I deplore profanity.
A couple of days ago President Trump expressed the desire to
declare the Antifa-instigators of violence, rioting and looting after the
tragic murder of George Floyd by then Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin
a domestic terrorist organization. I then read and hear Dems and the MSM become
outraged that President Trump deplores property and person being violently
assaulted.
When I heard and read these idiots defend Antifa violence,
my first reaction was and is - DAMN!
Rather than support Trump to protect property and people
from these anti-American Communist Antifa thugs, the President receives
criticism about the authority to act. Again – DAMN!
Maybe Dems and the MSM will pay attention when armed vigilantes
begin protecting property and property owners threatened by Antifa or
Antifa-inspired sheeple. How will vigilantes protect property and people against
thugs? I’m not a rocket scientist but I suspect this is where the Second
Amendment comes into play. YUP, LOOTING WILL LEAD TO SHOOTING!
JRH 6/2/20
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A Nation Gasping For Air
Riots Are Socially Destructive And Self-Defeating
By Justin O. Smith
Sent June 1, 2020 1:32 AM
"For they have sown the wind,
and they shall reap the whirlwind" ~ Hosea 8:7
America's cities are burning today, from New York to
Philadelphia and Seattle to Nashville, (May 31st) still, after five
days of chaos and anarchy, and rioters and looters are having a field day as they
cart off toilet paper, liquor, 50" HD televisions and electronics, proving
that their actions are no longer focused on the murder of George Floyd by a
Minneapolis police officer. Thugs, criminals, communists and anarchists have
forced the situation to devolve, and they act as if America's cities owe them
the courtesy of allowing them to loot and destroy whole cities, to make up for
an array of grievances, both real and imagined, that emanate from the
"social justice" crap so prevalent in our society today. And too many
mayors, such as Nashville's John Cooper, and governors, too, seem reticent to
act to stop them. Even the most patriotic American, deep in their heart, would
struggle to feel proud of their country and optimistic about its future after
this week.
I full well understand the frustration and anger felt by
those legitimate peaceful protesters, who only want to ensure that Floyd's
death isn't simply shrugged off. Although I do believe a large element of
racism still exists in America today, from many different segments of our
society, Floyd's death wasn't any more egregious or horrendous than that of Tony
Timpa, a 32 year old white man, who was murdered by Dallas Police,
in 2016, as he pleaded for help thirty times. However, I also believe that a
white person wouldn't have been so sorely abused and mistreated by any police
force, most usually, as Floyd was over a $20 counterfeit bill.
Floyd died telling police officers "I
can't breathe" and calling out for his mother. Eric Garner, a black man
from New York, uttered the very same words just before his death, in 2014,
caused by a police chokehold.
[Blog Editor: A 2nd autopsy from a former
Medical Examiner Dr. Michael
Baden has a different conclusion from Minneapolis Medical
Examiner on George Floyd’s death:
EXCLUSIVE: George Floyd died
"many minutes" before he was transferred to a stretcher and taken to
a Minneapolis hospital, forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Baden told
Sean Hannity
Monday.
Baden, one of two doctors
to conduct an independent autopsy that concluded that Floyd died of
asphyxiation at the hands of local police on May 25, told Fox News
that medics "tried to do CPR with him [Floyd] in the ambulance,
but were unable to find a pulse.
"He had a cardiac arrest
and they tried to shock him and the shocks didn't work," Baden
added. "He was dead before they put him on the stretcher
... many minutes before he gets to the hospital."
According to the independent autopsy
report released by Floyd's family, he died of asphyxia due to neck and back
compression that led to a lack of blood flow to the brain.
Preliminary results from the
official autopsy, which were included in a criminal complaint against former
Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin -- who kneeled on Floyd's neck
for eight minutes in the now-viral video -- said officials had found
nothing "to support a diagnosis of traumatic asphyxia or strangulation."
On Monday, an updated autopsy report classified Floyd's death as a homicide and
listed the cause of death as "cardiopulmonary arrest complicating law
enforcement subdual, restraint, and neck compression." … READ ENTIRETY - Dr. Michael Baden
says George Floyd was dead 'many minutes' before he was transferred to hospital;
By Yael
Halon; Fox News;
6/1/20]
Now, America is on fire. All across America we see
images of cars and buildings ablaze. Giant balls of flame erupt and the streets
are choked with black smoke blanketing the sky. Protesters throw
fire-extinguishers, knives, bottles and rocks at police, and grocery and
department stores are being looted.
I thought the good people of Nashville might actually avoid
getting sucked into the madness of the maddening masses' ignorance, but evil
knows no limit and leaves nothing in this world untouched, so I was obviously
hoping for too much. Many of us were shocked to see a supposed "peaceful
protest" turn ugly within a matter of just a couple of hours, with rioters setting the Nashville Courthouse ablaze
on May 30th and destroying a large swathe of Nashville's Lower Broad tourist
area.
Nashville, Tenn. - A crowd
outside Historic Metro Nashville Courthouse looks at fires inside the building.
(Photo: John Partipilo)
Incredibly, the "peaceful protest" in my hometown
of Murfreesboro, TN led to the city being placed under a "state of
emergency" by Governor Bill Lee and Mayor Shane McFarland, after a prayer
vigil and protest on Sunday, March 31st, "turned violent" and a
police armored vehicle was vandalized and a brick was thrown through the window
of Whiskey Dix's business. At approximately 7:00 pm, McFarland ordered a curfew
to go into effect, and about forty-five minutes later, Gov. Lee threw his
support behind the move with his statement, that "the protests in Murfreesboro
are no longer peaceful but have escalated to overt threats to public safety and
property". But overall, the situation was mild compared to other parts of
the nation, thankfully.
No one should condone the violence spreading across this
country, as an answer to George Floyd's horrific murder. These riots that are
tearing our cities apart, from Minneapolis to all points beyond,
coast-to-coast, can and will only lead to more suffering, and it also
overshadows the peaceful demonstrations actually in support of finding justice
for George Floyd and his family, as the leftists, ANTIFA, communists and
anarchists continue their quest for cosmic justice -- the sort of justice they
think will settle all scores of racial grievance for all time, which, of
course, is unlikely to ever be settled by any means, until they have succeeded
in completely destroying the founding principles of America.
[Blog Editor: Antifa is not interested in the principles
of America’s Founding Documents, Principles nor Liberty. Antifa utilizes
anarchy to complete a Communist transformation of America by any means
necessary. Consider some truth you WILL NOT hear from complicit Dems or their
propaganda MSM:
o The Communist Origins of the Antifa Extremist Group;
By Joshua Philipp; The Epoch Times; 8/18/17 Updated:
5/31/20
o Lara Logan breaks down Antifa's alleged role in riots: 'They
want us to believe that we are divided'; By Matt London; Fox
News (Need Fox
Nation subscription to view video); 6/2/20
I am posting an important Trevor Loudon video exposé of
Antifa at the end of Justin Smith’s submission]
What a sad day for America. I am disgusted and infuriated,
not just by the murder of George Floyd, but even more so by the destruction
that the ignorant mobs across the country are wreaking throughout nearly every
major city. Their actions are not making America better and they certainly do
not serve any real idea of justice, since the poor minority business owners,
and white business owners, too, such as Ed Smith, owner of Big Time Boots in
Nashville, TN, have most likely been left wondering just how justice has been
served by the destruction of their businesses, burnt to the ground or simply
torn apart by frenzied, crazed, senseless mobs.
And now we are to be lectured by the servants of those
purveyors of "racist America", such as Chris Wallace at Fox News, who
tell us that black men are twice as likely to meet a bad end at the hands of
police than white men. Could it be a difference in upbringing and home life?
Could it simply be a cultural difference and a certain proclivity to go against
the moral norms of America? Whatever the reason, black people comprise thirteen
percent of America's population, and yet they are responsible for a
disproportionate number of crimes, including fifty-two percent of the murders
in America.
Unfortunately, the race-baiters are out in full force,
basically handing out the matches and gasoline that continue to stoke the
riots, similar to Minnesota's Attorney General Keith Ellison, who invited Jesse
Jackson to Minnesota. Jackson said, "the pain is real" and
"rioting is the voice of those who truly have no way to express
themselves", shortly after leaving a meeting with Ellison, according to
KARE11's Adrienne Broaddus. Al Sharpton, who was instrumental in inciting the
1991 Crown Heights riots and numerous other incendiary situations, was on hand
to offer his worthless two-cents, also, observing that destroying
"black-owned stores" was "reckless", begging the question
... What about other Minneapolis businesses?
We've all seen the video of George Floyd's murder by now,
and most of us have wondered how could anyone end up handcuffed and pinned down
on the street, in distress and dying under the knees of a law enforcement
officer anywhere in America? It calls for us to be outraged and it's right to
demand justice, but what we are witnessing today is far from justice, and it is
far removed from anything whatsoever to do with Mr. Floyd's death.
It's very unfortunate that this violence, chaos and anarchy
is unfolding in America right now. And although purposeful protest is intended
to deliver a strong message to the leaders of the cities and states across the
country, the message has now been sent, the message has been received and the
powers-that-be have acknowledged it by arresting Derek Chauvin quickly by any
known standard, with charges against the remaining officers and their arrests
more than likely to follow. Justice is forthcoming and change should be on the
way, if a city has moral leadership, so there actually is nothing that warrants
the actions of the rioters. Their actions are based on an entirely different
agenda.
On May 29th, U.S. Attorney General William Barr stated, that
the Department, the DOJ and FBI, "is conducting an independent
investigation to determine whether any federal civil-rights laws were
violated".
Emotions are also running high, and many cities are dealing
with a devious, immoral left that declares any inconvenient fact
"racist". America is also witnessing well-funded professional
agitators inciting the violence and riots, stoking mob anger. And we see too
many in positions of power -- I won't call them "leaders" -- forcing
a collective suicide for their own political causes, in a manner all too
reminiscent of what transpired during the Ferguson riots.
While many leftists across our nation are so quick to throw
out Dr. Martin Luther King's 1967 observation that "a riot is
the language of the unheard", they forget that it was prefaced with, "Let me say as
I've always said, and I will always continue to say, that riots are socially
destructive and self-defeating."
Just how much rioting, looting and arson will be enough to
slate the collective "aggrieved's" sense of solidarity in their quest
for justice? Five nights? Three weeks? Six months? Will it actually cease if
and when the remaining three officers are prosecuted for murder? How much
rioting, looting and arson will the authorities in cities across America allow
to blast the nation before they move to forcefully stop it? Does all this chaos
amplify itself in a feedback loop as it plays out?
At a press conference held in Minneapolis on May 29th, Eric
Garner's mother, Gwen Carr addressed the crowd, saying: "Don't let this (just)
be another news story ... We all have to get out and stand together and we
don't have to do it violently. We can do it politically. Don't sit around and
say 'My vote don't count'. We put these politicians in and we can take them
out."
As Alfred Pennyworth notes in the movie Dark Knight:
"... some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't
be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch
the world burn."
In a fiery speech on May 29th, Atlanta Mayor Keishs Lance
Bottoms stated: "This is not Atlanta. This is not a protest. This is not
in the spirit of Martin Luther King Jr. This is chaos. A protest has purpose.
When Dr. King was assassinated we didn't do this to our city. ... You are
disgracing our city. You are disgracing the life of George Floyd and every
other person who has been killed in this country. We are better than this. We
are better than this as a city. We are better than this as a country. Go home,
go home."
These rioters are killing people, they are killing businesses
and they are killing America. They are ensuring that America becomes the land
of the angry and the home of the divided, a nation that is itself gasping for
air.
Whatever sympathy the people may have felt for Black Lives
Matter or greater police accountability collapsed, as the riots grew from
isolated incidents into a nationwide violent upheaval, largely orchestrated and
conducted by the worse elements of our society. They have lost the moral high
ground.
And with that said, in regards to the violent looters,
taking a page from Miami's Police Chief Walter Headley suggestion in 1967, it
is past time that criminal looters are dealt with in the most severe and harsh
manner, regardless of what color they are, since today we see looters of all colors,
many communists and anarchists, many simple-minded opportunists, just as likely
to be the perpetrators. We have the weapons to halt this chaos and mayhem,
and we have the weapons to use in this war against criminal and subversive
acts and this war against America, by immoral people intent on taking America
down. Looters used to be shot in the act. It's time to revive the practice and
put an end to this anarchy that is destroying the livelihoods that were built,
in many instances, over a person's lifetime, in the name of restoring order and
"the rule of law".
The promise of the Declaration of Independence that all men
are created equal applies to every individual of every race, the George Floyds
and the Ed Smiths, who have the right to their lives and their livelihoods to
be protected and defended by the powers-that-be and law enforcement at every
level.
Embedded in our culture for four-hundred years, racism is
America's Achilles' Heel, but right is right and wrong is wrong. Floyd's murder
is reprehensible and demands swift justice. The destruction of American cities
and some store owners being beaten senseless, as they try to defend their
stores, is equally reprehensible and demands equal swift justice. And real
justice in America will only come, when all Americans stop judging anyone by
race and reject the calls to "reject racism", by simply living and
acting as good, decent and moral human beings, regardless of one's color and
ethnicity. Reject the natural end result of a "social justice"
communist philosophy that works overtime to absolve individuals of
responsibility for their crimes and blames others for political advantage.
Reject rage for the sake of rage, to engage in unthinking hate, and use George
Floyd's murder to place racism in history's dustbin, rather than continue to
burn down our homes and destroy America, still the greatest nation on earth.
By Justin O. Smith
+++++++++++++++++++++++
VIDEO: America Under
Siege: Antifa
Posted by Capital Research Center
21.8K subscribers - Sep 25, 2017
The communist movement known as Antifa (short for
Anti-Fascist Action) has sparked violence across the nation. In the wake of
their battling despicable white supremacist in Charlottesville, Antifa has
begun to gain mainstream popularity. But unbeknownst to much of the public, the
vast majority of Antifa violence isn't targeted at genuine fascists, but
mainstream conservatives and civilians. With help from those who have
encountered Antifa, including Milo Yiannopoulos, Gavin McInnes, Lauren
Southern, Jack Posobiec, and Steve Deace, conservative author Trevor Loudon
guides us through the history and ideas behind the Antifa movement, starting
with Leon Trotsky and going all the way through the events in Berkeley, CA and
Charlottesville, VA.
“Antifa” is the third episode in the "America Under
Siege" documentary web-series from Dangerous Documentaries (a project of
the Capital Research Center) and Cohesion Films. Each episode profiles the
influence of radical Marxists on various segments of American society.
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Edited by John R. Houk
Text embraced by brackets and
embedded links are by the Editor.
© Justin O. Smith
