Well-meaning people took to the streets to identify with the
death of an African-American at the hands of the police. His death was filmed.
It was awful to watch. The people were justified in identifying with that man’s
suffering. To show that they care. They called it a protest against injustice,
although the cop who killed George Floyd had been arrested and charged with
murder. Justice was already in the process of being served.
No matter. The numbers swelled rapidly city by city. Mainly
Democratic cities. The voices grew louder, more raucous, and, not unexpectedly,
the violence erupted.
First, the target was the police. Vehicles and buildings
were torched. Not all were police property. Other official buildings were
ignored. Were they deliberately avoided?
Instead, the growing crowds became a mob, and the targets were the
cities commercial districts.
Like a raging fire, the arsonists and looters destroyed
commercial stores, private shops and vehicles.
To an untrained eye it seemed like anarchy, but the media
called it justified anger, a protest that must be understood with sympathy.
The authorities restrained the police. Held them back and
let the herd momentum take its course. Like a virus it rapidly spread its
infection. This virus destroyed property and livelihoods. It was not
incidental. There was motive and method behind it.
There was intent behind the mayhem.
The violent riots and apparent chaos, including arson and the
wanton prolonged destruction of property and uncontrolled looting, was a
symbiotic dance.
This crisis turned out to be the perfect storm.
It was hardly an accident that in every city the pattern was
the same. Growing crowds looking for action, government stand down, total
destruction unchallenged.
When this repeated itself city after city, day after day,
you didn’t have to be a detective to see organized intent.
This was a symbiotic course of action loosely choreographed between
local government, radical organizations, and the media, each with their intertwining
ultimate goal. A hybrid desire for continued mayhem and economic distress to
sway an angry public ahead of a vital upcoming election. The timing couldn’t
have been better coming as it did at the tail end of a harmful virus lockdown.
Riots, burning everything in their way, pillaging. Smashing stores
and buildings, taking whatever they could grab for free. Not caring who pays
for the damage and the loss.
Intelligent people would call it robbery, arson and
vandalism, but the looters see if differently.
They hate capitalism. They hate people who use their imagination,
their money, and the ability to use their talents and hard work to try and
build up small businesses, eventually in some cases becoming big businesses,
that employ people.
They hate the whole notion of such an enterprise. They want
to tear it down and take whatever they can grab.
What we saw on the streets of Democratic cities was a
microcosm of Democratic big government. Take it from those that do and give it
for free to those that don’t.
What we witnessed was Democratic policy crudely played out on
the streets of Minneapolis, Detroit, Chicago, LA, and DC. This is what the radical wing of the Democratic
Party is promising the looters.
The protest of racial justice based on the killing of a
black man by a white cop in Minneapolis was built on a questionable premise.
True, the George Floyd killing was a tragic horror, but
there is ample evidence the argument of police targeting innocent
African-Americans being systemic in American society is heavily disputed by statistics
and evidence.
Data provided by Statista,
an independent, reliable and unbiased research center with global coverage in
over 160 countries, showed that almost 50% more white people were shot by
police between 2017 and 2020 than black people. 1268 to 698.
This was confirmed
by Manhattan Institute fellow, Heather McDonald, who testified before a US
Congressional Committee that an “epidemic of racially biased police shootings
against black men” is false.
On the contrary, she said, “if there is a bias in police
shootings, it is against white civilians,” quoting from a report by the
prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.
The authors of that research were the universities of
Maryland and Michigan, not exactly Republican strongholds.
Black radio host, Larry Elder, said, “It is not true that
police go about mowing down black people.”
He quoted the CDC report that, in the last 45 years in
America, killings of blacks by police have decreased by 75%, and in 2019 nine
unarmed black people were killed by police as opposed to 19 unarmed white
people.
“You don’t know the names of white people killed by the
police,” he said, “because it happens all the time.”
The fulcrum of the current wave of disorder was the horrible
killing of George Lloyd. Thousands took to the streets across America to
protest this outrage. But no one took to the streets when a colored officer
shot an innocent white woman to death outside her home in Minneapolis.
In 2017, officer Mohamed Noor shot and killed female Justine
Damond outside her home. She was totally innocent. Zero protests on behalf of the victim, or women
killed by cops.
In the end, the bad cop received a 12-and-a-half-year prison
sentence.
There was a short-term campaign, but not on behalf of
Justine. It was an attempt to get the killer cop released from jail by angry protests
including the slogan, “Free Mohamed Noor!”
Justine’s family won a $20 million law suit against the city,
which will probably reflect the level of justice that Lloyd’s family will
receive.
The important point here is that the city and the cop were
found guilty of negligence and homicide. Not the President, as anti-Trump
haters and the media projected recently over the Lloyd incident.
It was clearly a Democratic screw up as the Damond family
statement spelt out after Lloyd’s murder, that Minneapolis learned nothing
since Justine’s murder and had “not made adequate changes to their practices
and training as we told they would after Justine’s murder.”
In other words, the Lloyd murder was a continuation of this Democratic
city’s systemic failure, not a global race issue, and in no way connected to
the President.
So what is going on, even beyond Minneapolis?
It had nothing to do with George Lloyd. The mob, and their
organizers, did not listen to Lloyd’s family imploring them not to dishonor the
memory of their dead brother and son by their violence and anarchy.
George Lloyd became a hashtag to hang a political street
campaign. Just like #MeToo, #GeorgeLloyd carried a bias.
Floyd today is a forgotten man.
It has nothing to do with the victim. It has everything to
do with overturning a Trump Republican presidency.
It was a Democrat that said “never like a crisis go to
waste.”? It has become a party
policy.
It includes the deliberate destruction of the economy. It is
the Cloward-Piven strategy of community negative activism to change the face of
government.
The Democratic Party is powered at local level by radical
elements financed by wealthy non-elected manipulators. The agenda is to take power locally, at state
level, with the ultimate goal of usurping national power by fair means or foul,
structured in a way that can never be reversed.
This role of state and city governance is to give the people
what the powerful think they need. They fill their local councils with
activists, their court benches with liberal judges that pervert constitutional
law. They fill their towns with illegal immigrants and offer them freebies to
keep them voting for them. They are working hard to restructure a voting system
that will allow them to defraud the system and ride them into power.
At national level, the leading Democrat candidates all
declared they would overspend. Just vote Democrat and get free education, free
everything from the cradle to the grave, including abortions whenever you want,
even after birth. Driving licenses and voting rights for illegal immigrants.
Free bail-out for criminals awaiting trial, and no jail sentence for most.
Those arrested for violent crimes and destruction during the riots know they
have nothing to fear in Democratic states.
Is it any wonder that mayors and governors ordered their
police forces to stand down and let the rioters rampage through their
commercial districts? It was an unwritten, unspoken, cooperative venture with
the hard left activist wings of the Democrat Party.
The Democrats have replaced law and order with no law and
disorder. And it seems to be working for them.
And those economically damaged by the dwindling work opportunities
as a result of both their virus lockdown policies and the widespread
destruction of protest, will be given unemployment money higher than the
minimum wage. So why work? Just keep
voting Democrat.
It’s an appealing message for millions of losers. It’s message for troublesome people looking
for power. Like the anarchists, the Marxists, the Communists. Like the radical
bullyboys of Antifa and BlackLivesMatter who know how to manipulate a mass protest
and direct the masses into action, negative action, like burning other people’s
buildings and taking other people’s stuff in the name of protest.
Today’s riots will eventually die down, but which party will
the looters and destroyers attach themselves to in their search for more free
stuff? Take a guess.
It is worse than a virus.
This is a cancer that is metastasizing in America. This
cancer has attached itself to the body politics of the Democratic Party.
This cancer feeds off the soft tissue and organs of a party
that doesn’t yet feel the pain. The Democrat body welcomes them, feeds them,
encourages them.
They don’t yet understand that this cancer is going to
destroy them, if it doesn’t destroy America first.
Democrats think need this cancer in their obsessive quest
for power. A fateful November is on the horizon. They think they can control
the cancer, but the cancer is controlling them.
Post-election, win or lose, old Democratic tissues will be
replaced by stronger more radical tumors that will attach themselves to
important organs enveloping and destroying the body that feeds it –democratic
liberal progressive America.
The pain felt in Minneapolis, Los Angeles. San Francisco,
Detroit, New York, the soft underbelly of “progressive” America, will
not be cured by a November Democratic victory.
And even if they lose 2020, the radical cancer will continue
to spread within the Democratic body and throughout America hoping to emerge massively
victorious come 2024.
Let Democrats not fool themselves. This is not liberalism.
This is not progressivism. This is not even Socialism. It is certainly not
Americanism. This is Venezuela, Cuba, played out on a larger stage.
It is intolerant and violent leftist fascism. It is the
un-American heart of the Democratic Party. It is the de-structuring of America.
It began in the Obama-Biden era. Today’s events are a continuation of their
Baltimore and Ferguson legacy that elected weak incompetent leaders and
pandered to the violent.
Conditions deteriorated rapidly in Obama-Biden inner cities
despite their charismatic words that charmed and fooled the masses.
We see today the Saul Alinsky doctrine of Rules for
Radicals, the strategy of local persuasion to a momentary cause while
disguising the ultimate goal, the collapse of the economy by using a crisis to
press home a political agenda, including publicly visible disruption and
destruction to attract attention and drive willing hands to the cause of regime
change.
This is not democracy. It is the law of the jungle, which is
no law at all.
A compliant media spreads the lies and misrepresents what
was going on.
“They don’t know what to do with that emotion, so they
respond by lashing out. Do you see all this damage here? Acting out gets
attention,” says CNN, koshering the violence, arson, and ruin of local
communities. As if thousands of looters,
rushing in and out of Apple, Target, and other destroyed stores, with trolleys
full of stolen goods, were doing this to get attention.
Speaking of CNN, another propagandist is Don Lemon. “Open
your eyes America! We are teetering on a dictatorship,” after the President
offered the National Guard to governors to restore law and order to America’s
major cities.
Let me advise Mr. Lemon that America is teetering on the
brink of anarchy, not dictatorship, due to lack of effective action by the
authorities who are allowing their cities to burn to the ground.
The only question that requires answers is this is due to
incompetence, or is it deliberate?
Why are piles of bricks mysteriously deposited at the
roadside of forthcoming protests where there is no construction going on?
Why were bottles found with explosive additives down
alleyways close to protest routes?
An Illinois man was arrested handing out explosives at a
Minneapolis protest rally.
Baltimore, Ferguson, Detroit haven’t recovered, a decade after
the Obama riots. These neighborhoods are a metaphor for Democratic America.
The Ferguson effect is seen all across America today where
the rioters, looters and arsonists are given the freedom of the city in the
name of Black Lives Matter. Thus began the downward spiral of decency by
liberal Democrats.
Who in their right mind would reinvest in such troublesome
communities? Justice for looters is a revolving door in Democratic courts. In New
York, the policy of no bail fees is the brainchild of Governor Cuomo. Crime
isn’t a crime. Criminals aren’t criminals. Store owners can only cry in
frustration after the looters are arrested and released back onto the streets. This is Democratic justice.
More evidence of the collusion between the rioters and the
lack of police involvement came from former NY mayor and crime-fighter, Rudi
Giuliani. He said that Bill De Blasio was interfering in the enforcement of the
law. He accused the mayor of phoning his police chiefs and ordering them not to
enforce the law. “He is holding back
the police department.”
This was confirmed by David Paterson, the former Democratic
Governor of New York, who said, “We are dealing with a different kind of
riot than we did years ago. We have outside agitators.”
“This is happening in Democratic progressive cities that
are friendly with criminals,” Rudi Giuliani said to Fox News Sean Hannity.
A final word about the police is this. In the recent
violence more police officers were injured than protesters
Leo Terrell is a civil rights lawyer and a Democrat. He is
alarmed by what he has seen to express himself this way;
“We people of color want law and order. You know why
these mayors and governors won’t bring in the National Guard? They don’t want
to acknowledge that President Trump is absolutely right, and they don’t want to
give him the credit.”
I will go one step further. They don’t do it because it
doesn’t fit their political agenda which is diametrically opposite to that of a
President who wants a prosperous America and was giving it to them before the
virus and the rioting.
In a previous article, I wrote about the anecdotal tweeting
of a person called Chris Martin Palmer. He sent out a series of tweets as raging riots spread in his wealthy
Los Angeles. As a Democrat, he thrilled by what the protesters were doing as he
posted a picture of a burning Minneapolis building.
“Burn that s**t down! Burn it all down!” he thrilled.
The building happened to be an affordable housing project
for the homeless and poor people.
CMP deleted that tweet, but you can’t delete a cancer,
Chris.
As the raging arson fires moved in the direction of his own
Los Angeles neighborhood, he still didn’t get it.
“Wouldn’t miss it for the world,” tweeted the
excitable Chris. “A historic event. I will try to capture plenty images.”
The destruction of people’s properties and hard-earned
businesses was just a selfie to him. No pain – yet.
By the time it moved into his rich neighborhood, he was
getting worried.
“You bring that shit to our neighborhood and I’m gonna
have a real problem with it. There’s a lot of people up here who care and are
angry. Attacking our neighborhood kills the movement and disgraces George
Floyd. Are the Beverly Hills cops jerks?”
Then, “They destroyed Starbucks and are now in front of
my building. Get these animals TF out of my neighborhood!”
Too late, Chris. The cancer is in your party and it’s far
too late for surgery.
Now Chris can do some self-reflection. Were the riots really
chaos, or organized mayhem? And does he now subscribe to their goals?
Chris may get it, but too many voters haven’t. They are
still oblivious of what is happening in front of their eyes.
The final question has to be, are you voting with the mob,
or against them?
Barry Shaw, Israel Institute for Strategic Studies.
