and is currently awaiting prosecution."
According to Delatorre,
the stabbing was a
"heinous and unprovoked attack."
Both victims were taken to
hospital with non-critical injuries, the New York Daily News reported.
The NYPD has recently
announced its crime statistics for the month before. The
stats
made
for grim reading, describing a surge of 130 percent in shootings in every borough of New York, a 30 percent increase in
murders, and a doubling in burglaries, compared to June 2019.
Let me be clear: Cops are
not shooting black men
for no reason . Things are better for blacks today than for most of our history and for
blacks
anywhere else .
But the fact remains that impressions are real. Many blacks really do think they should fear
police and other government agencies. We must accept this. Denying it, or explaining why blacks
have nothing to fear, is pointless.
A historical analogy: Blacks' fears and resentments are reminiscent of those among
Sudeten-Germans in
the Czechoslovak Republic before World War II. When the
Austro-Hungarian Empire was dismantled in 1918, the German-speaking people of Bohemia , later called Sudetenland , suddenly found
themselves under Czech rule. Most non-German observers thought the country was a bastion of
democracy in Central Europe. But the Sudeten-Germans, like American blacks, did not perceive
the state in which they lived as democratic or even fair.
It is a hard thing to be ruled by an alien race; and I have been left with the impression
that Czechoslovak rule in the Sudeten areas for the last twenty years, though not actually
oppressive and certainly not 'terroristic,' has been marked by tactlessness, lack of
understanding, petty intolerance and discrimination, to a point where the resentment of the
German population was inevitably moving in the direction of revolt.
Like the Sudeten-Germans , American
blacks are "moving in the direction of revolt." They have been ruled by an "alien race" much
more alien than the
Czechs were to the Germans, the period of rule has been 400 long years, mostly in
slavery
.
Runciman wisely suggested that the Sudeten-German areas be ceded to Germany for the good of
both nations. His mistake was thinking that
Adolf Hitler was an honest broker and would maintain the deal struck at Munich, but that
aside, Runciman's proposal was a form of restitution; i.e., giving the Sudeten-Germans some
form of justice, however imperfect it might have been.
a: a restoration of something to its
rightful owner
b: a making good of or giving an equivalent for some injury
2: a legal action serving to cause restoration of a previous state
Restoring a "previous state," returning blacks to the state before the wrong was done, is
the restitution the U.S. should offer to repair the damage done by slavery.
Let's return to the situation before 1619, when the first African slaves
landed in Virginia, before the transatlantic
shipment of millions of Africans to the New World for sale.
Marcus Garvey, in my opinion the greatest black leader in modern history, created the
Universal Negro Improvement Association to just that end. His group purchased steamships to
return blacks to their motherland.
Unhappily, the era's Cheap Labor lobby encouraged the government to charge him with mail
fraud, leading to his
deportation from the U.S. (he was a Jamaican immigrant) and to
the collapse of his 5-million-strong movement, the largest black movement in our history.
Cheap black labor was more important than the freedom and well-being of blacks or the end of
the racial problems in the United States for those long-ago Chamber of Commerce
types.
The Black Muslim faith was founded on the concept of the return to the Motherland as well,
although current black Muslims seem content with trying to create a back state here or taking
over the US altogether.
And before them both, of course, was the American Colonization Society
, formed in 1816 to encourage the voluntary emigration of blacks. Its members and supporters
included James Madison ,
Henry Clay, and,
famously, Abe Lincoln himself, although the 16th president stopped talking about the idea
after the War Between the States.
How practical it was to send blacks back to Africa by sailing or steamship will never be
known. But today, international airline travel is affordable to all: a
ticket from the U.S. to Ghana, host of the 2019 Year of Return , can be had
for less than $1,000 . Airline capacity to Africa appears to be enormous and underused,
which offers any large-scale program of return the possibility of substantial per-seat savings
[ Africa Aviation Outlook 2019: Change may be in the air – at last ,
CentreForAviation.com, January 31, 2019].
As well, $14 trillion in reparations for slavery, as proposed by Black Entertainment
Television founder Robert Johnson, would easily cover the cost of sending all 37.1 million
American blacks to Africa, with more than $10 trillion left for generous resettlement packages.
[
BET founder Robert Johnson calls for $14 trillion of reparations for slavery, CNBC,
June 1, 2020]
That's a lot of money. But it also solves a problem, at least for blacks who feel hunted and
unsafe in the white jungle.
Of course, returning to Africa should be voluntary, and blacks who consider themselves
Americans and do not feel hunted or discriminated against should not be forced to return to a
country and continent they do not know or even want to know.
But for the BLM activists, for those convinced the deck in the U.S. is stacked against them,
repatriation permanently repairs the continuing "legacy of slavery." To participate, blacks
would have to renounce American citizenship and accept the passport of an African country.
But the hard fact is, opportunity often comes knocking disguised as hard work. Ten million
or 15 million English-speaking blacks with American know-how and a pocket full of resettlement
money would certainly spur economic growth for the whole region, and perhaps counterbalance the
growing Chinese infiltration of the continent. Some have already moved there at their own
cost, and are happy to be in the land of their people.
A return to the Motherland -- restitution in kind -- would give social, mental, emotional,
economic and perhaps even physical benefits to American blacks.
For whites in the Historic American Nation, it would give all the same -- plus the added
knowledge that the debt of slavery is paid in full, this country's
original sin , as it is always called, washed away.
Divorce is another and somewhat more familiar way to think of it. The marriage of the two
main racial groups here has never worked and has not turned out well despite all efforts for
improvement -- as the founders of the American Colonization Society, not least
The Great Emancipator himself, predicted
.
Four hundred years in, the death of one man can lead to near rebellion, destruction of our
cities and death on the streets. A bad marriage needs to be ended, so let's start talking about
property division and payout.
It's time to face the truth and recognize that Marcus Garvey was right, and that the U.S.
would be wise to fund the only possible and reasonable form of restitution for slavery -- an
orderly resettlement to the Motherland of those blacks who believe they are oppressed
155 years after the end of slavery and 50 years after the Voting and Civil Rights acts.
Let me be clear: Cops are
not shooting black men
for no reason . Things are better for blacks today than for most of our history and for
blacks
anywhere else .
But the fact remains that impressions are real. Many blacks really do think they should fear
police and other government agencies. We must accept this. Denying it, or explaining why blacks
have nothing to fear, is pointless.
A historical analogy: Blacks' fears and resentments are reminiscent of those among
Sudeten-Germans in
the Czechoslovak Republic before World War II. When the
Austro-Hungarian Empire was dismantled in 1918, the German-speaking people of Bohemia , later called Sudetenland , suddenly found
themselves under Czech rule. Most non-German observers thought the country was a bastion of
democracy in Central Europe. But the Sudeten-Germans, like American blacks, did not perceive
the state in which they lived as democratic or even fair.
It is a hard thing to be ruled by an alien race; and I have been left with the impression
that Czechoslovak rule in the Sudeten areas for the last twenty years, though not actually
oppressive and certainly not 'terroristic,' has been marked by tactlessness, lack of
understanding, petty intolerance and discrimination, to a point where the resentment of the
German population was inevitably moving in the direction of revolt.
Like the Sudeten-Germans , American
blacks are "moving in the direction of revolt." They have been ruled by an "alien race" much
more alien than the
Czechs were to the Germans, the period of rule has been 400 long years, mostly in
slavery
.
Runciman wisely suggested that the Sudeten-German areas be ceded to Germany for the good of
both nations. His mistake was thinking that
Adolf Hitler was an honest broker and would maintain the deal struck at Munich, but that
aside, Runciman's proposal was a form of restitution; i.e., giving the Sudeten-Germans some
form of justice, however imperfect it might have been.
a: a restoration of something to its
rightful owner
b: a making good of or giving an equivalent for some injury
2: a legal action serving to cause restoration of a previous state
Restoring a "previous state," returning blacks to the state before the wrong was done, is
the restitution the U.S. should offer to repair the damage done by slavery.
Let's return to the situation before 1619, when the first African slaves
landed in Virginia, before the transatlantic
shipment of millions of Africans to the New World for sale.
Marcus Garvey, in my opinion the greatest black leader in modern history, created the
Universal Negro Improvement Association to just that end. His group purchased steamships to
return blacks to their motherland.
Unhappily, the era's Cheap Labor lobby encouraged the government to charge him with mail
fraud, leading to his
deportation from the U.S. (he was a Jamaican immigrant) and to
the collapse of his 5-million-strong movement, the largest black movement in our history.
Cheap black labor was more important than the freedom and well-being of blacks or the end of
the racial problems in the United States for those long-ago Chamber of Commerce
types.
The Black Muslim faith was founded on the concept of the return to the Motherland as well,
although current black Muslims seem content with trying to create a back state here or taking
over the US altogether.
And before them both, of course, was the American Colonization Society
, formed in 1816 to encourage the voluntary emigration of blacks. Its members and supporters
included James Madison ,
Henry Clay, and,
famously, Abe Lincoln himself, although the 16th president stopped talking about the idea
after the War Between the States.
How practical it was to send blacks back to Africa by sailing or steamship will never be
known. But today, international airline travel is affordable to all: a
ticket from the U.S. to Ghana, host of the 2019 Year of Return , can be had
for less than $1,000 . Airline capacity to Africa appears to be enormous and underused,
which offers any large-scale program of return the possibility of substantial per-seat savings
[ Africa Aviation Outlook 2019: Change may be in the air – at last ,
CentreForAviation.com, January 31, 2019].
As well, $14 trillion in reparations for slavery, as proposed by Black Entertainment
Television founder Robert Johnson, would easily cover the cost of sending all 37.1 million
American blacks to Africa, with more than $10 trillion left for generous resettlement packages.
[
BET founder Robert Johnson calls for $14 trillion of reparations for slavery, CNBC,
June 1, 2020]
That's a lot of money. But it also solves a problem, at least for blacks who feel hunted and
unsafe in the white jungle.
Of course, returning to Africa should be voluntary, and blacks who consider themselves
Americans and do not feel hunted or discriminated against should not be forced to return to a
country and continent they do not know or even want to know.
But for the BLM activists, for those convinced the deck in the U.S. is stacked against them,
repatriation permanently repairs the continuing "legacy of slavery." To participate, blacks
would have to renounce American citizenship and accept the passport of an African country.
But the hard fact is, opportunity often comes knocking disguised as hard work. Ten million
or 15 million English-speaking blacks with American know-how and a pocket full of resettlement
money would certainly spur economic growth for the whole region, and perhaps counterbalance the
growing Chinese infiltration of the continent. Some have already moved there at their own
cost, and are happy to be in the land of their people.
A return to the Motherland -- restitution in kind -- would give social, mental, emotional,
economic and perhaps even physical benefits to American blacks.
For whites in the Historic American Nation, it would give all the same -- plus the added
knowledge that the debt of slavery is paid in full, this country's
original sin , as it is always called, washed away.
Divorce is another and somewhat more familiar way to think of it. The marriage of the two
main racial groups here has never worked and has not turned out well despite all efforts for
improvement -- as the founders of the American Colonization Society, not least
The Great Emancipator himself, predicted
.
Four hundred years in, the death of one man can lead to near rebellion, destruction of our
cities and death on the streets. A bad marriage needs to be ended, so let's start talking about
property division and payout.
It's time to face the truth and recognize that Marcus Garvey was right, and that the U.S.
would be wise to fund the only possible and reasonable form of restitution for slavery -- an
orderly resettlement to the Motherland of those blacks who believe they are oppressed
155 years after the end of slavery and 50 years after the Voting and Civil Rights acts.
Back home, no doubt, they will be "free at last, free at last, Lord God almighty, free at
last!"
Their home is America. Not sure I agree with reparations. That would certainly make things
worse. The elite would soon find a way to get their hands on most of them.
Reparations if paid should be paid by the British-and EU. The US ended the legal
importation of slaves upon its formation. Obviously, a few states controlled by a small
number of large plantation owners continued the practice until the Civil War ended it as
punishment for trying to break free of the North.
Lets also not forget the many indentured servants (estimated at 300,000) many of whom were
forced to the colonies against their will ( irish catholics and England's/Scotlands poor). In
theory they were free after working a number of years as slaves but this was not always
enforced. Also because the holder of the indentured servant was not the owner, some were
treated even more poorly than African slaves who were valued capital of their owners. Indeed,
the 500,000 Africans imported into British North America are now 41 million strong. If the
rest of the 9.5 million slaves imported to other areas of the Americas multiplied in same
proportion the Americas combined would have a population of 800 million African Americans .
The total population today of north and south America combined (All races) is 1 billion with
only 100 million being of African descent (40% in US despite receiving only 5% of the slaves
from Africa).
Now that said, have African Americans been subject to many indignities? Yes, no doubt, and
the war on drugs has disproportionately affected them. We definitely should stop
incarcerating young men and woman for non violent crimes like drugs, and stop breaking up
families who need financial assistance. That said, many immigrants of other
races/religions/ethnic regions have been subjected to discrimination. Assimilation has been
the key for them, but the education system (and MSM) starting with bussing (50 years ago)
seeks to continue promoting the divisions between white and black and thus holding back
progress.
As they said during the cultural revolution, behind every angry black there is a
Jew , that is as true today as it was back in the 60's. Blacks wouldn't be such a problem
if it weren't for the Jews indoctrinating, enslaving (with welfare), instigating, and egging
them on. Send all the Jews back to Israel, and the blacks can be put back in their place by
learning individual accountability like everyone else. The most violent ones and the race
hustlers can be sent with their Jew masters to Israel.
Expulsion of 10m is a lot cheaper than 38m with restitution. We don't have $14Trillion to
give away, our national debt is already at $23Trillion.
This is the most fair, even compassionate solution. Africa is a magnificently beautiful
place. The fruit grows plentifully. The marijuana is the best on Earth. Chickens are
everywhere. There's no need for shoes or even down jackets. The music and dance scene is like
nothing else. There are no American police at all. Many white women will visit and hopefully
stay on.
Well, being that government programs never end, and often morph, the question arises
that after all the blacks are gone who is next, and next, and next, and finally, what is
left?
Well, LIFO (last-in, first-out) means that the last people forcibly expatriated
will be religious whites from the North-east, I guess.
That said: LIFO is generally not permitted under IFRS (although they're permitted under
GAAP). Under IFRS inventory (i.e., stock and we are livestock) must be accounted for using
FIFO. Under FIFO it's the whites who have to fuck off beck whence they came. (Protip: that's
why unions prefer LOFO: last-on, first-off).
.
There are abundant historical records regarding who owned what land at the point in time
when the proto-US_Death_Machine declared that only it could buy land from natives.
There's a Supreme Court case about it: Johnson & Graham's Lessee v.
McIntosh , 21 U.S. 543 (1823) , and as part of its discussion of the
background of the case it outlines the completely invalid claims to land already owned by
other peoples that were made from 23 May, 1609 onwards.
Simply reverse those false claims – which were not claimed as spoils of war, and
cannot support a claim of terra nullius , because the lands were already occupied by
people who had a recognisable system of land title.
That would put ownership of all Federal land, and all subsequently-alienated Federal land,
back in the hands of the people from whom it was falsely taken.
That would only affect land acquired without 'clean hands' – i.e., probably 99% of
the continental US (Louisiana doesn't get a pass, because it was acquired from a State whose
claim was fraudulent: ditto Alaska).
That's what would happen if people took morality and ethics seriously: things acquired
by fraud remain the property of the person defrauded, in perpetuity – and if the
fraudster improves the property they obtained by fraud, that's just too fucking bad for
them.
That said: there is land that was acquired with 'clean hands' – by the
voluntary alienation of land from its prior owners, by a person authorised to do so, for good
consideration, with no coercion or duress.
That is true in every colony in history: those contracts were almost never with agents of
a government, and must be honoured. And they were documented at the time, and the original
owners don't dispute that they happened.
(Disclosure: that's how my white predecessors got ownership of their land in New
Zealand).
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That said: back to " reparations and repatriation "
Far from the masturbatory fantasies of the " Pay the dindus off, then ship 'em out
", there is zero chance that the US political class implements even a voluntary
"reparations + resettlement" scheme, for fear that there would be a significant number of
takers.
It would be unimaginably bad optics, and probably the final nail in the "city on a hill"
Exceptionalist horse-shit that the US Death Machine has used on its most-gullible dumbfucks
for 200 years.
Any smart-but-non-"insider" black who turned his nose up at $100k plus a ticket to Africa,
would be out of their fucking mind. I would take that bet tomorrow, and I'm not African.
If the US announced such a policy tomorrow, by next Wednesday they would have half the US
black community signed up. If the blacks had any sense they would insist on payment in specie
(e.g., gold) so that they didn't have to worry about the US government delaying payment until
after the US hyperinflates its currency to death.
The reason for that last sentence Russia and China are in the process of ending the USD's
reign as reserve currency. Pricing oil an gas in non-USD is the first step.
Repatriation and to Africa.
What an excellent idea.
Hopefully we in Britain and Europe could latch on and emulate your freeing up of people and
helping them to re establish their lives in their homelands.
We have tens of millions – many many tens of millions of imported islamics in
Europe.
A great deal more dangerous – according to our security experts – islamics openly
intent on creating the European Caliphate on the blood of we the European people if
necessary, if we don't flee..
We in Europe are on course for a continental wide bloody Balkan style bloodbath as they
import and let the countless killers and radicals loose all over our continent.
America would be doing the American blacks a real kindness by helping them home to the
countries of their origin.
And you could do us a favour, backing Europe, in doing the same to a vicious and dangerous
islamic invasion force – a far greater threat than even BLM.
The islamic invasion of Europe is serious and they mean business as they did in the theft of
Kosovo and the mass murder of Serbs and others..
Slaughter next on a vast scale.
They don't even bother to hide their intent.
Start with blacks, then you can work your way toward Illegals, Stupid White folks of whom
there are millions. And last but certainly not least .America's very special people who
created all the fore mentioned disastrous groups. The Goys Know.
There are many American blacks in SA. They seem to have adopted it as a homeland, because
it is a western built-up country (for Now). Not a single slave was from SA, too far south
Show me a group of immigrants that weren't fighting with one another . The Irish fought
the Italians, the Germans had to fight the Americans, the Polish fought the Ricans, Blacks vs
them all sometimes, etc. I remember in the 60s , heading into little Italy in Chicago –
to see a girlfriend and it wasn't pleasant for this blonde haired, blue eyed boy. Today, it's
not as bad with the Italians, Irish, Germans etc. as it was, but it hasn't changed with the
Blacks and some Latino areas. But this was the NWO Government Plan all along. Divide the
people and keep the melting pot in turmoil, in order to continue the lies, theft, murder,
that it takes, to keep the Corporate NWO in control. And the NWO has been around , for a long
long time. Wanna send the Blacks to Africa , well send some more to Israel too.
"OK, Let's Give Them Reparations -- If They Go Back to Africa"
I suppose the same could be said to all the descendents of the colonials who invaded North
(and South too probably) America and stole the land from the natives already living
there.
Been there done that. In South Africa the Apartheid government sought to dismantle the
British Colonial Structure which it had inherited, and return tribal lands to blacks and turn
them into self-governing states. Many white farmers had to sell their land at rock-bottom
prices to the government in order to achieve this. I met a bitter son of such a farmer
recently.
Apart from being torpedoed by the liberal West and mostly jewish orgnisations (who also
represented the interests of the mining magnates Oppenheimer and De Beers) , the blacks
themselves were incapable of running even their small Bantustans. Incompetence, corruption
and crime were rampant and eventually white administers and army officers took over most of
the key institutions in the Bantustans.
Of course that was not enough for them, they wanted it ALL. And ALL they got. Now ALL of
SouthAfrica resembles the erstwhile Bantustans.
You are mistaken if you think blacks in the US are interested in a fair or equitable
solution. They want reparations, AND political power, IN the US, in order to rule OVER
whites. This is the real agenda and unless whites fight back, it is not going away. They are
not stupid, they know what Africa looks like, they know that half of Africa would migrate to
Europe given half a chance, and they do not want to go back there.
Let's be humanitarians here. The ones who've reached their 65th birthday by a certain year
should be allowed to live out their lives here if they want. Otherwise they can be deported
with the rest if they'd like.
stupid racists. You have been fucked and gutted by the Zionists for the last 100 years and
yet, foolishly. blame Blacks and other non whites for your misery.
Pheeeeew! the propaganda is now unapologetic and more ridiculous and flowing non-stop
lies, tormeted twists and insane tangents all the way, in creating justification for
something the Unz s building towards, contrbuting to developing..something horrific for
america – and for Black people especially.
watch then, observe as the Unz Review topples headlong into murderous irrelevance, into a
garbage bin, ready for the dump of history a historical dump. there are lots of them about
the Unz seemingly most suitable for the one Adolf Hitler occupies
the Unz review was some kind of half decent blog. with stuff like this Boehm's article
here this blog is becoming rapidl, pure propagandistic garbage, something relative to the
wartime Germany that is often described as Nazi murderous, genocidal behavior and the
preparation for justification of such in the minds of the people with garbage like this
polluted river flow from Boehm
the Unz Review is well on its way to irrelevance. lets hope it does not contribute to a
stop along its way at #1936 Berlin, with all of us on the train.
Good point.
The "chamber of commerce" types want to make a quick buck, or maximize profits for their
poorly run businesses, and become dependent on cheap foreign labor. They did this without
thinking of the social consequences hundreds of years ago, importing Africans. Now today,
it's mass immigration from all over the world -- again, businesses not thinking about the
long term social consequences.
Voluntary return to Africa was the Policy the Lincoln wanted to support, and which ended
with the conspiracy and murder.. Some see the Policy as the reason for the assassination, ie
Lincoln was murdered for the same reason as Marcus Garvey was removed – to keep the
cheap labor and to keep the working class caught in internal strife which ruling class
exploits as "racism"- the term being a modern word
Boss> "Why doan y'all fight each other for dis dollar?"
The fellas I worked with @ the Army some of them took their pensions and social security
and their bibles and did go to Africa we talked about it. Understand, they loved America, but
it was obvious that it was not working out.
The Black Muslim faith was founded on the concept of the return to the Motherland as
well, although current black Muslims seem content with trying to create a back state here
or taking over the US altogether.
Most blacks aren't content with simply going their own way. They wish to rule over whites
with an iron fist and forcibly confiscate all of our wealth if not murder us off. That's the
textbook definition of racial hatred and racial supremacy yet they are called "civil rights"
crusaders by the Jewish media.
The masses of blacks are pretty ignorant and do think they are being targeted by "racist"
police and "racist" white people but most of the leaders of BLM and other black extremist
movements know better and just exploit the ignorance and natural antipathy towards whites of
most blacks to gain political power and money.
Send the Jews back to where? They're from Russia, mostly, and Russia doesn't want them.
Palestine isn't for them either. Best if they just stay on here and behave themselves, and if
you smarten up enough to see that they do. But there's not much chance of that happening.
The author wrote that with 10-15 English speaking blacks with American money and
American know how blah blah would make some kind of a difference in Africa.
For a start millions of black Africans already speak english.
99.9% of American blacks for all the ebonic trash they spew about Africa have never been
to that continent. They will receive a most unpleasant surprise when they arrive in their new
homeland.
Liberia should serve as a warning to them all. What was supposed to be a homeland for
slaves who wished to return to Africa is in essence another black shit hole on the
continent.
Bros, there are no subsidised housing, food stamps and welfare over there. Where is you
going to live ?
And that repatriation money you is coming with will spend out because y'all dont know to
manage your finances.
And the black police, black military and dictators ..oooooooooo weeeeeeeeee ! Dem boys
never heard about human rights. Few jobs as well my Bros and what da jobs they got goes to
family and tribal members. Looting, burning and tearing down statues dere = AK 47 time by the
security forces. All dat is why blacks in Africa wants to come here while you dumb niggers
wants to go there.
If youse can't make it in the US with all dem perks and freeness youse cannot make it in
Afreeka.
US blacks may be 99% retarded but that 1% of intelligence tells them dey gots a better
deal here.
So, crackers. dem boys aint going nowhere. We is stuck with dem HERE.
They are not know for any thinking whatsoever, in the moment, short, medium or long term.
That results from their cranium being mostly bone with a small barely functioning squishy
glob THEY refer to as a brain.
The old idea is little too late in formulating. It should have been thunk of back in the
day before Barak Hussein Obama became president of these united states before a white
Christian woman. Now charge the half African Barry O to lead his people back to Wakanda,
where he would be the first chancellor (blacks like fancy words) of the United States of
Africa (we can legally change our name to America, plain and simple!). It can be achieved
with the "American" military might in case radicals here and in the dark continent (it would
be enlightened soon with the arrival of 40 millions of "African Americans" the figure
includes the men and women who're married to Wakandans) opppse the idea. It would be good for
all around being that Africa is so huge. And the best part is that all Einsteins, Steinems,
Freuds, Rands et al can go with them to help build it or eff it up depending upon your point
of view, from nearby Israel. Last but not least, the dirty yellow rat (chinaman) would be
sent packing from exploiting the ignorant natives with the arrival of the crips and bloods,
i.e. feral black bipeds I am all in!
14 trillion dollars to repatriate our now-useless "farm machinery" would be a bargain.
After repatriation, within a few years, the USA would be a paradise.
That would leave the USA with only one other major problem: the jews.
Now, what to do with our most troublesome "minority"-the jews? They already have money and
own the banking system, own the mainstream media and popular culture, and would be difficult
to dislodge ((them)) from their present "supremacist" position.
We could declare those who espouse "judaism" to be "agents of a foreign government" and
expel them from all government, banking, corporate, media and cultural systems within the
country. Jews would also be prohibited from operating and being board members of the various
philanthropic "foundations" within the USA.
All jewish "freak shows" (holohoax museums) would be "repurposed" as public schools.
Schoolchildren would be educated on the ways the jews used the "system" to perpetuate that
"hoax of the twentieth century" for so long.
If ((they)) do not accept these changes, they can get out of the country along with the
negroes.
As the old saying still applies: "behind every negro, there is a jew", ((they)) can go to
Africa along with their "pets".
"Gaggle" is for geese.
Likewise:
A pod of whales;
A flock of sheep;
A pride of lions;
A herd of cattle;
A murder of crows;
A riot of niggers.
So, how about a cancer of Jews?
FWIW-any debate that talks about "conditional reparations" as a way of solving problems
needs expert issues entrepreneurship from a very strong intellectual and moral foundation. I
don't think we have that foundation yet.
Consider unintended consequences:
Ten million or 15 million English-speaking blacks with American know-how and a pocket
full of resettlement money would certainly spur economic growth for the whole region . . .
'.
Really? What's to prevent those recently resettled American Blacks from using their
resettlement money not to spur economic growth, but instead to demonstrate their commitment
to their African homeland by purchasing shitloads of Soviet-era military equipment, and,
worse, purchasing the first African nuclear weapon from a rogue state or other bad actor.
I favor debate on the merits of distancing people from one another, and I liked this
article. But, we have far smaller fish to fry, such as ending affirmative action, and we
don't seem to have the gumption to fry them. (Exceptions for those very costly legal
challenges to specific affirmative action policies.)
Jul 6, 2020 Thomas Sowell/Black Wisdom Matters – The Impact of Culture
A look at how black culture has affected the advancements of blacks in America. Thomas
Sowell, Walter E Williams, Jason Riley, Shelby Steele and Glenn Loury.
Blacks have had their reparations and then some. Matter of fact, THEY (The Blacks) OWE
WHITES REPARATIONS AND AS A WHITE MAN, I WOULD GLADLY CALL IT EVEN IF BLACKS LEAVE AMERICA
AND OTHER TRADITIONALLY WHITE NATIONS AND ARE NOT ALLOWED TO COME BACK.
Correct me if I am wrong, but did not Blacks not even have to fight for their freedom
because a bunch of Whites did that for them in the American War Between The States, where
over 700,000 Whites died ensuring the Black man's freedom. REPARATIONS PAID IN FULL. Matter
of fact some things never change because ignorant Whites and other outcasts still fight for
Blacks in the year 2020, although it is the Whites who are enslaved this time around and the
Blacks who are the privileged class. I know this sounds retarded but America in 2020 is
retarded. When you consider that the AFRICANS IN AMERICA were originally bought and sold by
their own people, so it isn't as if the White man went to Africa and captured free Africans,
they were already enslaved and more than likely brutalized far worse by their own, than the
White man.
Welfare generation after generation, affirmative action laws that have allowed unqualified
Blacks to receive jobs over better qualified Whites, etc. REPARATIONS PAID IN FULL AND THEN
SOME, THE BLACKS NOW OWE WHITES.
Destruction of our major cities, MILLIONS of White victims over the years to Black
violence. How many Whites have been raped, murdered or beaten at the hands of Blacks from
1865-2020, IT WOULD TOTAL MILLIONS. White cops killing or beating Blacks? Compare that number
to the number of White cops who have been beaten or killed by Black thugs or better yet,
compare that number to the number of Whites killed by cops.
I think Blacks have been paid their reparations and then some and THEY OWE US and THEIR
ANCESTORS, if not for being shipped from Africa, most would be living in squalor and swatting
flies from their face while they dropped a deuce on their dirt floor. This is nothing but
more EXTORTION AND THEY LEARNED THOSE TECHNIQUES FROM THE KING OF EXTORTION RACKET. You wanna
guess who the king of the extortion racket is?
Americans need the goofy libertarian musings of some kid who grew up in Whitopia,Wisconsin
and shuffled off to chase poontang in Southeast Asia about as much as my pet bird needs an
Ipad.
As someone who lives in the USA and know people of all kinds of ethnicities I can tell you
for certain that the AA community, to the extent there is one, is not headed for "revolt" any
more than any other sector. What we are headed for is chaos and some kind of multi-headed
civil-war. Most "black" people are not stupid and will not want to go "back" to Africa.
Garvey had a point in his time when conditions were pretty bad but it's different now. Our
problem is that we have "racialized" our society by insisting that race is the a central part
of our identity that is encouraged by every f*cking form I fill out so we are in this sense a
deeply racist society because we are encouraged to think about race all the time by the
public and private authorities that rule our lives.
This article puts things to the logical end of racialism and racism. I've been to Africa
and have know Africans and they don't have that much in common with most American "blacks"
who are often of mixed race. The culture and music are very different as anyone familiar with
African music can tell you–there are some similarities to be sure but that comes, in
some ways, from the almost ubiquitous influence of James Brown on African music.
Can't we stop this bullshit? There are some people of African origin who are "revolting"
but, if you notice, there are just as many "white" of various ethnicities who demonstrated
and rioted. These people are not the majority of either ethnicity. People are tired of the
same old corrupt shit that continually gets worse because we are so easily divided along
racial lines as the oligarchs laugh all the way to the bank.
@orionyx g conquered.
The are caucasian and Khazars.
So far this search for another area to purloin and occupy has led to the problems, certainly
in Georgia and the Ukraine.
Much of the recent trouble in the Ukraine were created by the USA dual citizen neo cons.
They were, it is rumoured, intent on taking the Crimea as the new 'zion', however Putin
– their most loathed adversary – saw it coming and acted.
The Jews mass murdered and terrorised the Russians for some 70 years.
The Jews made up the greater part of the Bolsheviks and inflicted communism on the Russians
with no mercy.
Russia didn't want them back.
I don't see any actual arguments nor have you given any examples of statements you
consider to be lies. Your post amounts to nothing except a barrage of vituperation. Some of
us can be swayed with a combination of facts and reasoned argument, perhaps you could try it
sometime.
@Anon the Dems will steal the next election and use the "hands up, don't shoot" Trojan
horse to provide cover for combatants once invasion of the suburbs gets underway.
Furthermore, the Black Panthers, BLM types, and former ACORN revolutionaries will become
Obama's internal security force that's as well-funded, armed, and numerous as the US military
as he promised, making door-to-door gun confiscation and looting inevitable and effectively
unopposed by "all hat/no horse" conservatives pointing to the number of guns their atomized
and demoralized supporters own. Eventually, the Republican Party that conservatives stupidly
believe has their back will be run out of town, that is, if its members can be located hiding
out among Antifa and the like.
@SteveK9 %-meaning that it probably was 30-35% in real life. (The rate for whites at the
time was 3-4%).
That's different from children in two parent homes. If a kid was born to married parents,
he/she wasn't a b@stard. If daddy left a day later, the kid was fatherless just like most
b#stards were.
Adding the illegitimate kids w/out dads to the legitimate kids whose dad bailed on the
family, the fatherless rate in negro homes back then was probably well over 50%.
And what, specifically, were the "strong incentives" for groids to bail on their families?
LOL.
Anything to avoid assigning blame to negroes, I swear ..
– https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kw/crichton.html
exc.: " The noble savage is a fantasy, and it was never true . That anyone still
believes it, 200 years after Rousseau, shows the tenacity of religious myths"
@Anonymous onghold of the white race – Russia – will lock its doors for sure
and Britain is full for a start.
Like many others I have grave doubts if the big mouths and their arsenals – the last
gasp of any pretense of American masculinity – will actually stand and fight.
Forget the Alamo .
The Crocketts and Bowies are long gone.
The Mexicans are invading and running loose all over the USA , occupying it for free –
how the mighty have fallen.
Texas – joke – they are occupying the whole country.
Speaks volumes for the degeneracy and collapsing of the latest Roman Empire. as it goes down
to the neo. black, barbarians.
The only way any of them will accept is if they get some gibs. $100,000 per, conditioned
upon renunciation of U.S. citizenship would be a small price to pay to solve the problem.
This is a good, (tongue-in-cheek?) article. However, the overall goal of our present civic
unrest is societal destabilization – not the attainment of justice or "fairness
(whatever that is supposed to be)."
The operative Hegelian dialectic is: Thesis – the USA treasures its sovereignty and
is, therefore, a speed-bump to attainment of a Globalist, one-world order; Antithesis –
create intractable societal destabilization by pitting class against class, race against
race, and by bankrupting the country (where various patriotic elements are not permitted to
derive solutions); and Synthesis – restoration of order by total destruction of
individual freedoms in favor of statist, tyrannical control.
And the "problem" cannot be solved via public debate and negotiation, because the
"Progressive" leadership – which is truly controlling events via having seized
near-total domination over the MSM, educational system, courts, etc. – will not permit
any solution at variance to the overall "solution" of one world sovereignty.
The fact that Russia and China are disputing the one-world trajectory suggests that,
unless some great-power accommodation is made, both internal and external stress for the USA
is just beginning.
When you make blanket statements like "European Americans complain about the Africans they
stole and shipped to ", you are making a terrible error in thinking.
Facts are hard. Math is hard. But thinking from facts, reality, while hard work in the
short run, will pay off in less work in the long run. If you get it right now, you won't
prescribe programs for reform that will lead us down many dead ends–more work in the
long run.
Facts and math aren't emotionally satisfying, won't help you cheat your opponents or tilt
the table to favor your friends, but generally, the long way around is the short way
home.
On May 29, two federal security officers guarding a courthouse in Oakland, California,
were ambushed by machine-gun fire as elsewhere in the city demonstrators marched peacefully
to protest the killing of George Floyd. One of the guards, David Patrick Underwood, died as a
result of the attack, and the other was wounded. For days, conservative news broadcasters
pinned the blame on "antifa," the loosely affiliated group of anti-fascist anarchists known
to attack property and far-right demonstrators at protests. But the alleged culprit,
apprehended a week later, turned out to be a 32-year-old Air Force sergeant named Steven
Carrillo, the head of a squadron called the Phoenix Ravens, which guards military
installations from terrorist attacks.
According to prosecutors, Carrillo and an accomplice, 30-year-old Robert A. Justus Jr.,
were part of the "boogaloo" movement, a patchwork of right-leaning anti-government
libertarians, Second Amendment advocates, and gun enthusiasts all preparing for another
American civil war.
Authorities say that when they went to apprehend Carrillo at his residence, he attacked
them with pipe bombs, killing a police sergeant named Damon Gutzwiller. Investigators found a
boogaloo-themed patch in a vehicle used by Carrillo. And Carrillo had scrawled boog, along
with various boogaloo slogans, in his own blood on the hood of a car."
Or better still, why don't you all go to where you came from?Who are you to send them
anywhere, they are the only ones, that didn't come by their own will!
@silviosilver years. But it was still Czech kingdom, not German. So the "Sudetens" were
inside old Czech historical borders.
The problem was that once Hitler came to power in 1933, Czechs were faced with a large
German minority adjacent to Germany. Political agitation against Czechs took off and
Freikorps (German militias) were established to undercut Czech authority. The "Sudetens"
welcomed Hitler since they considered Czechs to be inferior to them ("Untermenschen").
In German history books, they are mad at Hitler that he undid 700 years of eastward
expansion. I guess now they have to start all over again, this time using EU as their
tool.
@padre o Europe when all the raping, looting, thieving, nonwhite parasites go back to
where they are from? Btw, where are you from, (((amigo?))) How about the "Jews" going back to
where they are from and leave Palestinians alone?
They ( the Blacks) were sold by their own people to not only Whites, but Jews and Arabs as
well.
Who are you to tell anyone anything, (((amigo?)))
Jews, Arabs, Pakis, Southeast Orientals, Africans/Blacks, East Indians, MIXED RACE
HISPANICS, etc., the only way these people can live in first world nation is to ride on the
back of Whites. Btw, (((amigo))), Native Americans can't stand Blacks or Mexicans.
Plan 1: Libtards and Blacks get California, Nevada and Oregon. (Keep Washington or San
Diego for access to the Pacific). Also, all SJW agitators are exiled to this new country. You
Libtards don't believe in race differences? Fine. Have fun with your 40 million Negroes and
Mestizos.
Plan 2: let Blacks have the naturally developing Black Belt in the South. Mestizos get the
Southwest which they already dominate.
Whites and a small minority of intelligent and patriotic Browns (Asians and Hispanic
Michelle Malkin types. et al) get the rest. (95% White and 5% patriotic Browns sounds good to
me). Also a few hundred Clarence Thomas / Ben Carson types – because of their service
– are allowed to stay if they prefer.
I used to prefer Plan 2, but seeing all the spoiled White brats taking part in the Black
Antifada, I'm starting to think certain Whites deserve Blacks. Some people need to get a dose
of what they espouse and vote for good and hard.
When that greasy puerto rican spickkk in Cleveland kidnapped those girls and held them for
years, and the cops finally rescued them, they didn't leave the girls there to stay with the
spickk family and live their lives. No, they took them back to where they came from. You
don't leave kidnap victims there at the scene of the crime–the biggest remedy is to get
them home.
And the longer they've been there is a bug, not a feature. They shouldn't have been
brought here in the first place. If you had a tumor or a wart, bragging about how long you
have had it is kind of stupid. You need to fix it. It doesn't belong.
Nobody would be that foolish! Odd isn't it though, nobody has suggested (yet) that whites
are repatriated to Europe leaving the Americas to the Indians and blacks.
definitely an interesting piece with some thoughtful comments. all this deserves our
attention. how about a bit more of a classic liberal approach? allow any native born american
to expatriate with their taxes wholly or partially refunded and money for resettlement based
on some equitable formula. conditioned on their being barred from ever again obtaining
american citizenship, at least without first paying huge penalties. this will allow anyone to
go anywhere willing to have them. a voluntary exchange between the citizen and state. let the
market decide.
some stunning remarks on CNN, declaring protests in the streets were perfectly acceptable
while canceling other large events through September.
De Blasio joined CNN's Wolf Blitzer on Thursday evening, discussing the evolving pandemic
and policy response by City Hall to mitigate the spread in the city. He said social justice
warriors were too important after months of protests have yet produced an outbreak in
cases.
"This is a historic moment of change. We have to respect that but also say to people the
kinds of gatherings we're used to, the parades, the fairs -- we just can't have that while
we're focusing on health right now," de Blasio told Blitzer.
The transcript from the body camera worn by J. Alexander Kueng shows clear evidence that
George Floyd was suffering respiratory distress before police laid hands on him. He died from a
Fentanyl overdose, not from being choked out by Minneapolis police. This news will not bring
joy to the crazed, leftist mob screaming to lop off the heads of the Minneapolis police
officers who stand accused of "murdering" George Floyd and little attention has been paid to
the transcript since its release on July 7. I hope to correct that oversight.
First a note about Officer J. Alexander Kueng. He also is a black man. He was adopted
shortly after birth by a white woman and single mother. Can't have that story out there. Simply
does not promote the meme that white Americans are inherently and irredeemably racist. How can
a racist white woman be a loving mother to a black child? Racists don't do that.
Officer Kueng and George Floyd
Once you read the transcript you will understand why the Minnesota Attorney General withheld
the video evidence from the public and why the defense attorneys are trying to get the
information out--it exonerates the police.
I don't think Chauvin will be exonerated, but there is no question advocates of the racist
police brutality narrative are ignoring facts.
The conclusion of the private autopsy requested by the family was wrong. They didn't know
the results of the toxicology report. One of the experts hired by the family, who kept making
television appearances (including on Hannity), didn't even look at the body. To the best of
my knowledge, this man only saw the video and ruled it a homicide on that basis alone.
Another expert hired by the family saw the body, but again she didn't see the toxicology
report. The lawyer for the family, Ben Crump, is an ass for calling the toxicology report a
red herring.
The fact is when the store clerks called the cops, they said Floyd appeared drunk. He was
clearly inebriated or intoxicated. The fact he handed off an obviously fake $20 bill suggests
he wasn't all there. There is no denying the toxicology report which does prove he was
intoxicated. And the police were right to apprehend him. This Floyd was inebriated or
intoxicated while sitting behind the wheel of a car, so he clearly represented a danger if he
began to drive.
With all that being said, despite the fact he had trouble breathing beforehand doesn't
exclude that the manner he was being detained had contributed to his death. The second
autopsy (I'm not talking the private one, but the official second autopsy) officially did
rule his death a homicide because the manner he was held down was deemed a contributing
factor in his death.
In my personal opinion, I think there is a case to be made that Chauvin did recognize
Floyd and deliberately kept Floyd on his stomach, with his face pointed downward, so that
Floyd wouldn't recognize Chauvin. Maybe Chauvin was also trying to pass Floyd out or induce
Floyd to vomit something he may have swallowed to hide from the police, who knows, but the
manner Floyd was held down, even if it is considered accepted albeit rare procedure, will not
hold in front of a jury. Procedures aside, there has to be common sense.
"... "People who are actually 'cancelled' don't get their thoughts published and amplified in major outlets," ..."
"... "held accountable" ..."
"... "an entire TV network" ..."
"... "stoking hatred" ..."
"... "white supremacist [with] a popular network show" ..."
"... "in dangerous ways," ..."
"... You and your mob have been destroying careers and reputations and livelihoods on a whim. Now you're being hoist by your own petard. Those of us blacklisted, libeled, and falsely maligned have zero sympathy. You all started it. May you be devoured by it. https://t.co/PGzMzNa0ku ..."
"... "fired from their jobs and have their livelihoods threatened." ..."
"... There was similar disillusionment with the lawmaker's assertion that she is being maliciously smeared by news networks and "white supremacists." "You're not a victim, you're a United States congresswoman," observed an unsympathetic Twitter user. ..."
"... Whether AOC wants to acknowledge it or not, a seemingly endless internet crusade has ruined the lives of countless individuals (many of them private citizens with little or no power) accused of holding politically incorrect views or of expressing insensitive remarks. ..."
"... An open letter published by Harper's Magazine which criticized the "vogue for public shaming and ostracism" among journalists, academics, and other figures ended up backfiring spectacularly after several signatories of the document rescinded their endorsements. They explained that they'd been unaware that 'problematic' people had also signed the letter. ..."
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has denied the existence of cancel culture, suggesting it is an
invention of privileged moaners who can't handle criticism. Her thesis prompted speculation
that the powerful lawmaker has no self-awareness. The rookie New York congresswoman, whose
'woke' Twitter takes have made her a hero to many on the Left, attempted to debunk the concept
of cancel culture in a series of profound posts.
"People who are actually 'cancelled' don't get their thoughts published and amplified in
major outlets," she argued , adding that the whiners who
complain about being 'cancelled' are actually just entitled and hate being "held
accountable" or "unliked."
To prove her point, she claimed that "an entire TV network" is dedicated to
"stoking hatred" of her, and that a "white supremacist [with] a popular network
show" regularly misrepresents her "in dangerous ways," but that she never
complains about it. (The congresswoman may be referring to Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who is
white and undoubtedly not a fan of hers.)
According to Ocasio-Cortez, the people who "actually" get cancelled are
anti-capitalists and even abolitionists – apparently a hat-tip to activists who
campaigned to end slavery, which was formally abolished in the United States in 1865 with the
ratification of the 13th Amendment.
Her airtight dissertation received poor marks from many on social media, however. Countless
comments accused her of being part of the very movement which she claims doesn't exist.
"You and your mob have been destroying careers and reputations and livelihoods on a whim.
Now you're being hoist by your own petard," quipped actor James Woods.
You and your mob have been destroying careers and reputations and livelihoods on a
whim. Now you're being hoist by your own petard. Those of us blacklisted, libeled, and
falsely maligned have zero sympathy. You all started it. May you be devoured by it.
https://t.co/PGzMzNa0ku
Others argued that AOC was technically correct. Instead of having their views broadcast by
mainstream outlets, 'cancelled' individuals are often "fired from their jobs and have their
livelihoods threatened."
Correct. Instead, they are often fired from their jobs, harassed by twitter mobs, &
have their livelihoods threatened. And so since they cannot speak up, we who have a platform
choose to use our power responsibly to speak up on their behalf. You should do the same. Join
us, AOC https://t.co/lQ5yiuKFq6
There was similar disillusionment with the lawmaker's assertion that she is being
maliciously smeared by news networks and "white supremacists." "You're not a victim, you're a
United States congresswoman," observed an unsympathetic Twitter
user.
However, her remarks also garnered applause from social media users, who dismissed cancel
culture as a right-wing talking point.
Cancel culture is fake. It's a right wing framing of social accountability and people need
to stop giving the term any credence.
Whether AOC wants to acknowledge it or not, a seemingly endless internet crusade has
ruined the lives of countless individuals (many of them private citizens with little or no
power) accused of holding politically incorrect views or of expressing insensitive
remarks.
An open letter published by Harper's Magazine which criticized the "vogue for public
shaming and ostracism" among journalists, academics, and other figures ended up backfiring
spectacularly after several signatories of the document rescinded their endorsements. They
explained that they'd been unaware that 'problematic' people had also signed the
letter.
One month after the killing of George Floyd, the mass multi-racial demonstrations against
police violence are in danger of being hijacked and misdirected by reactionary political forces
who are attempting to promote racial divisions, sabotage the unity of working people and youth,
and undermine the development of the class struggle against capitalism. This campaign is
now concentrated on desecrating and destroying the statues of figures who led the American
Revolution and the Civil War.
It is difficult to find words that adequately express the sense of revulsion produced by the
monstrous attacks on memorials that honor the memory of Abraham Lincoln, the United States'
greatest president, who led the country during the Second American Revolution that destroyed
the Slave Power and emancipated millions of enslaved African Americans.
On the evening of April 14, 1865, less than a week after the surrender of the main
Confederate army, which brought the four-year Civil War to an end, Lincoln was shot in the head
by the pro-slavery actor John Wilkes Booth. Nine hours later, at 7:22 on the morning of April
15, Lincoln died of the wound inflicted by the assassin. Standing beside Lincoln's death bed,
Secretary of War Edwin Stanton famously declared: "Now he belongs to the ages."
Lincoln's martyrdom produced an outpouring of grief throughout the United States and the
world. The working class recognized that it had lost a great champion of democracy and human
equality. Karl Marx, writing on behalf of the International Working Men's Association, wrote in
the days after Lincoln's assassination that he was "one of the rare men who succeed in becoming
great, without ceasing to be good."
Abraham Lincoln was an extraordinarily complex man, whose life and politics reflected the
contradictions of his time. He could not, as he once stated, "escape history." Determined to
save the Union, he was driven by the logic of the bloody civil war to resort to revolutionary
measures. In the course of the brutal struggle, Lincoln gave expression to the
revolutionary-democratic aspirations that inspired hundreds of thousands of Americans to fight
and sacrifice their lives for a "new birth of freedom."
Every period of political upsurge in the United States has drawn inspiration from Lincoln's
life. Since its opening in 1922, the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC has been the site of
some of the most important moments in the struggle against racial oppression and for equality.
In 1939, when Hitler's Nazis were on the march in Europe and fascism had many sympathizers
among the American ruling elite, the famous African American contralto Marian Anderson was
denied the right to sing at Constitution Hall. So instead she sang on the steps of the Lincoln
Memorial before a crowd of 75,000.
In 1963, at the March on Washington, Martin Luther King, Jr. stood at the same location as
he delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech, calling for equality and racial integration before a
crowd of 250,000. Later in that decade, tens of thousands of youth protesting the Vietnam War
assembled at the monument.
It is not coincidental that the working-class upsurge of the 1930s was associated with many
great artistic depictions of Lincoln, including the films Young Mr. Lincoln (1939) and
Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940). Aaron Copland's beloved orchestral-narrative
masterpiece, Lincoln Portrait (1942), concludes with the declaration that the
sixteenth president of the United States "is ever-lasting in the memory of his countrymen."
But now, 155 years after the tragedy at Ford's Theater, Lincoln is the subject of a second
assassination. This one must not succeed.
Eleanor Holmes Norton, Washington DC's nonvoting delegate to Congress, said she will
introduce a bill to remove the famous Emancipation Monument from the Lincoln Park in
Washington, DC. The race-fixated protesters have declared their intention to tear down the
monument, which was paid for by former slaves and movingly dedicated by black abolitionist
Frederick Douglass in 1876.
"The designers of the Emancipation Statue in Lincoln Park in DC didn't take into account the
views of African Americans," Norton stated in a Tweet. Democrats assert that the statue demeans
"the black community" because it depicts Lincoln freeing a slave crouched in a runner's pose,
which the sculptor intended to symbolize the liberation of the Civil War.
Norton's reactionary effort is being supported by Democratic Party officials in Boston, who
will hold hearings in the coming weeks to entertain demands for the removal of a replica of the
Emancipation Memorial in that city.
Lincoln is not the only leader of the anti-Confederate forces to be targeted. In San
Francisco last week, a statue of Ulysses S. Grant, the great general of the victorious Union
army and later president of the United States, was torn down.
An even filthier example of the racialist campaign is the desecration of the Boston monument
honoring the legendary 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment. The 54th Massachusetts,
led by abolitionist Robert Gould Shaw, was the second all-black regiment organized in the Civil
War. Protesters object to the fact that the 54th, famously depicted in the film Glory
(1989), was commanded by a white officer, Shaw. Holland Cotter, the New York Times'
co-chief art critic, slandered the monument as a "white supremacist" visual for its depiction
of Shaw leading his African American battalion.
Another Union monument, a statue of abolitionist Hans Christian Heg (1829–1863), was
pulled down Tuesday night in Madison, Wisconsin. The statue was beheaded before being thrown
into a nearby lake.
A Norwegian immigrant, Heg led the 15th Wisconsin regiment, known as the Scandinavian
Regiment, against the Confederacy. Prior to the war, Heg, a member of the Free Soil Party,
fiercely opposed slavery and headed an anti-slave catcher militia in Wisconsin. He was killed
at the age of 33 at the Battle of Chickamauga in September 1863.
The Socialist Equality Party rejects all the lame liberal excuses and justifications that
are offered to legitimize the desecration of these memorials. Actions, whatever the motivations
ascribed to them, have objective significance and very real political consequences.
The assault on Lincoln monuments and other memorials honoring the leaders of the American
Revolution and Civil War are political provocations aimed at whipping up racial animosities.
Such provocations are well-known forms of communalist politics, which resemble the burning down
of Muslim mosques by Hindu fanatics or Hindu temples by Muslim fanatics. Here in the United
States, the statues are being attacked as examples of "white" rule.
The attacks on the statues are the outcome of a campaign by the two capitalist parties and
various reactionary elements in the upper-middle class to racialize and communalize American
politics. The growing intensity of this campaign is a response to the upsurge of working-class
militancy, which is seen as a threat to capitalism. Far from welcoming the interracial unity
displayed in the demonstrations against police brutality, the ruling elites and most affluent
sections of the middle class are terrified by its political implications.
In the promotion of racial politics, there is a division of labor between the Democratic and
Republican parties. Trump and the Republicans pitch their appeal to the most politically
disoriented elements in American society, manipulating their economic insecurities in a manner
intended to incite racial antagonism and deflect social anger away from the capitalist
system.
The Democratic Party employs another variant of communalist politics, evaluating and
explaining all social problems and conflicts in racial terms. Whatever the particular issue may
be -- poverty, police brutality, unemployment, low wages, deaths caused by the pandemic -- it
is almost exclusively defined in racial terms. In this racialized fantasy world, "whites" are
endowed with an innate "privilege" that exempts them from all hardship.
This grotesque distortion of present-day reality requires a no less grotesque distortion of
the past. For contemporary America to be portrayed as a land of relentless racial warfare, it
is necessary to create a historical narrative in the same terms. In place of the class
struggle, the entire history of the United States is presented as the story of perpetual racial
conflict.
Even before the outbreak of the pandemic, efforts to create racial foundations for
contemporary communalist politics were well underway. The New York Times , the
principal voice of corporate and financial patrons of the Democratic Party, concocted the
insidious 1619 Project, the central purpose of which was to promote a racial narrative. The
main argument of this project, which was unveiled in August 2019, was that the American
Revolution was undertaken to protect North American slavery and that the Civil War, led by the
racist Abraham Lincoln, had nothing to do with the ending of slavery. The slaves, so the new
story went, liberated themselves.
The purpose of lies about history, as Trotsky explained, is to conceal real social
contradictions. In this case, the contradictions are those embedded in the staggering levels of
social inequality produced by capitalism. These contradictions can be resolved on a progressive
basis only through the methods of class struggle, in which the working class fights consciously
to put an end to capitalism and replaces it with socialism. Efforts to divert and sabotage that
struggle by dissolving class identity into the miasma of racial identity lead inexorably in the
direction of fascism.
Through the promotion of a racial version of communalism, all factions of the ruling class
seek to divide the working class so as to better exploit it and ward off the threat of
revolution. It is no coincidence that when American society is straining under the weight of
the COVID-19 pandemic, which has killed more than 120,000 people and sparked an economic crisis
on the scale of the Great Depression, the Democrats are ever-more ferociously seeking to make
race the fundamental issue.
The alternative to the politics of racial communalism is the socialist politics of
working-class unity. This is the program of the Socialist Equality Party, and those who agree
with this perspective should join our party.
This is an excellent piece. I in no way consider myself a socialist, but I do believe that
politicians and the media and all around bad people have bastardized and driven a wedge
between what could be.
Great article.
"An even filthier example of the racialist campaign is the desecration of the Boston monument
honoring the legendary 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment. The 54th
Massachusetts, led by abolitionist Robert Gould Shaw, was the second all-black regiment
organized in the Civil War."
This attack demonstrates the utterly anti-historical, politically relativist nature of the
current "protests". These protesters hate reality, & wish nothing less than to bend
history to their own short-term, selfish & impulsive demands. They do NOT represent
working people, the 99%.
"The attacks on the statues are the outcome of a campaign by the two capitalist parties and
various reactionary elements in the upper-middle class to racialize and communalize American
politics. The growing intensity of this campaign is a response to the upsurge of
working-class militancy, which is seen as a threat to capitalism. "
Absolutely correct. Dozens of multi-billion dollar corporations are jumping on this racialist
bandwagon. Their presence should arouse the suspicion of even the most stupid of "useful
idiots".
"The assault on Lincoln monuments and other memorials honoring the leaders of the American
Revolution and Civil War are political provocations aimed at whipping up racial
animosities."
when i read Lincoln, and when i read Trotsky these days, i know in my heart that that they
consciously spoke to future generations as much as they did to their contemporaries -- they
knew the struggle to be fierce and long, and so the imperative to speak to future generations
-- when i read Lincoln and Trotsky, i am not reading a history book, i am listening to a man
speak directly to me about the times i live -- they want to tell us what they learned, they
want to guide us and strengthen our spine for the battles ahead ! a hundred, a hundred-fifty
years since they lived ? they understood that, the length of the struggle, and this is why
they speak so clearly to us, like a hammer ringing on a blacksmith's anvil ! they live in our
hearts and continue to lead us, they are beloved of the workers in this world
Obama's second term was seared by civil unrest over the multiple murders of young black
men by racist cops... but no 'rainbow CIA color revolution' against Obama was required at
that point so the carnage was glossed over and the protests suppressed. This year however the
CIA Democrats need to harness identity politics to destabilise Trump's regime in time for
November (to get war with Russia back on track); furthermore American oligarchs are petrified
at a class uprising after Lockdown so have instructed their mass media to seize on the the
George Floyd killing, lionise the spontaneous protests, and spin them (with
billionaire-funded NGOs like Black Lives Matter) to create a largely state-sponsored
worldwide 'reaction'... to channel real class anger into the deadend of racial division.
Not sure how others see it but I see the mass protests that erupted (that saw democrats
and trump both attacking, the former attacking the multiracial character especially) as a
different thing to what is taking place now at the sites of these statues of Lincoln, Grant
etc. I believe the media are trying to treat them as part of the same thing while even
admitting there is only the tiniest fraction of the numbers at the statues I mentioned above
compared to the numbers demonstration before. The latter is about shifting everything into
race where there was a real fear of class gaining expression in the mass demonstrations.
When the unions know, and the transnational corporations more than know, and the workers
of the world all know and how that tens of thousands of workers are infected with the
Corvid-19 virus and thousands upon thousands are dead or in the process of dying of it
under
a forced labor pogrom, but the American people aren't told and the workers are bullied and
threatened not to bring it up, evidently, and lied to about the figures, thereby take to
manipulating and degrading the Black Lives Matter banner and movement by using them like
Trojan horses bloated with divisive racialist and identity politic of the Democratic Party--
the capitalist antebellum slaver class potty and the complicit Nationalistic anti-labor
unions whom we got the skinny on and know of here and now-- in order to divide, confuse,
isolate and decimate the working classes and swallow up what's left of the middle class
medium and small indie businesses -- while, in tandem, the Republican Potty mops up the rest.
WORKERS LIVES MATTER!
I agree that the goal of the government and media is to delimit, or kettel, the substance
of these demonstrations to race...by submerging the multilpicity of issues at stake under an
incessant, obsessive racial narrative. They know its about much more than that and so do the
people in the streets.
Lincoln was an advocate of slavery as long as it wasn't expanded, he wanted to make the US
a whites only country like Edmon Barton of Australia later did with his constitutionally
connected self governing colony, and Lincoln while "freeing slaves" continued enslaving and
murdering Native Americans. I hold no anger to those who wants to target his monuments and
remove them.
Can you put this into the context of what the article is about, namely that the racialist
narratives being promoted seek to divide the working class today?
Western culture (which includes America) is built on a foundation of so many lies and half
truths that any objective critical examination causes it ti crumble like a house of cards.
Hero worship and symbolism die hard in the minds of the "symbol minded" (Carlin).
spot on comrade and Rest in power to George Carlin along with Bill Hicks and Frank Zappa
one of the finest dissident artist, truthtellers and mythbusters. Carlin was the Miles Davis
and Picasso of stand up comedy, the older he got, the better :)
haha! your against tearing down monuments that glorify and engage in half truths and
propaganda and instead of engaging in dialogue you want the censorship? wonderful!
If it's propaganda, like your comment about Lincoln being a white supremacist, yes, in my
humble opinion but than again I actually studied history most my life so I'm not going to
make up things to justify why the world is the way it is today. That's why the SEP is a
principal party based upon scientific Socialism unlike you who uses his emotions as
facts.
He is on record as saying he did not agree with blacks and whites as equals and living in
close quarters. He said that the white race was superior to the black race. It is on
record.
You are a historical falsifier. You are taking certain incidents out of their context, and
ignore the process of history. Your worldview is superficial and reactionary.
I'm what you call an inconvenient truthteller and mythbuster much like this outlet, and
its ok to not always agree with authors and what I said about Lincoln is historical fact,
sticks and stones Comrade.
Why is it that we want our designated heroes to be two dimensional? Lincoln like most of
the Founding Fathers by his own admission was a White Supremacist in the strictest sense.
They all believed and expressed in their writings that the White race was superior to the
rest of humanity (Blacks, Asians, Natives, Hispanic....).
If Lincoln was a white supremacist, what would you call John Wilkes Booth? As for the
founders expressing superiority in their writings, I'd like for you to prove that it against
"Hispanics", seeing the term was created in the 1970's. You don't even know what you're
talking about yet you try to revise history. Read a book and you might learn something.
Nice try at misdirection, but the Founding fathers have openly expressed many times in
multiple correspondences that they believed that the White Race was naturally superior to all
other races on the face of this planet. It's not hard to find and they were not shy about
saying it out loud so I suggest you take your own snarky advice and read a few books
yourself. Also, I used the term "Hispanic" which is now Latinx (?) to include peoples in
their time who were a mixture of Spanish and Native who actually did exist in their time.
Note that the term "White Supremacist didn't exist in those days as well but the Fumbling
Fathers clearly fit the description.
You still didn't provide any correspondence because they don't exist so who's really
misdirecting. Also I was responding to your misinformation about "Lincoln, by his own
admission was a White Supremacist in the strictest sense", and I said prove it but you can't
because you only know how to read NYT propaganda. The Hispanic part of your comment is the
most ridiculous. I guess the fumbling fathers, pathetic and infantile insult, must of had a
time machine to travel to the future and oppress people that were just called Mexicans back
during their time. I'd tell you to grow up but grownups don't troll.
Lincoln didn't believe that. His placing into law the right for black people and freedmen
to vote showed he no longer held even a whiff of prejudice and Douglass said as much. Lincoln
was not a racist and certainly not a White Supremacist which was the ideology of the
confederacy. He was a heroic revolutionary who stood firm while others folded.
First of all Lincoln was a man not a two dimensional heroic fictional caricature like you
put forth. In many correspondences he like most White men of his time saw the Negro and
Natives as inferior. As far as being exceptional I say John Brown, William Lloyd Garrison and
the Quakers fit that description. They could rise above convention and see humanity
objectively.
No, what WSWS and anybody reasonable wants is for people to study history and describe and
quote people accurately, not repeat absurd slanders or recite carefully edited quotations.
(Always the same ones)
Blatant falsehoods like "Lincoln was an advocate of slavery.." or pulling down a statue of
Lincoln are exactly the kinds of stupid, self-destructive act that agents provocateurs lead
movements and dupes like Eleanor Holmes Norton into doing.
The deepest point of the attack, why it is so crucial for these Bad Guys to attack Lincoln
et al is because:
(a) Lincoln was on our side. He was on the side of the slaves, the downtrodden, the
working class, black or white. and
(b) Lincoln was a rare, great and heroic leader. He - and we - succeeded in the real
world . Most others - say Garrison, by his own admission - would have failed.
It's easy to spout the correct slogans and positions. Infinitely harder to put them into
practice, to lead a whole country into saying them. Lincoln did. Lenin did. No matter where
or when, such leaders are the supreme target of the pro-slavery forces, who do anything to
blacken their name and falsify their memory, who endlessly work to split us.
Their supreme aim by this is to demoralize us and convince us that we have NEVER succeeded
once, that we cannot win. No, if one studies Lincoln and the Civil War we can learn - we did
win then. So we can win now.
Should all critics of the website's prevailing wisdom be lumped into one category? You use
the term "Bad Guys" to describe people who question convention (a term Dick Cheney & the
"Intelligence Community" frequently deploys) or as you put it "attack Lincoln." As an atheist
I have no Messiahs and very few heroes. Lincoln was a human being like you and I.
The North won the Civil War because A.) they had more fighting men. B.) they had a greater
manufacturing capacity to make weapons of war. If the circumstances had been reversed the
South would have won. Trial by combat where good always conquers evil only happens in the
movies. Personally, I am not pro-human slavery be it ancient Egypt, Rome or America, but I am
pro-facts; even if said facts don't neatly fit into one's heroic narrative.
Should all critics of the website's prevailing wisdom be lumped into one
category?
I did not and did not intend to. By "Bad Guys" I meant the ruling class and their agents
provocateurs. I was not including you or anyone else here necessarily in that category. But
people who spread blatant lies or contrive to get statues of Lincoln or abolitionists pulled
down for malicious purposes.
I was trying to explain why there are so many peddlers of crap history about Lincoln etc.,
explain their ultimate aims and how this is an effective tool of oppression. And noting that
they have seriously misled, divided and damaged left/liberal/progressive forces. They appear
to have fooled you and Youri in this thread.
As for Garrison, whose objectivity you praise, what was his objective, final estimate of
the living Lincoln? A few days before the assassination Garrison gave a rousing speech to
tumultuous applause - briefly mentioned above - where he repeatedly said "I will not hear a
word said against Abraham Lincoln" . Garrison said that Lincoln showed himself a wiser
strategist and better abolitionist than he, Garrison, because he had succeeded at the
enormously difficult and absolutely necessary task of leading public opinion - to win the
war, to eliminate slavery everywhere in the South. Garrison before the war had sometimes
merely aimed at eliminating slavery in the USA by - Northern seccession. As Garrison
knew, Garrison could preach to the converted. But Lincoln didn't have that luxury - but still
succeeded.
So my point is again that the anti-Lincoln narrative is the one that doesn't fit "the
facts", that requires prejudice and contorted arguments and politically edited revisionist
history. Not the "heroic narrative" - which the facts, warts and all, happen to fit far more
neatly into.
What you refer to as a "anti-Lincoln narrative is just people like me pointing out that
bases on Lincoln's own words he was a White Supremacist. The question seems to be is it
possible for a confessed White Supremacist to fight a war and strategically free the slaves?
Yes.
We'll get this before the people, and
then tell the people all, and, while we are at it, ask
the working class if those who don't
mind at all might take some time off to recall the Union
Army as our Second Amendment is now
half empty as we're needing to finish ,for once and for all, Reconstruction restarting
from where Lincoln's murder left off!
" The purpose of lies about history, as Trotsky explained, is to conceal real social
contradictions."
False consciousness, as Engels wrote to Mehring, is the underclass thinking and acting a role
written by the ruler. Such is racialism.
Hi! Thanks so much for writing this! I totally agree that we can't let anything divide the
working class – we've got to stay united if we want to win this fight. Thanks for
advocating for us. I'm a little confused about where the author wants that unity to come
from, though. Is the author saying that we should ignore all of the things that specifically
black folks have faced (namely, slavery, explicitly racist torture at the hands of vigilante
groups and the state, subtler practices like redlining that were still clearly predicated on
race rather than just class) and expect them to join us in the fight? Isn't it our job, as a
class and as a movement, to make sure we are advocating for ALL working class (and poor)
folks? Don't we want to unite all people against the ruling class? Isn't that where our power
comes from? I guess I'm just not sure why Black folks would want to join the movement if we
don't address the inequality they've disproportionately faced – if they join, and we
don't address these things, and we win, then the socialist society that comes after is still
full of folks who have benefited from racism, and internalized the subtleties of white
supremacy (I am not saying that anyone in our group is a racist. Just that our society was
built by white folks to cater to their own needs, while Black folks were enslaved, and our
systems still live in that legacy. White folks consider majority-white spaces the norm. We
turn a blind eye to the over-policing of Black neighborhoods because it is easy to buy into
the idea – one that our ancestors passed down to us – that Black folks are
inherently more likely to be criminals. But Black folks are dying at much higher rates that
while folks. We don't notice it because it feels normal to us. But Black folks do. Don't take
it from me, though- are there Black folks within the movement that could potentially speak to
this?). I am wondering why it is not our job to advocate specifically for justice for Black
folks – if our goal is equity, and the Black working class has less of it than the
white working class, why does fighting for that equity undermine the movement? Isn't justice
for all what we're fighting for? Why would anyone join us if we are not paying attention to
the specifics of their struggle? Any clarity you have would be so helpful – thank you
in advance!
Racism was invented to divide the working class. Social equality cannot be achieved under
capitalism--that is an oxymoron. Reforms addressing racial issues will not do away with this
underlying contradiction under capitalism. Marxism needs to be taken into the working class
to all workers. Workers need to understand they are part of the historical process. You said,
"our society was built by white folks to cater to their own needs, while Black folks were
enslaved". This is a wide generality; "white folks" obscures the class nature of society. All
workers are still enslaved. To paraphrase Engels, the difference between chattel slavery and
wage slavery is that the slave is sold to a master all at once and is his individual
property; the wage slave must sell himself piecemeal, by the hour etc. and not to an
individual but to the ruling class as a whole. Thus wage slaves cannot get free until they do
away with the class structure.
Actually, two remarkable events happened before I fled the responsibility of party
building before your parents were born. The predecessors of this party circa 1974 when the
working class wave , now gathering , ebbed. Mind you graduate school and profiitable careers
were available, unlike now. Until then, I answered a lot questions like your , just before
Feminism gathered force and Black Nationalism turned into Black Capitalism. You know, mayors,
policemen, nasty capitalists. That red hot revolutionary Eldridge Cleaver opened a Better Get
a Gun fashion outlet in Beverly Hills no less. There are shameless opportunists who
discovered their race as their most important contribution now beside you on the streets.
One more things, just as all the comrades left for grad school , the Trostkyists of SEP
built a socialist youth movement among black youths in New York for which a comrade was
murdered. Not only that, but SEP as Workers League relocated to Detroit where it had a base
in the black working class among auto workers. One thing though, we are not all alike and
should just get together. It took rivers of Trotskyist blood to drill that in, and every
attempt to ignore it met with disaster.I am a supporter. Join.
You make it sound like there's no black workers already in the socialist movement. These
advocates of racialism are not your average black working class, some instances they're not
even black. What they are primarily drawn from are upper middle class, privileged layers
despite all their yarns about white privilege, who advocate this stuff precisely to block
class unity and class consciousness. And when you get down to our level, there really ain't
that much difference. Plenty of enough white workers getting harassed and murdered by the
State. I say don't let the upper middle class speak for workers
Just that. The guys I work with who happen to have varying shades of skin color and we all
discuss from serious matters to the inane and joke together, it's all the same stuff. Same
worries, same troubles, same concerns. We all know there's racism, each of us whatever our
background take offense to it because we know it's an attack on all of us at the end of the
day. Plus we all know Obama was a fraud, that it doesn't change anything for us putting more
black people in boardrooms or the police - we all still get attacked and screwed around. And
we all take offense when these self appointed representatives of race start telling us that
our real enemy is each other rather than those destroying our livelihoods with job cuts,
speed ups, austerity, attacks on rights and war.
White workers, black workers, Latino workers, male, female, straight, gay whatever - can be
won to socialism without having to resort to adapting to the middle class advocates of
identity - in fact, if that's what the wsws and SEP were to adapt to, it wouldn't win over
any workers; it might win over very reactionary elements of the middle class though who would
use this as platform to get more privileged positions.
My mistake - did not mean to imply that Black folks are not part of the movement. Now that
you mention it, though, my experience within the movement has been with mostly white men - do
you happen to know if the party has significant Black membership? Not rhetorical, seriously
wondering!! If you have the time, I'd also love to know more about these proponents of
racialism - in my experience, many of the activists leading the charge in the current moment
Black folks from working class or poor backgrounds (pointing to some of the national and
local organizations who are doing work right now - naarpr/caarpr, for example, a lot of local
youth-led orgs leading the charge in Chicago). Would you be able to send me more information
about the upper middle class background of this movement? Thanks!
Yes, there is significant black membership in the SEP and the ICFI. Always has been since
before I became a part of it. A major section of the ICFI is in Sri Lanka and the Sri Lankans
are South Asian and yet they are a part of the Trotskyist movement and have a long history
within it. True socialists have never been racists. Also see:
https://www.wsws.org/en/art...
Kaline below has given some links, I would also suggest searching for as much background
information as possible from the wsws on the efforts of the ruling class, media and academics
to racialise matters. In fact I would suggest the book on pseudo left and the Frankfurt
school and postmodernism. This isn't just about racialising but the whole effort of
postmodernism to deny the working class the tools to study history and formulate a class
perspective.
On that score I won't say no black worker can't get caught up in racialism, just as no white
worker can't get pulled behind white supremacists - great efforts are made to subordinate
different sections of the working class to various middle class organisations, perspectives
etc. But what I'm trying to convey is these things we're seeing (not the mass protests but
pulling down statues of historically progressive figures), while they may involve worker
elements, are formulated and given full vocalisation first and foremost by the upper middle
class. These are not spontaneous attitudes that the mythical black community just pops out
with (and it is mythical: Obama, Powell, Beyonce etc are not part of what George Floyd,
Trevon Martin, Michael Brown, Eric Gardner etc are). Where the socialist movement has been
attacked, pushed back and betrayed by so called socialist forces (who incidentally began
spouting the same identity politics and attacking class conceptions) obviously sections of
the working class have come under middle class influence. But to tackle that one has to
ruthlessly expose this identity politics and be somewhat bold in it recognising and having
confidence that identity politics isn't some bottom up, natural expression or reflection of
the real state of affairs. That's revealed very quickly when engaging in discussion with
other workers of all different stripes. Of course the first stage is understanding where
identity politics comes from, how we got to be here and what identity politics expresses.
Apologies I'm replying quickly between shifts.
aristocracy. Our party is a part of the same milieu, not of the basic exploited masses of
whom the Negroes are the most exploited. The fact that our party until now has not turned to
the Negro question is a very disquieting symptom. If the workers' aristocracy is the basis of
opportunism, one of the sources of adaptation to capitalist society, then the most oppressed
and discriminated are the most dynamic milieu of the working class..
Always liked how the politics of racialism is the first to silence and attack black
workers and deny their existence within the socialist movement, just as feminists silence
women workers and Zionists silence workers of Jewish descent.
Are you a member of the socialist equality party?
An historically important perspective. I would like to extend my most profound thanks to
David and Niles, and the editorial staff of the WSWS as a whole, for the incredible work they
have done in preparing the ground for the struggle against these aptly called "lame
liberals."
The attacks on the Great Emancipator remind me of Goya's painting of Saturn eating his
children at birth on the off chance they might overthrow him.
Two paragraphs in this article strike me as being worthy of serious study:
"The purpose of lies about history, as Trotsky explained, is to conceal real social
contradictions. In this case, the contradictions are those embedded in the staggering levels
of social inequality produced by capitalism. These contradictions can be resolved on a
progressive basis only through the methods of class struggle, in which the working class
fights consciously to put an end to capitalism and replaces it with socialism. Efforts to
divert and sabotage that struggle by dissolving class identity into the miasma of racial
identity lead inexorably in the direction of fascism.
Through the promotion of a racial version of communalism, all factions of the ruling class
seek to divide the working class so as to better exploit it and ward off the threat of
revolution. It is no coincidence that when American society is straining under the weight of
the COVID-19 pandemic, which has killed more than 120,000 people and sparked an economic
crisis on the scale of the Great Depression, the Democrats are ever-more ferociously seeking
to make race the fundamental issue."
One of the most revolting things about contemporary liberalism is how incredibly fascistic
it is. It seems impossible for the Democrats to mention anything without turning to the
fetishistic zoological Idealism of Race with a capital R. While liberals might not (yet) be
fascists, they certainly think like fascists.
In November, the state-sanctioned choice - and by extension the only choice presented to
the American people by the state mouthpieces in the corporate media - will be between a
military junta under the "auspices" of the CIA Democrats/latter day Maoists or a
quasi-fascist regime under Trump. Democracy in America - specifically bourgeois "democracy" -
is on its last legs. Only the intervention of the working class, led by a genuine socialist
leadership, can avert a catastrophe that will threaten all of humanity.
"The designers of the Emancipation Statue in Lincoln Park in DC didn't take into account
the views of African Americans. It shows. Blacks too fought to end enslavement."
First, the statue was funded by donations from freedmen, gathered by members of the
Western Sanitary Society, an abolitionist-run organization. The impetus for the monument came
from a freedwoman named Charlotte Scott, who declared in the wake of Lincoln's
assassination:
"Colored people had lost their best friend on earth I will give five dollars of my wages
towards erecting a monument to his memory."
At least $16,000 was raised, including from African American Union soldiers who had fought
at some of the key fronts in the Civil War.
A description of the artist's design for the monument states: "In the original the
kneeling slave is represented as perfectly passive, receiving the boon of freedom from the
hand of the great liberator. But the artist has justly changed all this by making the
emancipated slave an agent in his own deliverance. He is represented as exerting his own
strength, with strained muscles, in breaking the chain which had bound him."
As the WSWS states, the reactionary interests of those bound up with the destruction of
these monuments today must, by definition "require a no less grotesque distortion of the
past."
This monument was created in 1876, at the height of the revolutionary-democratic upswell
known as Reconstruction. In attacking this monument, representatives of the ruling class
today, including its nominally "liberal" representatives, are seeking to topple the legacy of
a genuine multi-racial upsurge of the population against racial hatred and discrimination. In
today's case, it is to fundamentally hide the fact that the root cause of racial oppression
and racism lies in the depths of poverty and social inequality, and militarism on a massive
scale, that happens to characterize capitalism today.
In tearing down this statue, they will attempt to complete what the remnants of the slave
masters failed to do in the time of Reconstruction. Nathaniel Bedford Forrest would be
proud.
Trotsky: I believe that the first question is the attitude of the Socialist Workers Party
toward the Negroes. It is very disquieting to find that until now the party has done almost
nothing in this field. It has not published a book, a pamphlet, leaflets, nor even any
articles in the New International. Two comrades who compiled a book on the question, a
serious work, remained isolated. That book is not published, nor are even quotations from it
published. It is not a good sign. It is a bad sign. The characteristic thing about the
American workers' parties, trade-union organizations, and so on, was their aristocratic
character. It is the basis of opportunism. The skilled workers who feel set in the capitalist
society help the bourgeois class to hold the Negroes and the unskilled workers down to a very
low scale. Our party is not safe from degeneration if it remains a place for intellectuals,
semi-intellectuals, skilled workers and Jewish workers who build almost isolated from the
genuine mass. Under these condition our party cannot develop -- it will degenerate.
We must have this great danger before our eyes. Many times I have proposed that every member
of the party, especially the intellectuals and semi-intellectuals, who, during a period of
say six months, cannot each win a worker-member for the party, should be demoted to the
position of sympathizer. We can say the same in the Negro question. The old organizations,
beginning with the AFL, are the organizations of the workers' aristocracy. Our party is a
part of the same milieu, not of the basic exploited masses of whom the Negroes are the most
exploited. The fact that our party until now has not turned to the Negro question is a very
disquieting symptom. If the workers' aristocracy is the basis of opportunism, one of the
sources of adaptation to capitalist society, then the most oppressed and discriminated are
the most dynamic milieu of the working class.
Trotsky was writing as always to to align the subjective consciousness of the working
class with objective reality. The words you quote were written in April, 1939, when support
for mixed marriages was in the low single digits, when the experiences of integration in the
wars just about to begin had not yet occurred, when less than a quarter of the Great
Migration had concluded and thus few blacks and whites had yet had the opportunity to sort
out common cause in the great industrial struggles, as had already been illustrated in the
Flint sit-down strike where workers chose their only black fellow worker, Roscoe Van Zandt,
to lead them out of the occupied plants in a victory parade. Gallup would not even poll to
measure acceptability of a black presidential candidate for another 19 years, when the number
was a mere 38%.
That's the objective reality at the time with which Trotsky was seeking to align the
subjective consciousness of the working class to forge a political instrument.
Are you maintaining that the objective reality is unchanged today?
No that is not what I'm suggesting at all. Obviously much has changed since 1939.. we no
longer have sharecroppers and it's no longer the case where a major section of blacks work as
servants.. but it also easy to think that 1939 was "so long ago" and that these words no
longer hold any relevance. The black working class remains even today one of the most
oppressed sections of the working class and today large sections of this population are
entering into the class struggle. I think the party should consider the best way under TODAYS
CONDITIONS to recruit and educate those workers. Bring them under the banner of the 4th
international. Immigrant workers are a very similar case, and similar conditions exist for
unskilled workers compared to the various "professionals" and skilled labor. This era was
birthed from the yoke of the last. The working class is much more unified along race lines as
you have pointed out. That means we as revolutionaries we are in an even more favorable
situation to this work. It does not mean that the work is unneeded. This article states the
growing movements are under danger of being hijacked by reactionary petite bourgeois forces
and that is true but only as true as the revolutionary proletariats failure to bring these
working elements entering struggle under our banner. I do not suggest we adopt any program
from the 30s and 40s. I do however think the party could benefit from Trotsky's suggestion of
a 6 month worker recruitment rule.
Though not a party member I recommend George Breitman's writings on American Black
nationalism--as distinct from the narrow cultural nationalism of too many Black Panthers, the
New Black Panthers especially--expounding on and integrating pertinent thoughts of Malcom X
and Trotsky. Recently Vladimir Zhirinovsky suggested Blacks be assigned three states
bordering Canada as a homeland and/or go to Liberia. Needless to say such sweet revenge
dreams of Russian elites for the very real dismembering of their lands by Washington's ethnic
cleansing pot stirring a la Yugoslavia/Syria ad nauseam coming home to roost may approach
reality as the US rich find it hard to bottle their race genie.
"Before exhausting or drowning mankind in blood, capitalism befouls the world atmosphere
with the poisonous vapors of national and race hatred...
An uncompromising disclosure of the roots of race prejudice and all forms and shades of
national arrogance and chauvinism, particularly anti Semitism, should become part of the
daily work of all sections of the Fourth International, as the most important part of the
struggle against imperialism and war. Our basic slogan remains: Workers of the World
Unite!"
This article is critical in countering the dangerous communalist agenda of the social
layers seeking to prop up the Democratic Party and prevent the working class from achieving
its political independence. This is part of a trend that's taking place on every continent.
Our movement is leading the way in opposing this attempt to derail the emerging revolutionary
movement of the international working class.
The toppling of statues of progressive figures such as Lincoln is part of a broader attack
on rational thought. At stake is the entire progressive heritage of the Enlightenment and the
centuries-long struggle for social equality that, since the birth of scientific socialism in
the 19th century, has been embodied in the Marxist movement -- -today the Trotskyist
movement.
What do the forces who toppled the Lincoln statue have to say on pressing contemporary
issues such as imperialist war, climate destruction, extreme social inequality, etc. that
cannot be understood through racial theory.
Why is it that Abraham Lincoln was a symbol of the fight for equality and social justice
across the world? Why, during the American civil war, did workers' display such heroic
solidarity in enduring the cotton famine -- -which paralysed much of the cotton industry due
to the collapse in trade? Why did workers' in 19th century Manchester in northern England
collect the money to build a statue of Lincoln in their city? This article explains this:
How the British workers' movement helped end slavery in America .
In Britain, the IYSSE (UK) saw that identity politics and the historical falsification
associated with it was a direct attack on Marxism and workers' class consciousness that had
to be countered. We polemicise against the pseudo-left in their attempts to promote a
postmodernist re-writing of history motivated by the defence of their social privilege
against the long-term interests of the working class.
We attacked the "Decolonise Education" movement, which is raising its head again today in
the article
The racialist agenda of the "Decolonise Education" movement . We explained their slogan
"Why is My Curriculum White?" as follows: "The classification of philosophers based on their
skin colour, rather than their place in the historical development of human thought, is
combined with an attack on the entire progressive tradition of the Enlightenment."
I strongly encourage all class-conscious workers and young people to take up an active
study of history and the theory of Marxism which is essential to orient oneself in today's
complex and rapidly-changing world political situation
The campaign by the Stalinists against their opponents, Leon Trotsky constituting their
greatest enemy, involved the greatest wholesale destruction of history ever seen. The banning
of books, the murder of an entire generation of genuine Marxists and the greatest crime, the
assassination of Trotsky in 1940. Photos that included Trotsky, Kamenev, Zinoviev--pretty
much anyone who fell afoul of Stalin and the bureaucratic interests he defended--were
airbrushed out history with the intent to obliterate their role in the October revolution.
Their books were destroyed, any positive mention of them were eliminated and they were
slandered as "fascists", "Mensheviks", "counter-revolutionaries". No lie was too outrageous
in defaming Stalin's victims.
Vadim Ragovin, the great Russian historian once said that the "Russian people did not only
not know their future, they did not know their past." This falsification of history went far
in eliminating the Trotskyist alternative to Stalinism and enshrining Stalin--the gravedigger
of the revolution, the antithesis of Lenin--as the supposed incarnation of Bolshevik/Leninist
resoluteness.
The present campaign against Lincoln, Grant and others, is remarkable for the fact that
they are targeting revolutionaries. Bourgeois revolutionaries, but none-the-less,
revolutionaries. Those revolutionists carried out the greatest destruction of wealth,
slavery, to that point in history. No monuments to capital, such as the infamous Charging
Bull in front of Wall Street, (my city has a stack of oversized coins as a monument to
capital) have been the target of such vilification, vandalism or destruction by the
instigators of racialist politics. They indeed know what class they are oriented to.
My favorite Lincoln story took place shortly before his assassiation when the great
liberation army had captured the confederate capital of Richmond. Lincoln visited the city
shortly thereafter and walked around to have a look. An older Black man recognized him on the
street and ran up to him declaiming "The Messiah has come" and bowed down. Lincoln asked the
man to stand up saying: "Get up man. As long as I am president you don't need to bow to
anyone but God."
Yup. That one and and another one on the same trip.
In reference to you, colored people, let me say God has made you free. Although you have
been deprived of your God-given rights by your so-called masters, you are now as free as I
am, and if those that claim to be your superiors do not know that you are free, take the
sword and bayonet and teach them that you are ...
This is the man that malicious deluders contrive into an enemy of freedom and black people
and capitalist pawn. And there are dupes aplenty pulling down statues and presenting the same
old predigested delusional arguments, prepared for them by capitalist slavocrats, even
here.
Division does not have to be sewn into the working class. It is there as it has been for
centuries. "The color line" remains the border of divide between white workers and those of
color. What is most important is that millions of white workers have joined the struggle.
I too condemn the desecration of the statues and yes the identitarians and the Democrats
are riding the tide, attempting to bring the ships into the the harbor of electoral politics,
however equating this movement as "racial- communalist" is just as dangerous. The cops are
doubling down and people of color will remain the usual suspects. I have to think that the
32% of Trump supporters who supported the burning down of the police precinct in Minneapolis
were from it's working class wing. That is way significant.
Participation in the movement should always be critical but using the "racial-
communalist" term not good
The Democrats and the pseudo-left seek to undermine the legacy of the Civil War and the
related abolitionist and Underground railroad conductors precisely because it shows
workers (and middle class) collaborating across racial and ethnic "lines" towards positive
change, which helps solidify, rather than break up, an increasingly militant and working
class, which is increasingly coming into conflict with the whole capitalist system, which the
Democrats and pseudo-left rabidly defend. Workers of all races are shown daily working
together in protests against the police violence of the capitalist state, exploding daily the
myth of the "racist white working class". It is the duty of the socialist to oppose these
racial-communalist attempts to divide the working class by the bourgeois and
petty-bourgeois.
What's gonna happen as the economy continues to go down? It seems the ruling class did all
it could to send the working class down various blind alleys....now it's gonna come back,
through reactionary methods, to haunt everyone.
This is what I have to say about it all.....we asked the capitalist ruling class nicely to
make meaningful changes, the ruling class said they would. Nothing changed because they
lied.
So now, the working class is taking the matter into its own hands.....and it ain't gonna
look pretty. Heads are gonna roll.
Vast amounts of the working class have, over their lifetime, been manipulated by the
capitalist class.....so the working class is mostly confused and is in the process of lashing
out in all directions.
As hard as the wsws tried to fight against the liberal classes 1619 disinformation
project, many in the working class were not reached. That is the strength of anti working
class propaganda. And what Socialists are constantly fighting against.
As with the ethos of Capitalist Realism , it's easier to see the end of the world than to
see the end of capitalism.
This is an enormously important statement that deserves the widest possible international
readership. Particularly important is the section explaining the division of labor between
the capitalist parties. The fascistic filth emanating from the White House, scripted by
Stephen Miller and similar elements, is being "answered" by equally reactionary communalist
backwardness. The New York Times is the most consistent and determined purveyor of this, and
there seems to be no limit to how low they are prepared to go.
Another passage in this article that should get special attention is the timing of the
current campaign against Lincoln and others, "It is no coincidence that when American society
is straining under the weight of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has killed more than 120,000
people and sparked an economic crisis on the scale of the Great Depression, the Democrats are
ever-more ferociously seeking to make race the fundamental issue."
They are desperately working to divert the progressive but limited response to police
murders into the Democratic Party. They need to whip up as much tension and confusion within
the working class as they possibly can, precisely because they know what is coming over the
next few months, as millions confront additional mass layoffs, evictions and other attacks.
The more that workers and youth are fixated on "race" the less they are able to unite against
these threats of the pandemic, economic devastation and the threat of dictatorship.
Targeting "anti-Confederate" forces is just what you'd expect from the party of slavery,
Jim Crow, and now the no less despicable identity politics, not to mention it being the
oldest capitalist party in the world.
I can understand (but certainly not sympathize with) the twisted logic used against
statues of Grant and Lincoln but why Heg? Was it because he was white? I recall one of the
funeral rants of the Reverend Al Charleton about racism as "the DNA" in the American
character revealing the dangerous influence of the 1619 Project that may soon become
mandatory in colleges and schools.
Regrettably, there are otherwise sane people who genuinely argue that any statue depicting
any person who had white skin and a penis has to be taken down.
What a fantastic writing! The fight against communalism takes center stage for socialists.
The SEP is the the only genuine socialist tendency, defending historic gains as an
indispensable part of building a new working class counteroffensive. Please share this
document widely! Perspective is critical! Not one inch to the "lame liberals" and no
adaptation to racialist politics!
On the subject of "building a new working class counteroffensive", if I may:
The protests since May 25 have often begun peacefully only to be taken over by well-trained
violent actors. Two organizations have appeared regularly in connection with the violent
protests -- Black Lives Matter and Antifa (USA). Videos show well-equipped protesters
dressed uniformly in black and masked (not for coronavirus to be sure), vandalizing police
cars, burning police stations, smashing store windows with pipes or baseball bats. Use of
Twitter and other social media to coordinate "hit-and-run" swarming strikes of protest mobs
is evident.
What has unfolded since the Minneapolis trigger event has been compared to the wave of
primarily black ghetto protest riots in 1968. I lived through those events in 1968 and what
is unfolding today is far different. It is better likened to the Yugoslav color revolution
that toppled Milosevic in 2000.
America's Own Color Revolution
By F. William Engdahl
Region: Europe, USA
Theme: History, Intelligence, Police State & Civil Rights
Niles and David, as you note, "Whatever the particular issue may be -- poverty, police
brutality, unemployment, low wages, deaths caused by the pandemics -- it is almost
exclusively defined in racial terms."
And as you note of Trotsky, " The purpose of lies about history, as Trotsky explained, is
to conceal real social contradictions."
Which is exactly why this meta-causal cancer of the under-diagnosed Disguised Global Crony
Capitalist Empire must be fully exposed, expunged, and/or surgically and peacefully 'excised'
in a Third American "Revolution Against Empire" [Justin du Rivage] by 'we the American
people' firing a; loud, public, sustained, 'in-the-streets', but totally non-violent "SHOUT
(not shot) heard round the world" to ignite a Third American people's peaceful and complete
"Political/economic & socialist Revolution Against Empire" to lead the world toward
socialist democracy as our first one did in 1776 and our second one did in 1861 -- but
without the muskets.
One can only react with disgust and hatred for those in and around the Democratic Party,
who hiding behind the phrase "fight racism" are doing the exact opposite. The article is spot
on in exposing the sinister motives behind the attempt to erase from historical memory any
vestiges of this country's revolutionary past. As workers are risking their lives in the
assembly plants and warehouses, it is obvious whose interests are served by these outrageous
acts and proposals. Young people must reject those who spurn history. You must draw a line in
the streets against those who would do these things, and instead break out of the straight
jacket imposed by both capitalist parties and the media to keep these protests fixated on the
questions of "race".
Fellow Comrades the liberal bourgeois establishment in America are intentionally using
racial Communalist politics in order to divert the public from the growing class antagonisms.
Now one group is using ultra nationalism and authoritarianism as the only way forward while
the other one is using race and gender ideas as part of their orientation in this upcoming
elections. Basically they are both seeking to divide the working class along reactionary
slogans and agendas.
They are both working together to perpetuate the system and divide the people. They know
what they are doing. They are diverting any thought about changing the laws that allow the
oppression to begin with, here and abroad. We are doomed because the majority of people are
under their spell and have no desire to think critically.
This is a moving and brilliant defense of the revolutionary democratic foundations of the
United States, which provide an impulse today for the working class to carry out the third
American Revolution--the socialist revolution to put an end to capitalism as part of the
world socialist revolution. The American bourgeoisie very long ago repudiated the
revolutionary democratic ideals that inspired the American Revolution and the struggle of
Lincoln and the North in the Civil War. That repudiation finds expression today in the
denigration and attack on those revolutions and the figures who led them. As the Perspective
explains, there is a division of labor in this assault between Trump/Republicans and the
Democrats, but both have in common the fact that they utilize racialism to do its traditional
dirty work of seeking to divide the working class and undermine the class struggle against
capitalism.
Of particular importance, as noted by other commentors, is the following observation:
"This grotesque distortion of present-day reality required a no less grotesque distortion
of the past. For contemporary American to be protrayed as a land of relentless racial
warfare, it is necessary to create a historical narrative in the same terms. In place of the
class struggle, the entire history of the United States is presented as the story of
perpetual racial conflict."
Further down, the statement asserts: "Efforts to divert and sabotage that struggle by
dissolving class identity into the miasma of racial identity lead inexorably in the direction
of fascism."
In that connection, there is a parallel between the struggle being led by the SEP, WSWS
and ICFI against the promotion of racial-communalist politics and accompanying falsification
of history in the US and the struggle our movement has been and continues to wage in Germany
against the rehabilitation of Hitler and the Nazis by the ruling class and the falsification
of German and world history to declare the source of all the evils and catastrophes of the
20th century to be the October Revolution and establishment of the Soviet Union.
BG, the form in which these mass eruptions take in the states is, and has to be, different
than that of European and other countries.
Statutes have been desecrated and toppled elsewhere. Some deservedly without doubt.
For the mass of youth whose knowledge of historical events is one of great distortion and one
sidedness.
In their eyes, statues in major squares and other prominent places represent powerful and
powering pillars of the establishment. Hence the "senseless" vandalism.
Only those divorced from and hostile to the revolutionary aspirations of today's youth
fail to perceive and grasp that.
Thank you Niles and David for this excellent perspective. As you explain, a section of the
ruling class is attempting to hijack what is a progressive multi-racial movement opposing
police brutality and other forms of social injustice to promote reactionary racial and
communal politics in a desperate attempt to maintain the capitalist order. I strongly
encourage all of our readers to carefully study the material produced by the WSWS on the 1619
project. Understanding this history is critical in orienting ourselves to answer these new
racial attacks. Permit me to quote from the end of our analysis of the NY Times reply
defending the project to five historians, "As Marxists, we understand and have settled
accounts with the limitations of the bourgeois-democratic revolutions of the 18th and 19th
centuries. We know very well the difference between ideological rationalizations and
historically determined realities. But those who are not inspired by the world-historical and
universal ideals proclaimed by Jefferson's immortal Declaration and Lincoln's Gettysburg
Address are neither socialists nor revolutionaries. Those who glibly surrender positions won
through the shedding of blood in the past will never conquer new ones."
"The uncompromising defense of the progressive heritage of the first two American
revolutions is necessary for resisting intellectual retrogression and political reaction,
educating the working class, and, on that basis, building a powerful American and
international socialist movement."
What a wonderful article about our surreal times. I keep dreaming that I'm in a movie
theatre again and again which is strange because we can't go there anymore, at least not at
the time being. These times are so strange. For a memorial of Abraham Lincoln to be under
attack... this is something I could have never imagined a few years ago. Thank you Niles
Niemuth and David North for providing historical background about the statue, even a little
bit of history is such a profound thing and of course history is repurposed time and time
again to serve anyone's political agenda. Rage is not a particularly rational thing and takes
on incomprehensible forms.
"The Democratic Party employs another variant of communalist politics, evaluating and
explaining all social problems and conflicts in racial terms. Whatever the particular issue
may be -- poverty, police brutality, unemployment, low wages, deaths caused by the pandemics
-- it is almost exclusively defined in racial terms. In this racialized fantasy world,
"whites" are endowed with an innate "privilege" that exempts them from all hardship."
I think this is wrong. The Trump movement is defined by prejudice (banning muslims,
scapegoating immigrants, anti-black racism etc.) so for us to have a president right now, a
con artist (I'll emphasize the black community) who began his entire campaign by saying the
first Black president was not born in America, talking about how a black lives matter
protester attacked at his rally "should have been roughed up" in 2015, playing footsies with
the KKK, called Africa a "shit hole", Mike Pence comparing Donald Trump to Martin Luther King
Jr. etc. all of this snowballing into today of course people of color and anyone who
empathizes is outraged. Every day of this has been a dangerous embarrassment for the black
community.
Yesterday:
Fired Wilmington cop: "We are just going to go out and start slaughtering them f -- -- ni
-- –. I can't wait. God, I can't wait."
This kind of thing is going on all over the country. The most tangible issue is certainly
class in the sense I think it's the most practical thing for us to focus on, at least it's
all we can focus on because there's no rational way to end the racism that exists between
people, but at the same time, to think that any amount of money, healthcare, or well-being
for this person and his family would stop him from being prejudiced doesn't make sense. There
is a long history of racism and we are at a moment where America is undergoing a radical
shift in its diversity.
"In this racialized fantasy world, "whites" are endowed with an innate "privilege" that
exempts them from all hardship."
There have been 44 white male presidents.
Again, of course amongst white men class supersedes the identity group, but that being
said certainly there is such a thing as white privilege, in so many different ways, this
country was built to revolve around property owning white men. Donald Trump's presidency is
defined by this. If President Obama had done even one of the things Trump does on a daily
basis he would have never been president. That is white male supremacy. We went from
Republicans being critical of Michelle Obama for showing her shoulders as first lady to
having an ex-centerfold as first lady. The double standard couldn't be more apparent.
We have a republican party who yes have constituents who have suffered under the aegis of
neoliberalism but not disproportionately in comparison to the people who vote blue. Their
political movement is defined by prejudice. This is not a "racialized fantasy world" people
are under attack.
I agree that class is the salient issue but also at the same time as we're seeing with the
trump movement prejudice can be used to get people to vote blatantly against their own
interests in supporting a con artist. So how can class be addressed without first
acknowledging racism? I don't have the answers for this question, no one does. Hatred is a
bulwark which swaddles capitalism.
If you think class warfare is wrong, you are in the wrong website and have missed the
point of the article. When class war is initiated by the working class, liberation is on the
agenda.
Every time I think I cannot be more disgusted with the Democrats, I am wrong. There is a
certain slime that is all over the Democratic Party that eeven the Republicans cannot match.
I guess it never occurs to any of the protesters that destroying your history is creating a
form of collective amnesia. No notice is taken that what is happening witht this wonton
destruction of history sure looks a lot like what happened in Iraq during the U.S. Invasion
when many historical treasures of what was the cradle of civilization were either destroyed
or looted. Just a complete erasure of history and, of course, if you do not know who you are
because your memories, your history, have been erased, then how will you move forward? You
are a tabula rasa at that point so the future can only be met unprepared and with
trepidation.
That, as today's perspective explains, is exactly the point. Figures like Jefferson, Grant
and Lincoln (Lincoln!!!!) are shat upon and denigrated. No effort is made to understand them
as historical figures in the context of their epoch and the giants they are in world history.
What can we learn from them and other historical figures and do right where they went wrong?
I guess if history's destroyers have their way we'll not be able to learn anything at all.
Just as intended. I say let the statues be and down with the CCOOTs (Criminal Capitalists Of
Our Times)!
''This grotesque distortion of present-day reality requires a no less grotesque distortion
of the past. For contemporary America to be portrayed as a land of relentless racial warfare,
it is necessary to create a historical narrative in the same terms. In place of the class
struggle, the entire history of the United States is presented as the story of perpetual
racial conflict.''
A very profound encapsulation of what we are seeing going on now. As others have commented
, history does not travel on some moral straight line. Lincoln could not escape the powerful
contradictions of his time, he could only guide the progressive forces where he could.
It is not for us to idealise Lincoln, nor for those who do so in the negative. When push
comes to shove the reactionary essence of the racialists is that they offer no way out for
black or white . The ''purity of their outrage'' is nothing but a case of bad wind, and it is
not an accident that it comes from those orbiting the Democrats.
Good point about racialists offering no way forward for the whole working class,
nationally and internationally. How could the constricted racialist narrative, by dividing as
opposed to uniting, have anything to lend to progressive change, which can only be
accomplished through the unity of the working class and socialist revolution? How can the
legacy of racial oppression and discrimination, effecting most acutely the black masses as
opposed to the affluent African American layer, be overcome with this regressive co-option of
a progressive mass struggle that erupted in the past month?
Unmentioned in this critical call to arms by David and Niles is the role of the pseudoleft
in actively promoting this racialist campaign of vile and reactionary iconoclasm.
The pseudo-Trotskyist "Left Voice", co-thinkers of the Argentinian Morenoites, is
spearheading an attack from within the New York DSA against "class reductionism" purportedly
represented by Jacobin Magazine. This attack recently led to the cancellation of a live
streaming event featuring African American scholar, Adolph Reed. Reed, one of the scholars
interviewed by the WSWS in the campaign against the 1619 Project, was charged with "class
reductionism". The identity politics sensitive DSA, a club within the Democratic Party,
capitulated to the internal attacks and cancelled the event just as it was to begin.
Another pseudo-Trotskyist Facebook page yesterday attacked the WSWS and the SEP for its
"Hands off the Monuments" call. The Trotsky's Armored Train and rolling Pizzeria (?) Facebook
page, featured a screen shot of the WSWS with a warning to "Please stay away from the WSWS
and the SEP!" Site members followed with a lengthy thread of scurrilous attacks on both the
WSWS and the statues, especially the Jefferson Memorials. Jefferson is dismissed as a rapist
for his inter-racial relationship with the slave, Sally Hemings. This writer fought a rear
guard action on this site to combat the slander of the WSWS and to set the historical record
straight. Obviously these poseurs are very much afraid of the class perspective of the
WSWS.
Very interesting, especially concerning the "Left Voice" intervention in the New York DSA
and the DSA response. Well, Dr. Reed likely wouldn't have been much appreciated by that bunch
anyway, though he was
(along with all the learned, honest historians who came forward to conflict with the 1619
Project) greatly appreciated by WSWS readers. However, it would have been good if any
leftward moving workers and youth in attendance had some exposure to real history, including
a class based perspective. But, of course, the pseudo-socialst Dem club wouldn't want that!
By the way, my wife and I really found your contribution to the discussion of the previous
related Perspective by Tom and Niles of a few days ago quite enlightening on the plight and
response of the European indentured servants (slaves in all but name) on the Tidewater
tobacco plantations.
Yes, the "Jefferson was a rapist" trope is the common thread of the pseudo-left, fitting
right in with their support for MeToo and hostility to Julian Assange.
My goodness, not Moreno. So they are still about wouldn't have thought. He was, of all
things for Che Guevera, but not Castro, and led many youths to the early grave. Actually, the
Pabloists were big on Castro but not old Moreno who thought that Castro had Che killed and
the famous picture of Che's corpse on his ill-fated adventure doctored. Castro was not amused
and the Pabloists stopped dropping by/ He was allied with a dude called Posadas who
eventually got obsessed with inter-galacting communication from Bolsheviks in Outer Space. I
actually read article defending that nonsense in the Jacobin. The obscurantist have again
pushed themselves to the front.
I find at least Posadas was amusing in his somewhat more innovative ideas about
intergalactic travel and talking with dolphins. At least it follows a historical materialist
line which would say that productive forces can not be unleashed to their full potential
until the constraints of private mode of production, classes are abolished. Aliens,
theoretically and scientifically would and could exist given our own existence. Intergalactic
travel would be surely one of the most pressing issues of a worldwide socialist republic
after addressing earthly needs.
During the Russian Revolution peasants took to burning down the huge houses of the local
rich landowners.
The Bolsheviks had to intervene and patiently explain that these were now the property of the
working masses.
The peasants were of course almost universally illiterate.
It is probably more true to state that those that are desecrating and destroying statues
of Lincoln and others are miseducated.
This article is one of a series published by WSWS attempting to rectify these backward
destructive measures.
I don`t want to be annoying. It was bitter opponents of Lenin and the Bolsheviks , the
Social Revolutionaries, SR who led the peasants. The Bolsheviks had nothing to do with the
burning of mansions, and had no intention to stop the burning of mansions and seizure of
land. They formed strategically the worker-peasant alliance, but had insignificant influence
and numbers at this first stage of the revolution.. There were lot of troubles with the
SR`s-- and the peasants after.
I was not aware of suggesting the Bolsheviks had anything to do with the burnings. My
comment, bad grammar included, stated the Bolsheviks intervened to stop the arsonists.
The vast majority of peasants knew nothing of Bolshevism at the time.
It was the Bolsheviks agrarian program, which none of the bourgeois parties -- Cadets, SR --
could match in any shape or form, won the multimillioned peasantry to Socialist Revolution
under Lenin and Trotsky.
The vast majority of demonstrators across the global have not heard of WSWS or even the ICF,
yet alone be aware of its program. Dissemination of our program is a precursor to proletarian
revolution.
You miss the point. They are not so much miseducated as representing a definite social
layer. They reject the class basis of this racialist campaign, which is led by the New York
Times and Democratic Party to divide the working class. These forces seek to turn the
democratic sentiments and anger of young people in a reactionary form.
Note that they don't put forward any social demands, against the ravages of the lives of all
working class people created by the Pandemic and the economic crisis of the past decades.
Let us all get this article around as widely as possible, to wage a struggle against this
communalist attempt.
BLM demonstrators are heterogeneous in terms of race ethnicity, religion, age, but
undoubtedly predominantly youth. Every photograph has elucidated that.
I do not think I miss the point.
The pent up frustrations and anger following years of police violence, austerity, insecure
jobs, poor education and opportunities for youth is expressed in every street disturbance --
what the bourgeoise press calls senseless violence.
Undoubtedly elements amongst them are conscious of their actions, but for many the
opportunity to fight all that is perceived to be "part of the repressive state" cannot be
missed.
Being part of millions strong demonstrations has its own momentum. That scares the ruling
elite.
Destruction of statues is not just a US phenomenon, it is global.
It's not pretty, but it could be the opening shots of World Socialist Revolution.
We cannot impose our own values upon the masses.
What this and previous articles have set out to achieve, I believe, is to educate these
millions not to be mislead. Learn the lessons of history, lessons that capitalist education
has denied them.
WSWS has to intervene and direct these revolutionary stirrings away from identity politics
and to advance under the banner of the ICFI.
decades of undermining of class politics by Social democracy, trade unionism, Stalinism make
this a difficult task; difficult but not impossible.
That social layer is also well-organized and well-funded in varied salaried political
formations , including Black Lives Matter and those who would "occupy" space. They come out
of nowhere, disorient and as quickly disappear into profitable progressive Democratic Party
beds. Mayakovsky called them in a failing Russian Revolution under Stalin--" Bedbugs". Great
play..And so they are.
Please read this article and share widely. There is developing a tendency by the
Democratic party and Republican Party, for a fascist movement, in the US, and elsewhere
around the world. Only the working class can stop this rot, lead by the ICFI, SEP and
wsws.org .
This is one of the most direct and important WSWS perspectives I have ever read. It is
both a historical corrective and an impassioned warning to the working class in defense of
history, equality and any kind of democratic rule.
The freed slave depicted by Thomas Ball's statue "Lincoln the Emancipator" has the
likeness of Archer Alexander, a real slave who never actually met Lincoln, but freed himself
and was separated from his family in order to warn Union troops of Confederate sabotage. His
act of courage, and the hundreds of thousands of slaves who risked their lives during the
war, are also memorialized by this statue. It was commissioned based upon donations by
liberated slaves. Some of Alexander's descendants today oppose tearing down this statue,
whose complex history also reflects the struggles of Reconstruction in the aftermath of the
Civil War.
Within privileged layers of academia, the distortion of history and misrepresentation of
contemporary suffering by the global working class has become a major industry. Some
students, including those with genuine democratic intentions, are being seriously miseducated
and encouraged to participate in racially divisive politics. Students and workers need to
study history now more than ever, and it is no accident that America's leading historians of
the American Revolution and Civil War have sided with the WSWS in its defense of historical
truth (see the WSWS's writings on the 1619 project). The political perspective needed to end
police brutality and economic injustice requires an accurate appraisal of past struggles for
democratic rights, and today a unified struggle by not just the American but also the global
working class. Students and workers should take note.
"... Paul Craig Roberts is aware of false flags/staged events as he has written a number of articles about the 9/11 false flag. For some reason he has bought in to this George Floyd hoax ..."
"... "Peoples with a history of mutual distrust – i.e. mutual fear – have to take a real risk in order to even begin the process of growing mutual trust. Great discipline is required by all people on both sides for mutual trust to become possible. Mutual trust would need great discipline in perpetuity in order to be sustained. The harmful effect of instances of unworthiness of trust would need to be deeply understood." ..."
Floyd was collapsing before he even got out of his car, and I have seen video of Floyd
being uncooperative/complaining as the cops try to put him in the back of a squad car.
He overdosed on drugs–either out of panic or stupidity. When it comes down to it,
I've always said, ol' George his heart was just too darned big. That's what did him
in–his gigantic heart.
Excellent article, Dr. Roberts. Unless a mind has been trained to fully understand a
science, it likely lacks the cognitive thought to see clearly. Almost all people see the
world with a jumble of emotions and pseudo logic. They've never experienced the rigor of
theorem-based proofs, deductions, and the struggle to comprehend high-level thought. Almost
all adults live in a shallow world of mind drift, reacting to their emotions.
Paul Craig Roberts is aware of false flags/staged events as he has written a number of
articles about the 9/11 false flag. For some reason he has bought in to this George Floyd
hoax. The evidence is overwhelming that Floyd didn't die. They used a dummy with no legs, as
well as at least two different actors to play George Floyd. There is other evidence but that
should be enough. I'm disappointed in PCR.
"Peoples with a history of mutual distrust – i.e. mutual fear – have to take a
real risk in order to even begin the process of growing mutual trust. Great discipline is
required by all people on both sides for mutual trust to become possible. Mutual trust would
need great discipline in perpetuity in order to be sustained. The harmful effect of instances
of unworthiness of trust would need to be deeply understood."
Apparently, this comment was fished out of a time capsule from 1860.
@FB y
respiratory COVID-19 virus
– Autopsy results stating he died of cardio pulminary issues, not from being restrained
What do we have when putting all these points together?
The conclusion that the issues causing Floyd's death were present before excessive
restraint (he was firstly handcuffed) and that something prexisting was likely to blame.
Signs of a heart attack, that even a bystander remarked on, seem to highlight it was likely
that George Floyd was already in the process of dying as the police arrested him, not because
the police were arresting him.
If you are going to trust the word or investigations of anyone in the law enforcement
world, and that includes the coroners – just watch how the Ms Maxwell's case -- is
handled. The cop is guilty of manslaughter – just like you or I would be – had
you done this to Floyd.
@FB In
the previous 'article' we had the FALSE INFORMATION that the Hennepin County Medical Examiner
supposedly did not rule the death a homicide, when in fact he did only this is, as per
standard procedure, included in the death certificate, not the autopsy report
The autopsy was carried out on 26 May 2020 and signed 1 June 2020 by Dr Baker. He certifies
that there are no life-threatening injuries. So it cannot be used as the basis for an
allegation for homicide. This was released with the approval of Floyd's family. There has been
no second autopsy to contradict this, as shown by Dr Roberts.
If you look at the autopsy report ( link in previous article ), you will find in the
comments section that the ME Dr Baker found evidence of Sickle Cell Anaemia. The article in
Wikipedia is highly informative ( not always the case ).
In the Developed World, life expectancy is between 40 and 60. Floyd was 46
.
One complication is Acute Chest Syndrome
Acute chest syndrome is defined by at least two of these signs or symptoms: chest pain,
fever, pulmonary infiltrate or focal abnormality, respiratory symptoms, or hypoxemia.[25] It is
the second-most common complication and it accounts for about 25% of deaths in patients with
SCD. Most cases present with vaso-occlusive crises, and then develop acute chest
syndrome.[26][27] Nevertheless, about 80% of people have vaso-occlusive crises during acute
chest syndrome.
So on top of the serious heart diseases, the potentially fatal ( on its own ) fentanyl
level, it looks like you can add Sickle Cell anaenia as well.
I asked him why the fentanyl body count was so high, he just shrugged and said the street
fentanyl is poison. The DEA was then blaming it on "China" but there are reasons to doubt
anything coming from them. since they were also talking about "cheap Mexican heroin" which is a
CIA myth. What's next, Russian Quaalude?
When they reported speed, specifically meth, in Floyd's system that was enough to clinch it.
The man was mixing his stash.
All that's going to happen now is cops seeing anybody black having an OD will just go the
other way. Can't say as I'd blame them.
Will the country and the legacy of hard work, intense sacrifice, honesty and creativity of
the millions of people who built this country be ultimately destroyed by either
A. A large middle aged negro, who while he didn't do anything, did die with a belly full of
fentanyl while resting in the street with cops either restraining him or intent on killing
him
Or
B. A lovely 60-ish year old Jewess billionaire who ran an international blackmail ring for
everyone's greatest ally Israel, that exploited the bizarre and lurid sexual proclivities of
our ruling class
Same thing happened to Germany Germans were so propagandized and brainwashed after WW2 about
the War & the Holy Hoax, that they will kiss JooAss with both lips to avoid being punished
further for what they never did.
@lysias t
talking about possible fentanyl superman adds to the mix.
People who died from fentanyl overdose had readings from 0.75 ng/mL to an astounding 113
ng/mL. The average death dose was 9.96 ng/mL. According to George Floyd's toxicology report,
his blood contained 11.0 ng/mL Fentanyl, plus 5.6 ng/mL norfentanyl, 19 ng/mL of
methamphetamine, and three other drugs.
If he had survived that shit, he would above average on everything. It is quite likely that
he was way below average. Let's say 6 ng/mL would have been sufficient to send him ad
patres
What we are dealing with is not only the brainwashing of white students as to the evil
origin of their country and their inherited guilt, but also their inability to think
rationally and to make an objective conclusion from evidence.
I see that this article is not about the death of George Floyd, a tragedy, even if the usual
suspects are out and commenting their usual immovable opinions on that death.
Roberts is pointing out that no discussion is possible about this event. If George Floyd
came back from the dead and volunteered to give an interview alongside the police officers who
arrested him to explain what had happened, no one would listen. They SAW the video and formed
an emotional response. Facts are entirely irrelevant. One of the commenters above has already
taken that position. He said, following a more detailed article, "All you need to know is
what's on that video!"
Roberts blames the educational system and I've noticed that the more prestigious the degree
a young person has, the less able they are to engage in a rational discussion on any subject.
They look at you with this superior attitude, ready to spout some meaningless rejoinder like,
"OK Boomer," or "Do you still believe that?" As if truth were dependent on one's age or facts
are a matter of religious faith.
Are they being given mentally fatal doses of propaganda as they qualify for the better
schools or do the better universities have a selection system that singles out only those
already emotionally disassociated? That's where we are.
Why dont you write such titles in a medical magazine. Just like "Dr." Bill Gate of MS who
has been writing on vaccination in medical journals for past several years.
And we blame Americans are misinformed.
People who believe that suspected felons have the right to violently resist arrest or
otherwise obstruct the legitimate arrest process are anarchists who should own up to their
philosophy.
"None of the people watching the video had any awareness of any of the facts."
Ah, the "medical expert" pcr "proves" once again all the other medical experts are wrong and
Floyd did die of a drug overdose despite the heroic attempts of the sainted men in blue to
prevent his self initiated demise.
"The transcripts reveal that as the officers forced Floyd into the vehicle, the 46-year-old
black man said: "I can't breathe" and "I want to lay on the ground."
They reveal a lot more which roberts judiciously decided wouldn't help his spin about the
murder and didn't mention. Let's take a look at what else they reveal, shall we:
George Floyd warned police he thought he would die because he couldn't breathe, according to
body camera transcripts
@FB s.
You're arguing from literal survivorship bias, an obvious fallacy.
Also PCR is NOT a doctor, yet he makes doctor-like assertions about what is a 'fatal' dose
of fentanyl [actually all the medical literature says there is no MINIMUM fatal blood level
of fentanyl, because it depends on the tolerance of the user] and that Floyd was in the
'process of dying'
Either what PCR said is true, or it isn't, regardless of credentials. And the fact that
there is no minimum fatal blood level undermines rather than supports the case that St.
Fentanyl couldn't have died of a fentanyl overdose.
The little exculpatory evidence that has seen the light of day suggests the cops were trying
to figure out how to keep the guy alive. It seems that Black Felon Lives do indeed matter.
Anyone opening up a mouth about cops using their actions in this incident should consider
what they would do upon encountering someone with Fentanyl poisoning. In my experience, those
who get on a big talker high-horse wouldn't come to the aid of a drowning child.
This was a Perfect Storm. Someone took a heart-rending video of George Floyd's death, and
the Democrats and Allied Media ran with it because they're desperate to reverse POTUS Trump's
20% plus support with black voters. Add in the mass psychosis their lockdowns induced and we
were off to the races.
Here's my question. Should the clerk in the convenience store be brought up on charges of
accessory to murder for reporting the fake $20 and pointing out to the police the vehicle
George Floyd was sitting in?
You're just like black lives matter 'piling on' pitting one against the other. I wouldn't be
surprised if you were on their payroll.
The shills for destruction have no shame in their quest to divide and conquer. Thanks to your
help the Deep State is winning. Trump and his white patrons have a finite future in
America.
@FB gher
than the final lab results show. Fentanyl as an analgesic and especially as an additive to
general anaesthetics is applied in a controlled setting by highly trained anaesthesiologists.
It has a byphasic mode of action with a pronounced depression of the respiratory centre in the
first phase.
Its pharmacodynamic and pharmacokinetic activity is greatly altered by age, race ( e.g. Asians
metabolize at a higher rate, Blacks at unpredictable rate etc), comorbidities (e.g. impaired
liver function, slow circulation syndrome), presence of other drugs (benzodiazepines,
metamphetamine etc).
Opiates including Fentanyl do not cause respiratory distress. There is no shortness of
breath or breathlessness. Opiates depress the area of the brain controlling respiration. They
will NOT complain of any breathing problems. The impetus to breathe is gone. They pass out and
die unless treated with an antagonist like Naloxone or ventilation is assisted or if the opioid
is miraculously metabolized prior to death. Direct injury to the lung from trauma, broken ribs,
infection, heart failure, being held in a stress position so the chest cannot expand, will
cause distress and the person will complain bitterly.
I know what I speak of: I have practiced emergency medicine for more than 40 years.
I agree. Thanks – your comment astounded me, because now – after the hundreds of
comment-pages I've read about this case, you are able to bring more new information here to the
public's eye.
Now I wait for someone to add these facts up – unz.com would almost do by itself, and write the book Sebastian Junger
did write about – – – – The Perfect Storm!
PS
(Would you know about the way in which the second autopsy was conducted? I remember having
read, it had been conducted by video – but I can't trace back just where I've read
this).
You are a complete ass. I hope one day someone as big and as black and as violent as Floyd,
all doped up on some dangerous drug, thumps you in the street. Buy it or dont buy it you will
lick the Cops balls to restrain him using any means. You are a moron !
However, for pretty much the same reasons, I am not inclined to believe he/they deliberately
intended to cause death, if that were the case they would have been more aware of
appearances.
I note that the police version of the incident has been suppressed to avoid "tainting a
potential jury pool" and "impair[ing] all parties' right to a fair trial," Given the massive
amount of one sided publicity given to the prosecution account, that decision is ridiculous.
Derek Chauvin has already been tried and convicted of murder in the media, a fair trial is
surely impossible anyway.
You have written a load of steamy horseshit. As Nick Stix alluded you must have pulled this
from a time bubble of 1860. In case you have not noticed we are now in 2020 with the Chimps
running out of control. Get real and dump all that brotherly love and cum bye ah.
I tell you what, the next time you are near to a ghetto, enter it and walk through it
shouting all the crap you have written above.
The one good thing that will come of your canter through the hood is that Unz will be one
idiot commenter less !
Well I also have another question for this Kouros dunderhead. He should try to subdue a
felonious monster as big as Floyd and with a history of violence and prison time. A pitiful
specimen like Kouros would be writing with a pen in his mouth, in his wheel chair while his
24/7 nurse changes his diapers.
This Kouros's comment was the most foolish I have ever read. He must be some kind of
simpleton or Chimp lover.
@Kouros
eos (none of us have) and believe "too (little) in the professionalism or well intentions of
the police." As others have noted, the missing bodycam videos should shed light on Floyd's
physical and mental state at the time he was being put in the police car.
PCR is examining evidence and noticing facts. You seem to be subject to the emotional
clouding of reason he is describing. To wit, making generalized statements without any factual
foundation to support what you "want to believe" is true.
PCR can now add you to the list of readers whose "opinions" rest upon emotion instead of
logic.
Agree. Here in NYC, there has been a big spike in men OD'ing on the street. I've noticed it
myself for some time (Frequently on subways) and have often wondered what cops would do in that
situation. The situation is fraught with risk.
The ruin of the productive American economy is the root cause of almost all social ills find
those who dismantled industries and exported jobs overseas, mainly to China, to punish them
severely, physically and financially to start remedy the nation or it's all lost.
The reason a patient wakes up after fentanyl anesthesia is that the anesthesiologist
supports the patient's breathing ( and other vital signs ) while under. If the doctor simply
walked away , the patient
would surely die. In fact, to treat a fentanyl overdose , one would mechanically support
breathing while reversing agent (narcan) takes effect.
Also, Floyd had potentially lethal dose of morphine (another narcotic)in his blood as well.
He also had methamphetamine and THC present which could have altered a classic narcotic
stuporous state with added agitation and delirium.
He had significant coronary artery disease which could have caused fatal arrhythmia under
stress of arrest or resisting arrest, hypoxia from respiratory depression from narcotics,
excitation from methamphetamine, or even by itself.Shortness of breath alone can be a symptom
of an impending heart attack without chest pain. Or chest pain could have been masked by
narcotic . People die of apparently unprovoked heart attacks and sudden arrhythmic deaths every
day.
There were no signs of brain ischemia or airway trauma.
Remember , one has to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the officer killed Floyd. One
does not have to prove that Floyd died from drugs or heart disease, only that it was not
unreasonable.
It is clearly not unreasonable that he died from drugs/ heart disease instead of at the hands
of police.
Could things have been done differently that might have saved his life, in retrospect?
Maybe.
Perhaps narcan could have been given at the scene.
Remember, though, these are policemen with a person resisting arrest, not emergency room
physicians in a cooperative setting.
@MarkU g
Chauvin does not cut a deal and decides to go to trial and take his chances with a jury (or
judge).
However, what did Chauvin in, is exactly what you wrote. Maybe he is so jaded, or so had had
it with Floyd*, that he just didn't care anymore. His smirking face, with left arm nonchalantly
on his leg, while Floyd was dying – looks awful.
Damning optics, as they say.
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* Apparently Chauvin and Floyd worked as private security a while back at the same club. And
may have known each other. Imagine that.
May 27, 2020 New video shows Minneapolis police arrest of George Floyd before death
Four white officers involved in the death of George Floyd have been fired from the
Minneapolis Police Department, but Mayor Jacob Frey is saying that one of the officers should
be arrested for pressing his knee on Floyd's neck.
Cops are not diagnosticians. They are trained to react, not to conditions, rather how people
present. A diabetic slurring words and unsteady on his feet, due to low blood sugar, will be
suspected of being intoxicated. High blood sugar may make him appear violent.
Hindsight is 20/20. Cops are trained to react, not stand back and run 50 possible scenarios
through their heads before making an informed decision. If the cops were following protocol, they
are not "absolutely wrong". They would have been wrong not to follow protocol.
When in fact all doctors who have spoken about this have said Floyd showed NO SIGNS of
going into overdose,
Then those doctors are committing malpractice. Viewing a video taken many feet away from the
patient without interaction with the patient or someone with the patient does not qualify as
tele-medecine. No licensing body for physicians allows a diagnosis without examining the
patient or diagnostic tests on the patient. That would include you, if you are a physician.
Yes, he was saying he couldn't breath way before the knee was on his neck, and I'm convinced
the knee didn't kill Floyd, who died of (likely a combinations of) other reasons.
But when a man is subdued, and unresisting, and looking like he's increasingly placid, and
gasping that he can't breath, then if for no other reason, the simple optics, (knowing they
were being filmed), would have been a cue to get off his neck. Especially in our current
societal upheaval and hysteria over the deaths of some other black men- lied about in the
((media)) to make it look like they're all deaths by white racism.
They also started performing CPR once he became unconscious. So they provided him with all
the medical care they could and waited for the professionals to come and take him..
No, not according to the autopsy. And Jacob Frey is a soy boy Bolshevik, not a doctor or a
police officer. If he was doing his job he would know that the knee on the neck restraint is a
police department authorized technique and has been used hundreds of times. And was not the
cause of the thugs death.
@Kouros ot
on windpipe at all. A wrestling coach copied the exact maneuver for the same time to show it is
fairly harmless he was fired for it.
Officers are not chemists or doctors. They do not know what exactly is wrong with perps they
deal with. And they are not going to risk themselves or public if they can help it while
bringing them in. Ridiculous to think they should be goving medical doses. Blacks will riot
over anything: racial profiling, police abuse, overdoses by police, Fredric Douglass statues,
etc
Case Reports Chest
. 2013 Apr;143(4):1145-1146. doi: 10.1378/chest.12-2131.
Fentanyl-induced Chest Wall Rigidity
Başak Çoruh 1, Mark R Tonelli 2, David R Park 2
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PMID: 23546488 DOI: 10.1378/chest.12-2131
Abstract
Fentanyl and other opiates used in procedural sedation and analgesia are associated with
several well-known complications. We report the case of a man who developed the uncommon
complication of chest wall rigidity and ineffective spontaneous ventilation following the
administration of fentanyl during an elective bronchoscopy. His ventilation was assisted and
the condition was reversed with naloxone. Although this complication is better described in
pediatric patients and with anesthetic doses, chest wall rigidity can occur with analgesic
doses of fentanyl and related compounds. Management includes ventilatory support and reversal
with either naloxone or a short-acting neuromuscular blocking agent. This reaction does not
appear to be a contraindication to future use of fentanyl or related compounds. Chest wall
rigidity causing respiratory compromise should be readily recognized and treated by
bronchoscopists.
About 25 years ago, I was chatting with an older acquaintance, who was a retired railway
labourer, about the economic fraud being perpetrated on the public. He said 'It doesn't take a
big education to see what is going on in this country. My three boys are in university. It seems
the more they learn, the less they understand.' One of the boys was in accountancy, another in
business. The third dropped out of university, took up a trade, and the last I heard, didn't have
much to do with his brothers. The two university grads still believe in the mystical "market
forces".
The death of St. Floyd is a stunt. The ruling banking cabal made a decision: time to start a race riot. They made a video and
activated their communist agents in BLM and Antifa to begin the riots.
The Communism that the Jewish overlords are attempting to impose on America has nearly 0%
popular support. They have spent decades trying to embitter blacks and still haven't really
gathered much in terms of a revolutionary cadre. Nevertheless, they are moving into active
insurgency mode and have many major corporations backing their play. They have no hopes of success without disarming America. Good luck with that Jews. They continue to expose themselves to more and more 'normies' while confirming many of the
already aware's worst suspicions. They won't be happy until they impose one gov't, one religion
(satanic) and one currency (bogus). I'm really looking forward to treason trials. At some point, it will become unstoppable.
@vot tak
y, the coroner, in your opinion, is not a medical expert, despite having dissected Floyd's body
and ordered testing on body fluids. It would seem the second pathologist signing off on the
coroner's report isn't an expert either. However, the medical experts, who have never seen
George Floyd in person, spouting off about their theories, are more credible than those who
examined the body and reviewed the autopsy report before it was released.
Did you miss the number of times in the body cam transcript that the cops asked Floyd if he
was "on" something and what it was? If the dumbshit had told them, he might have survived.
Direct injury to the lung from trauma, broken ribs, infection, heart failure, being held
in a stress position so the chest cannot expand, will cause distress and the person will
complain bitterly.
None of which were present in Floyd's case according to the autopsy report.
If Floyd had died in New York , I'm certain his death certificate would simply have read,
cause of death: covid19. When you watch the plane crash investigation shows on tv and they
trace the disaster backwards to a determining event, here you go back and see that Floyd would
be alive today if he had said no to drugs. Take drugs, shorten your life. Simple as that.
Certainly blame the cops, his parents, maybe even society but if a grown man doesn't respect
his own body then nobody else will. Maybe the only way to solve these types of deaths is to
have trained medicos travelling constantly in tandem with the cops. But what is the cost
benefit.
And concerning a knee to the throat, I know I would not last eight minutes, let alone half that
if someone kneeled on my throat. I still can't believe that people think that a knee to the
neck killed Floyd.
Working with the scum of society rubs off on cops eventually, and Chauvin seems no different
than a lot of others, but here it appears that he and his colleagues were doing everything
right by the book. Maybe those baying for blood need to look elsewhere, perhaps higher up in
officialdom. Condemning the cops for doing the right thing seems very harsh.
Thank you for this article. I also appreciate the running commentary on the state of
American education. Although you have me by two decades, we both come from a place where we
were taught to think rather than emote. You say it so well in the following excerpt.
This perversity of education spells the end of the United States. The kind of people American
education is producing are not capable of scientific thinking. The kind of education Americans
receive today cannot produce scientists or engineers. We have the emotive generation, people
trained to be guided by emotion.
The inability of American education to produce people capable of thought is already our
reality.
I have found that lack of logic and inability to think in a linear fashion is passed off as an
artistic temperament. If that isn't a line of bunk I don't know what is.
I think this will become the central issue of the trial.
As this video illustrates, there is overwhelming evidence that police departments in the US
have become increasingly militarized by receiving training from the Israeli military.
Yes, there might be difficulty in restraining a big fella. There were at least four police
officers in the proximity, and while there was a bit of a struggle, it wasn't something to
difficult to handle.
never considered that the police was onto killing George Floyd.
Nobody, nobody commented on the issue of police not being trained and equipped to deal with
overdosed people, especially opioid overdoses. Being able to provide quick help is essential
and other jurisdictions have enabled police with syringes with Naloxone and try to use those
rather than tasers or guns.
"And then there are the many readers for whom it is of the utmost emotional importance that
Floyd was murdered by white police for racist reasons. These readers are immune to all facts.
One told me that fentanyl is not toxic. Another told me that it is not possible to overdose on
fentanyl. Yet another told me that the medical examiner is white and his report is a racist
report. Another asked me when did I become a racist.
In other words, they only want to hear what they have been brainwashed to believe. Facts
have no importance to them. Indeed, there are no facts, only emotional responses, and they are
indoctrinated with the emotional response that is valid. As long as the response is anti-white,
it is valid."
I ran into just this the other day with my relation to a Leftist organization I had
volunteered to do some technical work for. The group originally appeared to be a legitimate and
more open Left organization than I have seen in recent years. But in the end they were as close
minded as any other such group.
I tried to present Dr. Roberts' findings to them on this subject not to convince anyone of
its legitimacy but simply as a different perspective to be considered. I even did some research
on Dr. Roberts' earlier article on this subject regarding the existence of a second autopsy.
Using an article from the Daily Kos, a Left leaning rag, that promoted the existence of this
second autopsy I looked at the links they provided to only find that they pointed to the very
original autopsy report that Dr. Roberts provided in his original essay on this matter. So much
for journalistic integrity.
When posted to this Left organization's chat board for consideration, no one wanted to hear
of it. All they cared about was Floyd was dead and that was all that mattered. I tried to
explain that it did very much matter, considering that Floyd's death sparked so much outrage
and national trauma, somehow transforming him into some type of martyr.
Yet, again, people asked why I was posting such information when the matter was implicitly
settled.
One leader of the organization told me to stop posting such "Right-wing crap" or I would be
removed (cancelled). I told her to go ahead and remove me, which she promptly did.
Though I agree with the general grievances of The Left, this side of the political spectrum
appears to be populated with very immature adults and even more ignorant younger people not to
say the least of all the various proponents of their biological victimhood. They have no sense
of honest, historical relevance to anything they do and really don't care. As long as things
conform to their very limited world view, they are satisfied.
Though I tend to be somewhat conseratative with my opinions on things, I could hardly be
considered Right-wing in my views. But I do insist on historical honesty for our past and our
current events (which means legitimate debate on such matters). But The Left will never yield
on this, which makes them I believe as dangerous as the extreme Right
@FB ost
safe and effective control measure or therapy for what is most likely an extremely agitated
patient."
-- "There are well-documented cases of ExDS deaths with minimal restraint such as handcuffs
without ECD use. This underscores that this is a potentially fatal syndrome in and of itself,
sometimes reversible when expert medical treatment is immediately available".
@KenH
ersities have besmirched the founding of America and its history until 1965 along with blood
libeling the white population.
Yep . but it is longer than decades, because owning the press/narrative is part of Jewish
evolutionary method. Jewish usurpation via press and book publishing, goes back in time even
further than 150 years as discussed by Luther Pierce in link below.
Kouros has gone to a great deal of trouble to remain totally uninformed:
From the newly-released transcripts that are part of a legal filing by Lane's attorney, Earl
Gray, who has requested that the Hennepin County District Court dismiss the case against his
client:
The transcripts reveal that as the officers forced Floyd into the vehicle, the 46-year-old
black man said: "I can't breathe" and "I want to lay on the ground."
@FB on't
need a pathologist, you need a biologist.
I am Floyds size, even bigger actually. Did you ever look at Floyd's neck muscles?. He's got
a pretty solid well muscled neck, and I wouldn't want to tangle with him. (I have fought big
men, and it is not fun.)
The windpipe runs down the middle of your neck and is flanked by muscles on the side.
I've pressure tested my neck, and while it is uncomfortable It can take considerable
pressure when said pressure is delivered from the side. I can still breath with side
pressure.
It is easy to brainwash people, which is PCR's argument.
He was
on his stomach because nausea is one result of fentanyl overdose and the police did not want
Floyd choking to death on his own vomit.
So many commentators who hide behind false names are incapable of reason and simply
emote.
They are narcissists and it makes them feel good to denounce people who know a lot more than
they do. Some are also self-righteous and enjoy engaging in ignorant moral denunciation.
"A picture is worth a thousand words." And the picture Americans saw was interpreted for
them by a dishonest media. Their ignorance of anatomy made it easy for the presstitutes to
deceive them.
Some commenters have asked for references in the literature for the point I made about
surviving overdose at far higher fentanyl levels than that in Floyd's blood toxicology
report
Here is a paper by a group of physicians who treated 18 fentanyl overdose patients in about
a one week period in 2016 only one out of the 18 did not survive
All 18 patients tested positive for fentanyl in the serum. Quantitative assays conducted
in 13 of the sera revealed fentanyl concentrations of 7.9 to 162 ng/mL (mean=
52.9 ng/mL)
Note that highest number is FIFTEEN TIMES Floyd's blood level the mean [average] of all
those patients is about 53 ng/ml about FIVE times Floyd's level
So clearly a lot of people have survived a dose of fentanyl much higher than George Floyd
this medical data immediately invalidates the very notion that a number like 11 mg/ml is de
facto a 'lethal' dose clearly it's not
And again I stress in the entire medical community NOT ONE DOCTOR has come out and said
Floyd died of an overdose is the entirety of medical science completely ignorant ?
Or is it the case that a bunch of completely unqualified people are googling the internet
for medical literature [which any doctor will tell you requires a level of expertise to put
into proper context] and pulling numbers willy nilly, and then simply making doctor-like
pronouncements ?
Please find one single pathologist or emergency doctor who will say that Floyd died of an
overdose
If and when you do so, then we can start having an intelligent discussion until then this
kind of discussion is just pure nonsense
@FB What
is used in patients, who were chronic high dose users to put them under? Different drugs and
modulators.
I am not sure if Naloxone, if applied immediately in Mr. Floyd's case could change the outcome,
given that he had other serious comorbidities, possibly pulmonary complications of COVID
infection and high stress of the arrest, as shown in the video.
It is a probably a case of
gross medical negligence, leading to the fatal outcome, although, I am not sure how much we can
expect from police in this regard. It needs proper investigation and establishing the causality
of each factor and cofactors.
"... Then in June 2020, he forced the resignation of James Bennet , editor of the NYT 's op-ed page. Why? Because they carried an opinion piece by the Republican senator Tom Cotton which argued that demonstrations which turned violent should be met with "an overwhelming show of force" – a phrase that caused outrage among some of the staff. Bennet had been tipped as the future Editor of the New York Times . Now he was out the door. ..."
"... Journalism, in the protesting staffs' view, must conform to novel, liberal verities, which include the protection of audiences from material seen as hurtful, even dangerous. The view of John Stuart Mill in On Liberty (1859) – "to utter and argue freely, according to conscience"- is now discarded in many parts of the cultural landscape . The sharpening of one's own convictions by setting them against opposing opinions would now, under this approach, be impossible. ..."
"... Part of this may be the phenomenon which Jonathan Swift noted when he wrote that "you cannot reason someone out of something that he or she was not reasoned into": that views held because fashionable, or approved by one's circle, or regarded as morally beyond question, are sometimes too shallow to be able to sustain argument. Dogmatic positions adopted with little thought except for signaling virtue often collapse when questioned hard. ..."
"... A letter signed by prominent writers, scholars and others organized by Harper's Magazine on July 7 – " On Justice and Open Debate " – noted that "it is now all too common to hear calls for swift and severe retribution in response to perceived transgressions of speech and thought. More troubling still, institutional leaders, in a spirit of panicked damage control, are delivering hasty and disproportionate punishments instead of considered reforms". ..."
"... The concession to staff protests in the great New York titles and the punishments to Buruma and Bennet were "hasty and disproportionate". These journals stood as examples to others: their example has been weakened. Journalists have been trained to keep an open mind to all events they chronicle, conscious of their complexity: and to listen to and allow space for views which are far from their own. That tradition is not past its useful life. ..."
In 2018, David Remnick, editor of the New Yorker and Pulitzer Prize-winning author,
cancelled a public interview with Steve Bannon, a former senior adviser to President Donald
Trump, which he had organised for the magazine's annual festival. Several staff members had
complained and two or three participants in the festival had said they would withdraw if Bannon
appeared . Two of the magazine's most distinguished writers, Malcolm Gladwell and Lawrence
Wright, strongly criticised Remnick's decision: " journalism is about hearing opposing views" ,
said Wright. Gladwell noted that " If you only invite your friends over, it's called a dinner
party ". The episode was a worrying sign of things to come.
In 2019, New York Review of Books publisher Rea Hederman – who has a proud history of
anti-racism – fired Ian Buruma, editor of the Review for only sixteen months, after
pressure from the staff . Buruma's crime? He had printed an essay – 'Confessions of a
Hashtag' by Jian Ghomeishi, a former Canadian Broadcasting radio host, who had been accused of
violence to around twenty women, but had been recently acquitted in a case brought by some of
them. Ghomeishi's piece, which addressed these accusations, was deemed to be out of step with
the spirit of the #MeToo movement. That the next issue of the NYRB was to devote a large amount
of space to rebuttal was not enough to save Buruma.
A G Sulzberger had, in his apprentice journalist years, used relentless coverage to force a
Lion's Club in Narragansett to reverse its decision to bar women, and revealed misconduct in an
Oregon sheriff's office, causing his resignation. He took over as publisher of the New York
Times in 2018, the sixth Sulzberger to take that position: he strongly criticized President
Trump, in an Oval Office meeting, for calling the Times "treasonous" and rendering journalists'
work more dangerous.
Then in June 2020, he forced the resignation of James Bennet , editor of the NYT 's op-ed
page. Why? Because they carried an opinion piece by the Republican senator Tom Cotton which
argued that demonstrations which turned violent should be met with "an overwhelming show of
force" – a phrase that caused outrage among some of the staff. Bennet had been tipped as
the future Editor of the New York Times . Now he was out the door.
In each case, the main actors were men I admired – Hederman and Sulzberger by
reputation, Remnick (whom I met when we were both correspondents in Moscow) by his writing and
editing. They had faced difficult decisions, made enemies and hard choices. In each case, the
men worked for a journal with a history of innovative, no-hold-barred criticism of the
powerful.
And in each case, they had folded because of pressure from the staff – pressure which
stemmed from an article or an event the complainants deemed unsuitable for any audience. For
those staff, opinions they dislike are seen as intolerable in a publication on which they work.
A red line had been crossed.
Journalism, in the protesting staffs' view, must conform to novel, liberal verities, which
include the protection of audiences from material seen as hurtful, even dangerous. The view of
John Stuart Mill in On Liberty (1859) – "to utter and argue freely, according to
conscience"- is now discarded in many parts of the cultural landscape . The sharpening of one's
own convictions by setting them against opposing opinions would now, under this approach, be
impossible.
Part of this may be the phenomenon which Jonathan Swift noted when he wrote that "you cannot
reason someone out of something that he or she was not reasoned into": that views held because
fashionable, or approved by one's circle, or regarded as morally beyond question, are sometimes
too shallow to be able to sustain argument. Dogmatic positions adopted with little thought
except for signaling virtue often collapse when questioned hard.
What's to be done about this? First, the phenomenon itself has to be held up to the light as
much as possible. If, as I suspect, much of it is loudly proclaimed but lightly ingested,
argument and debate has to be brought to bear. The best argument remains Mill's: that opinions,
many of them having to do with central issues of our time, are too important not to be
challenged, worked over, considered anew and either strengthened or weakened – and, in
the latter case, either modified or discarded.
Journalism needs now, more than ever, to build debate and contestation into news media
worlds. The challenge is to rediscover the fundamentals of journalism – without which it
ceases to be a necessary pillar of democratic, civic societies: in short, journalism needs to
rediscover a belief in the fact of facts, and in the plurality of opinion. No liberal would for
a moment agree that criticism of President Trump, distasteful to his supporters, should be
censored.
Editors' mission is to insist that, barring the dangerous extremes, all opinions deserve
airing and contesting, just as all facts deserve to be checked and given context . Those in
journalism who object to views in their journal, channel or website must accept that the robust
clash of beliefs remains a necessary insurance against enforced conformity, and indeed
reaction. In a society built on diverse ways of looking at the world, some upset on seeing or
reading an account or a conviction which strongly contradicts your own has to be borne,
considered and where possible replied to, not shut down.
A letter signed by prominent writers, scholars and others organized by Harper's Magazine on
July 7 – " On Justice and Open Debate "
– noted that "it is now all too common to hear calls for swift and severe retribution in
response to perceived transgressions of speech and thought. More troubling still, institutional
leaders, in a spirit of panicked damage control, are delivering hasty and disproportionate
punishments instead of considered reforms".
The concession to staff protests in the great New York titles and the punishments to Buruma
and Bennet were "hasty and disproportionate". These journals stood as examples to others: their
example has been weakened. Journalists have been trained to keep an open mind to all events
they chronicle, conscious of their complexity: and to listen to and allow space for views which
are far from their own. That tradition is not past its useful life.
John Lloyd is a Contributing Editor to the Financial Times, ex-editor of The New Statesman
and a co-founder of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of
Oxford.
Looks like not all MSM are hopeless. "Newsweek" published an unusually sane piece by a
reasonable black guy "Why black lives don't matter to 'Black Lives Matter'", where he exposes
BLM for what they are: opportunistic frauds
People vote their resentments as much as their wallets. Dems are fighting to create voting
block that will lead them to the victory. In the past (and in some countries who updated the
applicable definitions, still), the most relevant additional class was the petty bourgeoisie; in
the modern US, however, the concept of the professional-managerial class is the most useful frame
of reference as for the base of neoliberal Democrats.
People who think the Democratic Party is responsive to the concerns or interests of the poor
and working classes are delusional, full stop. The Democrats are neoliberal sellouts to the
financial oligarchy.
Notable quotes:
"... The Democrats are resolved to set the agenda by deciding what issues "will and will not" be covered over the course of the campaign. And -- since race is an issue on which they feel they can energize their base by propping-up outdated stereotypes of conservatives as ignorant bigots incapable of rational thought -- the Dems are using their media clout to make race the main topic of debate. ..."
"... Let's be clear, the Democrats do not support Black Lives Matter nor have they made any attempt to insert their demands into their list of police reforms. BLM merely fits into the Dems overall campaign strategy which is to use race to deflect attention from the gross imbalance of wealth that is the unavoidable consequence of the Dems neoliberal policies including outsourcing, off-shoring, de-industrialization, free trade and trickle down economics. These policies were aggressively promoted by both Bill Clinton and Barack Obama as they will be by Joe Biden if he is elected. They are the policies that have gutted the country, shrunk the middle class, and transformed the American dream into a dystopian nightmare. ..."
"... They are also the policies that have given rise to, what the pundits call, "right wing populism" which refers to the growing number of marginalized working people who despise Washington and career politicians, feel anxious about falling wages and dramatic demographic changes, and resent the prevailing liberal culture that scorns their religion and patriotism. ..."
"... This is Trump's mainly-white base, the working people the Democrats threw under the bus 30 years ago and now want to annihilate completely by deepening political polarization, fueling social unrest, pitting one group against another, and viciously vilifying them in the media as ignorant racists whose traditions, culture, customs and even history must be obliterated to make room for the new diversity world order. ..."
"... "Our nation is witnessing a merciless campaign to wipe out our history, defame our heroes, erase our values and indoctrinate our children. Angry mobs are trying to tear down statues of our founders, deface our most sacred memorials and unleash a wave of violent crime in our cities." ..."
The answer is "not always" due to existence of "What's the matter with Kansas" effect.
People can and do vote against their economic interests, although this is more common for
lower strata of population than for the elite.
This is the essence of the current play by the Neoliberal Democrats. Mike Whitney pointed
out that their support of black population is just a tactical trick:
The protests are largely a diversion aimed at shifting the public's attention to a
racialized narrative that obfuscates the widening inequality chasm (created by the
Democrats biggest donors, the Giant Corporations and Wall Street) to historic antagonisms
that have clearly diminished over time. (Racism ain't what it used to be.)
The Democrats are resolved to set the agenda by deciding what issues "will and will
not" be covered over the course of the campaign. And -- since race is an issue on which
they feel they can energize their base by propping-up outdated stereotypes of conservatives
as ignorant bigots incapable of rational thought -- the Dems are using their media clout to
make race the main topic of debate.
In short, the Democrats have settled on a strategy for quashing the emerging populist
revolt that swept Trump into the White House in 2016 and derailed Hillary's ambitious grab
for presidential power.
The plan, however, does have its shortcomings
Let's be clear, the Democrats do not support Black Lives Matter nor have they made
any attempt to insert their demands into their list of police reforms. BLM merely fits into
the Dems overall campaign strategy which is to use race to deflect attention from the gross
imbalance of wealth that is the unavoidable consequence of the Dems neoliberal policies
including outsourcing, off-shoring, de-industrialization, free trade and trickle down
economics. These policies were aggressively promoted by both Bill Clinton and Barack Obama
as they will be by Joe Biden if he is elected. They are the policies that have gutted the
country, shrunk the middle class, and transformed the American dream into a dystopian
nightmare.
They are also the policies that have given rise to, what the pundits call, "right
wing populism" which refers to the growing number of marginalized working people who
despise Washington and career politicians, feel anxious about falling wages and dramatic
demographic changes, and resent the prevailing liberal culture that scorns their religion
and patriotism.
This is Trump's mainly-white base, the working people the Democrats threw under the
bus 30 years ago and now want to annihilate completely by deepening political polarization,
fueling social unrest, pitting one group against another, and viciously vilifying them in
the media as ignorant racists whose traditions, culture, customs and even history must be
obliterated to make room for the new diversity world order. Trump touched on this
theme in a speech he delivered in Tulsa. He said:
"Our nation is witnessing a merciless campaign to wipe out our history, defame our
heroes, erase our values and indoctrinate our children. Angry mobs are trying to tear
down statues of our founders, deface our most sacred memorials and unleash a wave of
violent crime in our cities."
He than went off the rail, but still the part of his analysis reproduced above looks
pretty prescient.
The ongoing series of protests, riots and unrest following the death of George Floyd
culminated in the establishment of a self-declared "autonomous zone" by activists in Seattle,
Washington, after police abandoned a local precinct in the city's Capitol Hill district.
Lasting just three weeks until law enforcement retook the six block territory from occupants on
July 1st, the Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP) -- initially called the Capitol Hill
Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) -- was a short-lived experiment which unfortunately exhibited all the
contradictions of the so-called "left" that have become characteristic in the United States
today. Although it is undeniable that American police have a brutality and racism problem
(having been trained by
Israel ), within weeks it was clear that what began as spontaneous protests were hijacked
for an establishment agenda. Meanwhile, the ill-fated demise of the Seattle commune should be
understood as symptomatic of a larger problem within the U.S. left as a whole.
One of the most influential figures of the French Revolution, Maximilien Robespierre, who
died 226 years ago this month, famously said that " the secret of freedom lies in educating
people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant ." The insurrectionary
Paris Commune was established after the storming of the Bastille fortress on July 14, 1789.
Unfortunately, this protest movement could not be any less educational and the siege of the
Seattle Police Department's East Precinct was certainly no Bastille Day. Many have speculated
as to why Mayor Jenny Durkan and the SPD seemingly allowed the protesters to occupy the
neighborhood, while they enjoyed direct support from local politicians such as Seattle City
Council member Kshama Sawant of the Trotskyite Socialist Alternative organization who fancies
herself the first "socialist" to win an election in the city since Anna Louise Strong in 1916.
However, the more meaningful question is what has this movement accomplished besides recoiling
the U.S. working class further away from progressive politics?
The biggest misconception across the political spectrum, especially on the right, is that
this leaderless and haphazard movement is somehow "Marxist." Karl Marx, whose entire worldview
was based on a material and scientific understanding of history, focused on the class system
and would be spinning in his grave knowing what a mess identity politics has made in his name.
In contrast, the 'wokist' cult at the center of these marches ignores both science and class
with no political vision beyond destruction, vindictiveness, and the stifling of free speech.
This is why the U.S. political establishment, which has been completely unable to implement the
most elementary measures in providing healthcare and securing employment to Americans during
the pandemic, is quite happy to jump on board a narrative that pits divisions of the working
class against each other based on race while wealth trickles up to the 1%.
The CHOP/CHAZ occupants reportedly established a reverse hierarchical social structure where
whites self-flagellated by performing quasi-religious rituals of atonement for the sins of
slavery. There was also a diversity quota of "centering" certain individuals based on their
ethnic background, gender and sexual orientation to cede leadership roles at the co-op, with
white participants coerced into overcoming their "fragility" (or sensitivity in discussing
racism). Concurrent with the protests, corporate consultant and University of Washington
professor Robin DiAngelo's intellectually fraudulent book White
Fragility shot to the top of The New York Times bestseller list and is a perfect
example of how such identity politics fails in dealing with social issues. Collective
punishment is never a suitable guiding principle in addressing social problems, nor is using a
conception akin to the religious idea of original sin where "white privilege" is the root cause
of racism. There were even mini-reparations demanded of repenting white protesters reminiscent
of the collection plate passed around by worshippers in a church. This sort of bizarre and
self-indulgent identity politics is much like what was widely mocked in a viral video of a Democratic Socialists
of America (DSA) convention collapsing into infighting last year.
What began as protests against police brutality were not only derailed into efforts to
set-up communes in major cities but a nationwide debate on statues, after the wave of
demonstrations and rioting across the country led to the Taliban-style destruction of
historical monuments perceived as glorifying racism. As a result, the toxic political
atmosphere which surrounded the events in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017 was reignited.
While the calls for the removal of Confederate statues erected during the Reconstruction era is
long overdue, more debatable is the removal of those honoring slave-owning Founding Fathers
such as George Washington and Thomas Jefferson which were toppled in Portland, Oregon. This was
followed by a statue of Union General Ulysses S. Grant being knocked over in San Francisco and
calls to remove the Lincoln Memorial in D.C., two men who victoriously led the North in the
Civil War. Regrettably, the prioritization of such iconoclastic gestures has not only defanged
the protests but diverted them from bringing real change to social inequities in the immediate
future.
This is not the first time we have witnessed this phenomena. Last year, a more troublesome
example were the calls to
remove a historic mural at George Washington High School in San Francisco that were
capitulated to by the city school board. The thirteen panel mural, Life of Washington ,
painted in 1936 by Russian-American artist Victor Arnautoff was commissioned as part of the
Federal Art Project, a New Deal program funded by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) which
employed visual artists to create public works during the Great Depression. One controversial
panel depicts George Washington pointing to a group of armed colonizers standing over the
corpse of a Native American, while another fresco portrays two colonizers surveying land as
slaves toil in a field. It would seem obvious to anyone that the mural is not only explicitly
anti -racist but representative of an important period in U.S. history where art was a
force for social change and progressive politics was at the center of American life. Arnautoff
was a Russian immigrant who was an assistant to Mexican muralist Diego Rivera, while the WPA
and its art program were dominated by communists such as the two men. Still, no matter the
context or intent -- the unflinching depiction of American history was deemed
"offensive to certain communities" because students were "triggered" by the harsh realities
illustrated.
This might seem unrelated, but the same illogic is behind the vigilantism of the statue
removals. While the Arnautoff mural is clearly anti-racist and certain monuments may glorify
slavery, the distinction is indecipherable to the social justice sect which needs its "safe
space" from the uncomfortable truths of American history. The differentiation between a
left-wing WPA mural opposing racism and colonial statue commending it is illegible to them. The
entire purpose behind the Arnautoff mural is to make one uncomfortable because its
subject matter is something no one should ever be at ease with. Yet its undeniable educational
and artistic value did not prevent the San Francisco school board from voting to paint over it,
while articles were published in The New York Times and even The Nation magazine
applauding their decision. What on earth is happening to the left when it is censoring
anti-racist art in the name of fighting racism?
The whole point of education at a high school is to teach students to analyze and interpret
subjects like art and history, not just emotionally react to them. When the very fabric of
culture and society like a historic mural or statue can be torn down simply because people are
upset by them, the next plausible step is book burning. San Francisco High School completely
failed to educate its students when they decided upon the most backwards way of interpreting
the mural, just as the protesters tearing down these statues did not use their faculties to
understand them in a historical context. Genocide and slavery are indeed the foundations of the
U.S., but we should learn from our tragic history to grasp the equivalent injustices happening
today. Simply eradicating murals and statues that remind us of it, whether they oppose or
elevate them, is totally ineffectual.
While some activists have expressed concern that the protests have deviated from their
original purpose, the right has fixated on the presence among the marches of "Antifa" which
Trump wants to designate as a "terrorist organization", a reckless idea given the completely
decentralized nature of the group. The original Antifa movement in the 1930s had been part of
the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in its effort to form a popular front against fascism, but
the dilettantes in the modern incarnation are closely associated with black bloc anarchism and
other amateurish orientations. Two decades ago, Seattle had been the site of the 1999 protests
against the World Trade Organization (WTO), often referred to as the 'Battle of Seattle', which
saw 40,000 march against globalization. Some may recall this was where the black bloc first
became notorious for injecting vandalism and senseless violence into peaceful demonstrations
and were widely thought to have been
infiltrated by law enforcement . In 2016, the current embodiment of Antifa first came to
attention during protests on college campuses against speaking appearances by far right media
personalities during the U.S. presidential election, including at the University of California
at Berkeley which had ironically been the site of the Free Speech Movement in the 1960s.
Following Trump's election, the stage was set in Charlottesville during the Unite the Right
rally and counter-protests over the removal of a Robert E. Lee statue in August 2017 for
'Antifa' to be crowned as heroes shadowboxing the historical ghost of fascism. When the likes
of The New York Times is suddenly
promoting the black bloc , that's your first clue something else is afoot. In order to
prevent the emergence of a truly progressive movement in the wake of Hillary Clinton's defeat,
a false narrative was concocted by the political establishment about the significance of
Trump's victory, which we were told was the result of alleged Russian meddling and the racism
of "deplorable" Trump voters. Instantly, any critique of the system which produced Trump
disappeared and the establishment wing of the Democratic Party was able to neutralize the
Bernie Sanders-led opposition in its ranks.
As a result, the vast majority of the left became convinced by the interpretation that
Trump's election was purely the outcome of a resurgence of "fascism", thus making Trump the
singular, most immediate danger -- while U.S. imperialism and endless war continue unopposed,
including the support for actual fascists in Ukraine. It should be understood that what Trump
and the wave of pro-Zionist, Islamophobic right-wing populists in the EU represent is something
qualitatively different. Still, anyone on the left who dares oppose U.S. imperialism today is
risking being branded a 'red-brown' collaborator. The Democratic Party, which spearheaded the
Orwellian idea of "humanitarian interventionism" used to justify the wholesale destruction of
uncooperative nations by the American war machine in recent decades, has since tricked the
majority of the left into unwittingly backing U.S. imperialism to unseat "dictators." Even when
the left today ostensibly opposes war, it is often forced to qualify its objections by
repeating the same talking points about countries attacked by Washington used to justify
it.
The U.S. foray in the Syrian war is a perfect example. Trump's idea to designate Antifa as a
terrorist group would be especially ironic considering that many American leftists who
self-identify using the "Antifa" black and red standard have thrown their support behind the
creation of another infamous "autonomous zone" in Northeast Syria established by mostly-Kurdish
militias known as Rojava -- with the help of none other than the U.S. military. There is even a
self-proclaimed International Freedom Battalion of American and European volunteers fighting to
defend the enclave that purports to be in the tradition of the International Brigades which
defended the Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War. These "Antifa" conscripts fight
alongside the YPG (People's Protection Units), a Kurdish-majority militia which has been
rebranded by the Pentagon as the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). These leftists are apparently
in serious need of a history lesson, considering it was the Soviet Union alone which intervened
to defend the Spanish Republic from fascism, not the United States. From Washington's
perspective, CHOP/CHAZ should be considered blowback from this policy.
The U.S. creation of the SDF has not been without controversy, as the YPG is widely regarded
as the Syrian branch of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in Turkey which Washington's NATO
ally regards as a terrorist organization . While the Kurds and
their Western volunteers may believe they are creating an anarchist utopia, in reality they are
infantryman for the Zionist plan to balkanize Syria and
prevent Damascus from accessing it own resources . So it makes perfect sense that they
would try to replicate what they learned in Afrin in an American city using Rojava as a model.
When Trump tried to follow through on his anti-interventionist pledges as a candidate and pull
U.S. troops out of Syria, it sparked outrage from the pro-war "left" which glorifies Rojava as
a 'libertarian socialist' and 'direct democracy' experiment, even though non-Kurds such as
Arabs and Assyrian Christians face ethnic cleansing at hands of Kurdish nationalists in their
efforts to create an ethno-state.
The ideological inspiration for the Rojava federation is the Jewish-American Zionist
anarchist philosopher Murray Bookchin who was especially influential to PKK founder Abdullah
Öcalan. Unbeknownst to many, Bookchin was also a noted Zionist
-- but this is not as unlikely a paradox as it may seem. After all, Israel itself was initially
established with the settlement of communes and the Zionist form of "autonomous zones" known as
kibbutz ("gathering" in Hebrew). Even prior to WWII, European Zionists and early kibbutniks
came to Mandatory Palestine as illegal immigrants and began living in their communes while
fusing Jewish nationalism and their own conception of socialism, an amalgamation not unlike
what the Kurds are practicing in Syria today. One other highly influential thinker in the
anarchist community who purports to be a 'libertarian socialist', Noam Chomsky, was himself part of the Zionist kibbutz
movement in his youth. This explains why Chomsky would call for a continuation of the
U.S. occupation of northern Syria on the basis of "protecting the Kurds", who are trying to
repeat the formula used to found Israel to create a Syrian Kurdistan as another U.S.
protectorate in the Middle East.
It is no coincidence that in the
manifesto listing the demands of the sit-in in Seattle, nowhere to be found is the
defunding of the Pentagon -- the primary supplier through the 1033 Program of the militarized
police violence being protested. The same cognitively dissonant left calling to "defund the
police", which will almost certainly be used as a pretext to privatize them, completely ignores
endless U.S. wars abroad and opposed efforts by the Trump administration to scale back
expansionism in Syria. The focus on the tearing down of statues from America's colonial 'past'
has also coincided with Israel's preparations in colonizing what remains of Palestinian
territory with the annexation of the West Bank -- where are the mass protests to stop that? If
Black Lives Matter dared focus on AIPAC, it would be shut down very quickly. In 2016, when BLM
endorsed the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign to boycott
Israel, their previously enjoyed benefits suddenly were
in jeopardy and was revealed to be the direct result of
sabotage by the Zionist lobby .
In the last several decades, there has been a retreat of class conscious forces in U.S.
political life, especially after the fall of the Soviet Union. The degenerate form of the left
that exists today is an unfortunate result of the academization of social issues and the
influence of the Frankfurt School critical theorists whose bourgeoisification of Marxism
reduced it to a lens by which to critique culture and the arts while removing its class
politics. The politically correct obsession with the policing of language by the postmodern
cult of identity politics is excluding the working class from the conversation and
counteracting its revolutionary potential. The CIA fronts in the Open Society, Ford, and
Kellogg Foundations of the non-profit industrial complex have successfully corralled the
protests while no substantial change has been made to the real ills in U.S. society where the
1% has made trillions during the pandemic and subsequent economic depression. While the masses
are busy tipping over statues and monuments in a crusade to purify history, the ruling class is
laughing all the way to the bank.
Max Parry is an independent journalist and geopolitical analyst. His writing has appeared
widely in alternative media. Max may be reached at[email protected]
These "Antifa" conscripts fight alongside the YPG (People's Protection Units), a
Kurdish-majority militia which has been rebranded by the Pentagon as the Syrian Democratic
Forces (SDF).
Basically true, though I'm pretty sure the Antifa people in Rojava are volunteers ,
not conscripts.
These leftists are apparently in serious need of a history lesson, considering it was
the Soviet Union alone which intervened to defend the Spanish Republic from fascism, not
the United States.
Antifa also seems unaware that during the Spanish Civil War, the anarchists and the
communists did not get along well at all.
even though non-Kurds such as Arabs and Assyrian Christians face ethnic cleansing at
hands of Kurdish nationalists in their efforts to create an ethno-state.
Funny how Antifa is busy fighting for an ethno-state abroad, even thought they would
never–ever!–allow one at home in the West.
For more on the CHAZ/Rojova comparison, see Syrian Girl's latest video:
Why does Kurdish territory belong to Damascus? Just because that is how the Europeans
divided the ottoman empire?
you are closer to the american left than the authentic left. Human biodiversity doesn't
mean black = bad, white = good. It just means black genes =/=white genes.
The western left is the one that won't even acknowledge overpopulation and dysgenics, they
are of the same mind as the religious and right wingers who close their eyes to the same.
Humanity has limits and weaknesses, those who refuse to confront them will be find
themselves in oblivion.
universal basic income for all, contingent on accepting sterilization if you are too dumb.
mandatory sterilization of criminals. marriage and childcare subsidies for high IQ
responsible people. infanticide for children whose fathers are not present at birth.
And the Americans won the war against the Native Indians. Because they lost, does that
mean that all statues of native leaders should be ripped down? No, they fought valiantly to
protect their way of life. It's history, and history should not be dismantled.
The Civil War was not fought over slavery, anyway. Paul Craig Roberts has had some
excellent write-ups on this. It was fought over economic issues. Lincoln wanted to send the
slaves back to Africa, which would have been the best and decent thing to do, but he was
assassinated before he could follow through on this.
The Confederate statues should not be dismantled or torn down vigilante style, but I think
they belong in museums. However, I do agree the Civil War had an economic basis and was not
fought over slavery as a moral injustice. The Southern economy relied on chattel slavery to
produce cotton and tobacco while the northern industrialists wanted the slaves as a source of
additional cheap factory labor.
The U.S. and CIA-paid Antifa could care less about the Kurds, but they're using them to
break the back of Syria and Assad. The Kurds know this, but, hey, if they can get something
out of the deal, they're all in. Isn't it interesting that they have the "bread basket"
– the wheat, the water, the oil. The U.S. wouldn't want that oil, would they? I hear a
lot of it has been shipped off to Israel.
No different than what the 1% (who could care less about Blacks) are doing with the Blacks
in the U.S., using them to deflect attention away from themselves and their looting. And, as
with the Kurds, if the Blacks can get something out of it, more "rights and benefits",
they're all in too.
Both wars (in the U.S. and in Syria) are being fought under the claims of "freedom" and
"equality", but it's all smoke and mirrors. The primary intention is power and control, and
the looting that goes along with that.
The U.S. is being split apart, on purpose. I wonder who is going to get Manhattan.
@Max Parry an economic basis and was not fought over slavery as a moral injustice.
You need to stop reading all history with only one set of glasses on, the "class
consciousness" glasses.
The South was also fighting for its sovereignty, for self-rule. This is part of the age-old
fight for democracy and political freedoms. Issues of the day such as slavery or the limitation
of the franchise to males should not cloud your view of this.
The Confederate leaders are legitimate political heroes for people in the South today, and they
are also moral and cultural models to be emulated.
It's not up to you to think that they belong in a museum. It's up to their descendants who
still live there.
Slavery was just a part of it. It's more of an issue with honoring those who committed
treason in public places, which you cannot expect to be sanctioned as "a model to be
emulated."
I never expected the return of the "Scoop" Jackson wing of the Democratic Party. Sure, you
had the "humanitarian" interventionists but not any balls-to-the-wall anti-Russian Cold
Warriors after 1989.
I thought that brand was "scooped" into the trash.
@Max Parry the other states, although many men from those states served in Confederate
armies. Confederate soldiers fought because they were invaded. Not to fight to defend one's
home and hearth, one's kith and kin and one's cultural imagination is to be a traitor. Those
men were not traitors. By the way, the Constitution defines a traitor as one who aids and abets
an enemy in a war against the American states. It is Lincoln who made that war. He and those
who followed him were the traitors!!! Besides, when they contemplated putting Jefferson Davis
on trial for treason, they dropped the plan because the new that the charge could not be
proved, even in a kangaroo court!!!!
There is a huge statue of Martin Luther King. He was immoral person. If all statues are
going down so his statue should go down also. Lets get work on it, You lazy bastards.
While the masses are busy tipping over statues and monuments in a crusade to purify
history, the ruling class is laughing all the way to the bank.
Endorsement of the Establishment narrative about the death of George Floyd discredited and
distracted from your previous submission. You're now dancing in another cow pie, waving the
politically correct battle flag from 1865 and reciting the victor's history. (I'm pretty sure
others will explain how 1861 secessionists weren't -- and, by definition, couldn't have been --
"treason[ous].")
If you want to get past the divisive politics of transgender statues and Confederate
bathrooms, then quit taking sides.
When Trump tried to follow through on his anti-interventionist pledges as a candidate and
pull U.S. troops out of Syria, it sparked outrage from the pro-war "left" which glorifies
Rojava as a 'libertarian socialist' and 'direct democracy' experiment, even though non-Kurds
such as Arabs and Assyrian Christians face ethnic cleansing at hands of Kurdish nationalists in
their efforts to create an ethno-state.
Any attempt to create an ethnic state in Syria is just one more attempt to divide and
conquer. The USA in Syria is a smoke screen, the excuse is to steal the oil from the Syrian
people and the purpose is to destroy the Syrian government so the Oligarchs and their corporate
vultures can steal, rape and pillage. The USA is building a new military base in Syria right
now; Trump promised to bring Americans home and to close bases but
Trump has not followed through on anything he campaigned to do..has used his position at the
USA to restrict Americans as if he were a king, has pardoned convicted felons, . has used the
USA to support and defend Israel against domestic American interest, and has kissed his wife,
therefore he s/b reelected?
Forces are actively at work to imprison us all. It is this that concerns me much more than
who is elected clown in chief. 5G Networks are designed for mass mind control of governed
citizens. 5g is a super jailer on the prowl seeking inmates. Quietly, behind the scenes,
maneuvering into position, so it can be used by Oligarch/corporations to imprison us all is 5g.
https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/c7kwer/5g_network_is_designed_for_mass_mind_control_of/
The issues involving group violence are not about a particular thing or topic or particular set
of group values, these are opportunities, often used by Oligarchs and their corporations, in
programs the oligarch corporate thieves design and implement to weaken the collective political
strength of those the USA governs.
Tayyip Erdoğan hates these Antifa types in northern Syria, which for me is a definite
point in their favour. When Trump started ranting about Antifa, Erdoğan tried to join the
bandwagon.
The "winners" and their descendants did not think to proscribe statues emplaced by their
former foes and their descendants. Certainly there are no "winners" in these days when
you can't swing a cat at any DC society gathering or any faculty lounge anywhere and not hit a
lunatic, a lesbian, a thief, a dual-citizen, or a traveler on the Lolita Express with Frequent
Flier miles.
The hysteria about ALL statues relating in some way to the culture and history of white
people is now, oh, about 14 days old. Your reason is contrived.
Please spare me your gratuitous and reckless "American police have a brutality and racism
problem" rubbish. This is a nation of 330,000,000 people whose police forces have their hands
full in dealing with (a) soulless primitives dedicated to drug dealing, murder, rape, burglary,
and Afro-bullshit and (b) a spineless and deluded political establishment, effete academic
grifters, a hostile and screamingly dishonest press, and ever-so-admirable and oppressed
"communities" who go ballistic when dirtbag, felonious, frustrated rocket scientists in their
midst get their asses handed to them when they attack police or resist arrest.
Thousands of whites get attacked by American-Africans every year but that's just background
noise in our dishonest, moribund culture. But . . . if some trifling number of choir boys and
reformed crack whores catch a nightstick or some lead from Mr. 40mm, it's a matter for Mad
Maxine and the Reverend Al. Do you seriously think cops find what they see in black culture
inspirational?
But brilliant point about Zionist infantry in Rojava.
Too bad about those Islamophobic right-wing populists in Europe. Just more senseless haters.
The worst. How could they?
"Karl Marx, whose entire worldview was based on a material and scientific understanding of
history "
Stopped reading right here. "Scientific understanding of history"? Based on Hegelian
dialectical metaphysics, which everyone knows is the foundation of the scientific method.
@Digital Samizdat nial (and didn't understand WW III, the Cold War the libertarians brought
to an end working with Reagan, and the short WW IV mopping up the satellite petty fascist and
communist countries).
The Kurd libertarian anarchists correspond with the Libertarian International. They're
peaceful but shoot back, reading Ayn Rand, Thomas Jefferson, and Murray Bookchin. They saved
the bacon of US troops more than once. Not a peep in the US media.
Local armed libertarian fans kicked the CHAZ morons out after that kid was killed, and
escorted the police back in. It was hilarious how they punked those far-left arrogant idiots,
telling them they needed cardboard on the ground so crops would grow in a week. Meanwhile,
they're holding flash protests all over China. Again, US media not a peep.
"It was the Soviet Union alone which intervened to defend the Spanish Republic from fascism,
not the United States."
You obviously have slightly less than a Wikipedia knowledge of the Spanish Civil War. Try
reading some serious history of it and stop embarrassing yourself.
Genocide and slavery are indeed the foundations of the U.S., but we should learn from our
tragic history to grasp the equivalent injustices happening today.
Damned straight! Step 1 is to defeat the equivalent injustice acting today: the POC who
recently invaded the US as a whole and individual US States (example: the Black migration from
the South, the Asian migration to Silicon Valley/Havare { ** }) and have not only committed
genocide (examples: Detroit, Silicon Valley) but are attempting further genocide. Pretty clear
repetition of the European invasion, and if that was bad, the POC invasion now is bad.
After Step 1, the US can go on a crusade to end slavery in the present day world: Africa,
the Middle East, and India, destroying the sinful societies there. For example, the Zulu
invasion of South Africa can be rolled back, and the country given to the Afrikaners, or maybe
to the San. Difficult task, but you apparently think it necessary, and in fact the Middle
Eastern crusade is well underway.
Granted you don't want to admit your plans, and will reply with considerable smoke/snow/BS.
Makes no difference -- those are your plans, you've said so in the blockquote. At least they
have the advantage of simplicity.
Max, I think you should just admit that the dismantling of confederate statues was not long
overdue as you asserted and be done with it. It was an error on your part on an otherwise
insightful article, which I read in full. These statues belong to southern people and their
history. Don't pass judgement as to what should be done with those statues, specially don't
speak of treason. Confederate leaders did not commit treason. They lost a war for independence.
That's all.
@Stephen Paul Foster aval access to the Mediterranean. When the Royal Navy's attack on the
new central European powers came, it would have to pass through this bottleneck. And come it
would, for imperialist England was the natural enemy of the new nationalist socialist states,
whose success the British took as an existential challenge to their continental power-sharing
arrangements in western Europe and ultimately to their global empire. It was vital for German
and Italian national defense that Spain be in friendly hands for the coming clash of
ideologies. Interestingly after the war began, the treacherous Franco would refuse to allow
German troops passage through Spain for the ground assault on Gibraltar.
How many statutes have you walked past, or driven past in your lifetime? How many of them
have you stopped to actually looked at? Can you name who is on the statute without reading the
inscription? My guess is maybe one or two in the course of your life as gotten your
attention.
Statutes are just bit of history in the form artwork. You essentially want to remove art for
the benefits puffing up the intellectual balloon that sits on shoulder . Your buddies on the
left want to destroy art so as to get your fellow balloon heads to agree with them. Artwork is
destroyed or hidden. The history behind it be damned. Congratulations to all. When does the
collective lot of you hit the museums and libraries?
* The Paris Commune was established (and collapsed) in spring 1871. After 1789, yes, but . .
.
* American police have no "racism" problem. First, "racism" is a Left cant word, unworthy of
this site. Second, adjusting for the black crime rate the brutality is decidedly antiWhite, not
antiBlack. To that end Israeli training if anything SAVES lives, especially Black lives.
* "Islamophobic", likewise – just, lol. If we're attacking the US for being founded on
"genocide and slavery", what is Islam if not an ideological movement to justify an Arab
takeover of indigenous Coptic, Amazigh, Syrian, and Iranian nations who assuredly were never
clamouring to change their religions and language but by swordpoint.
@Robert M. Peters Aristocracy of "planters" were trying to own all the land and re-start
Feudalism. Jefferson's declaration of independence was life, liberty and pursuit of
property until Franklin forced it to be changed. Jefferson was a property owner who
extracted using his slaves, while Franklin saw a bigger picture he learned while administering
Philadelphia colony.
Free labor requires what the North was offering, not what the "planter feudal class" was
offering.
The British/Jewish system was (is to today) the enemy.
Today's form of feudalism is via debt mechanics (also British/Jewish) where owners are the
1% extracting from the 99%.
Thomas DiLorenzo has written much about Lincoln – the man who destroyed the
Constitution. In 2002 he wrote "The Real Lincoln," which I highly recommend. DiLorenzo just has
a new book out "The Problem with Lincoln," which I plan to read when it comes out in paperback.
His articles appear regularly on Lew Rockwell.
The protests by black lives matter and antifa are funded and backed by zionists to divide
and destroy America, a typical bolshevik/communist tactic, make no mistake we are in the midst
of a communist revolution just like the one in Russia and if they suceed, they will put we
Christians and patriots up against the wall.
To see where this is going read Alexander Solzhenitsyns Gulag Archipelago.
Collective punishment is never a suitable guiding principle in addressing social
problems
Citation needed.
I seem to remember the Germans losing World War 2 – all the Germans. The good ones,
the bad ones
Kicking jevvs out of one's country is the best solution to the jevvish problem.
Collective punishment has its place, primarily in the sort of tribal conflict Whites find
themselves in today.
(So what if only part of a tribe is attacking you and your tribe? The parts of the tribe
that aren't attacking you are still supporting the parts that are, friendly with the parts that
are, sharing the spoils with the parts that are, benefiting from the tribal relationship with
the parts that are, protected by the parts that are, etc.)
Telling Whites they must be the only ones NOT participating in identity politics is an
extremely jevvish behavior, well past its sell-by date. It is the politics of unilateral
surrender.
That's a lot of crap, and even though I support Syria, Iraq and Iran, the Kurd are a
different ethnicity and not Turkish. They haven't just moved in, as you claim. The famous Arab
hero, El Cid of the crusades who defeated the Europeans was Kurdish.
Old and Grumpy, sit in a warm bathtub and get your ducks in a row.
@Max Parry making all slaves, to which destroying the United States and thus the
Declaration of Independence and Constitution that affirmed that All men are created equal
(please spare the gender neutral point of privilege bs) endowed with inalienable rights of
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness was the aim, as the aim is today by the Deep State
Color Revolution run by the morphed British Empire against the United States
People need to study historian W. Allen Salisbury's The Civil War and the American System:
America's Battle with Britain 1860-1876 to get up to speed and subsequent writings of Lyndon
LaRouche and associates.
"Two decades ago, Seattle had been the site of the 1999 protests against the World Trade
Organization (WTO), often referred to as the 'Battle of Seattle', which saw 40,000 march
against globalization. "
I wouldn't say they are anti-globalist, they are very much for globalism, just not
CAPITALISTIC globalism.
The practice of indentured servitude lasted in the United States until the early 20th Century.
My wife's Swedish grandmother arrived in Massachusetts as an indentured servant in 1901. She
served a seven-year indenture with a prominent mill-owning family. When her indenture was over,
she moved west and married a lumberjack she had known when they both lived in the Swedish village
of Tanum. The rest is history. Really No Shit
, says:
July 8, 2020 at 6:34 pm GMT
If BLM looks in the direction of AIPAC, it will be back to the farm picking cotton again the
leadership of colored people understand that diktat very clearly!
The only "racism" problem police have is that they're being far too delicate with black
criminals. Stop buying conspiracy theories and blood libel, Max
I agree with Paul Craig Roberts that what was called a civil war was just an imperial war by
the North against the South for the Southerners had the constitutional right to secede. In a
civil war two or more parties fight for the control of the government and the Southerners had
no intention to rule the USA from Washington. They wanted to be left alone and that is a God
given right that is usually denied by interventionists such as the supporters of the " Right to
Protect".
I would add that the story about the North waging war to free slaves in Southern states is the
equivalent of the story of WMD that preceded the war on Iraq.
@Max Parry stice. The Southern economy relied on chattel slavery to produce cotton and
tobacco while the northern industrialists wanted the slaves as a source of additional cheap
factory labor.
Yes, very much so, and a truth that dare not be spoken in the United States due to it's
utterly devastating implications.
The North literally wanted to force upon a recalcitrant South it's very profitable wage
slavery acquired by way of it's adopted so called 'cheap labor'/'mass immigration'
system.
"However, the more meaningful question is what has this movement accomplished besides
recoiling the U.S. working class further away from progressive politics?"
Blackwashing any real movements that threaten the status quo (which always wears two faces)
has always been a primary objective of counter intelligence operations.
Marx, the son of an ultra wealthy Jewish family, who was allowed to marry into the tight,
inbred Rothschild family, developed his theories as a project to derail the real movements that
threatened the actual power structure. Marx was not brought up to care about either the
Proletariat or the Bourgeois. Communism was never intended to be a success for the People.
@TheJester War was in reality about slavery on both 'sides', ie the North's modern and
streamlined 'just in time' wage slavery (ie the so called 'cheap labor'/'mass
immigration' system), where all the former costs and hassles (such as old age care for the
slaves) the former chattel slave owners and dealers had had to deal with have been successfully
outsourced (ie dumped upon) the non-exploiting general public to bear, versus the South's
unseemly, antiquated, and very expensive chattel slave system.
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Slavery has never actually been abolished if you read the fine print of the Vermont
Constitution for instance, but i can tell you that escaped slaves fled to the Northern
States.
Again the Civil War was one of the American System of Economics verses British Free Trade
system to which the admission of 'Slave States' was upsetting the balance of power in Congress
to thus set the stage for protection of native interests against Free Trade dumping
policies.
Yes we have a way to go world wide as regards slavery, but note who is trying to the
stepping stones to emancipation, such as the Declaration of Independence.
Blacks have no leadership in their ostensible "leaders." Independent black thinkers like
Alan West, Walter Williams, Thomas Sowell, Larry Elder, Diamond and Silk, Deroy Murdock,
Elizabeth Wright (RIP), Candace Owens, Clarence Thomas, and others are reviled by the majority
of the blacks as Uncle Toms or house joggers. Blacks fawn over the likes of Van Jones
(communist) and Valerie Jarrett (communist father, grandfather, and father-in-law).
Black "leaders" understand nothing. Just stick it to YT is job no. one.
Today statues, tomorrow mass firings... or even worse. There's a history here.
I'm ambivalent about statues and J.K. Rowling being torn down, but terrified of the thought
process behind the destruction. Decisions should never be made by mobs.
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Is America on the edge of a cultural revolution?
The historical namesake and obvious parallel is the Cultural
Revolution in China, which lasted from 1966 to 1976. Its stated goal was to purge
capitalist and traditional elements from society, and to substitute a new way of thinking based
on Mao's own beliefs. The epic struggle for control and power waged war against anybody on the
wrong side of an idea.
To set the mobs on somebody, one needed only to tie him to an official blacklist like the
Four Olds (old customs, culture, habits, and ideas). China's young people and urban workers
formed Red Guard units to go after whomever was outed. Violence? Yes, please. When Mao launched
the movement in May 1966, he told his mobs to "bombard the headquarters" and made clear that
"to rebel is justified." He said "revisionists should be removed through violent class
struggle." The old thinkers were everywhere and were systematically trying to preserve their
power and subjugate the people.
Whetted, the mobs took the task to heart: Red Guards destroyed historical relics, statues,
and artifacts, and ransacked cultural and religious sites. Libraries were burned. Religion was
considered a tool of capitalists and so churches were destroyed -- even the Temple of Confucius
was wrecked. Eventually the Red Guards moved on to openly killing people who did not think as
they did. Where were the police? The cops were told not to intervene in Red Guard activities,
and if they did, the national police chief pardoned the Guards for any crimes.
Education was singled out, as it was the way the old values were preserved and transmitted.
Teachers, particularly those at universities, were considered the "Stinking Old Ninth" and were
widely persecuted. The lucky ones just suffered the public humiliation of shaved heads, while
others were tortured. Many were slaughtered or harassed into suicide. Schools and universities
eventually closed down and over 10 million former students were sent to the countryside to
labor under the Down to the Countryside Movement. A lost generation was abandoned to fester,
uneducated. Red Guard pogroms eventually came to include the cannibalization
of revisionists. After all, as Mao said, a revolution is not a dinner party.
The Cultural Revolution destroyed China's economy and traditional culture, leaving behind a
possible death toll ranging from one to 20 million. Nobody really knows. It
was a war on the way people think. And it failed. One immediate consequence of the
Revolution's failure was the rise in power of the military after regular people decided they'd
had enough and wanted order restored. China then became even more of a capitalist society than
it had ever imagined in pre-Revolution days. Oh well.
I spoke with an elderly Chinese academic who had been forced from her classroom and made to
sleep outside with the animals during the Revolution. She recalled forced self-criticism
sessions that required her to guess at her crimes, as she'd done nothing more than teach
literature, a kind of systematic revisionism in that it espoused beliefs her tormentors thought
contributed to the rotten society. She also had to write out long apologies for being who she
was. She was personally held responsible for 4,000 years of oppression of the masses. Our
meeting was last year, before
white guilt became a whole category on Netflix, but I wonder if she'd see now how similar
it all is.
That's probably a longer version of events than a column like this would usually feature. A
tragedy on the scale of the Holocaust in terms of human lives, an attempt to destroy culture on
a level that would embarrass the Taliban -- this topic is not widely taught in American
colleges, never mind in China.
It should be taught, because history
rhymes . Chinese students are again outing teachers, sometimes via cellphone videos, for "
improper
speech ," teaching hurtful things from the past using the wrong vocabulary. Other Chinese
intellectuals are harassed online for holding outlier positions, or lose their jobs for
teaching novels with the wrong values. Once abhorred as anti-free speech, most UC Berkeley
students would likely now agree that such steps are proper. In Minnesota, To Kill A Mockingbird
and Huckleberry Finn are
banned because fictional characters use a racial slur.
There are no statues to the Cultural Revolution here or in China. Nobody builds monuments to
chaos. But it's never really about the statues anyway. In America, we moved quickly from
demands to tear down the statues of Robert E. Lee to Thomas Jefferson to basically any
Caucasian, including "
White Jesus. "
Of course, it was never going to stop with Confederate generals because it was not really
about racism any more than the Cultural Revolution was really about capitalism. This is about
rewriting history for political ends , both short-term power grabs (Not Trump 2020!) and longer
term societal changes that one critic calls the " successor ideology ," the melange
of academic radicalism now seeking hegemony throughout American institutions. Douglas Murray is more succinct. The purpose "is to
embed a new metaphysics into our societies: a new religion." The ideas -- centered on there
being only one accepted way of thought -- are a tool of control.
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It remains to be seen where America goes next in its own nascent cultural revolution. Like
slow dancing in eighth grade, maybe nothing will come of it. These early stages, where the
victims are Uncle Ben, Aunt Jemima, someone losing her temper while walking a dog in Central
Park, and canceled celebrities, are a far cry from the millions murdered for the same goals in
China. Much of what appears revolutionary is just Internet pranking and common looting
amplified by an agendaized media. One writer
sees "cancel culture as a game, the point of which is to impose unemployment on people as a
form of recreation." B-list celebs
and Karens in the parking lot are easy enough targets. Ask the Red Guards: it's fun to break
things.
Still, the intellectual roots of our revolution and China's seem similar: the hate of the
old, the need for unacceptable ideas to be disappeared in the name of social progress,
intolerance toward dissent, violence to enforce conformity.
In America these are spreading outward from our universities so that everywhere today --
movies, TV, publishing, news, ads, sports -- is an Oberlin where in the name of free speech
"hate speech" is banned, and in the name of safety dangerous ideas and the people who hold them
are not only not discussed but canceled, shot down via the projectile of the heckler's veto,
unfriended, demonetized, deleted, de-platformed, demeaned, chased after by mobs both real and
online in a horrible blend of self-righteousness and cyber bullying. They don't believe in a
marketplace of ideas. Ideas to the mob are either right or wrong and the "wrong" ones must be
banished. The choices to survive the mobs are conformity or silence. In China, you showed
conformity by carrying around Mao's Little Red Book .
In America, you wear a soiled surgical mask to the supermarket.
The philosophical spadework for an American Cultural Revolution is done. Switch the terms
capitalism and revisionism with racism and white supremacy in some of Mao's speeches and you
have a decent speech draft for a Black Lives Matter rally. Actually, you can keep Mao's
references to destroying capitalism, as they track pretty closely with progressive thought in
2020 America.
History is not there to make anyone feel safe or justify current theories about policing.
History exists so we can learn from it, and for us to learn from it, it has to exist for us to
study it, to be offended and uncomfortable with it, to bathe in it, to taste it bitter or
sweet. When you wash your hands of an idea, you lose all the other ideas that grew to challenge
it. Think of those as antibodies fighting a disease. What happens when they are no longer at
the ready? What happens when a body forgets how to fight an illness? What happens when a
society forgets how to challenge a bad idea with a better one?
Someone finally noticed. History doesn't just rhyme, sometimes it repeats.
These people so closely following the leftist agenda ignore the fact the the security law
being jammed down the throats of semi-British people (used to a degree of freedom) in Hong
Kong is coming from a leftist group know as China. When I first went to China, in moments
away from my handlers (now "minders") new middle-class professionals told me that China would
survive as a society as long as simple freedoms were advanced. The children of those people
are now growing up in a new kind of totalitarian system,where you are "disappeared" if you
cause trouble.
Socialism does not need to be like this, but it is the way it always ends up. The people
who are burning and looting are even harder to control when they disagree with a pure
democratic government. The alternative is a representative democracy. Sound familiar?
Theosebes Goodfellow , 9 minutes ago
what is happening in the USA today is due directly to the fact that we did not teach our
children about the "Lost Generation", (how the Chinese themseves describe it), i.e., the
Chinese "Cultural Revolution".
But the Marxist-Leninist tachers, especially in colleges and universities, DO NOT want to
have to teach anything that shows Communism in a bad light. So it di not get taught.
Fortunately we have the lessons prepared for our little tykes by the late, detested Hugo
Chavez. Nothing says "Socialism/Communism Sucks". The ex-bus driver turned narco-trafficker
Maduro is just icing on the cake. You can't hide that disaster. And if you think it's bad in
Venezuela now, what until those stuck there start starvig to death. That's coming to
Venezuela next. It will, by the way, be the first time in modern history that a famine will
have struck the New World.
Now there's an accolade to lay at the feet of the collectivists.
TrustbutVerify , 10 minutes ago
The American Cultural Revolutionaries (BLM, Antifa, NFAC, etc.)...Democratic Party voters
all.
cjones1 , 10 minutes ago
Chinese families had to throw their antique furniture into the street to escape
condemnation. Many people starved if they were not given a ration ticket.
I was told that even today unmarried, pregnant woman are unable to obtain obstetric
services to deliver their baby. Their babies are not officially recognized and are often left
on street. Childless couples may adopt them or they are left for orphanages
The Democratic party has sanctioned the violent mobs in their politically correct
condemnations. It is a great irony that tge Democratic party is a Confederate memorial. The
Democratic party's legacy is slavery, racism, bigotry, segregation, lynch mobs, and the KKK
hoodlums. They have new hoodlums in Antifa, BLM, and the TDS afflicted that paint bigoted
slogans on city streets and elsewhere.
I was listening to an interview with Tucker Carlson by The Federalist last week. Great
interview, by the way. He said, and I am paraphrasing:
'During the Cultural Revolution in China, Confucius and his entire family's graves were
all dug up and desecrated. The message was clear: If they come for him, they will come for
YOU and have no problems in doing so'.
So, these statues are just objects to them. And, if you get in their way, you will just be
an object to be removed. This is all very surreal to me.....and quite frightening. I am not
one to post bravado. I am only a man. I want to harm no one and want no one to harm me.
However, the time is coming when I will be tested. It seems it will be sooner rather than
later. I hope that with my faith well grounded in God that I will endure what comes to
me.
SDShack , 8 minutes ago
Statues are monuments to history to stimulate debate among future generations what those
monuments represent. Violently erasing statues by one side, means that side admits they
cannot win the future debate. Hence they must eliminate what they perceive is the "history"
that is preventing them from winning. Violent action is almost always due to hidden
insecurity from the known inability to intellectually win an argument. It's their moment to
crap all over the chessboard and leave.
"... In 2013, the national outcry over Trayvon Martin's death and George Zimmerman's acquittal sparked a national outcry over racial injustice. Amid this controversy, three activists, Patrisse Cullors , Alicia Garza , and Opal Tometi , started a hashtag, #BlackLivesMatter, which soon went viral. They then founded the national Black Lives Matter organization. ..."
"... No doubt, the organization itself was quite radical from the very beginning. Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors described herself and fellow co-founder Alicia Garza as "trained Marxists" in a recently resurfaced video from 2015. ..."
"... The official Black Lives Matter organization is Marxist ..."
"... Such a divisive ideology only fuels perpetual conflict, not progress toward reconciliation. By failing to drive this toxic extremism out loudly and clearly from their side of the issue, the large majority of Black Lives Matter supporters -- who simply seek reform, justice, and reconciliation -- take a chainsaw to any chance of achieving common ground and consensus. ..."
n Monday night, Terry Crews was grilled over his criticism of Black Lives Matter by CNN host
Don Lemon. As Gina Bontempo pointed out on Twitter : "Don
Lemon did everything he could to talk over Terry and silence him as soon as they started
approaching what the BLM organization is *really* about."
So what is Black Lives Matter really about?
Many conservatives insist Black Lives Matter is a Marxist, anti-police, radical organization
that wants to tear down America . Meanwhile, most liberals simply view Black Lives Matter as a
heroic movement and powerful slogan signaling support for racial justice and opposition to
police brutality.
Both are right.
There is Black Lives Matter™️, and there is "black lives matter."
Black Lives Matter as a broad sentiment and movement then gained national attention and name
recognition after the 2014 deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown. Meanwhile, the official
group expanded and many more local chapters formed.
No doubt, the organization itself was quite radical from the very beginning. Black Lives
Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors described herself and fellow co-founder Alicia Garza as
"trained Marxists" in a recently
resurfaced video from 2015.
"We actually do have an ideological frame[work]," Cullors said
of her organization. "We are trained Marxists. We are super-versed on, sort of, ideological
theories."
Meanwhile, the national organization's official
platform , published in 2015, contained a specific call to "[disrupt] the
Western-prescribed nuclear family structure."
At the local level, official Black Lives Matter chapters are essentially far-left front
groups that use racial justice as a Trojan horse for leftist policy and ideology. For example,
the official organization Black Lives Matter DC openly dedicates itself to "creating the conditions
for Black Liberation through the abolition of systems and institutions of white supremacy,
capitalism, patriarchy and colonialism."
Image credit: Johnny Silvercloud, Flickr
Unsurprisingly, conservatives have bashed the radical group en masse.
"Black Lives Matter is an openly Marxist, anti-America n group," conservative commentator
Mark Levin said . "There's no denying
it. And it is fully embraced by the Democrat Party and its media and cultural
surrogates."
"Black Lives Matter is a Marxist movement," Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz tweeted . "Black Lives
Matter is not about police, it's not about race, it's not about justice. It's about making us
hate America so they can replace America."
"You know, I know plenty of people who are for Black Lives Matter. A lot of them are nice
people," Fox News Host Tucker Carlson
recently said . "I'm not mad at them. I disagree I think Black Lives Matter is
poison."
These kinds of conservative criticisms of Black Lives Matter are widespread. And on one
hand, they're right : The official Black Lives Matter organization is Marxist, is anti-American
in its values, and its views are rightfully alarming to anyone who believes in the
Constitution, capitalism, and civil society as we know it.
But in applying their reflexive response to all Black Lives Matter supporters, conservative
critics are failing to see the forest for the trees.
Most of these people, I suspect, don't even know that there is an official Black Lives
Matter organization. And I'm sure hardly any of them could name Patrisse Cullors or Alicia
Garza.
Whether it's where I'm from in deep-blue Massachusetts or where I live now in Washington
D.C., walking by a Black Lives Matter sign sticking out from someone's yard is just about an
everyday occurrence. After the death of George Floyd, more of my acquaintances, friends, and
relatives than I could count posted #BlackLivesMatter.
Many others changed their picture to a black square or otherwise signaled their support for
the movement.
I can personally guarantee you that the vast majority of these people, while liberal, do not
support ending capitalism or dismantling the family. Conservatives are led astray as soon as
they apply their (valid) criticisms of Black Lives Matter™️ the organization to
the Black Lives Matter movement and its supporters broadly.
Image Credit: John Lucia, Flickr
Just look at the way some on the Right responded to Sen. Mitt Romney after he attended a
Washington, D.C. protest against police brutality, telling reporters he did so "to make sure
that people understand that Black Lives Matter."
Here's a sampling of how hostile the response was from some conservative pundits on
Twitter:
Even President Trump attacked Romney over it:
No matter how you feel about the conservative Mormon senator politically (and I'm far from a
fan), no one can credibly argue that Romney supports destroying the nuclear family, ending
capitalism, or abolishing the police.
Meanwhile, Sen. Mike Braun of Indiana faced a similar unfair backlash when he announced his
support for Black Lives Matter and
unveiled a modest police reform proposal :
It may well be true that in particular conservative circles, everyone is well aware of the
obscure history of the Black Lives Matter founders' Marxist roots. But the average person on
the street and the average person who shares the hashtag are most certainly not. And the
movement itself has become something much bigger, broader, and more benevolent than the
original organization.
However, it's by no means just conservatives who err in their approach to Black Lives
Matter. For one, many on the Left fail to acknowledge at all the Marxist roots of the official
Black Lives Matter organization, and thus, paint anyone who objects to the organization as
racist, unthinkingly inveighing: "How could anyone not support black lives?" This kind of
clever naming of a controversial movement, similar to "Antifa" supposedly standing for
"anti-fascist," makes it easy to baselessly paint critics as extreme and immoral. Yet this is a
reductive oversimplification that serves only to divide.
So, too, much of the blame for the Black Lives Matter perception gap lies with liberals,
Democrats, and others who support the movement for failing to adequately distance themselves
from the radical organization.
For example, I visited one of my favorite coffee shops in Arlington, Virginia over the
weekend. Like many a hipster coffee shop, it had a Black Lives Matter sign in the window and
had a fundraiser going on for the cause as well. But I was dismayed to read the flyer and
notice that the proceeds of the fundraiser were going to the official Black Lives Matter DC
organization -- yes, the same one that openly wants to abolish capitalism.
Now, I highly doubt that the owners of this coffee shop, even if they are progressives or
Democrats, actually support Marxism. More importantly, I'm certain that most customers who
donated, even in the liberal-leaning neighborhood, do not realize they are donating to a
Marxist, anti-American revolutionary organization by participating in the fundraiser. But they
are.
Many a mainstream liberal has signaled support for the generic "black lives matter" cause by
sharing fundraisers that, if you look closely, go to official Black Lives Matter organizations
that do not actually represent their views. Meanwhile, liberal-leaning media outlets such as MSNBC
regularly platform official members of the Marxist Black Lives Matter movement and pass the
radical activists off as within the mainstream.
From corporations to politicians to random Facebook users, Black Lives Matter supporters
need to do a much better job distancing themselves from the radical organization at the root of
their slogan. (Or, alternatively, they should come up with a new and different slogan that
doesn't have such malign associations.)
This lack of due diligence is lazy and irresponsible, but more importantly, it's
dangerous.
Marxism is a vicious ideology, and it's one that is rooted in a divisive vision of
irreconcilable class conflict. As important economist Ludwig von Mises
noted ,
"According to the Marxian view... human society is organized into classes whose interests stand
in irreconcilable opposition." Moreover, as Mises explains ,
Marxists believe that people's very thoughts ought to be determined by their class and that
those who differ from the prescribed worldview are class traitors.
Such a divisive ideology only fuels perpetual conflict, not progress toward reconciliation.
By failing to drive this toxic extremism out loudly and clearly from their side of the issue,
the large majority of Black Lives Matter supporters -- who simply seek reform, justice, and
reconciliation -- take a chainsaw to any chance of achieving common ground and consensus.
When Don Lemon took issue with Terry Crews's take on Black Lives Matter, Crews was
crystal clear , saying, "This is the
thing. It's a great mantra. It's a true mantra. Black lives do matter. But, when you're talking
about an organization, you're talking about the leaders, you're talking about the people who
are responsible for putting these things together. It's two different things."
We need more of that kind of clarity in our discourse. Right now, the debate over "Black
Lives Matter" is muddled and confused. Liberals and conservatives alike need to make an effort
to listen and understand the other side's perspective, not the strawman caricature of it used
as a punching bag in partisan echo chambers. Until both sides take the time to understand each
other, we will keep talking past each other -- and any real progress or harmony will remain a
fantasy.
snedly arkus, comment 121, starts off interesting and then descends into typical
anti-communist lunacy. Really sad to see how bourgeois psyops of the 20th century still have
victims.
BLM is Marxist? I wish. I'm not sure why conservatives think tarring anything and
everything that they find themselves in opposition to as "communist" or "Marxist" does
anything other than increase interest in these ideas among those being tarred, who weren't
Marxist to begin with but who are all of a sudden being turned on to scientific socialism.
You realize they have access to the primary texts, right? They can read Capital for
themselves and find out, for themselves, that it is the greatest economics textbook ever
written, to this day, and that it and it alone provides a foundation for a scientific
understanding of capitalist political economy. That's my story, at least. I have the Tea
Party to thank for the fact that I'm a Marxist, and I never would have found out about Marx
if they didn't make the laughable claim that President Obama was one of his acolytes.
Go to BLM's homesite and you will find their mission statement. It clearly says the
movement was founded and grounded in Marxist thought, with a side of identity-politics (in
this case, a trio of black lezbians who say Marxism ultimately stems from Queer-theory, or
vice versa, I forget).
Irrespective of whether their proposed iteration of Marxist thought is intrinsically
correct is the question, of course.
I absolutely concur however, with "Republicans", that their methodology with their action
is indeed intrinsically Marxist, because it involves the putting aside of dialectics and
philosophy with the intention of clear material ends in mind. Whether or not they themselves
are able to articulate these ends is another matter.
You made me link and look. There might be some claim there that BLM is Marxist, I can't
find it quickly and the site is such a disaster it's not worth the trouble.
Their site is slightly larger than last time I looked. Still dominated by t-shirt sales
and vague LGBTQ mush. They need a web page designer and editor badly. What is most notable is
a total absence of content. Vague is too nice. Supposedly a huge organization with a big
budget, nothing to show for it. Purposely set up so you can't find out anything. My guess
would be the site is managed from a cubicle at Langley, with instructions to the
clerk-in-charge to keep it simple, keep it impenetrable. This is not a popular movement in
any sense at all.
There is "BLM", the mass movement which resembles a network of contentious and largely
autonomous activist circles (i.e., there is no central leadership), and then there is "BLM" a
501c-something organization that exists for young middle class "people of color" to get some
activist credentials that look good on applications to elite colleges. I'm guessing you're
talking about the latter, but conservatives confuse that (maybe deliberately) for the
former.
thanks fnord.... unfortunately many people don't make these distinctions and some are not
interested in making them either... i wonder how the black panther party would have done in
this day and age? as it was they were infiltrated by the cia-fbi and made to appear
completely different then their mandate, but of that no one will be reporting on
factually...
NemesisCalling @152: "I merely stated that their [BLM] methodology is akin to any
Marxist movement."
Really? I totally missed where BLM was organizing tenant associations, labor unions, and
farmers' associations. Thanks for cluing me in on the fact they were doing these things!
I stated that their methodology is the same, not their mission statement. I have said
since the beginning of these shenanigans that their intent isn't to cast a light on our
current neoliberal plight. Then they would have to admit that whites are just as affected as
they are. And these racially divisive tactics must stand!
They view themselves as the historically oppressed class where only government
intervention (in this case, getting rid of POTUS) will ensure their material ascension into
"mattering." At least they looked at the Marxist playbook, eh?
They are gathering up the feeble-minded and guilt-ridden whites among us as their
vanguard. To what end?...obviously to get Uncle Joe to help them out.
But you can't see how x can be subbed for y in this case?
If you say American history has been building to a point where black lives can finally
matter if only we do...*static* *garble* *warble*...then everything will be ok, but we have
to make sure that we...*hiss* *static* *hiss*. Do you understand?
If we are talking about the material ascension of a historically victimized class of
people, we are talking about the Marxist-playbook.
But in this case, you are right...it walks like a duck, it talks like a duck, but it isn't
a duck.
The BLM looks like an intrinsically American phenomenon (racial wars, the unsettled racial
question, etc. etc.). They don't look Marxist at all.
But your point highlights us a potentially interesting information: the hidden fear
Americans of from the post-2008 era have of communism.
After 2008, the word "socialism" suddenly came to forefront, as if from nowhere, in the
USA. This must certainly have generated a timor among the traditional American
population.
From your comment historic here in this blog, you seem to be highly susceptible to
conspiracy theories. The fact that you don't doubt an American is Marxist merely from the
fact he/she states she's Marxist gives us a sign Americans like you have a deep respect and
fear for the term.
Are Americans really afraid of a communist revolution happening in their own soil?
Of course I am worried about Marxist infiltration. I am a Catholic. I want as little
government as possible. And, furthermore, this is America. It is not a potential Marxist
utopia and will never be one except by the barrel of a gun, but in that case you will have
100 million+ guns pointed right back atcha.
I respect Marxism for its contributions to the laborer's plight. But I also respect
Marxism for its ability to destroy western philosophy. But the Magna Carta, the Declaration
of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, these were all brought forth long
before Marx and they are enough to work off.
The CCP has a polluted form of Hegelianism, which is the absolute knowledge of Hegel's
Logic, or the ability to project such knowledge in its appearance. It is a powerful force on
the world stage. And I do not underestimate it.
We Americans have room, liberty, and faith.
I respect China in its natural traditions and feel that the CCP can do wonders for its
people if it ceases the world dominance aspect of its Hegelian-Marxism and return to the
teachings of the Tao Te Ching and stay within its lanes.
Is it too late to call it a draw and avoid the bloodshed? I hope so, but *shakes
8-ball*..."outlook grim."
"Will Europeans shy away from the Outlaw US Empire's determination to fail, see the rising
East as their future savior, and abandon their chosen Neoliberal path for it's not too
late?"
I'm wondering, karlof1, whether our oligarchs in the US might themselves see the writing
on the wall, (as well as the Europeans if not before them) simply as this country and those
become so crippled by what is happening thanks to the remorseless onslaught of the covid
virus, that all pretenses of having an 'economy' fly out the window. This came to my mind as
I looked at a photo on another site of a group of protesters advancing with pitchforks on NY
Hamptons estates. The pitchforks turned out to be plastic, but the headline did not say that,
and had I been on or near such a happening, the mere fact that they could have been real but
were not, would have given me considerable pause.
There has been a flexibility about protests in the past, a large amount of goodwill on the
part of protesters while enduring the state's inflexibility. That, it seems to me, is going
to change.
The pitchforks may not remain plastic much longer. Desperate times make for desperate
people. Surely a modicum of self preservation resides in the hearts of the well to do. They
have the power to change course, but time's running out.
The answer is "not always" due to existence of "What the matter with Kansas" effect.
People can and do vote against their economic interests, although this is more common for
lower strata of population then for the elite.
This is the essence of the current play by the Neoliberal Democrats. Mike Whitney pointed
out that their support of black population is just a tactical trick:
The protests are largely a diversion aimed at shifting the public's attention to a
racialized narrative that obfuscates the widening inequality chasm (created by the Democrats
biggest donors, the Giant Corporations and Wall Street) to historic antagonisms that have
clearly diminished over time. (Racism ain't what it used to be.)
The Democrats are resolved to set the agenda by deciding what issues "will and will not"
be covered over the course of the campaign. And– since race is an issue on which they
feel they can energize their base by propping-up outdated stereotypes of conservatives as
ignorant bigots incapable of rational thought– the Dems are using their media clout to
make race the main topic of debate.
In short, the Democrats have settled on a strategy for quashing the emerging populist
revolt that swept Trump into the White House in 2016 and derailed Hillary's ambitious grab
for presidential power.
The plan, however, does have its shortcomings
Let's be clear, the Democrats do not support Black Lives Matter nor have they made any
attempt to insert their demands into their list of police reforms. BLM merely fits into the
Dems overall campaign strategy which is to use race to deflect attention from the gross
imbalance of wealth that is the unavoidable consequence of the Dems neoliberal policies
including outsourcing, off-shoring, de-industrialization, free trade and trickle down
economics. These policies were aggressively promoted by both Bill Clinton and Barack Obama as
they will be by Joe Biden if he is elected. They are the policies that have gutted the
country, shrunk the middle class, and transformed the American dream into a dystopian
nightmare.
They are also the policies that have given rise to, what the pundits call, "right wing
populism" which refers to the growing number of marginalized working people who despise
Washington and career politicians, feel anxious about falling wages and dramatic demographic
changes, and resent the prevailing liberal culture that scorns their religion and patriotism.
This is Trump's mainly-white base, the working people the Democrats threw under the bus 30
years ago and now want to annihilate completely by deepening political polarization, fueling
social unrest, pitting one group against another, and viciously vilifying them in the media
as ignorant racists whose traditions, culture, customs and even history must be obliterated
to make room for the new diversity world order. Trump touched on this theme in a speech he
delivered in Tulsa. He said:
"Our nation is witnessing a merciless campaign to wipe out our history, defame our
heroes, erase our values and indoctrinate our children. Angry mobs are trying to tear down
statues of our founders, deface our most sacred memorials and unleash a wave of violent
crime in our cities."
He then went off the rail, but still the part of his analysis reproduced above looks pretty
prescient.
The Dems realized it was far more profitable to have rich corporations and recent immigrants as their base then the
working and middle classes. Anyway these whites are just too religious for them. So they have, since Clinton's election,
given them lip service, similar to what they do to the African Americans. The problem is that they forgot to throw them a
bone, and Trump came along saying what they have wanted to hear. Dems now have realized they need to censor conservative talk
and expand their constant criticism of it. But things have changed and their desperate attempts to get rid of Trump have
failed. Mail in ballets seem to increase their likelihood of winning in the fall. I am wondering what the next disruption
that they will try is. You know there will be something. I also don't understand their choice of Biden. Senility aside he is
a deeply flawed candidate.
They got their Trojan Horse in the White House and want to keep him there. Running
Demented Joe against him and doing crazy stuff like BLM /Defund Police and Russia Gate,
ensures Trump stays in. Israel Team 8 Tech companies will make sure there are no surprises.
Cyrus cant lose.
Its all Fake Wrestling, they are just following the script.
Before George Floyd's body was even cold I knew the blob was going to use the incident to
instigate civil unrest using institutionalized racism as the vector. That was the easy part.
The hard part is guessing at what the blob will do next?, and here is a good guess:
Our fear is that what we're seeing is an emerging Axis–the CIA, the DNC, and the
elite media– all using their respective powers to terminate the Constitutional
Republic and establish permanent, authoritarian one-party rule. As far-fetched as it might
sound, the country appears to be slipping inexorably towards tyranny.
Here's how General Michael Flynn summed up what's going on on in a recent article:"There
is now a small group of passionate people working hard to destroy our American way of
life".
The Dems since Clinton represent bigger corporations but both parties are thoroughgoing
business ones, and neither is interested in the plight of the working class being driven
down.
The Republican party is essentially the same as the Dems when it comes to advocating
global comparative advantage with nation states restricted to culture issues . So
unable to do anything on the economic front, politically disgruntled young are attacking the
unfortified cultural superstructure, which is a clever strategy because it has turned out to
be the Achilles Heel of the whole system, of which the CIA is but a part.
As far-fetched as it might sound, the country appears to be slipping inexorably towards
tyranny
Backlash a la Thermidor then confrontation with the external enemy (China) would be
my prediction. Again, the economic front is impregnable, so there will have to be another way
to halt China, which is in cahoots with US business. A nation state is a living thing that
will act so as to survive. Its beating the domestic business system, and soon it will settle
accounts with China and the global system of comparative advantage.
We are in the stages of becoming a country with a terribly small wealthy class playing the
stock market at one end and a vast population sinking into conditions we never dreamed .
Take your pick a one party system with two factions ! The ruling elites refuse to address
the root
causes behind these protests, the more they loot the Treasury to enrich themselves and their
fellow oligarchs,the more they engage in futile and absurd efforts to deflect blame, the more
unrest will spread.
The last desperate resort by the oligarchs to save themselves will be to stoke the fires
of racialized violence between disenfranchised whites and disenfranchised people of
color.
When Saddam Hussein's statue was pulled down in Baghdad, Amerikastanis cheered it as a
Very Good Thing.
When the statues of the leaders of the Great October Socialist Revolution were pulled down
by the Quisling Yeltsinite regime in Russia, Amerikastanis cheered it as a Very Good
Thing.
When statues of Soviet soldiers who liberated Eastern Europe from the Nazi hordes were
defaced and removed, Amerikastanis cheered it as a Very Good Thing.
Now when the same thing happens at home, Amerikastanis whine.
Dear Amerikastanis: with all due disrespect, to hell with your statues. And to hell with
you.
Our fear is that what we're seeing is an emerging Axis–the CIA, the DNC, and the
elite media– all using their respective powers to terminate the Constitutional
Republic
The Constitutional Government is long gone. The founding fathers insisted it rested on the
"consent of the governed" which democrats and republicans alike consider a joke.
The Nixon-Carter period was crucial; when the dollar was left to float and industries
began to hollow out, less because of outsourcing than because of loading our "trading
partners" such as Japan have unfair, subsidized advantages to break the American standard of
living.
But there's not doubt the CIA (by that meaning all the agencies) and the DNC/media
(there's no real separation visible to the naked eye) is real.
Kevin Phillips had this nailed while Carter was still president. He referred to it as "the
permanent establishment" meaning the people who are in powerful agency positions whichever
party wins. They might be called the deep state now but there's no effective difference. The
permanent establishment didn't like Dick Nixon and whittled away at him till he was gone.
Same now with Trump.
Present trends will continue till they have to hold the several thousand counties of the
USA with infantry brought home from Zionist wars. My guess is at least a good number will
join their fellow citizens, and neither voting nor propaganda will matter anymore.
"an insurrection against the nation's lawful authority is sedition, a felony that is
punishable by imprisonment or death. Perhaps, the junta leaders should consider the
possible consequences of their actions before they make their next move."
No consideration is required, the "junta leaders" are safer than a newborn in her mother's
arms, because of a component you overlooked: the "emerging Axis" isn't just the CIA, the DNC,
and the elite media, it's also the judiciary.
Mike Whitney – excellent article. There's nothing I would disagree with.
The only addition I would add is that many Republicans knew that Russiagate was a hoax
too, and yet let Trump twist in the wind. They did not strongly object to the impeachment
hearings, etc. Maybe they realized they couldn't fight the media? I don't know. Devin Nunes,
Jim Jordan and Matt Gaetz did a great job of trying to uncover the truth, though.
So both sides of the aisle are as corrupt as you can get and both sides would like to see
the outsider, Trump, run out of town on the next train. The politicians are no longer
beholden to the people. They are only beholden to their globalist corporate benefactors, and
they take orders well.
This is a fight between the globalists and the nationalists, and the globalists are
playing hardball. The globalists want Trump gone. China is playing hardball too because they
don't want to see the game end either. Globalism has been good for them.
Trump wrote his own inaugural speech, and if you listen to that again you will see what
his hopes and dreams for the American people were. He didn't have to say those things because
he had already won the election, but he did say them. He's just been hounded from day one by
the Democrats, and he hasn't been given much backing by the Republicans.
I think if Trump were given a second chance, he actually might be able to get something
done. He'd certainly have nothing to lose this time. The "people" must get behind him because
the politicians, flush with corporate campaign donations, sure as hell aren't going to.
But it's a given that if Biden gets elected, globalism will pick up steam and a one-world
government will be straight ahead. You can kiss the country good-bye.
Arson, looting, and violence. Ferocious rioting. Vandals. Nihilism of extremists,
objective of destruction. Havoc and teror.
Knock it off with the girly pearl-clutching for fuck's sake.
The title of this article is very good but you're hyperventilating it all away. Next
you'll be histrionically mourning the lost legacy of our Hittite forefathers and the great
lawgivers of Çatalhöyük. That's our precious collective history too, and
it's about as relevant.
The statutes are detritus of the Ancien Régime, curios of modest antiquarian
interest. The central fact of US civilization is, as you note, CIA totalitarianism. Opposed
to that is world civilization. The Lenins and Trotskys of this revolution are invoking world
civilization with People-Centered Human Rights. And the protesters, or rebels, or vandals, or
Mongolian hordes or whatever label it is now, are propagating PCHR in concerted educational
efforts for the assembled citizens. That's not nihilism, that's a long-overdue update of a
degenerate regime. It doesn't burn down nearly enough police stations to suit me, but these
guys are doing the heavy lifting of recourse to rebellion for us all, so I'm not in a
position to complain. Neither can you.
It's not just the Democrats. CIA controls Republicans too, you know. CIA enforces a
precise division of labor: Democrats absorb and destroy reform initiatives; Republicans
menace passive Democrat-affiliated masses. That's exactly what's going on now, as always.
Same old bullshit with a little extra melodrama at the middle-class Easter parades that pass
for politics in this atavistic backwater. The real work is education and organization of the
assembled rebels. You're not paying enough attention to that.
It's certainly true that CIA's doing all they can to get us fighting each other instead of
our common enemy, which is them. But we're not slipping toward tyranny, we've lived under
arbitrary lawless tyranny since 1947, when CIA was chartered with impunity, in case you
haven't noticed. And we are fed up. Cheer up, this is a good start.
"The main goal is to suppress and demonize Trump's political base which is comprised of
mainly white working class people who have been adversely impacted by the Democrats
disastrous free trade and immigration policies."
I'm sympathetic to much of what you say, but this is laughable. The speech was written by
Mr. Bannon and/or Mr. Miller.
And none of the three believed (or, in the President's case, understood) a word of it. It
was all part of the puppet show, where you still sit, transfixed by Beltway politics,
rationalizing another vote for more of the same.
Go back and read Linh Dinh's June 12, 2016, article seeing through and to it all.
Frankly, the sheer scale of the protests and rioting around the nation is unprecedented
and tends to resemble color revolutions that the CIA stages in other countries. It's probably
a safe assumption that elements of the CIA have their fingerprints all over this. There won't
be evidence because they always cover their tracks and engage in plausible deniability.
The communist long march through the institutions and government bureaucracy is now
complete and IMO if I were president I would use the military to smash the CIA, FBI, the
university system and last but not least the Democrat party. Many billionaires also deserve
the hangman's noose since they are using their vast wealth to fundamentally transform the
nation if not overthrow it entirely.
America is in the throes of a violent insurrection and said organizations or individuals
are either aiding and abetting it or actively taking part.
There is not much "real" left in the the USA. Usually what we see is just different flavors
of far right and right.
Money quote: "Ah, for the good old days when lefties could be treated as a deluded minority rather than a vanguard party of
globalist imperialists. pl"
Notable quotes:
"... As Johnstone recounts, after the Cold War liberals became bewitched by the prospect of waging wars for humanitarian ends. A generation of journalists and foreign policy experts including Samantha Power, Christiane Amanpour, Jamie Rubin, and Christopher Hitchens, would make the Balkans a proving ground for their liberal theories of preventative war, in the process throwing the ancient and venerable tradition of St. Augustine’s Just War theory on the trash heap and paving the way for what was to follow in the coming decades, including Iraq II, Libya, Syria and a global drone war and a “targeted” assassination program." ..."
"... In other words we are seeing the tight squeezing of the New Democrats (Wall-Street, Tech, humanitarian intervention) by the radical left (Green New Deal, UBI) and by the angry Trumpists. ..."
"... Samantha Power is Irish bred and London born. She was schooled in Dublin till her mother emigrated to the US. Christiane Amanpour is British-Iranian. As far as I can determine she never has had US citizenship. ..."
"... WTF were they smoking when they decided to promote war to secure human rights??? So why did we let these halfwits in the country? ..."
"... Kerry seems is the perfect example of Democrats’ hypocritical ‘opposition’ to pointless and futile wars. Not that anybody remembers, but it was the liberal Bill Clinton who went to war in Yugoslavia and defanged the anti-war wing of the party. After Clinton Democrats only raised their voices against Republican wars and now have taken to criticizing Trump for not being belligerent enough!!! ..."
"... The same white men who stood three years ago Charlottesville to prevent the toppling of statues could be the backbone of a new anti-war movement ..."
"... The New York Times is not revolutionary, not by a very long shot. Neither are all the big corporations and foundations who've donated generously to the cause of BLM. ..."
"... America is not in the middle of a revolution — it is a reactionary putsch. About four years ago, the sort of people who had acquired position and influence as a result of globalisation were turfed out of power for the first time in decades. They watched in horror as voters across the world chose Brexit, Donald Trump and other populist and conservative-nationalist options. ..."
"... The essential idea is that neither the non Trump wing of the American establishment (more properly Global establishment still anchored tenuously in DC) nor the Trump wing want the voters to discuss the economy - it's too hot a subject. ..."
"... Way too hot since the financial crisis of 2007-08 followed the working class jobs overseas and south of the border in the 90s and inequality exceeded that of the gilded age. No. But they will discuss racism (and gender). It divides the country further than ever, deflects focus on wealth disparity (the establishment has no intention of ever equalizing wealth even a bit) and presto - gives corporate America and media a new policing tool in the form of mandatory workshops and summary job dismissals even more unsubstantiated than many of those with #MeToo. It enhances the academic totalitarians of political correctness with corporate / employer totalitarianism of "learn your inclusivity lessons reeducation camp" or else. Unions disappeared long ago and now this. ..."
"... Yes the stupidity is ominous. They act as though there is no potential for repurcussion. It's very peculiar. ..."
As Johnstone recounts, after the Cold War liberals became bewitched by the prospect of waging wars for humanitarian ends.
A generation of journalists and foreign policy experts including Samantha Power, Christiane Amanpour, Jamie Rubin, and
Christopher Hitchens, would make the Balkans a proving ground for their liberal theories of preventative war, in the process
throwing the ancient and venerable tradition of St. Augustine’s Just War theory on the trash heap and paving the way for what
was to follow in the coming decades, including Iraq II, Libya, Syria and a global drone war and a “targeted” assassination
program."
This is a serious article addressing a serious problem. If the "left" sells out on war
issues as they have done the last 20 years or so, there is no pushback against the permanent
war system. Those one-time leftists who have sold out are no longer really leftists,
especially once they are relying on the corrupt permanent spy state for their information and
support.
Interesting and correct observation. Allow me to throw in my own two cents with regards to
the rise of what is defined as the "anti-Anti War left". I should note that there are eerily
similar parallels between the rise of the New Left in the 60s that was the mix of socialist
democrats, sexual revolutionaries, flower-power hippies, anti-imperialist/anti-war activists,
and identitarianists (Huey Netwon, Cesar Chavez, MLK) etc. and today's BLM, Antifa, 'woke'
types, third-gen feminists, broke millennials.
While the former's rise in the Democratic
Party led to the exodus of Neoconservatives (former Trotskyists, Socialist and Marxists) to
the Conservative movement, the latter is also moving the New Democrats to the Right, but the
problem is that the current Political Right is mostly controlled by the Trumpists so these
New Democrat types (Pelosi, Schumer, Schiff, Menendez, Biden etc.) are stuck between a hard
place and a rock.
In other words we are seeing the tight squeezing of the New Democrats
(Wall-Street, Tech, humanitarian intervention) by the radical left (Green New Deal, UBI) and
by the angry Trumpists.
Just to give you one example, last week a prototype New Democrat and long time congressman
(since 89) Elliot Engel of NY who fits well into this definition was defeated handily in the
NY-16 primaries by the Democratic Socialists of America endorsed candidate, Jamal Bowman. Mr.
Bowman, an African American is ideologically very similar to AOC, Tlaib, and Omar.
He won on
a platform of foreign policy endorsed by the left-zionists (ex-labor zionists) against the
likudnik right-wing zionist of Engles' which is very interesting since, Engel has been known
for his hawkish views on foreign policy and extremely pro-Israel and chaired the House
Foreign Affairs Committee recently.
Recently Sanders and the Democratic Socialists expressed their opposition to Bibi's
planned annexation of West-bank and adjacent Palestinian enclaves and threatened to to
cut-off the military aid to Israel if Bibi moved on with his plan.
Domestically, there are several seats up for re-election and especially two in Georgia and
Arizona Senate whose ppointed Republican candidates are in very shaky grounds versus their
democratic challengers. What is clear is that the New Democrat platforms are no longer
popular by the Democratic base and given recent events, it can be safely said that either the
most law and order and Trumpian candidates will win or the Democratic socialists endorsed
ones. So another problem for the New Dems.
Judging by my observation, the current trend is the alliance between the NeverTrumpers
(The Lincoln project, The Right Pac) like Bill Kristol and the
Reagan-to-Bush-43-neoconservatives (most of whom were Reagan Democrats in the late 70s and
80s themselves so nothing new for them) to push Trump out of office in their view before the
RNC in Aug and to make room for the New Democrats and also to restore their previous 20+
years of reigning over the Republican Party. If their plan becomes successful, in the post
2020 election we will see a political configuration resembling the 90s and early 2000s with
one major difference which is the introduction of several, in my opinion less that 10 seats
in the House reserved for the far-Left socialist Democrats.
And in terms of Foreign policy, everyone will get happy and the Blob/Borg think tank class
in D.C. will see business as usual as the Democratic Socialists will be "persuaded" to team
up with the New Democrats with regards to sending Troops to conduct humanitarian intervention
abroad (i.e. the Powell Doctrine) in exchange for domestic welfare programs, the
NeverTrumpers and the Republican hawks (Cotton, Graham, Rubio, Cruz, etc.) will have war
plans already written for them at AEI, Hudson and Heritage that focuses on China with the
help of the New Democrats and probably the Far-left.
Samantha Power is Irish bred and London born. She was schooled in Dublin till her mother
emigrated to the US. Christiane Amanpour is British-Iranian. As far as I can determine she
never has had US citizenship. Christopher Hitchens is English born, never visited America
unti he was 32. And even then kept his British citizenship for another 26 years, only
becoming a US citizen in 2007. Probably to take advantage of favorable US income tax on his
book earnings.
WTF were they smoking when they decided to promote war to secure human rights??? So why
did we let these halfwits in the country?
Seems to me we are better off by letting in a few more Sikh farmers from India or more
wannabee restaurant owners from Ethiopia. Or maybe even more wannabee bodega empresarios from
south of our border.
Anyone remember John Kerry, who criticized the anti-war movement and enlisted and served
in Vietnam, only to opportunistically turn against the war. As long as the winds blew
anti-war, he continued to posture that way. Then he reversed course, maybe sensing an SOS
opportunity, and voted for the War in Iraq, meanwhile posturing against it on the grounds
that it wasn’t being fought right!
Kerry seems is the perfect example of Democrats’ hypocritical
‘opposition’ to pointless and futile wars. Not that anybody remembers, but it was
the liberal Bill Clinton who went to war in Yugoslavia and defanged the anti-war wing of the
party. After Clinton Democrats only raised their voices against Republican wars and now have
taken to criticizing Trump for not being belligerent enough!!!
The "anti-antiwar left" is of course an oxymoron. In reality, they are neo-McCarthyites,
neocons, and Israel-firsters. Nothing new. They were never leftists to begin with and
certainly never will be.
To add onto the comments by Polish Janitor regarding Jamaal Bowman, I have this to say.
Just like AOC, he'll cuck out to Israel. He'll take the money and he'll probably take that
"educational" trip to Israel as well. While he's there, would anyone be surprised if he had a
hot time with some honey pie and they got him on Kodak? They'll only drop hints about the
stick, in the meantime, they'll be stuffing his face with carrots as he comes around to the
Zionist agenda.
The same white men who stood three years ago Charlottesville to prevent the toppling of
statues could be the backbone of a new anti-war movement, if only conservatives weren't
afraid of being called 'racist' by people who hate them anyway.
To better get one's bearings regarding what's going on I highly recommend this Spectator
article to the committee. Although BLM and other nefarious types referred to as Antifa
certainly do pass the anarchist test and Marxist test it's critical the committee understand
that the whole thing is being managed by a wing of the establishment.
The New York Times is
not revolutionary, not by a very long shot. Neither are all the big corporations and
foundations who've donated generously to the cause of BLM.
Editorial talents at NYT
instigated the wholesale rewriting of American history over a year ago with their fraudulent
1619 project which says American history began in that year with the importation of African
slaves.
But it's real thesis is that the revolution of 1776 (an inspiration to people
everywhere), was not undertaken to free the thirteen colonies from the tyranny of King
George - no - it was done for the sole reason of perpetuation of slavery because Washington
and other colonial land owners feared that the institution of slavery would be made illegal
by their then British overlords. I kid you not.
The NY Times. Pure revisionism of the worst
sort. But the ends which this revisionism serve, as do the subsequent BLM riots and mindless
iconoclasms, are revealed in this piece:
(This Revolution isn't What it Looks Like). Here's a brief excerpt - it's a management
device. Matt Taibbi has a treatment nearly as good but too diffuse and witty for these
purposes, under the title "Year Zero" on his blog, but it is behind a paywall. Many
illustrative exames though.
Spectator first few paragraphs..
Bear with this. What they're doing is designed to infuriate and disable critical
understanding as they proceed to carry the day in real time.
QUOTE:
America is not in the middle of a revolution — it is a reactionary putsch. About
four years ago, the sort of people who had acquired position and influence as a result of
globalisation were turfed out of power for the first time in decades. They watched in horror
as voters across the world chose Brexit, Donald Trump and other populist and
conservative-nationalist options.
This deposition explains the storm of unrest battering American cities from coast to coast
and making waves in Europe as well. The storm’s ferocity — the looting, the mobs,
the mass lawlessness, the zealous iconoclasm, the deranged slogans like #DefundPolice —
terrifies ordinary Americans. Many conservatives, especially, believe they are facing a
revolution targeting the very foundations of American order.
But when national institutions bow (or kneel) to the street fighters’ demands, it
should tell us that something else is going on. We aren’t dealing with a Maoist or
Marxist revolt, even if some protagonists spout hard-leftish rhetoric. Rather, what’s
playing out is a counter-revolution of the neoliberal class — academe, media, large
corporations, ‘experts’, Big Tech — against the nationalist revolution
launched in 2016. The supposed insurgents and the elites are marching in the streets
together, taking the knee together.
They do not seek a radically new arrangement, but a return to the pre-Trump, pre-Brexit
status quo ante which was working out very well for them. It was, of course, working out less
well for the working class of all races, who bore the brunt of their preferred policy mix:
open borders, free trade without limits, an aggressive cultural liberalism that corroded
tradition and community, technocratic ‘global governance’ that neutered democracy
and politics as such.
When national institutions bow to the street fighters’ demands, it tells us
something else is going on
...Did you realize that the Black Lives Matter group only has 14 local chapters in America
and 3 in Canada? I don't think there are many actual Antifa members out there either. Now of
course a few determined troublemakers can cause a lot of problems but still I can't see how
the country is in real danger.
Probably the real danger here is that these groups get moral support from nonradical
people for radical actions and policies. Right now there are a lot more people against
getting rid of the police than are for it. Now if that changed I would get worried. I have to
admit that I don't like the fact that we do not know who's funding the radicals and that many
are anonymous but I am not afraid of them. I can't imagine a situation in which they would
win and we would lose over time.
No it doesn't, not that I know of. It was the brainchild of Nikole Hannah-Jones working
since 2015 for the times, who received a 2020 Pulitzer prize for the project which initially
was presented in the Times magazine for the 400th anniversary of 1619 when it is claimed that
enslaved Africans first arrived to the American colonies. However it mushroomed into
something much larger and won the award. It was to investigate the legacy of slavery but with
its claim that the true founding of the United States was in 1619 rather than 1776, it drew
criticism from several historians. The controversy was conducted in Politico and on the pages
of the World Socialist Web Site. See here:
You will find links to several of the articles of the project, including: "America Wasn't
a Democracy Until Black Americans Made It One", essay by Nikole Hannah-Jones and "American
Capitalism Is Brutal. You Can Trace That to the Plantation", essay by Matthew Desmond.
I prefaced the intro to the Spectator article with mention of the Times award winning
project because it is vital cultural- historical background to what's transpired since George
Floyd incident of May 25.
My purpose was not to focus on that revisionist project though one
may investigate it at leisure, but the reactionary establishment counter coup to the 2016
election of which the events of May 25 et seq are the most recent chapter - chapters one and
two being Russiagate and impeachment.
Taibbi, in his latest which parallels the Spectator
piece, does think to mention it. The essential idea is that neither the non Trump wing of the
American establishment (more properly Global establishment still anchored tenuously in DC)
nor the Trump wing want the voters to discuss the economy - it's too hot a subject.
Way too
hot since the financial crisis of 2007-08 followed the working class jobs overseas and south
of the border in the 90s and inequality exceeded that of the gilded age. No. But they will
discuss racism (and gender). It divides the country further than ever, deflects focus on
wealth disparity (the establishment has no intention of ever equalizing wealth even a bit)
and presto - gives corporate America and media a new policing tool in the form of mandatory
workshops and summary job dismissals even more unsubstantiated than many of those with
#MeToo. It enhances the academic totalitarians of political correctness with corporate /
employer totalitarianism of "learn your inclusivity lessons reeducation camp" or else. Unions
disappeared long ago and now this.
From Taibbi:
It’s the Fourth of July, and revolution is in the air. Only in America would it look
like this: an elite-sponsored Maoist revolt, couched as a Black liberation movement whose
canonical texts are a corporate consultant’s white guilt self-help manual, and a New
York Times series rewriting history to explain an election they called wrong.
Much of America has watched in quizzical silence in recent weeks as crowds declared war on
an increasingly incoherent succession of historical symbols. Maybe you nodded as Confederate
general Albert Pike was toppled or even when Christopher Columbus was beheaded, but it got a
little weird when George Washington was emblazoned with “Fuck Cops” and set on
fire, or when they went after Ulysses S. Grant, abolitionist Colonel Hans Christian Heg,
“Forward,” (a seven-foot-tall female figure meant to symbolize progress), the
Portland, Oregon “Elk statue,” or my personal favorite, the former slave Miguel
de Cervantes, whose cheerful creations Don Quixote and Sancho Panza were apparently mistaken
for reals and had their eyes lashed red in San Francisco.
Was a What the Fuck? too much to ask? It was! In the space of a few weeks the level of
discourse in the news media dropped so low, the fear of being shamed as a deviationist so
high, that most of the weirder incidents went uncovered. Leading press organs engaged in
real-time Soviet-style airbrushing. Here’s how the Washington Post described a movement
that targeted Spanish missionary Junipero Serra, Abraham Lincoln (a “single-handed
symbol of white supremacy,” according to UW-Madison students), an apple cider press
sculpture, abolitionist Mathias Baldwin, and the first all-Black volunteer regiment in the
Civil War, among others:
Across the country, protesters have toppled statues of figures from America’s sordid
past — including Confederate generals — as part of demonstrations against racism
and police violence.
The New York Times, once the dictionary definition of “unprovocative,”
suddenly reads like Pol Pot’s Sayings of Angkar. Heading into the Fourth of July
weekend, the morning read for upscale white Manhattanites was denouncing Mount Rushmore,
urging Black America to arm itself, and re-positioning America alongside more deserving
historical parallels in a feature about caste systems:
For 150 years the US treated its defeated internal enemy with respect in the interest of
re-unification and reconciliation. Now that is gone destroyed by Marxist vanguard
conspiratorial parties like antifa and BLM and the the power hungry Democrat Party pols who
have made a deal with their soul mate extremists. Well, laissez les bon temps roulez!
Yes the stupidity is ominous. They act as though there is no potential for repurcussion.
It's very peculiar. Maybe they think oh well, there's been plenty of riots over the years.
What ever happened? Didn't we get OJ freed? Didn't they pass civil rights legislation back in
the day? And as for right now - aren't all the big people taking the knee - aren't
corporations endorsing us? Isn't Twitter censoring in our favor? The mayor of New York City -
wasn't he all set to paint a black lives matter mural onto 5th avenue opposite Trump tower
before postponing it to paint one in Harlem instead?
Yes, all true. I don't think they've detected how furious people are getting with their
behavior though. The tide is turning - CHAZ is gone, the conventions loom.
Long term I see nothing to be optimistic about. If Trump wins the counter coups will
continue. If Biden, with a female minority VP who may become President -- good luck. Remember
the Tea Party reaction ensuing on the heels of the first African American President? Reaction
will be quite as bad at least with Trump, his family and his base still very much on the
scene and infuriated.
But the oligarchs have seen their assets rise by hundreds of billions of dollars in a few
short months. The surviving owners consolidate. People will be forced to work for peanuts.
Evictions and repossessions are coming soon.
Jesus save us. Uncle Sam Land is a f'ing powder keg and Dear Leaders
color-revolution spooks are looking for the matches...
Scores of armed black
protesters marched through Stone Mountain Park in Georgia, calling for the removal of
an infamous Confederate monument and warning "redneck" militias that "we're in your house."
Meanwhile, in Pennsylvania, armed rednecks are looking to shoot
flag burners...
Rumours that anti-fascist protesters planned to burn American flags on the Gettysburg Civil
War battleground site led to armed far-right groups turning up in numbers on US
Independence Day.
These are exactly the sort of events one expects to see during a US-sponsored color
revolution. Yes that could be just a co-incidence. But what if it isn't?
As
Medium reported you can use this list as a guide in what businesses you wish to support.
Please also consider using this list the next time someone makes the argument that we are
living in a white supremacist country with institutionalized racism. If major companies
consider supporting violent rioters and looters good for their bottom line, your cause isn't
oppressed.
"... They should be marching on the Federal Reserve Banks. This march is misguided but well within their rights. ..."
"... Of course the swamp wants chaos in the streets before, during and after the election. This is their only way to hold power no matter who wins in November. ..."
"... Stay frosty. This is another attempt to do a gun grab. At some point one of these groups, or a group of other "peaceful protesters" will be ambushed by the CIA/Soros/TPTB and Trump will sign a gun grab bill after it passes the Senate 100-0. (it doesn't matter that they are armed and "calling out" groups to slaughter them... Don Lemon won't mention that after the fact) ..."
"... Looks like Soros and his antifa cronies want a race war - anything to destabilize US - useful idiots. ..."
Last time I saw a line like that for the media to see: Bosnian Army after western support.
Bureau of compliance , 10 minutes ago
They should be marching on the Federal Reserve Banks. This march is misguided but well within their rights.
alexcojones , 13 minutes ago
Sons of The Confederacy? Three percenters? + US special Forces?
vs SoroMercenarie$$ BurnLootMurder (BLM) Antifa?
Guess I'll be backing the Red-White-Blue Patriots
patriot2america , 3 minutes ago
Of course the swamp wants chaos in the streets before, during and after the election. This
is their only way to hold power no matter who wins in November. We as a nation had better
prepare for potential martial law.post election.
toady , 5 minutes ago
Stay frosty. This is another attempt to do a gun grab. At some point one of these groups, or a group of other "peaceful protesters" will be
ambushed by the CIA/Soros/TPTB and Trump will sign a gun grab bill after it passes the Senate
100-0. (it doesn't matter that they are armed and "calling out" groups to slaughter them...
Don Lemon won't mention that after the fact)
Xev Bellringer , 7 minutes ago
I think this would be a wonderful opportunity to pause for a moment and give thanks for
the great contributions of the Black community to our society. Their peaceful and generous
nature make them ideal neighbors, lending testimony to their exceptional family values and
parenting skills unrivaled by any other culture. Their commitment to academic excellence
enriches our schools and serves as an example to all who hope to achieve prominence as a
people. Real estate values are fueled by the mix of African Americans into an area due to
their caring and respectful nature of these communities, an example of all they have
achieved through their enthusiasm for self improvement by hard work and a self-reliant
can-do nature. Without their industrious and creative drive, we would be poorer as a
nation
<copied from a ZH poster>
Kan , 8 minutes ago
That looks staged as fck.... Whole group all dressed in black, never seen that before in
months of riots... just happen to show up where white folk are defending the American
history, also haven't seen that before except Catholics defending a statue of a saint.
And it appears in ZH?
A_Huxley , 8 minutes ago
Follow the new money spread around the USA. Someone is spending a lot in the USA on domestic politics. Its very new money.
Gonzo Commenter , 35 seconds ago
All they needed was a time machine to go back 200 years.
Flynt2142ahh , 22 seconds ago
Looks like Soros and his antifa cronies want a race war - anything to destabilize US -
useful idiots.
The statue, dedicated in 1984, is the latest monument to be destroyed in what President
Trump dubbed the "left-wing cultural revolution" by "angry mobs."
According to the
Baltimore Sun , the Columbus statue has been the site of a wreath-laying ceremony right
before the annual Columbus Day parade, which, in 2019 was replaced with the Italian Heritage
Festival.
Republican state delegates and Italian-American activists held a press conference at the
statue last month to ask Gov. Larry Hogan and Baltimore Mayor Bernard C. "Jack" Young to
preserve and protect the memorials , following activists' comments about pulling down the
monuments themselves and the introduction of a City Council bill this week to rename one of
them in honor of victims of police violence.
The downed statue is one of three monuments to Columbus in Baltimore. -
Baltimore Sun
BLM thugs have already started going after patriots. They ambushed our governor at the
small town of Ackley Iowa. They were stalking her as she visited companies providing
essential services during the pandemic. Her driver refused to stop, likely saving her life.
One BLM thug was hit but not seriously injured. They are not waiting to run out of statues.
We ordinary Americans must be heavily armed at all times now. Midwest states are full of
illegals, who serve the left as an army. Open civil war is upon us whether we would have it
or not.
warsev , 3 minutes ago
What these malicious rioters don't realize is that they are handing the November election
to DJT and Republicans for senate and house. Average Americans look on the footage that
accompanies this article with revulsion; for the ideas and the people behind them. Trump will
walk away with 2020. Just keep it up, loony lefties.
vic and blood , 4 minutes ago
We have been in a race and culture war with multiple factions for some time. The presumed
winner is not overtly participating.
Most white people are oblivious, though that is changing. Too bad we are demographically
doomed.
SolidGold , 1 minute ago
Divide and conquer. Who creates that genius?
NumberNone , 12 minutes ago
Was in downtown Baltimore less than 2 years ago, it felt like you were one person away
from someone that wanted to rob you. The downtown had all the usual suspects of faux high end
shopping but the vibe was one of John Wayne Gacy in his clown suit...it had all the look and
feel that was supposed to make you happy but it was rotten to the core.
Whoa Dammit , 13 minutes ago
We can't keep coddling these stupid brats. It's time to start making their parents pay for
the mess and destruction that their ill raised offspring cause.
GoldRulesPaperDrools , 17 minutes ago
Protesters == pavement apes
House of Cards , 17 minutes ago
Terrorists you mean
Watt Supremacissss , 16 minutes ago
Crybullies.
GoldRulesPaperDrools , 15 minutes ago
Redundant but accurate ... +100_000
Silver Savior , 17 minutes ago
Columbus was a dickhead anyway.
NumberNone , 9 minutes ago
So we tear apart the country for a guy that held a gun to a pregnant woman's stomach...if
you're gonna pass judgement and replace other people's icons you might want to make better
choices.
Blackdawg7 , 43 minutes ago
I've never been a fan of Christopher Columbus but witnessing these know-nothing
sanctimonious twits destroy public property while virtue signalling makes my blood boil.
Workdove , 44 minutes ago
Not worth the 10 years in jail...
vic and blood , 50 minutes ago
History's losers are terrorizing, and soon to be tyrannizing us because Caucasians are too
civilized and docile.
Every race and tribe is programmed by God to attempt to dominate.
As an adherent of the non-aggression principle, I don't care for the binary choice, but
accept it.
Either dominate or be dominated. Only cucks believe in co-existence. I assure you our
rivals do not believe in peaceful co-existence.
unionbroker , 1 hour ago
Christopher Columbus sails out into the unknown where no man has gone before. What the
**** has BLM done. Put the statues back up and throw BLM in the water
We can't keep coddling these stupid brats. It's time to start making their parents pay for
the mess and destruction that their ill raised offspring cause.
U.S. racial and ethnic minorities accounted for all of the nation's population growth during
the last decade, according to new Census Bureau estimates.
The data underscore the nation's growing diversity and suggest that the trend will continue
as the White population ages and low birth rates translate to a declining share. Non-Hispanic
Whites declined to 60.1% of the populace in 2019 and their number shrank by about 9,000 from
the 2010 Census to slightly more than 197 million.
Over the same period, the U.S. added 10.1 million people identified as Hispanic. The median
age for White non-Hispanics rose to 43.7 years -- more than a decade older than the median
Hispanic of any race -- with Black and Asian American residents in between.
What is the best way to debunk a conspiracy theory? Call it a conspiracy theory, a label
which in and of itself implies disbelief. The only problem with that is there have been many
actual conspiracies both historically and currently and many of them are not in the least
theoretical in nature. Conspiracies of several kinds brought about American participation in
both world wars. And however one feels about President Donald Trump, it must be conceded that
he has been the victim of a number of conspiracies, first to deny him the GOP nomination, then
to insure that he be defeated in the presidential election, and subsequently to completely
delegitimize his presidency.
Prior to Trump there have been numerous conspiracy "theories," many of which have been quite
plausible. The "suicide" of Defense Secretary James Forrestal comes to mind, followed by the
assassination of John F. Kennedy, which has been credibly credited to both Cuba and Israel. And
then there is 9/11, perhaps the greatest conspiracy theory of all. Israel clearly knew it was
coming, witness the Five Dancing Shlomos cavorting and filming themselves in New Jersey as the
twin towers went down. Also the Saudis might have played a role in funding and even directing
the alleged hijackers. And we have also had the conspiracy by the neocons to fabricate
information about Iraq's WMDs and the ongoing conspiracy by the same players to depict Iran as
a threat to the United States.
Given the multiple crises currently being experienced in the United States it is perhaps
inevitable that speculation about conspiracies is at its highest level ever. To the average
American it is incomprehensible how the country has become so screwed up because the political
and economic elite is fundamentally incompetent, so the search for a scapegoat must go on.
There are a number of conspiracy theories about the coronavirus currently making the rounds.
Those libertarians and contrarians who choose to believe that the virus is actually a flu being
exploited to strip them of their liberties are convinced that many in the government and media
have conspired to sell what is essentially a fraud. One such snake oil salesman persists in
using an analogy, that since more Americans are killed in automobile accidents than by the
coronavirus it would be more appropriate to ban cars than to require the wearing of face
masks.
Another theory making the rounds accuses Microsoft multi-billionaire Bill Gates of trying to
take over the world's healthcare system through the introduction of a vaccine to control the
coronavirus, which he presumably created in the first place. The fallacy in many of the virus
"conspiracies" that relate to a totalitarian regime or a crazy billionaire using a faux disease
to generate fear so as to gain control of the citizenry is that it gives far too much credit to
any government's or individual's ability to pull off a fraud of that magnitude. It would
require people a whole lot smarter than the tag team of Trump-Pompeo or even Gates to convince
the world and thousands of doctors and scientists that they should lock down entire countries
over something completely phony.
Other coronavirus theories include that the virus was developed in the U.S., was exported to
China by a traitorous American scientist, weaponized in Wuhan and then unleashed on the West as
part of a communist plot to destroy capitalism and democracy. That would mean that we are
already at war with China, or at least we should be. Then there is the largely accepted theory
that the virus was created in Wuhan and escaped from the lab. Since that time Beijing has been
engaging in a cover-up, which is the conspiracy. It is a theme favored by the White House,
which has not yet decided what to do about it beyond assigning funny "Yellow Peril" names to
the disease so everyone in MAGA hats will have something to chuckle about leading up to the
November election.
But all kidding aside, there are some conspiracy theories that are more worth considering
than others. One would be the role of George Soros and the so-called Open Society Foundations
that he controls and funds in the unrest that is sweeping across the United States. The
allegations against Soros are admittedly thin on evidence, but conspiracy mongers would point
out that that is the mark of a really well-planned conspiracy, similar to what the 89 year-old
Hungarian Jewish billionaire has been engaging in for a long time. The current round of claims
about Open Society and Soros have generated as many as 500,000 tweets a day as well as nearly
70,000 Facebook posts per month, mostly from political conservatives.
The allegations tend to fall into two broad
categories . First, that Soros hires protester/thugs and transports them to demonstrations
where they are supplied with bricks and incendiaries to turn the gatherings into riots. Second,
that Open Society is funding and otherwise enabling the destabilizing flow of illegal
immigrants into the United States.
Soros and his supporters, many of whom are Jewish because they think they see anti-Semitism
in the attacks on the Hungarian, claim to support democratization and free trade worldwide. He
is, in effect, one of the world's leading globalists. Soros claims to be a "force for good" as
the cliché goes, but is it completely credible that his $32 billion foundation does not
operate behind the scenes to influence developments in ways that are certainly not
democratic?
Indeed, Soros accumulated his vast fortune through vulture capitalism. He made over $1
billion in 1992 by selling short $10 billion in British pounds sterling, leading to the media
dubbing him "the man who broke the bank of England." He has been accused of similar currency
manipulation in both Europe and Asia. In 1999, New York Times economist Paul Krugman wrote of
him that "Nobody who has read a business magazine in the last few years can be unaware that
these days there really are investors who not only move money in anticipation of a currency
crisis, but actually do their best to trigger that crisis for fun and profit."
Far from a passive bystander giving helpful advice to democracy groups, Soros was heavily
involved with the restructuring of former communist regimes in eastern Europe and had a hand in
the so-called Rose Revolution in Georgia in 2003 and the Maidan Revolution in Ukraine in 2014,
both of which were supported by the U.S. government and were intended to threaten Russia's
regional security.
Soros particularly hates President Vladimir Putin and Russia. He revealed that he is far
from a benevolent figure fighting for justice in his March Financial Times op-ed (behind
a pay wall) entitled "Europe Must Stand With Turkey Over Putin's War Crimes in Syria."
The op-ed is full of errors of fact and is basically a call for aggression against a Russia
that he describes as engaged in bombing schools and hospitals. It starts with, "Since the
beginning of its intervention in Syria in September 2015, Russia has not only sought to keep in
place its most faithful Arab ally, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. It has also wanted to
regain the regional and global influence that it lost since the fall of the Soviet Union."
First of all, Russia did not "intervene" in Syria. It was invited there by the country's
legitimate government to provide assistance against various groups, some of which were linked
to al Qaeda and the Islamic State, that were seeking to overthrow President al-Assad.
And apart from Soros, few actual experts on Russia would claim that it is seeking to
recreate the "influence" of the Soviet Union. Moscow does not have the resources to do so and
has evinced no desire to pursue the sort of global agenda that was characteristic of the Soviet
state.
There then follows a complete flight into hyperbole with: "Vladimir Putin has sought to use
the turmoil in the Middle East to erase international norms and advances in international
humanitarian law made since the second world war. In fact, creating the humanitarian disaster
that has turned almost 6 million Syrians into refugees has not been a byproduct of the Russian
president's strategy in Syria. It has been one of his central goals." Note that none of Soros's
assertions are supported by fact.
The Soros op-ed also included a bit of reminiscence, describing how, "In 2014, I urged
Europe to wake up to the threat that Russia was posing to its strategic interests." The op-ed
reveals Soros as neither conciliatory nor "diplomatic," a clear sign that he picks his enemies
based on ideological considerations that also drive his choices on how to frame his ventures.
Given all of that, why is it unimaginable that George Soros is engaged in a conspiracy, that he
is clandestinely behind at least some of the mayhem of Antifa and Black Lives Matter as well as
the flood of illegal immigration that have together perhaps fatally destabilized the United
States?
Philip Giraldi, Ph.D. is Executive Director of the Council for the National
Interest.
They probably can pus a smartphone instead of demolished monuments. Their view of police as a
brutal occupying force is naive, because police is just a muscle, and it is not "white supremacy"
that is behind them. They are fighting sypmtom, not the root case.
We all remember those shots. American troops are entering Baghdad. A tank stops somewhere in
the city, cautiously, in the vicinity of a Saddam Hussein monument. After a few minutes of
apparent inactivity, a crowd is beginning to form around the monument. The crowd is not all
that big. It rallies around the figure of Iraq's president. Soon an American soldier climbs the
monument and puts an American flag on it. An Iraqi intervenes, so the flag is replaced with the
Iraqi one. And then, then some individuals begin to climb the statue, a crane arrives from
somewhere, a steel rope is attached to the monument and the crane drives slowly back, taunting
the line and gradually slanting the president's image to its feet. Eventually the figure drops
to the ground and the cheering people dance around it, deliver it kicks and carry some of the
pieces that fell off in the process away.
The alien forces have conquered the capital city of the enemy and performed an age-old
ritual that victors used to perform in the presence of the vanquished: Americans demolished the
material symbol of the enemy's sovereignty and by doing it they also humiliated the routed
nation.
In the nineties of the 20th century we could all see angry Russians in Moscow, but also
angry Poles in Warsaw and equally angry residents of other European capitals tearing down
monuments from the communist era, especially those of Comrade Felix Dzerzhinsky, the notorious
head of the Cheka (from:
Всероссийская
чрезвычайная
комиссия, i.e. Vserossiyskaya chrezvychaynaya
komissiya = The All-Russian Extraordinary Commission).
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Since the dawn of history monuments would be put up and torn down. Either act reflected a
huge political, social, religious or demographic change. Monuments are erected by common
consent of the majority of a given (national, social, religious, political) community, in which
case they are wanted as a tribute to or a memory of the community's most cherished heroes or
values, or they are enforced by occupying forces, in which case they are hated by those against
whose will they have been put up.
Monuments are only desecrated, defaced, toppled or destroyed by the enemies of those who
built them. Americans in Iraq and a part of Iraqi nation was against Saddam Hussein; a rather
large part of the Russian nation nurtured bitter memories concerning the henchmen of their
ancestors like Felix Dzerzhinsky, so they vented their anger on his images the moment an
opportunity presented itself. The divide between those who put up the monuments and those who
hated the sight of them was in each case insurmountable. What was dear to the former, was
abhorrent to the latter.
Recently a huge wave of monument desecration and monument removal has swept the United
States and to a much lesser extent Europe. It is mostly the heroes of the American South
– generals of the Army of the Confederate States – that are targeted, but not only.
Also abolitionists, 1) fighters for
American independence of other nationalities, 2) Christian
missionaries 3) and even Jesus
Christ himself. 4) John Wayne may
not be spared the same fate either 5) so much so that
a monument to a Portland elk – his ancestor was presumably a slave owner and the elk
– a confirmed racist – fell victim to the rage of American iconoclasts.
6)
All this is taking place amid riots caused by the death of a frequent prison inmate who was
caught by the police while suspected of paying with counterfeit money. The activists of the
Black Lives Matter movement, supported by Antifa 7) and heavily
sponsored by the powers that be and spurned on by the democrats performed the usual acts of
protest: burning cars and looting shops. This time two qualitatively new elements have been
added: one is the toppling or desecration of monuments and the other is forcing the police
officers to knee to the rioters. All this is happening because it is wanted by at least a
significant part of the establishment, democrats in the first place, who having failed to
impeach Donald Trump, having stopped America's and the world's economies due to the so called
pandemic now are playing another trump card in yet another effort to thwart the president
incumbent from being elected for the second term.
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Shamelessness as a revolutionary act ( which see )
The democrats have decided to use American blacks to create chaos and make a distressing
impression on US citizens who should come to the conclusion that Donald Trump is not capable of
running the country. History provides ample examples when a part of the elites willing to
topple the current ruler would resort to the help of the masses in order to force the ruler's
abdication or resignation. Such was the case in France in the run-up to the French Revolution,
such was the case in Russia in the run-up to the Russian revolution. In France it was the
so-called third class that was used for the purpose, in Russia it was the proletariat, now in
the United States it is the easily excitable blacks. History teaches us that a genie let out of
the bottle cannot be put back at a moment's notice. Either the democrats have not been
attentive during their history classes or their hatred of Donald Trump is so intense that they
don't care.
What is happening now in the Land of the Free makes the whole world wonder. It fits the
definition of a cultural revolution – modelled on its Chinese or Bolshevik predecessors
– or a colour revolution known from the streets of Belgrade, Tunis, Cairo, Tbilisi, Kiev
and many other places. If the latter is the correct interpretation then the question arises
whether this time the process was initiated – as usual – by the CIA or whether it
is the boomerang hitting back the thrower. Be that as it may – power struggle apart
– the events reveal a few important things.
[1] Americans are not a uniform, coherent nation and never will be: it is always blacks
against whites, though the discrimination laws are a thing of the past, how much more slavery.
Assimilation or integration – so much propagated in Europe in view of the influx of the
people from the Third World – does not work in the least. The two races share the same
terrain, language and religion and still remain far part.
[2] Monument desecration and removal is a fight against memory. Memoriae damnatio or the
Orwellian black hole is a well-known historical phenomenon. Invaders of Egypt necessarily
obliterated the images of pharaohs; Arab conquerors smashed images of ancient heroes or
Christian saints; Christians would destroy pagan idols; Byzantine iconoclasts raised their
hands against paintings depicting Jesus Christ and saints; protestants would do the same a
couple of centuries later in northern and western Europe; French revolutionaries would even
stoop down to extracting corpses of the long-dead French kings – Capetians, Valois,
Bourbons – and desecrating them; Bolsheviks in Russia would do the same with the remnants
of the tsarist past; even worse: factions of Bolsheviks would delete from very recent memory
yesterday's comrades.
[3] The BLM movement is racist to the core. It is aimed against whites and whites alone. It
is strong because it is supported by the democratic party and its adherents and a number of
foundations. That it is anti-white is evident. White actors have been discouraged from
impersonating or even voicing characters of colour, which, however, is not the case when it
comes to black actors who are increasingly frequently cast in typically white roles. It is only
and exclusively whites who are accused of being racist.
[4] Humiliation of the white population and especially of the police. The pictures of white
people kneeling to blacks and of the policemen – armed to their teeth – to the
rioters have been spread worldwide. It is an act of humiliation pure touted of course as an act
of interracial reconciliation and mutual respect.
[5] As usual, whenever a black gets killed in a squabble or a scuffle African-Americans,
Antifa and the mainstream media are quick to pass judgement without waiting for the court
sentence, which runs counter to the well-established procedure that no one is deemed guilty
until proven. The pressure exerted by the rioters and the media without doubt negatively
affects the decision of the judges who later deal with the case.
[6] What is happening is certainly wanted by a large part of the establishment or else it
wouldn't have been happening. Black rioters know that they can enjoy a lot of leeway and they
act accordingly, looting and burning and showing disrespect for the law and the police. Many a
mayor or police chief – usually a democrat and a black – under the pretext of
deescalating the conflicts withdraws the law enforcement units from parts of the city that they
are in charge of. Consider the so-called autonomous zones in Seattle and New York held for a
time by rioters. The powers that be could suppress the riots within 24 hours if they only
wanted to. As it is, they are using irascible black communities (agitated by Antifa activists)
to create turmoil and thus to achieve political goals. Just picture to yourself a rally of
genuine Nazis raising their hands in the Roman salute: how long would they hold a public
space?
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People occupying parts of the city called autonomous zones remind the Kiev Maidan
protesters. They spend days and nights doing nothing, but somehow they do not go hungry. In
both cases the police are either inactive or indolent. The Maidan riots in Kiev brought about
the change of the government. The powers that be must be counting on the same in the Dis-United
States of America.
How do we know that the riots are instigated, sponsored and used by the powers that be?
Precisely because of the inactivity and indolence of the police, because of the inactivity and
indolence of local; authorities, because of the media's condoning tone towards the events.
Lastly, history teaches us that revolutions, are made by means of popular protests and these
protests are paid by very rich individuals. Professional revolutionaries whose task it was to
destabilize Russia at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries were in the
pocket of Alexander Parvus (born: Israel Gelfand) and Jacob Schiff. Individuals that later
became the driving forces of the coup d'etat – Leon Trotsky (born: Lev Bronstein),
creator of the Red Army – did not have to bother about their living.
The deletion of historical memory and the renunciation of the heroes of the past paves the
way for replacing the United States of America with something new. Maybe the Union of Soviet
States of America? At present it is the images, effigies, and monuments that are beheaded,
trampled upon, kicked and drowned. Tomorrow it may very likely be people. Such are the dynamics
of any revolutionary movement.
"... "In a period of protest and increasing anger about inequality, the differential inflation rate experienced by low- and high-income households is a concern," said Bloomberg Economics' Björn van Roye and Tom Orlik. ..."
The coronavirus is inflicting a price shock on low income Americans that risks further driving up inequality.
In a study released this week, Bloomberg Economics
estimated higher grocery and housing costs for lockdown necessities meant those households whose incomes are in the bottom 10%
currently face inflation of 1.5% compared with 1.0% for the top 10% and the official 0.1% overall average recorded in May.
Recalculating Inflation
'Have nots' suffered disproportionately as virus changed buying patterns
Note: Inflation for the lowest (highest) 10% takes the alternative CPI basket for the lowest (highest) decile of household income
before taxes from the 2018 Consumer Expenditure Survey
The explanation for the difference lies in how the Covid-19 pandemic has changed consumption patterns by forcing households to
buy more food while spending less on transportation or recreational activities.
"In a period of protest and increasing anger about inequality, the differential inflation rate experienced by low- and high-income
households is a concern," said Bloomberg Economics' Björn van Roye and Tom Orlik.
The suggestion the virus is less disinflationary than many economists believe poses a challenge for the Federal Reserve which
is eyeing a slower inflation rate than that experienced by lower earners, who are instead facing a steady erosion of their purchasing
power.
"Taken together with concerns about central banks bailing out investors ahead of firms and workers, and the benefits rich, asset-owning
households gain from quantitative easing, it adds to the sense that central banks are unintentional contributors to the problem of
inequality," van Roye and Orlik said.
The guy does not understand that the Uniparty (Cola Pepsi dichotonomy) drives riots to avoid questions about
deterioration of standard of living of lower 80% of population, illicit enrichment of financial oligarchy, privatization of
healthcare by private equity sharks and other ills of neoliberalism
There will be no civil war. Most of the events are just directed toward winning November elections and financed with this
explicit purpose via usual color revolution channels (Soros and Co) . When a vulture capitalist (Romney) supports the
movement, you can be sure that it is fake.
Notable quotes:
"... In last week's article I discussed the issue of American "balkanization" and the rapid migration of conservatives and moderates from large population centers and states that are becoming militant in their progressive ideology. ..."
"... Others are here because they can't stand the hostility of identity politics, cancel culture and race riots. Either way, they are fleeing places with decidedly leftist influences. ..."
In last week's article I discussed the issue of American "balkanization" and the rapid
migration of conservatives and moderates from large population centers and states that are
becoming militant in their progressive ideology. In my home state of Montana there has been a
surge of people trying to escape the chaos and oppression of leftist states. Some are here
because of the pandemic and the harsh restrictions they had to endure during the first
lockdowns. Others are here because they can't stand the hostility of identity politics, cancel
culture and race riots. Either way, they are fleeing places with decidedly leftist
influences.
Uprooting and moving to an entirely new place is not an easy thing to do, especially in the
middle of a pandemic. For many people, such an idea would have been unthinkable only a few
years ago. Believe me, moving to a place like the Rocky Mountain Redoubt is not an easy
transition for most. Hopefully these people understand that they will have to make extensive
preparations for the rough winter and be ready to work hard in the spring and summer months to
survive. Maybe they don't realize yet how tough it is here; maybe they know and don't care.
That's how bad the situation has become – Rational and reasonable people are willing
to leave behind their old life and risk it all to keep a margin of freedom.
In my view it is clear that the political left has gone so far off the rails into its own
cultism that there is no coming back. There can be no reconciliation between the two sides, so
we must separate, or we must fight. I advocate for separation first for a number of
reasons:
First and foremost, conservatives are the primary producers within American culture. If
we leave the leftists to their own devices there is a chance they will simply implode in on
themselves and eat each other because they have no idea how to fill the production void.
The recent developments in the defunct CHAZ/CHOP autonomous zone are a perfect example.
Those people don't have the slightest clue what they are doing and it shows.
Second, if conservatives separate it provides a buffer that helps defuse future random
conflicts. When you force the two sides into a box together eventually they will find a
reason to try to kill each other. Putting some distance between them and us reduces the
angst.
Third, if the leftists decide they don't like that we have separated and are thriving on
our own, and they attempt to antagonize or attack us where we live, then we hold the clear
moral high ground when we smash them to pieces in response.
I fully realize that the third outcome is the most likely. War is probably inevitable. Why?
Because collectivists and narcissists are never satisfied. They desire unlimited control over
the lives of others and they will use any means to get that control no matter how destructive.
Separating from them is only a stop-gap that allows us to take the superior position. Through
peaceful migration, we set the pace of the conflict. Eventually they will come after us, and
there will be no doubt about our response then. There will be no way to spin the result in
their favor, no way for them to play the victims.
You can be fired for criticizing BLM, because in essence this is apolitical movement run by regular Dem NGOs careerists.
Immunity from criticism is a sign of totalitarism.
Imagine for a moment that you're on a sports team that has never won a championship game,
that only rarely wins a game at all, that comes in near or dead last in the rankings season
after season after season. And imagine you want to win for once – not just a few games,
but a winning season, making it through playoffs and into the finals, and maybe even take home
the championship, something your team has never done before. But looking at your team, most of
the players aren't that great, those that are don't work together well, they fight amongst
themselves more than the other teams, each of them tries to steal the glory from the other
players only to fail spectacularly when they do. Your current coach, who's been coaching the
team for decades, tells the players it's not their fault that they keep losing, the refs are
just biased against them, the game is rigged, and everyone deserves an equal number of points
regardless of how well they play. When refs make a call against them, they start a fight
instead of accepting the call and playing better to overcome the setback. Instead of focusing
on improving as players or as a team, they're taught to complain about the rules of the game
itself. Don't hate the player, hate the game. But along comes a new coach offering a new style
of management. The new coach wants to kick the worst players off the team while making the
remaining players train harder to improve their skills and organize around supporting the best
players on the team. They're expected to show good sportsmanship even if the refs sometimes
make a bad call, and channel any anger or frustration over those calls into playing harder. If
you were on the team and wanted to actually win once in a while, which coach would you want
leading you?
As black Americans riot, loot their neighborhood stores, and burn down black owned
businesses over the death of a methhead who likely died because of an overdose of multiple
drugs and not because of the knee on his neck
[1] https://www.unz.com/article/or-did-george-floyd-die-...rdose/ (fentanyl overdoses are
known to cause breathing problems and Floyd had no serious injuries to his neck or elsewhere
from the officers who arrested him) who cared so little about black lives he once threatened to
shoot a pregnant black woman during a robbery/home invasion and his own black kids didn't even
recognize him on tv, we must ask what is so different about the black community that they could
be trolled by the media into destroying their own cities to protest the death of a man who
contributed nothing to the black community. That they would do this at a time when the media
has warned against any and all mass gatherings aside from these protests due to fears of
coronavirus, which blacks are dying from at a higher rate than whites, even as the media tells
white conservatives to avoid mass gatherings such as the recent Trump rally in Tulsa, should
make the left wing media's total disregard for black lives obvious even as they heap lip
service on the Black Lives Matter movement and organization, but blacks across the country have
chosen to ignore the warnings about a disease that has killed tens of thousands of black
Americans so far this year in order to protest the death of about ten unarmed blacks per year
by police.
Blacks have never been the most successful race in America (and are even less successful in
most of the rest of the world), but American blacks, who have a significantly higher average IQ
than their African cousins, aren't usually as collectively stupid as they have been so far in
2020 as they destroy their own communities and risk death by a disease much deadlier than the
police to protest the death of a man who would likely have died from the drugs in his system
regardless of whether or not the police arrested him (though they did overwhelmingly vote to
re-elect Barack Obama in 2012 after his disastrous war in Libya screwed up a once prosperous
African nation so badly that you can now openly buy black slaves there, effectively
re-establishing the African slave trade thanks to America's first black President).
If black Americans want to improve their situation, they need honest and constructive
criticism of their current problems as a group and the underlying causes of those problems.
As hundreds of millions of dollars are being donated by corporate interests to the
Soros-affiliated Black Lives Matter organization behind the protests that turned to riots
that have destroyed their small business competition and are preventing the reopening of the
economy in the wake of the coronavirus shutdown, it's hard to see how any of that money will be
spent in ways that actually improve the quality of life or economic prospects of the average
black American, let alone make up for the destruction of so many local and black owned
businesses caused by the riots.
It's unclear how the money BLM has raised is actually being spent aside from the few
million paid to the organization's staff and consultants and the 6% of their funds that have
gone to the local chapters that they claim are supposed to be running the show, and many
activists have raised questions about just where the money is going.
[2] https://dailycaller.com/2020/06/18/black-lives-matte...tants/ The pseudo-socialist
elites like Soros who are funding the movement for their own purposes likely do not have the
best interests of the black population at heart, and the millions raised in previous years do
not seem to have been used to help the black community prosper and improve.
Nor have the variety of socialist programs that blacks have voted for through the Democratic
Party improved their community much. The average black household is more than twice as likely
to receive some form of welfare than the average white household and three times as likely to
receive direct cash assistance.
[3] https://www.amren.com/features/2015/10/welfare-whos-...s-not/
But despite the fact that whites, who pay more in taxes to find these programs, have large
portions of our wealth redistributed every year to blacks through socialist programs like, EBT,
Section 8, Medicaid, and TANF, no amount of free food and shelter seems to be enough to help
black Americans rise economically.
Rather, the opposite seems to be true, as blacks learn to settle for free stuff and a
welfare lifestyle rather than pushing themselves to succeed. Nor do the affirmative action
programs that exist in admissions to most colleges help blacks, as they appear to actually
lower academic performance and graduation rates among black students as they increase the
number of black students in the colleges that practice affirmative action.
[4] https://web.archive.org/web/20130511043833/http://ww...AL.pdf
And despite the claims that the high crime rates in black communities – some of which
exceed the crime rates of even the most violent third world countries – are caused by
poverty and a lack of opportunity, no amount of free stuff to alleviate poverty or affirmative
action to provide opportunity has brought the crime rate in the black community down to
anywhere near the low level in the white community.
Crime has dropped since the early 1990s due to the removal of lead from gasoline
[5] https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2018/02/an-up...-2018/ , but the massive gap in
crime rates between blacks and whites has remained even as levels of lead exposure among blacks
have dropped massively and can no longer be used to explain away their high crime rates.
Despite being only 13% of the population, blacks commit more than half the murders in the
US, and a solid majority of their victims are black (though they kill hundreds more whites and
members of other races each year than the other way around). If BLM actually cared about
black lives, the thousands of extra blacks murdered by other blacks beyond the number who would
be murdered if they had the same murder rate as whites would be a higher priority than the
dozen or so unarmed black men killed by police each year (many of whom were engaged in violent
crime or, like George Floyd, didn't die strictly due to police violence). But they're not, and
the progressive left will never so much as admit that blacks have a higher violent crime rate
for reasons other than poverty, let alone find a solution to it.
Nor can historical racism explain the difference in outcomes between blacks and whites. East
Asians were considered colored under Jim Crow laws in many southern states (their segregation
from whites was upheld in the 1927 Supreme Court case Lum v. Rice), while lighter skinned
immigrants from Mexico and south and central America were generally considered white and given
the privileges that came with that status.
The Japanese specifically were put into internment camps during WWII, facing even stricter
legal discrimination than blacks during that time. And yet, if you're the descendant of
Japanese Americans who lived here through internment and segregation, odds are you make more
money than the average white American, while Hispanic/Latino Americans whose ancestors were
often considered white during that time have a lower average income.
Black immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean also have a higher average income (though
this may be due in part to selection bias), as do immigrants from India, while the Jews, who
regularly claim to be the most oppressed group in history, have a much higher average income
than white Americans and are roughly 20 times as likely to be billionaires as the average
American after running our central bank for most of the past century.
Black Americans are doing significantly better than blacks in any other part of the world,
including the descendants of the black Africans who sold most black Americans' ancestors into
slavery. If historical discrimination and multigenerational trauma were as big a part of the
reason for the American black community's problems as leftists like to claim, Jews should be
among the poorest people in the world, while blacks in places that spent very little time under
colonial rule, such as Ethiopia and Haiti, should be among the most prosperous black
communities in the world. Instead, the opposite appears to be true.
This isn't to say that no systemic racism exists – after all, we have a media that
tells blacks it's important to have mass gatherings during a pandemic while telling white
conservatives to avoid mass gatherings, so if the Wuhan Flu is anywhere near as dangerous as
the media says, our left wing media is actively attempting to kill thousands of blacks by
encouraging them to increase their risk of contracting the virus while telling white
conservatives to avoid any possibility of contracting the virus (unless they actually believe
the virus is a hoax or the threat is overblown, in which case they're just suppressing
conservative voices as usual). We also have a drug war which was escalated in part by Nixon,
whose staff has since admitted that part of the reason for his push to increase drug arrest was
to suppress blacks who had mostly switched to voting Democrat by that point. But while there is
some evidence of racial bias in arrests for drug crimes, where blacks make up a larger
percentage of drug arrests than drug users, there does not seem to be any anti-black bias in
enforcement of violent crimes, where blacks are much more likely to commit rape, assault, and
robbery according to victimization studies and crime reports, and the racial breakdown of
people accused of violent crime is much closer to the racial breakdown of people arrested for
violent crime than it is for drug crimes. According to the National Crime Victimization Survey
from the Bureau of Justice, blacks are more than twice as likely to be offenders of violent
crime as to be victims, bigger than the difference between men and women, while whites and
Asians are more likely to be victims than perpetrators of violent crime.
[6] https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/rhovo1215.pdf table 12
Whites commit about 2.3 times as many total violent crimes as blacks (while making up about
5 times as much of the population) according to the NCVS, and according to the FBI's Uniform
Crime Report, 2.5 times as many whites as blacks are arrested for violent crimes
[7] https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2018/crime-in-t...ble-43 , so whites seem more
likely to be arrested than blacks after adjusting for their crime rate (though this may be
affected by differences in racial classification between the two and may vary by specific
crime; the NCVS hasn't provided a racial breakdown for specific crimes since 2006).
There's also evidence that police are equally if not more likely to use excessive and deadly
force against white suspects than black suspects according to a study by a black Harvard
professor.
[8] https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jul/11/no-...-prof/ So the claims of systemic
bias by police against black Americans seem largely exaggerated, and if blacks are targeted
more by police, it probably has more to do with the fact that police are called on to deal with
black suspects far more often than to protect black victims.
But simply pointing out how wrong the left's assessment of both the black community's
problems and their proposed solutions to those problems is isn't – and shouldn't be
– enough. The rioting the left continually provokes black Americans into will likely
worsen every election year until a real solution to the black community's problems of poverty
and crime can be found. If the Trump right wants to win over a sizable number of black votes,
or if the far right wants to avoid being trolled into a costly race war by globalist elites who
want to destabilize our country and instead turn all races against the rootless elites who have
been playing us all for fools, we will have to offer the black community a real solution to
their plight, a lasting and long term solution that gives them the opportunity to rise above
their current problems.
The first step is to acknowledge that the differences in outcomes between white and black
Americans have less to do with systemic factors that affect blacks and whites differently and
more to do with cultural and genetic differences that cause whites and blacks to behave
differently. There are significant genetic differences between different races. About 5% of the
genes that differ between humans are exclusive to particular geographically bounded hereditary
groups
[9] https://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/20/us/gene-study-ide...y.html – what most of us
would refer to as races, but what university academics must be careful to differentiate from
race with technical mumbo jumbo in order to not have their research defunded by the
socialist/progressive/social justice left.
Even if social conceptions and divisions of race from 50+ years ago were not based in
genetics, we can divide people into clear genetic hereditary groups that correspond closely
enough to the racial groups most people are familiar with – Europeans/Caucasians,
Sub-Saharan Africans, East Asians, South Asians/North Africans, and Native Americans have
similarities within their groups and differences from other groups that make them distinct
groups that can be identified by their genes.
In addition to the portion of our genome that's exclusive to particular racial hereditary
groups, there are millions of genes that are more common in certain racial and ethnic groups
than others. For example, the MAOA gene affects the development of neurotransmitters in your
brain, and one particular variant/allele of that gene (known as the two repeat allele) makes
you more prone to impulsive and violent behavior.
[10] https://pastebin.com/w5c8ftd4 That allele is recessive and exists on the X chromosome,
meaning a woman must have two copies of the allele while men only need one copy for the gene to
express itself and result in impulsive and violent behavior, making men more likely to display
such behavior than women.
About 5% of black men have that particular allele, as compared to 0.1% of white men. That
gene is not a perfect predictor of violent behavior, but it is a contributing factor to the
significantly higher violent crime rate seen among black men in particular.
Another gene, the ADRA gene, affects empathy and emotional memory. The ADRA2b allele is
associated with a greater ability to remember emotions and what causes them, affecting your
ability to predict other people's emotions and understand how your actions affect others.
[11] https://www.unz.com/pfrost/a-genetic-marker-for-empathy/ That gene appears to be about
5 times as common in Caucasians as in full blooded Africans, but closer to twice as common in
American whites as American blacks, and even more common in certain Asians than in Europeans.
The ADRA2b allele may partially explain why Asian and European communities seem to be more
cooperative and peaceful on average than African and African American communities.
Just as there are genes that impact our personality traits, there are also genes that impact
intelligence. Over 1000 genes have been identified that impact intelligence. Considering that
intelligence is estimated to be somewhere between 50-80% genetic, and that there have been
significant differences in average IQ between blacks, whites, yellows, reds, browns, and
whatever other racial or ethnic groups don't want to consider themselves part of one of those
categories that have remained fairly stable for decades even as environmental, social, and
economic factors changed significantly, it's likely that most of the difference in average
intelligence between different racial and ethnic hereditary groups is due to genetic
differences. Intelligence has a significant impact on both educational attainment and career
success that likely explains a lot more of the difference in attainment between the average
member of different races than discrimination.
In order to understand the difference in outcomes between different races, we have to
understand the genetic differences that cause them. No one gene completely determines a
person's personality or intelligence – heck, 1000 genes don't completely determine either
of those things, but they do have a strong enough impact on them that they can't be ignored,
particularly when talking about group averages and large scale societal trends such as violent
crime rates and average incomes. People who want to see blacks succeed beyond where they're at
today often reject the genetic argument for our different levels of success because admitting
that the differences between us are genetic makes them seem inherent and unchangeable, making
it unacceptable within their worldview. But the opposite is true – we live in an
evolutionary world where humanity has changed immeasurably just in the past few thousand years
and is continuing to change. Populations are shaped by their environment and evolve to adapt to
their environment very quickly.
How quickly can people adapt? It depends, but one indicator is the fox domestication
experiment that took place in Russia. Russian researchers took a species of fox that had never
been domesticated and selectively bred them to see how many generations it would take to
domesticate them. The first generation behaved largely hostile to the researchers, often
reacting with fear and anger and attempting to attack their handlers even when being fed. But
some of the foxes were more hostile than others, and some were more passive and showed
occasional signs of friendliness. The ones who showed more friendliness and less hostility were
selected to breed more while the ones who showed the most hostility to their handlers were not
allowed to breed. It took 6 generations for the first fox who behaved like a mostly
domesticated animal – showing affection to humans, only attacking their handlers when
provoked, making noise and movements to attempt to communicate with their handlers – was
born. Within 10 generations about 18% behaved like domesticated animals. At 20 generations,
over a third did, and by 30 generations about three fourths did.
[12] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyudmila_Trut Today, after over 40 generations, nearly
all of the foxes born behave like fully domesticated animals.
If 40 generations is at least enough time to cause as major a change as going from a wild,
hostile animal to a friendly domesticated animal, something which involves a significant
population wide shift in a large number of genes affecting personality, it's likely that 40
generations would be more than enough time to close the gap between blacks and whites –
assuming the right kind of selective pressure. 40 generations in humans is about 1000 years,
which may seem like a long time, but significant shifts in behavior would be seen within just a
few generations. American blacks have already been adapting to white society for centuries, and
it's likely the harsh selective pressure of the slavery and Jim Crow eras, as well as the
mixing of some European DNA into most American blacks during that time, helped accelerate the
process and explains why American blacks are doing so much better than blacks in Africa and
places like Haiti where they did not intermix and did not face the same levels of selective
pressure from whites. And if the differences between blacks and whites are not as big as the
differences between domesticated and wild animals, then we can expect it to take less time to
catch black Americans up to white Americans – provided they face harsher selective
pressure to remove the worst members of their population from their gene pool and encourage the
best to breed more.
No serious evolutionary biologist believes selective pressure would not work to cause
significant changes in a population. Of course the tens of thousands of years of evolutionary
separation between different racial hereditary groups living in different environments,
particularly after the development of organized civilizations which came with their own forms
of selective pressure, caused us to develop different traits, and of course we are continuing
to evolve and adapt to our ever changing environment. Noted evolutionary biologist Richard
Dawkins has even stated that eugenics obviously would work, and that any objections to it (of
which he has many) must be made on ethical grounds because the scientific evidence solidly
supports the idea that you can change the traits of a human population over time through
selective pressure, just as you can for any other species.
[13] https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/feb/17/ric...eugen/ So the question for the
black population, once they've accepted the scientific evidence that they are more prone to
violent crime and less capable of attaining economic success due to genetic differences, is not
whether or not they can change this fact – of course they can. The question is whether or
not they should, and if so, how they should and what the selective pressure needed to cause the
changes they want to make to their people should look like. Is it more unethical for blacks to
selectively remove the most aggressive, impulsive, unteachable, and crime prone members of
their community to improve the community as a whole, or to continue to be mired in poverty and
crime, unable to rise above their current station in life, to remain the butt of every racist
joke for generations to come?
Even if blacks choose not to use eugenic selection to improve as a people, there are many
ways biological realism can help them. Even if you reject the idea that race is genetic and not
just skin color, skin color matters more than people like to admit. Darker skin makes it harder
to produce enough vitamin D from sunlight, so black people need to live in areas with more
sunlight (closer to the equator) to get an adequate amount of vitamin D, and may be healthier
working outdoors rather than adopting the indoor office work lifestyle of lighter skinned
whites and east Asians who need less sunlight to be healthy.
This may help to explain why northern cities that never had Jim Crow laws and outlawed
slavery far earlier often have even higher violent crime rates among the black population than
southern cities where historical oppression supposedly affected blacks there more. Perhaps
blacks in northern cities like Detroit, Chicago, and New York would be better off moving south
to sunnier climates where they can be healthier, and perhaps whites in the deep south –
particularly Florida, the sunniest state in the country and the one state where there seems to
be an abundance of crazy white people – should move further north to climates where they
don't get too much sun.
Environment can affect people in a lot of ways, both the natural environment and the social,
political, and economic environment, but often those effects are the exact opposite of what the
left likes to claim. Take gun control, for example. White leftists claim greater availability
of guns increases violent crime. The exact opposite seems to be true. Blacks and Hispanics have
about half as high a gun ownership rate as whites, and yet commit far higher rates of violent
crime.
[16] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/07/15/the...holds/ Blacks are also much
more likely to be arrested for gun control and weapons law violations according to FBI arrest
rate stats, making up about 43% of those arrested but only about 6% of gun owners, one of the
few areas of crime (along with drug laws, another victimless crime) where blacks actually are
disproportionately far more likely to get arrested relative to whites after adjusting for
differences in behavior between blacks and whites, and in this case it's because of the
policies of Democrat politicians that blacks overwhelmingly vote for.
Part of the reason why violent crime is higher in black and brown communities than in white
communities is likely that in white communities where gun ownership rates are high, violent
crime is much more likely to result in the criminal's death. This creates an environment where
criminals (and therefore people who are more crime-prone) are regularly removed from the gene
pool, resulting in much lower crime rates in the long run, while in black and brown
neighborhoods criminals are much more likely to survive and benefit from their criminality,
resulting in the genes that make them crime prone being more likely to be passed on. Modern gun
control may only have been around for a few generations, long enough to make small changes in
the frequency of genes that contribute to criminality but not long enough to explain the full
difference. Historically, whites have practiced selective removal of criminals for large
portions of their history – the Romans used crucifixion for hundreds of years to remove
criminals and anti-social types from the European gene pool, and hangings and public executions
of criminals were common for much of later European history, long enough to have a significant
impact on their gene pool, while the African populations American blacks are descended from
typically did not have organized or codified legal systems that sought to remove bad actors
from their populations until after contact with Eurasian peoples. If blacks want to catch up in
removing criminals from their communities but don't want to use direct eugenics to remove
people with specific genes from their gene pool, perhaps rolling back gun control and
encouraging the more responsible members of their community to own and learn to use guns so
they can defend their communities from the criminals who prey on them would be a good step in
that direction, though whites (particularly white urban leftists) who live near their
communities will be understandably wary of the most violent people in America wanting higher
rates of gun ownership, even if they will go to great lengths to hide that fact and conceal
their racism by arguing for gun control on other grounds.
If black Americans want to improve their situation, they will need to change their strategy,
both culturally and politically. Welfare programs enable the least capable among them to
survive at the expense of the most capable, preventing them from evolving to be more capable,
and eliminates the need for stable families. Gun control enables the survival of criminals at
the expense of the innocent. Many of the policies blacks are tricked into voting for by white
leftists are terrible for their community; even the most virulent racists who want to lynch
black criminals would be better for their community than white leftists who want to make
criminality thrive in the black community, and the meritocratic portion of the conservative
movement and Republican Party that prides itself on valuing individual ability over group
identifiers would likely do far more good for the black community than the progressive movement
and Democratic Party that have tricked blacks into destroying their own families and
communities for decades. Simply leaving the Democrat plantation for the Trump Republicans will
be enough to get the black community started on the path towards a better future. But it may
not be enough in the long run. Blacks do have some genetic strength, such as higher rates of
genes like the 577R allele of the ACTN3 gene that makes your muscle fibers more powerful and
makes those who have it capable of running faster, and they seem to have plenty of musical
talent if their history of inspiring jazz, rock, rap, and other new genres of music is any
indication. Preserving those strengths as they try to remove their weaknesses may not be easy,
and in the case of their strength and speed it may not even be necessary as we head towards a
more automated and tech-centric future where intellect will likely matter even more and
physical ability even less than they do now in our modern era where intellectual work generally
pays far more than physical work. Blacks will need to do some soul searching as a community to
determine what direction their people need to head in to survive and thrive in the future and
how best to get there.
A sports and game metaphor written by someone who is totally unaware of the history of gaming
and sports in the US.
"When refs make a call against them, they start a fight instead of accepting the call and
playing better to overcome the setback. "
You have got to kidding. Any attempt to pin bad sportsmanship on blacks is just scatter
gunned with whites having apoplectic fits not only over the rules, but why=o makes the rules,
why are there rules . . .
The founders had a life essentially paid for by the British people. Thy free press, free
speech, trial by jury, common law, capital markets, a stable currency, basically unfettered
access to the world's oceans, representative government here an abroad -- though the one
complaint that made some sense was having representation in Great Britain proper.
Th British people secured paid for protection of the colonies, provided cheaper goods than
foreign providers, even permitted the colonies slaves . . .
n yet the founders were constantly whining about not being free. They got wealthy off of
Great Britain's protection, but they complained about taxes and having to food to the
military that served their interests . . . in fact they complained about everything. They
even complained that Parliament wanted the treaties with the native Americans respected,
Danial Boone and company weren't having it.
trying to make a case of poor sportsmanship in light of who we are as a people and a
nations -- -
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- –
Perfect example of the kind on nonsense is the above statement.
"If 40 generations is at least enough time to cause as major a change as going from a
wild, hostile animal to a friendly domesticated animal, something which involves a
significant population wide shift in a large number of genes affecting personality, it's
likely that 40 generations would be more than enough time to close the gap between blacks and
whites – assuming the right kind of selective pressure."
That's 40 generations denied access to the same tools and even the rules muchless the
playing field. You make that astounding above observation in the same article you grant out
"Jim Crow"
Laughing . . . Jim crow is the founders making up rules that benefit them -- getting as
much s they could minus the need to compete with several millions. Laugh. But by all means
let's not talk about bending the rules.
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
Black were not tricked into anything. Generally they were by and large rejected by the
party with whom they share the most in common regarding ideology and as result, sided with
the party who would at least consider their issues. There was no trick. If there was it was
the belief that the party of Lincoln would best represent them as equal citizens and if not
equals at least would not support policies and processes that undermined their hard work and
value.
uhhh no Mr. glen Beck, the blacks who made it though the gate of white acceptance probably
didn't spend their time addressing issues of color by way of complaint -- those issue were
front and center and they set about dealing with them as they were -- as well as the business
at hand. In fact a look at the record is that whites were obsessed with issues of color.
no mixing laws
no walking in the side walk laws
no shopping without permission laws
no being out a lone laws
no venturing into the wrong neighborhood laws
no talking back laws
only certain type of employment laws
no using the pool laws
no promotions over white people laws
no going to school going to school with whites laws
no going to school period
. . .
and of course no sending in the police when called by blacks laws (though largely
unwritten)
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
List for me the number of alleles associated with any cognitive aspect of of our biology
and explain how they operate. Further note the distinct differences between said structures
as they are among the varying people on the planet.
Laughing; it's a strange twist to read about changing the game via some manner of
biological manipulation, though the author has absolutely no idea what aspect of biology to
change to acquire x behavior. But why should that stop him from his unmoored
rationalizations.
"American blacks are descended from typically did not have organized or codified legal
systems that sought to remove bad actors from their populations until after contact with
Eurasian peoples. "
Utter and compete nonsense. The african civilizations are myriad and those that retained a
verbal orals history operated in some of the complex social high context systems that ever
existed. I have a a few more responses, but you are out in left field in ball park that is
playing a game that is made from whole cloth cotton seed. what you mean o say is that the mot
of the african civiliations we are aware on did not have a written system, that we are are
aware if. That is some thing miles a light years different than they did have one. . No the
oral traditions are chocker block loaded with codes and rules of social order -- ij fact high
context societies, such as existed in the continent have a system o social order that
deferred to the benefit of the group. Which in many respects made them ideal slaves and why
whites were not inclined to invite them to read about the society in the west with its
individual demands, because it would have made slavery even more a problem from the tensions
surrounding the society in which they were enslaved -- speaking of playing by the rules
--
we believe all men are born as to equal standing -- the country setting up the rules and
then . . .
"but don't tell the slaves that . . . " Laughing
There's not enough wool here to fill a small zip lock bag muchless be pulled over one's
eye's.
Now let's compare your metaphor to what happens when whites aren't bending the rules and
crying foul and having a temper tantrum every time a black moves in net door or taking the
ball and running away.
Dominant players in track and field.
Dominant players in Basketball
Dominant players in baseball
Dominant players in Football
Wait a minute that's all genetics in your mind. Laugh. The point is that when allowed to
play and play by the same rules – blacks do fairly well and much much more.
But I am going to skip rope back to early US history and see blacks how blacks operated
when the gate keepers of by sheer force of will , chance and the grace of God blacks did get
into the system.
And let's start with Mr. Beck's gambit that backfired to his intentions.
It is interesting that if some blacks embrace socialism, they would reject private property,
because all property is theoretically owned by the state under that system.
And the necessary implication is that under that system the individual is owned by the
state. In reality, people own themselves. A person's body is their property. Their eyes,
their hair. The fruits of their labor, their tools, their property are their property.
So if some blacks accept socialism, they must necessarily accept slavery. They are then
slaves to the state. Ironic. In this age of nonsense and deception, freedom is slavery.
FBI does have strong levers on Trump. This is the essence of the "Deep State" concept --
intelligence agencies became unhinged and work as a powerful political actors.
Notable quotes:
"... Thank you Mina, yes that or the deep state throwing down the gauntlet. I don't think we can assume that Trump actually has control of the FBI. If he did he would likely have deep sixed the Democrazis through the Awan family spy and blackmail scam. But he didn't. They and Debbie Wasserman Shultz were protected/had dirt on DT. ..."
Maxwell's arrest makes me wonder if it is not about Trump throwing down the gauntlet?
Thank you Mina, yes that or the deep state throwing down the gauntlet. I don't think we can
assume that Trump actually has control of the FBI. If he did he would likely have deep sixed
the Democrazis through the Awan family spy and blackmail scam. But he didn't. They and Debbie
Wasserman Shultz were protected/had dirt on DT.
If the kiddy fiddlers get outed following Ghislaine dropping some of her likely thousands
of hours of home movies then that includes Trump and Biden.
In the fetid atmosphere of
accusations against pussy grabbers and finger f#ckers and hair sniffers neither could
survive. The pack will run rabid.
Is there a woman in the house? Yes, they cried AND she has experience!! Plus the campaign will be televised and it would be a virtual campaign because Covid. No
need to rig audience, the polls or the balllot.
THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal.
They weren't only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was
smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or
quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213 th Amendments
to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper
General.
Some things about living still weren't quite right, though. April for instance, still drove
people crazy by not being springtime. And it was in that clammy month that the H-G men took
George and Hazel Bergeron's fourteen- year-old son, Harrison, away.
It was tragic, all right, but George and Hazel couldn't think about it very hard. Hazel had
a perfectly average intelligence, which meant she couldn't think about anything except in short
bursts. And George, while his intelligence was way above normal, had a little mental handicap
radio in his ear. He was required by law to wear it at all times. It was tuned to a government
transmitter. Every twenty seconds or so, the transmitter would send out some sharp noise to
keep people like George from taking unfair advantage of their brains.
George and Hazel were watching television. There were tears on Hazel's cheeks, but she'd
forgotten for the moment what they were about.
Dostoyevsky had a good definition of the political correctness of his day, from his very
prescient novel "The Possessed" [by devils]. He defined it as "a combination of self
righteousness, and the unwillingness to hold an independent opinion." (They were then as now
called "liberals," the "resistance" then to Tsar Aleksandr II, who had just freed 23 million
serfs, created a court system with trial by jury, and instituted elected local and regional
governments. Elements of the resistance assassinated him en route to proclaim an elected
national parliament, the proclamation physically on his person.)
Our state's Oklahoma County DA Prater is pushing for hard hard time for those domestic
terrorists that go by the labels BLM and ANTIFA. Prater has filed domestic terrorism charges,
along with a host of others, that also blend into Federal charges that AG Barr has said those
pecker-woods will do hard time for their terrorism around the nation. Oklahoma BLM leadership
is whining and crying foul. Those pecker-woods should have thought about that before they
stuck their heads up their backsides and committed violence in our state. The Tulsa DA is
also throwing the book at those BLM/ANTIFA who went and got stupid in Tulsa.
The BLM-Antifa Marxist revolution under the cover of ending "systemic racism" is controlled
by the ruling elite through foundations, progressive think tanks, wealthy liberals - and
corporate CEOs you'd think know better.
Success depends on the help of opportunistic Democrat politicians who believe raising a
clenched fist and parroting BLM will get them elected or re-elected, thus perpetuating a system
of crony capitalism and endless war behind a kinder and gentler Democrat facade that is now
falling away.
If one understands that socialism is not a share-the-wealth program, but is in reality a
method to consolidate and control the wealth, then the seeming paradox of superrich men
promoting socialism becomes no paradox at all. Instead it becomes the logical, even the
perfect tool of power-seeking megalomaniacs. Communism, or more accurately, socialism, is not
a movement of the downtrodden masses, but of the economic elite.
The ruling elite, the financial class that has profited so mightily from riots and violence,
will not allow Marxists and black hoodie nihilists to spawn a violent revolution.
Chocura750 , 4 minutes ago
I doubt very much that there is any significant ideological thinking in 99% of the BLM
protestors. Imagine for a minute that George Floyd wasn't murdered, do you think that the BLM
organizers could get 100 people to protest capitalism and rally for socialism.
ProsperD9 , 9 minutes ago
Looks like BLM is about to get canceled. They committed the biggest cardinal sin that can
ever be committed on this earth. They can shoot all white babies, they can take over a
nursing home and strangle all the old white people, they can paint the white house
black...but one thing they CANNOT do... .drum roll please ...criticize IsraHell. Looks like
they've done the deed and about to be canceled. Read about it
BLACK LIVES MATTER 'CANCELED' AFTER CRITICIZING ISRAHELL.
HenryJonesJr , 20 minutes ago
More doom **** .... This kind of hyper-ventilating nonsense might sell well in highly
urbanized, totally dependent regions of America, meaning cities. But the majority of
Americans - white, black and brown - despise the idiotic Left and all their violence and
insanity.
So CHAZ instantly became Seattle gangs playground... Nice...
Notable quotes:
"... Seattle saw a 525-percent spike in crime reports due to violence and turmoil within the Capitol Hill Organized Protest zone, according to figures released by the city's mayor as she authorized police to clear the site. Mayor Jenny Durkan's executive order to oust the protesters from the self-proclaimed six-block cop-free zone states the "narcotics use and violent crime, including rape, robbery, assault, and increased gang activity" since 'CHOP' first appeared in early June. ..."
"... The mayor authorized police to take back the neighborhood on Wednesday, saying that conditions in CHOP have worsened "to the point where activities in and around this area threaten public health, life, and safety." ..."
"... Durkan had initially recognized the "autonomous zone" clustered around the deserted East Precinct police station, describing it as a "peaceful expression of our community's collective grief," and confirmation of Seattle's "democracy." ..."
Seattle saw a 525-percent spike in crime reports due to violence and turmoil within the Capitol Hill
Organized Protest zone, according to figures released by the city's mayor as she authorized police to
clear the site.
Mayor Jenny Durkan's executive order to oust the protesters from the self-proclaimed six-block
cop-free zone states the "narcotics use and violent crime, including rape, robbery, assault, and
increased gang activity"
since 'CHOP' first appeared in early June.
In less than a month, the
self-declared
"autonomous zone"
has seen two deadly shootings and a serious hike in reported
incidents of crime. Two black teens, aged 16 and 19, were shot dead in separate incidents. For
comparison, that's how many were recorded in the entire Capitol Hill neighborhood in all of the
previous year.
"An increase of 525 percent, 22 additional incidents, in person-related crime in the area, to
include two additional homicides, six additional robberies, and 16 additional aggravated assaults,"
Durkan's
order says.
The mayor authorized police to take back the neighborhood on Wednesday, saying that conditions in
CHOP have worsened
"to the point where activities in and around this area threaten public health,
life, and safety."
On Wednesday morning, Seattle police reclaimed their precinct in the city's
"occupied"
protest zone, arresting at least 31 people. Police Chief Carmen Best said in a statement that her
officers were moving in after
"weeks of violence"
in and around the protest zone.
"The CHOP has become lawless and brutal. Four shootings – two fatal – robberies, assaults,
violence, and countless property crimes have occurred in this several block area,"
Best said.
Demonstrators had occupied several blocks around a park and the Seattle Police Department's East
Precinct after officers abandoned the building on June 8 following clashes with protesters demanding
an end to police brutality. CHOP, previously called 'CHAZ,' area was originally portrayed as a
peaceful rally against police brutality over the death of George Floyd in police custody in
Minneapolis in May.
Durkan had initially recognized the "autonomous zone"
clustered around the deserted East
Precinct police station, describing it as a
"peaceful expression of our community's collective
grief,"
and confirmation of Seattle's
"democracy."
But the city has been heavily criticized for letting the encampment prevail. A lawsuit brought by
surrounding businesses accused Durkan and her administration of
"enabling"
the
demonstrations.
After characterizing the infamous CHOP area of downtown Seattle as a "summer of love," Mayor
Jenny Durkan was eventually forced to acknowledge that the failed communist experiment was
responsible for a whopping 525 per cent spike in crime.
As we
highlighted yesterday , following weeks of violence and chaos, CHOP was finally dismantled
by Seattle police, but only after occupiers marched on Mayor Durkan's 5,000 sqft., $7.6 million
house.
For almost the entirety of June, the area was plagued with fights, bickering, robberies and
rapes, with occupiers targeting both outsiders and each other.
It has now emerged that compared to the same period last year, from June 2 to June 30 there
was a 525 per cent jump in crime.
This figure is even greater than the 300% number repeatedly cited by Seattle Police Chief
Carmen Best.
Rather embarrassingly, after proclaiming a "summer of love" and telling President Trump,
"Seattle is fine, don't be so afraid of democracy," Mayor Durkan was forced to acknowledge the
numbers in her own emergency order.
The order states that there were, "22 additional incidents, in person-related crime in the
area, to include two additional homicides, 6 additional robberies, and 16 additional aggravated
assaults (to include 2 additional non-fatal shootings)."
So in other words, a commune that was built in the name of opposing violence and brutality
led directly to a massive increase in violence and brutality.
So much for the tolerant left!
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If the DNC is rolling up CHAZ or whatever the hell it's called today, presumably that means
diminishing returns are kicking in. Likewise, there will be the next "event" in this
regime-change op in order to keep the heat on up to the election. What will their next move
be?
My view is that politics in contemporary America is about divide & distract to enable
the real looting that is taking place in front of us. The societal breakdown is a direct
consequence of the policies and politics of the past 50-60 years that continues today and
there are no signs that it will change anytime soon.
"... "I'ma stab you, and while you're struggling and bleeding out, I'ma show you my paper cut and say, 'My cut matters too,'" she declared in the TikTok clip. ..."
"... Holding back tears, Janover said she'd "worked really hard" to receive a position at the company, and complained that her contract had been terminated even though Deloitte claims to "stand against systemic racism." ..."
A Harvard graduate has reportedly lost her job after posting a now-viral TikTok video in
which she vowed to assault anyone who didn't support the Black Lives Matter (BLM)
movement.
...
Claira Janover became an overnight sensation after several news outlets caught wind
of a video in which she threatened to attack anyone "entitled" enough to believe
that "all lives matter."
"I'ma stab you, and while you're struggling and bleeding out, I'ma show you my paper
cut and say, 'My cut matters too,'" she declared in the TikTok clip.
...Holding back tears, Janover said she'd "worked really hard" to receive a
position at the company, and complained that her contract had been terminated even though
Deloitte claims to "stand against systemic racism."
..."File under Schadenfreude or Karma," noted conservative firebrand
Michelle Malkin.
...Janover's firing is unusual as it marks a rare case of 'reverse' cancel culture.
Social-justice activists have typically been the ones using social media to attack anyone who
is suspected of holding politically incorrect views.
There is no true, organic revolt in America and there never will be. The recent "protests"
and CHOP and #BlackLivesMatter are a sick joke designed to fracture and fragment America even
more than it is already. All of it will accomplish nothing more than that.
A man suspected of being connected with Antifa was arrested by federal law enforcement
officials for allegedly helping to orchestrate destruction of federal property in Washington,
D.C.
Jason Charter, who was described by law enforcement as the "ringleader" in a recent attack
on the Andrew Jackson statue in Lafayette Square, was arrested at his home on Thursday, Fox
News reported.
Charter was identified in a BPR report as the one who got in the face of One America News
journalist Jack Posobiec last week as leftists tried to tear down the Emancipation Memorial at
Lincoln Park in Washington D.C. Wearing red ski goggles and a bike helmet along with signature
Antifa all-black clothing, Charter accused Posobiec of being "literally a Nazi."
Charter will be making an appearance in U.S. District Court in Washington on Thursday, Fox
News reported.
Four other men also face felony charges in the destruction of federal property and their
role in the attack on Jackson's statue. Video footage of them attempting to pull down the
statue helped in their arrest according to the
Justice Department .
Lee Michael Cantrell, 47, of Virginia; Connor Matthew Judd, 20, of Washington, D.C.; Ryan
Lane, 37, of Maryland; and Graham Lloyd, 37, of Maine were charged and Judd was arrested last
Friday.
The 20-year-old George Washington University student was one of the four named by Acting
U.S. Attorney Michael R. Sherwin after he was identified from video footage.
Documents linked to his criminal complaint described Judd as "a white male wearing a maroon
button-down shirt, gray pants with a backpack and a brown-colored face mask," and yelling, "get
off the statue" in video footage.
Lloyd, one of the other men charged, turned himself in in Portland, Maine, making his first
appearance in federal court on Wednesday.
Oklahoma took a stand for law and order as arrested violent protesters are being charged with terrorism for their part in
Oklahoma City demonstrations following the death of George Floyd.
Oklahoma County District Attorney David Prater announced the tough charges of terrorism, rioting and assault against the
protesters who took part in violent actions during the May 30 demonstrations, referring to the "lawlessness" evident on other
parts of the country, notable the autonomous zone of Seattle known as the Capitol Hill Occupied Protests, or CHOP.
"This is not Seattle," Prater said, according to
The
Oklahoman
. "We're not putting up with this lawlessness here."
Three men arrested and facing terrorism charges are Isael Antonio Ortiz, 21, Eric Christopher Ruffin, 26, and Malachai Davis, 18.
A Facebook video from the violent demonstrations showed Davis, who is accused of damaging the bail bonds office ans was allegedly
wearing brass knuckles. His attorney, David McKenzie, pointed out that Davis, whose father died in the attack on the World Trade
Center on 9/11, struck the window of the office but did not break it and should not face terrorism charges, the Oklahoman
reported.
Ortiz is charged with allegedly burning an Oklahoma County Sheriff's office van during the May 30 protests and also attempting to
burn the bail bonds office "along with a large crowd of other individuals." Already on probation after a 2019 guilty plea to
endangering others while eluding police, Ortiz is also facing a 2019 drive-by shooting charge and, if convicted on the latest
charges, could be sentenced to life in prison.
Police reported that Ruffin encouraged the "wanton destruction" as he streamed the actions on Facebook Live where he was
allegedly heard saying that anyone who killed black people needs to die and "that's what happens when you got numbers outside."
Video from KOCO-TV at the time showed how protests turned violent and how the police responded decisively to disperse crowds and
restore order.
Others arrested on rioting charges were Deshayla Dixon, 24, Adam Warner Hayhurst, 19, Daniel Ray Dickerson, 27, and James Lovell
Holt, 31. Many of those arrested were identified after being caught on camera, such as Holt, who was seen in video throwing rocks
at the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum.
Saxon Weber, 26, of Oklahoma City, was arrested and charged with assault and battery upon a police officer. Police reported that
Weber was armed with a pistol and wearing a bullet-proof vest when he shoved an officer while he was trying to arrest another
protester.
Five others who were arrested have been charged with incitement of a riot. Police reported that during the May 30 protests over
the death of Floyd in Minneapolis, agitators affiliated with antifa or other far-left groups continued to incite the crowd.
"Several people were carrying flags that were identified as belonging to the following groups: Antifa, Soviet Union (communism),
American Indian Movement, Anarcho-Communism (solid red) and the original Oklahoma flag currently adopted by Oklahoma
Socialists," police noted in court affidavits. "Several known supporters of anti-establishment organizations were present in the
crowd."
The ACLU of Oklahoma slammed Prater for politically motivated and excessive charges. The organization criticized the district
attorney the day after the charges were announced, claiming "urgent use of the harshest possible charges to retaliate against
protesters is part of the broader injustice and systemic racism we join Black leaders on the ground in condemning."
"We continue to join with our partners in the community in following the lead of Black Lives Matter OKC in asking that all
charges against protesters be dropped. And (we) encourage people to contact their elected District Attorney David Prater to
join in that ask," the ACLU stated.
green guitar
29 June, 2020
Good for Oklahoma ... too bad they did not have big net to drop on all the rioters thus having ability to
haul/physically drag the nefarious diabolical treasonous rioters all in and charge them for aiding and
abetting terrorism. But three is a good start!
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Ron Gerino
29 June, 2020
The NAACP, the ACLU , and all things possibly associated with the lie that is BLM need to take notice.. This
is the type of response that is being called for by responsible citizens across this great nation right
now.. The is is NOT peaceful protests... this is lawlessness.. and we are still a nation of law and order..
no matter how much you hate the white man, statues, the police, and all of your perceived enemies... Actions
have consequences... do the crime, do the time. www.hadenoughyetamerica.com Join Me...
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Bill Walker
29 June, 2020
About time someone, somewhere FINALLY shows some common sense and steps up to counter these animals
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DEM IDIOTS
29 June, 2020
They need to tear gas them all with a big drop from the sky! announce all abiding citizen to beware and
leave the area. Or spray it with a truck - spray them all.
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Huapakechi
DEM IDIOTS
2 days ago
Remember the riot control trucks from the movie Soylent Green?
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VietnamVet 1967
DEM IDIOTS
2 days ago
They need to do what Hong Kong does they spray them with a blue die that is with the water, It does not
wash off off clothes and takes 3 days on people to run off. They do this so they can find the people who
are causing the trouble
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Cropduster
29 June, 2020
Well, maybe there is hope after all. I certainly hope that the DA doesn't give in to these thugs and drop
the charges.
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OOfdog1
Cropduster
2 days ago
David Prater would not give an over heated bad guy a sip of water. No nonsense
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Tell4
29 June, 2020
I think it is about time that the real Americans stand up and let these rioters and thugs know that we are
not going to stand for this crap anymore. Don't ask the police to come protect you from Anericans standing
up for themselves. That's right you like to scare and intimidate people, but there is a line that they
better not cross. Chaos doesn't belong here in America. We will win in November and Make America Great
dispite the democrats.
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fjclif
29 June, 2020
These are the dems, version of people with stellar character. Good for the Okies. Wish other states would
follow that example. Hope they like the accomodations of their new residents. Im sure their neighbors and
co-habitators will love them.
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CARCOLLECTOR
2 days ago
FINALLY !! A State where Law and Order still is enforced and TERRORISM will not be tolerated !! HOPE this is
an example to the rest of the country about how to deal with BLM TERRORISTS !! Give them the maximum PLUS
ten years !!
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BlueHammer697
2 days ago
As an Oklahoman I'm proud, but don't think we went far enough. Personally, I would Assemble the Firing
Squad. Now, that sends a message to terrorists.
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OOfdog1
BlueHammer697
2 days ago
All citizens of the USA should arm themselves and be prepared to defend our values and principles.
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Linda Shelton
2 days ago
I heard a rumor, which I have not been able to prove, but it said BLM is not a 301 C Anything, and no
donations to them are tax exempt. Oh how I wish that to be true, because all those who tried to do that,
would not be able to take off taxes and would be found out.
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Duane
2 days ago
Police need to adopt a sound whenever they go into a mass disturbance like that of a jet engine turbine
with a loud boom. Sound strikes fear into mobs more than anything else.
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Retired_SOF_guy
29 June, 2020
AIM is still around? Those clowns would get in running gunfights with the USCG on the Great Lakes in the
70s, running ammo and contraband. But well done, OK. This is what happens when you play cowboys and
domestic terrorists.
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Patriot
2 days ago
Glad to see one place where the law is still enforced!
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Bkrgranny
2 days ago
Way to go Oklahoma - You are on my vacation destination list. Any state that allows lawlessness to
continue to occur is eliminated.
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SkeetsNana
2 days ago
Anyone else read that the head of the BLM fundraising is a domestic terrorist that was pardoned by
Clinton?? Very interesting read and it sure makes more sense when you see the tactics they employ. She
was caught with 790 lbs of explosives and a machine gun!!
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Deborah
2 days ago
Grateful for this stand for what is right, and also his insistence that these are not peaceful
protestors. What person of good faith calls the violence and mayhem peaceful protests? How are those who
wish to protest peacefully supposed to do so when these thugs infiltrate their ranks and do harm? Good
for Prater!
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Huapakechi
2 days ago
Is there any reason not to arrest the facilitators of violence belonging to the aclu as well?
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Dixie
1 day ago
So proud of this DA and so ashamed of the ACLU. Finally a person who is living up to his oath of office.
If only there were more, this insanity would soon end. All of this rioting is not helping the black race,
it is turning decent people, both black and white, against them. Wise up people... STAND UP FOR YOUR
COUNTRY.
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OOfdog1
2 days ago
Right now, I'm Proud to be an OKIE. We have common sense and strong moral fiber. I just hope we keep it.
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PurplePlanet
2 days ago
You want me to feel ashamed for the skin color I was born with? Lock these people up for 10 years at a
new government sweat shop. They can pay back the damage that they are responsible for with their sweat.
Fill up those FEMA camps with these lazy nefarious people. They don`t seem to want to work or feed
themselves. Just like the plantation isn`t it?
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estellece
2 days ago
If you can't stand the fire- get out of the kitchen PUNKS! The President already warned you so if you
fail to heed the warning that's your problem. The judge will sentence your stupidity to _____number of
years. It was YOUR choice.
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"... Mr Bernardi said "Democratic governors are failing to uphold law and order and New York City is a case in point". ..."
"... He said the media have acted as "partisan cheerleaders" who have not presented the real situation which is "that blacks are killing blacks in America and they are attacking police officers who are in the main defending themselves and being criticised for it". "This is earth hour for racists". ..."
'Obama was one of the most racially divisive presidents in the US': Cory Bernardi
03/06/2020 | 8min
While the media pin the blame on Trump for the race-based protests across the nation,
President Obama was in fact "one of the most racially divisive presidents in America,"
according to Sky News contributor Cory Bernardi. President Obama "mobilised the black community
against the police force" by claiming perpetrators of violence were actually victims when the
police were in fact "acting in self-defense". Speaking of the current protests in the United
States, Mr Bernardi said many of "these people do not give a hoot about black lives". "What
they care about is upending authority, making Trump the guilty person and trying to diminish
the role of law enforcement in the country".
The protests were initially triggered by the death
of African-American George Floyd, aged 46, who died after a police officer was filmed kneeling
on his neck for almost nine minutes during his arrest for allegedly using a fake $20 note in a
shop. The incident sparked race-based protests across the nation many of which rapidly
degenerated into looting and rioting which has been allegedly spurred on by left wing extremist
group Antifa.
Mr Bernardi said "Democratic governors are failing to uphold law and order and
New York City is a case in point".
He said the media have acted as "partisan cheerleaders" who
have not presented the real situation which is "that blacks are killing blacks in America and
they are attacking police officers who are in the main defending themselves and being criticised for it". "This is earth hour for racists".
'America is finished if campaign to bring down Trump succeeds' 05/06/2020 | 4min
Victorian Liberal MP Bernie Finn says America "is finished" if US President Donald Trump
doesn't prevail at the upcoming election given the widespread protests which have been
witnessed across the country this week. Mr Finn told Sky News "most of the Democrat governors
(and) most of the Democrat mayors, they actually want this to continue". "Because this is a
part of what they see as a campaign to bring down President Trump". However Mr Finn said this
ploy would "blow up in their faces" as many people who have watched the scenes on television
this week "would actually be very fearful of the future". "And would be particularly fearful of
the future if a silly old duffer like Joe Biden became president". Mr Finn said "if Donald
Trump does not prevail, America is finished".
If there's any doubt as to BLM being A DNC pac, this email was sent to me by ActionNetwork.org today.
For weeks, we have watched the result of our rallying cries, organizing, and activism
materialize across the entire country. And as so many join this movement, it's important
that everyone has the resources they need to keep fighting.
Earlier this month, Black Lives Matter Global Network sent out a membership survey --
and the feedback has truly shown the widespread dedication to our movement. The fight for
Black liberation and an end to white supremacy is just getting started. Together, we will
continue to push for progressive, radical solutions that affirm that Black lives
matter.
So many new freedom fighters have joined this movement. Right now, people everywhere are
asking how to be better advocates for Black liberation and how to have conversations with
friends and family regarding ending white supremacy in America. Many simply just want to
know how to help.
And an overwhelming majority want to learn more about #DefundPolice. The Black Lives
Matter creative team is working on a series of resources, including videos, that break down
how we divest from the police and invest in Black lives.
Check out this graphic that walks through the steps of divesting and investing, and then
share on social media platforms so we can show the world what defunding the police actually
looks like.
#Here's how we #DefundThePolice
This graphic breaks down HOW we divest from policing and the steps that come after
that.
Remember, divestment leads to investment. Once we defund the police, we can make
structural change in our communities across the country through initiatives like hiring
more teachers and counselors, implementing restorative and mental health services, and
more.
Will you take a minute to share this graphic to show people how defunding our police can
make our communities safer?
The fight continues to defund the police, and the fight will continue long after
that.
@botazefa work sent out a membership survey -- and the feedback has truly shown the
widespread dedication to our movement. The fight for Black liberation and an end to white
supremacy is just getting started. Together, we will continue to push for progressive,
radical solutions that affirm that Black lives matter.
So many new freedom fighters have joined this movement. Right now, people everywhere are
asking how to be better advocates for Black liberation and how to have conversations with
friends and family regarding ending white supremacy in America. Many simply just want to know
how to help.
If there was any doubt that BLM sees their movement as race war, this should erase said
doubt
Every life unjustly killed deserves justice. In the cause to make things right, I will not
join a movement that has nearly everything wrong. More innocent lives have now been killed
(including cops) since these predominantly violent protests began over George Floyd's horrific
death. What about the black lives
killed in this nationwide chaos? Do they matter?
"Well, you don't have to agree with everything. Just pick out the good things in the
#BlackLivesMatter movement," I'm told. Really? Let's apply that same logic to another example.
I've been repeatedly approached to partner with New Black Panthers in anti-abortion billboard
campaigns. We agree on the violent injustice of abortion, and that's it. Our worldviews are
diametrically opposed. But, but, but they believe unborn lives matter ! That
doesn't matter. Their mission is not my mission. I cover all of this in-depth in my new
podcast, Life Has Purpose .
Yes, #BlackLivesMatter. But Truth matters. As a Christian, the Church should be leading on
these issues instead of sheepishly following a deceptive movement hostile to the Gospel.
The original BLM founders, the #BlackLivesMatter Foundation (BLMF), created it to
radically shift culture. The far-left Ford Foundation, the world's largest population control
organization, vowed in 2016 to raise
$100 million for the Movement for
Black Lives (MFBL) -- a nationwide coalition of BLM groups (including BLMF). MFBL released
a shocking manifesto of policy
positions that are deeply political and deeply disturbing.
Drawing mostly from those positions, here are the top 10 reasons why I will never
support the #BlackLivesMatter movement.
The premise isn't true. I hate racism. And I hate when it's used as a political weapon.
According to the FBI's latest
homicide statistics, I'm 11 times more likely to be killed by someone of my own
brown complexion than a white person. Also, a comprehensive 2019 study concluded: "White officers are not
more likely to shoot minority civilians than non-White officers." Every loss of life is tragic,
but Washington Post's database
on police-involved deaths puts things into further context. In 2020, among those killed were
(all males): 2 Native Americans, 9 Asians, 46 Hispanics, 76 blacks, 149 unlabeled individuals
and 149 whites (whose deaths don't get reported by national mainstream media). Only nine
black individuals were actually unarmed .
There is no goal of forgiveness or reconciliation. None. It's never mentioned on their
sites. You can't talk about the sins of the past and expect to move forward if there is no
intention of forgiveness. I'm tired of the deeply prejudiced oppressed/oppressor critical race
theory paradigm. It's not Gospel-centered. This should, immediately, be a deal-breaker for
Christians.
It's all about Black Power. It's plastered all over the MFBL website. BLMF founders explain their "herstory": "It became
clear that we needed to continue organizing and building Black power across the country." I
don't promote a colorblind society; I love all of our diverse hues of skin. But I'm so much
more than my pigmentation. Martin Luther King promoted " God's power and human power. " I'm with
him.
They completely ignore fatherhood. From BLMF : "We disrupt the
Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended
families and 'villages' that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the
degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable. " Well, every "village" that
has fatherless families is a village that suffers higher crime rates, higher drug usage, higher
abortion rates, higher drop-out rates, higher poverty rates, and so much more. #DadsMatter.
They demand reparations. Ok. Sooooo, I guess the white half of me will have to pay the black
half of me? If progressives want to push reparations, start with the Party of Slavery and Jim
Crow -- the Democrat Party! Let them ante up. But the #BlackLivesMatter movement bizarrely
demands :
"Reparations for full and free access for all Black people (including undocumented and
currently and formerly incarcerated people) to lifetime education retroactive forgiveness of
student loans, and support for lifetime learning programs." Uhhh, good luck with that.
They want to abolish prisons and police forces. And cue utter chaos. MFBL asserts : "We believe that prisons, police and all
other institutions that inflict violence on Black people must be abolished..."Defund and remove the police have been rallying cries. That would be anarchy in
any community. I advocate some needed police reforms and better community/police
relations, but this is just foolishness.
They are anti-capitalism. Oh the irony of this declaration made by a movement that is the result of
capitalism: "We are anti-capitalist. We believe and understand that Black people will never
achieve liberation under the current global racialized capitalist system." The videos that
make us aware of police brutality are captured on phones that are a result of capitalism. The
best way to elevate people out of material poverty? Capitalism. This system is why the United
States is the most
charitable nation.
Colin Kaepernick supports it. A " biracial" adoptee , Kaepernick is now
obsessed with his "blackness." He idolizes the late murderous Fidel Castro and Che Guevara and
worships Malcolm X (just see his social media feeds). Malcolm X was anti-integration,
pro-violence and a member of the virulently racist Nation of Islam (who forced him out).
Kaepernick makes millions from Nike -- a company whose entireExecutive Leadership Team is white (isn't
this white supremacy???) -- that makes its shoes in the most murderous regime in the
world. Kaepernick, of course, is completely silent on that. But you know,
#SocialJusticeWarrior.
Apparently, not all black lives matter. Pro-abortion BLMF declared : "We deserve and thus
we demand reproductive justice [aka abortion] that gives us autonomy over our bodies and our
identities while ensuring that our children and families are supported, safe, and able to
thrive." Aborted children don't thrive. BLM groups announced
"solidarity" with "reproductive justice" groups back in February 2015. You cannot
simultaneously fight violence while celebrating it.
"... This is a red herring, designed to divert one's eye from the real financial inequality (in all nations) and place it solely on race. No racial inequality in wealth between any X and Y households among the 99% comes anywhere near the wealth inequality between the 1% and the 99%. ..."
It's not surprising that the Black Lives Matter protests took place at the same time as the
lockdowns. The looting, rioting and desecration of statues provided the perfect one-two punch
for those who see some tactical advantage in intensifying public anxiety by exacerbating racial
tensions and splitting the country into two warring camps. Divide and conquer remains the modus
operandi of imperialists everywhere. That same rule applies here. Here's more background from
an article at the Off-Guardian:
"It is no coincidence that another Soros funded activism group Black Lives Matter has
diverted the spotlight away from the lockdown's broader impact on the fundamental human
rights of billions of people, using the reliable methods of divide and rule, to highlight the
plight of specific strata's of society, and not all.
It's worth pointing out that BLM's activity spikes every four years . Always prior to the
elections in the US, as African Americans make up an important social segment of Democrat
votes. The same Democrats who play both sides like any smart gambler would. The Clintons, for
example, are investors into BLM"s partner, the anti-fascist ANTIFA. While Hilary Clinton's
mentor (and best friend) was former KKK leader Robert Byrd.
BLM is a massively hyped, TV-made, politicized event, that panders to the populist and
escapist appetite of the people. Blinding them from their true call to arms in defense of the
universal rights of everyone . Cashing in on the youths pent-up aggression . And weaponising
the tiger locked in a rattled cage for 3-months, and unleashed by puppet masters as the
mob
As a general rule of thumb, it is safe to assume that if a social movement has the backing
of big industry, big philanthropy or big politics, then its ideals run contrary to citizen
empowerment." (" The Co-opting
of Activism by the State ", Off-Guardian)
Black Lives Matter protests provide another significant diversion from the massive
destruction of the US economy. This basic plan has been used effectively many times in the
past, most notably in the year following the invasion of Iraq. Some readers will remember how
Iraqis militants fought US occupation forces following the invasion in 2003. The escalating
violence and rising death-toll created a public relations nightmare for the Bush team that
finally settled on a plan for crushing the resistance by arming and training Shia death squads.
But the Bushies wanted to confuse the public about what they were really up to, so they
concocted a narrative about a "sectarian war" that was intended to divert attention from the
attacks on American soldiers.
In order to make the narrative more believable, US intel agents devised a plan to blow up
the Shia's most sacred religious site, the Golden Dome Mosque of Samarra, and blame it on Sunni
extremists. The incident was then used to convince the American people that what was taking
place in Iraq was not a war over foreign occupation, but a bitter sectarian conflict between
Sunnis and Shia in which the US was just an impartial referee. The killing of George Floyd has
been used in much the same way as the implosion of the mosque. It creates a credible narrative
for a massive and coordinated protests that have less to do with racial injustice than they do
with diverting attention from the destruction of the economy and sowing division among the
American people. This is a classic example of how elites use myth and media to conceal their
trouble-making and escape any accountability for their actions.
Whitney is not wrong in that neoliberal elites use identity politics as a diversion even as
they increase their share of the pie at the expense of everyone else. To distract people, they
incite one group against another through their media outlets.
That said, the extreme racial inequality in wealth between black and white households are
impossible
to ignore . The Federal Reserve of San Francisco released a report a few years ago on
racial wealth inequality in the Los Angeles area which found shocking differences. Even some
Asian groups like Vietnamese or Koreans did badly. Only Asian Indians and Chinese had higher
wealth than whites but those groups are very elite with a large share of recent immigrants.
So, those who are correct in saying idpol are used to incite the masses must nevertheless
grapple with these feudal conditions at the heart of the modern American economy. They will
fuel unrest unless nothing is done and throwing up your hands isn't an option, it's an
admission of intellectual defeat.
,,,The media hyping this one death to high heaven, the instantaneous protests, the statues,
calling Trump "authoritarian" (thats the regime change signal, when they call you
'authoritarian').
Classic CIA coup. It hasnt worked, but it aint over till November.
What we can glean from this incident, is that there is a vast secret state operating
within the government, media and the DNC, that does not accept our system of government, does
not accept the results of elections and will lie, cheat and steal to achieve their nefarious
objectives. That's the lesson of Russiagate that has to be applied to both the lockdowns and
the Black Lives Matter protests. They are just the next phase of the ongoing war on the
American people.
What is that state? Who is that state? Who has that kind of power? Who had the power to pull
off the 9/11 inside job and put America into endless wars in the Mideast?
...And just because the rich are taking advantage of this crisis doesn't mean the crisis
isn't real. To believe that would be to believe a logical fallacy. Talib will set you
straight.
...How many are neocons? How many are liberal internationalists? How many of them toe the
pro-Israel, pro-war, pro-open borders, pro-multi-cult, anti-white, anti-"deplorables",
invade-the-word, invite-the-world line that is a hallmark of international Zionism?
The percentage fluctuates as fortunes and enterprises wax and wane, but about 1/3 of
Billionaires are Jews. Based on where they donate their money and the causes and politicians
they support, overall perhaps 90-95% are neocons/liberal internationalists (functionally
speaking, really the same thing). Those are after all the policies that help them accumulate
vast power and riches.
Yes, feudal conditions created by 30 years of mass migration to the United States, in
numbers unparalleled in World history, by Third World populations. American blacks have
suffered the most from this elite project to destroy the white middle-and-working classes.
Blacks have been given every opportunity to pull themselves up. The money and programs that
have been thrown their way have been unbelievable. Some have taken it; most have not. Not
having kids before you get married is another good piece of advice.
The best thing that could happen to the Blacks would be to strip away their dependency. No
more welfare, no more food stamps, no more getting into universities when you didn't earn it.
Let them grow up, own it. Making them into dependents has crippled them, and they wear their
victimhood well. (And there are lots of Whites in that bucket too.) All the do-gooders in the
world can't help those who don't help themselves.
That said, things are now going to change, and not for the better.
No amount of protest or government policy can change the racial income inequality. As Thomas
Sowell, and Walter Williams among many others have said for years, Blacks have to start by
creating stable families, desire for education and a strong work ethic. I can only imagine what
the future is gonna look like for anyone lacking those things. And I'd imagine that the
Democratic tolerance for these "protests" is going to decrease once they assume federal
power.
This is a red herring, designed to divert one's eye from the real financial inequality
(in all nations) and place it solely on race. No racial inequality in wealth between any X and
Y households among the 99% comes anywhere near the wealth inequality between the 1% and the
99%.
If you aren't already living in the castle or the manor house, you are the serfs. Welcome to
the new world, same as the really old world. That 700 year experiment in increasing prosperity
and freedoms for the masses is a genie they've been trying to put back in the bottle for some
time already.
Blacks are poorer because of lower IQ and poor impulse control. In the US they only
average an IQ of 85 which is a one standard deviation below whites. In Africa, it's closer to
70. They commit more crimes which means they end up in jail more often and on more serious
charges. Either get a clue or shut up.
Everybody knows the challenges Blacks face. You mentioned some. Why do you have to so
angrily throw it in their faces?
Blacks have never presented any collective risk to whites. Not when when whites bought them.
Not when in shackles. Never. They are the punching bag for every uncivilized low/average IQ
piece of white trash who needs someone to blame.
Making a fetish of IQ is just another way of throwing up your hands and saying nothing can
be done. I remember when I worked in a prison I noticed the blacks I saw on average smarter
than the average white. Then I look up their IQs (everyone is tested) and the scores didn't
correspond well with actual intelligence. It occurred to me that if you are illiterate, and
antisocial, it would be almost impossible to accurately gauge intelligence. If your numbers
were right , there would be millions of blacks walking around with 65 IQs, not able to find
their way home much less break into your house.
"... Durkan issued an executive order Tuesday in response to "reported life safety, public health and property issues" in and around the East Precinct and Cal Anderson Park area, which protesters have occupied for the past few weeks and which has been marred by a series of shootings. ..."
Police disperse protesters in occupied CHOP area after emergency order Police dispersed
protesters in Seattle's Capitol Hill Occupation Protest (CHOP) area and arrested at least 31
people on Wednesday after an emergency order by Mayor Jenny Durkan.
Durkan issued an executive order Tuesday in response to "reported life safety, public health
and property issues" in and around the East Precinct and Cal Anderson Park area, which
protesters have occupied for the past few weeks and which has been marred by a series of
shootings.
"Due to ongoing violence and public safety issues in the East Precinct/Cal Anderson Park
area, Mayor Jenny Durkan has issued an executive order to vacate the area. Seattle police will
be in the area this morning enforcing the Mayor's order," the Seattle Police Department
tweeted.
Police tweeted anyone who remains in the area or returns to it will be subject to
arrest.
"Commanders have issued a dispersal order in accordance with the Mayor's emergency order.
All protestors are being asked to leave the immediate area within eight minutes. Safe exit is
to the South and West," police said.
The 31 arrests were for failure to disperse, obstruction, assault, and unlawful weapon
possession, according to police.
New York Times Argues Workers Should Get More, but Gets Some Important Facts Wrong
By Dean Baker
I hate to be nitpicky when the New York Times writes a very strong editorial * arguing
that we need more money going to ordinary workers and less to the rich, but it is important
to get the story right. Unfortunately, the editorial misses much of it.
First and foremost, there has not been a major shift from wages to profits during the
period of wage stagnation. Most of the shift from wages to profits took place in the weak
labor market following the Great Recession. It was being reversed in the last five years
until the recession hit. If we use the data from 2019, the median wage would have been 4.2
percent higher than it actually was if the wage share was back at its 1979 level. This is a
bit more than 10 percent of the gap between productivity growth and wage growth over the
last four decades.
Rather than going to profits, the upward redistribution went to high end workers like
CEOs and other top executives, Wall Street traders and other high flyers in the financial
sector, and doctors and other highly paid professionals. If we want to reverse this upward
redistribution, these should be the focus of efforts at redistribution.
The piece also implies that stock returns have been extraordinarily high through the
last four decades. This is clearly wrong. While returns were very high in the 1980s and
1990s, they actually have been well below long-term averages for the last two decades.
In this vein, the piece also proposes banning share buybacks as a way to reduce returns
to shareholders. It is not clear what it hopes this would accomplish. It is hardly better
for workers or anyone else if companies pay out money to shareholders through dividends
rather than share buybacks. (There are tax issues that make buybacks preferable for
shareholders, but since shares turn over frequently, the tax consequences are limited.) For
some reason, share buybacks have become a big cause in some circles, but it is difficult to
see why the form of payments to shareholders would be a big deal.
The piece also is very modest in suggesting that the minimum wage should be raised to
$15 an hour. While this is a good near-term target, if the minimum wage had kept pace with
productivity growth since 1968, it would be over $24 an hour today. The country would look
very different if the lowest paid worker was getting $24 an hour today. This comes to
$48,000 a year for full-time full-year workers. A couple with two full-time minimum wage
earners would have an income of $96,000 a year.
In order to be able to raise the minimum wage back to its productivity-adjusted level
from 1968, and not see excessive inflation, we would have to take steps to reduce high end
wages. This would mean things like fixing the corporate governance structures so CEOs could
not ripoff the companies for which they work. This would mean they might get $2 million to
$3 million a year, instead of $20 million. We would have to eliminate the waste in the
financial sector, thereby ending the exorbitant pay in this sector. We would also have to
weaken the importance of patent and copyright monopolies, making it less likely that Bill
Gates types could get $100 billion. And, we would have to subject doctors and other highly
paid professionals to competition, bringing their pay in line with their counterparts in
other wealthy countries.
Anyhow, this is a big agenda, but if we want to bring about real change we have to
understand the nature of the problem, and for the most part it is not high corporate
profits. Yeah, this is the story in Rigged: How Globalization and the Rules of the Modern
Economy Were Structured to Make the Rich Richer (it's free). **
The Washington Post is Worried Its Path of Structuring Globalization to Redistribute
Income Upward Could be Jeopardized
By Dean Baker
The Washington Post ran a piece on how patterns of globalization may be changed due to
the pandemic. It is more than a bit confused in not distinguishing short-term effects from
long-term effects and its inability to distinguish between problems caused by fiscal policy
and policies caused by the fallout from the pandemic.
The headline for the piece * on the Post's homepage is "Covid-19 is erasing decades of
economic gains achieved through globalization." The subhead is "The way we travel, work,
consume, invest, interact, migrate, cooperate on global problems and pursue prosperity has
likely been changed for years to come."
Literally nothing in the piece supports the claim in the headline and insofar as items
in the piece support the subhead it is at least as likely to be positive as negative. The
gist of the piece is that we have seen a massive reduction in trade and travel as a result
of the pandemic. While some of this may prove to be permanent, the piece gives us no reason
to believe that the bulk of trade will not return to normal once the pandemic has been
brought under control, either with effective treatments or with a vaccine.
In terms of travel, any enduring effect is likely to be largely positive. An enormous
amount of resources is now wasted on business travel and conventions that can be just as
effectively performed on-line. This realization will free up a large amount of resources
for more productive uses, such as health care, child care, and stopping global warming. Of
course, less travel by itself will be a big help in reducing worldwide greenhouse gas
emissions.
In addition, the increased use of telecommuting will allow tens of millions of people to
avoid unnecessary trips to their offices, leading to an enormous saving of both time and
energy. This will also free up resources for more productive purposes. This change should
also help reduce inequality, since so much wealth and income that had been concentrated in
major cities like New York and San Francisco will now be dispersed more widely across the
country. There will undoubtedly be similar patterns in other countries.
At one point the piece warns of restrictions on foreign investment being considered in
Italy and then offers the warning:
"The new restrictions have raised an alarm among Italian industrialists, who say their
country's long-stagnant economy will need more foreign capital, not less, to emerge from
this crisis."
While Italy does need more investment, the problem is that European leaders have chosen
to limit the ability of eurozone countries like Italy to finance investment by running
budget deficits. The problem here is that Europe's leaders, most importantly the government
of Germany, have insisted on policies to slow investment and growth, not an inherent lack
of investment capital in Italy.
Incredibly, while the piece complains repeatedly about protectionism, it does not
mention the most important forms of protectionism of all, patent and copyright monopolies.
This is especially bizarre in the context of the pandemic, since one of the big questions
is whether any treatments or vaccines that are developed will be widely available or
whether companies will use government-granted patent monopolies to charge high prices.
If China paves the way in developing a vaccine (it has as many vaccines in Phase III
testing as the rest of the world combined) and carries through with its commitment to make
any vaccine freely available to the whole world, then this will both be enormously
important in and of itself, but also an incredibly valuable precedent. If a vaccine against
the coronavirus can be distributed in a free market as a cheap generic, it is reasonable to
ask why this should not be the case with all new drugs.
If this were to lead to new mechanisms for financing pharmaceutical research, and a
worldwide free market in prescription drugs, it would imply a huge increase in
globalization and an enormous gain for developing countries. The gains would be even larger
if we moved beyond patent monopoly financing of research in areas like medical equipment,
pesticides and fertilizers, and software.
This sort of globalization would be bad news for many U.S. corporations and many highly
paid employees of these corporations, which is perhaps why the Washington Post never talks
about it. But if we want to seriously discuss prospects for the future in a post-pandemic
world, moving beyond patent and copyright monopolies has to be on the agenda.
There are people who feel threatened and mistreated by the current system and people who
feel threatened by changes. Politics is the working out of those different perceptions of
self-interest.
You completely misunderstand the idea of identity politics as pursued by
Democratic Party. They key idea is to create groups hostile to each other and thus split the
electorate on "minor differences." In no way this is about working out the differences, it is
about amplifying them.
This is done with the explicit goal to avoid political backlash for neoliberal policies of
the last 50 years, deindustrialization, offshoring, and decline of the standard of living of
the bottom 80% of the population.
And to depose Trump, who personify a challenge to those Democratic Party policies
(although in reality, despite his election rhetoric he governed mostly as a part of the
problem, not as a part of the solution.)
The critical issue that the USA facing is how to re-industrialize the country and create
meaningful jobs for people who lost them. Even if this means to make life more difficult for
coastal elites, which are the backbone of the Democratic Party.
That among other things require redirecting of a part the parasitic income of financial
oligarchy and a part of the military budget on the support of moving factories back (like
Japan recently did) and scaling down foreign military presence.
Including downsizing politicized CIA, while strengthening intelligence services outside
CIA, and first of all military intelligence, which is far less politicized and more
objective.
The ideas that Trump supports, but is unable to implement so far.
We do need something like a second New Deal. BLM and "American Maidan" protests in major
cities (fully supported as a tool to depose Trump by Democratic majors as we see in Seattle,
New York, and Chicago) are just diversionary tactics to bury this idea under the smokescreen
of identity politics.
"... I hope people will eventually see how corrupt neoliberal Dems are and how they try to manipulate the population using BML and Antifa. The inability to find a leader and presenting this semi-senile "has been" is another liability for neoliberal democrats (Clinton democrats, who sold the Party to Wall street and still dominate the party). ..."
"... It looks like BLM should be properly viewed as a DNC project, or as the project appropriated DNC soon after its emergence. At least sources of financing suggest that (Soros, Ford Foundation: two well-known faces for this kind of operations). ..."
We should no exaggerate the current events. There will be no civil war. Polarization did
increase considerably. Most people understand that "something is rotten in the state of
Denmark" but can't pinpoint what exactly.
I hope people will eventually see how corrupt neoliberal Dems are and how they try to
manipulate the population using BML and Antifa. The inability to find a leader and presenting
this semi-senile "has been" is another liability for neoliberal democrats (Clinton democrats,
who sold the Party to Wall street and still dominate the party).
I think the proper framework of thinking about this events is "American Maidan": two
greedy and corrupt groups with the US neoliberal oligarchy are fighting for power.
But this country is not Ukraine; it is a much stronger country.
It looks like BLM should be properly viewed as a DNC project, or as the project
appropriated DNC soon after its emergence. At least sources of financing suggest that (Soros,
Ford Foundation: two well-known faces for this kind of operations).
BTW this sad parody on Marxists (should we call them "black Bolsheviks" or this is
politically incorrect?) that we see are just low-level cannon fodder. At the top are not
"black Bolsheviks", but standard, typical for non-profits bunch of parasites and demagogues.
In other words, DNC people.
In this sense, "Black Lives Matter" in reality might well mean "Black Lives Matter only
till November." So not all is lost ;-)
As for Antifa, I think they were created and supported to counterbalance the mythical
threat of "far-right militants" and, as such, are a group that was probably thoroughly
penetrated and even partially controlled by the FBI. So it might well be that a faction of
FBI that created Russiagate is somehow coordinating Antifa actions in the protests.
The fact that pallets of bricks and cans of bottles with frozen water were delivered at
several protests and nobody was investigated and punished for that increases plausibility of
this hypothesis.
I completely agree with your views with regards to this ongoing situation. A month has
passed since the first shots were fired in the liberal-controlled cities against the very
fabrics of society, and it is getting worse by the day and there's no one to stop this Maoist
insurgency. Trump used to trust his instincts and act upon them when faced with crisis, like
not risking fight with Russia in 2018, Iran in 2019 (2 times), dumping Bolton (long overdue
though), diplomacy with N.Korea and earlier in June when he flirted with the idea of bringing
law and order unto the streets by force. But somewhere along the line things got out of hand
and even the generals have turned on him out in the open and distancing themselves from him
as though he is deadly plague. Either Trump is a paper tiger armed only with his twitter
account or his advisors are screwing him big time by not giving him proper advice on how to
handle the riots. with that being said, I am not a Trump supporter at all and lean more
paleo/libertarian, but a maoist insurgency is bad regardless of where it is taking place that
it warrants a serious federal response immediately.
In the meantime, the House recently passed D.C. statehood bill unanimously and I believe
the plan gonna get in the Senate too. This will change a lot of things both nationally and
internationally.
The current BLM/Antifa movement is a powerful tool mobilized by the elite liberal
democrats to fulfill their wet dream of changing the nature of America from a constitutional
small (r) republic to multicultural democracy. Will it succeed?
"Weak politicians who in their hearts are filled with guilt ..."
I think that this needs a quick reality check. Any explanation of events based on the
consciences of politicians is immediately deeply implausible. Ideology doesn't even matter
for this. Nor any other aspect of culture. The people we are talking about are not driven
by guilt or any other aspect of conscience. Such people do not get to the top in the rough
and tumble world of the big time (in any field). To the extent that their rhetoric leans in
that direction, it is driven by a perception that there is a significant audience for such
sentiments.
Rightness of wrongness of the sentiments doesn't matter. (For politicians.)
There are people who feel threatened and mistreated by the current system and people who
feel threatened by changes. Politics is the working out of those different perceptions of
self interest.
"... "White Supremacy" is code for the present forms of government and economy. ..."
"... My eldest brother coined a very apropos term; "Liberal Supremacy" to describe the leftist tendency to dismiss any other idea or argument to their religion ..."
"... Nothing more than a turf war between SEIU et al and the teachers unions against the police union, for the declining amounts of post-covid taxpayer cash. Follow the money as their covers are blown. Grow the numbers of government employee union members at the expense of police union members. This is the only way to make sense out of the obvious inconsistencies of BLM, including using "progressive" ActBlue as their official administrative and fund raising entity. ..."
"... a prominent moderate liberal, here in Hungary coined the current movement "progressive talibs". ..."
"... If you are correct, then what matters right now is which way the defense forces will jump. I think Trump has already lost control of them as evidenced by Miley's memo. Both sides will claim to be defending the Constitution. ..."
"... What are your opinions on the similarities and differences between Occupy Wall Street and BLM/Antifa? There used be anarchist protests at globalist events. Is there any similarity with current crop of anarchists? ..."
"... "Talib" means "seeker" in Arabic, a seeker for truths of religion, in Muslim context. In other words, a student of the Religious Sciences of Islam. ..."
"... The bon mot would be Liberal Jihadist. Just like Jihadist who do not recognize any central Religious Authority of Islam, the Western Liberal one also recognizes not Just Central Authority. ..."
"White Supremacy" is code for the present forms of government and economy. These movements are deeply Marxist,
deeply against private enterprise, deeply anti-democratic except for the Soviet definition of the word. "Government ownership of
the means of production and distribution."
"These movements are deeply Marxist, deeply against private enterprise, deeply
anti-democratic except for the Soviet definition of the word. "Government ownership of the
means of production and distribution.""
We often take a walk in a now almost abandoned office park with tall redwood trees,
instead of going to the park path we're we usually walked prior to the Covid "Crisis". Mostly
private offices. I'm guessing a mixture of professional and tech. How many are going to
realize that the office is now a non-productive liability rather than a benefit? If so will
commercial real estate have a tough time making ends meet? How many pension plans are
dependent on high earning REITS?
My eldest brother coined a very apropos term; "Liberal Supremacy" to describe the leftist
tendency to dismiss any other idea or argument to their religion
Yes, The insurgents have been very effective convincing a lot of people that this is all
about a law enforcement event that occurs maybe 10 times a year out of millions of
interactions. Even those not totally convinced must play along lest they be "cancelled".
Still, it's an urban phenomenon for the most part. If it attempts to appear in rural areas
in any Kinetic way, there will be at least a minor war. I think the insurgents know that and
will continue to infiltrate via the education system.
Ultimately, I have to agree that, as you said elsewhere, there will be a civil war, like
the Spanish version, as well something like the French Revolution in the cities. The 2A was
never more important. The agitprop even had a guillotine outside of Bezo's home this week.
Funny that a noose door handle is illegal but guillotine just fine. We are past logic, equity
and recognition of irony.
Nothing more than a turf war between SEIU et al and the teachers unions against the police
union, for the declining amounts of post-covid taxpayer cash. Follow the money as their covers are blown. Grow the numbers of government employee union
members at the expense of police union members. This is the only way to make sense out of the obvious inconsistencies of BLM, including
using "progressive" ActBlue as their official administrative and fund raising entity.
Accept this time the Vendee will be much better armed, trained, and motivated. And they
(we, if I was young enough) will control the food supply, along with much of the energy
supply. And we'll have lots of allies in cities and on the Coasts.
"The insurrectionists are hoping for a collapse of the will to resist, a PTA moment in
which the weak willed throw up their hands and surrender."
One problem those who rule and own have is that they have been raping their own working
class to death for the last 30 years, sending jobs overseas and importing their replacement
here in our homeland. How many of our own have died of the White Death? We defended their
property during the long Cold War and the second it was over they threw us under the bus. We
only have a communist problem, a socialism problem, a marxism problem, because we got a
cheap-labor-over-all-else globalism problem in our ruling class FIRST.
Who will die to protect the property and citizenship rights of creatures like Mitch
McConnell and Chuck Schumer? Generally by the time a ruling class gets a communist revolution
it deserves a communist revolution. It is the rest of us who do not, but we will get it
anyway. Our suffering, our penance for our forebears not snuffing out the first smoldering
embers of globalism, is just beginning. Those with neither tribe nor nation are easy meat for
cooperative foreign predators who do.
Establishment Republicans bent the knee in surrender by the end of the 1960's after
dyscivilizational eGOP leadership made decisions to destroy our institutional right-wing
instead of the communists, to not fight the culture war and refuse to let the Republican
Party be used as an institutional vehicle to do so. Their default culture is that short term
profits will come first and any consequences will be borne by future generations long after
they would die with a glass of brandy in one hand and a cigar in the other. The end of the
road down which to kick the can is in sight.
The federalism of our founders does not work in a hostile-oligarch-monopoly mass-media
society. A national group in a multicultural society either social engineers others or gets
social engineered by others. Our leaders have been conditioned like dogs (as have we all) and
either they uncuck themselves and reimpose OUR traditional civilization upon the country or
there will be no "will to resist" exercised on their behalf. Either 'our' leaders lead us, or
they will either be replaced by those who will or we (and they) will be destroyed.
Colonel, I believe this statement "something like the way badly behaved children take
control of weak parents" goes for both sides in this dispute and really provides an excellent
description of Trump as well. He has, just like the Clintons inflamed everyone. I don't know
what good can possibly come out of both sides carrying on like three year olds.
For a while, I had some hope in the home school, private school, charter school movement.
The parents pushing for them were trying to hold the line against liberal ideologies.
It's pretty had to work in those movements because parents who want their children in
those alternate schools have to give up some of their financial nest egg building to support
them.
The NEA has worked hard to prevent those movements from progressing also. The largest
school district in our state--one in which I taught until I retired--eventually was able
through clearly union tactics to overturn the voters' wishes when they voted in a school
board in favor of accepting alternate schools, many of which would be run by boards of
parents.
The teachers convinced their students to march with them up an down the major streets of
the district to vote to throw out the school board. I was appalled that parents allowed their
kids to be coerced with extra credit points, etc., to join in those union tactics.
Sorry to say, most of the younger teachers are well-entrenched in their stupid liberal
ideas and have little to no really knowledge in regard to the actual subjects they are
supposed to be teaching. Our popular teacher of ninth graders once bemoaned the fact that
when she was grading a set of essays, she didn't know when to use the word "past" and when to
use the word "passed."
That was the year I gave up and applied to retire. I was in the minority by then and too
tired to keep fighting for real standards in each subject matter.
Been chuckling to myself a bit, I figure us "normies" should start showing up to the
protests in huge numbers to support the insurgents. Make sure to wear Bermuda shorts and
Hawaiian shirts, golf cart optional. The Democrats would freak out and the insurgents would
lose their minds.
pat quote "I would give the insurrectos high marks for their progress thus far." i think
you need to give the system that many have believed in high marks for the progress to this
point as well.. they both lean on each other.. in an extremely polarized country typically
neither side will want to consider this..
I completely agree with your views with regards to this ongoing situation. A month has
passed since the first shots were fired in the liberal-controlled cities against the very
fabrics of society, and it is getting worse by the day and there's no one to stop this Maoist
insurgency. Trump used to trust his instincts and act upon them when faced with crisis, like
not risking fight with Russia in 2018, Iran in 2019 (2 times), dumping Bolton (long overdue
though), diplomacy with N.Korea and earlier in June when he flirted with the idea of bringing
law and order unto the streets by force. But somewhere along the line things got out of hand
and even the generals have turned on him out in the open and distancing themselves from him
as though he is deadly plague. Either Trump is a paper tiger armed only with his twitter
account or his advisors are screwing him big time by not giving him proper advice on how to
handle the riots. with that being said, I am not a Trump supporter at all and lean more
paleo/libertarian, but a maoist insurgency is bad regardless of where it is taking place that
it warrants a serious federal response immediately.
In the meantime, the House recently passed D.C. statehood bill unanimously and I believe
the plan gonna get in the Senate too. This will change a lot of things both nationally and
internationally.
The current BLM/Antifa movement is a powerful tool mobilized by the elite liberal
democrats to fulfill their wet dream of changing the nature of America from a constitutional
small (r) republic to multicultural democracy. Will it succeed?
If you are correct, then what matters right now is which way the defense forces will jump.
I think Trump has already lost control of them as evidenced by Miley's memo. Both sides will
claim to be defending the Constitution.
I am concerned about who has the control of the software and airpower. F35's and drones
against unprotected infantry is not good.
If you are right, members of the five eyes (except Canada) will be thinking that they may
need to make their own accommodations with Russia and China. Taiwan is gone. Hong Kong too.
The Koreas must make their own peace.
What are your opinions on the similarities and differences between Occupy Wall Street and
BLM/Antifa? There used be anarchist protests at globalist events. Is there any similarity
with current crop of anarchists?
Are these mostly "trustafarians" taking advantage of the situation and loosely organized
by the Democrats and their media to take Trump out?
I wouldn't want to be a lefty when this blows up. More than a few will follow James
Hodkinson example and be shooting the soft targets in government from librarian to state rep
all across the country, just like we've been getting warned about every time a left winger
does it. Given the discrediting of government at all levels and voting process sabotage from
the left I suspect that will happen before the end of the year. Those of us still promoting
voting will get silenced or ignored before then.
"Talib" means "seeker" in Arabic, a seeker for truths of religion, in Muslim context. In
other words, a student of the Religious Sciences of Islam.
The bon mot would be Liberal Jihadist. Just like Jihadist who do not recognize any central
Religious Authority of Islam, the Western Liberal one also recognizes not Just Central
Authority.
I would expect most of the Liberal Jihadiists be from Protestant backgrounds.
There will always be the anarchy of desire versus the tyranny of judgement. We live in a consumer culture that has
ingrained in everyone they have a divine right to have their cake and eat it too...
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Seth Smith, a UC Berkeley student, was shot and
killed the other day in what appears to be a random act of violence. Police are trying to
solve the murder. Smith was a white man. UC's chancellor Carol Christ e-mailed to faculty,
staff, and students a note of condolence that included this paragraph:
We realize this is a difficult time for those of you who knew Seth. It is important to
know that individuals may express their grief differently and we need to respect the
different ways people react and support each other in the days and weeks ahead. Many of you
may have had a close relationship with Seth and are feeling a sense of loss and disbelief.
Others, like many of us, are experiencing stress, grief and anxiety related to the
coronavirus pandemic and the recent murders of George Floyd, Riah Milton, and other Black
Americans.
This is sickening. There is nothing that cannot and will not be racialized and
politicized by our ruling class.
They have specific workouts named after dead black people. For example:
MONIKA DIAMOND
Monika Diamond, a 34-year-old Black transgender woman, business owner and LGBT+ activist,
was tragically killed in Charlotte, North Carolina on March 18, 2020. Diamond's death is
believed to be the fourth violent death of a transgender or gender non-conforming person in
2020.
From the Human Rights Campaign: "These victims were killed by acquaintances, partners or
strangers, some of whom have been arrested and charged, while others have yet to be
identified. Some of these cases involve clear anti-transgender bias. In others, the victim's
transgender status may have put them at risk in other ways, such as forcing them into
unemployment, poverty, homelessness and/or survival sex work. Sadly, 2020 has already seen at
least 15 transgender or gender non-conforming people fatally shot or killed by other violent
means. We say at least because too often these stories go unreported -- or misreported."
Before the workout, follow @humanrightscampaign and read their article: A National
Epidemic: Fatal Anti-Transgender Violence in the United States in 2019
Last week the Supreme Court ruled that LGBTQ+ people are protected from employment
discrimination, however there are still few explicit federal legal protections for
transgender or gender-expansive people. After the workout, check out Freedom For All
Americans and follow @freedom4allusa.
The Monika Diamond Memorial Workout is on YouTube or Instagram.
Here is the workout memorializing a dead black trans woman. It includes "double pushup
burpees," because there's really no better way to honor a dead black trans woman than by doing
double pushup burpees. You cannot make this up:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/cGvuNdW6PJU
The man arrested for shooting Monika Diamond is Prentice Bess , a black man who knew
Diamond (born Jeremy Whitted). I have searched online and seen no reason to believe that the
murder was a bias crime, much less a racially motivated one, as both alleged killer and victim
are black. But let's not let pass a moment to exploit the dead for social justice purposes.
These stupid workouts are "I love my dead gay son" (from the black
comedy Heathers ) level virtue signaling.
This passage from Live Not By Lies reveals what these totalitarians are up to:
One of contemporary progressivism's commonly used phrases -- the personal is
political -- captures the totalitarian spirit, which seeks to infuse all aspects of life
with political consciousness. Indeed, the Left pushes its ideology ever deeper into the
personal realm, leaving fewer and fewer areas of daily life uncontested. This, warned
[Hannah] Arendt, is a sign that a society is ripening for totalitarianism, because that is
what totalitarianism essentially is: the politicization of everything.
Infusing every aspect of life with ideology was a standard aspect of Soviet
totalitarianism. Early in the Stalin era, N. V. Krylenko, a Soviet commissar (political
officer), steamrolled over chess players who wanted to keep politics out of the game.
"We must finish once and for all with the neutrality of chess," he said. "We must condemn
once and for all the formula 'chess for the sake of chess,' like the formula 'art for art's
sake.' We must organize shockbrigades of chess-players, and begin immediate realization of a
Five-Year Plan for chess."
This is not innocent, this stuff. Everything in life must be subject to this ideology.
Everything.
Run by veteran "non-profits careerists" movement is highly suspect
Notable quotes:
"... The black revolution is much more than a struggle for the rights of Negroes. It is forcing America to face all its interrelated flaws -- racism, poverty, militarism, and materialism. It is exposing evils that are rooted deeply in the whole structure of our society. It reveals systemic rather than superficial flaws and suggests that radical reconstruction of society itself is the real issue to be faced. ..."
"... much of what passes for popular and progressive, grass-roots activism has been co-opted, taken over and/or created by corporate America, the corporate-funded " nonprofit industrial complex ," and Wall Street's good friend, the Democratic Party , long known to leftists as "the graveyard of social movements." This " corporatization of activism " (University of British Columbia professor Peter Dauvergne's term) is ubiquitous across much of what passes for the left in the U.S. today. ..."
"... What about the racialist group Black Lives Matter, recipient of a mammoth $100 million grant from the Ford Foundation last year? Sparked by the racist security guard and police killings of Trayvon Martin, Mike Brown and Eric Garner, BLM has achieved uncritical support across the progressive spectrum, where it is almost reflexively cited as an example of noble and radical grass-roots activism in the streets. That is a mistake. ..."
"... I first started wondering where BLM stood on the AstroTurf versus grass roots scale when I read an essay published three years ago in The Feminist Wire by Alicia Garza, one of BLM's three black, lesbian and veteran public-interest careerist founders. ..."
"... Why the prickly, hyperidentity-politicized and proprietary attachment to the "lives matter" phrase? Garza seemed more interested in brand value and narrow identity than social justice. Did she want a licensing fee? Wouldn't any serious, leftist, people's activist eagerly give the catchy "lives matter" phrase away to all oppressed people and hope for their wide and inclusive use in a viciously capitalist society that has subjected everything and everyone to the soulless logic of commodity rule, profit and exchange value? Who were these "charismatic Black men many are rallying around" in the fall of 2014? ..."
"... I couldn't help but wonder about the left-progressive credentials of anyone who gets upset that others would want to have a "conversation" (as Garza put it) about how their lives matter too. Is there really something wrong with a marginalized Native American laborer or a white and not-so "skin-privileged" former factory worker struggling with sickness and poverty wanting to hear that his or her life matters? For any remotely serious progressive, was there anything mysterious about the fact that many white folks facing foreclosure, job loss, poverty wages and the like might not be doing cartwheels over the phrase "black lives matter" when they experience the harsh daily reality that their lives don't matter under the profits system? ..."
"... My concerns about BLM's potential service to the capitalist elite were reactivated when I heard a talk by Garza's fellow BLM founder, Patrisse Cullors (another veteran nonprofit careerist). Cullors spoke before hundreds of cheering white liberals and progressives in downtown Iowa City in February. "We are witnessing the erosion of U.S. democracy," she said, adding that Donald Trump "is building a police state." Relating that she had gone into a "two-week depression" after Hillary Clinton was defeated by Trump, Cullors said she wondered if BLM had "done enough to educate people about the differences between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton." She described Trump as a fascist. ..."
The black revolution is much more than a struggle for the rights of Negroes. It is
forcing America to face all its interrelated flaws -- racism, poverty, militarism, and
materialism. It is exposing evils that are rooted deeply in the whole structure of our society.
It reveals systemic rather than superficial flaws and suggests that radical reconstruction of
society itself is the real issue to be faced. -- Martin Luther King Jr., 1968
You don't have to be one of those conspiratorial curmudgeons who reduces every sign of popular
protest to "George Soros money" to acknowledge that much of what passes for popular and
progressive, grass-roots activism has been co-opted, taken over and/or created by corporate
America, the corporate-funded "
nonprofit industrial complex ," and Wall Street's good friend, the Democratic Party , long known to
leftists as "the graveyard of social movements." This "
corporatization of activism " (University of British Columbia professor Peter Dauvergne's
term) is ubiquitous across much of what passes for the left in the U.S. today.
What about the racialist group Black Lives Matter, recipient of a mammoth $100 million
grant from the Ford Foundation last year? Sparked by the racist security guard and police
killings of Trayvon Martin, Mike Brown and Eric Garner, BLM has achieved uncritical support
across the progressive spectrum, where it is almost reflexively cited as an example of noble and
radical grass-roots activism in the streets. That is a mistake.
I first started wondering where BLM stood on the AstroTurf versus grass roots scale when I
read an essay published three years ago in The Feminist Wire by Alicia
Garza, one of BLM's three black, lesbian and veteran public-interest careerist founders. In
her "Herstory of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement," Garza wrote:
"Black lives. Not just all lives. Black lives. Please do not change the conversation by
talking about how your life matters, too. It does, but we need less watered down unity and a
more active solidarities with us, Black people, unwaveringly, in defense of our humanity. Our
collective futures depend on it."
Denouncing "hetero-patriarchy," Garza described the adaptation of her clever online
catchphrase ("black lives matter") by others -- "brown lives matter, migrant lives matter,
women's lives matter, and on and on" (Garza's dismissive words) -- as "the Theft of Black Queer
Women's Work."
"Perhaps," she added, "if we were the charismatic Black men many are rallying around these
days, it would have been a different story."
From a leftist perspective, this struck me as alarming. Why the prickly,
hyperidentity-politicized and proprietary attachment to the "lives matter" phrase? Garza seemed
more interested in brand value and narrow identity than social justice. Did she want a licensing
fee? Wouldn't any serious, leftist, people's activist eagerly give the catchy "lives matter"
phrase away to all oppressed people and hope for their wide and inclusive use in a viciously
capitalist society that has subjected everything and everyone to the soulless logic of commodity
rule, profit and exchange value? Who were these "charismatic Black men many are rallying around"
in the fall of 2014?
And how representative were Garza's slaps at "hetero-patriarchy" and "charismatic Black men"
of the black community in whose name she spoke? Would it be too hetero-patriarchal of me, I
wondered, to suggest that maybe a black male or two with experience of oppression in the nation's
racist criminal justice system ought to share some space front and center in a movement focused
especially on a police and prison state that targets black boys and men above all?
I defended the phrase "black lives matter" against the absurd charge that it is racist, but
I couldn't help but wonder about the left-progressive credentials of anyone who gets upset
that others would want to have a "conversation" (as Garza put it) about how their lives matter
too. Is there really something wrong with a marginalized Native American laborer or a white and
not-so "skin-privileged" former factory worker struggling with sickness and poverty wanting to
hear that his or her life matters? For any remotely serious progressive, was there anything
mysterious about the fact that many white folks facing foreclosure, job loss, poverty wages and
the like might not be doing cartwheels over the phrase "black lives matter" when they experience
the harsh daily reality that their lives don't matter under the profits system?
My concerns about BLM's potential service to the capitalist elite were reactivated when I
heard a talk by Garza's fellow BLM founder, Patrisse Cullors (another veteran nonprofit
careerist). Cullors spoke before hundreds of cheering white liberals and progressives in downtown
Iowa City in February. "We are witnessing the erosion of U.S. democracy," she said, adding that
Donald Trump "is building a police state." Relating that she had gone into a "two-week
depression" after Hillary Clinton was defeated by Trump, Cullors said she wondered if BLM had
"done enough to educate people about the differences between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton."
She described Trump as a fascist.
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Rod
Dreher It actually happened that the President of the United States tweeted approvingly a clip in
which an angry supporter of his said, "White power!" He later deleted it. Axios
reports:
President Trump tweeted, "Thank you to the great people of The Villages" on Sunday morning
in response to a video of protesters verbally clashing with Trump supporters -- including one
man who yelled "white power" while passing in a golf cart.
The latest: Trump appeared to have deleted the tweet around 11am ET Sunday, about three
hours after posting it. White House spokesperson Judd Deere said in a statement: "President
Trump is a big fan of The Villages. He did not hear the one statement made on the video. What
he did see was tremendous enthusiasm from his many supporters."
Why it matters: Trump has already been accused of inflaming racial tensions in the U.S. at
a time of nationwide backlash over the killing of George Floyd. The White House did not
respond when asked whether Trump condemned the supporter's comment.
Details: The first clip in the montage shows protesters chanting "racist" at a white
couple driving by in a golf cart bearing "Trump 2020" and "America First" signs. The man
driving the cart gives a thumbs up and yells back, "White power!"
You know, I actually believe that Trump is so lazy and inattentive that he didn't watch the
whole video. Nevertheless, the fact remains that the President of the United States tweeted to
his 82 million global followers a video clip in which a Trump supporter said, "White power!"
This was a clash between older white people at a Florida retirement village. Here is the tweet
of the original video, from a different account. The "white power" think happens in the first
moments. Warning: if you stick around, an anti-Trump elderly person screams, "F–k Trump!"
-- so, not safe for work:
-- Fifty Shades of Whey (@davenewworld_2) June 27,
2020
How can we be surprised by any of this, though? The American left, abetted by the media, is
racializing everything, in extremely toxic ways. I don't say this as whatabouttery. You
longtime readers know I have been saying for years in this space that the race-conscious left,
by explicitly repudiating the liberal, MLK-era model of race relations, is calling up demons
that they won't be able to control. Well, those demons are now showing themselves. America is
in for a terrible, terrible time.
"He's gonna come down," Umar Lee, one of the protest organizers, said of the statue
Saturday. "This guy right here represents hate and we're trying to create a city of love.
We're trying to create a city where Black lives matter. We're trying to create a city where
there is no antisemitism or Islamophobia this is not a symbol of our city in 2020."
Another protest organizer, Moji Sidiqi of the Regional Muslim Action Network said that in
addition to removing the statue, she thinks the city of St. Louis should be renamed to
celebrate the city's racial, ethnic and religious diversity.
"It's a revolution," she said. "It's time for change right now, our number one mission is
to take this thing down and sit down with people who want to see positive change take place
and continue to heal our country."
Louis IX lived in the 13th century, yet he is being judged by the standards of 21st-century
left-wing Americans, who have decided that he must be despised and removed from the sight of
the public. A group of Catholics, later protected by police, stood praying between the
thuggish, foul-mouthed mob and the statue.
I was one of those people who was divided over whether or not to take down most Confederate
statues, but was mostly okay with it, because I thought it would stop with the Confederates. I
was wrong, and was, in fact, a fool. This has nothing to do with history. This is about hatred
and power, nothing more. I see that now.
The late Stanford cultural critic Rene Girard wrote in his book I Saw Satan Fall Like
Lightning :
The current process of spiritual demagoguery and rhetorical overkill has transformed the
concern for victims into a totalitarian command and a permanent inquisition. We are living
through a caricatural "ultra-Christianity" that tries to escape from the Judeo-Christian
orbit by "radicalizing" the concern for victims in an anti-Christian manner. The
intellectuals and other cultural elites have promoted Christianity to the role of number one
scapegoat.
Girard said in we are at the advent of what he calls "the other totalitarianism," saying
that it is
the most cunning and malicious of the two, the one with the greatest future, by all
evidence. At present it does not oppose Judeo-Christian aspirations but claims them as its
own and questions the concern for victims on the part of Christians (not without a certain
semblance of reason at the level of concrete action, given the deficiencies of historical
Christianity). The other totalitarianism does not openly oppose Christianity but outflanks it
on its left wing.
More:
The Antichrist boasts of bringing to human beings the peace and tolerance that
Christianity promised but has failed to deliver. Actually what the radicalization of
contemporary victimology produces is a return to all sorts of pagan practices: abortion
euthanasia, sexual undifferentiation, Roman circus games galore but without real victims,
etc.
Neo-paganism would like to turn the Ten Commandments and all of Judeo-Christian morality
into some alleged intolerable violence, and indeed its primary objective is their complete
abolition. Faithful observance of the moral law is perceived s complicity with the forces of
persecution that are essentially religious.
The Apocalypse is not some invention. If we are without sacrifices, either we're going to
love each other or we're going to die. We have no more protection against our own violence.
Therefore, we are confronted with a choice: either we're going to follow the rules of the
Kingdom of God or the situation is going to get infinitely worse.
But we don't do this. The cult of victimization and the valorization of racial hatred by the
left is dragging us to some kind of explosion of violence.
Many students believe the only consequence their peers will take seriously is having their
college admissions letter rescinded. "I'm not trying to target freshmen or middle schoolers,
but people who are about to go to college need to be held accountable for what they say,"
said Anamika Arya, the 16-year-old administrator of @Smithtown_Racist_Callouts, which is
focused on Smithtown, N.Y.
"People who go to college end up becoming racist lawyers and doctors. I don't want people
like that to keep getting jobs," Mx. Arya added.
"People think when you call out a racist student, it's ruining their life," said Mariwa
Gambo, 15, a junior at a New York City public school. "But when you prevent them from
advancing, you're helping to stop the spread of racist lawyers or doctors or people who make
it harder for the black community."
More:
Anonymous Google Docs have also become a tool for accountability. "They made a Google
spreadsheet w/the info of racist students who post racist comments on social media. won't you
look at that," one young woman tweeted on June 4. "Someone rly started a Google doc of
racists and their info for us to ruin their lives. i love Twitter," another said.
These lists often contain students' full names, school information, social media profiles,
contact information, the college they plan to attend if available and sometimes screen shots
or an overview of their racist behavior. "Some people say, 'You're ruining their lives,'"
Karina Carbajal, 22 and the creator of one of the Google Docs, told Forbes. "I think it's the
only way to prove to them that actions do have consequences."
A tool of accountability -- this horrible totalitarian practice! Can you imagine
these righteous little monsters turned loose to destroy the lives of others? All of you who
never said anything cruel or bigoted as a teenager, please stop reading now. You are still
reading, because every one of us has done this as a kid. If we are virtuous, we come to realize
that we were wrong, we were immoral -- and we change. These high school Red Guards are doing
their best to make sure that everyone who crosses them will be crippled by their sins for the
rest of their lives. The Times story features no voices talking about the dangers and
problems of doing this. It's just "accountability."
The Washington Post is also agitating for race hatred. Here is a tweet tonight by one
of its prominent black writers:
The lies & tears of White women hath wrought:
-The 1921 Tulsa Massacre
-Murder of Emmet Till
-Exclusion of Black women from feminist movements
-53% of white women voting for Trump.
White women are lucky that we are just calling them "Karen's".
Karen Attiah holds one of the most privileged jobs in American journalism, and she's using
her platform to justify hatred and to come right up to the point of stoking vengeance on an
entire class of people, only because of their sex and the color of their skin.
She's not alone. Time magazine last week published
a story that denounced "white women and their tears" as a source of racist violence. It is
perfectly fine to explore the role that white women have historically played in the
construction of racist myths, e.g., in the South, the fear that black men wanted to rape white
women. But there is nothing in this story that balances it, that discusses how dangerous it is
to vilify an entire demographic class of women.
Where does Time and the Washington Post think this kind of racist journalism
is taking us? We all know that they would never, ever publish anything, or allow their
reporters and editors to tweet anything, about any other racial demographic. In Germany, long
before the Nazis took power, the press worked to shape the public's perception of Jews as a
menace to Germans. It did not start in Nazi party rags. It did not even start with the Nazi
party.
Cafferty is a big, calm, muscular man in his 40s who was born and raised in a diverse
working-class community on the south side of San Diego. On his father's side, he has both
Irish and Mexican ancestors. His mother is Latina. "If I was a white supremacist," he told
me, "I would literally have to hate 75 percent of myself."
After finishing high school, Cafferty bounced from one physically demanding and poorly
paid job to another. For most of his life, he had trouble making ends meet. But his new job
was set to change all that. "I was very proud of my position," Cafferty told me. "It was the
first time in my life where I wasn't living check to check."
When Cafferty was wrongly accused of being a white supremacist, he fought hard to keep his
job. He said he explained to the people carrying out the investigation -- all of them were
white -- that he had no earthly idea some racists had tried to appropriate the "okay" sign
for their sinister purposes. He told them he simply wasn't interested in politics; as far as
he remembered, he had not voted in a single election. Eventually, he told me, "I got so
desperate, I was showing them the color of my skin. I was saying, 'Look at me. Look at the
color of my skin.'"
It was all to no avail. SDG&E, Cafferty told me, never presented him with any evidence
that he held racist beliefs or knew about the meaning of his gesture. Yet he was
terminated.
The loss of his job has left Cafferty shaken. A few days ago, he spoke with a
mental-health counselor for the first time in his life. "A man can learn from making a
mistake," he told me. "But what am I supposed to learn from this? It's like I was struck by
lightning."
I hope he sues his former employer for wrongful termination, and takes them to the cleaners.
Mounk tells a couple more stories, including one of an Arab immigrant business owner who saw
his life's work ruined when the social media mob set on him because of racist tweets his
daughter sent out eight years ago . Mounk is concerned that these excesses will turn
people against the move for social justice.
What must be created is an environment in which people discipline themselves . But
they will only do this when they fear exposure (and subsequent punishment) so much that they
will go to extreme lengths to perform their obedience . And people will only exert the
energy to enact this ongoing self-policing if they believe that anything they do or say can
be seen. They need to believe that they are living in a Panopticon .
This is where social media come in. If everyone has a smartphone and access to social
media accounts, then anything you do or say might be recorded and published. Anything those
to whom you are related do or say may be recorded and published, to shame you before
the entire world. From the perspective of those who lust for social control, this is an ideal
situation, because if they make you sufficiently fearful of exposure then you will not only
police yourself, you will police your friends and family. And if you can be exposed and
punished not only for what you intentionally do and say, but for what you inadvertently do
and say, and for what people you know do and say, then you will become obsessively
vigilant in your policing.
That is why, for those who want to effect social change by exposure and shaming, punishing
the innocent is a feature of their system, not a bug. It increases fear, which increases
discipline, not only of oneself but of others. And every employer who fires an employee
because they're afraid of a social-media mob draws us closer to a fully Panoptic society, a
social tyranny with an efficiency beyond the dreams of totalitarian societies of the
past.
I repeat: the American media -- people in my business -- are aiders and abetters of this
soft totalitarianism. As disgusting as it was to see Donald Trump retweet a "white power" clip,
however briefly, every single day brings a deluge of opinion and news coverage advancing what
you might call "anti-white power." Where do these people think this is going to end up?
The lefty journalist Matt Taibbi is unnerved by what he sees. Here is a link to an important essay by
Taibbi on the fraudulent white racial grifter Robin DiAngelo, author of White
Fragility , the bestselling book in the country. Excerpts:
A core principle of the academic movement that shot through elite schools in America since
the early nineties was the view that individual rights, humanism, and the democratic process
are all just stalking-horses for white supremacy. The concept, as articulated in books like
former corporate consultant Robin DiAngelo's White Fragility (Amazon's #1
seller !) reduces everything, even the smallest and most innocent human interactions, to
racial power contests.
It's been mind-boggling to watch White Fragility celebrated in recent weeks. When
it surged past a Hunger Games book on bestseller lists, USA Today
cheered , "American readers are more interested in combatting racism than in literary
escapism." When DiAngelo appeared on The Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon
gushed , "I know everyone wants to talk to you right now!" White Fragility has
been pitched as an uncontroversial road-map for fighting racism, at a time when after the
murder of George Floyd Americans are suddenly (and appropriately) interested in doing just
that. Except this isn't a straightforward book about examining one's own prejudices. Have the
people hyping this impressively crazy book actually read it?
DiAngelo isn't the first person to make a buck pushing tricked-up pseudo-intellectual
horseshit as corporate wisdom, but she might be the first to do it selling Hitlerian race
theory. White Fragility has a simple message: there is no such thing as a universal
human experience, and we are defined not by our individual personalities or moral choices,
but only by our racial category.
If your category is "white," bad news: you have no identity apart from your participation
in white supremacy ("Anti-blackness is foundational to our very identities Whiteness has
always been predicated on blackness"), which naturally means "a positive white identity is an
impossible goal."
More:
At a time of catastrophe and national despair, when conservative nationalism is on the
rise and violent confrontation on the streets is becoming commonplace, it's extremely
suspicious that the books politicians, the press, university administrators, and corporate
consultants alike are asking us to read are urging us to put race even more at the center of
our identities, and fetishize the unbridgeable nature of our differences. Meanwhile books
like The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and To Kill a Mockingbird, which are
both beautiful and actually anti-racist, have been banned, for
containing the "N-word ." ( White Fragility contains it too, by the way). It's
almost like someone thinks there's a benefit to keeping people divided.
You know where this is all going, don't you? If we don't stop it, I mean?
Earlier this month, the controversial French writer
Jean Raspail died at age 94. In 1973, Raspail wrote a dystopian futuristic novel that has
become a favorite of the far right: The Camp of the Saints. It's about the collapse of
Western civilization under pressure from Third World immigrants. I read the book back in 2015
to understand why it was so important to the far right. I wrote a long blog about it, titled
"Good Lessons From A Bad Book," in which I acknowledged and criticized the repulsive racism
of the novel (which got my blog post denounced by an alt-right writer as "politically
correct"), but I also said that there is something important in its pages. From that blog:
Even a bad book may have something valuable to say to us. This is true of The Camp of
the Saints . One aspect of the novel that I can't shake off, though, is Raspail's
portrait of the migrants as not giving a damn about European civilization. It's nothing
personal; rather, they don't believe they are coming to Europe as beggars who ought to be
grateful for charity, but move as a mass that believes it is entitled to what the Europeans
have. Europeans, by contrast, are, in the book, the ones who agonize over their civilization,
whether it is worth defending, and what it means to be truly Western. The leaders in Camp
of the Saints are not consciously surrendering, but rather they mask their cultural
surrender with humanitarianism. They think that by flinging their doors open to the Third
World masses, they are being good Westerners.
This is why the real villains in Raspail's novel aren't the migrants, but the European
elites. He believes, it appears, that the Europeans ought to do whatever it takes to defend
their civilization from the barbarian invasion. Raspail denounces contemporary France,
though, as an exhausted civilization that is eager to be relieved of its burdens. To borrow a
line from Cavafy, "those people, the barbarians, were a kind of solution."
Here's what is so unnerving about reading the damn novel: so much of it could be lifted
from today's headlines. Reading it brought to mind more than once what people used to say
back in the Nineties about gangsta rap: that as vulgar and as repulsive as it may have been,
it told us something important about conditions in the inner cities. You don't have to
endorse Raspail's radical racialist vision to recognize that there is diagnostic value in his
novel.
And:
To conclude, what are the good lessons from this bad book, The Camp of the Saints ?
I'm not sure there are "lessons" to be learned as much as the extremely dark novel gives one
a more skeptical eye towards humanitarian pronouncements about migrants from European
leaders, including church leaders. In the book, the militant pro-migrant humanitarianism of
the elites and the masses that follow them do not reflect moral strength, but actually
exemplify moral exhaustion. Camp is a dystopian fantasy, certainly, but the core
questions it poses regarding what European civilization is, what Christian civilization is,
and the lengths to which Europeans ought to be prepared to go to defend what they have, are
important ones, even if Raspail answers them in a way that provokes disgust, and that
Christians, at least, will find unacceptable.
The extravagant emotionalism and self-abasement that the novel's French elites (academic,
governmental, media, ecclesial, etc) show towards the migrants who hate everything they stand
for is awfully familiar now, in their reaction to the George Floyd killing. It's both a mania,
and a form of moral exhaustion. Here's why I bring it up in this space: in Raspail's
pitch-black vision, France cannot be saved, but whites who do not accept surrender go out with
a burst of savage, murderous violence. My fear, growing every day, is that this nightmare
racist novel is a prologue for what's coming to America.
As I see it, the only way for people in a multiracial, pluralistic, modern democratic
society to live together is through the old-fashioned liberal principles whose most prominent
advocate was Martin Luther King, Jr. The left, led by academic and media institutions, is
pulling those principles down with the ideological fervor of fanatical iconoclasts. Nobody is
thinking about where this cannot help but lead. What do you think the Emmanuel Caffertys are
going to do when their livelihoods are taken from them, and their children, and their
children's children, are set up to suffer for their supposed sins, all in the name of justice?
Jean Raspail, in his extremely dark way, thought about it. So did Slobodan Milosevic .
While directed against Trump, this Chris Hedges philippics applies to American Maidan and
non-profit-industrial complex that finances and organizes it, as well as to MSM that clear it in
wane hope to grab power back from "national neoliberalism" movement personified by Trump. Time of
classic neoliberalism and the dominance of Clinton wing of Democratic party in US politics is
over. This is just an agony; even if Biden wins that will be a Pyrrhic victory: Biden victory
will trigger internal civil war with neoliberal Dems.
Editor's
note: Chris Hedges has the day off. Here's a repost of his Jan. 30 column, originally published
10 days after Donald Trump became president.
Reality is under assault. Verbal confusion reigns. Truth and illusion have merged. Mental
chaos makes it hard to fathom what is happening. We feel trapped in a hall of mirrors. Exposed
lies are answered with other lies. The rational is countered with the irrational. Cognitive
dissonance prevails. We endure a disquieting shame and even guilt. Tens of millions of
Americans, especially women, undocumented workers, Muslims and African-Americans, suffer the
acute anxiety of being pursued by a predator. All this is by design. Demagogues always infect
the governed with their own psychosis.
"The comparison between totalitarianism and psychosis is not incidental," the psychiatrist Joost A.M.
Meerloo wrote in his book "The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control,
Menticide, and Brainwashing." "Delusional thinking inevitably creeps into every form of tyranny
and despotism. Unconscious backward forces come into action. Evil powers from the archaic past
return. An automatic compulsion to go on to self-destruction develops, to justify one mistake
with a new one; to enlarge and expand the vicious pathological circle becomes the dominating
end of life. The frightened man, burdened by a culture he does not understand, retreats into
the brute's fantasy of limitless power in order to cover up the vacuum inside himself. This
fantasy starts with the leaders and is later taken over by the masses they oppress."
... ... ...
"Before they seize power and establish a world according to their doctrines, totalitarian
movements conjure up a lying world of consistency which is more adequate to the needs of the
human mind than reality itself; in which, through sheer imagination, uprooted masses can feel
at home and are spared the never-ending shocks which real life and real experiences deal to
human beings and their expectations," Hannah Arendt wrote in "The Origins of
Totalitarianism." "The force possessed by totalitarian propaganda -- before the movements have
the power to drop iron curtains to prevent anyone's disturbing, by the slightest reality, the
gruesome quiet of an entirely imaginary world -- lies in its ability to shut the masses off
from the real world."
... ... ...
"I have a running war with the media," he added. "They are among the most dishonest human
beings on earth. And they sort of made it sound like I had a feud with the intelligence
community .
... ... ...
Trump's theatricality works. He forces the press and the public to repeat his
lies, inadvertently giving them credibility. He is always moving. He is always on display. He
has no fixed belief system. Trump, as he consolidates power, will adopt the ideology of the
Christian right to fill his own ideological vacuum. The Christian right's magical thinking will
merge seamlessly with Trump's magical thinking. Idiocy, self-delusion, megalomania, fantasy and
government repression will come wrapped in images of the Christian cross and the American flag.
The corporate state, hostile or indifferent to the plight of the citizens, has no emotional
pull among the public. It is often hated. Political candidates run not as politicians but as
celebrities. Campaigns eschew issues to make people feel good about candidates and themselves.
Ideas are irrelevant. Emotional euphoria is paramount. The voter is only a prop in the
political theater. Politics is anti-politics. It is reality television. Trump proved better at
this game than his opponents. It is a game in which fact and knowledge do not matter. Reality
is what you create. We were conditioned for a Trump.
Meerloo wrote, "The demagogue relies for his effectiveness on the fact that people will take
seriously the fantastic accusations he makes, will discuss the phony issues he raises as if
they had reality, or will be thrown into such a state of panic by his accusations and charges
that they will simply abdicate their right to think and verify for themselves."
The lies create a climate in which everyone is assumed to be lying. The truth becomes
suspect and obscured. Narratives begin to be believed not because they are true, or even sound
true, but because they are emotionally appealing. The aim of systematic lying, as Arendt wrote,
is the "transformation of human nature itself." The lies eventually foster somnambulism among a
population that surrenders to the magical thinking and ceases to care. It checks out. It
becomes cynical. It only asks to be entertained and given a vent for its frustration and rage.
Demagogues produce enemies the way a magician pulls rabbits out of a hat. They wage constant
battles against nonexistent dangers, rapidly replacing one after the other to keep the rhetoric
at a fever pitch.
"Practically speaking, the totalitarian ruler proceeds like a man who persistently insults
another man until everybody knows that the latter is his enemy, so that he can, with some
plausibility, go out and kill him in self-defense," Arendt wrote. "This certainly is a little
crude, but it works -- as everybody will know who has ever watched how certain successful
careerists eliminate competitors."
We are entering a period of national psychological trauma. We are stalked by
lunatics. We are, as Judith Herman writes
about trauma victims in her book "Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence -- From
Domestic Abuse to Political Terror," being "rendered helpless by overwhelming force." This
trauma, like all traumas, overwhelms "the ordinary systems of care that give people a sense of
control, connection, and meaning."
To recover our mental balance we must respond to Trump the way victims of trauma respond to
abuse. We must build communities where we can find understanding and solidarity. We must allow
ourselves to mourn. We must name the psychosis that afflicts us. We must carry out acts of
civil disobedience and steadfast defiance to re-empower others and ourselves. We must fend off
the madness and engage in dialogues based on truth, literacy, empathy and reality. We must
invest more time in activities such as finding solace in nature, or focusing on music, theater,
literature, art and even worship -- activities that hold the capacity for renewal and
transcendence. This is the only way we will remain psychologically whole. Building an outer
shell or attempting to hide will exacerbate our psychological distress and depression. We may
not win, but we will have, if we create small, like-minded cells of defiance, the capacity not
to go insane.
Muhammad Ali's only biological son says his father would have despised the "racist" Black Lives Matter movement and endorsed all
races, never singling "anyone out." ''My father would have said, 'They ain't nothing but devils.' My father said, 'all lives matter,'"
Muhammad Ali Jr. told the New York Post.
The 47-year-old son of the legendary boxer, who is often noted as a cultural trailblazer for black Americans, did not stop at
connecting his father to the "all lives matter" position. He also said Ali would have supported President Donald Trump --
the late athlete endorsed both Democrat Jimmy Carter and Republican Ronald Reagan when they were running for the presidency.
Ali Jr. himself blasted the Black Lives Matter movement as "racist."
"It's not just black lives matter, white lives matter, Chinese lives matter, all lives matter, everybody's life matters. God
loves everyone -- he never singled anyone out. Killing is wrong no matter who it is," he said.
Ali Jr. also pushed back against anti-police sentiments and defended officers against accusations of systematic racism.
"Police don't wake up and think, 'I'm going to kill a n****r today or kill a white man,'" he said. "They're just trying
to make it back home to their family in one piece."
He did acknowledge, however, that Derek Chauvin, the former officer now infamous for video showing him with his knee on the late
George Floyd's neck while he said he couldn't breathe, was "wrong" and corrupt cops should be "locked up."
Ali Jr., who lives in Florida, also singled out Antifa, the group recently recognized by Trump as a terrorist organization.
"They're no different from Muslim terrorists. They should all get what they deserve. They're f**king up businesses, beating
up innocent people in the neighborhood, smashing up police stations and shops. They're terrorists – they're terrorizing the community.
I agree with the peaceful protests, but Antifa, they need to kill everyone in that thing," he said.
Some conservatives have embraced Ali Jr.'s rebuttal of BLM and celebrated his blunt words on social media.
You want to talk about a well-thought-out and spot-on rebuttal to Black Lives Matter?.... Check this out from Muhammad Ali
Jr. -- so many people are WAKING UP 👊🏿 https://t.co/w9XgSnMGtT
-- ✭ Wayne Dupree ✭ (@WayneDupreeShow)
June 20, 2020
The official Muhammad Ali Twitter account, run by his estate, has shown support for the Black Lives Matter movement and posted
generally supportive messages from some of the boxer's other children.
Demonstrations across the nation over the death of George Floyd have continued devolving into chaos in recent days with protesters
pulling down numerous historical monuments, vandalizing property, and turning to violence in places like the activist-run Capitol
Hill Autonomous Zone, also called CHAZ, in Seattle.
"... In the memo, Barr identified members of the right-wing "Boogaloo" movement and the anti-fascist movement known as Antifa as the top targets of the task force. ..."
"... The task force's mission will be to develop information about "extremist individuals, networks, and movements," share data with local authorities and provide training to local prosecutors on how to wage cases against anti-government extremists. ..."
"... people associated with Antifa. ..."
"... "There are some groups that don't have a particular ideology, other than anarchy. There are some groups that want to bring about a civil war -- the Boogaloo group has been on the margin of this as well," he said earlier this month , adding that the Justice Department would find "constructive solutions." ..."
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1289 Comments Attorney General William Barr on Friday directed the Justice
Department to form a task force dedicated to combating "anti-government extremists," according
to a memo obtained by
The Washington Post , raising the stakes in the government's response to nationwide
protests.
Barr argued in the memo that anti-government agitators had infiltrated peaceful
demonstrations against police brutality and systemic racism and "engaged in indefensible acts
of violence designed to undermine public order."
"Among other lawless conduct, these extremists have violently attacked police officers and
other government officials, destroyed public and private property, and threatened innocent
people," Barr wrote. "Although these extremists profess a variety of ideologies, they are
united in their opposition to the core constitutional values of a democratic society governed
by law. ... Some pretend to profess a message of freedom and progress, but they are in fact
forces of anarchy, destruction and coercion."
In the memo, Barr identified members of the right-wing "Boogaloo" movement and the
anti-fascist movement known as Antifa as the top targets of the task force.
Craig Carpenito, the U.S. attorney for New Jersey, and Erin Nealy Cox, the U.S. attorney for
the Northern District of Texas, will head the task force, which will also include
representatives from the FBI and other prosecutors' offices.
The task force's mission will be to develop information about "extremist individuals,
networks, and movements," share data with local authorities and provide training to local
prosecutors on how to wage cases against anti-government extremists.
"The ultimate goal of the task force will be not only to enable prosecutions of extremists
who engage in violence, but to understand these groups well enough that we can stop such
violence before it occurs and ultimately eliminate it as a threat to public safety and the rule
of law," Barr wrote.
The Justice Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Hill
regarding the memo.
Barr said in
an interview with NPR on Thursday that the Department of Justice has launched
"approximately 300 investigations" nationwide, including into some people associated with
Antifa.
Barr has sought to take a tough posture on anti-government groups since some early protests
over George Floyd's death in Minneapolis turned violent.
"There are some groups that don't have a particular ideology, other than anarchy. There are
some groups that want to bring about a civil war -- the Boogaloo group has been on the margin
of this as well," he
said earlier this month , adding that the Justice Department would find "constructive
solutions."
Western societies should stop pandering to "crazy, intolerant hate mobs" who are determined to erase history,
overturn capitalism and attack law abiding citizens, according to Sky News host Rita Panahi. The comments come
after Black Lives Matter activists called for the toppling of the Emancipation Memorial in Washington.
The
memorial was established in 1876 and was paid for by freed slaves, who wanted to commemorate the Emancipation
Proclamation. Ms Panahi said the controversy surrounding the Emancipation Memorial is part of a disturbing trend.
"Through out this protest we've seen the emergence of a disturbing trend, the unhinged, educated but ignorant
anti-racist racists," she said. "You know these anti-racist protesters have a lot in common with real racists.
Like white supremacists they are obsessed with colour, ethnicity and victimhood, and somehow despite all available
evidence they believe that they are both morally and intellectually superior.
"These people think the most
important thing about an individual isn't their actions, their character or achievements but the colour of their
skin and the suffering of their ancestors."
IMHO this is what decades of brainwashing indoctrinating school children and university students has made. Faux outraged
screaming triggered marxists..
They hate debate so much because they have no valid argument. That's why they shut down mature debate and critical
thinking in schools, universities and the media. They think they are correct because they shout racist and express their
wokeness. That's all they have, any further critical challenging of their thinking makes their whole argument fall to
pieces.
It's like watching a group of children having a tantrum. It's lost its momentum now. Every1 is sick of hearing these
people whinge about mindless rubbish.
You won't see such pictures on the BBC. All power to Sky News Australia for standing firm in the face of the divisive hysteria
affecting so many countries today
They don't care about blacks lives they're there for their own causes n use blacks cause because they know black cause is
sensitive issue and people won't push back. If they go alone with their own causes no one will listen.
Sky News host Rita Panahi has warned people to take a stand against the Left's definition of what constitutes a peaceful protest
after widespread violence took place in rallies across the United States.
"The left love to redefine words," she said. "Now the left is redefining what peaceful means. "Any protest that has seen multiple
murders, bashings, widespread looting and destruction of property is not peaceful."
People who kicks a man in the head while he's on the floor unconscious is a coward!! All of this is not about race but power
and evil, pure hate! Killing, stealing, and burning down property shows how sad this world is getting. We have to do something
about this now, if we don't this will be the new norm. As she said, we have to push back. Thank you Sky News for giving the news
straight and not making excuses for the actions of a shark frenzy. God bless us all....
"... "After this week of hearings on Trump's impeachment, it's difficult to find any means to get rid of this sticky nasty mixture: hatred of everything Russian and (even more) of Trump. I will not go into the debriefing, but there is an interesting observation: the State Department has worked on the technology of color revolutions over the past 20 years - at the first stage, NGOs, grants to "journalists", awards and trips to "seminars", "civil society", "anti-corruption" and another standard set of the State Department in a box of "colored" tools. ..."
"... Four or five years ago, such a scenario would have seemed fantastic - the American car was a well-functioning political mechanism ... And this perfect car crashed in 2016 when the arrogant Trump unexpectedly defeated, promising to drain the Washington swamp. Nobody forgave him such impudence, and one part of America with journalists, political strategists, New Yorkers and movie stars rebelled against the other - soldiers, workers and residents of the rust belt. ..."
"... The goal of this political series is to pull out as much dirty laundry as possible and inflict powerful blows on the reputation of Trump and his people. In this direction, they have already achieved certain successes: the president has to humiliatingly make excuses and fend off annoying journalists who, like magicians, get more and more vile fakes out of their hats. ..."
"It got to the point that impeachment proceedings were launched against Trump: in fact,
today the US is creeping a coup d'etat. Yes, it's still quiet, with all the procedures being
followed, but with what manic persistence the establishment continues the line to eliminate
Trump is alarming. First of all, what will happen after the elections, in which Trump, I am
sure, will win. This opens up scope for forecasts and political futurism. "
It's no secret that throughout the entire presidential term they try to get rid of Trump.
American celebrities and journalists rebelled against him: Trump is threatened by De Niro and
Schwarzenegger, top actors of mediocre film comics conduct charity dinners - all the money to
overthrow, real persecution against the president on Facebook, and the slick cyborg Zuckerberg
shrugs his hands - he wanted to spit on rednecks and their leader. Trump declared war on the
destruction of the Democrats, and they rebelled against him in the "native" Republican Party.
America has never seen such hatred of the president and such a consolidation of the
establishment against the internal enemy. The mainstream media attack and sting Trump: not one
of his actions or decisions is approved by liberal journalists - article by article, report by
report, a fiend of hell appears before society, a dirty rich monster who is unable to rule the
state. The president has to make excuses for some kind of Ukraine. No journalist has a clue
where this country is. And to imagine such a thing ten, 20, 100 years ago is simply
impossible.
It got to the point that an impeachment procedure has been launched against Trump: in fact,
today in the United States a creeping coup d'etat. Yes, it's still quiet, with all the
procedures being followed, but with what manic persistence the establishment continues the line
to eliminate Trump is alarming. First of all, what will happen after the elections, in which
Trump, I am sure, will win. This opens up scope for forecasts and political futurism.
Today I received a letter from the "worst man" in the US - Victor Bout. I will give it in
full:
"After this week of hearings on Trump's impeachment, it's difficult to find any means to get
rid of this sticky nasty mixture: hatred of everything Russian and (even more) of Trump. I will
not go into the debriefing, but there is an interesting observation: the State Department has
worked on the technology of color revolutions over the past 20 years - at the first stage,
NGOs, grants to "journalists", awards and trips to "seminars", "civil society",
"anti-corruption" and another standard set of the State Department in a box of "colored"
tools.
Further, everything is as in the scenario: elections - protests - the State Department acts
as an intermediary and allegedly gives guarantees to the ousted government. Well, you all know,
you have already studied this scenario well.
It seems to me that now a new phase is beginning: all these technologies are beginning to be
applied in the United States itself - this becomes apparent especially after the so-called
hearings. So "hello to America from the Maidan." After the election, if Trump still wins, they
arrange a "Maidan" under the umbrella of the Democrats and Soros foster. By this time, the
demonization of the president will reach the desired consistency, along with this, corruption
charges and undermining of faith in the judicial system may be involved (here they won't even
have to try hard). Well, snipers for the "heavenly Washington hundreds" in America are just a
dime a dozen. "
Four or five years ago, such a scenario would have seemed fantastic - the American car was a
well-functioning political mechanism ... And this perfect car crashed in 2016 when the arrogant
Trump unexpectedly defeated, promising to drain the Washington swamp. Nobody forgave him such
impudence, and one part of America with journalists, political strategists, New Yorkers and
movie stars rebelled against the other - soldiers, workers and residents of the rust belt.
Today we are witnessing the last episode before the climax, which will come in 2020. The
impeachment undertaken by the democrats, of course, will not be dragged, but this goal, I
think, is not worth it. The goal of this political series is to pull out as much dirty laundry
as possible and inflict powerful blows on the reputation of Trump and his people. In this
direction, they have already achieved certain successes: the president has to humiliatingly
make excuses and fend off annoying journalists who, like magicians, get more and more vile
fakes out of their hats.
Victor's forecast will come true or not, but America certainly will not be able to pass this
year without losing a single button on his coat.
The author's point of view may not coincide with the position of the publisher.
America is now in trouble and turmoil. The Head of Phanar Archbishopric in the US took the
side of the protesters. Why did it happen and what does it mean?
On June 3, 2020, the Head of the Archbishopric of the Patriarchate of Constantinople in
America, Archbishop Elpidophoros (Lambriniadis) took part in a protest rally in New York
in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.
The hierarch said he had come "to express
solidarity with brothers and sisters whose rights have been seriously violated." According
to the hierarch, "we must say a big word against injustice in our country." At the same
time, Elpidophoros said that "this is a peaceful protest, without any violence, and I
thank everyone, because violence causes even more violence."
The participation of the hierarch of the Church of Constantinople in the protest took
place after numerous demolitions, robberies, acts of arson, which swept through dozens of
US cities in the riots, which have already been called the "Black Maidan". From the words
of Archbishop Elpidophoros, we can conclude that all this is due to the fact that black
people are oppressed in the United States and their lives are treated like dirt; people at
some point realized that they couldn't go on like this and came out to protests.
Archbishop Elpidophoros supported them in this. Looks noble? Of course. But do the words
of Phanar hierarch stack up?
The situation of African Americans: racism or "racism"?
The history of the black population of America dates back to 1619, when African slaves
were brought to Virginia by the British government. For the period from the XVI century to
the XIX century, about 645 thousand blacks arrived in the United States. Initially, they
were all slaves who worked hard. The situation changed after the Civil War between the
North and the South, which eventuated, in particular, in the abolition of slavery. This
was confirmed by the 13th amendment to the US Constitution, which was adopted in 1865.
However, in the southern states discrimination against the black population continued
for a long time. In 1950-1960, as a result of the advances of the federal government and
the civil rights movement, racial discrimination was prohibited by law. Gradually, the
situation changed completely.
Now the authorities and society are trying to show "compensatory" measures with respect
to African Americans, designed to correct historical injustice.
For example, Google spends hundreds of millions of dollars to balance the race
among its employees, in particular, to increase the number of specialists with black skin
color.
There was even such a thing as "reverse discrimination", when they infringe on the
rights of the white population for the sake of the idea of atonement for its "historical
guilt". A case in point is a lawsuit in 2003 against the New Haven City Fire Department in
the United States, which refused to promote white men in order not to offend black
employees.
Nevertheless, historically, in many cases the black population in the USA lives in
separate groups, and the level of education and well-being in the black quarters is lower
than in the whole country. As a result, there is a significantly higher crime rate.
Despite the fact that the percentage of African Americans in the United States does not
exceed 13%, the proportion of crimes committed by them is at least half. Therefore, it is
quite logical that a significant number of criminals detained by the police have a black
skin color. But does this mean that the police are racists, while African Americans are
brutally harassed?
Why did civil disturbances start in the USA?
The rigor of the US police is known to everybody. It is often recalled in Ukraine when
commenting on the unsatisfactory work of the police in our country. Thanks to the methods
of the American police, the United States until recently was considered one of the safest
countries to live in.
However, on May 25, 2020, everything changed. In the evening of this day, Minnesota Cup
Foods restaurant employees called the police because one of the buyers tried to pay off
with fake money. The cops arrived and laid the suspect face down on the ground, assuming
that he was in a state of drug intoxication. The methods were tough; the policeman pressed
and held the criminal's neck with his knee, which led to the death of the latter.
The deceased's name was George Floyd. He was 46 years old. Previously, he was convicted
and was in prison – first for the theft and later for the armed robbery of a pregnant
woman, whose house he broke into in search of money and drugs.
Precedents with harsh detentions by police of black criminals had happened in the
United States before. In 2013, after the policeman who killed the black teenager Travon
Martin during the detention was acquitted, the "Black lives matter" movement arose. In
2014, protests caused by the death of two other Afro-Americans were held under this
slogan, but they did not gain a wide resonance.
However, in 2020, the death of George Floyd led to unprecedented riots in dozens of US
cities. Why?
American Maidan as a trump card in presidential elections
Outrages
in Atlanta.Photo:
newsweek.com
Presidential election will be held in the United States on November 3, 2020. The main
rivals are incumbent President Donald Trump and Democratic candidate Joe Biden. The main
task of Trump is to maintain stability and order in the country, his competitor is
interested in a situation that demonstrates the incumbent president's inability to ensure
this order.
Now dozens of US cities are hit not just protests but real pogroms with robberies,
fires and vandalism. The toughest clashes between police and protesters took place on June
2 in New York. Manhattan, the heart of the city, is destroyed. Demonstrators beat
showcases and robbed shops on Fifth Avenue. There are many videos on the Web where
"protesters" smash windows, take things out of stores, and set fire to what they were not
able to take away.
Outrages
in New-York
It is extremely interesting to know that there are
organized groups of people who deliberately direct the crowd into clashes with the police
and demolitions of shops without taking a direct part in them.
During his press conference,
US Attorney General Bill Barr said
that "it seems that in many places the violence is
planned, organized." According to Mr. Barr, these forces "take advantage of the situation
to implement their own, violent program."
The New York Post columnist Miranda Devine says, "There are a lot of videos in
social media that show 'mysterious persons' breaking store windows but not stealing
anything, or cutting through the fencing of police stations but not overturning these
fences." According to Devine, these are "domestic terrorists who have captured peaceful
protests across the country."
Interestingly, not only white residents of the United States, but also African
Americans are affected by pogroms – the ones "whose lives matter". In this video, an
outraged black man addresses his compatriots: "You are doing wrong! I'm from the ghetto
too. Did you rebel because of the injustice of whites? Why ruin my business? Why did you
break my truck? Why did you steal my computer? I tried to live like normal people, tried
to feed my family, can't you understand that?! "
Meanwhile, Joe Biden is photographed with
black demonstrators, kneeling, thereby showing that "he is with the people."
Joe
Biden during his meeting with the protesters. Photo: Twitter
The
politician also claims that the "peaceful protesters" are now on the streets of the USA:
"When peaceful demonstrators are dispersed on the order from the threshold of the People's
House, the White House, using tear gas and stun grenades, when they want to organize a
photo session at a noble church, one can forgive us for the conviction that the president
is more interested in power than principles."
Ukrainian and American Maidans – is there any difference?
Now a joke is spreading on the Web: "In connection with quarantine, color revolution
specialists are forced to work at home." We will not evaluate the level of wit of this
phrase; we recall only that in every joke there is some truth.
There are a number of obvious analogies between the current situation in the USA, which
we have already dubbed the "Black Maidan", and the events of Euromaidan in Ukraine.
1. Both Maidans began shortly before the presidential election in their countries.
2. In both cases, the opposition of the ruling power has a vested interest.
3. Both Maidans were accompanied by large-scale media support, in which citizens are made
to believe in justified protests and even their necessity.
4. The presence of organized groups streamlining protests in the right direction.
5. In Ukraine and in the USA there were no unconditional reasons for mass protests and
especially riots. The level of prosperity of Ukrainians in 2013 was an order of magnitude
higher than after Euromaidan, while the accession to Europe promised by the protest
leaders did not happen. In the United States, there is no problem of racism, at least
inasmuch serious as to cause such widespread unrest.
It is obvious that the events of both countries are triggered by political strategists
who are skillfully inflating the indignation of citizens and pushing them in the right
direction.
On June 3, another analogy with the Ukrainian Euromaidan emerged in the USA – support
for protests by some religious organizations, in particular, by the hierarch of the
Patriarchate of Constantinople, Archbishop Elpidophoros.
One of the key components of
the organization and the victory of Euromaidan was the participation of the Uniates and
the Kyiv Patriarchate there. Both structures actively urged Ukrainians to protest and are
still proud of this fact. After the victory of Euromaidan, both the UGCC and the UOC-KP
received a lot of preferences from the "winners". Uniates, from the local Church,
concentrated mainly in Galicia and turned into a structure that instantly spread
throughout Ukraine. The schismatics, as a result of the super-energetic actions of the
past president Petro Poroshenko, received the Tomos for the OCU. Not the last role in the
Tomos-granting process was played by the current Head of Phanar's Archbishopric in the
USA, Archbishop Elpidophoros.
The scheme of cooperation between the UGCC and the OCU with the leaders of Euromaidan
was simple but effective: "scratch my back – and I'll scratch yours."
It is logical to assume that the hierarch of Phanar decided to go the same way and copy
the symbiosis of religion and power which was successfully implemented in Ukraine. At this
point it is necessary to remember that literally the day before, on June 2, the Archbishop
intended to meet with Donald Trump
, but at the last moment the US President canceled
the meeting. Why this happened remains unknown, but in the end Phanar obviously decided to
support the rivals.
And this is quite consistent, because the hierarchs of the Patriarchate of
Constantinople have a long and fruitful cooperation with Joe Biden. Patriarch Bartholomew
has repeatedly visited the current candidate for the US Democratic Party, Mr. Biden paid
visits to Phanar. The head of Phanar also met with the previous Trump's rival from the
Democrats in the presidential election – Hillary Clinton.
But still, why did the Phanar hierarch, who until recently worried only about the
future of Hellenism in the USA, suddenly become preoccupied with the rights of the black
population of his new homeland?
What dividends can the Patriarchate of Constantinople receive from the support of
"peaceful protesters"?
First of all, it must be remembered that in the genes of the Patriarchate of
Constantinople there is a
desire for cooperation with the powers that be.
Ukrainians could once again be
convinced of this fact just recently, when Patriarch Bartholomew wrote the name of
Poroshenko in the Tomos of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. Of course, now the most
"affluent" are based in the USA, and beginning with Patriarch Athenagoras, the primates
and hierarchs of the Church of Constantinople have persistently sought friendship with the
leadership of this state. If Biden wins the presidential election, Phanar's position will
be further strengthened.
The second argument is promotion of their Church in the eyes of the local population,
being an unusual creative form of missionary work. Indeed, despite the fact that the
Archbishopric of Phanar in the United States is comparatively (with Turkey) numerous, for
most Americans it remains a completely unknown ethnic Church for the Greeks, which
embraces no more than 0.5% of the population.
The third argument is personal recognition and popularity. Given the great attention to
the develpments around the "Black Maidan" and the ambition of Phanar hierarchs for public
contacts, participation in the protests will significantly add "political weight" to
Archbishop Elpidophoros.
***
The only question remains – where is faith and the desire to bring the Truth of Christ
to the people in this scenario?
Recall that one of the points of the notorious decision of Phanar's Synaxis on October
11, 2018, which launched the creation of the OCU and marked the beginning of the
persecution of the UOC, was a wicked call "to refrain from seizing churches, monasteries
and other property, as well as from any other violent actions and revenge so that the
peace and love of Christ prevail." Why was it wicked? Because Phanar couldn't but know
that their actions on legalization of the Ukrainian schism would definitely lead to the
"seizure of temples, monasteries and other property, as well as any other violent acts".
Currently, Phanar's hierarch in the USA likewise supports one of the parties to the
conflict and at the same time speaks about the inappropriateness of violence, saying that
"violence causes even more violence."
It is not difficult to understand that the affiliation of representatives of the clergy
with one of the parties to the conflict will not at all contribute to its resolution.
Ukraine has already proven it.
The true position of the Church cannot consist in supporting wicked projects of
behind-the-scenes political technologists in the hope of securing friendship and support
from the powers that be.
Unfortunately, we have to admit once again that representatives of the most glorious
and authoritative Church are taking very ambiguous steps. And we can only hope that these
steps will not lead to an escalation of the conflict either in American society or in the
Orthodox Church.
The truth is that it is Maidan -- a legitimate protest which was turned to nefarious goals by Neoliberal Dems and financed by
usual suspects (Soros, Ford Foundation and other CIA influenced outlets)
Notable quotes:
"... The idea of the protests as an "American Maidan" was reflected in the Komsomolskaya Pravda ..."
"... Several elements of the pro-Kremlin English-language ecosystem are based in the US. Fort-Russ News, another frequent contributor to the EUvsDisinfo database , is also ready to describe the protests in the US as staged by the Democratic Party: ..."
South Front has a
clear picture of the protests: it's a colour revolution, a fake popular uprising, set up
by "Globalist Corporations" targeting Donald Trump.
The situation is such that typically, it was a standoff of US President Donald Trump
and the US national industry, in a standoff against the globalist and the non-mainstream
corporations.
Today's fires which have spread across America in the wake of George Floyd's murder at
the knee of Minnesota police officer Derick Chauvin has presented America with the chance to
do some serious soul searching. It has also presented certain Deep State opportunists, color
revolutionaries and anarchism-financing billionaires a chance to unleash what some are
calling an "America's Maidan" in the hopes of accomplishing what four years of Russiagate
failed to do.
The idea of the protests as an "American Maidan" was reflected in the Komsomolskaya Pravda , Russia's largest
daily, with a circulation that puts it in top-20 in Europe. An openly racist version of the
text was spread by Margarita
Simonyan , the editor-in-chief of RT and Sputnik, as reported by the
EUvsDisinfo . The text, endorsed by Ms. Simonyan, ends:
Send runners everywhere, call to the World. Be assured – in this very minute a
slow coup d'etat is played out by the bureaucrats in the White House. If the Americans will
take my advice into consideration, I hope we can see the United States becoming a real
Ukraine. Good luck, friends! The entire progressive humankind is with you! Beat the whites
until they turn black.
Several elements of the pro-Kremlin English-language ecosystem are based in the US.
Fort-Russ News, another frequent contributor to the EUvsDisinfo database , is
also
ready to describe the protests in the US as staged by the Democratic Party:
This color revolution is a DNC coup against constitutional government.
A particularly special outlet is the US-based, Russian nationalist site Russia Insider.
EUvsDisinfo reported on the site's
decision to adopt an openly anti-Semitic editorial policy in 2018, and it is a frequent
contributor to the disinformation database. The site has no visible connections to Russian
state structures, but is demonstratively loyal to key Kremlin priorities. Russia Insider has
gone fully racist on the protests, giving room for white supremacists:
Why is Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, who is Jewish, actively encouraging the mobs
burning down his police department's precinct? Why is the President of the United States
reduced to impotently begging
Yoel Roth to let him tweet? Why has Trump decided to letMinneapolis burnas he cowers under his desk inside theWhite House, all while the NYPD under "woke" Bill De Blasioviciously
brutalizespeople protesting for the same cause? Traditional understandings of how
power is brokered and administrated do not apply.
[ -- ]
All white people are targets, no white person can expect either of the existing parties
to the rescue. When November comes around, we must vote no-confidence. This is America, and
its system is out to destroy you.
This is not Kremlin policy. It is impossible to claim that the Kremlin has an explicitly
racist agenda, but the pro-Kremlin disinformation network reaches out to a great variety of
audiences, with which it seeks to find distinct avenues of appeal. Sites affiliated with state
structures share content and contributors with sites without any visible connections to the
Kremlin. A Red, White and Blue All-American Maidan.
Supporting and Attacking Antifa
Creating rapport with white supremacists works just as well as reaching out to leftist,
anti-capitalist groups and individuals; like here :
It is entirely believable that the current violence is largely instigated. The media
obediently relayed Attorney General Barr's claim that rioting was led by the anti-fascist
groups known as 'Anti-Fa', until proof was uncovered of a deliberate White House/White
Nationalist plan to provoke violence by unsuspecting protesters who long ago forgot if they
even knew it, that Donald Trump's most powerful backers in 2016 ranged from David Duke, the
Grand Wizard (sic) of the Ku Klux Klan, to the white nationalist millionaire hedge fund owner
Robert Mercer, who hand-picked several of Trump's initial cabinet.
So while one part of the pro-Kremlin network defends the Antifa movement, the
above-mentioned Russia Insider
vehemently attacks it :
Antifa, the extreme anarchist-communist movement, has rioting down to an art. The first
broken window is the blood in the water for looters to move in. When the looting is done,
those carrying flammable chemicals start fires to finish the job. Footage recorded in
Minneapolis and other cities show militants dressed in black bloc -- the antifa uniform --
wielding weapons like hammers or sticks to smash windows. You see their graffiti daubed on
smashed up buildings: FTP means 'Fuck the Police'; ACAB stands for 'All Cops Are Bastards';
1312 is the numerical code for ACAB.
Was Floyd chokehold it staged at least partially, but then went wrong because Floyd has high level of fentanyl in his blood ?
Autopsy shows
George Floyd had COVID-19, meth & fentanyl in his - NBC2 News (The autopsy, which was performed the day after his death, showed
11 ng/mL of fentanyl and 19 ng/mL of methamphetamines, in addition to 86 ng/mL of morphine and other substances.)
Notable quotes:
"... It would be hard to choreograph a film scene more likely to provoke a backlash against police than the killing of George Floyd. White Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin was filmed kneeling on the handcuffed black man's neck for an excruciating eight minutes, all but smirking directly into the camera as if he knew it was his big moment of stardom. Ever since, public opinion of the police has been pummeled by a non-stop stream of on-camera brutality, and cries to defund police forces across the country are reaching fever pitch. ..."
"... With so much public outrage against police abuses, one might think that police departments would be hurrying to clean house and get rid of their " bad apples. " Accountability – punishing the truly bad cops in court with prison sentences rather than desk duty or dismissal from the force – would seem to be the only alternative to defunding. Incremental reforms, like the rollout of body cameras and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's move to outlaw chokeholds that were already banned by the NYPD in 1993, are clearly not having the desired effect. But police departments have resoundingly failed to hold their officers accountable, and so – with a handful of exceptions – have courts. Instead, the violence has only gotten more alarming. ..."
"... It's worth asking why these officers engage in such disturbing acts of violence, knowing they'll be on social media and probably the nightly news, providing a glowing advertisement for police abolition. Surely they aren't all the racist sociopaths Black Lives Matter has, with its " All Cops Are Bastards " slogan, dubbed them? ..."
"... cops in the past have gone to great (and possibly illegal) lengths to stop civilians from filming them in the act of abusing their authority. The man who filmed the 2014 police chokehold killing of Eric Garner even sued New York City two years later over alleged retaliation by the cops, claiming he was arrested on trumped-up charges for documenting the brutal act. ..."
"... Yet 2020's over-the-top bad cops seem unconcerned with amateur cinematographers. One might expect officers to be on their best behavior post-George Floyd, not auditioning for a spot on the now-cancelled COPS reality show. ..."
Over-the-top gratuitous violence against unarmed protesters, shockingly racist conversations, all of
it somehow recorded for posterity (and maximum virality) – are American police TRYING to get their
profession abolished?
While police brutality has been an ugly reality for as long as the US has had police, the cartoonish
levels of on-camera police violence circulating on social media in the last month are truly
mind-boggling. Suddenly, there is no better advertisement for the police-abolition movement than the
police themselves.
Defenders of the police tend to blame the "
few bad apples
" who shoot
fleeing suspects, choke innocent men, or pepper-spray peaceful demonstrators for cops' bad reputation.
But that absolves from responsibility the supposed "
good apples
" who have repeatedly closed
ranks around those same problem officers, even as their unconscionable assaults are caught on film and
broadcast to the world.
It would be hard to choreograph a film scene more likely to provoke a backlash against police than
the killing of George Floyd. White Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin was filmed kneeling on the handcuffed
black man's neck for an excruciating eight minutes, all but smirking directly into the camera as if he
knew it was his big moment of stardom. Ever since, public opinion of the police has been pummeled by a
non-stop stream of on-camera brutality, and cries to defund police forces across the country are
reaching fever pitch.
With so much public outrage against police abuses, one might think that police departments would be
hurrying to clean house and get rid of their "
bad apples.
" Accountability – punishing the
truly bad cops in court with prison sentences rather than desk duty or dismissal from the force –
would seem to be the only alternative to defunding. Incremental reforms, like the rollout of body
cameras and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's move to outlaw chokeholds that were already banned by the
NYPD in 1993, are clearly not having the desired effect. But police departments have resoundingly
failed to hold their officers accountable, and so – with a handful of
exceptions
– have courts. Instead, the violence has only gotten more alarming.
It's worth asking why these officers engage in such disturbing acts of violence, knowing they'll be
on social media and probably the nightly news, providing a glowing advertisement for police abolition.
Surely they aren't all the racist sociopaths Black Lives Matter has, with its "
All Cops Are
Bastards
" slogan, dubbed them?
It's hard in 2020 to find a public place where there isn't at least one camera on the scene -
though that didn't stop Louisville cops from shutting off their body cameras before local barbecue
owner David McAtee was shot, allegedly with a National Guard bullet, earlier this month, an incident
that remains under investigation. But cops in the past have gone to great (and possibly illegal)
lengths
to stop civilians from filming them in the act of abusing their authority. The man who
filmed the 2014 police chokehold killing of Eric Garner even sued New York City two years later over
alleged retaliation by the cops, claiming he was arrested on trumped-up charges for documenting the
brutal act.
Yet 2020's over-the-top bad cops seem unconcerned with amateur cinematographers. One might expect
officers to be on their best behavior post-George Floyd, not auditioning for a spot on the
now-cancelled COPS reality show.
Even nonviolent policing incidents seem designed to incite popular outrage. The bizarre arrest of a
CNN reporter covering the early unrest in Minneapolis – in which sheepish-sounding officers
apologetically informed correspondent Omar Jimenez that he was under arrest while live on the air –
elicited predictable cries of free speech suppression and a groveling apology from Minnesota Governor
Tim Walz.
And were the three North Carolina cops – referred to as "
veteran officers
" of the
Wilmington Police Department and fired earlier this week after their disturbingly racist chats were
recorded via "
accidental activation
" of a dashboard camera – really unaware those cameras
could be inadvertently triggered? Why indulge in multiple in-car hatefests when you know you're under
surveillance?
None of this adds up. Even as more communities seem to warm to the notion of "
defunding the
police
," it remains unclear what will replace them. Are we looking at a future of empowered
community snitches
, each snooping on the next in the hope of being rewarded by local government
for catching a crime in progress? Or are the rich merely going to hire Blackwater-style mercs to guard
their compounds while the poor rob and kill each other in the streets? Americans deserve some answers
– preferably before our police departments are dissolved.
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Unfortunately, it was going to happen, and we who support the movement need to
call out those instances where it goes too far. I am talking about the justified Black Lives
Matter (BLM) movement, mostly characterized by widespread peaceful protests even in small rural
towns that never see such things, and with a solid majority of the American people currently
supporting both the BLM and its main demands. As it is, one should probably not tie the BLM to
some of these recent unacceptable events, although those engaged in them will justify their
actions as being part of the movement. This should not be accepted.
OK, the one that has really put me off happened last night at sometime after 10:30 PM in
Madison, Wisconsin. A statue I know well was not only pulled down, but it was decapitated with
both parts thrown in a nearby lake, although apparently since recovered. This statue stood on
the east corner of the Capitol Square downtown. It is of Hans Christian Heg (1829-1863). An
immigrant from Norway, he was an active anti-slavery abolitionist and member of the Free Soil
Party who led the 15th Scandinavian American regiment in the Union army. He died fighting
against the Confederacy in the Battle of Chickamauga, which it says on the base of his statue.
There is absolutely no justification for this event.
This was accompanied by other pretty unacceptable nonsense. The "Forward" statue at the
opposite end of the square was also pulled down and dragged down State Street. This is of a
generic woman representing the state motto of "Forward," not quite as completely insane as
pulling down Heg, but also without any obvious justification. The Forward motto and idea has
long been associated with the Progressive tradition in the state, although I suppose one could
drag in bad stuff about some of those folks, such as that some supported eugenics. But I do not
think this crowd was thinking about that. What triggered this? Apparently, a man entered a
restaurant with a baseball bat and a bullhorn, with which he began to harangue customers. He
was later arrested for disorderly conduct, which sounds pretty reasonable to me. There was no
violence or other impropriety in his arrest. But the crowd that pulled down the statues and
smashed a lot of windows and attacked a state senator, putting him in the hospital for taking a
photo of them, came several hours after his arrest to protest his arrest. Bah!
I note two other items that need to be disavowed and opposed by supporters of the BLM.
One was the tearing down of a statue in San Francisco of U.S. Grant. allegedly because for
two years he owned a slave he inherited before he freed that slave. Well, I guess there is more
case for pulling down his statue than that of Heg, for which there is zero. But he was not only
the commander of the Union army that freed the slaves but as president, he supported
Reconstruction that defended rights of the freed former slaves. The move to Jim Crow followed
the end of his presidency.
Another is the continuation of the CHOP or CHAZ in Seattle, which, I gather, will be ended
fairly soon one way or another. Initially sort of interesting, the area has been hit with
shootings over the last four nights, with one over the weekend killing 19-year old Lorenzo
Anderson. These are apparently not the result of outside white boogaloo racists attacking them
but coming from inside this area. There so far has been zero investigation of or effort to find
Anderson's murderer and arrest him. The only report I have seen is that Anderson was advocating
people not to set off fireworks due to a possible fire hazard. This appears to have what got
him killed, although so far there is little solid information. But, sorry, this experiment
should not end and not be repeated anywhere else.
I further note that Hannity and others on Fox News are spending lots of time going on and on
about this Seattle situation. Trump has been engaging in a series of increasingly unacceptable
and outrageous actions, but those watching Fox and its allies hear and see none of that
because, wow, there go those awful rioters in Seattle again! Initially, Fox made up and
distorted reporting about what was going on there, which was initially peaceful and,
yes,"Summer of Love" like. But, unfortunately, now they do not need to make up stuff to put up
ugly stories about it.
Barkley Rosser
earl , June 25, 2020 10:31 am
"which was initially peaceful and, yes,"Summer of Love" like"
Seriously? This was nothing but ugly from the beginning.
HankP , June 25, 2020 2:44 pm
I live in the CHOP neighborhood, and you're repeating lies that conservative media has
spread about what's going on here
– the shootings were outside of the CHOP barriers. The area has had fatal and
non-fatal shootings pretty regularly over the past several years
– the shootings did not come from inside CHOP, they were in every case done by
people who drove away after they shot someone. One of the cars had no license plates, you can
draw what conclusions you'd like from that.
– CHOP is disbanding on its own as I write this, BLM withdrew support of the whole
idea over a week ago.
– the problems with CHOP all came in the wee hours of the morning, from dawn to
midnight the atmosphere actually was similar to "the summer of love" in many ways. For
example, the homeless have been taken care of by the CHOP volunteers far better than the city
ever did, and without driving them away to be someone else's problem
The reason CHOP is fading is because the various activists could never agree on strategy
and tactics. That's because they are activists and not city managers, and the police
abandoned the area with no warning. That they managed to arrange volunteers to do all the
work they did was fairly impressive, as many out of town visitors commented to me.
Sorry, HankP, but you are a lying piece of garbage.
I have checked pretty much all sources available on the internet, including several TV
stations and the Seattle Times. There is not a single mention of cars driving away or
somebody from outside doing this.
It does appear Lorenzo Anderson was killed "on the edge" of the CHOP zone, at the corner
of 10th and Pine Street. Maybe he was on one side of the line or maybe he was on the other.
However, if he was actually outside of the zone, why did a crowd block police and an
ambulance from getting to him. Reportedly he was taken to a hospital by some "medics" from
within the zone, but clearly too late.
The report I cited, coming from a local TV station, is the only one providing any more
specific info about the shooting. Someone named "Stavy," no last name, claiming to be his
godmother, was demanding answers from the protesters regarding what happened.
There was somebody who spoke to the TV station, "Brooks," who claims to be an "organizer"
of the group there. He is the one who said that Anderson was urging people not to use
fireworks near trees out of a concern for fire safety, but some unnamed person or persons did
not like this, a "matter of egos and pride," with the upshot Anderson was shot multiple
times. Not a word about any outsiders, much less anybody getting away in a car.
I have read reports of days earlier a couple of armed hostile types showing up during the
daytime and wandering through, but no violence came as a result of that. However there have
now been at least four gunfights with multople psople injured, although with no specific
reporting about details, but not a shred of claims from anybody that it is what you claim it
is, HankP.
So, this is a put up or shut up, HankP. Do you have any source besides yourself to support
any of your claims, any of them, even one? As of now, I think you are just a worthless liar,
no better than some Trumpanzee.
HankP , June 25, 2020 6:37 pm
– According to observers, starting at 11 p.m. Friday, cars began parking outside the
barricades bordering the zone at 10th and Pine streets, eventually numbering about 20
vehicles. The atmosphere was festive at first, with fireworks set off to celebrate high
school and college graduations, and eventually, firearms were discharged into the air,
several people recounted.
Jones recalls trying to discourage that behavior with at least one reveler who had a
concealed weapon and claimed knowledge of gun-safety practices.
"I encountered a younger kid who had a gun and wanted to let his friend shoot it off as a
celebration," Jones said. "I was telling him this can't be that type of environment; we're
trying to protest. Actively using guns in any form or fashion is going to bring wants and
desires for the cops to come back." – https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/06/20/chop-shooting-seattle/
– the cops were not blocked, that's another lie they told. They advanced on the
crowd with guns drawn and pointed, people in the crowd told them the injured was already gone
to the hospital
Don't Be Fooled by Seattle's Police-Free Zone
The city looks progressive but has a history of racism and exclusion. This could be a turning
point.
By Margaret O'Mara
SEATTLE -- Seattle's police-free "autonomous zone" is coming to an end.
After two largely peaceful weeks, shootings over the last several days near the Capitol
Hill Organized Protest area, CHOP for short, left a 19-year-old man dead and three others
wounded. Mayor Jenny Durkan announced on Monday that the city would retake the abandoned
police precinct at the heart of the zone and wind down the occupation.
In its brief life, CHOP has reinforced Seattle's reputation as a quirky left-coast bastion
of strong coffee and strong progressive politics. Many white Seattleites like to think of
their city that way too. But Seattle's progressive appearance is deceiving.
It is a city and region with a long history of racism, of violent marginalization, and of
pushing back against more radical movements for social change. It is, in short, much like the
rest of America.
The global protests of the last few weeks have rightly generated the feeling that the
world is at a turning point on redressing racial inequities. This moment has great
possibilities, but the history of Seattle and other seemingly progressive places should make
us realize that change is not that simple.
A 2008 report found that black people make up less than 10 percent of Seattle's population
but well over half of the drug-related arrests. The Police Department was placed under
federal oversight in 2011 after incidents of excessive use of force on nonwhite residents.
The public schools here are more segregated than they were three decades ago. Less than three
weeks ago, the police sprayed protesters with tear gas on the same streets now given over to
the teach-ins and community gardens of CHOP.
There is, to be sure, a radical streak in the city's history. In 1919, Seattle shut down
for five days as 60,000 unionized workers walked off the job in a general strike. In the
1930s, the Communist Party was so ascendant here that James Farley, a close adviser to
President Franklin Roosevelt, said that "there are 47 states in the Union, and the Soviet of
Washington."
Huge anti-globalization marches greeted delegates to the World Trade Organization meeting
here in 1999, causing a partial shutdown of the conference and such a ferociously violent
police response that the chief was forced to retire.
But these movements often have been squelched by pushback from political leaders, even
those who once were allies. Mayor Ole Hanson, who led Seattle during the 1919 general strike,
once had been a labor-friendly moderate, but quickly turned into an implacable union foe.
"The Soviet government of Russia, duplicated here, was their plan," he wrote in an essay
published on the front page of The New York Times shortly after the strike's end. Now, he
assured anxious readers, "law and order are supreme in our city."
Paul Schell, who was mayor during the 1999 protests, was less pugnacious in his analysis
but remained reluctant to condemn the police. "I wish everybody had behaved themselves," Mr.
Schell later reflected. "And that it would have been more civilized."
But the story here goes beyond political leadership. It involves deep, systemic racial
inequalities baked into the fabric of this overwhelmingly white city.
"For most of its history," James Gregory, a historian, observes, "Seattle was a segregated
city, as committed to white supremacy as any location in America."
Discriminatory mortgage lending and racially restrictive covenants limited Seattle's
nonwhite population to a single neighborhood, the Central District. Fair housing laws opened
up new parts of the city and suburbs to minority homeowners and renters after the 1960s, but
Seattle's overwhelmingly single-family zoning limited the housing available to new
buyers.
Such zoning has been remarkably difficult to change. The region's homeowners may vote
Democratic and plant racial solidarity signs in their front yards, but often resist higher
densities that can increase the affordable housing supply.
Civil rights issues, particularly measures to combat anti-black racism, can be subsumed by
broader social justice agendas. The city's most prominent voice on the left in recent years
is Kshama Sawant, a socialist elected to the City Council in 2013. She has focused much of
her ire on Seattle's high-tech employers and the politicians who support them.
As protests escalated in recent weeks, Ms. Sawant frustrated some allies by renewing her
push for an "Amazon tax" on large employers to bolster homelessness initiatives. After the
tax became a rallying cry at a recent Sawant-led demonstration at City Hall, one protester
asked in exasperation, "I want to tax Amazon too, but can we please for once focus on black
lives?"
Similar patterns have shaped politics and opportunity in other seemingly progressive
cities. In Minneapolis, the poverty and police violence that killed George Floyd are legacies
of a century of racial segregation, enforced by restrictive covenants, zoning and an
Interstate highway that sliced through the city's largest black neighborhood. A comparable
mix of public policies and local prejudice have maintained segregation and inequality in
Oakland and San Francisco, Chicago and Washington, Los Angeles and New York.
Nevertheless, this looks like a moment when Seattle and other cities like it might move
past their histories of racism and exclusion.
Almost every day for weeks, Seattle has seen peaceful marches organized and led by black
and minority activists but drawing heavily white crowds .
Margaret O'Mara is a professor of history at the University of Washington.
It's all hypocracy, fakery, flim flam and bamboozle. As some old sage once said, you can fool
some of the people all of the time. It's all about the money. ( It always is )
I'm not a conservative, no way; I am not a supporter of the current regime. I think that a
revolution – even the fake one, organized by Soros out of the GayLib crowd, lightly
sprinkled with Africans for colour – will do some good for America and the world. The
American troops are already leaving
Germany after only 75 years of occupation. There are more than 100 major bases overseas
that can be evacuated if the revolution persists. Fine and dandy.
But, Mr Hopkins, do not tell Trump that he has chosen the right survival strategy. As if
everyone will respect his authority if he doesn't get provoked. Let's be frank, comrade. Tell
Trump: if his main consideration is first of all not to be called a 'bloody tyrant' by a
liberal site, there is a place for him in hospitable Rostov, next to Yanukovych. Let him
decide. He can buy a villa over there for a good price.
Alternatively, let him try to regain some ground, and if he is called Hitler by some freaks,
let him answer with 'no more Mr Nice Guy', like the protagonist in Mel Brooks' film The
Producers . Let him defeat the colour Revolution of Masks, before it devours him.
Our colleague Andre VItchek
suggested we should not describe the process going on in the US, as a 'colour revolution'.
Firstly, the protesters shouldn't be discouraged, let alone ridiculed. Secondly, all these
revolutions are different, he says. These are weak arguments. First, I endeavour to understand
and explain events, and I leave encouragement to others. Second, colour revolutions are
revolutions made for the benefit of oligarchy. They remove the ruler who is too strong-willed
or social-minded for the billionaires' liking. And they utilise legitimate grievances of the
people. They ride on the people like a rider rides a horse. It means that a colour revolution
can shift and turn into the real thing, like a horse can throw down the rider and gallop away,
but this is not the usual turn of events.
The Mask Revolution in the US has too strong a support from corporations to be anything else
but a colour revolution. "Black Lives Matter Receives $100 Million from Foundations, in
addition to more than $33 million in grants to the Black Lives Matter movement from George
Soros through his Open Society Foundations", says Policemag
(the article was removed but can be accessed via archives.com.)
It can't be decoupled from the Covid pandemic, or rather, from the lockdowns. These unusual
means of disease control are deadly for small businesses and for free-lancers. Big corporations
survive and even grow fat; small ones die. Control over the population increases. Free-lancers
are forced to join the regular labour force and work for a large corporation; or die. The
actors of the revolution will be destroyed by the success of their enterprise. We shall know
the revolution became a real one, when the revolutionaries fight the corporations. Likewise,
the enemies of the colour revolution should not fight Blacks and minorities; they should fight
the corporations that use the Blacks as their cannon fodder.
Because of this connection between lockdowns and the Mask Revolution, Trump should end the
lockdowns. If there is one thing we have learned from first half of the year it is that
lockdowns do not help. We have to live with the virus, even if it that means dying. If you have
no lockdown, you'll have no second wave. The Swedes did it; everybody can do it. Those who want
to lock us down would lock us down forever.
And now, another reason why I disagree with Vltchek. It is not that BLM or DNC are better or
worse than Trump's warriors. DNC and BLM are close to a hegemonic power. They are loved by the
media, by the Masters of Discourse. If the Democratic candidate wins the 2020 elections, the
West will be united behind him. He will humiliate China, Russia, Venezuela, Iran; the
Deplorable will be deplored; European nationalists will be eliminated; the New World Order will
proceed at double speed. No, thank you, Andre. It is better to have America and the West
divided under Trump rather than united under the DNC.
No matter what Trump and the Republicans do to all of these coping plan-trusters (including
Shamir), they will never be held to account, never be questioned for their serial betrayals
of the base, because "Democrats worse."
Foreign observers are welcome to their relatively uninformed opinions but those of us
who've grown up and been forced to live under generations of kosher sandwich U.S. politics
– two parties for Jews, none for us – have had enough.
Trump loses in November, bigly. The legitimacy of every American institution has been
exhausted and the faith of the people in the entire American project is at a modern,if not
all time low.
Even in the Civil War, patriots of both sides believed in their respective governments. A
strong majority of Americans left and right have nothing left to believe in at all –
except ourselves.
Trump should have listened to his own speeches from his own election campaign 2016, and
follow them to the letter.
If he had done that, he could fill five stadiums and would be on the way to a big election
victory. However, the reality was different. He went back on his promises and betrayed his
team – so his base (what's left of it) rightly no longer trusts him. Fool me once.
Anyway, 2020 US elections will probably be an exercise in chaos, since the whole BLM, SJW,
CHAZ flag burning, violence and statue toppling has moved out onto the streets.
Black Lives Matter Receives $100 Million from Foundations, in addition to more than $33
million in grants to the Black Lives Matter movement from George Soros through his Open
Society Foundations
How long before they blow through all that loot? Or more likely, have it all stolen by their
(((accountant)))? We all know blacks can't count, especially with so many zeros behind a
number.
Do not bother with racism or anti-racism. It is a faux-agenda, like gay or homophobe, like
fem or trans, like toilet gendering. Real people aren't interested in this sort of nonsense.
Blacks are not interested in anti-racism, either. It is mainly White Wokes that are, and they
will follow whatever the newspaper tells them to follow. Seattle has very few blacks but many
Wokes, that's why it is the centre of the 'anti-racist' campaign. Even if Trump went around
kissing the sneakers of black youngsters, he wouldn't change anything. Blacks are not hostile
to him, not at all, but people who speak for them, the Dem Wokes, definitely are.
TBH, I have grown to hate the GOP even more than I hate the DNC.
The only thing on our menu is the kosher sandwich.
trump has done virtually nothing for white people. In fact I could make a good argument that
things were better under Obama.
Things are so bad now I can barely go to sleep at night and I can barely get up in the
morning.
The rioting and burning and looting and killing was bad enough, but the destruction of our
statues is like daggers stabbing me in the back. And to think that the entire fucking GOP sits
and WATCHES and does NOTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The United States government is no longer legitimate. They can't even protect the citizens
and this is the very LEAST that we ask of those bastards. Idiots give trump a pass because it's
"Democrat cities being destroyed." Well ..I live in a Democrat city and my life matters
too.
Fuck trump. trump is part of the deep state. trump is a swamp creature. The idea that he
would actually do something against Antifa is absurd. Antifa and BLM are shock troops for the
jews.
trump WORKS for the jews, does the bidding of the jews.
Antifa attacks white men, nothing happens.
White men defend themselves against Antifa, white men go to jail.
Fuck trump.
We now live in an apartheid state where whites have no rights yet must follow the law, while
non-whites can do whatever the fuck they want.
I can't however decipher the following: "If the Democratic candidate wins the 2020
elections, the West will be united behind him. He will humiliate China, Russia, Venezuela,
Iran; the Deplorable will be deplored; European nationalists will be eliminated; the New World
Order will proceed at double speed. "
Why would the DNC puppet humiliate China when the DNC puppeteers made of China what it is
today. Aside from industrializing China (while the West, especially the US, was
deindustrialized) and the decade-long of technology transfer (read: theft) from the West to
China, the City of London (who paradoxically also waged successive phases of opium wars on
China*) has backed the Chinese Yuan since 1913 (coincidentally, the same year they created the
US Fed).
The same goes for Iran, it would be inaccurate to think of it as a monolithic entity. Iran
is divided between the Rouhani clan (who support the Muslim Brotherhood (a British intelligence
creation modeled on the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry) and who hoped Hillary came to power)) and
the Revolutionary Guards.
_____
* The British Empire's drug money launderer in Hong Kong, Jardines, still bears the opium
poppy flower as its logo. https://www.jardines.com
Very sensible stuff, Shamir. Thanks. High time we all jumped off the phony racism express. A
Pew poll shows 46% of the BLM/Antifa mob are White, fewer than 20% Black. Who are those
anti-White, anti-Tradition Whites? Could they be exactly what they look like -- affluent
anti-Trump suburbanites fanning arson and riots with copious financing from Soros and the
various other oligarchic foundations built by stateless corporate interests? I sure do agree
with you that this is a fresh attempt to putsch Trump out of office and get his deplorables
back under lock, key and mask.
And, yes, the problem with Trump is that he's all bark and no bite. He was elected because
his bark resonated with the concerns of millions of sane, normal Americans who have had a
snootful of globalism, deindustrialization, open borders and forever wars. Then he packed his
government with their enemies and got a knife in the back from each one of them. Trump framed
the issues but forgot to lead.
A quick look at the economic desolation left by the lockdown hoax and the physical chaos
left by the racism hoax is now persuading even Black leaders to wash their hands of this
nonsense. Thousands of Black soldiers and cops would gladly join them. They are the natural
allies of the Deplorables against the wealthy interests tearing the country apart. But who is
going to lead them? Our welfare-warfare regime leaves no alternative to Trump's bark. But when
is he going to bite?
Trump is a minion of the Deep State something the author and many other Trump apologists
fail to understand.
Even this is giving Orange Buffoon too much credit. I never sensed guile, just a man with no
real plan. That the atrocious kushner continues to infest the WH is proof-positive Trump can't
separate family from the aloneness required for leadership.
Mao was a pretty talented scoundrel and he first unleashed Red Guards on his opponents and
than exited huanwaibins to the countryside, when they did the dirty job. But Neoliberal Democrats
who unleashed those protests as a tool to depose Trump might soon lose the control: as new Red
Guards will inevitably go out of control and to put the genie back into the bottle might be
slightly more difficult (although Occupy wall Street movement was crashed very effectively)
In any case it is clear that intelligence agencies and first of all FBI support protesters,
because the movement was probably thoroughly infiltrated from the very beginning and key
participants such as Antifa foot soldiers probably have think dossiers at the FBI
headquarters.
One important new factor in all this mess is that Trump proved to be a coward, much like
Yanukovich in 2014.
Notable quotes:
"... "did allow, aid, abet, and actively facilitate, the exclusive physical occupation, takeover and control of an approximate six city block area of publicly owned real property of an American city by an un-elected, unauthorized, and violent group of citizens promoting a political special interest group." ..."
"... "They want access to their streets and to their properties." ..."
The moves to disband the anarcho-commune-slash-protest-zone come soon after a second lawsuit
was filed against both the mayor and the city itself over CHOP.
Filed on Thursday, the suit – which also names Governor Jay Inslee – alleges
that the city "did allow, aid, abet, and actively facilitate, the exclusive physical
occupation, takeover and control of an approximate six city block area of publicly owned real
property of an American city by an un-elected, unauthorized, and violent group of citizens
promoting a political special interest group."
The suit follows a similar complaint, filed earlier this week by more than a dozen local
business owners. Though they voiced support for the rights and efforts of the Black Lives
Matter movement, a lawyer representing the plaintiffs said they were concerned about
"public order" and "safety," adding "They want access to their streets
and to their properties."
BLM are not Marxists. they are Maoists and toppling statues is a natural thing for them, much like it was for "Red Guards" during
China "cultural revolution"
Notable quotes:
"... "gross form of White Supremacy." ..."
"... The Last Supper ..."
"... "No one would seriously argue that the Pieta or the Last Supper should be torn down or painted over," ..."
"... "Shaun King is just being ridiculous and provocative, and writing an article about his mad claims is just legitimising them," ..."
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A leading activist's remarks that all "statues, murals, and stained glass windows of white Jesus, and his European mother" represent
"gross white supremacy" shows that radical, racialised politics has no limit to its targets.
The problematic statues row has now taken a turn from political iconoclasm to literal iconoclasm with depictions of "white Jesus"
next on the hit list for some of Black Lives Matter's more hardcore proponents.
Activist Shaun King has called for all the statues,
murals, stained glass windows and paintings depicting the Messiah as having European features to come down because they are a
"gross form of White Supremacy."
To illustrate his point, King makes the perceptive observation that when Jesus, Mary and Joseph
went into hiding while Herod engaged in a spot of infanticide in 1 AD Judea, the family hid in Egypt, not Denmark, so they would
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blend in.
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This is exactly the sort of mission creep many people worried about when the whole statues issue started to pick up steam last
month. It began with slave owners, and one can see the argument there for taking them down, but it is worth noting that the statues
themselves were not erected for their services to the Transatlantic slave trade.
Then in America, they moved onto their national heroes, like Washington and Jefferson, again because they owned slaves. Again,
one can understand the argument that they shouldn't be venerated because of this fact, but they aren't praised for being slave owners
but for founding the United States of America.
Before we knew it, we were at Ulysses Grant, who lead the Union Armies in the Civil War to end slavery, but because he married
into a slave owning family, he too must be torn down. Defeating the Confederacy wasn't enough to save him. Then Theodore Roosevelt
was next on the list because of white supremacy, (although he wasn't the Roosevelt who actually interred Americans in camps based
on their race in World War II, that was FDR).
But even with the pace with which this movement has declared former icons persona non-grata, to jump from Teddy Roosevelt to Jesus
is extraordinary. Were Mr. King's demands to be met, and "all statues of the White European they claim to be Jesus" to come down,
that would amount to the destruction of some of the finest works of art in existence.
Michelangelo's Pieta, gone, Da Vinci's Last Supper, erased, Raphael's Transfiguration, wiped, Donatello's Crucifix, torn down,
and that would be just if we targeted artists who share their names with turtles who know karate. And the Sistine Chapel? Razed to
the ground, along with the smashing of the stained-glass windows of virtually every church and cathedral in Europe.
This erasure of history would make the destruction of the Reformation and the dissolution of the monasteries in 16th-century England
look like child's play.
The simple fact of the matter is that Jesus has, throughout history, been portrayed as looking like any number of races, and those
usually reflect the race of the artist. Black artists have portrayed him as having African features, Asian artists have done something
in their image, and so European artists obviously portrayed him as looking European. Which is kind of the point of Jesus: all his
followers are supposed to be able to see themselves in him. As a result of living in the Western world, that means, to Western eyes,
he has more often been portrayed as looking like a white European.
Yes, I think the statues of the white European they claim is Jesus should also come down. They are a
form of white supremacy. Always have been. In the Bible, when the family of Jesus wanted to hide, and blend in, guess where
they went?EGYPT!Not Denmark.Tear them down.
Yes. All murals and stained glass windows of white Jesus, and his European mother, and their white friends
should also come down. They are a gross form white supremacy. Created as tools of oppression. Racist propaganda. They should
all come down.
There is also the fact that for a large chunk of history, Europe is where Christianity blossomed. In the Middle East, where yes,
Jesus was born, a very different religion, with a very different view on depicting religious figures arose, which perhaps goes some
way to explaining the paucity of paintings of Christ in this part of the world. The fact that Jesus plays second fiddle to Mohammed
in Islam and is regarded as a false prophet in Judaism, might explain why there are fewer depictions of him in the immediate vicinity
of the Sea of Galilee.
One also has to have quite a conspiratorial mind to conclude that 'white supremacy' was top of the agenda for the likes of Da
Vinci and Raphael. Couldn't they just be artists painting and sculpting their interpretation of what Christ looked like? Could the
depictions of him as looking more European not just be down to those being the kind of people they hung around with?
I mean, if we're getting into the weeds about this, it's probably quite unlikely that the historical Jesus had a rippling six
pack and sinewy biceps as he is so often shown as having. Can art not just be appreciated as art without having the artist's motivation
impugned four, five or six centuries after the fact? Given that the Transatlantic slave trade didn't begin until the 17th century,
it seems baffling to tear down art made in the centuries before.
It also raises the question of how exactly is it acceptable to depict Jesus from now on then? Given that he was a Palestinian
Jew, it seems equally unlikely that he looked like the African man he was portrayed as in Madonna's
Like a Prayer
video,
as he would look like the dirty blonde haired European in Da Vinci's
The Last Supper
. (Gosh, it's painful equating these
two very different pieces of culture in the same sentence).
This may seem like a fringe issue that is never going to happen, and it could easily be dismissed as the ramblings of someone
on the extreme left.
"No one would seriously argue that the Pieta or the Last Supper should be torn down or painted over,"
some might say.
"Shaun King is just being ridiculous and provocative, and writing an article about his mad claims is just legitimising
them,"
they may add.
This may be true, but ask yourself – in 2010, how much money would you have put on statues of Washington and Jefferson being torn
down in America? What odds would you have got on the bookies of Churchill's statue having to be boarded up in London? I don't think
you'd have even put a quid on it.
There has to come a point where a civilisation just says "enough, stop," otherwise these movements pick up steam. Several American
states have shown themselves incapable of defending their founding fathers. With Christianity dwindling year by year in the West,
how long will we be able to make a defence for these priceless works of art if they too are decided to be contrary to the prevailing
ideology of the day?
Ugly civilisations torch their history, others learn from them. Let us not become the former, just because the other side is shouting
louder than we are.
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An upstate woman and two Brooklyn lawyers were indicted Friday on federal explosives and
arson charges for allegedly tossing Molotov cocktails at NYPD vehicles during George Floyd
protests in New York City.
Samantha Shader, 27, of Catskill, is accused of hurling the makeshift explosive at an
NYPD vehicle occupied by four police officers on early Saturday morning, May 30.
Prosecutors allege Shader bit one of the officer's legs when she was being taken into
custody.
Around the same time, Brooklyn lawyers Urooj Rahman, 31, and Colinford Mattis, 32, were
accused of tossing their own Molotov cocktail at an unoccupied police vehicle in Brooklyn
during a separate attack.
Throw the book at them. This was premeditated, murderous, and seditious.
An
agent provocateur is an undercover agent, sometimes a police officer, who's deployed to join a
protest to provoke protesters into illegal acts or violence so the protest can be discredited
and those protesting are liable for prosecution. It's a classic strategy, and Anders Lee
explores its place in history, both in the recent George Floyd uprisings, and in many instances
of domestic terrorism in the US.
The Venezuelan Embassy protectors have had their felony charges dropped over their protests
defending the international diplomatic order, US law enforcement has targeted journalists
covering the George Floyd uprising, the Biden campaign continues to become more of a carnival
as it lets the Democratic National Committee's candidate continue to talk in public, and
more.
Natalie McGill reports on where the bailout money aimed at hospitals went. Unsurprisingly,
it turns out that already wealthy, predatory metropolitan institutions scooped more funding
than struggling rural hospitals, and McGill wants to know how we can get that money back.
Anders Lee sits down with Lee Camp to talk about Trump's move to criminalize Antifa, the case
of an assassinated former Swedish president that's not only been reopened but potentially also
solved, and more. YOUTUBE Channel Redacted Tonight
Today, in the context of the Black Lives Matter protests, TomDispatch regular Andrew Bacevich considers the all-American version of "extreme
materialism" that Martin Luther King called out more than half a century ago. And when it
comes to the overwhelming urge to get one's hands on the goods, among the looters of this
moment two groups are almost never mentioned: the Pentagon and the police.
Yet, in 1997, the Department of Defense set up the 1033 program as part of the National
Defense Authorization Act to provide thousands of domestic police forces with "surplus"
equipment of almost every imaginable militarized kind. Since then, thanks to your tax
dollars, it has given away $7.4
billion of such equipment, some of it directly off the battlefields of this country's
forlorn "forever wars."
For items like grenade launchers, mine-resistant armored vehicles, military rifles,
bayonets, body armor, night-vision goggles, and helicopters
, all that police departments have to fork over is the price of delivery. The Pentagon has,
in fact, been so eager to become the Macy's of
militarized hardware that, in 2017, it was even willing to "give $1.2 million worth of
rifles, pipe bombs, and night vision goggles to a fake police department," no questions
asked. That "department" proved to be part of a sting
operation run by the Government Accountability Office (GAO). "It was like getting stuff
off of eBay," a GAO official would
say . Only, of course, for free.
The militarization (or, thought of another way, the commercialization) of the police has
been remarkably on pace these last 23 years, while the Pentagon's
ever-soaring budgets for its ever-sinking wars could be thought of as the great American
commercial success story of this century. With more and more taxpayer dollars in its
wallet, it's been on a remarkable looting spree. Ask yourself: has there been a weapons
system it couldn't have, a military base it couldn't establish, a war expense Congress
wouldn't fund even while cutting back on crucial aspects of the domestic budget like
infrastructure
programs or
disease-prevention spending ? No wonder the Pentagon could supply all those police
departments with a cornucopia of goods with which to turn themselves into over-armed
occupying forces in this country.
It's never thought of that way, but the Pentagon and the police have essentially been
looting the coffers of the American taxpayer for a long time now and, in the Trump era, the
process has only intensified .
Nonetheless, as Bacevich points out, even with protests over racism filling the streets of
America, protests over defunding the Pentagon have yet to surface in any significant way.
Perhaps it's finally time. ~ Tom
Martin Luther King's Giant Triplets
By Andrew Bacevich
In the wake of the police killing of George Floyd, Americans are finally – or is it
once again? – confronting the racism that afflicts this country and extends into just
about every corner of our national life. Something fundamental just might be happening.
Yet to state the obvious, we've been
here before. Mass protests in response to racial inequality and discrimination, including
police brutality, have been anything but unknown in the United States. Much the same can be
said of riots targeting black Americans, fomented and exploited by white racists, often
actively or passively abetted by local law enforcement officials. If Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin,
formerly known as H. Rap Brown, was correct in calling violence "as American as
cherry pie," then race-related urban unrest is the apple-filled equivalent.
The optimists among us believe
that "this time is different." I hope events will prove them right. Yet recalling
expectations that Barack Obama's election in 2008 signaled the dawn of a " post-racial America
," I see no reason to expect it to be so. A yawning gap, I fear, separates hope from
reality.
Let me suggest, however, that the nation's current preoccupation with race, as honorable
and necessary as it may be, falls well short of adequately responding to the situation
confronting Americans as they enter the third decade of the twenty-first century. Racism is a
massive problem, but hardly our only one. Indeed, as Martin Luther King sought to remind us
many years ago, there are at least two others of comparable magnitude.
MLK Defines the Problem
In April 1967, at New York City's Riverside Church, Dr. King delivered a sermon that
offered a profound diagnosis of the illnesses afflicting the nation. His analysis remains as
timely today as it was then, perhaps more so.
Americans remember King primarily as a great civil rights leader and indeed he was that.
In his Riverside Church address, however, he turned to matters that went far beyond race. In
an immediate sense, his focus was the ongoing Vietnam War, which he denounced as "madness"
that "must cease." Yet King also used the occasion to summon the nation to "undergo a radical
revolution of values" that would transform the United States "from a thing-oriented society
to a person-oriented society." Only through such a revolution, he declared, would we be able
to overcome "the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism."
The challenge confronting Americans was to dismantle what King referred to as the
"edifice" that produced and sustained each of those giant triplets. Today's protesters,
crusading journalists, and engaged intellectuals make no bones about their determination to
eliminate the first of those giant triplets. Yet they generally treat the other two as, at
best, mere afterthoughts, while the edifice itself, resting on a perverse understanding of
freedom, goes almost entirely ignored.
I'm not suggesting that members of the grand coalition of Americans today fervently
campaigning against racism favor extreme materialism. Many of them merely accept its reality
and move on. Nor am I suggesting that they consciously endorse militarism, although in
confusing "support" for the troops with genuine patriotism some of them do so implicitly.
What I am suggesting is that those calling for fundamental change will go badly astray if
they ignore Dr. King's insistence that each of the giant triplets is intimately tied to the
other two.
Defund the Pentagon?
The protests triggered by the recent murders of George Floyd and other black Americans
have produced widespread demands to "defund the police." Those demands don't come out of
nowhere. While "reform" programs undertaken in innumerable American cities over the course of
many years have demonstrably
enhanced police firepower , they have done little, if anything, to repair relations
between police departments and communities of color.
As an aging middle-class white male, I don't fear cops. I respect the fact that theirs is
a tough job, which I would not want. Yet I realize that my attitude is one more expression of
white privilege, which black men, regardless of their age and economic status, can ill afford
to indulge. So I fully accept the need for radical changes in policing – that's what
"defund" appears to imply – if American cities are ever to have law enforcement
agencies that are effective, humane, and themselves law-abiding.
What I can't fathom is why a similar logic doesn't apply to the armed forces that we
employ to police huge chunks of the world beyond our borders. If Americans have reason to
question the nation's increasingly
militarized approach to law enforcement, then shouldn't they have equal reason to
question this country's thoroughly militarized approach to statecraft?
Consider this: on an annual basis, police officers in the United States kill approximately
1,000 Americans , with blacks
two-and-a-half times more likely than whites to be victimized. Those are appalling
figures, indicative of basic policy gone fundamentally awry. So the outpouring of protest
over the police and demands for change are understandable and justified.
Still, the question must be asked: Why have the nation's post-9/11 wars not prompted
similar expressions of outrage? The unjustified killing of black Americans rightly finds
thousands upon thousands of protesters flooding the streets of major cities. Yet the
loss of thousands of
American soldiers and the physical and psychological wounds sustained by tens of thousands
more in foolhardy wars elicits, at best, shrugs. Throw in the hundreds of
thousands of non-American lives taken in those military campaigns and the
trillions of taxpayer dollars they have consumed and you have a catastrophe that easily
exceeds in scale the myriad race-related protests and riots that have roiled American cities
in the recent past.
With their eyes fixed on elections that are now just months away, politicians of all
stripes spare no effort to show that they "get it" on the issue of race and policing. Race
may well play a large role in determining who wins the White House this November and which
party controls Congress. It should. Yet while the election's final outcome may be uncertain,
this much is not: neither the American
propensity for war, nor the
bloated size of the Pentagon budget, nor the dubious habit of maintaining a sprawling
network of military bases across much of the planet will receive serious scrutiny during
the political season now underway. Militarism will escape unscathed.
At Riverside Church, King described the U.S. government as "the greatest purveyor of
violence in the world today." So it unquestionably remains, perpetrating immeasurably more
violence than any other great power and with remarkably little to show in return. Why, then,
except on the easily ignored fringes of American politics, are there no demands to "defund"
the Pentagon?
King considered the Vietnam War an abomination. At that time, more than a few Americans
agreed with him and vigorously demonstrated against the conflict's continuation. That today's
demonstrators have seemingly chosen to file away our post-9/11 military misadventures under
the heading of regrettable but forgettable is itself an abomination. While their sensitivity
to racism is admirable, their indifference to war is nothing short of disheartening.
In 1967, Dr. King warned that "a nation that continues year after year to spend more money
on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death." During
the intervening decades, his charge has lost none of its sting or aptness.
America's National Signature
Given their size and duration, the protests occurring in the wake of the murder of George
Floyd have been remarkably peaceful. That said, some of them did, early on, include rioters
who resorted to looting. Smashing windows and ransacking stores, they walked off not with
milk and bread for the hungry, but with shopping bags filled with
high-end swag – designer shoes and sneakers, purses, clothing, and jewelry lifted
from
stores like Prada and Alexander McQueen. Also stolen were smart phones,
handguns , even automobiles . In-store
surveillance systems recorded
scenes reminiscent of Black Friday doorbuster sales, though without anyone bothering to
pass through a checkout counter. Some looters quickly attempted to monetize their hauls by
offering to sell purloined items online.
Certain right-wing commentators wasted no time in using the looting to tar the protest
movement as little more than an expression of nihilism. Tucker Carlson of Fox News was
particularly
emphatic on this point. Americans taking to the streets in response to George Floyd's
murder, he said, "reject society itself."
"Reason and process and precedent mean nothing to them. They use violence to get what they
want immediately. People like this don't bother to work. They don't volunteer or pay taxes to
help other people. They live for themselves. They do exactly what they feel like doing On
television, hour by hour, we watch these people – criminal mobs – destroy what
the rest of us have built "
To explain such selfish and destructive misconduct, Carlson had an answer readily at
hand:
"The ideologues will tell you that the problem is race relations, or capitalism, or police
brutality, or global warming. But only on the surface. The real cause is deeper than that and
it's far darker. What you're watching is the ancient battle between those who have a stake in
society, and would like to preserve it, and those who don't, and seek to destroy it.
This is vile, hateful stuff, and entirely wrong – except perhaps on one point. In
attributing the looting to a deeper cause, Carlson was onto something, even if his effort to
pinpoint that cause was wildly off the mark.
I won't try to unravel the specific motives of those who saw an opportunity in the
protests against racism to help themselves to goods that were not theirs. How much was
righteous anger turned to rage and how much cynical opportunism is beyond my ability to
know.
This much, however, can be said for certain: the grab-all-you-can-get impulse so vividly
on display was as all-American as fireworks on the Fourth of July. Those looters, after all,
merely wanted more stuff. What could be more American than that? In this country, after all,
stuff carries with it the possibility of personal fulfillment, of achieving some version of
happiness or status.
The looters that Tucker Carlson targeted with his ire were doing anything but "rejecting
society itself." They were merely helping themselves to what this society today has on offer
for those with sufficient cash and credit cards in their wallets. In a sense, they were
treating themselves to a tiny sip of what passes these days for the American Dream.
With the exception of cloistered nuns, hippies, and other vanishing breeds, virtually all
Americans have been conditioned to buy into the proposition that stuff correlates with the
good life. Unconvinced? Check out the videos from last year's Black Friday and then consider
the intense, if unsurprising, interest of economists and journalists in tracking the
latest
consumer spending trends . At least until Covid-19 came along, consumer spending served
as the authoritative measure of the nation's overall health.
The primary civic obligation of US citizens today is not to vote or pay taxes. And it's
certainly not to defend the country, a task offloaded onto those who can be enticed to enlist
(with minorities vastly
overrepresented ) in the so-called All-Volunteer Military. No, the primary obligation of
citizenship is to spend.
Ours is not a nation of mystics, philosophers, poets, artisans, or Thomas Jefferson's
yeomen farmers. We are now a nation of citizen-consumers, held in thrall to the extreme
materialism that Dr. King decried. This, not a commitment to liberty or democracy, has become
our true national signature and our chief contribution to late modernity.
Tearing Down the Edifice
At Riverside Church, King reminded his listeners that the Southern Christian Leadership
Conference, which he had helped to found a decade earlier, had chosen this as its motto: "To
save the soul of America." The soul of a nation corrupted by racism, militarism, and extreme
materialism represented King's ultimate concern. Vietnam, he said, was "but a symptom of a
far deeper malady within the American spirit."
In a tone-deaf
editorial criticizing his Riverside Church sermon, the New York Times chastised
King for "fusing two public problems" – racism and the Vietnam War – "that are
distinct and separate." Yet part of King's genius lay in his ability to recognize the
interconnectedness of matters that Times editors, as oblivious to deeper maladies then
as they are today, wish to keep separate. King sought to tear down the edifice that sustained
all three of those giant triplets. Indeed, it is all but certain that, were he alive now, he
would call similar attention to a fourth related factor: climate change denial. The refusal
to treat seriously the threat posed by climate change underwrites the persistence of racism,
militarism, and extreme materialism.
During the course of his sermon, King quoted this sentence from the statement of a group
that called itself the Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam: "A time comes when silence
is betrayal." Regarding race, it appears that the
great majority of Americans have now rejected such silence. This is good. It remains an
open question, however, when their silent acceptance of militarism, materialism, and the
abuse of Planet Earth will end.
While appearing on Fox News
Wednesday, Greater New York Black Lives Matter president Hawk Newsome told host Martha
MacCallum that if America doesn't bend over and cave to his group's demands, they will burn
down the system and replace it.
He justified his insurrection by citing the American Revolution and claiming that the United
States is founded on violence and spreads violence around the world.
According to Fox News (Emphasis added):
"You have said that violence is sometimes necessary in these situations," host Martha
MacCallum told Newsome. "What exactly is it that you hope to achieve through violence?"
"Wow, it's interesting that you would pose that question like that," Newsome responded,
"because this country is built upon violence. What was the American Revolution, what's our
diplomacy across the globe?
"We go in and we blow up countries and we replace their leaders with leaders who we like.
So for any American to accuse us of being violent is extremely hypocritical."
MacCallum clarified that her question was based off comments she had heard Newsome utter
in various interviews.
"I said," Newsome told the host, " if this country doesn't give us what we want, then we
will burn down this system and replace it . All right? And I could be speaking figuratively.
I could be speaking literally. It's a matter of interpretation.
"Let's observe the history of the 1960s, when black people were rioting," he went on. "We
had the highest growth in wealth, in property ownership. Think about the last few weeks since
we started protesting. There have been eight cops fired across the country."
Newsome never said what he wanted to replace the United States with, but given the
Marxist background of BLM, we have a pretty good idea
He refused to condemn the rioting and later claimed to be a Christian, calling Jesus Christ
a black revolutionary who was assassinated by the government.
"I love the Lord and my Lord and savior," Newsome said. "Jesus Christ is the most famous
black radical revolutionary in history. And he was treated just like Dr. King. He was arrested
on occasion and he was also crucified or assassinated. This is what happens to black activists.
We are killed by the government."
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Analysis carried out by the Pew Research Center has revealed that just one in six protesters
turning out at BLM demonstrations in the US are actually black.
The research notes that the plurality of those present at the gatherings have been white
people.
The full breakdown reveals that just 17 percent of protesters were black, while 46 percent
were white.
A further 22 percent were Hispanic, with eight percent being Asian, the analysis highlights.
Perhaps even more telling is the demographic breakdown in terms of political affiliation.
Almost four out of every five "protesters" identified as Democrats or Democrat-leaning, with
fewer than 17 percent identifying as Republicans.
The findings dovetail with comments made by BET Founder Robert Johnson yesterday, who noted
that most black Americans "laugh" at white people attempting to bring down monuments and cancel
everything they deem to be "racist". Johnson said that white people "have the mistaken
assumption that black people are sitting around cheering for them saying 'Oh, my God, look at
these white people. They're doing something so important to us. They're taking down the statue
of a Civil War general who fought for the South."
"You know, black people, in my opinion, black people laugh at white people who do this the
same way we laugh at white people who say we got to take off the TV shows." Johnson said in an
interview with Fox News.
"Look, the people who are basically tearing down statues, trying to make a statement are
basically borderline anarchists, the way I look at it," he continued, adding "They really
have no agenda other than the idea we're going to topple a statue."
"It's not going to give a kid whose parents can't afford college money to go to college.
It's not going to close the labor gap between what white workers are paid and what black
workers are paid. And it's not going to take people off welfare or food stamps." Johnson
urged.
"It's "tantamount to rearranging the deck chairs on a racial titanic. It absolutely means
nothing." Johnson asserted.
Protesters at Seattle
's "Capitol Hill Organized Protest" (CHOP) zone are being encouraged by community leaders and
an activist whose brother was fatally shot by city police in 2016 to leave the "occupied"
protest zone.
A Twitter account, which claims to be the "official account" for CHOP, posted a statement on
Wednesday addressed to "comrades in the struggle," encouraging protesters to leave the area
that was established earlier this month in the wake of Black American George Floyd's death in
police custody.
-- Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (Official Account)
(@CHOPOfficialSEA) June 24,
2020
"The CHOP project is now concluded," the message said.
"While we expect a very small handful of holdouts may try to remain in the CHOP, no
further organizing will be occurring to support this presence and the number on-site will be
too small to be more than an annoyance for pedestrians rather than a zonal blockade."
It is unclear who runs the Twitter account, however, the statement was signed as from "the
Capitol Hill Solidarity Committee."
"Last night, Solidarity Committee received notice from some of our trusted partners that
persons in the park were in danger. We immediately implemented our emergency relocation plan,
successfully evacuating most of the park. Thankfully, no danger materialized. However, we are
now left with the reality that very few people remain in our beloved CHOP," the message
continued.
It called on protestors occupying the zone to "continue the struggle" through social media
platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat, adding: "We have held city
officials accountable and can continue to do so in a way that is safe for everyone."
The message then called on supporters to vote for presumptive Democratic presidential
nominee Joe Biden, to reelect Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D), and Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan
(D).
It comes after Durkan announced on Monday that officials were working to dismantle the
blocks-long span of city streets that President Donald Trump asserted was run by "anarchists,"
after a shooting left one person dead over the weekend. Three other shootings have been
reported in the area in recent days.
I spent nearly 1 week inside #CHAZ interviewing
different people and documenting what I saw.
Durkan said at a news conference that the violence was distracting from changes sought by
thousands of peaceful protesters seeking to address racial inequity and police brutality.
"The cumulative impacts of the gatherings and protests and the nighttime atmosphere and
violence has led to increasingly difficult circumstances for our businesses and residents,"
she said. "The impacts have increased and the safety has decreased."
Dozens of protestors, however, are
reportedly refusing to budge despite increasing calls to do so. They say their demands to
slash police budget by 50 percent and distribute funds to community efforts have not been
met.
"Our demands aren't met," one man who had set up his tent outside the Seattle Police
Department's abandoned East Precinct building told The
Seattle Times . "Why would we leave?"
As part of the 2020 and 2021 budget, we will be looking at @SeattlePD 's culture and budget.
Police should not always be first people on the scene to deal with every call for help. Not
every 9-1-1 call requires someone with a firearm to show up.
Durkan on Wednesday submitted a "Budget Rebalancing" document (
pdf ) that seeks to cut $20 million from the city's police department budget in a bid to address a series of
challenges that include "a movement to demand anti-racist action, to divest and rethink
policing, and end institutional racism."
The mayor's proposal for a $20 million cut amounts to a 5 percent cut, according to
The Seattle Times .
The earliest scheduled vote on the rebalancing legislation and amendments is on July 1,
according to an official committee meeting schedule .
"Not This Time" founder Andre Taylor, whose brother Che Taylor was shot by Seattle police
four years ago, said the violence in the occupied zone distracts from key messages about racial
injustice.
"If there was no violence, you should've stood there for as [long as] you wanted to stay
there, but the violence creates a different narrative where the people in authority have to
look at it differently," he told
KING-TV .
"Our community does not support the violence," he added.
Last year, the local county prosecutor overseeing Taylor's case said that charges against
the police officers who opened fire on Taylor
would not be filed after a majority of jurors said they believed the officers thought
Taylor posed a "threat of death or serious bodily injury." Andre argued that he believes the
officers internalized their fear in the lead up to the confrontation as they observed Taylor
from afar.
The statement from CHOP's "official" Twitter account said they were told that the zone would
be dismantled "no later than early next week."
"[It] will be preceded by the removal of barriers and the reopening of streets to
traffic," the statement said.
More than a dozen businesses are taking the city of Seattle to court over its handling of
the 'autonomous' police-free zone that sprung up two weeks ago, arguing that the city has
failed to maintain basic public safety. The plaintiffs claim that the city government looked
the other way as protesters took over a six-block neighborhood earlier this month, after police
abandoned their East Precinct station.
The area was dubbed the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ), but was later re-branded as the
Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP). The unpoliced encampment was soon plagued by crime,
vandalism and violence. A series of shootings over a 48-hour period earlier this week led to
one fatality.
Mayor Jenny Durkan originally called the protest a "peaceful expression of our
community's collective grief," but has since vowed to restore order. However, her change of
heart appears to be too little, too late for the businesses that have lawyered-up.
DEVELOPING: More than a dozen businesses inside CHOP zone, on Seattle's Capitol Hill, file
56-page class action lawsuit against the City of Seattle. They're seeking unspecified
damages, to be determined at trial. pic.twitter.com/RPlsW3DuNv
"Rather than seeking to restore order and protect residents and property owners within
CHOP, the City instead chose to actively endorse, enable and participate in the occupation of
CHOP," the suit alleges.
Filed on Wednesday, the legal complaint states that "violence, vandalism, excessive
noise, public drug use, and other crimes are rampant" in the neighborhood, and that the
city's reluctance to intervene has resulted in the "elimination of basic public safety"
in the area.
Although they support the anti-racist, anti-police brutality message of the protesters, the
plaintiffs said that the encampment – which has been guarded by barricades, and sometimes
even armed guards – has blocked public access to their businesses.
The lawsuit is seeking damages for lost business, property damage and deprivation of their
rights as property owners.
Although the encampment has shrunk in size, remaining protesters have been preparing for a
showdown with the city. The group has reinforced barricades around the East Precinct, vowing
that they won't leave voluntarily. Durkan announced earlier this week that police would return
to the neighborhood, but has stated that they will do so peacefully.
A spokesperson from the mayor's office said that city officials were trying to negotiate
with protesters in hopes of finding a "path forward" which "keeps people
safe."
Lorenzo Anderson's brother, the victim from the Saturday
morning shooting
at CHOP says that members of the anarchist zone hid his little brother's body from him.
Why would they do that if a "right wing" person managed to sneak into the zone? Cover up? Trying to keep
someone from killing one of their own?
The brother's name was not given.
CHAZ /CHOP shooting victim Lorenzo Anderson`s brother speaks out about his brother
being hidden from him
pic.twitter.com/h8T2TtjzvJ
"My little brother was in a tent. They hid my little brother from me for the longest -- I
thought my little brother was at a hospital," he said. "I didn't see where they had my little
brother at until about 9 o'clock this morning. The table was covered in blood."
The brother claimed that "protesters" told him that the blood did not belong to his brother,
but he pointed out that the other shooting victim drove themselves to the hospital and that his
brother was the only one who was bleeding out at CHAZ.
"Why did they lie to me about what was on that table?" he asked.
"
Gateway Pundit
Shooting victim Lorenzo Anderson`s brother speaks out about authority in CHAZ
/CHOP
pic.twitter.com/6nZvfvIL26
A couple of pieces of information not previously stated: the brother said there were two shootings on
Saturday – one where his brother was killed, and one a block away. He also mentioned that the other
victim drove himself to the hospital, which is not what Seattle Police stated: they said that the both
victims were transported to the Harborview Medical Center by CHOP medics. The second victim is in
critical condition, and while it could be that he took himself to the hospital, since Harborview is only
a few blocks from CHOP, it's iffy.
Lorenzo Anderson's brother mentioned that he was not going to take kindly to anymore of his brothers
being hurt, and that he would be out there every night from now on. He also said he was willing to go to
jail for life based on what he would do to the suspect.
Kshama Sawant, the extreme left wing socialist member of Seattle's City council,
claimed
that a right wing person sneaked into the CHOP zone and killed Lorenzo Anderson. The attempt
to hide Anderson's body from his own brother makes that narrative suspect.
Just prior to the shooting, a fight broke out between members of CHOP. It is unclear what the fight
was about. But if a CHOP member did the shooting, then it smashes Sawant's theory all to pieces. Will
anyone actually listen if that's the case? Or will they just kill the perpetrator without a trial if they
find him first?
Another is the continuation of the CHOP or CHAZ in Seattle, which, I gather, will be ended
fairly soon one way or another. Initially sort of interesting, the area has been hit with
shootings over the last four nights, with one over the weekend killing 19-year old Lorenzo
Anderson.
These are apparently not the result of outside white boogaloo racists attacking them but
coming from inside this area.
There so far has been zero investigation of or effort to find Anderson's murderer and arrest
him. The only report I have seen is that Anderson was advocating people not to set off
fireworks due to a possible fire hazard. This appears to have what got him killed, although so
far there is little solid information. But, sorry, this experiment should not end and not be
repeated anywhere else.
"... It's because the Democrats think that kowtowing to BLM will give them the winning edge in the November balloting. That's what it's all about. That's why they draped themselves in Kente cloth and knelt for the cameras. They think their black constituents are too stupid to see through their groveling fakery. They think that blacks will forget that Joe Biden pushed through legislation "which eliminated parole for federal prisoners and limited the amount of time sentences could be reduced for good behavior." ..."
"... The stupidity of the Dems was shown this week when they agreed to three Biden/Trump debates. They should leave him in his basement and hope for the best. They feature political ads where Biden slurs his speech! These are professionals, so it tells me they spent all day and did 40 takes and this was the best he could do. The election will be great comedy, or perhaps ..."
"... Clinton is the best evidence that certain people agree to be blackmailed in exchange for power, as Andrew Anglin wrote this week. ..."
"This is not a momentary civil disturbance. This is a serious, and highly organized
political movement It is deep and profound and has vast political ambitions. It is insidious,
it will grow. It's goal is to end liberal democracy and challenge western civilization
itself. This is an ideological movement Even now, many of us pretend this is about police
brutality. We think we can fix it by regulating chokeholds or spending more on de-escalation
training. We're too literal and good-hearted to understand what's happening. But we have no
idea what we are up against. ..These are not protests. This is a totalitarian political
movement and someone needs to save the country from it." Tucker
Carlson
Tucker Carlson is right, the protests and riots are not a momentary civil disturbance. They
are an attack the Constitutional Republic itself, the heart and soul of American democracy. The
Black Lives Matter protests are just the tip of the spear, they are an expression of public
outrage that is guaranteed under the first amendment. But don't be deceived, there's more here
than meets the eye. BLM is funded by foundations that seek to overthrow our present form of
government and install an authoritarian regime guided by technocrats, oligarchs and
corporatists all of who believe that Chinese-type despotism is far-more compatible with
capitalism than "inefficient" democracy. The chaos in the streets is merely the beginning of an
excruciating transition from one system to another. This is an excerpt from an article by F.
William Engdahl at Global Research:
"By 2016, Black Lives Matter had established itself as a well-organized network .. That
year the Ford Foundation and Borealis Philanthropy announced the formation of the Black-Led
Movement Fund (BLMF), "a six-year pooled donor campaign aimed at raising $100 million for the
Movement for Black Lives coalition" in which BLM was a central part. By then Soros
foundations had already given some $33 million in
grants to the Black Lives Matter movement .. ..
The BLMF identified itself as being created by top foundations including in addition to
the Ford Foundation, the Kellogg Foundation and the Soros Open Society Foundations." (
"America's Own Color
Revolution ", Global Research)
$100 million is alot of money. How has that funding helped BLM expand its presence in
politics and social media? How many activists and paid employees operate within the network
disseminating information, building new chapters, hosting community outreach programs, and
fine-tuning an emergency notification system that allows them to put tens of thousands of
activists on the streets in cities across the country at a moment's notice? Isn't that what
we've seen for the last three weeks, throngs of angry protestors swarming in more than 400
cities across America all at the beck-and-call of a shadowy group whose political intentions
are still not clear?
And what about the rioting, looting and arson that broke out in numerous cities following
the protests? Was that part of the script too? Why haven't BLM leaders condemned the
destruction of private property or offered a public apology for the downtown areas that have
been turned into wastelands? In my own hometown of Seattle, the downtown corridor– which
once featured Nordstrom, Pottery Barn and other upscale retail shops– is now a
checkerboard of broken glass, plywood covers and empty streets all covered in a thick layer of
garish spray-paint. The protest leaders said they wanted to draw attention to racial injustice
and police brutality. Okay, but how does looting Nordstrom help to achieve that goal?
And what role have the Democrats played in protest movement?
They've been overwhelmingly supportive, that's for sure. In fact, I can't think of even one
Democrat who's mentioned the violence, the looting or the toppling of statues. Why is that?
It's because the Democrats think that kowtowing to BLM will give them the winning edge in
the November balloting. That's what it's all about. That's why they draped themselves in Kente
cloth and knelt for the cameras. They think their black constituents are too stupid to see
through their groveling fakery. They think that blacks will forget that Joe Biden pushed
through legislation "which eliminated parole for federal prisoners and limited the amount of
time sentences could be reduced for good behavior."
According to the Black Agenda
Repor t: "Biden and (South Carolina's Strom) Thurmond joined hands to push 1986 and 1988
drug enforcement legislation that created the nefarious sentencing disparity between crack and
powder cocaine as well as other draconian measures that implicate him as one of the initiators
of what became mass incarceration. " Biden also spearheaded "the attacks on Anita Hill when she
came forward to testify against the supreme court nominee Clarence Thomas". All told, Biden's
record on race is much worse than Trump's despite the media's pathetic attempts to portray
Trump as Adolph Hitler. It's just more bunkum from the dissembling media.
Bottom line: The Democrats think they can ride racial division and social unrest all the way
to the White House. That's what they are betting on.
So, yes, the Dems are exploiting the protests for political advantage, but it goes much
deeper than that. After all, we know from evidence that was uncovered during the Russiagate
investigation, that DNC leaders are intimately linked to the Intel agencies, law enforcement
(FBI), and the elite media. So it's not too much of a stretch to assume that these deep state
agents and assets work together to shape the narrative that they think gives them the best
chance of regaining power. Because, that's what this is really all about, power. Just as
Russiagate was about power (removing the president using disinformation, spies, surveillance
and other skulduggery.), and just as the Covid-19 fiasco was essentially about power
(collapsing the economy while imposing medical martial law on the population.), so too, the BLM
protest movement is also about power, the power to inflict massive damage on the country's main
urban centers with the intention of destabilizing the government, restructuring the economy and
paving the way for a Democratic victory in November. It's all about power, real, unalloyed
political muscle.
Surprisingly, one of the best critiques of what is currently transpiring was written by
Niles Niemuth at the World Socialist Web Site. Here's what he said about the widespread
toppling of statues:
"The attacks on the monuments were pioneered by the increasingly frenzied attempt by the
Democratic Party and the New York Times to racialize American history, to create a
narrative in which the history of mankind is reduced to the history of racial struggle. This
campaign has produced a pollution of democratic consciousness, which meshes entirely with the
reactionary political interests driving it.
It is worth noting that the one institution seemingly immune from this purge is the
Democratic Party, which served as the political wing of the Confederacy and, subsequently,
the KKK.
This filthy historical legacy is matched only by the Democratic Party's contemporary
record in supporting wars that, as a matter of fact, primarily targeted nonwhites. Democrats
supported the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan and under Obama destroyed Libya and Syria. The
New York Times was a leading champion and propagandist for all of these war." (
"Hands
off the monuments to Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Grant!, WSWS)
What the author is referring to is The 1619 Project, which is a racialized version of
American history that was published by the Times on August 19, 2019. The deliberately-distorted
version of history was cobbled together in anticipation of increasing social unrest and racial
antagonism. The rioting, looting and vast destruction of America's urban core can all be traced
back to a document that postulates that the country was founded on racial hatred and
exploitation. In other words, The 1619 Project provides the perfect ideological justification
for the chaos and violence that has torn the country apart for the last three weeks. This is an
excerpt from an article at the World Socialist Web Site:
"The essays featured in the magazine are organized around the central premise that all of
American history is rooted in race hatred -- specifically, the uncontrollable hatred of
"black people" by "white people." Hannah-Jones writes in the series' introduction:
"Anti-black racism runs in the very DNA of this country. "
This is a false and dangerous conception. DNA is a chemical molecule that contains the
genetic code of living organisms and determines their physical characteristics and
development . Hannah-Jones's reference to DNA is part of a growing tendency to derive
racial antagonisms from innate biological processes .where does this racism come from? It
is embedded, claims Hannah-Jones, in the historical DNA of American "white people." Thus, it
must persist independently of any change in political or economic conditions .
. No doubt, the authors of The Project 1619 essays would deny that they are predicting
race war, let alone justifying fascism. But ideas have a logic; and authors bear
responsibility for the political conclusions and consequences of their false and misguided
arguments." ("The New York Times's 1619
Project: A racialist falsification of American and world history", World Socialist Web
Site)
Keep in mind, this essay in the WSWS was written a full year before BLM protests broke out
across the country. Was Hannah-Jones enlisted to create a document that would provide the dry
tinder for the massive and coordinated demonstrations that have left the country stunned and
divided?
Probably, after all, (as noted above) the author's theory is that one race is genetically
programed to exploit the other. ( "Anti-black racism runs in the very DNA of this country. ")
Well, if we assume that whites are genetically and irreversibly "racist", then we must also
assume that the country that these whites founded is racist and evil. Thus, the only logical
remedy for this situation, is to crush the white segment of the population, destroy their
symbols, icons, and history, and replace the system of government with one that better reflects
the values of the emerging non-Caucasian majority. Simply put, The Project 1619 creates the
rationale for sustained civil unrest, deepening political polarization and violent
revolution.
The 1619 Project is a calculated provocation meant to exacerbate racial animosities and pave
the way to open conflagration. And it has succeeded beyond anyone's wildest imagination. The
nation is split into warring camps while Washington has devolved into fratricidal warfare. Was
that the objective, to destabilize the country in preparation for the dissolution of the
current system followed by a fundamental restructuring of the government consistent with the
identity politics lauded by the Democrats?
The Democrats, the Intel agencies and the media are all in bed together fomenting unrest
with the intention of decimating the economy, crushing the emerging opposition and imposing
their despotic one-party system on all of us. Here's a clip from a piece by Paul Craig Roberts
that sums up the role of the New York Times in inciting race-based violence:
"The New York Times editorial board covers up the known indisputable truth with their
anti-white "1619 project," an indoctrination program to inculcate hatred of white people in
blacks and guilt in white people.
Why does the New York Times lie, brainwash blacks into hatred of whites, and attempt to
brainwash whites into guilt for the creation of a New World labor force four centuries ago?
Why do Americans tolerate the New York Times fomenting of racial hatred in a multicultural
society?
The New York Times is a vile organization. The New York Times attempts to discredit the
President of the United States and did all it could to frame him on false charges. The New
York Times painted General Flynn, who honorably served the US, as a Russian agent and enabled
General Flynn's frame-up on false and now dropped charges. The New York Times spews hatred of
white people. And now the New York Times accuses the American military of celebrating white
supremacism.
Does America have a worse enemy than the New York Times? The New York Times is clearly and
intentionally making a multicultural America impossible . By threatening white people with
the prospect of hate-driven racial violence, the New York Times editorial board is fomenting
the rise of white supremacy." (
"The New York Times Editorial Board Is a Threat to Multicultural America ", The Unz
Review)
The editors of the Times don't hate whites, they are merely attacking the growing number of
disillusioned white working people who have left the Democratic party in frustration due to
their globalist policies regarding trade, immigration, offshoring, outsourcing and the
relentless hollowing out of the nation's industrial core . The Dems have abandoned these people
altogether and –now that they realize they will never be able to lure them back into
their camp– they've decided to wage a full-blown, scorched-earth, take-no-prisoners war
on them. They've decided to crush them mercilessly and fill their ranks with multi-ethnic,
bi-racial groups that will work for pennies on the dollar. (which will keep the Dems corporate
supporters happy.) So, no, the Times does not hate white people. What they hate is the growing
populist movement that derailed Hillary Clinton and put anti-globalist Trump in the White
House. That's the real target of this operation, the disillusioned throng of working people who
have washed their hands of the Democrats for good. Here's more background from Paul Craig
Roberts:
"On August 12 Dean Baquet, executive editor of the New York Times, met with the Times'
employees to refocus the Times' attack on Trump . The Times, Baquet said, is shifting from
Trump-Russia to Trump's racism. The Times will spend the run-up to the 2020 presidential
election building the Trump-is-a-racist narrative. Of course, if Trump is a racist it means
that the people who elected him are also racists. Indeed, in Baquet's view, Americans have
always been racist. To establish this narrative, the New York Times has launched the "1619
Project," the purpose of which is "to reframe the country's history."
According to the Washington Examiner, "The basic thrust of the 1619 Project is that
everything in American history is explained by slavery and race. The message is woven
throughout the first publication of the project, an entire edition of the Times magazine. It
begins with an overview of race in America -- 'Our democracy's founding ideals were false
when they were written. Black Americans have fought to make them true.'
The premise that America originated as a racist slave state is to be woven into all
sections of the Times -- news, business, sports, travel, the entire newspaper. The project
intends to take the "reframing" of the United States into the schools where white Americans
are to be taught that they are racist descendants of slave holders. A participant in this
brainwashing of whites, which will make whites guilty and defenseless, says "this project
takes wing when young people are able to read this and understand the way that slavery has
shaped their country's history." In other words, the New York Times intends to make slavery
the ONLY explanation of America.
At the meeting of the executive editor of the New York Times with the Times' employees to
refocus the Times' attack on President Trump, Baquet said: "Race in the next year is going to
be a huge part of the American story." (
"Is White Genocide Possible? ", The Unz Review)
Repeat: "Race in the next year is going to be a huge part of the American story." Either
Baquet has a crystal ball or he had a pretty good idea of the way in which the 1619 Project was
going to be used . I suspect it was the latter.
For the last 3 and a half years, Democrats and the media have ridiculed anyone who opposes
their globalist policies as racist, fascist, misogynist, homophobic, Bible-thumping,
gun-toting, flag-waving, Nascar boosting, white nationalist "deplorables". Now they have
decided to intensify the assault on mainly white working people by preemptively destroying the
economy, destabilizing the country, and spreading terror far and wide. It's another vicious
psy-ops campaign designed to thoroughly demoralize and humiliate the enemy who just happen to
be the American people. Here's more form the WSWS:
" It is no coincidence that the promotion of this racial narrative of American history by
the Times, the mouthpiece of the Democratic Party and the privileged upper-middle-class
layers it represents, comes amid the growth of class struggle in the US and around the
world.
The 1619 Project is one component of a deliberate effort to inject racial politics into
the heart of the 2020 elections and foment divisions among the working class. The Democrats
think it will be beneficial to shift their focus for the time being from the reactionary,
militarist anti-Russia campaign to equally reactionary racial politics." (" The New York
Times's 1619 Project: A racialist falsification of American and world history " WSWS)
Can you see how the protests are being used to promote the political objectives of elites
operating behind the mask of "impartial" reporting? The scheming NY Times has replaced the
enlightenment principles articulated in our founding documents with a sordid tale of racial
hatred and oppression. The editors seek to eliminate everything we believe as Americans so they
can brainwash us into believing that we are evil people deserving of humiliation, repudiation
and punishment. Here's more from the same article:
"In the months preceding these events, the New York Times, speaking for dominant sections
of the Democratic political establishment, launched an effort to discredit both the American
Revolution and the Civil War. In the New York Times' 1619 Project, the American Revolution
was presented as a war to defend slavery, and Abraham Lincoln was cast as a garden variety
racist
The attacks on the monuments to these men were pioneered by the increasingly frenzied
attempt by the Democratic Party and the New York Times to racialize American history, to
create a narrative in which the history of mankind is reduced to the history of racial
struggle . This campaign has produced a pollution of democratic consciousness, which meshes
entirely with the reactionary political interests driving it." (" The New York Times's 1619
Project: A racialist falsification of American and world history" , WSWS)
Ideas have consequences, and the incendiary version of events disseminated by the Times has
added fuel to a fire that's spread from one coast to the other. Given the damage that has been
done to cities across the country, it would be nice to know how Dean Baquet knew that "race was
going to play a huge part" in upcoming events? It's all very suspicious. Here's more:
" Given the 1619 Project's black nationalist narrative, it may appear surprising that
nowhere in the issue do the names Malcolm X or Black Panthers appear. Unlike the black
nationalists of the 1960s, Hannah-Jones does not condemn American imperialism. She boasts
that "we [i.e. African-Americans] are the most likely of all racial groups to serve in the
United States military," and celebrates the fact that "we" have fought "in every war this
nation has waged." Hannah-Jones does not note this fact in a manner that is at all critical.
She does not condemn the creation of a "volunteer" army whose recruiters prey on
poverty-stricken minority youth. There is no indication that Hannah-Jones opposes the "War on
Terror" and the brutal interventions in Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Somalia and Syria -- all
supported by the Times -- that have killed and made homeless upwards of 20 million people. On
this issue, Hannah-Jones is remarkably "color-blind." She is unaware of, or simply
indifferent to, the millions of "people of color" butchered and made refugees by the American
war machine in the Middle East, Central Asia and Africa." (" The New York Times's 1619
Project: A racialist falsification of American and world histor y", WSWS)
So, black nationalists like Malcolm X and the Black Panthers are excluded from the The 1619
Project's narrative, but the author boasts that blacks "are the most likely of all racial
groups to serve in the US military"?? How does that happen unless Hannah-Jones was coached by
Democrat leaders about who should and shouldn't be included in the text? None of this passes
the smell test. It all suggests that the storyline was shaped by people who had a specific goal
in mind. That isn't history, it's fiction written by people who have an ax to grind. The Times
even admitted as much in response to the blistering criticism by five of "the most widely read
and respected authorities on US history." The New York TimesMagazine editor in
chief Jake Silverstein rejected the historians' objections saying:
"The project was intended to address the marginalization of African-American history in
the telling of our national story and examine the legacy of slavery in contemporary American
life. We are not ourselves historians, it is true. We are journalists, trained to look at
current events and situations and ask the question: Why is this the way it is?"
WTF! "We are not ourselves historians"? That's the excuse?? Give me a break!
The truth is that there was never any attempt to provide an accurate account of events. From
the very onset, the goal was to create a storyline that fit the politics, the politics of
provocation, incitement, racial hatred, social unrest and violence. That's what the Times and
their allies wanted, and that's what they got.
The Deep State Axis: CIA, DNC, NYT
The three-way alliance between the CIA, the Elite Media, and the Democratic leadership has
clearly strengthened and grown since the failed Russiagate fiasco. All three parties were
likely involved in the maniacal hyping of the faux-Covid pandemic which paved the way for
Depression era unemployment, tens of thousands of bankrupt businesses and a sizable portion of
the US population thrust into destitution. Now, these deep state loyalists are promoting a
"falsified" race-based version of history that pits one group against the other while diverting
attention from the deliberate destruction of the economy and the further consolidation of
wealth in the hands of the 1 percent.
Behind the veil of the protest movement, the war on the American people is gaining pace.
Stopped reading the Times after the buildup to the Iraq War, when it was clear they were
lying. Everyone please stop reading the Times, and in particular stop referring to what they
are writing. Act like they don't exist. If enough do, they won't.
The stupidity of the Dems was shown this week when they agreed to three Biden/Trump debates.
They should leave him in his basement and hope for the best. They feature political ads where
Biden slurs his speech! These are professionals, so it tells me they spent all day and did 40
takes and this was the best he could do. The election will be great comedy, or perhaps
This is all planned. Biden will be forced to drop out and Bloomberg or even Clinton will
arise.
"Tucker Carlson is right, the protests and riots are not a momentary civil disturbance. They
are an attack the Constitutional Republic itself, the heart and soul of American democracy."
I am reminded of david horowitz and chrissy hitchens
And how they promoted Israeli interests after first pretending to be independent thinkers
to gain creed for the switch. Standard zionazi-gay psywar tactic.
The stupidity of the Dems was shown this week when they agreed to three Biden/Trump
debates.
This is all planned. Biden will be forced to drop out and Bloomberg or even Clinton will
arise.
Stupid and planned?
Clinton is the best evidence that certain people agree to be blackmailed in exchange for
power, as Andrew Anglin wrote this week. Why should DNC care if Trump is 're-elected'? And if
they don't care, who not take a stab at installing an intersectional DNC pinnacle fraudster
via the griftiest, most insulting, infuriating way possible? They can't lose.
Chicago officials report the city's highest number of shootings in a single weekend this
year. From Friday evening to Monday morning, 102 people were shot, 14 of whom have died, five
of those killed were minors.
Several teenagers died in alleys as a result of the rampant weekend violence. A toddler was
killed on Saturday evening when he was struck in the back by a bullet as someone fired into his
father's car in Austin , on the West Side of the city.
Two teenage boys were sitting outside on a porch on Saturday evening when once noticed a red
laser pointed at him and then gun shots began to ring out. Both were taken to Mount Sinai
hospital and are in good condition.
Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown said Sunday that violent offenders should be kept
in jail for longer because the home monitoring system is not working .
"Tears are a natural reaction to these tragic stories of violence," he said.
"But we need to do more than just cry. ... For God's sake, help Chicago cops protect our
precious children and our families."
Brown also said that he and Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot had a conversation over the weekend
and that they're "on the same page," about the city's violence and the absolute need for
strategic change in approaching the issue.
"Cops are working hard. We're just chasing our tails," Brown said.
"It's shocking that no one monitors people on home monitor."
The Father's Day weekend numbers are up considerably from last weekend, when 31 people
across the city were shot, and two killed.
Though, two weekends ago, Chicago experienced its deadliest weekend in modern history, as 24
people were killed and 61 others shot.
Failure
to blame all problems suffered by minorities on racism – failure to denounce loudly
and angrily American bourgeois society's allegedly inherent bigotry, greed, and rapaciousness
– failure to acknowledge that America today is a brutal and cruel place for all but the
elite, and hellish especially for blacks, women, and gay, bi, and transgender people – is
frequently interpreted as sympathy for dark-ages-like superstition and prejudices.
I have no doubt that some progressives at times overstate the role of race in generating
disparities between blacks and whites. (I also have no doubt that some progressives at times
understate the role of race. Social science is hard.) But it is difficult to see how this is
relevant to the demands of the people protesting the murder of George Floyd, unless you can show
that their demands are unwise or unjust.
likbez , June 23, 2020 2:14 am
> I have no doubt that some progressives at times overstate the role of race in
generating disparities between blacks and whites
Jay Gould formulated it much better: "I can hire one half of the working class to kill the
other half."
This is an official policy of Democratic Party. It is called "Identity Wedge" and designed
to suppress trade unions and the struggle for better jobs and the standard of living of the
lower 80% of population. Partially invented by OSS-connected individuals from Frankfurt School
as an alternative interpretation of Marxism.
The role of LGBT is similar. Like blacks, they are expendable pawns in a bigger game
directed against trade unions and working class as a whole. "Divide and conquer" by financial
oligarchy in its most evil form.
It's all about money. If everyone were on the same economic level the police would
treat everyone the same. I won't offer any arguments to buttress that -- it's just common
sense -- it's all who they identify with. Of course it helps slip into this vision if you
were raised in the most color blind part of America, the Bronx, NY -- where if
everybody's different, so nobody's different.
A labor market that is 94% labor union free is by definition, ipso facto, a
socially/economically/politically morbidly pathological situation. When I explained the
American labor market to my late brother John he came back with: "Martin Luther King got
his people on the up escalator just in time for it to start going down for everybody."
And we were not even talking about race.
Bert Schlitz , June 22, 2020 1:17 am
It's spouting dialectical nonsense. Like they are not "virtue signaling" themselves. BLM is
really a bourgeois movement. Centrist anger blowing up. It fails because it refuses to see
reality. More productive prime age whites are killed by cops than blacks, despite 18-54 range
racial % being more tighter than previous generations. This hurts BLM. It also hurts elites
that whites 18-54 80%+ want police reform due to the body counts they are taking.
"It's all about money. If everyone were on the same economic level the police would treat
everyone the same. I won't offer any arguments to buttress that -- it's just common sense --
it's all who they identify with."
divideand conquer 1. To gain or maintain power by generating tension among others, especially those less powerful,
so that they cannot unite in opposition.
Notable quotes:
"... In its most general form, identity politics involves (i) a claim that a particular group is not being treated fairly and (ii) a claim that members of that group should place political priority on the demand for fairer treatment. But "fairer" can mean lots of different things. I'm trying to think about this using contrasts between the set of terms in the post title. A lot of this is unoriginal, but I'm hoping I can say something new. ..."
"... The second problem is that neoliberals on right and left sometimes use identity as a shield to protect neoliberal policies. As one commentator has argued, "Without the bedrock of class politics, identity politics has become an agenda of inclusionary neoliberalism in which individuals can be accommodated but addressing structural inequalities cannot." What this means is that some neoliberals hold high the banner of inclusiveness on gender and race and thus claim to be progressive reformers, but they then turn a blind eye to systemic changes in politics and the economy. ..."
"... Critics argue that this is "neoliberal identity politics," and it gives its proponents the space to perpetuate the policies of deregulation, privatization, liberalization, and austerity. ..."
"... If we assume that identity politics is, first and foremost, a dirty and shrewd political strategy developed by the Clinton wing of the Democratic Party ("soft neoliberals") many things became much more clear. Along with Neo-McCarthyism it represents a mechanism to compensate for the loss of their primary voting block: trade union members, who in 2016 "en mass" defected to Trump. ..."
I've been thinking about the various versions of and critiques of identity politics that are around at the moment.
In its most
general form, identity politics involves (i) a claim that a particular group is not being treated fairly and (ii) a claim that
members of that group should place political priority on the demand for fairer treatment. But "fairer" can mean lots of different
things. I'm trying to think about this using contrasts between the set of terms in the post title. A lot of this is unoriginal,
but I'm hoping I can say something new.
You missed one important line of critique -- identity politics as a dirty political strategy of soft neoliberals.
To be sure, race, gender, culture, and other aspects of social life have always been important to politics. But neoliberalism's
radical individualism has increasingly raised two interlocking problems. First, when taken to an extreme, social fracturing into
identity groups can be used to divide people and prevent the creation of a shared civic identity. Self-government requires uniting
through our commonalities and aspiring to achieve a shared future.
When individuals fall back onto clans, tribes, and us-versus-them identities, the political community gets fragmented. It becomes
harder for people to see each other as part of that same shared future.
Demagogues [more correctly neoliberals -- likbez] rely on this fracturing to inflame racial, nationalist, and religious antagonism,
which only further fuels the divisions within society. Neoliberalism's war on "society," by pushing toward the privatization and
marketization of everything, thus indirectly facilitates a retreat into tribalism that further undermines the preconditions for
a free and democratic society.
The second problem is that neoliberals on right and left sometimes use identity as a shield to protect neoliberal policies.
As one commentator has argued, "Without the bedrock of class politics, identity politics has become an agenda of inclusionary
neoliberalism in which individuals can be accommodated but addressing structural inequalities cannot." What this means is that
some neoliberals hold high the banner of inclusiveness on gender and race and thus claim to be progressive reformers, but they
then turn a blind eye to systemic changes in politics and the economy.
Critics argue that this is "neoliberal identity politics," and it gives its proponents the space to perpetuate the policies
of deregulation, privatization, liberalization, and austerity.
Of course, the result is to leave in place political and economic structures that harm the very groups that inclusionary neoliberals
claim to support. The foreign policy adventures of the neoconservatives and liberal internationalists haven't fared much better
than economic policy or cultural politics. The U.S. and its coalition partners have been bogged down in the war in Afghanistan
for 18 years and counting. Neither Afghanistan nor Iraq is a liberal democracy, nor did the attempt to establish democracy in
Iraq lead to a domino effect that swept the Middle East and reformed its governments for the better. Instead, power in Iraq has
shifted from American occupiers to sectarian militias, to the Iraqi government, to Islamic State terrorists, and back to the Iraqi
government -- and more than 100,000 Iraqis are dead.
Or take the liberal internationalist 2011 intervention in Libya. The result was not a peaceful transition to stable democracy
but instead civil war and instability, with thousands dead as the country splintered and portions were overrun by terrorist groups.
On the grounds of democracy promotion, it is hard to say these interventions were a success. And for those motivated to expand
human rights around the world, it is hard to justify these wars as humanitarian victories -- on the civilian death count alone.
Indeed, the central anchoring assumptions of the American foreign policy establishment have been proven wrong. Foreign policymakers
largely assumed that all good things would go together -- democracy, markets, and human rights -- and so they thought opening
China to trade would inexorably lead to it becoming a liberal democracy. They were wrong. They thought Russia would become liberal
through swift democratization and privatization. They were wrong.
They thought globalization was inevitable and that ever-expanding trade liberalization was desirable even if the political
system never corrected for trade's winners and losers. They were wrong. These aren't minor mistakes. And to be clear, Donald Trump
had nothing to do with them. All of these failures were evident prior to the 2016 election.
If we assume that identity politics is, first and foremost, a dirty and shrewd political strategy developed by the Clinton wing
of the Democratic Party ("soft neoliberals") many things became much more clear. Along with Neo-McCarthyism it represents a mechanism to compensate for the loss of their primary voting block: trade union members,
who in 2016 "en mass" defected to Trump.
Initially Clinton calculation was that trade union voters has nowhere to go anyways, and it was correct for first decade or so
of his betrayal. But gradually trade union members and lower middle class started to leave Dems in droves (Demexit, compare with
Brexit) and that where identity politics was invented to compensate for this loss.
So in addition to issues that you mention we also need to view the role of identity politics as the political strategy of the
"soft neoliberals " directed at discrediting and the suppression of nationalism.
The resurgence of nationalism is the inevitable byproduct of the dominance of neoliberalism, resurgence which I think is capable
to bury neoliberalism as it lost popular support (which now is limited to financial oligarchy and high income professional groups,
such as we can find in corporate and military brass, (shrinking) IT sector, upper strata of academy, upper strata of medical professionals,
etc)
That means that the structure of the current system isn't just flawed which imply that most problems are relatively minor and
can be fixed by making some tweaks. It is unfixable, because the "Identity wars" reflect a deep moral contradictions within neoliberal
ideology. And they can't be solved within this framework.
"... Color Revolution is the term used to describe a series of remarkably effective CIA-led regime change operations using techniques developed by the RAND Corporation, "democracy" NGOs and other groups since the 1980's. They were used in crude form to bring down the Polish communist regime in the late 1980s. From there the techniques were refined and used, along with heavy bribes, to topple the Gorbachev regime in the Soviet Union. For anyone who has studied those models closely, it is clear that the protests against police violence led by amorphous organizations with names like Black Lives Matter or Antifa are more than purely spontaneous moral outrage. Hundreds of thousands of young Americans are being used as a battering ram to not only topple a US President, but in the process, the very structures of the US Constitutional order. ..."
"... F. William Engdahl is strategic risk consultant and lecturer, he holds a degree in politics from Princeton University and is a best-selling author on oil and geopolitics, exclusively for the online magazine "New Eastern Outlook" where this article was originally published. He is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization. ..."
Color Revolution is the term used to describe a series of remarkably effective CIA-led
regime change operations using techniques developed by the RAND Corporation, "democracy" NGOs
and other groups since the 1980's. They were used in crude form to bring down the Polish
communist regime in the late 1980s. From there the techniques were refined and used, along with
heavy bribes, to topple the Gorbachev regime in the Soviet Union. For anyone who has studied
those models closely, it is clear that the protests against police violence led by amorphous
organizations with names like Black Lives Matter or Antifa are more than purely spontaneous
moral outrage. Hundreds of thousands of young Americans are being used as a battering ram to
not only topple a US President, but in the process, the very structures of the US
Constitutional order.
If we step back from the immediate issue of videos showing a white Minneapolis policeman
pressing his knee on the neck of a black man, George Floyd , and look at what has taken place
across the nation since then, it is clear that certain organizations or groups were
well-prepared to instrumentalize the horrific event for their own agenda.
The protests since May 25 have often begun peacefully only to be taken over by well-trained
violent actors. Two organizations have appeared regularly in connection with the violent
protests -- Black Lives Matter and Antifa (USA). Videos show well-equipped protesters dressed
uniformly in black and masked (not for coronavirus to be sure), vandalizing police cars,
burning police stations, smashing store windows with pipes or baseball bats. Use of Twitter and
other social media to coordinate "hit-and-run" swarming strikes of protest mobs is evident.
What has unfolded since the Minneapolis trigger event has been compared to the wave of
primarily black ghetto protest riots in 1968. I lived through those events in 1968 and what is
unfolding today is far different. It is better likened to the Yugoslav color revolution that
toppled Milosevic in 2000.
Gene Sharp: Template for Regime Overthrow
In the year 2000 the US State Department, aided by its National Endowment for Democracy
(NED) and select CIA operatives, began secretly training a group of Belgrade university
students led by a student group that was called Otpor! (Resistance!). The NED and its various
offshoots was created in the 1980's by CIA head Bill Casey as a covert CIA tool to overthrow
specific regimes around the world under the cover of a human rights NGO. In fact, they get
their money from Congress and from USAID.
In the Serb Otpor! destabilization of 2000, the NED and US Ambassador Richard Miles in
Belgrade selected and trained a group of several dozen students, led by Srđa Popović,
using the handbook, From Dictatorship to Democracy, translated to Serbian, of
the late Gene Sharp and his Albert Einstein Institution. In a post mortem on the Serb events,
the Washington Post wrote, "US-funded consultants played a crucial role behind the scenes in
virtually every facet of the anti-drive, running tracking polls, training thousands of
opposition activists and helping to organize a vitally important parallel vote count. US
taxpayers paid for 5,000 cans of spray paint
used by student activists to scrawl anti-Milošević graffiti on walls across
Serbia."
Trained squads of activists were deployed in protests to take over city blocks with the aid
of 'intelligence helmet' video screens that give them an instantaneous overview of their
environment. Bands of youth converging on targeted intersections in constant dialogue on cell
phones, would then overwhelm police. The US government spent some $41 million on the operation.
Student groups were secretly trained in the Sharp handbook techniques of staging protests that
mocked the authority of the ruling police, showing them to be clumsy and impotent against the
youthful protesters. Professionals from the CIA and US State Department guided them behind the
scenes.
The Color Revolution Otpor! model was refined and deployed in 2004 as the Ukraine Orange
Revolution with logo and color theme scarves, and in 2003 in Georgia as the Rose Revolution.
Later Secretary of State Hillary Clinton used the template to launch the Arab Spring. In all
cases the NED was involved
with other NGOs including the Soros Foundations.
After defeating Milosevic, Popovic went on to establish a global color revolution training
center, CANVAS, a kind of for-profit business consultancy for revolution, and was personally
present in New York working reportedly with Antifa during the Occupy Wall Street where also
Soros money was reported.
Antifa and BLM
The protests, riots, violent and non-violent actions sweeping across the United States since
May 25, including an assault on the gates of the White House, begin to make sense when we
understand the CIA's Color Revolution playbook.
The impact of the protests would not be possible were it not for a network of local and
state political officials inside the Democratic Party lending support to the protesters, even
to the point the Democrat Mayor of Seattle ordered police to abandon several blocks in the
heart of downtown to occupation by protesters.
In recent years major portions of the Democratic Party across the US have been quietly taken
over by what one could call radical left candidates. Often they win with active backing of
organizations such as Democratic Socialists of America or Freedom Road Socialist Organizations.
In the US House of Representatives the vocal quarter of new representatives around Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Rashida Tlaib and Minneapolis Representative Ilhan Omar are
all members or close to Democratic Socialists of America. Clearly without sympathetic
Democrat local officials in key cities, the street protests of organizations such as Black
Lives Matter and Antifa would not have such a dramatic impact.
To get a better grasp how serious the present protest movement is we should look at who has
been pouring millions into BLM. The Antifa is more difficult owing to its explicit anonymous
organization form. However, their online Handbook openly recommends that local Antifa "cells"
join up with BLM chapters.
FRSO: Follow the Money
BLM began in 2013 when three activist friends created the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag to
protest the allegations of shooting of an unarmed black teenager, Trayvon Martin by a white
Hispanic block watchman, George Zimmermann. Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi
were all were connected with and financed by front groups tied to something called Freedom Road
Socialist Organization, one of the four largest radical left organizations in the United States
formed out of something called New Communist Movement that dissolved in the 1980s.
On June 12, 2020 the Freedom Road Socialist Organization webpage states, "The time is now to
join a revolutionary organization! Join Freedom Road Socialist Organization If you have been
out in the streets this past few weeks, the odds are good that you've been thinking about the
difference between the kind of change this system has to offer, and the kind of change this
country needs. Capitalism is a failed system that thrives on exploitation, inequality and
oppression. The reactionary and racist Trump administration has made the pandemic worse. The
unfolding economic crisis we are experiencing is the worst since the 1930s. Monopoly capitalism
is a dying system and we need to help finish it off. And that is exactly what Freedom Road
Socialist Organization is
working for ."
In short the protests over the alleged police killing of a black man in Minnesota are now
being used to call for a revolution against capitalism. FRSO is an umbrella for dozens of
amorphous groups including Black Lives Matter or BLM. What is interesting about the
self-described Marxist-Leninist roots of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) is not
so much their left politics as much as their very establishment funding by a group of
well-endowed tax-exempt foundations.
Alicia Garza of BLM is also a board member or executive of five different Freedom Road front
groups including 2011 Board chair of Right to the City Alliance, Board member of School of
Unity and Liberation (SOUL), of People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER), Forward
Together and Special Projects director of National Domestic Workers Alliance.
The Right to the City Alliance got $6.5 million between 2011 and 2014 from a number of very
established tax-exempt foundations including the Ford Foundation ($1.9 million), from both of
George Soros's major tax-exempts–Open Society Foundations, and the Foundation to Promote
Open Society for $1.3 million. Also the cornflake-tied Kellogg Foundation $250,000, and
curiously , Ben
& Jerry's Foundation (ice cream) for $30,000.
Garza also got major foundation money as Executive Director of the FRSO front, POWER, where
Obama former "green jobs czar" Van Jones, a self-described "communist" and "rowdy black
nationalist," now with CNN, was on the board. Alicia Garza also chaired the Right to the City
Alliance, a network of activist groups opposing urban gentrification. That front since 2009
received $1.3 million from the Ford Foundation, as well as $600,000 from the Soros foundations
and again, Ben & Jerry's ($50,000). And Garza's SOUL, which claimed to have trained 712
"organizers" in 2014, when she co-founded Black Lives Matter, got $210,000 from the Rockefeller
Foundation and another $255,000 from the Heinz Foundation (ketchup and John Kerry family) among
others. With the Forward Together of FRSO, Garza sat on the board of a "multi-racial
organization that works with community leaders and organizations to transform culture and
policy to catalyze social change." It officially got $4 million in 2014 revenues and from 2012
and 2014, the organization received a total of $2.9 million from Ford Foundation ($655,000) and
other major
foundations .
Nigeria-born BLM co-founder Opal Tometi likewise comes from the network of FRSO. Tometi
headed the FRSO's Black Alliance for Just Immigration. Curiously with a "staff" of two it got
money from major foundations including the Kellogg Foundation for $75,000 and Soros foundations
for $100,000, and, again, Ben & Jerry's ($10,000). Tometi got $60,000 in 2014 to direct the group .
The Freedom Road Socialist Organization that is now openly calling for a revolution against
capitalism in the wake of the Floyd George killing has another arm, The Advancement Project,
which describes itself as "a next generation, multi-racial civil rights organization." Its
board includes a former Obama US Department of Education Director of Community Outreach and a
former Bill Clinton Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. The FRSO Advancement Project
in 2013 got millions from major US tax-exempt foundations including Ford
($8.5 million), Kellogg ($3 million), Hewlett Foundation of HP defense industry founder ($2.5
million), Rockefeller Foundation ($2.5 million), and Soros foundations ($8.6 million).
Major Money and ActBlue
By 2016, the presidential election year where Hillary Clinton was challenging Donald Trump,
Black Lives Matter had established itself as a well-organized network. That year the Ford
Foundation and Borealis Philanthropy announced the formation of the Black-Led Movement Fund
(BLMF), "a six-year pooled donor campaign aimed at raising $100 million for the Movement for
Black Lives coalition" in which BLM was a central part. By then Soros foundations had already
given some $33 million in
grants to the Black Lives Matter movement . This was serious foundation money.
The BLMF identified itself as being created by top foundations including in addition to the
Ford Foundation, the Kellogg Foundation and the Soros Open Society Foundations. They described
their role: "The BLMF provides grants, movement building resources, and technical assistance to
organizations working advance the leadership and vision of young, Black, queer, feminists and
immigrant leaders who are shaping and leading a national
conversation about criminalization, policing and race in America."
The Movement for Black Lives Coalition (M4BL) which includes Black Lives Matter, already in
2016 called for "defunding police departments, race-based reparations, voting rights for
illegal immigrants, fossil-fuel divestment, an end to private education and charter schools, a
universal basic income, and
free college for blacks ."
Notably, when we click on the website of M4BL, under their donate button we learn that the
donations will go to something called ActBlue Charities. ActBlue facilitates donations to
"democrats and progressives." As of May 21, ActBlue had given $119 million to the campaign
of Joe Biden.
That was before the May 25 BLM worldwide protests. Now major corporations such as Apple,
Disney, Nike and hundreds others may be pouring untold and unaccounted millions into ActBlue
under the name of Black Lives Matter, funds that in fact can go to fund the election of a
Democrat President Biden. Perhaps this is the real reason the Biden campaign has been so
confident of support from black voters. What is clear from only this account of the crucial
role of big money foundations behind protest groups such as Black lives Matter is that there is
a far more complex agenda driving the protests now destabilizing cities across America. The
role of tax-exempt foundations tied to the fortunes of the greatest industrial and financial
companies such as Rockefeller, Ford, Kellogg, Hewlett and Soros says that there is a far deeper
and far more sinister agenda to current disturbances than spontaneous outrage would
suggest.
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Get short URL No sooner did Jacob Frey, the Mayor of Minneapolis, apologize
to the black community for the killing of George Floyd than everyone felt they had to say sorry for the sins of their fathers, erasing
the meaning of sincere apology. I've stopped counting the number of apologies issued by public figures, business institutions and
celebrities in recent weeks. It's sometimes difficult to avoid the conclusion that a public apology has become a public-relations
exercise. Why else would the Greene King pub chain and Lloyd's of London apologize for the links to the slave trade – a historical
event that occurred centuries ago? Moral cowardice and the easy way out
Moral cowardice is another of the driving forces fueling the proliferation of public apologies. Apology has become weaponized
to the point that very few politicians possess the strength of character to stand by their words. I remember when, last November,
the Mayor of Middlesbrough, Andy Preston, apologized 'unreservedly' to the mental-health charity Mind for calling a Facebook commenter
a ' nutter
'. There's something truly scary about a world in which people wish to censor others for using a word the vast majority of human
beings find unobjectionable. But what is even more chilling is that the mayor felt obliged to grovel and apologize.
The elites' addiction to apology has been evident since the 1990s. During that decade, the then US president, Bill Clinton, publicly
apologized to his nation's black community for slavery. Meanwhile, the former British prime minister Tony Blair turned public apology
into a veritable art form. He took it upon himself to apologize for Britain's role in the slave trade. He also issued an apology
in 1997 for his nation's responsibility for the Irish potato famine of the 19th
century
. It is evident that Western political elites are far better at apologizing for the 'bad old days' than inspiring the public
about their nation's past – or even present.
Knee-jerk knee-bending
Since the outbreak of the present wave of Black Lives Matter protests, the issuing of a public apology has become almost a routine
response to the mere hint that you should take the knee and grovel.
Typically, whenever an individual is called out and denounced for their language, an apology swiftly follows. But in the current
climate, there can be no 'mistakes', because your words will come back to bite you. Just about any gesture or statement can be branded
as not just insensitive but racist. Poor Karol G, the Colombian reggaeton singer, who, in response to the protest following George
Floyd's death, tweeted a now-deleted picture of her black-and-white coated dog with the caption 'The perfect example that Black and
White TOGETHER look beautiful', along with the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter. After she was denounced and ridiculed, she issued an immediate
statement of apology. "I want to make clear that my intentions were right in the photo I posted earlier. I meant to say that racism
is terrible and that I cannot begin to understand it," she
pleaded .
As Rachel Yang wrote recently on the arts website Entertainment Weekly, '2020 has turned out to be an unpredictable year, to say
the least, but one thing we can always count on is celebrities needing to issue apologies for their
behavior '.
Never enough
Experience shows that often an apology is not enough, as if those who demand them get ever more high in their addiction to humiliation
and, enjoying it, seek to up the dose. Take the case of LA Galaxy football player Aleksandar Katai. His club forced him to issue
an apology, not for anything that he did, but because his wife Tea posted a statement calling protestors "
disgusting cattle
" ! Poor Katai took the knee and pledged that both he and his family would "take the necessary actions to learn, understand,
listen, and support the black community." However, not even this act of self-abasement helped him. He was dropped from the squad
because of a statement made by his wife.
Western society's addiction to public apology is a reflection of the fact that its political and cultural elite does not believe
in itself – or at least it has no idea what to believe in. The speed with which individuals apologize for a statement they made a
few hours before exposes both their lack of firm conviction and their moral cowardice. When an apology is a response to a very public
ultimatum, it's almost never a genuine act of reflection and contrition. Rather, it has become an empty ritual that denudes their
apology of meaning.
As I write these lines, the UK's Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab is facing calls to apologize for stating that taking the knee
is a gesture copied from the TV drama 'Game of Thrones'. He added that he would take the knee for only two people: 'the Queen and
the Mrs, when I asked her to marry me '. After an outburst
of criticism, Raab tried to soothe the mob baying for his blood by indicating that he has "full respect for BLM campaigners,"
but didn't issue the now-mandatory apology.
It took just a few minutes for the all too readily offended Twitterati to pile in to demand an apology. The acting leader of the
Liberal Democrats, Ed Davey, led the way with a post on Twitter demanding that Raab issue a '
fulsome apology '.
Davey knows a thing or two about the meaningless issuing of an apology. Last June, he apologized for writing that his electoral
strategy was to "decapitate that blond head," referring to PM Boris Johnson.
Back in 1976, Elton John released a song titled 'Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word'. A song titled 'The Hardest Word Not to Say
is Sorry' would be altogether more fitting for the 2020s.
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One of the CHAZ occupiers took to Reddit over the weekend to complain that their tent had
been looted and their laptop stolen, along with $400 in cash.
The CHAZ community quickly stepped in to reassure the victim that "a disadvantaged
resident was in greater need of the items than you," and to think of the theft as an
"unplanned donation."
@Ron (RC) Weakley (a.k.a., Darryl for a while at EV) June 16, 2020 4:00 pm
> the Democratic Party depends upon the problems of racial discrimination to win
elections. It is a Catch-22 dilemma.
Yes. Thanks you. This is clearly Catch-22 situation as the global crisis of neoliberalism
and neoliberal globalization is overlaid on the current racial riots and COVID-19 level of
unemployment.
I do not pretend that I see it right. Only time will tell. But here is my view:
IMHO the developments of neoliberalism in the US generated a social system radically
different from the neoliberal utopia of the benign rule of the financial oligarchy over
politically neutered by free-market ideology and brainwashed "homo homini lupus est"
neoliberal rationality population. Which should passively submit to the "depoliticized"
version of the National Security State and act strictly as a consumer and passive voter.
Kind of replay of the political reality of Stalinism (with the neoliberal deification of
"free market" and competition as the replacement of Marxism; in both case playing the role of
state-enforced secular religion questioning of which is a punishable heresy )
Unlike Stalinism, Neoliberalism enforces its secular-religious doctrine on a new "inverted
totalitarianism" level with minimal physical repression of dissidents. MSM brainwashing,
defunding, ostracism and shunning are the main tools.
The use of external enemy as the scapegoat is the same under both Stalinism and late
neoliberalism with the accusation of being a "foreign agent" as a natural part of the dirty
fight of various factions of oligarchy for power.
Despite Hayek's hope about politically neutered population ruled by financial oligarchy
neoliberalism intensified the rancorous resentment already present in modern culture.
Now we see a kind of return of the repressed under neoliberalism violent social protests
that the neoliberals always opposed, and which they deformed with the injection of a heavy
doze of identity politics.
As a result, we now have clear resurgence of the far-right nationalism and simultaneously
the rise of "woke" far left with its radical feminism, anarchism, LGBT, and a one-dimensional
"anti-racism" (strictly white vs black as it if is the only one in existence and black racism
a la South Africa or Rhodesia does not exists ).
In a way, this is a return to the very dangerous and unpredictable social situation that
existed in late 1920th on a new level, but without Marxists as a political player. A very
dangerous level with elements of Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451.": Toppling of statues is not
that different from book burning.
Pelosi wearing an African scarf looks like a failed attempt of neoliberal Dems to get it
under control of a monster that they created via identity politics.
Neoliberal political culture and systemic impoverishment of the lower 80% of the
population create the economic conditions for enduring racism and glaring economic
inequality.
Add to this identity politics, used as the "divide and conquer" strategy for the political
isolation and partial cooptation (despite clear oppression on the part of neoliberals) of the
white working-class ("What's the matter with Kansas" effect ) and the mixture becomes clearly
explosive.
The US financial oligarchy is no less evil than either Italian or Kosher-Nostra mafia.
They are completely ruthless. And that means that they still might be able to swipe this
under the rug: one way, or another. Racial protests, or coming to power of radical far-right
does not threaten their power, but possible disintegration of the state in Ukrainian Maidan
fashion clearly does.
So how events will unfold in completely unclear. I just try to provide my 2c within the
adopted framework of analysis.
Recall, it was just days ago that
we pointed out Cornell professor and friend of Zero Hedge Dave Collum was publicly shamed
by Cornell for daring to express the "wrong" opinion about current events on social media. Now,
there's a second Cornell professor coming under fire for his critique of the Black Lives Matter
movement.
Cornell Law School professor William A. Jacobson has challenged any student or faculty
member to a public debate about the Black Lives Matter movement after he says liberals on
campus have launched a "coordinated effort" to have him fired from his job. At least 15 emails
from alumni have been sent to the dean, demanding that action be taken, according to Fox News
.
"There is an effort underway to get me fired at Cornell Law School, where I've worked since
November 2007, or if not fired, at least denounced publicly by the school,"
Jacobson wrote on Thursday . "I condemn in the strongest terms any insinuation that I am
racist."
Jacobson founded the website Legal
Insurrection and says he's had an "awkward relationship" with the university for years as a
result. The recent outrage comes as a result of two posts he recently made on his site:
"Those posts accurately detail the history of how the Black Lives Matters Movement started,
and the agenda of the founders which is playing out in the cultural purge and rioting taking
place now," Jacobson said.
He recently wrote on his blog: "Living as a conservative on a liberal campus is like being
the mouse waiting for the cat to pounce. For over 12 years, the Cornell cat did not pounce.
Though there were frequent and aggressive attempts by outsiders to get me fired, including
threats and harassment, it always came from off campus."
"Not until now, to the best of my knowledge, has there been an effort from inside the
Cornell community to get me fired," he says.
"The effort appears coordinated, as some of the emails were in a template form. All of the
emails as of Monday were from graduates within the past 10 years," he continued. Jacobson's
"clinical faculty colleagues, apparently in consultation with the Black Law Students
Association" drafted and published a letter denouncing 'commentators, some of them attached to
Ivy League Institutions, who are leading a smear campaign against Black Lives Matter.'"
Cornell
responded , backhandedly defending the Professor's right to his own opinion:
"...the Law School's commitment to academic freedom does not constitute endorsement or
approval of individual faculty speech. But to take disciplinary action against him for the
views he has expressed would fatally pit our values against one another in ways that would
corrode our ability to operate as an academic institution."
"This is not just about me. It's about the intellectual freedom and vibrancy of Cornell and
other higher education institutions, and the society at large. Open inquiry and debate are core
features of a vibrant intellectual community," he stated.
"I challenge a representative of those student groups and a faculty member of their choosing
to a public debate at the law school regarding the Black Lives Matter Movement, so that I can
present my argument and confront the false allegations in real-time rather than having to
respond to baseless community email blasts."
"I condemn in the strongest terms any insinuation that I am racist, and I greatly resent any
attempt to leverage meritless accusations in hopes of causing me reputational harm. While such
efforts might succeed in scaring others in a similar position, I will not be intimidated,"
Jacobson concluded.
So let's go back to the basics: corporations are about money, that is a truism. Yes,
sometimes corporations try to present a "human face", but this is nothing more than a marketing
trick destined to create consumer loyalty. Now I don't believe for one second that the
mega-corporations listed above expect to make much money from supporting the riots, at least
not in a direct way. Nor do I believe that these corporations are trying to impersonate a
conscience because they fear a Black consumer boycott (what was true in
Tuskegee in the late 1950s is not true today, if only because of the completely
different scale of the protests).
So if not money – what is at stake here?
Power.
Specifically, the US deep state – at a major faction within that deep state – is
clearly desperate to get rid of Trump (and not for the right reasons, of which there are
plenty).
Another victory of the "coalition of minorities" and another defeat for Trump
There are plenty of signs that illustrate that Trump is even losing control of the
Executive, including Secretary
Esper contradicting Trump on what is a key issue – restoring law and order
– or the
US Ambassador to South Korea voicing support for BLM (I consider that these actions by
top officials against their own Commander in Chief border on treason). Needless to say, the
pro-Dems
neo-libs at Slate immediately began dreaming about, and calling for, a military revolt
against Trump.
Last but not least, we now have a "free zone" in Seattle, the notorious Capitol Hill
Autonomous Zone, "CHAZ" aka "CHOP" where, among other "curiosities", Whites are told to give
10 bucks to a Black person . This means that until law and order are restored to what
is now the CHAZ, the United States has lost its sovereignty over a part of one of its cities.
That is a "black eye" for any US President who, after all, is the leader of the Executive
branch of government and the Commander in Chief of a military supposed (in theory only, of
course) to defend the United States against all enemies.
What do all of these developments have in common?
They are designed to show that Trump has lost control of the country and that all good and
decent people now stand united against him.
There are several major problems with this plan.
For one thing, this is all completely illegal. What began as a typical race riot is now
openly turning into sedition.
The second major problem of this plan is that it relies on what I call a "coalition of
minorities" to achieve its goal, it is therefore ignoring the will of the majority of the
people. This can backfire, especially if the chaos and violence continue to spread.
Next, there is the "Golem/Frankenstein" issue: it is much easier to launch a wildfire than
to contain or suppress it. Nancy Pelosi might be dumb enough to think that she and her gang can
control the likes of Raz
Simone , but history shows that when the state abdicates its monopoly on violence,
anarchy ensues.
By the way, it is important to note here that Trump, at least so far, has not taken the bait
and has not used federal forces to reimpose law and order in Seattle, Atlanta or elsewhere.
He must realize that liberating the so-called CHAZ might result in a bloodbath (there appear
to be plenty of weapons inside the CHAZ) and that the Democrats are dreaming about blaming him
for a bloodbath. Trump's strategy, at least so far, appears to let the lawlessness continue and
blame the Democrats for it.
ORDER IT NOW
While Trump's strategy makes sense, it also is inherently very dangerous because if the
state cannot reimpose law and order, then all sorts of "volunteers" might decide to give it a
shot (literally). Check out this headline " Bikers
For Trump Organizing to Retake Seattle On July 4th ". Whether these bikers will
actually try to take over the CHAZ or not, even the fact that they are preparing to do so
shows, yet again, that the state has lost its monopoly on violence.
"... Sunday night seems to have proven otherwise. When the owner of an auto shop in the zone found a man attempting to light his business on fire, he detained the culprit, or so he told a crowd gathered outside. However, rather than let their comrade be handed over to law enforcement, the crowd set about pulling down the fence around the lot, in a bid to free the thwarted arsonist. ..."
"... "The police won't come," the owner told a cameraman. "The fire department won't even come. This is really bad for business. Covid was bad enough, and now this stuff basically put the icing on the cake." ..."
"An anarchist is someone who doesn't need a cop to make him behave," American anarchist Ammon Hennacy once wrote. Based on the
scenes playing out in Seattle's Antifa-occupied 'autonomous zone', Hennacy was dead wrong.
A ragtag collective of
Antifa types, anarchists, socialists, and 'Black Lives Matter' activists have occupied a six-block area around an abandoned
police precinct in downtown Seattle for a week now. Roads into the 'Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone' (CHAZ) have been blockaded,
and the would-be revolutionaries inside have set in motion a bold experiment: to prove that a cop-free society, based on
"mutual
aid,"
can sustain itself.
Sunday night seems to have
proven otherwise. When the owner of an auto shop in the zone found a man attempting to light his business on fire, he detained
the culprit, or so he
told
a
crowd gathered outside. However, rather than let their comrade be handed over to law enforcement, the crowd set about pulling
down the fence around the lot, in a bid to free the thwarted arsonist.
BREAKING: A CapHill protester just broke into a nearby Car Tender auto shop and tried to set the
building on fire
Owners detained him but then a mob of protesters ran down the street and attacked & tore down his
fence
Owner says police and fire dept have done nothing
"The police won't come,"
the owner told a cameraman.
"The
fire department won't even come. This is really bad for business. Covid was bad enough, and now this stuff basically put the
icing on the cake."
With the police absent,
the zone's de-facto warlord, rapper Raz Simone,
arrived
to
defuse the situation. However, Raz is not bound to the same rules of conduct as the Seattle Police Department. In a series of
videos published by conservative journalist Jack Posobiec, the rapper-turned-strongman can be seen
chasing
down
an accused thief later on Sunday night and ordering his bag searched, as gun-toting guards keep the suspect on the
scene.
The facade of order was
broken when a man attacked the supposed thief, who slipped away in the confusion.
Someone ran in and began beating the accused thief. Then a commotion started and he slipped away
Enforcing private property
rights in an anarchist utopia has proven difficult. One of the CHAZ occupiers took to Reddit over the weekend to complain that
their tent had been looted and their laptop stolen, along with $400 in cash. The CHAZ community quickly stepped in to reassure
the victim that
"a disadvantaged resident was in greater need of the items than you,"
and
to think of the theft as an
"unplanned donation."
Much of the zone's
strategizing and organizing happens on Reddit. Here, some of the CHAZ organizers pondered a conflict resolution process over
the weekend, to prevent similar thefts and disagreements. One of the plans discussed was the creation of a
"Conflict
Resolution Advisory Council."
However, the initial plan of electing one black man, one black woman and one white woman to
resolve disputes soon fell apart when the organizers decided to
include
trans
and non-binary representatives of all races, homeless members, mixed-race children, as well as 12 Asian members, as the
original plan of including one Asian was deemed racist.
With the council debate
mired in intersectional squabbling, Raz and his band have had free rein to impose their own vision on CHAZ. The 'warlord'
rapper has been accused of punching journalists, while activists were seen on video placing a Christian preacher in a
chokehold on Saturday.
City authorities,
meanwhile, seem content to let the 'Lord of the Flies' situation play out in the CHAZ. Rebuffing calls from President Donald
Trump to stop the
"ugly anarchists" "Immediately,"
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan has
called the occupation a
"summer of love,"
and scolded Trump, telling him
"don't
be so afraid of democracy."
Some residents are unhappy
with Durkan's hands-off approach.
"I'd like to see the police precinct restored. I'd
like to see the city of Seattle step up and represent their people,"
the auto store owner said on Sunday night. Another
resident told the Daily Caller that he's been
"scared every day"
since the zone was
established, claiming he's
"heard screams of terror out there"
on the streets.
"I called everyone in City Council, and no one would answer. I called the mayor, and no
one would answer,"
he added.
However, a collection of
self-described
"American Patriots,"
made up of various militia and biker groups, is
planning on retaking the zone from the leftists. According to an
event
posted
on Facebook, more than 1,500 members of these
"patriot groups"
will descend on
downtown Seattle on July 4 to
"tear down the illegal barriers on public property, clean
up the mess these communist kids made, and return the police station over to Seattle Police Department control."
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"... These mobs of hating, condemning, moralizing, groupthink hypocrites are modern-day Nazis. They don't wear uniforms or have guns, but their weapon of online psychological abuse is proving frighteningly effective. ..."
"... Psychological abuse is one of their classic methods, as they exploit a person's fear of ending up alone against a crowd. Instead of a prison cell or a concentration camp, they put people in social isolation. They can even prevent the victim from being employed – classic state repression of an individual. ..."
"... Without work, the geniuses will fade into obscurity, and the new PC brigade will make them kneel in solidarity. Individually, members of these combat units of political correctness are often smart and sophisticated people, but when they close ranks in the fight for or against something, they turn into an ignorant and aggressive mob. ..."
"... China has been testing a new system in several provinces via which the citizens and their community are encouraged to assess the social behavior of individuals by assigning scores for respecting the rules and values practiced in this society. If you don't achieve a high score, your ranking is low and your prospects are limited. Isn't this just perfect for the new stormtroopers?! It's a modern reincarnation of the Munich gang, when a mediocre, covetous burgher pretends to be a civilized, progressive thinker. ..."
"... They put labels on everyone who disagrees. They love drama and straightforwardness. But they are incapable of engaging in rational argument. It's only natural that they began with declaring lofty values and ended with riots. They have started fires and justified arson. But you can't rein in the freedom to love or hate using a set of rules established by the new ethics committee. Today, being free means being outside this mob of attacking, hating, condemning, moralizing, angry hypocrites. ..."
These mobs of hating, condemning, moralizing, groupthink hypocrites are modern-day Nazis. They don't wear
uniforms or have guns, but their weapon of online psychological abuse is proving frighteningly effective.
Totalitarianism didn't disappear when the Nazis were defeated. It hid, stealthily, only to come back
later. The US and Europe intuitively built a new elaborate type of dictatorship. The state delegated the
functions of surveillance, persecution, isolation and judgment to society. Initially, it looked very
innocent: fighting against intolerance, defending the mistreated and the oppressed. Noble goals.
But
with time, these values turned into idols, while intolerance of evil transformed into intolerance of a
different opinion. And social media is making things worse. Public opinion is now a repressive machine
that gangs up on people, booing and destroying anyone who dares to challenge its value system and moral
compass.
The staff members of this repressive machine do not wear uniforms, they don't carry batons or tasers,
but they have other weapons, such as herd instinct and groupthink, as well as deep insecurities and a
desire to dominate – at least intellectually.
Psychological abuse is one of their classic methods, as they exploit a person's fear of ending up
alone against a crowd. Instead of a prison cell or a concentration camp, they put people in social
isolation. They can even prevent the victim from being employed – classic state repression of an
individual.
In a Nazi state, a creative type such as Lars von Trier could lose his job and life over his
"degenerate art." In the beautiful modern state that people with beautiful faces are building, a Lars von
Trier could lose his job, because he can be a politically incorrect troll who sometimes supports the
wrong value system. And a Robert Lepage won't get funding for his new theatrical production, because all
the parts in the previous one were played by white actors.
You no longer need to take their lives.
Without work, the geniuses will fade into obscurity, and the
new PC brigade will make them kneel in solidarity. Individually, members of these combat units of
political correctness are often smart and sophisticated people, but when they close ranks in the fight
for or against something, they turn into an ignorant and aggressive mob.
And there's no point arguing with them. They have only one criterion: are you with us or not? That's
an ideal tool for the new way of abusing individuals – it's not physical, it's psychological.
China has been testing a new system in several provinces via which the citizens and their community
are encouraged to assess the social behavior of individuals by assigning scores for respecting the rules
and values practiced in this society. If you don't achieve a high score, your ranking is low and your
prospects are limited. Isn't this just perfect for the new stormtroopers?! It's a modern reincarnation of
the Munich gang, when a mediocre, covetous burgher pretends to be a civilized, progressive thinker.
They put labels on everyone who disagrees. They love drama and straightforwardness. But they are
incapable of engaging in rational argument. It's only natural that they began with declaring lofty values
and ended with riots. They have started fires and justified arson. But you can't rein in the freedom to
love or hate using a set of rules established by the new ethics committee. Today, being free means being
outside this mob of attacking, hating, condemning, moralizing, angry hypocrites.
The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely
those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of RT.
Konstantin Bogomolov is an award-winning Russian theater director, actor, author and
poet.
If this was a Chinese admiral or diplomat, the tone of the comments here would be completely
different: "whistleblower", "Chinese totalitarianism collapsing", "we should support him", "the
Chinese should reform", "Xi Jinping should be removed from power" etc. etc.
...In general, USG is very happy if an ambassador is in blatant insubordination, e.g.
supporting a FAILED coup against his own government. Could it misled some ambassadors that it
is OK?
In short, there are good and bad types of hypocrisy, and USG should have some (online?)
courses, so passing quizzes in Hypocrisy.1, Hypocrisy.2 and Hypocrisy.3 would be a
prerequisite before granting a post (the higher the post, the more quizzes may be
needed).
"... Anti-racism as an ideology serves a perfect function for corporations that ultimately take workers for granted. ..."
"... Today, we find Lincoln statues desecrated . Neither has the memorial to the 54th Massachusetts Infantry , one of the first all-black units in the Civil War, survived the recent protests unscathed. To many on the left, history seems like the succession of one cruelty by the next. And so, justice may only be served if we scrap the past and start from a blank slate. As a result, Lincoln's appeal that we stand upright and enjoy our liberty gets lost to time. ..."
"... Ironically, this will only help the cause of Robert E. Lee -- and the modern corporations who rely on cheap, inhumane labor to keep themselves going. ..."
"... Before black slaves did this work, white indentured servants had. (An indentured servant is bound for a number of years to his master, i.e. he can't pack up and leave to find a new opportunity elsewhere.) ..."
"... But in the eyes of the Southern slavocracy, the white laboring poor of the North also weren't truly human. Such unholy antebellum figures as the social theorist George Fitzhugh or South Carolina Senator James Henry Hammond urged that the condition of slavery be expanded to include poor whites, too. Their hunger for a cheap, subservient labor source did not stop at black people, after all. ..."
"... Always remember Barbara Fields's formula: The need for cheap labor comes first; ideologies like white supremacy only give this bleak reality a spiritual gloss. ..."
"... Michael Lind argues in his new book The New Class War that many powerful businesses in America today continue to rely on the work of quasi indentured servants. Hungry for unfree, cheap workers, corporations in Silicon Valley and beyond employ tens of thousands of foreign workers through the H-2B visa program. These workers are bound to the company that provided them with the visa. If they find conditions at their jobs unbearable, they can't switch employers -- they would get deported first. In turn, this source of cheap labor effectively underbids American workers who could do the same job, except that they would ask for higher pay. ..."
"... We're getting turned into rats. Naturally, this is no fertile soil for solidarity. And with so many jobs precarious and subcontracted out on a temporary basis, there is preciously little that most workers can do to fight back this insidious managerial control. Free labor looks different. ..."
"... It's hard to come out of the 2020 primaries without realizing that the corporations that run our mainstream media will do anything to protect their right to abuse cheap labor. ..."
"... At this point in history, to the extent that black people suffer any meaningful oppression at all, its down to disproportionate poverty rates, not their racial background. ..."
"... I agree one hundred percent with your take on Biden. Let me add something else: he is a war hawk who not only voted for the Iraq war but used his position as the chairman of an important committee to promote it. ..."
"... Because of slavery alot of bad political policy was incorporated in the founding documents. If a police officer is about to wrongly arrest you because you are black , you do not care if his hatred stems from 400 years of discrimination against blacks. Rather you care that he won't kill you in this encounter because of his racism. ..."
"... Baszak believes racism has no life of its own, it exists only as a tool of the bosses. This is vulgar Marxism. At least since the decades after Bacon's Rebellion ended in 1677, poor whites have invested in white supremacy as a way of boosting their social status. Most Southern families owned no slaves, yet most joined the Civil War cause. ..."
"... They made a movie that beautifully touches this in the 1970s with Harvey Keitel and Richard Pryor called " Blue Collar ." ..."
"... "That's exactly what the company wants: to keep you on their line," says Smokey, the coolest and most strategically minded of the crew. "They'll do anything to keep you on their line. They pit the lifers against the new boys, the old against the young, the black against the white -- everybody -- to keep us in our place." ..."
"... The core thesis in this piece is the animating foundation of The Hill's political talk show "Rising." Composed of a populist Bernie supporter (Krystal Ball) and populist conservative (Saagar Enjeti) as hosts, they frequently highlight the purpose of woke cultural battles is to distract everyone for their neoliberal economic models ..."
Anti-racism as an ideology serves a perfect function for corporations that ultimately take workers for granted.
Former injured Amazon employees join labor organizers and community activists to demonstrate and hold a press conference
outside of an Amazon Go store to express concerns about what they claim is the company's "alarming injury rate" among warehouse
workers on December 10, 2019 in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
On April 2, 1865, in the dying days of the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln wandered the streets of burnt out Richmond,
the former Confederate capital. All of a sudden, Lincoln found himself surrounded by scores of emancipated men and women. Here's
how the historian James McPherson describes the moving episode in his magisterial book
Battle Cry of Freedom :
Several freed slaves touched Lincoln to make sure he was real. "I know I am free," shouted an old woman, "for I have seen Father
Abraham and felt him." Overwhelmed by rare emotions, Lincoln said to one black man who fell on his knees in front of him: "Don't
kneel to me. That is not right. You must kneel to God only, and thank Him for the liberty you will enjoy hereafter."
Lincoln's legacy as the Great Emancipator has survived the century and a half since then largely intact. But there have been cracks
in this image, mostly caused by questioning academics who decried him as an overt white supremacist. This view eventually entered
the mainstream when Nikole Hannah-Jones wrote misleadingly in her
lead essay
to the "1619 Project" that Lincoln "opposed black equality."
Today, we find Lincoln statues
desecrated . Neither has the memorial
to the 54th Massachusetts Infantry , one of the first all-black units in the Civil War, survived the recent protests unscathed.
To many on the left, history seems like the succession of one cruelty by the next. And so, justice may only be served if we scrap
the past and start from a blank slate. As a result, Lincoln's appeal that we stand upright and enjoy our liberty gets lost to time.
Ironically, this will only help the cause of Robert E. Lee -- and the modern corporations who rely on cheap, inhumane labor
to keep themselves going.
***
The main idea driving the "1619 Project" and so much of recent scholarship is that the United States of America originated in
slavery and white supremacy. These were its true founding ideals. Racism, Hannah-Jones writes, is in our DNA.
Such arguments don't make any sense, as the historian Barbara Fields clairvoyantly argued in a
groundbreaking essay from 1990. Why would Virginia planters in the 17th century import black people purely out of hate? No, Fields
countered, the planters were driven by a real need for dependable workers who would toil on their cotton, rice, and tobacco fields
for little to no pay. Before black slaves did this work, white indentured servants had. (An indentured servant is bound for a number
of years to his master, i.e. he can't pack up and leave to find a new opportunity elsewhere.)
After 1776 everything changed. Suddenly the new republic claimed that "all men are created equal" -- and yet there were millions
of slaves who still couldn't enjoy this equality. Racism helped to square our founding ideals with the brute reality of continued
chattel slavery: Black people simply weren't men.
But in the eyes of the Southern slavocracy, the white laboring poor of the North also weren't truly human. Such unholy antebellum
figures as the social theorist George Fitzhugh or South Carolina Senator James Henry Hammond
urged that the condition of slavery be expanded to include poor whites, too. Their hunger for a cheap, subservient labor source
did not stop at black people, after all.
Always remember Barbara Fields's formula: The need for cheap labor comes first; ideologies like white supremacy only give
this bleak reality a spiritual gloss.
The true cause of the Civil War -- and it bears constant
repeating for all the doubters -- was whether slavery would expand its reach or whether
"free labor" would reign supreme. The latter was the dominant
ideology of the North: Free laborers are independent, self-reliant, and eventually achieve economic security and independence by
the sweat of their brow. It's the American Dream. But if that is so, then the Civil War ended in a tie -- and its underlying conflict was never really settled.
***
Michael Lind argues in his new book The New Class War
that many powerful businesses in America today continue to rely on the work of quasi indentured servants. Hungry for unfree, cheap
workers, corporations in Silicon Valley and beyond employ tens of thousands of foreign workers through the H-2B visa program. These
workers are bound to the company that provided them with the visa. If they find conditions at their jobs unbearable, they can't switch
employers -- they would get deported first. In turn, this source of cheap labor effectively underbids American workers who could
do the same job, except that they would ask for higher pay.
America's wealth rests on this mutual competition between workers -- some nominally "free," others basically indentured -- whether
it be through unjust visa schemes or other unfair managerial practices.
Remember that the next time you read a public announcement by the Amazons of this world that they remain committed to "black lives
matter" and similar identitarian causes.
Fortunately, very few Americans hold the same racial resentments in their hearts as their ancestors did even just half a century
ago. Rarely did we agree as much than when the nation near unanimously condemned the death of George Floyd at the hands of a few
Minneapolis police officers. This is in keeping with another fortunate trend: Over the last 40 years, the rate of police killings
of young black men declined by 79% percent .
But anti-racism as an ideology serves a perfect function for our corporations, even despite the evidence that people in this country
have grown much less bigotted than they once were: As a management tool, anti-racism sows constant suspicion among workers who are
encouraged to detect white supremacist sentiments in everything that their fellow workers say or do.
We're getting turned into rats. Naturally, this is no fertile soil for solidarity. And with so many jobs precarious and subcontracted
out on a temporary basis, there is preciously little that most workers can do to fight back this insidious managerial control. Free
labor looks different.
And so, through a surprising back door, the true cause for which Robert E. Lee chose to betray his country might still be coming
out on top, whether we remove his statues or not -- namely, the steady supply to our ruling corporations of unfree workers willing
to hustle for scraps.
It's time to follow Abraham Lincoln's urging and get off our knees again. We should assert our rights as American citizens to
live free from economic insecurity and mutual resentment. The vast majority of us harbor no white supremacist views, period. Instead,
we have so many more things in common, and we know it.
Another anecdote from the last days of the Civil War, also taken from Battle Cry of Freedom, might prove instructive here: The
surrender of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865 essentially ended the
Civil War. The ceremony was held with solemn respect for Lee, though one of Grant's adjutants couldn't help himself but have a subtle
dig at Lee's expense:
After signing the papers, Grant introduced Lee to his staff. As he shook hands with Grant's military secretary Ely Parker,
a Seneca Indian, Lee stared a moment at Parker's dark features and said, "I am glad to see one real American here." Parker responded,
"We are all Americans."
Gregor Baszak is a PhD Candidate in English at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a writer. His articles have appeared
in Los Angeles Review of Books, Public Books, Spectator USA, Spiked, and elsewhere. Follow Gregor on Twitter at @gregorbas1.
It's a bit off-topic but this is a big reason I supported Bernie Sanders in the Democratic Primary this year, he was the only
candidate talking about how businesses demand that cheap labor, illegal labor, replace American labor. For this, the corporate
media called him a racist, an anti-semite, a dangerous radical. None of his opponents aside from Elizabeth Warren had anything
to run on aside from pseudo-woke touchy-feely bs. And somehow, with the media insisting that Joe Biden was the only one who could
beat Trump, we ended up with the one candidate who was neither good on economics, good for American workers, or offering platitudes
about wokeness.
It's hard to come out of the 2020 primaries without realizing that the corporations that run our mainstream media will do anything
to protect their right to abuse cheap labor.
Racism is very real. If it weren't it couldn't be used to "divide and conquer" the working calss. we can walk and chew gum
and the same time: oppose racism, and also oppose exploitive labor practices.
What kind of polemic, unsupported statement is "black fast food workers are the ones who gave us the fight for $15"? How about
it was a broad coalition of progressives (of all colors)? Moreover, $15 minimum wage is a poor, one-size-fits-all band-aid that
I doubt even fits ONE scenario. Tackling the broader shareholder capitalism model of labor arbitrage (free trade/mass immigration),
deunionization, and monopolistic hurdles drafted by corporations is where it actually matters. And on that, we are seeing the
inklings of a populist left-right coalition -- if corporate-funded race hustlers could only get out of the way.
That's the problem. We CAN'T chew gum and walk at the same time. Every minute focusing on racial friction is a minute NOT talking
about neoliberal economics. What's the ratio of air time, social media discussion, or newspaper inches are devoted to race vis-a-vis
the economic system that has starved the working class -- which is disproportionately black and brown? 10 to 1? 100 to 1? 1000
to 1? If there are no decent working class jobs for young black and brown men, then it makes it nearly impossible to raise families.
Let's be clear: Systemic racism is real, but it is far less impactful than economic injustices and family dissolution.
Class really isn't the primary issue for black people.
That's a frankly ridiculous statement. At this point in history, to the extent that black people suffer any meaningful oppression
at all, its down to disproportionate poverty rates, not their racial background. No one--except a few neurotic, high-strung corporate
HR PMC types--cares about "microaggressions". Even unjust police shootings of blacks are likely down to class and not race--despite
the politically correct narrative saying otherwise.
Putting racial identity politics as an equal (or even greater) priority than class-based solidarity creates an absurd system
where an upper-middle class black woman attending Yale can act as if a working class white man is oppressing her by not acknowledging
his "white privilege", and not bowing to her every demand. It's utterly delusional to think that sort of culture is going to create
a more just or equal world.
Biden is a Rorschach test, people see whatever they want in a party apparatchik. Trump has been Shiva, the destroyer of the
traditional Republican party. How else do you explain the support among Multi-Billionaires for the Democratic party. Truly ironic.
I agree one hundred percent with your take on Biden. Let me add something else: he is a war hawk who not only voted for the
Iraq war but used his position as the chairman of an important committee to promote it. I understand that he still wants to divide
Iraq into three separate countries--a decision for Iraqis to make and not us. If we try to implement that policy, it would doubtless
lead to more American deaths--to say nothing of Iraqi deaths.
So not only is he not good for American workers, he is not good for the American soldier who is disproportionately likely not
to be from the elite classes but rather from the working and lower-middle class.
The only other Democratic candidate who opposed war-mongering besides Sanders was Tulsi Gabbard. I watched CNN commentary after
a debate in which she participated. While the other participants received lots of commentary from CNN talking heads. she got almost
nothing. She was featured in a video montage of candidates saying "Trump"; other than that, she was invisible in the post-debate
analysis.
I don't know how far it travelled outside of Democratic primary voters, but I recall Biden's campaign saying that they were
planning to be sort of a placeholder that would pass the torch to the next generation. He's insinuated that he only wants to serve
one term and saw jumping into the race as the only way to beat Trump. Not the most exciting platform for the Democrats to run
on.
As depressing as this primary was, it's good to see that the rising generation of Democrats was resistant to platitudes and demanded
actual policy proposals.
Shame the party elders fell for the same old tricks yet again. I just hope that once there are more of
us, we can have a serious policy debate in both major parties about free trade, immigration, inequality. The parties' voters aren't
all that far apart on economics, yet neither of us is being given what we want. Whichever party sincerely takes a stand for the
American working class stands to dominate American politics for a generation.
The problem with Biden's "placeholder" comments is that he specifically mentioned it for Pete Buttigeig, the McKinsey-trained
career opportunist who believes in his bones the same neoliberal economics and interventionist foreign policies as the last generation.
Same bad ideas, new woke packaging.
Kamala Harris and Susan Rice, both tops on the VP list, will do just fine in place of Buttigieg - he's slated to revive TPP
as the new USTR cabinet lead.
Because of slavery alot of bad political policy was incorporated in the founding documents. If a police officer is about to
wrongly arrest you because you are black , you do not care if his hatred stems from 400 years of discrimination against blacks.
Rather you care that he won't kill you in this encounter because of his racism.
To me, I have always thought that America's original sin was slavery. Its stain can not be completely wiped out.
And I further believe that if Native Americans would have enslaved the newly arrived Europeans, and remained the ruling majority,
white people would be discriminated against today.
So the problem is not that white people are inherently evil, or other races are inherently good. It is that because of slavery
black people are bad, white people are good.
As a nation we have never been able to wash out the stain completely. Never will. Getting closer to the promised land is the
best we are going to do. Probably take another 400 years.
In everyday encounters no one cares how discrimination began, just treat me like you want to be treated. Pretty simple.
"As a management tool, anti-racism sows constant suspicion among workers who are encouraged to detect white supremacist sentiments
in everything that their fellow workers say or do."
The author does not offer one smidgen of proof that any company uses antiracism to divide workers. It might be plausible that
it's happened, but Baszak has no data at all.
Over the last 40 years, the rate of police killings of young black men declined by 79% percent.
You think this is an accident? It came about through intense pressure on the police to stop killing Black people -- exactly
the sort of racial emphasis the author seems to be decrying. Important to note that the non-fatal mistreatment has remained high.
The need for cheap labor comes first; ideologies like white supremacy only give this bleak reality a spiritual gloss
Baszak believes racism has no life of its own, it exists only as a tool of the bosses. This is vulgar Marxism. At least since
the decades after Bacon's Rebellion ended in 1677, poor whites have invested in white supremacy as a way of boosting their social
status. Most Southern families owned no slaves, yet most joined the Civil War cause. The psychological draw of racism, its cultural
strength, are obviated by Barszak. And I bet Barbara Fields does not consider racism an epiphenomenon of economics.
They made a movie that beautifully touches this in the 1970s with Harvey Keitel and Richard Pryor called "Blue
Collar."
"That's exactly what the company wants: to keep you on their line," says Smokey, the coolest and most strategically minded
of the crew. "They'll do anything to keep you on their line. They pit the lifers against the new boys, the old against the young,
the black against the white -- everybody -- to keep us in our place."
The core thesis in this piece is the animating foundation of The Hill's political talk show "Rising." Composed of a populist
Bernie supporter (Krystal Ball) and populist conservative (Saagar Enjeti) as hosts, they frequently highlight the purpose of woke
cultural battles is to distract everyone for their neoliberal economic models -- a system that actually has greater deleterious
impact on black communities.
This video is one recent example of what you'll rarely see in mainstream media:
Just like Cornell West suggested, black faces in high places hasn't solved the problem. Obama is a vivid example.
Notable quotes:
"... It is Class Warfare. There are no "Democrats" or "Republicans" .. There are the "Rich and Powerful" and then the "Rest of Us" And when we stand up, they take aim... ..."
"... Dr. Cornel West, "We have tried Black Faces in high places ..." ..."
Krystal Ball calls out D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and the Dem establishment for surface level support of the Black Lives Matter
movement.
Crush Inverted Totalitarianism, 12 hours ago
Speaking of black faces in high places, the entire black caucus endorsed ELIOT ENGEL over a black educater (Jamaal
Bowman)...this is aclass war, not a race war
Robert Quin, 12 hours ago (edited)
THERE IS NO DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF AMERICA! There is only Repugnican and Repugnican Lite. There is only hard right and soft right
in American politics. There is no left in power.
Electoralism is a scam. You're playing with an unplugged controller. Organise, unionize, protest, riot. If you want to vote,
you should vote third party. The Democratic party isn't part of the solution. They are playing good cop, bad cop with
republicans with both sides working for capital to impoverish the working class.
Krystal forgot one "innovation" Biden has suggested.
When talking to black community leaders in Wilmington, Joe Biden
said, "Instead of standing there and teaching a cop when there's an unarmed person coming at 'em with a knife or
something, shoot 'em in the leg instead of in the heart."
It
is Class Warfare. There are no "Democrats" or "Republicans" .. There are the "Rich and Powerful" and then the "Rest of Us" And
when we stand up, they take aim...
"... On Friday, for example, the principal of a public school in Windsor, Vermont. was dismissed from her job for posting the following words on her personal Facebook page: "While I understand the urgency to feel compelled to advocate for black lives, what about our fellow law enforcement? Just because I don't walk around with a BLM sign should not mean I'm a racist.". ..."
"... Black Lives Matter believes in force. They flood the streets with angry young people who break things, and they hurt anyone who gets in the way. When they want something, they take it. Make them mad and they will set your business on fire. Annoy them and they will occupy your downtown and declare a brand new country. You're not going to do anything about it, they know that for certain. ..."
A survey this week by Rasmussen, a right-leaning pollster, found that 62 percent of likely
voters now have a favorable opinion of Black Lives Matter. At the same time, Rasmussen found
that Donald
Trump 's approval rating was 43 percent. That's almost 20 points lower.
And by the way, Trump was not alone. Black Lives Matter is far more popular than
Joe Biden , too. It's
more popular than America's religious institutions -- all of them. It's more popular than the
media, the Congress
and big business.
Black Lives Matter is more popular by double digits than both the
Democratic
and the Republican parties. It's
almost as popular as the U.S. military. It's much more popular than the
pope .
The numbers are astounding, but the polls are not the only measure of it. One picture from a
Black Lives Matter rally over the weekend in New York shows an ocean of people. Ask yourself
the last time you saw a candidate for office who was able to draw a crowd like that?
The media, in their relentlessly fawning coverage, usually described Black Lives Matter as
an activist group or a protest movement. But that's deception by understatement. Black Lives
Matter is not a collection of marchers with signs. It's not a conventional political lobby like
Planned Parenthood or the NRA. It's not pressuring Congress to pass some narrow new set of
laws.
Black Lives Matter is far more ambitious than that. It is working to remake the country and
then to control it. It's a political party.
As of now, Black Lives Matter may be the single most powerful political party in the United
States. Nobody says that out loud, but politicians understand it perfectly well. If nothing
else, they understand power; they can smell it at great distances. And that's why they're
lining up to bow before Black Lives Matter.
Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn.: You can't really reform a department that that is rotten to the
root.
Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md.: We've heard our people cry out, "I can't breathe!" We've heard
our people speak out, "Black Lives Matter."
Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y.: This is a systemic problem that requires a comprehensive
solution.
Stacy Abrams, former Georgia gubernatorial candidate: What I would say is that there is
-- there is a legitimacy to this anger. There's a legitimacy to this outrage.
None of what you just saw is a stretch for Democrats. They believe their long-term goals
align with those of Black Lives Matter. And in fact, at times, the group functions as an arm of
the Democratic Party.
More telling, though -- and more ominous -- is the response from many Republicans. They've
been happy to go along as well, or in Mitt Romney 's case, even mouth the
same slogans.
Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah: We need to end violence and brutality and to make sure that
people understand that Black Lives Matter.
If the leaders of Black Lives Matter are political actors -- and they are -- then by
definition, you are allowed to have any opinion you want to have about them. Black Lives
Matter wants to run the country; therefore, you can freely criticize Black Lives Matter.
Those are the rules of our system -- but not anymore.
That was the former Republican nominee for president. Let that sink in. If there was ever an
indicator of how powerful Black Lives Matter has become, you just saw it.
Republican leaders brag about their strong conservative convictions, but mostly they just
want to be on the winning team, whatever that is. That's why they pause before offending
China
. It's why when Black Lives Matter tells them to take a knee, they do.
It's all pretty strange when you think about it. If the leaders of Black Lives Matter are
political actors -- and they are -- then by definition, you are allowed to have any opinion you
want to have about them. Black Lives Matter wants to run the country; therefore, you can freely
criticize Black Lives Matter.
Those are the rules of our system -- but not anymore.
Imagine a world where you are punished for questioning the behavior of the president or for
insulting your local mayor. You probably can't imagine that. It's too bizarre. It's
un-American. But that's where we are right now. Black Lives Matter has changed the rules. And
here is their first new rule: No criticizing Black Lives Matter. You can be fired from your job
if you disobey. Many Americans have been.
On Friday, for example, the principal of a public school in Windsor, Vermont. was dismissed
from her job for posting the following words on her personal Facebook page: "While I understand
the urgency to feel compelled to advocate for black lives, what about our fellow law
enforcement? Just because I don't walk around with a BLM sign should not mean I'm a
racist.".
Unfortunately, the principal's boss disagreed. The superintendent of Windsor Schools
described the quote you just heard as "outright racist." Windsor, Vermont, by the way, is more
than 97 percent white.
Also on Friday, an economist called
Harald Uhlig lost his job at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago for daring to offer even
milder criticism than that. On Twitter, Uhlig noted that Black Lives Matter had"just torpedoed
itself with its full-fledged support of #defund the police. Now is the time for sensible adults
to enter back into the room and have serious, earnest, respectful conversations about it
all."
That was a racist statement, the Federal Reserve concluded. So, they fired Harald Uhlig.
We could give you many other examples of the same thing happening. There are a lot of them.
Black Lives Matter now enjoys almost complete immunity from criticism. This is unprecedented
for an American political movement.
But Black Lives Matter is even more powerful than that. It has singlehandedly revised our
moral framework. Yes, black lives do matter. That is a statement of fact, and no decent person
doubts that it is true because it is. And it is true precisely because every life matters. We
are all human beings, every one of us. We have souls. Skin color is irrelevant to moral
value.
Until recently, this was considered obvious; saying it was regarded as a virtue. All lives
matter equally. All of us were created by God. In the end, all of us will die. Nothing can
change that -- not wealth, not fame, not race. Every life is precisely as valuable as every
other life.
By the way, that idea forms the basis of the Christian faith. It's the entire premise behind
our founding documents. And yet, suddenly, thanks to Black Lives Matter, you can no longer say
it out loud.
Affirming the fundamental equality of all people is now considered hate speech. You can be
fired for saying it. Again, many people have been.
This is a dangerous moment. How did we get here? In a word, quickly. It happened fast.
As recently as December, before the riots, most Americans did not approve of Black Lives
Matter. The group was defined in the public mind by moments like this.
Crowd (chanting): Pigs in a blanket. Fry them like bacon. Pigs in a blanket. Fry them
like bacon. Pigs in a blanket. Fry them like bacon. Pigs in a blanket. Fry them like
bacon.
"Pigs in a blanket." "Fry like bacon." "Kill the police." They yelled that at a rally. The
usual liars immediately swooped in to pretend that it never happened. The president of the
Southern Poverty Law Center wrote an entire op-ed ordering the public not to consider Black
Lives Matter a hate group.
But people could see the truth for themselves. That video was online. A lot of facts about
Black Lives Matter still reside on the internet. They have not yet been scrubbed.
This is a dangerous moment. How did we get here? In a word, quickly. It happened fast.
The group's signature demand is to eliminate law enforcement. When you first heard
protesters scream, "Defund the police," it may have shocked you. That's just crazy, you may
have thought.
A few weeks later, support for eliminating law enforcement is rising quickly in the polls.
Minneapolis is already doing it. Other cities will follow. Are you surprised? Almost no one in
public life has pushed back meaningfully against the idea of defunding the police.
The Black Lives Matter position is the only position most people hear. After a while, they
believe it. Unchallenged claims must be true. That's what most people assume, and why wouldn't
they assume that? If you strongly disagree with something, say so, otherwise, it's much more
likely to happen.
So, with that in mind, consider some of the other positions Black Lives Matter has endorsed.
The repeal of all immigration restrictions, for starters. They're for that. The legalization of
sex work -- prostitution -- they're for that, too. The destruction of the nuclear family, your
family. The forced relocation of farmland. Race-based reparations, specifically "in the form of
a guaranteed minimum livable income for all black people."
Hear that? All black people, not just the descendants of American slaves. This would
include the millions of African and Caribbean immigrants who on average now earn more than
native-born Americans. Every one of these new Americans would receive a guaranteed annual
income from American taxpayers in order to atone for the sin of -- for the sin of what
actually? Allowing them to immigrate here?
Black Lives Matter does not explain that part. No one asked them. You could be fired for
asking. What you cannot be punished for, however, is looting and burning, at least not if
you're Black Lives Matter.
Huge parts of urban landscape have been destroyed in the past month. Almost no one has been
held to account for it,. Just the opposite. You're encouraged to pretend it never happened.
In St. Louis, every rioter arrested has been released without charges. In New York, hundreds
were released without bail. Same in Washington, D.C. It's happening almost everywhere, and not
just in places controlled by elected Democrats which tells you a lot.
Fort Worth, Texas, for example, is one of the few major American cities that is led by a
Republican, Mayor Betsy Price. On May 31, a crowd of Black Lives Matter demonstrators blocked a
bridge in downtown Fort Worth, when police arrived to disperse them, they threw rocks and
bottles of bleach. Three police officers were injured.
The mob then went on to loot and vandalize businesses. Dozens of rioters were arrested for
this. Ten days later, the city's police chief, Ed Kraus, announced that he was dropping all
charges against them.
Kraus issued a statement suggesting that the real criminals in the riot were not the
rioters, but his own police officers, whom he suggested would be reined in and perhaps
punished. "This is just one step on a long journey," Kraus wrote, sounding more like a
therapist than a cop.
The chief promised that his department was "committed to walking the path of reform with our
community." Kraus never bothered to explain exactly what his cops had done wrong. They were
cops. That was enough.
That same day, the Fort Worth School Board issued a statement declaring, "Police practices
are deeply rooted in white supremacy." Once again, no one specified which police practices
reflected white supremacy, or what that accusation even meant. It was a blanket condemnation,
but it was left to hang in the air. As usual, no one in authority pushed back against it in a
Republican-led city.
Black Lives Matter believes in force. They flood the streets with angry young people who
break things, and they hurt anyone who gets in the way. When they want something, they take
it. Make them mad and they will set your business on fire. Annoy them and they will occupy
your downtown and declare a brand new country. You're not going to do anything about it, they
know that for certain.
It'll be interesting to know what happens to the murder rate in Fort Worth over the next
year. We can guess. We're seeing it all over the country. We've seen it many times through the
years. When the people in charge undermine the law, violence surges.
But there is a solution to this vortex and it's called leadership. Sixty-five years ago,
politicians throughout the American South refused to submit to the Supreme Court's Brown vs.
Board decision. Authorities in many states simply ignored the law like it didn't exist. Armed
extremist groups filled the vacuum. They used violence to make their own laws.
Ultimately, the federal government stepped in and restored order. In 1957, President Dwight
Eisenhower federalized the National Guard of Arkansas. He sent troops to Little Rock to force
Governor Orville Faubus to obey the law.
So the question is, where is our Justice Department? Right now? Is there a reason the DOJ
hasn't filed federal conspiracy charges against the people who organized and led these riots?
It's not as if we don't know who they are. Their crimes are on YouTube.
You know the reason. Black Lives Matter was involved. It is politically sensitive. No
prosecutor wants to be called a racist, as if it's racist to punish people for crimes they
committed.
You know what the victims of those crimes think? The old people who were beaten to the
ground for trying to defend their property. The shop owners whose life savings were stolen or
burned. The families of the people who were murdered during the riots, and there were quite a
few of them.
No one is defending these people. No one is punishing their attackers. Nobody cares.
Imagine how they feel about that. What recourse do they have? Do they have to torch a
Wendy's or loot a Walmart to get our attention? Let's hope not. It might be enough to have a
single national leader -- just one -- who understands what is actually going on in this country
and is brave enough to say so. That might make all the difference, and it would certainly make
the political career of the person who does it.
In the fall of 1968, a teaching assistant at San Francisco State University called George
Murray gave a speech endorsing racial violence. Murray urged black students to bring guns to
campus and "kill all the slave masters." Murray, by the way, was the "minister of education" in
the local Black Panther Party, which was the Antifa of its time.
Black Lives Matter becomes more powerful and more popular with the public. Why is that
happening exactly? Here's why: Because Black Lives Matter is getting exactly what they want
and that is the most basic sign of strength. Strength is the most appealing quality to voters
and to people and to animals.
When administrators learned about Murray's speech, they equivocated, but ultimately they
suspended him under pressure. In response to this, a group called the Third World Liberation
Front shut down the campus. Sound familiar?
They demanded the university drop all admission standards for black applicants and admit
students purely on the basis of race. The administrators were paralyzed in the face of this.
More than anything, they didn't want to be called racist. The university's president was so
terrorized by it that he quit and left.
Ultimately, the leadership of San Francisco State fell to an unlikely president, a
Japanese-Canadian academic called S.I. Hayakawa. Hayakawa was short, eccentric, wore thick
glasses, but he was completely fearless.
On December 2, 1968, Hayakawa marched into the middle of a student protest. Rioters
immediately assaulted him, but Hayakawa kept going. He climbed onto the roof of a sound truck
and ripped the wires out of the loudspeaker. San Francisco State University reopened that
day.
So here's the lesson for today's officeholders. S.I. Hayakawa became a folk hero for
standing up to the mob. He was elected to the United States Senate from California. Republicans
supported him. Voters did, too. They didn't always understand him. Hayakawa wore a Scottish tam
o' shanter cap in public and never really explained why he did.
But it didn't matter. He was brave and honest, and voters appreciated that above all. They
always do. We don't have our Hayakawa yet. Instead, we have cowards.
Our leaders are happy to talk about everything but the collapse of the centuries' old
civilization tumbling down around them. They have no idea how little credibility they have.
They have no sense of how irrelevant they have become. If you can't tell the truth when the
truth actually matters, then nothing you say matters.
Meanwhile, Black Lives Matter becomes more powerful and more popular with the public. Why is
that happening exactly? Here's why: Because Black Lives Matter is getting exactly what they
want and that is the most basic sign of strength. Strength is the most appealing quality to
voters and to people and to animals.
Three weeks ago, Black Lives Matter demanded that cities defund their police. On Monday, the
mighty NYPD, the biggest police department in our nation -- the most sophisticated police
department in the world -- bowed and announced it is
abolishing
its entire plainclothes division , 600 people. Gone for good because Black Lives Matter
wanted it done. And now it is done.
That's not bluffing. It's not posturing. It's not tweeting. That is real power. You'll
notice it did not require the usual maneuvering for Black Lives Matter to get that power. They
didn't need a team of lawyers to get it. Black Lives Matter doesn't make legal arguments.
They're not trying to convince you of anything.
Black Lives Matter believes in force. They flood the streets with angry young people who
break things, and they hurt anyone who gets in the way. When they want something, they take it.
Make them mad and they will set your business on fire. Annoy them and they will occupy your
downtown and declare a brand new country. You're not going to do anything about it, they know
that for certain.
This is the most destructive kind of politics. We've seen a lot of it in recent years.
Organized groups did it to Brett Kavanaugh. The main point of slandering Kavanaugh was never to
block his confirmation. We misread that. They knew they probably couldn't achieve it.
The real point was to send Kavanaugh and John Roberts and the other Republican justices a
very clear message, step out of line and we will hurt your families. And judging from recent
court decisions, it worked. At times, it's very clear that supposedly conservative justices are
afraid to defy the mob.
So what message do the rest of us take from what's happened over the past three weeks? It's
very simple. The message is force is more effective than voting. Elections changed nothing.
Rioting, by contrast, makes you rich and powerful. When you riot, prosecutors will ignore
the law on your behalf. Corporations will send you millions. Politicians will kneel down before
you. It works. Violence works. That's the message.
Everyone hears that message. Until violence stops working, violence will continue.
Adapted from Tucker Carlson's monologue from "
Tucker Carlson Tonight " on June 15,
2020
"... These elites have no intention of instituting anything more than cosmetic change. They refuse to ask the questions that matter because they do not want to hear the answers. They are systems managers. They use these symbolic gestures to gaslight the public and leave our failed democracy, from which they and their corporate benefactors benefit, untouched. ..."
"... The crisis we face is not, as the ruling elites want us to believe, limited to police violence. ..."
"... The problem is an economic and political system that has by design created a nation of serfs and obscenely rich masters. ..."
Once again, we see proposed legislation to mandate police reform -- more body cameras,
consent decrees, revised use-of-force policies, banning chokeholds, civilian review boards,
requiring officers to intervene when they see misconduct, banning no-knock search warrants,
more training in de-escalation tactics, a requirement by law enforcement agencies to report
use-of-force data, nationally enforced standards for police training and greater diversity --
proposals made, and in several cases adopted in the wake of numerous other police murders,
including those of Eric Garner, Michael Brown and Philando Castile. The Minneapolis Police
Department, for example, established a duty to intervene requirement by police officers after
the 2014 killing of Brown in Ferguson. This requirement did not save Floyd. ...
The public displays of solidarity are, as in the past, smoke and mirrors, a pantomime of
faux anguish and empathy by bankrupt ruling elites, including most Black politicians groomed by
the Democratic Party and out of touch with the daily humiliation, stress of economic misery and
suffering that defines the lives of many of the protesters.
These elites have no intention of instituting anything more than cosmetic change. They
refuse to ask the questions that matter because they do not want to hear the answers. They are
systems managers. They use these symbolic gestures to gaslight the public and leave our failed
democracy, from which they and their corporate benefactors benefit, untouched. What we
are watching in this outpouring of televised solidarity with the victims of police violence
is an
example of what Bertram Gross calls "friendly fascism," the "nice-guy mask" used to
disguise the despotism of the ultra-rich and our corporate overseers. Whatever you think about
Donald Trump, he is at least open about his racism, lust for state violence and commitment to
white supremacy.
The crisis we face is not, as the ruling elites want us to believe, limited to police
violence. It is a class and generational revolt. It will not be solved with new police
reforms, which always result, as Princeton professor Naomi Murakawa
points out in her book "The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America," in less
accountable, larger and more lethal police forces. The problem is an economic and
political system that has by design created a nation of serfs and obscenely rich masters.
The problem is deindustrialization, offshoring of manufacturing, automation and austerity
programs that allow families to be priced out of our for-profit healthcare system and see
nearly one in
five children 12 and younger without enough to eat. ...
The entrenched racism in America has always meant that poor people of color are the first
cast aside in society and disproportionately suffer from the most brutal forms of social
control meted out by the police and the prison system. But there will not be, as Martin Luther
King pointed out, racial justice until there is economic justice. And there will not be
economic justice until we wrest power back from the hands of our corporate masters. Until that
happens, we will go through cycle after cycle of brutal police murders and cycle after cycle of
the profuse apologies and promises of reform. We are trapped in an abusive relationship. When
we finally have enough, when we cry out in pain and walk out, our abuser comes after us with
flowers and apologies and promises to change. Back we go for more.
This is why people hate DNC. who the F blames Russia in the middle of this? Russia has enough problems with Covid-19 to mess
with local Minnesota politics. Dems are a dead party.
"... Old saying: A Recession is when your neighbor loses their Job. A Depression is when you lose your Job. ..."
"... A lot of mega wealthy people are cheats. They get insider info, they don't pay people and do all they can to provide the least amount of value possible while tricking suckers into buying their crap. Don't even get me started on trust fund brats who come out of the womb thinking they are Warren buffet level genius in business. ..."
"... There's a documentary about Wal-Mart that has the best title ever: The High Cost of Low Cost ..."
"... Globalism killed the American dream. We can buy cheap goods made somewhere else if we have a job here that pays us enough money. ..."
You can't just move to American cities to pursue opportunity; even the high wages paid in
New York are rendered unhelpful because the cost of housing is so high.
Martin Luther King, Jr. was vilified and ultimately murdered when he was helping organize
a Poor People's Campaign. Racial justice means economic justice.
A lot of mega wealthy people are cheats. They get insider info, they don't pay people and
do all they can to provide the least amount of value possible while tricking suckers into
buying their crap. Don't even get me started on trust fund brats who come out of the womb
thinking they are Warren buffet level genius in business.
Nailed it. As a millennial, I'm sick of being told to just "deal with it" when the cards
have always been stacked against me. Am I surviving? Yes. Am I thriving? No.
When the reserve status of the American dollar goes away, then it will become apparent how
poor the US really is. You cannot maintain a country without retention of the ability to
manufacture the articles you use on a daily basis. The military budget and all the jobs it
brings will have to shrink catastrophically.
...and sometimes you CAN'T afford to move. You can't find a decent job. You certainly
can't build a meaningful savings. You can't find an apartment. And if you have kids? That
makes it even harder. I've been trying to move for years, but the conditions have to be
perfect to do it responsibly. The American Dream died for me once I realized that no matter
the choices I made, my four years of college, my years of saving and working hard....I do NOT
have upward mobility. For me, the American Dream is dead. I've been finding a new dream. The
human dream.
This is a very truncated view. You need to expand your thinking. WHY has the system been
so overtly corrupted? It's globalism that has pushed all this economic pressure on the
millennials and the middle class. It was the elites, working with corrupt politicians, that
rigged the game so the law benefited them.
This is all reversible. History shows that capitalism can be properly regulated in a way
that benefits all. The answer to the problem is to bring back those rules, not implement
socialism.
Trump has:
- Ended the free trade deals
- Imposed Protective tarriffs to defend American jobs and workers
- Lowered corporate taxes to incentivize business to locate within us borders.
- Limited immigration to reduce the supply of low skilled labor within US borders.
The result? before COVID hit the average American worker saw the first inflation adjusted
wage increase in over 30 years!
This is why the fake news and hollywood continue to propagandize the masses into hating
Trump.
Trump is implementing economic policies good for the people and bad for the elites
Krystal Ball exposes the delusion of the American dream.
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Got my degree just as the great recession hit. Couldn't find real work for 3 years, not
using my degree... But it was work. now after 8 years, im laid off. I did everything "right".
do good in school, go to college, get a job...
I've never been fired in my life. its always,
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but we'll give a recommendation if you find anything."
Now I'm back where i started... only
now I have new house and a family to support... no pressure.
As Vijay Prashad explains in his book, Red Star Over The
Third World , domestic fascism in the West has reflected the West's pre-existing
colonial practices abroad. Citing Martinique communist Aimé Césaire, Prashad
explains: "What had come to define fascism inside Europe through the experience of the Nazis
– the jackboots and the gas chambers – were familiar already in the colonies. . . .
[F]ascism was a political form of bourgeois rule in times when democracy threatened capitalism;
colonialism, on the other hand, was naked power justified by racism to seize resources from
people who were not willing to hand them over. Their form was different but their manners were
identical."
As Prashad and Césaire teach us, the fascist tactics used by our Western governments
in the Global South will inevitably be brought home to be used against us. In the case of the
US, these tactics have surely been introduced here, and we are now seeing this clearly as our
police, sometimes backed by the military itself, are battling protestors in the streets in the
same manner that a military force does as a foreign occupying power. Indeed, as a number of
commentators have pointed out, the very tactic which killed George Floyd – the knee on
the neck –
was imported by the Israeli Defense Forces (themselves bankrolled by the US) who use this
tactic against the Palestinian people in the Occupied Territories and who are now training US
police units, including the Minneapolis police force, to use it as well.
Moreover, the police are using not only the cruel military tactics used to oppress people
abroad, they are also using the military's very equipment to do so.
Democratic President Bill Clinton opened the door wide for this police militarization in the
1990s with the National Defense Authorization Act which created a program, the 1033 program,
through which police departments are given surplus military equipment. As recently explained by
Michael Shank in an article in The New York Review of Books , entitled "
How Police Became Paramilitaries ," pursuant to this program, "local law enforcement began
to adopt the type of military equipment more frequently used in a war zone: everything from
armored personnel carriers and tanks , with 360-degree rotating
machine gun turrets, to grenade launchers, drones, assault weapons, and more. Today, billions
of dollars' worth of military equipment -- most used, some new -- has been transferred to
civilian police departments."
And, once the police receive this equipment, they must use it. As Shank explains, the 1033
program "requires that law enforcement agencies make use of such equipment within a year of
acquisition, effectively mandating that police put it into practice in the public space." In
other words, the police are actually required to turn the military's high-tech guns against
their own people.
The militarization of the police, moreover, can be seen as a by-product of the US's
over-reliance on the use of military force and war to solve all of its problems, to the near
exclusion of all other alternatives. Indeed, the US has given up on trying to lead the world
through economic and technological prowess, or through moral suasion. Instead, our leaders have
decided that brute military force alone will allow the US to dominate the planet, and our
nation's coffers are being looted to the tune of over $1 trillion a year to do so. The result
is the starving of our educational system, our social safety net and our nation's vital
infrastructure. This, of course, then leads to mass deprivation and despair which then leads to
mass unrest. And, just as it deals with the rest of the world, our rulers have decided to deal
with the unrest at home, not by solving the social ills plaguing this nation, or by fixing a
few bridges or dams, but by beating us down with military-style violence.
Military force, indeed, has become the only instrument in our government's toolbox, as quite
starkly illustrated recently by the White House's decision to give our valuable medical workers
military flyovers costing $60,000 an hour instead of providing these workers with the
protective equipment they have been desperately demanding. As with all things, our government
has money and resources for instruments of violence, but none for human needs. This is
literally killing us, just as surely as it is killing hundreds of thousands of people –
nearly all people of color, not coincidentally – in foreign lands. The fight against
police brutality and racism must therefore be linked to the fight to de-fund our military and
to the broader fight to de-militarize our very society and culture. Join the debate on
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Following footage of officers doing precisely that at numerous BLM protests around the
country, it has been confirmed that the suggestion came from above.
"Hertfordshire Constabulary said those who chose not to make the solidarity gesture 'may
become the focus of the protesters' attention'," reports the
Mail on Sunday .
"The advice was issued during a recent operational briefing and points out that, when
officers kneel down – joining in the symbolic stance of the Black Lives Matter movement
– it 'has a very positive reaction on the protest groups'."
The advice was given despite the fact that many BLM demonstrations have descended into
anarchy and violent attacks on police officers.
"It's absurd. Will officers be expected to make similarly appeasing gestures at political
events – far-Right protests, for instance?" asked one senior detective.
Former Home Secretary David Blunkett also slammed the idea, saying that police are "there to
ensure a safe demonstration, not to make political statements."
"That Hertfordshire police want their officers to take the knee before protestors is a
total surrender to anarchy, Marxism and an organisation that wants them abolished. Insanity
mixed with cowardice," remarked Nigel Farage.
The advice is stunning because it suggests that officers across the country are being
ordered to cave to the mob and be lax in enforcing the law against rioters.
Alice-the-dog , 15 minutes ago
They deserve each other. Both BLM and the police demand respect they don't deserve. Both
are tools of the Psychopaths In Charge. One to facilitate division, the other to facilitate
fear. The two primary tools of tyrants.
7th sage , 16 minutes ago
Mass brainwashing and mind control on display here. Ladies and gentlemen, Behold the new
fascism. This time enforced by the manipulated and weaponized peasants.
Theremustbeanotherway , 26 minutes ago
I seem to remember diggers etc being put to good use in Ukraine troubles - there's more
than enough heavy equipment that could be used in the UK to "excavate No 10 and No11 Downing
Street"
I hate cunton , 35 minutes ago
Just supply Chaz, Chicago, Atlanta etc. with free fentanyl and the problem solves itself.
Of course then you have the problem of excess corpse disposal, but some ovens will take care
of that.🐒🍌
pazmakerII , 38 minutes ago
The Uk is screwed! The USA is screwed This whole world is screwed! It's happening at
lightning speed now. I'm not a young guy and I have seen more **** happen down the path of
chaos in 2020 then I have seen in the last 30 years, of course a lot of ground work was laid
in order for this turning point to happen.
Sick Monkey , 35 minutes ago
Have faith in the thinking silent majority. We are all alive and kicking although you
couldn't tell from the media hype. They would rather portray us as buck toothed inbred with a
hanging tree.
The crimes that the state had perpetuated upon its own people were such that no citizen
wanted to defend Rome. They wanted anything , but what they had.
The two main point of course was the total lack of virtue and morality and the complete
destruction of the purchasing power of the currency
Porkulus Ziffel , 2 hours ago
The government is more concerned with keeping the white nationalists in control while
placating BLM/Antifa. Every vid I've seen from over there recently, it's always some white
guy with blood all over his face or a white guy being stomped by a bunch of blacks. But
despite that and carrying out acts of public vandalism, they won't be banned for terrorism
like National Action was.
Eastern Whale , 2 hours ago
problem with democracy is that sometimes you vote clowns to lead the country such as
Trump, Trudeau, Morrison that has limited experience in running a city let alone a country.
if Trump is elected and has another 4 years in the helm, he would destroy America and
probably unleash a few nukes whilst he is at it.
Heygoodlookin , 2 hours ago
What the Elite wants is for the meek to cave-in to demands so much that they get angry and
respond with their own outburst. They will play off against each other, and eventually the
Elite can bring in more Totalitarian rules to suit themselves.
dunlin , 3 hours ago
No, it means the police agree with the sentiments of the protesters. The UK is not the US,
yet, thank god.
MarsInScorpio , 3 hours ago
To dunlin:
The US is not yet the UK, thank God.
FIFY - Limey ******* 😒
hooligan2009 , 2 hours ago
those sentiments being - wilful destruction of public property, blocking of public
thoroughfares, rioting, violently attacking the police and whites in general and generally
being racist ******* assholes.
you are part of the problem. get psychiatric help before it is too late.
ADB , 3 hours ago
"It's absurd. Will officers be expected to make similarly appeasing gestures at political
events – far-Right protests, for instance?" asked one senior detective."
Not a chance. The orders for "Far Right" protests (eg people who want to defend their
history and public property like Churchill's statue, or protest police inaction at Muslim
grooming gangs) are to go in with full riot gear and batons swinging. Of course, if bending
the knee placates BLM rioters, it should also do the same for the "Far Right". But the police
will never be ordered to do that by their globalist masters, and no officer will defy their
"superiors" and actually enforce the law equally.
The only silver lining here is UK police are now being attacked by the Third Worlders now
infesting London and other major cities, while more and more indigenous Brits are reaching
the point where they wouldn't lift a finger to stop it. They will end up hated by everyone.
Too bad. They shouldn't have picked the wrong side.
Observer 2020 , 3 hours ago
Insanity. Complete, utter and absolute insanity.
Kneeling before revolutionary anarchists and vandals, whose agitation is being subsidized
by Mercedes Marxists who are totalitarians in waiting?
The West is in existential peril.
NoPasaran , 1 hour ago
The West is DONE already.
Arizona1234 , 3 hours ago
Stop supporting any business that does this take a knee ****. After the take a knee ****
the Communist will next have you on your knees right before they put one in the back of your
head and kick you into the ditch. It's high time for WWM a would wide movement WHITE WALLETS
MATTER. Without White Wallets there is no NFL, NBA, NHL baseball, soccer or for that matter
anything else. Just look at Africa then minus the WWM trillion dollar support. What would you
have. That's right. One big giant Aids, Ebola infested dying stew pot.
To Hell In A Handbasket , 3 hours ago
LOL. I always accuse the dunces of not understanding scale, or scope, and especially
history, and you sir are a perfect example. You simply cannot see the end, and a redrawing
across the board on multiple issues, and new realities for the world at large. The days of
white wallets, with our money printing and financial skulduggery, ruling the roost, are
coming to an end. You just don't see it.
The fact you see the transfer of our wealth to Africa, and not the transfer of African
wealth to us, is only going to make your adjustment all the more painful, for you won't see
it coming.
The USSA is 3.7% of the world population, and if you calculate the white population, we
make up a mere 2%. White purchasing power is going to go through a long slow multi-decade
decline, and people like you are oblivious. The western world's rise to the top of the
economic charts is a 200 year ******* anomaly, of FIAT scams, and imperial plunder.
Watch this and
this. While you
talk from your arse, do you know who the Indians and Chinese Think Tanks are more worried
about for GDP at PPP ? I'll let you work that one out.
One of these is not like the others.. , 1 hour ago
The western world's rise to the top of the economic charts is a 200 year ******* anomaly,
of technical and social innovation, that enrages those who have no chance of upping their
game in a similar way...
FIFY.
To Hell In A Handbasket , 8 minutes ago
The technical marvels, and social innovations are not in question, but does it produce
wealth, especially in an age of technology transfer. The USSA, and Europe have been the
beneficiaries of imperialism, access to cheap resources, and financial manipulation.
In short we have twisted reality, and carved a position for ourselves far bigger than our
GDP at PPP warrants. Plus the fact modern day metrics for calculating economic power is
warped, all to favour us.
Within economic circles 4 things are clearly coming, and it effects the traditional West
hardest. A revaluation of what is..
Wealth
Value
Worth
Money
And that's just for starters. Do you think for example we are going to keep our near
monopoly on insurance around the world? To name but 1 of 50. We are going to suffer slow
financial atrophy, losing market share everywhere. We are ******, and the adjustment will be
brutal.
Steele Hammorhands , 3 hours ago
The same drooling morons who were happy to arrest shop owners for opening their
businesses, arrest mothers for taking their kids to the park, refuse to arrest looters,
arrest teenagers for smoking a plant, etc. are now kneeling before their masters. They are
overpaid, under-educated idiots. And if you've ever been the victim of a crime, you know they
are nothing more than useless stateists.
" When all of corporate America, the media, and even the NED have publicly declared their
support for a movement, it is no longer just about its original cause of getting justice for
Mr. Floyd, whose funeral became a virtual campaign rally for Trump's opponent, Joe Biden. It
is too early to say determinedly whether what is taking place in the U.S. is indeed a 'Color
Revolution', but by the time we realize it may [sic] too late"
whoever "we" is; but by the time anyone gets all the knotted threads untangled it will
probably be too late for somebody. It may be too early to say whether what is taking place in
the increasingly inhospitable Homeland is a 'Color Revolution' or a 'Revolution of Color';
but for working class – & now even middle-class – White's this is becoming
the main concern. Whether Soros is a Communist or a Globalist, he probably won't be around
much longer & who knows what will happen to the OSF.
But BLM & it's allies, despite a few apparatchiks, has come to signal a racial
movement rather than an ideological movement like Otpor!, or an economic uprising like
OWS.
That's the turf that this war will be waged on & if indeed "corporate America, the
media, and even the NED" et. al. are lining up behind the racial rioters, then this is going
to be a titanic struggle.
Last time I checked, there was a presumption of innocence. If we accept that George Floyd
actually died and this is not another Psy-op, he died in police custody while resisting
arrest. The coroner`s report said heart attack. Given the level of drugs in his system, it is
entirely possible that the drugs caused the heart attack.
The celebrity pathologist said strangulation therefore murder. If memory serves me correctly,
celebrity pathologist Baden floated the magic bullet theory in the JFK assassination.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/10/why-to-be-skeptical-of-michael-baden-on-epsteins-death.html
Curious how this guy shows up to muddy the waters at all the `big`events.
the notorious liberal billionaire investor and "philanthropist" George Soros and his
Open Society Foundation (OSF). Ironically, if any of the right-wing figures of whom Soros
is a favorite target were aware of his instrumental role in the fall of communism staging
the various CIA-backed protest movements in Eastern Europe that toppled socialist
governments, he would likely not be such a subject of their derision. The Hungarian
business magnate's institute, like other NGOs involved in U.S. regime change operations
such as the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), is largely a front for the CIA to
shield itself while destabilizing U.S. adversaries, the spy agency's preferred modus
operandi
A classic example is the 2003 conquest of the Republic of Georgia, where Soros openly
established an "open society" NGO just for this "revolution", and there was open Israeli
participation.
One can find signs and banners saying 'Antifa is for Israel'. The Antifa leadership is
heavily Jewish, and it is hence no surprise that you find them fighting for causes that
benefit Israel.
I remain unaware that it's been proven that Saint Floyd died because of what the cop did,
or that the cop's actions, right or wrong, were racially motivated. Are we really obligated
to parrot the mainstream narrative on every damn thing that comes down the pike? Appeasing
such narratives and the people who shit them out is how we got here in the first place.
@g8way den's racist comment last week. I knew they were trying to distract us from
something.
Keep reading
I find it odd that this happened just as COVID loses traction. Social distancing SUDDENLY
flew out the window. Let's hope the masks and fear soon follow.
I find it odd that COVID happened the moment the impeachment failed.
I find it odd the impeachment happened the moment that Russian hoax failed.
Can you see the pattern? Will you continue to chase the well orchestrated carrots? Or is
there something in you that will stop for a minute and look for the truth?
This is all very interesting. We're being played big time.
Here is the story. This is a 3-4 step operation. The first step is the left buys in
totally that the virus is a threat and we need to make changes to our way of life envisioned
by Technocrats and Gates. That was predictable. Of course, many of the rights leaders played
along and only 6 states avoided lockdowns.
It was also likely anticipated that their would be resistance of the right , so they
introduce domestic terrorism of antifa (anti fascism- color blind) and BLM (race). The rights
been conditioned to react tough measured against both. Preparations like with COVID-19 were
begun before COVID/protests began. Barrs precrime, Bills prepared for Domestic Terrorism,
exercises for urban riots using military in LA last year, etc.
In a sense War on antifa is a proxy for the War on Communism , as Communists were the
greatest enemy of fascism , and so are the original antifa. Fascists have always tried to
play up hatred of communism (and now antifa) as a weapon , which worked wonderfully for
Hitler and in the US during the cold war (the reason for the Cold War in fact)
Since there is no organized antifa , there being no Communists left (China is fascist in
all but name) , its a artificial construct. Because there are no communists left- we cant
call them that, and so call them antifa.
Those whites were mobilized to protest peacefully in part due to being against racism but
also anger from lock down, economic hardships and police brutality thats been normalized for
15 years against all races. But peaceful protests can not generate enough fear and anger
among the right to accept the coming changes, so they had to create violence by leaving piles
of bricks and using agent provocateurs to ignite the violence. Having 70 years of experience
doing this in what are now called color revolutions worldwide they are professionals.
Having a war against antifa is interesting because they admit antifa is against our
government, who defeated Fascism with the help of Communists. So what is our government now?
Obviously antifascists are against fascists, not Democracies. So our government must be
thought to be fascists. If So , then we didn't defeated fascism in WWII , did we? Thats what
they are saying. A confession of sorts. First step to coming out of the closet.
You see the War on Communism was a psyops too. Uncle Joe was our ally in WWII against
fascism. But the funny thing is, the same guys who funded the Bolshevik Revolution (and
helped China go communist -its now fascist in all but name) also funded Hitlers Rise to power
and military build up. They use these opposites to create enemies and drive changes they
desire.
The Nazi/Fascist ideology never went away. Those who helped create it survived the war
intact, even Prescott Bush who spawned 2 generations of Presidents, and most of the leading
Nazis were released and went on to have long careers in finance, industry, and science both
in Germany and in US, spreading their ideology in secret meetings or even not so secret
meetings by using their words carefully (eugenics renamed as Population Control-and Genetics,
fascist economics called neoliberalism and public private partnerships) . The fascist
ideology remained, hidden under the cloak of anti-communism and now neoliberalism.
So anyways, the right is all in now on measures to tackle domestic terrorism which include
many of the same measures the left supports to fight pandemics , which we are told will be a
long and probably permanent threat
The other brilliant move is the move to defund or remove entire police departments. With
115 billion spent on police departments each year some defunding probably makes sense. The
game here is obvious, get support for privatization, as corporations want a piece of that
action like they have with prisons, military and intelligence/security.
So it is all a big psyops to push through the global elites solution to achieve the 4th
Industrial Revolution or Fourth Reich if you wish. Both parties playing their parts, . Create
a problem, provoke a reaction and push through the desired solution , which has probably
already been written up
This is not limited to the US, it will be a global solution although each country may
modify it slightly to deal with local peculiarities
People will support the New Technocratic Fascist World Order , most of them, wrapped in a
flag (UN or US, TBD) , wearing a mask , carrying their smart phones and showing their
immunity tattoos. The biggest supporters get higher social credit scores and more digital
currency. Those pegged as antifa or racist get crumbs, or just hauled off to FEMA
re-education camps, never to be seen again.
As for the next steps. A 2nd round of Covid blamed on protests. Contact tracers will be
out in force. Operation Black Out, mane causing cancelled elections and Martial Law. Not
certain about that one. But EX-BARDA Bright predicted the Darkest Winter. I am guessing
Christmas gets cancelled too. Blamed on an antifa named Grinch
@Curmudgeon ere 75% blocked and one was 90% blocked. That alone was sufficient to cause
death.
The officer's knee was not on Floyd's carotid. He was on the jaw bone and then backed off
to the back of the neck when Floyd said he couldn't breathe. The knee was on the head, ear,
and jaw but not throat. This is the technique taught at the FBI.
He died from cardio pulmonary arrest as the autopsy states. Murder 2 won't stick. The
Blacks will riot again, as usual.
@Curmudgeon ations (HSCA) Forensic Pathology Panel in 1978. Baden was responsible for
steering the movement of Kennedy's head wounds into a more officially acceptable position.
For example see:
A DEMONSTRABLE IMPOSSIBILITY:
The HSCA Forensic Pathology Panel's Misrepresentation of the Kennedy Assassination Medical
Evidence
by John Hunt
Excellent analysis by Parry. Provides a lot of useful info on connections.
Both the democrat and republican parties are political fronts for the same capitalist
oligarchy. There may be a few partisan oligarchs who favor one party over the other, but for
the most part, both parties enjoy the same patronage. That patronage is shown by the fact
both parties pursue basically the same foreign and domestic policies sans some very minor
differences.
Now the question this creates is why would dems and reps be so intent on carving out their
respective spheres if they are essentially the same thing, run for the same players?
It's not because of the personal perks the party players get when their members are
selected for office and posts. This is as minor to the oligarchical hierarchy as whether
abortion or public nudity should be legal.
The dems and reps exist to provide the oligarchy with a democracy facade to use to get
people thinking they have a voice. What is in reality a form of totalitarian dictatorship is
psywarred/bernaysian-adverted into democracy.
So if the dems and reps represent essentially the same thing, why all the noise about
their rivalry?
Theater. Psywar. They population manipulators create division between dems and reps so
people will concentrate on these false issues, rather on the real ones that could actually
improve their lot.
So how does this psywar strategy apply to the protests the murder of Floyd initiated?
These protests, like the 1960s human rights and antiwar protests, could snowball into
society changing movements that threaten oligarch rule. If allowed proceed naturally. They
must be contained, neutralised and redirected.
So how does one contain them. Use the rep assets, who are represented by fox, limbaugh
& co., & thinly veiled white supremacist promotion? To infiltrate and subvert a
movement protesting against police abuse against black people? Yeah, right. That'll work. No,
one uses the dems instead, and their wing of the population manipulation machinery, who have
staked out a claim to be protectors of minorities and their wellbeing. They have not, but
that is what they are currently being sold as.
What the manipulators are working at is neutralising the protest movement by co-opting it
into a dems vs reps irrelevant mud wrestling contest. The soros machine involvement is not
designed to create a color revolution, why would the oligarchy want to color revolution their
most conformist and domesticated colony which also is their "muscle" to dominate the rest of
the colonies and ward off the rivals who refuse to submit?
No, the soro machine is working to neutralise the movement and make it innocuous to the
oligarchs, as they are best suited for this particular operation. Think of them doing to
these protests what the oligarchs's did to the tea party movement using rep associated
elements.
"It is also no secret that jailed PKK founder Abdullah Öcalan's theories of
"democratic confederalism" are heavily influenced by the pro-Zionist Jewish-American
anarchist theorist, Murray Bookchin."
Interesting, I've seen how quisling bookchin plays a disruptive role in american domestic
resistance to oligarchy, much like "militant" (international marxist tendency) was created to
cause disruption and dissent among the left in the uk. Didn't know the zio-critter was
connected to israel's pkk proxies, though not at all surprised.
The whole world was shocked at the way Five Felon Floyd died ? I was not shocked and
neither did I care. Any man with several criminal convictions who holds a loaded gun to the
belly of a pregnant woman deserves to be put down. He has proven time and again he is an
animal !
I dunno. You can certainly see the nerf protestors of BLM struggling to herd this
rebellion back into the electoral politics roach motel. But you also see the real rebels
shouting BLM down and wrecking what they want to wreck. BLM tries to curb international
solidarity but the crowds tell them fuck off. BLM spokesmodels in Atlanta tried to inject a
quietist tone, and tags immediately sprouted all over, FUCK KKKeisha. BLM entryism is
discredited among stakeholders (maybe not among white middle class MSNBC zombies.) The house
negroes are figures of fun. The protestors are taking their ideology from grizzled Black
Panther Party vets and neo-Malcolm internationalists, e.g. https://blackagendareport.com/
Don't make the mistake of assuming that black civil society has been infantilized and
castrated like white civil society.
While the right seems to have a bizarre misconception that the parasitic hedge fund
tycoon is somehow a communist
Communism was always in essence fakery propped up by the capitalist West. For example, the
Soviet industrial base was built by Western capitalists in the 1920s and 1930s: https://archive.ph/EeG6z
Less certain, however, are the claims from conservatives that Soros is a supporter of
"Antifa" which Trump wants to designate as a domestic terrorist organization, a dangerous
premise given the movement consists of a very loose-knit and decentralized network of
activists and hardly comprises a real organization. Various autonomous chapters and groups
across the U.S. may self-identify as such, but there is no single official party or formal
organization with any leadership hierarchy.
Organized crime families in the US operate in a similar way. That is, the Chicago Outfit
operates autonomously and does not take orders from any of the New York families. The Klan at
its peak (in the 1920s) was also made up of autonomous chapters that did not take orders from
the national office in Indianapolis. The national office of the Klan was mainly in the
business of selling KKK gear/paraphernalia.
The controlled media continue to shun the yellow vest protests, because the yellow vests
unite the grievances of both dissident left and right. This terrifies the elites.
The Yellow Vests don't get adoring media coverage because they are not tools of the
establishment like BLM and antifa. This is how we know BLM is a fraud meant to keep us
divided.
Here's an excellent analysis from Benjamin Studebaker on why these protests will fail. I
agree with pretty much all of it and he has some highly intelligent, cogent insights.
I hate these yuppie bourgeois professionals with every fiber of my being. They are the
devil himself.
The people who are best organized and most capable of taking advantage of the protests are
the yuppie, bourgeois professionals. Many of these people have bachelors degrees in various
social science and humanities disciplines, and their primary objective is to create jobs
for themselves. They use the deaths of African-Americans as a business opportunity,
demanding that companies employ them to run diversity training programs or hire them to
diversify an endless series of government and corporate boards, commissions, and panels.
These "woke neoliberals" always succeed in co-opting these protests, because they went to
the same universities and speak the same language as the people who work for governments
and corporations. They claim to offer diversity, but they succeed in getting positions
because they are just like the people they aim to replace in every way that matters.
Frantz Fanon called them the "black bourgeoisie", but today they come in many colors.
They attack capitalism not because they want to do away with it but because they want to
run it themselves. They deceive poor and working people into supporting them, and once they
acquire power they run the system the same way the "white" bourgeoisie ran it. They don't
care about funding social programs that work–they just want to get paid.
As long as the yuppies are in charge, these protests won't address the root causes of
police violence–the alienation that drives citizens to commit violent crimes and the
armaments which make violent crimes so easy to commit. As long as the root causes go
unaddressed, frightened police officers will demand ever more elaborately lethal
counter-armaments, and they'll fire those weapons all over the place. We can replace them
with private para-military groups, but that will just make a bad situation worse.
Still no information on who supplied the pallets of bricks and cans of bottles with frozen water to "protesters." Nobody
believe the nationwide riots and looting were just a spontaneous reaction to the killing of a petty black criminal. Who get later
"state funeral" and all ths kabuki theatre of Pelosi and Schumer donning African scarves (classic "wolfs in sheep's clothing"
picture)
“Revolutions are often seen as spontaneous. It looks like people just went into the street. But it’s the result of months or
years of preparation. It is very boring until you reach a certain point, where you can organize mass demonstrations or strikes. If
it is carefully planned, by the time they start, everything is over in a matter of weeks.” Foreign
Policy Journal
Notable quotes:
"... "The logistical capabilities of antifa+ are also impressive. They can move people around the country with ease, position pallet loads of new brick, 55 gallon new trash cans of frozen water bottles and other debris suitable for throwing on gridded patterns around cities in a well thought out distribution pattern. Who pays for this? Who plans this? Who coordinates these plans and gives "execute orders?" ..."
"... . This a destabilization campaign similar to the CIA's color revolutions designed to topple the regime (Trump), install a puppet government (Biden), impose "shock therapy" on the economy pushing tens of millions of Americans into homelessness and destitution, and leave behind a broken, smoldering shell of a country easily controlled by Federal shock troops and wealthy globalist mandarins. Here's a short excerpt from an article by Kurt Nimmo at his excellent blog "Another Day in the Empire": ..."
"... It is sad to say BLM serves the elite by ignoring or remaining ignorant of the main problem -- boundless predation by a neoliberal criminal project that considers all -- black, white, yellow, brown -- as expliotable and dispensable serfs. ..."
"... The protest movement is the mask that conceals the maneuvering of elites. ..."
"... the globalists are now inciting a fratricidal war that will weaken the opposition and prepare the country for a new authoritarian order. ..."
The protests are merely a fig leaf for a "color revolution" that bears a striking
resemblance to the more than 50 CIA-backed coups launched on foreign governments in the last 70
years. Have the chickens have come home to roost? It certainly looks like it. Here's more from
the same article:
"Use a grievance that the local population has against the system, identify and support
those who oppose the current government, infiltrate and strengthen opposition movements, fund
them with millions of dollars, organize protests that seem legitimate and have paid political
instigators dress up in regular clothes to blend in."
So, yes, the grievances are real, but that doesn't mean that someone else is not steering
the action. And just as the media is shaping the narrative for its own purposes, so too, there
are agents within the movement that are inciting the violence. All of this suggests the
existence of some form of command-control that provides logistical support and assists in
communications. Check out this excerpt from a post at Colonel Pat Lang's website Sic Semper
Tyrannis:
"The logistical capabilities of antifa+ are also impressive. They can move people around
the country with ease, position pallet loads of new brick, 55 gallon new trash cans of frozen
water bottles and other debris suitable for throwing on gridded patterns around cities in a
well thought out distribution pattern. Who pays for this? Who plans this? Who coordinates
these plans and gives "execute orders?"
Antifa+ can create massive propaganda campaigns that fit their agenda. These campaigns are
fully supported by the MSM and by many in the Congressional Democratic Party. The present
meme of "Defund the Police" is an example. This appeared miraculously, and simultaneously
across the country. I am impressed. Yesterday the frat boy type who is mayor of Minneapolis
was booed out of a mass meeting of radicals in that fair city because he refused to endorse
abolishing the police force. Gutting the civil police forces has long been a major goal of
the far left, but now, they have the ability to create mass hysteria over it when they have
an excuse ."
("My take on the present situation", Sic Semper Tyrannis)
Colonel Lang is not the only one to marvel at Antifa's "logistical capabilities". The United
States has never experienced two weeks of sustained protests in hundreds of its cities at the
same time. It's beyond suspicious, it points to extensive coordination with groups across the
country, a comprehensive media strategy (that probably preceded the killing of George Floyd), a
sizable presence on social media (to put people on the street), and agents provocateur whose
task is to incite violence, loot and create mayhem.
None of this has anything to do with racial justice or police brutality. America is being
destabilized and sacked for other purposes altogether. This a destabilization campaign similar
to the CIA's color revolutions designed to topple the regime (Trump), install a puppet
government (Biden), impose "shock therapy" on the economy pushing tens of millions of Americans
into homelessness and destitution, and leave behind a broken, smoldering shell of a country
easily controlled by Federal shock troops and wealthy globalist mandarins. Here's a short
excerpt from an article by Kurt Nimmo at his excellent blog "Another Day in the Empire":
"The BLM represents the forefront of an effort to divide Americans along racial and
political lines, thus keeping race and identity-based barbarians safely away from more
critical issues of importance to the elite, most crucially a free hand to plunder and ransack
natural resources, minerals, crude oil, and impoverish billions of people whom the ruling
elite consider unproductive useless eaters and a hindrance to the drive to dominate, steal,
and murder .
It is sad to say BLM serves the elite by ignoring or remaining ignorant of the main
problem -- boundless predation by a neoliberal criminal project that considers all -- black,
white, yellow, brown -- as expliotable and dispensable serfs. " (" 2 Million Arab Lives
Don't Matter ", Kurt Nimmo, Another Day in the Empire)
The protest movement is the mask that conceals the maneuvering of elites. The real target of
this operation is the Constitutional Republic itself. Having succeeded in using the Lockdown to
push the economy into severe recession, the globalists are now inciting a fratricidal war that
will weaken the opposition and prepare the country for a new authoritarian order.
PKKA , 4 hours ago
I don't understand these revolutionary black comrades. And they are not my comrades. And
their alleged revolution is not at all like a revolution. Their alleged spontaneous
revolution is a well-orchestrated riot. As far as I know, revolutionaries must make political
demands. Their main task is to come to power, change the social political system and change
for the better. I see only riots, looting and looting, and vandalism against monuments.
Instead of political demands, they demand $ 10 from white people. Instead of demanding better
lives, they demand the abolition of the police.
Instead of coming to power, they plunder and pillage. In General this is not a revolution
but an organized riot of a flock of sheep. They do not achieve anything and all their alleged
revolution is an empty sound. As Lenin would say, they are useful idiots, pawns in someone
else's hands. The performance of this herd should serve only one purpose, to prevent the
re-election of President Donald Trump.
hugin-o-munin , 4 hours ago
The main goal is to start confrontation with authorities and create MSM headline news with
violence and destruction as the backdrop. There is no revolution here, it is a media op. Too
much time is passing now for this to work so they will most likely ramp up the rhetoric and
violence to get a response. Expect to see shootings to start very soon.
hugin-o-munin , 4 hours ago
It looks like all the stops have been pulled out. Any and all efforts to destroy the US
from within are being employed and on a scale never seen before. The NWO, Cabal, Deep State
or whatever label you prefer look desperate and frantic. As soon as the fake pandemic was
beginning to get exposed they pivoted to this fake race riot movement. They obviously want
Trump to send in troops so that he may lose the election. Most of the looting seems organized
and planned and outlet specific which begs the question whether insurance fraud is involved
here. A close look at retailers Target, Nike, Adidas and Macy's is warranted IMO.
The plan and objective here is clearly to create headline news detrimental to Trump.
That's obviously why Seattle's CHAZ have distributed AR-15s to minors to patrol the area. Now
it is just a matter of time until shootings start popping off at strategic and well covered
areas to be spread through MSM in an attempt to force Trump to act. We should expect to see
similar 'zones' pop up in other cities soon as well and they too will miraculously be well
armed and funded.
At the bottom of all this is the fact that the US has economically cratered and Deep State
factions are in a battle for control. The most easily identified faction is the old NWO guard
who have the Democratic party fully under their control and who use these fake color
revolution movements while the other faction are backing Trump who appear to be a Zionist
military leaning group. People who believe Trump is at odds with the Fed are being fooled.
Both are simply attempting to buy time until the election.
Burning cars and stores look exciting and serious but are just a diversion. The real and
most troubling issue right now is the systematic destruction of food processing and
distribution in the US. It is being surgically decimated at a slow pace to not create any
headlines yet this is the biggest threat ever. Who is behind this? Look at corporations like
Tyson and Cargill just as an example. Kissinger must be smiling at what is going on, his
wet-dream weapon of choice is now in play and most seem unaware.
JaxPavan , 4 hours ago
In 2016 the Ford Foundation and Borealis philanthropy funneled $100 million to BLM.
Soros's Open Societies Foundation gives away almost as much each year in similar US
grants:
"In 2016, the OSF-funded organization Transparify found that Open Society Foundations was
the least transparent non-profit among those in the United States which it reviewed. Open
Society Foundations earned a global transparency rating of zero stars for non-transparency of
the organization's funding. They were the only group in the United States Transparify
reviewed in 2016 to receive such a low grade. [33]
Similarly, the website NGO Monitor wrote that Open Society Foundations' "Funding of NGOs
is entirely non-transparent" as their "annual reports do not provide names of NGO grantees or
amounts transferred to individual groups."
Xeno , 4 hours ago
I wish that someone- anyone in the media would pick up this thread.
'The Open Society and it's Foundations' by Karl Popper is well worth reading, it is what
OSF take their name from, and Soros references it often. It was written in 1945 and is an
extreme ideology in my view. It is also deeply flawed. A Zero Hedge article on it wouldn't go
amiss. Funny how these organisations are able to hide in plain sight.
Why the Deep State thought we'd be impressed or swayed by the foreign countries burning
down in sympathy I do not understand. That anyone outside of Minneapolis should care for more
than 5 minutes about one bad cop is inexplicable.
Arch_Stanton , 19 minutes ago
Having succeeded in using the Lockdown to push the economy into severe recession, the
globalists are now inciting a fratricidal war that will weaken the opposition and prepare
the country for a new authoritarian order.
The economy was toast COVID or not. The lockdown was used to protect against any backlash
against the usual suspects who mis-managed the economy yet again. Then "regime change
artists" saw the lockdown for the opportunity it presented.
mr1963 , 33 minutes ago
The cities they looted are kept alive with taxes from working people. The politicians in
the cities they looted keep pets to keep them in power. Sometimes the pets think they are
biting their owners. But they are really biting themselves. Those same politicians will still
be in power long after the pets get tired and slink home.
Geocen Trist , 1 hour ago
No doubt they completely operate the protest movement.
Tiwin , 1 hour ago
Yeah , theres absolutely no chance in hell that the lower classes are sick and tired and
have reached the breaking point. Its all Soros fault.
b snook , 1 hour ago
on the one side you have Orange Jesus, a .1%er, miga, police state loving, globalist goon
picking fights to defend the unipolar world.
on the other hand you have the demented biden who is a .1%er agent, miga, police state
loving, globalist goon wanting to defend the unipolar world.
see the difference?
VooDoo6Actual , 2 hours ago
Duh ya think ?
CHAZ is a scripted Deep State US Army MISO / Psy Op fomenting Alan Anarchy Ideology
designed to create strategy of chaos - tension - angst -anxiety etc. Events are staged &
rigged to create a Hyper-Reality for the Sleeple Sheeple who cannot perceive reality outside
Plato's Cave.
Woke or still sleepwalking ?
raskefing , 2 hours ago
Americans ignored or supported their government destabilization of third world countries
for decades
What you support against others will one day be used against you.
BLOWBACK/ KARMA IS A BITCH!!
charlie_don't_surf , 1 hour ago
lol, the communists enslaved, starved and murdered many tens of millions and destabilized
cultures for decades to pursue world domination...you're just pissed off that your
collectives are total failures.
simpson seers , 47 minutes ago
lol, murica enslaved, starved and murdered many tens of millions and destabilized cultures
for decades to pursue world domination... ....fify....maggot....
Demeter55 , 16 minutes ago
You are presuming that before Trump we the People had any influence over the
military/industrial/CIA. Not since Vietnam, and that was only because Nixon screwed
himself.
ATTILA THE WIMP , 2 hours ago
Deep State elements do NOT operate within the protest movement, the Deep State IS the
protest movement.
Falcon49 , 40 minutes ago
You might also add that the Deep State is also in control of the counter movement. Like
the man behind the curtain...pulling the strings of division and distraction...creating fear
and chaos to herd and stampede the sheeple to their bins to be sheared and slaughtered.
Joost Huffenhope , 3 hours ago
The BLM lot are being played like a banjo at a hillbilly hoedown.
American foreign policy comes home, probably with similar results.
Mike Hunt 69 , 3 hours ago
Just like those useful idiots in Antifa and all those indoctrinated SWJ's!
Helg Saracen , 2 hours ago
It is said cynically, but very accurately. By the way, funny "baboons" among the
Americans. Are the "baboons" so stupid that they don't understand that they are currently
robbing themselves first (taking away future benefits, privileges, ... - this is what will
happen in the end)? They are exactly the same as their fathers and grandfathers were in the
70s and 90s. Nothing changes.
skizex , 3 hours ago
The Radical Sunrise Movement a little sister to #Antifa>burning buildings and lootings
12 year olds:
Still no information on who supplied the pallets of bricks. Trump's not slow on picking up
information from the alternative media so I would expect a tweet storm on this but ziltch,
nada not a cheep. Surely any POTUS would be demanding a full report from the intelligence
agencies and something like that is impossible to hide.
It does make me nervous that those saying he is just part of the predator class / deep
state may have a point.
vonSpookenhausen , 3 hours ago
A bit of research will get you the answer
I read it somewhere but unfortunately cannot recall the site
Element , 2 hours ago
In WWII the British cracked the German's Enigma code/decode machine for radio traffic
signals. Then they spent the rest of the war trying not to use it, and thus alert the Germans
to that fact. Which meant telling no one what was known, via choosing not to do operations or
respond in advance with the inside knowledge they already had on what the Germans were
planning and actually doing. Because as soon as the Germans started losing big they would
know the British were reading their signals and would change the standard code book.
But they never did change it, because they never got suspicious, they were permitted to
become overconfident. The British command allowed the Germans to succeed (i.e. they took
heavy losses due to not informing their own officers about information they already had),
just so they could maintain that information edge intact for a later and much more decisive
battle. The possibility of losing that information flow was much more dangerous than the
Germans winning some smaller and much less consequential battle. But once the Germans and
Italian allies were defeated in North Africa they never won another battle during the whole
of the rest of the war.
But they had to not do it so quick it would raise suspicion and lose the information flow.
Sometimes when you know what's really going on you can't talk about it, you have to wait for
the moment to use the information flow to its maximum leverage over time to win.
If the US's extensive intel capacity is worth a damn that's what they'll be doing, and
Trump won't say a thing. At least that's what you'd expect to be occurring, you generally
don't find out until 30 years later in a Western democracy. Personally I think a lot of this
'deep state' hype is just that, people who like making up conspiracy stories like to milk
these concepts to the hilt.
"... and it absolutely will not stop!" - Kyle Reese, Terminator
I believe none of it, I never have, I never will.
What the truth is, is actually unknown, and also unknowable - such things can not be
confirmed. I understand that, so why should I get wound up about alleged unverifiable claims,
about what 'may' be put about as, "the truth" ?
Forget it! I'm not interested. I can wait, or not, whatever, I'm not going to be driven by
any of this ****, either way.
But why do you hang on the words of a politician?
You're the leader, lead yourself, or be led about like a milk cow.
yewtaipan , 3 hours ago
"What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great
capacity -- intellect and resources -- to do some thing about them." HENRY FORD
WHAT IS WRONG WITH AMERICA ?
America Congress have a number of traitor politicians who would sell their own grandmother
if the price was right, they can never be trusted, but the morons keep voting for them.
The world is upside down, the 'smart' people at the top are actually the most stupid of
all. The 'dumb' people who live at the 'bottom' of the pyramid are where the real
intelligence and creative talent lies. the opposites game, the dumb leaders turning
everything to ****.
Some leaders are stupid. They think being able to recite "facts" equates to intelligence,
and then they laugh at those who don't know. Actually they are the stupid ones, not the ones
they laugh at.
The print and TV media, which serve as propagandists for the ruling military/security
complex and Wall Street elites, make certain that Americans have nothing but bogus
orchestrated information. Every household and person who turns on TV or reads a newspaper is
programmed to live in a false orchestrated reality that serves the tiny few who comprise the
ruling Establishment.
The globalists' overwhelming propaganda machine indoctrinating the population, and
dividing them into liberals, LGBT, leftist, rightist, feminist, black, white, atheist, gay
rights, green movement, etc.
The Globalist Oligarch Cabal from city of London want Americans divided by race, class,
religion so that they can be be easily controlled.
The British super elite are waging Orwellian information war against Americans. The Anglo
main stream media narrative is to divide and conquer.
The globalist super elite controlled main stream media CNN, CNBC, WAPO, WSJ, NYT,
ATLANTIC, etc. was spreading fake news and yet 50% Americans still believe the fake news.
The problem is the super wealthy elite who own both parties. You have a few very wealthy
families and corporations that set policy, and write laws because they are able to buy the
DNC and the RNC. The laws they write and the policy they push benefit them.
Federal Reserve easy money printing ponzi scam.
Pentagon spending US$900 billion a year with nothing to show.
Churchill said the Americans were both village fools, and they remained so. The simpleton
is fate.
CONCLUSION: CHINA CCP IS THE MOST COMPETENT GOVERNMENT IN THE WORLD. :)
ZH AMERICAN PATRIOT
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Gwar6.0 , 4 hours ago
There are no coincidences.
Random chance would mean positive outcomes some of the time. 100% favorable to the Deep
State is not believable and looks planned.... because it probably is. The IC coup and now
Pentagon seemingly backing BLM tells you all you need to know.
They make plans and when a trigger event happens the pawns pounce. I see a Russian
playbook unfolding mixed with Latin American marxist street tactics, ala Chavez & Ortega,
using street thugs to create chaos.
uhland62 , 4 hours ago
Deep State operatives hide in many places:
Bernard Collaery is being prosecuted for revealing national secrets -- specifically,
that Australia bugged East Timor's government building in 2004 to gain advantage in crucial
oil and gas negotiations. (ABC text, Witness K case)
That is only half the truth. If the newly independent East Timor could have a government
building that is not bugged, it could not be ensured that they become part of the US led bloc
of countries. That is far more important than the Australian government resources aiding an
oil and gas company to make more money. Cesar demands loyalty, regardless of who gets
crushed.
raskefing , 2 hours ago
Lack of Principles will always work against you in the end
The Anglo Zionist Empire is known for no Principles. Lies and deception.
America is on the verge of turning into a disaster
Americans supported their government in the destruction of so many other societies that
its now their Turn
Karma is inevitable. Enjoy
otschelnik , 4 hours ago
"The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves."
- Vladimir I Lenin
Arising , 5 hours ago
We need to go after the real people destroying this country.
The people in the shadows that are the ones that make the real decisions on where the west
is going.
These psychopaths think that we don't know who they are but a quick search brings their
names up very quickly.
Search the list of Donating Lobbyists to each political party.
Search the public records on who your leader met in the month prior to a new law,
executive order, etc.
Search the board members of big Croni-companies pushing the govt to pass laws, start wars,
force drugs, apply food directives and regulations.
There is one piece to add to this snow ball of events
THE release of virus to the population. WITHOUT VIRUS, THE PANIC FALL IN WALLSTREET WOULD
NOT BE POSSIBLE AND AS RESULTS RIOTS OR SO CALLED BLACK COLLOR REVOLUTION WOUL DNOT BE
POSSIBLE
USUAL SUSPECTS BENEFITS globalist like soros and gates it'd be plus chima
Obamas Muslim brotherhood and Iran
Soros finances Blm@ and antifa soo it you add lal the other ngos, you have your deep state
worrier s. And the evidence you find on twitter videos of civilians
Let's see the driver who like went into demonstrators and injured protestor. Fake ad he
went directly to the police
THE masked white policeman who was followed by and black man in colored shirt unmasked
like a policeman who was destroying glass windows of business with a hammer, later seen
speaking friendly with this black man, soo the incident was fake
AND other incidents. Even Floyd Murder the man who was on his neck did not look like the
man who was arrested and incident was filmed from 6 sided His brother, the victims brother is
33 level. Mason as well
THE organized bricks and other weapons.......
Organization and money is involved And eng game is obvious The trone of USA
..................... ALL OF THIS WOULD NOT BE HAPPENING IF Trump WOUL DNOT be winning big
time before the virus His strength were the people behind him and strong economy, now the
people and economy are under attack
THE only thing they did not try jet, is What they did to Kennedy
AND masm monopoly and censorship should be dismantled, becuase its time people hear the
truth
BMCK_11 , 6 hours ago
95% of people concerned about the situation right now were either backing or indifferent
to the 50 times this has happened in other countries where, funded by US tax payers, cities
were destroyed, people were killed, civilizations brought to a stop... The fact they are now
shocked shows two things. They knew what they were doing was evil and were fine with it. And,
they thought the Entity spreading that misery around the world was somehow on their side. I
would say, hopefully now they know this thing has no side. But I'm pretty sure in a couple of
months they will be back chanting and shouldering the bill for the next assault on another
population somewhere on the globe.
NeverDemRino , 6 hours ago
" Does anyone believe the nationwide riots and looting are a spontaneous reaction to the
killing of George Floyd? "
The staging of bricks, in multiple cities, tells you it wasn't spontaneous.
But the same DOJ/FBI that "investigated" Trump for 3.5 years, is the same DOJ/FBI that
will "investigate" the riots. What do you think the outcome of that investigation will
be?
With his new subpoena power, does ANYONE really believe Lindsey Graham will indict
ANYONE?
NA X-15 , 7 hours ago
Revolutions cost money. Who's paying for this one? George Soros?? Tom Steyer???
vampirekiller , 6 hours ago
You forget to mention the progressive Republican cadre.
Hotspice2020 , 7 hours ago
By now, I feel that I'm on repeat...The media have a single unified voice because they
serve a single master, the Prince of the Power of the Air(waves). There is an obviously
hidden hand agenda in all of this, I just sincerely hope that as they overplay their cards,
the average American sees through their race baiting, covid19 scam, business crushing agenda
and keep them out of office (e.g. president/senate/congress) and running for the hills from
our pitchforks.
White Nat , 7 hours ago
The protest movement is the mask that conceals the maneuvering of elites.
It does no good to just blame a shadowy group of "elites".
The "elites" are people with names and addresses.
They need to be identified by name preferably with lat/longs of their current
location.
TungstenBars , 7 hours ago
The cops in Minnesota tried to control a suspect that was resisting arrest and overdosing
using the techniques that they and other police officers around the world are trained to
use.
The cop in Atlanta shot a violent perp resisting arrest and aiming a tazer at their
partner, who had a gun which could have been taken within seconds of being tazed.
I am yet to see a situation leading to these riots where the cops are to blame instead of
the black ****** acting violent. Why do black people and liberals think that black people can
commit crime and resist arrest?
Downvote? Which coward did I trigger?
blaze_jenkins , 6 hours ago
Jesus, dude, the cops don't get to do summary executions in the USA ... just yet, though
bootlickers such as yourself would seem to have no problem with it. The Bill of Rights may be
in tatters but people still get due process. It doesn't take a genius to see that someday
that just might be a protection you'd want to be afforded. Holy Christ.
Straighteight , 6 hours ago
I think due process is off the table when you point a weapon at a cop, most people will
agree, the problem is black behaviour.
PGR88 , 7 hours ago
As with everything the Deep-state and their statist minions do - its a diversion. Police
and managing elections are two of the few remaining powers which still remain dispersed and
in local hands, and which America's Left badly wants to centralize, politicize and control.
When Leftists and their corporate-media cronies chant "defund the police" - they certainly do
NOT mean the FBI, ATF, DEA, Secret Service, IRS police, Homeland Security, or any one of the
17 intelligence gathering agencies.
Straighteight , 6 hours ago
The new police will be social workers but who are those guys that have degrees in social
sciences that rule the streets dressed in black and masks? Your police force in waiting! of
coarse they will have guns.
IvannaHumpalot , 7 hours ago
Deep state's job is to infiltrate groups
the real question is: what is the point of them?
they infiltrate but only destroy the decent people like Tommy Robinson's EDL, framing them
up and destroying them, when in fact that is legitimate grassroots political change
if you dont allow the system to change then it is no better than a tyranny
meanwhile, zero prosecutions and very few arrests for BLM lootings and violence
anarcho tyranny
tyranny for you and me
anarchism for the black block
what is the point of the deep state? Only to expand their own power they do nothing for
the citizens
Jam Akin , 7 hours ago
Don't have to be a conspiracy theorist. Even Stevie Wonder can see that this is a color
revolution.
Long ago a wise commentator here advised to keep an eye out for what else might be hidden
by such events.
quanttech , 7 hours ago
When they investigated what happened in the 1968 Chicago riots, they found that 1 out of 6
protesters was a cop or a fed.
hoffstetter , 7 hours ago
Speculating is beyond useless. If the locals won't handle it, and the governors won't
handle it, and the Feds won't handle it, it doesn't matter who is instigating it. Buy a
gun.
I'm thinking about Benjamin Studebaker's analysis when I watch this video. Most Americans are
gong to think black thugs/goons burned the Wendy's down. Instead, it was what looks like a
white female professional provocateur.
The financial oligarchy, all those Wall Street moguls are modern days slave traders and
owners. BLM just waisting time and efforts stupidly fighting targets of secondary
importance.
Notable quotes:
"... Crooke's right that there're many weeks to go before the election. I do hope the major sport leagues remain idle, for the citizenry needs to focus on its relationship with government, and not be distracted from that very serious responsibility. ..."
...The genuine history of the Outlaw US Empire that relatively few actually know. People
rage, but they don't really know the cause of their rage. Social Control of poor whites and
minorities and being driven into debt-peonage are the two most easily identifiable, although
knowing debt-peonage's definition is more recognizable as living paycheck-to-paycheck, with
no real healthcare and zero upward mobility--stuck in the new suburban ghettos.
Others have analyzed the situation as a revenge against Boomers, but I see all ages in the
streets.
Crooke's right that there're many weeks to go before the election. I do hope the major
sport leagues remain idle, for the citizenry needs to focus on its relationship with
government, and not be distracted from that very serious responsibility.
...The way democrat politicians have jumped in unison, holding hands and bending a knee, into
the fray on the side of the rioters just finishes off the perfect picture of a planned "color
revolution".
Anyone who buys into the "peaceful protests hijacked by radical thugs" line obviously
watches way too much TV.
@gay troll "You assume the point of the charade was to 'get Trump'"
Trump is an accidental president. He's a bit of a buffoon and is in way over his head.
He's an irritating obstacle to the power system that wants the Executive Branch back in its
control. The Russian collusion narrative was used to build a fraudulent legal basis for the
FISA warrants, the surveillance, the Mueller Special Counsel investigation, and the Schiff
impeachment trial. The coupsters were extremely arrogant and sloppy in their work and the
administrative means to take Trump out crumbled. Then the virus arrived. Followed by the
well-funded racial terrorism.
@Twodees Partain "..The evidence of a planned and controlled campaign isn't convincing if
we are to assume that all of this was put in place and then the plotters waited for an
outrage by cops to trigger it. The evidence is more significant if a fake triggering event is
added.The faked killing by one actor of another actor seems tailor made for what happened ."
@Mike Whitney See Pepe Escobar's article as Mike Whitney has revealed.
BLM was bought off by Big Corporate Interests including the Ford Foundation, JP Morgan, and
the Kellogg Foundation. ALL VERY POWERFUL Elitists Oligarchs.
OF COURSE, this whole riot/protests mantra is VERY Political. THEY ALL WANT TRUMP
GONE.
Whitney & Escobar are to be commended for their amazing articles!!!
What motivation does the CIA have to commit treason against the American people? What is
their objective?
The international Deep State is not any one organization or in any one country. It is
people who have infiltrated these organizations for their own ends.
They are sociopaths. Their goal is to rule others–to make themselves very rich, very
powerful, above the law.
Their goal is to destroy the middle class and all of its institutions in any countries
with a strong middle class.
They use "issues", they use "people", they own the mass media in virtually every country
to send out similar propaganda.
If you read the articles around here you can learn more about them. If you want to meet
them attend a Davos or Bilderberg conference.
@DaveE "The problem is power – and the nature of those who lust for it. The police
are very powerful, by necessity and the nature of police work is the exercise of power
– on the street."
Agree completely and have posted numerous times this exact same conclusion. Politics and
policing are two occupations that draw power-seeking psychopaths relentlessly, as do
military, law (and the surgical side of the practice of medicine.) All of which has been
documented by psychologists over and over.
Actually, even Plato noted in "The Republic" some 2400 years ago that those who seek power
should never have it, and thus the behind-the-scenes master controllers he posited would draw
their leadership from those who did not want to rule, as they were the ones who would likely
rule best and consistently in the true interests of the polity.
As a former civil rights attorney (long retired) who has taken countless depositions of
police accused of wrongdoing, watching as they arrogantly smirked and prevaricated, knowing
their prior conduct of a similar nature would almost certainly be 'off limits' due to the
incredible power of the police unions who unswervingly support even the most egregious of
offenders, I always knew that the best way forward was to make public their history of abuse
so that they would know in advance the world was watching, rather than feeling invulnerable
by virtue of the secrecy that their unions could enforce due to their nearly unrivaled power
to block such legislation. Only AIPAC, it seems, has more power to block even the most
reasonable investigations of relentless wrongdoings.
Once the police union power is properly curtailed and the light of day allowed to shine on
the dirty deeds done by police, we may actually move towards a police force that delivers on
the promise, "To Serve and Protect" rather than abuse and thereafter dissemble freely with
relative impunity .
Boo hoo hoo, asshole, go home and beat your wife or eat a gun or whatever it is you
dream of doing in retirement, cause the states can't afford your crooked unions' pensions
in this induced depression.
Clearly, you have no idea how pension plans work. For that matter, you have no clue about
a union`s legal responsibilities to its members. I have yet to hear of a police pension plan
being run by a police union. Construction trades, yes, police, no.
Silly ad hominem attacks suggesting this cop beats his wife show your shallowness. There are
literally millions of civilian contacts with police every year, and the number that go bad
are minuscule. I`m not going to suggest that there are no "bad" cops, there are. However,
there are bad plumbers, judges, doctors, and hedge fund managers as well, not to mention the
majority of politicians. The cops don`t pass laws, politicians do. The cops don`t write
police manuals and train themselves, the politicians oversee that. If a cop commits a crime
he`s treated like a criminal is treated, except for the canonized Black felons resisting
arrest.
@botazefaIt makes more sense to me that the elites driving these BLM riots are those
who support Trump. Terrify people and threaten the existence of police is a good way to get
elderly white voters out of their covid lockdowns on election day.
It will benefit Trump, but the elites driving these riots oppose Trump and were hoping to
goad him into declaring martial law or deploying soldiers and tanks into US cities so they
could impeach him again or at least turn public opinion against him with soldiers shooting
people. Trump simply avoided their trap and goaded them into positioning themselves as
anti-American.
@Realist Specifically what "actions and inactions" are you referring to? Give me some.
Say that Trump was an outsider, and as such he wanted to have different people surrounding
him than he's got at present. Would they have gotten through the Senate? No. I'll quote
Digital Samizdat on this:
"That's a good point, and it's of the main problems I do have with Trump: his cabinet
picks and financial backers (Adelsen, Singer, et al.). But in fairness, what happens when he
tries to pick someone who's not approved by the system? Well, if they're cabinet officers,
they'll never get approved by the senate. And even if they're not, they will be driven out of
the White House somehow–just like Gen. Flynn and Steve Bannon. In short, when it comes
to staffing, Trump's choices are limited by the same swamp he's fighting. Sad but true "
If Trump tried flexing his muscles, he'd be impeached in a New York minute, AND the
Republicans would be on board with the Democrats on this. I do agree it's all one club.
Besides, he's listening to that son-in-law of his (who, by the way, probably got Trump
elected by promising the elite Jews, his backers, he'd play ball when it came to Israel). I
remember Trump himself being surprised and almost shocked at the "support" that Jared was
able to drum up for him, and he thanked Jared on stage for that. Of course, this was the
devil's handshake, but you probably don't get elected without it.
I think everything is run through Jared, out to the elite Jews, and then Trump is given
his instructions. Trump probably thought okay, I'll give them what they want, but I'll get
what I want too (the wall, immigration reform, etc.) That hasn't turned out too well.
Anyway, that's how I see it – so far. What are those actions and inactions you
mentioned? I'd like to hear them.
@Just a random Polish guy Like you, I see the BLM protests/riots as an extension of the
mayhem caused by the transparently fake Covid-19 pandemic. Trump is certainly a target, but
this very determined attempt at a revolution seems much bigger and far more sinister than
simply getting rid of the hapless Trump.
There are literally millions of civilian contacts with police every year, and the number
that go bad are minuscule.
Most people are hip to the reality of much cops love it if you roll over, show your
throat, and suck them off verbally. They know that this is an essential dance. Listen to how
often they're rewarded in court by cops earnestly asserting to judge how 'cooperative'
Citizen Peepants was. This is relevant in court only insofar as cops are prosecuted for
violating the 5th amendment -- something nearly every cop does in a significant portion of
interactions.
Re psyche, the average cop is hair-trigger sensitive to anyone not treating him as
royalty. It's almost comedic watching them sprout feathers and strut.
Now, since you love stats, see if you can dredge a realistic number of how often cops
assault/kidnap people because they get pissed at demeanor -- usually when being treated as
equal or below. They know they're criminal trash, and treating them as such cuts too
close.
Then, drum roll charges dropped! Typical cop bully bull.
People who get upset on behalf of others when they see a doll, a toy caricature of the most
trivial & obvious features of people from a race, region or culture or perhaps of an
individual (puppets of politicians), privately believe those people to be in need of
patronizing concern because they see them in the same category as vulnerable children who
have to be protected. In other words, their concern stems from a supposed superiority to that
group of people who are privately considered their inferiors.
Cartoonists can draw the most hideous caricatures of politicians and no one, least of all
the politician, objects? Indeed they sometimes write to the artist to try to buy the
original.
Concern over a golliwog betokens a profound unexpressed racism hiding deep within their
psyche in the sense of a 'negative pre-judgement of a whole group of people who share certain
physical characteristics'. In other words, they make a gross category error and reveal
non-confected bigotry.
Finally ... I get to be a flag waving loon. As much as I agree with the ambassador,
this is an inappropriate display for a federal employee in his position, especially one who
represents the Administration and U.S. interests in the world. One has to keep a certain
decorum based on your job.
BTW I believe people are blowing smoke to cover up the origins of the 'neck kneeling'
technique and its possible origins to Israel. And I am appalled at the baboonish
response to the slaying of Rayshard Brooks in Atlanta by senior Law enforcement
officers. If I had any authority I would use this opportunity to purge as many of these
leaders as possible. They should be ashamed of themselves by bringing up so many false things
to cloud the issue.
Yes, he was drunk and should have been arrested but he was fleeing the scene and posed no
danger to anyone yet he was shot in the back. He was on foot, not driving a car. He was
unarmed. He had already fired the one shot taser. They had his car and all the info they
needed to track him down. BTW there is something off w/Dan Bongino other than your typical
belligerence but he's not the law enforcement I'm referring to because he's just an
ex-security guard.
Posted by: karlof1 | Jun 15 2020 19:05 utc | 37 Hell, most don't even know what
Jeffersonianism is or what the bases are for the Social Contract between federal government
and citizen or where to find them
Did you see that post I made yesterday about how a significant portion of the population
can't even name the three branches of government, or know that the Constitution is (supposed
to be) the supreme law of the land?
It's not hard to advocate policies against the Constitution when you don't know what it's
about. I come to that via the Second Amendment (and the First), but most people don't know
the meaning of either and are therefore happy to jettison both. This is what the "Woke" will
achieve. Except they'll fail with gun control (since that's physically impossible). But
they'll succeed with destroying the First. There's an increasing view that censorship is a
good thing.
Of course, in my case, I know the Constitution is an irrelevant piece of paper, violated
almost before its inception, so it doesn't matter to me. But a lot of armed, ex-military
militia guys are gonna be pissed - they already are. I read the gun mags and view the
firearms Youtube channels, trust me, these guys are unhappy. They hate the rioters, they hate
the government (but they love the police), and sooner or later someone's going to start
shooting.
If the "Woke" or the government start shooting back, things will get a lot more tense than
they are now. They can't win, but the conflict will raise some hell worse than these
riots.
I find it ridiculous that so many posters on this ostensibly "Anti-War", "Leftist", website
are scared that Trump won't win reelection, LOL. In reality, Trump is practically guaranteed
to win reelection, due to the combination of the booming stock market (most of his base are
elderly whites with big 401k's), the phony "Covid crisis" and the resultant "miracle" of
Trump unveiling the extremely dangerous moderna vaccine right before the election
(Scientistic Democrats and sycophantic Trump supporters will gladly take any vaccine Trump
delivers to them, no matter how rushed, unnecessary, and dangerous it is, out of blind faith
in science or Trump, respectfully)
And the fact that the BLM/Antifa protests will scare the shit out of his Old White base (I
suspect that the protests are being engineered to help Trump win reelection, thru the well
known Tactic of Law enforcement infiltrating protests, and its promotion by "Woke"
Corporations that are Pro-Trump due to his Neoliberal economic policies). What I find
despicable is that this "Anti-War" website is happy to see Trump win again despite the fact
that his victory practically guarantees a War with Iran, but I guess that's worth it to most
of this website because of the need to avoid that imaginary "Nuclear War with Russia" that
will happen if a Democrat wins, LMAO. I guess most here (with the exception of me,
Donkeytale, Pft, and Kay fabe) Haven't realized that the "New Cold War" of the U$ vs. Russia
and China is Fake wrestling to confuse and distract the populations of all three countries as
they are oppressed by the same Neoliberal policies that all three governments implement,
LOL.
State Department was always Hillary stronghold and a zoo of arrogant neocons.
From comments: "No great complexity. No surprise. Welcome to the Glorious Permanent
Revolution within the War Machine. If the much-feared asteroid were falling on New York, or the
proverbial divine lightning had finally been unleashed by Jealous Jehovah, that would also get
co-opted, financed and approved by CIA + Dim Party, to get the usurper out. It all, yet again,
boils down to Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned."
When I first saw that tweet on Saturday I wondered how long the banner would stay
up. It was clear that the White House would be miffed about it as the banner and the tweet
were running against Trump's election tactic of raising tensions.
Today the banner
was taken down : To hang up such a banner can be understood as a public protest against
Trump. The U.S. ambassador in South Korea is Harry Harris, a former 4-star general and head
of the U.S. Pacific Command:
"USA is a free and diverse nation... from that diversity, we gain our strength" the U.S.
Ambassador to South Korea, Harry Harris said in a re-tweet of the official embassy message
in which he also quoted former President John Kennedy.
The embassy had displayed the large rainbow flag in support of "LGBTQ Pride Month" last
year, despite an order of the State Department not to hoist the banner.
Harris was originally supposed to become U.S. ambassador to Australia. That would have
been a plush and easy job. But two years ago Trump and Pompeo ordered
him to Seoul in preparation for Trump's talks with North Korea's chairman Kim Jong-un.
Harris was known to be
a North-Korea hawk :
On the subject of North Korea, Harris expressed caution in falling for the country's
so-called "charm offensive," indicating Kim's regime as the most immediate threat to both
the U.S. and South Korea during a House Armed Services Committee hearing in February
dedicated to security issues in the Indo-Pacific region.
According to Harris, Kim's desire is to reunite the peninsula under a single communist
system. "He's on a path to achieve what he feels is his natural place," he said. He
championed the strengthening of the U.S. missile defense system as well as economic and
diplomatic pressure to "bring Kim Jong Un to his senses, not his knees."
On several issues Harris pushed South Korea and its government around. There were public
demonstrations against him and a group of young people even climbed over the embassy wall to
protest against his arrogant behavior.
It seems Harris has had enough of his thankless job. There were rumors in April that he
would not stay on during a second Trump presidency or that he might even
resign earlier:
US Ambassador to South Korea Harry Harris has said privately that he does not plan to stay
beyond the November US presidential election, regardless of whether President Donald Trump
wins another term, five sources told Reuters news agency.
Harris, a 40-year veteran of the US Navy and Trump appointee who started in Seoul in
2018, has expressed increasing frustration with the tensions and drama of his tenure, the
sources said, all speaking on condition of anonymity because of the diplomatic sensitivity
of the issue.
...
In December protesters destroyed portraits of Harris during a demonstration outside the US
Embassy as they chanted, "Harris out! We are not a US colony! We are not an ATM
machine!"
My best guess is that Harris ordered the LGBT and BLM banners up as intentionally
insubordinate acts towards Trump and Pompeo. "Fire me. I dare you." As a former high ranking
commander he is likely to support the opinions of other former generals, like Dempsey, Mullen
and Mattis, who recently protested against Trump's threat to use active military against
protesters.
The man wanted to make a point before he leaves his post.
That is now likely to happen rather sooner than later. No great complexity. No surprise.
Welcome to the Glorious Permanent Revolution within the War Machine. If the much-feared
asteroid were falling on New York, or the proverbial divine lightning had finally been
unleashed by Jealous Jehovah, that would also get co-opted, financed and approved by CIA +
Dim Party, to get the usurper out. It all, yet again, boils down to Hell hath no fury like a
woman scorned.
He should be fired. I have never seen any type of political banner on a US embassy. Imagine
if he unveiled "Trump 2020". I am shocked at the stupidity, and I'm sure many other embassy
staffers told him it was wrong. I don't like firing people for mistakes, but this was so
stupid it shows him unfit for this job.
Do you even read the article ? The character named Harry Harris is a unique character that
are appointed by Trump administration in which he's rather an anti racism and tend to pick
the left than right. The quality that Trump seek from him is his hawkish attitude towards
North Korean (his background as a general and pacific commander could've helped him nominated
by Trump. Trump love the military and general despite where he come from).
B do not noting anything being great about his action. He noted that open objections from
character of this character background can indicate that US military doesn't come full in
support of Trump policy regarding the domestic insurrection.
At first I almost spit out my water reading this...but upon reflection, it is an ok
statement.
@
Agreed, I had an initial negative reaction to that line but after thinking it is true. The
current unrest to me seems stoked by Trump's enemies, but Trump has used a strategy of
pushing their buttons throughout his whole campaign and term. I do think he is trying to make
them do something ridiculous, like defending riots and publicly supporting eliminating the
police, as a way to galvanize his base for the election. I wish these tactics were not
necessary but given that both sides are using them, I can only assume they are effective.
Of course the unprecedented banner has no logic. The native koreans will ask: what the hell
those protectors of ours are up to?
Logical would be North Korean embassy to fly the banner in their
front entry.
"Trump is well known to be viscerally 'law and order'.
"Well known" ... yeah, that's why I never tire in reminding people that he nominated
Gina Hapel for CIA despite her having destroyed evidence in a Congressional investigation and
Trump himself is also a "well known" fraudster (recall his Trump University) and pal of
Epstein.
PS Where's the tax returns that Trump promised to release?
To me, this is a serious indication that BLM (which in principle I support) has been
co-opted by the "Foreign Policy Establishment" (Vindman) and the Democratic Party.
There are other matters going on regarding the US in the Republic of Korea.
> ROK broke off intelligence-sharing with Japan.
> Trump wants an increase in ROK offset payment, or it will reduce commitment.
> DPRK has threatened ROK with attack of some kind, after two years of "give" to the US
and no reciprocity on sanctions etc.
With the election coming up, Trump reverts back to his earlier campaign pledge to bring US
troops home, which (as we know) is a non-starter with the "security establishment." His
recent decision to significantly reduce troop numbers in Germany has caused a huge negative
reaction. The fact remains that there is no good reason for 30,000 troops, with their
dependents, to be in Korea at all. ROK is much richer and stronger that DPRK.
All of this bears on whatever decisions Admiral Harris makes.
from wiki:
Commander, Joint Task Force Guantanamo
In March 2006, he assumed command of Joint Task Force Guantanamo in Cuba. His service was
notable as he was in charge when three prisoners, Mani Shaman Turki al-Habardi Al-Utaybi,
Salah Ali Abdullah Ahmed al-Salami and Yasser Talal Al Zahrani, died in the custody of US
forces. Defense reported the deaths as suicides. Harris said at the time,
"I believe this was not an act of desperation, but an act of asymmetrical warfare waged
against us."
...It was just a bunch of mid sized fish maneuvering on the best way they can jointly become
the boss of their sad little MIC pond.
This admiral turned state department drongo will be no different, as I said before, he may
have his vagaries, but his devotion to the impossible, keeping amerika supreme, will be no
different to any other imperial functionary, so why waste any thought much less words on such
a flea.
Because he may be a servant of the dem half of the amerikan empire party?
Who cares, as we have all seen time & time again, that makes zero difference to the
amount of gratuitous rape & murder and only slight difference in the direction booty is
sent, though never the amount of the thefts.
They all require a firing squad, gas shower or guillotine.
> Peter Dorman is correct about why Trump is in trouble, but there is still
more. Peter Dorman is correct about why Trump is in trouble, but there is still
more.
Won't these riots create a wave of revulsion among the silent majority and consolidate
Trump's support base?
That's what make me wondering: is the faction of the elite driving these BLM riots are
those who support Trump?
Terrify people and threaten the existence of police is a good way to get close to 100%
of elderly voters out of their Covid-19 lockdowns on election day.
Doesn't the fact that pallets of bricks and frozen bottles in large cans were
delivered to the places of protests suggests that Antifa and other groups operating
within the protest movement are actually linked to intelligence agencies?
Is not it easier now for Trump to offload all the destruction of the economy and
Coronavirus recession on Neoliberal Dems which are supporting the rioters?
"... "The extraordinary destruction of white and Asian businesses in many instances wiping out a family's lifetime work, the looting of national businesses whose dumbshit CEOs support the looters, the merciless gang beatings of whites and Asians who attempted to defend their persons and their property, the egging on of the violence by politicians in both parties and by the entirely of the media including many alternative media websites, shows a country undergoing collapse. ..."
"... This is why it is not shown in national media . Some local media show an indication of the violent destruction in their community, but it is not accumulated and presented to a national audience. Consequently, Americans think the looting and destruction is only a local occurrence I just checked CNN and the BBC and there is nothing about the extraordinary economic destruction and massive thefts." ..."
"... Why has the media failed to show the vast destruction of businesses and private property? Why have they minimized the effects of vandalism, looting and arson? Why have they fanned the flames of social unrest from the very beginning, shrugging off the ruin and devastation while cheerleading the demonstrations as a heroic struggle for racial justice? Is this is the same media that supported every bloody war, every foreign intervention, and every color-revolution for the last 5 decades? Are we really expected to believe that they've changed their stripes and become an energized proponent of social justice? ..."
"... The scale and coordination alone suggests that elements in the deep state are probably involved. We know from evidence uncovered during the Russiagate probe, that the media works hand-in-glove with the Intel agencies and FBI while–at the same time– serving as a mouthpiece for elites. ..."
"... That hasn't changed, in fact, it's gotten even worse. The uniformity of the coverage suggests that that same perception management strategy is being employed here as well. Even at this late date, the determination to remove Trump from office is as strong as ever even though, in the present case, it has been combined with the broader political strategy of inciting fratricidal violence, obliterating urban areas, and spreading anarchy across the count ..."
"... This isn't about racial justice or police brutality, it's about regime change, internal destabilization, and martial law. ..."
"... What the Black Lives Matter movement does not understand is that they are being used by the billionaire white capitalists who are fighting to push the working class even lower ..."
"... The rightful grievance over racism against blacks is now used to get Trump since Russia Gate, Impeachment, the corona scandal ..."
"... The protests are merely a fig leaf for a "color revolution" that bears a striking resemblance to the more than 50 CIA-backed coups launched on foreign governments in the last 70 years ..."
"... "Use a grievance that the local population has against the system, identify and support those who oppose the current government, infiltrate and strengthen opposition movements, fund them with millions of dollars, organize protests that seem legitimate and have paid political instigators dress up in regular clothes to blend in." ..."
"... "The logistical capabilities of antifa+ are also impressive. They can move people around the country with ease, position pallet loads of new brick, 55 gallon new trash cans of frozen water bottles and other debris suitable for throwing on gridded patterns around cities in a well thought out distribution pattern. Who pays for this? Who plans this? Who coordinates these plans and gives "execute orders?" ..."
"... Antifa+ can create massive propaganda campaigns that fit their agenda. These campaigns are fully supported by the MSM and by many in the Congressional Democratic Party. The present meme of "Defund the Police" is an example. This appeared miraculously, and simultaneously across the country. I am impressed. Yesterday the frat boy type who is mayor of Minneapolis was booed out of a mass meeting of radicals in that fair city because he refused to endorse abolishing the police force. ..."
"... Colonel Lang is not the only one to marvel at Antifa's "logistical capabilities". The United States has never experienced two weeks of sustained protests in hundreds of its cities at the same time. ..."
"... it points to extensive coordination with groups across the country, a comprehensive media strategy (that probably preceded the killing of George Floyd), a sizable presence on social media (to put people on the street), and agents provocateur whose task is to incite violence, loot and create mayhem. ..."
"... This a destabilization campaign similar to the CIA's color revolutions designed to topple the regime (Trump), install a puppet government (Biden), impose "shock therapy" on the economy ..."
"... "The BLM represents the forefront of an effort to divide Americans along racial and political lines, thus keeping race and identity-based barbarians safely away from more critical issues of importance to the elite, most crucially a free hand to plunder and ransack natural resources, minerals, crude oil, and impoverish billions of people whom the ruling elite consider unproductive useless eaters and a hindrance to the drive to dominate, steal, and murder . ..."
"... The protest movement is the mask that conceals the maneuvering of elites. The real target of this operation is the Constitutional Republic itself ..."
"... that explains why anti-fa attack Yellow Vests in Germany. The Yellow Vests are the true people's movement and as shown in the video below it is not about the left and the right for the yellow vest but common people fed up with the system ..."
"... Watch every frame of this. It shows the government-media complex and their little thugs, ANTIFA, in perfect collusion to interfere with the regular Germans trying to stop the Satanic communist-Globo homo project. ..."
"... My bro is one of the few people flying, for work. He says the only people on the airlines are antifa thugs moving all around the country. ..."
"... Won't these riots create a wave of revulsion among the silent majority and consolidate Trump's support base? ..."
"... Is Antifa a group of deep state agitators? That's the question. In the Sunday edition of the New York Times– the official propaganda organ of US elites– an article is entirely devoted to creating "plausible deniability" that Antifa is behind the violence in the protests that have swept the country. ..."
"Revolutions are often seen as spontaneous. It looks like people just went into the
street. But it's the result of months or years of preparation. It is very boring until you
reach a certain point, where you can organize mass demonstrations or strikes. If it is
carefully planned, by the time they start, everything is over in a matter of weeks."
Foreign Policy
Journal
Does anyone believe the nationwide riots and looting are a spontaneous reaction to the
killing of George Floyd?
It's all too coordinated, too widespread, and too much in-sync with the media narrative that
applauds the "mainly peaceful protests" while ignoring the vast destruction to cities across
the country. What's that all about? Do the instigators of these demonstrations want to see our
cities reduced to urban wastelands where street gangs and Antifa thugs impose their own harsh
justice? That's where this is headed, isn't it?
Of course there are millions of protesters who honestly believe they're fighting racial
injustice and police brutality. And more power to them. But that certainly doesn't mean there
aren't hidden agendas driving these outbursts. Quite the contrary. It seems to me that the
protest movement is actually the perfect vehicle for affecting dramatic social changes that
only serve the interests of elites. For example, who benefits from defunding the police? Not
African Americans, that's for sure. Black neighborhoods need more security not less. And yet,
the New York Times lead editorial on Saturday proudly announces, " Yes, We Mean Literally
Abolish the Police–Because reform won't happen." Check it out:
"We can't reform the police. The only way to diminish police violence is to reduce contact
between the public and the police .There is not a single era in United States history in
which the police were not a force of violence against black people. Policing in the South
emerged from the slave patrols in the 1700 and 1800s that caught and returned runaway slaves.
In the North, the first municipal police departments in the mid-1800s helped quash labor
strikes and riots against the rich. Everywhere, they have suppressed marginalized populations
to protect the status quo.
So when you see a police officer pressing his knee into a black man's neck until he dies,
that's the logical result of policing in America. When a police officer brutalizes a black
person, he is doing what he sees as his job " (" Yes, We
Mean Literally Abolish the Police–Because reform won't happen" , New York
Times)
So, according to the Times, the problem isn't single parent families, or underfunded
education or limited job opportunities or fractured neighborhoods, it's the cops who have
nothing to do with any of these problems. Are we supposed to take this seriously, because the
editors of the Times certainly do. They'd like us to believe that there is groundswell support
for this loony idea, but there isn't. In a recent poll, more than 60% of those surveyed, oppose
the idea of defunding the police. So why would such an unpopular, wacko idea wind up as the
headline op-ed in the Saturday edition? Well, because the Times is doing what it always does,
advancing the political agenda of the elites who hold the purse-strings and dictate which ideas
are promoted and which end up on the cutting room floor. That's how the system works. Check out
this excerpt from an article by Paul Craig Roberts:
"The extraordinary destruction of white and Asian businesses in many instances wiping out
a family's lifetime work, the looting of national businesses whose dumbshit CEOs support the
looters, the merciless gang beatings of whites and Asians who attempted to defend their
persons and their property, the egging on of the violence by politicians in both parties and
by the entirely of the media including many alternative media websites, shows a country
undergoing collapse.
This is why it is not shown in national media . Some local media show an
indication of the violent destruction in their community, but it is not accumulated and
presented to a national audience. Consequently, Americans think the looting and destruction
is only a local occurrence I just checked CNN and the BBC and there is nothing about the
extraordinary economic destruction and massive thefts." (" The Real Racists", Paul Craig Roberts,
Unz Review)
Roberts makes a good point, and one that's worth mulling over. Why has the media failed to
show the vast destruction of businesses and private property? Why have they minimized the
effects of vandalism, looting and arson? Why have they fanned the flames of social unrest from
the very beginning, shrugging off the ruin and devastation while cheerleading the
demonstrations as a heroic struggle for racial justice? Is this is the same media that
supported every bloody war, every foreign intervention, and every color-revolution for the last
5 decades? Are we really expected to believe that they've changed their stripes and become an
energized proponent of social justice?
Nonsense. The media's role in concealing the damage should only convince skeptics that the
protests are just one part of a much larger operation. What we're seeing play out in over 400
cities across the US, has more to do with toppling Trump and sowing racial division than it
does with the killing of George Floyd. The scale and coordination alone suggests that elements
in the deep state are probably involved. We know from evidence uncovered during the Russiagate
probe, that the media works hand-in-glove with the Intel agencies and FBI while–at the
same time– serving as a mouthpiece for elites.
That hasn't changed, in fact, it's gotten
even worse. The uniformity of the coverage suggests that that same perception management
strategy is being employed here as well. Even at this late date, the determination to remove
Trump from office is as strong as ever even though, in the present case, it has been combined
with the broader political strategy of inciting fratricidal violence, obliterating urban areas,
and spreading anarchy across the country.
This isn't about racial justice or police brutality,
it's about regime change, internal destabilization, and martial law. Take a look at this
article at The Herland Report:
"What the Black Lives Matter movement does not understand is that they are being used by
the billionaire white capitalists who are fighting to push the working class even lower and
end the national sovereignty principles that president Trump stands for in America .
The rightful grievance over racism against blacks is now used to get Trump since Russia
Gate, Impeachment, the corona scandal and nothing else has worked. The aim is to end
democracy in the United States, control Congress and politics and assemble the power into the
hands of the very few
That sounds about right to me. The protests are merely a fig leaf for a "color revolution"
that bears a striking resemblance to the more than 50 CIA-backed coups launched on foreign
governments in the last 70 years. Have the chickens have come home to roost? It certainly looks
like it. Here's more from the same article:
"Use a grievance that the local population has against the system, identify and support
those who oppose the current government, infiltrate and strengthen opposition movements, fund
them with millions of dollars, organize protests that seem legitimate and have paid political
instigators dress up in regular clothes to blend in."
So, yes, the grievances are real, but that doesn't mean that someone else is not steering
the action. And just as the media is shaping the narrative for its own purposes, so too, there
are agents within the movement that are inciting the violence. All of this suggests the
existence of some form of command-control that provides logistical support and assists in
communications. Check out this excerpt from a post at Colonel Pat Lang's website Sic Semper
Tyrannis:
"The logistical capabilities of antifa+ are also impressive. They can move people around
the country with ease, position pallet loads of new brick, 55 gallon new trash cans of frozen
water bottles and other debris suitable for throwing on gridded patterns around cities in a
well thought out distribution pattern. Who pays for this? Who plans this? Who coordinates
these plans and gives "execute orders?"
Antifa+ can create massive propaganda campaigns that fit their agenda. These campaigns are
fully supported by the MSM and by many in the Congressional Democratic Party. The present
meme of "Defund the Police" is an example. This appeared miraculously, and simultaneously
across the country. I am impressed. Yesterday the frat boy type who is mayor of Minneapolis
was booed out of a mass meeting of radicals in that fair city because he refused to endorse
abolishing the police force.
Gutting the civil police forces has long been a major goal of
the far left, but now, they have the ability to create mass hysteria over it when they have
an excuse ."
("My take on the present situation", Sic Semper Tyrannis)
Colonel Lang is not the only one to marvel at Antifa's "logistical capabilities". The United
States has never experienced two weeks of sustained protests in hundreds of its cities at the
same time. It's beyond suspicious, it points to extensive coordination with groups across the
country, a comprehensive media strategy (that probably preceded the killing of George Floyd), a
sizable presence on social media (to put people on the street), and agents provocateur whose
task is to incite violence, loot and create mayhem.
None of this has anything to do with racial justice or police brutality. America is being
destabilized and sacked for other purposes altogether. This a destabilization campaign similar
to the CIA's color revolutions designed to topple the regime (Trump), install a puppet
government (Biden), impose "shock therapy" on the economy pushing tens of millions of Americans
into homelessness and destitution, and leave behind a broken, smoldering shell of a country
easily controlled by Federal shock troops and wealthy globalist mandarins. Here's a short
excerpt from an article by Kurt Nimmo at his excellent blog "Another Day in the Empire":
"The BLM represents the forefront of an effort to divide Americans along racial and
political lines, thus keeping race and identity-based barbarians safely away from more
critical issues of importance to the elite, most crucially a free hand to plunder and ransack
natural resources, minerals, crude oil, and impoverish billions of people whom the ruling
elite consider unproductive useless eaters and a hindrance to the drive to dominate, steal,
and murder .
It is sad to say BLM serves the elite by ignoring or remaining ignorant of the main
problem -- boundless predation by a neoliberal criminal project that considers all -- black,
white, yellow, brown -- as expliotable and dispensable serfs. " (" 2 Million Arab Lives
Don't Matter ", Kurt Nimmo, Another Day in the Empire)
The protest movement is the mask that conceals the maneuvering of elites. The real target of
this operation is the Constitutional Republic itself. Having succeeded in using the Lockdown to
push the economy into severe recession, the globalists are now inciting a fratricidal war that
will weaken the opposition and prepare the country for a new authoritarian order.
the media narrative that applauds the "mainly peaceful protests" while ignoring the vast
destruction to Hong Kong where there was neither police violence nor racial discrimination.
Look like the same organizing principles were used in both places.
Of course that explains why anti-fa attack Yellow Vests in Germany.
The Yellow Vests are the true people's movement and as shown in the video below it is not
about the left and the right for the yellow vest but common people fed up with the system, a
true grass roots movement of the people.
And Anti-fa, the Whores of the Satanic elites attack them. Why would anti-fascists attack the
common man?
Watch every frame of this. It shows the government-media complex and their little thugs,
ANTIFA, in perfect collusion to interfere with the regular Germans trying to stop the Satanic
communist-Globo homo project.
Few arguments in contra of the article. Can any-one conceive of there being a competition between BLM rioting organizing and
covertly supporting, and Corona-19, where the elites were very cohesive internationally in the face.
The target, Trump, the man with no policies, the implement nothing, is it such a worthy target to a fraction of the power
elites? That would speak for shallowness on their behalf. Creating back-ground noise to fade out the re-organizing of society,
regardless of actors as Trump could be an acceptable explanation. "Keep the surplus population busy. Keep the attention on the
streets".
There is a trade-off. The international elites see the exposure of the US internal policies, the expenditure of energy, do
they regard the situation as something to copy-paste, an interesting experiment, or as weakness to be taken advantage of?
Probably the first, then BLM covert support chains perfectly with Corona-19, and scales things up.
"Black neighborhoods need more security not less."
Police are not security, they're repression. Anybody of any color who thinks they're safer
with heavily armed bureaucrats blundering around is a moron.
And since when does reductions in guard labor equal austerity? There are several economic
rights that should not be derogated, but assholes with guns impounding cars is not one of
them. If the residents of a community are asking for more cops, that's one thing. They are
not. Law enforcement budgets are stuffed up the ass of residents and often municipalities.
Look into e.g. the MA "strong chief" enabling acts. States have massive unfunded pension
liabilities in large part because of police featherbedding. That's what's being pushed by the
"deep state" (you mean CIA.) The evident CIA use of provocateurs is aimed at justifying
further increases in repressive capacity.
OK bye! Don't let the door hit your fat ass on the way out! Stupid and delusional though pigs are, it's dimly dawning on them that America considers
them crooked loudmouthed violent assholes. Here's a typical one exercising what Gore Vidal
called the core competence of police, whining.
Boo hoo hoo, asshole, go home and beat your wife or eat a gun or whatever it is you dream
of doing in retirement, cause the states can't afford your crooked unions' pensions in this
induced depression. Cut these white man's welfare jobs.
Is Antifa a group of deep state agitators? That's the question.
In the Sunday edition of the New York Times– the official propaganda organ of US
elites– an article is entirely devoted to creating "plausible deniability" that Antifa
is behind the violence in the protests that have swept the country.
Why is the Times so concerned that its readers might have a different opinion on this
matter? Why do they want to convince people that the protests-riots are merely spontaneous
outbursts of anti-racist sentiment? Could it be because the Times job is to create a version
of events that suits the interests of the elites it serves? Here's a few excerpts from
today's piece titled "Federal Arrests Show No Sign That Antifa Plotted Protests":
While anarchists and anti-fascists openly acknowledged being part of the immense
crowds, they call the scale, intensity and durability of the protests far beyond anything
they might dream of organizing. Some tactics used at the protests, like the wearing of
all black and the shattering of store windows, are reminiscent of those used by anarchist
groups, say those who study such movements. (plausible deniability)
Anarchists and others accuse officials of trying to assign blame to extremists rather
than accept the idea that millions of Americans from a variety of political backgrounds have
been on the streets demanding change. Numerous experts also called the participation of
extremist organizations overstated. (plausible deniability)
"A significant number of people in positions of authority are pushing a false narrative
about antifa being behind a lot of this activity," said J.M. Berger, the author of the
book "Extremism" and an authority on militant movements. "These are just unbelievably large
protests at a time of great turmoil in this country, and there is surprisingly little
violence given the size of this movement.".. (plausible deniability)
In New York, the police briefed reporters on May 31, claiming that radical anarchists
from outside the state had plotted ahead of protests by setting up encrypted communications
systems, arranging for street medics and collecting bail funds.
Within five days, however, Dermot F. Shea, the city's police commissioner, acknowledged
that most of the hundreds of people arrested at the protests in New York were actually New
Yorkers who took advantage of the chaos to commit crimes and were not motivated by political
ideology . John Miller, the police official who had briefed reporters, told CNN that most
looting in New York had been committed by "regular criminal groups." (plausible
deniability)
Kit O'Connell, a longtime radical leftist activist and community organizer in Austin, said
that shortly after Mr. Trump's election, the group took part in anti-fascist protests in the
city against a local white supremacist group and scuffled separately with Act for America, an
anti-Muslim organization.
Why is the Times acting like Antifa's attorney? Why are the trying to minimize the role of
professional agitators? Why is the Times so determined to shape the public's thinking on this
matter?
Doesn't this suggest that Antifa and other groups operating within the protest movement
are actually linked to agencies in the deep state that are conducting another operation
against the American people?
@anonymous anonymous, I have been encouraging cops to quit for a long time. They are
protecting the wrong people, being used to protect people in the ruling class that hate and
despise cops just a little less than they hate and despise the rest of us civilians.
To the issue at hand, black people should only be policed, arrested, charged, prosecuted,
defended, judged, and (if found guilty) punished by other blacks. No white person should have
anything to do with it. Any white person policing negros in America is making a huge mistake,
and should immediately quit.
The pensions are not going to be paid, and the crazy, Soros paid for black people are
going to make it impossible for a white cop pretty soon anyway. Might as well walk before
they make you run.
Don't worry about BLM, which is corporate phoney bullshit protest, easter parades and
internet posturing. The blacks in the street don't fall for that shit. Look what happens when
coopted oreos try to herd everybody back to tame marching:
The provocateurs are not influencing them. The sellout house negroes are not influencing
them. They know what they want. The regime is shitting its pants. If they scapegoat Trump and
purge him, Biden will inherit the same problem only worse.
Won't these riots create a wave of revulsion among the silent majority and consolidate
Trump's support base?
That's what I am wondering too. It makes more sense to me that the elites driving these
BLM riots are those who support Trump. Terrify people and threaten the existence of police is
a good way to get elderly white voters out of their covid lockdowns on election day.
Doesn't this suggest that Antifa and other groups operating within the protest movement
are actually linked to agencies in the deep state that are conducting another operation
against the American people?
Do we really want to suggest the CIA is committing treason against the American people?
Isn't it more likely that the Times is agitating against the CIA for other reasons? Reasons
Carlos Slim could explain?
For those who haven't read Pepe Escobar's latsest on BLM, here's a couple clips:
Black Lives Matter, founded in 2013 by a trio of middle class, queer black women very
vocal against "hetero-patriarchy", is a product of what University of British Columbia's
Peter Dauvergne defines as "corporatization of activism".
Over the years, Black Lives Matter evolved as a marketing brand, like Nike (which
fully supports it). The widespread George Floyd protests elevated it to the status of a new
religion. Yet Black Lives Matter carries arguably zero, true revolutionary appeal. This is
not James Brown's "Say It Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud". And it does not get even close to
Black Power and the Black Panthers' "Power to the People".
Black Lives Matter profited in 2016 from a humongous $100 million grant from the Ford
Foundation and other philanthropic capitalism stalwarts such as JPMorgan Chase and the
Kellogg Foundation.
The Ford Foundation is very close to the U.S. Deep State. The board of directors is
crammed with corporate CEOs and Wall Street honchos. In a nutshell; Black Lives Matter, the
organization, today is fully sanitized; largely integrated into the Democratic Party machine;
adored by mainstream media; and certainly does not represent a threat to the 0.001%.
an evident ham-handed attempt to make this all about race. The real threat to this police
state is racial and international solidarity against state predation – the stuff that
got Fred Hampton killed,
"when I talk about the masses, I'm talking about the white masses, I'm talking about the
black masses, and the brown masses, and the yellow masses, too We say you don't fight racism
with racism. We're gonna fight racism with solidarity. We say you don't fight capitalism with
no black capitalism; you fight capitalism with socialism."
or Angela Davis and the Che-Lumumba club. BAP is right back on this and the resonating
international demonstrations show that that's the right track. The whole world sees what this
is about, except for a few fucked-over US whites.
botazefa, of course the CIA is committing treason against the American people. Where were you
when they whacked JFK, then RFK? Where were you when they blew up OKC? Where were you when
they released anthrax on the Senate, infiltrated and protected 9/11 terrorists, assigned more
terrorists to MITRE to blind NORAD, blew up the WTC for the second time, and exfiltrated the
Saudi logisticians?
Anybody unaware that CIA has been pure treason from inception is (1) retarded XOR (2) a
CIA traitor.
Sorry. The assholes on this asshole site will not let you say that what is important is how
the super-billionaires control us. They are going to insist that it's niggerniggernigger all
the way home and that's all there is to it. You would think they were paid. Or really, really
stupid.
When Gina, she-wolf of Udon Thani, got busted for trying to overthrow the United States
government with Russiagate, she hung onto her job by rigging the succession with all the
Brennan traitors who ran the Russiagate coup.
So we should expect that Gina will now stage a couple massacres like Kent State and
Jackson State, because that's how CIA ratfucked Nixon when he didn't knuckle under.
Gina's extra motivated to stay on top because she's criminally culpable for systematic and
widespread torture:
@Mike Whitney Excellent article and I believe excellent analysis of the situation.
Where we may differ is with Trump's complicity in Deep State efforts. I believe Trump is a
minion of the Deep State. His actions and inactions can not be explained any other way.
Let's assume for a minute, that Pepe Escobar is correct when he says this:
"Black Lives Matter profited in 2016 from a humongous $100 million grant from the Ford
Foundation and other philanthropic capitalism stalwarts such as JPMorgan Chase and the
Kellogg Foundation .
The Ford Foundation is very close to the U.S. Deep State. The board of directors is
crammed with corporate CEOs and Wall Street honchos. In a nutshell; Black Lives Matter,
the organization, today is fully sanitized; largely integrated into the Democratic Party
machine; adored by mainstream media; and certainly does not represent a threat to the
0.001%.
If this is true–and I believe it is– then Black Lives Matter is no different
than USAID or any of the other NGOs that are used to incite revolution around the world. If
this is true, then there is likely a CIA link to these protests, the main purpose of which is
to remove Trump from office.
So Black Lives Matter= activist NGO linked to US Intel agencies= Regime Change
Operation
But there is something else going on here too, (that many readers might have noticed) that
is, the way social media has been manipulated to put millions of young people on the street
in order to promote the agenda of elites.
How did they manage that?
How did they get millions of young people to come out day after day (14 days so far) in
over 400 cities to protest an issue about which they know very little aside from the media's
irritating reiteration of "systemic racism", (a claim that is not supported by the data.)
IMO, we are seeing the first successful social media saturation campaign launched probably
by the Pentagon's Office Strategic Communications or a similar outfit within the CIA. Having
already taken control over the entire mainstream media complex, the intel agencies and their
friends at the Pentagon are now wrapping their tentacles around internet communications in
order to achieve their goal of complete tyrannical social control.
As always, the target of these massive covert operations is the American people who had
better pull their heads out of the sand pronto and come up with a plan for countering this
madness.
@anonymous The elephant in the room, that seems to be ignored by all is the simple fact
that Hispanics are working class heroes. And they outnumber the blacks, and hate their guts
for the most part. Not the scrawny punks withe Che t-shirts, but the actual working types
that are less than thrilled to deal with the weak. Notice how no Hispanic barrios have EVER
been f ** ked with, no matter when the race riot? There is an open fatwa from La Eme
regarding blacks that has never been rescinded. Has a lot to do with the kneegro exodus from
the LA area, which correlates with the lack of looting in the formerly black areas. Which the
MSM prefers to ignore. The happy idiots are mugging for the cameras on a daily basis in
Hollywood, but the Hispanic run Sheriff's office has no problem with popping gas and
defending businesses. Also note that the MSM only reports on areas when a local government
craters to the mob. LA County was under curfew for 7 days due to a mob of looters that
numbered perhaps 2000. If that Jew mayor (with the Italian surname) had not allowed the
looting, then we would have seen the kind of 36 hour turnaround like we had with Rodney King.
The ethnic group that ignores the MSM and stands up for its own people will win in the end.
Right now we are looking more toward the kind of Celtic/Meso-American alliance that is well
known in the penal system. These groups can exist side by side, with each ignoring the other.
Blacks, on the other paw seem to be unable to keep to themselves, at least on the ghetto
level, and will always be an issue for civilization. It's time we stop calling for a generic
and all-inclusive White establishment. The race traitors and weaklings forfeit that right.
When Celts, Italians, Germans, etc. were proud and independent, there was strength. It's time
to return to that ideal. Only the negroid actually lumps all whites together, which the Jews
use as a divisive tool. Strength should be idolized, rather than weakness exploited.
I'm saying that the NYT is not necessarily mouthpiece *only* for the Deep State. As for
your JFK assassination – Senate Anthrax – 9/11 etc, those are considered
conspiracy theories and I've never been persuaded otherwise. I've read up on the theories and
they are not strong.
I don't know what a retarded XOR is except as it relates to logic diagrams and I don't
work for the CIA.
Do Deep State Elements Operate Within the Protest Movement?
It's called Jewish lawfare for Antifa, Jewish control of media, and Jewish cult of Magic
Negro.
Even though Jews led the Gentric Cleansing campaigns against blacks by using mass
immigration, globo-homo celebration, and white middle class return to cities, the Jews are
now pretending be with the blacks and throwing the immigrants, white middle class, and homos
to the black mobs.
simple fact that Hispanics are working class heroes
Some are. Most aren't. And the 'not'% grows with selective Americanization (not
assimilation). Still, I'll take them over the blacks, even with their generally inferior (to
White) culture.
Whites are better with separation from them along with blacks. Whatever the prime driver,
both groups have poisoned America, likely beyond repair. Conquistador gonnna
conquistador.
M. Whitney in comment 21 clarifies his view of BLM as the impetus for this rebellion. That
does not square with the reports of people on the street.
BLM is exactly analogous to BDS: a controlled opposition of feckless halfassed gestures
designed to distract from the real movement. You hear BLM apparatchiks whining about getting
their movement hijacked because people in the streets show solidarity with oppressed groups
worldwide – and youe hear BLM getting booed by the people they're trying to corral.
BLM's mission is putting words in the protestors' mouths. You hear Democrat BLM spokesmodels
trying to distort calls for police abolition and no more impunity. And real protestors call
bullshit.
BLM works on dumb white guys: hating on BLM makes them feel very edgy and defiant. Black
Lives Matter! Blue Lives Matter! Black! Blue! Black! Blue! Catnip for dumbshits, courtesy of
CIA. Keeps them away from the really subversive stuff, which makes perfect sense for whites
too.
@ICD Look into whether the training of cops has been outsourced and privatized. Or simply
shortened to save money.
And ask why the police are even armed when in Communist China they are not, and
traditionally in the non-American West they were not, now are in imitation of America.
Ann Nonny Mouse, truer words were never spoken. Chinese cops have these cute little
nightsticks, and sometimes they will bop a guy and the guy just stands there and says Ow and
the cops continue to reason with him, no restraint, incapacitation, any of that shit. British
cops used to be that way, they used to reason with you. Now they're all American style
Assholes, if not Israeli concentration camp guards. Just nuke FOP HQ in Memphis.
Koch sees privatization as a future profit center and a chance to control the cops
himself. They're not trainable, they're too fucking stupid. We all did fine without pigs up
through most of the 19th century. Hue and cry works fine. Fire all the cops and replace them
with unarmed women social workers. That's all they are, prodigiously incompetent social
workers.
Too, those many businesses with all that unsold inventory sitting around gathering dust due
to Covid isolation will benefit from insurance payments covering their losses due to looting.
The cherry on top.
Are you just clueless or what? Did you notice the names of the Antifa leaders that have
been exposed? They are Amish Right? They are Jews and they will always be Jews! Soros and
other Jews have been running this game for a long time. Where have you been? SDS in Chicago
no Jews there right!
The CIA and the FBI overwhelmed with Jews can you count? All the professors who have been
destroying whites with their fake studies blaming everything wrong in the world on Whites and
Western Civilization. The entire Media owned by who?
Either you were dropped out of a spaceship a few days ago or you are a total idiot and
can't see the forest before trees.
Try this: The Percentage of all Ivy League Presidents, top adminstrators, deans etc take a
guess then go count them and see which group they belong to.
Does anyone believe the nationwide riots and looting are a spontaneous reaction to the
killing of George Floyd?
It's all too coordinated, too widespread, and too much in-sync with the media narrative
.
* * *
This a destabilization campaign similar to the CIA's color revolutions designed to
topple the regime (Trump), install a puppet government (Biden), impose "shock therapy" on
the economy pushing tens of millions of Americans into homelessness and destitution, and
leave behind a broken, smoldering shell of a country easily controlled by Federal shock
troops and wealthy globalist mandarins.
One must wonder: How could the CIA and the U.S. Democrat establishment foment and
coordinate all of the Black Lives Matter protests occurring in Canada, several nations of
South and Central America, the U.K., Ireland, throughout the European Union, and in
Switzerland, the Middle East (Turkey, Iran ), and in Asia (Korea, Japan .) and New Zealand,
Australia, and Africa?
Mr. Whitney: Neither magic nor bigotry-induced hallucinations can forge a tenable
conspiracy theory.
I think the primary reason the mainstream media doesn't want the general public, especially
those living outside the major cities, to understand the extent of the destruction and
violence that spread in a highly-coordinated fashion across America, is that this would be
cause for alarm among a majority of Americans who would demand more Law & Order, which
would redound to Trump's benefit.
Notice Trump is countering by tweeting "LAW & ORDER!"
Here is Trump tweeting "Does anyone notice how little the Radical Left takeover of Seattle
is being discussed in the Fake News Media[?] That is very much on purpose "
Does anyone notice how little the Radical Left takeover of Seattle is being discussed in
the Fake News Media. That is very much on purpose because they know how badly this weakness
& ineptitude play politically. The Mayor & Governor should be ashamed of
themselves. Easily fixed!
The outcome of the election in November could hinge on the urgency the public places on
the issue of Law & Order. Hence the media's all out effort to minimize the extent of the
Anarchy and Violence and the financial sponsorship, planning, and coordination behind it.
Please see my comment of June 15, 2020 at 1:38 am GMT (comment # 34). I must apologize for
that comment's insufficiency (owed to my posting that comment before I happened upon your
comment to which this comment replies). Had I encountered your comment earlier, my
June 15, 2020 at 1:38 am GMT comment (comment # 34) would have observed that you are
triumphantly illogical as you are a world class crackpot.
@ICD You said it. Police Departments country-wide are stuffed up the wazoo with more cash
than they can spend. But what do they cry? Poor us. Poor us. We ain't got no money.
This is what they, and by they, I mean all our owners and their overseers, always do. They
cry poverty when they are rolling in loot.
Do Deep State Elements Operate Within the Protest Movement?
Yes, and the left(unwittingly) will help them with their cause, and the right will
cowardly hide right behind the deep state as protection from the violent left.
@Priss Factor You are extremely unlikely to receive any of those things from a "Negro".
90% of Americans are unlikely to even see more than ten black people in their entire lives.
I wish you psychotic fucking female idiots on this website who are constantly blathering
about black people could realize how annoying you are to the 90% of white people who are not
living in or next to black ghettos. Please STFU and allow discourse to trend in more
pertinent directions, and move away from black people if you're so paranoid about them.
@Mike Whitney The (((media))) have an uphill battle in convincing us to deny the evidence
of our eyes -- black-hooded white punks throwing bricks through storefronts then inviting
joggers to loot.
That is why so many platforms, even "free speech" GAB, are wildly censoring
counter-narratives.
@Brian Reilly Stephen Molyneux said that police forces were originally geared to operate
under white Christian societies where there was a high level of trust and people were
law-abiding. I remember when I was a kid, we didn't even lock our doors. Our bikes were left
out on the front lawn, sometimes for days, weeks, and nobody took them. Nobody locked their
car doors. People just didn't steal other people's stuff. When a cop tried to pull you over,
you didn't hit the gas pedal and take off. You didn't run from the cops; you were polite to
them and they were polite to you.
Tucker Carlson said that Blacks are now asking for their own hospitals (I forget what city
this was) and their own doctors and nurses. Blacks schools, Black police forces.
Tribes don't mix. Their culture is different than our culture. Why should they change for
us, and why should we change for them?
It is a marriage that does not work. Either send them back to Africa (best solution) or
give them Mississippi and put up a big wall. Then let them pay for their own upkeep –
all of it. Good luck with that.
Yesterday the frat boy type who is mayor of Minneapolis was booed out of a mass
meeting of radicals in that fair city because he refused to endorse abolishing the police
force.
Mayor Jacob Frey got elected at his extremely young age by flanking on the Left with anti
police rhetoric, He is the the originator of this crisis; as soon as the video of Floyd's
death was public Frey publicly and literally called the four cops murderers and said
he was powerless to have them arrested. That was a false accusation of police impunity,
because the supposedly powerless Frey was able to order the police to vacate their own
station thus letting the demonstrators take over and burn it. Yet to draw back a bit the Deep
State if worried about other states.
That event Frey largely created was the key moment of this whole thing. Trump could have
nipped it in the bud by had sending in troops immediately the Minneapolis 3rd Precinct was
burnt down. Crushing the riots in that city and preventing the example infecting the
demonstrations in other cities. and turning them into cover for riots. Trump did not want to
be seen as Draconian although it would not have been at all violent, because no one is going
to challenge the army's awesome presence once it arrived on the streets,as worked in the
Rodney King riots.
The real target of this operation is the Constitutional Republic itself. Having
succeeded in using the Lockdown to push the economy into severe recession, the globalists
are now inciting a fratricidal war that will weaken the opposition and prepare the country
for a new authoritarian order.
George Floyd had foam visible at the corners of his mouth when the police arrived. Autopsy
tests revealed Fentanyl and COVID-19: both from Wuhan. I Can't Breath is America gearing up
to confront and settle accounts with Xi's totalitarian state.
Current events might seem to be a setback for the US, but provide the opportunity for a
re-set with the black community, with a potential outcome of resolving race tensions that
have been a cause of dissension and internal weakness, just as during the Cold War racial
integration was thought essential by anti communists like Nixon. America is gearing up to
settle accounts with China, which is a Deep State new Cold War. While it is a possibility
that whites could lose control of their society, and see it fall into the hands of an
explicitly anti -acist elite/ minorities alliance, the Deep State is not the same as the
hyper capitalist elite whose growing wealth depends on China.
Do Deep State Elements Operate Within the Protest Movement?
@Mike Whitney The Duran did an excellent video titled "Social Media 'Unchecked Power'"
where they talk about Trump and Barr going after the tech companies and their virtual
monopolies with an executive order.
At 33:45 they state that Microsoft (Bill Gates) invested $1 billion and the CIA invested
$16 million into Facebook when it was still operating as a university network. The CIA were
one of the first investors in Facebook.
Why the hell was the CIA investing $16 million to get Facebook off the ground? Hmmm. Could
it be because Facebook would be instrumental in controlling the narrative?
The young people, who have no experience and no real knowledge of history, are being taken
in by these social media companies who are playing on their emotions. Any dissenting opinions
are blocked or banned. Very dangerous.
@Loup-Bouc Well, the "deep state" is just an euphemism for the jewish power structure,
and all those places you named are run be jews. That jews cooperate in extended conspiracies
without regard of borders should be common knowledge for every observer of history and
current politics. I see nothing far-fetched. Honestly, my mind would boggle if I should
explain, how the Antifa gets away with those things it always gets away with, if it wasn't
controlled by the "deep state". And I couldn't explain the international cooperation either.
As Pepe' Escobar said – Americans looting is a natural thing – just look at how
the US Military has stolen the gaz and oil from Iraq, Syria, Libya, etc. and is trying like
hell for the Venezuelan oil fields. Not to mention where all their gold, silver and billions
of dollars have gone. The list of the USG looting criminal record is unprecedented . It's a
Family Tradition. Enjoyed the article !
@MrFoSquare The Capitol Hill area of Seattle that has been taken over as an "autonomous
zone" by the protesters is really rather laughable.
One of the first things they did was put up what they called "light fencing". Oh, so when
THEY put up walls, that's perfectly fine. When Trump tries to do it, that's evil and racist.
Borders are A-okay when they're doing it.
They've colonized an area for themselves. I thought the Progressive Left was against
colonialism, taking someone else's property. Isn't that what they've done? They've taken over
whole neighborhoods.
And they've got armed patrol guards checking people as they enter. If you're not in
agreement with their ideology, you're not allowed to enter. So apparently it's okay to have
border controls when they're running the world.
They're doing everything they profess to be against. Hilarious.
@Brian Reilly "anonymous, I have been encouraging cops to quit for a long time."
Dude, why? I don't want to get jacked by some thug or some immigrant policeman from
Honduras. And I can't defend myself because it would be a hate crime.
There are underlying motives, or "hidden agendas", beneath the authentic struggle for
justice. The greatest motive is for power: either to retain it or gain it. The need or desire
for power can be identified in every conflict in history. https://www.ghostsofhistory.wordpress.com/
@Realist So you think that everything they've done to Trump has been one big show and
he's been in on it? The pussy tape, Stormy Daniels, spying on his campaign, the leaking, the
Steele Dossier, Russiagate, Ukrainegate, his impeachment, lying to the FISA Courts by the
FBI, CIA's involvement, Mueller Report, DNC server, Clinton and Loretta Lynch on the tarmac,
fake news media, sanctuary cities, courts disobeying his executive orders, Covid-19, protests
– all of it has been a ruse to fool us into thinking that Trump is a legitimate
opposition?
What, it's better to have the citizens split politically 50/50? That way there's never a
majority who start throwing their weight around and making trouble for the elite looters?
Keep the people fighting among each other and divided?
Trump has gone through all of this, but he's just faking it? Are we Truman from the Truman
Show?
I guess you could be right, but what if you're not? What if Trump is actually an outsider?
He's never really ever been part of the elite, not really. If he is truly an outsider, then
these people have been a party to an attempted coup against a duly-elected President.
And if so, then that's sedition and they should hang.
@PetrOldSack Trump is just a puppet, well maybe a bit more, of the part of the MIC and
Deep State that apparently has a different agenda. This is not to say that they are "good
people" but they seem to want to keep the US as a functioning republic and a major power.
Maybe they have some plans re the other group(s) in the elites that are extremely dangerous
for those groups. Which would explain why those groups ("globalists") want to remove those
elements of influence people behind Trump get from the fact that he is the president. This
explains why fake Covid-19 was so pumped by the media and when that apparently did not work
they moved on to BLM "color revolution". It is interesting how all of this plays out, as it
will decide the fate of the world. Ironically, Xi, Putin and other leaders that represent
groups wanting to maintain (some) sovereignty of their states have a common enemy, even as
their states are in competition, namely "globalist" elements within their own power
structures.
One of the goals of the British security service, MI5, is to control the leader or deputy
leader of any subversive organisation larger than a football team. The same is likely true in
every country.
The typical criticism of MI5 is that it is too passive, and does not use its knowledge to
close down hostile groups. In Algeria, the opposite happened: the Algerian security service
infiltrated the most extreme Islamist group in the 1990s and aggravated the country's civil
war by committing massacres, with the goal of creating public revulsion for the
Islamists.
This range of possibilities makes it hard to figure out what the Deep State and other
manipulators are doing.
@Sean Frey is a weak Leftist. The equally weak Governor (another Leftie) needed to handle
the situation. He didn't. Trump told him that the feds would help if he asked; he didn't.
This is all on the state and local governments. They did nothing except to tell the cops
to stand down while the city got looted and burned.
If Trump had sent in the military, they would have screamed blue murder. They probably
would have called for his impeachment. Of course, that's what they wanted Trump to do. Thank
goodness Trump didn't fall for their trap.
So the NYT has joined the vanguard af the American People's Revolution?! People change sides
and not all organisations are uniform, even the CIA. There has to be some organisation to
these protests and whoever is providing it, I doubt the protesters are complaining, but want
even more of it, and for it to be more effective, widespread and to grow. And finding
protesters is no problem now or in the future considering the state of the economy, business
closures, rising unemployment, expensive education. What are all these young people supposed
to do? Sit at home playing video games, surfing porn, watching TV? Or go on a holiday? Now in
these circumstances? I guess they're bored with all that so they may as well hit the streets
and stay on the streets as they'll be on the streets anyway when they get evicted because
they can't pay the rent. And as they're being impoverished they may as well steal what they
can. And obviously they don't fear arrest and are happy to get a criminal record since even a
clean sheet won't get them a job in the failing economy, and they know that. I'm sure many
want a solution that will provide for their future. But who is providing it? So it's on them
to create it. Of course politicians will want to use them and manipulate them for their own
ends. And the elites, and the deep state too. And sure there are Jews in it as in anything.
And sure they're fat, ugly, and degenerate – they're Americans reflecting their own
society. But where it goes nobody knows
@Mike Whitney "Is Antifa a group of deep state agitators? That's the question."
99% of them wouldn't have a clue as to any larger strategic direction. Sorry,
but to repeat myself: "useful idiots".
"Do Deep State Elements Operate Within the Protest Movement?"
Well, duh! It seems likely that the entire George Floyd murder on camera was a staged
event, its even possible that he/it was never really killed. See:
PSYOP? George Floyd "death" was faked by crisis actors to engineer revolutionary riots,
video authors say
" Numerous videos are now surfacing that directly question the authenticity of the claimed
"death" of George Floyd by Minneapolis police. Several trending videos appear to reveal
striking inconsistencies in the official explanations behind the reported death of Floyd.
These videos appear to reinforce the idea that the George Floyd incident was, if not entirely
falsified, most definitely planned and rigged in advance. It is already confirmed that the
Obama Foundation was tweeting about George Floyd more than a week before he is claimed to
have died. "
"Obviously, since Barack Obama doesn't own a time machine, the only way the Obama
Foundation could have tweeted about George Floyd a week before his death is it the entire
event was planned in advanced.
Note: We do not endorse every claim in each of the videos shown below, but we believe the
public has the right to hear dissenting views that challenge the official narratives, and we
believe public debate that incorporates views from all sides of a particular issue offers
inherent merit for public discourse.
Numerous video authors are now spotting stunning inconsistencies in the viral videos that
claim to show white cops murdering George Floyd in broad daylight. Without exception, these
video authors, many of whom are black, believe:
at least one of the "police officers" was actually a hired crisis actor who has appeared
in other staged events in recent years.
that the black man depicted in the viral videos is not, in fact, an individual named
George Floyd.
that the responding medical personnel were not EMTs but were in fact mere crisis actors
wearing police costumes.
Each of the video authors shown below reveals still images and video clips that they say
support their claims. Here's an overview of some of the most intriguing videos and the
summary of what those videos are saying: .":
@Mike Whitney I think you are correct Mike. IF blm got $100 million from anyone it
follows that they are beholden -- & the only entities capable of such "generosity" are
"establishment" it therefore follows that BLM are beholden (controlled) by the establishment
( .the deep state .)
Now the New York Times thinks that the black, brown, white and yellow lives are dispensable
does it mean their own GRAY lives matter more to the rest of us? No, it does not!
The scale and coordination alone suggests that elements in the deep state are probably
involved.
It seems right and logical.
But what I don't understand, is why the deep state elite don't understand that in the end the
collapse of the "traditional society" will touch them too in their private life. In the long
run the ruining of the US will ruin everybody in the US including them. Don't they get it ?
Maybe they are intoxicated by their own lies are are begining to lose their lucidity. Like Al
Pacino intoxicated by his own coke in scarface.
@MrFoSquare What we need are some solid numbers:
How many arrested? (& who are they?)
How many properties destroyed?
Dollars worth of damage?
Which cities had the worst damage?
A social media "history" of protest/riot posting ?
Where/who are responsible for brick/frozen water bottle stashes?
Travel histories of notable offenders?
Links between "protesters" & the media ?
Money? Who/what/when/how was all this funded on a day-to-day basis.
And so on.
Mike Whitney doesn't know the first thing. It takes a lot of organizing time and personnel to
properly prepare and lead in the field any large public protest. There are people experienced
in this. Getting them together and deploying their capability is required.
These protests are classic unplanned, spontaneous actions. At least the first major wave
of them. Only after some time will parties try to lead, organize. Or manipulate.
First thing, it's like trying to herd cats. So, you need marshals. Lots of them. Ably led,
and clearly seen. Just to try and steer a protest down one street or to some point. You need
first aid available, provision for seniors and children. Water. Knowledgeable people to deal
with the media.
People who know what they're doing to deal with senior police. With city transit, buses,
taxis. Hospitals, road construction, fire departments. A good protest cleans itself up too so
provide the means for that. Loudspeakers, music – all this an more has to be organized.
By some people.
And 100% of this or even a hint of organizing is not evident at these protests. And the
evidence is easy to see. Organizers advertise too for volunteers. Everything in plain sight
for those with eyes to see.
If you are stupid enough to think that some handful of fruitcakes from some official
agency could even find their way to a protest, actually have a clue how to conduct themselves
and not get laughed at or just ignored – there's no hope for you. You know nothing
about protests and are pedalling fantasy.
@obwandiyag As usual, you're completely delusional. Most police departments are in the
exact same boat as the municipalities that fund them: one downturn (like, say, a public
lockdown followed by public disorder and looting) from going right to the wall.
There won't be any need to "defund" police; most of America's cities and towns are soon to
be on the bread line, looking for those Ctrl-P federal dollars. Quarterly deficits of twenty
trillion, here we come!
@Thomasina The power elite have different factions and they fight each other to a point,
but they do not try to expose each other. This is why none of Trump enemies are going to be
put in prison.
This is why Trump supports don't know what Genie Engery is, not that they would care.
The scum Trump appointed should tell you what side he's on.
I don't know if Antifa is run directly by the three-letter FedGov agencies. But I do know
that the university is the breeding ground for these vermin, and all universities, even
"private" ones, are largely funded by the governmnent, and are tax exempt.
@schnellandine The Hispanics in America are similar to waves of Italians in the late 19th
and early 20th Centuries, except the numbers are far larger and never ending, which impacts
assimilation. The Hispanics are the ones doing the hard physical labor for low pay, and they
are the ones in American society to invest in learning the skill to perform some of those
backbreaking, low paying jobs well. They are the Super Marios of today. Many of them ply
their trades as small businessmen. They are thankful for their jobs and the people they
serve.
Many are loving, salt-of-the-earth type people who genuinely love their blanco friends.
Howard Stern thinks their music sucks but at least they sing songs about el corazon, music of
the heart and of love. (No one is comparable to the Italians in that department, but what do
you suppose happened to the beautiful love music produced by black male vocalists as late as
a generation ago?) Except for the fact that Hispanics come from countries with long
traditions of corrupt, El Patron governments which unfortunately they want to enact here as a
social safety net, they are often traditional in their attitudes about religion and family.
Of course, they get in drunken brawls, abuse their women, and the graft and incompetence in
their institutions can be outrageous. The reason they flee here is because the world they've
created themselves in the shithole places they've leaving isn't as good as the West created
by Caucasian cultures. The law abiding, decent family people I'm speaking of prosper
alongside of whites and many come to recognize that whites and Hispanics can build a common
destiny that's far preferable to the direction black agitators are taking blacks in America.
So you think that everything they've done to Trump has been one big show and he's been
in on it? The pussy tape, Stormy Daniels, spying on his campaign, the leaking, the Steele
Dossier, Russiagate, Ukrainegate, his impeachment, lying to the FISA Courts by the FBI,
CIA's involvement, Mueller Report, DNC server, Clinton and Loretta Lynch on the tarmac,
fake news media, sanctuary cities, courts disobeying his executive orders, Covid-19,
protests – all of it has been a ruse to fool us into thinking that Trump is a
legitimate opposition?
Absolutely.
Keep the people fighting among each other and divided?
Yes, but the elite do not fear the majority they are in complete control through
insouciance and stupidity on the majority.
I guess you could be right, but what if you're not? What if Trump is actually an
outsider?
He's not his actions and inactions are impossible to logically explain away he is a minion
of the Deep State.
The protest movement is directed and controlled by the same zionists who control the
government and their goal is the destruction of America and they are being allowed to do the
wrecking and destruction that they are doing, as this helps full fill the zionist communist
takeover of America.
To see where this is leading read up on the bolshevik-communist revolution in Russia and
the communist revolution in China and Cuba and Cambodia, and there is the future of
America.
@Christophe GJ They enjoy human suffering. Who knows maybe their compensation is linked
to dead bodies. The deep state types will dwell in gate communities that will never be
breached. The perks of owning both segments of the "opposition." As for the CIA's owners, a
sharp depopulation has been their goal for some time. Why it has to be so ghoulish and
prolong is anyone's guess.
@Brian Reilly "To the issue at hand, black people should only be policed, arrested,
charged, prosecuted, defended, judged, and (if found guilty) punished by other blacks."
Yeah, some city tried that. To try to satisfy the "Get White police out of our
neighborhoods" they did -- they re-orged and sent only black cops into black neighborhoods,
and let the White cops police the White neighborhoods. And the BLACK POLICE SUED to end that!
They were, they claimed (and legitimately, too!) being treated unfairly by making THEM police
the most violent, the most dangerous, the most deadly neighborhoods, and "protecting" the
White cops from that duty by letting only the White cops work the nice neighborhoods. They
WON too!
(note: "IKAGO" = "I know a good one." the all-too-often excuse from the unawakened!)
=====================
I don't mourn the loss of Baltimore. Or Detroit, Chicago, Gary, Atlanta, etc etc etc.
It is ultimately a huge benefit to have Negroes concentrated in these huge teeming Petri
dishes.
As always I advocate the complete White withdrawal from these horrible urban sh_tholes,
and as always I advocate that since Negroes do not want to be policed, to immediately stop
policing them.
And to anyone who might be naive enough to say "hey, there are good people in those
neighborhoods, who try to work and raise their kids, who obey the law and who abhor the
lawlessness and rioting as much as anyone" . my response is that these same IKAGO's voted for
a Negro president, for Negro mayors, Negro city council members, Negro police chiefs and
Negro school superintendents, and now they are getting exactly what they deserve, good and
effing hard.
I have ZERO sympathy for blacks.
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And the new rule:
Remember when seconds count, the police are not even obligated to respond.
Of course "deep state elements" operate in protests! What A STUPID question, Whitney. All
kinds of political tricksters, manipulators, provocateurs, idiots, fools, people suffering
from ennui, you name it Mike, they're involved. And yes, the murder of the black man in
Minneapolis was the trigger.
That's not the only cause of social unrest. There are lots of reasons that drive the
displeasure of the mass of people and it's not the silly "deep state". Before you use that
term, if you want any sort of salute from intelligent people, you need to define your terms.
Or are just just waving a red flag so you can attract a bunch of stupid Trumpsters?
There's a whole lot of deep state out there, good buddy. Just examine the federal budget
and whatever money you cannot assign to a particular institution or specific purpose, that is
funding your your "deep state". It's billions and billions. But there is no Wizard of Oz
behind the curtain to spend it all on nefarious purposes. Sure, the deep state destroyed the
WTC and killed a few thousand people. These hidden operators can do things civilians can only
imagine, but they cannot create movements, Whitney. You just can't fool all of the people all
of the time.
Are you having a touch of brain degeneration, Mike, like dear autocrat in the White
House?
A great article. While Trump may have some ties to the Deep State, I doubt very much that he
is their puppet. He won the nomination because he was against some of the Deep States key
policies. He even tried to implement his policies but mostly failed due to traitors in his
administration and all the coordinated coup attempts.
One recent development that causes me to think that this article is spot on is the blatant
attacks by retired generals and even currently serving generals against a sitting president.
Even Defense Sec. Esper (the Raytheon lobbyist) criticized Trump's comments on the
Insurrection Act, which was totally unnecessary since Trump only said that he had the
authority to use it.
The coordinated criticism of the generals just reminds me of how similar it is to the
coordinated effort by the CIA, FBI, State Department and NSA to use the Russiagate hoax and
impeachment hoax to remove Trump. The riots, the money funneled from BLM to Biden 2020,
support of Antifa by the MSM and the generals treasonous actions are not coincidences.
I'm surprised by the generally low level of the responses.
Mr. Whitney:
There haven't been 'millions' of protestors, maybe some thousands.
Please list the "valid grievances" that negros hold concerning the cops; are the cops
supposed to raise black IQ? These riots need to be suppressed pronto; don't waste your time
waiting for the fat orange buffoon to do anything.
Negros have no 'communities', and never will.
I'm wondering why Mr. Unz thinks he is required to let leftists like Whitney post
here.
(1)-There is a 'deep state'
(2)-(1) does NOT imply that negros are a noble race.
The opening statement is quite true. They've apparently been organizing under the radar for
some years now. Diversity is our greatest weakness and these fissures that run through the
country can be exploited. Blacks have been weaponized and used as the spearpoint along with
the more purposeful real Antifa (lots of wannabes walking around clad in black). Everything
has really been well coordinated and the Gene Sharp playbook followed. These 'color
revolution' employees are actually all over the globe, funded by various front groups and
NGOs. The money trail often leads to various billionaires like the ubiquitous Soros but
people like that may just be acting as fronts themselves. Supposed leftists working against
the interests of the value producing working class?
The George Floyd murder was a obviously a wholly staged Deep State event, complete with
the usual crisis actors, as this video summary clearly illustrates :
@Brian Reilly"To the issue at hand, black people should only be policed, arrested,
charged, prosecuted, defended, judged, and (if found guilty) punished by other blacks. No
white person should have anything to do with it. "
And when these same blacks attack or steal from a White person, which they often do, do
you think they'll get a just punishment from their fellow blacks or a high five?
The solution to the black problem is complete separation, there is no other way.
@Mike Whitney But why do you assume the CIA wants to get rid of Trump? Isn't that
tantamount to judging a book by its cover? Americans have been on to the evil shenanigans of
the intelligence community for decades. Trump is nothing more than controlled opposition and
a false sense of security for "patriots". One needs look no further than the prognostications
of Q to see that Trump is the beneficiary of deep state propaganda. The CIA's modus operandi,
together with the rest of the IC, is to deceive. So if they appear to be doing one thing
(fighting Trump) you can be sure they intend the opposite.
Americans are nose deep in false dichotomies, and Trump is a pole par excellence. Despite
his flagrant history as an NYC liberal, putative fat cat, swindler, and network television
superstar, he is now depicted as either a populist outsider, or a literal Nazi. The simple
fact is that he is an actor and confidence artist. He is playing a role, and he is playing to
both sides of the aisle, and his work is to deceive the entirety of the American public,
together with the mockingbird media, which is merely the yin to his pathetic yang.
Too many Americans think they have a choice, or a chance, by simply minding their own
business, consuming their media of choice, and voting. In fact, Americans are face to face
with the end of their history, as the country has been systematically looted for decades, and
will soon be demolished as it is no longer profitable to the oligarchs who manage the globe.
Obama-Trump is a 1-2 knockout punch.
@Uomiem That's a good point, and it's of the main problems I do have with Trump: his
cabinet picks and financial backers (Adelsen, Singer, et al.). But in fairness, what happens
when he tries to pick someone who's not approved by the system? Well, if they're cabinet
officers, they'll never get approved by the senate. And even if they're not, they will be
driven out of the White House somehow–just like Gen. Flynn and Steve Bannon. In short,
when it comes to staffing, Trump's choices are limited by the same swamp he's fighting. Sad
but true
@Thomasina Interesting comments by the Duran but I cannot find any evidence of a direct
investment by the CIA in Facebook. The CIA's investment arm, In-Q-Tel, did invest in early
Facebook investor Peter Theil's company Palantir and other companies. Also, Graylock Partners
were also early investors in Facebook along with Peter Theil and the head of Graylock is
Howard Cox who served on In-Q-Tel's board of directors. But these are indirect inferences.
Unlike the clear and direct investment of the CIA in the company that was eventually
purchased by Google and is now called Google Earth, I can't find any evidence of a direct
investment by the CIA in Facebook. I have no doubt it's true since it's a perfect tool for
data gathering. Do you have any direct evidence of such an investment?
Is the Deep State stage-managing the "BLM" protests to further an agenda? Absolutely.
The main influence of the Deep State is felt in its complete dominance of the controlled
media.
Like mantras handed down by the commissars, the mainstream media keep repeating key
phrases to narrowly define what's happening: "mostly peaceful protests", "anti-black
racism".
The media is an organ of the Deep State. The Deep State will decide when the protests will
end, and when that day arrives, the media will suddenly pivot on cue like a school of fish or
a flock of birds.
Perhaps some non believers in the Deep State would like to explain why the multi trillion
dollar corporations in America are supporting BLM, Antifa and other anarchy groups since on
the face of it anarchy would be antithetical to these corporations?
Hint: The wealthy and powerful (aka Deep State) know that anarchy divides a populous
thereby removing their ability to resist their true enemy and even more draconian laws. The
die is being cast at this moment and the complete subjugation of the American people will,
probably, be effectuate by the end of this year. A full court press is under way and life is
about to change for 99% of the American people.
If you disagree with my hint correct it.
Too many Americans think they have a choice, or a chance, by simply minding their own
business, consuming their media of choice, and voting. In fact, Americans are face to face
with the end of their history, as the country has been systematically looted for decades,
and will soon be demolished as it is no longer profitable to the oligarchs who manage the
globe. Obama-Trump is a 1-2 knockout punch.
Your points are excellent. All tragic, devastating events in the last, at least, 20
years have been staged or played to facilitate the total control by the Deep State.
The problem is power – and the nature of those who lust for it. The police are very
powerful, by necessity and the nature of police work is the exercise of power – on the
street.
Not to mention the fact that police forces, like every other institution, are managed from
the top. Sgt. Bernstein back at the station calls the shots, gets to decide who is hired /
fired and generally runs the department like a CEO runs a company. Not all cops are rotten,
but if Sgt. Bernstein is a scumbag, the whole department tends to behave as a scumbag.
I'll give you two guesses, the second one doesn't count, as to which tribe of psychopaths
– who call themselves "chosen" – have mastered the art of playing both sides
against the middle, using the police as a very powerful tool to accomplish an ancient agenda
of world-domination, straight out of The Torah.
The police are just another sad story of the destruction of America, by Shlomo.
@Mike Whitney Any explanation that ignores that the catalyst for what is happening is the
Federal Reserve Notes free fall is not a good explanation.
This is a failed Communist Putsch. The people pushing it have enough control of major
cities to keep it alive but not enough to push it into the heartland. 400 million guns and a
few billion bullets are protecting freedom in the USA just like they were intended to.
All failed communist revolutions end in fascism taking power. The Yahoo news comments
sections are way to big to censor properly and they are already taking on a Fascist tone with
almost half the posters. This is only just beginning and most people are beginning to
understand that these lies non whites tell about the fake systemic racism are too dangerous
to go unchallenged. The idea that the protests ,the protests not the riots, have no
foundation in truth is starting to work its way to the forefront of white peoples minds.
Non whites are coddled by the establishment in the USA and no real racists have any power
in the USA so this whole thing is and has been for 50 years based on lies.
The jew mob is going to lose all their economic power over the next year or so as the Fed
Note hyper-inflates. The mob knows this and made a grab for ideological power using low IQ
ungrateful non whites they have been inculcating with anti white ideals for decades as their
foot soldiers.
They are screwed because the places they control are parasitic just like they are. Cities
are full of people making nothing and pretty much just doing service jobs for each other. All
the things needed to keep cities going come from outside the cities and the jew mob is not in
charge in the places that actually produce things. Not like they are in the cities
anyway.
Ignoring the currency rises makes you dishonest Mike.
I think the leadership and tactics of the police are deplorable. I can only surmise that the
local political leadership in many cities is on the inside of this latest scam.
The police should be able to launch attacks on the crowd to single out those who are
Antifa activists. That is what the riot police in France would do. They should try to ignore
the rabble behind which these activists are sheltering.
By remaining on the defensive and without using the element of surprise to capture these
activists, the police are sitting ducks.
My dad told me what it was like in Cairo when the centre of the city was destroyed in
1952. I was tiny at that time and remember my mother carrying me. We watched Cairo burning in
the distance. We were on the roof of the huge house of my Egyptian grandfather in
Heliopolis.
The looters and arsonists were well-equipped. It was not by any means spontaneous. They
smashed the locks on the draw-down shutters of the shops with sledge hammers. Next, they
looted the shop. Lastly, they tossed in Molotov cocktails. The commercial heart of Cairo was
largely destroyed in a few hours. Cinemas and the Casino were burnt. Cairo was a very
pleasant metropolis in those days. It became prosperous during WW2 by supplying the
Allies.
My family's small factory was in the very centre of Cairo – in Abbassia. My father
rounded up his workers to defend the factory. Many lived on the premises. They were all tough
Sa'idi from Upper
Egypt. Many were Coptic Christians. They all had large staffs that they knew how to use. The
arsonists and looters kept well clear.
JUNE 9, 2020 CityLab University: A Timeline of U.S. Police Protests
The latest protests against police violence toward African Americans didn't appear out of
nowhere. They're rooted in generations of injustice and systemic racism.
@Sean said:
"While it is a possibility that whites could lose control of their society, and see it fall
into the hands of an explicitly anti -[r]acist elite/ minorities alliance,"
"Anti-racist?
The entire matter is "explicit" racism directed against Euro-whites.
@gay troll "But why do you assume the CIA wants to get rid of Trump?"
John Brennan collaborated with James Comey on the Russian collusion narrative. Brennan is
indicative of the upper-echelon CIA and its orientation towards the globalist billionaire
class.
@Loup-Bouc Maybe you also noticed that the opening pages of the article suggested that
the author was unhinged when he made so much of an alleged editorial in the NYT which wasn't
an editorial but an opinion piece by an activist. And what about the spontaneous eruptions of
protest all round the world? Masterminded by the US "Deep State"? Absurd.
Mr. Whitney may have got to an age when he can no longer understand the young and their
latest fashionable fatuities and follies.
@obwandiyag " The assholes on this asshole site will not let you say that what is
important is how the super-billionaires control us. "
Nonsense, I rant against the largely Jewish super-billionaires all the time.
Truth is that blacks and working class whites are in relatively similar positions compared
to the 1%. We should be seeking alliances with people like Rev. Farrakhan, but instead, for
some curious reason, big Jewish money is pouring into keeping racial grievances alive and
kicking. It looks very much like a divide and conquer strategy.
Where did the antiwar and Occupy Wall Street movements go after Obama's election? My guess
is that the financial elite saw the danger of having OWS ask questions about the bailouts, so
they devoted a ton of time and energy into pushing racial grievance politics, gender neutral
bathrooms and the like. Their co-ethnics in the media collaborated with them in making sure
only one perspective made the news.
PS: if you don't like the website, simply avoid visiting it. Trust me, no one will miss
your inane posts.
"90% of Americans are unlikely to even see more than ten black people in their entire
lives."
I sure hope you're talking about IRL, because I see more than ten black people in any
commercial break on any TV show on any cable or network TV station every hour of every day.
In fact, it's at least 50/50 B/W and it feels more like 60/40 B/W. And it's always the blacks
who are in charge, the whites spill chips all over the kitchen floor
@SunBakedSuburb 15 seasons of The Apprentice on NBC is indicative of Trump's
orientation towards the globalist billionaire class. It sure was nice of NBC to thus
rehabilitate Trump's image after it became clear he was a cheat who could not even hold down
a casino. From fake wrestler to fake boardroom CEO, Trump has ALWAYS been made for TV.
As for Russiagate, it was a transparent crock of shit from the moment Clapper sent his
uncorrobated assertions under the aegis of "17 intelligence agencies". You assume the point
of the charade was to "get Trump", but really Russiagate was designed to deceive "liberals"
just as Q was designed to deceive "conservatives". It is the appearance of conflict that
serves to divide Americans into two camps who both believe the other is at fault for all of
society's ills. In fact, it is the Zionists and bankers who are to blame for society's ills,
and like the distraction of black vs. white, Democrat vs. Republican keeps everybody's
attention away from the real chauvinists and criminals.
@Sean Well, I can't deny that yours is an extremely original interpretation. It sure made
me think. I can't say I'm convinced, though it doesn't seem to have any conspicuous a priori
inconsistency with facts. I guess time will tell.
@Realist Agree. Someone posted he had a friend at Minneapolis airport. Incoming planes
were full of antifa types the day after Floyd died.
They are very well organized. They are notorious around universities. Well, not
universities in dangerous black neighborhoods. They live like students in crowded apartments
and organize all their movements. Plenty of dumb kids to recruit. Plenty of downwardly mobile
White grads who can't get jobs or into grad s hook because they're White. Those Whites go
into liberal rabble rousing instead of rabble rousing against affirmative action, so
brainwashed are they. Portland is a college town. That's why antifa is so well organized
there. Seattle's a college town too as is Chicago.
Why ANTIFA doesn't loot banks, doesn't stand in front od Soros home, JPMorgan headquarters,
big corporations, Bezos business .etc? Because rich are paying for riots ..the same way they
payed to support Hitler during WWII.
@Anon Thanks for highlighting the complex racial politics -- in this case between
Hispanics and Africans. That was something Ron Unz got right as well -- independently of the
numerology -- in the other article; basically saying that there have been a lot of various
social-engineering projects going on.
Naturally I'm liable for everything else you said ;/ no comment, no contest,
I think it will be alright if we can get back to basics, natural rights, republican
representative organization, pluralism, etc The corporate nightmare has everyone crammed into
a vat of human resources. Undo that, see how it goes, then take it from there.
@Mike Whitney The reason most of the rioters arrested were native New Yorkers is that
they were the useful idiots designated fall guys.
The organizers are adept at changing clothes hats and sunglasses. Their job is to get
things started by smashing windows of a Nike's store and running away letting a few looters
be arrested.
I remember something written by an Indian communist, not Indian nationalist How To Start a
Riot in the 1920s.
1 Start rumors about abuse of Indians by British.
2. Decide where to start the riots.
3 Best place is in the open air markets around noon. The merchants will have collected
substantial money. The local lay abouts will be up and about.
4 Instigators start fights with the merchants raid cash boxes overturn tables and the riot is
on.
The ancient Roman politicians started riots that way. It's standard procedure in every
country in every era. All this fuss and discussion by the idiot intelligentsia is ridiculous
as is everything the idiot intelligentsia thinks, writes and does.
We Americans experience a black riot every few years, just as we experience floods,
droughts, blizzards , earthquakes, forest fires, tornadoes floods and hurricanes.
As long as we have blacks and liberal alleged intellectuals we'll have riots.
" This past Sunday, a veto-proof majority of the council announced plans to disband its
police department and invest in community-based public safety programs.
According to Friday's resolution, the city council will begin a year-long process of
engaging "with every willing community member in Minneapolis" to develop a new public safety
model.
"We acknowledge that the current system is not reformable -- that we would like to end the
current policing system as we know it," council member Alondra Cano said.
The council declared it would create a "transformative new model" of public safety in the
city.
A "Future of Community Safety Work Group," will be formed and will include staff from city
departments, including the offices of violence prevention and civil rights.
The council also voted unanimously on Friday to end the local emergency order that had been
declared due to protests in the wake of Floyd's death. " Forbes
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And then out in Seattle we have the "summer of love" mayor on TeeVee accepting something
that looks like a miniature version of the Paris Commune while being framed on one side by "Old
Glory" and on the other by Washington State's green flag with the face of George Washington (a
prominent slaveholder and planter) featured thereon. Will it not be necessary to change the
name of the state?
To repeat my earlier assertion it seems inevitable that there will be more, many more,
"Communes" springing up across the US. The locale will be all important of course. I would
recommend against trying this gambit anywhere in Texas. OTOH, just about anywhere in California
will be fertile ground and Boston might be welcoming to an "Autonomous" enclave somewhere
downtown. Any Democrat run area is a possibility really.
Trump is at West Point bloviating today. He has the right instincts concerning the need to
maintain public order but he has never learned how to drive the machine of the Executive Branch
and his personnel decisions have often been appalling.
It would be interesting to learn what a President Joe Biden and then the wise woman of color
who succeeds him would do with the ongoing development of this situation. pl
"... The suspicious placement of pallets of bricks in the proximity of numerous protest sites have spurred rumors of sabotage by everything from white supremacist groups to "Antifa" to law enforcement itself. ..."
"... The Hungarian business magnate's institute, like other NGOs involved in U.S. regime change operations such as the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), is largely a front for the CIA to shield itself while destabilizing U.S. adversaries, the spy agency's preferred modus operandi since the exposure of its illicit activities in previous decades by the Rockefeller Commission and Church Committee in the 1970s. ..."
"... Through the non-profit industrial complex, the Democratic Party has mastered bringing various social movements under its management on behalf of Wall Street in order to funnel public funds into private control through various foundations. ..."
"... time and again we have seen how bona fide social movements become political footballs or quickly go to their graves. ..."
"... A segment of the oligarchs is attempting a coup of our political system. ..."
"... Antifa is the black shirts of the movement. Once BLM has served its political purpose it will be shoved aside. We have been here before. ..."
"... It isn't the uSA army that supports the color revolutions, it is the Bank's intelligence officers, who are often Jesuit trained military and spies, to illegally and traitorously use USA resources in support of the Color Revolutions that are planned and executed FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE BANK, not for any other reason. ..."
"... The CIA operates on American soil all the time. They may use other parts of the intelligence community or the military or contractors or foreign intelligence agencies as fronts but the CIA operates on American soil all the time. ..."
"... There are very few countries where people are safe from the CIA & the Washington regime and its secret police community and its reign of terror. People can own property and protect their private property, intellectual property from the evils of the CIA in places like China and Russia. ..."
"... CIA is no longer an American operation (for a long time now, if it can ever be said to be one). its purpose and goal is to support the international banking families, and it is controlled, like all western intelligence agencies, by the The Bank ..."
"... Antifa is very clearly an organization with a command structure. ..."
"... Poor Putin, how he manages everything everywhere. ..."
"... Creating your anger using their scripted anger. Watch them. Their eyes flash. Pelosi. Schumer. The Reverend Al. Mayor Jenny. Governors Cuomo, Newsom, Inslee, and Brown. ..."
"... Soros' OSF contributed $650,000 to BLM in 2014 for the Ferguson riots. ..."
"... The one thing that criminal like Soros is not interested in is "philanthropy"! What this creep is, however, interested in is consolidating of power for his bosses. Was he a front for the Cocaine Importing Agency! - No doubt! But what are the goals of those fools at the top of the Agency? Does it look like they're interested in protecting freedom of speech, expression, communication, movement or privacy in this country? Are not all media heads repeating the same phrases all day? ..."
The May 25th killing of George Floyd, an unarmed African-American man, at the hands of a
white police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota shocked the world and set off mass protests
against racism and police brutality in dozens of cities from the mid-western United States to
the European Union, all in the midst of a global pandemic. In the Twin Cities, what began as
spontaneous, peaceful demonstrations against the local police quickly transformed into
vandalism, arson and looting after the use of rubber bullets and chemical irritants by law
enforcement against the protesters, while the initial incitement for the riots was likely the
work of apparent
agent provocateurs among the marchers.
Within days, the unrest had spread to cities across
the country including the nation's capital, with U.S. President Donald Trump threatening to
invoke the slavery-era Insurrection Act of 1807 to deploy the military and National Guard on
American soil, federal powers not used since the 1992 Los Angeles riots following the Rodney
King case.
The debate over the catalyst for the uprising into its period of lawlessness has drawn a
range of theories. The suspicious placement of pallets of bricks in the
proximity of numerous protest sites have spurred rumors of sabotage by everything from white
supremacist groups to "Antifa" to law enforcement itself. Predictably, liberal hawks such as
Susan Rice, the former National Security Advisor in the Obama administration, made ludicrous
assertions suggesting " Russian agents " were behind
the unrest, a continuation of the narrative that the Kremlin has been behind inflaming racial
tensions in the U.S. that began during the 2016 election. While Democrats like Rice and Senator
Kamala Harris of California have revived an old trope dating back to the Civil Rights movement
of Moscow exploiting racial divisions in the U.S., Trump and the GOP have similarly resurrected
the 'outside agitators' myth attributed to segregationists of the same era. Hypocritically,
many of those claiming to be in support of the protests have denounced the latter theory while
endorsing the former, when both equally show contempt for the legitimate grievances of the
demonstrators and deny their agency. However, both false notions overlook the more likely
hidden factors at play attempting to hijack the movement for its own purposes.
Believe it or not, there could be a kernel of truth in accusations coming mostly from the
political right as to the possible role of the notorious liberal billionaire investor and
"philanthropist" George Soros and his Open Society Foundation (OSF). Ironically, if any of the
right-wing figures of whom Soros is a favorite target were aware of his instrumental role in
the fall of communism staging the various CIA-backed protest movements in Eastern Europe that
toppled socialist governments, he would likely not be such a subject of their derision. The
Hungarian business magnate's institute, like other NGOs involved in U.S. regime change
operations such as the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), is largely a front for the CIA
to shield itself while destabilizing U.S. adversaries, the spy agency's preferred modus
operandi since the exposure of its illicit activities in previous decades by the Rockefeller
Commission and Church Committee in the 1970s.
n the post-Soviet world, nations across Central
Asia, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and beyond have become well acquainted with the political
disruptions of the international financier and his network. In particular, governments that
have leaned toward warm relations with Moscow during the incumbency of President Vladimir Putin
have found themselves the victims of his machinations.
Under Putin's predecessor Boris Yeltsin, Soros made a killing off the mass privatization of
the former state-run assets in the Eastern Bloc, as journalist Naomi Klein
explained in The Shock Doctrine :
"George Soros's philanthropic work in Eastern Europe -- including his funding of (Harvard
economist and economic advisor Jeffrey) Sachs's travels through the region -- has not been
immune to controversy. There is no doubt that Soros was committed to the cause of
democratization in the Eastern Bloc, but he also had clear economic interests in the kind of
economic reform accompanying that democratization. As the world's most powerful currency
trader, he stood to benefit greatly when countries implemented convertible currencies and
lift capital controls, and when state companies were put on the auction block, he was one of
the potential buyers."
In contrast, the Putin administration over a period of two decades has since restored the
Russian economy through the re-nationalization of its oil and gas industry. Its two energy
giants, Gazprom and Rosneft, are state-controlled companies serving as the basis of the state
machinery's reassertion of control over the Russian financial system, a move that has gotten
Mr. Putin branded a "dictator" by the West. As a result, most of the notorious Russian
oligarchs enriched overnight during the extreme free market policies of the 1990s have since
left the country, now that such rapid accumulation of wealth to the rest of the nation's
detriment is no longer permitted. While economic inequality in Russia may persist, it is
nowhere near that of the Yeltsin era where the average life expectancy was reduced by a full
decade.
In the last decade, the United States has gotten its own taste of the incitement and
agitations that have previously fallen upon governments across the global south. Instead,
domestically the CIA cutouts in the non-profit industrial complex have played a pivotal
counterrevolutionary role in co-opting and ultimately derailing such uprisings meant to bring
systemic change to the U.S. political system. In late 2011, the Occupy Wall Street movement
emerged at Zuccotti Park in New York City's financial district against the deepening global
economic inequality following the Great Recession and the protests quickly spread to other
cities and continents. In just a few months, the sit-in was expelled from Lower Manhattan and
the anti-capitalist movement itself largely was diverted towards reformism and away from its
original radical intentions. It was also
revealed the origins of OWS and its marketing campaign were traced to Adbusters, a media
foundation that was the recipient of grants from the Democratic Party-connected Tides
Foundation, a progressive policy center which receives significant endowments from none other
than George Soros and the OSF.
Emerging just two years later, the roots of Black Lives Matter were not just in community
organizing but partially took inspiration from the Occupy movement. Unfortunately, the
similarities between them were not limited to a shared lack of clarity in their demands but
facing the same dilemma of being absorbed into the system. While OWS was quickly suppressed
after hopeful beginnings, the BLM leadership became career-oriented apparatchiks of the
Democratic Party and left grass-roots organizing behind. Through the non-profit industrial
complex, the Democratic Party has mastered bringing various social movements under its
management on behalf of Wall Street in order to funnel public funds into private control
through various foundations.
Along with the Ford Foundation which has given BLM enormous $100
million grants, Soros and the OSF have been one of the principal offenders. Still, many who
correctly identify right-wing protests such as the Tea Party movement and the recent
'anti-lockdown' demonstrations as the work of astro-turfing by the Koch Brothers and Heritage
Foundation seldom apply the same scrutiny to seemingly authentic progressive movements
assimilated by corporate America.
One figure who mysteriously appeared on the scene in the early days of OWS connected to
Soros was the Serbian political activist Srđa Popović, the founder of Otpor!
("resistance" in Serbian) and the Center for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies (CANVAS)
political organizations which led the protests in 2000 which ousted the democratically-elected
President of Serbia, Slobodan Milošević, known as the "Bulldozer Revolution." Not
long after Popović's consulting of activists in Zuccotti Park, Wikileaks documents
revealed the Belgrade-born organizer's
significant ties to U.S. intelligence through the global intelligence platform Stratfor
(known as the "shadow CIA"), exposing the real motives behind his involvement in U.S. politics
of outwardly supporting OWS while trying to sabotage the popular movement.
Since their role as
instruments of U.S. regime change in Serbia, Otpor! and CANVAS have received financial support
from CIA intermediaries such as the NED, OSF, Freedom House and the United States Agency for
International Development (USAID), as well as the Boston-based Albert Einstein Institute
founded by the American political scientist, Gene Sharp.
Srđa Popović
Despite ostensibly professing to use the same civil disobedience methods of Mahatma Gandhi
and Martin Luther King, Jr., Gene Sharp's manual for "non-violent resistance" entitled From
Dictatorship to Democracy has been the blueprint used by political organizations around the
world that have only served the interests of Western imperialism. Beginning with the Bulldozer
Revolution in Serbia, the successful formula which ousted Milošević spread to other
Central Asian and Eastern European nations overthrowing governments which resisted NATO
expansion and the European Union's draconian austerity in favor of economic ties with Moscow.
These were widely referred to in the media as 'Color Revolutions' and included the 2003 Rose
Revolution in Georgia, the 2004 Orange Revolution in Ukraine and its 2014 Maidan coup
d'état follow-up, as well as the 2005 Tulip Revolution in Kyrgyzstan, among others.
Subsequently, Srđa Popović and CANVAS also lent their expertise in Egypt during
the predecessor to its Arab Spring in the April 6 Youth Movement which appropriated Otpor!'s
raised fist logo as its emblem. In preparation for the organization of anti-government
demonstrations, the activists poured over Gene Sharp's work in coordination with Otpor! whose
fingerprints can be found all over the Arab Spring uprisings which began as protests to remove
unpopular leaders in Egypt and Tunisia but were carefully reeled in to preserve the despotic
Western-friendly systems that had put them to power initially. Where Sharp's "non-violent"
template failed, countries with U.S. adversaries in power such as Libya and Syria saw their
protests rapidly morph into a resurgence of Al-Qaeda and a terrorist proxy war with
catastrophic consequences. This recipe has also been exported to Latin America in attempts to
remove the Bolivarian government in Venezuela, with self-declared 'interim president' and
opposition leader Juan Guaido having received training from CANVAS.
While the right seems to have a bizarre misconception that the parasitic hedge fund tycoon
is somehow a communist, there is an equal misunderstanding on the pseudo-left where it has
become a recurring joke and subject of mockery to naively deny Soros's undeniable influence on
world affairs and domestic protest movements. Less certain, however, are the
claims from conservatives that Soros is a supporter of "Antifa" which Trump wants to
designate as a domestic terrorist organization, a dangerous premise given the movement consists
of a very loose-knit and decentralized network of activists and hardly comprises a real
organization.
Various autonomous chapters and groups across the U.S. may self-identify as such,
but there is no single official party or formal organization with any leadership hierarchy.
While the original Antifa movement in the 1930s Weimar Republic was part of the Communist Party
of Germany (KPD), the current manifestation in the U.S. has a synonymous association with black
bloc anarchism (even inverting the colors of the original red and black flag), though it is
really made up of a variety of amateurish political tendencies.
Amidst the ongoing nationwide George Floyd protests, the demonstrations in Seattle,
Washington culminated in the establishment of a self-declared "autonomous zone" by activists in
the Northwestern city's Capitol Hill neighborhood -- known as the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone
(CHAZ). In response, Trump doubled down on his threats to quash protests with the use of the
military while blaming "anarchists" in "Antifa" for the unrecognized commune occupying six city
blocks around an abandoned police precinct. Anyone who has paid close attention to the war in
Syria for the last nine years will find this highly ironic, given the U.S. military support for
another infamous "autonomous zone" of Kurdish nationalists in Northern Syria's Rojava
federation. The Kurdish sub-region and de facto self-governing territory purports to be a
"libertarian socialist direct democracy" style of government and has been the subject of
romanticized praise by the Western pseudo-left despite the fact that the autonomous
administration's paramilitary wing, the People's Protection Units (YPG), were until recently a
cat's paw for American imperialism as part of the
U.S.-founded coalition , the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
Not coincidentally, many of those who use the Antifa vexillum are enthusiastic supporters of
and even volunteer mercenaries fighting with the YPG/SDF in an 'International Freedom
Battalion' which claims to be the inheritors of the legacy of the International Brigades which
volunteered to defend the Spanish Republic from fascism in the Spanish Civil War.
Unfortunately, these cosplayers forgot that the original International Brigades were set up by
the Communist International, not the Pentagon. Meanwhile, despite their purported
"anti-fascism", there are no such conscripts to be found defending the Donetsk or Luhansk
People's Republics of eastern Ukraine against literal Nazis in the War in Donbass where the
real front line against fascism has been. Instead, they fight alongside a Zionist and imperial
proxy to help establish an ethno-nation state while the U.S. loots Syria's oil.
Prior to Trump's decision last October to withdraw troops from northeastern Syria which
preceded a Turkish invasion, Ankara and the U.S. repeatedly butted heads over Washington's
decision to incorporate the Kurds into the SDF, since the YPG is widely acknowledged an
off-shoot of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), the militant and cult-like political group
regarded as a terrorist organization that has been at war with Turkey for over forty years. It
is also no secret that jailed PKK founder Abdullah Öcalan's theories of "democratic
confederalism" are heavily influenced by the pro-Zionist
Jewish-American anarchist theorist, Murray Bookchin. So when Turkish President Recep Tayyip
Erdoğan
told Trump that there were links between the U.S. protests and the PKK, there was a tiny
but core accuracy in his exaggerated claim. As Malcolm X said, "chickens coming home to roost
never did make me sad."
The George Floyd protests, like previous uprisings in Ferguson and Baltimore, certainly
began spontaneously, nor does any of this discount the legitimate issue of ending the
militarization of U.S. law enforcement which disproportionately victimizes black Americans.
Nevertheless, time and again we have seen how bona fide social movements become political
footballs or quickly go to their graves.
Like BLM, it is practically inevitable the protests
will become a partisan tool for the Democratic Party in the coming 2020 election when it has no
concrete political articulations of its own, even if it does bring substantive change to
domestic policing. In January, Trump was impeached for temporarily withholding security aid to
the Ukraine and Democrats advocated his removal because he is regarded as insufficiently
hawkish toward Moscow. Since 2016, they have actively diverted all opposition to Trump into
their own reactionary anti-Russia campaign and soft-coup attempt in the interests of the
military- intelligence community, a shared agenda with Soros. When all of corporate America,
the media, and even the NED have publicly declared
their support for a movement, it is no longer just about its original cause of getting justice
for Mr. Floyd, whose funeral became a virtual campaign rally for Trump's opponent, Joe Biden.
It is too early to say determinedly whether what is taking place in the U.S. is indeed a 'Color
Revolution', but by the time we realize it may too late.
freedommusic, 1
hour ago
These protesters led and funded by the shadow president better start to withdraw and stand
down because
the wrath of an average working man will be too overwhelming for them to endure. They
have no idea who they are provoking. You poke the bear you are going to get hurt.
Cloud9.5 , 1 hour ago
We need to rethink our political structure. The single power the federal government has
over the states is the power of the purse. That power is in the process of collapsing. After
the lock down, every local and state government is not going to be able to meet its budget
requirements. The tax base has been slaughtered. The only option is a dubious loan or gift
from a bankrupt federal government. With the dollar collapse, the federal government becomes
irrelevant. Without federal hand outs the center will not hold in the mega cities. When they
collapse, the strangle hold they have on their respective states will be lost.
We are devolving into a less complex structure. Like it or not.
robobbob , 1 hour ago
"what is taking place in the U.S. is indeed a 'Color Revolution" why wait to get on the band wagon?
The Floyd protests are not spontaneous or organic. They are planned events waiting for the
right spark to initiate. For the rank and file protesters this may be unplanned and
spontaneous, but the networks supporting them have been in place for some time
BLM and Antifa have been organizing and conducting limited scale real life exercises
nonstop for 3 years. Calling BLM and Antifa "hardly a real organization" is to deny the
nature of modern insurgencies and terrorism in an age of the internet. Even trying to label
them with names is too restricting of their nature as more of umbrella organizations that
inspire lessor known groups or individuals to take action under those labels. Loose,
decentralized actors working with limited or no central control, united by ideology. Leaders,
in so much as they exist, provide more inspiration than actual orders of operation. Its
exceedingly mercurial lines of communications and logistics, are designed with care to
separate the actors in the street from the apparently vast amount of support coming from
corporate interests and even complicit elements in government who are obviously supporting
it. To name soros's involvement is to draw attention away from the enormous numbers of
unnamed facilitators behind these events.
Make no mistake, What is currently happening is the preliminary stages of an insurrection.
It may be feeding off of many legitimate concerns, but it is only exploiting them as a means
to achieve its over arching goals.
To wait and see is to court disaster. This is a color revolution that is yet to reveal its
flag.
Cloud9.5 , 2 hours ago
WE have a shattered economy. The collapse is on going. A segment of the oligarchs is
attempting a coup of our political system. They are jumping on board the BLM movement and
attempting to ride this chaos to establish a fascist dictatorship just like they did in the
1930's. Antifa is the black shirts of the movement. Once BLM has served its political purpose
it will be shoved aside. We have been here before.
In 1863, storming Fort Wagner in South Carolina, Colonel Shaw led his regiment, which
suffered heavy losses while he died from several wounds defending the nation and racial
justice. Saint-Gaudens sculpted a bronze relief of Shaw and his troops, which was
dedicated across from the Massachusetts State House 123 years ago on May 31. Just weeks
ago, three million dollars were designated to restore it, but ironically on May 31, a mob
claiming to be defenders of human dignity, defaced with obscenities this tribute to
valiant African-Americans.
During the Civil War he was eventually promoted to Colonel and, following the Emancipation
Proclamation, he led New England's first all-black military unit, the 54th Regiment. Shaw
insisted on equal pay and opposed any form of discrimination. Two of his soldiers were sons
of Frederick Douglas.
Fatherless children of whores will not know history and will use any excuse to lash out at
things and people perceived better themselves.
northwdsnh , 2 hours ago
Just watched the video of Atlanta shooting over at twitter. Hardly an innocent unarmed
black man being gunned down by whitey. They attempted to place the man under arrest. He
resisted, fought, and grabbed the one cop's taser, and then ran off. One officer gave chase.
The suspect while running, turns and POINTS the taser at the cop. It is then that the officer
fires his sidearm.
The video shows the Officer fired AFTER the suspect turned and pointed the taser at him. He was confronted with a weapon being pointed at him, from man that had already
resisted & taken a taser. What if he tasered the cop, and then took his gun?
The cop had
only a second to react. This was not an unarmed innocent suspect. I have been following (@
"The Free Thought Project") and speaking out against the violence by police against unarmed
citizens (black & white) for several years now. Have watched video after video of unarmed
people being violently killed by police. That is why I can say, in my opinion, that this
latest incident is clearly not an innocent man being unjustly gunned down. He chose to fight
with the police, take one of their weapons, then turn and point it as if he was going to use
it.
Question_Mark , 3 hours ago
********.
there is no question: the global riots about "George Floyd" are certainly, specifically,
and definitely produced by the exact same team of people who produced the color revolotions
in numerous countried around the world with the same method of operation (modus operandi) in
strategy and tactics. USA is being treated by The Bank just the same as they treat any tinpot
dictatorship that doesnt do what The Bank wants.
The Bank (Bank for International Settlements) sits quietly in Bern Switzerland while its
victims around the world die painfully.
**** the Bank. This is war: USA versus UN.
Americans be vigilant, because the enemey has not left the field; they will be back with more
lockdowns, riots, and financial ruin.
RictaviousPorkchop , 1 hour ago
Don't you remember....
The State Department sponsored a symposium to assist the Color Revolution and like
Facebook, MTV, Twitter and ad agencies taught the future activists how to use social media to
make change.
That's your team.
zob2020 , 4 hours ago
Demented. A color revolution by definition needs us military and diplomatic threats to
make them happen. Us army will threaten to invade itself unless even more corript bankers are
allowed to take over and make the us a slave to us bankers?????
Question_Mark , 3 hours ago
It isn't the uSA army that supports the color revolutions, it is the Bank's intelligence
officers, who are often Jesuit trained military and spies, to illegally and traitorously use
USA resources in support of the Color Revolutions that are planned and executed FOR THE
BENEFIT OF THE BANK, not for any other reason.
What a boring, useless article. He fails to acknowledge that yes, this is a planned and
orchestrated event, and he offers no solutions. He also fails to identify the (((usual
suspects))) behind it.
This sentence told me that he is either clueless or disinformation:
"As a result, most of the notorious Russian oligarchs enriched overnight during the
extreme free market policies of the 1990s have since left the country, now that such rapid
accumulation of wealth to the rest of the nation's detriment is no longer permitted."
By "Russian oligarchs," does he mean rich ****? Because that's what they were. And
"extreme free market policies"? Is that what he thinks is the best description of a process
where sweetheart deals are cut to former jewish insiders in a rigged process that benefits no
one but those same *ahem* "Russian oligarchs"?
This article is a waste of time.
Lee Bertin , 5 hours ago
Everybody can see this is an well organized operation, the finger prints of the deep state,
the DNC and MSM is all over it. They try to push Trump to use force so they can claim he is
literally Hitler and if he dont use force he is ignoring minorities. Its a way of deprave him of
minorities votes. Its all politics. He is damned if he do and damned if he don't.
bbmm11 , 5 hours ago
yeah and it goes deeper than that.... antifa is manufactured opposition.... eventually it
will devolve into a mini civil war and Trump \ right will look like the bad guys \
agressors.... and ppl will beg for stability \ replacement..... thereby ushering in a real
hitlerean regime.....
standard fascist protocol to use the communists for instability..... whilst installing a
real fascist govt.
Lee Bertin , 4 hours ago
Exactly, the police standing down is a dead give away.
Someone Else , 5 hours ago
There is no question that this is a color revolution bought and paid for by George Soros.
Why are we even wasting time debating it?
Soros hates Trump as much as anyone and his people are well skilled and practiced bringing
down governments USUALLY in conjunction with the US government but now bringing down the
actual US government in conjunction with the Deep State.
They have tried everything else to get rid of Trump. This was a last resort (there are a
few other last resorts but this is certainly one of them).
If we don't realize this by now we are slipping.
bbmm11 , 5 hours ago
Trump is the patsy... a put up job.... he is there precisely and deliberately to act as
the bag holder for US regime change.....
And its not gonna be the socialism you think his opposition wants..... its gonna be full
blown global corporate fascism.
Its a double bait and switch.... Soros may actually be relatively genuine with his open
society.... but that is easy used and abused to fund over zealous opposition that leads into
the exact end game it puports to object to.
Someone Else, 4 hours ago
Trump is a fly in the ointment. He wasn't supposed to get elected but he did. Elections
are still legitimate as far as the actual counting of the votes - much to the chagrin of
those really in charge and much to the surprise of the rest of us who thought we were already
corrupt beyond that.
And of course we are getting corporate fascism, the socialist movement is only being used
to overthrow the US government. When the oligarchs have achieved their goal they will shut
down the socialists they have supported. Does this even need to be explained?
Max21c , 5 hours ago
It's a color revolution sponsored by the CIA, which btw must not carry on operations on
the territory itself. So what is Trump waiting for to disband this crime syndicate? Is he
afraid of something?
The CIA operates on American soil all the time. They may use other parts of the
intelligence community or the military or contractors or foreign intelligence agencies as
fronts but the CIA operates on American soil all the time.
They are heavily mixed up in
political persecution campaigns against innocent American civilians. They are heavily mixed
up in "marginalization & neutralization" campaigns against innocent American civilians.
They are behind the buggings, burglaries and breakins.
They are behind the theft of private
property and theft of intellectual property. They are the people behind the industrial
espionage and economic warfare carried out against their 'domestic" enemies and targeted at
the people they rob and persecute. They are a secret police agency not an intelligence
agency. They are just an organized criminal enterprise.
The "C" in CIA actually has a double
meaning and stands for Crooks & Criminals. The CIA is just a pack of gangsters as our
their counterparts in the secret police communities of their allied intelligence
agencies.
Max21c , 5 hours ago
go back to small town america... no cia there.
The only place the secret police community cannot openly operate is on the other side of
the border in places like China and Russia...since they have free range to operate inside and
outside of America where they can control the laws and exempt themselves and their activities
from the rule of law.
There are very few countries where people are safe from the CIA &
the Washington regime and its secret police community and its reign of terror. People can own
property and protect their private property, intellectual property from the evils of the CIA
in places like China and Russia.
If your on the wrong side of the border then the CIA and
secret police community do as they please and can steal anything they want and persecute and
terrorize anyone they want. There are no laws to protect people from the secret police or the
CIA. On one side of the border your'e living in Nazi Germany or Bolshevist Russia or under
the reign of terror of the Khmer Rouge or Viet Cong since the CIA and secret police are above
the law and there is no rule of law and they can steal, rob, and persecute as they see fit.
They do as they please and courts, laws etc cannot rein them in or make them abide by the law
or make them behave. No one has any control over the animals in the US intelligence community
or secret police community or the gangsters in the military and Pentagon Gestapo or the
gangsters in and around the defense community.
Someone Else , 5 hours ago
Um... the US CIA has a budget bigger than the whole of Russian military spending. The CIA
by itself spends more than Russia spends on its army, navy and air force.
If you think that the US CIA doesn't operate on US soil because its "against the rules"
you obviously do not understand that the entire mission of the clandestine and covert and
unaccountable CIA is to BREAK the rules. Get a clue fella.
The FBI does official dirty tricks by means of law enforcement. The CIA works entirely
outside of law enforcement. That is the difference.
Does Trump[ have reason to fear the CIA. You bet your *** that he and any reasonable
person at ANY level has reason to fear the CIA.
Question_Mark , 3 hours ago
CIA is no longer an American operation (for a long time now, if it can ever be said to be
one). its purpose and goal is to support the international banking families, and it is
controlled, like all western intelligence agencies, by the The Bank (BIS). it makes more
sense to refer to the CIA as Five Eyes, because it is no longer American, it is truly a
trans-national criminal cartel sucking the lifeblood out of the citizens of the USA because
that is what The Bank demands be done for their strategic plan (depopulation of humans).
if Five Eyes were truly set up and run for the benefit of all humankind, it might be an
awesome operation, but this is like having a wolf guard your chickens.
Tiwin , 2 hours ago
Yes. Mossad Island tapes.
Sudden Debt , 6 hours ago
There's no revolution. There's just thieves, robbers, looters and rapists. If the police really wanted to, they'd shut that **** down in a day.
What have we seen so far? The police standing down and backing up.... I've seen video's where those kids get arrested and suddenly they go into chock because
that wasn't supposed to happen... :)
And if they see 1 guy, and they're with 50 people surrounding them, they find it all okay
to kill him because that's when they feel strong.
When you would put a small aggressive force against them... they would all be beaten into
a pulp and they'd all start running.
For me, all I see is staged protests and the powers that be that stand down to let it all
happen and escalate.
Image these idiots would be in the middle east or even in France and they try their
******** there... they'd piss their pants!
Over here in Belgium, we had 3 large protests.
The police ended them in 1 hour. 1800 arrests and poof... finished.
No more black idiots thinking they could burn rob and loot.
vic and blood , 6 hours ago
The Democrat politicians are trapped. They have been saddled with a bill of goods that is
more of a pig in a poke. Their majorities are thin enough that they fear alienating their black, anarchist,
homosexual, communist, and sob-sister mudshark constituencies.
They went in for a penny, but are now in for a pound.
The Black Bishop , 6 hours ago
So it turns out the cops involved in the George Floyd incident were following police
procedure for "excited delirium". Stephen Molynaux does some pretty good unbiased objective
reporting of actual facts. Nice for a change;
BLB, Antifa, CAIR, LaRaza, ad infinitum. These are are foot soldiers for the radical left.
They use them like toilet paper to wipe their stinking azz. And if required, throw them in
the gutter as deposable depends for the greater good.
The true enemies are Chicoms funding drug cartels and globalists, who fund corrupt
politicians, who fund the usual basket cases of endless anti American ******** losers unable
to wipe their own azz without some LGBTiQWXYZ Global Homo lurking in the shadows.
Desent into hell is what's taking place.
Element , 7 hours ago
And in a calculated display of supreme 'double-think' and 'new-speak', a group of actual
violent fascist good-for-nothing vermin foisted the pretense to be anti-fascists and 'peace
activists' -- whilst doing exactly the opposite of what they claimed to be doing in the same
breath.
You can't appease and make peace compacts with ANTIFA, they do not respect their own
brain's processing output so how are they ever going to live up to any agreement which they
duplicitously make, as ruse to further play 'victim' as they attack and create a shower of
subsequent actual victims of ANTIFA fascist violence? Yeah, keep doing that, that'll work for
sure.
PS: And let all the hard-core out of prisons after you disband the police, and see how long
it takes until they're in the Governor's and Mayor's bedrooms at 2 AM with keen blade in hand
and a thirst for blood and plunder plus a hostage to cut bits off by the day and courier to
their "loved ones". Who knows they might even cough up a few benjamins to spare your
digits.
66Mustanggirl , 7 hours ago
Since the author brought up the Spanish Civil War, one should look up Juan Pujol Garcia,
the most prolific double agent of all time and an invaluable asset for the Allies in crushing
the Fascist Nazi's in WWII.
How clueless were the Nazi's as to Garcia's true agenda?? They actually awarded him their highest honor, the Iron Cross, AFTER the war.
It would be fascinating to know who have been placed as the "Garbos" in this epic
showdown. We will probably never know. Neither will the Elites.
"It's a great huge game of chess that's being played--all over the world--if this is the
world at all, you know. Oh, what fun it is!"
Nancy Pelosi once called the violent protests in Hong Kong "a beautiful sight to behold."
If this turns out to be the color revolution in America, then this would truly become a
beautiful sight to behold for the rest of the world.
Moral of the story, what goes around comes around. What a high profile politicians says
will eventually have repercussions not just for her but for the entire country. When you
invade others, it is bound to come right back like 9/11.
66Mustanggirl , 8 hours ago
God bless the insane Antifa/BLM Democratic Party who now OWN the lunacy of CHAZ.
Definition of fascism:
a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing
opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an
aggressive nationalism and often racism.
As the American people watch in horror as all of this unfolds over the summer, that's all
Trump has to do is pose these questions:
*Who has taken rigid definitions of "acceptable" thought and formed them into a political
ideology?
*Who is using this ideology to shut down free speech?
*Who is using this ideology to attack religious liberty?
*Who cannot tolerate criticism of their Party/Presidential candidate and demands those
voices be silenced?
*Who wants the government to run the economy?
*Who is stoking racism and using it to gain political power?
*Who controls information and uses it as a powerful propaganda tool to force YOUR
obedience to their will?
Answer those questions, America, and you have just identified the TRUE Fascists.
Now do you want THEM running YOUR life and YOUR country??
"A new intolerance is spreading, that is quite obvious a negative religion is being made
into a tyrannical standard that everyone must follow. That is then seemingly freedom -- for
the sole reason that it is liberation from the previous situation."
~Pope Benedict XVI Light of the World, A Conversation with Peter Seewald, p. 52
Sometimes TELLING the people the truth isn't enough. They must LIVE it to wake up.
TRUMP2020LANDSLIDE
LOL123 , 8 hours ago
are the claims from conservatives that Soros is a supporter of "Antifa" which Trump wants
to designate as a domestic terrorist organization, a dangerous premise given the movement
consists of a very loose-knit and decentralized network of activists and hardly comprises a
real organization.
**** calling bs on this.
The article states that ( in his opinion ...because that's all the article is) the
protests started out peacefully and then transformed into violance.
Antifa is violent and it's been recorded from their own mouths that they intend to inflict
harm...unless gouging out people's eyes is the norm to the writer. Veritas has proof of such
actions and words...not a conspiracy theory.
So when President Trump says they are a terrorist organization they are. The bricks were
organized to be delivered in various riots before they came ...that's premeditated assault
weapons.
This article is full of hot air trying to be " unbiased" and glossing over facts that
would lend to the facts that the riots are organized by outside influences which range from
local officials to Soros open society to Democrat party officals with corporate money
backing.
It's pretty disgusting to say the least.
Our constitution is at risk by these saboteurs and need to be held accountable.
css1971 , 7 hours ago
Antifa is very clearly an organization with a command structure.
Decoherence , 8 hours ago
So you can buy an African slave for $400 today, not 150 years ago. Today! So if black
lives mattered, why aren't they buying all of them and setting them free? BLM my ***. What a
load of ****. How can people be so stupid? The best part is, Obama's failed policies in Libya
is what started the modern day auction of Africans.
The police do not "discretionally victimize racial minorities. " Jesse James said he
robbed banks 'because that's where all the money is. ' Police are forced to spend a large
amount of time in minority neighborhoods because that's where a disproportionately large
percentage of crime occurs.
Idleproc , 8 hours ago
You are witnessing the failure of the neo-feudal financial global reform live. Coups
d'état, state demolition, social disintegration with "open society", bomb-induced mass
migration, terrorism, terrorist management of the global pandemic, ideological coverings of
criminal social divisive activities with BLM and more, mock liberation of women and any other
artificially divisive social group are failing miserably to put standing a real parasitic and
slave system.
PKKA , 8 hours ago
Is Putin again to blame for everything? Poor Putin, how he manages everything everywhere.
But it was not Putin who called for the abolition of the police in the United States. This
was called for from the pages of the NYT by George Soros's henchman, Mariame Cape.
It will be very interesting for me to look at America without the police. The Wild West
and the old law will return again, who has a longer gun barrel will be right. Without the
police, as in the good old days, whites will catch blacks and lynch them. And Black will
catch White and lynch them. It will be a lot of fun for everyone, without the police.
You do not need to look for distant enemies in foreign countries, when the enemies are
close, in your house.
Michael Norton , 8 hours ago
Liberal democrat party supporters going on a rampage looting, rioting, arson, and murder
victimizing the general public for something they didn't do are destroying what little suppor
the democrat party had.
wolf pup , 8 hours ago
Creating your anger using their scripted anger.
Watch them. Their eyes flash. Pelosi. Schumer. The Reverend Al. Mayor Jenny. Governors Cuomo,
Newsom, Inslee, and Brown. They begin by spitting out their words, and end on a crescendo of
Anger, Incorporated.
And it elicits an emotional response. Your own anger, suddenly upwelling. You agree!
DAMMITALL! You agree! It's awful! And something must be done!...
And your addiction to your own physiological anger responses has begun, as anger will soon
become your only Go To source for all immediate and tactically triggered reaction. Hopped up
on All The Anger being shoved in your face 24/7; how dare you not be outraged/enraged?, the
guy here killed by cops, the woman there killed by The Others, whom you've been instructed to
Hate In Group Form, as they are your (new) Enemy. A hated enemy: your fellow Americans.
Tearing a nation to chaotic cinders is accomplished via addictive and predictive
behaviors. The addiction to our "devices", the big one. The addiction, emotionally, to anger,
the other big one, heh.
Anger is sold out to the cheap seats. Every advertisement. Everywhere you look, you'd better
be outraged.
Who here knows anything about Mitt Romney, Bain Capital, and.. Bill Gates/Microsoft?
Who ponders the fact that both the China Flu and first "autonomous zone" inside/outside the
USA has been inserted into the mix in.. Washington state? You know Mitt owns US Elections
vote tallying machines, no doubt. Well, he did, but now it's just his kids and wife, a la
Biden & Son, Inc. This video (iirc like 10 minutes?) is interesting re the so-called
autonomous zone in Seattle, utterly .Gov owned and operated opposition.
They can't even grow carrots, the street people there.
Who's really running it? Who was behind it? Mayor Jen, Inslee, the Popo Chief, and Sawant all
have their parts to play.
But key is that the City/State gave it to those nitwits. No one took anything. They were
handed it by.. the .gov they say they hate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOWTZK7Ylds
Youth = naivety. It's a thing. Especially if you've been dumbed in college instead of
educated. The youth see the corruptions of this era weighing on them, and their righteous
anger is brought forth, enhanced, blown up and weaponized, as they are warped into thinking
there's an Other Group to hate. Certainly no ruse is being performed as they sit and Get
Angry at each day's classes. ...
Control.
Totalitarianism = One Way.
Authoritarianism = OUR Way. And youth is always focused upon, when evil is afoot. And there's
plenty to go around.
And the useful fools are jerked around, then when fully discombobulated, they're ordered
to Stampede.. and when short term goals of the Plantation overseers are accomplished, it's
back to the holding/feeding pens for the hungry and exhausted and once more confused herds..
with an extra scoop of grain tonight.
I'd sigh about right here, but as history repeats itself this time, it appears that, with
the all-powerful technocrats in such powerful seats now, a very dicey fate may just be set
this time. At least for awhile.
Tech imo is how it's made so brutally real to everyone. The System. Of Things. Which will be
kept on life support via a swirling miasma of dirty money and via its usefulness, at creating
and running false narratives, at stripping wealth from the lower classes,at system wide
"shortages" and "flow problems" for necessities such as proteins, other necessary foods and
goods, "Panic!"/Don't Panic", and the System above all else; the beast that will be.. has
been and is fed via our humanly addictions. Humans want to connect. It's at our core, sex,
love, conviviality, all interactions we are predisposed to crave. Each other's presences.
Community. Now locked away from one another, ordered to wear masks for **** sakes, and yet we
still crave that connectedness and can get it only via the controlled venue now; the System.
The watching, learning, always 10 steps ahead System.
I'd sigh, but I'm rather too.. angry.
added: yes. A most annoying tone of voice.. but maybe informative, filling in a few gaps,
so.. forbearance. I've no connection to nor have I even heard of whomever she, speaking, is,
but the poster there is someone I've checked up on frequently regarding geo engineering. His
older stuff has some excellent footage.
wolf pup , 8 hours ago
The Dem controls in WA where I live have been up close and personal with the monetary
powers of Gates, Bezos, and many other well connected players, for many decades now. They're
more $$$$$-enabled than you imagine, and are not exactly stupid, albeit if you call corrupted
corruptors with souls long dead stupid, then ok. They're stupid. And the GOP of Washington
state sit in silence, save for a couple of hoarse, exhausted voices in the hinterlands. As
culpable as the rest of the ruinous yo free people everywhere political class of Washington
state are, all of them.
Washington and Oregon are very White states. And tech savvy, as it's everywhere here.
Microsoft, Intel, Google, Bezos has as do others some very Blue Horizons Show situated in
Washington. Imagine a CERN if your own on small scale. The residents here are a kid of city
corporate/tech workers, and those who service them, and rurally, ag rules, of course.
Using White Guilt on people who drive pricey cars and have lots of money to flit about the
planet with is the way it's been turned do feces stained here today. "Look at your privilege!
Look at mine!", etc. All but few top slots are white and now topping yo mostly female, a bad
sign from what I've seen in Europe.. and I'm a damn woman, so it's unpleasant to have to type
that. EmoLand, baby. It's what's for breakfast up here. You've never imagined an amount of
soccer mom OK Karen's as you'll find here.
The political scene here may appear clueless, and sure, they don't have any real concept of
average Americans at all, preferring it that way. But they're in total power, they've got
massive, massive money powers and international connections. And a greatky dumbed voting base
to suck from. I don't know how stupid that makes them. Vile. Cretinous. Craven. Yup.
Clueless? No. EvilGoogle's big daddy Alphabet, Inc., sleeps here. The ObamaLand Mafia rests
here. The Clinton Slushfundation is deeply connected here. And Mr. Gates.
Authorizing a strategic weapon plan for my own locale isn't especially unwarranted, lol.
Roger Casement , 8 hours ago
Not youth, 10 years of brainwashing for this Post-Hussein Global Gangster challenge.
(((They))) have to use it now because the brainwashing wears off after exposure to reality or
5 years, whichever comes first. This is why Hussein wanted to extend edumacation, to keeps
the popsicles from melting. It's wearing off fast right now. Up in smoke soon enough. Expose
more of these murderous Traitor governors and mayors, keep arresting the criminals and this
will fizzle. Would help to round up the foreign and domestic enemy M$M Mockingbird spy ring
and the government infiltrators who are taking orders from Hussein.
Plenty of cause to shut down all the "refugee" invasion programs.
of course its a CIA run, democrat backed, soros sponsored color revolution. BLM? ******* front for a communist ideology.
WorkingClassMan , 8 hours ago
And Joo Soros, being an internationalist and antiwhite both, is perfectly happy with
funding these scum as well as antifa.
botoxpelosi , 9 hours ago
Still, many who correctly identify right-wing protests such as the Tea Party movement and
the recent 'anti-lockdown' demonstrations as the work of astro-turfing by the Koch Brothers
and Heritage Foundation seldom apply the same scrutiny to seemingly authentic progressive
movements assimilated by corporate America.
He was also behind the Baltimore riots and the migrant caravans.
But, it may be too early to tell.
USofAzzDownWeGo , 9 hours ago
It's a ZIONIST revolution and white people are so brainwashed by them they can't figure it
out. Even when they're told from people like us, they still don't believe it lol. I just
laugh anymore.
Horace Walpole , 9 hours ago
It's not a Zionist revolution; it's a Deep State disturbance.
WorkingClassMan , 8 hours ago
Have to disagree for once. The Zionists are perfectly happy with Trump and joo Kushner in
the Oral Office. They do NOT want greater instability in their cash cow now. This is joo
Soros, it's his MO and fits his ideology of world communism to a T.
rtb61 , 9 hours ago
The problems will start to ease, when the shutdown is ended and a lot of them are busy
back at work.
I mean seriously, those people overseas who never had African slaves (who were sold by
other Africans to Americans) are now protesting black lives matter, just bored angry people
jumping on the bandwagon, pissed off and looking to express it publicly.
end the ******* ****down already before your society explodes
SabOObas , 9 hours ago
" The truth. That nothing, no matter how horrible, ever really happens without the
approval of the government. Over there, and here. The problem isn't the doing. It's the
people in power having to admit that they knew. The prisoners are tortured at Abu Ghraib, and only the underlings go to jail.
Their bosses knew. We know their bosses knew. But you don't say it."
Shooter (2007) Michael Sandor
Voice-of-Reason , 9 hours ago
Can we actively spread Covid19 to black lives matter? This might solve problems on both
fronts.
khnum , 9 hours ago
Declaring an independent zone demonstrates these people think they can play with the big
boys...I say let them
VWAndy , 8 hours ago
You might be surprised at what can be pulled off with cubic dollars and nothing else. Its
as autonomous as a leach.
G. Wally , 9 hours ago
Curious:
" Anyone who has paid close attention to the war in Syria for the last nine years will
find this highly ironic, given the U.S. military support for another infamous "autonomous
zone" of Kurdish nationalists in Northern Syria's Rojava federation. The Kurdish sub-region
and de facto self-governing territory purports to be a "libertarian socialist direct
democracy" style of government and has been the subject of romanticized praise by the Western
pseudo-left despite the fact that the autonomous administration's paramilitary wing, the
People's Protection Units (YPG), were until recently a cat's paw for American imperialism as
part of the
U.S.-founded coalition , the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)...Ankara and the U.S.
repeatedly butted heads over Washington's decision to incorporate the Kurds into the SDF,
since the YPG is widely acknowledged an off-shoot of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), the
militant and cult-like political group regarded as a terrorist organization that has been at
war with Turkey for over forty years. It is also no secret that jailed PKK founder Abdullah
Öcalan's theories of "democratic confederalism" are heavily influenced by the pro-Zionist
Jewish-American anarchist theorist, Murray Bookchin."
Well, there may be a very good reason Zionists and Kurds align: according to the Hindu
tales, there was once an "Emperor" that had two lines of family: The "Puru" and the "Kuru"
and his name was Yudishthira...the Blind Emperor. The Kuru are the Kurds. The Puru? I would
suspect they are the "Jewish" Persians. The "Puru" kingdom (historical reality) had a king in
the 1400s BC named "Yayati" followed by a king named Ayati." In Egypt, in 1400 BC, was a
"Vizier" named Yuya, and his son Aye.
Yuya's mummy shows pale skin around his eyes, where he wore a "Zorro-like" mask...and a
scar where a spike had been driven through his right eyebrow into his right eye..."Popping"
it. Hindu tales of the "Precept of the Asura" (demons) give varying versions of how he lost
that eye.
This is a blacksmith, pouring molten metal (bronze) into a mold.
This is Yuya. His son, or grandson Akhenaton, was a fervent worshiper of "Shu" the
"Egyptian god of the wind": the smithy that worked the bellows, fanning the fire of the
smelt. Shu is "The Aten" according to E.A. Wallis Budge. Akhenaton is shown offering lotus
blossoms to "The Aten": that is Shiva worship. Shiva, said to be "covered in ashes"...yes,
blown up on him while fanning the smelting fire.
Yahweh is Yuya, Yuya is aka the Elamite god Qaus : "The God that Blows". (An alleged
"mystery" why he is called that...but now ZH readers know). If you don't believe me? Try
academia.org ..."Yahweh is Qaus" and see
the numerious article on it.
There is a photo of a statue of the young Yuya...wearing a Buddhist monk's robe and
calling himself "Ptah" (Butah/Buddha, according to E.A Wallis Budge's translation) ...with a
painful looking injury to his right eye: https://www.sacred-texts.com/egy/eml/eml05.htm
(scroll down to "Ptah" statue)
In fact, the Hindu tale is that his bride also wore a mask to "see the world as my husband
sees it." See the pale skin around her eyes, too???
Voice-of-Reason , 9 hours ago
Occupy Wall Street was a protest. This is a racial war developing. Two completely
different things. I dislike the current corrupt system too but I'm not burning down and
looting people's businesses they worked hard to build.
sickofthepunx , 9 hours ago
Apparently occupy wasn't loud enough because its been 10 years of the same old **** on
Wall Street. Maybe the should have broke some ****
Ms No , 9 hours ago
Even Bloomberg calls for dollar collapse, just blamed on trump, but the fact that they
even bring it up..
We have the biggest military and intelligence budget in the world.
And the ****ERS in Washington can't seem to stop the riots, looting and violence.
That's because.... just like 9/11... THEY'RE IN ON IT.
They're being paid to destroy Americans.
The government is the biggest terror organization in the world.
Burn the government to the ground. Burn the homes of those who serve this evil.
Until then, be prepared for these monsters to continue to terrorize you and your
family.
Be prepared for these mother ****ers to destroy your children's future.
They are evil. They only respond to violence.
They wouldn't know what to do if someone actually fought back against them Guerilla
Style.
The FBI is busy SWAT teaming Doctors offices.
They're too busy arresting Doctors prescribing Vitamin C to strengthen people's immune
systems
and planning more false flags to terrorize other humans.
They are evil. Pure evil. Every single mother ****** who works for the FBI is evil.
Those who sit by in the FBI and watch these people do evil **** are just as guilty.
Just ask the Nazis who stood by while Mengele experimented on children.
DocD , 9 hours ago
What a bunch of BS! The one thing that criminal like Soros is not interested in is
"philanthropy"! What this creep is, however, interested in is consolidating of power for his
bosses. Was he a front for the Cocaine Importing Agency! - No doubt! But what are the goals
of those fools at the top of the Agency? Does it look like they're interested in protecting
freedom of speech, expression, communication, movement or privacy in this country? Are not
all media heads repeating the same phrases all day?
The forces which were first used to
subvert those who were tough to subvert due to their long standing Christian traditions are
the same being used to "transform" or deconstruct (solve) and reconstitute (coagula) this,
much easier and well prepped system. If there's anything that the Q messenger is right about,
it is that nothing can stop what's coming; NOTHING!
@Ashino Wolf Sushanti As far as I know BLM is also dead silent on the black slave markets
care of Obama and the EU in Libya.
There are also stories that money contributed to BLM will end up going to the DNC.
This is looking like another 1960's type insurrection that will end up the same way: it
will be used by the rich and powerful elites (notice how the corporate controlled media has
gone on one knee for BLM and has gone outright anti-white?), there will be a back lash that
will crush it (right after the election), and its leaders will be either absorbed into the
establishment or offed.
America looks like a hybrid of Stephen King, Brave New World, and 1984, and the rich and
powerful US elites and intel agencies stroke it and love it. Notice that the US super rich
have been raking it in since January 2020? While at the same time Trump is busy making the US
a vassal state of Israel and accelerating the roll-out of Cold War v2 which is just fine with
US elites that will not change with the election of moron Biden (if the people elect Biden
they are electing his VP as Biden will not last long; he is a lot like Yeltsin that was
pumped up on mental stimulants and nutriments to perform for short periods until the next
treatment). What a country, what a ship of fools.
The former New York senator published her
thoughts on her on Medium blog , where she appeared to endorse the Black
Lives Matter movement, something she has previously stayed well clear of doing. "George Floyd's
life mattered. Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor's lives mattered. Black lives matter," she
began by stating.
"I promise to keep fighting alongside all of you to make the United States a place where all
men and all women are treated as equals, just as we are and just as we deserve to be," she
added, positioning herself on the same side as the protestors, many of whom are demanding the
abolition of the police. Clinton commended the amazing "power of solidarity" she had seen and
promised to "speak out against white supremacy in all its forms," declaring that America is
long overdue for "an honest reckoning" with its racism problem.
However, an honest reckoning with Clinton's past unearths a myriad of troubling incidents
and positions that are difficult to square with her newfound radical antiracist stance. She
supported her husband and Joe Biden's
1994 Crime Bill that led to an explosion in mass incarceration across the country.
He observes too, the anticipatory raising of bail money; the preparing of medical teams,
ready to treat injuries; and of caches of flammable materials (suitable for torching official
vehicles), pre-positioned in places where protests would later occur. All this – with
simultaneous protests in more than 380 U.S. cities – in my experience, signals much
bigger, silent backstage organization. And behind 'the organisation', the instigators lie, far
back: maybe even thousands of miles back; and somewhere out there will be the financier.
However, in the U.S., commentators say they see no leadership; the protests are amorphous.
That is not unusual to see no leadership – a 'leadership' appears only if negotiations
are sought and planned; otherwise key actors are to be protected from arrest. The most telling
sign of a backstage organisation is that on one day, it is 'full on', and the next all is quiet
– as if a switch has been pulled. It often has.
Of course, the overwhelming majority of protestors in the U.S. this last week, were –
and are – decent sincere Americans, outraged at George Floyd's killing and continuing
social and institutional racism. Was this then, an Antifa
and anarchist operation, as the White House contends? I doubt it – any more than those
Palestinian youth in Beit El constituted anything other than fodder for the front of stage. We
simply don't know the backstage. Keep an open mind.
Tom Luongo presciently suggests that should we wish
to understand better the context to these recent events – and not be stuck at stage
appearances – we need to look to Hong Kong for indicators .
Writing in October 2019, Luongo noted that: "What started as
peaceful protests against an extradition law and worry over reunification with China has
morphed into an ugly and vicious assault on the city's economic future. [This is] being
perpetrated by the so-called "Block Bloc", roving bands of mask-wearing, police-tactic defying
vandals attacking randomly around the city to disrupt people going to work ".
An exasperated local man exclaims : "Not only you
[i.e. Block Bloc protestors are] harming the people making their living in businesses,
companies, shopping malls. You're destroying subway stations. You're destroying our streets.
You're destroying our hard-earned reputation as a safe, international business centre. You're
destroying our economy". The man cannot explain why there was not a single police officer in
sight, for hours, as the rampage continued.
What is going on? Luongo quotes a September Bloomberg
interview with HK tycoon, Jimmy Lai, billionaire publisher of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
scourge, the Apple Daily, and the highly visible interlocutor of official Washington notables,
such as Mike Pence, Mike Pompeo and John Bolton. In it, Lai pronounced himself convinced that
if protests in HK turned violent, China would have no choice but to send the People's Armed
Police units from Shenzen into Hong Kong to put down unrest: "That," Lai said on Bloomberg TV,
"will be a repeat of the Tiananmen Square massacre; and that will bring in the whole world
against China Hong Kong will be done, and China will be done, too".
In brief, Lai proposes to 'burn' Hong Kong – to 'save' Hong Kong. That is, 'burn it to
save it' from the CCP – to keep its residue in the 'Anglo-sphere'.
"Jimmy Lai", Luongo writes, "is telling you what the strategy is here. The goal is to
thoroughly undermine China's standing on the world stage and raise that of the U.S. This is
economic warfare, it's a hybrid war tactic. And the soldiers are radicalized kids in uniforms
bonking old men on the heads with sticks and taunting cops. Sound familiar? Because that's
what's going on in places like Portland, Oregon with Antifa And that cause is chaos". (Recall,
Luongo wrote this more than six months ago).
Well, here we are today: Steve Bannon, closely allied with what he, himself, terms the U.S.'
China super-hawks , and
allied with yet another Chinese billionaire financier, Guo Wengui ( a fugitive
from the Chinese Authorities, and member at Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club), is pursuing an
incandescent campaign of denigration and vitriol against the Chinese Communist Party –
intended, like Lai's campaign, to destroy utterly China's global standing.
Here it is again – the tightly-knit band of U.S. and exile super-hawks want to 'burn'
down the CCP, to 'save' what? To save the 'Empire Waning' (America), through 'burning' the
'Empire Rising' (China). Bannon (at least, and to his credit), is explicit about the risk:
A failure to prevail in
this this info-war mounted against the CCP, he says, will end in "kinetic war".
So, back to the U.S. protests, and drawing on Luongo's insights from Hong Kong – I
wrote last week that Trump sees himself fighting a hidden global 'war' to retain America's
present dominance over global money (the dollar) – now America's principal source of
external power. For America to lose this struggle to a putative multi-lateral cosmopolitan
governance – Trump perceives – would result in the whole, white Anglo-sphere's
ejection from control over the global financial system – and its associated political
privilege. It would entail control of the global financial and political system slipping away
to an amorphous multi-lateral financial governance, operated by an international institution,
or some global Central Bank. Since before WW1, control of global financial governance has been
in the hands of the Anglo-American nexus running between London and New York. It still does,
just about – albeit that today's Wall Street elite is cosmopolitan, rather than Anglo,
yet still it is firmly anchored to Washington, via the Fed and the U.S. Treasury. For this to
slip would be the 'end of Empire'.
To maintain the status of the dollar, Trump therefore has assiduously devoted himself to
disrupting the multi-lateral global order, sensing this danger to the unique privileges
conveyed by control of the world's monetary base. His particular concern would be to see a
Europe that was umbilically-linked to the financial and technological heavy-weight that is
China. This, in itself, effectively would presage a different world financial
governance.
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But, is the fear that the threat principally lies with Europe's Soros-style vision
justified? There may – just as well – be a fifth-column at home. The billionaires'
club of the very rich has long ceased to be culturally 'Anglo'. It has become a borderless,
'self-selecting', governing entity unto itself.
Perhaps an earlier 'end of Époque' metamorphosis shows us how readily an
old-established elite can swap horses in order to survive . In the historical Sicilian novel,
The Leopard, Prince Salina's nephew tells his uncle that the old order
is 'done' , and with it, the family is 'done' too, unless "Unless we ourselves take a hand
now, they'll foist a republic on us. If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to
change".
It is clear that some billionaire oligarchs – whether American or not – can see
the 'writing on the wall': A financial crisis is coming. And so, too, is a social one. A recent
survey done by one such member, showed that 55% of American millennials supported the end to
the capitalist system. Perhaps the brotherhood of billionaires is thinking that 'unless we
ourselves take a hand now, they'll foist socialism on us'. If we want things to stay as they
are, things will have to change. The recent disorder in the U.S. will have unnerved them
further.
The push towards radical change – towards that global financial, political and
ecological governance that threatens dollar hegemony – paradoxically may emerge from
within: from within America's own financial elite. 'Burning' the dollar's privileged global
status may become seen as the price for things to stay as they are -- and for the elite to be
saved. The future of Empire hangs on this issue: Can US dollar hegemony be preserved, or might
the financial 'nobility' see that things must change – if they are to stay as they are?
That is, the Revolution may come from within -- and not necessarily from abroad.
In recent days, Trump has pivoted to being the President of 'Law and Order' – a shift
which he explicitly connected to 1968, when, in response to protests in Minneapolis after the
police suffocation last week of George Floyd, Trump tweeted: "When the looting begins, the
shooting starts". These were the words used by Governor George Wallace, the segregationist
third-party candidate, in the 1968 Presidential election: Republicans launched their "southern
strategy" to win over resentful white Democrats after the civil rights revolution.
Trump is determined to prevail – but today is not 1968. Can a Law and Order platform
work now? U.S. demography in the south has shifted, and it is not clear that the liberal, urban
electorates of America would sign up to a law-and-order platform, which implicitly appeals to
white anxieties?
In a sense, President Trump finds himself between a rock and a hard place. If the protests
are not quelled, and "the right normal (not) restored" (as per Esper's words), Trump may lose
those remaining 'law and order' conservatives. But, were he to lose control and over-react
using the military, then it may be Trump who has his own 'Tiananmen Square' – one, which
Jimmy Lai (gleefully) predicted in Hong Kong's case would bring in the whole world against
China: "Hong Kong will be done, and China will be done, too."
Or, in this instance, Trump might be done, and the U.S. too.
"... The mayor of Seattle says that the seizure and occupation of a portion of downtown Seattle is OK by her. She predicts that Seattle may now experience a "summer of love" and that Trump should stay in his besieged bunker in Washington and mind his own business. ..."
"... The mayor (herrronner?) and the governor are trying to look the other way and deny that the occupiers have guns, have established borders, checkpoints, are demanding money from citizens caught in CHAZ, etc. No problem, they say, just citizens exercising their constitutional rights peacefully. To paraphrase Groucho Marx, who are we to believe, the mayor/governor or our own eyes? ..."
"... Not quite the Euromaidan yet, but getting there. Things can get out of control so quickly and so drastically. Sad. ..."
"... Don't spread this "liberation" around geographically - concentrate it all in Seattle. Let it be the magnet city for all those who want a totally free, autonomous lifestyle, but NO foreign aid from the US allowed. ..."
"... Seeds of Seattle anarchy well planted and cultivated by its non-response to its recent invasion of vagrant camps. How was this any different than being taken over by radical separatists? ..."
"... A must see documentary, produced well before this current insurrection that the mayor insists will breathe new life into this already fractious town. "Seattle is Dying": https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/seattle-dying/ ..."
"... The federal government let the Bundys and their armed followers hold the Malheur Wildlife Refuge HQ for 40 days before taking them into custody. There were armed standoffs with the Bundys on and off for several years preceding that. The nation endured those challenges. We'll endure CHAZ which looks more like a hippie commune/street party than an armed standoff. ..."
"... Why haven't we heard from the 500 or so private property owning residents who got trapped in this Seattle city council enabled miasma? If they are all good with this, then let them be. ..."
"... They tried something similar in Copenhagen in 1971, with mixed results ... but their anarchist collective, 'Freetown Christiania', still exists, albeit a little worse for the wear: ..."
"... The protesters became obsessed on the east side precinct HQ for whatever reason, now they "have" it. We all must be careful what we wish for. Next night the protesters were down to a couple dozen hard core and the local residents are now the ones giving them grief, not the cops. ..."
"... The Copenhagen "autonomous" community is on an island (peninsula?) and far removed from their downtown. You can view it on a canal boat tour. I believe it was the site of a former industrial or public utilities plant. Mixed reviews locally, but does not intrude on surrounding metropolitan area. ..."
"... Key West has a similar nearby offshore island that is a free for all described by some as either pure heaven or pure hell, depending on their perspective. Not sure what its current state is today - waste management was its biggest concern. ..."
"... It's a slow simmering Tahrir or Maidan. Just wait until they turn the rioter/protesters back on, in force, in November. I am planning a trip out of the country. ..."
"... Do you think business guys who have this happen to them would throw away the opportunity of a lifetime? There are going to be a lot of million dollar lawsuits against the city of Seattle over this, I will bet you. The suits will go on for years, and there will be big settlements. Ever heard of the Stockholm Syndrome? ..."
If Seattle can accept CHAZ' secession, why not San Francisco. LA or Chicago?
"What we do know is that Washington officials have completely lost control of the CHAZ, and
they won't get it back without exerting force. Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan has tried to
negotiate with these protesters without success, and the protesters haven't shown signs of
budging. Peaceful or not, this is anarchy. And the only reason Seattle protesters have gotten
away with it is that law enforcement hasn't been able to challenge them.
This is what happens when you remove policing from the picture. If we do not have a way to
enforce our laws, then any number of citizens could do what these protesters are doing and
create their own autonomous zones, make up its rules, and force other citizens to obey them.
Last I checked, we considered such behavior unacceptable.
And it is, which is why Democrats and other activists should think twice before supporting
"defund the police," a movement that would ultimately like to see law enforcement abolished or
at least crippled. If this movement has its way, the lawlessness will not stay in Seattle. It
will spread, and it will lead to violence." Washington Examiner
---------------
The mayor of Seattle says that the seizure and occupation of a portion of downtown Seattle
is OK by her. She predicts that Seattle may now experience a "summer of love" and that Trump
should stay in his besieged bunker in Washington and mind his own business.
The "Capital Hill Autonomous Zone" (CHAZ) has defined its present borders, installed border
guards and is taxing (extorting) business and people within its territory. The mayor of Seattle
and the governor of Washington State (soon to be renamed) are notorious leftists as are many
citizens resident in the city and state.
What is being affected in Seattle is de facto secession from the United States. This differs
from the secession of the Confederate States in 1861 in that it is the states that are the
contracting parties in the US constitutional union and not cities or parts of states.
The US Congress some years ago created US Northern Command with headquarters in Colorado for
the purpose of defending the US against threats both external and internal. It is one of the
Unified Commands that are subordinate to POTUS and below him to SECDEF. Like the other Unified
commands it has no troops of its own but has numerous contingency plans under which troops will
be made available to it on order. Nearby at Tacoma there is Ft. Lewis which has most of the 2nd
Infantry Division in garrison. when Trump says that he could take action against the CHAZ
rebellion, he has the means. The question arises as to whether the chain of command would obey
him considering that General Milley has expressed the tenderness of his feelings with regard to
the use of troops to suppress disturbances. I have pointed out that federal troops (not the NG)
have been used 14 times since the end of the Indian Wars to suppress unrest but, this is
evidently of no concern to Milley or Fightin' Jack Keane who supports Milley.
I ask you pilgrims, if secession is allowed in Seattle, why would various discontented
groups not attempt it elsewhere? pl
The mayor (herrronner?) and the governor are trying to look the other way and deny that
the occupiers have guns, have established borders, checkpoints, are demanding money from
citizens caught in CHAZ, etc. No problem, they say, just citizens exercising their
constitutional rights peacefully. To paraphrase Groucho Marx, who are we to believe, the
mayor/governor or our own eyes?
Political scientists define government as the institution with the monopoly on the use of
force. CHAZ is a defacto government competing with the city, state and federal
governments.
Colonel, your comments are spot on. What is to prevent this from happening elsewhere where
local authorities will not exercise their lawful authority?
This makes me yearn for leaders like Frank Rizzo again.
Reasonable people-- on either side of the aisle-- can agree that we cannot allow parts of
our cities to be handed over to the rabble. Jenny Durkin is letting her personal ideology
cloud her judgement. The crisis needs to be addressed swiftly and with as much force as
needed. Seizing public land and private property has nothing to do with BLM or racial
justice, it's a flagrant powergrab by criminals and opportunists who should be held
accountable for their actions.
The lack of clearsightedness seems to have overtaken the entire democratic party which
seems to think there is some "gray area" in this matter. But there isn't. It's cut and dry
for anyone with half a brain.
I live just north of Seattle, and I'll tell you, there are alot of people who can't wait
to vote these goofballs out of office.
Why would they not? They most certainly will in any jurisdiction where they feel the
authorities are either compliant or lack the will to resist. This situation has been planned
by the anarchists for a long time and can now only be resolved by force. Trump had better
fire Milley and move on this very quickly. There is presidential precedent for this going
back to Sheay's rebellion.
Don't spread this "liberation" around geographically - concentrate it all in Seattle. Let
it be the magnet city for all those who want a totally free, autonomous lifestyle, but NO
foreign aid from the US allowed.
I do support "space" dedicated for those who chose not to participate in productive
activity and provide for their own food and shelter. But confine his location to one
dedicated "freedom area" only; not spread it a around.
One way bus tickets to Seattle provided by non-profits should do the trick and clean up
this "homeless" mess once and for all. Thank you Seattle for drawing the short straw. You're
it.
From WTO to the nation's LOO, there could not be a more deserving city. You gave us
Starbucks, Amazon, Microsoft and now finally the answer to vagrancy and lawlessness. A
grateful nation thanks you.
Seeds of Seattle anarchy well planted and cultivated by its non-response to its recent
invasion of vagrant camps. How was this any different than being taken over by radical
separatists?
A must see documentary, produced well before this current insurrection that the mayor
insists will breathe new life into this already fractious town. "Seattle is Dying":
https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/seattle-dying/
The federal government let the Bundys and their armed followers hold the Malheur Wildlife
Refuge HQ for 40 days before taking them into custody. There were armed standoffs with the
Bundys on and off for several years preceding that. The nation endured those challenges.
We'll endure CHAZ which looks more like a hippie commune/street party than an armed
standoff.
CHAZ is not autonomous at all. It still has city water and power. The concrete barriers
were removed to all emergency services to enter CHAZ. This removal was done with the mutual
agreement between CHAZ and the Seattle government. Residents and businesses deny they are
being taxed. Some have said they prefer this to the police gassing of the area.
This AZ will
either melt away or morph into some kind of equilibrium with the city. It can't sustain
itself as is. This is another instance where we should not fall prey to hysteria.
Why haven't we heard from the 500 or so private property owning residents who got trapped
in this Seattle city council enabled miasma? If they are all good with this, then let them
be.
But why are US based public utilities still serving this newly autonomous area when there
are no cross-border agreements. Their neighbor Vancouver and the rest of Canada has
effectively created a travel and tourism wall around their entire country.
Why is newly independent CHAZ still allowed to feed off the US? Of course, this new status
means they are no longer US registered voters for any upcoming US elections
Their fledgling garden reminds me of an old Beavis and Butthead show, the boys were asked
by their teacher what they would like to grow as part of a class project, they decided upon
nachos.
There is no principle or ideology involved in the state declining to break up that
"protest" takeover. There is simply a lack of the courage required to do so.
Bundy did not recognize federal police power or federal courts. He views were in line with
the Sovereign Citizen Movement. More specifically, he wanted federal lands transferred to
private ownership. His ranching operation was dependent on unfettered and free use of federal
grazing land.
They tried something similar in Copenhagen in 1971, with mixed results ... but their
anarchist collective, 'Freetown Christiania', still exists, albeit a little worse for the
wear:
Zed, thank you for the local video which does give far more credence to the overall "block
party" description, but the over all impression is also "Seattle So White". I hope you do
have a summer of love in your city drawing in the world's disaffected, and they all .....
wear flowers in their hair.
As I mentioned in Harper's thread the Seattle police are pulling the chair, a basketball
reference, on the protesters. It will be interesting to see how that plays out but it's
currently "so far so good."
The protesters became obsessed on the east side precinct HQ for whatever reason, now they
"have" it. We all must be careful what we wish for. Next night the protesters were down to a
couple dozen hard core and the local residents are now the ones giving them grief, not the
cops.
The Copenhagen "autonomous" community is on an island (peninsula?) and far removed from
their downtown. You can view it on a canal boat tour. I believe it was the site of a former
industrial or public utilities plant. Mixed reviews locally, but does not intrude on
surrounding metropolitan area.
Key West has a similar nearby offshore island that is a free for all described by some as
either pure heaven or pure hell, depending on their perspective. Not sure what its current
state is today - waste management was its biggest concern.
Zurich tried its "needle park" free drug use zone, but that also failed. One may need to
include strict isolation as a criteria for autonomous zones, before giving them any social
credibility. Either they is or they ain't. And if they ain't they must live within the
confines of polite society. Unless of course they are truly not asking for "freedom" and only
want to be in your face contrarians.
I disagree with @plantman's assessment that the Dems' reaction to this results from a lack
of clearsightedness. They know exactly what they are doing in their silence or tacit support;
it is yet another futile attempt at entrapment. The same people who defend the war on the
constitutionally defensible secession of the states of the Confederacy will cry foul them
moment force is used against the utterly unconstitutional Seattle Commune.
Trump knows this and his threats are, as usual, bluster. He can let CHAZ wither on the
vine and simultaneously use it as an opportunity to show what happens when
Fukuyamism-Lennonism (thank you DH) is left unchallenged.
Already libertarian maximalists are coming out of the woodwork to defend people's right to
declare autonomous zones anywhere they like. I saw Hans-Hermann Hoppe cited somewhere. This
fellow believes in the "..rights of property owners to establish private covenant
communities." with the ability to exclude and eject people based on religion, sexual
orientation and so on (wiki). To me this seems a sure recipe for the collapse of any sort of
cohesive state. It is surely a short journey from Hoppe to Hobbes.
You are absolutely right to differentiate between the secession of a state (let Washington
try it if they wish) and the anarchic takeover of part of a city, which is simple
lawlessness. Hysterical hatred of Trump fomented and encouraged by the left and by the media
has led to this. All the more grist to Trump's mill, roll on November.
It's a slow simmering Tahrir or Maidan. Just wait until they turn the rioter/protesters
back on, in force, in November. I am planning a trip out of the country.
Funny thing is I lived adjacent to the to the 11th precinct for 10 years, and participated
in the 1999 protests. My old apt is in the CHAZ. However, then, we were protesting for the
government to FOLLOW the rule of law, rather than abandon us to corporate run globalist
institutions. Which is now now Trumps position.
Private property owners are OK with it? 'Morph into equilibrium?'
Do you think business guys who have this happen to them would throw away the opportunity
of a lifetime? There are going to be a lot of million dollar lawsuits against the city of
Seattle over this, I will bet you. The suits will go on for years, and there will be big
settlements. Ever heard of the Stockholm Syndrome?
"Seattle's East Precinct has fallen, as Police Chief Carmen Best orders Seattle Police to
evacuate. The occupiers, aka the 'peaceful protesters,' declare victory. 'They've given us the
precinct,' they boast. Not even in South Africa."
A mere day on, and the City of Seattle is de facto occupied territory, fallen to the
"peaceful protesters" -- the same counterculture media darlings who've been sacking cities
across America.
The rabble -- Black Lives Matter sympathizers, which, as police
arrest records show is almost entirely
local -- was further roused by Seattle City Council member Kshama Sawant, formerly of
Mumbai.
Most reprehensibly, Pied Piper Sawant led the "peace makers" to occupy City Hall in downtown
Seattle, on Tuesday, June 10.
The altercation between Council Member Sawant and Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan gives new
meaning to the "broad" sweep of ideas in this dysfunctional city. Sawant, a socialist, called
on Mayor Durkan, a progressive, to resign over abuse of power (what power?) and systemic racism
(a meaningless abstraction). This, as the city was being sacked.
Surrender Monkeys
As of this writing, the Seattle Police has surrendered without defeat.
Seven blocks of downtown Seattle, renamed the "Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone" (CHAZ), have
been appropriated by the Peaceful Ones, with the imprimatur of the mayor and her police chief
(Carmen Best aforementioned). Now loosed on the public, these buccaneering entrepreneurs are
reported to have set up checkpoints to shake down residents who imagine they may come and
go. Not in this satrapy.
On the positive side, Seattle now has that shithole-country
vibrancy.
President of the Seattle Police Officers Guild, SPOG,
penned an open letter to lunatic Mayor Durkan, pondering how he would fulfill his sworn
oath of office to protect lives and property without so much as tear gas.
He got his answer. America did. Across the U.S., the message to law-abiding Americans, from
city, town, county council members and other legislators came loud and clear: You're on your
own. Neither police nor politicians are coming to protect what's left of your businesses or
your banal, bourgeoisie little life.
Last I looked, there were 400,000 "guardian angels" in private security toiling to make up
for the South African state's failure to protect its people. Every year, millions in taxpayers'
money are forked out to private security firms to protect the new South Africa's police
stations. " South Africa's
protectors can't protect themselves ." Will Seattle's neutered policemen be investigating
this option? It's time for them to cut the shafted taxpayers loose. Let us go private.
When all is said and done, the George Floyd riots are a law-and-order-event. Nothing else
matters in the overarching context of a failed state, in which ordered liberty is dead, and the
law-abiding are utterly forsaken, even vilified.
Yes, victims are now villains and villains are martyrs. Unbeknown to Nikolas Fernandez, a
gainfully employed security guard, the Capitol Hill district of Seattle now belongs to the
"peaceful protesters." Fernandez dared to drive down it, only to be mobbed by the barbarians
and forced to shoot an attacker possessing of animal-like agility. Legacy media quickly turned
the
narrative on its head . Fernandez, whose brother is a policeman, had invaded "peaceful
protester" turf. His attacker took a bullet for peace. Hero.
Kneeling Ninnies
Next came the national kneeling. Once again, Washington State led the way. On June 1, after
hundreds of looters ransacked major shopping malls in Bellevue, including the spectacular
Bellevue Square, that city's police chief, Steve Mylett,
knelt down like a girl , instead of standing tall like a man for LAW-AND-ORDER.
"That was a scary scene in 'Deliverance,'" someone quipped on Twitter. That was
it. There was no stopping the kinky trend.
Soon, Chief Brian Manley of Austin, Texas, broke down in tears for the protesters, not for
property owners robbed. Real manly. It's almost as though WASPS get a
homo-erotic sexual charge out of prostrating themselves to The Evil Other .
The camera panned out across the country to reveal policemen and guardsmen caving. Against
the backdrop of "Mad Max"-like dystopian destruction, men in uniform all collapsed to the pavement s
like yogis to the command of their black tormentors. One after another. Here is Santa Cruz
Police Chief Andy Mills.
KNEELING .
The forces, police and paramilitary, all squatted like sissies. Isn't there some a code of
conduct preventing uniforms from groveling ?
Police acquit themselves honorably by doing the job ethically. Activism is not in the job
description.
In Parker, Colorado, masses assumed the postures
of ordination : prostration, lying prone, limbs splayed.
Congressional Democrats, led by Nancy, did the same . Is twerking next?
Finally! We have a man in the house! "Georgia State Trooper O'Neal Saddler, black, refused to
kneel during a Black Lives Matter protest in Hartwell,
saying he only kneels" for God.
And what a hot, decadent mess was this national guard
bump-and-grind in Atlanta: men, women, and everything in-between, mostly fat, hips swaying as
they give themselves over to Dionysian urges.
Cops can't be responsible for every misstep a feeble-minded protester takes. An elderly
geezer, Martin Gugino, in Buffalo, New York, came right up to a cop's face when the latter was
on the march. Cop pushed the git to get past him. The geezer was expecting a group hug. Wasn't
prepared for a shove. He lost his balance and fell back like a twig. I saw no excess force,
except a "
get out of my face" shove . But the cops were hung out to dry.
Frey The Faker
ORDER IT NOW
As to Jacob Frey's schtick: His was total grief appropriation. Frey is the mayor of
Minneapolis, where George Floyd, in whose honor the global orgy of abreaction and destruction
is being carried out, died by cop .
Only people who knew an individual can legitimately have a Frey-like grand mal when mourning
him. Otherwise, Frey's
performance at the casket was farcical, inauthentic; histrionic. The advice of Humphrey
Bogart, playing Rick Blaine in "Casablanca" (channeled by Woody Allen in "Play It Again Sam"),
should have been considered: "I never saw a dame yet that didn't understand a good slap
in the mouth "
The spectacle of mass contagion, where members of the public turn into professional
mourners, flocking to funeral happenings for victims they never knew -- this is warped. Grief
is not a tribal affair. Communities don't grieve; individuals who incur loss do. These are
professional pornographers, not mourners. These phony displays among regular folks are at the
root of our festering cultural commons.
As kids, we knew our local policeman by name. He patrolled our neighborhoods regularly and
joshed around with us. He lived among us.
Community policing, however, is a thing of the past. Former Ferguson Police Officer Darren
Wilson -- notorious for shooting Michael Brown -- gave a clue as to why. Wilson told The New
Yorker that while he didn't want to work in a white area, liked the black community and had fun
there -- he had experienced "culture shock."
Wilson described venturing into a "different culture": a "pre-gang culture where you're just
running in the streets, not worried about working in the morning, just worried about your
immediate gratification." For his candor about an alien culture overtaking America, Wilson was
called racist by CNN's Boris Sanchez and Kate Bolduan.
"To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely," said Edmund Burke, in his
"Reflections on the Revolution in France" (1790). Darren Wilson's words suggest a variation on
Burke's theme: To make cops love the communities they police, the communities they police ought
to be lovely.
Burke further reminded us in 1790 that, "To love the little platoon we belong to is the
first principle (the germ as it were) of public affections." But what happens when those little
platoons are not so little and not so lovely?
A country that is without a modicum of cultural cohesion and is, by D.C. design, comprised
of ever-accreting, competing factions -- this kind of country cannot be lovely in the Burkean
sense.
In fairness to law-enforcement, communities in America must be damn difficult to police.
The fact, real or false, that criminal gangs are reported as taking over the "autonomous
zones", is a de facto retaking of power by the police, acting as discouraging for the genuine
protesters.
As you would recall from The Godfather , based on real events in the 40s in the US,
mafias and policial/judicial forces are always intertwined in de facto, or in the way ,
fascist states.
In conveniently censured footage of "The Godfather I", Michael Corleone needs to ask who
those people are who are coming holding the banner of the Italian Communist Party and
chanting Bandiera Rossa ....he, simply, had never met antifascist people...the least
in Italian South...Sicily...the kind he probably was used to met was the kind of Trump and
Kushner...
During the worst time of the pandemic in Italy, and as the lockdown was being extended,
some looting started taking place in the South by people who argued not having with which to
feed their families...at that point, the mafia tried to take over those municipalities...
Posted by: lizard | Jun 13 2020 18:43 utc | 6 I wrote up a brief post this morning about
Hakim Bey, the author of TAZ (temporary autonomous zone).
I read TAZ back in the day. Interesting stuff. I think he based it on William S.
Burroughs, who wrote some speculative stuff in one of his novels as to what might have
happened had the "pirate countries" formed by pirates had gained ground and figured out how
to avoid being destroyed by regular country military.
There might also be an influence from some of the early hackers and crypto enthusiasts.
Also likely a Situationist influence. And of course, the usual Paris Commune history.
And possibly some of the "New Country" stuff various libertarians have tried over the
years (all of which have failed.) A guy named Erwin S. Strauss wrote a book on the
subject. He also published The Connection which I used to write for back in the
Seventies.
The operative word is "temporary". Any attempt to grab a piece of territory from a real
state - even one the size of Tonga, which was tried IIRC - is doomed to failure. So whatever
is going on by BLM, they have some official support. Otherwise they'd all be dead or in
jail.
The Democratic establishment is a party of Loud Virtue-signaling and accusing others of what
they themselves are often responsible for. Indeed they reflect the tendencies of (bi-partisan) US
Foreign Policy of loudly talking about Freedom & Human Rights as an excuse to exercise
hegemony and interfere, suppress, sanction, declare war against peoples who have done them no
harm but refuse to yield to the Empire1
I wrote up a brief post this morning about Hakim Bey, the author of TAZ (temporary autonomous
zone). Bey, who's real name s Peter Lamborn Wilson, is an alleged anarchist who likes Moorish
culture and pedophilia. too bad the rapper Raz took over the CHAZ inspired by TAZ, otherwise
this could have been a great opportunity for oppressed pedophiles who just want to share
their love of children.
Thank you, that was a mighty interesting story. The pedos just keep rising to the top.
Maybe the CHAZ will be declared a green zone just to add to the craziness.
It doesn't matter who wins, the Neocons have destroyed my country.
FOX is dying for Trump to send in the military to crush the Rep. of SAZ in order to restore
law and order and prevent it from spreading to other cities. It doesn't matter if SAZ is
peaceful or not because the country comes first. Does anyone remember what we did to Syria?
We were more than happy to fragment and destroy their country.
All the evil we have done and are doing to other countries is coming back to us.
1. Covid19 - a small taste of what it's like to live under U.S. sanctions.
2. Rep. of SAZ + Wash. protests - a small taste of what a color revolution tastes like except
we inflicted this on ourselves.
The only thing left is for the Neocons to get us into a war where thousands of U.S.
serviceman die in a short period of time. Not hoping for that because the people who should
die will still be rich, well fed, and happy. The least deserving of death will suffer the
most; especially the civilians we will murder on the other side of the fence.
Much of this CHAZ controversy is a reflection of local Seattle politics. The Capitol Hill
district has long nurtured bohemian/alternative viewpoints. Distinct anti-police sentiments
date back at least to the 1999 WTO protests, when riot police forced the protesters into
Capitol Hill and then tear-gassed and batoned anyone in sight. Fears of an "autonomous zone"
are over-hyped, and is certainly serving a "law and order" mindset which works politically
for Trump and followers, but it is not a reflection of reality.
The association of pedophilia with Peter L Wilson/Hakim Bey is based on interpretations of
his writings, and seem to be inveighed by persons who dislike anarchists and anarchism
altogether.
I'm curious about how things work in the Autonomous Zone. Do people actually live in the Zone
or do they commute daily from the suburbs? Are there any toilets? Who takes the garbage out?
What happens if/when there is a serious crime in the Zone?
"Paid protesters are real ," writes the Los Angeles
Times , after a lawsuit filed by a Czech investor against a business rival spotlighted the
seedy, and very real business of people hired to express fake outrage, support, and everything
in between.
According to a lawsuit filed by investor Zdenek Bakala, Prague-based investment manager
Pavol Krupa hired Beverly hills company Crowds on Demand (COD) to stage a protest near Bakala's
home in Hilton Head, SC.
In the Bakala case, Crowds on Demand is accused of spreading misinformation through a
website, putting on protests and organizing a phone and email campaign targeting several U.S.
institutions with ties to Bakala, who got an MBA from Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business and
had an estimated net worth topping $1 billion earlier this decade, according to Forbes. -
LA Times
Crowds on Demand provides pop-up "protests, rallies, flash mobs, paparazzi events and other
inventive PR stunts," according to its website.
The dispute between Bakala and Krupa goes back for several years, and has been the subject
of inquiries by the European Commission and the Czech government, involving a formerly
state-owned coal mining business, OKD, which Bakala assumed control of in 2004. Bakala has been
accused of bribing officials to buy the government's equity in the mining company at a
below-market price, which broke a promise to sell company-owned apartments to employees before
the company ultimately filed for bankruptcy in 2016.
According to Bakala, the COD smear campaign didn't stop there, claiming that the company
also called and sent emails to the Aspen Institute and Dartmouth College, where Bakala sits on
advisory boards, urging them to cut ties with him. Bakala claims that Krupa threatened to ramp
up the COD campaign unless the Czech investor coughs up $23 million.
Bakala, who holds U.S. and Czech citizenship, says in his lawsuit that all of those
allegations are false and are part of Krupa's extortion campaign. He alleges that Krupa
offered to cease his campaign if Bakala paid $23 million for OKD shares owned by Krupa's
investment fund.
...
Crowds on Demand founder Adam Swart and Krupa neither confirmed nor denied that they are
working together. They declined to answer specific questions about Bakala's allegations,
though Swart, in an emailed statement, called the claims meritless.
" Not only will I vigorously defend myself against the allegations in the complaint but I
am also evaluating whether to bring my own claims against Mr. Bakala ," Swart said. -
LA Times
"Defendants are pursuing a campaign of harassment, defamation, and interference in the
business affairs of Zdenek Bakala, which they have expressly vowed to expand unless he pays
them millions of dollars," reads Bakala's lawsuit (see below).
That said, it's not clear that Krupa's alleged campaign had the desired effect.
Elliot Gerson, an executive vice president at the Aspen Institute, said in an emailed
statement that the institute has received calls and emails from "individuals associated with
Crowds on Demand" and that the nonprofit's general counsel has spoken with Swart "about this
campaign of harassment."
" From the beginning, we assumed that these manufactured communications were linked to
political issues in the Czech Republic and Mr. Bakala's high profile in that country ,"
Gerson said. " Nothing we received has altered our views about Mr. Bakala ." - LA
Times
So paid protesters are a thing...
Bakala's lawsuit brings to light an ongoing debate in the national dialogue over paid
protesters. President Trump, for example, has repeatedly claimed that protesters have been paid
by left-wing billionaire activist George Soros and others in order to disrupt and undermine
conservative events.
"There are hundreds of lobbying firms and public affairs firms that do this work, though not
all in the same way," said USLA sociology professor Edward Walker - who wrote a book on the
business of paid protesting, also known as Astroturfing. "Some only do a little bit of this
grass-roots-for-hire, but things adjacent to this are not uncommon today."
In 2014, ABC's "Nightline" reported that a group backed by the beverage industry was hiring
people to protest a soda tax measure - posting ads on Craigslist for paid protesters at $13 an
hour.
During the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, many noted what
appeared to be a man, Vinay Krishnan - who works for progressive activist organization Center
for Popular Democracy, paying a woman named Vickie Lampron who was later seen in the Kavanaugh
hearing.
Krishnan said that the money was given to people to pay fines in case they were
arrested.
As the Times notes, paid protesters aren't a recent phenomenon.
Longtime California political consultant Garry South, who was a campaign strategist for
California Gov. Gray Davis, said it's long been common for campaigns and political parties to
pay people a few bucks or perhaps provide a meal in exchange for attending a rally. He
recalled a 2002 rally in San Francisco where he said that tactic was used.
" It turns out, the San Francisco Democratic Party, to bolster the crowd, had basically
gone down to skid row and paid people $5 or something to tromp up to Union Square ," South
said.
But he sees a big difference between that kind of activity and the paid protests allegedly
organized by Crowds on Demand.
"What's different is the commercialization of the process," he said. "It just contributes
to the air of unreality that exists in this day and age with essentially not being able to
believe your own eyes or ears. I don't think it's particularly healthy. But it probably
inevitably was going to come to this." - LA Times
Crowds on Demand, meanwhile, shamelessly boasts on their website that they were hired by a
business rival to "cripple the operations" of a manufacturing business owned by a convicted
child molester, which resulted in the hiring company buying the molester-owned business for "5
percent of its previous value."
In another "case study," COD brags about staging a rally to support an unidentified foreign
leader who was visiting the United Nations.
"The concern was ensuring that the leader was well received by a U.S. audience and confident
for his work at the U.N. We created demonstrations of support with diverse crowds.," says
COD.
"A lot of times, companies don't want to be known for using this kind of strategy," Walker
said. "Crowds on Demand, they're more out about it. ... It is strikingly brazen. "
Very interesting. Hiring a mob to cause economic damage and set the stage for extortion certainly sounds
"actionable". Talking head Mark Levin has talked from time to time about suing people for "tortious
interference". I've never heard about such suits, but Levin is a legal heavyweight and likely knows what
is a credible legal threat.
"... While people of goodwill sincerely debate, the black political class does everything in its power to make sure that nothing much is accomplished at all. The Congressional Black Caucus pulled out their kente cloth prop and added taking a knee with Nancy Pelosi and Charles Schumer in one of the worst photo opportunities of all time. ..."
Everything has changed since the world witnessed George Floyd's murder at the hands of police.
Suddenly, workers are publicly criticizing their bosses. Politicians are backpedaling and
newspapers face revolts when they are caught spreading propaganda. In Europe and the United
States monuments to genocidaires are defaced and pulled down.
But no one should think that the black misleaders have given up allegiance to their
overlords among the Democratic Party donor class. The scoundrels are giving lip service to
change but are committed to business as usual and they co-opt the language and imagery of the
movement to do it.
In addition, the movement itself is sometimes a source of confusion. While well-meaning,
proposals such as defunding the police are highly problematic. They do nothing to address the
foundational nature of state violence and allow budgetary sleight of hand to create new methods
of law enforcement. The demands for community control and abolition must remain at the top of
the list.
While people of goodwill sincerely debate, the black political class does everything in its
power to make sure that nothing much is accomplished at all. The Congressional Black Caucus
pulled out their kente cloth prop and added taking a knee with Nancy Pelosi and Charles Schumer
in one of the worst photo opportunities of all time.
Pelosi and other members of Congress, kneel at the Capitol's Emancipation Hall, June 8,
2020, on Capitol Hill. Manuel Balce Ceneta | AP
They are proposing reforms that will never be approved by the Republican-controlled Senate
or Donald Trump. They are also keeping their police-empowering Protect and Serve Act in place.
Protect and Serve makes assaulting a police officer a federal offense, and nearly every victim
of police violence is again victimized by this spurious charge.
The chicanery must be pointed out, yet it must be acknowledged that changes are far-reaching
and events are occurring which no one would have predicted just a few months ago. Kente cloth
charlatans are not only the ones being exposed. When New York City mayor Bill de Blasio's
daughter was arrested at a protest the police union revealed her name to the press in an effort
to embarrass him. In return, de Blasio defended cops who drove vehicles into a crowd, beat
protesters and bystanders alike, and even arrested legal observers from the National Lawyers
Guild.
In response, New York City employees signed an open letter to the mayor condemning his supine support of a
police department that hates him. They broke every rule of politics and conventional wisdom
given to employees anywhere. The dictum of never criticizing a boss has gone out the window
along with everything else.
Corporate media propaganda has also taken a hit. James Bennet was the editor of the New
York Times opinion page but is now without a job after a similar employee revolt. Staff was
rightly angry when the Times printed an editorial from Arkansas senator
Tom Cotton , who advised sending the military to quell nationwide protests. When
Times employees spoke up it was revealed that the newspaper pitched the idea to Cotton,
and not the other way around. Bennet also had to admit that he didn't even read the fascistic
screed.
The "paper of record" has long been a purveyor of war propaganda and the utterances of
conservatives like Cotton. But the standard operating procedure isn't good enough now and
someone a few weeks ago can now be the scapegoat who gets pushed under a bus.
In Europe, thousands of people have turned out to protest for Floyd and against the United
States. In Athens, the U.S. embassy was the target of demonstrators. Europe has its own history
of racism and condemnation of this country has inspired people to be brave about their own
nations' criminality.
Parisians marched but not just for George Floyd. Adam Traore was killed by French police in
2016 and the anger about his death never disappeared. That is why a crowd of thousands gathered
to say both of their names.
Long dead criminals are also being taken to task. Belgium's
King Leopold presided over one of the world's worst genocides in the Congo where up to 10
million people were killed in quest to maximize rubber production. In recent days monuments to
Leopold have been defaced with graffiti and red paint representing the blood he spilled. In
Britain, the statue of Edward Colston was pulled down and dumped into a river in the city of
Bristol. Colston made a fortune selling 100,000 Africans to colonies in the Caribbean. His name
is still present in his hometown in recognition of the philanthropy that came from selling
people and working them to death.
A statue of King Leopold II is smeared with red paint and graffiti in Brussels, June 10,
2020. Virginia Mayo | AP
No one is safe. New York Times editors, mayors of major cities, and even long-dead
criminals are being called to account. People have lost their fear because they are desperate
and angry. It is harder to convince them that all is well when their suffering was deliberately
created and their pleas for redress were ignored.
The reaction to these acts of rebellion has been all too predictable. Politicians are
running scared and dare to do what they would never have considered before. The Minneapolis
city council voted to
disband its police department. But the mayor has already expressed opposition and the state
of Minnesota would also have to approve. Not only can the council not deliver on their vote,
but they have done nothing to bring justice to those already killed by police in that city. The
movement would do well not to be taken in by unworkable schemes meant to silence them.
While the well-meaning struggle with direction, the powerful see the handwriting on the wall
and respond with their own kente cloth moments. The CEO of Chase, Jamie Dimon, photographed
himself taking a knee, but outside of a bank vault, just in case anyone didn't know whose side
he was on. Corporations are claiming they will do better in their treatment of black employees
and the NFL is making mealy-mouthed apologies to Colin Kaepernick. Nike says it will donate $40
million to as yet unnamed organizations serving black communities.
All of the opportunism is the result of a mass determination to see change that benefits the
people. The moment was rife as kleptocracy enriched the already rich and a pandemic decimated
already shaky economies. Now white people have themselves faced the wrath of police goon squads
and are now accepting proposals they would have opposed or ignored not too long ago.
There is the possibility of advancement but also of reaction. The system knows how to defend
itself and how to appeal to the public. This moment requires great vigilance. The people in
movement can bring about great changes. But the kente cloth wearing rascals will not disappear
anytime soon.
Feature photo | House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck
Schumer of N.Y., center, and House Majority Whip James Clyburn of S.C., right, and top
Congressional Democrats, raise their hands during a news conference to unveil policing reform
and equal justice legislation on Capitol Hill, June 8, 2020, in Washington. Manuel Balce Ceneta
| AP
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An honest reckoning of Clinton's past unearths a myriad of troubling incidents and positions that are difficult to square
with her newfound radical antiracist stance.
A
fter the
killing
of
George Floyd in Minneapolis two weeks ago, a spontaneous nationwide movement of millions of people protesting racist
policing has gripped the country. Politicians of all stripes have staked out their positions, condemning, endorsing, or
trying to co-opt the radical movement. The latest of these is failed 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. The
former New York senator
published
her
thoughts on her on
Medium
blog
,
where
she appeared to endorse the Black Lives Matter movement, something she has previously stayed well clear of doing. "George
Floyd's life mattered. Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor's lives mattered. Black lives matter," she began by stating.
"I promise to keep fighting alongside all of you to make the United States a place where all men and all women are treated
as equals, just as we are and just as we deserve to be," she added, positioning herself on the same side as the protestors,
many of whom are demanding the abolition of the police. Clinton commended the amazing "power of solidarity" she had seen
and promised to "speak out against white supremacy in all its forms," declaring that America is long overdue for "an honest
reckoning" with its racism problem.
However, an honest reckoning with Clinton's past unearths a myriad of troubling incidents and positions that are difficult
to square with her newfound radical antiracist stance. She
supported
her
husband and
Joe
Biden's
1994 Crime Bill that led to an explosion in mass incarceration across the country. In 1996, she went further,
using well-established racial dog whistles to argue that a new class of people had emerged in America: that of the
superpredators,
stating
:
We need to take these people on, they are often connected to big drug cartels, they are not just gangs of kids anymore.
They are often the kinds of kids that are called superpredators. No conscience. No empathy. We can talk about why they
ended up that way but first we have to bring them to heel."
In practice, this largely meant young men of color, and was part of the "New Democrats'" swing to the right, turning
against working-class people and racial minorities.
Clinton has hardly been an ally to black people outside the United States either. In 1998, she supported her husband's
missile strike on a Sudanese drug factory, a largely forgotten attack that the German Ambassador to Sudan
estimated
killed
"several tens of thousands" of civilians by depriving them of much-need medicines. President Clinton also
continued
George
H. W. Bush's destruction of a fledgling democracy in Haiti, giving his support to the removal of the newly elected head of
state Jean-Bertrand Aristide. After the 2010 earthquake that wrecked the country, Clinton, in her role as Secretary of
State, presided over what
amounted
to
a U.S. invasion and occupation of the island, one whose consequences
reverberate
to
this day.
In Libya too, Clinton
pushed
for
a supposedly humanitarian intervention in the country, cajoling other nations into complying. Leaked emails show that she
was aware that the extremist groups they were funding were carrying out massacres against black Libyans and that NATO was
committing war crimes. However, she was triumphant in her achievement; speaking of the deposed and executed head of state,
Muammar Gaddafi, she laughed,
stating
,
"We came, we saw, he died!" Today, the extremist groups who control the country regulate open
slave
markets
where black Africans are bought and sold.
Despite her new proclamations that black lives matter, it is unclear whether activists will accept her apparent change of
heart. For one, a
leaked
2015
Democratic Party memo on dealing with Black Lives Matter told members to "listen to their concerns" but instructed them
clearly: "don't offer support for concrete policy positions." Black Lives Matter responded to the leak, stating they were
"disappointed at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee's placating response," adding that "black communities
deserve to be heard, not handled."
Clinton herself was accosted by Black Lives Matter activists during her 2016 election campaign, who asked her to apologize
for the mass incarceration state she helped build. "I am not a superpredator," one told her.
From same-sex marriage to trade to Iraq, Clinton has often
changed
her positions
in tune with what is politically expedient. In reality, any "honest reckoning" would involve taking a
look at her own hand in upholding and enforcing structural racism across the country and the world.
Feature photo | Hillary Clinton winks as she speaks to Lesley McSpadden, right, the mother of Michael Brown, while working
the rope line during a campaign stop at a union hall on Dec. 11, 2015, in St. Louis. Brown was shot and killed by a
Ferguson police officer in Aug. 2014 setting off the Black Lives Matter movement. Jeff Roberson | AP
"... From this point of view the current situation is a mixed bag for Neoliberal Dems: protest are partially genuine protests against the level of inequality caused by neoliberalism, partially are an attempt to exploit legitimate grievances in order to topple Trump (CHAZ in Seattle looks like a kind of a new Maidan and clearly were at least partially city council and the governor supported.) ..."
"... The USA version of Hongweibings toppling statues definitely play into Trump hand: radicalization of protests gives Trump an advantage to present himself now as the only "law and order" candidate, the "Silent majority" candidate, a la Nixon. ..."
"... The key weakness of Neoliberal Democrats is the level of hypocrisy in their support of protests: Pelosi (and Schumer) looks like a wolf in sheep clothing donning African scarves. Along with Bill Clinton they did a lot to deprive Afro Americans of the social security benefits they enjoyed under the New Deal Capitalism, and putting them in jails for minor infractions with the law (Biden was the key player here) ..."
"... I would assume that the 2020 election will be a choice between two platforms, not between two candidates. And Trump now represents "law and order" platform. While Biden is forced to represent "change we can believe in" platform. And Democrats already burned all the bridges. ..."
Trump is staggering. He's plunging in the polls, and his behavior has become erratic
and unhinged. I don't mean he's being crude, infantile and wrapped in a world of fantasy
-- he's always like that. Rather, I see him as suddenly incoherent, fumbling with threats
and catchphrases as if he were locked out of his house at night, frantically trying one
key after another to see if any will work.
I think the personalities of Trump and Biden no longer matter: the level of polarization
of the USA electorate is a more important factor now.
In other words, the reaction to the protests of independents will determine the results
on 2020 elections.
From this point of view the current situation is a mixed bag for Neoliberal Dems:
protest are partially genuine protests against the level of inequality caused by
neoliberalism, partially are an attempt to exploit legitimate grievances in order to topple
Trump (CHAZ in Seattle looks like a kind of a new Maidan and clearly were at least
partially city council and the governor supported.)
The USA version of Hongweibings toppling statues definitely play into Trump hand:
radicalization of protests gives Trump an advantage to present himself now as the only "law
and order" candidate, the "Silent majority" candidate, a la Nixon.
The key weakness of Neoliberal Democrats is the level of hypocrisy in their support of
protests: Pelosi (and Schumer) looks like a wolf in sheep clothing donning African scarves.
Along with Bill Clinton they did a lot to deprive Afro Americans of the social security
benefits they enjoyed under the New Deal Capitalism, and putting them in jails for minor
infractions with the law (Biden was the key player here)
One minor point: exaggerated threats is the way Trump operate. He like poker players use
bluffing as a part of the political strategy. It's like he is trying to determine some
limits for each situation and sense how far he can go, as well as putting the opponents off
balance provoking them to overreact,. Then he retreats to a more reasonable position.
I would assume that the 2020 election will be a choice between two platforms, not
between two candidates. And Trump now represents "law and order" platform. While Biden is
forced to represent "change we can believe in" platform. And Democrats already burned all
the bridges.
Please note that Biden political history is the history of a staunch neoliberal,
completely hostile to the interests of the majority of the USA population and, especially,
Afro Americans and white working class (aka deplorable). As such he will now look as
hypocrite no matter what he say.
BLM is a pack of useful idiots doing the service of the super-rich, setting the proles
against each other while our overloads sip champagne from the safety of their walled estates
and mansions.
BLM is not spontaneous. It has been created and managed by the corporate press. They take
a single bad thing, and play it 24/7 and scream and holler that this proves that the nebulous
evil spirit of RACISM is to blame and it has nothing to do with our industrial base being
outsourced, or rents being unaffordable, or medical care being unaffordable, or education
being unaffordable, or people being forced into a lifetime of debt servitude and no longer
able to get out from under via bankruptcy, and trillions spent on pointless foreign wars, and
tens of trillions in subsidies and bailouts for the super rich - no, don't talk about that,
anyone mentions those things and clearly it's because they are RACIST and infected with white
privilege and they could easily lose their jobs... Indeed, the extreme top-down pressure in
business and academia
reminds me a lot of the "cultural revolution" in Mao's China. Whip up the peasants into an
ideological frenzy fighting imaginary enemies to distract them from how the government was
responsible for a massive famine...
If there would be video footage of a black man killing a white man, would CNN play it over
and over and start harping about how white lives matter? Of course not, that's just a single
event, and in a country of 340 million you can always fond one bad thing that breaks
whichever way you choose....
Occupy Wall Street was a spontaneous protest - and look how easily the elites cancelled
them out. Harass them, arrest them, deprive them of any media coverage, corral them in 'free
speech zones' out of view of the public... and today they are gone as if they had never been.
BLM has been created and is maintained by deliberate elite policy.
It
takes a lot to build a civilization, and though it is much easier to destroy a civilization, it
takes a lot to do that, too... But now we have four roots of evil that are guaranteed to do
so...
Authored by Dennis Prager via RealClearPolitics.com,
It takes a lot to build a civilization, and though it is much easier to destroy a
civilization, it takes a lot to do that, too.
But now we have four roots of evil that are guaranteed to do so.
No. 1:
Victimhood.
The first is victimhood. The more people who regard themselves as victims -- as individuals
or as a group -- the more likely they are to commit evil. People who think of themselves as
victims feel that, having been victimized, they are no longer bound by normal moral conventions
-- especially the moral conventions of their alleged or real oppressors.
Everyone knows this is true. But few confront this truth. Every parent, for example, knows
that the child who thinks of him or herself as a perpetual victim is the child most likely to
cause and get into trouble. And criminologists report that nearly every murderer in prison
thinks of himself as a victim.
On a societal scale, the same holds true -- and being on such a larger scale, the chances of
real evil ensuing are exponentially increased. One of the most obvious examples is Germany
after World War I. Most Germans regarded themselves as victims -- of the Treaty of Versailles;
of a "stab in the back" German government; of the British, Americans and French; and, of
course, of the Jews. This sense of victimhood was one of the most important factors in the
popularity of the Nazis, who promised to restore German dignity.
That millions of black Americans regard themselves as victims -- probably more so today than
at any time in the past 50 years -- can only lead to disaster for America generally and for
blacks specifically. While victims generally feel free to lash out at others, they also go
through life angry and unhappy.
No. 2: Demonization.
The second of the four ingredients of this civilization-destroying witches' brew is
demonization -- demonizing a group as inherently evil.
That is being done now with regard to the white people of America. All -- again, all --
whites are declared racist. The only difference among them is that some admit it and some deny
it. The notion that whites are inherently evil has long been associated with Louis Farrakhan.
But it has apparently migrated out from his relatively small following to many blacks, even
those who might consider Farrakhan a kook. Former President Barack Obama, hardly a Farrakhan
follower, described America as having racism in its DNA. That is as close to inherently and
irredeemably evil as it gets; you cannot change your DNA.
In that sense, not only are whites demonized, but America is, too. Unlike traditional
liberals, the left regards America as a moral cesspool -- not only racist but, according to The
New York Times, founded to be so. The New York Times has created a history of America that
declares its founding not in 1776 but in 1619, when the first black slaves arrived. The
American Revolution was fought, according to this malign narrative, not merely for American
independence but in order to preserve slavery, a practice the British would have interfered
with. This "history" will now be taught in thousands of American schools.
The combination of victimhood and demonization alone is dangerous enough. But there are
still two more horsemen galloping toward the looming apocalypse.
No. 3: A Cause To
Believe In.
Most Americans throughout American history found great meaning in being American and in
being religious -- usually Christian. Since World War II, we have lived in a post-Christian,
post-nationalist age. Until very recently, Americans would have found the expression "for God
and country" deeply meaningful; that term today, on the left, is risible and execrable.
But people need something to believe in. The need for meaning is the greatest human need
after the need for food. Leftism, with all its offshoots -- feminism, environmentalism, Black
Lives Matter, antifa -- has filled that vacuum. In Europe, communism, fascism and Nazism filled
the hole left by the demise of nationalism and Christianity. Here it is leftism and its
offshoots.
No. 4: Lies.
The fourth and most important ingredient necessary for evil is lies. Lies are the root of
evil. Ironically, slavery itself was made possible only because of the lie that the black was
inferior to the white. Nazism was made possible thanks to the lie that Jews were not fully
human. And communism was built on lies. Lenin, the father of Soviet Communism, named the Soviet
communist newspaper "Truth" ("Pravda") because truth was what the Communist Party said it
was.
The New York Times, CNN and the rest of the mainstream "news" media are becoming our version
of Pravda. Objective truth doesn't exist on the left. The universities have already declared
"objective truth" as essentially an expression of "white privilege." See what happens to a
student who says in class, for example, that "men cannot give birth."
The public self-debasement demanded of anyone who differs with the left -- like New Orleans
Saints quarterback Drew Brees just did when he said not standing for the national anthem
desecrated the flag and those who have died for it -- happens almost daily. The only difference
between this and what dissidents underwent during Mao's Cultural Revolution is that the
self-debasement here is voluntary -- thus far.
Last week, when this Jew saw a store in Santa Monica with a sign reading "black-owned
business" so as to avoid being destroyed, it evoked chilling memories.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from BuzzFeed News: As protesters demand an end to
police brutality and the coronavirus pandemic sweeps the nation, police departments around the
country are using software that can
track and identify people in crowds from surveillance footage -- often with little to no
public oversight or knowledge. Dozens of cities around the country are using BriefCam, which
sells software that allows police to comb through surveillance footage to monitor protests and
enforce social distancing, and almost all of these cities have hosted protests against police
brutality in the weeks since George Floyd was killed in police custody, BuzzFeed News has
found. Some of the cities using BriefCam's technology -- such as New Orleans and St. Paul --
have been the site of extreme police violence, with officers using rubber bullets, tear gas,
and batons on protesters. Authorities in Chicago; Boston; Detroit; Denver; Doral, Florida;
Hartford, Connecticut; and Santa Fe County, New Mexico have also used it.
Founded in 2007 by Hebrew University researchers and now owned by camera company Canon , the
Israel-based company sells a system called "Protect & Insights" that lets police and
private companies filter hours of closed circuit television and
home surveillance and create excerpts of a few relevant moments. Protect & Insights has
built-in facial recognition and license plate reader searches, and lets police create "Watch
Lists" of faces and license plates. The company
also said its tool could filter out "men, women, children, clothing, bags, vehicles,
animals, size, color, speed, path, direction, dwell time, and more." [...] There are currently
no federal guidelines restricting the use of video analytics, license plate reader, and facial
recognition software offered by companies like BriefCam. Neema Singh Guliani a senior
legislative counsel with the ACLU said that city governments often acquire these technologies
without public oversight or debate.
If this is the same company whose product we evaluated around 2005 when I worked with a
public safety software company. The initial request from our clients was to use it to
identify suspects from mug shots.
We elected not to pursue the product - too many false positives and misidentifications.
And, that was on clear mug shot photos.
Itâ(TM)s scary...horrifying, actually, knowing that it is capable of using less than
HD video feeds.
Microsoft, Google and Amazon are taking heat over delivering software for this purpose.
But in truth, much of this software is already open source and freely available.
Anyone with access to Python can easily hack together facial recognition. OpenCV does most
of the work.
The problem is having a huge database and a massive amount of processing power. This is
also really quite easy. If law enforcement agencies each invest in a few stacks of nVidia or
IBM machine learning nodes and a few stacks of Ceph nodes, it will not even require much
effort. I know, I work with this every day.
Make the compute nodes boot from LAN with CentOS. Write a script to manage elasticity
using IPMI. Mount machine specific partitions as NFS based on MAC address. Deploy K8S on
previously unmanaged nodes. Then when it is all up, just run a brute force algorithm as a
container.
The algorithm is simple... covnet images of who you are looking for, establish a series of
points of interest (wrinkles, nostrils, etc...) then look for points in a database of
previously scanned images. Add points for matching characteristics between images and once
passing a given threshold, use ML to attempt positive/negative matching in an is it a hotdog
style.
It will have horrible results in the beginning, but as the ML is trained, it will increase
accuracy over time.
The ease of doing this is very high. It is no longer a science requiring top companies
with top talent to accomplish. It is strictly a matter of money and time.
A strange mixture of Black nationalism with Black Bolshevism is a very interesting and pretty alarming phenomenon. It proved to
be a pretty toxic mix. But it is far from being new. We saw how the Eugène Pottier famous song
International lines "We have been naught we
shall be all." and "Servile masses arise, arise." unfolded before under Stalinism in Soviet Russia.
We also saw Lysenkoism in Academia before, and it was not a pretty picture. Some Russian/Soviet scientists such as Academician Vavilov
paid with their life for the sin of not being politically correct. From this letter it is clear that the some departments
already reached the stage tragically close to that situation.
Lysenkoism was "politically correct" (a term invented by Lenin) because it was consistent with the broader Marxist doctrine.
Marxists wanted to believe that heredity had a limited role even among humans, and that human characteristics changed by living
under socialism would be inherited by subsequent generations of humans. Thus would be created the selfless new Soviet man
"Lysenko was consequently embraced and lionized by the Soviet media propaganda machine. Scientists who promoted Lysenkoism with
faked data and destroyed counterevidence were favored with government funding and official recognition and award. Lysenko and his
followers and media acolytes responded to critics by impugning their motives, and denouncing them as bourgeois fascists resisting
the advance of the new modern Marxism."
The Disgraceful Episode Of Lysenkoism Brings Us Global Warming Theory
Notable quotes:
"... In the extended links and resources you provided, I could not find a single instance of substantial counter-argument or alternative narrative to explain the under-representation of black individuals in academia or their over-representation in the criminal justice system. ..."
"... any cogent objections to this thesis have been raised by sober voices, including from within the black community itself, such as Thomas Sowell and Wilfred Reilly. These people are not racists or 'Uncle Toms'. They are intelligent scholars who reject a narrative that strips black people of agency and systematically externalizes the problems of the black community onto outsiders . Their view is entirely absent from the departmental and UCB-wide communiques. ..."
"... The claim that the difficulties that the black community faces are entirely causally explained by exogenous factors in the form of white systemic racism, white supremacy, and other forms of white discrimination remains a problematic hypothesis that should be vigorously challenged by historians ..."
"... Would we characterize criminal justice as a systemically misandrist conspiracy against innocent American men? I hope you see that this type of reasoning is flawed, and requires a significant suspension of our rational faculties. Black people are not incarcerated at higher rates than their involvement in violent crime would predict . This fact has been demonstrated multiple times across multiple jurisdictions in multiple countries. ..."
"... If we claim that the criminal justice system is white-supremacist, why is it that Asian Americans, Indian Americans, and Nigerian Americans are incarcerated at vastly lower rates than white Americans? ..."
"... Increasingly, we are being called upon to comply and subscribe to BLM's problematic view of history , and the department is being presented as unified on the matter. In particular, ethnic minorities are being aggressively marshaled into a single position. Any apparent unity is surely a function of the fact that dissent could almost certainly lead to expulsion or cancellation for those of us in a precarious position , which is no small number. ..."
"... The vast majority of violence visited on the black community is committed by black people . There are virtually no marches for these invisible victims, no public silences, no heartfelt letters from the UC regents, deans, and departmental heads. The message is clear: Black lives only matter when whites take them. Black violence is expected and insoluble, while white violence requires explanation and demands solution. Please look into your hearts and see how monstrously bigoted this formulation truly is. ..."
"... The claim that black intraracial violence is the product of redlining, slavery, and other injustices is a largely historical claim. It is for historians, therefore, to explain why Japanese internment or the massacre of European Jewry hasn't led to equivalent rates of dysfunction and low SES performance among Japanese and Jewish Americans respectively. ..."
"... Arab Americans have been viciously demonized since 9/11, as have Chinese Americans more recently. However, both groups outperform white Americans on nearly all SES indices - as do Nigerian Americans , who incidentally have black skin. It is for historians to point out and discuss these anomalies. However, no real discussion is possible in the current climate at our department . The explanation is provided to us, disagreement with it is racist, and the job of historians is to further explore additional ways in which the explanation is additionally correct. This is a mockery of the historical profession. ..."
"... Donating to BLM today is to indirectly donate to Joe Biden's 2020 campaign. This is grotesque given the fact that the American cities with the worst rates of black-on-black violence and police-on-black violence are overwhelmingly Democrat-run. Minneapolis itself has been entirely in the hands of Democrats for over five decades ; the 'systemic racism' there was built by successive Democrat administrations. ..."
"... The total alliance of major corporations involved in human exploitation with BLM should be a warning flag to us, and yet this damning evidence goes unnoticed, purposefully ignored, or perversely celebrated. We are the useful idiots of the wealthiest classes , carrying water for Jeff Bezos and other actual, real, modern-day slavers. Starbucks, an organisation using literal black slaves in its coffee plantation suppliers, is in favor of BLM. Sony, an organisation using cobalt mined by yet more literal black slaves, many of whom are children, is in favor of BLM. And so, apparently, are we. The absence of counter-narrative enables this obscenity. Fiat lux, indeed. ..."
"... MLK would likely be called an Uncle Tom if he spoke on our campus today . We are training leaders who intend, explicitly, to destroy one of the only truly successful ethnically diverse societies in modern history. As the PRC, an ethnonationalist and aggressively racially chauvinist national polity with null immigration and no concept of jus solis increasingly presents itself as the global political alternative to the US, I ask you: Is this wise? Are we really doing the right thing? ..."
I am one of your colleagues at the University of California, Berkeley. I have met you both personally but do not know you closely,
and am contacting you anonymously, with apologies. I am worried that writing this email publicly might lead to me losing my job,
and likely all future jobs in my field.
In your recent departmental emails you mentioned our pledge to diversity, but I am increasingly alarmed by the absence of diversity
of opinion on the topic of the recent protests and our community response to them.
In the extended links and resources you provided, I could not find a single instance of substantial counter-argument or alternative
narrative to explain the under-representation of black individuals in academia or their over-representation in the criminal justice
system. The explanation provided in your documentation, to the near exclusion of all others, is univariate: the problems of
the black community are caused by whites, or, when whites are not physically present, by the infiltration of white supremacy and
white systemic racism into American brains, souls, and institutions.
Many cogent objections to this thesis have been raised by sober voices, including from within the black community itself,
such as Thomas Sowell and Wilfred Reilly. These people are not racists or 'Uncle Toms'. They are intelligent scholars who reject
a narrative that strips black people of agency and systematically externalizes the problems of the black community onto outsiders
. Their view is entirely absent from the departmental and UCB-wide communiques.
The claim that the difficulties that the black community faces are entirely causally explained by exogenous factors in the
form of white systemic racism, white supremacy, and other forms of white discrimination remains a problematic hypothesis that should
be vigorously challenged by historians . Instead, it is being treated as an axiomatic and actionable truth without serious consideration
of its profound flaws, or its worrying implication of total black impotence. This hypothesis is transforming our institution and
our culture, without any space for dissent outside of a tightly policed, narrow discourse.
A counternarrative exists. If you have time, please consider examining some of the documents I attach at the end of this email.
Overwhelmingly, the reasoning provided by BLM and allies is either primarily anecdotal (as in the case with the bulk of Ta-Nehisi
Coates' undeniably moving article) or it is transparently motivated. As an example of the latter problem, consider the proportion
of black incarcerated Americans. This proportion is often used to characterize the criminal justice system as anti-black. However,
if we use the precise same methodology, we would have to conclude that the criminal justice system is even more anti-male than it
is anti-black .
Would we characterize criminal justice as a systemically misandrist conspiracy against innocent American men? I hope you see
that this type of reasoning is flawed, and requires a significant suspension of our rational faculties. Black people are not incarcerated
at higher rates than their involvement in violent crime would predict . This fact has been demonstrated multiple times across multiple
jurisdictions in multiple countries.
And yet, I see my department uncritically reproducing a narrative that diminishes black agency in favor of a white-centric explanation
that appeals to the department's apparent desire to shoulder the 'white man's burden' and to promote a narrative of white guilt .
If we claim that the criminal justice system is white-supremacist, why is it that Asian Americans, Indian Americans, and Nigerian
Americans are incarcerated at vastly lower rates than white Americans? This is a funny sort of white supremacy. Even Jewish
Americans are incarcerated less than gentile whites. I think it's fair to say that your average white supremacist disapproves of
Jews. And yet, these alleged white supremacists incarcerate gentiles at vastly higher rates than Jews. None of this is addressed
in your literature. None of this is explained, beyond hand-waving and ad hominems. "Those are racist dogwhistles". "The model minority
myth is white supremacist". "Only fascists talk about black-on-black crime", ad nauseam.
These types of statements do not amount to counterarguments: they are simply arbitrary offensive classifications, intended to
silence and oppress discourse . Any serious historian will recognize these for the silencing orthodoxy tactics they are , common
to suppressive regimes, doctrines, and religions throughout time and space. They are intended to crush real diversity and permanently
exile the culture of robust criticism from our department.
Increasingly, we are being called upon to comply and subscribe to BLM's problematic view of history , and the department is
being presented as unified on the matter. In particular, ethnic minorities are being aggressively marshaled into a single position.
Any apparent unity is surely a function of the fact that dissent could almost certainly lead to expulsion or cancellation for those
of us in a precarious position , which is no small number.
I personally don't dare speak out against the BLM narrative , and with this barrage of alleged unity being mass-produced by the
administration, tenured professoriat, the UC administration, corporate America, and the media, the punishment for dissent is a clear
danger at a time of widespread economic vulnerability. I am certain that if my name were attached to this email, I would lose my
job and all future jobs, even though I believe in and can justify every word I type.
The vast majority of violence visited on the black community is committed by black people . There are virtually no marches
for these invisible victims, no public silences, no heartfelt letters from the UC regents, deans, and departmental heads. The message
is clear: Black lives only matter when whites take them. Black violence is expected and insoluble, while white violence requires
explanation and demands solution. Please look into your hearts and see how monstrously bigoted this formulation truly is.
No discussion is permitted for nonblack victims of black violence, who proportionally outnumber black victims of nonblack violence.
This is especially bitter in the Bay Area, where Asian victimization by black assailants has reached epidemic proportions, to the
point that the SF police chief has advised Asians to stop hanging good-luck charms on their doors, as this attracts the attention
of (overwhelmingly black) home invaders . Home invaders like George Floyd . For this actual, lived, physically experienced reality
of violence in the USA, there are no marches, no tearful emails from departmental heads, no support from McDonald's and Wal-Mart.
For the History department, our silence is not a mere abrogation of our duty to shed light on the truth: it is a rejection of it.
The claim that black intraracial violence is the product of redlining, slavery, and other injustices is a largely historical
claim. It is for historians, therefore, to explain why Japanese internment or the massacre of European Jewry hasn't led to equivalent
rates of dysfunction and low SES performance among Japanese and Jewish Americans respectively.
Arab Americans have been viciously demonized since 9/11, as have Chinese Americans more recently. However, both groups outperform
white Americans on nearly all SES indices - as do Nigerian Americans , who incidentally have black skin. It is for historians to
point out and discuss these anomalies. However, no real discussion is possible in the current climate at our department . The explanation
is provided to us, disagreement with it is racist, and the job of historians is to further explore additional ways in which the explanation
is additionally correct. This is a mockery of the historical profession.
Most troublingly, our department appears to have been entirely captured by the interests of the Democratic National Convention,
and the Democratic Party more broadly. To explain what I mean, consider what happens if you choose to donate to Black Lives Matter,
an organization UCB History has explicitly promoted in its recent mailers. All donations to the official BLM website are immediately
redirected to ActBlue Charities , an organization primarily concerned with bankrolling election campaigns for Democrat candidates.
Donating to BLM today is to indirectly donate to Joe Biden's 2020 campaign. This is grotesque given the fact that the American
cities with the worst rates of black-on-black violence and police-on-black violence are overwhelmingly Democrat-run. Minneapolis
itself has been entirely in the hands of Democrats for over five decades ; the 'systemic racism' there was built by successive Democrat
administrations.
The patronizing and condescending attitudes of Democrat leaders towards the black community, exemplified by nearly every Biden
statement on the black race, all but guarantee a perpetual state of misery, resentment, poverty, and the attendant grievance politics
which are simultaneously annihilating American political discourse and black lives. And yet, donating to BLM is bankrolling the election
campaigns of men like Mayor Frey, who saw their cities devolve into violence . This is a grotesque capture of a good-faith movement
for necessary police reform, and of our department, by a political party. Even worse, there are virtually no avenues for dissent
in academic circles . I refuse to serve the Party, and so should you.
The total alliance of major corporations involved in human exploitation with BLM should be a warning flag to us, and yet this
damning evidence goes unnoticed, purposefully ignored, or perversely celebrated. We are the useful idiots of the wealthiest classes
, carrying water for Jeff Bezos and other actual, real, modern-day slavers. Starbucks, an organisation using literal black slaves
in its coffee plantation suppliers, is in favor of BLM. Sony, an organisation using cobalt mined by yet more literal black slaves,
many of whom are children, is in favor of BLM. And so, apparently, are we. The absence of counter-narrative enables this obscenity.
Fiat lux, indeed.
There also exists a large constituency of what can only be called 'race hustlers': hucksters of all colors who benefit from stoking
the fires of racial conflict to secure administrative jobs, charity management positions, academic jobs and advancement, or personal
political entrepreneurship.
Given the direction our history department appears to be taking far from any commitment to truth , we can regard ourselves as
a formative training institution for this brand of snake-oil salespeople. Their activities are corrosive, demolishing any hope at
harmonious racial coexistence in our nation and colonizing our political and institutional life. Many of their voices are unironically
segregationist.
MLK would likely be called an Uncle Tom if he spoke on our campus today . We are training leaders who intend, explicitly,
to destroy one of the only truly successful ethnically diverse societies in modern history. As the PRC, an ethnonationalist and aggressively
racially chauvinist national polity with null immigration and no concept of jus solis increasingly presents itself as the global
political alternative to the US, I ask you: Is this wise? Are we really doing the right thing?
As a final point, our university and department has made multiple statements celebrating and eulogizing George Floyd. Floyd was
a multiple felon who once held a pregnant black woman at gunpoint. He broke into her home with a gang of men and pointed a gun at
her pregnant stomach. He terrorized the women in his community. He sired and abandoned multiple children , playing no part in their
support or upbringing, failing one of the most basic tests of decency for a human being. He was a drug-addict and sometime drug-dealer,
a swindler who preyed upon his honest and hard-working neighbors .
And yet, the regents of UC and the historians of the UCB History department are celebrating this violent criminal, elevating his
name to virtual sainthood . A man who hurt women. A man who hurt black women. With the full collaboration of the UCB history department,
corporate America, most mainstream media outlets, and some of the wealthiest and most privileged opinion-shaping elites of the USA,
he has become a culture hero, buried in a golden casket, his (recognized) family showered with gifts and praise . Americans are being
socially pressured into kneeling for this violent, abusive misogynist . A generation of black men are being coerced into identifying
with George Floyd, the absolute worst specimen of our race and species.
I'm ashamed of my department. I would say that I'm ashamed of both of you, but perhaps you agree with me, and are simply afraid,
as I am, of the backlash of speaking the truth. It's hard to know what kneeling means, when you have to kneel to keep your job.
It shouldn't affect the strength of my argument above, but for the record, I write as a person of color . My family have been
personally victimized by men like Floyd. We are aware of the condescending depredations of the Democrat party against our race. The
humiliating assumption that we are too stupid to do STEM , that we need special help and lower requirements to get ahead in life,
is richly familiar to us. I sometimes wonder if it wouldn't be easier to deal with open fascists, who at least would be straightforward
in calling me a subhuman, and who are unlikely to share my race.
The ever-present soft bigotry of low expectations and the permanent claim that the solutions to the plight of my people rest exclusively
on the goodwill of whites rather than on our own hard work is psychologically devastating . No other group in America is systematically
demoralized in this way by its alleged allies. A whole generation of black children are being taught that only by begging and weeping
and screaming will they get handouts from guilt-ridden whites.
No message will more surely devastate their futures, especially if whites run out of guilt, or indeed if America runs out of whites.
If this had been done to Japanese Americans, or Jewish Americans, or Chinese Americans, then Chinatown and Japantown would surely
be no different to the roughest parts of Baltimore and East St. Louis today. The History department of UCB is now an integral institutional
promulgator of a destructive and denigrating fallacy about the black race.
I hope you appreciate the frustration behind this message. I do not support BLM. I do not support the Democrat grievance agenda
and the Party's uncontested capture of our department. I do not support the Party co-opting my race, as Biden recently did in his
disturbing interview, claiming that voting Democrat and being black are isomorphic. I condemn the manner of George Floyd's death
and join you in calling for greater police accountability and police reform. However, I will not pretend that George Floyd was anything
other than a violent misogynist, a brutal man who met a predictably brutal end .
I also want to protect the practice of history. Cleo is no grovelling handmaiden to politicians and corporations. Like us, she
is free. play_arrow
Blacks will always be poor and fucked in life when 75% of black infants are born to single most likely welfare dependent mothers...
And the more amount of welfare monies spent to combat poverty the worse this problem will grow...
taketheredpill , 37 minutes ago
Anonymous....
1) Is he really a Professor at Berkeley?
2) Is he really a Professor anywhere?
3) Is he really Black?
4) Is he really a He?
LEEPERMAX , 44 minutes ago
BLM is an international organization. They solicit tax free charitable donations via ActBlue. ActBlue then funnels billions
of dollars to DNC campaigns. This is a violation of campaign finance law and allows foreign influence in American elections.
CRM114 , 44 minutes ago
I've pointed this out before:
In 2015, after the Freddie Gray death Officers were hung out to dry by the Mayor of Baltimore (yes, her, the Chair of the DNC
in 2016), active policing in Baltimore basically stopped. They just count the bodies now. The clearance rate for homicides has
dropped to, well, we don't know because the Police refuse to say, but it appears to be under 15%. The homicide rate jumped 50%
almost immediately and has stayed there. 95% of homicides are black on black.
The Baltimore Sun keeps excellent records, so you can check this all for yourself.
Looking at killings by cops; if we take the worst case and exclude all the ones where the victim was armed and independent
witnesses state fired first, and assume all the others were cop murders, then there's about 1 cop murder every 3 years, which
means that since has now stopped and the homicide rate's gone up...
For every black man now not murdered by a cop, 400 more black men are murdered by other black men.
taketheredpill , 46 minutes ago
"As an example of the latter problem, consider the proportion of black incarcerated Americans. This proportion is often used
to characterize the criminal justice system as anti-black. However, if we use the precise same methodology, we would have to conclude
that the criminal justice system is even more anti-male than it is anti-black ."
It is the RATIO of UNARMED BLACK MALES KILLED to UNARMED WHITE MALES KILLED in RELATION TO % OF POPULATION. RATIO.
RATIO. UNARMED.
BLACK % POPULATION 13% BLACK % UNARMED MEN KILLED 37%
WHITE % POPULATION 74% BLACK % UNARMED MEN KILLED 45%
Is there a trend of MORE Black people being killed by police?
No. But there is an underlying difference in the numbers that is bad.
>>>>> As of 2018, Unarmed Blacks made up 36% of all people UNARMED killed by police. But black people make up 13% of the (unarmed)
population.
There's a massive Silent Majority of Americans , including black Americans, that are fed up with this absurd nonsense.
While there's a Vocal Minority of Americans : including Democrats, the media, corporations and race hustlers, that wish to
continue to promulgate a FALSE NARRATIVE into perpetuity...because it's a lucrative industry.
Gaius Konstantine , 57 minutes ago
A short while ago I had an ex friend get into it with me about how Europeans (whites), were the most destructive race on the
planet, responsible for all the world's evil. I pointed out to him that Genghis Khan, an Asian, slaughtered millions at a time
when technology made this a remarkable feat. I reminded him the Japanese gleefully killed millions in China and that the American
Indian Empires ran 24/7 human sacrifices with some also practicing cannibalism. His poor libtard brain couldn't handle the fact
that evil is a human trait, not restricted to a particular race and we parted (good riddance)
But along with evil, there is accomplishment. Europeans created Empires and pursued science, The Asians also participated in
these pursuits and even the Aztec and Inca built marvelous cities and massive states spanning vast stretches of territory. The
only race that accomplished little save entering the stone age is the Africans. Are we supposed to give them a participation trophy
to make them feel better? Is this feeling of inferiority what is truly behind their constant rage?
Police in the US have been militarized for a long time now and kill many more unarmed whites than they do blacks, where is
the outrage? I'm getting the feeling that this isn't really about George, just an excuse to do what savages do.
lwilland1012 , 1 hour ago
"Truth is treason in an empire of lies."
George Orwell
You know that the reason he is anonymous is that Berkley would strip him of his teaching credentials and there would be multiple
attempts on his life...
Ignatius , 1 hour ago
" The vast majority of violence visited on the black community is committed by black people . There are virtually no marches
for these invisible victims, no public silences, no heartfelt letters from the UC regents, deans, and departmental heads. The
message is clear: Black lives only matter when whites take them. Black violence is expected and insoluble, while white violence
requires explanation and demands solution. Please look into your hearts and see how monstrously bigoted this formulation truly
is."
A former fed who trained the police in Buffalo believes the elderly protester who was hospitalized after a cop pushed him
to the ground "got away lightly" and "took a dive," according to a report.
The retired FBI agent, Gary DiLaura,
told The Sun
he thinks there's no chance Buffalo officers will be convicted of assault over the
now-viral video showing the
longtime
peace activist Martin Gugino fall and left bleeding on the ground.
" I can't believe that they didn't deck him. If that would have been a 40-year-old guy going up there, I guarantee you they'd
have been all over him, " DiLaura said.
" He absolutely got away lightly. He got a light push and in my humble opinion, he took a dive and the dive backfired because
he hit his head. Maybe it'll knock a little bit of sense into him, " added the former fed, who trained Buffalo police on firearms
and defensive tactics, according to the report...
It's a great brainwashing process, which goes very slow[ly] and is divided [into] four basic stages. The first one [is]
demoralization ; it takes from 15-20 years to demoralize a nation. Why that many years? Because this is the minimum number
of years which [is required] to educate one generation of students in the country of your enemy, exposed to the ideology of
the enemy. In other words, Marxist-Leninist ideology is being pumped into the soft heads of at least three generations of American
students, without being challenged, or counter-balanced by the basic values of Americanism (American patriotism).
The result? The result you can see. Most of the people who graduated in the sixties (drop-outs or half-baked intellectuals)
are now occupying the positions of power in the government, civil service, business, mass media, [and the] educational system.
You are stuck with them. You cannot get rid of them. T hey are contaminated; they are programmed to think and react to certain
stimuli in a certain pattern. You cannot change their mind[s], even if you expose them to authentic information, even if you
prove that white is white and black is black, you still cannot change the basic perception and the logic of behavior. In other
words, these people... the process of demoralization is complete and irreversible. To [rid] society of these people, you need
another twenty or fifteen years to educate a new generation of patriotically-minded and common sense people, who would be acting
in favor and in the interests of United States society.
Yuri Bezmenov
American Psycho , 16 minutes ago
This article was one of the most articulate and succinct rebuttals to the BLM political power grab. I too have been calling
these "allies" useful idiots and I am happy to hear this professor doing the same. Bravo professor!
Today's false flag operations are generally carried out by intelligence agencies and
non-government actors including terrorist groups, but [unlike in the past] they are only
considered successful if the true attribution of an action remains secret. There is nothing
honorable about them as their intention is to blame an innocent party for something that it
did not do.
This video has 6,333,414 views and as such is probably the most watched commentary on the incident. She did not touch attempt to
exploit the death of Floyd but Clinton wing of Democratic Party
Personal accountability of blacks is important topic (and that includes rather low level of academic achievement among them; horrifies
number of singles mother and other ills that facilitate sliding into criminal behaviour) , but the we also need to distinguish between
a part that is due to blacks idiosyncrasies, and the part that is due to the fact that most blacks are poor. Although the standard of
living of most blacks in the USA is much higher then while people in Ukraine.
George Floyd is no hero. He was a troubled man with many problems. The issue should only be about his death. Regardless if you liked
or disliked him, no police has the legal authority to play judge, jury and executioner. According to witnesses, there was little if
any resistance on George's part. No self defense on the police's part was necessary. The only issue is that George was denied "due process".
THAT, is the problem. You cannot kill bad people that are not resisting arrest without due process. The clause in the Fifth Amendment
reads: No person shall ... be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law. While the clause in the Fourteenth
Amendment says: ...nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.
As a young conservative I have noticed that our generation is being taught to be victims. Instead of combating the issues, we complain
and look for people to manipulate, and being driven by emotions rather than to take time and think. Not all but it's just my pov
I love Candace Owens because she does not use her race as a means for lack of responsibility and works for a dream....black Americans
or all Americans are played by the media and our obsession with actors, actresses and multimillionaires....wake up...
I listened to Sirius XM and the
DJ said "I couldn't wait to hear from jay z because he is one of the most intelligent men on earth." Really!!!!
The truth is being exposed much more brightly after many lies and brainwashing. If this brave woman would have spoken early at beginning
of riots, she would have been disregarded. But now the lies are being blown up when people understand they were fed up with lies and
half-truths and only partial picture by general media. We wish you Americans to make peace within you and heal the wounds. Cheers from
Israel
Your insight towards this BLM chaos actually has convinced people there are still some "upstanding" black Americans out there. Thank
you and stay safe!!
This is getting out of hand. An American criminal was killed due to police brutality, has now led to a statue of winston Churchill being
vandalised in London. These protesters arre brainless
He should have been arrested and not killed BUT, he was a crook the the media failed to tell but they have to hide the truth so they
can keep it going....They are criminals too.
She nailed it. Theft, drugs, counterfeit currency, woman assault, threaten people at gun point. He would have died of drugs anyway,
though he did not deserve the dastardly act. He is NOT.a HERO. The cops involved were also not heros. Both deserve to be condemned.
But the movement is to change the police brutality, it was murder captured on video. It was the first time my daughter watched a murder
on video repeated again and again as it was normal!. No it should NEVER be a normal.
Neal Blair wears a hoodie that reads "Black Lives Matter" as he stands on the lawn of the
Capitol during a rally to mark the 20th anniversary of the Million Man March on Oct. 10, 2015,
in Washington.
Some of the biggest donors on the left plan to meet behind closed doors next week in
Washington with leaders of the Black Lives Matter movement and their allies to discuss funding
the burgeoning protest movement, POLITICO has learned.
The meetings are taking place at the annual winter gathering of the Democracy Alliance major
liberal donor club, which runs from Tuesday evening through Saturday morning and is expected to
draw Democratic financial heavyweights, including Tom Steyer and Paul Egerman.
The DA, as the club is known in Democratic circles, is recommending its donors step up check
writing to a handful of endorsed groups that have supported the Black Lives Matter movement.
And the club and some of its members also are considering ways to funnel support directly to
scrappier local groups that have utilized confrontational tactics to inject their grievances
into the political debate.
It's a potential partnership that could elevate the Black Lives Matter movement and heighten
its impact. But it's also fraught with tension on both sides, sources tell POLITICO.
The various outfits that comprise the diffuse
Black Lives Matter movement prize their independence. Some make a point of not asking for
donations. They bristle at any suggestion that they're susceptible to being co-opted by a
deep-pocketed national group ― let alone one with such close ties to the Democratic Party
establishment like the Democracy Alliance.
And some major liberal donors are leery about funding a movement known for aggressive
tactics ― particularly one that has shown a willingness to train
its fire on Democrats, including presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie
Sanders .
"Major donors are usually not as radical or confrontational as activists most in touch with
the pain of oppression," said Steve Phillips, a Democracy Alliance member and significant
contributor to Democratic candidates and causes. He donated to a St. Louis nonprofit group
called the Organization for Black Struggle that helped organize 2014 Black Lives Matter-related
protests in Ferguson, Missouri, over the police killing of a black teenager named Michael
Brown. And Phillips and his wife, Democracy Alliance board member Susan Sandler, are in
discussions about funding other groups involved in the movement.
The movement needs cash to build a self-sustaining infrastructure, Phillips said, arguing
"the progressive donor world should be adding zeroes to their contributions that support this
transformative movement." But he also acknowledged there's a risk for recipient groups.
"Tactics such as shutting down freeways and disrupting rallies can alienate major donors, and
if that's your primary source of support, then you're at risk of being blocked from doing what
you need to do."
The Democracy Alliance was created in 2005 by a handful of major donors, including
billionaire financier George Soros and Taco Bell heir Rob McKay to build a permanent
infrastructure to advance liberal ideas and causes. Donors are required to
donate at least $200,000 a year to recommended groups, and their combined donations to
those groups now total more than $500 million. Endorsed beneficiaries include the Center for
American Progress think tank, the liberal attack dog Media Matters and the Democratic data firm
Catalist, though members also give heavily to Democratic politicians and super PACs that are
not part of the DA's core portfolio. While the Democracy Alliance last year voted to endorse a
handful of groups focused on engaging African-Americans in politics ― some of which have
helped facilitate the Black Lives movement ― the invitation to movement leaders is a
first for the DA, and seems likely to test some members' comfort zones.
"Movements that are challenging the status quo and that do so to some extent by using direct
action or disruptive tactics are meant to make people uncomfortable, so I'm sure we have
partners who would be made uncomfortable by it or think that that's not a good tactic," said DA
President Gara LaMarche. "But we have a wide range of human beings and different temperaments
and approaches in the DA, so it's quite possible that there are people who are a little
concerned, as well as people who are curious or are supportive. This is a chance for them to
meet some of the leaders of the Black Lives Matter movement, and understand the movement
better, and then we'll take stock of that and see where it might lead."
According to a Democracy Alliance draft agenda obtained by POLITICO, movement leaders will
be featured guests at a Tuesday dinner with major donors. The dinner, which technically
precedes the official conference kickoff, will focus on "what kind of support and resources are
needed from the allied funders during this critical moment of immediate struggle and long-term
movement building."
The groups that will be represented include the Black Youth Project 100, The Center for
Popular Democracy and the Black Civic Engagement Fund, according to the organizer, a DA member
named Leah Hunt-Hendrix. An heir to a Texas oil fortune, Hunt-Hendrix helps lead a coalition of
mostly young donors called Solidaire that focuses on movement building. It's donated more than
$200,000 to the Black Lives Matter movement since Brown's killing. According to its entry
on a philanthropy
website , more than $61,000 went directly to organizers and organizations on the ground in
Ferguson and Baltimore, where the death of Freddie Gray in police custody in April sparked a
more recent wave of Black Lives-related protests. An additional $115,000 went to groups that
have sprung up to support the movement.
She said her goal at the Democracy Alliance is to persuade donors to "use some of the money
that's going into the presidential races for grass-roots organizing and movement building." And
she brushed aside concerns that the movement could hurt Democratic chances in 2016. "Black
Lives Matter has been pushing Bernie, and Bernie has been pushing Hillary. Politics is a field
where you almost have to push your allies hardest and hold them accountable," she said. "That's
exactly the point of democracy," she said.
That view dovetails with the one that LaMarche has tried to instill in the Democracy
Alliance, which had faced internal criticism in 2012 for growing too close to the Democratic
Party.
In fact, one group set to participate in Hunt-Hendrix's dinner ― Black Civic
Engagement Fund ― is a Democracy Alliance offshoot. And, according to the DA agenda, two
other groups recommended for club funding ― ColorOfChange.org and the Advancement Project ― are set
to participate in a Friday panel "on how to connect the Movement for Black Lives with current
and needed infrastructure for Black organizing and political power."
ColorOfChange.org has helped Black
Lives Matter protesters organize online, said its Executive Director Rashad Robinson. He
dismissed concerns that the movement is compromised in any way by accepting support from major
institutional funders. "Throughout our history in this country, there have been allies who have
been willing to stand up and support uprisings, and lend their resources to ensure that people
have a greater voice in their democracy," Robinson said.
Nick Rathod, the leader of a DA-endorsed group called the State Innovation Exchange that
pushes liberal
policies in the states , said his group is looking for opportunities to help the movement,
as well. "We can play an important role in facilitating dialogue between elected officials and
movement leaders in cities and states," he said. But Rathod cautioned that it would be a
mistake for major liberal donors to only give through established national groups to support
the movement. "I think for many of the donors, it might feel safer to invest in groups like
ours and others to support the work, but frankly, many of those groups are not led by
African-Americans and are removed from what's happening on the ground. The heart and soul of
the movement is at the grass roots, it's where the organizing has occurred, it's where
decisions should be made and it's where investments should be placed to grow the movement from
the bottom up, rather than the top down."
Candace
Owens is being called a racist by supporters of the protests over George Floyd's death for
simply highlighting his criminal past and arguing against him becoming a "martyr" to black
Americans. "I do not support George Floyd and a media depiction of him as a martyr for black
America," Owens said in a video that has now gone viral.
Owens acknowledges Floyd should not have died in police custody -- the four officers
involved in the incident are now being charged -- and she hopes his family "gets
justice."
She added the response to Floyd's death shows a "broken black culture" in America,
one that celebrates criminals.
"We are unique in that we are the only people that fight and scream and demand support
and justice from the people in our community that are up to no good," she said. "You
would be hard-pressed to find a Jewish person that's been five stints in prison that commits a
crime and dies while committing a crime and the Jewish people champion and demand justice
for."
Owens called the movement to lionize Floyd "bulls**t" and added, "We shouldn't be
buying T-shirts with his name on it."
Floyd's criminal
history includes five years behind bars for robbery and assault.
Owens, who is black, has been called everything from "racist" to a "white
supremacist" in tweets that have gotten thousands of reactions.
Candace Owens ONLY job for the MAGA crowd is to make them feel good about being racist
#CandaceOwens
--
ABlackWomanWhoDontGiveAF*ck (@battletested5) June 4,
2020
Good morning. Candace Owens is a Black, white Supremacist who profits off of being the
black face of white racism. Black people can always make a quick buck being willing to say
all the racist stuff white racists want to but can't. #CandaceOwens
pic.twitter.com/vtqNZRgVFO
-- Benjamin Dixon 🏴🚩🇺🇸
(@BenjaminPDixon) June 4,
2020
I just told y'all only a couple of days ago about ignoring #CandaceOwens
...stop sending me her tweets! This person with zero cognitive capacity or cultural compass
is blocked and out of my life https://t.co/22MDQal8tR
Owens is not the first person to be criticized for blasting parts of the movement protesting
Floyd's death. Others have been attacked and even
fired for criticizing
looters involved in protests across the nation.
The outspoken Trump supporter has responded by blasting her critics as intolerant.
The best way to practice tolerance, is through intolerance.
Following the viral video of Floyd's death at the hands of Minneapolis officers, protests
kicked off across the country demanding police reform and charges against those involved in the
incident. All four officers have been charged while some
protests have devolved into looting , violence , and even
murder .
Racial issues have traditionally been among the most highly charged in American public life,
and the nexus of crime and race has been exceptionally contentious for many decades. Under
these circumstances respectable scholars tend to be cautious in discussing or merely
investigating this topic, and the mainstream media is usually even more gun-shy. The striking
racial findings presented above require only trivial statistical calculations and may be
glimpsed in any casual inspection of the crime rankings of our major cities. But I remain
uncertain to what extent they are already recognized by our experts in social policy.
For example, when I presented my correlation results to one very prominent conservative
social scientist, he found them shocking and remarkable, and said he had never imagined that
the statistical relationship between race and crime was so extremely strong. But when I showed
the same data to an equally prominent liberal academic, he took the information in stride and
said he assumed that almost all experts were already quietly aware of the general facts. The
reactions of other knowledgeable individuals fell all along this spectrum ranging from surprise
to familiarity. Knowledge so explosive that it is usually unspoken and unreported may easily
remain unknown even to many of our foremost intellectuals.
But whether or not most of our ruling elites explicitly recognize the stark racial character
of American crime, the reality still exists, and we should consider exploring whether these
unpublicized facts may have had broader influences in our society, possibly in seemingly
unrelated areas. After all, urban crime has frequently been a leading issue in American public
life, during some periods ranking as one of the most important. Certain matters may not be
easily discussed in polite company these days, but if even just a portion of the citizenry is
intuitively aware of the situation, their attitudes might have broader ripple effects
throughout the entire population. Is there any substantial evidence for this?
ORDER IT NOW
Consider the electoral behavior of American whites, and especially their inclination to
support either Democratic or Republican candidates. Because of gerrymandering, most individual
congressional districts are overwhelmingly aligned with one party or another, and general
elections are a mere formality; this is often also true of statewide races for senator or
governor. However, in presidential elections both parties almost always field viable national
candidates with a reasonable chance of winning, so these provide the best means of gauging
white political alignment. And for these campaigns, the racial lines are clearly established,
with the modern Republicans being the "white party," drawing over 90% of their support from
that demographic group, while over 90% of blacks regularly vote the Democratic ticket, which
also usually attracts the overwhelming majority of other non-white voters.
As I pointed out in a
2011 article , there has been a striking statewide pattern to white voting behavior over
the last couple of decades. Many conservative activists and media pundits have spent years
attacking immigrants, illegal or otherwise, and have regularly denounced the cultural threat
posed by the growing population of non-English-speakers or non-white foreigners. Nevertheless,
the empirical fact is that presence or absence of large numbers of Hispanics or Asians in a
given state seems to have virtually no impact upon white voting patterns. Meanwhile, there
exists a strong relationship between the size of a state's black population and the likelihood
that local whites will favor the Republicans. The weighted-average correlations between the
racial compositions of the fifty states and the degree to which their white voters favor
Republican presidential candidates is summarized in the following chart.
GOP leaders are always fearful of being denounced as "racist" by the major media, and often
seek to camouflage the underlying source of their electoral support by adopting the most
extreme forms of tokenism, promoting black party leaders and spokesmen while heavily recruiting
black candidates and focusing almost entirely upon non-racial issues. Conservative activists
often rhetorically identify themselves as heirs to the "party of Lincoln" and may even accuse
their Democratic opponents of seeking to keep blacks in Welfare State bondage. But the actual
data tells a very different story about the likely sources of Republican support.
The strength of this pattern may be seen at its extremes. Mississippi is the state with the
highest black percentage and across all six elections its white population was the most likely
to vote Republican, with the figures recently running at nearly the 90% level. Louisiana,
Georgia, and South Carolina are generally clustered together as the next blackest in
population, and in most elections their white populations were the next most likely to support
the Republican ticket, although being sometimes exceeded by the whites of Alabama, the fifth or
sixth blackest state during those decades.
By contrast, consider the three states with the largest non-white percentages: Hawaii,
California, and New Mexico. The whites of the first two have actually been far less likely to
vote Republican than whites nationwide, while those in New Mexico fall close to the national
average. This tends to confirm the national statistical results that the widespread presence of
non-whites, even in overwhelming numbers, seems to have little impact upon white voting
behavior.
While I would not argue that black crime is the sole determining factor behind the racial
polarization in white voting behavior, I do suspect it is one of the largest contributors.
Empirically, the presence of blacks causes whites to vote the "law-and-order" Republican
ticket, while the presence of Hispanics or Asians seems to have negligible political
impact.
Nevertheless, we should remain cautious in interpreting these results. For example, although
these national correlations are certainly substantial, they are almost entirely due to the
weighting of the Southern states, in which blacks are almost 20% of the total population and
racial tensions have traditionally been the strongest. In non-Southern states, the correlations
are nil, perhaps partly because blacks are found in far smaller numbers, being less than 9% of
the total.
Consider also the highly contentious issue of immigration. Obviously, much of the underlying
conflict is purely economic in character, with workers aware that restricting the supply of
available labor will protect their bargaining power over wages, while businesses seek to
maximize their profits by expanding the pool of potential employees, whether low-skilled or
high-tech.
But all involved participants quickly discover that despite endless protestations to the
contrary there is also a clear racial subtext, usually accounting for the emotionality of the
debate. For the last half-century, the overwhelming majority of immigrants, especially illegal
ones, have been non-white, and the resulting racial fears have been a central motivating force
driving many of the most zealous restrictionists, who fear being swamped by a tidal wave of
"the Other." However, I believe that racial considerations, whether fully conscious or not,
might also be found on the other side of the issue, helping to explain why our national
leadership today so uniformly endorses very heavy foreign immigration.
America's ruling financial, media, and political elites are largely concentrated in three
major urban centers -- New York City, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C. -- and all three have
contained large black populations, including a violent underclass. During the early 1990s, many
observers feared New York City was headed for urban collapse due to its enormously high crime
rates, Los Angeles experienced the massive and deadly Rodney King Riots, and Washington often
vied for the title of American homicide capital. In each city, the violence and crime were
overwhelmingly committed by black males, and although white elites were rarely the victims,
their fears were quite palpable.
One obvious reaction to these concerns was strong political support for a massive national
crackdown on crime, and the prison incarceration of black men increased by almost 500% during
the two decades after 1980. But even after such enormous rates of imprisonment, official FBI
statistics indicate that blacks today are still over 600% as likely to commit homicide than
non-blacks and their robbery rate is over 700% larger; these disparities seem just as high with
respect to Hispanic or Asian immigrants as they are for whites. Thus, replacing a city's blacks
with immigrants would tend to lower local crime rates by as much as 90%, and during the 1990s
American elites may have become increasingly aware of this important fact, together with the
obvious implications for their quality of urban life and housing values.
According to Census data, between 1990 and 2010 the number of Hispanics and Asians increased
by one-third in Los Angeles, by nearly 50% in New York City, and by over 70% in Washington,
D.C. The inevitable result was to squeeze out much of the local black population, which
declined, often substantially, in each location. And all three cities experienced enormous
drops in local crime, with homicide rates falling by 73%, 79%, and 72% respectively, perhaps
partly as a result of these underlying demographic changes. Meanwhile, the white population
increasingly shifted toward the affluent, who were best able to afford the sharp rise in
housing prices. It is an undeniable fact that American elites, conservative and liberal alike,
are today almost universally in favor of very high levels of immigration, and their possible
recognition of the direct demographic impact upon their own urban circumstances may be an
important but unspoken factor in shaping their views.
As an anecdotal example, consider the case of Matthew Yglesias, a prominent young liberal
blogger living in Washington, DC. A couple of years ago
he recounted on his blogsite how he was suddenly attacked from behind and seriously beaten
by two young men while walking home one evening from a dinner party. At first he was quite
cagey about identifying his attackers, but he eventually admitted they were blacks, possibly
engaged in the growing racial practice of urban "polar bear hunting" so widely publicized by
the Drudge Report and other rightwing websites.
Few matters are more likely to trouble the minds of our Harvard-educated intellectual elite
than fear of suffering random violent assaults while they walk the streets of their own city.
Yet no respectable progressive would possibly focus on the racial character of such an attack,
let alone advocate the removal of local blacks as a precautionary measure. Instead Yglesias
suggested that housing-density issues might have been responsible and that better urban
planning would reduce crime.
But consider that support for very high levels of foreign immigration is an impeccably
liberal cause, and such policies inevitably displace and remove huge numbers of urban blacks;
it is easy to imagine that Yglesias quietly redoubled his pro-immigration zeal in the wake of
the incident. Multiply this personal example a thousand-fold, and perhaps an important strand
of the tremendous pro-immigration ideological framework of American elites becomes apparent.
The more conspiratorially-minded racialists, bitterly hostile to immigration, sometimes
speculate that there is a diabolical plot by our ruling power structure to "race-replace"
America's traditional white population. Perhaps a hidden motive along these lines does indeed
help explain some support for heavy immigration, but I suspect that the race being targeted for
replacement is not the white one.
Such factors may also play a role outside the major urban centers discussed above and even
where least suspected. Among all American businessmen, Silicon Valley executives are probably
strongest in their pro-immigration advocacy, as indicated by the major political advertising
campaign recently launched by top technology CEOs, organized together as "FWD.us." Obviously,
their own cosmopolitan background and desire for an unlimited supply of inexpensive,
high-quality engineers is their primary motive. However, widespread sentiments in favor of
lesser-educated immigrant groups such as undocumented Latin Americans also seem quite strong,
and we find Steve Jobs' wealthy widow Laurene Powell Jobs focusing her efforts almost
exclusively on that particular aspect of the legislation, with her sentiments hardly being
discordant with those of her wealthy peer group. Could hidden racial factors be part of the
explanation? That might seem quite unlikely since Silicon Valley's black population has been
very low for decades, running in the 3 or 4 percent range.
However, a closer examination reveals a very different situation. The small city of Palo
Alto is one of the most desirable local residential areas, home to the late Steve Jobs, as well
as the current CEOs of Apple, Google, Facebook, Yahoo, and a host of other companies; by some
estimates, it may contain the world's highest per capita concentration of billionaires. On
three sides, Palo Alto abuts communities of a similar character: Mountain View, containing
Google; the Stanford University campus; and Menlo Park, the center of America's venture capital
industry. But on the fourth side, mostly separated by Highway 101, lies East Palo Alto, which
for decades was a dangerous ghetto, overwhelmingly black.
I moved back to Palo Alto from New York City in 1992, and that year East Palo Alto recorded
America's highest per capita murder rate; although relatively few of the homicides, robberies,
and rapes spilled across the border, enough did to leave many people uneasy. Gated communities
and even street fences are quite uncommon in the region, and for years anyone who wished could
go to the home of Steve Jobs and walk around his yard or even peer into his windows. Meanwhile,
the sort of harsh racial profiling widely practiced in some large cities was completely
abhorrent to the socially liberal citizenry. One may easily imagine a scenario in which
escalating street crime from the ghetto next door might have produced a collapse in high
housing prices and sparked a massive flight of the wealthy.
One reason this did not occur was the vast influx of impoverished immigrants from south of
the border that swept into the less affluent communities of the region during those same years
and rapidly transformed the local demographics. Between 1980 and 2010 the combined Hispanic
population of Santa Clara and San Mateo counties nearly tripled. A city offering cheap housing
such as East Palo Alto saw far greater relative increases, reversing its demographics during
that period from 60% black and 14% Hispanic to 16% black and 65% Hispanic. Over the last twenty
years, the homicide rate in that small city dropped by 85%, with similar huge declines in other
crime categories as well, thereby transforming a miserable ghetto into a pleasant working-class
community, now featuring new office complexes, luxury hotels, and large regional shopping
centers. Multi-billionaire Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife recently purchased a large
$9 million home just a few hundred feet from the East Palo Alto border, a decision that would
have been unthinkable during the early 1990s. Technology executives are highly quantitative
individuals, skilled in pattern recognition, and I find it difficult to believe that they have
all remained completely oblivious to these local racial factors.
ORDER IT NOW
However the powerful role of immigration in transforming the crime rates of important urban
centers probably had a much smaller impact on the national totals. The combined black
populations of New York City, Washington, and Los Angeles may have dropped by half a million
over the last two decades, but the individuals pushed out did not disappear from the world;
they merely moved to Atlanta or Baltimore or Riverside. But from the personal perspective of
America's ruling elite, they did indeed disappear.
For over thirty years, local black activists in Washington, D.C. have accused the ruling
white power structure of promoting "The Plan," a deliberate strategy of removing most of the
black population from our national capital and replacing them with whites; and this "conspiracy
theory" has been endlessly ridiculed as absurdly paranoid nonsense by our elite Washington
media. Meanwhile, during this same thirty year period, Washington's black population dropped
from over 70% to less than half and will probably fall below the white total within the next
few years.
Indeed, the strong support of our political elites for Section 8 housing vouchers may be
less connected with any alleged social benefits these provide than with their important role in
moving large numbers of impoverished urban residents away from the near vicinity of wealthy
neighborhoods out into the remote suburbs of the middle class. Several years ago the
Atlantic published a major
article by Hanna Rosin on the rapid changes in the geographical pattern of crime induced by
these demographic shifts, and the piece provoked much discussion even though the author avoided
unduly emphasizing the troubling racial aspects. Elite selfishness is hardly surprising and a
policy of exporting those populations with a strong link to crime into other localities seems a
natural strategy, especially if this can be accomplished under the altruistic guise of
socially-uplifting anti-poverty programs.
Finally, it is important to emphasize that this clear political interplay between heavy
levels of immigration and black urban displacement is a relatively recent development and
certainly was not anticipated by the original promoters of the 1965 Immigration Act. Indeed,
although restrictionists routinely denounce that legislation for having flooded America with
Hispanic immigrants, the facts are precisely the opposite. While the 1924 Immigration Act had
drastically curtailed immigration from Europe (and Asia), the entire Western Hemisphere was
totally exempted, and the U.S. retained its previous "open borders" policy for Mexico and the
rest of Latin America until strict quotas were finally introduced as part of the 1965 law.
Although these 1965 changes were expected to enable renewed European immigration, no one
anticipated the vast inflow of Hispanic and Asian immigrants in the decades that followed, nor
the resulting impact upon the racial composition of our major cities. But today these
continuing urban demographic changes may have now become a significant motive in the minds of
the elites advocating increased immigration under the legislation being considered by
Congress.
During the 1960s black author James Baldwin coined the widely-quoted phrase "Urban renewal
means Negro removal." I suspect that a somewhat similar semi-intentional national policy is
today transforming America's leading urban centers, although it remains almost entirely
unreported by our mainstream media.
On rare occasions, the mask slips and the underlying mental workings of our national elites
are momentarily revealed. Consider New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, one of our most vocal
pro-immigration voices on the national stage and a man whose vast wealth and influence often
allow him to be far more candid on controversial topics than most other public figures. In May
2011 Bloomberg was
interviewed on Meet the Press , and explained that if he had full authority, he could
easily fix the seemingly insoluble problems of a city like Detroit at no cost to the taxpayer.
He proposed opening wide the floodgates to unlimited foreign immigration on the condition that
all the additional immigrants moved to Detroit and lived there for a decade or so, thereby
transforming the city. I suspect this provides an important insight into how he and his friends
discuss certain racial issues in private.
Powerful quantitative evidence for social determinism may be dispiriting, and when the main
determinant seems to be race, many Americans will choose to throw up their hands and ignore the
statistical facts, simply hoping that these might somehow be proven incorrect. That is
certainly their privilege, but for those individuals who prefer to grit their teeth and mine
the data for contrary indications, there do exist a few interesting nuggets.
Weighted average correlations are a very useful summary statistic, but they neither tell the
whole story nor do they preclude the existence of outlying cases, which might provide some
insights on ameliorating the grim situation we have described. And it so happens that among our
many dozens of major urban centers one of the most extreme race/crime outliers is neither small
nor obscure: New York City. Our largest metropolis often has crime rates that deviate sharply
from the usual urban pattern observed almost everywhere else.
Recall our earlier mention of the surprising absence of any correlation between urban
population density and crime rates. Those summary statistics were correct, but they also hid
some important variations and the null overall result was almost entirely due to the extremely
high density and low crime rates in America's largest city, combined with its huge
population-weighting. If we excluded New York City from our calculations, the remainder of
America's major urban centers would demonstrate some moderately strong and fairly stable
correlations between density and crime over the last dozen years; for example, density has
generally had a positive correlation of around 0.35 with robbery rates.
Similar anomalies appear in the racial crime calculations that have been the central focus
of our analysis. Based on its racial composition, we would expect New York City's homicide rate
to be some 70% higher than it actually is, with robbery and violent crime also being far more
widespread. Cities like San Jose and San Diego may have homicide and violent crime rates only
half that of New York City, but given the stark differences in their underlying demographics,
it is New York City's Finest who deserves praise for their remarkable effectiveness in crime
prevention. Evaluating the apparent success or failure of urban law enforcement policies
without candidly considering a city's demographic challenges may lead to incorrect policy
judgments.
Little of New York City's success in crime prevention seems due to the relative size of its
police force, which is roughly similar to those of Chicago, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Boston
on a per capita basis, and far below that of Washington, D.C., all cities whose crime rates
reflect their demographics. So it appears that New York City's crime-fighting methods rather
than merely the number of its officers has been the crucial factor.
Ideas have consequences, as do attempts to avoid them. For most of the last twenty years,
the policing methods implemented under mayors Rudolph Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg won
enormous national praise as they so dramatically cut New York crime rates: murders dropped by
over three-quarters. But during the last few years, some of these same policies have begun
receiving widespread criticism among those pundits who may have forgotten just how bad things
were two decades ago.
Our simple statistical analysis obviously does not allow us to disentangle the relative
importance of the different factors behind New York City's success. Since the early 1990s, the
city implemented a "community policing" model as well as pioneering the rapid use of local
crime data to pinpoint dangerous hotspots and allocate resources more accurately. But other
elements of the package have included strict, even harsh policing methods, such as the
widespread use of "stop-and-frisk" to reduce gun violence. Denouncing these techniques as
unconstitutional or racially discriminatory may be perfectly justified, but those who do so
must consider the trade-offs involved, including the very real possibility of a 70% rise in
homicides if local policing effectiveness declined to levels found in the rest of the
country.
Let us compare the demographic and crime trends of New York City and Washington, twin abodes
of our East Coast urban elite. Between 1985 and 2011, Washington's homicide rate dropped by
26%, robbery fell 27%, and violent crime in general was cut by 30%; but the city's black
population also dropped by 27% during this same period. Meanwhile, New York City's
corresponding declines in crime were far greater, 67%, 78%, and 67% respectively, but were
accompanied by only a small 7% decline in black numbers. For all these serious crime rates to
decline at nearly ten times the rate of their primary racial determinant is absolutely
remarkable, a combination that left the city an exceptional outlier among America's major urban
centers.
Put another way, if America's other cities with large black populations had somehow managed
to achieve the same surprisingly low crime rates as New York City then most of the high racial
crime correlations that have been the central findings of this article would disappear.
Conversely, if New York City were excluded from our current national statistics, many of the
existing racial crime correlations would exceed 0.90. These are objective facts and
well-intentioned analysts who sharply criticize New York City policing methods should recognize
that they may face some unpalatable choices.
Perhaps further research would establish that the widely-lauded elements of local police
practice are the ones primarily responsible for such results, and the more controversial
methods may safely be eliminated without negative consequences. But for whatever combination of
reasons, the overall results achieved by New York City have been quite remarkable and caution
should be exercised before drastic changes are made in such a successful model.
Obviously New York City is not the sole positive outlier on these crime statistics, though
it is by far the most significant, both because of its size and the magnitude of its deviation
from the predicted results. If we examine the 2011 homicide rates for our set of sixty-six
large cities, seventeen of these were at least 30% below the projected trendline, with four
cities -- Charlotte, Raleigh, St. Paul, and Virginia Beach -- achieving even better results
than New York City. But many of these successful cities have numerically small black
populations, and the total for all seventeen combined is not much larger that of New York City
alone. One intriguing fact is that although fewer than one-third of the all our large cities
lie in the South, these Southern cities account for over two-thirds of those particularly
successful examples, and a roughly similar pattern applies both for other crime rates and for
other recent years. The exact mix of cultural, socio-economic, or demographic factors
responsible for such notable Southern success in achieving relatively low urban crime rates is
unclear, but might warrant further investigation.
Over the last decade or two, liberal intellectuals have regularly denounced their
conservative opponents for allowing ideological considerations to trump objective facts,
sometimes styling themselves the "Reality-Based Community" as an ironic riposte to the foolish
criticism of a top Bush Administration official. Many of these liberal accusations have
considerable merit. But individuals who claim to accept reality undercut their credibility if
they pick and choose which portions of reality they acknowledge and which portions they
carefully ignore. Our academic and media elites should not avoid factual evidence that they
dislike.
Consider that over one-quarter of all the urban black males in America have vanished from
our society, a loss-ratio approaching that experienced by Europeans during the Black Death of
the Middle Ages. Yet these astonishing statistics have largely remained unreported by our major
media and hence unrecognized by the general American public. Should the medieval scribes of the
Fourteenth Century have ignored the annihilating impact of the bubonic plague all around them
and merely confined their writings to more pleasant news?
It is said that very young children sometimes believe they can hide themselves by covering
their eyes, and that seems to be the general approach taken by our major media to the
unpleasantly grim racial crime statistics analyzed in this article. But the reality continues
to exist whether or not we ignore it.
I found the correlation between whites-voting-Republican and race interesting. It seems to me
that those whites who have lived around lots of blacks, who would be likely to know and
understand the black culture, are most likely to vote Republican, while those whites who have
never lived with blacks vote Democrat. I wonder why that would be.
Perhaps the reason liberals fail to make any progress on gun control policy is that they
ignore the best evidence for its arguments: black crime. In ignoring black crime, they
exaggerate "white crime" -- and whites must find this infuriating and antagonizing. It's no
wonder they refuse to give up their guns.
If liberals started to argue that gun control is needed to curb the high rate of black
crime, then i would bet that they would win many more blue collar whites to their cause. But
they wont' do this because criticizing blacks is counter productive to their more important
goal :racial polarization.
If you asked your average liberal, he would tell you that black crime is a myth. If this
is so, then who is committing all the crime in America? "White people!," he will say. Indeed,
liberals must believe that American's high crime rate is predominately due to whites --
because blacks certainly aren't contributing to it, to think so it a myth!
It's very odd, at first glance, that Hispanic crimes rates have dropped at exactly the same
time that white crime rates have soared. It's doubly odd because the average age of the
Hispanic population is so young (and crime is a young persons game) while the average age of
the white population is increasing.
But you don't have to search very far to find the explanation. Most crime commited by
Hispanics is now attributed to "whites". Have a look at this "white" criminal on the Texas
Most Wanted list.
Too bad, so sad, that "truth" makes no significant difference to sociopolitical systems
based on being able to back up lies with violence. The only real roles for truthful facts
within those systems is to better enable backing up bigger lies with more violence.
Since it is quite relevant to the exhortations presented in the article above
(particularly given that the author is certainly correct that that author would soon be fired
and broke if named ) I repeat what I recently posted under:
It became painfully obvious long ago that the continued triumphs based on the bullies'
******** would automatically get worse faster. Since Globalized Neolithic Civilization was
always based on being able to back up lies with violence, and those methods worked all too
well, in the short to medium term, over and over again, it became painfully obvious that
those excessively successful applications of the methods of organized crime through the
political processes would inevitably result in Civilization manifesting runaway criminal
insanities. It was always painfully obvious that would happen at about exponentially
accelerating rates, which would seem slow at first, but then would happen faster and
faster.
As usually the case with writing from John Rutherford, as well as almost all other authors
republished on Zero Hedge , there is superficially correct analysis of the political
problems, followed by collapsing back to the same old-fashioned impossible ideals as the
basis for similarly superficial, but thus bogus, "solutions:"
"we need civic engagement and citizen activism, especially at the local level"
There is nothing which is going to stop the series of collapses into chaos and psychotic
breakdowns of Civilization NECESSARILY based on the principles and methods of organized
crime. There is nothing which is going to stop that Civilization from going through the
longer term consequences of runaway criminal insanities.
Articles like the one above, as well as practically all of the rest of the content
published on Zero Hedge , are worthwhile to read for the sake of their superficially correct
analysis. However, since they do not engage in deeper analysis of how and why Civilization
NECESSARILY operates according to the principles and methods of organized crime , which have
been applied on larger and larger scales, those kinds of arguments ALWAYS collapse back to
bogus "solutions" based on impossible ideals , which always backfire badly in the real world,
by causing the opposite to those ideals to actually happen.
"... real reform that holds government officials a t all levels accountable to playing
by the rules of the Constitution, then shame on us."
While a democratic republic operating through the rule of law was a good theory, in
practice "playing by the rules of the Constitution" could NEVER be anything more than
divisions of powers providing checks and balances to the ACTUAL operations of governments as
the biggest forms of organized crime , dominated by the best organized gangsters.
Money was ALWAYS measurement backed by murder. The debt controls were ALWAYS backed by the
death controls. The vicious feedback spirals of the funding of the political processes
resulted in the monetary and taxation systems becoming more and more corrupted, in the
craziest possible ways, because that was due to the excessive successfulness of applying the
methods of organized crime , in ways which NECESSARILY drove runaway criminal insanities.
In that context, it has become GOOFY to recommend "real reform" achieved by "civic
engagement and citizen activism!"
Metaphorically speaking "the fish has already thoroughly rotted from the head to the
tail." The entrenched debt slavery systems (legalized counterfeiting as the supreme
achievement of organized crime) have ALREADY generated numbers which are debt insanities,
which ARE going to provoke death insanities, on astronomically amplified magnitudes, due to
about exponentially advancing technologies enabling those sociopolitical systems based on
enforcing frauds to become about exponentially more fraudulent.
What I recommend regarding the runaway fascist plutocracy juggernauts' runaway fascist
police, are series of intellectual revolutions and profound paradigm shifts in political
science. That would require deeper analysis of how and why Civilization NECESSARILY operates
as organized crime , and then follows through with genuine solutions consistent with that
deeper analysis, as indicating better organized crime.
"We the People" can NEVER go back to the old-fashioned Constitution and Bill of Rights. It
is only possible to go forwards through the eruptions of death insanities, to perhaps direct
the development of better death controls, which could back up better debt controls.
While it is theoretically possible that enough human beings could better understand
themselves as manifestations of general energy systems, integrated into all other energy
systems, as nested toroidal vortices engaged in entropic pumping of environmental energy
flows, doing so would require greater scientific revolutions, which would then inspire and
guide political science to be radically revolutionized.
The old-fashioned DUALITIES of false fundamental dichotomies and related impossible ideals
are not going to work. What might work are developing UNITARY MECHANISMS to better understand
politics as manifestations of the general energy systems, which always were, are, and will
be, the same as the principles and methods of organized crime , despite that when those
succeeded on larger and larger scales, then the bullies' ******** with respect to that drove
public debates of those issues to become more and more irrational.
The laws of nature are never going to stop working. However, those laws of nature have
driven the laws of men to become as dishonest as possible, which includes now becoming about
exponentially more dishonest as the methods of organized crime are applied using the powers
and capabilities of about exponentially advancing technologies.
There is nothing which can stop Globalized Neolithic Civilization, with the USA leading
the way, as the American Dollar/Military, from manifesting runaway criminal insanities . It
is only remotely possible that such events will enable the development of real, radical,
revolution, which is primarily revolution in political science.
Enough of the "civic engagement and citizen activism" should STOP believing in achieving
"real reform" by series of political miracles based on old-fashioned impossible ideals.
While the more mainstream media do not even engage in superficially correct political
analysis, but rather continue to promote Huge Lies, most of the people on various alternative
media, such as Zero Hedge , still manage to switch from superficially correct analysis to
similarly superficial "solutions."
POLITICAL PROBLEMS have become globalized electronic monkey money frauds, backed by
threats of force from apes with atomic weapons (into which have recently been released
viruses made by primates to become more infectious on primates .)
Despite those being the FACTS, somehow most people can either continue to deliberately
ignore those FACTS, or perhaps recommend going back to old-fashioned ideals as the basis for
bogus "solutions" to those PROBLEMS, despite that those ideals never imagined those
PROBLEMS.
Political science ought to be radically transformed in order to reconcile political
science with the progress in other sciences (which physical sciences also have to be
radically transformed, because of the history of the corruption of those physical sciences,
which accompanied the corruption of every other aspect of Globalized Neolithic
Civilization.)
"Reforms" are NEVER going to be enough. Only revolution might be enough, and such a real
revolution goes far beyond the old-fashioned, fake revolutionaries' notions regarding
politics.
Political science would have to become more consistent with physical sciences such as
quantum mechanics, the special theory of relativity, and molecular biology, and so on and so
forth, for that revolutionized political science to begin to cope with the PROBLEMS presented
by the technologies enabled by prodigious progress in those physical sciences.
Given the awesome degrees of difficulty with respect to achieving anything like that, I
believe that the most reasonable predictions for the 21st Century are for the human
population to not reach almost 10 billion, but rather, to drop below one billion.
Given that the article above was superficially correct about how bad the situation has
become, and given that its bogus "solutions" are practically impossible, the most reasonable
expectations are for democidal martial law to mass murder the majority of Americans, either
directly or indirectly. Indeed, that is the most reasonable scenario (Civilization gets
crazier as Nature goes nuts) in which it might be possible to develop better organized crime
, as the only actually possible better government.
"... For years I have said here that the identity-politics left has no idea what kind of demons it is calling up by endorsing illiberal, positive discrimination on behalf of nonwhites. Well, they’re about to show themselves in a big way in Weimar America ..."
"... And in the age of the reformation, after a hundred and fifty years of war and around twenty million deaths, there were still Catholics and there were still protestants. Neither side just went away. ..."
"... .I've said it my whole life, Identity politics are poison. I don't believe in race, as far as I am concerned it's a pernicious social construct. None of the statistics about mass numbers of "racial" characteristics ..."
"... I can now assume they will prejudge me, however, according to their own subjective madness. Well, I guess, if to no one else, the Christians can still witness to and be a good influence on the white nationalists. ..."
"... Egalitarianism is the rule of the Woke and Diversity and Inclusion and Equity are the holy principles. The problem is that these principles deny the reality of life and make a devil of "whiteness" and create a magic worldview of "systemic racism". Moreover, the principles are anti-Christian. ..."
"... We also need to acknowledge that increased multiculturalism causes increased intergroup conflict and weakens social capital. ..."
"... I ran into identity groups in grad school, as I encountered La Raza and MeCHA, two radical Hispanic identity groups bent on the Reconquista. It was weird. It seemed un-American. ..."
The militants have chosen the most sympathetic states, governors and mayors for these protests, riots, arson, assault, etc and
most recently urban takeovers but success against pacifist mayors and governors breads hubris and conceit and over confidence.
Eventually they are going to try this in a less sympathetic state ...
Trump is going to use the inaction of the democratic mayors and democratic governors to get the citizenry so fed up that those
long time democratic states will turn republican. Trump similarly boxed in democratic mayors and democratic governors by letting
them keep their states closed while Trump was re-opening the economy.
These are all bricks in the wall of resentment building against democrats, but I don't think anything is going to happen until
the states request it....
First: get yourself in order. Get out of debt, this will give you financial margin and make you better able to withstand the shocks
to come. Critically evaluate how you spend your time, this will allow you to focus on what's important (starting with your family,
then church, then neighbors).
Buying books, standing in line for 3 hours to vote and endless doom-scrolling has never changed the world, and won't this time
either. I'm not the only one to notice that the Left has made more concrete gains in 2 weeks of protests and setting things on
fire then they have in the last decade pathetically voting for Centrist Dems.
One thing I believe conservatives have to be willing to do is to withdraw from supporting public and private institutions that
endorse and implement wokeness. Take your money and your labor away. Stop supporting institutions and organizations that are working
against you. If we don’t know yet how to effectively fight the putsch, at least we can stop supporting the organizations that
putschists have conquered.
This is about the only thing most people at this point can do. But conservatives could be doing this already, and most aren't.
Why? It is literally the **very least** you can do, and conservatives had damned well better do it if they want to retain any
sway whatsoever.
The first and most important task in fighting a war is to choose your battles.
In an earlier post, Rod, you talked about the "collapsing Imperium." Exactly. And would a fleeing Roman have wasted their precious
time and energy arguing with the Visgoths rampaging around the city?
No — you fight when you can meaningfully influence the outcome by fighting; if you can't, then your "fight" is tilting at windmills.
In my opinion, what we're experiencing are symptoms of the end of the era of the nation-state. For centuries, the nation-state
was a valuable way to organize power. Today, much (and increasing) power belongs to rootless globalized corporations. Today's
heads of state spend more time meeting with representatives from Amazon, Google, the banks etc. than they do meeting with each
other (or with their constituents).
The problem begins and ends with our leadership class. I say this often. It's still true. I think that many people don't like
what is happening right now. Many are frustrated. Some are angry. The problem is that no one in the leadership class is really
taking up their cause and articulating what they feel, so they end up feeling alone and isolated. The appeal of white nationalism
comes in part from a sense that the movement is revealing hidden truths; they offer a story to make sense of things that isolated
young people find frustrating but lack a narrative to explain. What this amounts to is a new mythology to replace the one we are
in the process of losing.
Individualism only works if both sides practice it. If one side practices individualism and the other practices identity politics,
the identity politics side has a systematic, unfair advantage. Left wing identity politics makes right wing identity politics
inevitable. Otherwise the right will just be routed (as it is being currently).
Re Hawley's speech. It was decent and I agree with about half of it. What I do not get is the desire to retain the names of Confederate
generals on military bases. They, after all, fought for a flag other than the one that flies over those bases today. It strikes
me as odd that a president who wanted to invoke the Insurrection Act to deploy our armed forces in American cities wants to continue
to honor those who led the biggest insurrection in our history. Having a military base named ofter you is an honor, not a mere
commemoration of history. I'd rather have a Fort Eisenhower than a Fort Bragg.
"For years I have said here that the identity-politics left has no idea what kind of demons it is calling up by endorsing illiberal,
positive discrimination on behalf of nonwhites. Well, they’re about to show themselves in a big way in Weimar America."
I'm from the left, but I hope you'll consider this constructive.
I have lived in Orange County, California since 2008. It used to be a strongly conservative area, but it has become "purple"
in recent years. Clinton carried it by a hair in 2016, and our representation in the CA legislature has oscillated back and forth
between Rs and Ds recently. Being somewhat active in my community, I know many liberals and many conservatives, and we all get
a long just fine day to day. Most people here, I sense, really aren't all that interested in politics.
But interestingly, for the first time since I have lived here, I have seen two houses in my neighborhood flying confederate
flags. Yes, as an epidemiologist, I'd rather have real statistics from well designed surveys. But I read those two events as indicating
something big happening.
The DSA, and really the "internet" left as a whole, is going through a similar situation which you may find interesting. Recently
the DSA branch in Philly canceled a talk with Adolph Reed because he's a "class reductionist". Which led to the Class Unity DSA
writing this response
So.....you may need to consider that pro-working class leftists are the only people who actually want to protect anyone from
being canned by their employer for ridiculous reasons. Perhaps Christians should considering "unionizing"
Also, I am not affiliated with the DSA in anyway nor do I have any desire to.
In a hundred years, we are still going to have the "woke". The specifics of their ideology may change dramatically between now
and then. Maybe none of them will care about sexuality or race anymore. Maybe the new front line will be animal liberation or
cyborgs or what people are allowed to do to AIs in virtual reality, but the woke will still be with us.
And those who oppose them will still be with us too. Cultural conservatism is bound to change as well, though more slowly than
progressivism does. I hope Christianity is still a factor in a hundred years, even if Christians are in the minority. Regardless,
there will still be people who regard the rapid changes in society and technology with suspicion or dismay.
And in the age of the reformation, after a hundred and fifty years of war and around twenty million deaths, there were still
Catholics and there were still protestants. Neither side just went away.
It seems to me we can either reach some accommodation now, or after a century of misery. Neither side is going anywhere.
Here are some suggestions for beleaguered folks in these tense times.
1. Document everything . Save the emails. If you attend a meeting and hear something oppressive, take note of it, write
it down as accurately as you can, date, and save it.
2.Never broaden the conflict. Don't create what will turn into a muddle if, for your part, you possibly can. Don't give them
any pretext, by anything you write or say, or by your facial expression or tone of voice, to claim that you are clinging to white
privilege.
3.Don't ever trust the wokesters, the administrators, etc. Don't make it obvious that you don't trust them, but realize that
friendly and reasonable-seeming people can turn quickly into something else.
4.Know what the employer can point to to try to make you knuckle under. For example, if you are a college teacher, know what
the university says about "affirming" people of all sexual proclivities. Say nothing and write nothing that *unnecessarily* conflicts
with the interpretations they may give their mission statement, organizational policy, etc. You want to be able, when the time
comes, to look back and know that, if necessary, you said what you had to say, did what you had to do, but to have a mind free
of regret because you flew off the handle, or were sarcastic, etc. When you are frightened, don't show it, e.g. by venting anger,
if you can help it. Subdue your passions even while those around you are acting like nuts.
5.Know your rights. You may end up needing to take somebody to court.
First. Get money and I mean lots of money. Be in a position where you can't lose your job because you don't need to have one.
Second, be aggressive. Don't hesitate to do everything possible to utterly destroy your enemy. They will do it to you Engage in
litigation at the drop of a hat. Use investigators to expose criminal activity. The only good Liberal is one dying in prison.
Third, embrace the ways of Cosimanian Orthodoxy. Never give the enemy a foothold. If they accuse you of racism, laugh and say,
"Yeah. So what?" Never, ever, show or feel the slightest sign of guilt.
Be ruthless in all your ways.
And remember the words of Admiral Halsey. "Attack. Repeat. Attack."
...I've said it my whole life, Identity politics are poison. I don't believe in race, as far as
I am concerned it's a pernicious social construct. None of the statistics about mass numbers of "racial" characteristics ever
tell me anything important or accurate about any other individual person I will meet myself. I suppose if they are Woke, I can
now assume they will prejudge me, however, according to their own subjective madness. Well, I guess, if to no one else, the Christians
can still witness to and be a good influence on the white nationalists.
I have been pondering on this for awhile. Egalitarianism is the rule of the Woke and Diversity and Inclusion and Equity are the
holy principles. The problem is that these principles deny the reality of life and make a devil of "whiteness" and create a magic worldview
of "systemic racism". Moreover, the principles are anti-Christian.
The gospel invites all to come onto Christ. There is no place for hatred in Christendom. But people are different and God give
salvation to those that refuse to obey him. God invites all to him but many won't be in heaven.
This means we can't hate the haters either, which the intolerant Left believes in doing. We need to forgive and not demand
people to make amends for things done by their ancestors. We need to face reality and move on instead of firing those that speak
against the Great God Diversity.
So, we need to utterly reject the blank slate. We are not all the same and God made us all different. Groups of people do share
common traits, which is why the concept of "race" is real. Some groups are faster than others due to genetics. Some are smarter
than others.
God loves all of us, no matter where he placed us on this planet and wants all of us to come onto him. But we are not all the
same and He made us different.
To acknowledge differences isn't racism, but is "living not by lies". To acknowledge that some groups have a much higher rate
of violence than others isn't racist or discriminatory. Instead, honesty allows us to not push square pegs in round wholes.
So, we need to reject the entire "racism" construct as invalid. It is a tool to manipulate people and create intergroup conflict.
We also need to acknowledge that increased multiculturalism causes increased intergroup conflict and weakens social capital.
Why was the USA so successful in the 20th century? One reason was the holy Melting Pot, as we created a single general American
identity and focused on that. I really liked my childhood in SoCal. My classmates were from around the world and had grabbed hold
of the American identity.
We did have one student in my advanced math classes in high school. He didn't understand what was being taught and spent the
class period every day demanding help on the previous day's work that he didn't understand. He should have moved to a lower class,
but instead wasted our time and dragged everyone down.
It seems we are doing the same thing today.
I ran into identity groups in grad school, as I encountered La Raza and MeCHA, two radical Hispanic identity groups bent on
the Reconquista. It was weird. It seemed un-American.
So, let's not give lip service to the DIE agenda. Let's reject the Great God of Egalitarianism. Instead, let's be full of love
but be honest and truthful. We don't exclude based upon race, but we don't believe in equality of outcome or bringing everyone
done to the lowest individual. We don't invite everyone in the world in. We stop immigration long enough to integrate those we
have imported.
Spiritually get closer to God and pray for a nonviolent resolution. We are going to need a new ethos that focuses on people not
politics or policy. That is literally the point of the gospel. Be a city on a hill!
Some of the other actions I've been thinking quite a bit about is moving to a more red or conservative state. I know this is
not a panacea but at least, in my opinion, you can more easily cultivate strong relationships that are going to be needed to help
guide and fend off this competing "religion".
As you said, make a mental note of the institutions that are spreading "wokeness" to the best of your ability. Here in MA that
can be very difficult but I do to a degree have some agency here. Colleges and/or businesses not another dime.
Lastly I've completely written off all sports entirely. Not another dollar to the "toy box" of my world and for most men in
my opinion. Looking back I made sports an idol and was it was complete waste of time.
RD have you yourself considered stepping past writing and into the field of action? I could easily see a nationwide tour to include
a talk with you and another person, but more importantly allowing others to network with one another and make some real life connections.
Because more than anything that’s what we need, relationships with likeminded people.
And let’s be honest, come the revolution, you’re already going to be in the first batch sent to the gulag regardless of what
you do now anyway. Might as well kick a ball forward for future generations while you have the ability. I’d gladly contribute
to such an event.
Wow... this may be the first time I've actually been really convinced by your pessimism. There really be no way to fight this.
I hope that someone find some way. I have always hoped we wouldn't really get to Solzhenitsyn... but now
This may be unpopular with some readers, but here goes: Would your friend be willing to identify as a Cultural Christian? That
is, could you convince him to identify as a non-believing Christian and spend some time engaging in Christian ritual (reading
Scripture/church fathers, going to church occasionally)? I've found that those attracted to white nationalism at least have some
reverence for the ancient and medieval Christian heritage. There are countless artists and thinkers over the centuries that have
take a position of wrestling with Christ for their entire lives, without ever becoming full-fledged Christians. The presumption,
of course, is that your friend may be more open to receiving God's Grace within the church than outside it. And it might prove
to be that moderating influence he needs.
I have a few thoughts and, not necessarily advice, but a few words for the woman whose friend has become a white nationalist.
Like many here, over the past week I’ve been inundated with reading lists and things I have to do to be an ally (decent human),
all written in the unabashedly threatening tone of a ransom note. (I work in a very liberal environment.) While I reflexively
balk at these things and am a natural contrarian, I’ve actually been diving into some of these suggested books, articles, and
movies and I have to say: I’ve become quite ashamed of American history and myself in a way I’ve never been before. Yes, I knew
about slavery and Jim Crow, etc., but redlining, contract lending – the denial of mortgages, social security and the GI Bill to
the majority of blacks – these were things I honestly had never known or thought about. White Americans had an incredible opportunity
in the middle of the 20th century to lift up black people and give them a real opportunity and instead we created ghettoes and
tenements. We blew it. And the biggest tragedy to me is the failure of white Christians to be a model for racial harmony and integrate
our churches. Now the chickens have come home to roost. Good Christians are trying to jump on the Black Lives Matter bus when
that movement should be jumping on our bus. We should’ve been leading the drive for racial unity, but we hung back and let other
people, whose agenda and beliefs are in many ways incompatible with Christianity, take the lead and now anyone who goes against
them will be on the chopping block. Rod, I’m very happy that you have stated so strongly that this cannot be a white vs black
thing. I’m not sure everyone in the back is hearing this. We have to be unequivocally and strenuously FOR our black brothers and
sisters in Christ, but against woke madness. In fact, I see this as our only way forward. People of all races who uphold Christian
or traditional religious values have to join together and support each other in a way we never have before. We have to take the
criticisms and complaints of people seriously even if we don’t agree on the solutions. For your friend, my only recommendation
would be to watch the documentaries by Deeyah Khan. You can find them on YouTube. She has one on white nationalists and one on
jihadists. It’s the same deal – young men who need a sense of purpose. What seems to help is becoming friends with the “enemy”
and seeing them as a real person. But the enemy has to want to understand and be your friend, too. That’s the part the woke crowd
doesn’t get, but Christians should know and do better.
"... As author Jim Keith explains, "Create violence through economic pressures, the media, mind control, agent provocateurs: thesis. Counter it with totalitarian measures, more mind control, police crackdowns, surveillance, drugging of the population: antithesis. What ensues is Orwell's vision of 1984 , a society of total control: synthesis." ..."
"... This isn't about racism in America. ..."
"... This is about profit-driven militarism packaged in the guise of law and order, waged by greedy profiteers who have transformed the American homeland into a battlefield with militarized police, military weapons and tactics better suited to a war zone. This is systemic corruption predicated on the police state's insatiable appetite for money, power and control. ..."
The Deep State, the powers-that-be, want us to turn this into a race war, but this is about
so much more than systemic racism. This is the oldest con game in the books, the magician's
sleight of hand that keeps you focused on the shell game in front of you while your wallet is
being picked clean by ruffians in your midst.
It was February 1933, a month before national elections in Germany, and the Nazis weren't
expected to win. So they engineered a way to win: they began by infiltrating the police and
granting police powers to their allies; then Hitler brought in stormtroopers to act as
auxiliary police; by the time an arsonist (who claimed to be working for the Communists in the
hopes of starting an armed revolt) set fire to the Reichstag, the German parliamentary
building, the people were eager for a return to law and order.
Fast forward to the present day, and what do we have? The nation in turmoil after months of
pandemic fear-mongering and regional lockdowns, a national election looming, a president with
falling poll numbers, and a police state that wants to stay in power at all costs.
Then again, it's also equally possible that the architects of the police state have every
intention of manipulating this outrage for their own purposes.
It works the same in every age.
As author Jim Keith explains, "Create violence through economic pressures, the media, mind
control, agent provocateurs: thesis. Counter it with totalitarian measures, more mind control,
police crackdowns, surveillance, drugging of the population: antithesis. What ensues is
Orwell's vision of 1984 , a society of total control: synthesis."
Here's what is going to happen: the police state is going to stand down and allow these
protests, riots and looting to devolve into a situation where enough of the voting populace is
so desperate for a return to law and order that they will gladly relinquish some of their
freedoms to achieve it. And that's how the police state will win, no matter which candidate
gets elected to the White House.
You know who will lose? Every last one of us.
Listen, people should be outraged over what happened to George Floyd, but let's get one
thing straight: Floyd didn't die
merely because he was black and the cop who killed him is white. Floyd died because America
is being overrun with warrior cops -- vigilantes with a badge -- who are part of a
government-run standing army that is waging war on the American people in the so-called name of
law and order.
Not all cops are warrior cops, trained to
act as judge, jury and executioner in their interactions with the populace. Unfortunately,
the good cops -- the ones who take seriously their oath of office to serve and protect their
fellow citizens, uphold the Constitution, and maintain the peace -- are increasingly being
outnumbered by those who believe the lives -- and rights -- of police should be valued more
than citizens.
These warrior cops may get paid by the citizenry, but they don't work for us and they
certainly aren't operating within the limits of the U.S. Constitution.
This isn't about racism in America.
This is about profit-driven militarism packaged in the guise of law and order, waged by
greedy profiteers who have transformed the American homeland into a battlefield with
militarized police, military weapons and tactics better suited to a war zone. This is systemic
corruption predicated on the police state's insatiable appetite for money, power and
control.
This is a military coup waiting to happen.
Why do we have more than a million cops on the taxpayer-funded payroll in this country whose
jobs do not entail protecting our safety, maintaining the peace in our communities, and
upholding our liberties?
This is the new face of war, and America has become the new battlefield.
Militarized police officers, the end product of the government -- federal, local and state
-- and law enforcement agencies having merged, have become a "standing" or permanent army,
composed of full-time professional soldiers who do not disband.
Yet these permanent armies are exactly what those who drafted the U.S. Constitution and Bill
of Rights feared as tools used by despotic governments to wage war against its citizens.
American police forces were never supposed to be a branch of the military, nor were they
meant to be private security forces for the reigning political faction. Instead, they were
intended to be an aggregation of countless local police units, composed of citizens like you
and me that exist for a sole purpose: to serve and protect the citizens of each and every
American community.
As a result of the increasing militarization of the police in recent years, however, the
police now not only look like the military -- with their foreboding uniforms and phalanx of
lethal weapons -- but they function like them, as well.
Thus, no more do we have a civilian force of peace officers entrusted with serving and
protecting the American people. Instead, today's militarized law enforcement officials have
shifted their allegiance from the citizenry to the state, acting preemptively to ward off any
possible challenges to the government's power,
unrestrained by the boundaries of the Fourth Amendment .
For years now, we've been told that cops need military weapons to wage the government's wars
on drugs, crime and terror. We've been told that cops need to be able to crash through doors,
search vehicles, carry out roadside strip searches, shoot anyone they perceive to be a threat,
and generally disregard the law whenever it suits them because they're doing it to protect
their fellow Americans from danger. We've been told that cops need extra legal protections
because of the risks they take.
Militarized police armed with weapons of war who are allowed to operate above the law and
break the laws with impunity are definitely not making America any safer or freer.
Militarism within the nation's police forces is proving to be deadlier than any
pandemic.
This battlefield mindset has gone hand in hand with the rise of militarized SWAT ("special
weapons and tactics") teams.
Frequently justified as vital tools necessary to combat terrorism and deal with rare but
extremely dangerous criminal situations, such as those involving hostages, SWAT teams have
become intrinsic parts of local law enforcement operations, thanks in large part to substantial
federal assistance and the Pentagon's military surplus recycling program, which allows the
transfer of military equipment, weapons and training to local police for free or at sharp
discounts while increasing the profits of its corporate allies.
Where this becomes a problem of life and death for Americans is when these SWAT teams --
outfitted, armed and trained in military tactics -- are assigned to carry out relatively
routine police tasks, such as serving a search warrant. Nationwide, SWAT teams have been
employed to address an astonishingly trivial array of criminal activity or mere community
nuisances: angry dogs, domestic disputes, improper paperwork filed by an orchid farmer, and
misdemeanor marijuana possession, to give a brief sampling.
Remember, SWAT teams originated as specialized units dedicated to defusing extremely
sensitive, dangerous situations. They were never meant to be used for routine police work such
as serving a warrant. Unfortunately, the mere presence of SWAT units has actually injected a
level of danger and violence into police-citizen interactions that was not present as long as
these interactions were handled by traditional civilian officers.
Yet the tension inherent in most civilian-police encounter these days can't be blamed
exclusively on law enforcement's growing reliance on SWAT teams and donated military
equipment.
It goes far deeper, to a transformation in the way police view themselves and their line of
duty.
Specifically, what we're dealing with today is a skewed shoot-to-kill mindset in which
police, trained
to view themselves as warriors or soldiers in a war , whether against drugs, or terror, or
crime, must "get" the bad guys -- i.e., anyone who is a potential target -- before the bad guys
get them. The result is a spike in the number of incidents in which police shoot first, and ask
questions later.
Making matters worse, when these officers, who have long since ceased to be peace officers,
violate their oaths by bullying, beating, tasering, shooting and killing their employers -- the
taxpayers to whom they owe their allegiance -- they are rarely given more than a slap on the
hands before resuming their patrols.
This lawlessness on the part of law enforcement, an unmistakable characteristic of a police
state, is made possible in large part by police unions which routinely oppose civilian review
boards and resist the placement of names and badge numbers on officer uniforms; police agencies
that abide by the Blue Code of Silence, the quiet understanding among police that they should
not implicate their colleagues for their crimes and misconduct; prosecutors who treat police
offenses with greater leniency than civilian offenses; courts that sanction police wrongdoing
in the name of security; and legislatures that enhance the power, reach and arsenal of the
police, and a citizenry that fails to hold its government accountable to the rule of law.
Indeed, not only are cops protected from most charges of wrongdoing -- whether it's shooting
unarmed citizens (including children and old people),
raping and abusing young women, falsifying police reports , trafficking drugs, or
soliciting sex with minors -- but even on the rare occasions when they are fired for
misconduct, it's only a matter of time before they
get re-hired again .
Incredibly, while our own Bill of Rights are torn to shreds, leaving us with few protections
against government abuses, a growing number of states are adopting Law
Enforcement Officers' Bill of Rights (LEOBoR), which provide cops accused of a crime with
special due process rights and privileges not afforded to the average citizen.
This, right here, epitomizes everything that is wrong with America today.
As I explain in my book Battlefield
America: The War on the American People , we need civic engagement and citizen activism,
especially at the local level. However, if it ends at the ballot box without achieving any real
reform that holds government officials at all levels accountable to playing by the rules of the
Constitution, then shame on us.
There is a need for competent counterintelligence to, in effect, crack the egg and isolate
and take action against the hardcore network of trained provocateurs who have the capacity to
hijack genuine protest to further their goal: Chaos and civil conflict as the endgame.
Anyone see the photo of the FBI agents kneeling at the "protest" in DC?
Think this FBI is going to find out ANYTHING about these scumbags?
If they (accidently) did, they'd bury it.
Only thing preventing the FBI's corruption from doing real damage is their massive
incompetence.
Plus this is an existential war for the deep state. They have the most to gain and the most
direct interests in winning. Just don't be blind to the underlying motivations - there are no
coincidences, right? Past is prologue - get a copy of the 2012 Breitbart documentary "Occupy
Unmasked". The similarities exposed to what is again happening in 2020 will give one pause.
If the deep state can't pr won't handle it, perhaps vigilantes can come in from the
surrounding areas to liquidate the seditious secession move. It is obvious that the official
elements of the imperium have left the reservation so an unofficial initiative is
necessary.
1. Every member of the U.S. military swears an oath to support and defend the Constitution
and
the values embedded within it This document is founded on the essential principle that all
men
and women arc bom free and equal, and should be treated with respect and dignity. It also
gives
Americans the right to freedom of speech and peaceful assembly. We in uniform - all
branches,
all components, and all ranks - remain committed to our national values and principles
embedded in the Constitution.
2. During this current crisis, the National Guard is operating under the authority of
state
governors to protect lives and property, preserve peace, and ensure public safety.
3. As members of the Joint Force - comprised of all races, colors, and creeds - you embody
the
ideals of our Constitution. Please remind all of our troops and leaders that we will uphold
the
values of our nation, and operate consistent with national laws and our own high standards
of
This was a test - and Trump has failed it. His authority is consequently shot and he doesn't
appear to have the will to reassert it (the memo is over a week old now). The soft coup just
got a whole lot harder. Are we looking at the leader of a military junta?
By this memo CJCS has thrown in his hand with the coup. He claims to have a higher loyalty
than obeying the CinC. This is what all militaries do when they get involved in
revolutions.
What this means in practice is that the military will no longer obey orders from the CinC
that are not approved by Antifa and its chief supporter in Congress - Pelosi. That means that
Trump is effectively a prisoner in the Whitehouse if Antifa decides to keep him there. To put
that another way, you can forget the National Guard assisting the police.
Expect other officials to follow Milleys lead shortly unless Trump successfully fires
Milley and reassert his authority. What follows next is renewed civil disobedience and
breakdown of law and order including demanding Trump resign, in response to which the police
can do nothing and the troops will do nothing.
Trump will then be urged to go "for the good of the country". We have scripted such
morality plays in foreign countries ourselves.
Soros is actually a specialist in supporting color revolutions and played an important role in financing of both Ukrainian
Maidans. As such he is closely connected to CIA and the State Department.
Proposals for the CHAZ flag – featuring pink umbrellas and the black stenciled fist so
familiar from "color revolutions" around the world – also point in that
direction.
Still farce remains a farce, not matter how hard some people try this is not a revolution, this is a controlled opposition to
Trump.
As part of its series of undercover videos exposing left-wing organizations like Antifa,
Project Veritas released footage claiming to show far-left Democrat activists bragging about
George Soros funding and political connections. Tom Steyer – who unsuccessfully
campaigned for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination for 2020 – and liberal
financier George Soros are both named as financial contributors in the new clip on Refuse
Fascism, an organization dedicated to removing President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike
Pence from office.
Andy Zee, national organizer for the group, mentions during the seven-minute video that
Steyer "may not want to be directly connected" to the group because he has "political
ambitions" that may be hurt by such a relationship, but Zee says the group is in communication
with Steyer's assistant and "main adviser on impeachment."
Zee also mentions that past employees of Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign have
also been involved in the group.
Tee Stern, head of the group's Atlanta chapter, is seen eating dinner with undercover
Veritas reporters at another point, and reveals the group received a "grant" from
controversial billionaire Soros.
Silicon Valley is also mentioned as a major source of income for the group.
Stern later makes repeated calls for "thousands of people, then millions" to "come
into the streets" and act as a disruptive force until the president is made to leave
office.
The video is the third part in a series from Veritas meant to expose left-wing organizations
like Refuse Fascism and Antifa, groups that are behind or are part of many of the ongoing
protests across the US.
Refuse Fascism is a group gaining more and more attention from conservatives. Author and
filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza described them as part of a left-wing "paramilitary force" this
week.
"The left has deployed a paramilitary. They literally have a paramilitary force on the
street. It's not just Antifa. It's all the other groups: Refuse Fascism, Black Lives Matter,
and on it goes," D'Souza
said .
Previous Veritas undercover videos exposed Antifa members promoting violence like eye-gouging and
even fight training for upcoming
protests.
The Black Lives Matter campaign is correct to demand justice for George Floyd's brutal death. But trying to turn this violent
ex-con into a Mandela-like martyr does this crusade a great disservice.
I wonder what ran through
George Floyd's terrified mind during those agonising eight minutes and 46 seconds. Did his life flash before his eyes?
Perhaps he was a religious
man and – realizing his number was up after he mumbled those famous last
words
:
"Please,
I can't breathe!"
– he silently prayed to God for help, or maybe even made an act of contrition.
But Floyd sadly hadn't got
a prayer with such a sadistic b*****d kneeling on his windpipe and literally sucking the life out of him, while three of his
colleagues – who had undertaken an oath to protect and serve – didn't lift a finger to help.
However, it's not right that he is now being canonized by the liberal left in their Black Lives Matter campaign, because the
truth is: this ex-con who has been
described
as
a
"career criminal"
was certainly no saint, judging by his past sins – which
include
aggravated
robbery, theft, criminal trespassing, and drug-related arrests.
Floyd's
"violent
criminal past"
once
saw
him break into a pregnant woman's home and point a loaded gun at her unborn child as he demanded money and drugs from her.
It's hard to imagine just how terrified his helpless victim must have felt with a firearm pressed against her unborn child.
Perhaps Floyd – seeing as
he was apparently a loving father – was racked with guilt about that particularly callous crime, right up until the very end.
It's also very possible
that there weren't any profound thoughts running around his head considering he might have been high at the time of his death.
The autopsy report discovered he had fentanyl and methamphetamine in his
system
at
the time of death (as well as Covid-19).
This type of evidence
hardly suggests a
"changed man,"
as is being
claimed
by
liberals and their media outlets, who are being allowed to run with this false narrative without being pulled up on it. Come
on! I mean, how can a drugged-up man with a violent past be absurdly portrayed as a
"gentle
giant"
? As the black conservative activist Candace Owens, who is now being pilloried for speaking her mind,
mused
,
"Was
he really going to turn things around? It's just not true."
If there is an
all-forgiving God – and only Floyd knows the answer to that question now – he would have certainly been welcomed through those
pearly white gates. But the last thing the Almighty would've ever contemplated would be how to turn this particular sinner
into a saint.
It's nothing short of ridiculous that he is being
hailed
as
a
"mentor to a generation of young men."
I can't believe the false hagiography,
coming from a liberal agenda wishing to use him as a propaganda prop, is being bought hook, line and sinker by a gullible
public. As Owens said,
"George Floyd was not a good person. I don't care who wants to
spin that, I don't care how CNN wants to make you think that he had just turned his life around."
Similarly, you'd have to
question if the Alt-Right try to use his death to their own advantage, which no doubt Donald Trump will attempt to do during
the upcoming presidential election. There's clearly already been a dirty tricks campaign to smear and demonise Floyd, judging
by some of the disgusting memes about his death, and there's also been some unnecessary information stuck up online about him
apparently
appearing
in
a sordid pornographic film – with the graphic footage itself being passed around for sickening laughs on WhatsApp in recent
days.
Floyd does not deserve to
have his name dragged through the mud, but he also shouldn't be falsely portrayed as a prophet either, if society wants to
properly mourn and protest against the gruesome manner in which he was cruelly taken from this world. There needs to be a
middle ground here.
At the end of the day, it
would be a fantastic tribute if his violent death radically shakes things up and actually helps to finally amputate, once and
for all, everything that is rotten at the core of America's soul.
But we must not turn him
into a saint because, sorry, the truth might hurt here, but – given his track record – it's not unfair to say he himself could
conceivably have been involved in the looting and rioting that's ripping apart America.
Owens'
comment
that
"the
fact that George Floyd is held up as a martyr sickens me"
was most certainly OTT, to say the least. But – apart from the
insensitive timing of broadcasting such contentious views just before the poor man was being buried – I really don't
understand all the hullabaloo about most of her other views on his death.
Whatever way you spin it,
she was right in saying that Floyd is not a martyr – not in the true sense of the
definition
,
which is
"a person who is killed because of their religious or other beliefs."
He
was not like Gandhi or Nelson Mandela, both of whom were willing to sacrifice themselves for the good of their causes. It's an
insult to their memories to even mutter Floyd's name in the same breath as theirs – with no disrespectful pun intended there.
I'm not one for conspiracy
theories, but even I'm beginning to wonder if his death might not have even been racially motivated and was perhaps something
more sinister, given the fact that Floyd and his killer's paths had
crossed
when
they both worked security at the same club.
Owens was also correct when she said that other ethnic minorities, such as Jews or Hispanics, would not have embraced someone
who had done
"five stints in prison"
as a hero. The truth is, Floyd was nothing
more and nothing less than an unfortunate victim, if you want to put a label on him.
Owens – who as an
African-American herself is allowed to vocalize her thoughts in a way that I would be crucified for doing as a so-called
privileged white man – explained:
"[Black Americans] are unique in that we are the only
people that fight and scream and demand support and justice for the people in our community who are up to no good."
It would be a great
disservice to the memory of Floyd if in 50 years' time schools kids were to crack open their history books and read a
distorted account of his true story.
I've no doubt there was
some good in the man, but it's pushing the boat out if he ends up on tacky t-shirts with an iconic-style image of him with a
halo over his head. Floyd was not even an iconoclastic figure out there fighting the good fight, never mind some kind of a
religious icon.
Either way, let's hope his
six-year-old daughter Gianna will grow up to be able to genuinely repeat these poignant
words
:
"Dad
changed the world."
It will still be a proud legacy for her to cherish, but let's stop with all this nonsense of putting
this victim up on a pedestal. He was not a saint in life, so let's not make him one in death.
Junk article that promotes black as it they are new proletariat. Kind of rehashing of Marxism
on the foundation of black racism with blacks as new "progressive class" fighting for its
liberation. But from whom? IfF they want the liberation from financial capital, this is stupid --
they act as a Trojan force of financial capital avtilve splitting people who are able and willing
to fight neoliberalism along racial lines. Actually "white supremacy" is pretty ingenious
neoliberal propaganda trick. It helps to divide lower income people along racial lines, while
doing nothing to address the redistribution of the wealth under neoliberalism. such a perfect
smoke screen.
But two point made at the end are worth repeating
That fact that Black politician betrayed black voters and now are asking them to support
Creepy joe is not surpzing on bit. It is a part of neoliberal system when politicians serve the
financial oligarchy.
The term "Black Power," as we learned in the Sixties, can be misused in myriad ways. Black
Democratic Party loyalists claim that Blacks were empowered by voting for Joe Biden in huge
numbers in the primaries, thus saving his presidential candidacy. "Hands that once picked
cotton, now pick presidents," the Black Democrats exult, as if power flows from abject
servitude to the corporate dictatorship. In reality, Black voters gave the presidential
nomination to a politician who claims he "wrote" the crime bill that resulted in the
imprisonment of hundreds of thousands of Black people; whose opposition to single payer health
care guarantees that Black people will continue to die disproportionately from damn near all
causes; and who opposes defunding the police, a minimal demand of the current mass
movement.
The oligarchs that rule the country and control both of its corporate parties and all of its
major media want the people to believe that politics is limited to the electoral process, and
that street activism, labor militancy and community organizing are outside the realm of "real"
politics. The events of the past ten days have proven the opposite: that massive street actions
and unrelenting people-pressure can yield far better results than decades of pulling levers for
corporate duopoly candidates.
BAR executive editor Glen Ford can be contacted at
[email protected].
Neoliberalism and organized crime are twin brothers. Unemployment creates fertile ground for
gangs recruitment. The increase in size of gags provokes fight for the territory.
Saw an article from a retired cop comparing themselves with doctors, which I am one, and the accidental or negligent deaths in
the latter profession and how the society has come to accept those deaths.
More concern trolling. I find this tragic and horrifying, truly. It's taboo to talk about
it or mention it though, because if you do, regardless of who you are, you will be branded a
racist and the killing will continue because the issue is too sensitive to discuss
intelligently and constructively with those who have an agenda. It's clear militarized police
forces and more brutal police enforcement isn't the answer to this. The roots of it go much
deeper and are much more complex.
@31, concern trolling my ass, you sick f*ck. All of this is interrelated. No one said a
damn thing about blacks being more violent than anyone else. It's disingenuous of you to
claim I am what you have claimed I am. I am not that. Not by any stretch.
This is real. This is happening and it's all-too-often overlooked because it's a difficult
problem that persists because it doesn't lend itself to an easy fix. Yes, it is an issue of
class and this is a class war of which racism is a tool used by the elite to divide and
conquer.
While the gunfire is particularly pervasive in certain distressed and disinvested parts of
the city, it can arise anywhere, though some neighborhoods remain comparatively safe. Some
residents ponder leaving, while others live in constant fear that their family will fall
victim next -- and for good reason.
Peter Moskos, a Baltimore cop turned criminology professor at the John Jay College of
Criminal Justice, said he estimates, based on census data and the city's elevated rates of
gun violence, that upwards of 10% of black men in the most violent neighborhoods of East
and West Baltimore will be shot dead, most before they turn 35.
"It's hard to fathom," he said.
Those in its path say the violence comes like a tornado: Sending shrapnel in all
directions, it is impossible to ignore and crushing in its impact.
For some, it's a repeated horror.
"This violence will tear your family apart," said Arnetta Brown, 55, whose 28-year-old
son, Brian Simms Jr. was fatally shot in the city's Edgecomb neighborhood in 2013, and
whose 16-year-old grandson, Markell Hendricks, was fatally shot in Franklin Square in
March.
"This violence will suck all the breath out of your body and will wake you up in the
middle of the night and make you think you're suffocating," Brown said.
For you foreigners, I highly suggest you watch The Wire in its entirety. It's one
of my favorite series of all time. It's an education. You can't help feel for the characters.
They are victims of their circumstances for sure, because they have no options.
Yes, the widespread censoring of the real amount of gun related violence committed within
the Outlaw US Empire is totally counterproductive and was replaced by all the "cop reality
shows" populating cable TV, which I liken to the lurid penny press True Crime and Police
Gazette types of publications for the masses.
I do think all the violence has produced one
positive outcome: The realization by the vast majority that the Outlaw US Empire has a very
sick, dysfunctional society & culture that's anything but Civilized.
For me, that's been
apparent since the mid-1960s not long after 11/22/1963 and confirmed beyond doubt on 4/4/1968
when I was just 12. The national heritage of the Outlaw US Empire is one of slaughter,
oppression and exploitation that's ongoing, although it seems to have slowed some.
One big
problem is many people don't want to know about their reality and how they contribute to its
perpetuation, although that too seems to be changing somewhat.
Perhaps its the lack of sports
distractions at all levels that's forced more people to look in the mirror and their
community to see what's been there all along for the first time. But whatever the reason, I
welcome the admittedly unfocused social ferment--For an Empire that promotes Chaos, that
Chaos is now growing within I see as a welcome turn of the screw.
@karlof1
Just read that "History of Policing" article you recommended. Amazing stuff. Pretty clearly devastates the notion that police
are even remotely effective at dealing with crime - and were never intended to be. This equates with the experience in Europe
especially as it relates to the history of anarchism in Europe.
So I double down on my anarchist line: The only good cop is a dead cop.
Going further with my "human nature is the problem" philosophy, I think the description of events in the History of Policing
article demonstrates that "American democracy" was basically dead by the mid-1800's. As I've noted before, it was actually
basically dead in the late 1700's - both before and after the Constitution and the Bill of Rights were created, as a result of
the economic elites being opposed by the lower classes leading to riots that resulted in the suspension of habeas corpus - by
one of the "Founders", no less.
The "American Dream" is almost like the Zionist dream of a "Fortress Israel" protecting Jews from harm forever: a complete
fantasy that never had any possibility of being realized, any more than Hitler's dreams of Germany dominating the world.
People keep thinking "all we have to do is..." - and it immediately founders on human nature. This is why I'm a radical
Transhumanist - only the complete supersedence of human nature offers a way forward.
And the fact that less than 1 in a million humans agrees with that is proof of the point.
Posted by: Richard Steven Hack | Jun 11 2020 0:13 utc | 47
karlof1 #22
Yes, "organized crime" was developed by the police and their politico allies as further means of social control and to
augment their salaries. Still happens today with the nation's supposedly most important intelligence agency--CIA--being the
most formidable criminal organization on the planet.
Thanks for that fascinating post karlof1, I suspect that in the early 1900's those USA scientists collaborating and learning
alongside Pavlov's experimental lab were also developing theories of social control and practising various stimulus on animals
and perhaps people. It is very important to remember that Pavlov spent three decades and more exploring the ways
conditional reflexes could be created, refined and nullified.
That is a prodigious effort and must have produced some extraordinary talking points at the various conferences and science
symposia of the day.
The escalation in direct home attacks on USA lands by 'rogue' terrorists and 'psychotic' shooters has severely heightened fear
and loathing and demand for police effectiveness. But that expectation of effectiveness is confronted and rejected as policing
declines every year and public mass shooting increases.
The public drooling for a better world remains incessant and yet entirely frustrated - just like a dog.
There seems to be some mighty sinister experimentation being played out on the USA public. A thorough reassessment of USA
published papers and the labs that foster wide social experiments derived from Pavlov and his successors seems well past due.
The policing practice in the USA is grotesquely distorted from its primary social need or purpose and it is way past time to
reign it in and refocus. Policing should never be about assaulting civilians for trivia even if they pass a miserable
counterfeit $20 bill or sell a cigarette or get noisy at a demonstration. In my land there are large numbers of counterfeit
bills in circulation but the big distributers and printers get busted NOT unwitting civilians.
The many reports of police setting out rocks and pavers etc to enable destruction by passing agents provocateur or angry people
is a blatant indicator of a malign instruction set within policing. This evidence alone is sufficient to warrant a major
judicial inquiry in some rational form. I saw one video from Canada that was simply extraordinare as to police methodically
wandered around a public park gatherin rocks and piling them on a cairn on the roadside in advance of a passing demonstration
against police violence.
Posted by: uncle tungsten | Jun 11 2020 1:54 utc | 61
... ... ...
When the societal order breaks down the predators amongst us have free reign to have their way with the sheep. If it finally
comes to that, those of us sheep still alive and well will rue the day we celebrated tearing it all down.
Be careful what you wish for. A coercive power will always eventually emerge in society and the new one may not be so benign
compared with the one currently being pilloried based on the presentation of selective facts. There was a reason the French
people turned to Napoleon after many years of chaos and REAL blood flowing in the streets from the Revolution. But since we
can’t ask them, just ask an average citizen of Hong Kong who actually lives there what the recent “democracy” demonstrations in
that country were like and how the CCP looks good now as a result.
Posted by: Activist Potato | Jun 11 2020 2:03 utc | 63
As Jimmy Dore pointed out in his recent videos, it is the *system* that prevents police from being professional. Cops who *do*
want to "protect and serve" are weeded out. And the history article shows that this is based on the history of the country. It
is endemic and can't be corrected by half-measures.
"Good people would not be attracted to the profession if it were otherwise."
But they don't stay. They either become corrupted or they leave. Perhaps a handful of "good cops" remain. Remember the history
article mentioned the Knapp Commission in New York in the 1970's. I remember reading once that the Commission found that *every
single cop in New York* was on the take. Not a few "bad apples" - *every single cop*. That can't be explained by the "few bad
apples" trope.
"When the societal order breaks down the predators amongst us have free reign to have their way with the sheep."
No one is denying that there are predators. The predators were *created* by the system that runs this country. But in the end,
it comes down to the people to deal with those predators. It's like the movie, "The Magnificent Seven" (the original, not the
remake). This was an explicitly anarchist movie - and a right-wing anarchist movie at that. Bandits (representing the state)
coerce a small village to hand over most of their crops to feed the bandits (i.e., taxes.) The people raise a little money and
hire seven American gunslingers to take on the bandits. This might be considered the equivalent of the anarchist "private
protection agency" concept. The gunslingers initially set the bandits back on their heels, but are eventually put in a bad
situation by the bandits, and are on the verge of losing. But the people, emboldened by the example of the gunslingers, take up
whatever weapons they have and attack the bandits themselves, defeating them.
This is what *has* to happen. Except, to quote Percival Rose yet *again*: "That ain't gonna happen." And the reason once
*again*: human nature. As someone once said, if you made an average American President, he would govern like Idi Amin.
"pilloried based on the presentation of selective facts."
Now you've drifted off into complete bullshit. The history of the US - and the history of the state and society everywhere - is
overwhelmingly against your thesis.
"There was a reason the French people turned to Napoleon after many years of chaos and REAL blood flowing in the streets from
the Revolution."
And there was a reason the Paris Commune arose. And a reason it was suppressed by corrupt police. History doesn't start where
you want it to.
Posted by: Richard Steven Hack | Jun 11 2020 2:50 utc | 68
" .a white president and a black president both signed off on drone attacks "
Who was this "black president"? I'm only aware of Nobel Peace Prize "winner", destroyer of
Libya, sponsor of jihadis in Syria and Nazis in Ukraine, genocidaire of Yemenis, and mass
murderer extraordinaire Barack Hussein Obama, who, if being the child of a black father makes
him "half-black", is, from being the child of a white mother, equally "half-white".
Problem here that the George Floyd protestors/rioters are a happy counter-cultural mix
of SJW, young blacks and young whites – impossible to portray them as the white power
KKK.
Same way that the Polish communist government couldn't effectively attack the Solidarity
worker's uprising. Government propaganda was designed to attack capitalists, exploiters of
the working class etc. which didn't make any sense against shipyard workers.
This aspect and legacy of George Floyd is being repressed and suppressed by
#BlackLivesMatter. Blacks are killing each other in epidemic numbers and it's via gun
violence. Floyd preached against this and lamented it. It's part of his legacy. Where are the
protests against this? #BlackLivesMatter, right? Of course they do, and they matter just as
much when a black person takes another black person's life.
In an undated post on social media, George Floyd, who worked as a mentor to young people,
condemned gun violence: "I got my shortcomings and my flaws, and I ain't better than nobody
else. But, man, the shootings that's going on, I don't care what religion you're from or
where you're at. I love you, and God loves you. Put them guns down."
Floyd's anti-gun activism attracted the attention of two Houstonians, hip-hop artist and
entrepreneur Corey Paul and Pastor Patrick "P.T." Ngwolo, who were looking for contacts in
the Third Ward for their social justice religious outreach. "We were extremely fortunate to
meet George," Corey Paul said on the Democracy Now! news hour. "George was already
preaching peace, love, God, unity, advocating against gun violence before we showed up. So,
when we got there, George basically said, 'If it's God business, then it's my
business.'"
It's an insult to George Floyd, to his name and his legacy, that we're not using his death
to talk about blacks murdering blacks at an epidemic rate and what needs to be done to
reverse the epidemic.
It is also a demand that, in insisting that for all intents and purposes police violence
must be seen as mainly, if not exclusively, a black thing, we cut ourselves off from the
only basis for forging a political alliance that could effectively challenge it. All that
could be possible as political intervention, therefore, is tinkering around with
administration of neoliberal stress policing in the interest of pursuing racial parity in
victimization and providing consultancies for experts in how much black lives
matter.5
There is some truth to it. However, this argument is based on a premise, largely correct,
that the racist white majority will be oblivious as long as it is "black problem". It reminds
me when many years ago Republicans wanted to semi-privatize Social Security, cutting the
guaranteed benefits etc. In their propaganda, they invented the argument that this would
benefit Blacks because they contribute the same share of income as everyone else, or more on
the average (this tax is somewhat regressive), but benefit less because of lower life
expectancy. The support for the reform in Southern states
(most conservative) collapsed.
Many comments on the root causes mentioned the misbegotten "qualified immunity" doctrine
that lets the official kill, endanger lives etc. with impunity. For example, a recent killing
in Louisville was outrageous, because of some faint suspicion that a home can be a place
where a drug trafficker keeps his drugs, police invaded that home in the middle of the night
without knocking, the boyfriend of the young women shot at them -- people are invading the
house, and the police responded with a hail of bullets killing the sleeping woman. This is a
very extreme and dangerous version of a "search". Apparently, lower level police has a
latitude how to conduct a search, and the proposed reform was to require that "no knock"
search has to be approved by the chief of police. However, no hair could fall from his head
if he/she would rubber stamp such request (making stupid decisions that put lethal risks on
citizens is legal). Almost, as a political appointee, police chief can be fired more
easily.
Qualified immunity puts many people at risk, live, limb and property, and it has extensive
libertarian criticism. The rot in American justice system is wider and identified in many
studies, and it has to be reviewed on political arena. However, "law on order statist bias"
is bipartisan, e.g. some outrageous Supreme Court decisions on "qualified immunity" had only
two dissents, Sotomayor (leftmost) and Thomas (rightwing and libertarian).
It's an insult to George Floyd, to his name and his legacy, that we're not using his death
to talk about blacks murdering blacks at an epidemic rate and what needs to be done to
reverse the epidemic.
This is called "concern trolling."
Bringing up black on black violence is a popular tactic amongst racist elements of the
right to deflect attention from the gratuitous brutalization and murder of unarmed black folk
at the hands of American police officers. It also implies that there is an inherent, genetic
disposition towards violence that is unique to people of African descent which, of course, is
a cornerstone of anti-black racism.
I do however agree with people like Adolph Reed Jr. that the overemphasis on race when
talking about police violence is counterproductive and serves to obscure the class dimension
of this epidemic. The fact is that the victims of police violence in the US are
overwhelmingly poor. Not many middle- or upper class people, whether black white, Latino or
any other ethnicity, are boot stomped or killed by cops.
Identity politics based on race and gender gets a lot of support from the liberal
mainstream and is relentlessly promoted by pro-capitalist, pro-Democrat media. Adolph
Reed calls the identitarian left the "left wing of neoliberalism" because they completely
ignore the overwhelming role class plays in determining who gets shafted by the system. It's
not that racism isn't real, it certainly is, and the mechanism by which people under a
capitalist system get excluded from society and discriminated against is always
economic.
But making it all about race, and only race, keeps focus away from the brutal reality
of poverty under capitalism and this very much serves the interests of the establishment,
hence its enthusiastic support of identity politics.
Reed recently got "cancelled" by the DSA (Democratic Socialists of America) and accused of
being a "class reductionist", a charge leveled by identitarians against anyone they accuse of
giving insufficient attention to race and gender issues.
The American left is failing, and will keep failing, until it can extricate itself from
the clutches of identity obsessive (and the Democratic Party). You can't build a mass
movement by selectively fighting for rights based on the racial or gender
characteristics of the people being victimized. Recognizing the racist aspect of police
violence is fine but if the argument is ultimately framed as "end police violence against
African Americans", as it currently is, the unspoken implication is going to cause
problems.
Race essentialism, which used to be the domain of the racist far-right, is now embraced
by the mainstream American liberal "left" which has lost, or never even learned, how to view
capitalist society through the lens of class analysis. It's kind of ridiculous that all
these bourgeois activists and academic cultural theorists call themselves leftist and Marxist
but recoil in horror when someone mentions class. How can any politics that excludes
criticism of capitalist class relations call itself left wing or Marxist? It's a farce.
Making race/gender essentialism the cornerstone of "the left" makes working class
solidarity impossible, keeps the left weak and divided and benefits the neoliberal capitalist
Democratic Party. The spectacle of white protestors literally bowing down in front of their
black counterparts perfectly encapsulates why identity politics and race essentialism are
epic strategic failures.
It implies a racial hierarchy that is inherent and fixed regardless of an individual's
actions or mindset. It makes being white an "original sin" that even the best intentioned
white person cannot escape.
This makes solidarity and building a working class movement with mass appeal impossible,
it serves the interests of neoliberalism and capitalist imperialism, it makes "multicultural"
friendships and are relationships all but impossible and it is rocket fuel for the racist
far-right because race essentialism is their bread and butter. It can't be overstated how
incredibly f*****g toxic and counterproductive this is. Yeah, lecturing working class white
people who have been under the capitalist boot for decades that they are unfairly privileged
and guilty of oppressing "minorities" just by being born is sure to win them over. Yet this
nonsense is embraced by the American and, increasingly, by the European left as the core of
their politics while capitalism, economics and class analysis are ignored or sneeringly
dismissed as things only "white brocialists" care about. It's going to get very ugly and the
racist right is going to swell its ranks while the liberal "left" helpfully blows its own
feet off with both barrels.
Related to these shifts have been dramatic demographic changes. In just a decade,
Democratic-voting districts have become strikingly better educated and more diverse. For
example, Democratic-voting districts have seen their share of adults with at least a
bachelor's degree rise from 28.4% in 2008 to 35.5%.
For their part, Republican districts have barely increased their bachelor's degree
attainment beyond 26.6% and have meanwhile become notably whiter and older.
Today, therefore, neither party represents the same types of places it did just 10 years
ago. As such, the Democratic Party is now anchored in the nation's booming, but highly
unequal, metro areas, while the GOP relies on aging and economically stagnant
manufacturing-reliant rural and exurban communities.
What might these divides look like in the future? It's hard to imagine the current
extreme shifts going much farther. The concentration of more than 70% of the nation's
professional and digital services economy in the territory of one party would seem to
register an almost unsustainable degree of polarization.
"... You think, should the police go on strike, it will be kumbaya? If the police leave an area who fills the vacuum? This will destroy poor neighbourhoods not make them any better. ..."
Another important excerpt from the liked essay @14 that's highly informative:
"Defining social control as crime control was accomplished by raising the specter of the '
dangerous classes .' The suggestion was that public drunkenness, crime, hooliganism,
political protests and worker 'riots' were the products of a biologically inferior,
morally intemperate, unskilled and uneducated underclass . The consumption of alcohol was
widely seen as the major cause of crime and public disorder. The irony, of course, is that
public drunkenness didn't exist until mercantile and commercial interests created venues for
and encouraged the commercial sale of alcohol in public places. This underclass was easily
identifiable because it consisted primarily of the poor, foreign immigrants and free blacks
(Lundman 1980: 29). This isolation of the 'dangerous classes' as the embodiment of the
crime problem created a focus in crime control that persists to today, the idea that policing
should be directed toward 'bad' individuals, rather than social and economic conditions
that are criminogenic in their social outcomes .
Of course, none of the above is ever related via media when discussing the overall
issue--that it began as a class/immigrant/racial issue is suppressed so the root of the
problem doubly emphasized above is never discussed and is thus another component in the
longstanding Class War. Another input never considered is the many penny press True Crime and
Police Gazette publications that twisted the minds of the gullible during the period from
1880-1930, which today are present in the all too many cop "reality" shows on TV, although
some are now finally being pulled from broadcast.
"Qualified immunity" is clearly unconstitutional as it violates the 4th, 5th, and 7th
Amendments, and has no place in settled law. It will enter the dust bin just as non-majority
verdicts in jury trials did.
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Posted by: karlof1 | Jun 10 2020 21:01 utc | 29
I wonder. People usually need the police to feel safe. If the police can feel safe in a
country where everyone may carry a gun or not is another matter.
The manner of the deaths doesn't follow any pattern, said Robyn Small with the National Law
Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund. Some officers died responding to robberies or domestic
disturbances. Others were ambushed.
Overall, that's less than last year -- 47 officers were gunned down by the end of 2018,
according to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund.
You think, should the police go on strike, it will be kumbaya? If the police leave an
area who fills the vacuum? This will destroy poor neighbourhoods not make them any
better.
The ruling class only needs one tactic: divide and rule.
But how do I try to explain that to a black 16 year old math student who has recently
started looking at me with murder in his eyes? Everything i can think of just sounds like a
cliche.
Also... the media deserve no pity, they made their allegiances clear (for the
millionth time) with Assange.
While the gunfire is particularly pervasive in certain distressed and disinvested parts of
the city, it can arise anywhere, though some neighborhoods remain comparatively safe. Some
residents ponder leaving, while others live in constant fear that their family will fall victim
next -- and for good reason.
Peter Moskos, a Baltimore cop turned criminology professor at the John Jay College of
Criminal Justice, said he estimates, based on census data and the city's elevated rates of gun
violence, that upwards of 10% of black men in the most violent neighborhoods of East and West
Baltimore will be shot dead, most before they turn 35.
"It's hard to fathom," he said.
Those in its path say the violence comes like a tornado: Sending shrapnel in all
directions, it is impossible to ignore and crushing in its impact.
For some, it's a repeated horror.
"This violence will tear your family apart," said Arnetta Brown, 55, whose 28-year-old
son, Brian Simms Jr. was fatally shot in the city's Edgecomb neighborhood in 2013, and whose
16-year-old grandson, Markell Hendricks, was fatally shot in Franklin Square in March.
"This violence will suck all the breath out of your body and will wake you up in the middle
of the night and make you think you're suffocating," Brown said.
"... There is no need here to go into the evolution of this dangerous regime of policing -- from bogus "broken windows" and "zero tolerance" theories of the sort that academics always seem to have at the ready to rationalize intensified application of bourgeois class power ..."
"... It is also a demand that, in insisting that for all intents and purposes police violence must be seen as mainly, if not exclusively, a black thing, we cut ourselves off from the only basis for forging a political alliance that could effectively challenge it. All that could be possible as political intervention, therefore, is tinkering around with administration of neoliberal stress policing in the interest of pursuing racial parity in victimization and providing consultancies for experts in how much black lives matter.5 ..."
What is clear in those states, however, is that the great disproportion of those killed
by police have been Latinos, Native Americans, and poor whites. So someone should tell
Kai Wright et al to find another iconic date to pontificate about; that 1793 yarn has
nothing to do with anything except feeding the narrative of endless collective racial
suffering and triumphalist individual overcoming -- "resilience" -- popular among the
black professional-managerial strata and their white friends (or are they just allies?)
these days.
What the pattern in those states with high rates of police killings suggests
is what might have been the focal point of critical discussion of police violence all
along, that it is the product of an approach to policing that emerges from an imperative
to contain and suppress the pockets of economically marginal and sub-employed working
class populations produced by revanchist capitalism.
There is no need here to go into the
evolution of this dangerous regime of policing -- from bogus "broken windows" and "zero
tolerance" theories of the sort that academics always seem to have at the ready to
rationalize intensified application of bourgeois class power, to anti-terrorism hysteria
and finally assertion of a common sense understanding that any cop has unassailable
authority to override constitutional protections and to turn an expired inspection
sticker or a refusal to respond to an arbitrary order or warrantless search into a
capital offense.
And the shrill insistence that we begin and end with the claim that blacks are
victimized worst of all and give ritual obeisance to the liturgy of empty slogans is --
for all the militant posturing by McKesson, Garza, Tometi, Cullors et al. -- in substance
a demand that we not pay attention to the deeper roots of the pattern of police violence
in enforcement of the neoliberal regime of sharply regressive upward redistribution and
its social entailments.
It is also a demand that, in insisting that for all intents and purposes police
violence must be seen as mainly, if not exclusively, a black thing, we cut ourselves off
from the only basis for forging a political alliance that could effectively challenge it.
All that could be possible as political intervention, therefore, is tinkering around with
administration of neoliberal stress policing in the interest of pursuing racial parity in
victimization and providing consultancies for experts in how much black lives
matter.5
The race war is used to divert energy from the possibility of a true class war. A class war
where the working classes and middle classes unite in revolt against the banker elite blood
sucker class
...massive cognitive dissonance is the norm across the full "strategy of tension" spectrum.
Powerful factions pull no punches to control the narrative. No one is able to fully identify
all the shadowplay intricacies and inconsistencies.
Hardcore agendas mingle: an attempt at color revolution/regime change (blowback is a bitch)
interacts with the Boogaloo Bois – arguably tactical allies of Black Lives Matter –
while white supremacist "accelerationists" attempt to provoke a race war.
Antifa is criminalized but the Boogaloo Bois get a pass (
here is how Antifa's main conceptualizer defends his ideas). Yet another tribal war, yet
another – now domestic – color revolution under the sign of divide and rule
... ... ...
...Those defending the US Army crushing "insurrectionists" in the streets advocate at the
same time a swift ending to the American empire.
Amidst so much sound and fury signifying perplexity and paralysis, we may be reaching a
supreme moment of historical irony, where US homeland (in)security is being boomerang-hit not
only by one of the key artifacts of its own Deep State making – a color revolution
– but by combined elements of a perfect blowback trifecta:
Operation Phoenix ;
Operation Jakarta ; and
Operation Gladio .
But the targets this time won't be millions across the Global South. They will be American
citizens.
Empire come home
Quite a few progressives contend this is a spontaneous mass uprising against police
repression and system oppression – and that would necessarily lead to a revolution, like
the February 1917 revolution in Russia sprouting out of the scarcity of bread in Petrograd.
So the protests against endemic police brutality would be a prelude to a Levitate the Pentagon remix
– with the interregnum soon entailing a possible face-off with the US military in the
streets.
But we got a problem. The insurrection, so far purely emotional, has yielded no political
structure and no credible leader to articulate myriad, complex grievances. As it stands, it
amounts to an inchoate insurrection, under the sign of impoverishment and perpetual debt.
Adding to the perplexity, Americans are now confronted with what it feels like to be in
Vietnam, El Salvador, the Pakistani tribal areas or Sadr City in Baghdad.
Iraq came to Washington DC in full regalia, with Pentagon Blackhawks doing "show of force"
passes over protestors, the tried and tested dispersal technique applied in countless
counter-insurgency ops across the Global South.
And then, the Elvis moment: General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
patrolling the streets of DC. The Raytheon lobbyist now heading the Pentagon, Mark Esper,
called it "dominating the battlespace."
Wolin showed how "the cruder forms of control – from militarized police to wholesale
surveillance, as well as police serving as judge, jury and executioner, now a reality for the
underclass – will become a reality for all of us should we begin to resist the continued
funneling of power and wealth upward.
ORDER IT NOW
"We are tolerated as citizens only as long as we participate in the illusion of a
participatory democracy. The moment we rebel and refuse to take part in the illusion, the face
of inverted totalitarianism will look like the face of past systems of totalitarianism," he
wrote.
Sinclair Lewis (who did not say that, "when fascism comes to America, it will come wrapped
in the flag and waving the cross") actually wrote, in It Can't Happen Here (1935), that
American fascists would be those "who disowned the word 'fascism' and preached enslavement to
capitalism under the style of constitutional and traditional native American liberty."
So American fascism, when it happens, will walk and talk American.
j" .slightly before the first peaceful Minneapolis protests ."
The writer is hallucinating. The first protest in Minneapolis was hundreds of people with
backpacks in front of the CUP Food Store on May 26th during daylight. The death occurred
between 9 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. the night before. The media said they were from out of town. How
they got there so fast should leave people to wonder.
By May 28th, they already burned the Precinct down. Before then, they were looting,
destroying stores in the town.
There were not initial " .peaceful Minneapolis protests".
The zionist media CAUSED the protests. They engineered the whole thing. They incited the
negroes and loosed them on our cities.
How do you not see this?
The MSM story is White Supremacists attacking innocent black victims. This isn't it.
There's not a white nationalist in sight. These are young blacks in alliance with
disillusioned young whites (more than 50% and few Antifa).
What the ZioGlob/MSM wants is Charlottesville (Antifa vs. White Supremacists) for their
white on black violence meme – not this. This looks like youth (under cover of the
George Floyd story) vs. the state – which in 2020 happens to be the ZioGlob.
– If it was planned, the MSM would have the whole story at high volume from day
one.. In the event they were silent. They ignored the riots until they couldn't.
– The riots forced their pre-planned Covid-19/China attack off the front pages, and
basically wrecked their whole Covid-19 anti-China psyop.
– Now that the ZioGlobs are the government they don't like the unpredictable/ out of
control street action – that was for their anti-Anglo campus days. If they had
organized it, they wouldn't have smashed up their own CNN offices.
Shall I get the manure spreader? International Bankers have financed everyone from Lenin,
Mao, and Hitler. They are financing BLM and Antifa. So given what I know about fascism,
doesn't it mean the white founding stock is slated for extermination by the corporate
socialist (AKA fascists) minions? You see we're already fascist. Started with Lincoln, went
big time with the Fed creation, and the project was completed with Reagan. We pesky little
holdovers from an ancient time, need to go. Can't have any private ownership or freedom of
anything. Also the revolution will absolutely be televised. Not so much with what your
beloved China is currently doing with the Uighurs or on the border with India. Kinda odd how
what is happening here is just like Mao's cultural revolution. Curious indeed, but hey the
Silk Road II.
PS I refuse to make anything for Apple in the FEMA reeducation camps. Nor am I assigning
blame to China. They just do what their multinational corporate masters tell them.
Exactly none of this is about disbanding the police.
America is being intentionally destabilized and primed for crisis by the democrats. The
republican's lack of opposition is complicity in this horrific conspiracy.
Air travel is still banned, churches closed, and there is insurrection in the streets and
sedition in the mass media.
This is a Bolshevik style revolution with Bolshevik style terror and mass murder to follow
if we sit by.
The police will not be disbanded, they will be REPLACED by NKVD-style terror outfits that
will abduct, torture, and murder massive amounts of innocent people.
Candace Owens has stoked the fire amid the protests at George Floyd's death, after she spoke
against the Black Lives Matter movement, claiming riots have "destroyed more innocent black
lives" in a month than cops had in a decade. "Fact: Black Lives Matter riots have destroyed
more innocent black lives in the last month, than white police officers have in a decade,"
Owens tweeted on Wednesday.
Fact: Black Lives Matter riots have destroyed more innocent black lives in the last month,
than white police officers have in a decade.
Owen's declaration has earned plenty of pushback from liberals on social media, something
the conservative commentator is no doubt used-to at this point.
"Putting 'Fact' in front of a bs statement doesn't make it fact," one user tweeted .
"Why do you CONTINUALLY post your opinions as facts?" another replied .
Though Owens does not specify how "innocent black lives" had been destroyed amidst
the protests across the nation, multiple people have
died during demonstrations, including a retired black officer named David Dorn in St.
Louis, a death highlighted by President
Donald Trump. Black restaurateur David McAtee was also shot and killed this week, with
preliminary reports
stating the bullet came from the Kentucky National Guard.
In follow up tweets , Owens called BLM a
"terrorist group funded by white Democrats" and saying she does not relate to Floyd or
others simply because they are black.
"I'm always confused by people who say things like 'Don't you see yourself in George
Floyd.' No. Why? Do all White people see themselves in Ted Bundy? Do all Chinese people see
themselves in Mao Zedong?" she tweeted . "If you expect
me to relate to people based on skin tone, you're an idiot."
You are not by "brother" or my "sister" because we have the same complexion. My
relationships are built on character. I have nothing in common with any person that pressed
the barrel of a gun into a pregnant woman's stomache. Insinuating that I must, is
racist.
Owens was previously blasted on social media as a "white supremacist" and
"racist" for releasing a video declaring Floyd neither a
"martyr" or a "hero," because of his criminal history.
I've had time to reflect on my video about #GeorgeFloyd
and you guys were right -- I was very wrong. He went to prison 9 times, not 7. I missed two
earlier convictions for theft and drugs. But he started a new chapter with meth &
fentanyl -- so let's throw our hero 2 more funerals!
@jadan Who's paying
you, @Trinity? You want a race war? You've already got a police state. You've already got a
boot on your neck one way or another. Feel safer? It's not a race issue @Trinity, it's a
matter of power. You don't have any.
Both sides have it wrong and are talking past each other.
There's no such thing as 'the police'. There are street cops, detectives, forensic
investigators, etc. There are shades of 'the police'.
Defund street cops and leave the rest of the infrastructure alone. The street cops are the
ones in military garb roughing up the citizenry at every opportunity. They also happen to be
absolutely useless in deterring crime or fighting crime as the riots so aptly
demonstrate.
The police departments are majority street cops that are incapable of performing their
advertised duty simply because they are almost never there when a crime occurs. Showing up
after the fact to haul the body away is something anyone can do. Seriously considered, the
average street cop does nothing positive for the community and is always the source of some
police incident. Communities could save a fortune in salaries and bloated pension plus reduce
their law suit exposure by simply eliminating the street cop position because it's a legacy
of days gone by.
Allow the citizenry to assume street cop duties by simply being armed to protect
themselves and their property. It's the cheapest solution and one that has the best potential
to provide street justice to the human trash in the society.
Repeat: "The American Left maintains its relevance by sustaining social and racial tensions
that draw attention away from Wall Street and its crimes."
Get it? In other words, racial tensions are amplified to divert attention from Wall Street's
relentless thievery. That doesn't mean that the killing of George Floyd should be ignored, only
that it should be put in perspective. Wall Street's illicit maneuverings have netted Big
Finance somewhere in the neighborhood of $7 trillion during the Coronavirus lockdown. Meanwhile
working people received a paltry $500 billion in $1,200 payouts and unemployment compensation,
barely enough to scrape by the 10 weeks of quarantine. At the same time, the Fed has
backstopped every sector of the capital markets assuring investors that prices will remain
permanently inflated while the real economy plunges into a second Great Depression. All told,
the Wall Street bailout is the biggest ripoff in American history and it continues as we
speak.
At present, we have not yet felt the sting of recession or seen the vast damage the lockdown
has inflicted on the economy. But the day of reckoning is fast approaching. Many of the states
are drowning in red ink, their only option will be excruciating belt-tightening measures that
savage social programs and essential services for the needy, the elderly, and schoolchildren.
The exploding national debt will require the same medicine from Capitol Hill. As soon as the
ballots are counted in November, both parties' leaders will demand severe budget cuts and
austerity measures to trim the deficits and impose fiscal discipline. These draconian steps
will further widen the gaping chasm between rich and poor exacerbating social tensions and
creating a permanent underclass willing to work for pennies on the dollar. All of these things
will happen, and soon.
Are liberals prepared to fight this class war that could be just weeks away or will they
choose to become even more irrelevant by promoting policies that only prove they are unfit to
lead?
In my opinion, liberalism is a spent-force, a misdirected social dogma that has lost its
luster, an idea whose time has passed. Let's admit it, the zeitgeist has changed, it's a
different world now, and different ideas will be needed to shape events.
[If you listen to BLM] the Straight-White-Gentile-Male (increasingly white women of this
classification also) is the designated "oppressor". Everyone else, to one degree or another,
are the oppressed class.
Yes, another "Occupy Wall Street" moment. The US Congress screwed the taxpayers, so
the revolt took the form of sitting in a park in New York and claiming it as an "occupation"
of Wall Street while roasting marshmallows and singing songs.
Now, the police kill a black man so, white people and black people burn churches and loot
department stores.
If you're going to have a revolution, you need to figure out who to revolt against. The
oligarchs are safe, because the idiots who make up the population of this benighted nation
can't figure out who their enemy is.
contempt for the concept of a representative democracy. Buckley v. Valeo, 424
U.S. 1976 and exacerbated by continuing stupid SCOTUS decisions First National Bank of Boston
v. Bellotti, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission and McCutcheon v. Federal Election
Commission.
These decisions have codified that money is free speech thereby giving entities of wealth and
power almost total influence in elections. By gaining control of the SCOTUS the Deep State is
able to further their goals.
There have been ZERO differences seen from the point of view of anyone but an American.
The rhetoric changes but that's nothing.
Yes, the DNC and GOP are two sides to the Deep State coin.
The Deep State doesn't care about the unimportant internecine squabbles of the two
parties as long as their important issues are advanced (wealth and power). As a matter of
fact it strengthens the false perception that there is a choice when voting.
The race war is used to divert energy from the possibility of a true class war. A class war
where the working classes and middle classes unite in revolt against the banker elite blood
sucker class. Not a fake Marxist "revolution' funded by those same banker classes around the
world but a true Nationalist Socialist revolution.
And that is why you have non-Whites in Western countries. To deflect the anger of the
White native/ majority masses against the blood sucker banking elites.
Remember the Jews in those ghettos in medieval Europe always afraid of the European peasants,
tired of the exploitation by an alien obnoxious elite, taking up rakes and torches and
marching to dislodge the parasites. Those "dumb uncouth Redneck" Euro peasants, how dare they
protest their exploitation by us chosen people, wise sophisticated people (smelly
sophisticated people with loads of lice in hair)? There was once a famous Euro peasant
revolution incident with the Cossacks revolting, the whole Hitler revolution was one such
recent incident.
Oy Vey, that may happen again!!! Well now you have black and brown immigrant masses, they
shall act like bodyguards, as bouncers against the exploited Euro peasants, descendants of
those earlier redneck Euro peasants of Europe. That is one reason why most of these financial
capitals like London, New York, Paris are so diverse, in other words have a large number of
body guards and less Euro peasants. The Euro peasants are away somewhere in the rural area,
in some Whitebread land. Their expositors are safe in their ghettos (New York) surrounded by
bodyguards (brown blacks). Let the dumb White, brown, black goyim get at each other and
expend energy while we remain safe.
It is surprising how the social dynamics of medieval Europe continues in North America with
the descendants of tribesmen in Africa as new entrants as shocktroopers for an eventual Jew
Raj Orwellian Satanic Communist revolution and body guard/bouncer population. Those blacks
were in plantations before, their descendants are today in a more dangerous plantation today,
a mental plantation.
" When you don't have a Martin Luther King or a Malcolm X to fight the power, then power
crushes you whatever you do."
Struggle is about power. Those with it desire to keep it: those without it desire a fair
share of it. It's less to do with class, religion, politics or race. "A white president and a
black president signed off on drone attacks on wedding parties in the Pakistani tribal
areas." The fog of war keeps getting thicker, obscuring the apocalyptic conflagration mankind
is stumbling towards. https://www.ghostsofhistory.wordpress.com/
If you know your history, you'll know the four men killed in the "Boston Massacre" in 1770
were primarily street hoodlums. Boston was not the godly Puritan city of 1630, but a bawdy
seaport town whose major businesses were bars and whorehouses. Crowds of thugs had been
harassing the men guarding the government house all that fateful day, jeering at them
nonstop, throwing snowballs with rocks in them at the redcoats. Rather than hateful monsters,
those soldiers were frightened teenagers drafted into military service, stationed in a wild
land full of crazed ingrates three thousand miles from home.
Yet from this large crock of manure, a new nation was born. Pay close attention. Whether
George Floyd was a sinner or a saint, his death, like those of 1770, is birthing a new
freedom, in a nation that is still packed to the gills with lawless lunatics.
You'll also want to remember how quickly the new aristocracy disenfranchised "the rabble"
after they used them as fighters for independence from Britain. Of the three million souls
then living in America, only some 42,000 were allowed to cast ballots in the first
presidential election of 1788-89. More than one historical injustice promises to be righted
by the new generation of young people, black and white together in our streets today.
"This could be done in coordination with citizen panels appointed by the City Council. Third,
departments could agree to police black neighborhoods exclusively with black cops whose
conduct could be reviewed periodically by an independent citizen panel."
I tend to lean in a favorable direction with regards to the idea that White cops should be
relieved of the hazards of policing black neighborhoods. But, at the same time – I am
extremely cynical about law enforcement in general and have read far too many stories over
the last several decades where cops are caught up in corruption scandals that often inv0lve
taking payoffs from drug pushers in these inner city, majority black cities and agree to look
the other way and to not interfere with the illegal drug selling industry.
So, my cynicism causes me to wonder if the push to get White cops out of black city areas
might not be a desire of the black criminal gangs to not have to shell out payoffs to White
cops and perhaps, channel those payoffs instead to their black cop brothers? I mean, to get a
preview of what kind of environment will likely fester and grow if blacks are given a
complete dominance over policing in big cities with large black populations – and
without any White oversight – just take a look at the big cities in the blue states
today which are completely under the control of blacks. Black mayors. Entire city councils
that are black. Nearly all city government positions filled by blacks. What do we see? We see
corruption on a scale that rivals the most corrupt, black run, third world nations on the
continent of Africa.
Lest anyone misunderstand, let me say that I am not trying to defend the right of corrupt
and dirty White cops to continue to have access to black districts and be able to haul in
payoffs. I'm merely floating a potential hidden reason behind this idea of only allowing
black cops to police these areas and suggesting how it could create enormous corruption of
law enforcement agencies.
@Alden E. Michael
Jones's Slaughter of Cities chronicles the dispossession of vibrant black
neighborhoods so the University of Chicago could expand in that direction and get the land
for free under the guise of "urban renewal." Blacks never learn. The billionaires paying the
bills of BLM like Soros will be able to buy up the property at ten cents on the dollar and
get free money from the federal gov to "rebuild" what they paid BLM to burn down. The
"education" bullshit will prove to be a once-in-a-lifetime boondoggle for the teachers'
unions arranged by that diapered and toothless old hag Pelosi who's got the Republicans
hiding under the bed. As with all welfare money allocated by Congress to aid blacks in need,
fully 70 cents out of every dollar will go to white bureaucrats while the blacks can rot in
hellish projects until election time when they're bused around town to vote as many times as
they can during the day. Black Panthers in uniform and armed with rifles will be turning
whites away from polling places again this November while the Republicans take a knee and
concede the suburbs to mau-mau'ing blacks and the new Bolsheviks on the block, Antifa.
@Ray Caruso Derek
Chauvin is no Saint and neither is George Floyd. Both of these lower forms of humanity
naturally interact because Police have to interact with Criminals. Officer Chauvin has had
multiple complaints filed against him and yet continued to be employed and on the Street
where he is most likely to have another problem. Mr. Floyd has a documented history of
violent and dangerous criminal activity and frankly should have still been in prison for his
assault with a deadly weapon.
These 2 individuals clearly illustrate the failed Criminal Justice System we currently
have.
Why did Officer Chauvin not get moved to a desk job?
Why is Mr. Floyd out of Prison?
In my personal and professional opinion, Mr. Floyd likely died from his years of bad
health, bad habits and drugs and almost certainly the drugs in his system at the time of
arrest were a major factor in his death. (Officer Chauvin did not kill him.)
Officer Chauvin had some bad luck, but like the person who drinks too much and drives home
sooner or later they are going to get into an accident because they are drunk. This would not
be surprising to anyone who truly knows the individual. I am sure many of the other Officers
of the MPD were not surprised Officer Chauvin was front and center when the perp went TITS
UP. IF you skate on the thin ice or play close to the edge of the cliff, you are most likely
to have it bite you compared to someone who does not live on the Edge.
The Societal Response to this demonstrates the level of insanity in the US and those of us
who see it for what it is need to be prepared for the Shitstorm that is coming next.
How many whites are slaughtered by blacks every year in america? In one year recently,
there were 10 blacks that were killed by police officers, ( my guess is they were justifiable
homicides in each case, for some reason blacks refuse to comply with a policeman's orders or
they feel they can physically attack a cop with and suffer no repercussions.) Anyhow, in a
recent year, i think it was 2018 there were 10 blue on black deaths compared to more than
seven thousand black on black murders.
Now, lest we forget, while black on black crime is out of control, it often involves
criminal blacks killing each other, lets talk about black on white violence in america and
abroad. Tens of thousands of black on white rapes each and every year in america for
decades.
A black man abducts a little white boy from his mother in the Mall of America in
Minneapolis, Minnesota, and throws the defenseless child off a balcony. No protests for that
little white kid and the black animal who did this only received a 12-15 year sentence.
A black woman abducts a 12 year old white kid in Texas and burns the boy to death with a
blowtorch. The Wichita massacre, the christian-newsom murders, etc. , etc. The list goes on
and on and none of these victims were committing a crime and all died much more horrific
deaths than Saint George. Where was the outcry then, you hypocrite?
@Delta G Derek
Chauvin must not have been fired or moved to a desk job because none of the previous
complaints against him was substantiated. By the way, do you know if having 18 complaints
during a 19-year-career as a police officer in an ultra-liberal city full of welfare-fed
non-Whites with a vastly inflated sense of entitlement is really unusual? I don't, but I
would guess it's not too much out of the norm. Don't misunderstand me: Derek Chauvin is not
my hero or anything. In fact, I think he's rather a fool. But he probably should not be fired
and certainly should not be incarcerated.
"City Council member Jeremiah Ellison, shares Bender's views on defunding the police
department and issued the following incendiary statement on Sunday: "We are going to
dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department. And when we're done, we're not simply gonna glue
it back together. We are going to dramatically rethink how we approach public safety and
emergency response. It's really past due."
Actually something like that is what needs to be done. The cops don't represent the
communities they occupy, they enforce an authoritarian status quo. People wanting to correct
this problem have realised reforming these cops is mostly a waste of time. We have been
trying to reform the way cops police for decades with very little practical results. The cop
problems communities have still persist. The cops refuse to be reformed. So they leave people
little alternative, but to use their democracy, what they can of it, to clean house and
rebuild a police service that represents their community and its needs. That's how things
work in a real democracy, as opposed to the authoritarian oligarchy faking democracy that
whitney is shilling for.
The part of whitney's article I quoted is as far as I got before I stopped wasting my
time. The bias expressed is that of an establishment shill. The predominant theme of
whitney's writing I've noticed over the years.
I recall discussing police reform and he said the biggest problem was the union
seniority system. This means the most mature and experienced cops spend their last decade
in nice, quiet jobs at the airport, wealthy neighborhoods, desk jobs, and VIP escort
duty.
Any "union seniority system" for work assignment is based on job vacancies. Obviously the
sheriff deputy either was misleading you intentionally, or didn't have a clue about how the
department ran. I have yet to meet a cop who applied for a job vacancy that didn't have an
interview for that job vacancy. Obviously, if there is a vacancy, irrespective of the
workplace, the senior applicants have a better chance of getting the job, because of their
experience in doing police work. In the "old days", it was part of succession planning. Now,
the whiz kid (or non-white gender fluid person) is the preferred candidate. To hell with
experience.
I find it curious that it's always the police under scrutiny when the fire department
operates in substantially the same way. The Captains and Inspectors/Fire Marshals aren't the
ones with a couple of years on the job.
-- "The liberal idea has become obsolete. It has come into conflict with the interests of the
overwhelming majority of the population."
-- "[It] presupposes that nothing needs to be done. The migrants can kill, plunder and
rape with impunity because their rights as migrants must be protected. What rights are these?
Every crime must have its punishment."
-- "Deep inside, there must be some fundamental human rules and moral values. In this
sense, traditional values are more stable and more important for millions of people than this
liberal idea, which, in my opinion, is really ceasing to exist."
Ironically, this whole 'defund the police' meme is a stalking horse for the privatization of
law enforcement, which has been a libertarian dream for decades. Once again, the Dumb-o-crats
are unknowingly pushing a "Koch Brothers' plan," as Uncle Bernie would say. Pitiful!
Trump is in the catbird seat where he can lambast the "left" for their kooky "defunding"
idea while promising to restore order by deploying the National Guard or the military.
That's where I disagree. Not sending in the Marines is the best thing that Trump
has done so far in this case. These big-city Dumb-o-crat mayors and police chiefs would love
nothing better than to dump their problems onto Trump's lap. And if The Donald falls for
their ruse, they will brand him a 'military dictator' and use that against him in November.
Worse still–for the rest of us–once the regular armed forces are occupying our
streets, they will be used to force vaccinate all of us next year.
May 20, 2020 Anti-lockdown protests aren't just an American thing. They're a global
phenomenon
Just this month alone, thousands of people from Latin America to Europe have demonstrated
against aggressive government policies intended to curb the coronavirus outbreak. They don't
perfectly mirror the protests in the US, but there are some striking similarities.
And "radical chic" was Wolfe's snarky label for rich people pretending to be
revolutionaries, when, in fact, they were play-acting radicalism for the sake of raising their
social status. That is, leftier-than-thou politics became a new sort of one-upsmanship.
As Wolfe explained, New York's socialites "have always paid their dues to 'the poor,' via
charity, as a way of claiming the nobility inherent in noblesse oblige and of legitimizing
their wealth." Continuing, he added, "In 1965 two new political movements, the anti-war
movement and black power, began to gain great backing among culturati in New York."
As for black power, a mutant sprout from the civil rights movement, Wolfe allowed that "one
does have a sincere concern for the poor and the underprivileged and an honest outrage against
discrimination." And yet at the same time, "one also has a sincere concern for maintaining a
proper East Side lifestyle in New York Society."
And part of that lifestyle-maintenance was espousing the right -- which is to say, trendy
left -- positions on key issues. In Wolfe's words, the embrace of these causes served the
purpose of "certifying their superiority over the hated 'middle class.'"
By now, the reader will have gathered that Wolfe was not a fan of such posturing. In fact,
he was not only a poisoned-pen critic, but also a deep-dyed conservative.
..."Radical Chic invariably favors radicals," he wrote. It lionizes the the "exotic and
romantic, such as the grape workers, who are not merely radical but also Latin; the Panthers,
with their leather pieces, Afros, shades, and shoot-outs; and the Red Indians, who, of course,
had always seemed exotic and romantic."
The most memorable quote was: 'He's a magnificent
man, but suppose some simple-minded schmucks take all that business about burning down
buildings seriously?'"
In other words, radicalism is cool, but let's not let the schmucks get carried away -- at
least not in my neighborhood.
Of course, protests do sometime get carried away; they turn into riots, destroy cities --
and generate fierce backlashes. And Wolfe, his rarified mien notwithstanding, was a part of
that backlash.
Alas, Wolfe died in 2018, and so we can only imagine what he'd be writing, today, about
Radical Chic 2.0.
In the meantime, radicalism is being funded and cultivated in Manhattan and other ritzy
precincts -- not only in penthouses, but now, too, in corporate C-suites.
So perhaps there's a Tom Wolfe 2.0 out there, observing all this wealthy woke posing -- and
hopefully recording it all on a surreptitious cell phone.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry once said, "A civil war is not a war but a sickness. The
enemy is within. and this sickness in the USA stems from Clinton democrats and supprting them
intelligence agencies, which try to cling to power by all means possible.
Notable quotes:
"... There's been a lot of loose talk lately about whether America is careening towards another civil war. The takeaway from last week should be: we'd damn well better hope not. ..."
"... Antoine de Saint-Exupéry once said, "A civil war is not a war but a sickness. The enemy is within. One fights almost against oneself." Hence why civil wars -- from the Union and the Confederacy to the Republicans and Franco to Salva Kiir and Riek Machar -- have so often been so brutal. The body politic itself becomes dysfunctional, turning its own people against each other, its mediating institutions having broken down. ..."
"... Such wars, as Saint-Exupéry said, stem from deeper pathogens within. ..."
For some, answering that question will mean instinctively siding with law enforcement. For
others, it will mean the opposite, standing in solidarity with Black Lives Matter. I don't
think it's mushy bothsidesism to say that both have a point.
The anarchy of last week saw acts of violence against police and protesters.
Amid such chaos, it's perfectly reasonable to yearn for both order and restraints on those
who do the ordering. James Madison's famous dictum comes to mind here. Madison said, "If men
were angels, no government would be necessary." And certainly that much was proven by the
notably un-angelic actions of rioters, assaulting the innocent and burning shops. A world
without law enforcement, where dialogue and community development dollars heal all ills while
rainbows arc and dip, is a fantasy, one that would leave the poor and vulnerable at the mercy
of the criminal and nihilistic. Yet we also can't forget that Madison added, "If angels were to
govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary." This part
is less popular among the dopamine-addled right and the social engineering left. But it's true:
government isn't the philosophical "state," an abstract force that can commune seamlessly with
the good. It's a collection of men, entrusted with power and badges, prone to abuse the same as
anyone else.
It took a government thug only eight minutes and a knee to touch off the worst civil unrest
that America has seen in decades. And that's the trouble of it: neglect one side of the
Madisonian formula and you're likely to negate the other. The common denominator is
lawlessness. If the police act outside the law, that gives cause and license to rioters, which
then elicits a more aggressive police response, and so on down the spiral. Violence feeds off
of a vacuum. Those who seek peaceful change get lost in the smoke.
And therein lies an important lesson out of Minneapolis. A community might not be a social
contract per se, but it does require a certain amount of buy-in from, and integration of, both
the government and the governed. Lacking that, the two pieces drift apart and grow alien to
each other. They become different entities, more likely to see the other as the enemy whenever
there's friction. The federal government, giant and remote, is understandably viewed this way;
the local policeman should never be.
There's been a lot of loose talk lately about whether America is careening towards
another civil war. The takeaway from last week should be: we'd damn well better hope not.
The riots, of course, did not amount to a war, but they did provide a glimpse into the kind of
might-makes-right anarchy that characterizes internecine conflicts.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry once said, "A civil war is not a war but a sickness. The
enemy is within. One fights almost against oneself." Hence why civil wars -- from the Union and
the Confederacy to the Republicans and Franco to Salva Kiir and Riek Machar -- have so often
been so brutal. The body politic itself becomes dysfunctional, turning its own people against
each other, its mediating institutions having broken down.
Such wars, as Saint-Exupéry said, stem from deeper pathogens within.
Matt Purple seems pretty confident that the unrest is over with and I hope he's right. But
this year so far has well exceeded my worst expectations and I'm a pessimist. We still have
two major political conventions and an election to get through while foreign wars are still
ongoing and there seems to be a major push on to abolish the police altogether. Even if the
latter idea has considerable merit (and it may), under current circumstances it will simply
mean the replacement of the police by heavily armed and ruthless gangs and militias. The
body count will not remain low.
Anyone saying that this is class war, is simply hiding behind their white privilege and
denying the essential RACISM of the United States. That's the corporate meme. And it's
probably going to work.
Problem here that the George Floyd protestors/rioters are a happy counter-cultural mix of
SJW, young blacks and young whites – impossible to portray them as the white power
KKK
In fact the RACISM shield doesn't work. The ZioGlob are left exposed, and in my opinion
they're scared by these protests. If they crack down with the national Guard or the military
it only makes the situation worse. Things polarize, with them being further identified as a
privileged exploitative elite.
Problem here that the George Floyd protestors/rioters are a happy counter-cultural mix
of SJW, young blacks and young whites – impossible to portray them as the white power
KKK.
Same way that the Polish communist government couldn't effectively attack the Solidarity
worker's uprising. Government propaganda was designed to attack capitalists, exploiters of
the working class etc. which didn't make any sense against shipyard workers.
A counterterrorism expert on Laura Ingraham's show last Wednesday night encouraged viewers to
do online searches of these 2 movements from the 60's since today's groups have similarities
of ideology there goes history rhyming again
The contemporary geographical West bears almost nothing of classical Western culture.
Another good example is that classical Greco-Roman beauty standards opposes almost all kinds
of body modification and mutilations, like tattoos, piercings, scarification, circumcision,
etc. Many of these, especially the first two, became predominant in the last 3 decades.
Very true. Tattoos, piercings and scarification were deemed the sign of a criminal or a
barbarian in the Greco-Roman world. They valued the athletic body as it was and saw no need
to disfigure it. That is why they had such a hard time accepting circumcision.
BLM does not matter one bit. What you're witnessing here is a classic by-the-book Color
Revolution. Look at the analogies with Ukrainian EuroMaydan: is used Western Ukrainians as a ram;
here Afro Americans and assorted groups of anarchists/Maoists like antifa are used.
What is interesting is young whites are probably the majority is many protests. Are they all
unemployed or what? Or are they social media addicts and view this as the latest viral event that
they want to participate in
The latest "saint" in this religion was a highly flawed human
being , to put it charitably. Career criminal, drug dealer, someone who threatened a
pregnant woman with a gun during a robbery and then testified against his "colleagues" in
exchange for a lighter sentence
"... How much of this is virtue signalling by Mitt Romney and others of the elite? Is he willing to disgorge himself of the the hundreds of millions he took from Americans through his company Bain? ..."
These far right social conservatives lost yesterday and they don't even realize it. Mitt
Romney marched with BLM. Mitt is no radical on social issues (he certainly is on. Taxes on
the rich) you won't convince a single one of these hard right wing people that systemic
racism is real, even when you give examples like the North Carolina Republican Party
disenfranchising blacks "with surgical precision" or the direct evidence of the commenter
Dukeboy who states he is a retired police officer and is obviously a white supremacists. But
you don't need to convince them of anything. This is the same group who would have been
against the civil rights protests in the '60's. They aren't needed to create a massive
change.
The hubris to think that your feelings of guilt would be meaningful to black people is off
the charts.
"My local school has been underfunded for generations due to the property tax funding system
and redlining but Karen feels bad about it so all is right with the world!"-Said no black
person ever.
How much of this is virtue signalling by Mitt Romney and others of the elite? Is he
willing to disgorge himself of the the hundreds of millions he took from Americans through
his company Bain?
How much? 100% of it. Romney is a vicious corporate raider who has destroyed countless
jobs and by extension, lives. How many suicides have followed in the wake of Bain's corporate
takeovers? When Romney lived in Belmont, MA, he and his wife petitioned the town to not allow
ambulances to go down their street with sirens on. Seriously.
n The New Criterion , Gary Saul Morson writes about 'Russia's most literate revolutionary,' Alexander
Herzen:
Perhaps the best way to understand the psychology of radicals is to read accounts of
former believers. In that classic collection of essays by disillusioned communists -- The
God That Failed -- six major writers evoke what passionate belief feels like and analyze
the kinds of thinking that sustain it. In the opening selection, Arthur Koestler describes
the heady moment when 'the new light seems to pour from all directions across the skull; the
whole universe falls into pattern like the stray pieces of a jigsaw puzzle assembled by magic
at one stroke. There is now an answer to every question, doubts and conflicts are a matter of
the tortured past' when one still lived among 'those who don't know .' One has at last
achieved complete serenity and assurance, except for the 'occasional fear of losing faith
again, losing thereby what alone makes life worth living.'
The most important lesson Koestler learned was what might be called 'preemptive
refutation,' a series of techniques guaranteed to handle any counter-evidence. When, as a
novice reporter for a communist paper, he pointed out that every word of a major story was
false, the editor explained that Koestler still had the 'mechanistic' outlook instead of the
proper dialectical one revealing what was 'objectively' happening. Once you have assimilated
dialectics, Koestler explains, 'you were no longer disturbed by facts,' which fell
automatically into place. The only remaining difficulty was adjusting to a rapid shift in the
party line. Then you had to search your memory to convince yourself that you had always
accepted the new truth. It's just what Orwell describes in Nineteen Eighty-Four :
'Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.' The whole
process reminded Koestler of the croquet game in Alice in Wonderland 'in which the
hoops moved around the field and the balls were live hedgehogs. With this difference, that
when a player missed his turn and the Queen shouted 'Off with his head,' the order was
executed in earnest.'
Dostoevsky, the only nineteenth-century thinker to foresee what we have come to call
totalitarianism, drew on his own experience as a former revolutionary to represent the
radical mindset from within. He asked himself: what would Russian intellectuals do if they
ever gained power? And he realized that, although his generation was not as bloodthirsty as
the radicals to follow, they, and he himself, could be drawn into committing horrible crimes
in the sincere conviction that they were pursuing justice. The relative moderates, who above
all want to dissociate themselves from the conservatives, can always be shamed into going
along with anything. It is a mistake to think that the decent people we know would never
endorse, let alone commit, vile deeds. 'And therein lies the real horror,' Dostoevsky
explains. In Russia, and eventually everywhere, 'the purest of hearts and the most innocent
of people can be drawn into committing . . . the foulest and most villainous act without
being in the least a villain! . . . The possibility of considering oneself -- and sometimes
being, in fact -- an honorable person while committing obvious and undeniable villainy --
that is our whole affliction today!'
Dostoevsky learned a great deal from Russia's most literate revolutionary, Alexander
Herzen (1812–70), who died just a century and a half ago. Unlike Koestler, Herzen never
renounced his faith in revolution, but he came to see its glaring flaws and ever-present
dangers. His ironic dissections of revolutionary thinking and behavior cut to the heart of
delusions that, in spite of all his insight, he never surrendered. Clinging to radical faith,
he acutely probed his own mindset to show what made it so irresistible. 'There are few
diseases so intractable as idealism,' he wrote. For him, revolution was the God that
flickered.
Floyd died of cardio pulmonary arrest caused by his fentanyl overdose.
Floyd's legal team will argue death was caused by "mechanical asphyxiation". They base
that solely on the video. There is no physical evidence for it. The knee didn't leave any
bruising. He fainted while he was still standing which indicates he had a problem related to
blood flow to his brain. He also complained of breathing difficulties prior to application of
restraint (which is intended to keep the perp from hurting himself). They will be eviscerated
on cross.
Floyd's fentanyl level was 11 ng/mL. The average overdosage is 10 ng/mL (it varies based
on the tolerance built up by the individual).
Further, this was complicated by his serious heart disease. Several of his key arteries
were 75% blocked and one was 90% blocked. That alone was sufficient to cause death.
The officer's knee was not on Floyd's carotid. He was on the jaw bone and then backed off
to the back of the neck when Floyd said he couldn't breathe. The knee was on the head, ear,
and jaw but not throat. This is the technique taught at the FBI.
He died from cardio pulmonary arrest as the autopsy states. Murder 2 won't stick. The
Blacks will riot again, as usual.
"Systemic racism" is mostly an empty buzzword people on the left use to rationalize why
racial inequality in social and economic outcome persists despite the success of the civil
rights movement in establishing formal equality of rights under the law.
For example, black people are statistically more likely to be incarcerated or shot by the
police than white people. However, according to left-wing egalitarian, blank-slate ideology,
this could not possibly be due to the fact that black people have vastly higher crime rates
than whites--so instead a nefarious, vaguely defined concept of "systemic racism" serves as
an all-purpose rationalization for why different groups have different outcomes in society.
At most, a typical leftist will acknowledge that blacks have higher rates of crime, but then
proceed to blame it on poverty (which they naturally consider to be a legacy of racism). Of
course, even when you control for poverty, group differences in incarceration (as well as
other relevant social outcomes like education) still persist to a significant extent. As a
result, many on the left feel an even greater desire to collectively scapegoat white people
in order to rationalize this discrepancy between their egalitarian ideology and observable
reality.
Basically, if certain minority groups fail to fully succeed in society, it must always be
white people's fault. Among the identity politics left, this viewpoint is not considered a
statement of fact about objective reality that can be confirmed or falsified. It is, in fact,
a statement of dogmatic faith.
To me the way you form the issue is not the relevant one. Rather it is that the
comparisons be based on factors that discount skin color. As long as we compare crime
statistics to black versus white people, then there is an inherent racial bias.
One day we should be able to compare the drug problem in West Virginia with the drug
problem in Chicago. Just the factors that do not require race as one of them. Perhaps when
all factors are equal, then we can determine if the controlling one is poverty.
I think that is where black people would like to be. Determining their character, not
their skin color. At least it seems some black man said that a while back. We should have
listened to him.
The "cost" to whites (and really to blacks as well) comes in the form of higher crime
rates. After the civil rights movement helped put a dent in "racist" policing practices,
crime increased for decades, and some inner city urban areas became practically unlivable as
far as any kind of decent existence went. Furthermore, many black communities effectively
chose to shelter the criminals as part of a "no-snitching" ethic, rather than cooperate with
law enforcement. This got so bad that by the early 90s, there was enough political support
(including among many black organizations) for increased policing and incarceration to be
implemented.
Even in regards to the drug war, many forget that the crack epidemic saw horrible rates of
violent crime among urban gangs fighting over turf. The problem was never a bunch of people
peacefully smoking weed in their house. My theory is that the true purpose of the drug war
(especially the harsh penalties for crack) was to put violent gangsters in prison on drug
charges, since they couldn't be put away for murder due to lack of community cooperation with
the authorities.
All the leftist ideas being advocated now in regards to law enforcement (i.e. social
workers instead of cops, a naive belief that welfare programs could remove the need for
police by addressing the "root causes" of crime, a belief that police should basically just
back off, as opposed to proactively policing neighborhoods) were tried in the years
1961-1991. They had absolutely horrible results, especially for black communities.
Many are going to argue in response to this that mass incarceration and increased,
proactive policing had little to do with the decades-long decline in crime. I would encourage
you to look at the clear increase in urban crime after the Ferguson/Baltimore riots caused
police to back off in a number of urban areas with high black populations. At the very least,
any reform should be pursued carefully, or we risk reversing decades of progress in regards
to lower crime rates and the gentrification/revival of American cities. Far more black lives
would be ended as a result of an increase in crime and social dysfunction than are currently
ended at the hands of the police.
Assumes facts not in evidence. Violent crime nationwide has declined significantly for the
past 30 years. It's increasingly likely that the most important reason for that decline is
the decline in lead poisoning:
https://www.motherjones.com...
This is a very popular narrative, and it's easy to see why: it implies no trade-offs
between the amount of policing/incarceration in society and the crime rate. I am not saying
the decrease in lead levels did not contribute to the long term decrease in crime, but I
think the increase in urban crime after the Ferguson/Baltimore riots shows that it's not the
full story.
Thanks for your response. Any increase in crime after Ferguson and Baltimore has been,
compared with violent crime rates in the 1980s, minor. Even with those increases, the violent
crime rates nationwide remain significantly lower than they were a generation ago.
And increases in crime in the past few years have tended to be in cities (like Baltimore)
where trust between the police department (and the wider law enforcement system) and the
residents has broken down to a significant degree. (By contrast, for example, Camden, NJ is a
much safer community than it was 10 years ago; a large part of the credit for that goes to
the restructuring of the police department.)
I think the increase in violent crime that we saw after Ferguson/Baltimore is basically a
small taste of what we are going to get as a society if the police are undermined in a
significant way. Of course, we aren't going to return to the crime rates of the early 1990s
overnight, but the point is that proactive policing does have a meaningful impact on
crime rates. Now, that doesn't make every effort at reform illegitimate (and officers really
do need increased accountability), but what I would argue is that there is a need to be
careful in order to not break what has been painstakingly built. However, I am not seeing any
kind of real caution or nuance among the "defund/abolish police" activist crowd.
Also, Camden actually put more officers on the street than before as part of its
restructuring. How many BLM activists are on-board with that?
Do Clinton neoliberals ("soft neoliberal" wing of the US elite) try to present blacks as the
new proletariat who need to be liberated from their chains in order to get from Trump back
political power they lost?
...t was a growing sense among middle-class voters in heartland America that something was
seriously wrong with the country, that the nation's leaders were transforming America in bad
ways and unraveling their future in the process. But there was no street protest or fiery
rhetoric, no coalescence of civic activism or public demands. Certainly the mainstream media,
so aligned with the country's elites, didn't detect anything of consequence bubbling up from
within the polity. Why would they? Everything seemed fine to them.
Meanwhile, the disaffected merely bided their time, silently waiting for their opportunity
to express themselves in the quiet sanctity of the voting booth. After they did, Donald Trump
was the next president. Hardly anyone saw it coming.
Something similar is likely to happen in the wake of the widespread street
demonstrations–with attendant riots, looting, destruction, and violence–that
followed the awful death of George Floyd in Minneapolis at the hands of a brutal police officer
who pressed his knee against Floyd's neck for nearly nine minutes.
Not surprisingly, public-opinion surveys showed widespread popular support for the peaceful
demonstrations that were organized to honor the life and condemn the senseless death of George
Floyd.
But the polls also demonstrated widespread indignation toward the rioting and looting. Thus,
the civic drama that followed Floyd's death, including the sprees of destruction and
increasingly aggressive rhetoric from the left, intensified some ongoing political tensions
that lie at the heart of the country's current distemper. It accentuated the extent to which
America is becoming two nations with two narratives about the times we live in and the problems
we face.
One narrative, call it the liberal one, has been projected with increasing force in recent
years and particularly since George Floyd's death. It is that America is an inherently racist
country, infected with something called "systemic racism." You can't always see it; often it is
hidden behind a facade of phony white benignity. But it lurks in the hearts of whites
nonetheless and is activated in subtle ways to keep down minorities, particularly blacks, and
make them feel inferior.
... ... ...
When the political reaction comes, as it inevitably will, it will come on little cat feet.
And the nation's elites, secure in the thought that the systemic racism charge has worked
brilliantly in intimidating any lingering dissenters into submission, won't see it coming.
It's an open question whether this can help Donald Trump in November. His is a failed
presidency, and the collective electorate seldom rewards failed presidencies with retention in
office. But down the road, as the issue intensifies and as white Americans feel increasingly
beleaguered by the left's identity politics and disdain for Middle America, as more
demonstrations and riots ensue with more destructive force, a counter-movement will emerge. It
likely will approach the body politic as quietly as Sandberg's fog. But, once it arrives, it
won't stay quiet for long.
Robert W. Merry, former W all Street Journal Washington correspondent and
Congressional Quarterly CEO, is the author most recently of President McKinley: Architect
of the American Century (Simon & Schuster).
Your numbers are skewed (the source is crap by the way). Love the $8 by the way. Your
callous disregard for the truth takes away from your argument. Look for the real numbers (by
the way they are bad but not $8 bad).
And much of that misses the entire point. You dont build wealth unless you have disposable
income. Your AA stat is similar for whites with similar incomes. Surprise poor people dont
have a lot of wealth (they live paycheck to paycheck). Surprise, on average black incomes are
way lower than white incomes. Could it be because of broken families, poor educational
achievement, and aspirations to being athletes and singers (rather than doctors) and the
accordant high failure rate of that? Possibly. Oh and one of the better paying aspirations of
some (gangster) are well paid but a cash business.
This is less about race and more about class. The numbers are not dissimilar for Hispanics
and are far better for Asians? Sense a trend? The real issue is that the AA community has
suffered from bad policies for 50+ years and that the victim culture does nothing to raise
them out of that. Give them reparations (to the tune of $350K/person if you believe the BET
dude's plan) and all it would do is result in a bunch of new MBs and BMWs floating around.
Once those were gone nothing would change. Dont kid yourself that it would. If you think that
is racist you need to look at what happens to pro athletes after they get out (bankruptcy).
And a lot of other races would do the same thing with the money. That is why a handout isnt
the answer.
Here are the facts, and I'm sure both sides can use the data to make whatever point they
like.
First, the numbers depend on whether you exclude armed suspects killed by police. If you
don't, then quite obviously, police kill many, many more people -- of all races -- than
suspects kill officers. It's hard to know how many of these weapons posed serious, imminent
danger to the office, but even so, if you brandish a weapon, especially a firearm, at a
police officer, all bets are off.
Thus, when people make these comparisons, they generally speak of (i) police killings of
unarmed suspects vs. (ii) suspects killing police officers. If you look at police killings of
unarmed African-Americans vs. police deaths at the hands of African-Americans, it appears
that for 2019, it's exactly even. According to the FBI database, African-American suspects
feloniously killed 15 police officers in 2019.
The relevant numbers are unarmed and those are FAR lower than 250. If you are armed and
dont drop it on the ground when asked you are asking to get shot. It would be like asking the
gangbanger at a drug buy to drop his gun when you were pointing one at him (not gonna
happen).
This presumption of innocent intent is all crap. Over half of ALL violent/property crime
in the US is commited by AA men. Fix that. Doing that would save thousands of black lives.
But nobody wants to talk about black men killing other black men. There is no money or power
in that.
there have been several police EXECUTED due to this democrat sponsored nightmare. These
un-associated cops were married, they had kids, they had friends, but no one mourns the cop
doing his duty.
DID the white cops go out and tear apart businesses, break into stores, loot the property
of minority store owners, beat people who got in their way or act exactly like a pack of
hyenas, calling in more hyenas to assist their criminal behavior, ( thank you twitter,
facebook ) ???
Exactly. Something helpful I've seen floating around is the premise that "Black Lives
Matter" has an implicit "Too" at the end. It's not that black lives are more important than
other lives, because of course, all lives do in fact matter. But there's a disproportionate
threat to black lives within the system we currently inhabit, and that demands more rigorous
attention. Saying "All Lives Matter" is the equivalent of demanding the fire fighters douse
every house on the block with water while your neighbor's house burns. Of course everyone's
house is important and should be protected, but they're not the ones on fire right now.
I liked your metaphor--but it's really not what is going on.
Saying "Black Lives Matter" *WHILE* rejecting (yes, rejecting!) "All Lives Matter"
suggests favorite or special treatment. Saying "All Lives Matter" means that when ANYONE's
house is burning, it gets the fire department--not that the fire department sprays water
equally when there is no fire.
What you describe is the concept of "equity," and why it's a failure. Metaphorically , the
left wants equal water attention from the fire department, even when nothing's burning.
That's "equity" to them. Everyone gets the same, regardless of need or demand, so everything
is equal. Equal outcomes--everyone's house is wet.
The opposite of Black Lives Matter is not all lives matter. It is so what he died, it
doesn't matter. George Floyd and many other black victims of police violence had lives that
mattered to someone. They were fathers, daughters, mothers, etc. Their lives mattered. Black
Lives Matter is a means by which to say, nigh yell, Black people are full human beings and
when they die there is no less pain and no less a loss then if a white person were to
die.
Blacks get killed by cops at a lower rate than whites by every meaningfull measure. Black
Lives Matter is a race baiting phrase used by Democrats to incite racism, and is a code
phrase for "hate white people." Screw them and screw you.
It's entirely NOT toxic to me. That it is "toxic" to SOME people is the sad and wrong
thing.
All lives matter. ALL. No joke, no irony, no nuance.
And shame on anyone trying to caution me or silence me from asserting it.
Bring the mob on, if they disagree with that. I want to see the idiots for myself--they
shouldn't hide in any shadows. If they don't think ALL lives matter, I want to know who that
Nazis or Antifa, or whatever look like.
Mr Merry points the liberals' unreasonable portrayal of blacks and other minorities as
these unfortunate victims that just can't seem to get a fair shake in America because of the
privilege of whites. Then he finds it more reasonable to assert that it is actually whites
who just can't seem to get a fair shake in America because of those other people.
The author is just another part of the problem. This fire doesn't need anymore fuel, sir.
@fnn
and file a complaint at a later time. Failing to comply is always problematic.
I'm always surprised at people's reactions when you ask if they let their kids do whatever
they want, and get away with not following "the rules". I have yet to hear one say yes. What
they do to enforce it, may or may not be legal, but they will enforce. Isn't enforcement of
the rules what we ask police to do? If they do it according to the law and their "rules",
there should be no consequences for them. If they don't follow the "rules" and/or do it
illegally, there should be.
Justice is a process, not a result.
@reiner
Tor the material conditions of disadvantaged ethno-racial groups, specifically blacks. By
now it should have become clear that, while material conditions did improve, these
improvements are not perceived as such. Basically, the corporate media/culture industry
propagandize blacks about their continuing oppressed victim status while the dysfunction
(whatever the reasons) of black communities foils whatever material improvements have been
achieved. Accordingly, given what they are shown and told, it is not irrational for blacks to
demand equality. Even if that means that all others must be as miserable as they are.
It does not matter whether Mr. Floyd was a model citizen or pimping your mom: he was
extralegally executed by four policemen. Funny how people who endlessly yammer on about law
and order actually have so little respect for the due process that is the heart of law.
It is counterproductive to assert that white people are obligated to dismantle a system
that allegedly endows them with special privilege. It is also absurd to think that someone
who perceives he or she has a competitive edge over another because the accident of skin
pigment will willingly give up that survival advantage. Humans are not programmed to be that
altruistic – or that foolish.
Even people of good will fumble defining and identifying structural racism, for
acknowledging what a huge task it will be to abolish it is daunting and frightens most of us
out of taking action. But being treated with respect is not a privilege. Being victimized by
discrimination is a human rights violation – but it is also a constant throughout human
history. Exploitation and degradation of one's fellows is the rule of human behavior, not the
exception.
I think contempt for human rights still flourishes in America because of our unique
cultural heritage, based in the ruthlessness of unregulated capitalism, with its denial of
the value of community and its vicious take-no-prisoners competitiveness. In most other
places the people seek to overthrow what Marx called "the parasite class". In America, we
dream of joining it. And shall we not forget that our country was colonized by the religious,
political, economic, and criminal rejects of every country in the world. We have been
carefully breeding half-mad fanatics here for over four hundred years – as witnessed by
this article and most of its comments.
Also, I can't believe anyone thinks this is actually about blacks and racial justice,
rather than general boredom and discontent, or unhappinness with life.
Countries have revolutions all the time, and there are always "reasons". Plus, I don't
think it's smart to take things at face value, expect people to be able to articulate –
or even have the self-insight to understand – why they are attracted to certain
positions. Sure, they'll say it's about blacks, but all they know is they vaguely
unhappy..
@S ry
and then doubtless because of Western influence, there are no words for fairness in languages
apart from English, Danish, Norwegian, and Frisian.
This is what partly led to the American Civil War when fairness-obsessed descendants of
Puritans (originally from East Anglia) opposed slavery which was mainly practised in the
south by progeny of aristocratic and elist Cavaliers (who come from Southeast England).
In a way I find the transplantation of American ethnic strife to England a bit odd,
considering native English people do not tend to actively think of themselves as "white" in
the way white Americans do.
Native English people just think of themselves as English and/or British, talking about
"colour" has traditionally been seen as vulgar in Britain, the media here doesn't talk about
race like the American media does. "White" as an identifier doesn't make much sense in
England because many foreigners are white, yet they certainly aren't seen as English.
The mainstream media in America often addresses white Americans collectively as "white
people", always in a negative, critical sense, but I think most English people would find
being addressed as "white people" quite alien and jarring.
The mainstream media in America often addresses white Americans collectively as "white
people", always in a negative, critical sense, but I think most English people would find
being addressed as "white people" quite alien and jarring.
The media may address whites collectively but most American whites find it equally
jarring
@Curmudgeon lack violence line
(blacks as a political tool to attack Anglos) but weren't at all expecting young whites to
ally with young blacks in a new quasi religious movement. How they handle that, they haven't
figured out.
Jews are in fact sidelined – and their MSM looks flat footed – with the action
moving out of their orbit and onto the street and social media.
The trouble for Trump and the ZioGlob is the lack of control. 1) It's much too fluid and
2) It involves unpredictable street mobs and violence + shooting protesters would only create
more martyrs to join the beatified St. Floyd.
WMD, russia-gate, ukraine-gate, floyd, it's all part of the same thing
capital and (((capital))) maintains its power by dividing and distracting and mass media
is a far more effective means of propaganda and control than anything stalin could've
imagined.
a little looting and burning is very cheap compared to higher taxes.
I would support generally protests against police brutality in America (as America really is
probably the world's leading "checkistan", or police-state, at least in relation to minor
crime). However, the ideology you discuss:
It is not new religion, or anything exciting – it is just an uninteresting mix of
bourgeois virtue signalling, and the secularized theater of Christian "slave revolt
morality"/millennialism, which is a common thing in America (and a lot of Europe since the 19th
century).
It's just as Nietzsche called "Chandala Apostolism".
American version – some simple New Testament teachings, mixed with the theory that
America has a "sin of slavery", and that might be redeemed from their past crimes by freeing
slaves, and progressing to ideals of "all men are created equal under god" – some
"Kingdom of Heaven" (where perhaps even lion will lie down with the lamb).
This concept of progressive redemption, is beginning self-consciously with Lincoln's
speeches, and today e.g. Obama's speeches in 2008 (and probably earlier politicians) are mainly
something to do this.
(page 58-60) Indignation is the privilege of the Chandala; pessimism too. 'The world is perfect'
– this is how the instinct of the most spiritual people speaks, the yes-saying
instinct.
Who do I hate most among the rabble today? The socialist rabble, the
Chandala-apostles who undermine workers' instincts and pleasures, their feelings of
modesty about their existences, – who make them jealous, who teach them revenge
Injustice is never a matter of unequal rights, it is a matter of claiming 'equal' rights What
is bad? But I have already said it: everything that comes from weakness, from jealousy, from
revenge. – The anarchist and the Christian are descended from the same lineage.. (Page
208) Christian and anarchist. -Anarchists are mouth pieces of a declining stratum of society;
when they work themselves into a state of righteous indignation demanding 'rights',
'justice', 'equal rights', they are just acting under the pressure of their own lack of
culture, which has no way of grasping why they really suffer, – what they lack in life
A powerful causal impulse is at work in them: it has to be someone's fault that they are
not doing very well .. Complaining and grumbling can even give life a charm that makes it
bearable: there is a subtle dose of revenge in every complaint; people blame the fact that
they are doing badly (and sometimes even their badness) on those who are different, as if
that constituted a wrong, an unauthorized privilege. 'If I am just canaille then you should
be too': out of this logic come revolutions. –
And yet, Nietzsche certainly didn't act as if he thought the world was perfect, and wanted
to change politics and culture in massive ways. And his books are long extremely shrill
complaints, so if a desire for revenge is concealed in every complaint (and all of this applies
to people here who are opponents of the current Leftist regime).
If Nietzsche truly thought that the world was perfect, as the most spiritual men do
according to him, he would have not wanted to change the fact that large numbers of men are
chandalas motivated by weakness and revenge he would not have cares or taken it seriously..
If the world is perfect, what's wrong with weakness? Why is everything weak bad?
Nietzsche had great insights – my comments on the other thread about how SJWs are a
form of self-overcoming in the line of ascetic monks is straight out of Nietzsche – but
he seems never to have had the true courage of his insights.
He is one of the first European philosophers to recognize the importance of laughter and not
being serious, he writes much on this yet he failed to grasp that if the world is perfect, and
the most profound philosophical position is humor, then all his ferocious denunciations of
weakness are a joke he repeatedly recognizes the superficiality of seriousness, yet grows
increasingly humorless and serious..
In any event, Nietzsche certainly captures something true here. People who expect utopia
from politics fundamentally misunderstood why they are unhappy.
Nevertheless, as Nietzsche himself well understood, environments can be more or less
conducive to human happiness and flourishing, and can be more or less unbalanced in different
ways, so working for limited political or cultural change is not pointless.
There is no need to go to extremes
Still, I think his point that in order to be happy you have to have the correct attitude
toward the world – that that is as important if not more important than your environment
– is something that we moderns , who overemphasize political and cultural change, need to
hear.
"... Fact is that American white culture is different from black American culture. It's pathetic and sad to see our politicians and others kowtowing to people who riot, loot and vandalize. ..."
"... Finally, if blacks want to succeed, my advice to them would be keep your families together, work hard, and educate your children. ..."
"... the social engineers are winning. Today black culture is a mess, 70% of black children are born out of wedlock, crime is out of control, and anybody who tells the truth about these things is drummed out of the mainstream conversation. ..."
Over the years, I've gone from having great sympathy for black Americans to
pretty much disliking them. But it is not because of their color (I don't feel the same about
black Africans), but because of the way so many of them behave. Blacks are not going to get
over wanting "compensation" for slavery–no matter what– and, in fact, they have
an even stronger streak of racism against whites than most whites have against blacks.
Fact is that American white culture is different from black American culture. It's
pathetic and sad to see our politicians and others kowtowing to people who riot, loot and
vandalize.
America is going to go down and down. I pray it does not let off a barrage of nukes out of
frustration and arrogance.
Finally, if blacks want to succeed, my advice to them would be keep your families
together, work hard, and educate your children.
Yup, all unfortunately too true. The insurrectionists offer nothing; they can only impede,
destroy, deny but have no alternatives except spinning opium fantasies about some utopian
society. The ones directing the shadowy, organized black-clad types that are part of the
deliberate destruction are really rolling the dice on this one. It's very risky since no one
knows where this could end up going.
Blacks cause racism. Their culture has degenerated with their glorification of criminality.
It's been observed previously that black criminality has been weaponized in such matters as
breaking up white neighborhoods and grabbing the real estate. Now they brought them in in
their wake to do the looting and participate in opportunistic violence.
Apparently PC-cult-think has taken hold of many whites and now there's a religion with blacks
as an object of fetish-worship. The educational system was taken over by lefties years ago
and now we see the results. Many whites have become disgustingly craven as epitomized by
Biden with his snot rag.
The USSR came apart and collapsed. However, that's very different from the US. They spun off
the various republics and downsized to the core which was Russia. From that cohesive center
they were able to rebuild. The US has no center; everyone is scattered about with all races
and political persuasions inhabiting the same cities and towns. Were things to get worse it'd
be more like Bosnia but even they had ethnically cohesive areas.
It's hard to tell what the game plan is. Looking for the authorities to snap up the bait and
overreact so as to further chaos? Looking for martial law?
Black Americans are spoiled brats. Specifically, they are the spoiled brats of the
Yankee WASP Elites, who since the 19th century have used blacks as weapons and tools with
which to batter whites who are not WASP Elites.
"Finally, if blacks want to succeed, my advice to them would be keep your families
together, work hard, and educate your children."
Amen. Black Americans are caught in a pincer
operation between racist conservatives and liberal social engineers, and of the two groups,
the social engineers have done the most damage. From destroying the black family in the 1960s
through welfare policies designed to penalize marriage and fatherhood, to the ongoing
infliction of an LBGTQ ideology that is totally alien to black people's natural religiosity,
the liberal social engineers are waging a stealth war of cultural genocide against black
Americans.
And the social engineers are winning. Today black culture is a mess, 70% of black children are born out of wedlock,
crime is out of control, and anybody who tells the truth about these things is drummed out of the mainstream conversation.
Blacks, unlike so many immigratns from, say, Asia, speak English and have grown up in the wider American culture.
Many immigrants come not speaking any or little English to a totally unfamiliar land
(America), ask for no help yet succeed in making a decent living.
Blacks should understand
that only they can help themselves–and it begins with the family.
Washington DC Police Brace For "One Of The Largest Demonstrations We've Ever
Seen"
by Tyler Durden
Sat, 06/06/2020 - 11:53 Update (1135ET): ~20,000 people attended racial justice protests in
Sydney on Saturday "in solidarity" with Black Lives Matter and protesters in the US, according
to police in New South Wales.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon has ordered National Guard troops in the federal district not to
fire on protesters (an order that presumably includes rubber bullets and bean bags) while
ordering all active-duty troops that the administration had tried to amass on the outskirts of
the city to return to their posts.
According to the Washington
Post , police expect between 100k and 200k protesters on Saturday, far short of the million
people organizers had brought together.
There are now more than 43,300 National Guard members actively responding to demonstrations
across the US. The National Guard is typically deployed by the governor in a given state.
Today, more than 43,300 National Guard members in 34 states and D.C. are assisting law
enforcement authorities with ongoing civil unrest, while more than 37,000 Guard Soldiers and
Airmen continue to support the COVID-19 response. pic.twitter.com/Gtq4oxeUuw
Except in Washington DC where, because it's a federal city, the president has power to
command the National Guard, which Trump has chosen to delegate to the Pentagon.
* * *
Following more than a week of widespread peaceful protests pockmarked by occasional
homicidal violence, arson, assault and looting, activists are hoping to assemble a massive
demonstration in Washington DC, with some hoping to draw a million people to the capital just
one day after Mayor Muriel Bowser renamed the street leading up to Lafayette Square
after 'Black Lives Matter'.
The bright yellow letters spelling out the words 'Black Lives Matter' were put in place for
a reason: for what we imagine will be an extremely powerful photo op as police and national
guardsmen move to disperse the crowds, revealing the message below as tyrannical Trump gazes
out the window, twirls his mustache while cackling loudly.
Demonstrations against police brutality following George Floyd's death are expected to
continue for the 12th night on Saturday.
Uniformed military personnel walk in front of the White House ahead of a protest against
racial inequality in the aftermath of the death in Minneapolis police custody of George
Floyd, in Washington. Photo by @Lucas_Jackson_
pic.twitter.com/Mc27JonTQH
--
corinne_perkins (@corinne_perkins) June 6,
2020
Though he didn't give a crowd size estimate, the chief of the Washington DC police says he
expects Saturday's gathering to be one of the biggest so far.
"We have a lot of public, open source information to suggest that the event on this
upcoming Saturday may be one of the largest we've ever had in the city," Washington DC Police
Chief Peter Newsham told local media, adding that much of the city center would be closed to
traffic from early in the day.
Newsham did not give a crowd estimate. Local media has predicted tens of thousands of
attendees.
Demonstrators in the Washington DC area are still sore over the national guard's decision to
use tear gas and rubber bullets to clear Lafayette Square for a presidential photo-op at St.
John's Church, angering the Episcopal Church in the process.
Further south, in North Carolina, Governor Roy Cooper is ordering all flags at state
facilities to be lowered to half-staff from sunrise to sunset on Saturday to honor Floyd, who
was born in Fayetteville. A televised memorial service will also be held in the city on
Saturday,
per USAToday.
On Friday, marches and gatherings took place in Atlanta, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Miami,
New York and Denver, among other places, while protesters massed again, in the rain, in front
of the White House. The night-time protests were largely peaceful but tension remains high even
as authorities in several places take steps to reform police procedures. Politicians and judges
around the country also announced new restrictions on law enforcement powers and tactics,
including a federal judge in Denver, who ordered city police to stop using tear gas, plastic
bullets and other "less-than-lethal" devices such as flash grenades, claiming that too many
peaceful protesters and journalists have been injured by police.
"These are peaceful demonstrators, journalists, and medics who have been targeted with
extreme tactics meant to suppress riots, not to suppress demonstrations," U.S. District Judge
R. Brooke Jackson wrote in the ruling.
In Minneapolis, Democratic city leaders voted to end the use of knee restraints and
choke-holds, where pressure is applied to the neck.
In California, Gov Gavin Newsom ended state police training of carotid restraints, and
ordered officers not to use the tactic.
In New York, Gov Andrew Cuomo said his state should lead the way in passing "Say Their Name"
reforms, including making police disciplinary records publicly available, while also banning
the chokehold (which we thought had already been banned following the killing of Eric
Garner).
"Mr Floyd's murder was the breaking point," Cuomo said. "People are saying 'enough is
enough'."
Once again, the demonstrators in the US expect sympathizers from around the world to join
in, with more demonstrations at American embassies and consulates in Europe expected.
Already, thousands have gathered in London's Parliament Square "in solidarity" with their
American peers.
The protest, which has so far proven to be entirely peaceful, according to
CNN . At one point, everybody too a knee in unison.
Once again Portland, Ore., roughly 20 adults were arrested and one juvenile was detained
last night as peaceful demonstrations morphed into violent street battles into the night, as
agitators threw bricks and bottles at cops.
play_arrow Kan , 1 minute ago
Trump had more at his acceptance of the presidency. The difference is, this new ones is a
horde of "gimme freeshit" crowd that thinks violent drug dealers are worthy of rioting over.
The Sodium Fluoride, Vaccines, and Public school indoctrination has really played well to the
programming of the TV on the masses.
To dumb to think past what someone told them to think.
Son of Captain Nemo , 1 minute ago
Adding tear gas to the "fire" and lying about it certainly not helping...
When do the police in solidarity with their victims join the other side (losing the
paycheck in order to do so) to tell the Country after 9/11... Katrina... and the Boston
Marathon... that the police department(s) across the Nation need to return to the rule of law
and wear proudly "To Serve and Protect" again?...
Kan , 2 minutes ago
Trump had more at his acceptance of the presidency. The difference is, this new ones is a
horde of "gimme freeshit" crowd that thinks violent drug dealers are worthy of rioting over.
The Sodium Fluoride, Vaccines, and Public school indoctrination has really played well to the
programming of the TV on the masses.
To dumb to think past what someone told them to think.
pedoland , 5 minutes ago
i see controlled opposition turning a class battle into a race battle
is it about race, or is it about opportunity?
these protests are not organic
but they will be soon
kill the zionists
Angry Panda , 10 minutes ago
I won't be surprised if the WH got burned to the ground. If that happens and no one did
anything to stop the rioters then it's time for every to have a plan to leave the country
because you know it'll be the street thugs not the one in suits in charge.
TheBigCluB , 7 minutes ago
No.. it will be time to arm everyone you know, eveyone they know and everyone they know
etc and become the ruthless overlord of the golden horde
HenryJonesJr , 6 minutes ago
You won't be surprised. Don't confuse a gaggle of pimple-faced ANTIFA asswipes and low IQ
black separatists and white Millennials taking selfies as a threat to this nation's security.
If things really get out of hand, the President will initiate Martial Law, all communication
will be suspended, nation-wide curfew enforced, looters shot on sight / bodies disposed,
roads blocked, harbors, airports, secured etc. etc.
Sherlock Homeless , 5 minutes ago
Leave the country? How about stay and fight instead?
Geocen Trist , 12 minutes ago
These " demonstrations ' certainly seem to have been organized rather quickly, almost as
if it is all scripted. :-D
@Jim Bob Lassiter We're going to find out pretty soon if the Federal Government's
anti-domestic terrorism works any better than the rest of it.
After the recent attack in which over 50 Secret Service agents were injured (apparently
minor injuries) and Trump was shown a refuge bunker (super safe room, sort of), the security
forces reacted by removing SS personnel from riot police tasks back to point defense of the
President's body. Barr extended the White House defense perimeter and introduced new
personnel for the task. The new personnel were apparently from DoJ, as they had neither
insignia nor name tag.
Think about that. At some point, Secret Service either requested or were told that they
were unable to execute their _prime and only job_, Presidential protection. They were
relieved of perimeter guard duties that might involve contact with rioters (think of rioters
as very light infantry). While this obviously is no reflection on the Secret Service, which
is not manned, equipped, or trained at riot control, I'd imagine that the person running
Secret Service would rather have lost half the teeth in his mouth than to admit that Secret
Service could not protect the President and call in people from DoJ to do what Secret Service
could not.
Or (as I've no wish to slander the man) he was an exception to the usual security
commander and requested relief.
Either way, the DoJ now realizes that _they almost lost POTUS_, and that the culprits (not
enemy, we're talking DoJ here) achieved this with a surprise attack using capabilities and
assets not previously thought dangerous to POTUS.
Should Trump acquiesce to it, and maybe even if he doesn't, the same DoJ that extended the
White House security perimeter the day after the attack is going to find out how this
surprise attack happened, comb its ranks for people who let it happen, suppressed
intelligence reports, etc. They will also try to destroy the organization responsible. With
Trump as current POTUS and a Supreme Court that has not only been generally supportive of
Trump but has also been personally attacked by the side supporting the attack on POTUS, DoJ
must might succeed in getting control of its own bureaucracy and destroying the organization
that organized the attack.
Bar might even figure out that his decision to "avoid introducing politics into DoJ" by
not persecuting higher ups in the Russiagate affair is about 60 years too late.
Police have charged Stephan Cannon, a 24-year-old local man, with the killing of retired
police captain David Dorn during riots in St. Louis. The veteran cop was shot dead while
confronting looters.
...Dorn, a 77-year-old black man who served 38 years on the force, was shot and killed
outside the pawn shop on Tuesday morning, as he apparently tried to stop looters from
ransacking the establishment. Disturbing footage of the aftermath of the shooting has made the
rounds online, showing a bloodied Dorn dying on the pavement outside the shop.
...
Police say they believe that Cannon was the one who gunned down Dorn, leaving him to
die on the sidewalk outside the establishment, as he appeared to be "the only person
standing at the corner" at the time of the shooting and "multiple plumes of smoke"
could be seen billowing from where he stood. In addition to that, used shell casings were found
at the site of what police believe was the murder scene.
A chilling video has been circulating on social media showing a bloodied Dorn dying on the
pavement outside the shop.
Cannon was known to police, having been charged with misdemeanor theft back in February, St.
Louis Post Dispatch reported.
In a bid to cover his tracks, Cannon attempted to change his appearance after the image of
him looting the shop as part of a group of young men was distributed to the public. Cannon was
taken into custody and is being held without bond.
Numerous Secret Service agents were injured, fires set by rioters blazed near the White House and
authorities were searching for car bombs late Sunday as protests over the death of George Floyd continued to roil the capital
just two days after President Trump had to be taken to a bunker for his safety.
A senior official in the direct chain of command for defending Washington D.C. told Fox News of the
injuries to Secret Service agents, some of whom were hurt by rioters throwing bottles and Molotov cocktails in Lafayette Park,
just across from the presidential residence. The official initially put the number of agents injured at over 50, but that may
have referred to the weekend toll; the Secret Service has since said the number injured on Sunday was 14.
As
observed
in New York City and elsewhere, groups in D.C. are planting cars filled with incendiary materials for future use,
Fox News is told. U.S. Marshals and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents were deployed to the streets of D.C. in an
extraordinary move to beef up security alongside local police and Homeland Security agents, including the Secret Service, the
Justice Department confirmed late Sunday. Fox News has learned U.S. Attorney for D.C. Mike Sherwin is heavily involved in the
operation.
Lights that normally illuminate the exterior of the White House were
disabled
early Monday morning,
leading to some reports that the Secret Service wanted to use night-vision equipment to monitor protesters. White House Deputy
Press Secretary Judd Deere told Fox News on Monday, however, that the lights were turned off due to "standard protocol," not
for security reasons. The complex's external lights are normally disabled at 11 p.m. ET unless specific requests are made to
keep them online, including by media networks.
Additionally, the entire Washington, D.C. National Guard was being called in to help with the response to protests outside
the White House and elsewhere in the nation's capital, according to two Defense Department officials. Washington Mayor Muriel
Bowser said Sunday that she had requested 500 DC Guardsman to assist local law enforcement. Later on Sunday, as the protests
escalated, Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy ordered the rest of the Guardsman -- roughly 1,200 soldiers -- to report.
As authorities clashed with demonstrators for the third straight night, the parish house connected to the historic St.
John's Episcopal Church across the street from the White House was
set on fire late Sunday
. The parish
house contains offices and parlors for gatherings. The basement, which was also torched, is used for childcare during church
services, and had recently undergone renovations.
Police stand near a overturned vehicle and a fire as demonstrators protest the death of George Floyd, Sunday, May 31,
2020, near the White House in Washington. Floyd died after being restrained by Minneapolis police officers. (AP
Photo/Alex Brandon)
The church says every president beginning with James Madison, "until the present," has attended a service at the church,
giving it the nickname, "the church of presidents." The first services at the church were held in 1816, according to its
website.
Before the blaze, church officials had said they were thankful that the previous day of protests hadn't significantly
damaged the structure.
"We are fortunate that the damage to the buildings is limited," Rev. Rob Fisher, the rector of the church, said in a
statement earlier Sunday, several hours before the fire was set.
The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) building was also set ablaze near the
White House. The AFL-CIO is the nation's largest pro-union group.
An hour before the 11 p.m. ET curfew in D.C., police fired a major barrage of tear gas stun grenades into the crowd of more
than 1,000 people, largely clearing Lafayette Park across the street from the White House and scattering protesters into the
street.
Demonstrators protest the death of George Floyd, Sunday, May 31, 2020, near the White House in Washington. (AP
Photo/Evan Vucci)
Police stage in Lafayette Park as demonstrators gather to protest the death of George Floyd, Sunday, May 31, 2020, near
the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Protesters piled up road signs and plastic barriers and lit a raging fire in the middle of H Street. Some pulled an
American flag from a nearby building and threw it into the blaze. Others added branches pulled from trees. A cinder block
structure, on the north side of the park, that had bathrooms and a maintenance office, was engulfed in flames.
Several miles north, a separate protest broke out in Northwest D.C., near the Maryland border. The Metropolitan Police
Department says there were break-ins at a Target and a shopping center that houses Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth Avenue Men's
Store, T.J. Maxx, a movie theater and specialty stores. Police say several individuals have been detained.
Police form a line on H Street as demonstrators gather to protest the death of George Floyd, Sunday, May 31, 2020, near
the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Separately on Sunday, Twitter
suspended
a small account
claiming to represent Antifa, the left-wing group that Trump
branded a terrorist organization
earlier in the day. The suspension came after the account
urged
members
to go into "white hoods" and "take what's ours." The Twitter account, it
later
emerged
, was actually set up by a known white supremacist group, according to multiple reports. (Twitter and President
Trump
have sparred
in recent days over censorship.)
The developments came as it emerged that the Secret Service took
President Trump
to the White House's
underground bunker on Friday night, when protests outside the complex intensified.
A senior administration official confirmed the information to Fox News after The New York Times first
reported
the
story.
"Wasn't long. But he went," the official said Sunday.
The White House declined to comment.
"The White House does not comment on security protocols and decisions," White House spokesman Judd Deere said.
Trump's precise position Sunday night was not immediately clear. Trump traveled to Florida on Saturday to view the first
manned space launch from the U.S. in nearly a decade. He returned to a White House under virtual siege, with protesters -- some
violent -- gathered just a few hundred yards away through much of the night.
Demonstrators start a fire as they protest the death of George Floyd, Sunday, May 31, 2020, near the White House in
Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Demonstrators protest the death of George Floyd, Sunday, May 31, 2020, near the White House in Washington. (AP
Photo/Alex Brandon)
The D.C. demonstration Sunday was one of several around the country responding to the death of Floyd, a black man who died
in police custody.
Four officers have been fired in the Floyd case, and one has been arrested and charged. A
video
showed
the arrested officer kneeling on Floyd for several minutes as he screamed that he could not breathe, although an initial
medical examiner's report found "no physical findings that support a diagnosis of traumatic asphyxia or strangulation" -- and
cited Floyd's "underlying health conditions including coronary artery disease and hypertensive heart disease," as well as the
"potential intoxicants" in his system.
The scale of the coast-to-coast protests rivaled the historic demonstrations of the civil rights and Vietnam War eras.
In Birmingham, Alabama, footage appeared to show demonstrators violently attacking journalists on Sunday.
Iowa Law School professor Andy Grewal
tweeted
:
"Friend in Chicago called 911. Phone rang 10 times. He explained that the building across the street was being broken into and
looted and the dispatcher then hung up on him."
In Minnesota, a semitrailer sped toward a crowd of protesters, in a scene
caught on harrowing video
. Police announced the unidentified driver was arrested and taken to Hennepin Healthcare with
non-life threatening injuries after the protesters dragged him from his truck and apparently attacked him. Remarkably, DPS
officials said it appeared none of the protesters was seriously injured.
Protesters in Philadelphia hurled rocks and Molotov cocktails at police, officials said, while masked crowds broke into
upscale stores in a San Francisco suburb, fleeing with bags of merchandise.
In Austin, Texas, video showed protesters appearing to cheer as a homeless man's belongings were set on fire.
Looting was rampant in California, even in the well-to-do Bay Area suburb of Walnut Creek. In one bizarre episode
caught on tape
, looters there
appeared to loot other looters.
In Brooklyn, two attorneys, including a New York University School of Law graduate, were
charged
with throwing a Molotov cocktail at an NYPD cruiser. Colinford Mattis, 32, worked at the Times Square law firm
Pryor Cashman, but his profile was removed from the firm's website after the news broke.
In Denver, police fired tear gas and projectiles at demonstrators defying a curfew following a day of peaceful marching and
chants of "Don't shoot" alongside boarded-up businesses that had been vandalized the night before.
Dozens of demonstrators, some throwing fireworks, taunted police and pushed dumpsters onto Colfax Avenue, a major artery,
in the sporadic confrontations that occurred east of downtown. 83 had been arrested in the area on Saturday night.
Denver Mayor Michael Hancock called the behavior of unruly protesters "reckless, inexcusable and unacceptable."
Curfews were imposed in major cities around the U.S., including Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, San Francisco and
Seattle. About 5,000 National Guard soldiers and airmen were activated in 15 states and Washington, D.C.
At least 4,100 people have been arrested over days of protests, according to a tally compiled by The Associated Press.
Arrests ranged from looting and blocking highways to breaking curfew.
The scene on Sunday was similar to the episode outside the White House two days earlier. Around the time Trump headed to
the safety Friday night,
multiple agents
were being "assaulted with bricks, rocks, bottles, fireworks and other items" -- injuring a number
of uniformed division officers and special agents, according to the Secret Service.
The extent of the injuries was unclear. No one reportedly made it over the White House fence, but the agency determined
that the situation warranted immediate action.
Trump has said he had "watched every move" from inside the executive mansion during Friday's protest and "couldn't have
felt more safe" as the Secret Service let the protesters carry on, "but whenever someone ... got too frisky or out of line,
they would quickly come down on then, hard -- didn't know what hit them."
On Saturday morning, Trump praised the Secret Service for its
protection
of the White House
the previous night, calling them "very cool & very professional" -- and warned that any protesters who
breached the fence would have met by "vicious dogs" and "ominous weapons."
Demonstrators gather to protest the death of George Floyd, Sunday, May 31, 2020, near the White House in Washington. (AP
Photo/Alex Brandon)
"The President doesn't make the call to move to the bunker," Dan Bongino, a former lead Secret Service agent in the
presidential protective detail and a Fox News contributor,
wrote on Sunday
. "The trained
professionals of the Secret Service do."
While unusual, it isn't unprecedented for protectees to be taken to the underground bunker when there are aerial intrusions
or other threats to the White House. Top White House officials, including then-Vice President Dick Cheney, were whisked to the
bunker after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
The mob outside the White House had also turned its rage on a Fox News crew early Saturday, chasing and pummeling the
journalists in a
harrowing
scene
captured on video.
Police in riot gear stand in front of the White House as demonstrators gather to protest the death of George Floyd,
Saturday, May 30, 2020. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Veteran reporter
Leland Vittert
was covering protests in
Lafayette Park just before1 a.m. with three crewmembers when as many as a dozen masked protesters surrounded them, in footage
caught by
the
Daily Caller.
After a protester lunged at Vittert
while
he was reporting on-air
, the team made a beeline out of the park, with the hostile and growing crowd in pursuit.
Vittert and the crew were punched and hit with projectiles as they fled, and a Fox News camera was broken when a member of
the mob tried to grab it.
Police fired pepper spray at demonstrators near the White House and the D.C. National Guard was called in this weekend, as
the scene outside the White House seemed fraught again on Sunday night.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/IUUzA8zjE1M
The Secret Service tweeted late Sunday: "In an effort to ensure public safety, pedestrians and motorists are encouraged to
avoid streets and parks near the White House complex."
Hundreds of people converged on the White House and marched along the National Mall, chanting "Black Lives Matter," "I
can't breathe" and "No justice, no peace."
Protesters threw water bottles, traffic cones, scooters, even tear gas cans at police lines. They set fire to a car and a
trash bin and smashed windows, including at Bay Atlantic University. "What are you doing? That's a school," one man yelled.
An American flag hanging at the Export-Import Bank was taken down, burned and replaced with a Black Lives Matter banner.
Law enforcement officers from Calvert County Maryland Sheriff's Office standing on the Ellipse, area just south of the
White House in Washington, as they watch demonstrators protest the death of George Floyd, Sunday, May 31, 2020. (AP
Photo/Alex Brandon)
Trump appeared to cheer on the tougher tactics being used by law enforcement to disperse protesters Saturday night. He
commended National Guard troops deployed in Minneapolis, declaring "No games!" and he also said police in New York City "must
be allowed to do their job!"
"Let New York's Finest be New York's Finest," Trump said on Twitter after returning to the White House from Florida, where
he watched the launch of a SpaceX rocket. He did not talk to reporters upon his return and it was not clear if he could hear
the protest over the sound of his helicopter. But for at least part of the flight, televisions on Air Force One were turned to
Fox News and its coverage of the protests.
Earlier in the day, he had belittled the protesters and pledged to "stop mob violence."
"I stand before you as a friend and ally to every American seeking justice and peace, and I stand before you in firm
opposition to anyone exploiting this tragedy to loot, rob, attack and menace," the president said after watching the launch of
a SpaceX rocket. "Healing, not hatred, justice, not chaos, are the missions at hand."
Police were in tactical gear. The D.C. National Guard was activated at the direction of the secretary of the Army and at
the request of the Park Police to help maintain order near the White House, Commanding Gen. William J. Walker said in a post
on the Guard's Facebook page.
A firework explodes by a police line as demonstrators gather to protest the death of George Floyd, Saturday, May 30,
2020, near the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
While some protesters stayed near the White House, others marched through the streets chanting, "No justice and no peace."
and "Say his name: George Floyd." The mood was angry and several speakers implored marchers to remain peaceful.
The march paused between the Washington Monument and the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Demonstrators sat down in the street for a moment of silence lasting for the eight minutes or more that the Minneapolis police
officer reportedly knelt on Floyd's neck.
Police in riot gear stand in front of the White House as demonstrators gather to protest the death of George Floyd,
Saturday, May 30, 2020, outside the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
At the Lincoln Memorial, one organizer spoke over a megaphone. "Look to the left and to the right and thank that person. We
can't hug anybody because of COVID, but I love you anyway." Many of the protesters wore masks, but did not socially distance
themselves.
Another group circled through the Capitol Hill neighborhood for at least an hour in cars, honking. A helicopter hovered
overhead.
In a series of tweets earlier Saturday, Trump doubted protesters' allegiance to Floyd's memory, saying they were
"professionally managed."
Trump later rejected the suggestion that he was stoking a potential conflict between protesters and his supporters. "I was
just asking. But I have no idea if they are going to be here," he said. "MAGA is Make America Great Again. By the way, they
love African American people. They love black people."
At Saturday's demonstration, there was no evidence of a counter-move by Trump supporters.
Demonstrators gather to protest the death of George Floyd, Saturday, May 30, 2020, near the White House in Washington.
(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
The president also criticized the mayors of Washington and Minneapolis.
Trump said Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey "is probably a very good person, but he's a radical, left mayor." He then described
how he watched as a police station in the city was overrun. "For that police station to be abandoned and taken over, I've
never seen anything so horrible and stupid in my life," Trump said when speaking briefly to reporters at the White House.
He said Minnesota officials have to get tougher with rioters, and that by doing so they would be honoring the memory of
Floyd.
Demonstrators gather to protest the death of George Floyd, Saturday, May 30, 2020, near the White House in Washington.
(AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
The Secret Service said in a statement Saturday that six protesters were arrested in Washington and "multiple" officers
were injured. There were no details on the charges or nature of the injuries. A spokesman for U.S. Park Police said their
officers made no arrests, but several suffered minor injuries and one was taken to a hospital after being struck in the helmet
by a projectile.
Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf on Saturday called the protesters "criminals" who committed "acts of violence
while hiding behind their First Amendment right of lawful protest."
Late Saturday and early Sunday, protesters vented their rage by breaking into tony shops of Georgetown, on the western edge
of the District, and in downtown Washington, breaking windows and glass doors of many stores and looting some of them.
In his tweeting, Trump claimed that many Secret Service agents were "just waiting for action" and ready to unleash "the
most vicious dogs, and the most ominous weapons, I have ever seen." His reference to "vicious dogs" potentially being sicced
on protesters revisits images from the civil rights movement when marchers faced snarling police dogs and high-pressure fire
hoses.
Fox News' Leland Vittert describes the hostile scene of the George Floyd protests on 'CAVUTO Live.'
In a news conference Saturday afternoon, Muriel Bowser, mayor of the nation's capital, called Trump's remarks "gross" and
said the reference to attack dogs conjures up with the worst memories of the nation's fight against segregation.
"I call upon our city and our nation to exercise restraint, great restraint, even as the president tries to divide us," she
said. "I feel like these comments are an attack on humanity, an attack on black America, and they make my city less safe."
In contrast with the president's tweets, the Secret Service said it "respects the right to assemble and we ask that
individuals do so peacefully for the safety of all."
Fox News' Bret Baier, Matt Leach, Alex Pappas, Mark Meredith, Greg Wilson, John Roberts, and The Associated Press
contributed to this report.
Gregg Re is a lawyer and editor based in Los Angeles. Follow him on Twitter
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"... "The media is the most powerful entity on earth. Because they control the minds of the masses, they have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." – Malcolm X ..."
@Ad70titusrevenge Russia almost totally collapsed. Through the 90s Russia's governmental
institutions BARELY just scrapped through. It was by the skin of their teeth.
Russia could have gone the way of post-2011 Libya. Putin isn't exactly a Tsar, but he was
good enough to stitch things back together.
There is absolutely no guarantee America will fare the same. Things could get hellishly
ugly. This definitely has the feel of 1917 Russia.
The MSM is clearly engineering these hoaxes and disasters in order to demolish US social
culture. I believe the jews who own America wish to Bolshevize the continent in order to
raise up a new military juggernaut in order to conquer the world for them and fullfil their
insane religious prophecies concerning world government, gentiles exterminated, jerusalem
ruling the world, and their messiah on the throne.
It won't actually happen. And if it does, it will be short lived. But what will happen is
that many people will die in the process.
Racism or "White privilege"
Police violence
Social alienation and despair
Poverty
Trump
The liberals pouring fuel on social fires
The infighting of the US elites/deep state
They are not about one of these because they encompass all of these issues, and
more.
That is probably the best part of the article I added the word one!
"The media is the most powerful entity on earth. Because they control the minds of the
masses, they have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and
that's power If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are
being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." – Malcolm
X
The glorification the ghetto culture, the refusal of offers of education,leading to gainful
employment, are real problems for all living in the United States. The cultural thinking that
we should have a promise at birth, that life is fair and I WANT WHAT I WANT,AND I WANT IT
NOW!, forgets the old saying -- If you don't work, you don't eat. If society would quit
babysitting and supporting every single knucklehead that is able to get on the internet or
television, and whine about how bad they have it,we'd all be better off!
Wake up people -- There is no money left to buy or satisfy all your dreams of equality,
it's all been stolen! Perhaps the golden age you dream of could have been reached if the past
governments would have focused on education for all, Mandatory education for all. They did
not and gave you mammon to continue your childish ways.
Thorogood -had it right–"Get a Haircut and Get a Real Job!
Eagles– I might feel better if they gave me some cash
I am old enough to remember the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. Some important laws were
passed at the time (e.g. the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act), but implementation
has been uneven, and systemic racism is alive and well. Above all, it is impossible to
legislate away the underlying racism that lurks in the hearts of most humans. For this
reason, I am encouraged to see so many white people participating in the largely peaceful
demonstrations in the United States. It raises hope that anti-black and anti-brown racism can
diminish in the human heart.
I agree with you: those protests (from 2020) are clearly not for racial motives. They are
clearly class-related. Only Americans are fooling themselves with this racial war narrative:
the rest of the world is not being fooled (never was).
I recommend reading the book White Trash , where historian Nancy Isenberg
demonstrates that racial discourse in the USA has always (since the colonial times) been all
about class. This happened because the British used as propaganda to attract poor people from
the UK at the time that the North American colonies (future USA) was a land of absolute
liberty and opportunity, where one could start anew.
However, I disagree 2020 has anything to do with 1968.
In 1968, the USA was at the apex of its strength and beauty. It was booming and
flourishing. The protests of the time were tumultuous, but the atmosphere was always
optimistic: there was no doubt, by any of the sides, that the USA wouldn't emerge stronger
and better from those conflicts. Using the terminology of the liberals, we could say the USA
was "vibrant".
2020 is more like a decadent Empire, a "Late Empire", as the economic indicators are not
good and there's no perspective they will get better. The mood is much more somber, the
atmosphere much denser and darker.
Is the plan to generate martyrs for an intense propaganda campaign?
Trump showed weakness against the putschists. Are the NeverTrumpers gonna ratchet up the
pressure with images of violence and bloodshed and anger towards Trump?
This will not end well. The Deep State actors in the Pentagram are in support of removing
President Trump. The crowds are being massed for this purpose. Disarming the Guard will be a
huge mistake.
All of this is in service of the big lie that blacks "are being killed every day" by
police while nothing is said by the black leadership of the orders of magnitude more black
people that are killed every day by black people.
It is offensive that when the roll is called of those who were killed by bad police
officers the names of whites and hispanics are excluded because, apparently only black lives
matter. It is offensive to listen to the ignorant and the race baiters call white American's
racists. This is the country that led to the near abolition of slavery which exists today
almost exclusively in black africa and the arab middle east. This is the country whose white
people spent trillions to educate black people and which has for more than two generations
discriminated against white people giving preference to blacks in business and education.
This is the country that bussed black children to better schools in predominately white
neighborhoods and bussed white children to shitty schools in predominately black
neighborhoods. All of this with no rioting or looting from white people.
The real insidious evil in this is that all the progress of the past 2 generations has
been wiped out in service to this lie that there is systematic racism in this country and
that it is to be blamed on white people even when it is black people who control the cities
and states where most of these killings of black people occur.
We sell out the country when we kneel in fealty to this lie. Black businesses were
destroyed and black people were killed in this insurrection. Fortunately many black people
see through this ********. I hope they will gain the courage of the black woman calling out
the BLM hypocrisy in DC. We all need to summon the fortitude not to legitimize the lie and
give cover to the coup that will consume us all.
Cloud9.5 , 22 minutes ago
Understand people, the goal is to let the house of representatives pick the next
president.
Black Lives Matter is an Oxymoron: Does anybody read reality? Blacks Murder Blacks in the
HUNDREDS every week, not to mention the 3 million black kids they abort every year. Blacks
commit the most crime in the USA by FAR.... Black on White Violence is 6 to 1! I can go on
and on about this tribe of people. Social Injustice?!?!?!? If you are White or Asian and have
a 4.0 GPA and Spear Chucker Kawaan has a 2.5 GPA guess whos getting into that college? How
many laws have to be written a passed for this tribe of lazy *** murder ingrates? MSM and its
talking heads all the way up and down the line should be hunted down and dropped into a human
woodchipper. Its the biggest injustice the world has ever seen.
bobroonie , 36 minutes ago
Dims: Only black lives matter because cops kill blacks..
Fact: Cops kill more whites than blacks
Dims: Their lives don't matter because blacks are killed disproportionately...
Fact: Blacks kill on avg. twice as many whites as whites kill blacks.
Dims: **** you, you racist....
CosmoJoe , 41 minutes ago
Still waiting for an explanation of why George Floyd's death was racism or oppression of
black people. Did the cop shout racist slurs at him as he knelt on him? Were there racist
comments on the cop's Twit feed? Or are we a nation of ******* idiots that don't even
understand what the term racism even means anymore?
Quatermain , 39 minutes ago
it actually means nothing now. Rather like the boy calling "wolf".
SMSpiff , 47 minutes ago
Roland Fryer is a black economist, and the youngest person ever to get tenure at Harvard.
He was angry after the deaths of Michael Brown and Freddie Gray, so he did his own research
on the use of deadly force by police in 10 big-city police departments police killing. His
detailed study of 1,332 police shootings -- in which he carefully compared the circumstances
of each killing -- found no evidence of police bias. If anything, police were more likely to
shoot at non-threatening whites than at non-threatening blacks. He said, this was "the most
surprising research result of my career."
Why was Professor Fryer surprised? Because he believed what the media say about race and
crime, and the media are often biased. Here is a particularly relevant example. On June 3, in
the midst of the rioting over the death of George Floyd, the New York Times published a long,
detailed article with this headline: "Minneapolis Police Use Force Against Black People at 7
Times the Rate of Whites." This sounds like a clear case of horrific police bias, and this is
the impression the Times clearly wanted to convey. However, the article included nothing
about race differences in crime rates or arrest rates. This is like reporting that the police
were seven times more likely to use force against men living in Minneapolis than against
women, and getting outraged over ani-male bias. Needless to say, men in Minneapolis are much
more likely to be subjected to police use of force because they commit far more crime and are
arrested far more frequently. No one would conclude that disproportionate use of force
against men was a result of anti-male bias.
D.Kelama , 1 hour ago
Antifa snipers or IED's seem more than likely.
But really it could be anything to set it off.
...
SRV , 50 minutes ago
Maidan Square was funded by CIA/Soros... and they always return to a successful
operation...
A few National Guard and some innocent looking protesters would be my guess.
The NASDAQ stock market is surging to within one percentage point of an all-time high.
Record stock prices should indicate robust economic prosperity and healthy, growing companies
providing employment for all, but the markets have been dangerously rigged – they're a total fraud.
More than 40 million Americans are jobless, and businesses are failing across the US at the fastest
rate in the history of the nation. Corporate debt and leverage have never been higher, and the economy
is collapsing and contracting at a rate faster than during the Great Depression in the 1930s – yet
asset prices are bubbling to record highs.
Is it any wonder people believe everything is rigged and don't trust the media or government? How
can this happen?
The Federal Reserve Bank (Fed) – which is neither a bank nor part of the federal government and is
owned by Wall Street's member banks – has recklessly instituted policies that have artificially
manipulated stock, property and bond prices by printing trillions of dollars out of thin air.
NASDAQ companies continue to borrow cheap money to repurchase their shares, pushing stock prices
ever higher and giving the illusion of a prosperous economy – but it's all smoke and mirrors. So far
this year, NASDAQ companies have spent $75 billion on share buybacks, helping the billionaire class
and media-propagandist millionaires at the expense of the middle class. Their savings rates are zero
and the Fed will soon resort to negative interest rates (NIRP) – even though NIRP has already failed
in every country it's been launched in. Stock buybacks were illegal in the 1980s and should still be
illegal now.
The government and servile media are allowing financial plunder and the destruction of the middle
class out of a sense of self-preservation. They shriek about race, incite tribalism and regularly
practice 'race-baiting' in order to distract the gullible.
In the past week, at least 10 people have been reported dead and nearly 5,000 people have been
arrested as these growing riots impact 200 American cities. Last weekend alone, 82 people were shot in
Chicago, 19 of them fatally, but the media didn't shout about it – in fact, it acted even more
dishonestly as the riots grew steadily worse. Yet the New York Times, the Washington Post, NBC, MSNBC,
CNN and ABC all refuse to say the word
"riot"
. These ministries of truth refer to people
being killed and businesses being destroyed by lawless thugs as mere
"protests"
, and make an
effort to emphasize the
"mostly peaceful"
ones.
This has been encouraged by the Democratic Party's politicians and operatives. Democratic Party
member and Seattle City Council member Tammy Morales stated,
"I hope we're all saying we
understand why that destruction (looting) happened and we understand why people are upset, but what I
don't want to hear is for our constituents to be told to be civil, not to be reactionary, to be told
looting doesn't solve anything. It does make me wonder why looting bothers people so much more than
knowing that, across the country, black men and women are dying every day, and far too often at the
hands of those who are sworn to protect and serve."
Maura Healey, Massachusetts' Attorney General, a Harvard-trained lawyer and a Democratic Party
operative, told the Chamber of Commerce that the riots were
"a once in a lifetime opportunity.
Yes, America is burning, but that's how forests grow."
Last week, the New York Times declared that, because of Covid-19, it would be unpatriotic to
protest. Now that we have violent riots that are destroying the US, the New York Times' editorial
board has done a complete about-face, publishing a piece titled
"America's George Floyd Protests
Won't Stop Until Police Brutality Does".
Why is the New York Times now seemingly approving of the
looting and burning down of police stations? Is it to appease their masters and distract the public?
The riots are the latest propaganda tool in this great diversion – a diversion that claims the
unrest is all about race, rather than economics and plunder by the elites. The economic oppression is
a political power grab by Washington, Hollywood, Silicon Valley and their media partners, who have
been sowing seeds of discord and hate.
Not one politician is showing any sense of leadership around the riots. Instead, they are fanning
the flames of destruction and hate so that the rioting, arson, looting and senseless destruction of
property continues. Just look at how New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's inaction is giving the OK to
rampant lawlessness committed by thugs.
There are massive, well-funded and organized protests across the US during an election year.
Coincidence? Nope. The Democratic Party and their mainstream-media partners would rather incite riots
and burn America to the ground than lose control and power.
We need to defend the rule of law as it applies to everyone. Mob rule and chaos are where we are
now, and politicians have done nothing to prevent this from happening. The law-abiding citizens of the
nation are being terrorized, while their rights are stripped away as the economy is pillaged.
This tribalism will destroy civil society, signalling the end of democracy and the world as we know
it. Leaders need to lead, and the second a peaceful protest becomes violent, that protest must be
deemed over and everyone sent home.It's as simple as that.
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Wasn't George floyd really a violent dangerous criminal? Live the sword surely you shall die by one.
This man Floyd it appears was a violent criminal who threatened and attacked people. Whilst people will sorry for him wasn't this
comeuppance?
Same goes for Mark Duggan and Rodney King. These were not choir boys but rather violent nasty men who had no trouble dishing out
violence.
I feel a cup of earl grey with the lemon drizzle cake the young lad Craig bought over yesterday to the mansion. I might also start
bringing some of my house staff back as restrictions ease. Answer Save 17 Answers Relevance Anonymous 6 days ago Favourite
answer Yes, dead right.
You live by the sword, you die by the sword and those that commit criminal acts are putting their lives on the line.
A burglar risks his life every time he enters a house illegally, so if he's killed we should not mourn his demise. Anonymous 5
days ago Well, he was a counterfeiter who was under investigation and had passed some very dirty money and had some very nasty international
friends, so there's that. Of course, the leftist press is treating him like he was a kindly victim of racial hatred never touching
upon these things he really did. The left just wants to bring down entire social groupings of people and they've been putting "black
people" through the historical roller coaster since the late sixties with race riots and welfare and other insidious nasties that
no one should want or endure. 1 1 3 Paul
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Another unfounded assanine comment. No one is praising him. We are calling out bigots.
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Ludwig Lv 6 5 days ago Floyd and Chauvin
were both on the 'security' team at the El Nuevo Rodeo club, which ran the drug scene at the venue. They had a personal falling out
over the proceeds, which is why Chauvin took out Floyd. Anonymous 6 days ago Attempting to pass a counterfeit banknote isn't exactly
a violent crime that deserves to be punished by extrajudicial murder. The cops who murdered Floyd don't exactly have unblemished
records:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8361565/W...
I'm sorry but you again miss the mark when you discuss American politics.
Any kind of popular revolt against economic terrorism and plundering instituted by the
elite and protected by a dimwitted police force was snatched right before our eyes even
before we could react to the George Floyd, highly-publicized snuff film.
The second the well-funded and local controlled-opposition groups BLM and Antifa seized on
the opportunity to declare this a racial matter, it purposefully alienated over 50% of the
U.S. population, what we call the middlebrow, the middle class, or the independent citizen.
The independent generally votes dem or repub but is not a partisan and detests domestic
violence and is completely ignorant to the depth of neoliberal indoctrination which is taking
place in our college system and increasingly, in our primary schools. It is generally
conservative in nature.
You can see what I am getting at, here. For those broadcasting their anger from the
streets and decrying this situation as racist in nature, they are either ignorant to the need
to appeal to this citizen listed above or are purposefully sabotaging any effort to bring
them on board.
This is why I have made the comment in prior discussions that blacks need to get their
house in order.
1) They need to distance themselves from BLM and Antifa and decry unequivocally the
violence on the street
2) They need to distance themselves from neoliberal infiltrators and other guilt-ridden white
liberals
3) They need to realize that police brutality is a problem which affects all colors in
America and is the result of a culture of death being exported in our FP and being brought
home from years of policing hostile forces and incurring grave psychological damage and
alienation to our troops; there are several videos online available of whites being murdered
by police in similar fashion as George Floyd; Why these videos were unable to crack the
national spotlight is very telling
4) By doing the above, they need to also appeal to each other to end inner-city violence
being perpetrated against themselves; this will require a depth of focus and intensity that
can not be achieved by constantly pointing to external forces as sole contributors to their
current plight; do not trust the white but do not lay at their feet every ill that beguiles
you
5) They need to realize that any appeal to our institutions for reparations or handouts will
result in further entrenchment of resentment from us whites to blacks and will continually
result in further alienation
6) Black elites in this country need to abandon popular cultural outlets such as music,
acting, and sports; These pillars of entertainment and culture are chief proponents of
neoliberalism and will never lift a finger to truly help America rid itself of our anational
elite which is the only thing that can bring back local control
Under the multicultural and neoliberal reality all of us Americans find ourselves in, it
becomes necessary to trace back the origins or where it went wrong and, by doing so, attempt
to limit to the best of our ability institutionalized evils that can not help but exist under
our shared history.
Many in here are arguing for greater central control to somehow correct these evils, but I
will continue to argue that no such solution can be brought which is reasonable to Americans
who will fight and spill blood for their liberty. You may scoff at such a notion, but I am
warning you, you do so at your own peril and will be judged harshly for inciting blacks and
minorities further down self-defeating and destructive avenues.
Where are the black leaders, the poets, and the thinkers to help them during these
destitute times?
What's happening in the US is, without irony, a color revolution.
While Trump is a narcissistic, megalomaniac, the Democrats and the rest of the DC
establishment (including the military) are using the weakest sections of society to mobilize
opinion against Trump for the election. Obama, in a medium article and in a video, reiterated
that the federal government cannot hope to solve the crisis at the ground level and that the
crucial changes have to come at the local level. In the video he says: (from https://youtu.be/PmpeRG8Gkow
8:40 The report Obama commissioned while in office to recommend reforms to prevent police
violence] demonstrated something that is critical for us today. Most of the reforms we need
to see to prevent the type of violence and injustice system we've seen need to take place
at the local level. The reform has to take place in more than 19,000 American
municipalities, more than 18,000 local enforcement jurisdictions....we need to be clear
where change is going to happen. It is mayors, country executives that appoint most police
chiefs and negotiate collective bargaining agreements with police unions and that
determines police practices in local communities. It's DAs and State's Attorney's that
typically decide whether or not to investigate police misconduct. And those are all elected
officials.
Many of these jurisdictions are Democrat controlled, including Minneapolis where the Floyd
incident happened. But of course Obama's measured advice falls on the wayside by all parties
who are not on a battle for federal power.
Meanwhile news that's getting buried is the investigation into the Russiagate hoax by the
Senate Judiciary where essentially the man who appointed Mueller, the DOJ's Rosenstein has
all but admitted there was nothing to investigate even back in January 2017.
The tactics being used then by the neoliberal Dems are very similar to the ones
successfully used in Europe to overthrow governments through mob action. One can argue that
perhaps Trump deserves it, but on the other hand it's not clear whether the Democrats and
Biden deserve power either.
Except more dirty fighting as the election draws nearer.
I would love to see an end to global private finance centered empire but I am only going to
hold my breath for the good stuff.
I continue to posit that much of the financial crisis/class war was pre-existent and is
being enhanced/sold as pandemic response rather than another tithe to the elite and increased
social control.
It is not good enough for Trump to have his ass handed to him because it is the, behind
the scenes, elite owners/leaders that need to be geo-politically neutered.
Will global private finance rise through the ashes of what is considered to be a purely
American empire? Too soon to tell but interesting to watch.
One thing has changed, the US has stepped closer toward an authoritarian oligarchy wet
dream. It is an incremental process and the goalposts have again been moved forward. The
richest and most powerful have made huge gains while the masses bleat and bleed and
meaningless headlines throw empty words into the air; "Defund the Police!" indeed. Our
leaders have gotten away with even more illegalities without consequence, as you noted.
Civil asset forfeitures, beatings/brutality, surveillance, militarization, injustice, etc.
will only be enhanced going forward.
Biden? A decrepit, mendacious, weak, incoherent and corrupt campaign. An utterly vacuous
and irrelevant effort displayed for show only as the Democrats move in lockstep with the
Republicans on major issues such as military spending, bailing out the rich, covering up
corruption, etc.
The US economy, LOL. The stock market is again exploding with vigorous bloat belying
reality (DOW 35K EOY2020). The illusions of prosperity and peace are well painted
domestically if not internationally. The idiot-in-chief is certainly gloating about today's
economic news. And the old bugaboo inflation is still being held at bay with newly relieved
pressure on payrolls/benefits, energy, etc. Where else is the newly available
government-printed money to go but into the stock market?
After all we're gold rush rich and ready to spend, enjoy the "tinkle down" economy while
you can:
The case for 'This Was A Civil War', or could have been, or will be is half the story, a
partial analysis.
Like the Syrian War was a civil war, except it was paid for and equipped by the regions
major powers and the US and Israel.
If Syria had been a civil war, it would have lasted 3 months, not 9 years.
The US won't have a civil war. The issue in the streets is Liberalism's effort to use
anarchy (like the West uses Islamic Sunni Terrorism). It's a technique of
destabilization.
There won't be a race war or a civil war. There may be a war to retake the Republic from
the Deep State, from the Liberal Cult, from the Shadow Government and corrupt Congress.
The war to come would be a revolution to re-establish the Rule of Law, the Bill of Rights
and the Constitution, a war to stop separatist states from breaking from the Federal Union,
maybe a war to reestablish the borders of the nation.
Understand what was going on in the streets. Who was doing what, not what you think was
happening and why.
... Foreign Policy: this would not be a good time for the United States to go to war. No
doubt there are plenty of fools in Washington who think otherwise and are urging Trump to get
up a war to rally the country around. But that is unlikely to work..
The possibilities are endless and they all spell Trouble for Uncle Sam.
"... But now, the situation has turned into something far beyond the killing of George Floyd. It has become a vehicle for agendas and not surprisingly the establishment benefits most; the very establishment the protesters think they are fighting against. ..."
"... The riots have been co-opted. Where whites and blacks, conservatives and liberals alike were mostly in agreement, now there are attempts at racial division. Why is the death of Floyd being presented as a race issue in the first place? Why is it not being presented as a psychopath issue? There are psychopaths in every race in equal numbers, and this should be people's focus. In other words, psychopaths must be removed from society, whether they be police, politicians, business leaders, "caretakers", etc. How about some examples... ..."
"... The point is, psychopathic cops kill people regardless of their skin color. White people are at risk as much as black people. But at least when a black person is wrongly killed, the public and the media might take serious notice. There were no nationwide protests or riots for Daniel Shaver. The establishment works in favor of psychopaths, not white people. In fact, Phillip Brailsford was fired and then REHIRED for a short time by the Mesa Police so that he could still apply for his pension. ..."
"... There are evil people of every race and ethnicity in this world that do terrible things, however, the worst people are those that exploit the tensions that these evil people create in order to turn crisis into opportunity. The reason there are riots happening globally now in the wake of the death of George Floyd is because people are angry, but also, people are malleable and easy to manipulate when they are angry. ..."
"... The country has just partially "reopened" from the pandemic lockdowns, and more lockdowns are likely before the year is out. Over 40 million people lost their jobs during the economic shutdown and the government checks are not going to sustain the public much longer. Only 13% to 18% of small businesses that requested aid actually received money from the small business bailout, and most of those that did not get money are facing closure. Government restrictions have been accelerating, and people are already on edge. Riots are now an inevitable part of daily life in America. ..."
"... Provocateurs have infiltrated the protests and are attempting to trigger indiscriminate violence. Pre-staged weapons such as piles of bricks , bottles and other items have been appearing magically in protest zones. Property is being destroyed by people not connected to the main protest groups. Odd occurrences are popping up everywhere. ..."
"... As I predicted in 2016 just after the election of Donald Trump, it appears the goal of the establishment is to produce extreme division among the American public and then exploit the hard-left as a weapon to frighten conservatives into supporting martial law. In my article 'Order Out Of Chaos: Defeat Of The Left Comes With A Cost' ..."
"... If the infiltrators are extremist communist organizations like Antifa or Black Lives Matter that receive funding from elites like George Soros and his Open Society Foundation , then we should consider the possibility that the intention is not just to influence the protests, but to also influence conservatives to react by supporting violent government power. If they can trick conservatives into suddenly supporting the lockdowns, curfews, and a national guard/military presence to stop the protests, then they will have defeated us without firing a shot. We will have defeated ourselves and our own constitutional principles. ..."
Mass civil unrest is a cumbersome weapon for societal change; like an oversized caveman club
made of oak. You can barely swing it, and when you do you might destroy an enemy with it but
you could also unwittingly destroy innocent people at the same time. Once the weapon is in
motion adjusting its direction or momentum becomes difficult.
I prefer the scalpel approach - Find the cancer and cut it out directly, rather than bashing
at the whole body just to get at one tumor.
Another problem with protests and riots is that they often have no discernible goals, or
they lose track of their goals almost immediately. When the initial protests started, they
targeted the police precinct in Minneapolis which was home to the officers that killed George
Floyd. In my view this was perfectly acceptable. At this stage a majority of Americans were on
their side. Many conservatives and law enforcement officers even came out in support of these
measures and admonished the actions that violated common police procedure and led to
unnecessary death.
But now, the situation has turned into something far beyond the killing of George Floyd. It
has become a vehicle for agendas and not surprisingly the establishment benefits most; the very
establishment the protesters think they are fighting against.
The riots have been co-opted. Where whites and blacks, conservatives and liberals alike were
mostly in agreement, now there are attempts at racial division. Why is the death of Floyd being
presented as a race issue in the first place? Why is it not being presented as a psychopath
issue? There are psychopaths in every race in equal numbers, and this should be people's focus.
In other words, psychopaths must be removed from society, whether they be police, politicians,
business leaders, "caretakers", etc. How about some examples...
In Mesa, Arizona in 2017, a white man named Daniel Shaver was murdered by officer
Phillip Brailsford after an anonymous tip told police he had a rifle in his hotel room.
Though it is not illegal to own a rifle in Arizona and certainly not illegal to bring one into
a hotel, a team of officers was sent armed with AR-15s to approach and arrest Shaver.
Brailsford ordered the frightened Shaver to crawl across the floor instead of asking him to lay
on the ground with his hands and feet spread as is normal police procedure. The man, sobbing in
terror, reached to pull up his shorts which were falling off, and was riddled with bullets by
Brailsford.
Watching the video , it
is clear that Brailsford created a situation in which Shaver could easily "make a mistake" and
thereby create an excuse for the officer to kill him in cold blood. As it turned out, the rifle
Shaver had in his room was a BB gun. A jury later acquitted Brailsford of any wrongdoing on the
grounds that they could not determine "his thoughts and feelings" at the time of the shooting.
This sounds strange to me and I don't think most people on trial for murder get anywhere near
the same latitude with so much evidence on hand.
On the same day in North Carolina an officer was sentenced to 20 years in prison for the
murder of an unarmed motorist. The difference? The motorist in South Carolina was black.
The point is, psychopathic cops kill people regardless of their skin color. White people are
at risk as much as black people. But at least when a black person is wrongly killed, the public
and the media might take serious notice. There were no nationwide protests or riots for Daniel
Shaver. The establishment works in favor of psychopaths, not white people. In fact, Phillip
Brailsford was fired and
then REHIRED for a short time by the Mesa Police so that he could still apply for his
pension.
What about psychopaths that aren't white cops? Oh, there are plenty of them, too. How about
Mohamed Noor, a BLACK
Minneapolis police officer that killed an unarmed white woman, Justine Ruszczyk, in 2017
while responding to her 911 call? Leftist activists including those at the NAACP at the time
claimed that Noor was being "unfairly targeted" because he was black. There were no protests or
riots for Justine Ruszczyk. Though, luckily, Mohamed Noor did go to jail for his crime.
And if we are going to continue following the thread of violence and psychopathy vs. race, I
can't leave out the black nurse in Detroit that filmed himself torturing elderly patients by beating them
repeatedly in their beds, completely unable to defend themselves. The man has been arrested,
but again, no riots yet over this horror show.
There are evil people of every race and ethnicity in this world that do terrible things,
however, the worst people are those that exploit the tensions that these evil people create in
order to turn crisis into opportunity. The reason there are riots happening globally now in the
wake of the death of George Floyd is because people are angry, but also, people are malleable
and easy to manipulate when they are angry.
The country has just partially "reopened" from the pandemic lockdowns, and more lockdowns
are likely before the year is out. Over 40 million people lost their jobs during the economic
shutdown and the government checks are not going to sustain the public much longer.
Only 13% to 18% of small businesses that requested aid actually received money from the
small business bailout, and most of those that did not get money are facing closure. Government
restrictions have been accelerating, and people are already on edge. Riots are now an
inevitable part of daily life in America.
But with events like the death of George Floyd, the riots can be manipulated.
The rage of the masses can be directed on false issues of race and shallow left/right
politics instead of being directed at corrupt government and the elites that created the
economic mess we now see before us. The protests over George Floyd started out by raising
questions on abuse of power by police, a legitimate cause. Now they have been poisoned by race
politics and outsiders seeking to create useful chaos.
Provocateurs have
infiltrated the protests and are attempting to trigger indiscriminate violence. Pre-staged
weapons
such as piles of bricks , bottles and other items have been appearing magically in protest
zones. Property is being destroyed by people not connected to the main protest
groups. Odd occurrences are popping up everywhere.
Here is where this is all headed...
As I predicted in 2016 just after the election of Donald Trump, it appears the goal of the
establishment is to produce extreme division among the American public and then exploit the
hard-left as a weapon to frighten conservatives into supporting martial law. In my article
'Order Out Of Chaos: Defeat Of The Left Comes With A Cost', I stated:
" With Trump and conservatives taking near-total power after the Left had assumed they
would never lose again, their reaction has been to transform. They are stepping away from the
normal activities and mindset of cultural Marxism and evolving into full blown communists.
Instead of admitting that their ideology is a failure in every respect, they are doubling
down.
When this evolution is complete, the Left WILL resort to direct violent action on a larger
scale, and they will do so with a clear conscience because, in their minds, they are fighting
fascism. Ironically, it will be this behavior by leftists that may actually push
conservatives towards a fascist model. Conservatives might decide to fight crazy with more
crazy."
Donald Trump has consistently discussed the use of the National Guard in response to the
pandemic and the protests. And now, he is apparently considering
using the Insurrection Act to deploy heavily armed military forces to US soil.
Is it just a coincidence that conservatives were the most opposed to medical martial law
only a week ago in the face of the pandemic, and now they are considering the merits of martial
law in the face of the leftist influenced riots? And who actually benefits from this? Perhaps
the elitist establishment that's been calling for martial law measures from the very
beginning?
I have been hearing the narrative everywhere in liberty movement circles that "civil war is
here" and "we have to support Trump and martial law to stop it". Firstly, I have been
warning for years that Trump is controlled opposition . His cabinet is overflowing with the
same banking elites and globalists that the liberty movement stands against. Giving Trump
martial law powers is no different than giving the elites around him martial law powers. If you
support martial law and overarching government, then you are NOT a conservative you are a
statist, and statists must be opposed by all who value freedom.
These people also don't understand what "civil war" actually is. Groups of people protesting
is not a war. What I see primarily is a bunch of ignorant children posing for Instagram photos
and pretending they are activists. And if as the evidence suggests there is a provocateur
element infiltrating these protests to stir up violence, then isn't it possible that their goal
is to get us to back martial law policies?
If the infiltrators are extremist communist organizations like Antifa or Black Lives Matter
that receive
funding from elites like George Soros and his Open Society Foundation , then we should
consider the possibility that the intention is not just to influence the protests, but to also
influence conservatives to react by supporting violent government power. If they can trick
conservatives into suddenly supporting the lockdowns, curfews, and a national guard/military
presence to stop the protests, then they will have defeated us without firing a shot. We will
have defeated ourselves and our own constitutional principles.
The bottom line? More government power is NEVER the solution to any problem. Totalitarianism
is never the answer. There will now be endless excuses to declare martial law. When the George
Floyd riots fizzle out, there will be some other trigger event. In fact, these riots are
probably just a precursor to the riots that will rage when the public realizes the US economy
is not coming back from the pandemic, and that more lockdowns are coming. I would not be
surprised if the Floyd riots are even blamed for a resurgence of Covid infections, which would
give the government a rationale for more lockdowns. Beware anyone that uses martial law as the
go to answer to these crisis events.
The solution in this case is to prosecute the police involved in the murder of George Floyd
to the fullest extent of the law, point out that this is a problem of abuse of power and
psychopathy, not a problem of race, and to stop outside interests from busing in provocateurs
to trigger riots.
This is being done in some cases by the protestors themselves, who are exposing provocateurs
within their ranks and filming them in the act.
The next best step is for businesses to secure and defend their own properties. We have seen
it time and time again; the buildings that have armed personnel on hand to guard them do not
get torched. Of course, right now a number of companies that have property damage due to
rioters and looters are
actually SUPPORTING the rioters and looters! Corporations are falling all over themselves
to praise the protests and even the riots based on race politics. They are also
pouring millions in cash into "social justice" groups. We're supposed to declare martial
law and bring in the military to defend the property of companies that are vocal in their
solidarity with the looters? What kind of idiocy is that? Just let them be looted if they are
going to double-down on this hard-left madness.
If this current trend continues it would not surprise me at all if George Floyd becomes a
forgotten footnote in the riots that were started in his name. If certain elites get their way,
Americans will continue to riot without even knowing why, and those riots will never be aimed
at the people that actually deserve it. In the meantime, the establishment wants at least one
side of the political spectrum, at least one half of the population, to support totalitarian
measures, and they are clearly targeting conservatives with fear tactics in order to get us on
board.
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Some Democrats have openly embraced
what is happening. Really they don't have much of a choice. These are their voters cleaning out
the Rolex store. These riots effectively are the largest Joe Biden for President rally on
record.
No Democratic leader can directly criticize what is happening right now. And in fact, some
have joined in. Over the weekend, the Democratic Party of Fairfax, Virginia, which is an
important Democratic organization, released the following statement on Twitter: "Riots are an
integral part of this country's march towards progress."
Progress. Burning buildings, teargas, dead bodies, the screaming injured, criminal anarchy
-- to the Democratic Party of Fairfax, that is called progress.
Celebrity after celebrity has weighed in to agree on social media. From his fortified
compound, basketball star LeBron James has used his accounts
to encourage more rioting. Bernie Sanders surrogate Shaun
King has done the same. So has Black Lives Matter leader, DeRay Mckesson.
Colin
Kaepernick openly calls for violence. Here's a quote: "The cries for peace will rain down
and when they do, they will land on deaf ears," he says
approvingly .
Imagine shouting fire in a crowded theater, a theater with 325 million people in it called
our country. That's what they've been doing and have been doing for days.
When the violence began, what we needed more than anything was clarity in the middle of
this. It's hard to see when the tear gas starts. Someone in America needed to tell the truth to
the country. Instead, almost all of our so-called conservative leaders joined the left's
chorus, as if on cue.
On Friday, as American cities were being destroyed by mobs, the vice president United States
refused to say anything specific about the riots we were watching on television. Instead,
Mike Pence
scolded America for its racism.
Carly Fiorina, once a leading Republican presidential candidate tweeted that -- and we're
quoting, "It's white America that now must see the truth, speak the truth and act on the
truth."
Meanwhile, Kay
Coles James , who is the president of the Heritage Foundation -- that's the largest
conservative think tank in the country. You may have sent them money, hopefully for the last
time. Kay Coles James wrote a long scream denouncing America as an irredeemably racist nation:
"How many times will protests have to occur?"
Got that? "Have to occur." Like the rest of us caused this by our sinfulness.
The message from our leaders on the right, as on the left, was unambiguous: Don't complain.
You deserve what's happening to you.
No one jumped in more forcefully or seemed angrier in America than former South Carolina
Governor Nikki
Haley . "Tonight I turned on the news and I am heartbroken," Haley wrote. "It's important
to understand that the death of George Ford was personal and painful for many. In order to
heal, it needs to be personal and painful for everyone."
Imagine shouting fire in a crowded theater, a theater with 325 million people in it called
our country. That's what they've been doing and have been doing for days.
But wait a second, you may be wondering, how am I "personally responsible" for the behavior
of a Minneapolis police officer? I've never even been to Minneapolis, you may think to
yourself. And why is some politician telling me I'm required to be upset about it?
Those are all good questions. Nikki Haley did not answer those questions explaining. It is
not her strong suit -- that would require thinking.
What Nikki Haley does best is moral blackmail. During the 2016 campaign, she compared Donald
Trump to the racist mass murderer, Dylann
Roof . How is Donald Trump similar to a serial
killer? Nikki Haley never explained that. She wasn't trying to educate anyone.
Her only goal was political advantage. Nikki Haley is exceptionally good at getting what she
wants. She is happy to denounce you as a racist in order to get it. She just did.
In this case, Nikki Haley's wish came true. The riots were indeed "personal and painful" for
everyone. And then the pain kept increasing. Two days after she wrote that, dozens of American
cities had been thoroughly trashed, some destroyed.
A country already on the brink of recession suddenly faced economic collapse. An already
fearful population locked down for months because of the coronavirus had
been thoroughly and completely terrorized.
Mission accomplished. Let's hope Nikki Haley is pleased. We've now atoned.
How did the Trump administration respond to the horrors going on around us? Well, Sunday
morning, the country's national security adviser, Robert O'Brien, did a live interview from the
White House lawn. Here's how it began:
Robert O'Brien, U.S. National
Security Adviser: First thing I want to say, on behalf of the president --he said this to the
family -- but our hearts and prayers are going out to the Floyd family. We mourn with them and
we grieve with them and what happened there was horrific and I can't even imagine what that
poor family is going through as his videos are played over and over again. That should have
never happened in America and it's a tragic thing.
The president said that from the start, and we're with the family and as the President
said, we're with the peaceful protesters.
"We're with the peaceful protesters," O'Brien announced.
Really? Can you be more specific about that? Who are you talking about exactly? Is it the
people spitting foam as they scream, "F the police"? Is it the one standing next to the
arsonist doing nothing as they set fire to buildings? Is it the kids laughing as they film the
looting and the beatings on their iPhones?
The first requirement of leadership is that you watch over the people in your care. That's
what soldiers want from their officers. It's what families need from their fathers. It's what
voters demand from their presidents.
"... Bakari Sellers, CNN political commentator: People worry about the protesters and the looters. And it is just people who are frustrated. ..."
"... Don Lemon, CNN anchor: They are frustrated, and they are angry, and they are out there. And they're upset. You shouldn't be taking televisions, but I can't tell people how to react to this. ..."
"... Sen. Chuck Schumer , D-N.Y.: I'm proud of the protests, and I think it is part of the tradition of New York. The violence is bad, reprehensible, and it should be condemned, but it is not the overwhelming picture in New York. ..."
"... Nikole Hannah-Jones, The New York Times: Destroying property which can be replaced is not violence. ..."
"... Chris Cuomo, CNN anchor Too many see the protests as the problem. Please, show me where it says that protests are supposed to be polite and peaceful. ..."
"... Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti: I want you to know we will not be increasing our police budget. How can we at this moment? ..."
"... Our city through our city administrative officer identified $250 million in cuts, so we could invest in jobs, in health, in education, and in healing And that those dollars need to be focused on our black community here in Los Angeles, as well as communities of color and women and people who have been left behind for too long. ..."
"... And will this involve cuts? Yes. Of course. To every department, including the police department. ..."
"... Adapted from Tucker Carlson's monologue from " Tucker Carlson Tonight " on June 4, 2020. ..."
For the past week, all of us have seen chaos engulf our beloved country. The violence and
the destruction have been so overwhelming, so shocking, and awful and vivid on the screen, that
it's been hard to think clearly about what's going on.
Most of us haven't been able to step back far enough to ask even the obvious questions. The
most obvious, of course, is what is this really about? What do the mobs want?
Well, thugs looting the Apple Store can't answer that question. They have no idea. They just
want free iPads. But what about Apple itself and the rest of corporate America, which is
enthusiastically supporting the rioters? What about members of Congress , the media figures, the
celebrities, the tech titans, all of whom are cheering this on. What do they want out of
it?
Well, they haven't said. That's the central mystery.
Now suddenly, it is obvious. It should have been obvious on the first day. This is about
Donald Trump
. Of course, it is. We just couldn't see it.
For normal people, Donald Trump is the president. You may like him, you may not like him,
but either way, there will be another president at some point, and we will move on as we always
have.
But for Donald Trump's enemies, there is nothing else. Everything is about Trump.
Everything.
Donald Trump defines their friendships, their careers, their marriages. Donald Trump affects
how they raise their children. Trump occupies the very center of their lives. As long as Donald
Trump remains in the White House. They feel powerless and diminished and panicked. So they
cannot be happy.
In everything they do, their overriding goal is to remove Donald Trump from office. And
that's exactly what they're trying to do now. That's what these riots are about. The most
privileged in our society are using the most desperate in our society to seize power from
everyone else.
Got that? That's the nub of it. The most privileged are using the most desperate to seize
power from the rest of us. They are not seeking racial justice. If they were seeking racial
justice, they wouldn't be denouncing their fellow Americans for their race, which they are. It
has nothing to do with it.
What they are seeking is total control of the country. And it goes without saying that none
of this has anything to do with George Floyd . Shame on those who
pretended that it did -- those who fell for the lie and those who knew better but played along
because they are cowards. There are many of those. You know who they are, and someday we will
look back on all of them with contempt.
Meanwhile, the many people promoting this chaos remain clear-eyed. They are not lying to
themselves. They never do. They know exactly what's going on, and they know what they hope to
achieve by it. With every night of rioting, they grow bolder. Now, they are openly defending
violence on television.
Bakari Sellers, CNN political commentator: People worry about the protesters and the
looters. And it is just people who are frustrated.
Don Lemon, CNN anchor: They are frustrated, and they are angry, and they are out
there. And they're upset. You shouldn't be taking televisions, but I can't tell people how to
react to this.
Sen.
Chuck Schumer , D-N.Y.: I'm proud of the protests, and I think it is part of the
tradition of New York. The violence is bad, reprehensible, and it should be condemned, but it
is not the overwhelming picture in New York.
Nikole Hannah-Jones, The New York Times: Destroying property which can be replaced is
not violence.
Chris Cuomo, CNN anchor Too many see the protests as the problem. Please, show me
where it says that protests are supposed to be polite and peaceful.
You're crushed by this. You can't believe what's happening to your country. But for the
people you just saw, the real problem is that the rioting in some rare places is being stopped
by police, and their aim is to fix that. They would like to eliminate all law enforcement
for good.
In everything they do, their overriding goal is to remove Donald Trump from office. And
that's exactly what they're trying to do now. That's what these riots are about. The most
privileged in our society are using the most desperate in our society to seize power from
everyone else.
On Thursday, Democrats in Dallas took down the statue of a Texas Ranger from the terminal at
Love Field that has stood in the airport for more than 50 years. The Texas Rangers are cops,
and cops must be removed, even when they're made of bronze.
Meanwhile, the Lego toy company has ceased marketing sets that contain plastic police
officers. Apparently, they're too dangerous for our children. And so on -- so much of this is
going on right now.
If it all seems like yet another episode of the silly and fleeting hysteria that sometimes
grips our culture out of nowhere, usually in lulls in the news cycle, you should know that it's
not that. This is entirely real. It is being pushed by serious people, and they are deadly
serious about it.
On Wednesday night, for example, Brian Fallon, who was the press secretary of the Hillary
Clinton for President campaign in the last election cycle tweeted, "Defund the police."
Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib agrees. Expect more
members of Congress to agree soon.
In some places, they're not talking, they're acting. Steve Fletcher represents the Third
Ward in Minneapolis . He's on the City
Council there. By this week, his city had been completely scorched by riots. At least 66
businesses were utterly destroyed by fire, 300 more had been vandalized or looted.
Fletcher didn't even mention that. Instead, he attacked the city's police department for
trying to contain the violence: "Several of us on the Council are working on finding out what
it would take to disband the Minneapolis Police Department.".
How would Americans feel if they actually defunded the police? Well, terrified mostly.
That's how we would feel. Things would fall apart instantly.
You'd think people in the city would be shocked by that. But at least on the City Council,
everyone else nodded their approval. In the Ninth Ward, Councilwoman Alondra Cano tweeted this
on Wednesday: "The Minneapolis Police Department is not reformable. Change is coming."
According to City Councilman Fletcher, all nine members of the City Council are now considered
getting rid of the Minneapolis Police Department.
Hard to believe, but it's not just there. In the city of Los Angeles , Mayor Eric Garcetti looks
out across the worst rioting in the nation's second-largest city in a generation, in almost 30
years. His conclusion? We need far fewer police. It could have been better if they hadn't been
there.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti: I want you to know we will not be increasing our
police budget. How can we at this moment?
Our city through our city administrative officer identified $250 million in cuts, so
we could invest in jobs, in health, in education, and in healing And that those dollars need
to be focused on our black community here in Los Angeles, as well as communities of color and
women and people who have been left behind for too long.
And will this involve cuts? Yes. Of course. To every department, including the police
department.
When Democrats across the country start saying the same thing at the same time, you can be
certain there's a reason for it. And in this case, they clearly mean it.
According to the president of the L.A. Police Commission, city officials may cut $150
million from the LAPD. That would be more than 10 percent of the entire police budget, in the
wake of rioting.
In New York, 48 separate Democratic candidates -- and they were including in that the
Manhattan district attorney -- signed a letter demanding a $1 billion cut to the budget of the
NYPD. Why are they doing this? There are reasons, not the ones they tell you. They tell you
it's about racism. They tell you that cops are racist and must be reined in.
Most Americans don't agree with that. That's not the experience they have. In fact, police
departments are one of the most trusted institutions in the country.
According to Gallup polling last year, 53 percent of Americans said they had a great deal or
quite a lot of confidence in the police. That was far more confidence than they had in almost
any other institution -- banks, religious leaders, the health care system, television, news,
public schools, corporate America, newspapers -- name one. All of those were stuck below 40
percent. How many Americans trusted Congress? Eleven percent.
And in fact, most African Americans still support the police. A 2016 Pew poll found that 55
percent of African-Americans had confidence in the police within their own communities. In
other words, cops they actually knew and dealt with. They have confidence.
A study by the Bureau of Justice Statistics from 2011 found that among those who called the
police for help, more than 90 percent of African-Americans felt the police behaved
properly.
So, what would happen if we got rid of the police? Of all law enforcement? How would
Americans feel if they actually defunded the police?
Well, terrified mostly. That's how we would feel. Things would fall apart instantly. It
would take hours. Don't believe it? Spend an afternoon in a place with no law enforcement and
see what you think. Talk to anyone who was in Baghdad at the height of the Iraq War. Ask anyone
who stayed in New Orleans for Katrina. Their memories will be fresh. They'll never forget what
they saw.
Here's the key. Eliminating the police does not mean eliminating authority. There is always
authority. There are no vacuums in nature. The only question is whether or not the authority is
legitimate -- whether or not the authority is accountable. Whether or not you can do anything
if the authority abuses its power.
In the absence of law enforcement, the answer is no. It means thugs are in charge. The most
violent people have the most power. They can do whatever they want to you. That's the reality.
Everyone obeys the violent people, or they get hurt. The mob literally rules.
That probably sounds like a nightmare to you, because it is. But the people pushing this
idea don't see it as scary because they don't fear the mob, because they control the mob.
That's the key. And they see violence as an instrument of their political power.
With mobs in the streets that they control, they will finally get what they want -- Donald
Trump out of office and a hammerlock on the country. That's what's happening.
Adapted from Tucker Carlson's monologue from " Tucker Carlson Tonight " on June 4,
2020.
The incident was clearly manipulated for political purposes. And manipulators do not care how
many stores will be looted and how many people will be killed. They want their political power
back.
"Is our nation being ripped apart by a total and complete lie, a provable lie? A lie used by
cynical media manipulators and unscrupulous politicians who understand that racial strife -- race
hatred -- is their path to power, even if it destroys the country."
Notable quotes:
"... So many of our leaders, by contrast, are not grieving. They seem exhilarated. They feel nothing as our nation descends into anarchy. They see chaos, instead, as an opportunity, a chance to solidify their control, to increase their market share to win elections. ..."
"... The people cheering them on from their TV studios have no patience for real protests or real protesters. Just in April, Democrats in New Jersey arrested a woman for trying to plan a rally, a protest at the state capitol. The New York Times said nothing when they did that because they approve. That's how they really feel about any political expression they can't control -- they crush it. ..."
"... Unidentified male: I am now calling on all and our city council members and all of our elected officials to defund the police. ..."
"... Crowd: Defund the police. ..."
"... Unidentified male: Defund the police. ..."
"... Crowd: Defund the police. ..."
"... Jake Tapper, CNN anchor: LA Mayor Eric Garcetti joined protesters moments ago, what did he have to say? ..."
"... Stephanie Elam, CNN correspondent: Yes, he came out this morning, Jake, and he took the time to come out and come out among the protesters. He knelt while he was out there, saying -- and showing -- his solidarity for the movement, for the protesters here today. ..."
"... And I can tell you that today, this daytime protest has been very peaceful, very calm. Lots of chanting, singing. ..."
"... Unidentified male: I work for Black Lives Matter. I'm sorry that I scared you. But since I work for that company, my CEO has told me to come out today and to bring you on your knees because you have white privilege. ..."
"... So if they see that a white person is getting on their knees that show solidarity for the situation. The situation and could you just please apologize for -- you know for your white privilege. Just apologize. ..."
"... Unidentified female: I have -- I am trying to think of the right words to say. What's a good thing to say? ..."
"... Unidentified male: It's big.Unidentified female: That comes from -- ..."
"... Unidentified male: It's so -- it's large in this country. ..."
"... Unidentified female: I am terribly sorry. ..."
"... Of the 802 shootings in which the race of the police officer and the suspect was noted, 371 of those killed were white, 236 were black. The vast majority of those killed were not, in fact, unarmed; the vast majority were armed. And African-American suspects were significantly more likely to have a deadly weapon than white suspects, yet more white suspects were killed. ..."
"... In fact, the number of police killings is dropping. In 2015, during Barack Obama's presidency , 38 unarmed black Americans and 32 whites were slain by police. Overall totals have fallen since then, and they have fallen far more dramatically for African-American men. ..."
"... Last year was the safest year for unarmed suspects since The Washington Post begin tracking police shootings. It was the safest year for both white and black suspects. ..."
"... One final number for you, because it matters: In 2018, 7,407 African-Americans were murdered in the United States. If 2019 continues on a similar trajectory, -- and we hope it doesn't, but if it does -- that would mean that for every unarmed African-American shot to death in the United States by police, more than 700 were murdered by someone else, usually by someone they know. ..."
"... Again, those are the facts. They are not in dispute. Are African-Americans being "hunted" as Joy Reid recklessly claimed on MSNBC recently? Or something else happening? ..."
For many of us, this has been one of the saddest, most painful weeks in memory. Depressing
doesn't even begin to describe it.
We have watched as mobs of violent cretins have burned our cities, defaced our monuments,
beaten old women in the street, shot police officers and stolen everything in sight -- stealing
everything .
How many innocent Americans have these people hurt? How many have they murdered? We don't
know that number. But it's the country itself that so many of us worry about at this point.
After we've watched what's happened over the last week, how do we put the society back
together? Can we? We don't know that, either.
If you're grieving for America right now, you are not alone. Millions feel the same way you
do.
So many of our leaders, by contrast, are not grieving. They seem exhilarated. They feel
nothing as our nation descends into anarchy. They see chaos, instead, as an opportunity, a
chance to solidify their control, to increase their market share to win elections.
They have no interest in talking about the details of what is actually happening out there
on our streets. In fact, they're hiding those details. They're demanding that you forget what
you saw. Don't forget it. Remember all of it -- every bit -- because it's proof of who they
are.
What they're defending and encouraging has nothing to do with civil rights. It is violence,
and the criminals you see on the screen are not protesters.
The people cheering them on from their TV studios have no patience for real protests or
real protesters. Just in April, Democrats in New Jersey arrested a woman for trying to plan a
rally, a protest at the state capitol. The New York Times said nothing when they did that
because they approve. That's how they really feel about any political expression they can't
control -- they crush it.
What they support is more power for themselves and they're willing to use gangs of thugs to
get it. Here is one of their protesters chanting "no justice, no peace" as a man tortures a
dog. NBC News wouldn't show you that video ever. Neither would CNN under any circumstances.
These are the worst people in America, and our leaders have let them do whatever they want. So,
of course, they want more.
Their latest demand is that we eliminate the police entirely. No more law enforcement
in this country. That would mean more power for the mob. They could do anything. It would mean
never-ending terror for you and for your family. That's why they want it.
Unidentified male: I am now calling on all and our city council members and all of our
elected officials to defund the police.
Crowd: Defund the police.
Unidentified male: Defund the police.
Crowd: Defund the police.
"Defund the police." No sane person would dare to have said something like that in public
just a week and a half ago. Now, a member of Congress has endorsed the idea -- Rashida Tlaib .
So, what would happen to our country if we eliminated law enforcement? Eric Garcetti is the
mayor of Los
Angeles , the second biggest city in America. His city would devolve into a murderous
hellscape within hours if the police left.
But Garcetti, who is in charge of the city, won't push back against this idea. Instead, h
e kneeled in
subservience before the people demanding it.
Jake Tapper, CNN anchor: LA Mayor Eric Garcetti joined protesters moments ago, what
did he have to say?
Stephanie Elam, CNN correspondent: Yes, he came out this morning, Jake, and he took
the time to come out and come out among the protesters. He knelt while he was out there,
saying -- and showing -- his solidarity for the movement, for the protesters here
today.
And I can tell you that today, this daytime protest has been very peaceful, very calm.
Lots of chanting, singing.
He kneeled. Our leaders are kneeling before the mob, the atavistic ritual of self-abasement
of defeat. Suddenly, many are performing this ritual, including police around the country.
The mob wants victory. But more than that, it wants the total humiliation of its
enemies.
Unidentified male: I work for Black Lives Matter. I'm sorry that I scared you. But
since I work for that company, my CEO has told me to come out today and to bring you on your
knees because you have white privilege.
So if they see that a white person is getting on their knees that show solidarity for
the situation. The situation and could you just please apologize for -- you know for your
white privilege. Just apologize.
Unidentified female: I have -- I am trying to think of the right words to say. What's
a good thing to say?
Unidentified male: It's big.Unidentified female: That comes from --
Unidentified male: It's so -- it's large in this country.
Unidentified female: I am terribly sorry.
Why do we kneel? We kneel because we've lost. We kneel before our victors because they have
won. We put down our resistance. We beg for their mercy.
But mobs rarely forgive. "We're on your side!" we shout. We're in solidarity, spare us. But
they never do.
"We're on your side" as the rock comes through the window. You think the mob cares? No.
What's happening to this country? Why are Americans surrendering to violent mobs? Well,
because they've been told they have to.
Everything we're now watching -- the looting, the arson, the killing -- has a purpose. The
purpose we're told again and again is to end racist police violence against African-Americans.
We are told that that is the single greatest scourge in this country.
Demonstrators say repeatedly, "Stop killing us." Stop killing us -- it's chilling. And if
you believe it, and you're a decent person, you will be moved by it -- because it's awful.
No American should ever be mistreated by those in authority, much less killed. The abuse of
power is always and everywhere a sin, and it's increasingly common here. We should always work
to end it.
So many of our leaders, by contrast, are not grieving. They seem exhilarated. They feel
nothing as our nation descends into anarchy. They see chaos, instead, as an opportunity
In this case, the death of a man at the hands of police in
Minneapolis turned out to be a metaphor for abuse of power. That death has led to demands
that we fire the nearly 700,000 police officers who work in the United States and that we free
the million and a half criminals who are now behind bars.
In America, Joe
Biden told us recently: "Just the color of your skin puts your life at risk." Sen. Cory Booker of New
Jersey strongly agreed with that.
"We have so many people in our country," Booker said Tuesday, "African-American men mostly
unarmed, being murdered by police officers and no way of holding them accountable."
So many people murdered by police officers, unarmed, says Cory Booker.
You're hearing a lot of people in authority tell you that, every day, every hour. One group
of pro athletes just announced that, "It seems like every week, a new tragedy unfolds before
our very eyes where people are being killed by police violence. Each time we tweet, we pray, we
mourn, only to repeat the cycle a few days later."
In the words of Ben Crump, who is the lawyer representing George Floyd's family in
Minneapolis, what we're witnessing here in America is "genocide." Genocide?
If you believe we were seeing genocide, then you might understand the riots now in progress.
There's nothing worse than genocide. But is it happening? Is any of this true? We should find
out. Facts matter. What exactly are the numbers?
We found the numbers and we're going to go through them with you in some detail because it's
worth it.
Since 2015, The Washington Post has maintained a comprehensive database of fatal police
shootings in this country. Last year, The Post logged a total of 1,004 killings.
Of the 802 shootings in which the race of the police officer and the suspect was noted,
371 of those killed were white, 236 were black. The vast majority of those killed were not, in
fact, unarmed; the vast majority were armed. And African-American suspects were significantly
more likely to have a deadly weapon than white suspects, yet more white suspects were
killed.
This is not genocide. It's not even close to genocide. It is laughable to suggest it
is.
Overall, there were a total of precisely 10 cases in the United States last year, according
to The Washington Post, in which unarmed African- Americans were fatally shot by the police.
There were nine men and one woman.
Now, as we said, a lot is at stake. The country is at stake. So we want to take the time now
to go through these case by case, into the specifics.
The first was a man called Channara Pheap. He was killed by a Knoxville police officer
called Dylan Williams. According to Williams, Pheap attacked him, choked him and then used a
taser on him -- the suspect on the police officer before the officer shot him. Five
eyewitnesses corroborated the officer's claim, and the officer was not charged.
The second case concerns a man called Marcus McVeigh. He was by any description a career
criminal from San Angelo, Texas. He had been convicted of aggravated assault, assault on a
public servant and organized criminal activity.
At the time he was killed, he was wanted on drug dealing charges. The Texas State trooper
pulled him over. McVeigh fled in his car, then he fled on foot into the woods. There he fought
with the trooper and was shot and killed. The officer was not charged in that case.
Marzua Scott assaulted a shop employee. When a female police officer arrived and ordered the
suspect toward her car, he instead charged her and knocked her to the ground. At that point,
she shot and killed him. The entire incident was caught on body camera. The officer was not
charged.
Ryan Twyman was being approached by two LA County deputies when he backed into one of them
with his vehicle. The deputy was caught in the car door. He and his partner opened fire. The
deputies were not charged in that case.
Melvin Watkins of East Baton Rouge, La. shot by a deputy after he allegedly drove his car
toward the deputy at high speed. The deputy was not charged.
Isaiah Lewis, meanwhile, wasn't just unarmed, he was completely naked. Williams broke into a
house and then attacked a police officer. The police tased Williams, but he kept coming at them
and attacking. The officer shot him. They were not charged.
Atatiana Jefferson was shot by a Fort Worth deputy called Aaron Dean. A neighbor had called
a non-emergency number after seeing Jefferson's door open, thinking something might be wrong.
Police arrived. Jefferson saw them approach from a window and was holding a gun at the
time.
According to body camera footage, the officer shot Jefferson within seconds. That officer
has been charged with homicide.
Is our nation being ripped apart by a total and complete lie, a provable lie? A lie used
by cynical media manipulators and unscrupulous politicians who understand that racial strife
-- race hatred -- is their path to power, even if it destroys the country.
Christopher Whitfield was shot and killed in a place called Ethel, La. He had robbed a gas
station. Deputy Glenn Sims said his gun discharged accidentally while grappling with Whitfield.
Sims, who is black himself, was not charged in that killing.
Kevin Mason was shot by police during a multi-hour standoff. Well, Mason turned out not to
have a gun. Mason claimed to have a gun, claimed to be armed and vowed to kill police with it.
They believed him. Mason had been in a shootout with police years before.
And finally, the tenth case concerns Gregory Griffin. He was shot during a car chase. An
officer called Giovanni Crespo claimed he saw someone pointing a gun at him. Later, a gun was
in fact found inside the vehicle, and yet Officer Crespo was charged anyway with aggravated
manslaughter.
Those are the facts. That is the entire list from 2019, last year -- 10 deaths. In five
deaths, an officer was attacked just before the shooting occurred. That is not disputed.
One allegedly was an accident. That leaves a total of four deaths during a pursuit or in a
standoff. So out of four, in two of those cases -- and fully half -- the officer was criminally
charged. Is it possible that more of these officers should have been charged? Of course, it's
possible. Justice is not always served, that's for sure.
But either way, this is a very small number in a country of 325 million people. This is not
genocide. It's not even close to genocide. It is laughable to suggest it is.
In fact, the number of police killings is dropping. In 2015, during Barack Obama's presidency , 38
unarmed black Americans and 32 whites were slain by police. Overall totals have fallen since
then, and they have fallen far more dramatically for African-American men.
Last year was the safest year for unarmed suspects since The Washington Post begin
tracking police shootings. It was the safest year for both white and black suspects.
At the same time, this country remains a dangerous place for police officers. Forty-eight of
them were murdered in 2019 according to FBI data. That's more than the number of unarmed
suspects killed of all races.
One final number for you, because it matters: In 2018, 7,407 African-Americans were
murdered in the United States. If 2019 continues on a similar trajectory, -- and we hope it
doesn't, but if it does -- that would mean that for every unarmed African-American shot to
death in the United States by police, more than 700 were murdered by someone else, usually by
someone they know.
Again, those are the facts. They are not in dispute. Are African-Americans being
"hunted" as Joy Reid recklessly claimed on MSNBC recently? Or something else
happening?
Carlson has said corporations support for the protests is "paying for" riots.
"But corporations aren't
simply tweeting their support for the riots, they're paying for them to," he said.
Carlson listed companies including Cisco, Intel, Ubisoft, Airbnb and Dropbox, who have all made funds
available to groups such as Black Lives Matter (BLM) and the National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People (NAACP). He also criticized Pepsi, stating it had supported similar causes.
Newsweek
has contacted the corporations mentioned and Fox News for comment.
Carlson referred to a quote that "a riot is the voice of the unheard," a phrase which has origins from
civil rights campaigner Martin Luther King Jr, who said "a riot is the language of the unheard."
Fox News host Tucker Carlson discusses 'Populism and the Right' during the National
Review Institute's Ideas Summit at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel March 29, 2019 in Washington, DC. He has
criticized businesses supporting groups such as Black Lives Matter.
Chip
Somodevilla/Getty Images
Criticizing this, Carlson said: "The rioters burning down your city with the support of virtually
everyone richer than you, are 'unheard', you, by contrast, are the oppressor and if you disagree in any way,
we are going to fire you and wreck your life."
Continuing to critique the corporations, Carlson suggested they should support small businesses.
"All this money, flowing out of the country's most profitable corporations, it might be a nice gesture for
those corporations to donate some money to, I dunno, rebuild some of the small businesses that have been
destroyed over the past week," he said.
Police keep watch as firefighters work to extinguish a fire at a section of shops
looted amid demonstrations in Santa Monica, California.
Mario Tama/Getty
Images
"Oh but they're not going to do that, because for a lot of big corporations the total annihilation of
small businesses is one of the best parts of this new revolution, there's always an angle, someone's always
getting more powerful."
In regards to the groups being supported, Carlson took issue with BLM for calling for police to be
defunded, while criticizing support for bail funds from the NAACP.
The National Endowment for Democracy, a soft-power group mostly known for splashing
government dollars on pro-US influence campaigns overseas to enforce regime change, has
endorsed protests against police brutality at home.
...
The NED, founded in 1983, has courted controversy for using its US government
allocated resources for encouraging regime change in countries that refuse to toe Washington's
line, like Russia and China. The group, along with other US-based "NGOs" supported the 2004
Orange Revolution in Ukraine and later funneled millions of freedom dollars to the country
ahead of the 2014 anti-Russian coup that brought down Ukraine's former President Viktor
Yanukovych.
In 2015, Moscow designated the
NED's activities as "undesirable" after it was found to have sponsored political
campaigns aimed at influencing the Russian government's decisions, including discrediting the
nation's military forces and the results of elections.
The outlet has also been caught red-handed stirring
anti-Beijing sentiment in Hong Kong, drawing fire from the Chinese government. In December
2019, Beijing sanctioned the NED along with several other US-affiliated organizations, accusing
them of "horrible activities in the months-long turmoil in the city."
"[There is] a great amount of evidence proving that these NGOs have supported anti-China
forces to create chaos in Hong Kong, and made utmost efforts to encourage these forces to
engage in extreme violent criminal acts," the Chinese Foreign Ministry said at the time.
This is identity wedge game played again and very successfully...
Notable quotes:
"... Are you telling me that the FBI/NSA/etc. don’t know about Antifa? I just don’t believe it. They might pretend they don’t know. I read about pallets of bricks. BRICKS. Deposited all over the country ..."
"... And the feds don’t know who put them there? Bullshit. The DNC is the political arm of the Deep State and Antifa etc. are the paramilitary. ..."
... Trumps blustering is at least acknowledgement publicly that Antifa is an organized and
funded terrorist organization.
But what power does he have to do anything about it, since as pointed out in your own
article, the various federal three letter groups covering up for the organizers, are the very
groups he would need to breakup and prosecute these Antifa organizers?
They are going to execute his orders really?
Where were you the past three years Striker when the CIA, FBI, DOJ etc were trying to
bring down the very president you expect to go after Antifa? C'mon man!
Are you telling me that the FBI/NSA/etc. don’t know about Antifa? I just
don’t believe it. They might pretend they don’t know. I read about pallets of
bricks. BRICKS. Deposited all over the country .
And the feds don’t know who put them there? Bullshit. The DNC is the political
arm of the Deep State and Antifa etc. are the paramilitary.
The media do it’s propaganda and academia it’s indoctrination. Or did you
think the Deep State was working on behalf of the American People? That they really believe
white supremacists are a threat? The enemy employs legions of useful idiots. But the enemy is
not stupid.
How do jobless anarchists rent out space in Brooklyn for meetings, paramilitary training and
concerts? Who owns practically all the real estate in Brooklyn? Are we even allowed to ask?
I was surprised Esper gave a press conference without first coordinating his message with the White House. We need a unified
message coming from our federal government. He should have voiced his concerns privately with Trump, but Trump makes the
decision and announces the message...Trump was elected, not Esper. I would fire Esper for not following the chain of command.
The career politicians cant stand Trump because he is a Washington outsider who is doing things different and making much
needed changes that benefit businesses and individuals.
All
you have to do is look at who is involved with all this craziness and when it all started. All this cause they want their
power back so they can continue to do what they want and answer to no one. All of this cause they hate Trump for opening the
eyes of Americans to see the light through the darkness they created. Because all I've seen that Trump has done to hurt this
country so far was to get elected and show all Americans how we where getting taken advantage of by government, the elites and
other countries. They will stop at nothing to regain power. Game players in this craziness: 1. Corrupt politicians 2. Some
rich Hollywood stars 3. Some rich sports players 4. Some rich business owners 5. Leftist media being paid 6. Some true racist
people being paid 7. Some bad law enforcement individuals being paid 8. Some black individuals being paid and making money
from it by pushing the narrative 9. And last but not least, someone or group that's financially flipping the bill so all of it
can happen. Notice any pattern here? $$$$$$$$$$$$ money the root of all evil.
All Bureaucrats and the Military take an oath to defend the constitution. When a lowlife like Donald Trump comes along and
tries to subvert the constitution it is right of the military and the bureaucrats to disobey his orders. Trump can fire them
if he likes but cannot force them to fall in line with his unconstitutional order. A stupid man like you would have known that
already and are selectively feeding information to a bunch of guys who do not even know what the constitution is. The military
is clearly lined up against the idea of trump using them against American citizens. After Trump loses the election as it
clearly seems now, he will have to demit office without a whimper, that is very clear from the statements of various active
generals. Unfortunately, Donald Trump has to this time win the Presidency by playing fair and not screaming like a dog whose
backside has been bitten off "The Democrats are practicing election corruption" It is Ok to feed that to his dumb followers
but the rest of the country will not take it lying down. This dog knew 2 tricks, you have now seen them all. He is done.
Washington DC Police Brace For "One Of The Largest Demonstrations We've Ever Seen" by
Tyler Durden Sat,
06/06/2020 - 11:53 Update (1135ET): ~20,000 people attended racial justice protests in Sydney
on Saturday "in solidarity" with Black Lives Matter and protesters in the US, according to
police in New South Wales.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon has ordered National Guard troops in the federal district not to
fire on protesters (an order that presumably includes rubber bullets and bean bags) while
ordering all active-duty troops that the administration had tried to amass on the outskirts of
the city to return to their posts.
According to the Washington
Post , police expect between 100k and 200k protesters on Saturday, far short of the million
people organizers had brought together.
There are now more than 43,300 National Guard members actively responding to demonstrations
across the US. The National Guard is typically deployed by the governor in a given state.
Today, more than 43,300 National Guard members in 34 states and D.C. are assisting law
enforcement authorities with ongoing civil unrest, while more than 37,000 Guard Soldiers and
Airmen continue to support the COVID-19 response. pic.twitter.com/Gtq4oxeUuw
Except in Washington DC where, because it's a federal city, the president has power to
command the National Guard, which Trump has chosen to delegate to the Pentagon.
* * *
Following more than a week of widespread peaceful protests pockmarked by occasional
homicidal violence, arson, assault and looting, activists are hoping to assemble a massive
demonstration in Washington DC, with some hoping to draw a million people to the capital just
one day after Mayor Muriel Bowser renamed the street leading up to Lafayette Square
after 'Black Lives Matter'.
The bright yellow letters spelling out the words 'Black Lives Matter' were put in place for
a reason: for what we imagine will be an extremely powerful photo op as police and national
guardsmen move to disperse the crowds, revealing the message below as tyrannical Trump gazes
out the window, twirls his mustache while cackling loudly.
Demonstrations against police brutality following George Floyd's death are expected to
continue for the 12th night on Saturday.
Uniformed military personnel walk in front of the White House ahead of a protest against
racial inequality in the aftermath of the death in Minneapolis police custody of George
Floyd, in Washington. Photo by @Lucas_Jackson_
pic.twitter.com/Mc27JonTQH
--
corinne_perkins (@corinne_perkins) June 6,
2020
Though he didn't give a crowd size estimate, the chief of the Washington DC police says he
expects Saturday's gathering to be one of the biggest so far.
"We have a lot of public, open source information to suggest that the event on this
upcoming Saturday may be one of the largest we've ever had in the city," Washington DC Police
Chief Peter Newsham told local media, adding that much of the city center would be closed to
traffic from early in the day.
Newsham did not give a crowd estimate. Local media has predicted tens of thousands of
attendees.
Demonstrators in the Washington DC area are still sore over the national guard's decision to
use tear gas and rubber bullets to clear Lafayette Square for a presidential photo-op at St.
John's Church, angering the Episcopal Church in the process.
Further south, in North Carolina, Governor Roy Cooper is ordering all flags at state
facilities to be lowered to half-staff from sunrise to sunset on Saturday to honor Floyd, who
was born in Fayetteville. A televised memorial service will also be held in the city on
Saturday,
per USAToday.
On Friday, marches and gatherings took place in Atlanta, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Miami,
New York and Denver, among other places, while protesters massed again, in the rain, in front
of the White House. The night-time protests were largely peaceful but tension remains high even
as authorities in several places take steps to reform police procedures. Politicians and judges
around the country also announced new restrictions on law enforcement powers and tactics,
including a federal judge in Denver, who ordered city police to stop using tear gas, plastic
bullets and other "less-than-lethal" devices such as flash grenades, claiming that too many
peaceful protesters and journalists have been injured by police.
"These are peaceful demonstrators, journalists, and medics who have been targeted with
extreme tactics meant to suppress riots, not to suppress demonstrations," U.S. District Judge
R. Brooke Jackson wrote in the ruling.
In Minneapolis, Democratic city leaders voted to end the use of knee restraints and
choke-holds, where pressure is applied to the neck.
In California, Gov Gavin Newsom ended state police training of carotid restraints, and
ordered officers not to use the tactic.
In New York, Gov Andrew Cuomo said his state should lead the way in passing "Say Their Name"
reforms, including making police disciplinary records publicly available, while also banning
the chokehold (which we thought had already been banned following the killing of Eric
Garner).
"Mr Floyd's murder was the breaking point," Cuomo said. "People are saying 'enough is
enough'."
Once again, the demonstrators in the US expect sympathizers from around the world to join
in, with more demonstrations at American embassies and consulates in Europe expected.
Already, thousands have gathered in London's Parliament Square "in solidarity" with their
American peers.
The protest, which has so far proven to be entirely peaceful, according to
CNN . At one point, everybody too a knee in unison.
Once again Portland, Ore., roughly 20 adults were arrested and one juvenile was detained
last night as peaceful demonstrations morphed into violent street battles into the night, as
agitators threw bricks and bottles at cops.
Esper should be fired for insubordination. There must be someone in the Pentagon who will
obey orders. If McCarthy ordered NG troops to be disarmed he too should be fired. To place
unarmed soldiers whether Regular (active duty) or reserve (ARNG) in a situation in which
armed, violent people are present is equivalent to complicity in their fate.
The surrender cultist wimp TonyL wrote to whine that any use of force against the rioter
element in these demonstrations would make the situation worse. Well, there is worse and then
there is MUCH worse. The latter for me would be for the mob to overrun the WH. TonyL also
misquoted me. I said that a regular infantry company of the 3rd Infantry Regiment should be
positioned on THE WHITE HOUSE LAWN. For those of you who are unable to visualize terrain,
that would be INSIDE THE FENCE. Get it? A last ditch defense of the building.
The examples of Serbia, Ukraine, and Tunisia show how even the subservient unexpectedly
break from a leader once that leader is doomed to illegitimacy. And to an extent, the cycle
of abandonment has already begun. Jim Mattis's excoriation of his old boss prodded Trump's
former chief of staff Jim Kelly and Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska to echo his
condemnation of the president. As each defector wins praise for moral courage, it
incentivizes the next batch of defectors.
As others have observed, the aim of the DC Maidan appears to be either victory
or a creation of martyrs for the cause. And it will all be reported on and correctly
contextualized by MSNBC's Resistance TV News' brand new National Security
& Legal Analyst; Ms Lisa Page.
Anne Norton's book on antebellum political culture has chosen an interesting time to
arrive in the mail.
Move the executive office function [of the WH] to Camp David.
The traitors/Generals "in charge" of US Military can then decide "for themselves" -- if
they want to be known as those that allowed WH to be stormed and burned to a crisp.
And then Trump can totally begin to clean house in military.
And bring the boys home from Syria, Iraq, Libya, from NATO etc, as he claimed he wanted to
do in 2016.
This action of bring the boys home would be very popular among all segments of
society.
And demonstrating to us and the world that the traitors/Generals "in charge" of US
military that could be court martial and perhaps hung by their necks in the former [and by
then possibly destroyed] Rose Garden would be an example to indicate NO ONE IS ABOVE THE
LAW.
It is absurd to think that the insurrection we are witnessing is any more than incidentally
connected with George Floyd. What we are witnessing has been four years in the making. The
entrenched class interests of Big Government, including alas the components of the National
Security State, Big Government Dependencies, including the educational establishments and the
spawn of the Great Society, and Big Media could not abide the election of a person who is not
one of their own. It set out to resist him from the beginning "by any means necessary", and
accumulating frustration has brought their revolt to the streets. There was a time when I
thought that the Democracy that undergirds our Republic was a more durable foundation that it
evidently is.
I get your point, Colonel, placing them in defense of the White House. I still have to ask...
Will the Pentagon defend the President? After the extraordinary and irrational act of
disarming the National Guard, there is increasing evidence, to me, that they will not.
Trump should step back and let Mayor Blowser have her way.
It' a win-win for him.
If nothing happens, well then nothing happens.
If all hell breaks loose (as I suspect it would), then it's all on Blowser.
As for Esper (an empty suit), Kelly, Mattis and Allen (Generals who never won anything),
they're all diehard swamp creatures (how do you think they got their stars?).
Trump shows up - an alien presence in the swamp - and doesn't automatically follow the
instructions of the bureaucracy (the deep state) as his predecessors did - which got us into
neverending half-assed "wars", money for the bureaucrats and promotions for the generals.
Defending the WH.
Position the 3rd Infantry just inside the WH fence - fully armed.
Broadcast to the world, any breach will be met with "shoot to kill."
Supposedly a million protesters are converging on DC today. What could go wrong? If they rush
the WH I say don't shoot, let them have it, declare martial law and after things settle down
disperse the whole federal government to different parts of the country. As an example, put
the Dept. of Labor in Iowa, CIA to New Orleans, etc.. Now, that would be "draining the
swamp". Let the lobbyists and defense contractors sell their mansions to the DC mayor's
subjects.
Nobody seems to be talking about this aspect of the events (certainly not the MSM), so I'm
curious if anyone there in the outside world is aware of this... conspiracy theory, I guess.
Damn near the entire law enforcement 'community' in Minneapolis was angered at the
perceived outrage directed at one of their own - and cops in general - by the public at
large. How angry did this make Minneapolis law enforcement? Angry enough to toss the 'guilty'
neighborhoods to the dogs. If you don't valorize cops 24x7, then we'll just disappear for a
while. See how much you like that, ungrateful citizen/potential terrorist!
During the initial protests, the Minneapolis Police Department 'abandoned' the 3rd
Precinct Police Station to what was apparently a handful of skateboard punk protesters
throwing rocks. Protesters across the street were changing, but not being violent in any way
and couldn't have 'overrun' the station house. There were many police coming or going from
the fenced-in garage and parking lot out back. Nothing much to burn in the brick building,
and it had a sprinkler system even if something inside did catch fire. The cops had plenty in
their usual bag of non-lethal tricks: tear gas, pepper spray and rubber bullets. Yet they
seemed to have no desire to engage and push the crowd back. At least nothing like the
enthusiasm they showed for sweeping residential neighborhoods for curfew violators outside of
their front doors.
It seemed obvious to some of us here in the city that they abandoned the station
intentionally to punish the ungrateful locals. Don't like our use of force? Question our
judgement in public? OK, then we'll just throw a little temper tantrum and leave. Good luck!
Embargo on. Who runs Bartertown? We'll be at the main station downtown or somewhere else, but
we sure won't be anywhere in the 3rd Precinct. Don't bother calling Emergency 911 because
even if someone eventually answers, they'll tell you nobody can respond. Sorry! And since
we're going on an unofficial, secret police strike, the fire department isn't going to
respond either. Too dangerous with all the rioting and looting (that we're letting happen on
purpose).
You may have seen video of the actual peaceful protests, themselve. There were walls of
cops with riot batons, tear gas and rubber bullets standing around - it's not like there was
a shortage of cops or vehicles. But almost as if on cue, they all disappeared at the tail end
of the marches when it was getting dark and the various criminals and agitators were sure to
come out. Target was looted and later burnt in the middle of the day. Minneapolis will never
release all the 911 calls they 1) didn't answer at all, or 2) told the callers that response
times would be longer than usual because of the riots. In truth, they just never showed up AT
ALL. Same for all the other places that were torched. Funny how they were all businesses in
areas the police would want to 'punish' for failure to worship cops. Not sure if that was
just by chance or planned, but it couldn't have been more obvious.
It's Yemen and Syria all over again, but instead of destroying basic infrastructure, you
destroy all basic commercial services the residents use. They have water and electricity, but
they're not getting groceries, prescriptions or a haircut without taking a bus half-way
across town. Are these nutjobs trying to regime-change Minneapolis? Lock the peons down with
curfew, starve them a few weeks and deny them emergency services. That way they'll get mad
and demnad the overthrow of the Democrats that run the place! Maybe political party regime
change is a bit over the top, but the message is still clear: Worship and obey, tax slaves,
or mass punishment. We're the only ones that can protect you!
Civil war? That sounds awful! American leaders prefer to think of this as domestic
full-spectrum dominance and controlling the jackboot narrative. Don't like a jackboot on your
neck? Then we'll soften you up by disappearing, letting 'someone' destroy your neighborhood,
then arresting you when you violate the curfew. Stop resisting citizen - we're trying to save
you. You'll beg to have cops and soldiers show back up so save your ass!
The 3rd Precinct Station was built using funds that were initially appropriated to fund
the building of several schools in that district; the community protested but to no affect.
That it was burnt down isn't at all surprising.
Would you agree that Trump and many in his administration committed Treason in their
conscious decision to follow a Do Nothing Policy in the face of COVID-19 as several damning
timelines prove beyond reasonable doubt? That such a policy was being carried out and was
entirely overt to the public might just enrage said public to react in the manner we've seen
as any spark would do. And what of the ten million thrown out of their homes when Obama
refused to arrest and indict the fraudulent banksters and the further millions battered by
the never ending recession that fraud caused; how many of those millions were awaiting an
opportunity to vent? My contention is the elite through the government they control have
broken the social contract such that it's now beyond repair and only a reordering bringing
about a new social contract will solve the issue.
...I am quite aware that one of the consistent patterns of states is to deliberately
stimulate and then co-opt resistance to its policies and stage-manage that resistance by
infiltration and other means.
That was done to an incredible degree in the anarchist uprisings in Europe in the late
nineteenth century. I have some months back read a considerable amount about that. In
particular there were several police officials in France, England and elsewhere who managed
incredible counter-espionage operations against the anarchist movement, which in concert with
police and military oppression in those countries, pretty much neutered the anarchist
movement to the point where it ultimately fell apart.
But that doesn't mean that *every* expression of resistance and *every* incident of police
violence or protest event is necessarily *staged* for the benefit of the public.
The state *does* want to continually, either overtly or covertly, impress upon the public
that it has a monopoly on violence and that the public had better bow down before its
authority. This is akin to that statement by a Bush official that occasionally the US has to
pick up some small country and throw it against a wall just to show the world who's boss.
So I can understand how events such as the pandemic response or the protests are used by
the state to re-emphasize its authority and advance its control and limitation of the
so-called "rights" of the population.
But again, that doesn't mean that such oppression prevents *legitimate* resistance
outbreaks from time to time, or that *everything* that happens in such outbreaks is somehow a
"conspiracy."
As I've said before, there are "legitimate conspiracies" and "bogus conspiracies." There
are "levels" of conspiracy. I like a good conspiracy theory as much or more than the next guy
(probably way more). But while I'm prepared to entertain the notion that 9/11 was a
conspiracy to either initiate or allow those attacks to occur to justify foreign military
interventions, I am not prepared to entertain the notion that Trump is a lizard alien, as
David Icke might suggest. "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence", as they
say.
That is my take too. Police contrived violence, then after dark - police controlled
absence to allow opportunists and revenge takers, Then police controlled violence on the new
days peace demonstration, further withdrawal from target business districts that evening.
Rich Higgins – who formerly worked in the strategic planning office of the US National
Security Council – noted that some of those pictured were administrators at the bureau's
DC field office, rather than agents, citing a friend in the know after some netizens questioned
the photos' veracity.
I asked a buddy of mine and they're admin staff (some of em).
Dubbing the images "surreal," detractors have piled onto the FBI employees for what
they saw as a politicized gesture, one even suggesting the move violated
the Hatch Act, which bars federal employees from some forms of political activity.
"Shouldn't these Deep Staters be plotting a coup against the [government]?" another
critic joked .
The condemnations were also joined by calls to discipline the employees for their nod to the
protesters, who took to the streets last week after the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black
man, in the custody of the Minneapolis police.
Despite Higgins' confirmation that the images do indeed depict FBI personnel, some netizens
held out skepticism, asking whether the employees were kneeling for some other reason,
unrelated to the ongoing protests.
All in all, the great Wall Street Heist of 2020 came off with only a few scratches. Yea, so
some consumables were stolen. Let the peasants burn their own communities. Private finance
rules the waves, while people can't avert their gaze from skin colour and violence. The worst
part of it is all those people who profess to care about actual lives, when in their own
private lives they are supremely selfish and violent, and live a life based on the continued
exploitation of innumerable lives across the planet. Every tweet employing the use of Coltan
butchered from the heart of the Congo. Hypocrisy from top to bottom, from the Looter in Chief
to the Looter on the street. Pirate nation. The Wild West. Clothed in underpants stitched by
little brown fingers in Bangladesh.
@16 anne - I live in Venice CA, about three blocks from the border with Santa Monica. On
Sunday a police officer was shot in the parking lot of the Whole Food and 99 cent store. I
don't shop at Whole Foods. I go to the 99 cent store. (99 cent store is a discount market -
with quite good produce, too!) out of both economics and principle. okay. Helicopters,
sirens, et all. Later on that day the CVS pharmacy down the street at Rose and Main was
looted. Then the usual weekend mayhem out here in Venice. worse than usual, but whatever.
The shops are all boarded up with plywood and "BLM" slogans on them along gentrified Abbot
Kinney. I saw some thuggish guys with a baseball bat strolling along the street Sunday
afternoon as I ventured out on a bike ride. A car had its rear window smashed in half a block
before. everything is still boarded up. all along Rose too.
to add to the absurdity, the medical marijuana place on Lincoln Blvd was looted.
Yippee.
This is all so stupid. Where did corona virus go? Impeachment, what? Epstien? huh... Las
Vegas mass shooting? what do you mean? Syria? uh... Hunter Biden? who?
Total joke. It is all a bunch of lies. Fortunately, it has all sickened me so much that I
no longer obsessively visit this site. I don't like this stuff anymore. I am trying to avoid
ZeroHedge as well. And the other blogroll places. It doesn't matter. I don't care. I don't
vote. I don't protest. I honestly could care less.
It is a color revolution. I forget who... the new poster, blue dotterel, who got all up
in my grill for saying that a while back. whatever. I like snowy plovers and I hope you
are safe in your New Zealand home. FO. pretty sick of it all.
Yawn.
The real sinking has been going on for decades with sending industrial production and tech
know-how overseas.
Most of the "violence" is due to police covert operations encouraging violence which will
alienate mainstream Americans from joining protests.
BTW, you should be aware that the NSA has all these antifa etc. networks mapped out and
could round up these people in about 3 days, if and when they want to - apparently they don't
want to, which is interesting.
"... Police intelligence units have uncovered encrypted and walkie-talkie communications as well as social media postings that coordinate the delivery and hiding of weapons and projectiles and the direction of anarchists to specific locations at specific times. ..."
"... In essence, these professional rioters have created command-and-control apparatus as well as supply chains unseen in prior riots that followed the deaths of Michael Brown (Ferguson, Mo.) and Freddie Grey (Baltimore) and the verdict in the case of those officers who beat Rodney King (Los Angeles). ..."
"... U.S. Park Police Acting Chief Gregory T. Monahan said Tuesday one of the most troubling tactics seen near the White House is anarchists trying to grab police weapons during clashes. Other weaponry, he said, was being hidden in areas for perpetrators to pick up to use against officers. ..."
Police intelligence units have uncovered encrypted and walkie-talkie communications as well
as social media postings that coordinate the delivery and hiding of weapons and projectiles and
the direction of anarchists to specific locations at specific times.
In essence, these professional rioters have created command-and-control apparatus as well as
supply chains unseen in prior riots that followed the deaths of Michael Brown (Ferguson, Mo.)
and Freddie Grey (Baltimore) and the verdict in the case of those officers who beat Rodney King
(Los Angeles).
One federal law enforcement official told Just the News, "The anarchists have upped their
game."
U.S. Park Police Acting Chief Gregory T. Monahan said Tuesday one of the most troubling
tactics seen near the White House is anarchists trying to grab police weapons during clashes.
Other weaponry, he said, was being hidden in areas for perpetrators to pick up to use against
officers.
"Intelligence had revealed calls for violence against the police, and officers found
caches of glass bottles, baseball bats and metal poles hidden along the street," he said.
In other cities, stacks of bricks have been discovered in staging areas that end up being
slammed against store windows by looters.
The anarchists have "developed a complex network of bicycle scouts to move ahead of
demonstrators in different directions of where police were and where police were not for
purposes of being able to direct groups from the larger group to places where they could commit
acts of vandalism including the torching of police vehicles and Molotov cocktails where they
thought officers would not be," John Miller, the
NYPD's deputy commissioner for terrorism, disclosed this week.
Miller added that pre-planning by the anarchists included the preparation of supply lines
for such items as gasoline, bottles and rocks as well as medics who could care for injured
rioters.
"Before the protests began, organizers of certain anarchist groups set out to raise bail
money and people who would be responsible to be raising bail money, they set out to recruit
medics and medical teams with gear to deploy in anticipation of violent interactions with
police," he said.
The most intense instigators share similar language, blaming capitalism, globalism,
chauvinism, oppression, and America overall, police officials said.
Spray painted graffiti messages, signs and chants commonly seen by the cops range from "F**k
Capitalism" to "Death to America."
"This time they are more organized, more strategic, even angrier," said one Midwest law
enforcement official, "and this is beyond criminal justice."
"Now, we have older local citizens who have protested peacefully for decades calling us
and telling us, 'I am not going out there because there is going to be violence.' That is
where this has gone."
In local meetings where demonstrators strategize their objectives, which is a normal
demonstration plan, the outsiders are hijacking the peaceful demonstrators' objectives with
little to no regard for the local communities, emphasizing a call for a violent revolution,
officials said.
The goal of the anarchists appears to be to instigate large numbers of locals to create
chaos and additional violence and looting. About one out of every seven people arrested by the
NYPD were outsiders aligned to such anarchist groups, officials have said.
Law enforcement officials told Just the News that anarchists are dispersing among the crowds
in two or threes, draped with backpacks, hoodies, walkie-talkies with telltale signs of
instigating violence or panic.
Former Ferguson, Mo., police chief Tom Jackson, who lost his job after the 2014 police
shooting of Michael Brown and subsequent rioting, said the anarchists' tactics in 2020 appear
more organized and more widespread than what he experienced in Ferguson. Brown's death was
ultimately ruled justified.
"What it seems like is organized anarchy," Jackson told the John Solomon Reports podcast
on Tuesday.
"These folks seem to be well-coordinated and well-funded. I think there is some sort of
logistics support. This has really evolved into a sort of an insurgency that is hiding behind
protesters and people exercising their rights."
Jackson said police will need to adapt their tactics to mirror those used by the military
during wartime insurgencies overseas, particularly psychological and communications operations
on social media.
"We had no idea the power of social media. We do now. It is how these folks are
communicating in these riots," he said
The challenge is most police departments, especially smaller ones, don't have the resources
to staff a full-time social media operations team, he said.
So instead, Jackson is recommending a special reserve unit be created -- from paid to
volunteer -- to parachute in or be activated when rioting crises occur.
"What I was kind of recommending is having a major case squad of social media people, who
could be called up as volunteers or otherwise who can attack the social media attacks on the
police so for everything the streamers are putting out the police department is putting out the
truth and its own story line so you can at least fight back," he said.
Yes, America is racist in many ways. But there is more than one racism. There is white
anti-Black racism, white anti-Latino racism, and white anti-Asian racism. There is also black
anti-white racism, black anti-Latino racism, and black anti-Asian racism. And so on. The
elites via wholly owned media spread enough identity propaganda, and are now using this
pretext to direct anger against Trump. Standard divide and conquer tactics. Fools never fail
to fall for it.
I am no fan of Trump, but if elites want him down, I am on his side: our elites are a lot
worse than all the strawmen they create put together. Not to mention that whatever the police
did, police in the US is strictly local, so the people responsible are all Dems: the police
commissioner of Minneapolis, Minneapolis mayor, the governor of Minnesota, etc. Feds have no
power over local police, that's the law of the land.
As far as coming elections are concerned, there is a good chance that the Dems are going
to lose more than they win. Lots of people who disapprove of police brutality disapprove even
more of the brutality of frenzied mobs of looters, of the general lawlessness (and, frankly,
senselessness) of these riots. The Dems firmly sided with looters and bandits. It might very
well cost them in November. Would serve them right.
Likewise, as people have become aware of the false left/right dichotomy, I think people
are becoming aware of the false ‘antifa-commie’ vs ‘fascist’
dichotomy which artificially divides anti-system groups that objectively carry a lot of
common goals. This is something which will take time. People don’t understand the range
of phenomena carried under these tokens. Intellectual failings of a brainwashed populace are
forgivable; it will take time in the best case.
I’m not a blanket Afro-phile, any more than I’m always super-excited to be
around my own folks, reality is like-dislike and love-hate. Typically we appreciate
people’s virtues, and resent their flaws; sometimes it’s not even clear which is
which. Sometimes I’m really excited to be around, I don’t know, Italians, and
sometimes, they are annoying. Nothing to freak out about In my experience living in the USA,
pretty much everyone is racist/not-racist, like they have their innate responses, and they
have conscious kind of morally responsible responses, they have some genuine love for the
Africans, and they have some genuine hate for them too sometimes, and many in between.
The police in this country are brutal, to everyone, proportional to distance politically
from the inner-circle. It’s a brutal country, atomized, devastated people under massive
attack over many domains, including psych by media/education, through the food and
water…
Anyways, kind of a rambling comment, my only on the whole brouha, hence the squeeze it all
in kind of format.
Conjecture: Looks like a mob-hit cutout had Chauvin killing Floyd. Chauvin thought he
would have institutional immunity, and I don’t think people understand how many pro hitmen mob killers are moonlighting cops of all stripes. So Chauvin is definitely a
1st-degree murderer, but he’s a cutout patsy, had no idea of the Gladio op underway.
He’ll be sacrificed like a little lamb, no doubt.
1. If America is so racist, why do so may people (mostly of color) keep trying to move
here?
2. Can you name another country that is less racist than the US?
I keep hearing the MSM telling me that we are such a horrible racist country. If that were
true and the rest of the world truly believed that, then we would expect the immigrants to
try to move to some other better country. But that isn’t happening so either we
aren’t really that bad, or the rest of the world really sucks.
US
President Donald Trump's son Donald Jr is pushing Attorney General William Barr to release
communications between Antifa rioters that allegedly reveal the group's connections with
politicians and other elite figures. The younger Donald urged Barr to " just do it!!! "
in a tweet on Wednesday, referring to rumors that the attorney general is poised to expose
links between the " violent radical elements " that Barr denounced in an earlier
statement and the politicians and elites believed to be backing them.
-- Donald Trump Jr.
(@DonaldJTrumpJr) June 3,
2020
Barr blamed the violence that has overshadowed " peaceful and legitimate protests "
over the police killing of George Floyd last week on " groups of outside radicals and
agitators " exploiting the unrest to " pursue their own separate, violent, and extremist
agenda " in a
statement released on Sunday.
The AG echoed the words of President Trump, who has repeatedly declared the rioters domestic
terrorists, and urged state governors to make use of the National Guard in cracking down on the
unruly mobs.
" The violence instigated and carried out by Antifa and other similar groups in
connection with the rioting is domestic terrorism and will be treated accordingly ," the
attorney general warned in the statement.
Many of Trump's political nemeses have expressed support for the demonstrations, glossing
over the violent elements. Trump supporters, meanwhile, have blamed much of the violence on
paid provocateurs backed by currency speculator George Soros and other left-wing bogeymen.
Looks like the third stage of the Purple revolution against Trump, with Russiagate and
Ukrainegate and two initial stages.
Notable quotes:
"... Things couldn't be going better for the Resistance if they had scripted it themselves. Actually, they did kind of script it themselves. Not the murder of poor George Floyd, of course. Racist police have been murdering Black people for as long as there have been racist police. No, the Resistance didn't manufacture racism. They just spent the majority of the last four years creating and promoting an official narrative which casts most Americans as "white supremacists" who literally elected Hitler president, and who want to turn the country into a racist dictatorship. ..."
"... According to this official narrative, which has been relentlessly disseminated by the corporate media, the neoliberal intelligentsia, the culture industry, and countless hysterical, Trump-hating loonies, the Russians put Donald Trump in office with those DNC emails they never hacked and some division-sowing Facebook ads that supposedly hypnotized Black Americans into refusing to come out and vote for Clinton. Putin purportedly ordered this personally, as part of his plot to "destroy democracy." ..."
"... The protesting and rioting that typically follows the murder of an unarmed Black person by the cops has mushroomed into " an international uprising " cheered on by the corporate media, corporations, and the liberal establishment, who don't normally tend to support such uprisings, but they've all had a sudden change of heart, or spiritual or political awakening, and are down for some serious property damage, and looting, and preventative self-defense, if that's what it takes to bring about justice, and to restore America to the peaceful, prosperous, non-white-supremacist paradise it was until the Russians put Donald Trump in office. ..."
"... America is still a racist country, but America is no more racist today than it was when Barack Obama was president. A lot of American police are brutal, but no more brutal than when Obama was president. America didn't radically change the day Donald Trump was sworn into office. All that has changed is the official narrative. And it will change back as soon as Trump is gone and the ruling classes have no further use for it. ..."
underground
bunker ." Opportunist social media pundits on both sides of the political spectrum are
whipping people up into white-eyed frenzies. Americans are at each other's throats, divided by
identity politics, consumed by rage, hatred, and fear.
Things couldn't be going better for the Resistance if they had scripted it themselves.
Actually, they did kind of script it themselves. Not the murder of poor George Floyd, of
course. Racist police have been murdering Black people for as long as there have been racist
police. No, the Resistance didn't manufacture racism. They just spent the majority of the last
four years creating and promoting an official narrative which casts most Americans as "white
supremacists" who literally elected Hitler president, and who want to turn the country into a
racist dictatorship.
According to this official narrative, which has been relentlessly disseminated by the
corporate media, the neoliberal intelligentsia, the culture industry, and countless hysterical,
Trump-hating loonies, the Russians put Donald Trump in office with those DNC emails they never
hacked and some division-sowing Facebook ads that supposedly hypnotized Black Americans into
refusing to come out and vote for Clinton. Putin purportedly ordered this personally, as part
of his plot to "destroy democracy." The plan was always for President Hitler to embolden
his white-supremacist followers into launching the "RaHoWa," or the "Boogaloo," after which
Trump would declare martial law, dissolve the legislature, and pronounce himself Führer.
Then they would start rounding up and murdering the Jews, and the Blacks, and Mexicans, and
other minorities, according to this twisted liberal fantasy.
I've been covering the roll-out and dissemination of this official narrative since 2016, and
have documented much of it in my essays
, so I won't reiterate all that here. Let's just say, I'm not exaggerating, much. After four
years of more or less constant conditioning, millions of Americans believe this fairy tale,
despite the fact that there is absolutely zero evidence whatsoever to support it. Which is not
exactly a mystery or anything. It would be rather surprising if they didn't believe it. We're
talking about the most formidable official propaganda machine in the history of official
propaganda machines.
And now the propaganda is paying off. The protesting and rioting that typically follows
the murder of an unarmed Black person by the cops has mushroomed into "
an international uprising " cheered on by the corporate media, corporations, and the
liberal establishment, who don't normally tend to support such uprisings, but they've all had a
sudden change of heart, or spiritual or political awakening, and are down for some serious
property damage, and looting, and preventative self-defense, if that's what it takes to bring
about justice, and to restore America to the peaceful, prosperous, non-white-supremacist
paradise it was until the Russians put Donald Trump in office.
In any event, the Resistance media have now dropped their breathless coverage of the
non-existent Corona-Holocaust to breathlessly cover the "revolution." The American police, who
just last week were national heroes for risking their lives to beat up, arrest, and generally
intimidate mask-less "lockdown violators" are now the fascist foot soldiers of the Trumpian
Reich. The Nike corporation produced
a commercial urging people to smash the windows of their Nike stores and steal their
sneakers. Liberal journalists took to Twitter, calling on rioters to "
burn that shit down! " until the rioters reached their gated community and started burning
down their local Starbucks. Hollywood celebrities are masking up and going full-black bloc, and
doing legal support . Chelsea Clinton is teaching children about David and the Racist
Goliath . John Cusack's bicycle was
attacked by the pigs . I haven't checked on Rob Reiner yet, but I assume he is assembling
Molotov cocktails in the basement of a Resistance safe house somewhere in Hollywood Hills.
Look, I'm not saying the neoliberal Resistance orchestrated or staged these riots, or
"denying the agency" of the folks in the streets. Whatever else is happening out there, a lot
of very angry Black people are taking their frustration out on the cops, and on anyone and
anything else that represents racism and injustice to them.
This happens in America from time to time. America is still a racist society. Most
African-Americans are descended from slaves. Legal racial discrimination was not abolished
until the 1960s, which isn't that long ago in historical terms. I was born in the segregated
American South, with the segregated schools, and all the rest of it. I don't remember it -- I
was born in 1961 -- but I do remember the years right after it. The South didn't magically
change overnight in July of 1964. Nor did the North's variety of racism, which, yes, is
subtler, but no less racist.
So I have no illusions about racism in America. But I'm not really talking about racism in
America. I'm talking about how racism in America has been cynically instrumentalized, not by
the Russians, but by the so-called Resistance, in order to delegitimize Trump and, more
importantly, everyone who voted for him, as a bunch of white supremacists and racists.
Fomenting racial division has been the Resistance's strategy from the beginning. A quote
attributed to Joseph Goebbels, "accuse the other side of that which you are guilty," is
particularly apropos in this case. From the moment Trump won the Republican nomination, the
corporate media and the rest of the Resistance have been telling us the man is literally
Hitler, and that his plan is to foment racial hatred among his "white supremacist base," and
eventually stage some "Reichstag" event, declare martial law and pronounce himself dictator.
They've been telling us this story over and over, on television, in the liberal press, on
social media, in books, movies, and everywhere else they could possibly tell it.
So, before you go out and join the "uprising," take a look at the headlines today, turn on
CNN or MSNBC, and think about that for just a minute. I don't mean to spoil the party, but
they've preparing you for this for the last four years.
Not you Black folks. I'm not talking to you. I wouldn't presume to tell you what to do. I'm
talking to white folks like myself, who are cheering on the rioting and looting, and are coming
out to "help" you with it, but who will be back home in their gated communities when the ashes
have cooled, and the corporate media are gone, and the cops return to "police" your
neighborhoods.
OK, and this is where I have to restate (for the benefit of my partisan readers) that I'm
not a fan of Donald Trump, and that I think he's a narcissistic ass clown, and a glorified con
man, and blah blah blah, because so many people have been so polarized by insane propaganda and
mass hysteria that they can't even read or think anymore, and so just scan whatever articles
they encounter to see whose "side" the author is on and then mindlessly celebrate or excoriate
it.
If you're doing that, let me help you out whichever side you're on, I'm not on it.
I realize that's extremely difficult for a lot of folks to comprehend these days, which is
part of the point I've been trying to make. I'll try again, as plainly as I can.
America is still a racist country, but America is no more racist today than it was when
Barack Obama was president. A lot of American police are brutal, but no more brutal than when
Obama was president. America didn't radically change the day Donald Trump was sworn into
office. All that has changed is the official narrative. And it will change back as soon as
Trump is gone and the ruling classes have no further use for it.
And that will be the end of the War on Populism , and we will
switch back to the War on Terror, or maybe the Brave New Pathologized Normal or
whatever Orwellian official narrative the folks at GloboCap have in store for us.
#
CJ Hopkins
June 1, 2020
Photo: Nike (George Floyd commercial)
"... That ought to be baffling. The four officers involved in George Floyd's death were fired almost immediately, rather than suspended with pay pending investigation. One of them was charged with murder just days later. Conservatives and liberals alike agreed that Floyd was murdered and that the men responsible should face justice. Yet the riots started, and spread, anyway. ..."
"... The brief moment of unity in outrage could have resulted in healing the racial fault lines in the US. Instead, the already polarized political climate became divided more sharply than ever, with Republicans criticizing President Donald Trump for not cracking down on the riots fast and hard enough, while Democrats denounced him for responding at all, claiming that there were no riots really and Trump was just "declaring war on the American people." ..."
"... Could the clues to why this is happening lie beyond America's borders? In December 2010, a Tunisian street vendor set himself on fire and died after tax police confiscated his unlicensed stall. Within days, there were demonstrations. Within a month, the country's president of 23 years was overthrown and exiled. Similar rebellions broke out in Libya, Egypt, Syria It was dubbed the "Arab Spring." ..."
"... Interestingly, the Hong Kong protests were embraced by the progressive firebrands such as Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her 'Squad,' calling for something similar at home, against Trump. ..."
"... It's hardly surprising that Trump is now getting blamed for Floyd, even though Minneapolis and Minnesota are both run by Democrats. He was also blamed for the coronavirus, by the very Democrat governors that insisted on harsh lockdowns, and congressional Democrats who held aid hostage. The people doing the blaming insisted for years that 'Russiagate' was real, too. Now they blame Trump for responding to the riots – sorry, "peaceful protests" – by sending in the military. Hence the shock when rioters in Atlanta went after the CNN headquarters. ..."
"... The thing about color revolutions is that they follow a script. Find a legitimate grievance and piggyback onto it. Ask the police and the military to join the protests. If they don't, escalate into riots to provoke a forceful response to create martyrs. Optics are key; everything useful to the cause has to be captured on camera, and anything inconvenient memory-holed. Media are the most important ally. The endgame is not reform, or fairness, or justice, but regime change – physical removal of the "tyrannical dictator violating human rights" from office. ..."
That ought to be baffling. The four officers involved in George Floyd's death were fired
almost immediately, rather than suspended with pay pending investigation. One of them was
charged with murder just days later. Conservatives and liberals alike agreed that Floyd was
murdered and that the men responsible should face justice. Yet the riots started, and spread,
anyway.
The brief moment of unity in outrage could have resulted in healing the racial fault lines
in the US. Instead, the already polarized political climate became divided more sharply than
ever, with Republicans criticizing President Donald Trump for not cracking down on the riots
fast and hard enough, while Democrats denounced him for responding at all, claiming that there
were no riots really and Trump was just "declaring war on the American people."
"This was a made for television moment," CNN's Don Lemon said after tear gas was fired at
protesters as President Trump addressed the nation from the Rose Garden. "Open your eyes,
America. Open your eyes. We are teetering on a dictatorship. This is chaos." https://t.co/fhrg49HZFJ
Could the clues to why this is happening lie beyond America's borders? In December 2010, a
Tunisian street vendor set himself on fire and died after tax police confiscated his unlicensed
stall. Within days, there were demonstrations. Within a month, the country's president of 23
years was overthrown and exiled. Similar rebellions broke out in Libya, Egypt, Syria It was
dubbed the "Arab Spring."
In November 2013, thousands of demonstrators gathered on Independence Square ( Maidan
Nezalezhnosti ) in Kiev, Ukraine, protesting the government's decision to reject a trade
deal with the European Union. Attempts by police to clear them out resulted in clashes with
armed protesters, and eventually a firefight – where snipers allegedly loyal to the
government opened fire on the crowd. Finally, in January 2014, violent protesters stormed the
government offices and declared themselves in charge.
The 2014 "Euromaidan" – fully endorsed by the US – was a far more violent
iteration of the "Orange Revolution" from ten years earlier, when sympathizers of an
opposition coalition refused to accept the results of an election and forced the government to
hold another one.
"US campaign behind the turmoil in Kiev," proclaimed a Guardian headline from November
26, 2004. "The operation – engineering democracy through the ballot box and civil
disobedience – is now so slick that the methods have matured into a template for winning
other people's elections," the article beneath it said, adding it was "first used in
Europe in Belgrade in 2000."
While the Western media painted the events in Serbia as a spontaneous revolt against a hated
dictator, they also revealed that the protesters were funded by "suitcases of cash"
smuggled across the border by US diplomats and NGOs, and that the entire thing was led by a
handful of activists, trained by the National Endowment for Democracy in neighboring Hungary,
using a manual written by Gene Sharp, a US scholar.
Claiming the government had stolen an election, the "revolutionaries" first seized
the national TV station, then set the parliament on fire – conveniently destroying any
evidence that could disprove their claim they had won – and appealed to police and the
military to join them. With security forces unwilling to engage in bloodshed, President
Slobodan Milosevic stepped down.
The whole operation was accompanied by a slick marketing campaign, featuring graffiti,
t-shirts, posters and banners, all emblazoned with a stenciled fist. The fist would become an
all-too familiar sight over the next two decades, and the formula packaged as "color
revolution" and taken on the road by US-trained activists.
Most recently, the scenario played itself out in Bolivia
(successfully), Venezuela (not)
and Hong
Kong , where "pro-democracy" protests against an extradition bill lasted long after
it was withdrawn.
Interestingly, the Hong Kong protests were embraced by the progressive firebrands such as
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her 'Squad,' calling for something similar at home,
against Trump.
"Marginalized" communities have "no choice but to riot," Ocasio-Cortez
said on a radio program in July 2019, adding that she meant "communities of poverty"
in the US, as well as around the world. That was long before Covid-19 killed more than 100,000
Americans and lockdowns imposed to stop it cost 40 million Americans their jobs. Long before
George Floyd.
It's hardly surprising that Trump is now getting blamed for Floyd, even though Minneapolis
and Minnesota are both run by Democrats. He was also blamed for the coronavirus, by the very
Democrat governors that insisted on harsh lockdowns, and congressional Democrats who held aid
hostage. The people doing the blaming insisted for years that 'Russiagate' was real, too. Now
they blame Trump for responding to the riots – sorry, "peaceful protests" –
by sending in the military. Hence the shock when rioters in Atlanta went after the CNN
headquarters.
Meanwhile, as cities across America burn, it's a fundraising windfall for Democrats –
says the New York Times, of all outlets.
NEW: As Protesters Flood Streets, A Surge of Money Flows to Democrats, Bail Funds and
Progressive CharitiesSunday was the *single biggest day* on ActBlue in all of 2020 -- topping
Super Tuesday, debate nights, Biden's revival in S.C. https://t.co/NJiLyvCSlP
-- Shane Goldmacher
(@ShaneGoldmacher) June 1,
2020
The thing about color revolutions is that they follow a script. Find a legitimate grievance
and piggyback onto it. Ask the police and the military to join the protests. If they don't,
escalate into riots to provoke a forceful response to create martyrs. Optics are key;
everything useful to the cause has to be captured on camera, and anything inconvenient
memory-holed. Media are the most important ally. The endgame is not reform, or fairness, or
justice, but regime change – physical removal of the "tyrannical dictator violating
human rights" from office.
"A color revolution can't happen in America, because there's no US embassy there,"
went the grim joke in Serbia after disappointment with the astroturf revolt of October 5, 2000
set in. Well, guess that settles it, then. Any similarities between the current situation in
the US and dozens of other countries over the past 20 years must be purely coincidental and not
at all relevant or significant in any way.
Nothing to see here, move along – and make sure you don't step on the broken glass on
your way home for the curfew. Remember to wear your mask to protect from the coronavirus as
well as smoke and tear gas. Everything's fine. It really can't happen here...
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and do not necessarily represent those of RT. Nebojsa Malic is a Serbian-American
journalist, blogger and translator, who wrote a regular column for Antiwar.com from 2000 to
2015, and is now senior writer at RT. Follow him on Twitter @NebojsaMalic
...Another "researcher " has even claimed to have uncovered a connection between the
bricks sprouting from sidewalks in Frisco, Texas and Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates. The
bricks were said to be delivered by a corporation called AcmeBrick, owned by Berkshire
Hathaway, a massive holding company on whose board Gates sat until recently.
Brick Pallets in Frisco, TX for rioters/AntifaDelivered by AcmeBrick, Ft Worth, TX.
Company owned by Berkshire Hathaway, (Gates recently left the board) and Marmon Group,
Chicago. Owned by? Jay and Robert Pritzger and Berkshire HathawayVery deep, YUGE rabbit
hole...
But the Frisco Police Department declared the offending bricks were part of a "planned
HOA construction project," explaining they'd been removed "with permission" to be
"returned at a later time."
Update: City is picking up bricks and are property of the city.
And the Kansas City Police Department alerted citizens on Sunday to be on the lookout for
rogue brick stashes, warning they were lurking all over the city to be "used during a
riot."
We have learned of & discovered stashes of bricks and rocks in & around the Plaza
and Westport to be used during a riot. If you see anything like this, you can text 911 and
let us know so we can remove them. This keeps everyone safe and allows your voice to continue
to be heard.
New York City had its own mysterious brick eruptions in the East Village neighborhood on
Saturday night, a vanishingly rare event in a city under constant construction in which
unattended building materials tend to vanish in seconds.
"Yo, we got bricks. We got bricks!" -- #Rioters in
Manhattan chanced upon a cache in the street equipped with bricks and a shovel at 10:01 p.m.
on Second Ave between St. Marks Pl. and Seventh St. pic.twitter.com/dYB7vHdYqL
Other images appeared to show police vehicles maneuvering the bricks into place.
Uh-oh...Those random ass bricks showing up, guess who's bringing them in to a place where
there's no construction? pic.twitter.com/QAITwOLQOF
-- A Black Socialist
🌹🏴☠️ (@SonOfAssata) June 1,
2020
The building this guy is standing next to is the Earl Cabell Federal Building in downtown
Dallas. There are surveillance cameras all over the place and there is zero chance they can't
see who dropped of the bricks and when. pic.twitter.com/38jjbgDLym
Certainly, the sudden appearance of heavy piles of masonry takes logistics most protesters
are incapable of organizing on the fly. It would seem to be a simple matter for cities –
especially in places like New York where every inch of space is watched over by surveillance
cameras – to catch the brick bandits in the act. Of course, leaving piles of bricks
around in case a riot happens to occur is hardly a crime yet.
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as long as they get what they want. Most major cities include easy access to drugs, but these days the same is true for rural
areas. You only need ask around and you can get your hands on it. CORRUPTION and GREED explains the chief problem. Everything
in the US goes too far - too far Right, then too far Left. No one in government wants to use common sense. They walk the party
line as if they're clinging to tyrannical gods.
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