Within a few hours of the shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona, there were attempts by the Left to pin the blame on the Tea Party movement or other conservative entities.  The suspect in the case turned out to be a lunatic who was a big fan of both the "Communist Manifesto" and "Mein Kampf."  Not exactly a right-winger.

Years ago, President Obama encouraged his supporters to establish a thugocracy, and we got a taste of it at the tea party events and town hall meetings in 2009.

A few representatives from the Black Panthers were involved in a voter intimidation incident at a Philadelphia polling place on election day in 2008, and there is no question that the Obama administration approved of it, at least after the fact.

In general, violence and hate speech come from the left.

Examples of violence and strife associated with organized labor can be found here.

And then you have the eco-terrorists, who attack chinchilla farms, throw dye on fur coats, burn down legitimate businesses and deliberately disrupt military training and testing, with no condemnation from the Left.  A parallel path is being followed by animal rights activists, who value animals (and in some cases, plants) more than human lives.

The most widespread violence in America today is hardly talked about at all:  It goes by the name of abortion.  which is a fundamental component of the Democratic Party platform.

Sometimes the militarized police are used as a weapon, in a practice known as SWATting.

Most recently, the election of Donald Trump has prompted a series of violent and destructive riots on the west coast.

Many more links on this subject can be found here.

Note:  News and commentary from the years prior to 2019 can be found here.

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The Real Danger to Democracy — Trump Cabinet Nominees Face Death Threats, Bomb Scares, Swatting.  We've been hearing for years now how Donald Trump and his supporters are violent, white supremacist "dangers to democracy."  Yet it was the former and future president who took a bullet to the ear in a barely failed assassination attempt in July, followed by a second shooter camped out on his golf course waiting to kill him in September.

Who Are the Real Insurrectionists?  For 120 days in summer 2020, violent protesters destroyed some $2 billion in property and injured 1,500 police officers in riots that led to over 35 deaths.  Because blue-state mayors and governors saw BLM and Antifa instigators as useful street soldiers, most of those arrested were never tried in court.  Street thugs paid no price for declaring themselves de facto owners of downtown areas of Seattle, which police themselves conceded were no-go zones.  Why did public officials in blue states ignore the violence?  They were certain that it enjoyed majority support among their leftwing constituencies.  Indeed, some leftist icons cheered on the violence.  Well after the failed attempt to storm the White House grounds, in June 2020, the Democratic candidate for vice president Kamala Harris warned us that protestors were "not going to let up, and they should not."  What did Harris mean by "should not?" — when she knew numerous protests that summer had ended in terrible violence? [...] CNN's Chris Cuomo gushed that violent demonstrations and riots were American traditions.  Were these national voices urging calm during weeks of violent rioting and looting?  There were no investigations, no congressional committees, and no voices of outrage from the left-wing establishment over months of such carnage.  Indeed, much of the organization of the violent protests was facilitated by social media that was apparently unbothered that the medium under their stewardship was used to torch and loot.

The Democrat Party's 'Dirty Hands'.  In 2018, a Bernie Sanders supporter shot and almost killed House leader Steve Scalise and wounded two other people.  A violent Antifa mob smashed the diminutive gay conservative Andy Ngo in the head with a cement block causing considerable damage for the unforgivable sin of filming one of their events (that is, documenting what they are).  In the "Summer of Love", BLM and other leftist organization killed up to 18 people and did as much as $2 billion in damage, not that the Democrats or news media, who, apparently saw all that destruction and death as "mostly peaceful", took much notice.  Senator Rand Paul and his wife were attacked by angry mobs upon leaving the White House and believed they would have been killed were it not for (late) police intervention.  The pro-abortion group, "Jane's Revenge," warns:  "If abortion isn't safe, you aren't either.  We are everywhere," etc., etc.  The use of violence and threats are not the acts of isolated deranged leftists but are a central part of leftist strategies.  When leftists say they will do whatever is necessary to get what they want, one should believe them.

Liberal Elites Want Us to Care About Jan. 6, But They Don't Care When Our Cities Burn.  I remember the call from my husband on May 31.  It was our anniversary, and he was out running errands before he came home — not because we had plans, but because there was a curfew in place in Minneapolis.  He called to tell me he had to drive to a nearby suburb to pick up a medical prescription.  "Our Walgreens on Hennepin Avenue isn't there anymore," he said.  "It was burned to the ground."  Over the spring and summer of 2020, thousands of businesses were looted, damaged, or totally destroyed during the George Floyd protests — especially here, where Floyd was killed.  Every day we read heartbreaking stories of business owners begging and pleading with rioters to spare their livelihoods, many of them uninsured, pleas that went unheeded.  There was over $2 billion in property damage.

Maybe the Rittenhouse Verdict Is What the Country Needs to Crush Government Subsidized Violence in Our Cities.  Throughout the summer of 2020, the United States was wracked by civil unrest, unlike anything we had witnessed since the mid-1960s when the anti-war movement and militant elements of the Civil Rights Movement created a perfect storm of riots bordering on outright insurrection on campuses and in city streets.  The two periods have more than a superficial resemblance.  In both cases, social unrest, based on real or imagined grievances, was translated into street protests.  In both cases, a hyper-violent fringe element attempted to create havoc to draw law enforcement into open conflict with the demonstrators.  If you've studied communist National Liberation Movements and Maoist revolutionary doctrine, this is not a shock.  It is very basic stuff.  You send your guys into a legitimate protest.  You commit arson.  You loot stores.  The worst elements in the protest join in.  You attack cops and provoke confrontations.  Ideally, a bunch of civilians are dead on the ground when it is over, and the next protest crowds are larger and angrier.

The Continued American Awakening of The FBI as an Official Enforcement Mechanism of The Fourth Branch of Government.  The FBI is a U.S. version of the Russian "State Police"; and the FBI is deployed — almost exclusively — to attack domestic enemies of those who control government; while they protect the interests of the U.S. Fourth Branch of Government.  That is the clear and accurate domestic prism to contextualize their perceived mission: "domestic violent extremists pose the greatest threat" to their objective.  Put another way, "We The People", who fight against government abuse and usurpation, are the FBI's actual and literal enemy.  Let me be very clear with another brutally obvious example.  Antifa could not exist as an organization; capable to organize and carry out violent attacks against their targets; without the full support of the FBI.  If the FBI wanted to arrest members of Antifa, who are actually conducting violence, they could do it easily — with little effort.  It is the absence of any action by the FBI toward Antifa, that tells us the FBI is enabling that violent extremist behavior to continue.  Once you accept that transparent point of truth; then, you realize the FBI definition of domestic violent extremism is something else entirely.

500 Wisconsin National Guard Troops on Standby for Rittenhouse Verdict.  Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers (D) has placed 500 Wisconsin National Guard troops on standby in Kenosha for the expected verdict in Kyle Rittenhouse's trial next week amid concerns of possible violence. [...] Jurors are expected to begin deliberating Monday [11/15/2021] in the case that has left Americans divided over whether the Illinois teenager was a patriot who took a stand against lawlessness or a vigilante who brought a gun to a protest.

Wisconsin Gov. Puts National Guard on Alert Before Rittenhouse Verdict — Something He Didn't Do for 2020 Riots Until It Was Too Late.  Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers was slow to call out the National Guard in the summer of 2020, when Kenosha was burning and President Donald Trump was offering to help, but he's called them out now in advance of the verdict in the Kyle Rittenhouse case.  Rittenhouse was among several men and women who answered the call to secure a business called Car Source on the third night of riots that largely destroyed two other company locations.  Police kettled the rioters, who were marauding in the streets, setting fires, beating people, and attacking a kid who came to help — 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse.  By the time it was over, three men had been shot after they attacked him.

Democrats Are Profoundly Committed to Criminal Justice Reform — For Everyone But Their Enemies.  The 2020 protest movement that erupted after the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis and the shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha became one of the most sustained and consequential in modern U.S. history.  Though there seems to be a somewhat bizarre effort underway by its advocates to insist that this movement accomplished nothing [...] it is demonstrably true that, as intended, the movement transformed discourse and policy around multiple issues from race, to policing, to gender identity, to the teaching of history, and fostered an ongoing effort for still-greater changes.  The issues raised by that movement were varied and often shifting: though it was catalyzed by the claim that the U.S. is swamped with racist police brutality as illustrated by the Floyd and Blake cases, it quickly metastasized into other areas far removed from those two cases.  White Antifa members clashed with Black protesters over the attempt to steer or broaden the movement away from a narrow focus on racist police brutality into one devoted to generalized insurrectionary anarchy.  One of the largest and most densely packed gatherings was a spontaneous march, at the height of the COVID pandemic, in Brooklyn, where ten thousand people paid homage to the importance of "black trans lives," a cause whose relationship to the Floyd and Blake cases was tenuous at best.

There are January 6 protesters sitting in jail for less than this:
Democrats In Ohio Statehouse Erupt In Screaming, Desk Pounding And Stomping Feet During Introduce Of Anti-Transgender Bill.  This appears to be an organized obstruction of the Ohio government.  January 6 protestors are behind bars for less than this.  [Video clip]

The New Secession Crisis: The Democrats have already left the Union.  The Democrats have already seceded from America's historic conception of nationhood in many respects: [...] THEY have engaged in asymmetric street violence against us.  For the Left, their violence is speech, and our speech is violence.  One-third of "very liberal" whites believe violence can be justified in pursuing political goals, vs. just 4 percent of "very conservative" whites.  They have enabled their armed and violent wings to cause billions of dollars of damage during the George Floyd and Antifa riots, making them the most expensive civil disturbances in history, while criminalizing the much smaller and far less significant street forces on the Right such as the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, further using their control of the state legal apparatus to label their opponents as "domestic terrorists."

There is Nothing 'Imaginary' About Antifa's Legacy of Real Violence.  In June 2019, some 400 anarchists, led by a local Antifa cell, took to the streets of Portland, Oregon shouting "Whose streets?  Our streets?"  Wearing black helmets or masks, the rioters invaded an area known as City of Roses and wreaked havoc.  As the mob destroyed private property and threatened residents and business owners, police officers followed the orders of intimidated elected officials to stand down.  Since that time, Antifa radicals have rioted and looted in over 200 cities.  The results: over 30 dead and at least $2 billion in damages to public and private property.  And as the flames were scorching inner city neighborhoods, the hierarchy of the Democratic Party downplayed the violence claiming the "protests were mostly peaceful," or "an impressive show of democracy in action."

What All Riots, Including America's Today, Have in Common.  With the invention of the steam engine in 1698, the railway in 1804, the steamship in 1807, and the telegraph in the 1830s, industrialized countries became wealthy — and wealth was shared — beyond anything the anarchists of the 1770s could imagine.  That is precisely the point.  Anarchists, then and now, cannot imagine the improvement of living standards that has taken place or is to come.  They revel in destruction because they do not see the good that exists or that is to come.  For them, the good will not come.  They will spend years, if not a lifetime, seeking to destroy the means of productivity they believe to be evil.  Unfortunately, most of our progressive leaders in government share this faithless perspective.  They aren't willing to acknowledge that capitalism has produced such wealth, or that wealth has "trickled down" to workers.  An unskilled laborer in America earned one dollar for a 12-hour day in 1900, or some $300 per year.  An average unskilled worker today earns $40,000 per year.

Are Domestic Terrorists Always on Our Right?  According to leftist columnists and commentators, going back to the 1960s, the real threat of domestic terrorism has always come from the right.  That is not, however, how some of us remember those days.  The most destructive acts of violence in the 1960s were the urban race riots that began in Harlem in July 1964, when 15-year-old black youth James Powell was shot by a police lieutenant.  In 1965, Watts blew up, followed by Newark and Detroit in 1967.  In 1968, 100 U.S. cities exploded in racial violence after the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis on April 4.  Anti-war riots followed the urban riots, beginning with an attack on the Pentagon in October 1967 and the occupation of Columbia University in 1968.  That August, leftists ignited a riot at the Democratic Convention that nominated Hubert Humphrey in Chicago.  After President Richard Nixon took office in 1969, a mass anti-war protest in Washington, D.C., spun off a mob that trashed the Department of Justice.  A riot at Kent State in May 1970 precipitated the killing of four students by the Ohio National Guard, and follow-on riots on scores of campuses that shut down higher education for the rest of that spring semester.  That same year, terrorists in a Greenwich Village townhouse blew themselves up with a 2,000-pound bomb they were making to massacre noncommissioned officers and their wives and girlfriends at a dance at Fort Dix, New Jersey.

RIP, Republican Party.  Over the last year, across the country BLM and Antifa "peaceful protests" erupted into 220 riots, resulting in 30 people being killed, 2,000 police injured, multiple attacks on police stations and federal buildings, public and federal property vandalized, minority communities and businesses destroyed, and portions of cities taken over by force.  And just who was to blame for these deadly Riots?  Not one Democrat politician who voiced their wholehearted support for BLM or any other high profile liberal media or Hollywood type.  And certainly not Joe Biden or Kamala Harris who have the full support of BLM and Antifa.  And what were the consequences for BLM and Antifa as a result of all the riots, death, and destruction?  Community leaders defunded the police.  Leftists media and Democrat politicians applauded and encouraged their actions and encouraged compliance to their cause.  Corporations gave millions to their cause.  Big tech applauded their actions and censored all opposition and condemnation of their actions.

Pearl-Clutchers on Parade.  On the left — literally — we have had nearly eight months of rampaging criminality and violence in the many Democrat-controlled cities in our country, all conducted by thugs belonging to groups called Black Lives Matter and Antifa.  This is the short list of what they have done:
  •   Committed widespread arson, including burning down hundreds of minority-owned businesses in the Latino, Asian and black communities (the black owners clearly didn't matter);
  •   Incinerated cars and burned down buildings, court houses, police stations, et al;
  •   Shot laser beams in the eyes of policemen;
  •   Assaulted civilians, resulting in 30 deaths and thousands of hospitalizations;
  •   Smashed plate-glass windows of numerous businesses, both large and small and then engaged in looting, stealing and grand theft;
  •   Terrorized and then dragged people out of restaurants;
  •   Tore down historic statues, including those of black icons (duh);
  •   Defaced streets and avenues with BLM's block-long, block-lettered, yellow-painted name.
  •   Terrorized the citizenry of entire neighborhoods and towns for months on end;
  •   Attacked people in locked cars;
In all those eight months — 220 days, over 5,000 hours — what was the reaction of Democrats, both elected and civilian?  A thunderous silence.  Not a word of opprobrium or disapproval or condemnation.

Farewell to a Dreadful Year.  [Scroll down]  Then in the summer of 2020, the cities erupted.  Following the death of George Floyd, thousands of people took to the streets (in the midst of a pandemic) to protest "systemic racism," whatever that was.  However, while "mostly peaceful protestors" ran amok, church attendance was strictly limited.  George Floyd, who had a long criminal past, was practically turned into Mother Theresa.  At a time when normal people couldn't have funerals for their family members, Floyd managed to have four.  The violence that fanned out across the country led to a huge spike in crime in New York, Chicago, Minneapolis, Portland, and other major cities.  Meanwhile, cancel culture went from tearing down statues and public art to censoring speech.  Suddenly, words or expressions innocently used for decades and centuries, were deemed to have "racist connotations."

The Coming Chaos:  A Primer.  The reason a 2020 Democrat presidential candidate like Joe Biden can call ANTIFA "just an idea" is because it was set up and organized specifically for the purpose of making it difficult to track and understand.  In the aspects of organizing, planning and funding, these groups have been directed and led by '60s and '70s-era radicals who have been evading federal law enforcement for decades.  They use the same "hub and spoke" model of organization that the communists used in Vietnam in order to ensure their leadership stays off the radar of both the public and law enforcement, but they've slipped several times lately showing their hand and revealing the identities of several of their inner-circle planning committee members.  We will address how that model works, but first consider that these "different" groups share the same tactics, uniforms, language, communications and signage on the East Coast that they have on the West Coast and in the Midwest.  They have teams of lawyers and millions of dollars at the ready to defend and bail out their street soldiers at a moment's notice.  They have logistics, pre-positioned piles of bricks, weapons, and even U-Haul trucks full of riot gear and supplies that deliver to the forward lines of their battle space.

Seemingly spontaneous street violence is organized and pursuing a radical political agenda.  [Scroll down]  For starters, the violence is organized criminal activity.  The same destructive activists have been identified at different times in different cities around the country.  For example, in August eight members of the Seattle-based group Riot Kitchen were arrested after wreaking havoc in Kenosha, Wisconsin.  Such groups are well supported, as seen in the viral video of a rented U-Haul truck that appeared in Louisville, Kentucky, immediately after the grand-jury verdict was announced in the Breonna Taylor case.  The truck was stocked with riot gear and anti-police banners.  They are well-funded.  In Grand Rapids, Michigan, for instance, the Michigan Solidarity Bail Fund posted $120,000 bail for rioters.  Nationwide, bail funds have received tens of millions of dollars in donations in recent months.  These organized groups have no interest in demonstrating peacefully.  They are showing up intending to commit violence.  In Portland, Oregon, rioters came to the Portland Courthouse armed with fireworks, Molotov cocktails, a circular saw, crowbars, rocks, frozen water bottles and spikes — all instruments for conducting offensive actions.

Revolution 2020.  [Scroll down]  Nothing encourages, amplifies, and seemingly justifies extreme sentiments as does being part of a unanimous chorus, a crowd, a mob.  Success supercharges them.  The Resistance fostered in the ruling class's members the sense that they were more right, more superior, and more entitled than they had ever imagined.  It made millions of people feel bigger, and better about themselves than they ever had.  Ruling class violence started on inauguration day 2017 and grew unceasingly, at first an ominous background to all manner of bureaucratic, oligarchic, and media attacks on the election's winners.  But note well that the black-clad burners and looters were the very opposite of a proletariat and that, Marxist rhetoric aside, they never attacked the wealthy or the powerful — not Wall Street, nor major corporations, certainly not any government, never mind Google, Facebook, or Twitter, America's most powerful monopolies, or corporate officials.  Instead, they received financial contributions from these sources.  The violent ones were as troops in the service of the powerful, out to crush the spirit of rebellious subjects.  Some Marxists!

Eerie parallels between Antifa and the Chinese Cultural Revolution.  If you think the tactics and rhetoric of Antifa and Black Lives Matter demonstrators in America's streets are new, think again.  They're old. [...] This activity 54 years ago happened in Communist China.  The name of the student movement was the Red Guards.  They were inspired and encouraged by the chairman of the Chinese communist party, Mao Zedong.  He dubbed this violent reign of terror the "Cultural Revolution."  The goal of the Cultural Revolution was to eliminate what Mao called the "Four Olds."  The four olds were Old Customs, Old Culture, Old Habits and Old Ideas — everything that pre-dated communism in China.  Mao saw them as a threat to his communist rule, so he unleashed the Red Guards to eliminate them.  The Four Olds had to be replaced with new customs, new culture, new habits and new ideas — communist customs, communist culture, communist habits and communist ideas.  The Red Guards didn't start out by killing people and destroying property.  They started out with intimidation to back up Mao's cultural revolution to change place names, especially street names.

The Riots:  More Questions than Answers.  As we've watched what has been taking place, a number of obvious questions came to mind:
  •   How can there be any doubt that this an interstate operation?  In city after city, the tactics, banners, clothing, weaponry, etc., have been virtually identical.  Vans with supplies traveling cross-country have been intercepted.  Out-of-state perpetrators have been arrested.  It's obviously being centrally planned and coordinated.
  •   Where do these "local protesters" get their lasers, explosives, military helmets, protective gloves, body armor, and other deadly weaponry?  Someone selects them, orders them, pays for them, and delivers them.  Who instructs them how to use all these things?
  •   Where do they get their guns?  Most of the rioters with guns don't appear to have much experience with firearms.
  •   How do they happen to bring the right "tools" for the job?  For example, the rioters who destroyed the Kenosha, WI, car dealership came with sledgehammer-like hardware to bash in all the car windows and firebombs to set everything on fire.  When confronting police they have lasers to blind them, bricks injure them, and bottles of urine to throw at them.  When breaking into stores they have the weaponry for that.
  •   Who masterminded all this?  The idea of staging riots across America, the large-scale propaganda campaign, and the intense ideology behind it did not suddenly appear when George Floyd died.  It has clearly been in the works for a long time by dedicated radicals.

Democrats Are Trying To Threaten Their Way Into Power.  Remember "Occupy Wall Street"?  That was the "great people's movement" that was going to take down capitalism.  It was a false start.  Plagued with hygiene and sexual assault issues (which, as I reported in 2011, they encouraged victims to handle in-house and avoid police), the stationary mob fell apart.  But they learned from that experience.  Static mobs of mentally unstable people will turn on each other, violently and sexually.  CHOP/CHAZ in Seattle reaffirmed that.  But BLM-ANTIFA realized a roving mob, one that went home or wherever they go, and reconvenes at night, or commutes around the country, won't have as much free time on their hands near others to engage in such "inconveniences."  They were ready to be helpful to the Democratic Party, and the Democratic Party was ready for that help.  In the mess of violence, the immediate target became police, but it still, ultimately is the president.  Police are just a proxy to keep the fire burning until people vote.  That leads us to this new trend on the left: stating plainly that the violence will continue, and probably get worse, unless Donald Trump loses in November.

The Enemy is Within.  Watching Democrat-aligned radicals raze our cities over the past three months has felt like a thousand mini-Pearl Harbors — only the enemy is within and the damage is in our backyards.  While beleaguered Democrats dig their own graves as they prop up the riots, the ordeal has been exhausting, dispiriting, and frustrating for the rest of us.  Evidence of an alliance between Democrats and BLM couldn't be more glaring.  Pernicious riots have persisted, unchallenged, in Democrat strongholds with the imprimatur of untold Democrat mayors, city councils, and governors.  The Democrat media delivers the news with an Orwellian blackout of the word "riot" as our cities immolate before our very eyes.

Biden spokesman cries foul when asked if Biden uses a teleprompter.  [Scroll down]  And for the Democrats, that still wasn't enough.  They used the excuse of a violent ex-felon's overdose-related death to justify mass protests across American cities.  And when Black Lives Matter, the ideological arm of the New Democrat Party, met up with Antifa, the military arm of the New Democrat Party, the misery multiplied as riots and looting spread from city to city.  Minneapolis suffered half a billion dollars in damages, many to black communities, and may take decades to recover.  Tiny Kenosha, Wisconsin, suffered $50 million in damages when a violent accused rapist was shot after fighting with police and appearing to reach for a weapon to use against them.  Portland and Seattle have daily battles going on between police and paramilitary mobs.  Chicago's been through the looting wringer twice now.

39 Photos Capture America's Summer of Riots, Arson, and Looting.  Violent riots and looting have spread like an infectious disease across America in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25.  Rioters' demands for justice quickly spiraled into calls to defund police departments across America.  Demonstrators have set businesses on fire, looted shops, and carried out planned attacks against police officers and federal buildings.  Here are 39 photos taken since the end of May, capturing the chaos caused by demonstrators in Portland, Oregon; Seattle; New York City; Chicago; Atlanta; Minneapolis; Richmond, Virginia; Miami; Kenosha, Wisconsin; and the District of Columbia.

Here Are The 269 Companies Who Are Supporting BLM & Antifa.  The full list is below and it includes at least one statement per company: [...]

Antifa Aren't Revolutionaries — They Serve The Powers That Be.  Antifa, short for "anti-fascist," is a far-left movement dedicated to fighting whatever its adherents think is fascism.  It's a loose organization without a clear structure or public leaders.  Its name comes from a Communist-organized group in Weimar Germany.  Unlike their ancestors, most American Antifa would better be described as anarchists rather than Communists.  But it's a mistake to think of Antifa as particularly ideological.  Yes, they are extreme leftists, but what primarily defines them is who they target and the goals advanced by their violence.  And it's not exactly Communism.  Antifa may describe themselves as anti-capitalists, but they don't target capital.  They're not intimidating corporate CEOs or rioting over jobs being shipped overseas.  They don't try to shut down banks or financial institutions.  They focus exclusively on enemies they share with mainstream liberals — Trump supporters, the police, ICE, the "alt-Right," conservatives, etc.  They never seem to go after targets that would draw condemnation from liberal elites.  With the exception of the police and some politicians, they go after powerless people.  It's easy for them to sucker punch a random Trump supporter in the street.  That person's story will never be told in the media and reporters will believe whatever lies Antifa spread about their victims.

What Is the Violence in American Cities All About?  As with most cultural revolutions that wish to start things over at "year zero," the violence is aimed at America's past in order to change its present and future.  The targets are not just the old majority culture but also classical statues and buildings, hallowed institutions, religious icons, the renowned names of streets and plazas, and almost every representation of tradition and authority.  For the majority of Americans who do not buy into the revolution, it all seems so surreal — and hypocritical. [...] The point of the mob is to wipe out what it cannot create.  It topples what it can neither match nor even comprehend.  It would erode the very system that ensures it singular freedom, leisure and historic affluence.  The brand of the anarchist is not logic but envy-driven power: to take it, to keep it, and to use it against purported enemies — which would otherwise be impossible in times of calm or through the ballot box.

The Choice Before Us.  Back at home, left-wing radicals burn Bibles, assault and murder policemen and civilians, set fire to courthouses, vandalize and loot all manner of businesses.  On Friday [7/30/2020], thugs in Portland placed a pig's head on an American flag outside the city's Justice Center.  They put a policeman's cap atop it, doused it with a firestarter, and set it aflame.  The name of George Floyd, the career criminal who died in police custody at the end of May, was at first invoked mantra-like to justify or at least to explain this explosion of savagery.  Now, a couple of months later, there are still ritual invocations of his name but, really, you don't hear too much about Floyd.  The real agenda has come more and more to the fore.  Barack Obama summed it up when he said, in 2008, that he was after the fundamental transformation of the United States of America.  Cities like Portland give us a glimpse of what that transformation would entail.  The clips of the savages burning Bibles put me in mind of Heinrich Heine's solemn observation that Dort wo man Búcher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen:  "Wherever people burn books, they also end up burning men."  It may seem melodramatic, but here is the awful choice we face: the choice between the spirit of mayhem, burning pigs' heads, and burning Bibles, on the one side, and the traditional American spirit that cherishes the rule of law, free expression, and fructifying engines of prosperity, on the other.

Antifa Gives Progressives a Tin-Pot Dictator High.  Antifa, short for the German word antifashistisch, is a congerie of anarchists, socialists, Communists, liberals, and social democrats who disrupt, break, beat, and make it physically impossible for those whom they deem fascists, capitalists, white supremacists, etc. to carry on their activities.  Antifa's slogan is "abolish capitalism, antifascist action, smash fascism."  Their members dress in black, wear masks, and fight under black and red banners.  Footage of their violence is readily available online.  In recent years, similarly violent groups have "occupied" Wall Street, shut down freeways in Chicago and Oakland, California, disrupted Trump's campaign rallies, trashed Washington, D.C. during the 2017 presidential inaugural, and chased conservative speakers from college campuses.

Antifa: Role Playing Cowards.  Antifa, as the name suggests, purports to be an anti-fascist group.  Its members believe that President Trump is trying to push an anti-liberal, anti-socialist, violently exclusionary, expansionist nationalist agenda.  Well, this is simply not the case.  For all the division and acrimony in political debate and online, American society is, by international and historical standards, strikingly liberal and tolerant.  In fact, America has never been safer.  Crime has dramatically fallen over the past decade — both violent and non-violent.  Truly fascist dictatorships suppress individual liberties, imprison opponents, and forbid strikes.  Does this sound like the United States of 2019?

The Liberal War On You.  We are witnessing the death of the liberal political machine that the elite has operated since the end of World War II, and everything that it is doing to conservatives right now — the censorship, the threats, the intimidation, the violence — is proof that it is dying.  These are not the acts of an ideology in ascendance but rather of a scurrilous political paradigm in precipitous decline.  And it's only going to get worse as those losing their grip on political and cultural power desperately try to hold onto it in the face of our populist revolt.  Be prepared.  It's going to get uglier.

Sanctimony in politics leads to violence.  Violence by Antifa thugs in Portland, Oregon, this weekend — while police stood by and watched — is the result of the holier-than-thou approach to politics of Democrats.  Liberals created and fostered this atmosphere by branding the opposition as evil in 2016.  Topping the list were Hillary's basket of deplorables speech and Biden calling supporters of Donald John Trump the dregs of society.  Portraying their opponents as subhuman ogres gave license to their brownshirt brigade to attack Trump supporters, and the Antifa thugs have.

Hundreds of Examples of Anti-Trump Violence Committed by Liberals.  In the wake of the recent pipe bomb scares targeting liberal public figures, the narrative that President Donald Trump's rhetoric is inciting extremism went into overdrive.  Indeed, those who said nothing about "toxic rhetoric" when Steve Scalise was nearly shot to death are now happy to pretend that it's only Trump that has inflammatory rhetoric.  The horse blinders truly are on those liberal pundits — as they've managed to ignore literally dozens of examples of both physical attacks and threats of violence against Republicans earlier in October.

639 Acts of Media-Approved Violence and Harassment Against Trump Supporters.  When not calling Trump supporters "Nazis" as a means to dehumanize us, the establishment media like to whine about the lack of civility in American politics, even as they cover up, ignore, downplay, or straight-up approve of the wave of violence and public harassment we are seeing against supporters of President Trump.  It is open season on Trump supporters, and the media is only fomenting, encouraging, excusing, and hoping for more.  The media are now openly calling Trump supporters "Nazis" and are blaming Trump for a mass murder he had nothing to do with.  This, of course, is a form of harassment because it incites and justifies mob violence.

The Left's Accusation That The Right Is Fascist Is Simply Psychological Projection.  [Scroll down]  Antifa is politics as performative recreation — cosplay and LARPing livened by harassment, vandalism, and moderate violence.  The tactics Williamson observed in Portland, "marching through the streets chanting the usual obscenities... blocking traffic, engaging in the casual lawlessness now associated with this city," are not those of hardened revolutionaries and resistance fighters, but of perpetual adolescents staving off ennui.  They are not much of a threat.  The police could quickly clear them out if the feckless city leadership gave them permission, and if the GOP really were fascists then the black-mask LARPers would have been long dead.  Portland still harbors many well-armed Republicans, some of whom possess enough firepower to singlehandedly gun down all of Antifa.  The danger of Antifa is not that they will do much damage themselves, but that they will normalize political violence for those who would be good at it.  Real political violence is a dreadful thing, and those who yearn for it are ignorant, depraved, or both.  The bitterness of civil conflict and war is driven not only by cruelty, ideological fervor, and vengeance, but also by fear.

The Rhetorical Art of Blame-Laying.  As a public service, here are some things that are in no way responsible for creating a "climate of political violence" in the United States:
  •   Public performances of plays that depict the execution of Trump-like figures.
  •   Publishing a Trump assassination fantasy in the New York Times. [...]
  •   The recent use of violent rhetoric by presidents on the left: for example, when Barack Obama advises supporters to oppose opponents by saying if "they bring a knife, we bring a gun."
  •   The media's valorization of virtue-signaling celebrities who make threats against the president's family, disparage his supporters, encourage public violence, or create violent images like the mock-decapitation of the president.
  •   Antifa's (and associated groups') violent responses to peaceful exercises of conservative speech in public spaces.
  •   Leftists running high-profile conservatives out of restaurants.
  •   Maxine Waters' encouragements of those who would use violent methods to signify their opposition to the Trump Administration.
  •   Hillary Clinton's call for a hiatus on civility until Democrats regain control of the government. [...]

Media pretend left-wing mobs of protesters aren't really mobs.  Journalists spent last week rewriting history as it happened and denying the thuggery of left-wing protests.  It was like watching a reality TV version of "1984."  President Trump helped get the show rolling when he called left-wing protesters "an angry mob" and Republicans and conservative groups picked up the term.  It was repeated in several videos and in a key GOP commercial that highlighted scenes of violence.  The scenes in the commercial included:  the rioting and arson that took place protesting President Trump's inauguration; attacks on Trump campaign events; harassment of members of Congress; and protesters pounding on the Supreme Court doors to object to the Senate confirmation of now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.  This was all more than the media could stand and they spent the week trying to disprove reality.

Of Course The Liberal Mob Is Real.  Expect the mob to continue to rage, well-funded and emboldened by the passive encouragement from their leaders.  But a word of warning, if you are vocal with your politics you should keep your head on a swivel.  Any child lacking discipline will inevitably test boundaries and cross lines, but a child is one person and will eventually tire.  A mob feeds off itself, off its members, and people in a group will go much further than any of them would alone.  In other words, no matter how insistent the likes of Don Lemon Brooke Baldwin are that they don't exist, the mob is here for the foreseeable future.  And it's only going to get worse.

The Rise of the Dazis and Mob Rule.  Antifa acts as a military wing of the Democrat Party, the media acts as the propaganda wing of the Democrat Party, a shadow government is installed by the Democrat Party to act as a foil to the Republican Party, including sabotaging the government apparatus in order to remain in power despite the outcome of elections.  This is a shadow government, impervious to the will of the people.  But, none of this will result in an actual overthrow of the government, it can only manipulate the current government into suicidal policies. 

Why the Left Is Consumed With Hate.  Even before President Trump's election, hatred had begun to emerge on the American left — counterintuitively, as an assertion of guilelessness and moral superiority. [...] For many on the left a hateful anti-Americanism has become a self-congratulatory lifestyle.  "America was never that great," New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo recently said.  For radical groups like Black Lives Matter, hatred of America is a theme of identity, a display of racial pride.  For other leftists, hate is a license.  Conservative speakers can be shouted down, even assaulted, on university campuses.  Republican officials can be harassed in restaurants, in the street, in front of their homes.  Certain leaders of the left — Rep. Maxine Waters comes to mind — are self-appointed practitioners of hate, urging their followers to think of hatred as power itself.  How did the American left — conceived to bring more compassion and justice to the world — become so given to hate?

Death to the Rule of Law.  [Scroll down]  Fast forward to today.  Well over 500 — and growing daily — documented incidents of leftist violence against supporters of our legally, duly elected president, Donald J. Trump.  The attacks have all been unprovoked.  Period.  Attacks, too, on the police all over the country have increased exponentially.  However, what should concern Americans the most is the growing number of Democrat politicians complicit in the violence.  The most recent is the far left Democrat mayor of Portland, Oregon, Ted Wheeler, who refused to give police protection from violent protesters outside the federal building housing the ICE offices in Portland.  Under his leadership, Portland has become a safe home for Antifa and the scene of now-predictable violent attacks on Americans exercising their 1st Amendment rights.

This isn't culture war.  It's worse.  [Scroll down]  Unlike the prog caricature of us, we're responsible people.  When we gather in large numbers, you almost can't tell we were ever there because we clean up behind ourselves.  We speak quietly and respectfully, treat our women like ladies, and control our kids.  Nobody fears normals because nobody has any reason to.  This contrasts starkly with progs, who gather in large numbers to riot, scream obscenities, carry signs, and trash the place.  They get up in others' faces and scream and rage as if out of control, sometimes putting a normal person in fear for his life.  All this is intended to communicate public unhappiness over this issue or that, but all it really puts across is that a bunch of wilding lunatics are loose again.  Liberals, similar to but reputedly more reasonable than progs, always notice the single MAGA hat in a crowd but never the destructive prog behavior raging all around them.  And it's liberals who write the columns and tweets next day, dripping venom about the hateful normals.

The Top 50 Liberal Media Bias Examples.  [#26] Occupy Wall Street:  The media fell in love with Occupy Wall Street protests from the second they began.  All reportage on these violent, crime-filled events has been suffused with a touch of sweetness and light by the media.  Unreported has been the over 400 crimes committed by Occupiers not to mention the many thousands of small laws like local ordinances and rules that have been broken across the country.  At these Occupy events we've seen rapes, thefts, rampant property destruction, drug abuse, some gun violence, even deaths have occurred at these protests.  Yet the media is reticent to cover these crimes.  This is a kindness the media never extended to the Tea Party movement.

Left-Wing Political Violence in America:
  •   Missouri Senator: 'I Hope Trump Is Assassinated'
  •   Portland Rose Parade canceled after 'antifascists' threaten GOP marchers
  •   Riot Forces Cancellation Of Yiannopoulos Talk At UC Berkeley
  •   Threats Against EPA Employees Up 50% Under Trump Admin.
  •   Prosecutors file new charges against inauguration protesters who rioted, torched immigrant's limo
  •   Increasing threats to Homeland Security include burned animal carcass left on staffer's porch
  •   Leftist MOB Beats, Kicks, Pummels TRUMP Supporter for Wearing #MAGA Hat
  •   Republican headquarters in North Carolina firebombed
  •   California man arrested for threatening to kill FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's family over net neutrality

Assertions Of Ownership.  It's my practice to take a strong line with leftists, regardless of the subject.  They dislike that, and do their best to shout me down.  As it happens, I can't be shouted down; I have a bull elephant roar that causes cancer in laboratory rats and kills canaries outright.  Beyond that, I usually possess the evidence required to support my stances.  They don't.  The Left's claims to "own" an issue are attempts to preclude rational examination of it for precisely that reason.  As Victor Marguerite once wrote, "The Fascists cannot argue, so they kill."  But of course!  If you can't prevail by the rules of reasoned discussion, abandon the rules.  Prevail by intimidation or coercion.  That's what would-be totalitarians have done throughout history.  While the Left hasn't yet resorted to murder on any noticeable scale, the threshold for that sort of "response" is drawing near.

From Conspiracy Theories to Conspiracies.  [D]id anyone believe that in the year 2017 the losing side in an American election would immediately dub itself the "Resistance" — channeling the World War II nomenclature of the guerrilla campaign against the Nazi occupation of France?  Or that the defeated candidate Hillary Clinton would formally embrace the imagery of liberationist patriots fighting a Nazi-like Trump's occupation of the United States?  One ingredient for removing a president would entail a nonstop effort by the opposition to use the courts, the legislative branch, the investigatory agencies, and the administrative state to discredit, undermine, and remove an elected government.

Explaining the Narcissistic Rage of the Left.  How to account for the scorched-earth hatred of Donald Trump?  He inspires a darkly fanatical dislike, disapproval, and disgust in his most ardent detractors.  He is a distillation for millions of unhappy Americans of all things repugnant, repulsive, and wretched.  The fever pitch at which he has been mocked, ridiculed, condemned, and threatened is beyond anything anyone in living memory has been subject to — let alone a sitting American president.  From Colbert's "holster" to Madonna's fantasy of blowing up the White House to Kathy Griffin's decapitation stunt, and De Niro's thug life wish to "punch him in the face," the gloves are most certainly off — if only to better grasp a bludgeon.  And that's just the celebrities.  Even a state senator from Missouri hoped for Trump's assassination on Facebook.

The Best Quotes of 2017.  [#2]  "It's tough to have a multicultural society with people who want you dead."

Judicial Anarchism.  [Scroll down]  History is full of examples where the ruling class either lost control or lost the moral authority to maintain control.  Every revolution in history follows this model to some degree.  What we are seeing in modern America is a strange combination of how order breaks down in a society.  The American ruling class is coming to the conclusion that the rules really don't work for them.  They don't have the will or ability to simply toss them aside and impose a new order, but they refuse to allow the old rules to limit their power.

Leftist police chiefs and leftist rioters — a dangerous combination. 
  •   In April 2015, when rioters took the streets of Baltimore to protest Freddie Gray's death, the police were told to stand down.  Progressive mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake famously (or infamously) stated openly, "We gave those who wished to destroy space to do that."
  •   In February 2017, when violent rioters stopped Milo Yiannapoulos from speaking on the Berkeley campus and then took to the streets, although the cops assembled, they did not act.  Subsequent orders were that they were told to stand down.  It came to light later that Berkeley's mayor was a member of an Antifa Facebook group.
  •   In August 2017, in Charlottevilles, Virginia, after fascists from the Left and fascists from the Right clashed, leading a schizophrenic to use a car as a weapon, it emerged that the Democrat mayor had given the police orders to stand down — even though it was apparent that both sides in this pond scum protest came ready to do violence.
Do you see a pattern?

The Coming Violence of the Left.  [Scroll down]  Again, the trend you see with this cargo cult is that it is women out front, trying to push for violence and bloodshed.  This is similar to what happened in the radical groups of the 60's and 70's.  Many of the most violent members of the Black Panthers were women.  The Weather Underground was led by a women, Bernardine Dohrn.  The radicalism of the 1960's was initially led by males, but in time women took over and it became more violent and less coherent.  Once again, the arrival of SJW's signals the end phase.  There's something else going on today.  Antifa is largely a cargo cult.  They dress up like radicals and perform public events like the radicals of 50 years ago, all in the hope that the past will become the present.  Unlike the past, there's no reactionary counter to the modern Progressive.  No one is putting fire hoses on Lefty or having the cops break up Antifa's protests.  The people in charge are funding groups like Antifa.

Here is Why the Violence is Going to Escalate, And Escalate Quickly.  There is no comparable list of "alt-right" protests.  Though there have been some, there have not been as many.  The violence at these events has included molotov cocktails, shattered windows, punches thrown, and public property destroyed.  Last night, a group of leftwing activists tore down a confederate statue without permission.  But in pointing all of this out, prominent voices on the left will angrily reply that Black Lives Matter, Antifa, union goons, etc. are all working for equality, justice, or some other noble end.  They will wave away legitimate comparisons between the alt-left and alt-right providing moral justification for the left.  There have been far more conservatives willing to call out the alt right than there have been progressives calling out the alt-left.

The War of the Hyphens.  The riots in Charlottesville reflect the breakdown of the Narrative, which has been the subject of several past posts.  What happened on the street has been a long time coming on the Internet.  The bonds of trust are breaking down.  Reputation and authority are no longer recognized outside of a membership group.  The personal, already political, finally became commercial.  Some companies have flatly refused to serve those whose views they disapprove of.  Political views are becoming conditions of employment.  Some national political leaders are proposing explicit "litmus tests" to sort people according to virtue.  Now cars are ramming into people.  The riots and death in Charlottesville are the physical manifestation of the idea of separateness.  If the thought is the father of the deed, the children of hate, the offspring of "by any means necessary" and the scions of superiority so long in gestation, are finally being born.

One Day.  There is a moment when a government becomes so corrupt that it can no longer be tolerated by the people and I suggest that we are there.  It is much more openly corrupt today than it has ever been.  The Democrat Party is literally at war with the Republican President, not just angry at him, not just disappointed they didn't win, they have decided that he cannot be president.  Well, what does that mean?  When has that ever been true in American political history?  It is exactly the reaction they found incomprehensible when they accused Trump of refusing to recognize the election if he lost.

15 Times Celebrities Envisioned Violence Against Trump and the GOP.  [T]he level of vitriol and violent rhetoric against now-President Trump has increased substantially in recent weeks, from comedian Kathy Griffin's now-famous shock "beheading" photograph to Shakespeare in the Park's not-at-all-subtle "assassination" of Trump on a stage in New York City's Central Park.  Unfortunately, Griffin and the director of Julius Caesar are not anomalies in Hollywood; actors, writers, directors, and other celebrities have fantasized about using violence against Trump, his supporters, and other GOP lawmakers for at least the past 18 months.

Remember the professor who said Republicans should be executed?  [W]e would be foolish if we did not address the festering anti-Trump cancer that has infected the left.  What about the D-list comedian who beheaded the president or the taxpayer-funded production called, "Killing Republicans" or the Shakespearean drama where Caesar was depicted as President Trump?  What about the high school teacher who made a bet on whether the president would be assassinated or the one who pretended to execute the president inside her classroom?  Or how about the professor who said Republicans must be executed and the president must hang?  Or the other professor who said House Republicans should be lined up and shot?

Bernie Sanders Incitement Video:  "Fight... Push Them Back... Take Action... Fight... Revolution".  Dispatched by James Woods, this Bernie Sanders video represents incitement, pure and simple.  His language makes his aims clear:  Fighting.  Action.  Revolution.  All the typical hallmarks of socialist, leftist, Marxist and Communist agitation.  Saul Alinsky was a mentor and inspiration for both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.  One of Alinsky's key tenets:  Change is brought about through relentless agitation and "trouble making" of a kind that radically disrupts society as it is.  Another is:  There can be no conversation between the organizer and his opponents.  The latter must be depicted as being evil.  Still another is:  Politics is all about power relations, but to advance one's power, one must couch one's positions in the language of morality.

Incitement to Violence.  Democrats may be horrified by today's attempted massacre of the GOP House baseball team by an avowed progressive, but their incendiary demands for "massive resistance" since November have been an open plea for the escalation of words into violent action.  The daily repetition that President Trump is an illegitimate usurper who stole the election through collusion with foreign powers has been a hypnotic incantation in search of an Oswald:  a siren call for an assassin.

The Trump-hating Left's descent into Pornoviolence.  Having failed to prevent the election of Donald Trump, having failed to prove Russia collusion allegations against him, having failed to impeach him — the left is now turning to assassination fantasies, some say in the hope of getting one deranged lunatic to act on them.

The Roots of Left-Wing Violence.  There is currently, on the streets, smashing storefronts and setting things on fire, a group called "Antifa," for "anti-fascist."  Antifa are not a new phenomenon; they surfaced during the Occupy movement, and during the anti-globalization protests of the late 1990s and early 2000s.  Antifa movements began in early-20th-century Europe, when fascism was a concrete and urgent concern, and they remain active on the Continent.  Lately, Antifa have emerged as the militant fringe of #TheResistance against Donald Trump — who, they maintain, is a fascist, ushering into power a fascist regime.  In Washington, D.C., Antifa spent the morning of Inauguration Day lighting trash cans on fire, throwing rocks and bottles at police officers, setting ablaze a limousine, and tossing chunks of pavement through the windows of several businesses.

Let's Talk of the Democrat's Long History of Political Violence.  We can go back to the beginnings of the Democrat Party where violence at the polls was a typical occurrence in every election.  We can point to the span of nearly 200 years where Democrats used violence to maintain political power over both whites and blacks alike.  We have the decades of the slave power keeping all in line with its roving gangs of enforcers, we have an entire civil war initiated by Democrats during which nearly a million Americans died, and we have a hundred years of Jim Crow and KKK armies all fueled by the Democrat Party.  Yes, there is all that.  But we don't have to go back 200 years, 100 years, or even 50 years.  We can just look back at the entirety of the last 20 years where Democrats, Bernie Sanders supporters, black lives matter ruffians, Occupy Wall Street criminals, and your general left-wing lunatic in our colleges and we will see that political violence is the left's stock and trade.  Yet, there has never been any mediot out there who felt the need to condemn the constant violence emanating from the left.  When members of the Black Panthers carry clubs to the polls, when violence erupts in Berkeley, when leftists destroy property during riots in Ferguson, when liberals deliver bodily harm to Republicans, the liberal media is utterly silent on the topic of political violence.

Will the Second Civil War Turn Violent?  In a recent column, I made the case that Americans are fighting the Second Civil War.  The deep chasm that has opened up between the left — not liberals, the left — and the rest of the country is so wide and so unbridgeable that there is no other way to describe what is happening.  But I noted that at least thus far, unlike the First Civil War, this war is not violent.  Unfortunately, there is now reason to believe that violence is coming.  In fact, it's already here.  But as of now, it's only coming from one direction.  Left-wing thugs engage in violence and threats of violence with utter impunity.  They shut down speakers at colleges; block highways, bridges and airport terminals; take over college buildings and offices; occupy state capitals; and terrorize individuals at their homes.

Should We Hit Reporters and How Hard?  Whether it is murderers slaughtering police officers after listening to instigating rhetoric from Barack Obama and Black Lives Matter... or college students assaulting conservative speakers after years of listening to leftist professors define conservative language as violence... whether it's a Democratic congressman throttling a student journalist while the media pretty much lets it slide... or a dressed-up-as-mommy loon laying hands on Ben Shapiro while lefty commentators cheer... or whether it's a Republican congressional candidate body-slamming a reporter from a socialist newspaper who had himself expressed a desire to punch a conservative reporter... I tend to come down pretty solidly against people physically attacking one another.

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Editor's note:
The discussion of the car bomb in Nashville, Tennessee, December 25, 2020, has moved to a page of its own, located here.

Bluesky's Death Threat Problem.  Bluesky advertises itself as the X-alternative for the nice, compassionate left.  It claims to be less toxic and a place for civil discussion, without all the misinformation that plagues X. [...] Bluesky is a leftist sewer in which anybody who deviates from leftist orthodoxy is not only shunned but outright threatened, often with death.  That's not hyperbole, and to demonstrate how awful it is let's discuss the case of Jesse Singal.  For those of you who don't know, Jesse is one of the leaders of the gender-critical movement, focused mainly on saving kids from alphabet ideology and its sick consequences.  He holds the "heterodox" view that children should not be sterilized and mutilated — a view that is as toxic in the eyes of the Bluesky crowd as "CEOs should not be randomly shot in the back."

It's time for a national conversation about left-wing violence.  If reports are true, it looks like the targeted killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York last week was politically motivated.  The alleged shooter, Luigi Mangione, a former Ivy Leaguer from an affluent family, was reportedly caught with some kind of manifesto.  Even before we knew who the shooter was, however, the reaction from far too many leftists was to either justify, celebrate, or rationalize the shooting.  There's a real debate going on in some quarters of the progressive Left over whether slaying CEOs is a bad thing.  And it's unsurprising.  Of course, if any MAGA professors or journalists were online publicly defending the killing of perceived political enemies, there would be thousands of wringing hands lamenting the menacing rhetoric of conservatism.  And rightly so.  It should not be lost on us that there is a clear ideological continuum between people who rationalize the shooting of a CEO and those who rationalize the murder and rape of Jews by Palestinian terrorists and those who rationalize the burning down of cities for social justice. [...] And much of the left-wing violence we've seen is predicated on the idea that the enemy is irredeemably nefarious.

House Republicans:  Why Didn't Park Police Stop Anti-Israel Rioters From Vandalizing Federal Property?  How did violent anti-Israel, pro-Hamas rioters get away with destroying government property, burning American flags and an effigy of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and raising a Palestinian flag in place of Old Glory on July 24? Rep. Bruce Westerman, R-Ariz., asked that at the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing, "Desecrating Old Glory:  Investigating How the Pro-Hamas Protests Turned National Park Service Land Into a Violent Disgrace," on Tuesday.  [Tweet with video clip]  "D.C. is no stranger to protest and free speech demonstrations, but in this case, something went horribly wrong," Westerman said.  On July 24, protesters swarmed Union Station in Washington, D.C., and tore down the three American flags that stood tall outside the transit hub and replaced them with Palestinian flags.  [Tweet with video clip]

Nancy Mace Says She Was 'Accosted' on Capitol Hill.  On Tuesday night, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) shared over X that she was "physically accosted," with more posts following.  As she communicated in her posts, though, she is not giving up on her agenda to protect women and their private spaces.  All of her posts mention "#HoldTheLine."  [Advertisement]  News of the assault has since become a trending topic over X for Tuesday night.  [Tweet]  As one more recent post from the congresswoman explains, she "was physically accosted at the Capitol tonight [Tuesday] by a pro-trans man."  Mace mentioned the need for a new wrist brace and ice, though as she added, "it'll heal just fine."  Mace also noted that the person she said assaulted her was arrested by Capitol police.  A statement identified the person as 33-year-old James McIntyre of Illinois.  "Your tr*ns violence and threats on my life will only make me double down.  FAFO," Mace concluded in her post with as another way to double down on her crusade.  [Tweet]

Nancy Mace [was] Assaulted on Capitol Hill by [a] Transgender Activist.  Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) has been one of the leading voices calling for protections for women and their private spaces.  She recently introduced legislation to ban biological males from using women's bathrooms and locker rooms on Capitol Hill and on federal land nationwide.  [Advertisement]  [Quote from another website]  As a result of her efforts, she was on the receiving end of countless threats made against her and her staff.  One trans activist seems to have taken things way too far and actually assaulted Mace on Tuesday.  [Tweet]

BLM Leader Calls For 'Black Vigilantes' To Descend On Cities Following Daniel Penny Acquittal.  Black Lives Matter (BLM) leader Hawk Newsome called for "black vigilantes" to descend into major cities Monday to retaliate against 26-year-old former Marine Daniel Penny's acquittal over the death of Jordan Neely.  A Manhattan jury found Penny not guilty of criminally negligent homicide after he held 30-year-old homeless man Jordan Neely in a chokehold to protect surrounding passengers on a New York City subway train in May 2023. Newsome called on "black vigilantes" to avenge Neely's death and fight against white people who allegedly want to "choke" and "kill" black people for "being loud."  "Like everybody else has vigilantes, we need some black vigilantes," Newsome said.  "People want to jump up and choke us and kill us for being loud, how about we do the same when they attempt to oppress us?  I'm tired.  I know you're looking for us to be like 'oh, go and march.  Go and march.'  No, this weekend, I want you to hold a community event, everywhere from the Bronx, to Houston, to Seattle, to Florida.  Black people hold community events and talk about what you need."  [Video clip]

The 'Tolerant' Left Sure Does Like Assassinations.  A manifesto recovered from the alleged shooter of UnitedHeathCare CEO Brian Thompson says that "These parasites had it coming" and "I do apologize for any strife and trauma, but it had to be done."  This is music to the ears of many on the left, who cheered when they learned that Thompson had been gunned down and are treating the shooter as some sort of folk hero.  "Social media users have sometimes outright gloated at the killing," is how The Hill put it, describing it as an expression of "populist rage" and then spending the rest of the article trying to obliquely pin the blame on Donald Trump.  The Atlantic dismissed the "mockery and disdain" of the cold-blooded murder as an "expression of widespread fury at a broken system."

'Free Palestine' Supporter Shoots Two Kindergarteners at CA Christian School — Where's Newsom's Outrage?  On Wednesday a 56-year-old white man entered a school in Northern California with a "ghost gun" then shot and critically injured two kindergarteners before killing himself on the playground.  For some reason, though, you're not seeing videos of Gov. Gavin Newsom everywhere talking about the need for "common sense gun control laws" and finger-wagging.  [Advertisement]  Newsom didn't even mention the victims' names in the one statement he made.  [Tweet]  Elias Wolford, age 5, and Roman Mendez, age 6, were shot.  Elias was shot once in the abdomen, and Roman was shot twice.  Both are in critical condition with internal injuries, said Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea.

Absolutely disgusting.  The murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on Wednesday was big news.  I mean, he was just gunned down on the streets of New York City, messages reported scrawled on the shell casings. [...] But there's a very troubling trend happening where some... interesting folks are seemingly embracing the murder as some kind of good thing. [...] Thompson wasn't in the process of harming anyone when he was killed.  His murder didn't prevent someone else from dying.  That means it's not self-defense and since he also wasn't being executed after due process was observed, it means this doesn't fall under the kind of killing that is permissible under the rule of law.  But the same people who did the whole "no one is above the law" bit when Trump got convicted of BS charges are now pretending that the law is irrelevant and we can just go around killing people we don't like.

Nobody's buying the left's hate hoaxes.  A deranged Bernie Sanders supporter shot Rep. Steve Scalise and other Republicans playing softball.  Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) was assaulted by a Leftist neighbor, resulting in critical injuries, so much so that he lost a portion of a lung.  Antifa fascists and BLM terrorists caused over $2 billion in damages during the George Floyd riots.  Almost 400 Catholic Churches across the United States have been vandalized and burned in the aftermath of the Dobbs decision, which sent the issue of abortion back to the states.  I doubt that conservative Christian Republicans are burning their own churches.  Every time some deranged Leftist(s) goes off the rails and wreaks havoc, conservative commentators naturally take note of it.  And every time they do, Leftists respond with some variation of "Republicans Pounce."  These complaints usually mention how the situation is "more complex than Republicans say" or that the Democrats' comments were "taken out of context."  You see, it's not the inappropriate or even criminal event that's problematic; it's the way Republicans report on it.

What can we expect from the Left now?  The first Trump inauguration was marked with violent protests.  There is little reason to believe that this won't happen again.  The Democrats suffered a devastating loss to Trump and they have little to lose with rioting in the streets.  This may very well go beyond the swearing in of the President.  Mayors of some sanctuary cities already have said they will be organizing resistance to deportations locally.  Anyone believing these will be peaceful protests need only look back to 2020 for a glimpse of what the Left may attempt to muster.

Trump Cabinet nominees, appointees targeted with 'violent, unAmerican threats'.  Tom Homan opens up about facing threats after being chosen by President-elect Donald Trump for his new administration.  [Video clip]

More Than a Dozen Abortion Activists Arrested at Men's Pro-Life Demonstration in Boston: 'Extremely Riotous'.  More than a dozen pro-abortion activists were arrested at a peaceful men's pro-life demonstration in Boston, Massachusetts, on Saturday for allegedly acting in an "unlawful, riotous, and tumultuous manner," according to police.  Fourteen people were arrested, "most or all" of whom were pro-abortion counter-protesters at the The National Men's March to Abolish Abortion and Rally for Personhood, the Boston Globe reported, citing police. [...] The National Men's March to Abolish Abortion and Rally for Personhood was a city-permitted demonstration that began outside of Planned Parenthood on Commonwealth Avenue at 11:00 a.m.  The group marched for more than three miles to Parkman Bandstand in the Boston Common for a rally, according to Boston.com.

Connecticut School Teacher Who Threatened To Kill Trump Supporters Starts Crying During Interview.  Connecticut teacher starts bawling on air after she was forced to resign for threatening to kill Trump supporters.  Annie Dunleavy says her threats are just one big misunderstanding.  "Please don't test your gangster on me because you'll end on a stretcher gone forever," Dunleavy said to Trump supporters.  When asked what she meant by that, Dunleavy said everyone just misunderstood her.  [Video clip]

Police Book Woman Who Allegedly Murdered Her Dad With an Axe on Election Night.  The election wasn't in doubt.  Within a few hours of the East Coast settling into darkness, everyone knew — even the crazies.  I was on RedState's Election Night podcast, and it became increasingly clear, based on experts looking at data, that Donald Trump would win the Electoral College and had a good chance of winning the popular vote.  The latter seems to have broken the left and its most stalwart demographic of nuts — white women.  By Wednesday afternoon and following the concession speech by their Queen Kams, they seemed to have a collective breakdown, which I found hilarious at first, then disturbing.  Women were shouting into their cell phones, making vows to punch people wearing MAGA hats, and some vowing to murder people they suspected of just voting for Trump. [...] White women filmed themselves shaving their heads.  I don't have a clue why.  Because of election results?  Yikes.  How do these people function in society?  Many apparently cannot.  A woman named Corey Burke murdered her dad.  Murder isn't unusual, and murder in a family is often a crime of passion, but this murder was committed on Election Night.

Special Education Teacher In Connecticut Is Removed After Leaving An Unhinged Video Threatening To Kill Trump Voters.  Meet Annie Dunleavy, a special education teacher at Chapman School in Cheshire Connecticut, who reportedly posted a video online threatening to kiII and hurt Trump supporters.  She should not be anywhere near school children.  Dunleavy has been removed pending further investigation.  [Video clip]

U. of Oregon Places Administrator on Leave After Unhinged Rant Wishing Death on Trump Supporters.  The Assistant Director for Fraternity and Sorority Life (FSL) at the University of Oregon has been placed on leave after telling Trump voters to kill themselves by jumping off a "f······ bridge" in reaction to President-elect Donald Trump's landslide victory in the 2024 election.  [Tweet with video clip — profanity warning.]  A University of Oregon spokesperson told Breitbart News that Serrato has since been placed on administrative leave and an investigation into the matter is being conducted.  "The University of Oregon finds the statements made in the video abhorrent and not in alignment with our values or mission," the spokesperson said.

Radical Left Activates Anti-Trump Protests As AOC Riles Up Rioters.  Not even 24 hours after President-elect Donald Trump won more votes in Illinois this general election than in the previous two, and after winning the US election in a massive red wave sweep, far-left protesters gathered outside the Trump Hotel in Obama's Chicago.  The protests appear to have been highly organized and well-planned before the election, given the coordination among activists, the hundreds — if not thousands — of protesters — many holding signs — and the likely pre-approved protest routes from City Hall.  Organizers shouted into megaphones, "Trump is a fascist" and "racist," echoing hate speech spewed by the defunct Harris-Walz campaign in the months leading up to November 5.  Here's the mobilization effort by far-left radicals:  [Tweet with video clip]

Deconstructing the Mythology of January 6.  The only elected political figure to call for violence on January 6, 2021 was Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.  On that day she said:  "I hope he comes, I want to punch him out.  This is my moment.  I've been waiting for this.  For trespassing on the Capitol grounds.  I want to punch him out, and I'm going to go to jail, and I'm going to be happy."  Trump never came to the Capitol grounds but Pelosi broadcast her violent appeals for brutalizing the President of the United States to television cameras that day.  Her brutish rhetoric fit well with her antagonism of tearing up a copy of the President's State of the Union Message a year before — again before congressional members and on live television.  Pelosi's calls for violence have not been criticized by our public intellectual culture and in 2022 she reiterated that she continues to seek for violence against the President of the United States.  The Speaker of the House said that the President of the United States did not have [the courage] to face her directly on January 6, 2021.  Pelosi appealed to a notion of toxic masculinity by casting herself as an ideal alpha male willing to punch out the immoral intruder.

Police Arrest Georgia Poll Worker Over Alleged Bomb Threat Against Election Officials.  Police arrested a Georgia poll worker Monday for allegedly mailing a bomb threat letter to election officials after a verbal dispute with a voter on Oct. 16.  Nicolas Wimbish attempted to frame the voter by using identifying information and signing the letter as a purported "Jones County Voter," according to a press release from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), citing a criminal complaint.  The 25-year-old suspect from Milledgeville then allegedly sent the bomb threat to the Jones County Elections Superintendent on Oct. 17.

Man arrested for threatening to shoot Trump supporters.  A report at the Gateway Pundit revealed the FBI has arrested a man from Ann Arbor, Michigan, for allegedly posting plans to carry out a shooting on Trump's Christian supporters.  The suspect was identified as Isaac Sissel, 25, who controlled social media sites where threats were posted.  "After his arrest, the man said Trump was a threat that 'should be eliminated' and that 'everything would be better if Trump were dead,'" the report said.  Officials in the U.S. attorney's office revealed the FBI National Threat Operations Center got a submission stating, "I shall carry out an attack against conservative christan, (sic) filth in the event trump wins the election.  I have a stolen ar15 and a target I refuse to name so I can continue to get away with my plans.  Without a specific victim or ability to find the place I hid the gun, there's not a thing the FBI can do until I complete the attack."  Authorities tracked down the suispect through phone records and an IP address in the case.

Antifa Is Already Rioting.  Antifa agitators are already rioting in Democrat-led crime cesspools, calling for chaos on Election Night no matter who wins the White House.  Black bloc militants in the city of Seattle mobilized early in the evening to launch an Election Night attack at the former site of the deadly Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ).  Seattle cops swiftly shut the anarchist occupation down and arrested several leftist activists, according to on-the-ground footage captured by The Post Millennial's Katie Daviscourt.  "There is a heavy police presence on the ground tonight," she said, noting that the Seattle Police Department is "not playing any games."  At least four Antifa suspects were arrested for obstructing traffic and defying law enforcement orders to get out of the road, per Daviscourt.

A New Video Released By Police Shows A Man Planting A Bomb In A Washington State Ballot Box.  A newly released video shows a man planting a 'bomb' at a Vancouver, Washington ballot box, burning hundreds of ballots.  A video captures a car arriving at a ballot box in Vancouver on October 28.  After 30 seconds, the driver leaves, and smoke begins to pour from the box, followed by a large explosion.  [Video clip]

Democrats, Not Republicans, Are Responsible for Post-Election Violence.  Donald Trump's comments about envisioning neocon nepobaby Liz Cheney deployed to any one of the Cheney family's favorite war zones has resulted in perhaps the most deceitful media campaign of the 2024 presidential news cycle.  Cable news commentators including increasingly irrelevant and bitter NeverTrumpers such as Jonah Goldberg — who walked back his tirade on CNN claiming Trump advocated the use of a "firing squad" against Cheney — caterwauled how Trump's remark would spark "political violence."  The unsubstantiated allegation is central to Kamala Harris' closing argument.  She continues to insist without evidence that Trump is a perpetrator rather than a victim of "political violence."  Harris fielded a pre-planned question during a campaign stop in Wisconsin on Friday to accuse Trump of using "violent rhetoric" that disqualifies him from office.  Despite numerous examples of Democrat-involved political violence in Washington over the past decade — 2017 Trump inaugural riots, 2018 Kavanaugh protests, 2020 BLM/antifa riots, post-election confrontations with Trump supporters during "Stop the Steal" events in November and December 2020, and recent incidents tied to pro-Hamas demonstrations — the media now claims Republicans, not Democrats, will start tearing down major cities including the nation's capital if Trump does not win the election.

Are Elected Republicans Ready To Respond To Potential Post-Election Chaos?  One of the best ways to know what Democrats are up to is to simply check how they're smearing their opponents.  Who is really "destroying democracy" if not those who support mass censorship, surveillance, and the jailing of reporters and others over speech crimes?  Who really colluded with Russia to influence the 2016 election?  Who ended the United States' lifelong tradition of peaceful transition of power by spying on and sabotaging the governance of the opposition-party president elected after Barack Obama?  So it's extremely ominous to see a drumbeat of claims from corporate media and other Democrats throughout the 2024 election cycle that Republican supporters will engage in post-election violence.  A Google News search immediately turns up endless headlines like these: "Could the 2024 election normalize political violence?" asks NPR.  "Ahead of Election Day, officials prepare for protests and possible violence," says USA Today.

Implausible Deniability.  After years of leftists calling conservatives, Republicans, Christians, everyday Americans, and especially Donald Trump a threat to our democracy, literally Hitler and Satan Incarnate, their rhetoric has incited some of the crazier members of their horde to take direct action. [...] In 2017 comedian Kathy Griffin was photographed holding a bloody replica of President Trump's head.  This greatly upset Americans, especially Trump's son Barron, who was only 11 years old at the time.  In 2018 Maxine Waters encouraged her supporters to harass Trump administration officials by saying, "...you create a crowd.  And you push back on them.  And you tell them they're not welcome anymore, anywhere."  In a news conference that same year Nancy Pelosi wondered aloud "I just don't even know why there aren't uprisings all over the country, and maybe there will be, when people realize that this [Trump immigration policy] is a policy that they defend."  Can anyone forget how she tore up her copy of President Trump's State of the Union Address?  Obama AG Eric Holder said that, "When they (Republicans) go low, we kick them".  Johnny Depp asked, "When was the last time an actor assassinated a president?"  No stranger to controversy herself, Madonna weighed in by proclaiming, "I have thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House".

Fear and Loathing on the Left:  Destruction is all they really care about.  Win or lose, fans of the Philly Eagles go out into the street and smash things.  Whoever wins on Election Day, leftists will smash things.  The election only determines whether they smash up the country from the inside or the outside.  Forget all the theory and all the empty policy promises.  It's not about equity, democracy, free college, funding terrorists, defunding the police, breaking the glass ceiling, or any of the other suits the naked emperors and empresses wear.  When the champagne corks and pills have been popped, the desire underneath is to destroy it all.  Mediocre elites created leftism by sublimating their narcissistic drive to destroy everything superior to them into the revolutionary politics of a purported underclass.  But the elites are the oppressed underclass they've been waiting for.  They fight for their own right to seize power.  And they don't stop fighting once they get it.

Violent Leftist Arrested For Beating Trump Supporter in Grocery Store, Breaking His Teeth Over 'Trump 2024' Hat.  This is what happens when Trump supporters are labeled "garbage," "Nazis," and "Fascists" by Democrat leaders and their media stenographers.  A violent leftist was arrested for beating a Trump supporter at a Bath, New York, grocery store on Friday.  60-year-old Robert Yott was arrested on Friday after he became aggressive and confronted a Trump supporter wearing a 'Trump 2024' hat at Tops Friendly Markets.  According to police, Yott repeatedly punched the Trump supporter in the face and broke his teeth.

Actually, The Democratic Party is Hitler.  You can be sure they've gamed-out a playbook aimed at paralyzing the nation one way or another if the effort to install Kamala Harris in the White House face-plants, as it appears to be doing in these final days before the reckoning.  Rioting, arson, and looting in the cities?  Not so much.  Probably some, but only because it's an excuse for 100-percent-off sale "shopping," plus the need for hordes of dopamine-deprived youth to seek a little dangerous excitement — in a society that gives them nothing meaningful or purposeful to do.  It'd surely reflect poorly on the regime clinging to power in the months before January 20.  Anyway, "Joe Biden," Kamala, and company would be blamed for letting the cities get wrecked again, and then double-blamed by their own partisans if they try to stop it with the national guard.  It's a no-win deal for them.

Deranged Harris Supporters Harass and Threaten the McDonald's That Hosted Trump.  Over and over, we see leftists trying to intimidate people into being afraid to express views that oppose them, or even to allow their foes to have a fair hearing.  So once again: who's the fascist?  They're finding out at the McDonald's that famously played host to Donald Trump.  What the Daily Caller reported Thursday was drearily predictable: "In the wake of Trump's widely-publicized campaign stop at the 'Golden Arches'" franchise in Feasterville-Trevose, Pennsylvania, "Yelp disabled reviews for the location amid a flood of negative comments, and the franchise's owner retained private security to ensure the safety of employees and patrons in response to threats made against the eatery."

'Free Gaza' message linked to ballot box attacks in Washington and Oregon: source.  Ballot boxes in Oregon and Washington may have been set on fire by an anti-Israel protester, as investigators found a note that said "ALL DROP BOXES WILL BURN. FREE GAZA," The [New York] Post has learned.  Between 3 and 4 a.m. on Monday, fires caused by incendiary devices were discovered in ballot boxes in Vancouver, Wash. and neighboring Portland, Oregon.  A built-in fire suppressant stopped most of the flames at the Portland location, but hundreds of ballots were destroyed at the drop box at Fisher's Landing Transit Center in Vancouver.  The FBI is now heading the investigation into the two Monday fires, which are believed to be linked and also connected to a third attempted arson attack earlier in the month in Vancouver.

The Post-Election Temper Tantrum.  Democrats have warned the country that Trump is a "danger to democracy," a fascist, another Hitler.  But it's the Democrats who use the threat of violence to turn the election in their favor.  "If Trump does win the election, the left in America will certainly riot," says author and political commentator Douglas Murray.  "They will make sure cities they believe they dominate go up in flames again."  And they've apparently been considering the insurgent option for months.  Jonathan Tobin wrote in the Federalist in February that Democrats "need a backup plan if the courts won't do their bidding" to keep Trump out of the White House if he wins by "doing exactly what they labeled as 'insurrection.'"  "A Trump victory would almost certainly set off bloody riots in every American city," he said.

Report: Ballot-box arsons connected to anti-Israel protests.  I do love how our secure and safe elections across this country involve dropping off your one and only ballot in a random box and hoping someone can get to it before a nut sets it on fire.  These boxes do have a "built-in fire suppressant," so only a few hundred ballots were lost.  It could have been much worse.  [Tweet with video clip]  None of the candidates are radically anti-Israel enough, so they had to set all the ballots on fire!  Didn't they listen to the DNC message?  Just "act right" until the election!  How hard is that?

The Post-Election Temper Tantrum.  Two months ago, as the Democrats were preparing for their national convention in Chicago, we were concerned that it would be a repeat of the party's 1968 convention that was marred by riots.  But sanity prevailed.  It was a relatively quiet affair.  Will the Democrats be just as quiet if Donald Trump wins next week's election?  It's more likely that they will erupt with rage.  After all, there have been two failed attempts to assassinate Trump.  Yes, the suspects in both cases appear to be disturbed.  But it's been the nonstop vilification of the former president from the left that likely motivated them.  The prospect of another term for Trump is going to push many over the edge that they've been teetering on since the man announced in 2015 that he was running for president.

Now They Are Floating Ominous Warnings About the Election.  I don't know what the vote counts will be, whether they will be mostly accurate, what shenanigans might take place or not, or whether the obvious preference cascade will carry Trump over the top next week.  [Advertisement]  But one thing I do know for certain is that if Donald Trump wins, the violence and rioting will be off the charts.  The mainstream media and the Democrats like to memory-hole the fact that rioting was significant after Trump's 2016 victory, and that was well before the "Trump is Hitler" narrative began being sold to us.  In those days, he was a sexually harassing buffoon with a bit of Russian agent thrown in.  [Tweet with video clip]

Is the Left Preparing for War If Trump Wins?  The propaganda campaign labeling Donald Trump as an aspiring dictator determined to use the military and national security apparatus against his political opponents is designed not to affect the upcoming election but rather to shape the post-election environment.  It is the central piece of a narrative that, by characterizing Trump as a tyrant (indeed likening him to Hitler), establishes the conditions for violence — not just another attempt on Trump's life, but political violence on a massive scale intended to destabilize the country.

Bomb Threat Forces Swing State County GOP Headquarters To Close.  The Republican committee headquarters in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, was forced to close its doors on Saturday after staff received a bomb threat by phone, according to a press release.  Pennsylvania's GOP stated that an "angry" caller made a "profanity-laced bomb threat" to the Montgomery County office around 11:07 a.m.  The state GOP noted that this incident isn't isolated, as the party has experienced an increase in violent threats since September.

Most Americans Believe There Will Be Violence After the Election.  They Are Probably Right.  Most Americans indicated they are willing to accept the outcome of the election even if their preferred candidate does not win.  Three-fourths of respondents indicated this, including 85 percent of Democrats and 77 percent of Republicans.  A small percentage indicated they would support the use of violence to ensure their candidate wins.  About eight percent said they believe the use of violent force to ensure that Trump does not win is justified while six percent indicated violence to ensure Trump wins is acceptable.  The Violence Prevention Research Program at the University of California Davis published a report indicating that 14 percent of Americans firmly believe a civil war could erupt within the next few years.

Trump Is Right.  There Is an 'Enemy Within' the United States.  [Scroll down]  Other lies this election season include the idea that Donald Trump threatened to use the US military against his political opponents.  That one is so stupid that you really have to be Mika-level dumb to even try to sell it.  Trump was clearly talking about BLM/ANTIFA and the violence the political left happily embraces and encourages from their Brownshirts.  They take to the streets at every perceived injustice Democrats can manufacture, burning large parts of majority black cities before receding to their suburban sanctuaries to await the next manufactured outrage.  They rioted on inauguration day in 2017, assaulting people and burning property.  Arrests were made and charges were, after an acceptable amount of time had passed, dropped against everyone.  Why?  Because what good does going after your own people do?  They were needed throughout the Trump administration to riot over false claims of police brutality and junkie overdoses.  And they're ready to do it again.

Charges pending after harassment over pro-Trump sign leads to shooting in Vegas.  Political tensions are high as America heads to the polls to decide the next president, but some people are taking their disagreements too far.  Jennifer Lund, 38, and Timothy Parks, 45, are each facing charges including assault, battery, and stalking after an incident with three men that resulted in one of them firing a gun.  Court documents claim that Lund and Parks were traveling together in a vehicle when they spotted a residence with a sign indicating support for former President Donald Trump.  [Tweet]

Politico Stops Hiding Desire to See Donald Trump Assassinated.  Far-left Politico, a blog dedicated to disinformation and lies, is no longer hiding its desire to see former President Donald Trump assassinated.  Over the weekend, Politico published a piece of assassination porn warning the public of a "very real scenario where Trump loses and takes power anyway."  I don't link to anything meant to encourage violence, but that's the headline and it includes a photo of a burnt-out map of red and blue America.  There is no reason to waste everyone's time running down the scenario Politico's assassination porn peddlers lay out.  Suffice it to say, that Trump was already president, Trump has already lost an election he believes he won, and if he did none of this while he wielded the power of the presidency, why would and how could he do it as a private citizen?  But Politico and its confederates in the corporate media are not about logic or enlightenment.

Kamala Harris Is Priming Democrats For Violent Resistance If Trump Wins.  By now it's commonplace to note that Kamala Harris often seems out of her depth, like she's unsure what to say about policy, or how to explain her past positions, or why she hasn't already done the things she's promised to do if she's elected given that she's the current vice president.  But on one particular subject she's been consistent and forceful throughout her campaign.  She's adamant that Donald Trump will destroy America if he's reelected.  And not "destroy" in the sense of enact bad policies, but that he'll round people up with the military and put them in camps.  She talks about this all the time now.  At one point during her Wednesday evening interview with Bret Baier on Fox News, she became visibly upset after Baier played a clip of former President Donald Trump calling out the weaponization of government and the endless investigations and lawfare he's been subjected to.  The vice president, her voice rising in outrage, jabbed her finger at Baier and said, "You and I both know that he has talked about turning the American military on the American people.  He has talked about going after people who are engaged in peaceful protest.  He has talked about locking people up because they disagree with him."

Elderly Man Tells Campaign Workers That He Hopes Someone Kills Trump.  An elderly man says he hopes somebody kills Trump because Trump is going to "sellout" to Putin.  This is what media programming does to people.  [Video clip]

University instructor on leave after calling to line up and shoot men who won't vote for female president.  A University of Kansas instructor has been placed on leave after violent comments he made about men who don't support female presidential candidates went viral on social media.  In a video shared on X, the instructor railed against men who think they are smarter than women, before apparently connecting these thoughts to the presidential race.  [If you think] guys are smarter than girls, you got some serious problems," the instructor appeared to say to a lecture hall full of students at the start of the recording.  "It's what frustrates me, there are going to be some males in our society that will refuse to vote for a potential female president because they don't think females are smart enough to be president."  "We can line all those guys up and shoot them.  They clearly don't understand the way the world works," he continued.

University of Kansas professor on men who won't vote for Kamala: "We could line all those guys up and shoot them".  Update:  The professor has been placed on leave. [...]   [Tweet with video clip]  [Transcript: "]If you think guys are smarter than girls, you've got some serious problems.  It's what frustrates me.  There are going to be some males in our society that will refuse to vote for a potential female president because they don't think females are smart enough to be president.  We could line all those guys up and shoot them.  They clearly don't understand how the world works.["]

3-Time Convicted Violent Criminal Repeatedly Threatened to Kidnap and Kill Judge Cannon and Her Family.  A three-time convicted violent criminal repeatedly threatened to kidnap and kill Judge Aileen Cannon and her family but the Biden-Harris DOJ waited FOUR MONTHS to bring charges and arrest him.  Aileen Cannon is a Trump-appointed judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida.  Judge Cannon was assigned to Jack Smith's classified documents case against President Trump.  Eric Rennert, 65, of Illinois, is facing six federal charges and the indictment accuses him of communicating interstate threats and threatening to kidnap, injure, and murder a federal judge.

George Conway Seems To Be Calling For Another Trump Assassination.  George Conway compares Donald Trump to Hitler and says he is a "cancer on American public life that must be removed, once and for all"  [Video clip]

Trump in January.  It would be good to feel better about life after January 20, 2025.  But wait... We all know that we'll be more than 'just lucky' to get out of this political hellhole intact by February 2025.  Not only do we have the multiple not-so-veiled threats against Trump's life — coming from the likes of Schumer, Pelosi, Jeffries, and their devotees — to the stock market crash predictors who daily warn clients that somehow, 'mysteriously,' Trump will not be inaugurated even if elected.  We also have the two actual attempts on Trump's life thus far.  We have the legal and the media and the financial wars against him.  Hillary Clinton launched this, so naturally she's now doubled down on her signature effort to dehumanize Trump.

Chaos As Cover.  If you think Trump and his MAGA minions were attacked and brutalized under sleepy Joe, you can't even imagine the level of hostility to be brought against them post November 5th.  Should Trump win; by some massive failure of the left, or "too big to rig" actual overwhelming of the ballot box, it will probably be a short-lived victory for he will become target number one of every crackpot and government agency goon in the current administration.  They've already proved they can coordinate nut jobs with lax security to produce the desired effect.  [Multiply] that by 1000 and you might understand the situation accurately.  With all of these crackpots and enemy agents activated post election, it will be something to awaken even more and importantly, expose those law enforcement agencies already on the wrong side of the republic.  It is an election of no serious consequence as to the future.  It is bleak no matter how one turns it, but this is why I encourage the masses to vote, to absolve themselves of the slightest hesitance toward self-defense.

Kari Lake's Daughter Attacked by 'Radical Leftist' While Registering Voters on College Campus.  The daughter of Arizona Republican U.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake was attacked Wednesday while registering voters at Arizona State University.  Lake campaigned to become Arizona's governor in 2022 but lost in a disputed election.  She is facing Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego in the November election to succeed Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, who was elected as a Democrat, but later left the party to become an independent.  Lake's daughter, Turning Point Action's Ruby Halperin, took to social media to blow the whistle on the incident.

Kari Lake's Daughter Attacked by Crazed Leftist While Registering Voters at Arizona State University.  In a predictable turn of events on a campus known for its opposition to conservative ideas, Ruby Halperin, the daughter of Arizona's Republican Nominee for US Senate, Kari Lake, was attacked on Wednesday while she was registering voters at Arizona State University (ASU).  Turning Point Action on Wednesday held a "Greek Voter Registration" event that far outsized a competing Democratic voter registration drive on campus.  [Tweet]

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Fake Presidential Race.  The alleged would-be assassin is supposedly one Ryan Wesley Routh. [...] He is documented as a fervent leftist, having formerly supported Bernie Sanders, and having contributed financially many times to ActBlue.  He tried to recruit foreign soldiers to help Ukraine defeat Russia.  You'd think that, with all this information, it would be obvious that Routh was motivated by the same kind of irrational hatred for Donald Trump that has infected millions of formerly rational Americans with TDS.  But instead of acknowledging this, and perhaps issuing one of their standard lectures to the insane "Woke" Left, the mainstream media, and high profile Democrats themselves, are telling Trump to "tone down" his rhetoric.  If you just stop saying "hateful" things, no one will try to assassinate you!  What is most remarkable about Routh is the fact that he was inexplicably interviewed by Newsweek in 2022.  His only claim to fame was his self-published book, touting the official state controlled media line on Ukraine.  People who write self-published books don't usually get to be interviewed by huge media outlets like that. [...] Regardless, as in the Steve Scalise shooting, the victim's motives are never political if he's a leftist, only if he's a right-wing extremist.

Top Democrat Calls for Trump to Be Extinguished.  In case there is anyone out there who doesn't get it yet that the liberal establishment wants Donald Trump dead, Biden/Harris Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo spells it out in the aftermath of the second attempt on his life:  "Let's extinguish him for good."  Seriously, she just said that:  [Tweet]  That Democrats find Trump so threatening that top government officials pretty much openly call for more assassination attempts is the ultimate endorsement of Trump.

Top Kamala Surrogate Calls to 'Extinguish' Trump 'for Good'.  Less than two weeks after the latest assassination attempt on Donald Trump, a top surrogate for Vice President Kamala Harris, who is also a member of Joe Biden's cabinet, is under fire for using dangerous and reckless rhetoric against Trump.  Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo accused Trump of spreading "another lie" about Harris during an interview on MSNBC Tuesday.  But what was really shocking was her chilling choice of words.  "How did we get here?" Raimondo asked, before declaring, "Let's extinguish him for good.  We have an answer — a remarkably talented candidate in Harris." [...] Raimondo's rhetoric came a day after the Department of Justice released a handwritten letter from Routh, the suspect in the attempted assassination of Trump, in which Routh offer $150,000 for someone to finish the job he failed to complete.

Democrats Are Grooming Assassins To Take Out Trump.  There have been many calls for lowering the temperature between the first assassination attempt against Donald Trump on July 13, 2024, and the second on Sept. 15, 2024.  Yet only two hours after last week's attempt on Trump in Florida, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries lambasted "extreme MAGA Republicans," saying "We must stop them," leaving listeners to guess to whom he referred and how "they" should be stopped.  It's part of a constant pattern since Trump emerged on the political scene, starting with assassination fantasies with "the resistance," continuing through the Russian collusion hoax, and aided by protective agencies' refusal to secure conservative figures.  It's not just the typically aggressive political rhetoric.  Leftists have openly engaged in direct assassination fantasies for years.  A conspicuous movement to dehumanize one particular person in America has continuously expanded since early 2016, when "the resistance" formed.  Madonna infamously proclaimed, "I have thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House," signaling the cultural zeitgeist controllers would wage a no-holds-barred siege against Trump.

Nobody Was Ever Charged for the Antifa Attack on the White House.  [Tweet]  The media downplayed this frightening event, when BLM-Antifa rioters overwhelmed police and Secret Service agents protecting the White House and firebombed historic St.  John's Church in Lafayette Square during the violent riots that engulfed the country in the summer of 2020.  More than 50 Secret Service officers were injured when they were pelted with bricks, rocks, Molotov cocktails and bottles of urine while defending the White House.  We never hear about them.  President Trump and the First Lady had to be evacuated to an underground bunker for their safety amid fears the White House would be overrun.  The media mocked Trump later as a coward.  They memory-holed this event but exaggerate everything about J6.

SCOTUS Threats Suggest Democrats' Attacks On The Court Encourage Politically Motivated Terrorism.  A 76-year-old Alaskan man is in custody after he allegedly threatened to assault, kidnap, lynch, torture, murder, and assassinate six of the nine Supreme Court justices.  The names of the justices targeted, however, were withheld by the Department of Justice — likely because they confirm Democrats' incendiary rhetoric against the conservative members of the court is working.  The DOJ announced on Thursday that Panos Anastasiou faces nine counts of making threats against a federal judge and 13 counts of making threats in interstate commerce after he sent more than 465 messages pledging harm against justices via "a public website the court maintained."

The Left Has a Massive Violent Streak.  In March 2023, Audrey "Aiden" Hale, a transgender individual, slaughtered three children and three adults at The Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee.  A former pupil at the Christian school, Hale took precious time during the rampage to divert and unload seven rounds into a stained-glass depiction of the biblical character Adam in a church next door.  As this column asked last year:  Why, exactly, would a transgender former student of a Christian school return to that school to murder innocent Christian children and shoot up a stained-glass representation of no less symbolic a biblical figure than Adam?  We don't necessarily need Sherlock Holmes to figure this one out.  Leaked excerpts of the murderer's manifesto corroborate Hale's sinister, anti-Christian motive.

Man Arrested for Threatening to Assassinate Supreme Court Justices.  The Department of Justice announced the arrest of Alaska man Panos Anastasiou on Wednesday after he threatened a number of Supreme Court Justices and their families with fatal violence.  "We allege that the defendant made repeated, heinous threats to murder and torture Supreme Court Justices and their families to retaliate against them for decisions he disagreed with," Attorney General Merrick Garland released in a statement Thursday. "Our justice system depends on the ability of judges to make their decisions based on the law, and not on fear.  Our democracy depends on the ability of public officials to do their jobs without fearing for their lives or the safety of their families."  DOJ did not detail which Supreme Court Justices were threatened, but noted Anastasiou sent hundreds of threatening messages to the Court's official and public website.  Anastasiou is "charged by indictment with nine counts of making threats against a federal judge and 13 counts of making threats in interstate commerce."

17% Say America Would Be Better Off If Trump Had Been Killed.  The desensitization of some Americans following the second assassination attempt of former President Trump is alarming.  Seventeen percent (17%) of voters believe America would have been better off if former President Trump had been killed in last week's attempted assassination. [...] Forty-nine percent (49%) of Democrats think it's at least somewhat likely that Trump himself or the Trump campaign was involved with the assassination attempt, with 21% saying it was very likely.  Fifty-two percent (52%) of Republicans think it's at least somewhat likely that the Democratic Party or the Harris campaign was involved, with 28% saying it's very likely.

A Target on His Back.  You can almost feel it, the rising excitement in the lunatic fringe.  The Secret Service and the FBI have shown themselves to be ineffective in protecting the former President — whether through DEI-fomented incompetence or by Machiavellian design.  Pure luck or divine intervention prevented Trump's assassination in Pennsylvania when he providentially turned his head, so the bullet only struck his ear; stupidity prevented it in Florida when the assassin allowed the barrel of his rifle to be spotted by a member of Trump's security detail.  The repeated failures of the security agencies have sent a message to the crazies on the Left:  go ahead and take your best shot.  You can practically hear the hundreds of lefty lunatics scrambling to gather guns, knives, bombs, poisons, deadly gas, and anything else they can think of to use in their efforts to 'get Trump.'

The True Threat to Democracy Is Democrats, All of Them.  As of this writing, Democrats have inspired two assassination attempts against Donald Trump.  Two.  Those are just the ones we know about.  How many more Rachel Maddow sycophants have gotten to step 5 of 10, or 7 [of] 10, only to wake up to the reality of what they were planning and stop?  We will never know.  How many more were spooked by a friend, neighbor or co-worker who either asked what they were doing or called police to report something suspicious?  That's another number we can't know.  But we can know the number is more than zero.  If they got two people to go through with it, there's no way they haven't had others walk away in the planning process.  That's what you get when you tell natural born followers and conformists that your opponent is Hitler reincarnated.  People so eager for obedience and acceptance will always crave more of it, and there is no way to get more of it than taking out the threat, right?

Over Quarter Of Dems Think US Would Be Better Off If Trump Had Been Assassinated:  Poll.  Over a quarter of Democrats think the U.S. would be better off if former President Donald Trump had been successfully assassinated on Sunday, according to a Napolitan News Service poll released Wednesday [9/18/2024].  Among those surveyed, 28% of Democrats and 27% of Democrat-leaning voters answered "yes" to the question asking if they thought the U.S. would be better off if Trump had been assassinated, with 17% of all respondents agreeing and only 7% of Republicans, according to the poll.  Trump survived a second assassination attempt on Sunday at Trump International Golf Club in Palm Beach, FL, where would-be assassin Ryan Routh brought a rifle within 500 yards of Trump before he was engaged by the U.S. Secret Service and later apprehended.

The Biden/Harris Legacy.  Take a moment to think about this.  Under the Biden/Harris administration, we now have two unsuccessful attempts to assassinate the former President of the United States.  The Biden/Harris administration has repeatedly refused to provide enhanced Secret Service protection to President Trump during this run for re-election.  Concurrent with and immediately before both attempts, Biden and Harris have repeatedly used inflammatory rhetoric targeting President Trump.  Regarding the Biden/Harris presidential administration, what will history record?  I suggest that it is likely that the Biden/Harris administration will be recorded as highly corrupt and incompetent.  An administration with a constant appetite for war and other foreign adventures (Nordstream, for example) and yet curiously incompetent in the management of war.  Witness the withdrawal from Afghanistan and the enormously expensive and mismanaged Ukrainian misadventure.

26 Million Americans Believe Political Violence is Justified.  With the unrelenting claims of President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and others that democracy is about to die in America, some now feel a license to commit criminal acts in the name of "saving democracy."  It is the ultimate form of self-delusion that one saves democracy by committing political violence against those with whom you disagree.  We have seen this radicalism spread in past years from higher education into society at large.  Years ago, many of us were shocked by the conduct of University of Missouri communications professor Melissa Click who directed a mob against a student journalist covering a Black Lives Matter event.  Yet, Click was hired by Gonzaga University.  Since that time, we have seen a steady stream of professors joining students in shouting down, committing property damage, participating in riots, verbally attacking students, or even taking violent action in protests.  It is now common to hear inflammatory language from professors advocating "detonating white people," denouncing police, calling for Republicans to suffer, strangling police officers, celebrating the death of conservatives, calling for the killing of Trump supporters, supporting the murder of conservative protesters and other outrageous statements.

Partisan Democrats hate so much they are willing to commit murder, and worse, now admit it openly.  When asked by a reporter of the Daily Mail what he thought of his father's actions, the son of attempted Trump assassin Ryan Routh said that his father hates Trump as "every reasonable person does.  I don't like Trump either."  The problem is that reasonable people don't hate.  Reasonable people think about the differing opinions of others and decide as rationally as possible what they think might be the right answer.  And if reasonable people are faced with true evil, they don't act with hatred.  They instead follow the biblical mantra, don't condemn the sinner, only the sin.  Routh's son however illustrates the contrasting attitude of the base as well as the leadership of today's Democratic Party.  They don't simply disagree, they hate.  Worse, they think that hatred is "reasonable," and that everyone "reasonable" agrees with it.  Thus you get two assassination attempts in just over two months against Donald Trump, whose only crime — according to Democrats — is that he is running for president against them, and has said he will change the governmental policies they believe in.

MSNBC Columnist Says Routh Was Justified in Wanting to Take a Shot at Trump.  Steve Benen, a former blogger for the Washington Monthly and current producer and contributor to "The Rachel Maddow Show," thinks the Mar-a-Largo would-be assassin was justified in wanting to take a shot at former president Donald Trump.  [Advertisement]  Or, in Benen's words, "the alleged would-be shooter."  Benen is complaining that Donald Trump is blaming Democrats for using violent rhetoric that motivated Routh to try to kill the former president.  But Routh is right, claims Benen.  Trump is, indeed, a "threat to democracy."  [Tweet]  First of all, it takes a special kind of moral blindness to excuse a would-be presidential assassin.  Beyond that, Benen employs exactly the same arguments used by the right to push back against the left when they blame conservatives for school shootings or any other violence.

Democrats Aren't Going to Stop If They Kill Trump.  Starting with violence against police and private property in the Occupy Wall Street movement and their excusing sexual violence against their own people at those same encampments across the country, the Democratic Party has run toward violent thugs willing to throw Molotov Cocktails at civilized society.  At first, their violence was ignored.  Then it was excused and watered down — had you ever heard of a "mostly peaceful" riot before Democrats needed to mislead the public on how entire segments of cities were being destroyed?  Now, the violence of Democratic Party Brownshirts is simply a matter of fact and barely reported.  If you don't watch Fox News or go to conservative news websites, you'd likely be unaware of what was happening on liberal college campuses across the country since Hamas attacked Israel, and you'd never know it's still happening.  It's just a fact of life now, an entrenched reality unworthy of attention.  It took only a very short time to normalize the violence of the left, and there is no reason to think they are done with it.

12 Influencers Who Called for Violence Against Trump, Called Him an 'Existential Threat to Democracy'.  Ahead of the second assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump, many influential actors, journalists, and influencers warned that Trump is an "existential threat" to democracy, compared him to Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, and suggested he or his supporters should face violent attacks.  Some continued attacking Trump even after the first assassination attempt July 13.  The New Tolerance Campaign, a nonprofit watchdog aimed at confronting "intolerance double standards" practiced by "establishment institutions, civil rights groups, universities, and socially conscious brands," compiled a list of extreme rhetoric against Trump that may have contributed to the second assassination attempt.  "New Tolerance Campaign research has shown two kinds of consistent and consistently charged rhetoric surrounding President Trump: insistence that his reelection would lead to the collapse of the country, and calls for the former president's death," Gregory T. Angelo, New Tolerance Campaign's president, told The Daily Signal in a written statement Monday.

What will the Deep State do when they are given their eviction notice this Fall?  How will the illegal immigrants whom they brought into the country behave when they come to the realization that they will soon be evicted from America?  I don't think either will go quietly without inflicting as much damage as they can on their way out the door.  Back in the Fall of 2019, before the Covid lockdowns and the BLM and Antifa riots, the movie The Joker was released in movie theaters.  In the movie, the lead character is an emaciated, emotionally disturbed, violent loser who lives with his mother. [...] It's difficult to not view Phoenix's character as anything but the posterchild for Antifa.  Predictive programming — giving the target audience the permission to riot at a future point.  A kind of blueprint.  It should be noted that they had to release the movie in the Fall of 2019 instead of closer to the BLM and Antifa riots because movie theaters were closed in 2020.  Fast forward to today.  In the Fall of 2024, less than a month before the election, Joker II will be released in movie theaters.  More predictive programing?  Are the Antifa-types being given the go ahead to riot, to disrupt the election, to interfere in the transition of power?  Will rioting be used to create chaos before, during or after the election?

The Idolization of Hate.  It appears the attempted assassin is a man named Ryan Wesley Routh.  The UK's Daily Mail reached out to his son, Oran, for his thoughts.  When they contacted him, Oran stated that he hadn't been aware of the assassination attempt until the moment they asked him for comment.  In other words, a foreign newspaper was able to identify and locate the shooter's son (who, for all anyone knew at the time, might have been involved) before our gazillion-dollar-budget FBI, Secret Service, or vaunted intelligence community did.  And this was after they'd let another leftist get within shooting distance of the former president.  And this was after it was a vigilant citizen and Florida police, not the feds, who identified and arrested the would-be assassin.  Way to be on your A-game, boys.  But upon hearing that his father was the suspected assassin, 35-year-old Oran stated that his dad "hates Trump, as every reasonable person does."  That's how Oran wanted to present himself and his father to the world.  No apology, no call for privacy for the family, no pleading to see how the investigation unfolds, not even the obligatory lip service against political violence.  Just a crude statement of hate.  The apple didn't fall far from the tree.

Kamala Harris Sr. Adviser David Plouffe Previously Called for Extermination of Donald Trump and 'His Kind'.  Kamala Harris senior adviser David Plouffe once called for the extermination of former President Donald Trump and "his kind," according to a 2016 post on X — another example of Democrats calling for harm against the former president that has been highlighted in the wake of another assassination attempt.  Plouffe, a former adviser to then-President Barack Obama, posted on June 13, 2016, "It is not enough to simply beat Trump.  He must be destroyed thoroughly.  His kind must not rise again."  [Advertisement]  The Trump campaign highlighted the post in the wake of a second assassination attempt against him on Sunday, which was thwarted when Secret Service agents spotted a man with a rifle pointed through a fence where Trump was golfing at his private course in Florida.  [Advertisement]  The Trump campaign posted, "This guy is now a top official on Kamala Harris' campaign":  [Tweet]

JD Vance Blasts Dem/Media Hypocrisy Over Rhetoric.  Since Sunday's second assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, Democrats and the legacy media have been on overdrive in their efforts to blame Trump himself for the incident.  One way or another, they must find a way to hang the threat of violence against Trump around his own neck, even if that means twisting logic into an unrecognizable pretzel and dispending with any effort at consistency.  Trump's running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), had his hands full Sunday (prior to the attempt), making the rounds on the Sunday shows and going toe-to-toe with the likes of Dana Bash and her partisan fervor.

Trump Camp:  NY Times Incites Violence Against Vance.  Supporters of former President Donald Trump are calling out The New York Times for an opinion piece on Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance and his rejection of "creedal nationalism."  "This is disgusting by @nytimes," posted on X Matthew Boyle, the Washington Bureau Chief for Breitbart News Network.  "Editors should intervene and correct this and apologize for it."

Beware the October Surprise.  Since I move between worlds and see how stories are covered differently by each side, I was shocked — or maybe not — to catch a few minutes of ABC News after the debate.  They were selling extreme fear, extreme hysteria.  The conclusion?  A) Trump said the bad thing, B) his supporters obey his every command and now an army of armed Proud Boys Nazi Brown Shirts are going to Springfield to terrorize the Haitians.  We hear "bomb threats" and "shooting threats" yet we never hear the follow-up.  We never hear if there was any investigation.  The reason?  They don't care if it's true or not.  It's useful to their overall mission of pushing the narrative that Trump and MAGA are racists and violent extremists and vote for Harris/Walz.  I have hung out in MAGA world for the past five years to find out what was true and what wasn't.  Never once have I seen anything that confirms their condemnations of them.  The MAGA movement is not driven by race.  It's driven by class.  The rich people are all on the Left now.

The Would-Be Trump-Assassin Has Been Identified And He's A Far Left Wacko.  Ryan Wesley Routh has reportedly been identified as the man arrested for allegedly pointing an AK-47 at former President Donald Trump while he was golfing, according to law enforcement sources.  The former president, who successfully dodged a second assassination attempt this year after nearly being hit by a bullet in Pennsylvania, is reported to be 'safe' following the incident.  Known for publicly supporting left-wing causes and promoting his self-styled "do-gooder" image on social media, Routh's arrest has raised many questions.  [Video clip]

Eight Primary Forces That Threaten America Today.  Leftist Revolts on Campus and on the Street:  Democrats and the left exploit anarchy and campus unrest to demand influence and control of our society.  Protests have long been an important feature of our political life, most notably the civil rights marches that changed the face of America.  But the tone and nature of public demonstrations is changing.  Anti-Israeli, pro-Palestinian protests have turned some campuses into antisemitic war zones.  Minnesota Governor Tim Walz let Minneapolis burn for four days, overseeing the destruction of scores of businesses and properties.  His reward — nominated by the Democrats to be vice president of the United States.

The Real Tim Walz.  Violence and terrorism reared their ugly heads in the May 2020 riots in Minneapolis and other cities, precipitated by the circumstances surrounding the death of George Floyd.  The protests were characterized by many (including Kamala Harris) as protests which should be perpetuated and even encouraged.  Minnesota governor Tim Walz has confirmed that the resulting property damage in Minnesota exceeded $500 million. [...] The incompetence and inaction of Walz in his duty to protect the public is obvious.  The incompetence, action, and inaction of Kamala Harris was equally culpable.  Referencing the protests and protestors in Minnesota, Harris announced that "they're not going to let up, and they should not, and we should not."  She claims she intended only to refer to peaceful protests, but she did not wisely and competently limit her support of the protestors, as did President Trump by limiting his encouragement of J6 rally attenders to the words:  "peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard."  Harris also provided additional encouragement to violent protestors by encouraging contributions to help post bond for those arrested for violence.

All 90 Pages of Nashville Transgender Shooter Audrey Hale Manifesto [have been] Released.  All 90 pages of Nashville transgender shooter Audrey Hale manifesto was released by The Tennessee Star on Tuesday.  You can download Audrey Hale's manifesto [elsew]here.  Contents from the manifesto of Covenant School shooter Audrey Elizabeth Hale, a biological female who identified as a transgender male at the time of her horrific attack on March 27, 2023, was leaked earlier this year.  Star News Digital Media, Inc., which owns and operates The Star, and the publication's editor-in-chief, Michael Patrick Leahy, are currently plaintiffs in lawsuits seeking to compel the Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD) and the FBI to release Hale's writings, including those referred to as a manifesto.

More of the Nashville Trans Shooter's Manifesto [was Published].  The Tennessee Star has published 90 pages of the manifesto belonging to the "transgender" Nashville shooter who slaughtered six victims, including three children, at a private Christian elementary school on March 27, 2023.  According to the never-before-seen excerpts legally obtained by the local newspaper, Covenant School killer Audrey "Aiden" Hale, a 28-year-old biological woman who identified as a "transgender man," wrote about wanting "a boy body in heaven" and craving "brown love."

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Why did the Nashville municipal government want to keep this manifesto hidden away forever?  The manifesto embarrasses the Left, because it suggests transvestites are insane, and it shows that "mass shooting" suspects can be described as "far left."  It also shows that gun control laws and "gun free zones" don't prevent mass shootings, because homicidal maniacs don't care about laws.

Full Diary Of Nashville Elementary School Shooter [was] Released Amid Legal Battle.  The Tennessee Star released the full diary of Audrey Hale, who murdered six people in March 2023 at a Christian school in Nashville, on Tuesday.  The journal is nearly 100 pages long, and its contents reflect that Hale, who identified as transgender, had a hatred for society and was deeply disturbed by her belief that she was born in the wrong body.  The Star's decision to publish the journal in full comes amid an ongoing legal battle between The Covenant School and families of the victims, who did not want the journal to be released, and organizations that wanted the documents to be in the public domain, according to CNN.

Nashville Trans Shooter's Full Manifesto Released, and It Makes the Cover-Up So Much Worse.  After over a year-and-a-half of stonewalling and legal battles, the Nashville transgender shooter's journal has finally been released in full.  In March of 2023, Audrey Hale, a 28-year-old self-described "transgender man" (i.e. a woman) who went by the pronouns "he/him," entered a Christian school and opened fire.  She left six people dead including three children before several heroic police officers arrived on the scene and stormed the building.  Hale was quickly dispatched, a scene later shown by harrowing body-cam footage.  Early on, it was revealed that Hale had left behind several writings that pointed to her motive.  Yet, after a brief mention of it during a news conference, all official discussion of the contents of the "manifesto" went dark and a relentless campaign to keep it hidden ensued.  More recently, a judge went so far as to claim that Hale's writings were protected under copyright law.

Two Black Men Beat Up A Young White Girl Wearing A Trump Shirt After His Rally.  A disturbing video has gone viral on X showing two black men kicking a young white girl after she left a Trump rally in Pennsylvania.  The girl is seen rolled up into a ball and crying as they kick her.  Her knee is bloody as they yell [at her].  [Video clip]

Inciting Violence:  Whatever the motivations of the attempted assassin of Trump, still undisclosed by the FBI, it has taken that attempt to focus greater public scrutiny on calls for violence from the Left.  Let's remind ourselves of just a few of the many examples:
  •   Obama declaring if they bring a knife, we bring a gun
  •   Madonna saying she'd thought a lot about blowing up the White House (when Trump was in it)
  •   Kathy Griffin infamously holding up a depiction of Trump's bloody, severed head
  •   Shakespeare-in-the-Park portraying Julius Caesar's assassination with a Trump look-alike
  •   Biden saying he'd like to take Trump behind the gym and "beat the [...] out of him"
  •   Schumer threatening the Supreme Court: "...you will pay the price.  You will not know what hit you..."
  •   Kamala Harris saying of the violent 2021 riots that they were justified and that they should continue: "they're not gonna let up, and they should not."
  •   Rep. Maxine Waters declaring about Trump administration officials:  "push back on them and tell them they are not welcome anymore, anywhere," that one should "absolute harass them," and that "I will go and take Trump out tonight."
  •   Madame Speaker Pelosi saying "I just don't know why there aren't uprisings all over the country." [...]
  •   Democrat Rep. Dan Goldman saying Trump should be "eliminated."

Hating the U.S.  When they shriek, "Intifada here!  Intifada now!" and "Long live the Intifada!" these are not just slogans.  They are calling for Americans to be massacred.  No, that is too bland, too sterile.  What "Intifada here" means in the real world [...] worse horrors that most Americans — thankfully — cannot imagine.  But when you pierce beyond the chanted words, that is what they are saying should happen in the United States.  That is what an intifada is. [...] And spare me the both-sides-do-it arguments.  Israel is fighting a defensive but existential war against an enemy that has sworn to wipe of off the face of the earth and that uses women and children as human shields.  For its part, Hamas revels in the propaganda value of its October 7 barbarism and vows to do it again and again.

Pro-Abortion Man Charged With Assault After Trying to Run Over Pro-Life Advocate With His Car.  On August 15, a man threatened Abortion Free New Mexico leader Bud Shaver as he stood outside Whole Woman's Abortion Facility in Albuquerque, New Mexico.  Though the video below may look somewhat tame, keep in mind that the man had just threatened Shaver's life by violently swerving his moving vehicle straight toward him as Shaver stood on the corner between the curb and sidewalk.  [Video clip]  According to the police report, the assailant claimed he was "distracted and accidentally pulled to [sic] close to the curb, then swerved back into his lane and continued on his way."

The Democrats Truly Hate Us Normal People.  My bingo card didn't have the Democrat Governor of Kentucky going to the Democrat National Convention and suggesting that somebody rape someone in JD Vance's family, but you know, maybe it should have.  Here's an ugly reality that we have to accept.  The elite of the Democrat Party hates us.  It doesn't just dislike us.  It doesn't find us merely annoying and tiresome.  It certainly doesn't want to live and let live.  It wants to rule and let us die.  There is not a single bad thing that they wouldn't wish upon you.  We know because they keep telling us.  That sure sounds harsh.  So does suggesting that a member of your political opponent's family ought to be raped to make some dumb point.  These comments are not just mistakes or slips of the tongue.  There are too many threats, too many death wishes, and if they are mistakes, why do they always go in the same direction?  Why are they always greeted with wild applause?  It's tough to accept, but we need to listen to Democrats.  We need to believe them when they tell us they want us gone.

Anti-Israel demonstrators burn American flag outside Chicago consulate on 2nd night of DNC.  Anti-Israel demonstrations continued through the second night of the Democratic National Convention, with protesters burning an American flag and chanting "Free Palestine" outside a building in Chicago that houses the Israeli consulate.  Officers handcuffed at least four people from the demonstration and led them away after protesters charged a line of police officers, who pushed the demonstrators back.

Pallets of bricks delivered ahead of Chicago DNC; Antifa prepares for 'summer of rage'.  As the Democratic National Convention (DNC) approaches, Chicago has noticed a concerning trend that has raised alarm among residents and law enforcement.  Pallets of bricks have mysteriously appeared on street corners, sparking speculation that the city could experience a new wave of organized chaos similar to other violent protests of previous years.  The presence of these bricks is not an isolated incident but a strategy with a well-known history.  In the summer of 2020, similar deliveries were reported in various cities across the United States, including Minneapolis, New York, and Portland.  These cities experienced protests against police brutality that turned into riots.  Authorities and citizens connected these pallets of bricks to groups such as Antifa, alleging that the groups used them to arm protesters and stoke violence under the guise of legitimate demonstrations.

Kamala Harris and the Civilizational Jihad of Democratic Street Thuggery.  [Scroll down]  The antifa-BLM rioters, who caused up to $2 billion in property damage during that infamous Summer of Love, constituted Democratic Street Thuggery 2.0.  No politician in recent memory has parlayed such little talent into such stratospheric success as Harris.  The cackler-in-chief "failed upward" yet again into the vice presidency — and now, following last month's bloodless coup of Biden, into the Democratic presidential nomination itself.  And this Tuesday, in announcing her running mate, Kamala ostentatiously passed on her clearly superior option, popular Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, for the insipid prairie socialist Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota.  Walz, as the home-state governor of St. George Floyd our Martyr, was the original arsonist of the Summer of Love nationwide fire.  There was no greater fanner of the flames of Democratic Street Thuggery 2.0 than Walz.

Anti-Israel Radicals Vandalize AIPAC Headquarters in Washington.  Pro-Palestinian activists vandalized the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's (AIPAC) Washington, D.C., headquarters on Monday, [...] Footage obtained by the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department and reported by Jewish Insider shows three masked individuals vandalizing the building early Monday morning.  The department has since asked "for the community's help to identify the suspects involved in a Destruction of Property offense in Northwest."  Palestine Action, a U.K.-based activist group founded to shut down arms dealers in Britain, applauded the crime on social media, though it is unknown if members of the group were involved.

In a Long Island suburb, the 'tolerant' left goes slashing the residents' Trump banners at 4:00 a.m.  My husband and I live in a Long Island suburb.  As we near Election Day, Trump 2024 flags are appearing on our block.  Last week, the flag on a house directly across the street, as well as a flag hanging on the home of a recent widow were defaced, ripped totally in half, and pulled down.  My "God Bless Trump 2024" flag remained intact.  The person doing the vandalism probably didn't see ours hanging from a pole.  That was until last night.  This morning, when I opened the front door I realized that our Trump flag was defaced, vandalized, and ripped to shreds — with an X-Acto utility knife!

Deranged Anti-Trump Head-Chopper Ruled Competent to Stand Trial.  The man accused of beheading his father in their suburban Philadelphia home early this year and posting a video of the severed head online is competent to stand trial, a judge ruled Thursday.  Judge Stephen Corr ruled from the bench after a nearly five-hour proceeding that unfolded with Justin Mohn, wearing a yellow jumpsuit with "inmate" printed on the back and with his hands cuffed in front of him, seated in court and smiling, nodding or shaking his head throughout testimony.  Corr also granted Mohn's wish to dismiss his public defender and appoint a different attorney to handle the case.  Asked whether he'd be willing to work with a new attorney, Mohn responded: "Absolutely."

Anti-Trump Agitator Attacks A Member Of The Lewis And Clark County Sheriff's Office.  Given the political left's penchant for violence and confrontation, it came as no surprise that an anti-Trump agitator harassed members of the Lewis and Clark County Republican Central Committee this weekend while they manned a booth at the county's Last Chance Stampede and Fair.  The incident ended with the arrest of the agitator after he struck a member of the Sheriff's Department.  The subject harassed the volunteers complaining about Trump and calling him and them names.  The complaints were absent physical threats against the volunteer team on site.  They were later aided by other citizens at the facility when it became clear the subject would not leave on his own.  The subject later lashed out at a member of the Sheriff's department, first kicking him, and then punching him in the face.

How Many Progressives Wanted Trump to Die?  [Scroll down]  According to the article, Eric Kaufman, a UK-based academic who is currently a professor at the University of Buckingham, conducted a snap poll of "a few hundred people" five days after the attempt on Donald Trump's life. [...] Kauffman's poll said that 0% of Leftists strongly disagreed, 15% did not agree or disagree that the shooter should not have missed.  But, according to the poll, 71% of the Progressives queried said they strongly agreed that Trump should have died from the assassin's bullet.  Kauffman commented that the results show a growing partisan asymmetry in the U.S., adding that "The Left is more prejudiced against the Right than vice versa."  Kauffman also noted that the survey reflects an attitude among the Left that conservatives are not just wrong but evil.  He stated that the Left uses "catastrophizing language" employing words like "white supremacy," "fascism," and "danger."  He added, "Given our new politics of identitarian sacredness and moral absolutism, we should not be surprised to see a rise in political extremism."

Suspect accused of lighting American flag on fire that sparked a wildfire that destroyed 2,000 acres and 21 homes.  A 22-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a wildfire that destroyed thousands of acres of tribal land in Arizona earlier this month.  Officials arrested Keanu Dude on Tuesday for arson charges in connection to the Watch Fire, which scorched more than 2,000 acres of San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation land, Arizona Family reports.  Dude has been connected to a burning of an American flag just before the fire sparked, San Carlos Apache Tribe Police Chief Elliot Sneezy told the outlet.  No injuries or deaths were reported, but the blaze destroyed 21 houses and 13 other buildings, leaving more than 70 people without homes.  Many of the homes destroyed were passed down over several generations.  The wildfire also knocked out power lines, leaving many without electricity for over a week.

French rail sabotage causes chaos as Paris Olympics open.  Everything was in place.  Streets in the centre of Paris have been blocked off, metro stations closed and thousands of police, soldiers and other guards deployed to maintain security on the big showpiece day to kick off the Olympics.  But the saboteurs struck away from the capital, at five apparently unguarded places.  France's state-owned rail company SNCF says the saboteurs either vandalised or tried to vandalise five signal boxes and electricity installations between 01:00 and 05:30 on Friday.

Capitol Police arrest 200 protesting military aid to Israel.  U.S. Capitol Police on Tuesday arrested some 200 people protesting against U.S. military aid for Israel inside the congressional Cannon House Office Building.  Police said protesters violated a law against "crowding, obstructing, or incommoding," adding that "demonstrations are not allowed inside the Congressional Buildings."  "We told the people, who legally entered, to stop or they would be arrested.  They did not stop, so we are arresting them," added police.  [Tweet]

Anti-Israel infiltrators unleashed maggots, crickets at Israeli delegation's hotel ahead of Netanyahu speech.  Thousands of anti-Israel protesters flooded Washington, DC, on Wednesday, dying the city's fountains blood red — and even unleashing maggots and other creepy crawlers at a hotel where some of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's delegation stayed.  A video posted to X by the Palestinian Youth Movement showed moving critters scattered across a table flanked by Israeli and American flags.  "Palestine protestors (sic) manufactured chaos at the Watergate Hotel last night so that Netanyahu, Israeli Mossad agents, and the Secret Service had no peace as they continue to terrorize our people," the organization posted on X.

Another Secret Service Fail.  A video was released by anti-Israel activists, that they breached the security at the Watergate Hotel where Bibi Netanyahu is staying, released maggots in the conference room used by the Prime Minister, and succeeded in setting off fire alarms inside.  Netanyahu's security is provided by the Secret Service.  [Tweet]  This is yet another astonishing failure by the Secret Service, and although it pales in comparison with the assassination attempt on Donald Trump, it is bad enough.  Prime Minister Netanyahu is a prime target for terrorists and deranged Israel-haters.  This is bizarre, to say the least.  The Secret Service is in the midst of perhaps the worst scandal it has faced, certainly up there with the assassination of Kennedy because the cascade of failures was more shocking than a lone gunman hiding along the route.

Is Donald Trump safe?  Trump supporters cheered when we saw that the former president had survived the assassination attempt and pumped his fist in defiance and heroic resolve.  We mourned the death of Corey Comperatore who died heroically protecting his family from harm, and we prayed for David Dutch and James Copenhaver who were seriously wounded by the assassin's bullets. [...] At the risk of throwing cold water on our collective sense of relief, I must ask the obvious question:  what are the chances there will be another attempt on President Trump's life in the remaining months before the election?  At this point, I must think it's possible and even likely.  With the depth and vitriol of Trump Derangement Syndrome, there are many out there who ardently believe the Democrats' repeated declarations that Donald Trump is an 'existential threat to Democracy,' as well as the 'second coming of Adolf Hitler.'  You don't have to look any farther than ABC's 'The View' to find them.

80-Year-Old Man Killed For Putting Up Trump Signs.  After the attempted Trump assassination, the media quickly tried to pivot back to its usual "the other side is a threat to democracy" rhetoric, but even while the media floods the zone with Kamala gushing and Trump gnashing, the ugly reality is that it has unleashed violence that it cannot and does not intend to control.

Watch As The Pro-Hamas Mob Takes Down The American Flag In DC And Set It On Fire.  Anti-Israel rioters burned the US flag, flaunted blood-red paint-soaked effigies, and even attempted to breach the US Capitol Police line in Washington, DC, Wednesday — as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed Congress.  The hateful demonstration got so out of control that Capitol Police were forced to deploy pepper spray and other defensive measures to beat back the aggressive mob.  [Video clip]

Pro-Hamas Thugs Assault A Cop In DC As The Mob Storms The Capitol.  Pro-Hamas protesters were filmed dragging and assaulting a police officer on the bricks outside of Union Station.  The protesters were also filmed replacing the U.S. flag with the Palestinian flag before setting fire to the U.S. flag.  [Video clip]

Leftist Thug Deliberately Runs Over Elderly Trump Supporter in ATV Over a Yard Sign.  A left-wing thug this week committed three different crimes in Michigan targeting Donald Trump supporters, including running over a helpless elderly supporter of President Trump in an all-terrain vehicle (ATV) before reportedly killing himself.  The Hancock City Police Department (HCPD) released a statement revealing that around 5:45 P.M. Sunday, the suspect drove an ATV onto the yard of an 80-year-old man who was posting a Trump sign in his yard.  The old man was subsequently struck in a deliberate act.  The (HCPD) also noted the thug also vandalized two vehicles for displaying pro-police stickers and flags.  The injured Trump supporter was transported to the hospital for severe injuries following the violent attack.

8 shots to Hell.  I am curious whether this turns out to be a leftist stirred up to hatred by the culpable leftist media, or if it is an official assassination attempt approved by Joe Biden or others on his team.  Or a hybrid of the two, a leftist loony recruited by Biden's increasingly lawless administration to give them some amount of deniability.  "It wasn't us, it was that crazy guy.  We're not all like that."  Baloney.  They are all like that.  Every leftist in the country, even my liberal friend Mark, all of them either encouraged this overtly or implicitly in the way they talk about Trump.  I am sickened by the putrid moral rot that has collectively inhabited and desecrated their souls.  "By any means necessary" they say. [...] Today's assassination attempt was the ineluctable result of that encouragement.

When Democrats Incite an Assassination.  Democrats and their Antifa shock troops have been calling Donald Trump "Hitler" and demanding that he be "eliminated" for eight long years, and the moment someone listens to them, those verbal hitmen are downright offended that anyone might hold them personally responsible.  Sure, they'd gladly imprison anybody who dared to "mis-gender" a fifty-year-old creeper hanging around little girls, but to point an accusatory finger toward the leftist fifth column encouraging violence against conservatives is beyond the pale.  As I said, cuckoo commies abandoned reason long ago. [...] Biden has been painting Trump as a deadly threat to American citizens for years.  Inevitably, someone was going to interpret his words (and those of so many other Democrats employing similarly incendiary language) as a demand for violent action.  PINO Joe and his commie coalition have made political assassination look like some twisted form of civil "justice."

Let's Talk About Political Violence.  Biden's insistence that his administration will tolerate no political violence deserves further exploration in a different context, given a statement released last week by his Director of National Intelligence, Avril Haines.  "In recent weeks," it read, "Iranian government actors have sought to opportunistically take advantage of ongoing protests regarding the war in Gaza, using a playbook we've seen other actors use over the years.  We have observed actors tied to Iran's government posing as activists online, seeking to encourage protests, and even providing financial support to protesters."  A lone, disgruntled shooter is one thing; an orchestrated, nationwide campaign of unrest, which was partly paid for and organized by another nation and which has sometimes devolved to violence, is another. [...] How many of the masked mobs, though, are paid agents provocateurs, and how many are ordinary Americans with passionate political views?  Are the former manipulating the latter?

When will Democrats be held responsible for their Trump-hating rhetoric?  The unhinged young man who tried to take Donald Trump's life at a recent campaign rally may well have been acting on his own.  But, even if that proves to be the case, he likely thought his actions were an effort to "save our democracy."  How could he not, after the Democrat-Media Complex has, for the past several years, incessantly stated that Trump must be stopped — by any means necessary — to "save our democracy"?  Trump has countless times been referred to as "Hitler," a villain, an extremist, and, of course, "a threat to democracy.  Our democracy.  Meaning, the Democrats' democracy, as they believe is rightfully theirs.  But neither Democrats nor the media will be held accountable for their words and actions, because, well, they never are.  There exists not only a two-tiered justice system in this country, but a two-tiered system of blame, accountability and condemnation.

Florida Man Arrested for Threatening to Kill Trump and JD Vance.  Less than a week after his attempted assassination in Butler, Pennsylvania, a Florida man has been arrested for making threats to kill former President Donald Trump and his running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), on social media.  Details are scarce, but it is confirmed that authorities weren't taking any chances after the mayhem and chaos of last weekend.

Barbara Streisand Is Predictably Hateful on Trump Assassination Attempt.  Leave it to Barbara Streisand to predictably have the wrong take on any given topic.  In an X post on Wednesday, she weighed in on the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, and it was indeed the wrongest take that was ever wrongly taken.  [Tweet]  Barbara isn't known for her vast intellect or her unerring grasp of logic, but this is a new low even for her.

Alex Soros made what appeared to be threat to Trump on X; and USA Today 'fact checkers' dismissed it.  Days after an assassin's bullet came within an estimated centimeter from killing former (and future) President Donald Trump, let's revisit a "fact check" from USA Today from earlier this year.  Alex Soros, son of billionaire Marxist Trump hater George Soros tweeted out a picture of a bullet hole and a hand holding $47 in cash, a not so subtle intimation that Trump, the 45th and would be 47th president, should be shot, a post that given this past weekend's event should give pause.  [Tweet]

Trump's Resilience And The Inevitable Endpoint of Democrat Politics.  Forty years ago, after the assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan, I remember watching ABC anchor Frank Reynolds violently slam his fist on the desk when he was given some conflicting information about the president's fate.  The ABC brass quickly marched Sam Donaldson out to co-host, hoping to keep Reynolds calm.  The country was shocked and somber.  While the left disliked Reagan, no one that I remember expressed a hint of joy that he had been shot or sadness that he'd survived.  Fast forward 43 years, and we have another maverick Republican president (albeit not in office at the time) who was wounded by a would-be assassin's bullet.  This time, while most of the country was shocked and appalled, there was a significant element of the press and the left who argued that the president was responsible for the shooting, as others openly wished the shooter hadn't missed.

Red State Education Official To Revoke License For Teacher Who Wished Trump Shooter 'Had Better Scope'.  Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters stated on Tuesday that he plans to revoke an Ardmore City School instructor's teaching certificate over her comments praising the individual who tried to assassinate former President Donald Trump.  Walters made the announcement that he plans to remove Alison Scott's teaching certificate in response to a Facebook comment made by the teacher agreeing with another user who also praised the shooter.  After seeing the comment, Walters announced on X that the state was performing an investigation on Scott, calling it "unacceptable."  "I'm not going to tolerate teachers cheerleading an assassination attempt from President Trump," Walters told the Daily Caller News Foundation.  "Radical teachers unions have shown how much they hate President Trump... People on the radical left are responding to it.  We will not tolerate this in Oklahoma classrooms, so if we see any of this from any teachers, their certificates will be pulled, and they will not be in the classroom any longer."

The Democrats' Jihad against Donald Trump.  Decades ago, leftists moved beyond civilized debate and the exchange of respectable ideas.  Even intraspecific discussions of the left quickly slide into mundane abuse, bizarre insults, and accusations of ignoring (or ignorance of) the latest DNC guidelines.  For decades, the left has attempted to normalize what has always been considered abnormal in developed countries: violence against political opponents.  Therefore, it is pretty natural that leftist airwaves were overwhelmed by a wave of regrets and lamentations, sorrows that the sniper missed, and complaining that the front sight was knocked off and, therefore, the assassin could not aim correctly.  There is a fervent craving for the next political targeted attack to achieve its desired outcome.  This chorus includes university professors, journalists, politicians, and Hollywood stars.  Many people honestly admit that it was the worst day of their lives because they did not witness Trump being assassinated.

The left's lies are now exposed to the non-political general public.  Numerous readers commenting on yesterday's column noted quite rightly that many Democrats (both in and out of the party) are not going to change, that their hate of Republicans and Trump is too ingrained, that they will simply pause expressing that hate for a few weeks and then begin anew.  Some leftists have not even waited that long, as was seen during a Jack Black concert in Australia one day after the assassination attack, when one member of the band, Kyle Gass, publicly expressed disappointment that Trump was not murdered.  As I predicted yesterday, however, there are now immediate consequences for such ugly comments.  Gass's agent immediately dumped him, and Black was forced to cancel the rest of the band's tour.  Among the political class, however, the consequences of having such ugly opinions will not be felt as badly.  It is true that among partisan Democrats the desire to see Trump die will still be whispered.  It is true that Democrats will still likely demonize him in public, though initially more gently and later with more nuance.

The 'Through Line' from Ashli Babbitt to Donald Trump.  If Joe Biden merely padded his stats the way Donald Trump routinely does, he could be forgiven, but Biden's lies cut deep and leave scars.  It is too early to tell how much stock shooter Thomas Crooks put in those lies, but it would be naive to think that the anti-Trump mania that Biden helped foster did not influence this would-be assassin.  If so, Trump would not be the first victim of this mass psychosis.  That tragic place in history belongs to January 6 protestor, Ashli Babbitt.  Indeed, no major candidate has ever begun a presidential campaign with a more divisive and slanderous opening gambit than did Biden.

The Three "Other" Reasons They Want to Stop Trump at All Costs.  In my lifetime I've seen hatred towards presidents and presidential candidates.  Many Democrats hated Ronald Reagan because other Democrats liked Ronald Reagan.  George W. Bush was particularly hated because Democrats believed he'd stolen the 2020 election.  Barack Obama was hated by Republicans because he introduced Cultural Marxism and full-blown anti-Americanism into the Oval Office.  Even Bill Clinton loved America in his own way.  But no president in my lifetime has ever been hated as much as Donald Trump.  The sad part is that his first term was very successful, yet the hatred toward him by leftists evaporates all memories of the prosperity and peace they enjoyed. [...] But that only accounts for the pawns.  The useful idiots around us think they know why they're supposed to hate Donald Trump but they have no idea.

MSNBC guest calls for donor class to "put a bullet in Donald Trump".  A lot of people missed it since nobody watches MSNBC, but last fall the left-wing cable news outlet gave a platform to anti-Trump strategist Rick Wilson who called for a "bullet" to be sent into the body of Donald Trump.  "The donor class can't just sit back on the sidelines and say 'oh well, don't worry, this will all work itself out,'" Wilson, founder of the Lincoln Project, said in the interview. "They're still gonna have to go out and put a bullet in Donald Trump.  That's a fact." [...] A seasoned political strategist, advertising guru and media commentator, Wilson is no schlock, at least officially.  He claims to support holding elected officials accountable whenever they violate their oaths to the Constitution.  And yet when he feels threatened, Wilson apparently lashes out with calls for violence.

FBI Employee Posted Meme Regretting That Trump Assassination Attempt Failed.  An FBI employee posted her disappointment on Facebook that former President Donald Trump was not assassinated on Saturday.  "The memes are gold," wrote Jenna Howell, an employee in the bureau's Identity Research Department.  The bureau apparently hasn't fired her.  [Advertisement] [Tweet] [...] Former agent Kyle Seraphin exposed Howell on X on Sunday.  "Jenna Howell, an @FBI employee ... posted her disappointment @realDonaldTrump survived an assassination attempt," Seraphin wrote.  "Jenna has a Top Secret clearance."  "This is a typical #FBI support employee," he continued.  "And she hates gun owners."  In a long thread about the tattooed Howell, Seraphin explained that she's an extreme leftist and "rabid 'LGBTQIA+ ally'" who hates conservatives.

Trump Derangement Syndrome Draws Blood.  America is polarized, toxic, and politically close to a breaking point in part because the country's liberal political, cultural, and media elite never accepted Trump's legitimacy as the country's president.  The Biden administration and other political leaders have conveyed their condemnation of the shooting and issued statements of well wishes to Trump and his family.  That may be a first sign of self-awareness and a step in the right direction, but it sounds hollow and disingenuous.  The very same leaders of the Democratic Party, along with a cohort of the Republican Party who labeled themselves Never Trumpers, and a swathe of what was once the mainstream media, crossed the line of political and public decency by framing Donald Trump as a monster and his supporters (roughly half the nation) as monster-worshipping deplorables ready to hand our democratic republic to a dictator.  For years they have proclaimed Trump to be a danger to democracy and demonized his voters as witting or unwitting fascists.

The Left Has Sold Out to Evil.  Left-wingers killed Presidents McKinley and Lincoln.  JFK was likely a victim of the Left-wing Deep State.  The assailants of Garfield, Jackson, Ford, and Reagan were mentally disturbed.  At present, we don't know much about this shooter.  But one thing is clear.  The Secret Service has been infected with the Leftist woke virus, where identity is more important than competence.  That's almost certainly how that rooftop and ladder were available to the shooter.  The Left's response is at most pro forma and will shortly be followed with a resumption of violent rhetoric and actions to encourage its physical manifestations.  The real regret of the Left is that the shooter missed and that his misses only killed one and critically wounded two other Trump supporters.  The only question is whether enough of us are willing to see clearly and act to restore freedom to America.

Isn't This What The Left Wanted?  At the institutional level, the Democrats and their political machine have to now rethink how they will campaign for the next 16 weeks.  Will they eventually ratchet up their rhetoric to the frenzied level they had reached just last week?  How about the constant claims from the party and the media that Trump is "literally" Hitler, an authentic fascist, a dictator in waiting, a grave threat to the United States — will we see and hear those again?  This is particularly interesting, because, as others have said before us, if Trump is truly the monster he's been portrayed to be, then cutting down the American fuhrer is the only proper response.  Yet many who have been making those wild and perpetually toxic remonstrations are now praying for Trump, wishing him well, and calling for civility and brotherhood.  This means everything they said before was all part of the big lie — and they knew it.

Unanswered Questions About the Trump Assassination Attempt.  Just days before the assassination attempt, Joe Biden himself told donors, "we're done talking about the debate.  It's time to put Trump in a bullseye."  Just a figure of speech?  Sure.  But far more explicit than Trump's comments to supporters on January 6, 2021, that they should "fight" to see justice done.  I won't remind you of the so-called comedienne who held out a mock-up of Donald Trump's severed head, or the pop star who said on the day of his inauguration that seeing Trump as president made her want to blow up the White House.  Those comments were just fine, as far as Democrats were concerned.  How about the June 2024 cover of The New Republic, that bastion of liberal Democrats?  The shocker headline, "What American Fascism Would Look Like," accompanied an image of Adolf Hitler morphed into Donald Trump.

How the media coordinated the failed assassination of Donald Trump.  Progressives have quickly realized that a nearly martyred Trump is an optical disaster for them, but instead of backing away from their rhetoric, the media have escalated it.  In saner times, a former president and leading candidate narrowly avoiding death with steely courage would be celebrated by a reunified country, but we do not live in those times.  It takes a particular kind of soulless degenerate to get on cable news the day after Trump is shot and treat the billionaire and his supporters as the real threat, but apparently MSNBC and CNN are well stocked with such people.  Celebrities like George Takei have immediately returned to using violence-inspiring rhetoric like "existential threat to democracy" without missing a beat.  David Frum responded to the assassination attempt by writing a piece in the Atlantic calling Trump a dictator.  The left managed to groom one shooter, and they will not stop until they groom another.

Do Democrats, Corporate Media Have Blood On Their Hands In Trump Attack?  The Democrat Party and its allies in corporate media didn't pull the trigger in Saturday's suspected attempt on former President Donald Trump's life, but their vitriolic rhetoric has certainly set the tone for such political violence, members of Wisconsin's Republican congressional delegation tell The Federalist. [...] "I repeatedly hear Democrats in Washington, D.C, talking about Donald Trump being a threat to our democracy," said Rep. Tom Tiffany, who represents Wisconsin's 7th Congressional District.  "It is repeated all the time time.  I hear every day that Donald Trump is a threat.  It's amped up at such a level that some people are going to take it seriously."  That's exactly what a leftist Bernie Sanders-backing gunman did in 2017, when he shot up a congressional baseball game in Alexandria, Va., seriously wounding House GOP Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., and four others.  The left's hatred for Trump, amplified by the accomplice media, has grown exponentially worse as their biggest enemy prepares to officially be nominated as the GOP presidential candidate a third straight time, this time in Milwaukee, swing state Wisconsin's biggest city.

Pelosi Days Before Rally Shooting:  Trump 'Must Be Stopped, He Cannot Be President!'  Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) warned that a Donald Trump victory in November could spell doom for the nation, insisting "he must be stopped" just days before a shooting at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania where Trump was injured.  In calling to stop the former president, Pelosi claimed a victory for Trump, who is leading in most polls, would somehow undermine democracy.  "This is not a normal election where you want to win and if you don't, you cooperate and do the best you can for the country and hope to win the next time," Pelosi told MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell.  "This is something that is undermining our democracy.  He must be stopped.  He cannot be president!"

The assassination attempt on Trump's life has made the American divide clearer than ever.  The rhetoric of the left since 2015 has been murderous and vile for seven years.  They have tried with every fiber of their being to destroy the man. [...] But the response to the assassination attempt by so many on the left has been truly despicable.  They say, write, and tweet such terrible things.  Pundits on CNN and MSNBC, celebrities on X and all the other social media sites, are not shy with their glee that Trump was shot and that they are disappointed that he was not killed.  Consider Benny Thompson's staffer's tweet:  "I don't condone violence but please get you some shooting lessons so you don't miss next time oops that wasn't me talking."  They say these things out loud, to their friends, on TV, and online.  Who are these people?  They are so comfortable with their hatred of all things conservative, it does not cross their minds that what they are thinking, saying out loud, and writing, reveals their shocking lack of character, their total lack of a moral core.

Trump Shooting Clarifies the America We Have Now.  We all knew this was coming.  Saturday's assassination attempt on the once and future president Donald Trump, while shocking, came as no surprise to anyone who has been paying attention to politics over the last eight years.  For all that time, the Left has been indefatigable in the demonization of their hated opponent as A Threat to Democracy of Hitlerian proportions.  The hysterical fear-mongering about the "fascist" Trump from mainstream media talking heads like John McWhorter (who recently suggested it would be a good thing if someone were to assassinate the former President), from race hustlers like Al Sharpton, and from Trump-deranged Democrat leaders like Maxine Waters has been relentless.  Just last month, the left-wing New Republic depicted Trump on its cover with a Hitler mustache and hairstyle.  The article's tag line — "Why waste time debating the extent of Trump's fascism when we ought to be fighting it instead?" — reflects that the Left has abandoned debate and dialogue, and is urging a sort of "by any means necessary" direct action to stop the Trump juggernaut.  Well, last Saturday all the inciting rhetoric nearly paid off for the Left, as an assassin's bullet came within millimeters of killing Trump on live television at a Pennsylvania rally.

America: Wake Up and Hear the Gunshots.  After an apparent assassination attempt on Donald Trump, leaving the former president bloody but defiant, it's time for Americans to wake up and hear the gunshots.  Democrats have been claiming Trump and his supporters are worse than Nazis and equivalent to terrorists.  This election is about the survival not only of Donald Trump, but of the American Republic.  Whether the online rumors about the attempted shooter being an Antifa member are true or false, the fact remains that Joe Biden, his handlers, and his media lackeys have been using the most aggressive and slanderous language against Trump and MAGA for years.  Some prominent Democrats have even fantasized about Trump's death.  Over a thousand Trump supporters are in jail over Jan. 6 charges, many abused and their rights violated, and now someone apparently tried to shoot Trump in the head.  Trump survived the shooting today, but one of his rally attendees did not.

Mississippi congressman's staffer says 'don't miss next time' after Trump assassination attempt.  A now-deleted Facebook post by a staffer of Mississippi's lone Democrat congressman appeared to support the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump on Saturday.  The deleted post by Jacqueline Marsaw, a field director for U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Mississippi, said "I don't condone violence but please get you some shooting lessons so you don't miss next time ooops [sic] that wasn't me talking."  The Mississippi Republican Party's X account said Thompson should "FIRE his field director for condoning the attempted assassination of President @realDonaldTrump !!!"  The post also said state Democrats "must repudiate these despicable statements."

House Dem Staffer Fired After Posting 'Don't Miss Next Time' Following Trump Assassination Attempt.  A staffer for Democratic Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson has been fired after suggesting "shooting lessons" following the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump Saturday.  Jacqueline Marshaw, a field director for Thompson, reportedly made the post soon after the attack on Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.  "I don't condone violence but please get you some shooting lessons so you don't miss next time oops that wasn't me saying that," Marshaw's now-deleted post said, the Clarion Ledger reported.  Marshaw is no longer on the congressman's staff, Thompson said in a statement Sunday.

This Is What They Wanted.  Yes, this was bad, but it could have been so, so much worse.  How did we get here?  You could argue that it's just a toxic political environment and that both sides are at fault for the ratcheting up of tensions in our nation.  But it wouldn't be true.  In fact, one side has been using far more incendiary rhetoric than the other and overtly calling for violence, and it's the left. [...] This is an administration that has looked the other way as rabid antisemitic protests rocked campuses across the nation.  They didn't lift a finger.  An administration that applauded the George Floyd-BLM protests that caused billions upon billions in damage to our cities.  Instead of making any attempts to hold those who caused that deadly mayhem accountable, the Biden Department of Justice has gone after pro-life advocates, parents who want a say in what their kids are being taught, and anyone who was within a mile of the Capitol on January 6.

Will Biden Accept Blame For The Assassination Attempt Against Trump?  On July 8, CNN reported that while defending his campaign in a video call with top donors, President Joe Biden said:  "We're done talking about the debate.  It's time to put Trump in the bull's-eye.  We can't go another day, another day, without explaining what he's doing, and we have to go after him."  Five days later, someone apparently took Biden up on his word and tried to assassinate Donald Trump at a campaign rally north of Pittsburgh.

Biden Said Days Ago, 'It's Time to Put Trump in the Bullseye'.  On Monday, during an appearance on "Morning Joe," President Biden used violent rhetoric about Donald Trump.  "It's time to put Trump in the bullseye," Biden said.  Earlier this evening, Trump was shot at during a rally in Pennsylvania. [...] The fact is, the radical left has used such poisonous rhetoric against Trump; it was only a matter of time before some crazy person felt they had to do something about it.  "Today is not just some isolated incident," Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) said on X/Twitter.  "The central premise of the Biden campaign is that President Donald Trump is an authoritarian fascist who must be stopped at all costs.  That rhetoric led directly to President Trump's attempted assassination."

Biden Halts Trump Is 'Hitler' Ads after Assassination Attempt.  The scandal-plagued Biden campaign has pulled all its ads against former President Donald Trump after he was nearly killed by a shooter on Saturday.  Joe Biden is "pausing all outbound communications and working to pull down our television ads as quickly as possible," a campaign official told The Wall Street Journal on Sunday morning [7/14/2014].  The ads would have likely labeled Trump as an existential threat ahead of the 2024 election.  Biden's anti-Trump claims have rightfully led critics to question whether this heavily partisan rhetoric has incited violence against Trump.

Top Biden Donor Reid Hoffman Day Before Trump Rally Shooting: 'I Wish I Had Made' Trump 'An Actual Martyr'.  Reid Hoffman,venture capitalist and co-founder of LinkedIn, made a despicable joke Friday about Donald Trump that history will judge harshly.  In Sun Valley, Idaho, at the Allen & Co. conference — an invitation-only gathering called the "summer camp for billionaires" — Hoffman and estranged friend and Trump supporter Peter Thiel got into a disagreement about Trump that spurred Hoffman to make a dark comment.  Hoffman made his comment barely 24 hours before a Trump rally in Pennsylvania ended abruptly after what appeared to be a hail of gunshots and Trump being removed by Secret Service agents with what appeared to be blood on his face.

This Is What Happens When Media Pretends Everyone They Don't Like Is Hitler.  To those who have been following American politics closely over the past decade, the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump is not a shock.  Even the most cursory of glances at the political division in this country could tell you that this was a matter of when, not if.  When Trump first came on the scene announcing his intention to run for president, Democratic politicians and members of the activist media did their level best to portray him as the second coming of Adolf Hitler and his supporters as modern-day Nazis.  The effort to paint the right as a pernicious threat to "democracy" has not abated since 2016.  Indeed, it has intensified.

In PA, an assassination attempt against President Trump.  Beginning in 2016, the Democrats attacked Donald Trump's character and actions with a fury unlike anything seen since the Civil War. [...] Even after Trump left office, the Democrats never let up.  They've tried to sue him into penury and imprison him for life.  And then there's the rhetoric.  Just last week, the once reputable New Republic explicitly promised that Trump's next administration would be the second coming of Hitler, a claim they've been making with increased volume and frequency since 2016 (again, without regard for his completely normal presidential policies and actions):  [Tweet]  The assassination fantasies also go back to 2016.  Remember the untalented Kathy Griffith holding up a model of Trump's bloody head?  Or the production of Julius Caesar with Trump in Caesar's role?  Just a couple of weeks ago, tech billionaire Reid Hoffman announced that he hoped to make Trump a "real" martyr.  In other words, the Democrat high command has, for years now, been telling its foot soldiers that Trump is a man who is a combination of Hitler and Satan and that he should be wiped off the earth.

The demons speak out.  Appalling but expected:  that's all that needs to be said about the Left's response to the attempted assassination of President Trump.  It's no longer a process of conscious thought, or consideration, or reflection.  It's degenerated to the level of a tropism, a reaction you'd see in an insect or a nematode.  A few tweets from X are all that are required here:  [Tweets] [...] These people can no longer be considered in terms of politics or ideology, but in terms of psychological pathology.  They are out of control, and out of control on the deepest, most basic level.  They can no longer be debated, or engaged with, or reached out to, or subject to any other customary human politesse.  They will need to be dealt with.  Dealt with humanely, decently, and with due care for their legal rights.  But dealt with.  We need to begin thinking about how.

Pennsylvania State Capitol Evacuated after Bomb Threat 'In the Name of Palestine'.  The Pennsylvania State Capitol in Harrisburg was evacuated Saturday after every member of the state's legislature received an email threatening anti-Israel bombings in the complex.  "In the name of Palestine, I have hidden highly lethal lead azide devices in and around Pennsylvania State Capitol as well as the Pennsylvania Judicial Center," the suspect, going by the alias of "glorytoourmartyrs," wrote.  "I plan on triggering one device every few hours until Joe Biden goes on national television and publicly denounces the illegitimate state of Israel.  Keep in mind I am inside one of the 2 buildings armed w/ a knife, and plan on remaining here to my dying breath!"  According to a statement from the Pennsylvania Department of General Services, law enforcement immediately evacuated the state capitol and conducted a sweep of the complex.  They did not detect any explosives or the presence of the individual who sent the email, which had as its subject line "My manifesto."

New York Times Columnist Says What Other Leftists Are Thinking but Don't Dare Say.  Let me tell you about far leftists.  They are different from you and me.  If ordinary people publicly threatened to assassinate the president or a presidential candidate or wished that someone else would do so, those people would have to answer to the law.  But leftists?  Even when they show the world how low they really are, they still think that they are better than we are, and with good reason:  no matter how criminal their deeds or words are, they suffer no consequences.  They are different.  New York Times columnist John McWhorter has shown us this again recently by wishing someone would assassinate Donald Trump.  Has he been arrested?  Lost his job?  Been publicly repudiated by his friends?  Come on, man!

The Coming Coup.  The first question to ask if speculating on an hypothetical leftist coup is this:  Are there a substantial number of people in the United States who would like to see an anti-American revolution?  It's hard to quantify, but there's certainly a sizable population, made evident by the noise they make.  During the Antifa riots, apart from the violence, there were chants: "No border, no wall, no USA at all."  During the recent pro-Hamas demonstrations on campuses and elsewhere, anti-American views were overt:  For instance, students at the University of Michigan participating in the protests were given pamphlets titled "10 anarchist theses on Palestine solidarity in the United States," which included a page that stated, "Freedom for Palestine means Death to America."  The slogan "Death to America" was chanted in nearby Dearborn, Michigan, during a rally on the last Friday of Ramadan.

N.Y. Times Columnist Wants Trump Dead — Seriously.  John McWhorter, the prominent academic, author and New York Times columnist, wants everyone to know that he's sorry that he recently suggested it would be a good thing if someone were to assassinate former President Donald Trump.  Except he's not, really.  But at least he owns it.  "I have taken a great deal of heat for saying, for implying, that I wish somebody would kill Donald Trump," McWhorter said on the new episode of "The Glenn Show" with Brown University economics professor Glenn Loury. "That is exactly what I was implying.  It was irresponsible of me to say that in a public space.  I really shouldn't have said it here."

[Movie] Star Lea DeLaria Calls For The Assassination Of Trump.  Orange Is the New Black actress Lea DeLaria uploaded an intense Instagram speech calling on President Joe Biden to take advantage of the Supreme Court's newly defined executive immunity rules and assassinate Donald Trump.  DeLaria posted the video Monday in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling the former president is immune from prosecution for any "official acts" while in office.  The ruling has led to speculation that a president could, in theory, assassinate a political rival and then call it an "official" act.  Well, that's what DeLaria rather provocatively called on Biden to do and likened the assassination to preemptively killing Adolf Hitler before World War II.  [Video clip]

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Spend the next ten seconds imagining what would happen to you, if you made such a statement.  Or just imagine how quickly the feds would be at your door if you made a public call for Barack H. Obama's assassination.  I doubt if this DeLaria person (of whom I had never heard until two minutes ago) will ever spend a moment in jail or pay any fine for this rant, but I hope I'm wrong.

Police Attacked Following Chicago Pride Parade.  Chicago's annual Pride parade took place on Sunday and the event appeared to go smoothly enough.  Authorities had been wary of potentially violent disruptions, so the parade route was shorter than in previous years with fewer floats and a large police presence.  The peaceful portion of the proceedings was not destined to last, however.  Once the parade was over, hundreds of participants and observers stuck around well into the night, drinking, singing, and dancing.  Then fights began to break out.  When the police attempted to break up the altercations, the revelers attacked the CPD cops.  In the end, more than fifty people were arrested and multiple police officers were injured.  I'm almost positive that someone once told us that these gay pride events are all about love and light equality.  When did that philosophy begin including attacking the police?

Pro-Palestinian Protesters Descend on Chicago Suburban Home of Democrat Rep. Brad Schneider at 3am.  A group of around 40 pro-Palestinian protesters descended upon Democrat Rep. Brad Schneider's (D-IL) north suburban Chicago area home in the early morning hours on Saturday, worrying neighbors and causing the police department to step up patrols in the neighborhood.  Neighbors reported being shocked when the protesters began making noise and shouting slogans at around 3 a.m. on Saturday morning.  Schneider, who is Jewish and openly supports Israel, was not home at the time, but other members of his family were in the residence.

Multiple brawls break out in chaotic scene inside Washington Square Park Pride celebration: video.  Multiple brawls and wild chaos engulfed Washington Square Park in the aftermath of New York City's Pride Parade Sunday as police battled to control the unruly mob of revelers, shocking footage shows.  Video from the jaw-dropping scene showed fistfights and hair-pulling as several troublemakers turned the crowded park into their own personal boxing ring while herds of onlookers watched with glee and even whipped out their phones to record the showdowns in Lower Manhattan.  At one point, two young men threw haymakers at each other before one took a tumble to the ground.  Seconds later, two women briefly took swings at each other while a couple bystanders attempted to break up that kerfuffle, a clip shows.

Be careful, Donald.  I am worried about President Trump.  Now that he has demolished Joe Biden in this week's presidential debate, many on the Left would like to see him vanish.  Democrats are desperate, and likely to try to stop him by fair means or foul. [...] There is no shortage of evil people who would 'Epstein' someone if the incentive were big enough.  Already many people have mysteriously died if they crossed some former presidents, so it is no secret that assassins are out there (look up "arkancide" and then when you're done with that, ask why security cameras were "malfunctioning" when Epstein "hung himself" in his jail cell.)  Trump cannot afford to be put in a jail cell with iffy equipment.  Donald Trump is deeply hated by the Deep State, by many Democrats in politics, and by those with contacts in what passes in some pathetic circles for the media.  The communist, globalist, and Islamist agendas, foreign and domestic, are in grave danger from Trump and his voters.

Trans Activist Threatens to Carpet Bomb Texas and Florida, Kill Transphobes.  Body dysmorphia is a real thing, and it is a mental disorder, but very few are afflicted.  Many of the people now claiming to be transgender are also mentally ill or opportunists.  Some are just transvestites, but the LGBTs won't distinguish.  We are seeing a rash of people who are mentally ill but who decided they were trans.  It gives them power, thanks to Democrats.  Many haven't gotten the proper mental health treatment, and that is tragic.  The person in the clip below is an activist who is threatening to bomb Texas and Florida and "kill transphobes." The activist's Reddit account has since been closed to the public, but hopefully, the police are on top of this.  There are no transgender women or men.  There are women and men.  This is not normal; none of this is normal:  [Tweet with video clip]

The FBI Needs to Investigate This Liberal Lunatic Promising Death If Trump Wins.  This liberal lunatic makes a video about killing people if Trump wins:  "If Donald Trump wins... you're not going to want to be around for that fight I can [...] promise you that.  You're not going to want your family to be around for that fight.  Because people will die."  [Video clip]

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That sounds like a man making a terroristic threat.  [1] [2]

Just remember:  These obnoxious disturbers of the peace are all Democrats.  They're coming for you next:  In what is actually a relatively mild example of the obnoxious and almost always illegal protests by pro-Hamas supporters — such as taking over and trashing buildings, attacking Jews and blind children, and blocking traffic — for the past six months protesters have been disturbing the peace at late evening and early morning hours in the residential neighborhood where senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) lives with his family in Houston.  ["]For the past 6 months, anti-Israel protestors have come to my home just about every Sat morning at 7 am and most Fri nights until 10 or 11 pm.  They scream, disturb the peace & wake the neighbors.["]

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Threatening Rep. Maxine Waters Gets You Prison, Threatening a GOP Congressman is Fine.  About a decade and a half ago, death threats aimed at members of Congress went into overdrive.  There had always been the occasional threatening phone call, but goosed by Facebook and an aggressive media, the number and scale of the threats exploded and even escalated into real-world violence.  Threatening a member of Congress is a federal offense.  But much of the federal justice system now seems to operate on double standards.  The Biden Justice Department just issued a press release congratulating themselves for locking up a guy who sent violent threats to Rep. Maxine Waters (who has her own history of threatening rhetoric).  Meanwhile, Rep. Jim Banks of Indiana claims that the DOJ and the FBI refused to go after a man who made even more explicit threats to him and his family.

The Psychopathy of the Left:  Know thy Enemy.  [Scroll down]  From man-on-the-street interviews of Hamas sympathizers, two of these groupings are on full display:  the agitators deny the barbarity of the Hamas atrocities on October 7th, dismissing it as "Zionist" propaganda; the cannon fodder is exposed as a legion of brainless twits — many did not know what river or what sea they were demanding for their Palestinian brethren.  "Queers for Palestine" activists do not know of the warm welcome they would receive from Hamas if they visited the Gaza Strip.  Hint:  it involves stones and rooftops.  But what motivates people to deny the truth — or ignorance altogether — in order to spread mayhem and destruction?

Be Prepared for Chaos.  I suggest you start preparing for a great deal of left-wing civic violence, supply disruptions (including food shortages) and widespread urban chaos.  I say this because it is my sense that the Democrats, deep state, and their media enablers are all in rough shape and have no other way out but to fall back on their usual criminal methods of retaining power. [...] I think I'm not far off the mark when I suggest that the Democrat-run institutions and cities, which regularly are tolerating, if not encouraging, violent demonstrations by demonstrably linked green, pro-Palestine, Antifa gangs, are setting the stage for November's elections, with the federal government's apparent connivance.  There's no indication that the FBI is seriously investigating these groups for criminal behavior or even foreign influence.  No one seems to be stopping the road and highway blockages and as the left's election prospects grow dimmer, I see them upping their game.

Behold the Monster You Created.  [Scroll down]  Well, my friends.  You miscalculated. [...] Let us also not forget that you supported the Occupy takeovers of yester-decade.  You supported the state rotunda takeovers by unionized thugs.  You supported the BLM riots.  You supported the CHAZ in Seattle and similar secessionist movements in other cities.  You supported the attacks on churches and pregnancy centers after the Dobbs ruling.  You supported the Stalinist show trial against Brett Kavanaugh, as well as the mob that tried to storm the Supreme Court to prevent his swearing-in.  You supported the attack by James Hodgkinson against Republican congressmen playing baseball.  You supported the attack on Rand Paul by his neighbor.  You supported the campus attacks against conservative speakers and activists.  You supported every random street attack against anyone wearing a MAGA hat.  You supported every act of violence, censorship, social coercion, government repression, and outright insurrection so long as it was seen as beneficial to advancing your agenda and, more importantly, as long as it never affected you personally.

Contrast and compare to January 6, 2021:
Pro-Palestinian Protesters Vandalize Statues Outside White House During Massive Protest.  Pro-Palestinian protesters vandalized statues and threw items at a National Park Service ranger near the White House during a Saturday protest calling for a cease-fire in the war between Israel and Hamas, according to multiple videos.  "Surround the White House for Gaza" was held Saturday afternoon and deemed a "national mobilization" to call for an "immediate ceasefire, an immediate end to the siege on Gaza, the freedom of all Palestinian prisoners, and an end to the occupation of Palestine," according to a description of the event.  Videos posted on social media appeared to show protesters vandalized statues, harassed a National Park Service ranger and set off smoke bombs.

Far-right AfD local candidate stabbed in another Mannheim attack.  A police officer was killed in another stabbing in the city in Germany's southwest.  Heinrich Koch, a local council candidate for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, was injured in an apparent knife attack in Mannheim on Tuesday night.  The Federal spokesman of the AfD party, Tino Chrupalla, posted on X that Koch was confronted as he confronted people pulling down posters in the German southwestern city of some 300,000.  "Our members and representatives are the most frequent victims of political violence and destruction.  That cannot stop us," added Chrupalla.

Husband of Anti-Globalism MEP Found Dead in Car, Zip Tie Around Neck.  MEP Francesca Donato recently found her husband, Angelo Onorato, dead in his vehicle with "something tied tightly around his neck."  "I can tell you that it was not a suicide but a murder," she declares.  MEP Donato opposed the COVID-19 "vaccine" Green Pass, which she argued infringed on personal freedoms.  She also opposed sending weapons to Ukraine.  Now, her husband, who she claims was not suicidal, was found dead in his vehicle.  Something doesn't add up.

Crime and punishment in Joe Biden's America.  In the summer of 2020, America was in flames as Antifa and Black Lives Matter set fire to city after city — Seattle, Minneapolis, Portland, New York, St. Louis, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and so many more.  Police stations were torched, and dozens of officers were injured as all manner of projectiles, from rocks to Molotov cocktails, were hurled at them.  Dozens of people died.  The damage was estimated at over $1.2 billion, the highest in history.  In January of 2021, the Biden administration came to town.  With 35,000 FBI agents and support personnel at his disposal, and armed with an annual $10.8 billion budget, Biden's Attorney General Merrick Garland had everything he needed to bring the criminals to bear.  But there was no outrage from the Justice Department.  Instead, with a lonely exception here and there, there was silence.  Tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands, of crimes across the country never have been, nor ever will be, prosecuted.

If January 6 was an 'insurrection,' so were the George Floyd riots in 2020.  Corporate media describe the January 6, 2021, ("J6") assault on the U.S. Capitol — sparked by claims of fraud in 2020's presidential election — as an insurrection.  But was it?  Yet they never describe 2020 riots — sparked mainly by the Minneapolis police's killing of George Floyd — as insurrections.  Then again, they should.

RNC Locked Down After Receiving Vials of Blood.  The Republican National Committee's headquarters in Washington was temporarily placed under lockdown on the morning of May 22 due to blood vials arriving at the main fundraising and campaign arm of the GOP, a source familiar with the matter told The Epoch Times.  The vials were addressed to former President Donald Trump, said the source.  Whether there was a message alongside the vials is uncertain.  A Hazmat team was called to the scene.

Low-level terrorism:
In Michigan, Leftists Have Started Knocking on Doors in the Middle of the Night.  It's a hallmark of totalitarian regimes.  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote about it in his monumental exploration of the nightmare of totalitarianism, "The Gulag Archipelago":  "The sharp nighttime ring or the rude knock at the door.  The insolent entrance of the unwiped jackboots of the unsleeping State Security operatives."  The left has now adopted this tactic in the United States, not for arrests (yet), but to frighten its foes into submission.  The Jerusalem Post reported Thursday that "anti-Israel masked men arrived at the homes of University of Michigan Board of Regents members before dawn on Wednesday to protest and demand the adoption of Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) policies, according to the university and the regents."  Why before dawn, when the Regents were least likely to be able to carry on a rational discussion about these issues?  Because rational discussion is the last thing these masked thugs want.

Obama World's Fingerprints Are All Over Campus Chaos.  A who's-who of Obama administration alumni are seemingly behind a concerted push to drive a wedge between President Joe Biden and Israel.  For weeks, stories of chaos across the nation's college campuses dominated the media.  Anti-Israel protestors set up encampments, ignored charges of trespassing and ripped down the American flag to replace it with the Palestinian flag, all to protest the United States' pro-Israel stance in the country's war against Hamas.  Recent reporting by Tablet Magazine, as well as public statements from former White House officials, reveal that members of the Obama administration are stoking the flames of anti-Israel sentiment in the Democratic Party, exacerbating a headache for Biden.

This Is Not the 1960s.  It was inevitable that the American Marxists would go down the road of justifying the current premediated chaos on college campuses by claiming it is no different than the marches, demonstrations, and unrest on college campuses during the 1960s.  This absurd comparison is nothing more than a juvenile attempt to wrap Marxism, virulent anti-Americanism, support for Islamic terrorism, and malicious antisemitism in the flags of the Civil Rights and Vietnam War movements.  The impetus behind the Civil Rights and Vietnam War movements, before they were hijacked by the radical Marxists, was a desire to make certain the nation lived up to its ideals not to transform it into an oppressive one-party socialist oligarchy and a society fraught with renewed racism, corruption, and duplicity.

My Day with Cornell Protestors:  Antisemitism, Denial, and Ignorance.  Back at Cornell, I'm watching similarly deluded ivy league college students dancing and laughing as they adjust their keffiyehs and fervently pound nails into a large "Hands off Rafah" sign they've been building.  I ask one of the leaders of the group if she knows where Rafah is; I can tell by the confused look on her face that she doesn't have a clue.  The only thing she can tell me is that "they've evacuated innocent Palestinians there and Israel is going to attack it and kill them."  Obviously these students are ignorant or don't care that Rafah is considered the final outpost of Hamas; it's where the terror masterminds are suspected to be holed up with their fighting brigades, and where the remaining hostages (including Americans) — both alive and dead — are believed to be held. [...] It's clear that Israel cannot win the war without going into Rafah.  And sadly, that's a fact that President Biden knows too, so why would his administration decide to stop sending weapons to the Jewish state?

Tesla Gigafactory Shut Down as Hundreds of Anti-Capitalism Protesters Violently Clash With Police and Storm Gates of Facility.  Activists demonstrating against the planned expansion of Tesla's gigafactory near Berlin have violently clashed with police as some tried to rush the site after hundreds turned out in protest. [...] What's not clear is how this mob relates to climate protesters.  The electric cars that Tesla makes are central to the Net Zero goals of most countries.  Yet here we have a gang of traditional anti-capitalist protesters trying to shut it down.  What would Greta say?  Maybe as long as Musk isn't performing in Eurovision she doesn't mind.  Note that, as at other Leftist demonstrations, the protesters are all wearing Covid face masks.  Why has that become the accepted symbol of woke protests?

Tesla gigafactory battlezone:  Hundreds of left-wing activists clash with police and storm the gates of the facility.  Activists demonstrating against the planned expansion of Tesla's gigafactory near Berlin are locked in violent clashes with police today as some tried to rush the site after hundreds turned out in protest yesterday.  Graphic images from the scene showed how officers equipped with riot gear were embroiled in a brutal fistfight with a sea of enraged demonstrators carrying flags and banners which read 'disrupt capitalism, create future'.  One shocking clip saw a stampede of protesters charge across a field toward the officers, who responded in kind by spraying CS gas and beating the oncoming demonstrators with batons and reinforced gloves.

The People Setting America on Fire.  Over the past several weeks, Americans have witnessed what has seemed like a mass outpouring of support for terror on elite college campuses. [...] But students are not the only, and perhaps not even the most important, faction active in the campus protests.  As in the "mostly peaceful" Black Lives Matter protests of the summer of 2020, "outside agitators" — professional radicals and organizers, black bloc antifa thugs, Marxist-Leninist revolutionaries, and Palestinian and Islamist radicals — have played a central role in organizing and escalating the campus protests, just as they have organized and escalated the wider anti-Israel protest campaign that began almost immediately after Oct. 7.  This largely decentralized network of agitators is, in turn, politically and financially supported by a vast web of progressive nonprofits, NGOs, foundations, and dark-money groups ultimately backed by big-money donors aligned with the Democratic Party.

FBI Should Uncover Who Organized, Funded Radical Student Encampments.  If the FBI has time to spare after harassing mothers at school board meetings, it may want to look into the groups participating in, and funding, the pro-Hamas disturbances at universities across the country.  Clearing out Columbia University on Tuesday night doesn't mean the job is done.  Yes, some protests have been peaceful, engaging in constitutionally protected speech.  But, unlike the concerned parents who simply decided to get more involved in local politics, the groups behind the protests — violent and peaceful ones — want to dismantle society.  And things could turn even more violent this summer.  Authorities — not just the Federal Bureau of Investigations, but law enforcement at all levels — have presumably been keeping tabs on who's taking part, who broke the law, who are the nonstudents sneaking into university property to agitate, etc.  If they haven't, Congress ought to weigh in.

Majoring in Jihad.  These are the same youthful, useless idiots who are always banging on about banning "hate" speech, yet the words coming out of their mouths are vile, offensive, and crude.  How can a sane person denounce "hate" while effusing nothing but hate?  I want to grab a literature major by the collar and point out the irony, but I'm no longer convinced the youngest among us know how to read.  They certainly know little of history.  They don't even know who their friends and enemies are. [...] For 1,400 years, Islam has made two things abundantly clear:  (1) it is not a religion of peace, and (2) it has no interest in modernizing.  I hope the hundred-pound, non-binary, climate apocalypse major wearing Rainbow sandals while protesting against Western colonialism doesn't have to find that out the hard way.

Left-Wing Activists Prevent Migrants from Being Moved Out Of Hotel After Slashing Bus Tires.  A number of left-wing activists are sabotaging migrant removals in the United Kingdom.  Earlier this week, they prevented migrants from being moved from a hotel in London to the Bibby Stockholm barge by slashing the tires on the bus meant to transport them.  A number of migrants were set to board the bus at the Best Western Hotel in Peckham, in the south of the capital city, to be transferred to the barge in Portland, Dorset, where the government is currently housing hundreds asylum seekers, some of whom have been earmarked for deportation to Rwanda.  The transfer to the barge is part of a plan by the UK government to reduce the amount of taxpayer money spent on housing asylum seekers in hotels.  However, when not at full capacity, the cost of the barge is more than the average cost of a hotel room.

Let's Be Clear on What We Are Witnessing:  Terrorists, Not Freedom Fighters.  Hamas and the pro-Palestine rioters in the US laying siege to campuses are terrorists, by definition, not freedom fighters.  They both target civilians with violence and threats of violence to bring about political change.  There is an old saying:  "The difference between a freedom fighter and a terrorist is victory."  The idea being that the victor gets to write the history and can convert terrorists to heroes.  A similar saying is, "One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter." The meaning here is that terrorist or freedom fighter is a matter of perspective, and that if you were trying to gain your freedom, you would see the terrorists as freedom fighters.  Both of these sayings are wrong, however.  Terrorism is a malign methodology, which can be directed at a variety of goals from achieving independence to bringing about Armageddon, or preventing deforestation.  The ends do not justify the means, and they certainly do not change the nature of terrorism.

UCLA Hamas Encampment Fanatics Get No Jail Time, and It Gets Worse From There.  I can't say I'm surprised given I predicted this, but that doesn't make it any less absurd.  According to a local news report in California, the violent pro-Hamas students who set up an illegal encampment and trashed the UCLA campus received no jail time.  [Advertisement]  Instead, as documented by the reporter for "Good Day LA," they were only given citations.  Worse?  They were also handed a free meal to take with them.  [Tweet with video clip]  [Transcript]  The students (and many non-students) were arrested early Thursday just before dawn.  Police had to fight their way through lines of violent "protesters," including some who had occupied Royce Hall.  The terrorist supporters threw urine, rocks, and bottles in an attempt to save themselves from arrest.  Hours later, the area was finally cleared.  [Advertisement]

May Day 'revelers' torch a fleet of Amazon trucks, pelt cops with eggs and stones.  "Mostly peaceful" has been eclipsed as the most ludicrous euphemism for violence and anarchy by a newly-coined German invention: "mostly trouble-free."  Yes seriously — that's how German police and media described the chaos of April 30th, or the night before May Day, where "protesters" hurled eggs and rocks at law enforcement and masked agitators "torched" a fleet of Amazon delivery trucks.

Here Come The Pre-Planned Riots of 2024!  Notice that the summer of 2020 was full of riots before the election, and now the summer of 2024 is full of riots before the election.  That's because George Soros and the Left are paying for them.  It's another election-year political influence operation.

Columbia University says unaffiliated persons are leading campus occupation as NYPD make arrest[s].  Columbia University president Minouche Shafik issued a letter to the NYPD to ask them to come to campus and clear the occupied administration building, Hamilton Hall.  In that letter, she said that she believed that outside forces, not students, were leading the protests and occupation.  This [occurred] while mass arrests were conducted on campus, caught by Freedom News.  Multiple keffiyeh-clad students could be heard screaming as they were dragged away by officers.  [Tweet with video clip]  [Advertisement]  CBS News' Ali Bauman reports that sources at New York's City Hall said that there was "evidence that the wife of a known terroist is with protesters on Columbia University campus.  [Deleted tweet?]  [Advertisement]  Libs of TikTok stated that the person of interest who is believed to be the wife of a terroist was Sami Al-Arian, who was deported from the US in 2015 for aiding Islamic Jihad.  [Tweet]  [Advertisement]

Majority of arrests at UT Austin's Gaza Camp were not UT students.  Of the over 70 people arrested at the University of Texas Austin campus on Monday at the school's Gaza Camp, 46 of them were not students at the school.  UT Spokesperson Mike Rosen told the Austin American-Statesman that based on preliminary numbers, 46 of 77 people arrested Monday were not students, though it is unclear whether this number included faculty or staff members.  [Advertisement]  Overall, 79 people were arrested, with 78 being charged with criminal trespass, and one person receiving an additional charge of obstructing a highway or passageway.  One person was also charged with interfering with public duties, said Kristen Dark, sheriff's office public information officer.  [Advertisement]  The 57 people who were arrested last week at the protests faced criminal trespassing charges, but those charges were dropped.

'Total anarchy': Mass riot rages for hours at UCLA, police absent.  Violent clashes took place at the UCLA campus on Tuesday night between protesters.  The police were absent as protesters beat each other with fists, sticks, and pallets!  [Video clips]

The Return Of The "Outside Agitator".  Young adults — late teens through the early twenties — are the members of our species most easily whipped into a frenzy.  For one thing, they have very active glands.  For another, they believe themselves to be the saviors of Mankind, despite not knowing [much] about anything.  And a terrifying percentage of college instructors play to their vanities.  Why?  Unclear.  I can't imagine a better place than the university for an outside agitator to ply his Soros-funded trade.  Thousands of ignorant, easily agitated kids with delusions of world-historical stature! [...] For a good thirty years, the evidence of metastasized ideological cancer among the universities has been plainly visible.  If it was ever possible to save them from themselves, that time has passed.

Jewish Girl Is Beaten Unconscious By Pro-Hamas Terrorists At UCLA.  A Jewish girl at UCLA was sent to the ER after being beaten unconscious by pro-Palestine protesters.  The incident reportedly happened at Dickerson Plaza.  [Video clip]

Paid 'Professional Agitators' Are Fomenting Violence on America's Campuses.  We're witnessing the violent, pro-Hamas, antisemitic protests erupt at colleges and universities across the nation since the Hamas atrocities of Oct. 7, 2023, and we've seen plenty of extremist students like Vanderbilt's Jack Petocz or Columbia's Khymani James spewing hateful rhetoric and advocating for the elimination of the Jewish people.  [Advertisement]  [Links]  But there are professionals involved too, and we know they're being funded and coordinated.  The question is, by whom?  We have some ideas, and the answers aren't shocking:  [Link]  Soros isn't the only extremist fomenting the violent protests — other '60s radicals are jumping aboard the crazy train too.  As I reported, Weather Underground co-founder Bill Ayers showed up to talk to an anti-Israel mob at the University of Chicago on Monday.  [Link]  Another long-time activist is throwing her "expertise" into the situation as well — professional agitator Lisa Fithian, a bitter harridan whose sole purpose in life seems to be protesting against virtually everything she can and trying to create chaos wherever possible.  Naturally, she was at the Columbia University pro-Hamas protests offering her advice.  [Tweet]

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NYPD release video showing professional 'protest consultant' at Columbia University.  The New York City Police Department released a video showing a professional "protest consultant" who was seen on other social media videos instructing a mob of anti-Israel agitators as they took over Hamilton Hall at Columbia University overnight Monday.  New York City Mayor Eric Adams spoke about outside agitators during a press conference Tuesday evening.  "What should have been a peaceful protest, it has basically been co-opted by professional outside agitators.  We were extremely cautious about releasing our intel information because our goal was to ensure the safety of the students, the faculty, and without destruction to property," Adams said.  "We have sounded the alarm several times before about external actors who attempted to hijack this private protest."

At Columbia University, Pro-Hamas Terrorists Take Over Buildings, Zip-Tie Doors, Set Up Barricades.  Protesters at Columbia University have barricaded themselves inside an academic building on the upper Manhattan school's campus, breaking windows and allegedly holding workers there hostage before releasing them, the Columbia Spectator student newspaper reports.  Doors to Hamilton Hall are shut and blocked with tables, chairs, metal barricades and other objects or are shuttered with locks, zip ties or ropes by dozens of protesters who broke into the building, the paper reports.  [Video clip]

Man Charged With Making Bomb Threat To Republican Senate Candidate Is Donor To Democrat Opponent.  A Wisconsin man who donated to Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) has been charged with making a bomb threat to the campaign office of her Republican challenger.  Police charged 72-year-old Joseph Quade with making terrorist threats on Friday after investigating a message sent to the Senate campaign office of Eric Hovde that said the office "might blow up," the Wisconsin State Journal reported.  Hovde, a businessman, is attempting to unseat Baldwin in the November election.  "Hey (EH), you think your building might blow up tomorrow?  I don't think you should have any of your people come to work," said the threatening message, which was sent via a voice memo attached to an email, according to the criminal complaint.  Quade told police that he did not remember making the threat, but said he could get "a little political," and it was possible he sent the message, the Journal reported.  The threat to Hovde's office in Madison was sent in on April 4.

Pro-Hamas terrorist supporters harass Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) and his family outside his Texas home.  Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz was confronted by a raucous crowd of anti-Israel protesters Saturday outside his Houston home for a second time in one week.  In a post to social media Saturday morning, Cruz, who has been vocal about his support of Israel amid its war with Hamas militants, wrote, "For the [2nd] time this week, anti-Israel protestors have come to my house early in the morning, waking up the neighbors & harassing my family.  None expressed concern about Hamas' Oct 7 murder of over 1200 or mass rapes of women & children."

Who runs the American agitprop machine?  Today we wonder why Hamas child-killers always sound far from sanity, and why the North Koreans seem to live in an even more different universe.  The answer is simple: if you enforce total uniformity on any group, it turns into a cult.  They listen to only one voice.  That's how you make mob cults, exactly how the Columbia faculty created a new Hitlerjugend screaming slogans with no consequences, because all the authorities have surrendered.  Make everybody march to the beat of the same drum, and you've got a mass cult.  That's why they all yell the same words from the same book at the same mass demonstrations in the same locations.  Normal people don't march in lockstep, but today's hateful mobs do, because they have one group mind.  You don't need A.I. to turn people into robots.

Jewish student at Yale stabbed in eye with Palestinian flag.  A Jewish student at Yale University was stabbed in the eye with a Palestinian flag during an anti-Israel demonstration on Saturday night at the school's campus in New Haven, Conn.  "Tonight at Yale, I was assaulted by a student today at an anti-Israel protest.  He stabbed me in the eye with a Palestinian flag.  Now I'm in the hospital.  This is what happens when visibly Jewish students try to attend and document these rallies," Sahar Tartak, a sophomore, tweeted after the incident.  [Tweet]

Psst... Merrick Garland — I Found Your Domestic Terrorists.  Ever since Joe Biden and his commie clown car puppet masters started occupying the Oval Office, tales have been told of an imminent domestic terror threat.  The terrorist group that Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray have red-flagged as the greatest danger is known as "Trump Supporters."  Since these people have been in power, the threats and violence in the United States of America have been coming from pretty much everywhere except the oft-referenced white conservative males. [...] A good rule of thumb in 2024 America is to find out where any leftist protests are happening and steer clear of them, because that's where the real potential for violence is.  I'm not saying that they're all violent, I'm just saying that large groups of entitled, permanently aggrieved leftists who have grown up in a world without consequences can be a bit powder keg-ish.  The Brownshirt resurrection on American college campuses is a far greater threat than any of the Dems' embellishment of what happened on Jan. 6, 2021.

Texas Rep. John Carter Says 'Anti-Israel Activists Vandalized' Georgetown Office.  Rep. John Carter (R-TX) says anti-Israel protesters "vandalized" one of his offices in Texas and vowed to find the "parties responsible."  Carter posted a photo on X on Monday, showing red paint splattered across his office door with the words "Free Gaza" written in what appeared to be red graffiti on the sidewalk in front of the office.  "Unhinged anti-Israel activists vandalized my Georgetown office.  Let me make 2 things clear, my support for Israel is unwavering & your intimidation won't work," Carter wrote.  "Secondly, the parties responsible will be found & will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law."

Police storm Yale University's campus with riot gear, 47 arrested as hundreds stage anti-Israel protest.  Police clad in riot gear swarmed Yale University's Connecticut campus early Monday and arrested dozens of students who refused to clear out from an anti-Israel protest encampment.  At least 47 protesters were cuffed and hauled away from the Ivy League's New Haven campus on shuttle buses, a university spokesperson confirmed to The [New York] Post.  They were slapped with trespassing summons — and will be referred for Yale disciplinary action, which may include suspensions, the rep added.

This is called "failure to think ahead."  It's another important lesson.
Ilhan Omar's daughter, Isra Hirsi, says she's homeless, cries poverty after suspension from $90K-per-year college.  The privileged daughter of Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar amazingly claims she's homeless and can't get food after being kicked out of her prestigious $90,000-per-year Barnard College dorm following her arrest at last week's anti-Israel protests on Columbia University's campus.  Isra Hirsi, 21, and a handful of other Barnard students were slapped with suspensions after they were among the more than 100 protestors cuffed and hauled away for refusing to clear out from a tent encampment on the Ivy League school's campus last Thursday.  "I was a little bit frantic, like, where am I going to sleep?  Where am I gonna go?" she whined to Teen Vogue after learning she'd been evicted from campus housing and banned from using the dining hall.

New York Democrat Congressional Candidate Slammed for Wishing Death on All Trump Supporters.  New York Democrat congressional candidate Nate McMurray wished death on Trump supporters on Saturday [4/20/2024] in a post on X.  McMurray is running to represent New York's 26th congressional district — and Ukraine.  The unhinged Democrat posted the death wish to social media after the House of Representatives passed a foreign aid package that allocated billions of dollars to Ukraine and Israel.  Lawmakers waved Ukrainian flags on the House floor which angered many conservatives.

Chicago is the DNC's Kind of Town?  I'm old enough to remember the 1968 DNC convention in Chicago, and smart enough to see that Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is no Richard J. Daley.  So, as food prices rise with no end in sight, I advise you to stock up on popcorn before the August 19 convention in Chicago this year.  As for the Democrats, I cannot imagine a scenario where there is anything but downsides for picking this site, this year. [...] This year, it's not just the pro-Hamas wing that will be protesting, but Black Chicagoans opposed to the Democrats' open-border policies.  Olivia Reingold and Eli Lake detail on Free Press how far-left activists are already plotting to disrupt the DNC Convention.  According to the Free Press essay, in just one day 75 organizations discussed how they would participate on the "March on DNC 2024" to disrupt the convention.  They plan to so flood the streets that they could avoid arrest, they taught how to avoid the Secret Service and how to say "Death to America" in Farsi.  A representative of the left's legal arm, the National Lawyers Guild, told attendees how to spot police carrying "mass arrest kits."

Female Student At A Pennsylvania Middle School Is Sent To The Hospital By A Trans Student.  A student at Pennbrook Middle School in North Wales, Pennsylvania, was left hospitalized after being attacked by a trans-identified male student with a Stanley Cup on Wednesday afternoon.  Surveillance video from the school cafeteria showed a seventh-grade girl walking when the accused student approached her and began beating her in the head with a Stanely cup, according to 6ABC, a local news network.  Witnesses to the events said the girl's head was beaten until she bled.  [Video clip]

Democrat Explodes Over Reports That Teen Arrested For Alleged School Shooting Plot Is Transgender.  Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich, a Democrat, exploded during a press conference on Friday after he was asked why local officials were trying to hide the fact that a teenager who was arrested for allegedly plotting school shootings was transgender.  The thwarted shooter, an 18-year-old woman from Rockville who identifies as a man, was arrested on Wednesday by the Montgomery County Police Department (MCPD), the county said in a news release, adding that the FBI notified the MCPD about a 129-page "manifesto" in which the teenager wrote about committing a school shooting, contemplated targeting an elementary school, and more.

Nashville stonewalling continues.  March 27, 2023, at the Covenant School in Nashville, TN, Audrey Hale killed three elementary-aged students and three staff, before Nashville police officers, not as hampered as were the Uvalde responders, killed her, ending her rampage.  It's an event I've continually covered since that day.  [Tweet]  The media briefly covered the attack, focusing as always on the AR-15 Hale carried.  "Carried" as in carried, but apparently did not use.  Available surveillance photos all depict Hale wielding and firing a common 9mm carbine.  I've not been able, to date, to find any information on which weapon was used to kill Hale's victims.  As one might expect, when the AR-15 angle didn't seem to pan out, the media quickly lost interest, but they also lost interest for a more compelling — for them — reason:  Hale was trans, a pretend male.  [Tweet]  Hale left behind a manifesto, and Steven Crowder was able to obtain and release several pages of that manifesto.  It was not complimentary to Hale or to the trans movement.

Information emerges on 'conspiracy-minded former Democratic campaign staffer' who lit himself on fire outside Trump trial.  As the jury selection for former President Donald Trump's hush-money trial was being finalized, Max Azzarello set himself on fire Friday afternoon outside the Manhattan courthouse.  The event was caught on video by multiple media outlets, and police officers can be seen in the videos dousing Azzarello's body with a fire extinguisher.

Another Attempted Transgender Shooter [was] Stopped.  Once again another transgender teenager was arrested after her plot to shoot up a school was discovered. [...] Lately there has been a plethora of examples of violence or attempted violence from radicalized members of the transgender community.  There are clearly compounding mental illnesses at play here but until we recognize them as such this is not going to simply go away on its own.

Vandals key cars outside NHGOP event at Concord High.  Vandals keyed the cars of at least 10 members of the state Republican Party while the group held its biennial convention inside Concord High School on Saturday.  "There's already too much vitriol in partisan politics," Party Chair Chris Ager said.  Ager said he had heard of as many as two dozen attendees, all parked together, who said they had found key scratches on their cars.  "Any acts of violence, or vandalism or vitriol on either side, I don't think, helps the people of New Hampshire."  Ten people have reported to Concord Police that their cars were vandalized outside the event, according to Deputy Chief John Thomas.  Police believe all were attendees of the GOP convention, though the incident is still under investigation.

How did the current obsession with decarbonization arise?  In 1968, I was teaching at the University of Chicago.  We were spending the summer in Colorado, and we had a student house-sitting our apartment.  When we returned, we found a police car monitoring our apartment.  The house-sitter had apparently turned our apartment into a crash pad for the SDS during the Democrat Party Convention.  Our apartment was littered with their literature which included instructions for poisoning Chicago's water supply.  This period seemed to end with Nixon's election, but we now know that this was just the beginning of the long march through the institutions.  Currently, there is great emphasis on the march through the educational institutions:  first the schools of education and then higher education in the humanities and the social sciences and now STEM.  What is usually ignored is that the first institutions to be captured were professional societies.  My wife attended a meeting of the Modern Language Association in the late 60's, and it was already fully 'woke.'

Activists Chant Death To Israel and Death To America At Meeting In Chicago.  Video captured anti-Israel activists in Chicago chanting "hands off Iran" and cheering on Iran's attack on Israel hours after shouting "death to Israel" and "death to America" in Farsi.  The shocking footage was taken Saturday after Hatem Abudayyeh, who heads the U.S. Palestinian Community Network, told some 300 left-wing protesters that Iran launched its drone and missile attack on the Jewish state,The Free Press reported.  [Video clip]

They chant it before they know what it means.  [Tweet with video clip]  Are you paying attention?  This is Chicago!  This is the same [stuff] I saw growing up in Europe decades ago.  Today, I could not, nor would I attempt, to go some of the same places there I once went freely as a teenage with my friends.  Are you paying attention America?

Pro-Palestinian Activist Threatens to Murder Bakersfield Mayor and City Council Members at Public Meeting.  A pro-Palestinian activist was arrested at a Bakersfield, California City Council meeting Wednesday after threatening to murder Mayor Karen Goh (R) and City Council members during a public comments session.  Riddhi Patel, 28, was taken into custody at the meeting and was being held on $1 million bond as of Friday afternoon.  Last month, pro-Palestinian activists smashed a glass door and injured a police officer after being removed for disrupting a City Council meeting.

Well Isn't She Nice: "I hope one day somebody brings the guillotine and kills all of you".  You have to admire her for showing up to speak to her city council, at least.  It's good to see our young ones participate in local government.  Beyond that, I have nothing good to say about Riddhi Patel, who went on an anti-Israel rant that included multiple threats to murder the members of the Bakersfield City Council.  [Advertisement]  [Tweet]  Patel certainly knew how to get attention for her cause, although her persuasion skills could use a bit of improvement.  As far as I know, threatening murder in the service of evil causes only gets high marks in our public schools, universities, and on TikTok, not when speaking to government officials.  I am sure she got all A's, though.  She managed to be coherent while threatening the lives of the people to whom she was speaking.  Many kids coming out of college can't manage that much.  [Video clip]

Report: Trans Antifa Member Charged with Detonating Explosive Outside Alabama AG's Office.  An Alabama man has been charged for his alleged role in detonating an explosive device outside of the Alabama Attorney General's Office in February, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced.  Law enforcement arrested Kyle Benjamin Douglas Calvert, 26, on April 10 on charges of malicious use of an explosive and possession of an unregistered destructive device, according to the DOJ.

Anti-Israel Protesters Shut Down Senate Cafeteria, Capitol Police Make 50 Arrests.  In yet another raucous display, a group of anti-Israel protesters marched into the Senate cafeteria on Tuesday to demonstrate against U.S. support of the Jewish state in its war against Hamas in Gaza.  The incident is the latest in a series of protests and rallies staged by anti-Israel and pro-Hamas activists arguing against Israel's effort to eliminate the terrorist group.  The demonstrations resulted in the arrests of 50 people.  The activists strode through the building, yelling chants such as "Senate can't eat until Gaza eats" and "Children are starving in Gaza."

64-Year-Old New Jersey Man Who Operates Trump RV Beaten with Sledgehammer, Airlifted to Hospital.  A 64-year-old New Jersey man who operates a Trump RV was brutally beaten with a hammer on Friday and airlifted to a local hospital in critical condition.  Rocky Granata of Edison, a beloved father and grandfather, was well-known in the region and across the nation for his Trump RV.  Granata attended Trump rallies, traveled across the country in his Trump RV and sold merchandise.

Student Arrested After Pro-Hamas Sit-In Has Ties to the White House, Muslim Brotherhood-Linked Org.  One of the leaders of a group of students who held a sit-in at Vanderbilt University this week in support of Hamas is a long-time Democratic party activist with White House ties, as it turns out.  Florida native Jack Petocz is one of three students arrested by campus police after the incident on a charge of assaulting a security guard.  Those arrested were also expelled by the university, while one student was suspended and 22 more put on probation.  After his expulsion, Petocz penned a rambling, whiny, and bigoted Twitter/X thread about the ordeal, claiming that he was expelled "for the ultimate crime of caring as 33,000 people have been murdered."  Security footage, however, shows the crowd shoving a security guard as they forced their way into the building.  [Tweet with video clip]

Marxist Globalists Will Resort to Terror and Violence.  It is important to understand that censorship does not occur in a vacuum.  It is a symptom of a worsening disease.  It is an early indicator of the political repression to come.  Like a canary in a coal mine, the criminalization of speech forewarns that State-sponsored terror and murder are not far away.  First, certain words and thoughts are banned.  Next, certain people are rounded up and imprisoned.  Finally, certain "enemies of the State" are executed quite publicly.  The imposition of fear supersedes the rule of law.  Terrorism undergirds social order.  Oppression replaces popular support.  What is happening in the West today is a concentrated push for global communism.  We could bicker about precise definitions — whether we are under attack from Marxists, socialists, Leninists, Trotskyites, Maoists, or other "revolutionaries" — but the end goal is clear.  A small group of global "elites" seek to use ideological and economic leverage to centralize political power and direct all human activity.

Seattle Police Arrest A Bunch Of Leftist Loons Protesting More Housing For Migrants.  On Monday, Seattle police released body camera video of arrests made during a Seattle City Council meeting on Feb. 27.  A group of protesters entered the council chambers during a regular council meeting, forcing the council to take an hour-long break to clear the chambers.  The protesters said they were fighting for housing for refugees and migrants.  [Video clip]

A further list of upcoming Democratic Party election chaos.  Since 2016 the use of violence to silence the opponents of the left has become commonplace.  No conservative speaker can go anywhere now without dealing with threats of violence, disruptions during their speeches, and verbal and even physical attacks against any attendees of their events.  Moreover, in 2020 we saw the Democratic Party gleefully use Antifa and BLM as that party's storm-trooper wing.  As the video on the right shows, Harris and Biden encouraged the riots in 2020, and used them as a weapon to discourage opposition, essentially telling us all that if we would not agree with Democrat policies than it will use its brownshirts to loot and pillage.  Expect similar riots and violence in the months before the election.  Protesters will block roadways.  Republicans will be shouted down at rallies.  Many events will be canceled due to threats of violence.  The inner cities controlled by Democrats will find themselves swamped with looting and riots.  This won't directly hurt Republicans, but it will strike fear into anyone who might try to oppose Democrat rule in those strongholds.

The expected tantrum of madness should Biden actually lose the election.  Right now a rational look at both the polling trends and the disastrous consequences of Joe Biden's presidency all suggest the American public is screaming for a change.  The historic shift in the black and hispanic populations to Trump and away from the Democratic Party underlines these trends quite clearly.  These trends are further underlined by the presence of two different moderate-left alternative presidential tickets, both drawing the bulk of their support from the Democrats. [...] Expect the Democrats to do everything they can think of to invalid the election in the courts.  There will be numerous lawsuits, innumerable demands for recounts, and a strong effort by congressional Democrats to refuse to certify the election.  And they will be backed up by their own voters, 57% of whom would support a refusal to certify a Trump election victory.  Talk about irony.  These same Democrats have screamed "Insurrection!" for four years because some Republicans called for the same thing in 2020, and did so because of legitimate concerns about voter fraud.  Now the Democrats will call for the same thing, not because of any evidence of voter fraud but because they simply lost.

Domination Through Chaos and Fear.  [Scroll down]  What do you imagine the BLM and Antifa riots are about?  Or the "Defund the Police" movement?  Eroding trust in rational systems and behaviors creates radicals and radicalization empowers the worst elements of a society.  Without enforcement of existing rules about civil campus behavior, radical students and professors overcome the moderates on campuses.  Those desirous of honest debate or who take different non-radical views leave or shut up, and the mission of the institution is corrupted and destroyed. [...] I think it's safe to say that we can expect more of this drive for power through manufactured chaos, and you've no real choice except to resist bullying as well as you are able.

Transgender Male Pleads Guilty To Raping 12-Year-Old Girl Before Shooting Her In The Back Of Her Head.  18-year-old transgender pleads guilty to the murder of a 12-year-old girl whom he had sexual relations with.  Ash Cooper has pleaded guilty to murdering 12-year-old Morgan Connors in Bensalem, Pennsylvania. [...] Cooper was initially charged as Joshua Cooper but started transitioning after the arrest and now demands that the court call them [sic] "Ash."  [Video clip]

Alarming Poll Finds Most Americans Have Significant Concerns About Post-Election Violence.  An alarming new poll has found that a vast majority of Americans are bracing themselves for election-related violence and fear the prospect of a civil war.  In the latest Battleground Civility Poll, conducted by The Tarrance Group, Research Lake Partners, and Georgetown University, 78 percent said they are "worried that the 2024 election will result in violent activity."  Just 23 percent said they were not at all worried.

Media Tools Who Lost Their Minds Over 'Bloodbath' [are] Silent as James Carville Calls for Trump Assassination.  Nothing to see here, just James Carville chatting with Anderson Cooper and calling for Trump's assassination on CNN.  [Tweet with video clip, numerous additional tweets.]

Nashville School Shooting:  Federal Judge Orders Release of Transgender Shooter's Journals.  A federal judge ordered the FBI to release the writings of the transgender woman who shot and killed six people at a Christian school in Nashville on March 27, 2023.  In the hours after the shooting, Breitbart News noted that police indicated Audrey Hale identified as transgender.  Less than a month after the shooting, Breitbart News pointed out that Hale left behind a suicide note, 19 journals, and other items, and all of them have been kept from the public since the attack occurred.  (The exception was a November 2023 leak of three pages, purportedly from the shooter's writings.  Seven Nashville police officers were put on "administrative leave" over the leak.)  But U.S. District Court Judge Aleta Trauger has ordered the release of the writings.

Democrat Tennessee State Senator Calls for Riots After Republican Lawmakers Pass Pro-Police Bill.  A Democrat Tennesssee state senator has called for riots after Republican lawmakers passed a pro-police bill.  State Sen. Charlane Oliver was responding to the passing of legislation that prevents cities from restricting police officers from making certain types of traffic stops.  Speaking to the press on Friday, Oliver, co-founder of the social justice warrior activist group "the Equity Alliance," vowed that "we're gonna fight."  "So yeah, we're gonna fight," Oliver said.  "Dr. King said the riots are the language of the unheard.  You [sic] ain't seen nothing yet.  If you keep silencing us like this, what do you think our districts [sic] gonna do?"  [Tweet]

Tennessee State Senator Calls For Riots After Bill Passes That She Deems Pro-Police.  Tennessee state senator Charlane Oliver:  "Dr. King said the riots are the language of the unheard.  You ain't seen nothing yet."  Memphis had adopted an ordinance that includes outlawing pretextual traffic stops for violations like a broken taillight.  The passed bill prevents local jurisdictions from prohibiting traffic stops when an officer has reasonable suspicion that a local, state, or federal law has been violated.

A little slice of Zimbabwe on the east coast:
Maryland city equity official says she wants US to burn to the ground: 'MY ideology can rise from the ashes'.  The City of College Park, Maryland, hired a "racial equity" leader to spearhead its mission to eliminate systemic racism in its departments who has made statements defending violence and promoting the idea of a revolution against the United States.  Kayla Aliese Carter supports "Black liberation" through revolutionary means and said she is working with some activists to plan "how we will eat and live and grow after we burn it all down."  She was hired to be a "Racial Equity Officer" under Mayor Fazlul Kabir in 2022.  In this role, she oversees an entire team tasked with implementing a "racial equity" agenda across all city departments, affecting policies, practices, programs and budgets.  Carter was hired after Mayor Kabir signed into law "Resolution 20-R-16," "which renounced systemic racism, declared support of Black lives, and called for the ongoing explicit and conscious confrontation of racism," in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd in 2020.

Burn It to the Ground!.  Kayla Aliese Carter is the City Equity Official of College Park, Maryland, and she is committed to burning it all down, referring to the United States.  [Tweet]  In the words of the revolutionary Left, this is what decolonization looks like, folks, and it ain't pretty. [...] I guess working for the city government is a convenient place if your goal is to figure out how to feed the right people once you complete your plan to use violence to kill off all the "yT" people, as she charmingly describes the pale people who pay her salary.

Anti-Israel Protesters Succeed in Destroying Priceless Historic Painting.  The contempt that far-left protesters show for historical artifacts, specifically priceless works of art, has always been sickening, but now has just gotten despicable.  Picking up where the insufferable climate protesters left off, a group of anti-Israel activists at the University of Cambridge in England destroyed a priceless 1914 painting of Arthur James Balfour by artist Philip Alexius de László.  Posting a video of the incident to their account, Palestine Action, on the social media platform X, the protesters spray painted red paint on the painting and then slashed it without any hint of shame.  [Tweet with video clip]

Pro-Hamas Agitators Block Biden's Motorcade Route to Capitol; How Could This Be Allowed?  Pro-Hamas agitators caused chaos around Capitol Hill Thursday evening leading up to the State of the Union address, and hundreds of them blocked President Biden's motorcade route to hold a "People's State of the Union" address.  [Tweets with video clips] [...] Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-WI) posted photos and videos Thursday morning of security fencing that had been installed around the Capitol grounds "in the dead of night" to protect Biden from his own base, so obviously Capitol Police and federal law enforcement knew that there was a potential for problems.  So why were they allowed to take over the street until right before POTUS drove down it?  This is a massive security issue.  Explosives could have easily been planted and there's no way the Secret Service could have done a thorough sweep to ensure security.  We all know, unfortunately, that nothing will happen to these people who were blocking a street and posing an immediate threat to the President of the United States.  Quite a stark contrast to how January 6 protesters have been treated.

NBA Legend Threatens to Punch Black Trump Supporters.  During a recent episode of his poorly-rated television show "King Charles," CNN host Charles Barkley made a statement about potentially punching African American supporters of President Trump.  'If I see a black person walking around with Trump mugshot, I'm gonna punch him in the face," he told stunned co-host Gayle King.  Barkley was alluding to remarks made by President Trump regarding the perception that African Americans show empathy towards his struggle with the weaponized legal system.  "And you know who embraced it more than anybody else?  The black population.  It's incredible.  You see black people walking around with my mugshot, you know, they do shirts," Trump said.  Barkley stated that he genuinely intended to physically harm a black Trump supporter.

The "Airman" Who Set Himself On Fire For Hamas Was Antifa Ex-Cult Member.  If you had told the average person that an anarchist or an airman had set himself on fire to protest Israel's campaign against Islamic terrorists, you would get two very different reactions.  Unsurprisingly the media led with the data point most likely to produce a favorable reaction.  And Aaron Bushnell cynically played the same game, wearing (the wrong) uniform to his Hamas suicide attempt rather than the Antifa red in which he had been previously photographed.  The Washington Post gets around to admitting that Bushnell was an "anarchist". [...] But the Washington Post then misleadingly suggests he was raised in a Christian cult. [...] All of this prompts WaPo readers to think that the Community of Jesus is some conservative group.  The reality is COJ was a leftist cult that appealed to high-flying liberals.

The "Airman" Who Set Himself on Fire for Hamas was Antifa Ex-Cult Member.  If you had told the average person that an anarchist or an airman had set himself on fire to protest Israel's campaign against Islamic terrorists, you would get two very different reactions.  Unsurprisingly the media led with the data point most likely to produce a favorable reaction.  And Aaron Bushnell cynically played the same game, wearing (the wrong) uniform to his Hamas suicide attempt rather than the Antifa red in which he had been previously photographed.  The Washington Post gets around to admitting that Bushnell was an "anarchist".

The Media Is Covering Up Key Facts About the Lakewood Church Shooter's Motivations.  When Genesse Ivonne Moreno opened fire at Joel Osteen's Lakewood Church in Houston last Sunday, establishment media reports had the typical focus: she was schizophrenic, possibly thought of herself as a man, yet was still able to buy a gun with no problem, and the real problem is that Texas has no red flag law.  While there can be little doubt that Moreno was severely deranged, the media reports are ignoring elements of the story that shed light on Moreno's motives.  Now, why might that be?  One reason is that the left's favorite religion is involved.  Moreno made a donation to Lakewood church in 2020 but doesn't appear to have been a committed church member, or at least a consistent one.  ABC News reported Tuesday that Walli Carranza, Moreno's former mother-in-law, said that "when she first met Moreno, the young woman wore a hijab and said she practiced Islam."  It was also widely reported that Moreno's AR-15 was emblazoned with a sticker reading "Palestine" and that "antisemitic writings" were found among her possessions, but nevertheless, as ABC put it, "a motive remains under investigation."  Yet Moreno's own writings on Telegram, which she posted under the handle "Die Israel," have been ignored.

Megachurch Shooter IDed as Pro-Hamas, Socialist, Transgender Immigrant.  Houston police confirmed that Sunday's Lakewood Church shooter was Genesse Ivonne Moreno, a transgender person with a history of chronic mental health problems and a lengthy arrest record dating back to 2005.  Moreno, 36, came to the United States from El Salvador, and had a history of theft, possession of marijuana, unlawful carrying of a weapon, evading arrest, assault of a public servant and forgery, according to KHOU 11 News.  Investigators said Moreno previously went by the name "Jeffrey Escalante," but police confirmed her to be a woman and the mother of a 7-year-old child.  Officials believe Moreno supported Palestine and was a previous supporter of Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.

The Editor says...
Was it a woman, or a man?  From the press reports, it's nearly impossible to tell, although it doesn't matter all that much.

Report: Female Church Shooter Formerly Identified as 'Jeffery'.  The female shooter who attacked Joel Osteen's Lakewood Church has been identified as 36-year-old Genesse Moreno, who KHOU 11 noted "previously identified as Jeffery Escalante."  KHOU 11 indicated that they discovered the references to Jeffery Escalante during a Texas Department of Public Safety Records search on Moreno.  The station also found her prior arrest records, including "arrests... [for] failure to stop and give information, assault of a public servant, assault causing bodily injury, forgery, possession of marijuana, theft, evading arrest unlawful carrying weapon."  Breitbart News did a follow-up search of the Texas Department of Public Safety Records and found that in one entry, the name appeared as "Jeffrey" instead of "Jeffery."

Shooter at Joel Osteen's Church Was Transgender Immigrant With a Political Message on 'Her' AR-15.  Sunday, 36-year-old Genesse Ivonne Moreno, accompanied by a five-year-old child, walked into Joel Osteen's Lakewood Church in Houston on Sunday and opened fire with an AR-15-style modern sporting rifle, wounding a 57-year-old man before being killed by security guards.  The child was wounded and is hospitalized.  A larger tragedy was avoided by Lakewood Church having armed security guards who were doing their job diligently and a plan for the possibility of an active shooter.  As the facts dripped out, it became evident that this shooting would be quickly memory-holed.  The shooter was a "transwoman" whose real name was Jeffrey Escalante.  Escalante was from El Salvador, but there is no word on his immigration status.  [Tweet]  The AR-15 he carried had "Free Palestine" written on it.  As one of my colleagues noted, someone with a rifle with "Free Palestine" scrawled on it using a child as a human shield is just about as on-brand as you can get.

BLM activist says Atlanta [and the] entire nation are 'lucky' violence is not worse.  Atlanta BLM activist Mary Hooks said the city of Atlanta — indeed, the entire nation — is "lucky" there haven't been a lot more fires started in the name of social justice.  Following the arrest of John Robert Mazurek, who allegedly lit up eight police motorcycles last summer in protest of a planned police and firefighter training facility known as "Cop City," Hooks was asked if she condemns acts of arson.  A member of Vote to Stop Cop City, "a group of local, statewide, and regional organizations and individuals who are united in opposition to Cop City," Hooks replied, "Hell no!"  "Not at all," she stated.  "And if I'm being honest with you, Atlanta deserves more than that."  [Tweet with video clip]

Atlanta Police Arrest Suspect in Arson Connected to 'Cop City' Protests.  Last summer the organizers behind the efforts to block the construction of a police training center outside Atlanta seemed to have reached the end of their rope.  The so-called "forest defenders" had been cleared out of the forest and their efforts to oppose the construction legally had hit a wall after a day long protest at Atlanta City Hall failed to change any votes and the project moved forward.  As I pointed out at the time, the protesters weren't shy about what they planned to do next.  They were chanting "If you build it, we will burn it," outside City Hall.  [Tweet]  So it wasn't much of a shock when the same organizers held a "Week of Action" about a month later that there was an arson attacked aimed at Atlanta police.

Radical Leftist Group Threatens To Assault Trump Voters If He Wins.  Radical leftists are threatening to attack conservatives should Trump win the 2024 election.  "We need to go find out where they live, where they go to church, who they hang around with, and bird dog [them]," said one activist.  [Video clip]

Texas State Rep Suggests Bombing Those Standing For Texas On Immigration Invasion Against Biden Regime.  A Texas State Representative took a play out of California traitor Eric Swalwell's book and posted a tweet with bombs dropping and insinuated that those who support the efforts of Texas to stop the illegal alien invasion should be bombed.  This is completely lawless and it is completely out of line for a representative of the People to insinuate such a crime. [...] After seeing the post above, Texas State Senator Gene Wu tweeted out something that cannot be misunderstood.  His post insinuates that those guns will be no good against bombs dropped on those people supporting Texas.

They Firebombed My Office.  [Scroll down]  But something else has been distracting me:  leftists firebombed my office last Saturday night.  At around 2 am, they broke into the building that houses Center of the American Experiment and two other conservative organizations with which we often collaborate, along with many other businesses.  The arsonists set two fires: one was in the first floor corridor between American Experiment's office and the space we sublease to Take Charge, Kendall and Sheila Qualls' organization.  A second fire was set on the third floor, immediately outside or perhaps actually inside the office of the Upper Midwest Law Center, on whose board I serve.

Alex Soros Tweets Out Bullet Hole and 47 — A Direct Violent Threat to Donald Trump!  They want him gone — no matter the cost.  President Trump is up in the polls, and the Republican base is coalescing around him.  DeSantis, his most formidable primary challenger, dropped from the race and endorsed President Trump on Sunday.  The globalist elites are in a panic.  Trump is the greatest threat to their power over humanity in the civilized world.  Something must be done.  Alex Soros tweeted out an obvious threat against President Trump on Sunday evening.

The lawless left.  While there remains a shrinking percentage of Democrats who strongly believe in the law and the Constitution, the leadership of that political party is largely now controlled by those who believe otherwise.  Two incidents the past week illustrated this fact most starkly.  First a pro-Hamas protest in front of the White House on January 13, 2024 became so violent that many staffers inside the building were evacuated for their safety. [...] You can see video of these attempts to break into the White House [elsew]here.  Though the White House grounds were never penetrated, the violent self-righteous attitude of the mob is quite clear:  They have the right to break in, because their cause is just.  The law does not apply to them. [...] As is typical of violent protests by the left, no one was arrested.  Even in cases where leftist protesters are arrested, they are soon released with no charges, or with a very light slap on the wrist.  Thus, these violent Democrats have confirmation from the authorities themselves that the law does not apply to them.

State-sanctioned protest:  The New York Post reported, "A swarm of Pro-Palestinian supporters shouted 'f[...] Joe Biden' as they nearly ripped down a reinforced fence outside the White House during a charged protest Saturday night.  "Non-essential personnel were evacuated from the area as a precaution as the aggressive demonstration ramped up, the Secret Service confirmed.  "Video shows the crowd shaking the fence so viciously that a section of it became partially dislodged while a horde of Secret Service police pushed back to keep the ralliers from entering the grounds." [...] No one was sent to jail to face 22 years in prison.  No police officer shot and killed anyone.  No one in the press called it an insurrection because this was state-sanctioned psy-ops as the deep state staged the event to show widespread support for changing federal policy.  It was like a Yanquis Go Home protest in Cuba under Castro because it, too, was an officially sanctioned protest meant to show public support of a policy.

The Editor says...
Why would a left-wing mob be allowed (or instructed) to chant disrespectful slogans against Joe Biden?  Because Joe Biden is about to be swept aside in favor of a more viable candidate:  most likely Michelle Obama.

Liberal Media Suppress Pro-Hamas Insurrection at the White House.  If an insurrection happened and no one reported on it, did it really happen?  Can the perpetrators of violence escape accountability if it escaped the notice of the corporate media?  These questions were put to the test as the corporate media conducted a virtual blackout of Saturday night's violent protests outside the White House.

Brilliant deduction, Holmes.
Pro-Police Portland Commissioner's Car Torched, Authorities Suspect Political Motivation.  Law enforcement agencies in Portland, Oregon, are conducting an arson investigation after a car owned by Portland City Commissioner of Public Safety Rene Gonzalez was set ablaze on Friday morning.  They suspect the act was a political statement against the commissioner, who is supportive of the police.  The development occurred in a city that was one of the epicenters of the "Defund the Police" movement that cropped up after the 2020 death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota. [...] In a statement issued on Friday, Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt indicated that the crime could have been motivated by politics.

No Arrests Made After Pro-Palestinian Rioters Damage WH Fence, Attack Police.  A group of pro-Palestinian rioters stormed the premises outside the White House on Saturday, attacking law enforcement officials to express their opposition to the U.S.'s support for Israel in its war with Hamas.  As reported by Fox News, the individuals shouted pro-Palestinian slogans, including "Ceasefire Now!" and "Free, Free Palestine," while also brandishing Palestinian flags.  However, the protest took an aggressive turn as the individuals damaged security fencing.  According to the Secret Service, the pro-Palestinian hecklers damaged some of the fencing, leading to the relocation of some White House staffers and journalists.

4 Ways The BLM And Antifa Riots Were Worse Than January 6.  The breakdown of law and order during the BLM and Antifa riots is obvious.  Bears repeating that even the "97 percent of BLM protests were peaceful" statistic means that within the 3 percent means over 500 violent incidents happened across the country that lasted for months.  One police station was overrun and burned, another was evacuated and led to the creation of an "autonomous zone," the White House perimeter was attacked, and a federal courthouse was under siege for over a month.  But once the rubble was cleared away and the National Guard was sent home, the criminal elements within our society saw just how much they were able to get away with, to little or zero consequences.  It is why we saw a spike in crime in the years afterward and why the crime rate has not returned to pre-2020 levels.  It is now considered "normal" to see looters come into a business, whether it be CVS or a luxury store, clean out merchandise and leave with people's only recourse to call the police, who may or not show up because of the dramatic decrease in manpower, if they even bother to call the police.

Pro-Hamas Protestors Shut Down West LA and Desecrate the National Cemetery, Making More Enemies.  Once again, pro-Hamas protestors made their hatred and ignorance of Israel and America's support for the Jewish state public when they shut down traffic in West Los Angeles on Saturday along Wilshire Boulevard between Interstate 405 and Glendon Avenue outside the U.S. Federal Building.  But they did not stop there.  No, they decided that to get their hate-filled message across fully, they would proceed across the street to the Los Angeles National Cemetery and defile it.

J6: where non-disorderly conduct was disorderly conduct.  During the 2020 "Summer of Love," Black Lives Matter (BLM) and Antifa mostly-peaceful but fiery protestors were given, as a former Baltimore mayor put it, "space to destroy."  A handful were arrested, fewer were prosecuted and very few convicted of riot, arson, destruction of property, assaulting police officers, looting, even murder.  They did at least $2 billion in damage.  They were, it seems, the right-left-kind of protestors, immune from the consequences of their criminal actions.  Not so for January 6, actually mostly peaceful, protestors, even those who merely walked around and took pictures: [...]

Hundreds Of Pro-Hamas Insurrectionists Take Over The California Capitol Building.  Currently, hundreds of Pro-Hamas insurrectionists and other activists are occupying and have shut down the California State Capitol in Sacramento, California.  These insurrectionists have disrupted the Assembly session on opening day, demanding a permanent ceasefire and an end to all U.S. military aid to Israel.  Law enforcement is present on the scene, working to maintain order between the protesters and Capitol authorities.  [Video clip]

'Insurrection' Is OK, as Long As It's by the Left.  This week, there was an "insurrection" in the California State Capitol in Sacramento.  A group of radical extremists invaded the State Assembly, interrupting the first day of the legislative session and forcing lawmakers to flee the chamber.  They continued to occupy the legislature even after the lights were turned off.  But eventually, they were allowed to leave peacefully, and there were no arrests at all.  The reason:  unlike the January 6 protesters in Washington, the California protesters are on the political left.  Those who participated in the January 6 event three years ago are still being arrested and prosecuted for the nebulous crime of "obstructing an official proceeding."  Some are being punished merely for showing up on the Capitol grounds, without committing acts of violence.  They have been publicly humiliated; they have lost jobs; and many have been forced to endure pre-trial detention before receiving long sentences.  The left-wing anti-Israel radicals who invaded the California capitol will never be punished.

JFK Airport Protesters Show That They've Learned the Lesson of the George Floyd Riots.  The George Floyd riots of 2020 showed leftists that they can do virtually anything in America today and suffer at worst only token consequences.  On Monday, pro-Palestinian protesters in New York City showed that they have taken that lesson to heart.  The New York Post reported that "hateful anti-Israel protesters yelling inflammatory chants snarled traffic and caused chaos as they descended upon John F. Kennedy International Airport Monday — creating a nightmare on one of the busiest travel days of the year."  Among the "inflammatory chants" was "NYPD, KKK, IDF you're all the same," which was as absurd as it was portentous:  it was a clear indication that New York City hasn't seen the last of these pro-Hamas thugs.

Anti-Israel rally at JFK Airport causes New Year's Day nightmare on one of the busiest travel days of the year.  Hateful anti-Israel protesters yelling inflammatory chants snarled traffic and caused chaos as they descended upon John F. Kennedy International Airport Monday — creating a nightmare on one of the busiest travel days of the year.  The Belt Parkway — a major thoroughfare used by vehicles to travel to the airport — was temporarily blocked off by police near Exit 20 as they tried to stem the flow of the "Flood JFK For Gaza" protest, which was planned by Within Our Lifetime, a Palestinian-led activist group.

Calls for Death:  The View's 9 Most Heated Hateful Moments of 2023.  If you find yourself on the same side as the cast members of ABC's The View, they will bend over backwards to defend you (as NewsBusters' 2023 retrospective showed).  But if you find yourself opposing them, they will launch some of the most racist, bigoted, and hateful attacks on television against you.  They will even support your death.  And as tensions in America ratcheted up in 2023, so did their naked hatred.  Their contempt for Republicans, pro-lifers, and white people flared on air often.  So it was difficult to narrow things down.  Presented here are TheThe View's nine most heated hateful moments of 2023. [...]

'Looks Like an Insurrection': Hamas Sympathizers Take Over U.S. Capitol Rotunda.  The trend of radical anti-Israel leftists shutting down government buildings to demand a "ceasefire now" — something which would prolong Hamas attacks against Israeli civilians and give the Iran-backed terrorists a hope of survival — reached a new level on Tuesday when the rotunda of the United States Capitol was closed by authorities while they arrested and removed the demonstrators.  [Tweet]  Scores of individuals demanding Hamas be allowed to survive unfurled a banner and launched into an off-pitch and dystopian sounding "song" — if you can call it that — that was as incorrect as it was punishing on the ears.

Anti-Israel Activists Surround and Terrorize Line of Kids Going to See Santa at Mall.  The anti-Israel protesters seem to want to engage in the type of actions that tick off the American people.  Few things will anger Americans more than a protest blocking a highway or main road.  The anti-Israel crew blocked the 110 Freeway last week in Los Angeles.  They kept little kids on two school buses trapped for an hour, not to mention hundreds of other drivers.  Motorists were not happy and some of them physically confronted some of these characters; one driver picked up one of them and then dumped the activist in the street.  They also blocked an expressway in Philadelphia and got zip-tied and arrested.  Then on Friday, they even tried to block Los Angeles International Airport, snarling traffic and making people late for their planes on one of the busiest travel weekends of the year.  They didn't care about who they hurt in the process.

Dem Activists Stage 'Insurrections' All The Time.  In early January of 49 B.C., Julius Caesar and his army crossed the Rubicon, triggering a Roman civil war that eventually led to Caesar's dictatorship.  In early June of 2013, thousands of abortion rights protesters stormed the Texas State Capitol, successfully shutting down a Republican attempt to pass pro-life legislation.  The press treated that insurrection as heroic.  In 2018, progressive protesters, inspired by Texas, stormed the Wisconsin Capitol to stop the legislature from passing right-to-work legislation.  They forced their way in, vandalized the building and were declared heroes by Rep. Nancy Pelosi, but failed.  In 2021, Trump supporters stormed the United States Capitol and were unsuccessful in their insurrection.  Unlike the Texas and Wisconsin progressives, the Trump supporters in Washington are, to this day, vilified as insurrectionists and many have been carted off to federal prison — deservedly so.  The problem, of course, is the double standard.  When Democrats storm the U.S. Capitol to block a vote on Brett Kavanaugh, they are excused.  When they storm congressional buildings to protest for Hamas, they are excused.  But get Trump supporters inside the U.S. Capitol and everyone demands denunciations.  It should all be denounced.  It should all be condemned.  But the press and Democrats together rarely condemn the left-wing insurrections.

This is far more than the January 6th protesters did.
Protestors Who Want to See Hamas Survive Make a Mess of Senate Office Building.  A group of "pro-Palestine" protestors — read: those who are "demanding" a ceasefire that would benefit Hamas and give the Iran-backed terrorists a chance at surviving to launch more October 7-level attacks on innocent Israelis — occupied the atrium of the Hart Senate Office Building just steps from the U.S. Capitol on Monday morning.  Their tantrum caused authorities to close the building to the public, allowing only senators and staff to enter the building. [...] Another fact these agitators taking over a Senate office building seemingly want to ignore: it was Hamas that violated the first cessation in fighting during which some Israeli hostages were released.  That is — not that the terrorists needed to make their aims any clearer — Hamas preferred to try killing more Israelis than to lay down their arms to end the IDF's justified strikes on terrorists, their infrastructure, and their weapons hidden by Hamas in hospitals, schools, mosques, and other civilian areas.  What's more, Hamas had a ceasefire on October 6, then launched their brutal massacre that killed more Jews in any single day since the Holocaust.  Hamas again had a ceasefire for several days in late November, then chose to violate its terms and launch more attacks on innocent Israelis.  Neither time was Israel to blame for setting off the war.

Will It Be Riot Season Again in 2024?  The resurgence of public protests in support of Hamas has revealed a disturbing truth: the left-wing rioting following George Floyd's death in 2020 was not an anomaly, but a tactic that activists can repurpose for any cause.  Whether by coincidence or design, these recent outbursts could be a dress rehearsal for possible violence during next year's election campaign.  Conservative leaders must prepare for that prospect.  To prevent 2020 from repeating itself in 2024, conservatives need to consider what might spark a riot, how it can be prevented, and how to understand and manage the politics of rioting.

The Return of the Progressive Atrocity.  In the age of the "progressive atrocity," PLO terrorist attacks on Israelis, Jews, and civilians throughout the world were hailed as instruments of liberation.  A very partial list of such incidents would include the murder of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics (the games continued, nonetheless) and the Lod Airport massacre the same year (death toll: 26, along with at least 80 injured); the Ma'alot massacre of 1974, in which 115 Israelis, mainly schoolchildren, were taken hostage (resulting deaths: 31); the Entebbe hijacking of 1976, in which Israeli and other Jewish passengers were separated from others and threatened with death (most were rescued by Israeli commandos); the 1978 Coastal Road massacre, in which a civilian bus was highjacked (death toll: 38, including 13 children; 71 wounded); the 1982 attack on the Chez Jo Goldenberg kosher restaurant in Paris, considered at the time to be the worst incidence of antisemitism in France since the Holocaust (death toll: six, with 22 injured); and numerous other instances of air piracy.

Blacklisting is no longer enough, now the goal is justifying mass murder.  It seems the rising effort of many — mostly on the left but not entirely — to blackball and censor their opponents in the past decade is no longer satisfied with these ugly goals.  Now it seems the goal is to justify mass murder and the rape and torture of women and children.  We can see this by what happened during a city council event in Oakland, California yesterday.  When one Jewish council member, Dan Kalb, attempted to add language condemning Hamas to a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, he was greated by boos and an unrelenting stream of locals not only opposing his amendment but denying that the mass murder by Hamas had even occurred, that it was instead committed by Israeli troops, and that anyone who dared disagree with them was a "white supremacist."  The video below provides a quick selection of this hate and ignorance:  [Video clip]

Disrupt Violent Left-Wing Networks.  The summer of 2020 resembled a political revolution.  Militants associated with Black Lives Matter and Antifa led the most destructive riots in American history.  Radicals burned down city blocks, perpetrated acts of violence, and briefly established an "autonomous zone" in Seattle characterized by a police-free political order and a homicide rate 50 times higher than that of Chicago.  For those who monitor left-wing radical movements, this shouldn't have been a complete surprise.  Federal law enforcement had long acknowledged the threat of left-wing, anarchist, and racialist violence.  In 2016, the FBI published a report raising the alarm about the threat of anarchist groups that deployed arson and violence for political ends.  The following year, it published an intelligence assessment warning about the rise of "black identity extremism," which was linked to ambushes and violent attacks against police officers.  In the wake of the George Floyd protests, however, FBI director Christopher Wray changed his tune.  In testimony to Congress, Wray distanced himself from the report on black-identity extremism and repeated the canard that Antifa was "not a group" but "an ideology," an evasion that invites the obvious rejoinder: ideas don't torch buildings — people do.

Pro-abortion extremist who firebombed pro-life headquarters agrees to plead guilty.  The perpetrator of a 2022 firebombing of Dairy State pro-life group Wisconsin Family Action has agreed to plead guilty in exchange for a yet-to-be-determined prison sentence of less than 20 years.  In the early hours of Mother's Day 2022, following the May leak of a draft of the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling that would overturn Roe v. Wade, WFA's Madison headquarters was hit with an arson attack that burned one of the walls.  The building was also defaced with a graffiti threat that "if abortions aren't safe then you aren't either," as well as an anarchist "A" symbol and "1312," a numerical representation of the acronym for "All Cops Are [Bad]."  A Molotov cocktail that failed to ignite was thrown through a closed window as well.  In March 2023, police in Boston, Massachusetts, arrested Madison biochemist Hridindu Sankar Roychowdhury at the airport for a flight to Central America, after an investigation found his DNA at the crime scene.

The Left must get its violence under control.  It's not going to like the counterreaction.  When it comes to political violence, the Left has a problem.  The Right likewise has a problem, but there's no shortage of commentary regarding this exact topic.  In fact, even the federal government is laser-focused on violence from the Right.  In contrast, left-wing violence in the United States tends to go largely unnoticed, if not unpunished.  A word of advice from a historical perspective, for both parties:  Get your people under control, embrace coexistence, and stop trying to "immanentize the eschaton" via violence.  Because if you do manage to brute force the U.S. into adopting your preferred reality, the inevitable political counterreaction will be far worse than the thing you oppose today.  This isn't a threat.  This is begging.

LAPD investigates protest at Brentwood home of AIPAC president as possible hate crime.  Los Angeles police have launched an investigation into a protest Thursday at the Brentwood home of the president of a pro-Israeli lobbying group, with footage on social media showing protesters igniting smoke devices in the street and spattering fake blood on the property.  The incident, which police are investigating as a possible hate crime, is the latest in Los Angeles after Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, prompting Israel to bombard and invade Gaza, the Palestinian enclave that Hamas controls.  The crisis has roiled Los Angeles, home to large populations of Jews and Palestinians.  On Nov. 1, Canter's Deli, an iconic Jewish restaurant in the Fairfax District, was defaced with antisemitic messages spray-painted below a mural depicting the history of Jews in Los Angeles.

Three Radicals Arrested for Allegedly Damaging, Setting Fire to Israeli-Owned Factory in New Hampshire.  Authorities arrested three people in connection to the damage and fire at the Elbit Systems, an Israeli-owned company, factory in Merrimack, New Hampshire. [...] The three girls said they belong to the group Palestine Action U.S., which has a mission to destroy Elbit Systems because it is, to them, the "Zionist war machine." [...] The first investigation showed the smoke came from a device on one of the suspects.  Authorities also found "damage consisting of spraypainting, smashed skylights and damage to HVAC equipment."  Cala Walsh [one of the suspects] has a long history of radicalism, embracing terrorists and targeting anything Jewish — even preschools.

Dan Goldman [is] Desperately Trying to Walk Back What Many Saw As Disturbing Threat to Trump.  Many on X are now talking about a disturbing comment that Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) made about former President Donald Trump. [...] Goldman was on MSNBC with Jen Psaki.  They were talking about an interview former President Donald Trump had with ABC's Jonathan Karl.  In that interview, Trump told Karl that he had wanted to go up to the Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot to try to stop what was going on.  But Trump said the Secret Service discouraged that.  The MSNBC chyron at the bottom of the screen framed that as "New audio:  Trump says he wanted to join Jan. 6 crowd," which miscasts what Trump said.  What Trump says he wanted to do sounds exculpatory.  Goldman paints it as the opposite, claiming that Trump incited people to invade the Capitol when, in fact, Trump encouraged people to act "peacefully and patriotically."  Then Goldman tried to hype Trump as a threat.  "His rhetoric is really getting dangerous... It is just unquestionable at this point that that man cannot see public office again.  He is not only unfit.  He is destructive to our democracy.  He has to be, he has to be eliminated."  He talks about Trump inciting — what would you call that?  That had many on X understandably upset and calling it a threat.

Some Punks Started A Fight With A Group Of Marines That Didn't End Well For Them.  Group of Marines get into a fight with a group of men outside the Voodoo Room nightclub in Austin, Texas.  Don't mess with the Marines.  The incident started when an angry woman snagged a phone and threw it into the street.  (She was later smacked on accident by one of the men she was with).  One of the black men then swung at a Marine and missed which then escalated the fight.  The Marines knocked down one of the men after he landed three punches on a Marine.  The fight was broken up by Texas state troopers.  [Video clip]

The Editor says...
Wow.  I've lived in Texas all my life and I've never seen that many State Troopers in one place.

Anti-Israel protests erupts into violence outside the DNC Headquarters in DC.  Protestors clashed with police outside of the Democratic National headquarters as pro-Palestine groups flooded the front facility and violence erupted.  Officers have already made at least one arrest for assault on an officer after 150 activists surged towards the Washington, DC, building on Wednesday night.  The incident left six police officers injured from cuts, pepper spray and being punched.

Unhinged Democrats seethe at Republicans even existing.  A viral video of a Democrat abusing a poll greeter on Election Day in northern Virginia encapsulates how the demonization of "MAGA Republicans" and the weaponization of the justice system has unhinged and energized voters on the left.  [Profanity-infused tirade omitted.]  The object of his ire was Matthew Hurtt, the clean-cut young chairman of the Arlington County Republicans, who was handing out sample ballots alongside his Democratic counterpart.  "Have a nice day," Hurtt said pleasantly.  The courtesy only further enraged the aggressor, who has been identified online as a federal government employee — no surprise. [...] Arlington Man clearly has anger management issues, but his freak-out at the imaginary threat posed by his Republican neighbors is by design.  He's a model product of the Disinformation Industrial Complex, brainwashed and triggered by the hateful lies he's been fed about the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and the nature of Republicans.  He is why Democrats work so hard to preserve their dishonest "narrative" — and that requires censorship of dissenting views and suppression of contrary evidence, as well as seeding lies into the media.  It's why Hillary Clinton salivates about "deprogramming" her political opponents.  She is projecting again.

Who is paying for the flags?  Over the last month, we've seen a lot of anti-Israel marches with lots of flags and placards.  Every time I see the marches on TV I ask two questions.  First, who is making all of these placards?  They don't look like stuff made in college dorms.  Second, do they have flag making factories in our college campuses or is there a warehouse full of them?  In other words, none of these marches look spontaneous to me.  And the marchers all seem to be briefed with the same talking points!

'Hamasurrection' — Anti-Israel Rioters Assault White House, Scale Gates, Deface American Monuments.  Undoubtedly, the photos and videos that came out of Washington, D.C. Saturday evoked memories of 1939 for many in America especially in the Jewish community as pro-Hamas demonstrators took to the streets to call for "intifada" and accuse President Joe Biden, as Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) did Friday, of genocide because of his stated support for Israel.  As you can see from clips earlier in the day Saturday, it was a large crowd — and one that would get far more incendiary as the day wore on:  [Tweets with video clips]  At dusk, things started turning uglier as the "mostly peaceful" rioters smeared red paint hand prints on a White House grounds entranceway and attempted to storm the White House gate, with at least one climbing over it and waving a Palestinian flag at Secret Service agents who were standing not far away.

Here's A List Of All The Pro-Palestine Protesters Who Are Being Prosecuted For Attempting To Storm The White House.  It's happening again!  A mob of protestors marched through the streets of Washington, D.C., and attempted to storm one of the nation's most beloved landmarks.  This time, it was the White House!  Fortunately, as we have all seen in the wake of the Jan 6 Capitol riot, anyone who was even remotely in the vicinity of the incident will be hunted down and held accountable.

Death of Jewish Man Attacked by Pro-Hamas Demonstrator in California Ruled Homicide.  The Ventura County, California Medical Examiner's office has ruled that the death of a Jewish man who was attacked by a Hamas supporter on Sunday in Thousand Oaks was caused by blunt force trauma and ruled it a homicide.  As RedState reported Monday, a Hamas supporter hit Paul Kessler over the head with a megaphone during a confrontation on Sunday, causing Kessler to fall and hit his skull on the pavement.  Video posted to social media showed Kessler lying in a pool of blood, and he died of his injuries on Monday morning.  Though many media reports have listed the location as Los Angeles, or northern Los Angeles County, the incident took place in the Thousand Oaks area of Ventura County, just northwest of Los Angeles.  While crime in Los Angeles County is skyrocketing, Thousand Oaks is ranked the 9th safest city in the United States and has not seen the types of Antifa and BLM protests other areas around Los Angeles have experienced.

Anti-Israel Protesters Storm Port of Oakland and US Ready Reserve Ship to Stop Weapons to Israel.  We've seen a lot of anti-Israel protesters.  We saw some who stormed a New York City store because it had flyers of the kidnapped Israelis out front, and police had to protect the building and the people.  But the folks who stormed into the Port of Oakland managed to do something that everyone should find more than a little troubling.  Somehow they were able to get through a fence and onto the grounds of the port area.  At least three of them got onto the ladder for the U.S. Ready Reserve Force roll-on/roll-off vessel MV Cape Orlando, thinking it was leaving to pick up weapons to take to Israel.  Some reports said they locked themselves to the ladder while a couple of hundred others blocked Berth 20, where the ship was moored.  Ready Reserve ships are used to help deploy military forces or equipment and are managed by the U.S. Department of Transportation's Maritime Administration.  They are not manned by military personnel.

Man arrested for ramming car through gate at S.C. nuclear power plant.  A 66-year-old Arkansas man has been arrested after he allegedly rammed his car through security gates at a South Carolina nuclear power plant and tried to hit security guards.  Doyle Wayne Whisenhunt, of Lockesburg, Ark., was arrested Friday on charges of attempted murder, malicious injury to personal property and unlawful entry into an enclosed place after an incident a day earlier at Oconee Nuclear Station.  Whisenhunt was taken into custody at an abandoned home in South Carolina, police said.  The incident unfolded about 8 p.m. when a man drove a silver 2002 Toyota Camry through the facility's exit gates.

Radical Pro-Palestinian Protestors Deface and Vandalize Statues in Washington DC — Spray Paint White House Fence.  Historical monuments near the White House were vandalized on Saturday evening by pro-Palestinian protesters.  As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, thousands of pro-Palestine protestors flocked outside the White House on Saturday to protest the Biden admin's support for Israel in their war against Hamas.  Videos from the protest that have surfaced on X show pro-Palestine protesters placing the Palestinian keffiyeh (checkered black and white scarf) on a statue of Benjamin Franklin on Pennsylvania Avenue and several other statues in Lafayette Park were spray painted with pro-Palestine slogans.  Another video shows a statue of Andrew Jackson holding a Palestinian flag.

Pro-abortion radicals steal, destroy signs at Catholic churches opposing Ohio abortion amendment.  Just days ahead of a statewide vote on whether to enshrine abortion "rights" in the Ohio Constitution, vandalism is reportedly on the rise against Catholic churches in the Buckeye State.  On November 7, Ohioans will vote on Issue 1, which would establish a legal "right" to make "personal reproductive" decisions, "including but not limited to decisions on contraception, fertility treatment, continuing one's own pregnancy, miscarriage care, and abortion," which the state "shall not, directly or indirectly, burden, penalize, prohibit, interfere with, or discriminate against."  According to the Ohio Attorney General's Office, the amendment would go far beyond even Roe v. Wade and block prohibitions on partial-birth and dismemberment abortions, allow abortionists to target disabled babies, and end parental consent requirements for abortion as well as minors' contraception, sterilization, and "gender transition" decisions.

A Jewish Man Goes Undercover To A Pro-Palestine Rally To Learn Everyone Is Full Of Hate.  Elliot Tebele, creator of the popular Instagram account "C" went undercover at a "Free Palestine" rally.  [Video clip]

Over a Dozen Churches [are] Vandalized as Radical Abortion Activists Promote Issue 1.  As radical abortion activists promote Issue 1, which would allow abortions up to birth, they have also been targeting churches that are opposing it.  Catholic schools, churches and cemeteries across the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, for example, have posted in recent weeks that they have been victims of vandalism and attacks.  Pro-abortion extremists have stolen, defaced or damages No on Issue 1 signs at pro-life business that are displaying them.  And pro-life residents have experienced the same sorta of vandalism of their lawn signs on private residences. [...] It appears so far that none of these vandals have been identified and brought to justice.

Pro-Palestine Protesters Clash in Chicago With Radical Black 'Israelite' Group.  An extremist group that believes black Americans and other people of color are the real descendants of the ancient Israelites clashed Saturday with pro-Palestine protesters in Chicago while police attempted to calm the two groups.  The sometimes violent exchanges between pro-Palestine protesters and members or supporters of Black Hebrew Israelites followed a march around the Chicago Loop organized by a group called the Chicago Coalition for Justice in Palestine, police said.  Pro-Palestine and pro-Hamas protesters chanted their demand for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war.  Thirty minutes into the march, altercations began to break out among the thousands of protesters, CBS News Chicago reported.  Video reports show members and supporters of Black Hebrew Israelites and pro-Palestine groups violently attacking each other, some using flags as weapons and others throwing objects.

Muslim Man Attacks British Man At Speakers Corner In London's Hyde Park.  There was an attack at Speaker's Corner in Hyde Park, London Tuesday.  Reports say an Islamist called the victim a "white bastard" before he was viciously attacked.  This area is known to be overrun by Islamist extremists.  [Video clip]

Anti-Semitic Nuts are Coming Out of the Woodwork in California [and] New York.  We've seen this sort of thing happen before.  Just a couple years ago there was a wave of anti-Semitic attacks with notable incidents in New York City and Los Angeles.  Now it seems to be happening again.  Last night a deranged man broke into a Jewish family's home in Studio City, CA and threatened to kill them.  The couple's four children were home at the time. [...] Was this guy trying to reenact the murder of Jewish families is Israel?  Fortunately, the husband forced the man outside where police found him still ranting when they arrived.  He was armed with a kitchen knife and kept shouting "Free Palestine!" as he was arrested.

Thousands of protesters demanding eradication of Israel clash with NYPD.  Thousands of anti-Israel protesters clashed with police Saturday night after they refused to vacate the Bay Ridge street they had flooded for hours.  The "Flood Brooklyn for Palestine" demonstration devolved into chaos as night fell, with protesters completely shutting down traffic, screaming at police and lighting small fires in the middle of the roadways.  The aggressive protesters dug their heels into the ground when the NYPD tried to push them out of 72nd Street and Fifth Avenue, where 5,000 ralliers converged earlier in the day to demand that the United States withdraw support for its closest ally in the Middle East.

The High-tech Lynching of America.  [Scroll down]  What had been going on at many college campuses for decades came to cities across the country.  With activism that created division, fear, and people turning on each other, it was as if Mao's Chinese Communist Cultural Revolution 1960s and 70s had come to America.  First came hordes instigated by Antifa and Black Lives Matter smashing windows, looting, and burning down neighborhoods resulting in the destruction of $2 billion of urban property across America.  Then, as if on cue or following a plan, marauding mobs appeared with ropes seeking to topple historic statues and monuments.  Columbus and Confederate Civil War heroes were the first to go, but no one should doubt that the Founding Fathers — the drafters of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution — will be next.  No history, no borders, no country.

Pro-Palestinian Insurrectionists Occupy Federal House Office Building in Washington DC.  About one hundred pro-Palestinian insurrectionists occupied a federal House office building in Washington, DC, on Wednesday, chanting "ceasefire now" and "let Gaza live."  The insurrectionists, many who wore face masks and dressed in black and flew a banner demanding that Israel stop defending itself from rocket attacks against civilians, occupied the ground floor of the Cannon Office Building, one of three main buildings where congressional staff and lawmakers work.  Rep. Rashida Tlaib was leading the protest:  [Tweet with video clip]

Screaming Far Left Protesters Storm Capitol, Shut Down Rotunda.  It's only legal when Democrats do it.  Screaming leftists entered the US Capitol on Wednesday in an attempt to coerce lawmakers to demand a ceasefire in Gaza.  The anti-Israel mob took over the rotunda, screaming against Israel and demanding a ceasefire in Gaza.  The mob also hung flags on the Capitol rails.

Mostly Peaceful Pro-Hamas Supporters Assault Capitol Police, Try To Breech Barrier At White House.  More than 30 protesters were arrested in front of the White House on Monday, according to the U.S. Secret Service.  This comes after thousands of pro-Palestinian activists took to the streets of the nation's capital on Saturday to advocate for a cease-fire between Israel and the Iranian-backed Hamas militant group, urging President Biden to end the conflict.  [Video clip]

Leftists Want the Same Massacre to Happen Here.  Understand that our foreign and domestic enemies not only eagerly support the frenzy of rape and murder we saw in Israel but that they want it repeated here in America.  When they talk about "the consequences of colonialization" or complain that Israel has defended itself, they are normalizing mass atrocities by their purported allies against their actual enemies.  Their enemies in Israel are Jews — men, women, and children — and here, their enemies are normal Americans — again, men, women and children.  Denial simply empowers these monsters, and attempts by the goo-goos to appeal to our enemies' morality, or to point out facts and argue in good faith, will end in abject failure.  What matters to our enemies is that we suffer and die.  Nothing less will satisfy them.

2 Angry Leftists Arrested At Penn State After Vandalizing And Flipping Riley Gaines' Table Before Speech.  Two people were detained by police on Tuesday on the campus of Penn State University after appearing to cause a disturbance during Riley Gaines' appearance at the school, according to videos circulating on social media.  Videos posted to X, formerly Twitter, by The College Fix show two individuals approaching a table on campus where Gaines was expected to attend for the Real Women's Day rally.  One individual is seen knocking objects off the table.  Another person is seen shouting in the face of someone, calling him "transphobic" in reference to a sign he is holding.  The person then flips over the table.  [Video clip]

You can't drain a swamp from a raft in the middle.  Democrats will pervert the law in unimaginable ways to prevent a second Trump presidency, and the mainstream media will publish any lie to help them.  They will convict him a hundred times of a hundred crimes.  They impeached a former president for the first time in history; why not impeach a president-elect?  The legal maneuvers to prevent the inauguration of a president who is obsessively hated by the federal government, the left-wing media and corporations, and who has already been outlandishly persecuted for seven years, are unimaginable.  If all else fails, much of this nation will be burned to the ground.  Other things too awful to speak of could happen.  Gullible, emotional people raised to a fever pitch of hatred against one man for seven years might do anything.

Man who killed teen he thought was 'Republican extremist' sentenced to less than 5 years in prison.  A man who killed a teenager he thought was a "Republican extremist" has been sentenced to less than five years in prison in what critics are calling an example of ideological disparities in the current justice system.  Last year, North Dakota man Shannon Brandt fatally struck 18-year-old Cayler Ellingson, allegedly chasing him through streets after a "street dance."  After hitting Ellingson, Brandt left the scene but returned and called 911, claiming the victim had been "part of a Republican extremist group and was calling people to come get Brandt after a political argument," local media reported at the time.  It was later determined there was "no evidence" Ellingson had any such political ties.

Democrats Have Become The Party Of Authoritarianism.  They Only Understand Power.  Perhaps you saw the news last week that two women in their 70s, Jean Marshall and Joan Bell, are each facing up to 11 years in federal prison for blocking the entrance to an abortion clinic in 2020.  Federal prosecutors charged the pair for violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, which Biden's Justice Department has been aggressively enforcing against pro-life activists, convicting 26 people last year alone.  You might have also seen, a few weeks earlier, that a 42-year-old North Dakota man who ran over and killed an 18-year-old kid for being a Republican was sentenced to just five years in prison on a manslaughter charge, and with credit for time already served on house arrest, will spend only about four years behind bars.

Charge dropped against abortionist accused of running over pro-life activist with his car.  A judge on Friday dismissed a felony charge against a Michigan abortionist who allegedly struck a pro-life activist with his vehicle earlier this year, causing him to suffer a broken leg.  The attorney for the pro-life advocate told LifeSiteNews he plans to bring the charge again.  On Friday, a Saginaw County judge dismissed the case against 88-year-old abortionist Theodore Roumell, who was charged with felonious assault for running into pro-life activist Mark Zimmerman in the driveway of the Women's Center of Saginaw on Friday, June 23.

Netanyahu's upcoming visit to the New York already beset by leftist agitation and sabotage.  When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu arrives in New York this week to address the United Nations General Assembly, the television news channels will be sure to highlight the disgraceful sight of Israelis joining Palestinians, radical leftists, and other Israel haters to protest Israel's democratically elected leader.  You will see Israelis, who deserted Israel years ago, accusing Bibi of all sorts of fraudulent claims.  One of the most hypocritical was already displayed on a huge sign facing the U.N. building, calling him a "Crime Minister" despite unproven guilt as the weak cases brought against him are collapsing due to lack of any substantive evidence.

'Obnoxious' charity that occupied McCarthy's office [is] heavily bankrolled by taxpayers.  A left-wing nonprofit group whose activists were arrested for occupying House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's (R-CA) office to demand reauthorization of an HIV/AIDS program pockets millions of dollars each year in government grants, documents show.  Activists for the HIV/AIDS advocacy organizations Health GAP and Housing Works faced arrest Monday after storming McCarthy's office on Capitol Hill and pressing Congress to carve out a five-year extension to the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, a program that allocates federal funds for research, prevention, and treatment to fight the disease.  Housing Works, a charity based in Brooklyn, New York, has received government cash for decades, including over $100 million in grants between fiscal 2011 and 2022, according to tax forms reviewed by the Washington Examiner.

Leftists arrested while occupying Speaker McCarthy's office.  A group of leftist activists occupied the office of Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Monday morning.  They demand a clean reauthorization of PEPFAR in Congress.  Speaker McCarthy did just as he should have done.  He had them arrested.  Good for him.  According to the reporter on the scene, they were "marched out in zip ties" while chanting "pass PEPFAR now."  [Several tweets]  We know that leftist protesters are treated differently than conservatives.  These people probably got the Jane Fonda treatment like when the climate protesters are arrested on Capitol Hill.  A quick stop at the police station and then they are sent on their way.

Liberal Activists Storm and Take Over Kevin McCarthy's Office.  LGBTQ+ activists stormed into and temporarily occupied Speaker Kevin McCarthy's (R-CA) office in the Rayburn House Office Building, across the street from the Capitol building, on Monday to push Republican lawmakers to fund the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) for another five years.  Video taken inside the office shows the protesters sitting down in the reception area, while chanting "Pass PEPFAR now, McCarthy!"

Over 60 Domestic Terrorists Face RICO Charges Over Protests Against 'Cop City'.  There's been a lot of talk lately about Georgia's Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) statute, mainly because of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' use of it to target Donald Trump and 18 others for prosecution.  The state's RICO act is broader than the federal equivalent, which is why Willis has tried tying multiple offenses to it in order to try to nail the former president.  It turns out that prosecutors can use RICO for actual crimes and not just for left-wing political persecution.  Georgia's Attorney General Chris Carr is using the statute to charge over 60 individuals in conjunction with the domestic terrorism that has taken place over a proposed public safety training center the city of Atlanta wants to build.

Biden's Declaration of War on Domestic Political Enemies.  Taking a page from former Chinese leader Mao Zedong's book about the suppression of political enemies in order to maintain control, Joe Biden has declared war on his own domestic political enemies.  Thanks to two decades of Democrats corrupting the nation's intelligence and federal law enforcement agencies, the awesome powers of the surveillance state have been turned from a focus on overseas threats to an ever-evolving characterization (by Democrat prosecutors and the US Dept of Justice) of "domestic terrorists."  Meanwhile, the Democrats' Antifa and Black Lives Matter thugs are the vanguard of the American version of Mao's Cultural Revolution in the streets.

Leading U.S. Nazi Questioned By Police:  Computer Tells Officers Not To Arrest, But Instead "Contact the FBI".  Whether warranted or not, commenters are speculating that Antifa, BLM, and the Nazis are all arms of the Democrat Party.  Including Ukrainian Nazis.  Which means taxpayers may be funding all of this destructive behavior.  And none of it makes sense, because there is no visible "Nazi threat" (other than what appear to be masked, uniformed groups of DVEs like "Patriot Front").  Somehow media and government agencies have no interest in these seemingly well-organized domestic threats.  Sixty Minutes is AWOL.  There are no public bulletins or BOLOs for these vicious white nationalists.  In the early 20th Century, the Democrats funded a terror wing called the Ku Klux Klan.  Now the Democrats appear to have weaponized the government to create "sanctioned" terror wings at taxpayer expense.  If true, it makes you wonder:  are Antifa and BLM simply a few of the Democrat "Brown Shirts"?  [Tweet with video clip]

Laura Loomer Exposes FBI Knew Azov Ukrainian Spies Involved in J6 and Did Nothing.  In potentially her biggest story yet, Loomer exposed that Ukrainian spies with connection to the infamous Azov Balaton were involved in J6.  Loomer uncovered this shocking information after she pieced together the identities of the DeSantis-Biden supporting Nazis running around Florida.  Florida has the highest rate of J6 arrests of state in America.  DeSantis has even allowed the Capitol Police to set up an office in Florida.  Yet, federal and Sunshine State authorities seem to have no interest in arresting actual nazis in connection with January 6th.  Loomer posted a photo of Sergei Dybynyn and the J6 Shaman, Jake Angeli-Chansley, taken at the capitol on January 6th, 2021.  Loomer captioned the photo, writing, "During their private interview with @AmericaShaman the@FBI asked him how he knew a Ukrainian operative who took a photo with him the day of J6 2021.  Chansley didn't know the guy, and FBI confirmed that the Ukrainian Sergai Dybynyn was a Ukrainian spy who is affiliated with the Nazi Azov Battalion."

What the Left Did to Our Country.  [Scroll down]  And what a revolution Biden's puppeteers have unleashed in less than three years.  They launched a base attack on the American legal system.  Supreme Court judges are libeled, their houses swarmed, and their lives threatened with impunity.  The Left promised to pack the court or to ignore any decision it resents.  The media runs hit pieces on any conservative justice deemed too influential.  The prior Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer whipped up a mob outside the court's doors, and threatened two justices by name.  As Schumer presciently put it, they would soon "reap the whirlwind" of what they supposedly had sowed and thus would have no idea what was about to "hit" them.

Former Prosecutor Running for President Calls for RICO Probe into Antifa Rioters.  Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a Republican presidential candidate in the 2024 primaries, called for a federal RICO prosecution of Antifa rioters who have violently attacked the construction of a police training facility in Atlanta.  "We need to be more aggressive about this," Christie, who also served as the U.S. attorney for the district of New Jersey, said at The Gathering, an event at the Grand Hyatt Atlanta in Buckhead organized by radio host Erick Erickson.  Erickson asked Christie about the "Stop Cop City" protests that have involved violent attacks on people and property in the Atlanta area in the attempt to block construction of a police training facility.  After the city council approved the training facility in Sept. 2021, protesters have voiced their opposition, and violent agitators began throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails at construction equipment in May 2022.  After a March 2023 riot, police arrested 35 people, charging 23 of them with domestic terrorism.  An attorney with the Southern Poverty Law Center was among those charged.

Reporter Andy Ngo's Case Against Antifa Shows How Desperately Lost Portland Is.  Journalist Andy Ngo was chased, beaten, and chased again when he burst into a downtown Portland, Ore., hotel in May 2021 to get away from his black-bloc-clad Antifa attackers. "They're trying to kill me," he told the understandably frightened hotel workers.  It wasn't the first time he'd been attacked by the notorious Portland terrorist gang.  If Portland's criminal justice system wouldn't stop these guys, Ngo figured, he'd sue them for $1 million.  On Tuesday, a Portland jury decided that two key alleged Antifa conspirators whose cases went to trial were not civilly liable for Ngo's injuries, both physical and otherwise.  The trial was marred by intimidation tactics — not just from the attackers but from their attorney who declared to the unidentified jury members, "I am Antifa" and "I will remember each one of your faces."  We're talking Godfather stuff here.

Riley Gaines, activists say they were spat on, attacked by protesters at ceremonial bill signing in Texas.  Former NCAA Division 1 athletes Riley Gaines and Paula Scanlan were among those who were targeted by "hostile" protesters that gathered in Texas on Monday in opposition of the "Save Women's Sports Act."  Texas Gov. Greg Abbott was joined by Gaines and Scanlan at the Texas Women's Hall of Fame at Texas Woman's University in Denton for a ceremonial signing of the bill, which was previously signed into law in June.

The Remaking of America.  [#3] The Attack on the Supreme Court.  Once the Court achieved a more or less predictable conservative majority, the Left sought to diminish it in a variety of ways.  It has called for packing the Court with leftist jurists to create a new 15-justice bench.  Leftist law professors in the Ivy League, in neo-Confederate nullification and insurrectionary style, call for the nation to ignore Court rulings on abortion and affirmative action.  The Senate minority leader led a throng to the doors of the court, threatening justices by name:  "You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price.  You won't know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions."  Protestors now mob the homes of individual justices hoping to intimidate them and alter their upcoming opinions — confident that the Department of Justice will exempt them from any legal consequences of such felonious behavior.

Soon the Cadillac dealerships will be open 24 hours a day!
Protestors line up for their cut of $4.9 Million settlement over violent 2017 St. Louis riot.  Lawlessness was rewarded in St. Louis as police protesters began lining up to collect from a more than $5 million "kettling" settlement.  A now more than decade-old police officer involved shooting death led to dozens taking home an average of $43,000 after failing to heed disbursal instructions.  After originally proposing the settlement for $5.2 million in January, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the process of handing out checks rewarding civil unrest began Friday.  The sum of $4.9 million was set to be divided among 84 plaintiffs named in the class action lawsuit that had been filed following the 2017 protests of the acquittal of former police officer Jason Stockley, with three individuals claiming the remainder at $85,000 apiece.

Saint Louis Rioters are the Latest to Win a Huge Payout — Leftists Rewarded $4.9 Million following their Violent Protests.  St. Louis is the latest Democrat-run city to offer massive payouts to leftist protesters and rioters who caused havoc in their communities and are now winning big payouts from local courts.  This time the money goes to radical leftists arrested following the acquittal of a police officer who fatally shot heroin dealer Anthony Lamar Smith.  Anthony Lamar Smith, a 24-year-old African American resident of St. Louis, Missouri, lost his life in December 2011 after being pursued in a car chase and subsequently shot by Jason Stockley, who was serving as a St. Louis Police officer at that time.  In 2017, The Gateway Pundit reported that a St. Louis judge found former Police Officer Jason Stockley NOT GUILTY of first-degree murder in the shooting death of Anthony Smith, a suspected heroin dealer who rammed Stockley's police car with his vehicle.

Woman Is Caught On Ringcam Threatening To Blow Up House Because The Owner Is A Republican.  A mystery woman rang the doorbell of an Oklahoma home and quizzed the owner about being a Republican because he had Fourth of July decorations on his lawn.  Surveillance footage of the July 8th incident shows the woman walk up to Pascal Quintero's home located in the area of South Janeway Avenue and ring his doorbell.  After Quintero answers the door, the stranger asks him about his political affiliation and his independence-themed decorations — an American flag, patriotic banners and an inflatable Uncle Sam character riding a firework.  She then blames him for not being able to get an abortion.  [Video clip]

A tale of two legal systems.  The Democrats aren't even hiding that that there are two forms of justice.  One for the left and one for the right.  If you burn a historic church and attack the White House as rioters did in 2020, you are a protester.  Excuses are made for your action.  After the attack on St. John's Church in Washington, D.C., Rector Rev. Rob Fisher said in an e-mail to worshippers, "The protests that began peacefully grew to something more, and eventually a fire was lit in the nursery, in the basement of Ashburton House.  Protestors easily could have done a lot worse to our buildings, but they chose not to do that."

Vivek Ramaswamy believes TN Gov. Lee, FBI 'hiding' Nashville shooter manifesto: 'Stonewalled silence'.  Republican presidential contender Vivek Ramaswamy headed to Nashville on Wednesday and demanded that Gov. Bill Lee release the writings of Covenant School shooter Audrey Hale.  Ramaswamy slammed politicians and law enforcement for their "stonewalled silence" on the deadly shooting by the 28-year-old transgender artists who opened fire in the private elementary school on the morning of March 27.  "We have to learn from tragedy to prevent it in the future," Ramaswamy told a crowd as he stood in front of Davidson County Courthouse in Nashville Wednesday afternoon.  He railed against Lee, the Metro Nashville Police Department and the FBI as he repeated "Tell us the truth," before adding: "The whole truth, nothing but the truth."  "I do believe they're hiding this manifesto," he added.

Suppressing the Nashville shooter's manifesto would be "unprecedented".  It has now been more than four months since trangender mass shooter Audrey Hale murdered six people at The Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee.  All the funerals are over and life is slowly returning to normal in the community.  And yet the public has still not seen the shooter's manifesto or the other documents police collected in the aftermath of the attack.  Initially, it was the police and the FBI that appeared to be holding up the release, but now the situation has been shifted to the courts.  In a bizarre turn of events, the families of both the shooter and the victims have teamed up with the school and are fighting to prevent the documents from being released.  A coalition of elected officials and a local newspaper have sued to have the material made public.

Seattle Is Becoming One Giant No-Go Zone For Cops.  This is a wild video.  Officers tried to break up an illegal street race/reckless driving and the crowd jumped on the hood of the vehicle and danced, and put up obstacles to block them.  Not long after, there was a shooting leaving four injured (one seriously).  [Video clip]

How To Create Conspiracy Theories.  Touch an officer on January 6, and one sat in jail for months.  Club an officer in summer 2020, and the offender was likely to become certified as a member of the Antifa or BLM resistance, albeit acting up a bit during the "summer of love."  Unlike January 6, the violence of arsonists, murderers, rioters, and Antifa and BLM mobs resulted in 1,500 injured law enforcement officers, more than 35 violent deaths, nearly $2 billion in property damage, and 14,000 arrests.  Yet most of the indictments were dropped, or plea bargained down to minor misdemeanors by sympathetic leftwing city and state prosecutors.  Note that the 2020 rioters also targeted iconic and government buildings.  Rioters attempted to burn down a federal courthouse, a police precinct headquarters, an historic Washington D.C. church — all topped off by the mob's nocturnal effort to stampede into the White House grounds to get to the president.

Rand Paul's Kentucky office torched in early morning blaze.  An early morning fire ripped through a commercial building that housed an office operated by Sen. Rand Paul in Bowling Green, Kentucky, Friday.  The Bowling Green Daily News first reported on the fire, which caused heavy damage to the structure in downtown Bowling Green.  The building also contained a local law firm and a retail store.  A spokesperson for the Bowling Green Fire Department told the news outlet that emergency personnel responded to the fire at 1:45 a.m. Friday.  Six units had to trim tree limbs to hose down second-story office windows, plus manned aerials on firetrucks to combat flames from above.

NYC to Pay $13.7 Million to George Floyd Protesters over Alleged Police Misconduct.  The City of New York agreed to pay a $13.7 million settlement in a class-action lawsuit brought by protesters who accused NYPD officers of using unlawful policing tactics and violating the rights of demonstrators during the 2020 protests and rioting sparked by the death of George Floyd.  The city has agreed to pay out $9,950 per person to up to 1,380 people who were "arrested and/or subjected to force by N.Y.P.D. officers" during protests at 18 different locations throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn in May and June of 2020, according to the New York Times.

Why Won't the Media Admit When Mass Murderers Are Environmentalists?  On Friday, a federal judge sentenced the El Paso Walmart mass murderer, who killed 23 people and wounded another 22, to 90 consecutive life sentences.  He still faces additional charges from Texas, where he could receive the death penalty. [...] Since the murderer's vicious attack on August 3, 2019, the news media has constantly described the El Paso murderer as "far-right" in Newsweek and raised this case as an example of "right-wing extremism in the U.S." at NBC.  Indeed, attacks such as the El Paso mass murder are counted by the Anti-Defamation League as right-wing extremists.  But the El Paso murderer was not a right-winger by any normal definition.  His views clearly match up much closer with the views of Democrats.  The news media views anyone who is racist as a right-winger.  But the El Paso murderer was a racist because of his environmentalist views.  In his manifesto, he wrote: "The decimation of the environment is creating a massive burden for future generations ... The next logical step is to decrease the number of people in America using resources.  If we can get rid of enough people, then our way of life can become more sustainable."

America: Land of the Free, Home of the Deluded.  Looting, attacking police, burning buildings, screaming and cursing in a wanton manner, bottle throwing and Molotov cocktails are all manifestations of delusions of persecution.  Small inconveniences or slights may thus become the basis for violent reactions when magnified into delusions of persecutions or false ideas about the source of the fear or difficulties one experiences.

Nazis on the Left?  Riley Gaines is a former NCAA female swimmer who has spoken out against the so-called right of males to compete as females.  In response, she has been attacked, verbally and physically, by transgender activists and their supporters.  Recently, after speaking at San Francisco State University, she was forced to barricade herself in a room while she was assaulted by a mob of transgender rights protesters.  According to Gaines, police in San Francisco "failed miserably" to defend her and stated, according to Gaines, that "it was not ideal for them to be seen as anything other than an ally to this community." [...] The Riley Gaines protest is just the latest example of the left's resorting to violence in place of peaceful discussion.  Violent attacks on conservatives and on anyone who stands in their way have become commonplace, and these attacks are a grave danger to our democracy.

Democrats' Insidious Assault on 'Our Democracy'.  In March 2020, then-Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) stood on the steps of the Supreme Court to openly threaten Trump's first two court picks if they did not rule correctly in a forthcoming abortion decision.  Schumer intoned: "I want to tell you [Justice Neil] Gorsuch.  I want to tell you [Justice Brett] Kavanaugh.  You have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price.  You won't know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions." That outburst triggered a rare public rebuke from the typically mild-mannered Chief Justice John Roberts: "Threatening statements of this sort from the highest levels of government are not only inappropriate, they are dangerous."

Philly mass killing suspect is a cross-dressing BLM activist — and police are using 'they/them' pronouns.  The suspect accused of gunning down five people in a mass killing on Monday is reportedly a Black Lives Matter activist and cross-dresser. [...] The killer allegedly used an AR-15-style weapon and a handgun, wore body armor and a ski mask, and targeted victims randomly.  Police officers chased and cornered the suspect, taking the individual into custody without issue.

Philadelphia shooter was another transgender person.  No, I don't think that being transgender necessarily makes you violent.  But I also think it is not a coincidence that a number of mass shootings lately have been carried out by transgender-identifying people.  Alphabet ideology radicalizes people and convinces them that they are hated by and under constant threat from the larger society.

Cross-dressing gunman behind July 4 Philly bloodbath that left five dead is BLM supporter.  The Philadelphia gunman who left five dead has been unmasked as a cross-dressing Black Lives Matter supporter who made chilling Facebook posts about 'evil spirits.'  Kimbrady Carriker, 40, shot dead four men and a 15-year-old boy in the Kingsessing neighborhood on the eve of the Fourth of July.  He is now in custody and facing multiple murder charges after rampaging through the streets with an AR-15, a handgun and wearing a ballistic vest.

Violent Gay [Black] Dude Attacks Starbucks Barista In NYC.  This gay guy with no pride and his two a-hole friends have been going around NYC and harassing establishments.  They came into this Starbucks and started trouble, throwing straws before throwing some fists at the ladies behind the counter.  Let's hope karma catches up with them.  [Video clip]

Michigan pro-life activist set for surgery after abortionist allegedly struck him with his car.  A pro-life sidewalk counselor in Michigan said he's scheduled for surgery on Friday after an abortionist ran over him with his vehicle last week.  Witnesses told LifeSite the incident appeared premeditated.  Veteran pro-life sidewalk counselor Mark Zimmerman, 52, told LifeSiteNews he suffered a fractured tibia after local abortionist Theodore Roumell, 88, struck him with his car outside the Women's Center of Saginaw on Friday, June 23.

Rhode Island State Senator Faces Additional Charges Over Vandalism Incident: Report.  Democratic Rhode Island state Senator Joshua Miller, who police arrested last week for allegedly vandalizing a vehicle with a "Biden Sucks" sticker parked at an outdoor shopping area, reportedly faces additional charges after denying involvement in the incident to police.  On Thursday, Cranston Police charged Miller with vandalism and malicious injury to property after a suspect accused the lawmaker of "keying" an SUV in the Garden City Center parking lot.  When confronted about the incident, Miller denied the accusation to the victim and authorities and was initially let go.

When Do We Reach Peak Climate Insanity?  It Needs To Be Soon.  The global warming gasbags and climate catastrophics seem to have an endless amount of energy.  Like the posse chasing Butch and Sundance, they don't get tired, or hungry, or slow down, or even break formation.  But unlike that posse, they'll never catch what they're chasing.  To listen to the climate alarmists, the casual observer would be convinced that the incineration of Earth due to combustion that produces carbon dioxide is imminent.  As in next year ... or maybe next week.  Here's Rep. Rashida Tlaib, Democrat from Michigan:  "We have to be much more aggressive in regard to fossil fuel expansions," she recently said.  The Daily Mail characterized her rant as a "pep talk" for activists who are laying the groundwork for "a campaign of blocking highways and chaotic protests later this summer."

RI State Sen Arrested For Keying Car With [an anti-]Biden Bumper Sticker.  Rhode Island state Sen. Joshua Miller (D-Cranston, Providence), was arrested Thursday after Cranston police said he vandalized a man's SUV with a "Biden [...]" bumper sticker.  Miller was charged with vandalism/malicious injury to property after police said he keyed the other man's SUV around 3:30 p.m. in the Garden City Center parking lot.  The SUV's owner and passenger told police they were walking back to their car when they heard a scratching noise and saw Miller with a key in his hand.  Police said the SUV owner noticed a long scratch on the vehicle's door, so the man asked Miller if he had keyed his car.  Miller denied it and walked away, according to police.  [Video clip]

Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts led the way for the Seattle Pride Parade.  [Scroll down]  Well, don't look away now, it's the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts of America carrying rainbow flags along with American flags in the lead of a parade featuring naked men:  [Tweet with video clip]  The Scouts have been woke for a long time, but participating in this sort of debauchery is absolutely shameful.  In addition to the indecent exposure on display at this parade, a preacher in Seattle was also surrounded by some mostly peaceful pride protesters and literally barked at by a person who, I guess, is a furry.  The preacher was also accosted by a man who stole his Bible and ripped it to shreds:  [Tweet with video clip]

Congresswoman Tlaib Stirs Controversy with Provocative Call for Aggressive Climate Terrorism.  In a shocking revelation, Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib of the infamous 'Squad' has been caught on tape, encouraging eco-zealots to unleash havoc in their upcoming summer campaign.  DailyMail.com obtained exclusive access to a secret pep talk where Tlaib, a Detroit Democrat, urged more than a hundred hardliners from various environmental groups to take drastic measures, including blocking highways and engaging in chaotic protests. [...] During the private gathering, Tlaib passionately expressed, "We have to be much more aggressive in regard to fossil fuel expansions.  If we don't get the policies we need, if our legislative process is failing us, then direct action gets the goods."  These words of incitement have sparked intense debate, raising questions about the boundaries of protest and the responsibility of elected officials.  [Video clip]

Man, 71, charged with setting massive Yosemite park fire initially blamed on climate change.  A 71-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly starting a devastating massive forest fire in Yosemite National Park that was previously thought to have been caused by climate change.  Edward Fredrick Wackerman of Mariposa, Calif., was busted Friday on suspicion of arson for allegedly igniting the Oak Fire, which destroyed 127 homes, caused thousands of people to evacuate and ravaged nearly 20,000 acres of vegetation in July 2022.  The suspect is facing charges of suspicion of aggravated arson, arson that causes great bodily injury and arson causing damage or destruction of inhabited structures, the California Department of Forestry said.  It isn't clear how Wackerman may have started the blaze or what finally led to his arrest.

Democrat Donor Arrested for Starting Massive Fire Democrats Blamed on Climate Change.  Authorities busted a Democratic donor for allegedly starting a "ginormous inferno" in Yosemite National Park.  Democratic politicians had insisted climate change was to blame for the blaze, which destroyed more than 100 homes and injured several firefighters in July 2022.  Edward Fredrick Wackerman (his actual name) of Mariposa, Calif., faces a number of charges including aggravated arson following his arrest on Friday.  The arson suspect has donated $1,775 to Democratic candidates and committees since 2020, government records show, including a $1,000 donation to Tim Ryan's failed U.S. Senate campaign in 2022 and $400 to the Lincoln Project, a disgraced liberal super PAC.

How Reddit Radicalizes The Left And Encourages Political Violence.  Reddit, a link-aggregating website that claims to be the "front page of the internet," has turned into a hotbed for radicalization.  Reddit's fundamental reliance on upvotes over an algorithm produces an unstable equilibrium in the hands of bad-faith moderators.  This creates an incredible echo chamber made up of subreddits, which create groups of individuals who will gladly throw away their empathy as long as they view themselves as a "bastion of good" fighting those who are ontologically evil.  In some rare cases, these individuals reach beyond the keyboard and manifest this radicalization into action.  This article is meant to shed some light onto the unseen world of Reddit, where left-wing users are routinely goaded into increasingly concerning rhetoric and, sometimes, even violence.

Police Release Video Showing Attack Against Pro-Lifers in Baltimore.  The Baltimore Police Department released a video Thursday showing the brutal attack of two pro-life advocates outside of a Planned Parenthood on May 26.  Police released the video in the hopes of learning the identity of the suspect, who can be seen tackling an 80-year-old man and assaulting a 73-year-old man before kicking him "with extreme force" in the face," CBS News reported, citing police.

Democrat and Ranking Member of the House Weaponization Subcommittee Slips Up, Says the Quiet Part Out Loud.  Democrat and Ranking member of the House Weaponization Subcommittee says the quiet part out loud.  Democrat Delegate to the House of Representatives from the US Virgin Islands Stacey Plaskett appeared to make a Freudian slip during her latest appearance on MSNBC.  During her latest appearance on The Sunday Show Plaskett stated, "Having Trump not only having the codes but now having the classified information for Americans and being able to put that out and share it in his resort with anyone and everything who comes through should be terrifying to all Americans."  Plaskett then continued, "He needs to be (shot) — Stopped."  The video was originally shared by RNC deputy director Jake Schneider but has since been picked up by several other accounts.

Deranged Leftists Attempt to Stop Trump's Motorcade in Florida, Secret Service Forced to Save President Trump from Possible Attack.  Fake President Joe Biden will probably free all of these people and grant them pardons right before he's thrown in jail himself, whether it be by the US military finally stepping in and stopping all of this nonsense, or the FBI once they clear out the corrupt Dem's at the top.  [Video clip]

Target Received Bomb Threats From the 'LGBTQ+ Community.' The Media Told a Different Story.  Target stores across America were evacuated over the weekend due to bomb threats that alleged the chain had "betrayed the LGBTQ+ community" and "bowed to the wishes of far-right extremists who want to exterminate us," according to police.  But that's not how some major news outlets presented the story.  The Washington Post, USA Today, and others buried or simply left out the nature of the emailed threats, all of which were false alarms, while prominently mentioning conservative backlash over Target's LGBT Pride merchandise.

Radio Free America.  [Scroll down]  Did you hear about the City College of New York professor who trashed a pro-life information table on campus while screaming obscenities at the students?  Then, when reporters went to her home for comment, she came out of the door with a machete and held it to the reporter's throat?  Fortunately, all of this was caught on camera, or there would have been zero proof or ramifications.

'If you build it, we will burn it'.  Today is the day the Atlanta City Council is scheduled to vote to approve $30 million for the new police training center which opponents have dubbed "cop city."  Since this is their last chance to stop it, the opponents are going all out.  That means showing up in numbers to offer a seemingly endless number of public comments denouncing the plan. [...] Once the comments began it was just every left-wing agitator in the Atlanta area repeating the same talking points.  Here's a member of the Atlanta Democratic Socialists.  Instead of investing in police training he wants to end crime by eliminating poverty.  That should be easy.  [Tweet with video clip]

Forgotten DC Riots Did Far More Than Physical Damage to America.  The three-year anniversary of the Lafayette Square and Black Lives Matter riots in the nation's capital has come and gone without much media fanfare.  These apparently forgotten riots, and the harsher official response to the Capitol riot seven months later, say much about our media landscape and rapidly transforming legal system.  On May 29, 2020, a riot in front of the White House in Lafayette Square prompted a lockdown to protect then-President Donald Trump and the first family.  At the time, four days after George Floyd's death in police custody in Minneapolis, many in the media portrayed the incident as Trump hiding from protesters and being real mean to them, rather than as an assault on democracy.  But it was a serious riot.  Protesters tried to get inside a temporary fence protecting the White House before being stopped by police.

Three Years Later, No Justice for BLM Insurrection in D.C..  "Our office prosecutes all acts of violence, regardless of political motivation, the same."  So said U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Matthew Graves — under oath, mind you, and with a straight face — during a hearing of the House Oversight Committee earlier this month.  Representative Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) questioned Graves' disparate treatment of Black Lives Matters rioters who terrorized Washington, D.C., in 2020 versus Trump supporters involved in the events of January 6, 2021.  Although the start of both incidents was a mere seven months apart, they are a world away in terms of accountability.  In what Graves calls the "Capitol Siege" investigation, more than 1,000 Trump supporters have been criminally charged.  Graves, a Biden appointee, has promised to double that caseload before he's finished.  His office announces new arrests every week.  That, however, is not the case for rioters who caused far more violence and inflicted far more damage in the nation's capital in 2020. The rioting that began on May 29, 2020 at Lafayette Square prompted the lockdown of the White House; Donald Trump, his wife, and teenage son were ushered to an underground bunker for their safety as looters and arsonists repeatedly tried to scale the fence and break through police barricades erected outside the White House.

It Was Always Only About Power With the Left.  In 2020, for 120 days, left-wing mobs led by Antifa and Black Lives Matter wrought far greater destruction in nonstop rioting, arson, looting, and assault.  Over 35 people died.  Two billion dollars in property damage followed.  Some 1,500 officers were assaulted and injured.  Over 14,000 protesters were arrested.  Yet few were convicted of any serious crimes; fewer were sentenced to long sentences — given prosecutors, state and federal, claimed the violence was merely a result of protesters exercising their "constitutional right" of dissent.  Left-wing politicians and activists from then-vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris ("They're not going to let up, and they should not, and we should not.") to Nikole Hannah Jones ("Destroying property, which can be replaced, is not violence.") either excused the often violent protests or urged that they continue.  Far from sending in 20,000 federal troops, as occurred after January 6, the Left demanded that then President Trump not resort to such Draconian measures.  Note that there were lots of government properties deliberately targeted in iconic fashion.

Two pro-lifers viciously assaulted outside Baltimore Planned Parenthood.  Two pro-lifers in Baltimore, Maryland were viciously attacked outside an abortion facility on Saturday, leaving one man in hospital with a fractured bone in his face, according to local activists.  According to an email by local pro-lifer John Roswell, on Saturday there was a violent, unprovoked attack outside of a Planned Parenthood on N. Howard Street in Baltimore, that left two pro-life men, Dick Schafer and Mark Crosby, assaulted and seriously injured.  Photographs of the aftermath of the event obtained by LifeSiteNews show Crosby with what appears to be severe facial injuries.

Tennessee judge says families can object to release of Nashville shooter's manifesto.  Parents of the students who attend the Nashville Christian school where Audrey Hale killed six people back in March have been seeking to prevent the release of Hale's writings which have been repeatedly referred to as a manifesto. [...] Wednesday, a judge ruled that those parents have standing to object to the release of the manifesto and set a hearing to argue whether these documents will ever see the light of day. [...] This judge seems to be making it up as she goes.  Some who have seen the documents claim they include detailed plans for attacking the school developed by Hale over several months. [...] I guess I could see redacting or restricting information that Hale gathered which could potentially make the school vulnerable to another attack or which could give specific instructions to other would-be shooters.  However, I'm probably not alone in wondering if this isn't just an excuse to avoid releasing statements that would indicate what motivated Hale to do this.  Police still haven't released a motive but as I've pointed out before, Hale specifically told someone before the attack that it would all make more sense once people had seen her writings.

This sounds a lot like incitement.
Democrat Lawmaker Predicts Backlash 'In The Streets' If White House Agrees To Spending Cut.  Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) spoke against President Joe Biden compromising with Republicans on spending caps and a debt ceiling increase, contending that the move would cause backlash among lawmakers and the broader public.  The debt ceiling, a statute established by Congress that prevents the government from spending beyond a predetermined national debt limit of $31.4 trillion, exceeded the threshold earlier this year.  Republicans desire to join an increase in the debt ceiling with spending caps, while Democrats say they prefer separate processes for debt limit negotiations and budget reforms, a debate which occurs even as the government nears default in as little as two weeks.

The "squad" signals riots if they don't get their way.  It's the typical Leftist strategy:  threaten violence if their will is thwarted.  The "Squad" is all about imposing their will.  This is what "democracy looks like," they insist.  Mob rule.  [Tweet]  Republicans have been called every name in the book.  Traitors, terrorists, hatemongers, White Supremacists, Nazis, and every kind of -phobe in the universe.  But when push comes to shove the Democrats always resort to violence.  One of the reasons the Democrats have been obsessed with January 6th, 2020, is because it was really the first time Republicans used a tactic that is used all the time by Democrats.  Invading the Capitol was wrong, but it is one of the most common tactics in the Democrat playbook.  It happens all the time, and we are told that this is Democracy in action, not a cause for years of solitary confinement and torture.  [Tweet]

NYC college professor who threatened Post reporter with machete is fired as her lawsuit against NYPD emerges.  The manic Manhattan college professor who threatened a Post reporter with a machete has been fired, the school said Tuesday — as it emerged she is suing the NYPD for allegedly abusing her during the 2020 George Floyd protests.  Shellyne Rodriguez was sacked by Hunter College just hours after the adjunct professor was caught on camera holding the blade to the veteran reporter's neck while threatening to "chop" him up outside her Bronx apartment.  "Hunter College strongly condemns the unacceptable actions of Shellyne Rodriguez and has taken immediate action," school spokesman Vince Dimiceli told The [New York] Post.  "Rodriguez has been relieved of her duties at Hunter College effective immediately, and will not be returning to teach at the school."

Manufacturing Mental Illness.  The horrific murders that took place in late March at a Christian school in Nashville has led to many investigations — as to the motive, the means and the way the killings were carried out.  Audrey Hale, age 28, "identified" as a transgender male, going by the name of "Aiden."  Hale apparently planned the carnage for some time, leaving behind a "manifesto" which justice officials have refused to release, in order to protect the "trans" agenda.  During her planning, she also created detailed maps of the Covenant School and church building, with multiple possible entry points and it appears the victims were killed at random.  The "target" of the attacks were the church — and the school itself — which she had attended as a child.  When Hale "came out" as being a homosexual, her Christian parents refused to accept that.  But her parents were apparently in the dark about many things related to their daughter, even though she still lived with her parents at age 28.  They were not aware that their daughter identified as "transgender."  They believed she once owned one gun, but that she had sold it.  In reality, she owned seven guns, three of which she used during the attack, and she trained regularly at a local gun range.  Her mother said she left home that day with a red bag, but had no idea that guns were inside or what she was planning.

Shooting in Washington state; Emergency Vehicles Blocked By Thugs.  Kent police said five men were sent to the hospital after a shooting in the area of an illegal street racing event early Sunday morning.  According to authorities, a Renton Police officer was investigating a traffic accident, when he heard several gunshots nearby.  The officer radioed dispatch and went to investigate near 180th and East Valley Rd in Kent.  Kent officers arrived and found several people with gunshot injuries.  Medical crews were already on-scene giving treatment.  Kent Police Department confirmed five men were injured in the shooting.  Officers said the men shot were from surrounding cities.  [Video clip]

Professor hurls students' pro-life display after profanity-laced tirade: 'triggering my students'.  A professor at a New York public college appeared to shout down pro-life students before snagging and throwing items in their display, accusing the students of spreading "propaganda" and "triggering" other students.  Hunter College students were manning a table displaying pro-life literature earlier this month when they were confronted by an angry professor, who shouted profanities at the students before tossing materials off the table, video of the interaction shows.  "You're not educating [...], this is [...] propaganda," the professor tells the students in a clip posted to Twitter by Students for Life of America.  "What are you going to do like anti-trans next?"  The aggressor in the situation was art professor Shellyne Rodriguez, who a Hunter College spokesperson confirmed works at the school as an adjunct assistant professor.

Tran-Activst Assaults A Cop At The Nebraska Capitol Building.  At least six people were arrested at the Nebraska state capitol building Friday after protests broke out as lawmakers passed a bill that bans abortions after 12 weeks and restricts gender transition procedures for those under 19.  Debate was stopped briefly around 2:40 p.m. while arrests took place in a chamber balcony where those opposing the controversial bill yelled and threw what appeared to be bloody tampons onto the legislative floor.  The balconies were cleared for the remainder of the debate.  [Video clip]

Nebraska police arrest 6 at state capitol, including woman who punched trooper, amid abortion, trans debate.  At least six people were arrested at the Nebraska state capitol building Friday after protests broke out as lawmakers passed a bill that bans abortions after 12 weeks and restricts gender transition procedures for those under 19.  Debate was stopped briefly around 2:40 p.m. while arrests took place in a chamber balcony where those opposing the controversial bill yelled and threw what appeared to be bloody tampons onto the legislative floor.  The balconies were cleared for the remainder of the debate.  Lucia Salinas, 24, and Maghie Miller-Jenkins, 36, were arrested for allegedly obstructing a government operation and disturbing the peace, the Nebraska State Patrol said in a release sent to Fox News Digital.

Eight Disturbing Similarities between the Democrat and Nazi Parties.  While the German national socialist party exploited force, Democrats started the practice with the KKK and perfected it with the Burning, Looting, and Murder riots during the summer of 2020, making it clear to everyone that if they didn't get their way, the BLM violence would continue.

Liberal Professor At Hunter College Attacks Pro-Life Students.  Shellynn Rodriquez at Hunter College verbally and physically attacked students handing out pro-life leaflets.  [Video clip]

Marjorie Taylor Greene Shows Photos Of 'Left-Wing' Protesters Who 'Invaded' Congressional Building During Hearing.  Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia announced that left-wing protesters had occupied the Cannon House Office Building's rotunda during a hearing Tuesday and pulled out photos appearing to show the protesters.  "Just while we've been sitting in this committee room having this hearing today about left-wing extremism and violence, literally, as we were being gaveled in, we experienced some left-wing. extremism of our own on the second floor of this building," Greene said during a hearing held by the House Homeland Security Committee's Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Accountability.  Greene's office confirmed the protest when contacted by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Why are they hiding the manifesto?  Remember the Covenant school shooting in Nashville?  You are not supposed to.  It is supposed to fade quietly into the background because, well, the facts are inconvenient to the Narrative.  Immediately after the horrific events we learned that there was a "manifesto" left behind by the shooter making it abundantly clear why she committed the act.  In her last message to a friend, she also indicated that she left behind writings about why she committed evil acts.  So far that manifesto has been withheld from public scrutiny.  The powers that be don't want you to see it.  For a brief period, the authorities tried to reverse course and claim that there were only the ramblings of a disturbed person that made no sense.  That was their first excuse for hiding what the shooter left behind.  Nobody bought that for a number of reasons, so a fallback position soon emerged for why the tender eyes of the public must be protected from exposure to the rantings of a lunatic: the words are magically dangerous and hearing or reading them might make people spontaneously explode or something.

National Police Association and Other Groups Sue to Obtain Audrey Hale Manifesto.  In March, Audrey Hale shocked the nation by opening fire at The Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee.  The police soon acknowledged that they had a manifesto from Hale on why she took this inexplicable and horrific action.  We all then waited for the release of the manifesto.  We are still waiting.  It is not uncommon for there to be a delay in the release of information in a major crime pending investigation.  What was weird is that the police quickly confirmed that Hale acted alone and Hale was dead.  There is no prosecution that will occur in the case.  Yet, it is May and the authorities are still refusing to release the manifesto ... and they will not fully explain why.  Now, the National Police Association and other groups are suing to make the writings and other materials of mass shooter Audrey Hale public.  There were twenty journals, five laptops, a suicide note, yearbooks, cellphones and various notes written by Hale, 28, that were seized from the house she shared with her parents.  There have been press reports that the authorities consider the manifesto to be "astronomically dangerous."

"There is not a truth existing which I fear
or would wish unknown to the whole world."

— Thomas Jefferson             

Report: Unprecedented Rise in Hate Crimes against American Churches.  Attacks on churches and Christian institutions on American soil are at an all-time high.  The Mar. 27, 2023 killings in Nashville — where a woman claiming to be a man (AKA "transgender") stormed a private Christian school and murdered three children and three adults — is just the tip of the iceberg.  According to recent reports by the Family Research Council, "criminal acts against churches have been steadily on the rise for the past several years."  While relying on limited open-source information — meaning that the actual number "of acts of hostility [against churches] is undoubtedly much higher" — the organization managed to verify "a total of 420 documented acts of hostility that occurred between January 2018 and September 2022" across the United States.

Modern day brown shirts.  The so-called "counterculture of the 1960s" bred a number of radical organizations that over time morphed, infiltrated and/or became aligned with the Democrat Party. [...] You may remember some of the names:
  •   Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
  •   The Weather Underground (Weathermen: Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, etc.)
  •   Black Panther Party (Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, Eldridge Cleaver, etc.)
  •   Black Liberation Army (1970s)
  •   Yippies (Abbie Hoffman)
  •   American Indian Movement (Dennis Banks, Russell Means, etc.)
  •   And a number of smaller entities tied to Mao, Marx, Trotsky, and Lenin, as well as radical leftist political parties:  Communist Party USA, Industrial Workers of the World, Workers World Party, Socialist Workers Party, etc. [...]
We need to pay attention to what these people wish to achieve in America, as they are diligently at work behind the scenes attempting to destroy the country as it was founded and implement their version of a "socialist paradise."

Rep. Matt Gaetz Assaulted by Deranged Leftist.  A woman from Tallahassee has been charged by Florida authorities for her involvement in an incident on Saturday, during which she reportedly assaulted Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) at a private event.  Selena J. Chambers, a 41-year-old woman from Tallahassee, Fla., was charged with one count of battery on an elected official and one count of battery, to touch or strike, by Walton County officers who arrested her.  According to a press release from Rep. Gaetz's office, Chambers describes herself as a member of the "Resistance."  According to a statement, Gaetz intends to pursue charges against Chambers over the incident, citing his desire to uphold standards of civil conduct and ensure the safety of residents in Florida.

Rappers' violent lyrics can't be used against them in court under Democrats' new bill.  House Democrats are pushing a new bill that would make it illegal for prosecutors to use violent lyrics by rap artists against them in court if they commit crimes, citing First Amendment protections.  On Thursday, Reps.  Hank Johnson, D-Ga., and Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., announced they would reintroduce the Restoring Artistic Protection Act, or RAP Act.  The bill would protect artists from the use of their lyrics against them in criminal and civil proceedings, a practice that's more common in cases involving hip-hop artists.  The pair introduced the bill last Congress, but it failed to gain any traction.  The measure, they say, would add a presumption to the Federal Rules of Evidence that would limit the admissibility of evidence of an artist's creative or artistic expression against that artist in court.

Utah State Senator's Home Vandalized Over Law Banning Child Sex Change Surgeries.  The home of a Republican state senator has been vandalized over his bill banning sex changes for minors.  The vandalism took place at the home of Sen. Mike Kennedy on the evening of April 21.  The vandal left messages in red spray paint across Sen. Kennedy's garage, including "Fash," presumably meaning Fascist, and "these trannies bash back."  Sen. Kennedy posted a photo of the crime on his Facebook page and explained that he will not be intimidated or deterred.

Louisville Shooter Killed Five To Get Firearms Banned — And Democrats Are Happy To Oblige.  The U.S. is apparently at such a stage of degeneracy that anti-gun radicals are buying guns to shoot people and make the case for banning firearms.  The man responsible for the deaths of five at Old National Bank in Lousiville, Kentucky, on April 10 reportedly admitted that the motivation for his killing spree was to further the left's gun-control agenda.  A 13-page manifesto uncovered by the Daily Mail allegedly disclosed that the 25-year-old shot and killed multiple colleagues in part to prove his belief that guns are too easy to obtain in Kentucky.  The shooter also reportedly wanted to draw attention to mental illness, something his parents later disclosed he suffered from and took medicine for, and explicitly expressed a desire to kill himself.  The shooter died after police officers shot him.  Ironically, the shooter's death illustrates that the best way to counter a trigger-happy madman is for good guys with guns to employ that great equalizer, but that's not the message gun-control activists took away from the tragedy.  Gun-control backers latched onto the shooter's crimes to embolden Democrats to move forward with unconstitutional red-flag laws and gun grabs.

Louisville Bank Shooter Connor Sturgeon Left Behind a Manifesto Warning Us of Things to Come.  Last Monday, 25-year-old Connor Sturgeon walked into his former workplace, Old National Bank, in downtown Louisville, KY, armed with an AR-15-style modern sporting weapon and opened fire. [...] As I've pointed out before, mass shootings only have "legs" in the media if they support a narrative, and, as I wrote at the time, the Louisville shooting was going to drop from view because it did not fit the narrative the gun-grabbing media need; see The Media Will Forget the Louisville Shooting Because It Doesn't Support the Gun Control Narrative.  The shooter had a master's degree, his family was upper-middle-class, and he hated Trump and conservatives.  Just as Nashville murderer Audrey Hale left a manifesto that we've been unable to read, Sturgeon also left behind a 13-page rationalization for killing five innocent people.  The Daily Mail has seen the "manifesto" and gave his reasons for the shooting as 1) to prove how easy it was to buy a gun in Kentucky, 2) to highlight America's "mental health crisis," and 3) to die in the process.  We've seen a sudden trend in female-to-male transgenders becoming what appears to be the fastest-growing class of mass shooters.  I think that is attributable to the 100% prevalence of severe mental illness in that group along with a feeling of entitlement and victimhood stoked by such events as the "Trans Day of Vengeance."

Tennessee Officials Report the FBI Is Hiding the Transgender Manifesto Outlining Objective for Mass Murder.  In the most recent weeks, we have discovered how the FBI worked inside Twitter, Facebook and social media to control information, remove content and manipulate opinion on behalf of the U.S. government — all political.  We have also learned the FBI is taking active measures to suppress information about the Hunter Biden laptop story and control any negative consequences for the Biden regime — again, political.  Now, we discover the FBI are the control officers hiding the release of the Audrey Hale manifesto which outlines the deep psychological motives she held within her transgender mindset.  A belief system that culminated in the targeting and murder of children and teachers.  The FBI motive for hiding the manifesto, politics!

Leftist University Professor Arrested for Trying to Destroy Pro-Life Display.  A New York college professor was arrested Wednesday after a pro-life organization said she tried to shut down their display and then resisted arrest, screaming "My body, my choice!" in front of a group of students.  The pro-life organization Created Equal said the incident occurred during its stop at the University of Albany as part of its Spring Road Trip for Life.  "... hundreds of students were exposed to the reality of abortion using the group's new college outreach LED screen," Created Equal said in a statement.  "Hence, dozens of students changed their positions on abortion during our tour.  But our opposition was also fierce."  At one point, the organization said University of Albany sociology Professor Renee Overdyke pulled the power on its LED display, prompting police to arrest her.

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I wonder if the "My body my choice" woman was all gung ho about mandatory Covid vaccines.

What Are They Hiding About the Nashville Shooter's Manifesto?  [T]he Nashville shooting mattered, and not just because it gave the Left more talking points about the evils of gun ownership.  After all, if we are being honest, the Left can come up with talking points about the evils of gun ownership over a skeeball game.  What the Nashville murders revealed was the level of disconnect affecting the transgender movement.  As did the fact that everyone from the White House on down seemed to be less concerned with the victims and their families than with the transgender community.  Also conspicuously absent from the debate has been the incendiary language that that community has used.  Pertinent information seems to be in the manifesto written by the woman who committed the crimes.  And that manifesto has been declared off-limits, so it would appear that no one is getting access to it.  That includes journalist Glenn Greenwald, who has even enlisted the aid of lawyers to get the manifesto from the Nashville Police Department.  But the firms have decided to back out of the effort. [...] What is it about the manifesto that requires its contents to remain hidden?

This is what FOIA is for.
Nashville School Shooter Left Behind 19 Journals, All Kept from the Public.  The 28-year-old transgender attacker who shot and killed six in a Nashville Christian school March 27, 2023, left behind a suicide note, 19 journals, and other items, all of which have been kept from the public.  Breitbart News reported that the transgender shooter carried legally purchased firearms into the school, where she walked the halls with a pistol caliber carbine looking for victims.  She was shot and killed on the second floor of the school by Metropolitan Nashville Police Department officers.  The attacker left behind "cellphones and laptops, as well as a suicide note, three folders and 19 journals," NBC News noted.  But none of the writings have been released for the public to see.

We've Finally Found Something Lawyers Won't Do for Money.  Three weeks ago, on Monday, March 27, 28-year-old Audrey Hale blasted her way into the Covenant School in Nashville, TN.  In a rampage lasting only 14 minutes, Hale, a self-declared female-to-male transgender, killed the headmistress, Katherine Koonce, 60; the custodian, Mike Hill, 61; a substitute teacher, Cynthia Peak, 61; and three students, Hallie Scruggs, Evelyn Dieckhaus, and William Kinney, all nine years old. [...] The immediate question comes to mind, why?  And more specifically, why this day and why this particular school?  When the police executed a search warrant on Hale's home, they announced they had retrieved a potential treasure trove of information that might help to explain why female-to-male transgenders are the fastest-growing category of mass shooters.  When the materials were discovered, the police seemed very definite that Hale's motive and plan were found among the suicide note, three folders, 19 journals, phones, computers, and videotapes seized while executing the search warrant.  Police Chief John Drake made a public announcement that "there's some belief that there was some resentment for having to go to that school."  There were early hints that the politically powerful (inside the Biden White House) lobby was putting the brakes on any release of Hale's manifesto for fear it would have "serious consequences."

Is anyone surprised by transgender homicide?  On March 27, a 28-year-old armed woman walked into a Presbyterian primary school in Nashville, Tennessee, and shot three children and three adults to death before being gunned down by police.  The murderer was initially identified as Audrey Elizabeth Hale, but later the same day, having discovered that she considered herself to be a transgender male, local officials began referring to her by her last known name of choice, Aiden Hale.  Thirteen days later, on April 9 (Easter Sunday), a Portland, Oregon, cab driver named Reese McDowell Lawhon was stabbed to death in the neck by a passenger who had stepped into his cab wearing a tiara.  As the Portland-based independent journalist Andy Ngo noted, the police made an arrest but, unusually, waited a day before releasing any information about the suspect.  After the killer's name, Moses Jacob Lopez, was finally made public, Ngo discovered online that Lopez, a mere six days earlier, had been "arrested and charged with felonies" in Coos Bay, Oregon, "for allegedly threatening a... shopper with a knife," but had been "quickly released without bail."  Ngo also discovered that Lopez, age 30, identifies as a transgender woman.

Democrat Left Goes All in on Hate, Disruption, and Violence.  A gang of thugs at San Francisco State University who objected to swimmer Riley Gaines's opposition to having to compete against biological males forced her to take refuge in a classroom for three hours while some demanded money to let her leave.  A man, and I use the term loosely, allegedly used his fists on this woman, which normally constitutes misdemeanor assault.  I cannot give legal advice, but my understanding is that a demand for money backed up by a threat of physical force constitutes robbery or extortion.  False imprisonment, which can be charged as a misdemeanor or felony depending on the circumstances, also comes to mind.  SFSU's President, Lynn Mahoney, said of these events, "Last Thursday, Turning Point USA hosted an event on campus that advocated for the exclusion of trans people in athletics.  The event was deeply traumatic for many in our trans and LGBTQ+ communities, and the speaker's message outraged many members of the SF State community."  The President of SFSU is of course lying about anybody wanting to exclude trans people from athletics.  Nobody is going to stop Lia Thomas from competing against other men in a sport in which upper body strength conveys an advantage.

Why are trannies so violent?  There has been a spate of high-profile violence lately by women who think they are men and, especially, by men who think they are women.  In Nashville, a woman pretending to be a man slaughtered six in an elementary school, including three 9-year-olds.  Beforehand, the shooter had written a "manifesto" that evidently justified her shooting spree on the grounds that the school — a Christian grade school — failed to endorse her perversion.  (We don't know for sure what the manifesto says because the cops won't release it — which suggests that it does indeed say that.)  Some of the "news" media were instructed by their bosses not to reveal the sex part of the story.  It came out anyway, but in the meantime I'm sure the bosses felt virtuous in censoring it.  Think about that.  The "news" media feels virtuous when they censor facts that are newsworthy, but only if those facts reflect badly on Democrat constituencies.

Will you be surprised to learn that the Kentucky shooter was probably a leftist?  You already know about the terrible event in Louisville, Kentucky, which saw a disgruntled former bank employee open fire at a meeting, killing several people and wounding several more.  Invariably, after a shooting, leftists blame the GOP because it supports the right to armed self-defense.  In Sturgeon's case, though, it seems that, once again, this mass murder was probably carried out by a leftist.  As far as the Biden administration is concerned, if there's a shooting, it's the GOP's fault because the GOP, along with the majority of Americans, still believes in the Second Amendment:  [Tweet]  The Democrats' reflexive desire to blame guns may be because it's the Democrats (especially people in Democrat-run cities) who are doing the shooting.

Kentucky Bank Shooter Shared Anti-Trump Content on Reddit.  On Monday, 25-year old Connor Sturgeon shot and killed five people at a Louisville, Kentucky bank after he was fired from his job at the bank.  As previously reported, the shooter identified as a he/him on his LinkedIn profile and had posted chilling messages on his Instagram profile just hours before the attack.  It has since been revealed that Sturgeon posted anti-Trump messages and pro-lockdown posts on Reddit.  He also shared anti-Trump memes including one accusing former President Trump of being a racist.

We Can't Even Agree On What A Woman Is.  While I was testifying before Congress yesterday, Twitter removed thousands of tweets about a "Trans Day of Vengeance" scheduled a few days after a trans man killed six people in a Christian school in Nashville.  Twitter's head of Trust and Safety said in a tweet that the company had automatically removed more than 5,000 tweets and retweets of a poster promoting the event.  "We do not support tweets that incite violence irrespective of who posts them.  'Vengeance' does not imply peaceful protest.  Organizing or support for peaceful protests is ok."  Twitter said it had done so automatically regardless of the context.  As a result, tweets that were supportive and critical of the event were removed.

Korean restaurant sues Seattle after suffering losses during deadly 2020 CHAZ occupation.  The owner of a Seattle restaurant has filed a federal lawsuit against the city for the loss of business and expenses incurred during the deadly 2020 Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ).  The suit is the latest litigation against the city as a result of the zone that according to the Seattle Times, has already cost Seattle over $9 million.  Peter Pak, the owner of Oma Bap, a Korean restaurant at 11th Avenue and Olive Way, claims in the litigation that Seattle officials that enabled the protests, riots, and more in the neighborhood during the unrest in the summer of 2020 cost his establishment tens of thousands of dollars in business and other damages.

Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band Guitarist Steven Van Zandt Deletes Call to 'Exterminate' GOP 'Cockroaches'.  Bruce Springsteen's veteran E-Street band guitarist Steven Van Zandt issued a call to fans and supporters on social media Sunday to "Exterminate the (Republican) cockroaches."  His rallying cry to target GOP supporters, half of America, came during an expletive-laden exchange on Twitter. [...] Van Zandt was then called out on Twitter by a follower for his abuse, which he quickly resumed.

Democrats decide that a little bit of insurrection is good sometimes.  The Democratic Party and its media allies have made a new rule: "Insurrections" are good, at least when Democrats are doing it.  Two Tennessee lawmakers were expelled from the legislature for taking bullhorns to the House floor to lead the protests of the gun control mob outside its doors.  In the words of one of these lawmakers, "We occupied the House floor today," taking over the session and preventing the legislature from continuing its normal business.  [Tweet]  In short, a mob of protesters was initiating violence with police officers while elected Democratic representatives carried out an extension of their protest and "occupied" the House floor in an attempt to subvert the legislative process because they weren't going to get the result that they wanted.  What makes this different from the moronic rioters on Jan. 6?  The smaller scale?  The fact that the overgrown children occupying the House floor happened to be legislators?  In the end, the motivation was the same.  The biggest difference was that members of the state House took an active role in this outside of legislative means, which is why they were expelled.

It's Not Necessarily The Parents' Fault When Teens or Young Adults Kill.  With her manifesto kept secret, we know just a few things about the Nashville shooter:  She was a mentally disturbed individual, confused about her gender, and suicidal.  We can guess she was taking a cocktail of hormones and psychotropic antidepressants.  Leftists, though, blame her (Christian) parents for being unsupportive of her LGBTQI+ status.  They ignore that, while it can be isolating and emotionally disturbing when one's transition isn't supported by family, school, or community, most LGBTQI+ with similar backgrounds, many even bullied and abused, do not haul an arsenal to shoot up a school.  Some conservatives also blame parents.  Rush heir Clay Travis thinks Hale's parents are to blame for not knowing their 28-year-old was harboring seven deadly weapons in their house.

Why Trans Activists Attack Women.  For years, transgender activists have claimed there is a genocide being waged against transgender people.  As evidence, they point to the murders of trans victims.  In 2022, at least 32 transgender and gender-nonconforming people were killed in the United States, according to the Human Rights Campaign.  But 32 trans killings is a decline from 40 in 2020 and 59 in 2021 and researchers do not know if trans people are being killed disproportionately compared to non-trans people.  There remains a prejudice against trans people.  Some trans people are, without question, victims of violence.  But there is no "genocide," nor even strong evidence that the trans people being killed are targeted for being transgender rather than for some other reason.  For example, transgender people are disproportionately represented in the sex trade, which is an extremely dangerous criminal enterprise.  By contrast, we have seen a wave of transgender rights activists attacking women for ideological reasons.

Kansas: Democrat who defied Party on trans sports threatened with death by colleagues.  KS Representative Marvin Robinson (D-KCK) was told to "go die" by a colleague and that he had "blood on his hands" for voting to override Kansas Governor Kelley's veto of a bill banning boys from playing in girls' sports. [...] Contrary to the truth, Democrats keep claiming that banning transgender athletes from playing sports with children of the opposite sex would require "genital inspections" of the kids.  This is a lie.  Not even remotely true.  Children are identified as their biological sex from the time they enter school and athletes often require physical exams by doctors in order to participate.  No school or government official "inspects" a child's genitals, yet this claim is repeated endlessly because... it works.  It sounds awful and confirms the priors of liberals that Republicans are evil.  When the bill returned for consideration after the governor's veto the legislature overrode, putting the bill into law.  Rep. Robinson voted with the Republicans, despite being otherwise progressive.  He prayed on the issue and decided he could not join his Democrat colleagues despite his progressive bona fides.

The increasingly dangerous transgender movement sweeping America.  On his Friday night show, Tucker Carlson called "transgender" activists the most dangerous domestic terrorists in America.  He's correct.  They are the equivalent of religious fanatics because they have a manic faith that is belied by observable reality, which means they that constantly have to pitch themselves to a high emotional amplitude to override the real world impinging on their faith.  The Democrats, from Biden on down, rather than working to tamp down this madness, are doing their best to amplify this insane frequency, by assuring these already maddened people that they are the victims of a planned Republican "genocide."  The escalating number of violent attacks by this mentally-ill multitude is increasing and will continue to do so.

Riley Gaines 'ambushed and physically hit' after Saving Women's Sports speech at San Francisco State.  Former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines was barricaded in a room at San Francisco State University Thursday night after she was physically assaulted following a speech to students about saving women's sports at a Turning Point USA and Leadership Institute event on the campus.  Louis Barker, Riley's husband, said he had brief conversations with her while she was barricaded in the room for nearly three hours.  "She told me she was hit multiple times by a guy in a dress.  I was shaking.  It made me that mad.  It makes me sick to feel so helpless about it," Barker said.  "She was under police protection and was still hit by a man wearing a dress."

GOP expels Democratic Reps.  Justin Jones, Justin Pearson from House over gun-control protest.  Ten days after a shooter unloaded 152 rounds inside a Nashville school and killed six people, Tennessee House Republicans on Thursday expelled two Democratic lawmakers for breaking House rules and mounting a gun-reform protest on the chamber's floor.  After hours of fiery debate, the House expelled Reps.  Justin Jones, D-Nashville, on a 72-25 vote, and Rep. Justin Pearson, D-Memphis, by 69-26, in a move that put the nation's eyes on Tennessee and its politics.  But the House failed by one vote to achieve the two-thirds majority needed to kick Rep. Gloria Johnson, D-Knoxville, out of the chamber.

Formal charges filed against 19-year-old for alleged school shooting manifesto.  The 18th Judicial District Attorney's Office filed formal charges against a 19-year-old who allegedly planned shootings at multiple schools within Academy School District 20 (ASD20).  On Thursday, April 6, William Whitworth, who identifies as "Lilly Whitworth," was formally charged with the following offenses: [...] The defendant's preliminary hearing is slated for May 5 at 2:30 p.m.  Her [sic] bond is set at $75,000.

This Could Be Why Some Might Not Have Heard About the TN Capitol Storming.  Right now, the Tennessee House is mulling whether to expel three Democratic members who participated in storming the state capitol building on March 30. Scores of transgender and anti-gun activists engaged in a disgusting act of insurrection that shook the nation.  And by that, I mean it wasn't any of that, but liberals set a precedent with their antics over the January 6 riot, which they feel was worse than the 9/11 attacks.  For the rest of the country, they might not even know about this because the liberal media smothered this act of rebellion.

Tennessee's GOP-led House votes to expel Democrat Justin Jones from legislature for his role in gun protest.  Tennessee's GOP-dominated House on Thursday voted to expel Democratic Rep. Justin Jones from the Legislature for his role in a protest calling for gun control following last week's shooting at a private Christian school in Nashville that killed six people, including three children.  Fox 17 Nashville reported that Jones was sanctioned for using a bullhorn when he joined with protesters, which state House leaders called "disorderly behavior."  House lawmakers had also considered ousting Democratic Reps.  Gloria Johnson and Justin Pearson.  Later on Thursday, the legislature declined to expel Johnson.  The 65-30 vote fell just one vote shy of the number needed to oust Johnson.  A vote against Pearson was upcoming.

Ready Yourself for the 2024 Storms.  Will the leftist-stoked and Democrat/establishment sanctioned 2020 riots prove merely a preview to a calamitous and pivotal 2024 presidential election year?  Six innocents — three nine-year-olds, two teachers, and the school's principal — were gunned down in cold blood by a self-identified transgender, Audrey Hale.  The act was demonic, though studiously papered over by the establishment media.  How does anyone with an ounce of uncorrupted soul look a nine-year-old in the face and pull a trigger?  Yet, Hale did just that.  Hale did that because she was raging — raging because a fraction in the trans community are being encouraged to rage by Antifa and other left-wing outfits.  Buy guns, trans are told, because "others" are out to get you.  (We await the release of Hale's manifesto for confirmation of motives.  Will law enforcement redact the document?)  How explicit could the "Trans Day of Vengeance" have been?  It was abruptly cancelled before last Saturday.  Though scrubbed, the intent wasn't.  The original wasn't billed a "Day of Self-Defense" Not a "Day of Peace and Reconciliation."

College student arrested for making death threat against GOP congressman over gay rights.  A college student was arrested after he allegedly left a message, including a death threat, against a member of Congress over gay rights, federal prosecutors said.  Although the member of Congress was not named in the statement from the U.S. Attorney's Office, a spokesperson for Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida confirmed that he had received the message.  Allan Poller, a 23-year-old student of Keene State College in New Hampshire, allegedly left a recorded message after midnight on Wednesday morning and spelled out his name before making the death threat against Gaetz.

Three Democrats Facing Expulsion From Tennessee Legislature for Aiding the 'Transurrection'.  Monday, three Tennessee bolsheviks were stripped of their committee assignments and locked out of the Tennessee Capitol because of their leading role in the "Transurrection" that took over the capitol building last Wednesday.  [Tweet]  [Video clip]  State Representatives Gloria Johnson and Justin Jones were notified by the Clerk of the Tennessee House of Representatives that they had been stripped of all committee assignments.  A third representative, Justin Pearson (Justin as a first name seems to be a thing amount Tennessee Democrats), had no committee assignments.  Their ability to enter the legislative facilities was restricted in a separate action.

'No One Is Above the Law'? Don't You Believe It.  When rioters were burning and looting American cities in 2020, Democratic politicians were defending or excusing their felonious behavior, Democratic district attorneys were choosing not to prosecute them, and none other than Kamala Harris was promoting schemes to bail them out of jail to continue committing crimes. [...] Attorney General Merrick Garland's office has targeted parents at school board meetings as potential terrorists, but is indifferent to Antifa running rampant in some American cities, launching military-style assaults on a new police training facility in Atlanta, and storming state capitol buildings in Tennessee, Texas, and Wisconsin.

America's Real Domestic Terrorists Are Hiding Behind Pride Flags.  America's current dystopian turn has been long in the making but manifesting more rapidly since about, oh, Jan. 20, 2021.  Ever since the reins of the United States government were handed over to a mumbling moron who is being controlled by people who are almost as slow as he is, the official narrative about good guys and bad guys has been turned upon its head.  Just last week, we were again discussing the dangerously messed up priorities of federal law enforcement.  Merrick Garland's unhinged rogue Justice Dept. has been eyeing concerned parents and traditional Catholics.  Neither group has produced any murderers yet.  In fact, they have yet to even produce any vaguely terrorist-type plans, despite being voted "Most Likely to Kill Other Americans" by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.  That discussion was last Wednesday, just two days after the horror in Nashville.  Since then, the narrative has been that the killer was really a victim and the victims were responsible for it all.

Trans Activists Storm Florida Capitol, Learn Being Loud Doesn't Equal Winning.  Trans activists have been storming state capitols over the last few days.  On March 29, it was Kentucky.  On March 30, it was Tennessee.  Now for the third day in a row, trans activists have stormed another state capitol.  This time, it's Florida.  But I'm fairly certain that none of these people will be charged with an effort to "obstruct an official proceeding," after they screamed at the top of their lungs.  [Tweet]

We Need to Talk About Something Even Worse That Happened at the TN 'Transurrection'.  To recap, three days after the Nashville Christian elementary school mass shooting that involved a transgender person murdering six innocent people including three children, rabid transgender "rights" activists and gun control zealots stormed their way into the building and disrupted official proceedings.  Not only that but three woke members of the Tennessee House joined in on the "protests," with one using a bullhorn on the House floor to chant "no action, no peace."  Making matters worse was that certain "reporters" were going full Baghdad Bob in painting the aggressive agitators in the most flattering of lights despite what video clearly showed was going on — what some on Twitter called a "transurrection."  Perhaps worst of all, however, was footage that began circulating hours after the transurrection took place.  In it, you hear someone who is presumably one of the "protest" organizers encouraging people to hold up seven fingers in what sounds like an apparent attempt at declaring 28-year-old Audrey Hale, who identified as "he/him," as the seventh victim of the Monday shooting massacre she orchestrated shortly before Metro Nashville police officers located her and took care of business.

Gun control activists storm Tennessee State Capitol in Nashville after 'Trans Shaman' joined occupation of Kentucky legislature.  Gun control activists were seen storming Tennessee's State Capitol Thursday amid rising fears of a left-wing uprising at a rumored protest in Washington, DC.  Footage of the insurrection shows progressive protesters battling with cops as they attempted to gain access to the legislature in Nashville.  Hundreds of people were seen inside the lobby and yelling from the gallery at concerned lawmakers.  The protest against guns comes after transgender shooter Audrey Hale on Monday gunned down six people, including three nine-year-old kids, at a Christian school in Nashville.

Insurrection Underway at Tennessee Capitol.  Police officers are getting plowed over right now by mobs of screaming protesters at the Tennessee capitol.  It's absolute chaos there as anti-gun nuts have broken into the chamber and shut down the People's business, chanting something about justice and guns.  They pushed through a line of state troopers to access the chamber.  Oddly, it doesn't look like anyone is getting arrested, pepper sprayed, tuned up with billy clubs, or hauled off to prison on charges of "sedition."  [Tweets]  We've returned to the status quo, where anyone on the left can break any law they wish and no one will go to jail.  And if they are arrested, they'll be bailed right out (probably by Democrats in the Tennessee legislature) and not even have to pay a fine.  But if you're on the other side of the issue or have ever voted for that Orange Man, you are not allowed to protest.

Gov. Hobbs' press secretary resigns after controversial tweet following Nashville mass shooting.  Gov. Katie Hobbs' press secretary, Josselyn Berry, has resigned hours after posting a controversial tweet that appeared to encourage gun violence just hours after a mass shooting at an elementary school in Tennessee.  The Governor's office confirmed first to Arizona's Family that Berry resigned overnight after growing pressure from those within her circle and other lawmakers.

Pro-Transgender Activists Seek to Hide School Shooter's Manifesto.  Pro-transgender groups want to conceal the manifesto of transgender school shooter Audrey Hale from public scrutiny.  Hale killed three children and three adults after leaving a still-hidden manifesto explaining her motives, according to Metropolitan Nashville Police Chief John Drake.  [Tweet]  While Republicans such as Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) are calling for the manifesto to be released, several LGBT organizations are calling for the manifesto to remain hidden from the public.

Is it a coincidence a 'Trans Day of Vengeance' is being held now?  An activist group is scheduled to hold a "Trans Day of Vengeance" outside the Supreme Court on Saturday — just days after 28-year-old Audrey Hale opened fire on a Christian school in Nashville leaving three kids and three adults dead.  "The Time is Now.  The Trans/Non-Binary/Gender Non-Conforming/Intersex communities are facing astronomical amounts of hate from the world," the Trans Radical Activist Network states on its website in its promotion of "#TransDay of Vengeance."  As Fox News reported, TRAN describes itself as "a network of unapologetic activists fighting for Queer Liberation" and promoted the protest earlier this year on social media.  TRAN's website was still promoting the event two days after a horrific school shooting at the private Presbyterian institution, the Covenant School.  The perpetrator, identified by investigators as Hale, was a former student at Covenant and identified as a transgender called "Aiden."

Tucker Carlson Says Nashville Transgender School Shooter Murdered Victims Because They Were Christian.  On Monday, Audrey Hale, a 28-year-old biological woman who claimed she was a "he," shot three staff members and three nine-year-olds at the Christian school in Tennessee where she was formerly a student.  And the number of leftists who tried to frame Hale as a victim of Christian hatred has shocked many Americans.  Carlson referred to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland's comments on Tuesday.  Garland that the FBI, the Nashville police, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) are all investigating the shooting — and yet he wouldn't hazard a guess on motive.  "Motive hasn't been identified, Garland told us," Carlson said.  "Really?  You wonder how that could possibly be."  He explained that the shooter herself said she'd left evidence behind to elucidate her horrific actions.

The American Left Grew More Violent While the FBI Was Hunting Soccer Moms.  Ever since Joe Biden and his handlers decided to turn the Federal Bureau of Investigation into the American Stasi, we've been hearing that the real threat to America is coming from "right-wing radicals" or some such nonsense.  The FBI has been targeting soccer moms at school board meetings and pro-lifers who pray outside of abortion clinics.  You know, the scariest people among us.  Every time I write about the rogue FBI and its goon-squad priorities, I conclude by worrying about what the Bureau might be missing in the way of people who might actually commit violence.  Thus far in the Biden era, it's been a fairly steady stream of leftists who are snapping and killing.  The parents at school board meetings have yet to amass a body count.  The tragedy in Nashville this week has shed even more light on the continued violent radicalization of the American left.  Matt reports that, prior to the shooting at The Covenant School, a trans activist group coordinated something that seems like it might be worth some investigation by law enforcement:  ["]The primary Day of Vengeance event is scheduled for 11 a.m. on Saturday at the Supreme Court in D.C., with additional events planned for March 31. [... "]

It Sure Looks Like the Nashville Shooting Was a Far-Left Terrorist Attack.  The more we learn about the school shooting in Nashville, TN, the worse things look.  The shooter has now been identified as a 28-year-old transgender man (i.e. actually a woman) who goes by "he/him" pronouns.  Further, law enforcement has revealed she wrote a manifesto that they have recovered.  More details are coming out, and this sure looks like it was a far-left terrorist attack.  The transgender shooter shot up a Christian school just a few weeks after Tennessee passed a bill banning child mutilation under the guise of "gender-affirming care."  To further make the case, Luke Rosiak is now reporting that left-wing activist groups had been calling for a "Trans Day of Vengeance."  [Tweet]

It was an anti-Christian hate crime, among other things.
Trans school shooter may have been driven to kill by 'resentment' at having to attend Christian academy she targeted.  Nashville police have released footage showing the moment a transgender 28-year-old shot down the door of a Christian school she attended as a child and began stalking the corridors, assault rifle in hand.  Audrey Hale arrived at the Covenant School in her Honda Fit just before 10 am and killed six people before she was shot dead.  Hale opened fire on arriving police from the second floor of the school before she was confronted by Officer Rex Englebert, a four-year MNPD veteran, and Officer Michael Collazo, a nine-year MNPD veteran.  The pair returned fire and shot her dead.

Mental health is the issue here, not guns.
Trans female former student, 28, kills three nine-year-old kids and three staff members at Nashville private Christian school.  Six people - including three children - are dead after a transgender female shooter opened fire at a private school in Nashville, killing three nine-year-old children and three staff members.  The shooter was 28-year-old Audrey Hale, who at one time attended the school.  Police said she identified as transgender, and online profiles show Audrey used 'he/him' pronouns.

Liberal College Professor Placed on Leave for Suggesting it's OK to Murder Conservative Speakers.  A professor at Wayne State University has been placed on leave after suggesting on social media that rather than shouting down conservative speakers on campus, it's OK to murder them instead.  Higher education in America has become completely dominated by the radical left.  That's likely why this person felt free to make these comments.  The left does not want to debate ideas.  They want conservatives silenced.

Professor Suggests Murder as Alternative to Shouting Down Speakers.  An English professor at Wayne State University apparently had an overheated reaction to the fiasco at Stanford Law School.  He thought the protesters did not go far enough, and he took to Facebook to say so.  "I think it is far more admirable to kill a racist, homophobic, or transphobic speaker than it is to shout them down,"he began, and he concluded with "The exemplary historical figure in this regard is Sholem Schwarzbard, who assassinated the anti-Semitic butcher Symon Petliura, rather than trying to shout him down.  Remember that Schwarzbard was acquitted by a jury, which found his action justified."  The president of Wayne State has now announced that the professor has been suspended and his social media post referred to law enforcement.

Antifa Plants Deadly Traps in Georgia Park.  Antifa has gone to war in Georgia.  Months of fighting has ensued over the determination of the Left to stop a police training facility.  But the police have fought back killing one leftist who opened fire on them and have pushed back hard in the face of arson, lasers, explosive devices and violent assaults.  This latest piece of news shows just how far Antifa has been willing to go. [...] Intrenchment Creek Park has become a major battle ground with Antifa and its allies camping out there in between battles with police.  They appear to have also taken steps to booby trap the area.  As we've seen in Portland and Seattle, elements of the leftist have adopted insurgent tactics and function not just as domestic terrorists, but see themselves as Maoist guerrillas fighting battles against law enforcement.  This is in keeping with Maoist tactical doctrines that generally haven't been applied in the United States since the 70s.  But the goal is to escalate each encounter, not necessarily to win, but to radicalize and go from a guerrilla movement to full armed warfare.

Democrats Pay Off Their Goons in Philadelphia.  They've been called Brownshirts, they've been called KGB, they've been called the Ku Klux Klan, they've been called lots of things, but they've all been enforcement wings of the Democrat Party.  Now they're called BLM/ANTIFA.  Ultimately, they're the goons willing to do harm to anyone to advance the causes of the left.  How they make money has always remained shrouded in mystery.  Sure, a lot of arrest records have exposed these mutants and the spoiled children of the rich — leftist children raised by bad, neglectful parents who value politics over the wellbeing of their offspring.  Many of those people raising spoiled, violent Nazis are elected Democrats, including the number 2 Democrat in the House whose daughter was arrested this year for assaulting a police officer.

Jan 6: The Worst Attack on the Capitol Since the Civil War?  Last January, Joe Biden claimed that the events of January 6, 2021 were the greatest threat to American democracy since the Civil War.  That invites a look at what happened at the Capitol some 80 years after the Civil War.  On March 1, 1954, Puerto Rican nationalists Lolita Lebron, Rafael Cancel Miranda, Andres Figueroa Cordero and Irvin Flores Rodrigues, took a train from New York City to Washington DC, arriving at Union Station shortly after noon.  The four entered the House gallery alongside a class of sixth-grade students from Maryland.  That day, the representatives were debating an immigration bill.  At approximately 2:32 p.m. the foursome yelled "Viva Puerto Rico libre!" and began firing with .38 caliber pistols.  Rep. Alvin M. Bentley, Michigan Republican, took a bullet to the chest.  Iowa Republican Ben F. Jensen took a hit in the back and Clifford Davis (D-Tennessee) suffered a bullet wound in the leg.  The gunfire also wounded Democrats George Hyde Fallon of Maryland and Kenneth A. Roberts of Alabama.

Australia: Antifa Punks Show Up And Assault Christians Outside Of Church.  Two people have been arrested and a police officer has been injured after a violent protest erupted outside a church in Sydney's south-west where One Nation's Mark Latham was set to speak.  The clash between hundreds of people and more than a dozen LGBTQI+ protesters happened outside St Michael's Church at Belfield on Tuesday at about 5 pm.  New South Wales Police including the Public Order and Riot Squad Riot Squad were called to the scene to disperse the crowd which reached about 500 people.  [Video clip]

Philadelphia Reaches $9.25M Settlement with Anti-Police Rioters.  On Monday, the city of Philadelphia agreed to pay $9.25 million to over 200 rioters who claimed to have been injured by police during the Black Lives Matter riots of 2020.  As reported by Fox News, the settlement was announced by the law firm Mincey Fitzpatrick Ross, LLC, which represented the 237 activists who participated in the riots between May 31st and June 1st, 2020, following the fentanyl overdose death of George Floyd.  In addition to the financial compensation, the city has also agreed to stop participating in a federal program that provides the police department with extra military equipment.  The city will also pay about $500,000 for counseling services for residents of the 52nd Street corridor, located in West Philadelphia, where most of the violence occurred.  The rioters complained about superficial injuries sustained during their clash with police, including "scars" from rubber bullets and "nerve damage" from being restrained with zip ties, as well as exposure to tear gas as police attempted to disperse the violent gatherings.

Eight Startling and Uncomfortable Ways the Democrat Party Emulates the Nazi Party.  [#2] In the 1920's and early 1930's the Nazi Party relied on street riots, property damage and gratuitous violence utilizing their militant cadre, the Sturmabteilung (SA), to project power through intimidation while blaming others for the violence.  Their ability to terrorize the citizenry and national political leadership played a major role in their ascendance to power as they promised peace and impartial justice if elected.  Almost immediately upon assuming the reins of government, they transformed the judicial system into a vehicle of oppression directed their political foes and the Jews while their allies were not prosecuted for any criminal activity.  The Democrat party revealed in the summer of 2020 that they, too, have the wherewithal and inclination to acquiesce to street riots, property damage and gratuitous violence utilizing their militant cadre, Antifa and Black Lives Matter, to project power through intimidation while blaming white supremacy and police brutality for the violence.  In the presidential campaign of 2020, the Democrat party implicitly promised peace and impartial justice if elected.

Kirk Cameron book event interrupted by activists, drag queens: publisher.  A group of drag queens and activists dressed in black and white showed up on Friday at the Fayetteville Public Library in Fayetteville, Arkansas, to protest actor-writer Kirk Cameron's story time event for families and children, according to book publisher Brave Books, whose staff were present at the reading.  The drag queens blocked the views of some families and children and distracted others from the book reading and remarks from the stage, said Brave Books.  The publisher shared photos taken by staff on the scene.  Los Angeles-based Cameron, an outspoken Christian who has been traveling across the country to public libraries to share messages of faith, family and country at children's book readings and the singing of patriotic songs, told Fox News Digital in exclusive comments on Saturday morning that he found the disruptions disturbing.

Antifa Tried to Overrun UC Davis Building Where Charlie Kirk Was Speaking.  Violent antifa protesters were arrested at the University of California — Davis campus on Tuesday after clashing with law enforcement officers and students outside a building hosting an event with Salem radio host and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk.  The demonstrators, clad in black and many using umbrellas to conceal their identities, smashed through windows, tossed eggs, used pepper spray, and blocked people from entering the building.  According to UC Davis, one officer was injured.

Supreme Court requests more funding to protect justices.  Why won't the DOJ do its job?  It is a violation of a federal statute to protest outside of the Supreme Court justices' homes, yet protests regularly happen.  Ever since the decision on Dobbs was leaked, indicating that Roe v Wade would be overturned, there have been protests in the neighborhoods of conservative Supreme Court justices.  Attorney General Merrick Garland is a Democrat.  Is it a partisan politics thing?  If so, Garland is a petty and spiteful man.  If not, he is inept and incompetent.  There is no middle ground here.  It's one or the other.

Antifa Violently Assaults Bystanders at Detransition Awareness Rally.  While the radical left loves to claim that LGBTQ individuals face horrible oppression and discrimination, the reality is that almost every institution in this country (and others) celebrates LGBTQ ideology and calls those who identify with it "heroes."  The true victims of discrimination and harsh backlash are the "detransitioners" — transgenders who decide to return to living as their biological sex.  These brave individuals not only have the courage to admit they were terribly wrong (some with permanent bodily damage such as double mastectomies), but they must face leftist targeting that paints them as traitors and villains.

Insufferable Jane Fonda Really Did Call for the Murder of Pro-Lifers.  It was all a joke, she says.  After igniting a firestorm by calling for the murder of pro-lifers on The View Friday, Hanoi Jane Fonda issued a statement: "While women's reproductive rights are a very serious issue and extremely important to me, my comment on The View was obviously made in jest.  My body language and tone made it clear to those in the room — and to anyone watching — that I was using hyperbole to make a point."  Except that it obviously wasn't clear to anyone present.  Fonda was speaking seriously; her declaration only became a joke when it became clear to her that she had crossed a red line.

Jane Fonda just suggested on The View that pro-lifers need to be murdered.  Friday with her comments regarding abortion rights.  The 85-year-old Hollywood icon suggested that women seeking abortions should not abide by laws and could even resort to "murder" in order to have control of their bodies.  [Video clip]

Defiant Jane Fonda and claims she made the incendiary comment 'in jest'.  Jane Fonda has dismissed outrage over her quip that pro-life supporters should be murdered and said it was clear her comments were made 'in jest' 'to make a point.'  The Grace and Frankie actress, 85, appeared on The View with her co-star Lily Tomlin during a debate about the contentious Roe vs Wade overturn, which took away women's rights to an abortion in several states.

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Jane Fonda Says 'Murder' an Option for Dealing With Pro-Life Republicans.  Actress Jane Fonda joined "The View" Friday and when the conversation turned to how pro-abortion activists can fight pro-life Republicans, the 85-year-old suggested murder as an option.  Fonda was visiting the show to promote her latest film, "80 For Brady."  She was joined by co-star and longtime friend Lily Tomlin.  When the panel topic turned to recent abortion battles in red states Tomlin expressed dismay at new Republican laws to protect the unborn, saying the country is "backsliding" and it's "pretty awful[.]"  Fonda followed up with her own comments.  ["]We have experienced many decades now of having agency over our body, of being able to determine when and how many children to have.  We know what that feels like, we know what that's done for our lives.  We're not going back, I don't care what the laws are.  We're not going back.["]

BLM Rioters Get $6M Because Cops Didn't Wear Face Masks.  The Black Lives Matter race riots in New York City were among the worst in the country.  Racist mobs injured hundreds of police officers, started fires, looted stores and vandalized parks and statues.  At least 450 businesses, many of them small and family owned, were damaged or looted by the rioters who claimed to be angry over the drug overdose death of George Floyd:  a vicious career criminal who had previously robbed a woman by putting a gun to her stomach.  While Black Lives Matter was swimming in hundreds of millions of dollars, funneled to it by radical nonprofits, major corporations and Hollywood celebrities, family businesses in New York City looted by those rioters were offered a maximum of $10,000 to rebuild their shattered lives.  One small business owner in the Bronx complained that it would hardly even begin to cover the $200,000 in damages to her store after rioters "smashed glass display cases and medical equipment".

Atlanta Domestic Terrorism Update: Citizens Speak Out, Court Dates, and More on the SPLC Lawyer Involved.  Two days after dozens of domestic terrorists marched on the construction site of a public safety training facility that the city of Atlanta is building, new wrinkles are emerging, and we're learning more about the goons who damaged the property in the name of a far-left political agenda.  On Monday night, citizens on both sides of the issue spoke out at a meeting at Atlanta City Hall.  Opponents of the training center brought 8,000 signatures on a petition urging the project to stop.  Opponents were particularly passionate and vocal, as Fox 5 reported.  "We are opening our mouths and crying with a loud voice to say we don't want 'Cop City,'" said Rev. Keyana Jones. "I live in East Atlanta.  I don't want 'Cop City.'"  "This will not blow over," said another opponent of the project.  "The current plan will heighten tensions and harm communities for decades."

Anarchy hits "Cop City".  Approximately 35 people have been detained after "Stop Cop City" protestors allegedly set fire to a construction site of Atlanta Public Safety Training Facility, nicknamed "Cop City" by anti-police and environmental activists.  The Atlanta Public Safety Training Facility is located in South River and neighbors a Black neighborhood, a site which activists believe will further escalate police militarization.  [Tweet]  According to the Atlanta Police Department, a group of "agitators" left South River Music Festival around 5:30 p.m. and went to the construction site "to conduct a coordinated attack on construction equipment and police officers."  Authorities stated that the group changed into black clothing and began to throw commercial-grade fireworks, Molotov cocktails, large rocks and bricks at police officers.

SPLC Staff Attorney charged with domestic terrorism.  Police say Antifa organized a musical concert as cover to launch a premeditated terrorist attack on the construction site for the new Atlanta police training center.  The perps caused hundreds of thousands in damage using firebombs to set buildings and construction equipment on fire.  Twenty-six people were arrested and charged with domestic terrorism.  Almost all were from out of state.  Two are from foreign countries, including Canada and France.  Among the alleged terrorists is SPLC Staff Attorney Thomas Webb Jurgens.  The SPLC has a long history of promoting, defending, collaborating with, and even hiring members of Antifa.  The woman in charge of the SPLC's "Hatewatch," Hannah Gais, has even publicly glorified criminal violence against her political enemies.  Recently, twenty state AGs denounced the SPLC as "utterly discredited" in an open letter to the FBI director.  An Antifa gunman shot a police officer at the same location earlier this year.  [Video clip]

SPLC Lawyer among the Dozens Arrested for Attacking Cops at Atlanta Training Facility.  Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) staff attorney Thomas Jurgens was among the dozen of rioters arrested following a violent attack on police at the proposed site of the Atlanta Police Foundation's training facility, located a few miles south of the city.  Jurgens previously served as a legal intern in Dekalb County's public defender office and as an assistant public defender for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court of Florida, according to his LinkedIn profile.  A family member of Jurgens confirmed with a local journalist that the lawyer had been charged with domestic terrorism following the violence.  A list of the arrested suspects published by the Atlanta Police Department (APD) on Monday revealed only two were from Georgia.  The vast majority hailed from other states.  Two of the rioters came from other countries.

Atlanta Police Arrest 23 Domestic Terrorists After Sunday Night's Attack on 'Cop City'.  On Sunday night, a group of over 100 domestic terrorists marched on the site of a public safety training center for the city of Atlanta that is under construction and firebombed portions of the site, including construction equipment and a police vehicle.  The thugs began their "protest" as a march and what they called a "music festival" on the site, but it quickly turned violent. "Sunday night, attendees said a group branched off of the concert for a protest nearby around 5 p.m.," reports WSB Radio.  "APD [Atlanta Police Department] said 100-plus protestors changed into black clothing and entered the construction area and began to throw large rocks, bricks, Molotov cocktails, and fireworks at police officers."

'If they don't get out, I'm going to take them out one by one': Anti-white texts spark DOE probe.  New York City's Department of Education (NYCDOE) is currently investigating racist, anti-white text messages that were allegedly sent by Marion Wilson, the black superintendent for schools in District 31.  According to the New York Post, screenshots of the offensive text messages were forwarded by email to chancellor David Banks and other officials from an encrypted email address, Mikeboy70@protonmail.  It's not clear who's behind the account, as the owner has reportedly refused to reply to requests for information from the Post and other outlets.  It is clear though that the text messages are quite disturbing.  "I need to clean up this Island.  White folks need to recognize this is not the boys club anymore.  A strong black woman runs this bitch now and they can either get on board or get out.  If they don't get out I'm going to take them out one by one.  They're not gonna know what hit them," one message reads.

Site of Future Safety Training Center in Atlanta Under Lockdown After Massive Fire Destroys Construction Site.  In December 2022, The Gateway Pundit reported on five Antifa members who were arrested and held on terrorism charges after protesting outside of a $90 Million police training center near Atlanta, Georgia.  During the arrests, police recovered bombs, flares, gasoline, and weapons.  Additionally, the protesters torched at least two vehicles during their protests at the training center site.  Protests have been ongoing since June 2021 when the training center was announced with opponents camping out in surrounding trees.  Protesters have dubbed the center "Cop City."  In January, TGP reported that a far-left protestor from Stop Cop City ATL, was killed and a Georgia State Patrol trooper was wounded during a confrontation near the facility.  Sunday evening [3/5/2023], smoke and flames erupted in the area and the site was put on lockdown.  [Tweet]

Chaos Erupts in Texas Capital: Busy Intersection Taken Over, Cops Attacked.  Austin police are investigating what they called "street racing incidents."  The incidents involved crowds taking over major intersections as drivers participated in "drifting" demonstrations.  When police arrived, the crowd attacked the vehicles with fireworks, rocks, and other objects.  Multiple videos show the chaos that erupted in a major intersection in downtown Austin on Saturday night.  Some of the videos show the crowds turning on police as they arrived to clear the streets.  Police say people in the crowd threw rocks and fireworks at patrol vehicles damaging at least two.

What happened to the story of the two murdered NJ councilmen?  We are being told it is a coincidence, and that there don't appear to be any political motivations behind the murders.  Perhaps that is true.  I have no reason one way or another to believe otherwise.  But it sure is odd that not one, but two Republican councilmen in New Jersey were murdered in a week, and both had been elected since 2020.  The first murder was of Councilwoman Eunice Dwumfour of Sayreville; the second of Milford Borough Councilman Russell Heller.  The second murder may have been work-related, as his killer shared the same employer.  However, nobody is saying "boo" about what happened and it isn't even clear that the killer and the councilman knew each other.

In the 1960's, people like this were called "outside agitators."
The FBI Paid a Violent Felon to Infiltrate Racial Justice Movement.  As racial justice protests broke out nationwide in the summer of 2020, a man driving a silver hearse became a regular at the demonstrations in Denver.  He was a paunchy 5-foot-7 with a ruddy complexion and wore military fatigues with patches on the sleeves.  By activist standards, he was an old-timer:  pushing 50 as he swaggered through crowds of teens and 20-something protesters, a cigar clamped in his lips. [...] The driver of the hearse filled with guns was Michael Adam Windecker II.  He went by the nickname Mickey and boasted of having been a soldier for the French Foreign Legion and the Peshmerga, the Kurdish fighting force known most recently for battling the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. [...] Windecker was a fed.  The FBI paid him tens of thousands of dollars in cash to infiltrate and spy on racial justice groups during the summer of 2020.  For the last year, I've been investigating Windecker and his work for the FBI.

ANOTHER Republican Politician Murdered In New Jersey Just A Week After Previous Killing.  Just a week after Eunice Dwumfour, a Republican councilwoman in Sayreville, New Jersey, was murdered just outside her home, another Republican councilman from a neighboring area was shot and killed on Thursday.  Russell Heller, aged 51, was a Republican on the Milford Borough Council.  He was found dead on Thursday morning outside of his workplace. where investigating authorities believe that a former co-worker of his shot him dead in his vehicle.  The perpetrator, Gary T. Curtis, aged 58, reportedly shot himself just hours after murdering Heller in cold blood.

Republican councilwoman shot dead in New Jersey.  New Jersey councilwoman Eunice Dwumfour, less than a year since being elected, 30-years-old, a single mother and new wife, a pastor and director of churches for Champions Royal Assembly North America, was shot and killed in a hail of bullets outside of her Sayerville home.  There are no suspects.  As the investigation into Dwumfour's death continues, relatives and colleagues are still puzzling over the motive behind the shocking tragedy.  According to the New York Post, Dwumfour was pronounced dead Wednesday night while driving her white Nissan near her apartment complex.  Her car eventually came to a stop when it crashed into two parked vehicles. [...] Before her death, the councilwoman had joined another Republican in offering a resolution for a local investigation into disgraced former Democratic councilman Thomas Pollando's role in a strip club bribery scheme.  Take note of that.  You had to know there might be a Democratic connection.

People Arrested at NYC Protest Show Exactly the Problem With Dem Approach to Law Enforcement.  We saw some of the violence that went on in New York City in the wake of the release of the horrible video of the beating of Tyre Nichols.  People are legitimately upset with the actions of the police in this case.  But in NYC, you also had the radical leftists who are pushing their political agenda, no matter the reason or the cause.  Everything is an argument about why the current order should be shifted to the left.  The march in NYC, which featured the Party of Socialism and Liberation leading the way, dissolved into violence in Times Square when a man began stomping on a police car and breaking the windshield.  Police tried to arrest him and then others tried to free him.  Then the police were trying to make another arrest, reportedly of one of the organizers of the march, when a woman intervened and started allegedly punching at cops.  [Tweet]

Georgia Governor Kemp declares state of emergency in response to Antifa protest at public safety facility in Atlanta.  The governor of Georgia on Thursday issued a state of emergency order over continued protests in connection to a proposed Atlanta police training facility.  The order from Governor Brian Kemp will last 15 days and includes the mobilization of 1,000 Georgia National Guards troops.  This comes a week after 26-year-old Manuel Teran, a protestor, allegedly shot a state trooper before gunfire was returned and he was killed.  The trooper is expected to survive.

Pfizer Director Physically Assaults James O'Keefe, Goes on Rampage in Coffee Shop.  On Thursday, Project Veritas shared a video of founder James O'Keefe was physically assaulted by Pfizer director Jordon Trishton Walker who went on an insane rampage after being confronted.  The day prior, Project Veritas dropped a bombshell undercover video showing Walker admitting that Pfizer considered mutating COVID to be ready with more vaccines.  "One of the things we're exploring is like, why don't we just mutate it [COVID] ourselves so we could create — preemptively develop new vaccines, right?  So, we have to do that.  If we're gonna do that though, there's a risk of like, as you could imagine — no one wants to be having a pharma company mutating [...] viruses," Walker said during the first video.

Stacey Abrams adviser said burning police car, smashing windows isn't 'violence' after anti-cop chaos.  A top adviser for Stacey Abrams' voting rights nonprofit defended anti-cop activists who set a police car ablaze and smashed windows while protesting the death of an environmental activist this past weekend in Atlanta.  Marisa Pyle, a senior rapid response manager at Abrams' Fair Fight Action, who also worked as a senior manager for Abrams' One Georgia leadership committee during her most recent failed Georgia gubernatorial run, rushed to defend the anti-police protesters and the ensuing chaos.  "You cannot commit violence against a window or a car.  Killing a human?  Now that, that is violence," Pyle wrote on Twitter this past weekend.  "Shame on Atlanta's leaders who fall into the same tired path of protecting property while our people are murdered by their police."

MTG to introduce legislation labeling antifa as 'domestic terrorists'.  Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) announced Monday that she intends to introduce legislation declaring antifa "domestic terrorists."  "America is just sick and tired of antifa," Greene told Fox News host Tucker Carlson.  "Look at what they've done over years now.  Just from 2020, they're responsible for nearly $2 billion in damage and many people dead, but the war is against the police, and the reason why is because antifa is the ground troops of the Democrat Party."

Two Florida Residents Indicted on Federal Charges in Connection with Pregnancy Resource Center Attacks.  Two Florida residents have been indicted on federal charges in connection with attacks on several pro-life pregnancy resource centers in the Sunshine State over a period of three months.  Caleb Freestone, 27, and Amber Smith-Stewart, 23, allegedly vandalized a pregnancy resource center in Winter Haven, Fla., according to the Department of Justice.  The pair is accused of spray-painting threats including, "If abortions aren't safe than niether [sic] are you," "YOUR TIME IS UP!!," "WE'RE COMING FOR U," and "We are everywhere."  The duo "engaged in a conspiracy to prevent employees of reproductive health services facilities from providing those services," according to the indictment.  The DOJ alleges the pair violated the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrance (FACES) Act, which prohibits the use of any type of force or intimidation against anyone seeking an abortion or anyone exercising their First Amendment right of religious freedom.

Tucker Carlson Asks Why FBI and DOJ Do Not Target Antifa Domestic Terrorists.  Intellectually honest observers have long realized that Antifa, as an organized domestic violence movement in the United States, could not exist if it was not supported directly or with willful blindness by the FBI. Sometimes you just have to accept things as they are, and not as you would wish them to be.  If the FBI did not support Antifa, it would be simple to target their financial mechanisms, fundraising platforms and social media networks that showcase their communications.  If the FBI didn't support Antifa, they would simply target the networks and arrest the participants for domestic terror related activity.  It is not that difficult to see the FBI doesn't do this because the FBI/DOJ support the violence.

CNN Claims Atlanta Riots Weren't 'Violent' As City Burns.  A CNN guest suggested that the Atlanta riots, pursued by Antifa, in which protestors set cars on fire, smashed windows, and shot fireworks at buildings, were everything but "violent."  David Peisner told CNN's Pamela Brown that the only acts of violence he saw were when police officers were apprehending rioters as they set the city on fire.  "You keep using these words 'violent, violent, violent, violent'... The only acts of violence against people that I saw were police tackling protesters," Peisner said.  The liberal guest went on to add that destruction of physical property is not the same as violence against humans, so therefore it is acceptable.

Leftists Release Anti-Kavanaugh Movie [and] Hold Threatening Protests at His Home in DC the Same Weekend.  Nothing is spontaneous with these people.  It's always a planned and organized operation.  As Kristinn Taylor reported earlier — Pro=abortion protesters marched in front of the home of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh Sunday evening, chanting threats as they slowly paraded by.  The protesters chanted in call and response as they marched past a line of police in front of Kavanaugh's Chevy Chase, Maryland home, "Cut his time short!  A rapist should not rule the court!" and "No privacy for us!  No peace for you!"

Media Claims 'Largely Peaceful Protest' in Atlanta, Mayor Quickly Demolishes That.  Saturday night brought rioting by Antifa people attacking police targets in Atlanta.  Now, the night started with a protest against the police, in the memory of one of their comrades, Manuel Teran.  Teran had been shot and killed by the police after he allegedly shot a cop, when police came to clear protesters out of an area they had been occupying where the city is constructing a police training center.  The radicals have had several people, in multiple incidents, arrested for domestic terrorism at the site, including for throwing Molotov cocktails at the police.

Leftists Riot in Atlanta, Light Police Car on Fire, Break Windows.  Far-left protesters rioted in downtown Atlanta on Saturday evening, lighting a police car on fire and breaking business windows.  The protest reportedly began as a "mostly peaceful" demonstration in response to the death of 26-year-old activist Manuel Teran, who was killed during a police sweep on Wedneday "in what the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said was an exchange of gunfire with police that wounded a state trooper," according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC).  The trooper remains unidentified and is reportedly in stable condition after being taken to a hospital for surgery.  Prior to the rioting, protesters chanted, "No justice, no peace, no killer police" and "Stop cop city," which refers to the name of the Atlanta police training site.

Violent Antifa protesters lay siege on Atlanta, smashing windows and torching cop car.  Atlanta erupted on Saturday night, with police arresting at least six people after a protest over the death of Manuel Esteban Paez Teran, 26, turned violent.  Teran, also known as "Tortuguita," or "little turtle," was killed by police on Wednesday after he allegedly ignored authorities and shot at state troopers on the grounds of the new Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, Fox News reports.  If an officer-involved shooting wasn't enough to inflame the woke mob, Tortuguita reportedly identified as nonbinary and used they/it pronouns.  It was a perfect storm that handed Antifa the excuse they crave to riot.

Pregnancy Center Hires Private Investigators to Find Pro-Abortion Firebombers.  A pro-life pregnancy center network is taking matters into its own hands and hiring private investigators to find pro-abortion terrorists who attacked its medical office, claiming that the FBI is "slow-walking" its probe, which has not resulted in any arrests.  CompassCare is partnering with the Thomas More Society, a nonprofit law firm fighting for religious liberty, to hire private investigators to find the perpetrators on its own terms and timeline.  "After talking with our investigators so far, they've already provided very valuable insight that we didn't know.  And they do have a track record of identifying terrorists both internationally and domestically," Compass Care CEO Jim Harden told National Review.

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Isn't this what the FBI is for?  If somebody bombed an abortion clinic, wouldn't the FBI be all over it?

Rutgers Professor Openly Calls For White Genocide.  A 2021 video of a critical race theory scholar claiming that "white people are committed to being villains" and warning that "whiteness is going to have an end date" has recently resurfaced on social media sparking renewed outrage.  Brittney Cooper, who is Associate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Africana Studies at Rutgers University, made the comments during a podcast interview with The Root, [...]  [Video clip]

America's Growing Political Impotence.  [Scroll down]  Then there were the massive and widespread "George Floyd" riots of 2020 during which the police largely served as uniformed observers while journalists told TV watchers that despite the arson, gunshots, and mounting death toll, these events were "largely peaceful."  It even became fashionable to celebrate the rioters while our future vice-president contributed financially to quickly bail the rioters out of jail.  Meanwhile, public health "experts" explained that while ordinary Americans should wear masks, practice social distancing, and generally avoid crowds, these social-justice protestors smashing windows for their Gucci handbags enjoyed dispensations from COVID restrictions due to the sanctity of their cause.  To rub it in, those asserting that this mayhem was just racially driven looting were condemned as racists responsible for the violence.  In this upside-down world, rioters were now the "good guys" and those condemning them were the "bad guys."

Five Antifa members are charged with domestic terrorism: Cops swoop on Atlanta autonomous zone and find explosives.  Five members of Antifa are in custody on domestic terrorism charges after they were protesting outside of a planned $90 million police training center.  The site of the planned center has been the focal point of protests for months by Antifa who have referred to the site — which protesters have made an autonomous zone — as Cop City.  Many of those who were arrested were holed up in treehouses where police later recovered explosives.  Prior to Tuesday's arrests, police detained several people at the site for crimes including destruction of property and arson along with car-jacking and attacks on locals and government officials.

Five left-wing activists arrested for domestic terrorism in Georgia.  Back in May a group of anti-police protesters in Georgia were arrested after throwing rocks and a Molotov cocktail at police.  The "protesters" have been trying to prevent the city of Atlanta from building a new 85-acre police training center (which the left has dubbed "cop city") in a large wooded area near the city.  The group has blocked roads and harassed construction workers who came to the site to work.  During the May incident, police accompanied the construction workers to ensure their safety and the protest group started throwing rocks at them.  Then this happened:  [Video clip]  The protesters have built tree houses in the area in order to claim they are not merely protesters but residents of the property.  A string of crimes in the area has continued and a law enforcement task force was created to deal with it.

Domestic terrorism charges for five arrested at violent Antifa autonomous zone near Atlanta.  Five militants part of a violent far-left occupation in south Atlanta were arrested on Tuesday and charged with domestic terrorism and other felony charges.  On Dec. 13, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) launched a raid on the so-called autonomous zone at the site of the future Atlanta Public Safety Training Center.  Since June 2021, Antifa and other far-left extremists from across the US have descended on the location to prevent the construction of what they call a "cop city."  Responding law enforcement were assaulted with rocks and bottles by militants occupying makeshift treehouses.  The GBI says it found explosive devices and gasoline after the rioters were cleared from the area.

Elon Musk says risk of his assassination is 'quite significant'.  Elon Musk has claimed the risk of his assassination is "quite significant".  In a wide-ranging, two-hour Q&A audio chat on Twitter Spaces, the social media platform's CEO told listeners he "definitely" would not "be doing any open-air car parades, let me put it that way".  "Frankly the risk of something bad happening to me, or even literally being shot, is quite significant," he said.  "It's not that hard to kill somebody if you wanted to, so hopefully they don't, and fate smiles upon the situation with me and it does not happen ... There's definitely some risk there."  The Tesla CEO and world's richest man — a self-proclaimed "free speech absolutist" — added that "at the end of the day, we just want to have a future where we're not oppressed".

What Do You Do When BLM Attacks You in Your Car?  Anyone with a modicum of common sense understands that a person shouldn't try to block a road with his body and then proceed to intimidate and threaten the drivers he's forced to stop.  When push comes to shove, protesters in the middle of the road aren't going to win the battle against a two-ton vehicle, especially if they really make a person fear for his life and the lives of his passengers.  It's just a good rule of thumb, if you happen to be an Antifa or Black Lives Matter protester, to keep your big, dumb, non-caring, socially unacceptable [self] out of the middle of the street and try to actually protest peacefully for a change, and you won't get run over.  In December of 2020, Kathleen Casillo found herself in just such a predicament.  She was forced to stop her car near the intersection of 39th Street and Third Avenue around 4:00 P.M. CST, where she and her twenty-nine year old daughter were immediately surrounded and attacked by a howling mob of BLM "mostly peaceful" protesters, who jumped on her car and attempted to smash the windows and open the doors, for the purpose of dragging one or both women out of the car.  They were screaming, "White privilege b----" at the women as all of this occurred.  Fearing for her life and her daughter's life, Kathleen floored the gas and sped off — rightfully so, and in self-defense — injuring nine protesters (one seriously) in the process.  Who wouldn't, when trapped in the same set of circumstances?

Elon Musk Will Not Sign Autographs 'Ever Again' As He Warns Assassination Risk Is 'Quite Significant'.  Twitter CEO Elon Musk told groveling paparazzi over the weekend night that he will "never again" sign autographs as he warned that the risk that someone will try to assassinate him is actually "quite significant."  Musk told the paparazzi that he would no longer sign autographs after he landed in at Dulles International Airport Saturday night [12/3/2022], TMZ reported.  "I want to be clear, I'm not doing any more signings ever again," Musk said as he was surrounded by security guards.

Why You Should Only Riot on Behalf of Your Rulers.  When taking part in a violent mob, make sure to riot on behalf of the liberal establishment.  That way, you are likely to avoid punishment.  You may even be richly rewarded:  ["]A federal court Wednesday approved Minneapolis, Minnesota's agreement to pay 12 protesters a combined $600,000 for injuries sustained during 2020 demonstrations over George Floyd's murder [sic].["]  That comes to $50,000 apiece, in addition to whatever wealth they acquired by looting.  Biden's IRS has yet to issue a statement on whether BLM/Antifa thugs can deduct the bricks they throw through windows and the gasoline they use to set neighborhoods on fire as business expenses.

A quick shift from bully to victim:
Ex-Twitter Executive: Elon Musk Is Putting Us 'In Harm's Way' By Showing How We Censored Content.  Twitter's former head of trust and safety claimed Friday night that Twitter CEO Elon Musk was putting people's lives in danger by revealing internal company documents showing how employees censored conservatives and a negative news story about then-presidential candidate Joe Biden's son.  Yoel Roth, Twitter's former Sr. Director, Head of Trust & Safety, complained about Musk's decision to release internal company communications through journalist Matt Taibbi about the company's censorship of the New York Post's Hunter Biden laptop story during the 2020 presidential election.  Taibbi tweeted out screenshots showing that company officials were in regular contact with Democrats and censored content that Democrats wanted removed.

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Any repercussions from your misbehavior (when it is finally discovered) are entirely your own responsibility.

The Children of Dr. Moreau Refuse to Understand Pregnancy Centers.  On Thursday night, supporters of the Capitol Hill Crisis Pregnancy Center gathered in D.C. for the organization's annual banquet.  During a speech by Executive Director Janet Durig, there was, shall we say, an interruption by those for whom babies being born alive is as unwelcome a prospect as a broken bone.  Or grown-up behavior.

Antifa Promised Violent Consequences For Elon Musk [and now] the Attacks Have Started.  Elon Musk called a report on Antifa wanting to burn down Tesla "concerning."  The Tesla CEO responded to a Rebel News report on screenshots of calls to action.  Andy Ngô, editor-at-large for the ThePost Millenial, shared screenshots of the calls to action by the now-suspended Twitter account @AshRedacted.  The account posted links to Tesla locations and encouraged followers to add their own.  "Tonight in Portland! Every city, every town!  Show up at your local Tesla dealerships in protest of Elon Musk!" one screenshot read with a photo of a burning Tesla.  Ngô noted that the extremists wanted to get revenge on Elon Musk for suspending their accounts on Twitter.  Musk's Twitter suspended the violent extremist and Antifa collective @crimethinc.  The international group operates like ISIS:  [it] makes propaganda & training material to radicalize militants toward violence.

How Young Americans Unwittingly Voted to Ruin Their Lives.  As regards Trump's belief that the election was stolen, Democrats, including the losing presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, claimed Trump did not win the 2016 election.  And it has been a common left-wing tactic for decades to illegally occupy state offices, not to mention college presidents' offices.  In 2011, thousands of left-wing protesters took over the Wisconsin state Capitol in Madison — for four months.  More recently, in 2018, protesters took over a Senate office building on Capitol Hill demanding rejection of Judge Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court.  It is not conservatives who threaten freedom and democracy.  It is the Left; its party (the Democrats); the legacy media (virtually all mainstream media); and Big Tech (Google, YouTube, Facebook, TikTok, and, until now, Twitter).  They are the ones who suppress dissent — which, as I pointed out in my previous column, is proof the Left lies, since truth-tellers have no need to cancel lectures, censor dissenters, manipulate search results, etc.  The Left constitutes the greatest threat in American history to freedom of speech, the most important of all freedoms.  Yet the young vote for the Left.

Shooter That Killed At Least 7 People Doesn't Fit The Mainstream Media Narrative.  According to an employee on the scene who survived and did a live stream on site, it was Walmart's manager that "entered the break room and started shooting at workers".  Andre Bing had no prior arrests.  In the shocking video below, a Walmart associate on the parking lot shares his recount of the events.  In it you can hear coworkers crying at what they had witnessed.  "He plotted this for sure", he said, "he just started capping people."  The employee also alleges the gunman committed suicide by gunfire once he was finished with his actions.

CNN Stunned As Their Narrative on Gay Club Shooter Gets Crushed.  Late on Tuesday night [11/22/2022], court filings by the attorneys for the alleged shooter from the LGBTQ night club in Colorado Springs, Colorado revealed the shooter is non-binary and goes by they/them pronouns.  After spending the past two days smearing conservative Christians for allegedly inspiring this apparent attack against gay people, CNN Tonight anchor Alisyn Camerota was clearly stunned as she watched her network's narrative come crashing down.  Breaking the news to her audience, Camerota begrudgingly reported that the "attorneys for the accused shooter, Anderson Lee Aldrich, say in new court filings tonight that the suspect now identifies as non-binary."

Attorney: Suspected Colorado Mass Shooter Identifies as 'Non-Binary'.  It appears the left has been peddling yet another false narrative.  The New York Times reported on Tuesday night that the alleged gunman who carried out a mass shooting at an LGBTQ club in Colorado identifies as "non-binary."  According to a court filing, the suspect's public defenders note that Anderson Aldrich, the suspected shooter, uses "they/them" pronouns.  New York Times reporter Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs posted a tweet that the defense attorneys refer to the defendant as "Mx. Anderson Aldrich."  [Tweet]  Aldrich is currently being held on suspicion of murder and hate crimes, in connection to the shooting at Club Q, which occurred on Saturday night.  He was injured after patrons in the club attacked him to stop the massacre, and was released from the hospital on Tuesday then booked in the El Paso County jail.  Left-leaning activist media outlets and influencers have been intimating that the shooting was motivated by rhetoric coming from conservatives criticizing the sexualization of children and the effort to promote transgender ideology among K-12 students.  They attempted to insinuate that those speaking out against these issues inspired the attack, which they say was a result of hatred against members of the LGBTQ community.

Portland Antifa can claim total victory against Andy Ngo.  Superman had to deal with Bizarro World, a place in which everything is backward and evil is ascendant, and Andy Ngo has to contend with Portland, which pretty much seems to be the same.  The latest travesty is that, after the judge heard Andy Ngo's case against an Antifa activist whom Ngo filmed throwing a liquid at him and grabbing his phone, the judge not only gave the activist a pass, but the judge also scolded Ngo for daring to report Antifa activities.  Most people who followed Antifa's activities in Portland, whether leftists or conservatives, are familiar with Andy Ngo.  At great risk to himself, he reported what the Antifa gang was doing, whether silencing conservative speech, going to war against the city, state, and federal government in Portland, or physically attacking conservatives, including Ngo himself.  In every case, Ngo has always had the video to prove that these attacks were real.

Leftists are dangerously dehumanizing their political opponents.  On November 3, Sunny Hostin, a cohost on The View, said, "White suburban women voting for Republicans are like roaches voting for the bug spray Raid."  Her hostility supposedly stemmed from Republican opposition to abortion.  A co-panelist Alyssa Farah Griffin pointed out her previous opposition to abortion based on her Catholic faith, but Hostin was not deterred.  On the one hand, this is a silly spat on a silly show.  On the other hand, it matters a great deal when someone with a national platform likens people to insects.  Hostin's language is similar to Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, in 2018, referring to Jews as termites.

Never forget! The 3 times the radical left attacked the Capitol.  For almost two years, the Democrats have railed about Jan. 6.  They have lied about it, they have mischaracterized the former president and his supporters, they've conducted show trials over it, and they want to pin the whole thing on the former president — whom they hate for it.  They fear most of all that he will soon announce a decision to run again — and win again.  His party, this week, took the first step toward that by reclaiming power in the U.S. House and likely the Senate.  It has not been a pleasant two years under the Democrats.  They have used the full weaponized power of the state, the FBI, Attorney General Merrick Garland and the office of the "acting" president, not a very good one either, to turn the country into something resembling fascism — or as close as I ever thought possible in this nation.

Why Isn't the 'White Powder' Attack on Kari Lake's Office Bigger News?  [Scroll down] The assault on Paul Pelosi has been branded a politically motivated attack.  On Saturday, a supporter of Lee Zeldin was assailed by a Hochul supporter during a counter-protest at a Hochul rally.  The woman, who Fox News identified as Angelica Torres, said her sign was grabbed and a man choked her.  That was not exactly above-the-fold news.  But it does not take much to stir up a deranged person, and our media, which picked sides decades ago, knows how to take something, anything, and twist it to the Left's advantage.  Would you like proof?  Compare the media approaches to the Pelosi incident to the coverage of the shooting of Steve Scalise, the attack on Rand Paul while he was doing yard work, the stalking of Brett Kavanaugh, and, yes, an attack on Kari Lake's campaign office that could be legitimately described as an act of terrorism.  Those events were covered, but not nearly to the extent of the Pelosi incident.

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The mystery of the disappearing white powder at Kari Lake's campaign office.  A little more than a week ago, we learned that an envelope (or possibly multiple envelopes) containing crude messages and a "white powdery substance" were received at an office for Kari Lake's gubernatorial campaign in Arizona.  A worker at the office made the discovery while going through the mail and at least two staffers were put under medical supervision.  Thankfully, no illnesses were reported after the event.  Two similar envelopes were collected by the FBI and sent to a laboratory for testing.  Yesterday, the results of the investigation were announced.  There was no powdery substance found in either envelope.  So what actually happened?

Kari Lake staffer under medical supervision after opening envelope with white powdery substance.  A campaign staffer for Republican Arizona gubernatorial hopeful Kari Lake is under medical supervision after opening an envelope containing a "suspicious white powder" that was received at the candidate's campaign headquarters on Saturday, an act of political terror that isn't likely to get much play in the media let alone be condemned by Democrats.  On the weekend before what is arguably the most important election in the state's history, Lake's campaign command center was shut down at the most critical juncture of the campaign, being swarmed by law enforcement including Phoenix police, the FBI as well as hazmat and bomb squad teams.

Violence Ramps up Against GOP Including Grisly Death Threat and Zeldin Supporter Being Choked.  In the last days before the election, we've been seeing an uptick in violence and threats from folks from people on the left against people on the right over campaigns and the election.  We reported on the violence against New Hampshire state Senate candidate Lou Garguilo, who said that he had a truck drive at him and his supporters, someone threw a coffee at him, and another person threw a power tool battery at his wife's head.  There was another incident a few days ago.  Scott Lennox was arrested after allegedly threatening Darren Bailey, the Republican gubernatorial candidate in Illinois, in a voicemail.

FBI called to Kari Lake's campaign office after staff received suspicious white powder in two envelopes.  The FBI swooped on Republican Arizona Governor candidate Kari Lake's campaign offices on Saturday night after staff received suspicious white power, DailyMail.com can reveal.  Law enforcement was at the offices in Phoenix from 10pm to 5am after Lake's team was sent two envelopes with the substance and abusive messages.  Her campaign believes this was a 'terroristic attack, trying to intimidate Kari and the campaign staff'.

Media Ignore Physical Attack on Republican Gen. Don Bolduc.  The establishment media have ignored the physical attack against Republican New Hampshire candidate Gen. Don Bolduc.  The three top establishment newspapers, the New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times, all failed to report the physical attack on Gen. Bolduc that occurred moments before Wednesday's debate with Democrat Maggie Hassan (D-NH).  The media's decision to not report on the act of political violence against a Republican is notable.  Attacks against Republicans run counter to the media's narrative of violence singly perpetrated by Republicans.

While Biden Was Babbling About Dangerous Republicans, Mostly Peaceful Leftists" Were Caught On Video As They Attack A Republican Senate Candidate.  While the president uses the Paul Pelosi attack carried out by a mentally unstable former nudist green party member with rainbow flags outside his home as an example of right-wing violence, I can't help but notice nearly EVERY example of political violence is from folks on the Left or those attacking Republicans.  As Biden was preening on and on about how 'our democracy' is AT STAKE in the upcoming midterm and once again vilifying half the country implying they are a threat and a danger, some yahoo attempted to punch/attack Republican candidate, General Don Bolduc.

Republican Gen. Bolduc [was] Physically Attacked by Individual Outside Wednesday's Debate.  Republican Gen. Don Bolduc was physically attacked by an unknown individual before the Wednesday debate with Democrat Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH), Bolduc's campaign told Breitbart News.  Kate Constantini, Bolduc for Senate spokeswoman, told Breitbart News that before the General went on the debate stage, he was physically attacked outside the building by an individual in the crowd.

Here's All the Left Wing Political Violence the Corporate Media Seems to Have Forgotten About.  The media appears to have rediscovered political violence the morning of October 28 when news broke that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband Paul was attacked by a hammer-wielding mad man in their California home. [...] In case they've forgotten or would rather not discuss it, here is a small slice of left-wing political violence over the years that has either been excused, dismissed or under-covered. [...] [#3] 2020 Summer of Riots:  During the riots following George Floyd's death in Minneapolis police custody, leftist media ran cover for activists who torched American cities.  Infamously, CNN described August riots in Wisconsin as "fiery but mostly peaceful protests" while live reporting in front of towering flames.  An MSNBC reporter in May also reported live from a riot in Minneapolis, saying, "I want to be clear on how I characterize this.  This is mostly a protest.  It is not generally speaking unruly."  As he said this, a building burned in the background of the footage.  These riots caused an estimated $1 billion in damages and 24 deaths.

Elderly Pro-Life Man Brutally Attacked Outside Planned Parenthood Abortion Biz.  Longtime sidewalk counselor and Life Legal client Ross Foti was brutally attacked outside a California Planned Parenthood last week.  A woman entering the clinic viciously shoved Ross to the ground, causing him to fall on a fire hydrant.  Ross, who is 88, suffered a punctured lung and other serious injuries and was hospitalized after the assault.  He was released after four days in the hospital but is still in constant pain and requires ongoing treatment.  Witnesses report that the assailant was furious because she wanted a certain parking spot in front of the abortion mill, but Ross had already parked there.  Even though the woman found another place to park, she screamed at Ross and then charged at him, ramming him with her arms and pushing him into the fire hydrant.

Permissible and Impermissible Incendiary Speech?  When New York gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin was recently physically attacked on stage by a troubled alcoholic David G. Jakubonis (released into an alcoholic recovery program from police custody a few weeks after his attempt on Zeldin's life), the media made no effort to tie the assault to politically driven rhetoric.  When Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) was severely injured by a crazed neighbor, there was no suggestion that left-wing extremist talk, and in particular political attacks on Paul, had pushed the assailant over the edge — although there was plenty of undisguised liberal schadenfreude at Paul's injuries.  For example, in a March 2020 tweet, Christine Pelosi (Nancy and Paul's daughter) snarked: "Rand Paul's neighbor was right."  James Hodgkinson was a declared left-wing political activist and former Bernie Sanders campaign worker who went hunting for Republican legislators and ended up shooting six people — among them Representative Steven Scalise (R-La.), the House majority whip at the time, who nearly died.

Pelosi Got Hammered.  [Scroll down] What is absolutely certain is that neither the U.S. federal government nor its media propaganda organs [care] about crime or political violence unless it can be used to slander MAGA Republicans.  Pro-life organizations and churches are firebombed, and the FBI does nothing.  Conservative volunteers and Republican campaign workers are brutally beaten and shot on the street, and the corporate news is silent.  A cowardly neighbor severely wounds Senator Rand Paul in a sneak attack, and Democrats (including Nancy Pelosi's daughter) cry with laughter and jubilation.  A Democrat stalwart, brainwashed by the endless corporate news promoting the lie that Russia stole the 2016 election from Hillary, nearly succeeds in assassinating an entire baseball team of Republican senators and representatives (again including Rand Paul), and the Democrat-Media Complex hides behind calls for unity, while simultaneously casting blame on the victims.  Some commie nutjob gets into the Pelosis' fortified complex, though, and somehow it's all Trump's fault!

Leftists and violence privilege.  Since the summer of 2020, most every metropolitan area had been ravaged by progressive anarchists with impunity.  Hundreds of people were injured, many of them seriously.  Honest hardworking people, through no fault of their own, sustained property damage valued in the tens of millions of dollars.  They deserved to be as heavily protected as elected officials are but were not, the reasons for which can be clearly understood, as demonstrated by the police defunding movement.  In each case, authorities stood powerless.  Leftist agitators acted so perfidiously that ostensibly everyone else was subordinate to the rule of law, but not they.  Progressives, Paul Pelosi included and especially, hate America with such vitriolic and reckless abandon that they hold the moral stature of illegal aliens and even terrorists in higher regard than their honest, law-abiding countrymen.  For such people, I have no sympathy, and neither should anyone else.  America has been set upon by the leftist malevolence from within, which seeks to destroy our country.

Rubio Canvasser Brutally Attacked in Hialeah, FL After Being Told 'Republicans Aren't Allowed' Here.  It's been exceedingly difficult for Republican campaigns in California to get volunteers who will do door-to-door canvassing this cycle, with many citing fears of violence and even fears of being doxxed by progressives who've been doing things like taking photos of attendees at rallies to attempt to identify them and publicize their professions and workplaces.  Given the level of vitriol aimed at Republicans here, and incidents where canvassers have been harassed or even shot (an 84-year-old woman canvassing for a pro-life initiative in Michigan was shot) those fears are not unfounded.

Whoopi Goldberg Says The Left Is Never Violent, Never Heard Of An Antifa Riot.  Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and co-host of "The View" Whoopi Goldberg clashed after she appeared to bring up the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.  Cruz made an appearance on an episode of the show Monday during which Goldberg went off on Republicans and how they react when they lose elections.  Whoopi: "We may not like when R's win, but we don't go and we don't storm..."  Cruz: "Did I miss an entire year of Antifa riots where cities across this country were burning...?"  Whoopi: "I don't know what an Antifa riot is."  Cruz: "The left doesn't engage in violence?  Really?"  [Video clip]

Dem Campaign Signs Placed on Private Property Without Permission, Booby-Trapped with Razor Blades.  In Pennsylvania, the stakes for the upcoming November midterms have never been higher, as the state is one of the closely-watched battlegrounds that will determine the makeup of the U.S. Senate when the dust settles after Election Day.  Unfortunately, those high stakes also bring stupid and dangerous decisions, which was evidenced in the southeastern part of the state recently after residents reported rogue Democratic campaign signs placed in their yards that were lined with razor blades, WTXF-TV reported.  The Upper Makefield Township Police Department posted an alarming update to their social media pages regarding the discovery, complete with images that appear to show razor blade-rigged campaign signs for several top Democratic candidates, including Lt. Gov. John Fetterman and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Attorney General Josh Shapiro.

Here Come The Tantrums.  [Scroll down] Even after Trump left office, the deranged venting of spleens remained a staple of the left.  When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Democrats again looked liked overgrown preschoolers.  At the time we pointed out, in an editorial headlined The American Mushroom Cloud, that Democratic Sen. Elizabeth "Warren's fevered tirade clearly shows we have reached the point that the left has decided that policy will not be made like sausage but through tantrum, intimidation, and riot."  Sure, it could be worse.  There could exist a powerful faction that tried to overturn the results of an election based on a false document, co-opting corrupt federal officials, sowing division, and doing all in its power to poison the nation's politics.  Wait, that did happen.  And we're not talking about Jan. 6.

Dem Campaign Signs Placed on Private Property Without Permission, Booby-Trapped with Razor Blades.  In Pennsylvania, the stakes for the upcoming November midterms have never been higher, as the state is one of the closely-watched battlegrounds that will determine the makeup of the U.S. Senate when the dust settles after Election Day.  Unfortunately, those high stakes also bring stupid and dangerous decisions, which was evidenced in the southeastern part of the state recently after residents reported rogue Democratic campaign signs placed in their yards that were lined with razor blades, WTXF-TV reported.  The Upper Makefield Township Police Department posted an alarming update to their social media pages regarding the discovery, complete with images that appear to show razor blade-rigged campaign signs for several top Democratic candidates, including Lt. Gov. John Fetterman and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Attorney General Josh Shapiro.

More National Security Threats Come From Domestic Left-Wing Extremists: Experts.  National security analysts, scholars, and a federal indictment reveal that threats from left-wing extremist groups in the United States are more dangerous than right-wing and "MAGA Republican" groups recently cited by the Biden administration as "threats to democracy."  According to the U.S. government, some of the left-wing groups are being funded by Russian influence operations to "sow discord, spread pro-Russian propaganda, and interfere in elections within the United States."  On July 29, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the indictment of a Russian national for working on behalf of the Russian government to sow discord in the United States.  "From at least December 2014 until March 2022, Aleksandr Viktorovich Ionov, a resident of Moscow, together with at least three Russian officials, engaged in a years-long foreign malign influence campaign targeting the United States" the indictment alleged.

Democrat Tim Ryan Doubles Down on Call to 'Kill and Confront' MAGA Republicans, Specifically Targets J.D. Vance in Violent Rhetoric.  Democrat Rep. Tim Ryan doubled down on his comments from earlier in the year calling to "kill and confront" MAGA while specifically targeting J.D. Vance in his rhetoric during the debate on Monday night.  In the heated debate between Ryan and his Republican opponent for Ohio's open U.S. Senate seat, Ryan was confronted and asked to explain his comments earlier in the year when he told MSNBC's Morning Joe that the "exhausted majority" needed to "kill and confront" the extremist Republican movement.  Now, Ryan, during the debate — doubling down on his comments — included Vance in the group of people he labels as "extremists."

Homicidal Urges on the Left.  If you have the feeling that liberals would like to kill you, you aren't paranoid.  You are catching on.  Around the world, we are seeing increasingly violent talk from the Left.  All too often, that talk has led to violent action.  When Congressman and Senate candidate Tim Ryan says "we've got to kill and confront" the movement of "extremist Republicans," you are right if you think he means you.

Beyond Meat exec accused of biting man's nose in road rage attack.  An executive of a vegan food products company has been charged with felony battery and making a terroristic threat after a fracas outside a football game in which he's accused of biting a man's nose, Arkansas officials said.  Beyond Meat Chief Operations Officer Doug Ramsey has been accused of a road rage attack outside Saturday's game between the Arkansas Razorbacks and Missouri State Bears in Fayetteville, Arkansas, according to a police report obtained by CBS News.

What Comes of Taking Joe Biden Seriously.  I don't believe we have covered the story of Cayler Ellingson, the 18-year-old North Dakota boy who was murdered by 41-year-old Shannon Brandt.  Why did the murder happen?  Brandt says he ran Ellingson down with his car following a "political argument" because he thought Ellingson was part of a "Republican extremist group."  Where might he have gotten that idea?  From the President of the United States.  So far no details of whatever conversation Ellingson might have had with the much-older Brandt are known, but apparently it didn't take much for Brandt to conclude that he was dealing with a "Republican extremist."  Not surprisingly, local authorities say there is no evidence of Ellingson being any sort of extremist.  He was attending a street dance prior to his fatal encounter with Brandt.  The story has engendered several types of fallout.

41-Year-Old Shannon Brandt Released on Bond After Killing 18-Year-Old Cayler Ellingson Over Teen's Conservative Views.  On Sunday evening, 18-year-old Cayler Ellingson was struck and killed by a vehicle driven by 41-year-old Shannon Brandt in a politically motivated murder in North Dakota. [...] Brandt confessed to killing 18-year-old Ellingson because of his politics.  The murder of Cayler Ellingson came two weeks after Joe Biden's demonic speech in Philadelphia where he declared war against Republicans, conservative, patriots and Trump voters.  Shannon Brandt was released on $50,000 bond on Tuesday.  Brandt was charged with vehicular homicide and leaving the scene of a deadly accident.

Man Charged With Killing Teen Echoed Biden's 'Republican Extremism' Rhetoric To Justify His Act.  The man charged with fatally hitting and running over a North Dakota teen justified the act by echoing the same "extremism" rhetoric President Joe Biden wielded against Republicans during his most recent address.  Shannon Brandt, 41, mowed down 18-year-old Cayler Ellingson early Sunday morning over what he later claimed was a "political argument" over whether "the teen was part of a Republican extremist group."  That language strongly resembles the description used by Biden just a few weeks ago to describe Trump and "MAGA Republicans" as being "a threat to the very soul of this country."  In that speech, Biden claimed it was Republicans who had "blind loyalty to a single leader and a willingness to engage in political violence[.]"  Ellingson was reportedly participating in a street dance before the incident occurred.

Police: Driver admitted to intentionally killing teen at North Dakota street dance after political dispute.  According to court papers, it was not an accident but apparently a politically motivated attack.  The fatal vehicle-pedestrian incident happened early Sunday morning, Sept. 18, in McHenry, North Dakota, about 120 miles northwest of Fargo and 54 miles north of Jamestown.  Prosecutors allege moments before he was killed, 18-year-old Cayler Ellingson called his mom to come rescue him because 41-year-old Shannon Brandt was chasing him in the city of McHenry, where the street dance had just wrapped up.  By the time she could get there, her son was dead.  Brandt was officially charged Monday with vehicular homicide and leaving the scene of a deadly accident.  "He was the one who called 911 to report the crash," said North Dakota Highway Patrol Capt. Bryan Niewind.  Court papers show Brandt called 911 around 2:30 a.m. Sunday and told the 911 dispatcher that he just hit Ellingson, claiming the teen was part of a Republican extremist group and was calling people to come get Brandt after a political argument.

Equal Justice, They Said.  Is it a crime to threaten a Supreme Court justice?  Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) did just that in front of the Supreme Court doors, when he riled up protestors by threats to individual justices:  "I want to tell you Gorsuch.  I want to tell you Kavanaugh.  You have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price.  You won't know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions."  Had Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) done the same and warned both Justices Sotomayor and Kagan that the two "won't know what hit you," what would the Biden Administration have done?  [Is it] a felony to mass at a justice's home, and threaten his person, in attempts to warp a judicial ruling?  Attorney General Merrick Garland saw no problems when a left-wing mob descended on the homes of Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh.  No one was arrested or indicted.  No wonder an admitted would-be assassin later felt he could approach, with impunity, the Kavanaugh residence or that a mob could, with impunity, drive him out of a restaurant.  Again, would Garland have stood by had a MAGA crowd swarmed the home or the dinner table of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson?  For that felony, most would likely still be sitting in jail awaiting charges.

Coon Rapids man charged with threatening to kill U.S. senator.  A federal grand jury indictment alleges that a Coon Rapids man made violent threats against a U.S. senator.  Brendon Michael Daugherty, 35, appeared Friday in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis on charges of threatening to murder a United States official and interstate transmission of a threat.  Public court records do not identify the target of Daugherty's alleged threats other than to say the senator is not from Minnesota.  Daugherty remains in federal custody without bail in the Sherburne County jail.  He's due back in court on Tuesday.

Democrat Tim Ryan Goes Silent After Saying Voters Must 'Kill' MAGA Movement.  Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH), running against Republican J.D. Vance for Ohio's open United States Senate seat, has gone silent after saying "Democrats, Republicans, and Independents" must "kill and confront" former President Trump's Make America Great Again (MAGA) populist-nationalist movement.  On Tuesday, Ryan called for voters to "kill and confront" the MAGA movement even as more than 3.1 million Ohioans voted for Trump in the 2020 election and more than 2.8 million voted for him in the 2016 election.

Dem Senator Tim Ryan Says US Needs To 'Kill And Confront' 'Extremist' Republican Movement.  Democratic Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan said Tuesday on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that the U.S. needs to "kill and confront" the "extremist" Republican movement.  Ryan and co-host Willie Geist were discussing J.D. Vance, Ryan's Republican challenger for the open Senate seat in the upcoming election.  Geist noted a recent poll showing the two candidates trending closely, with Geist asking Ryan if he had a message for Republican voters in Ohio.  [Video clip]

NYC Middle School Teacher Encourages Kids To Throw Bricks At People Who Don't Share Leftist Views.  A new video from Project Veritas has exposed a New York City middle school teacher for encouraging her students to join in violent left-wing protests by throwing bricks at people who are on the other side of the political aisle.  As part of their series exposing liberal bias in academia, "The Secret Curriculum," Project Veritas took to the NYC Department of Education, where they uncovered English teacher Ariane Franco's shocking views.  "This is what I told my students," Franco said to an undercover investigative reporter.  "I was like 'Guys, there's strategic ways to do this [protest].'  You want to... I brought up [a] crazy organization that have done this.  Like, they chose which places to throw bricks in."  "They chose — and they didn't do it in their own neighborhood... They didn't do it in black and brown communities.  Doing it in our own community does not make sense," the teacher said of violent protests where people representing groups such as Black Lives Matter and Antifa have thrown bricks and other objects.

Do the Democrats Have a Murder Problem?  [Scroll down] Already, some conservatives on social media are playing "name that party," noting the odd and consistent pattern where if an obscure local Republican official is caught in an embarrassing scandal, the headline and first paragraph will often mention the party affiliation.  But if an obscure local Democratic official is caught in an embarrassing scandal, the headline and first paragraph will only mention the person's title and location; the party affiliation will be mentioned deep in the story — if it is mentioned at all.  Like just about every official in Clark County, Telles is a Democrat.  We might cut local media some slack on this; they may well believe their audiences already know that any official from this area is all but certain to be a Democrat.

A journalist is murdered, a Democrat pol is charged, and a local reporter finds a way to blame Trump.  Murder is staring journalists in the face, now that a veteran investigative journalist, Jeff German of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, has been stabbed and killed in cold blood, allegedly by a Democrat politician.  But does that make an impression on the local talent in the press pool?  Not to at least one of them. [...] It's an amazingly offensive take, given that a serious crime has happened, not just the killing an innocent man, but the taking a capable, competent, journalist out of circulation in a mafia-like hit, and sending a chill to all other reporters that the same fate could happen to them should they perform their jobs as fearlessly as German performed his.  That's what happens in places like Mexico, where the cartels have taken power based on their capacity to corrupt local politicians, and now that vile and lethal political tactic has arrived here in the states.  That's what the reporter in the press pool should have been concerned about.  But she wasn't.  In her still-unserious mind, the emerging problem wasn't an emerging problem and the real problem was President Trump.

A reporter was stabbed to death, now police have searched the home of an elected official he reported on.  Jeff German was an investigative journalist who worked for the Las Vegas Review-Journal.  Last Saturday German was found murdered just outside his home, the victim of a stabbing. [...] As of Sunday there was no apparent motive for the crime but Monday police released video and photos of a strangely dressed man they considered a suspect.  [Video clip]  Police didn't say what connected this individual to the killing but obviously this person is doing their best to avoid being identified. [...] Today the case took a surprising turn when police searched the home of Clark County Public Administrator Robert Telles, an elected Democrat who recently lost his primary at least partly because of German's work.

Democrat Las Vegas Official Robert Telles Arrested, Charged With Murder of Investigative Reporter.  Earlier on Wednesday, I reported that the Democrat Clark County Public Administrator Robert Telles had a search warrant executed at his home in connection with a homicide investigation.  I detailed the victim Jeff German, an investigative reporter who was found deceased on Sunday.  German had published an expose detailing hostile work environment complaints lodged by Telles' employees and outing his affair with a staffer shortly before Nevada's primary, in which Telles lost his re-election bid.  German was working on another story about Telles at the time he was murdered.  Telles has now been arrested on suspicion of murder, Sheriff Joe Lombardo told The Las Vegas Review-Journal.

Democrats Dangerously Copy The Tactics Of Famous Fascists.  For just over two years, we've seen the evil of fascism take hold as it's never held sway before.  Consider the following:  In the summer of 2020, Democrats rained hell down on America by allowing, encouraging, and funding urban terrorists who destroyed property, attacked citizens and the police, and killed dozens of people.  In 2020 and beyond, despite years of watching Democrats assail election integrity, anyone who questioned the highly unlikely outcome of the 2020 election was branded as an anti-democratic conspiracy nut and accused of supporting insurrection.  The riot that occurred on January 6, 2021, was labeled an "insurrection" and hundreds of citizens who had been welcomed into the US Capitol or standing on its grounds were arrested, labeled as terrorists, and thrown in solitary confinement for months without charge or bail.  At the same time, among the crowd were provocateurs in whom the FBI was suspiciously uninterested.

6 Ways Democrats Are 'Threatening Democracy'.  [#4] Normalizing Political Violence: The damage from just the first two weeks of 2020's summer of rage cost approximately 66 times that of the inflated estimates of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.  It took Democrats months, however, to begin condemning brazen political violence after the party spent 2020 justifying explosive riots as righteous acts of social justice.  The normalization of political violence is a natural consequence of citizens having forgotten how to function in a healthy democracy, where violence is the end result when a significant population fails to secure its preferred political outcomes.  The presidential election year in 2020 might have been an outlier in politically-motivated carnage to wreak havoc on Main Street, but the last two years have seen no absence of left-wing militancy terrorizing the public.  Pregnancy centers, in particular, have been firebombed across the country in the aftermath of the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Where are the 'right-wing extremists'?  In the events of Jan. 6, one person died as a direct result of the riot.  More people are killed in Chicago every weekend than those who died as a result of Jan. 6's "deadly insurrection.  In 2021 and 2022 combined, there have been more than twelve hundred murders in Chicago compared with one Capitol death on January 6.  Where are the calls to crack down on the left-wing extremists who run Chicago and on those who commit the crimes?  The FBI has set up "watch lists" for right-wing extremist groups, but in actuality, their "domestic terror" list is composed of left-wingers.  The 2020 left-wing George Floyd riots, occupations, arsons, property destruction, and police deaths as a result of the George Floyd insurrection were responsible for nineteen dead people as of April of 2022.  Most who died were black, including black cops.  These riots were not caused by right-wing extremists.

It's Too Late For Corrupt Media To Decide Political Violence Is Bad.  The 2020 election was nothing less than a hostage situation, and everyone who lives in a major city (all of them run by Democrats) knew it when they saw their shops, offices, and storefronts boarded up.  That wasn't in anticipation of a Biden victory.  It was in fear of a Trump victory.  The Left had shown all summer that year what it's capable of when things don't go their way.  They will fabricate a conspiracy to derail a president who was never given a chance.  They will hype up an airborne virus, laying every single death it causes at the feet of their political opponents.  They will perpetuate a lie about race and police to shut down highways, businesses, and government services.  The cost:  At least 25 deaths and up to $2 billion in property damage.  And that's just from the George Floyd riots of summer 2020.

If a Liberal Falls Off His High Horse, Does He Make a Sound?  This country is home to several thousand violent savages who refer to themselves as "Antifascists."  We see them out and about travelling in mobs, torching buildings, pushing disabled veterans out of their wheelchairs, and punching old ladies in the face.  Heroes of the Revolution to be sure.  One of them was filmed lying in wait for a Trump supporter, whom he shot and killed. [...] You probably grew up thinking that it would be pretty weird if the President of the United States sicced a bunch of brownshirts on you and your family, to burn your house down and kill you, but that was before Democrats got as snooty as they are now.  Now they are so much smarter and better than we are that they figure that they should be able to exterminate us like vermin.  Or at least make us go away.  While the Leader of the Free World was telling the Democrats' Revolutionary Guards that Republicans are fascists, the Governor of New York was telling her Republicans that they should get out of her state now, move to Florida where they belong, because they're not "New Yorkers."  Apparently only Democrats can be New Yorkers now.

Tucker Carlson Outlines Dramatic Timeline of Political Corruption Within the Federal Bureau of Investigation.  Let me be very clear with another brutally obvious example.  Antifa could not exist as an organization, capable to organize and carry out violent attacks against their targets, without the full support of the FBI.  If the FBI wanted to arrest members of Antifa, who are actually conducting violence, they could do it easily — with little effort.  It is the absence of any action by the FBI toward Antifa, that tells us the FBI is enabling that violent extremist behavior to continue.  Once you accept that transparent point of truth, then, you realize the FBI definition of domestic violent extremism is something else entirely.  The FBI is not a law enforcement or investigative division of the U.S. Department of Justice.  The FBI is a political weapon of a larger institution that is now focused almost entirely toward supporting a radical Democrat and left-wing agenda to destroy civil society in the United States.  The current mission of the FBI is to facilitate, preserve and protect the administration of Joe Biden.

Think the FBI Deserves the Benefit of the Doubt?  The FBI designated the death of a shooter who attempted to gun down Republican lawmakers at a 2017 congressional baseball practice as motivated by a desire to commit "suicide by cop."  Last year, the bureau doubled down on the designation.  "It's fair to say the shooter was motivated by a desire to commit an attack on members of Congress and then knowing by doing so he would likely be killed in the process," Jill Sanborn, the executive assistant director of the FBI, told the House Appropriations subcommittee.  "The FBI still doesn't know exactly what the shooter was up to," McCabe, now a CNN contributor, said last summer.  "They never really uncovered the sort of detailed evidence that laid out a specific plot or an objective."  On the contrary, the 66-year-old shooter who almost killed House GOP Whip Steve Scalise left behind a long record of extremist social media posts dripping with contempt for Republicans, even branding them as the "Taliban of the USA" on Facebook.  The FBI also found a list of six congressmen in a rented Virginia storage locker but refused to call it a "hit list."

The alleged wannabe Kavanaugh assassin wasn't just an ordinary guy.  When Nicholas Roske learned that Roe v. Wade might be overturned, he grabbed a kidnapping and murder kit and headed over to Justice Brett Kavanaugh's house, hoping to make Kavanaugh the first in a trio of Supreme Court justice killings.  Thankfully, even though federal and state law enforcement did almost nothing (despite laws on the books) to protect justices from protests at their house (a perfect cover for Roske), Roske was caught in time.  Now we're learning that Roske isn't just another crazy leftist:  He's a crazy leftist who also thinks he's a woman.

Would-Be Kavanaugh Assassin Was 'Shooting for Three' Justices, Sources Confirm.  Nicholas Roske, the California man who attempted to kill Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, was literally gunning for a SCOTUS trifecta.  He wanted to kill three justices.  His plan was to "change the votes for decades to come," according to court documents.  Roske flew in from California and took a taxi to Kavanaugh's house.  He was armed with a handgun, a knife, pepper spray, and burglary tools.  Roske left Kavanaughs' house when he saw marshals standing guard and called the police on himself.  Roske told investigators that he wanted to kill Kavanaugh to "give his life purpose."

He tried to kill a congressman, and New York released him within hours.  A man who attempted to kill a sitting congressman and New York gubernatorial candidate was released shortly after the murder attempt.  On July 21, U.S. representative Lee Zeldin was making a campaign speech at the New York VFW in his bid to win the election for governor of New York in November.  He was speaking to a crowd from a stage "when a man stumbled through the crowd.  He then proceeded to climb on the stage and pull what was initially believed to be a knife," according to RochesterFirst.com.  The weapon was eventually determined to be a black hardened plastic keychain with two sharp points designed for self-defense.

The man who tried to assassinate NY gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin during campaign event is arrested on federal assault charge.  The man who drunkenly attacked the Republican candidate for governor in New York was photographed being taken into custody by FBI, state and county police Saturday on federal assault charges, after being immediately released following the attack under the state's bail reform laws.  David Jakubonis, 43, an Army veteran, was arrested after allegedly attacking Zeldin with a $10 cat keyring weapon at the congressman's Thursday campaign rally for state governor, outside of Rochester, New York.  He was released hours later.  But on Saturday, DailyMail.com cameras saw Jakubonis, who had shaved his goatee overnight, was taken into custody by FBI, New York State police and deputies from the Monroe County Sheriff's Office.

Dog Whistler Kathy Hochul Told Supporters Where to Find "Far-Right Extremists".  A man tried to stab Congressman and gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin in the neck with a sharp metal object yesterday after New York Governor Kathy Hochul sent out locations of her opponent's rallies, encouraging supporters to "RSVP" where "far-right extremists" will be gathering.  It was a crystal clear dog whistle intended to stoke disruptions, but one supporter took it to the next level. [...] Kathy Hochul is not alone.  Prominent Democrats like Maxine Waters, Rashida Tlaib, and Eric Swalwell have used similar language as Hochul in prompting their supporters to get "aggressive" with MAGA supporters.  It has resulted in multiple incidents over the past six years where America First patriots have been assaulted for something as harmless as wearing a red hat.

Hochul Branded Zeldin 'Dangerous' And An 'Extremist' Weeks Before Man Tried To Stab Him.  Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul branded Republican gubernatorial nominee and sitting Congressman Lee Zeldin as "dangerous" and a "far-right extremist" in a campaign ad just weeks before a man tried to stab Zeldin at a campaign event.  The ad, released in June, said Zeldin isn't "just any Republican" but rather an "extreme" candidate.  "Meet Lee Zeldin, the far-right extremist that the Republicans just nominated for governor," Hochul's tweet read.  "Despite what he might try to sell you, the facts speak for themselves:  he is dangerous for New York."

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Lee Zeldin attacked by man with brass knuckles at campaign event.  A man attempted to stab congressman and gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin (R-NY) at a campaign event in Perinton, New York, on Thursday [7/21/2022].  The attacker was quickly suppressed, and Zeldin is unharmed.  Video obtained by the Washington Examiner shows the incident unfold.  A man climbed onstage, grabbed Zeldin in the middle of his campaign speech, and attempted to stab the Republican.  The man appeared to yell "You're done!  You're done!" as he accosted Zeldin.

Man Accused of Attack on GOP Rep. Zeldin Immediately Released after Being Charged with Felony.  A 43-year-old man accused of attacking Representative Lee Zeldin (R., N.Y.) with a sharp object at a campaign stop in upstate New York on Thursday evening was charged with a felony and released from custody just hours after his arrest, police said.  Zeldin, who is New York's Republican gubernatorial candidate, was giving a speech on bail reform at a stop on his "Unite to Fire Hochul" bus tour in Perinton when David G. Jakubonis allegedly charged at him and pulled out a sharp object.

Lee Zeldin's alleged attacker quickly released from jail.  The man who allegedly tried to stab Republican candidate for New York governor Lee Zeldin with a bladed weapon during a campaign stop on Thursday was released from jail within hours of his arrest on a felony charge — just as Zeldin had predicted.  David Jakubonis, 43, from Fairport, New York, was arraigned overnight in Perinton Town Court on a count of second-degree attempted assault stemming from the attack on Rep. Zeldin but was quickly released on his own recognizance.  In a tweet after the violent incident in Monroe County, Zeldin, who is running as a tough-on-crime candidate against incumbent Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul, said he expected his alleged assailant to be back on the streets in no time.

Kathy Hochul campaign sent email about upcoming Lee Zeldin events before attempted attack.  New York Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul's campaign sent an email about upcoming campaign events being held by Lee Zeldin, her Republican challenger in the New York gubernatorial race, prior to a man's attempted attack on him while he was speaking Thursday evening.  Prior to the Zeldin campaign event, Hochul's campaign sent out a media advisory, titled "'Big Lie' Lee kicks off statewide 'MAGA Republican' bus tour," to subscribers of its email list.  That email, according to NY1 reporter Zack Fink, contained information pertaining to Zeldin's upcoming campaign events, including the dates and times the events were scheduled to begin.

Kavanaugh Neighborhood Under Siege as Nightly Pro-Abortion Protesters Harass Residents.  Lucky for you, you're probably not a neighbor of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, but if you were, your evenings would be punctuated by "loud and vulgar," almost-nightly protests from abortion proponents shouting about the recent SCOTUS overturn of Roe v Wade.  The Washington Post went to the tony Washington, D.C. suburb of Chevy Chase, Md. to interview Kavanaugh's neighbors, and although many in the predominantly liberal enclave refused to go on record, most of the ones who did were not pleased with the disruptions.  "I understand where their passion comes from," said pro-abortion 46-year-old artist Emily Emily Strulson, "but I've had enough."

Pro-abortion protestors now moving on to harassing the entire neighborhood where Brett Kavanaugh lives.  [B]y the laws of the left, not only is it OK to hound and harass a Supreme Court justice in his home, but the whole neighborhood can get harassed out of house and home, too.  That's the reality, now that filthy-mouthed and potentially violent protesters are getting away with such deeds against Justice Brett Kavanaugh and now his neighbors.

From Rule Of Law To The Law Of The Jungle.  Unwilling to take their political and legal losses like the good citizens of a democratic republic and work within the system, Democrats are more and more demanding they get their way through harassment that includes the threat of violence.  What has set this country apart since its birth is unraveling.  The U.S. Supreme Court's Dobbs ruling, the "unflinching repudiation" of Roe v. Wade, set an already fuming political left on fire.  And the flame still burns.  White hot.  "The six justices who overturned Roe should never know peace again," a Harvard law instructor, and democratic socialist, tweeted shortly after the decision was released.  "It is our civic duty to accost them every time they are in public.  They are pariahs.  Since women don't have their rights, these justices should never have a peaceful moment in public again."

The Party of Violence.  Democrats are openly the party of violence and death.  Their policies fail so they must advocate violence to get them implemented.  Democrats and their spinoff-isms promote and glamorize abortion, the killing of human beings.  Barack Obama notoriously stated that he didn't want to see women being "punished with a baby."  Elizabeth Warren said that women who go to crisis pregnancy centers are met by people who "want to do them harm."  Liberals clearly believe that giving birth is not desirable but killing babies is.

Police officers watch pro-abortion vandals damage the home of prominent pro-life attorney.  The home of pro-life hero attorney Thomas Brejcha was vandalized by a radical pro-abortion mob the night of July 1 as police officers stood by in squad cars and on bicycles observing and making no arrests.  According to a Saturday email release from the Thomas More Society (TMS), Brejcha, who founded the organization and serves as its president and chief counsel, was targeted in advance of the attack by a terrorist group calling itself the "Reproductive Justice Union" (RJU).

Armed Threat Forces California Pregnancy Center to Spend $150,000 on Security.  Vandalism and violent threats, including one leveled by a man wielding a machete last week, have forced a California-based pregnancy center to spend $150,000 on securing the premises and defending the staff from harm, the director of the center testified Tuesday [7/12/2022].  Heidi Matzke, director of Alternatives Pregnancy Center, described the intimidation and danger her workplace has faced during her testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Three churches vandalized in Montgomery Co., arson investigation underway.  Officials say vandals damaged three churches in Bethesda, Maryland, this weekend with fires being set at two of them.  Investigators believe it is arson.  Around 2:15 a.m. on Sunday, Montgomery County firefighters responding to a call found several church pews on fire at Saint Jane Frances de Chantal Catholic Church, located on Old Georgetown Road in Bethesda near the Capital Beltway.  Within hours, Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service had launched an arson investigation into the fire.

Lots of things MAY happen when the Republicans take over.  But don't hold your breath.  All politicians make promises.
A.G. Merrick Garland May Face Impeachment over Abortion Protests at Justices' Homes Should GOP Take House.  U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland could face impeachment proceedings over the Department of Justice's failure to enforce a federal statute that prevents picketing or parading outside of Supreme Court Justices' homes, should Republicans take the majority in the House of Representatives in the midterm elections.  Conservative Supreme Court Justices were subjected to demonstrations outside of their residences in Maryland and Virginia following the unprecedented leak of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization draft decision in May, indicating the longstanding Roe v Wade decision would be overturned.  The leak was possibly an attempt "to intimidate one or more justices to reverse their vote or to ignite a liberal brushfire to pack the Supreme Court before Democrats lose Congress in November," as Breitbart News reported.

Protests, Theirs and Ours.  Currently the Left is "demonstrating" against the Supreme Court justices who concurred in the Dobbs decision.  A few nights ago, [...] left-wingers harassed Justice Brett Kavanaugh and other diners at the Morton's steak house in D.C.  Liberals viewed this effort as a triumph — Kavanaugh reportedly had to exit out a back door — and a pro-Democratic Party organization is now offering cash bounties to anyone who sees a conservative justice out in public in time for a flash mob to assemble.  When asked about such tactics, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was nonplussed.  These are peaceful demonstrations, she replied, the very essence of democracy!  Actually, they are manifestations of the totalitarian impulse.  One defining feature of a totalitarian regime is that everything is political.  There is no such thing as private life.  This is what today's liberals believe.  Thus, a conservative politician or, in this case, Supreme Court justice — keep in mind that the same tactics were used against members of the Executive Branch in the Trump administration — is not permitted to go out to dinner, or otherwise appear in public, with his or her family.  There is no space for mutual respect, or even tolerance, of citizens with whom the Left disagrees.  They must be destroyed, and their lives made miserable.  There is nothing "democratic" about this.  It is the stuff of Stalinism.

Leftists Offer Reward for Whereabouts of Justices Who Voted to Overturn Roe v. Wade.  A leftist group is offering rewards for people to report the whereabouts of specific Supreme Court Justices, according to the New York Post.  The justices were those who recently voted to overturn Roe v Wade, the outlet said. [...] In June, former President Donald Trump called for an investigation into the intimidation of the Supreme Court justices once the Court's decision to overturn Roe was leaked, Breitbart News reported.  After the leak in May, radical pro-abortion activists protested outside the homes of conservative Justices, and authorities later arrested a man for the attempted murder of Kavanaugh.  Meanwhile, Trump said.  "The left wing campaign of terror directed at the Supreme Court in recent months is unlike anything in the history of our country."

Democrats [are] gleeful at the harassment of Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh.  Democrats are starting to sound just a little demonic in their fanaticism for abortion, and it's obvious in their cavalier attitude toward the safety of the Supreme Court justices.  Here's the White House setting the tone:  [Tweet]  That's right:  they ran circles around the issue of this illegal harassment of a Supreme Court justice, refusing to draw a line anywhere (we already know they aren't bothered by protesters harassing a sitting senator by following her into the bathroom) on what kinds of protests are inappropriate.  We also know that they have failed to condemn the fire-bombings, vandalism, and burnings on a huge number of Catholic and other Christian churches and on crisis pregnancy centers, which offer willing patients alternatives to abortion.  The pattern is pretty obvious.

The Left Pushes for More Restaurant Protests Against SCOTUS.  The ridiculous practice of eatery conflicts continues, with even the White House encouraging it.  There is a faction of this country that feels unrecognized and strangely, at the same time, they possess empowerment that is not matched by their possessing any legitimate power.  I touched on this in a recent piece, where workers at a decidedly woke coffee shop in Philly felt galvanized by the permissiveness and tried forcing more activism on the ownership until the place had to close.  Because of similar obliviousness, we are witnessing a growing tide of restaurant rabblerousing.

Houston Man Charged For Making Terroristic Threat Against Senator Ted Cruz.  A Houston man who was charged for making a terrorist threat against GOP Senator Ted Cruz in a cryptic phone call is still at large.  22-year-old Isaac A. Nformangum of Richmond, Texas called Ted Cruz's office on June 26 and left a threatening voicemail.  Nformangum was angry about Cruz's plans to 'repeal' the voting rights act (more lies from the media) and said every single Republican who supported his plan deserves to be found and killed.

White House Defends Harassment of Justice Kavanaugh in DC Restaurant.  On Wednesday evening, leftist protestors harrassed Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh at a Morton's Steakhouse in Washington, D.C., forcing him to leave the restaurant, according to a report from Politico.  "Honorable Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh and all of our other patrons at the restaurant were unduly harassed by unruly protestors while eating dinner at our Morton's restaurant," the representative of the chain restaurant said in a statement.  "Politics, regardless of your side or views, should not trample the freedom at play of the right to congregate and eat dinner.  There is a time and place for everything.  Disturbing the dinner of all of our customers was an act of selfishness and void of decency."

Protesters Force Brett Kavanaugh to Flee D.C. Restaurant.  Protesters — apparently angry because they might not be able to butcher innocent babies in certain states — harassed Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh until he was forced to flee out the back door of a Washington, DC, restaurant. [...] This, of course, happened just a few weeks after a man planning to assassinate Kavanaugh was caught in his neighborhood. [...] Remember, the media approve and encourage this harassment — I mean, as long as the target of the harassment is a Republican.  For example, a few years back, after Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and his wife were hounded out of a D.C. restaurant by the Democrat party's terrorist Brownshirts in Antifa, CNNLOL said that was what Cruz "signed up for."  His Fraudulency Joe Biden also encourages and approves of this behavior.  After all, his administration refused to enforce a law that states it is illegal to protest in front of a judge's home.

Jean-Pierre: 'For sure' White House approves protest of Kavanaugh steak dinner.  White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre gave the thumbs-up Friday to protesters who targeted Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh while he dined out at a Washington restaurant this week — then cut off questions about her implication with a haughty, "I'm done here."

Democrats abetting intimidation are destroying civil society.  After a California man was charged with attempting to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh last month, Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich had a few thoughts:  "If everybody's going to protest everybody who does something at their houses, we're going to have a very hard time maintaining civil society."  If only Elrich had the courage to match his convictions.  Supreme Court Marshal Gail Curley sent a letter to Elrich last Friday and requested that he use his power as county executive to enforce Maryland law and end the Left's new habit of harassing and intimidating Supreme Court justices at their homes.  "Protest activity at justices' homes, as well as threatening activity, has increased since May," Curley wrote.  "For weeks on end, large groups of protesters chanting slogans, using bullhorns, and banging drums have picketed justices' homes. ... This is exactly the kind of conduct that the Maryland and Montgomery County laws prohibit."

As BLM Encouraged Looting Businesses, It Received SBA Funding.  Black Lives Matter, an organization whose leaders encouraged its supporters to riot and loot small businesses, received $30,000 from the Small Business Administration in 2020.  When the riots and looting occurred around the country after George Floyd's police custody death, a Black Lives Matter leader in Chicago defended the looting as "reparations."  In August 2020, as shops were devastated, Ariel Atkins said, "That is reparations.  Anything they want to take, take it because these businesses have insurance.  They're going to get their money back.  My people aren't getting anything."  The New York Post highlighted a small convenience store that was looted twice in 40 days in Chicago and may have to close for good.  Atkins doubled down and said that calling someone a "criminal" is a form of racism, the New York Post reported.

Much More than Murder in Highland Park.  It was not random; he picked the timing, the method, the location, with care, to achieve maximum effect.  And it was not a tragedy.  This wasn't a matter of some old Fate choosing when to cut the thread of life.  It was a planned crime, a series of malicious choices, to load the weapon, to aim the weapon, to fire upon innocent people in cold blood.  It is pure evil.  It is terrorism.  We must make this distinction, because already there are people making excuses, saying it's society that's at fault... the availability of firearms, the omnipresence of war news on television, the violence in video games... or saying that he's clearly crazy — "you have to be, to do a thing like this, after all" — so we are told that we should blame his mental illness, not him.  We must resist these temptations.  There are no excuses for the cold-blooded murder of innocent paradegoers.  None.  Even if some substance — from an ingested drug to a chemical imbalance in the brain — tormented this killer in his wicked mind, that still cannot be considered an excuse.

Samantha Bee:  We need to raise hell in every restaurant Alito eats in for the rest of his life.  We had an assassination plot against a justice foiled just a few weeks ago.  The marshal of the Court is now urging local law enforcement to do more to keep protesters away from the justices' homes.  We'll probably arrive soon at the point where the Court's members need to travel with a security detail at all times, assuming we're not there already.  Egging on liberals to confront the Court's members whenever they're encountered in the wild amidst that atmosphere is unwise.

Not a Republican:
Information Uncovered Overnight Shows Highland Park Shooter, Bobby Crimo, Is Tied to Socialists, Progressives, Antifa and the Occult.  Police arrested Robert 'Bobby' Crimo III', age 22, yesterday following the shooting in Highland Park, Illinois.  Crimo killed six and injured over 20 more individuals at the 4th of July parade in Highland Park, Illinois.  On Tuesday [7/5/2022] The Gateway Pundit uncovered information indicating Crimo is a radical progressive with ties to Antifa, progressive groups, and the occult.  Looking over information that was collected following the deadly shooting, it is evident the Highland Park 4th of July parade killer, Bobby Crimo, has a very dark background.

The Editor says...
Whenever a "mass shooting" occurs, the news media will do one of three things, depending on who the shooter is:  If the shooter is a white man with no political ties, the news media will claim this country has a widespread problem with white supremacy.  If the shooter is a white man with a long list of connections to the political left, the news media will claim this country has a mental health crisis and the shooter is the real victim.  If the shooter is black, the story will disappear in a matter of hours.

Highland Park shooting suspect Robert Crimo wore women's clothing, fired over 70 rounds: cops.  The shooter who allegedly opened fire on the Highland Park Fourth of July parade was dressed in women's clothing to disguise himself and aid his escape — then ran home to his mother, police said Tuesday [7/5/2022].  Robert E. "Bobby" Crimo III, 21, is accused of killing seven innocent parade-goers and injuring more than 40 others after he allegedly climbed onto the roof of a business in the wealthy Chicago suburb on Monday and fired off 70 rounds from a high-powered AR-15-style rifle.  He then wrapped the legally purchased weapon in a red blanket and ditched it behind the building so he could blend in with the crowd as he fled during the chaos, authorities said.  "Crimo was dressed in women's clothing and investigators do believe he did this to conceal his facial tattoos and his identity," Lake County Major Crime Task Force spokesman Christopher Covelli told a news briefing.  "He was seen on video camera in women's clothing."

Highland Park massacre suspect Robert Crimo, 22, is rapper called 'Awake' with 16,000 listeners on Spotify and $100k net worth.  The man suspected of killing six people and wounding more than a dozen others during a July 4 parade in Highland Park, Ill., is a Donald Trump-supporting rapper with a seemingly successful music career.  Robert 'Bobby' Crimo III, 22, who goes by 'Awake the Rapper,' has more than 16,000 listeners per month on Spotify.  Music videos posted by Crimo online last fall include a drawing of himself shooting people online, and a disturbing clip of himself throwing bullets on the floor of a classroom while wearing armor in what appears to be a joke about school shootings.

Cops arrest Highland Park 'shooter' Robert Crimo, 22.  A 22-year-old rapper has been arrested on suspicion of shooting and killing six people at a July 4 parade in an affluent Chicago suburb.  Robert 'Bobby' Crimo III was apprehended by cops in North Lake Forest, Chicago, after 7 p.m. Monday, after cops saw the silver Honda Fit he was last seen driving.  Dramatic photographs from the scene show the suspected mass murderer — who posted creepy clips about shooting massacres online — being pinned to the ground face-down by police.

Internal Memo Reveals Capitol Police Were Warned BLM from Baltimore Was Bussing in Rioters Disguised as Trump Supporters on Jan. 6.  It was all a setup.  Trump supporters were framed by FBI and government operatives and BLM and Antifa terrorists.  A leaked internal memo revealed that the US Capitol Police intel unit warned that BLM from Baltimore was bussing in rioters for January 6th protests.  According to the memo the rioters were going to blend in. [...] According to a former FBI agent on the ground at the US Capitol, at least one bus load of Antifa goons infiltrated the Trump rally as part of a false flag operation.  Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) on Tuesday entered into the record explosive testimony of eyewitness accounts from Michael Waller detailing how he saw "agents-provocateurs" at the Capitol.

Church Vandalized with [pro-abortion] Graffiti.  Police are investigating damage to property at a church in Madison, Wisconsin, that was evidently perpetrated by a pro-abortion group.  "St.  Bernard Catholic Church's front door and signage were damaged by graffiti, which contained 'anti-pro-life and anti-police' messages, according to officers," WMTV reported Saturday.

Supreme Court marshal asks police to enforce laws banning picketing outside justices' homes.  The Marshal of the U.S. Supreme Court has asked Maryland officials to step up the enforcement of laws she says prohibit picketing outside the homes of the justices who live in the state.  "For weeks on end, large groups of protesters chanting slogans, using bullhorns, and banging drums have picketed Justices' homes," Marshal Gail Curley wrote in the letters to GOP Gov. Larry Hogan and Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich, which were dated Friday.

Climate activists slash dozens of SUV tires in NYC, say 'major cities' across US to be hit next.  A group of climate activists has started a campaign to randomly slash tires of parked SUVs across the U.S. in an effort to curb greenhouse gas emissions.  The Tyre Extinguishers — a group that originated in the U.K. and has expanded to various European nations — conducted its first "action" in New York City this week.  The group vowed to conduct similar operations in cities nationwide.  "We are rapidly expanding across the United States and are in touch with people in major cities across the USA," a spokesperson for the Tyre Extinguishers told Fox News Digital.  "We expect this to expand massively."

Suspect arrested for vandalizing Bellevue church in possible hate crime.  A 31-year-old suspect was arrested Tuesday morning on suspicion of a hate crime and assault after allegedly vandalizing a Bellevue church.  The church's surveillance cameras caught the suspect smashing and spray painting an estimated $10,000 worth of damage at the church and its school.  "It's violent, it's an invasion rather than coming to a place hoping to feel peace," said Father Gary Zender with St. Louise Catholic Church.

How to figure out that abortion is not a 'human right'.  The idiocy, hypocrisy, vulgarity — and propensity to threaten violence — are unmatched in the pro-abortion crowd.  They are aghast at a court ruling that they don't like and call it "violence," yet they call the killing of their own offspring in their womb "women's health care."  Most think the January 6 protesters and Trump-supporters should be locked up, but many claim that violence is a "legitimate and appropriate" response to the reversal of Roe v. Wade.  Conservatives did not embark on a "night of rage" after the court's original Roe v. Wade decision in 1973.  Nor have we gone on a summer-long "mostly peaceful" rampage across the country, burning, looting, and assaulting stores, offices, and government vehicles and employees because of the Biden administration's recent threats to infringe upon our Second Amendment rights.

Snowflake Triggered Over Roe v Wade Decision Destroys Church In Washington.  A 31-year-old man was taken into custody on Tuesday afternoon after he allegedly threw rocks, spray-painted and broke glass at St.  Louise Catholic Church in Bellevue.  The suspect was caught on camera throwing a rock repeatedly at a door inside a pastoral office, before kicking and punching the glass in.  A woman was inside praying and tried to talk to the man, before locking herself inside as he continued to spray paint the rock wall outside the building.  He was chased off by an employee, but not before throwing a rock at him and spray-painted him across the face.  [Video clip]

Move Over J6 Protesters, the Left Is Back Outdoing You With Violence.  A year and a half later, the Democrats are still plodding through weeks of public hearings addressing the protest at the U.S. Capitol on one night, Jan. 6, 2021, as if the violence was so dangerous it was going to destroy the country.  The hearings haven't gotten anywhere because with the exception of a couple of turncoat GOP lawmakers, Republicans aren't participating since they view it as a witch hunt.  Now, the House Select Committee investigating Jan. 6 looks sillier than ever, as just one night of violence after the Supreme Court's decision reversing Roe v. Wade was issued on June 24 easily eclipsed the violence on Jan. 6.  Rabid pro-abortion supporters held lawmakers hostage in the Arizona State Capitol building while they violently pushed on the doors to get in.  A Colorado crisis pregnancy center was set on fire and vandalized by graffiti.  In Portland, Oregon, protesters broke windows and left graffiti.  Ten people in Oregon were arrested, some for throwing rocks, smoke bombs and water bottles at police, as well as resisting arrest, and six were arrested in South Carolina, including for resisting arrest.

India: Muslim YouTuber with 303,000 subscribers calls for rape and beheading.  What Nupur Sharma said was accurate, but this rage stems from the fact that she said it critically.  If she had said it was wonderful that Muhammad married a child, all would be well.

Historic West Virginia Catholic Church Completely Burned to the Ground in Suspected Arson Attack.  A historic West Virginia Catholic Church was burned to the ground on Sunday in a suspected arson attack.  Pro-abortion extremists called for violence and vandalism against churches in response to the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.  The St.  Colman Catholic Church, better known as the "The Little Catholic Church on Irish Mountain," was built in 1878 and was declared an official historic site in 1984.

Portland abortion protesters target pregnancy support center: 'The violence was horrible'.  The head of a Portland family and pregnancy support center said Monday on "Fox & Friends First" the nonprofit was mistakenly targeted and damaged by protesters angry over the Supreme Court decision to reverse Roe v. Wade.  Mother and Child Education Center executive director Maura White told hosts Carley Shimkus and Joey Jones that the organization is not "anti-abortion," as protesters believed.  "My organization, we are nonprofit, and we help moms, families, kids in need, babies from zero to 5 years old.  We're just there to help people.  And so they mistakenly thought that we were out here doing anti-abortion and everything, the violence was horrible," said White.

Twitter Is Just Fine With Calls to Assassinate Justice Thomas.  Shortly after Roe v. Wade was overturned, a Twitter user with the handle @redfrnn, who has since deleted his or her or xis account, tweeted: "i'm going to assassinate supreme court justice Clarence Thomas."  The same Twitter user had just before that tweeted a photo of a gun, saying: "im considering buying a mac mini."  Twitter, however, did not find this murderous psychopath to be in violation of their rules, despite the fact that those rules say, "You may not threaten violence against an individual or a group of people."  Well, sure.  You can't threaten violence against an individual, but Clarence Thomas, he's a conservative.  And not only does Thomas dare to dissent from the Left's agenda, but he is one of the most powerful individuals in the country who is actively working against it.  So would the Twitter fascists mind if @redfrnn or someone else actually did kill him?  It's unlikely that they'd shed a tear, even for the fallen rule of law in our staggering republic.

Rudy Giuliani slapped by worker angry over abortion ruling at Staten Island supermarket.  Rudy Giuliani was slapped by a worker at a ShopRite on Staten Island on Sunday while campaigning for his son, leaving the 78-year-old former New York City mayor shaken, the ex-pol told The [New York] Post.  Giuliani said he had just gotten out of the men's room at the store on Veteran's Road and was being greeted by a bunch of supporters when he was suddenly hit from behind — an incident caught on surveillance video obtained by The Post.  "All of a sudden, I feel this 'Bam!' on my back," Giuliani said.  "I don't know if they helped me not fall down, but I just about fell down, but I didn't.  "I feel this tremendous pain in my back, and I'm thinking, what the — I didn't even know what it was," he said.

Hours later...
Rudy Giuliani's alleged attacker walks free after charges downgraded.  The ShopRite worker arrested for allegedly hitting Rudy Giuliani on the back inside a Staten Island supermarket walked free from court Monday after his charges were downgraded.  Daniel Gill, 39, who was still dressed in his ShopRite uniform following his Sunday arrest, kept his head down and refused to answer questions as he left Staten Island Criminal Court after his arraignment Monday [6/27/2022].  His charges were downgraded to third-degree assault, third-degree menacing, and second-degree harassment over the caught-on-camera attack inside the supermarket.

LAPD Charges Man with Attempted Murder During Roe v. Wade Protests.  A California man was arrested and charged with attempted murder of Los Angeles police officers Friday as pro-abortion protesters took to the streets in the aftermath of the SCOTUS abortion ruling.  The landmark Supreme Court decision in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health case, which overturned the long-standing 1973 Roe v. Wade judgement, sparked violent public upheaval across the country, as Breitbart News reported.  Michael Ortiz, 30, and Juliana Bernado, 23, were among those arrested during a clash with police officers in the downtown Los Angeles, Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Chief Michel Moore said.

This Is What Real Revolution Looks Like.  In the wake of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, we have already seen the mobilization of radical groups in our streets.  These are the exact same groups that burned our cities in the run-up to the 2020 election.  They are organized and dedicated and more powerful than ever.  Abortion is a pretext for these groups.  Their real objective is the violent overthrow of the existing social, economic and political order.  Our government is not acting to stop them, and, in fact, is encouraging this violence as a political tactic.  This is not fantasy.  This is not a conspiracy theory.  This is as real as it gets.  This is what a real revolution looks like.

Christian pregnancy clinic in Colorado is torched and graffitied with the words 'if abortions aren't safe, neither are you'.  A fire which occurred at a Christian pregnancy clinic in Colorado is being treated as arson after chilling messages were spray painted onto the walls and ground outside.  'If abortions aren't safe, neither are you,' read one.  'Bans off our bodies' said another by the entrance at the Life Choices clinic in Longmont, northeast of Boulder.  The fire broke out in the middle of the night at 3:17am on Saturday morning.  Authorities believe the fire was set deliberately.  No abortions are carried out at the center which aims to educate women on pregnancy[.]

Brilliant deduction, Holmes.
Fire at abortion alternatives ministry investigated as arson.  Longmont Public Safety (LPS) is investigating a fire at an abortion alternatives ministry as arson.  LPS said officers responded to a reported fire at Life Choices on Mountain View Avenue at 3:17 a.m. Saturday.  Police said the building sustained fire and heavy smoke damage, and that the front of the building was vandalized with black paint.

Is the Green Agenda Being Forced Upon Us by Accident?  The Left hates oil and gas, beef (and chicken, and all meat), and coal [and concrete and air conditioning and DDT and nuclear power and CO2 and natural gas and styrofoam and plastic bags].  But millions of Americans don't believe the hysterical Leftist claims that these things are destroying the planet.  What to do about these folks?  A number of suspicious recent incidents suggest that some people have decided to take matters into their own hands and force compliance with the green agenda by leaving us no other choice.

Last Night in America:  Democrat Brownshirts.  Riots and disruptive protests took place in major cities throughout the nation last night after numerous Democrats urged radical abortionists to take to the streets.  Rioters attempted to breach the Arizona capitol building in Phoenix while the Arizona Senate was in session.  The Arizona Department of Public Safety issued the following statement:  "Troopers deployed gas outside the Senate building after protesters attempted to break the glass.  The crowd then moved to the Wesley Bolin Plaza where some monuments were vandalized.  Gas was deployed again to disburse the crowd."

Arizona abortion protest:  Police release tear gas, lawmakers 'held hostage' in Senate building.  Law enforcement officers in Phoenix, Arizona used tear gas to break up a sizable group of protesters outside the state's Senate building following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to overturn the landmark abortion ruling Roe v. Wade.  "Protesters threatened to break the AZ Senate entryway glass," Republican Arizona State Senator Wendy Rogers tweeted, as members were in the middle of voting on a series of bills.  The situation escalated into a "hostage" situation as lawmakers were instructed not to exit the building, Republican Arizona State Senator Kelly Townsend said.

ANTIFA Terrorists Answer The Calls Of Insurrectionist Democrats; Attack and Beat Innocent Woman.  Yesterday, after the Supreme Court's reversal of Roe vs.  Wade, several Democrat lawmakers addressed angry mobs of supporters to tell them to ignore the Supreme Court ruling.  After she said "the hell with the Supreme Court" and told the media they would "defy" the court's order, Democrat Rep. Maxine Waters (CA) warned America, "You ain't seen nothin' yet!"  She even had the audacity to suggest black women "by the millions" would fight back.  "We are going to make sure we fight for the right to control our bodies!"Does Maxine really speak on behalf of all black women?

Chaos in Los Angeles as Violent Leftists Riot Over Roe v. Wade Being Overturned.  Chaos and mayhem took over in Los Angeles on Friday night as pro-abortion activists rioted over the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and hand control of abortion laws back to the states.  Less-lethal munitions were used in an attempt disperse the crowd, but many of the protesters seemed determined to fight the police.

Democrat politicians seem to be inciting an insurrection.  Angered that the Supreme Court announced in Dobbs that abortion is not part of the Constitution but is, instead, a matter for the states to decide, a lot of leftists are announcing that they're ready to burn down the entire American system rather than yield to the Supreme Court's ruling.  Leading the charge are sitting members of Congress, people such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Maxine Waters.  What they are demanding, and an army of activists is agreeing to do, is a classic insurrection.

Arizona Declares an Unlawful Assembly at the State Capitol.  After the Supreme Court rendered its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization which overturned Roe v. Wade, pro-abortion advocates and Democrat politicians unleashed their professional protestors in State Capitals across the nation.  [Tweet]  According to Arizona Republic, the state has two trigger laws on the books that allow the banning of abortion within the state.  It is unclear whether such a ban would prevail.

Homeland Security Warns Of Potential Domestic Terror Attacks 'For Weeks' Due To Roe v. Wade Ruling.  The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) warned in an intelligence brief on Friday [6/24/2022] that domestic terrorists could launch attacks due to the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v Wade.  The announcement comes after a Left-wing extremist was arrested outside the home of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh earlier this month for allegedly trying to assassinate him and after more than 20 pregnancy resource centers and offices of pro-life groups have been attacked or vandalized in recent weeks.  "Some domestic violent extremists (DVEs) will likely exploit the recent US Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade to intensify violence against a wide range of targets," DHS said.  "We expect violence could occur for weeks following the release, particularly as DVEs may be mobilized to respond to changes in state laws and ballot measures on abortion stemming from the decision. [...]"

Cops brace for unrest as irate protesters gather across country after Roe v. Wade overturned.  Hundreds of angry protesters gathered outside the US Supreme Court building Friday to denounce the historic overturning of Roe v. Wade — as police departments across the country girded for mass unrest after the bitterly contentious ruling.  Additional cops — many in riot gear — were brought in to protect the barricaded federal building and keep any mayhem at bay, a scene that played out at burgeoning protests in all major US cities.  A throng of protestors chanted "F*** Clarence Thomas!" outside the Supreme Court site Friday afternoon to voice their displeasure with the conservative jurist's vocal support of Roe v. Wade's dissolution.

Protesters plan to target Justice Clarence Thomas' home after he said SCOTUS should now revisit gay marriage and contraception.  Thousands of protesters took to the streets on Friday night to express their anger at the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade — the 50-year law that guaranteed access to abortion in every state.  In New York City, a crowd thousands strong massed in Union Square and Washington Square Park, and then marched up Park Avenue.  The crowd massed on Grand Central station, before walking past it and continuing through the Upper East Side.  In Washington DC, Union Square was the site of demonstrations, while protesters from Boston to Philadelphia, Atlanta, Detroit and Los Angeles marched in fury.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Chants SCOTUS Dobbs Ruling Is 'Illegitimate'.  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) joined pro-abortion activists outside the Supreme Court Friday to protest the historic overturning of Roe v Wade by the nation's highest court.  Ocasio-Cortez can be seen chanting the word "illegitimate" in reference to the decision alongside activists, according to video footage shared by TPUSA contributor Drew Hernandez.  The New York Democrat was also seen shouting "into the streets," in an apparent call for Americans to partake in public demonstrations against the ruling.

Maxine Waters Just Called For An Insurrection In front Of The Supreme Court.  A shaken Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) issued a statement and spoke to reporters Friday on the Supreme Court decision returning abortion lawmaking to the states.  Pelosi called the ruling "cruel", "deadly serious" and blamed President Trump, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), and Republicans.  Pelosi also attacked the legitimacy of the Supreme Court, "Pelosi on the court:  "No, I don't respect a process that criminalizes a women's [sic] right to her reproductive freedom.["]

The Editor says...
Fetal homicide is not "reproductive freedom."  Nobody has a right to commit homicide.

Schumer Offers No Apology After Assassination Attempt on Kavanaugh.  "I want to tell you, Gorsuch, I want to tell you, Kavanaugh, you have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price.  You won't know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions," Senator Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said at a pro-abortion rally at the steps of the Supreme Court building on March 4, 2020. At the time, Schumer was the minority leader of the Senate; he is now the majority leader. [...] Instead of apologizing, Schumer responded, "First of all, I'm against violence in any way.  I'm for peaceful protests, but I'm against violence.  Number two, we in the Senate passed legislation very quickly to deal with the Supreme Court and I'm very glad the perpetrator was caught."  He did offer an apology soon after he made his remarks in 2020, but has never explained what he meant by the two judges would not know what "hit" them.

GOP calls for members of Jane's Revenge to be designated as 'domestic terrorists' by FBI, DHS.  In a letter sent to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday, Republican members of Congress demanded that members of the militant pro-abortion group Jane's Revenge be deemed "domestic terrorists" following their attacks on pro-life centers, and their most recent communication.  In the letter, obtained by The Daily Wire, the group said they were writing to express "grave concern" with members of Jane's Revenge, stating that they are "a threat to expectant mothers across America, many of whom are in desperate need of assistance."

Two Michigan pro-life centers vandalized as attacks spike ahead of Supreme Court ruling.  Radical pro-choice extremists have claimed responsibility for attacks on two pro-life pregnancy centers in Michigan as vandalism surges ahead of an anticipated Supreme Court ruling on abortion.  An anonymous Tuesday post on Abolition Media said that the vandalism targeting the Lennon Pregnancy Center in Dearborn Heights and the Pregnancy Care Center in Redford were carried out by "a gang of criminal queers."  "On the night of 6/19 a gang of criminal queers smashed the windows of two fake abortion clinics in the greater Detroit area leaving the messages 'if abortion isn't safe, neither are you' and 'fake clinic,'" said the post.  "Jane will have her revenge."

The menacing militancy of the young pro-aborts.  In the latest installment of what the unprecedented leak of Justice Sam Alito's alleged majority opinion to overturn Roe v. Wade has wrought, young teenage "activists" descended this last weekend on the residential home of Justice Amy Coney Barrett to protest.  With armed guards visible in the background of their display, the young girls wrapped their own hands, smeared their own make-up, splattered their own white pants with fake blood, and taped their own mouths shut.  All of this was to symbolize the "silencing and shackling" of women should the Court actually put an end to the judicially-imposed constitutional "right" to kill unborn children before birth.

Who foments violence in America?  Our nation is being brutalized by violence in city after city:  N.Y., Chicago, Baltimore, St. Louis, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, and more.  Criminals are being allowed to run free among law-abiding citizens in Democrat-run cities throughout the country.  Soros-backed D.A.s were promoted precisely to do what they are doing: foment crime and chaos.  Let the homicidal, drug-addled among our increasingly violent population run free to do what they do.  During the summer of 2020, BLM and Antifa wrought violence and did billions of dollars in damage across America.  The Democrat left supported those riots and raised money to bail out the perpetrators no matter what they had done.  Our media supported the rioters, too; they love nothing better than exacerbating an already explosive situation.  The media do not investigate the obvious possibility that the rioters were recruited and paid to do what they do.  Ask one of them why they are rioting, and you will get a blank look.  They may be doing it for a paycheck, not principles or ideology.

Would A Fanatic Have Tried To Murder Brett Kavanaugh If Merrick Garland Had Enforced Federal Law?  Federal law is quite clear about pickets or parades that seek to interfere with the administration of justice or influence a judge in the administration of his duty.  Such action is criminal, punishable by up to one year in prison.  If the pickets were a peaceful assembly of people who support abortion in a public place, such as the Supreme Court building, this would be political activity protected by the First Amendment.  But the protesters are bringing their demonstrations to the front yards of Supreme Court justices' private residences.  They come in large numbers; they shout through bullhorns; they utter profanities.  Since this is in response to a leaked draft of an opinion that the Supreme Court justices have not yet voted on, there is no conceivable intent of such behavior other than to influence the decision.  This is a federal crime.  Federal crimes should be prosecuted by federal authorities.  Attorney General Merrick Garland was silent about these protests at the justices' homes when they began.

Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul Calls Pro-Lifers 'Neanderthals' After 20-Plus Violent Attacks On Pro-Life Centers.  Following a slew of violent attacks on pro-life pregnancy centers, New York Governor Kathy Hochul (D) is inexplicably amping up the rhetoric against pro-lifers, calling them "neanderthals."  Hochul on Monday signed legislation to boost abortion "rights" and "empower" abortion providers in the Empire State.  "This is the United States of America, where freedom and liberty are supposed to mean something," the Democrat said.  "It's the rock upon which we were founded.  It is supposed to mean something.  Except in the eyes of some neanderthals who say, women are not entitled to those rights."  Earlier this month, a pro-life pregnancy center in Buffalo called CompassCare was firebombed; windows were broken, the structure's medical office was set ablaze, and the vandals added graffiti that said "Jane Was Here," a phrase used by a pro-abortion group called Jane's Revenge.

Jane's Revenge Plans Roe v. Wade Reveal 'Night of Rage,' 'Carrying that Anger Out into the World Expressing it Physically'.  The radical pro-abortion group, Jane's Revenge, is planning more acts of domestic terrorism when the U.S. Supreme Court's decision on Roe v Wade is revealed, dubbed a "Night of Rage:  An Autonomous Call to Action Against Patriarchal Supremacy."  The group posted its plans on the Anarchists Library website at the end of May in expectation of the ruling, expected sometime in June.

Left Wing Group "Jane's Revenge" Announces "Open Season" on Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers.  A shadowy pro-abortion group called "Jane's Revenge" has issued a statement declaring "open season" on pro-life centers and organizations.  They have also claimed credit for related attacks that have already happened.  The Biden Justice Department, which seemingly had no problem with the idea of labeling parents at school board meetings as terrorists, has yet to issue a public statement on this.  This is all based on the leaked opinion about Roe vs. Wade.  Radicals are trying to send a message.

FBI Investigating Attacks on Pregnancy Centers.  The FBI is investigating attacks on pregnancy resource centers across the country as acts of domestic violent extremism, the bureau announced on Friday.  "The FBI is investigating a series of attacks and threats targeting pregnancy resource centers and faith-based organizations across the country," the FBI said in a statement first reported by Fox News.  "The FBI takes all threats seriously and we continue to work closely with our law enforcement partners and will remain vigilant to protect our communities."  The investigations come after violent pro-abortion groups have targeted these organizations following the leak of the Supreme Court's draft decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health, which purported to overturn Roe v. Wade.  These groups counsel women on alternatives to abortion and, often, provide shelter and other resources for new and expectant mothers.  Many of them are religiously affiliated with Christian organizations and churches.

Car With Trump-Hitler Sticker Plows Into Pro-Trump Merch Shop.  Imagine my surprise (that's sarcasm) to learn that a Volkswagen Jetta with a bumper sticker depicting Trump as Hitler crashed through the store window of a shop selling Trump merch in Easton, Mass.  [Tweet]  The store window was full of Trump flags.  The car damaged or destroyed racks and tables of t-shirts, hats, and various forms of Trump plunder, but missed the one person who was nearby.  The police are still investigating the "accident" and no charges have been announced against the driver, a 46-year-old man from the nearby town of Raynham.

Cotton: Garland must resign over DOJ inaction on Jane's Revenge, more than 50 attacks on pro-life groups.  Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Arkansas, said Thursday that U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland should resign over the Biden administration Justice Department's inaction on more than 50 attacks on pro-life pregnancy centers and churches in recent weeks purportedly carried out by Jane's Revenge.  In a letter sent to Garland, Cotton, who is the ranking member for the subcommittee on Criminal Justice and Counterterrorism, the Intelligence Committee, and the Armed Services Committee, also called on the DOJ to investigate Jane's Revenge as a "domestic terrorist organization."

Pro-Life Leaders Send Letter to Attorney General Garland Demanding Response to Pro-Abortion Terrorism.  A coalition of pro-life organizations sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland Thursday demanding action to address the recent wave of pro-abortion terrorism and intimidation.  In a letter organized by the non-profit CatholicVote, 25 pro-life leaders, mostly think tank presidents, called the Justice Department's attention to the many attacks on pregnancy centers, churches, and even Supreme Court justices that have occurred since the Dobbs majority opinion leak last month.  "The relative silence from the Administration endangers Americans even more," the letter read. "One extremist group is advocating for violence in response to the final Supreme Court decision on Dobbs," the group said, invoking a recent statement from rogue pro-abortion militants who call themselves Janes Revenge promising to unleash a rampage of violence against pregnancy centers who don't close their doors.

Nearly half of Democrat men under 50 think it's okay to assassinate political opponents.  If you still doubted that our country is headed for a second bloody civil war unless we peacefully divide up the country beforehand, a disturbing but revealing new survey released this week should remove any remaining doubts.  The survey, conducted by the left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center — which figures — found that voters who identified as Democrats were far more likely than those who identified as Republicans to back political violence, up to and including the assassination of political leaders they considered threats to their agenda.  This helps explain why practically no elected Democrats and no left-wing, Democrat-voting 'pundits' in the media condemned the attempted assassination of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.  According to American Military News, the survey, "published June 1, found that 44 percent of Democrat men under the age of 50 said they 'approve' of assassinating a politician 'who is harming our country or democracy.'"

Abortion Group Declares 'Open Season' on Pro-Lifers, Warns Next Protests Won't Be As 'Easily Cleaned Up as Fire and Graffiti'.  The pro-abortion group Jane's Revenge is declaring it "open season" on pro-life groups and crisis pregnancy centers.  The group has a history of damaging property during their protests, and they took credit for the vandalization of a pregnancy resource center in Des Moines, Iowa earlier this month.  In a message posted to social media, the group said they broke windows and left graffiti political messages all over the clinic.  "It was easy and fun," the message read.  In a new message from the group, they are promising to up their attacks, giving an ultimatum to clinics that provide services meant to act as an alternative to abortion.  The group says a 30-day clock given to their protests has expired and now all must close up shop or face vaguely violent consequences, saying the next demonstrations "may not come in the form of something so easily cleaned up as fire and graffiti."

Report: 23 Pro-Life Organizations [have been] Vandalized [or] Firebombed by Pro-Abortion Activists in Recent Weeks.  At least 23 pro-life organizations have reportedly been vandalized in recent weeks.  The pro-life organizations have been either firebombed or vandalized by radical pro-abortion activists, according to Catholic Vote:  [List of 23 places.]

"Why Can't We Kill Trump?": J6 Hearings Lead To Leftists Asking Why Traitors Can't Be "Executed".  It would be difficult to blame someone for assuming that the phenomenon known as Trump Derangement Syndrome had calmed down.  It was a bizarre affliction to begin with, after all, with leftists losing their minds every time candidate and former President Donald Trump offered a conflicting opinion or mildly offensive tweet. [...] Yet, such an assumption would be incorrect; wildly incorrect, in fact.  The infatuation with Mr. Trump continues on Capitol Hill, as evidenced by the ongoing House Select Committee on January 6th, but then again, no one has been watching those hearings.  Leftwing media outlets continue with their anti-Trump obsession, and as evidence, we could cite the fact that as of yesterday afternoon, five of the top stories on CNN's homepage were focused on the former president, including their top story.  But again, Americans have turned off CNN in droves as well.

Another pregnancy center is set on fire.  Last week, someone set fire to a Christian pregnancy center in Eggertsville, New York.  Graffiti was sprayed on the building and the motives of the arsonists didn't require any help from Sherlock Holmes to figure out.  Now, not even a week later, another pregnancy center in Gresham, Oregon was set ablaze.  The Gresham Pregnancy Resource Center had its fire and smoke detection alarms triggered at approximately 3:00 am on Friday.  Fortunately, the fire department was able to respond swiftly and contain the blaze mostly to one room inside the facility, but other parts of the structure suffered water damage and windows were broken.  And yet again, graffiti was sprayed on the outside of the Christian facility.  The ATF is describing the fire as "suspicious."  Ya think?

White House Again Refuses to Condemn Illegal Protests at Justices' Homes.  Even in the wake of an assassination attempt against Justice Brett Kavanaugh, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre refused to condemned the illegal protests targeting justices' homes as the Biden DOJ turns a blind eye to the leftists threatening originalist justices.  Despite saying that the White House wants protests to remain peaceful, Jean-Pierre on Monday said that the Biden administration has "not weighed in on where people should or should not protest," which is true — but it also further implicates President Biden and the White House in the illegal protests targeting originalist justices including Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, and Samuel Alito.

Democrats Are Playing a Sick Game.  [Scroll down]  The kid from California who flew to DC to kill Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh is just such a person.  Unstable — he was already suicidal and looking to commit murder for the cause before taking his own life, making him a hero to his political party, in his mind at least — he only broke down once he realized the existing security around Kavanaugh's house would make his dreams of martyrdom impossible and he called police on himself.  It wasn't a story.  The torture kit he carried with him would be national news if he'd been caught walking into a school anywhere in the country or near any of Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders or Barack Obama's mansions was reported and then ignored.  This guy may be the only 26-year-old with no social media footprint, or the tech companies wiped it clean in the hours between him turning himself in and the eventual release of his name.  His name was as closely guarded a secret as the identity of who Paul Pelosi was out getting hammered with while Nancy was on the other side of the country giving a commencement address, no one in the media knew it until the Justice Department was ready for it to be known.

Unity And Healing?  Pro-Abortion Group Targets Amy Coney-Barrett's Kids And Church.  This past week we became aware of an attempted assassination by a leftwing activist of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. [...] Did Biden do anything to unite, heal, or even lower the temperature after the news?  Has anyone heard a peep from Biden about the planned killing of Kavanaugh?  Or have we heard crickets?  This brings us to this bit of news.  The pro-abortion group known as Ruth Sent Us has been militant in its rhetoric, and downright threatening.  With the exception of a temporary suspension of the group's TikTok account last month, there's been virtually no accountability for the group.  Their Twitter account is still active and as extreme as ever, and no prominent Democrats have come out and denounced the group.  Then on Tuesday, we became aware of the radical group's targeting of Justice Amy Cone-Barrett's family and church.

The Kavanaugh Assassination Plot is a Leftist Inside Job.  After police arrested a California leftist on a mission to assassinate Justice Kavanaugh, the Biden administration finally condemned the campaign to intimidate the Supreme Court.  "As the president has consistently made clear, public officials, including judges, must be able to do their jobs without concern for their personal safety or that of their families," White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre falsely claimed.  After leftist activists had posted a map of the homes of Supreme Court justices to harass them, Jen Psaki had retorted.  "I don't have an official U.S. government position on where people protest."  There is in fact such a position and it's illegal under 18 U.S.C. § 1507 which states that anyone with "the intent of interfering with, obstructing, or impeding the administration of justice, or with the intent of influencing any judge, juror, witness" "pickets or parades in or near a building.... or residence, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both."  Biden just decided not to enforce these laws in order to allow his leftist allies to intimidate the justices.

The Democrats: 'A Criminal Organization'.  More than a decade ago, Michael Walsh dubbed the Democrats, "A criminal organization masquerading as a political party."  I once thought this was overstating the matter, but I no longer do.  If you can't fully accept this characterization, recent events surrounding the leak of the Supreme Court draft opinion overturning Roe v Wade, should unshutter your eyes and let in the light.  Democratic leaders are encouraging lawless, threatening behavior against Supreme Court justices, and their attorney general refuses to enforce the law against such behavior.  This criminal organization has a huge public relations outfit working around the clock for it, the Major Media, which is why you may have missed this.  It's hard to ignore the fact that the leaders of the party are openly inciting violence in an effort to force the Court to decide cases based on fear of the mob, instead of the law. [...] Not one single Democratic leader has spoken out in opposition to the terroristic actions against the Court.

Democrats Wanted to Intimidate Justices.  Now It's Getting Dangerous.  "I want to tell you, Gorsuch.  I want to tell you, Kavanaugh.  You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price.  You won't know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions."  Those were the words of the Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, one of the most powerful elected officials in the nation, in March 2020. After spending years cynically delegitimizing the high court, Schumer had moved to openly threatening lifetime-appointed judges, by name, because he feared they would knock down the concocted constitutional right to an abortion.  Initially, Schumer refused to walk back those remarks.  His spokesman ludicrously claimed the statement was "a reference to the political price Senate Republicans will pay for putting these justices on the court."  Of course, the senator hadn't singled out the Republican Party, or any Republican.  He called out the two newest justices by name.  "You" and "you."  Yet, it is almost surely the case that the coverage of a California man carrying a weapon and burglary equipment near Brett Kavanaugh's home, reportedly there to murder the Supreme Court justice over the leaked opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health, will not be tied to the rhetoric of Democrats like Schumer.

Supreme Court intimidation has taken justices to a dark place.  [Scroll down]  Notice how little we have seen of the pro-Roe side relying on efforts to get their way through legitimate and obvious channels — to argue their position on its legal merits.  Perhaps on some level they know what has long been clear to pro-choice and pro-life legal thinkers alike — that the Constitution simply does not include a right to abortion.  For those on the Left, legal analysis has given way to political platitudes.  Principled debate has given way to raw intimidation tactics.  All of this only bolsters the conclusion that those who seek to subvert the court are on the wrong side of history.  Today we see the toll taken by these intimidation tactics — and by ostensible leaders who keep appeasing the radicals in their party.  This is why leaks of Supreme Court opinions are dangerous.  This is why doxxing justices is a bad idea.  This is why justices' homes should be off limits.  This is why the court must release the Dobbs opinion as soon as possible.

Asheville police:  Mountain Area Pregnancy Services vandalized, threatened.  Police are searching for the person or people who spray-painted a local pregnancy services clinic with the words "If abortions aren't safe, neither are you!" and busted out windows, according to a news release.  Officers with the department were called to Mountain Area Pregnancy Services in West Asheville around 7:20 a.m. June 7 to investigate the report of vandalism, according to the release.  "Upon arrival, officers found that someone had spray-painted the business with red graffiti, with the threatening wording, 'If abortions aren't safe, neither are you!' and an anarchist symbol on the front of the building," the release says.  "They also found the wording, 'No forced birth' on the side."

Someone Just Tried to Kill Brett Kavanaugh.  Welcome to the New Normal.  Early Wednesday morning, police arrested an armed man near the home of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in Chevy Chase, Maryland.  The man told investigators he'd traveled all the way from California to break into Kavanaugh's house and kill the justice, then kill himself.  The man apparently told police that he was driven to kill Kavanaugh because he was angry that the justice likely had voted to overturn Roe.  The would-be assassin also was reported to be upset over the recent mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas.  He believed Kavanaugh planned to vote to loosen gun laws, and his eliminating the justice would avoid that. [...] As my colleagues have noted on multiple occasions, these ongoing assaults on the justices' neighborhoods are clearly illegal and go past mere protesting.  Cully Stimson, a senior legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation who happens to be a neighbor of Justice Amy Coney Barrett, explained a federal law that clearly has been broken by these protesters.

Democrats Put Out a Contract on Justice Barrett.  Would-be assassin Nicholas Roske failed to carry out his mission of assassinating Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.  This isn't surprising: the sort of person who acts on incitement from the likes of Chuck Schumer is more or less deranged, and more or less incompetent.  Yet there are more where Roske came from, and one of them may succeed.  What do the Democrats think about attempted assassinations of Supreme Court justices?  To my knowledge, neither Schumer nor Joe Biden's handlers have commented.  I surmise that the Democrats are hoping for one or more assassinations to take place before Biden is hustled out of the White House, so that his handlers can appoint a successor.

Watters seeks deeper investigation on 'left wing lunatic' who wanted to end Brett Kavanaugh's life.  Fox News host Jesse Watters demands a deep investigation into the 'left wing lunatic' who allegedly traveled across the country in hopes to kill Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.  Watters asks if the orders came from the top in a recent video.  [Video clip]  The California gunman arrested near Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's Maryland home Wednesday morning was identified as Nicholas John Roske, per law enforcement sources.  He was arrested after reporting himself.  Nicholas was armed with a gun, a knife and pepper spray and had made violent threats against Kavanaugh, sources said.  He is charged with attempted murder against a U.S. Supreme Court justice.  His first appearance in court is scheduled in a Maryland federal court.

Who Radicalized Justice Kavanaugh's Would-Be Murderer?  In the aftermath of the arrest of a California man who plotted to kill Justice Kavanaugh, journalist Glenn Greenwald asks the question:  "who radicalized him?"  Of course, this was a rhetorical question.  Greenwald knows precisely who is to blame and wastes no time in pointing the finger to MSNBC's Joy Reid.  [Tweet]  Greenwald also compares this event to when a fan of Rachel Maddow attempted to murder several GOP members at a softball game several years ago.  [Tweet]

After months of Democrat incitement, attacker aims at Supreme Court justice.  Nicholas John Roske, a 26-year-old man, was arrested near Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's home Wednesday morning and charged with attempted murder, according to multiple reports.  He was armed with a gun, a tactical knife and pepper spray at the time of his arrest and told police he planned to kill Kavanaugh to give his life a "purpose," according to a federal affidavit.  Roske told investigators he was upset about a leaked draft opinion revealing the court would likely overturn Roe v. Wade and about the recent school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.  Democrats have been slow to condemn threats and intimidation of justices after a leaked draft opinion revealed that the court would likely overturn Roe, initially reported by Politico.  They excused and in one case encouraged protests in front of justices' private homes after the pro-abortion group "Ruth Sent Us" published what it claims are the home addresses of the six conservatives on the court.  Roske told authorities he had found Kavanaugh's address online, according to the affidavit.

The Eerie Silence Around Kavanaugh Assassination Attempt.  Just consider how when then-Rep. Gabby Giffords, D-Ariz., was shot in 2011, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was blamed for inciting violence with a map with a series of political targets — despite there being zero evidence tying Giffords' shooter to Palin.  Yet in 2017, when a gunman shot five people at a Republican lawmakers' practice baseball game in Alexandria, Virginia, there was little in the way of a national conversation.  It looks like 2017, not 2011, is the road map for what will happen in the aftermath of the attempted assassination of Kavanaugh, despite there being clear evidence Kavanaugh's would-be shooter was motivated by politics.  As noted in the criminal complaint, Roske told police "he was upset about the leak of a recent Supreme Court draft decision regarding the right to abortion as well as the recent school shooting in Uvalde, Texas." In light of Roske's motivation, it seems relevant to remember the remarks of then-Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer in 2020 when, amid a discussion of abortion, he said in part, "I want to tell you, Kavanaugh, you have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price."

Kavanaugh's would-be assassin was acting on Sen Schumer's words.  A pro-life group called Created Equal has said the man who attempted to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh was inspired by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's comments about the Justice from 2020.  A pro-life group called Created Equal has said the man who attempted to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh was inspired by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's comments about the Justice from 2020.  In a statement, Created Equal exclaimed "Today, an abortion advocate apparently acted on the incendiary words of Senator Chuck Schumer that Justice Brett Kavanaugh 'will pay the price.'  The inflammatory rhetoric of the left is leading to violence.  It's time for the Biden Administration to publicly call for abortion advocates to turn down the temperature."  In a speech just outside the Supreme Court in March of 2020, Schumer said Kavanaugh has "released the whirlwind and you will pay the price."

Democrats won't apologize for inciting violence.  Here is a prediction that can be made with 100% certainty.  If a Democrat-appointed Supreme Court Justice had just had their life threatened, this nation's politics and media would be in uproar.  Were a man to have just been found outside the home of a Democrat-appointed Judge, seeking to kill them, it would be wall-to-wall coverage.  But it was outside the home of Justice Brett Kavanaugh that a man was arrested in the early hours of Wednesday morning.  The 26-year old had traveled from California and has admitted that he hoped to kill Kavanaugh.  Among other things the man told officers that he was upset about the leaked draft of a Supreme Court judgement on Roe v Wade.  This news hardly made the front page of The New York Times.  A tiny news in brief line was all it got.  There was no wall-to-wall coverage on the networks.  So far the nation's late night comics have not got the story between their teeth.  Nobody is talking about the rise of fascism in America.  Nobody even seems particularly interested in looking in the would-be assassin's motives.

The Democrats' 'Insurrection' Against The Supreme Court.  It seems the Democrats' increasingly violent rhetoric in recent years continues to bear its poison fruit.  A mere day before [Nicholas J.] Roske was nabbed, pro-abortion activists firebombed a pro-life CompassCare pregnancy center outside Buffalo, in what the Washington Free Beacon described as "the latest in a series of attacks on pro-life offices and churches since the leak of a draft Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v. Wade."  To leave no doubt about who was behind the bombing, the perps left a scrawled message:  "Jane Was Here," a reference to the anonymous "Jane Roe" of the "Roe v. Wade" decision.  But even violent leftists who get caught red handed get off easy under President Joe Biden's Justice Department, headed by Merrick Garland.  Two radical lawyers, Colinford Mattis and Urooj Rahman, were found to have handed out Molotov cocktails to other rioters during the 2020 violence, and even threw one of the explosives into a cop car before escaping.

Schumer Under Pressure to Address Past Comments After Man Tried Killing Kavanaugh.  The Senate's top Democrat is under pressure to retract his remarks promising Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh would "pay the price" after a man was arrested near Kavanaugh's home with a gun.  Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said in March 2020 that Kavanaugh and Justice Neil Gorsuch, both Trump appointees, "have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price."  "You won't know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions," Schumer added, speaking to a crowd outside the Supreme Court building in Washington.  After Nicholas John Roske of California was arrested near Kavanaugh's home on June 8, with authorities saying Roske outlined plans to break into the home and murder the justice, some of Schumer's colleagues called for him to speak up.

Suspect in Kavanaugh Assassination Plot 'Flew Under the Radar,' Described as 'Socially Awkward'.  Former classmates, colleagues, and friends of the California man accused of attempting to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh early Wednesday described him as a friendly but sometimes "socially awkward" young man who tended to fly "under the radar." [...] Roske was detained by police early Wednesday after he got out of a taxi in front of Kavanaugh's Maryland home wearing black clothes and was spotted by two deputy U.S. Marshals, according to a criminal complaint.  Roske told authorities he called 911 on himself because he was having suicidal thoughts, and he told a dispatcher that he had come "from California to kill a specific" Supreme Court justice, the affidavit said.  Authorities searched his backpack and found a Glock 17 with two magazines and ammunition, a tactical knife, pepper spray, zip ties, a hammer, a screwdriver, and other gear.  Roske told authorities that he was upset about the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization that would overturn Roe v. Wade, as well as the recent school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.

Should SCOTUS issue a ruling in Dobbs immediately as a matter of self-protection?  When you have reason to believe that five justices have signed onto overturning Roe but the decision hasn't been handed down yet, that's an incentive to take one of those votes away by any means necessary.  Especially since a Democratic president would get to fill the vacancy. [...] The way to handle the leak isn't to have the Court change how it operates, it's to give the justices extra security. [...] As a matter of political self-interest, Democrats should want that security in place ASAP.  If someone harms one of the justices, God forbid, they'll never be able to explain why they dragged their feet even after the reality of the threat was made clear last night.  And the country would be rendered ungovernable by the thought of Democrats benefiting politically from a murder which they might have prevented if they had acted sooner to protect the Court.

Democrats Block Bill Providing Additional Security for Supreme Court Justices.  House Democrats on Wednesday stalled a bill that would have provided additional security for Supreme Court Justices on the same day a man was arrested for attempting to murder Justice Brett Kavanaugh.  House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) made a unanimous consent request on the House floor to bring up S. 4160 for a vote.  S. 4160, which passed the Senate by a unanimous vote, would have allocated additional security for the justices' family members.

Accountability? Grand Jury Indicts 11 Antifa Members For Violent Attack During Patriot March.  Yesterday, while voters elsewhere in California were casting ballots to recall far-left District Attorney Chesa Boudin in San Francisco for his soft-on-crime policies and subsequent skyrocketing violent crime rates, another DA 500 miles to the south was successful in her efforts to actually hold criminals accountable.  According to multiple reports, a grand jury in San Diego indicted eleven Antifa counter-protest participants on Tuesday for allegedly attacking Pro-Trump demonstrators at a Pacific Beach march last January 9th, only three days after the infamous march and riot in Washington D.C. Of those indicted, ten have pleaded not guilty, while the eleventh is expected to be arraigned in a few weeks.

Abortion militants are firebombing pro-life centers across America and the media pretends like nothing is happening.  The latest incident among many occurred in Eggertsville, N.Y., where a pro-life center called CompassCare was reportedly "firebombed" and sprayed with graffiti early this week.  An "abortion terrorist group" called Jane's Revenge has been tied to the incident as an incriminating message scrawled on the side of the CompassCare building read "Jane was here."  Every visible window of the facility was smashed in and reports indicate that the offices inside were "extensively damaged by flames and smoke" — all to fight back against the overturning of Roe v. Wade.  Jane's Revenge took credit for another recent incident in Madison, Wisc.  The group firebombed the headquarters of Wisconsin Family Action (WFA), a pro-life organization.

Protesters [are still] Allowed Outside Justice Brett Kavanaugh's Home After Assassination Threat.  The Justice Department appears to still be allowing protesters to gather outside of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's home even after police arrested a man who allegedly intended to assassinate him.  Video on Wednesday showed protesters marching in front of the justice's home shouting pro-abortion slogans.  The protesters also made their way over to Chief Justice John Roberts' home as well.

Graham on Kavanaugh Death Threat: 'The Worst Is Yet to Come'.  During an appearance on Wednesday's broadcast of FNC's "Jesse Watters Tonight," Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) warned there could be more trouble ahead in the wake of the threat aimed at Supreme Court Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh's life uncovered earlier in the day.  Graham blamed rhetoric from Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and the inaction of Attorney General Merrick Garland for what he deemed to be the "logical extension" of the threat of violence.

More On the Would-Be Assassin.  The man who traveled to Maryland to try to kill Justice Brett Kavanaugh has been identified as Nicholas John Roske, from Simi Valley, California.  He apparently made it to Justice Kavanaugh's house before being apprehended: [...] This is precisely the sort of person likely to act on incitement to violence by the likes of Chuck Schumer.  The New York Post has more, including reaction from the group who published Kavanaugh's home address: [...] Ironically, Roske, who was armed with a Glock handgun and intended to kill Justice Kavanaugh, wanted more stringent (unconstitutional) gun control laws.

Man With Gun Arrested Near Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's Home; Told Police He Was There to Kill Kavanaugh.  A California man was arrested overnight near the Maryland home of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.  The man reportedly told police he was there to kill Kavanaugh.  After the story broke, the Supreme Court issued a statement confirming the incident.  Kavanaugh has been targeted by protesters at his home since the leak of a draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade. [...] Two years ago Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) threatened Kavanaugh by name.  [Tweet]

California Man Charged with Attempted Murder after Traveling to Kavanaugh's Home with Gun.  Nicholas John Roske was charged with the attempting or threatening to murder or kidnap a Supreme Court Justice Wednesday after traveling to Justice Brett Kavanaugh's home armed with a Glock handgun intent on killing the justice over his expected rulings in ongoing cases related to abortion and the Second Amendment.  Roske, 26, of Simi Valley, Calif. was identified as the suspect in an affidavit unsealed Wednesday afternoon.  Roske told law enforcement that he called 911 to turn himself in because he was having suicidal thoughts, also telling the operator that he intended to kill a "specific" Supreme Court justice, according to the affidavit.  Roske was subsequently arrested, and officers found a Glock 17 pistol with two magazines, as well as a tactical knife, pepper spray, and other items such as a hammer and screwdriver.

Armed man arrested near Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's home.  An armed California man incensed about the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion expected to overturn Roe v. Wade was arrested near Justice Brett Kavanaugh's Maryland home Wednesday after he hatched a plan to kill the jurist to "give his life purpose," prosecutors said.  Nicholas John Roske, 26, was arrested by the Montgomery County Police Department at about 1:50 a.m. near Kavanaugh's home in Chevy Chase and was charged later Wednesday in Maryland federal court with attempting to kill or kidnap a US judge, court records show.  Roske, who was dressed in black clothing and carrying a backpack and a suitcase, was spotted getting out of a cab in front of Kavanaugh's home around 1:05 a.m. by two deputy US Marshals, who were stationed outside the residence, court papers state.

The List of Gear Kavanaugh's Would-Be Assassin Was Carrying Is Terrifying.  The FBI has released the affidavit filed in the case of Nicholas John Roske, who was arrested near the home of Supreme Court Justice Bret Kavanagh on Wednesday afternoon.  The list of weapons and gear the suspect had on his person reads like something out of a horror movie.  Roske, who told police that he planned to assassinate Kavanaugh, was arrested with a suitcase containing "a black tactical chest rig and tactical knife, a Glock 17 pistol with two magazines and ammunition, pepper spray, zip ties, a hammer, screwdriver, nail punch, crow bar, pistol light, duct tape, hiking boots with padding on the outside of the soles, and other items," according to the FBI.

Dem Leader Chuck Schumer in 2020 to Justice Kavanaugh: 'You will pay the price'.  Blood would have been on Schumers hands.  He wanted this, here is all the proof you need.  Vague statements like this that are taken however they want are the main reason some of the riots around the country happened, faulty reporting, aka misinformation aka fake news.  Now we have proof a top Democrat incited a man to attack the justice the Senator put a mark on.  Arrest him now!

Chuck Schumer Accused of 'Clear Incitement of Violence' Following Arrest of Would-Be Kavanaugh Assassin.  Following the arrest of an armed man outside the home of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, many people are pointing to 2020 comments from Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer as a potential catalyst.  According to CNBC, law-enforcement officers said Wednesday morning that a California man carrying a handgun, knife, pepper spray and burglary tools was arrested about one block away from Kavanaugh's private residence in Maryland. [...] In a video from 2020, shared on Twitter by Georgia Congressional candidate Vernon Jones, Schumer expressed outrage at Justices Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch for considering decisions he did not agree with.  "I want to tell you, Gorsuch, I want to tell you, Kavanaugh:  You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price," Schumer said.  "You won't know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions."

Is Chuck Schumer Culpable for the Assassination Attempt Against Justice Kavanaugh?  Wednesday morning, a radical abortion activist was arrested near Justice Brett Kavanaugh's home in Maryland after admitting he wanted to kill him. [...] How does a person get to the point where he thinks killing a Supreme Court justice is okay?  Well, some are pointing fingers at the Biden White House for its failure to condemn the protests outside the homes of justices after the leak of the draft majority opinion of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization.  That certainly didn't help, but the normalization of violence against a Supreme Court justice over the issue of abortion is more directly linked to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.  At a 2020 #MyRightMyDecision rally outside the Supreme Court, Schumer verbally issued threats to Trump-appointed Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch over their potential votes in the first abortion case before the new conservative-majority court.  "I want to tell you, Gorsuch, I want to tell you, Kavanaugh:  You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price," Schumer said to a chorus of cheers.  "You won't know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions."  [Tweet]

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CNN Denied Attempted Kavanaugh Assassin Was Armed, Cries 'Both Sides'.  After taking over an hour to get to the major breaking story of the day Wednesday [6/8/2022] — the attempted assassination of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh at his home earlier that morning — CNN's At This Hour tried to downplay the incident by suggesting the man wasn't armed "at all" and tried to claim there were threats from "both sides" of the political spectrum.  Despite reports that the would-be assassin was armed with a gun, a knife, and pepper spray, and was angered by the leaked draft decision that could overturn Roe v. Wade, CNN law enforcement correspondent Whitney Wild tried to downplay the entire situation, even denying he had any weapons on him.

Pro-Abortion Terrorists Firebomb Buffalo Pro-Life Pregnancy Center.  Pro-abortion terrorists firebombed a pro-life Christian pregnancy center in Buffalo, N.Y. on Tuesday, inflicting significant damage on the building and vandalizing the remains with their organization's name.  Pro-abortion group Jane's Revenge, which has developed a reputation for resorting to violence, claimed responsibility for the attack, which left glass shattered and much of the interior of the CompassCare office burned and destroyed, CBN News reported.

Pregnancy center near U.S. Capitol vandalized with red paint, 'REVENGE' graffiti.  Police are investigating vandalism at a faith-based pregnancy center just blocks from the U.S. Capitol.  Washington Metro Police Department officers responded Friday morning to reports of damaged property after vandals splattered red paint on the front door of the Capitol Hill Pregnancy Center and spray-painted "JANE SAYS" and "REVENGE" onto the building.

Molotov Cocktail Lawyers Plead Guilty to Reduced Charges, Likely Will Get Only Two-Year Sentences.  The two former lawyers who threw a Molotov cocktail at a police car during the George Floyd riots have pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges and are expected to receive reduced sentences.  As we noted previously, they were originally facing a much harsher sentence. [...] Prosecutors in this case have bent over backwards to ensure shorter sentences for these two.  Good thing they're not Trump supporters.

Pro-Life Group Offers Award for Arrest of Abortion Activists Who Firebombed Its Office.  A Wisconsin pro-life group is offering a reward to help find and arrest the radical abortion activist who firebombed its office last month.  As LifeNews reported, abortion activists firebombed a pro-life group's office in Madison, Wisconsin.  A leftist radical threw Molotov cocktails into Wisconsin Family Action's office in the capital city and a picture of the destruction shows the office heavily damaged from the bomb.  The pro-abortion terrorists responsible also vandalized the building and left a threatening message saying "If abortions aren't safe, then you aren't either."

YouTuber Ethan Klein calls for bombing of NRA conference.  YouTuber Ethan Klein called for the NRA conference in Texas to be bombed.  "Saw there was a big protest outside the NRA meeting which was good," Klein said Friday.  "Do we have any insight into what they're actually talking about there at the NRA meeting that's today in Texas?  Someone should bomb that building."  Klein hosts the H3 Podcast with 2.9 million subscribers.  The National Rifle Association's convention in held annually in Houston.

Crazed Liberal Screams at Ted Cruz in Restaurant For Attending NRA Conference — Has to Be Restrained By Bystanders.  Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz was confronted by a crazed liberal in a restaurant who blamed him for the school shooting that left 19 children and two teachers dead in Uvalde earlier this week.  The unhinged lunatic was upset that Sen. Cruz had attended the National Rifle Association conference in Houston and had to be restrained by bystanders because his actions were so out of control.

Joe Biden Says The 'Protests' In The Summer Of 2020 'Unified' People Of Every Generation.  During recent prepared remarks, President Joe Biden said the the 'protests' in the summer of 2020 unified people of every generation.  First of all, they were more like riots than protests.  Secondly, the only people they united were the far left radicals doing the rioting.  Most people were repulsed by the left's behavior.  Parts of cities were burned or destroyed in other ways.  Biden thinks this was unifying?

Abortion Activists Vandalize Mississippi Church as Pro-Abortion Violence Continues Nationwide.  A rural Mississippi church was vandalized with pro-abortion graffiti Monday, the latest in dozens of attacks against churches and pro-life organizations in recent weeks.  The walls, doors and windows of Mt.  Avery Missionary Baptist Church in Columbus, near the Alabama border, were found covered with pro-abortion slogans and what appears to be a drawing of a sexual assault, WCBI News reports.  St. Elmore Armistad, a deacon at the church, said someone noticed the graffiti Monday afternoon and called him, according to the Associated Press.

Dem Rep should have done more research before blaming Dallas shooting on 'white supremacy'.  In a rush to blame all the horrors of the world on dangerous Republican rhetoric, the chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio), was quick to blame last week's shooting at a Korean hair salon in Dallas on "White supremacy" and that racist white replacement theory.  The only problem with her argument?  The suspect in the shooting is a black man.  Standing outside the Capitol Thursday with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) standing approvingly behind her, Beatty told the press, "On Monday, three people in a Korean-owned hair salon in Dallas were gunned by yet another white supremacy replacement theorist."

Buffalo Shooter Was a Left-Leaning COVID Nazi, Wore Hazmat Suit to School.  [T]he left finally found a white supremacist mass shooter!  The bad news for the Don Lemons of the world is that the Buffalo shooter was a lefty.  As PJ Media's own Matt Margolis reported, the shooter's manifesto claims he was anything BUT a conservative. [...] If you're still not convinced this wackjob is a lefty, his family is now stating that the gunman lived in a seemingly constant state of COVID-19 panic.  A cousin of his mother told reporters the shooter "bought into the fear of COVID."  She claims he wore a respirator mask to family functions and an entire hazmat suit to school.

Two Authoritarian Leftist Killers Committed Mass Shootings This Week, Media Silent.  There were two mass shootings committed this week in America, but only a fraction of the public is aware they were committed by authoritarian leftists, due to selectively biased news media coverage.  On Sunday, Chinese-born man named David Wenwei Chou, a 68-year-old resident of Las Vegas, claimed the life of one person and wounded five others.  It could have been much worse if not for the brave actions of Dr. John Cheng, who lost his life putting an end to the assailants' shooting rampage.  Now there is a newly discovered development:  Chou has connections to a Chinese communist front group, as was reported by the Epoch Times.

California Church Shooting Suspect Had Ties to CCP Front Group.  The man charged with killing one person and injuring five others after a Taiwanese service at Geneva Presbyterian Church in Laguna Woods, California, was once a member of a U.S.-based group controlled by the Chinese Communist Party.  The Orange County Sheriff's Department said the shooting by the alleged gunman, 68-year-old David Wenwei Chou of Las Vegas, was "a politically motivated hate incident."  Sheriff Don Barnes said the suspect "was upset about political tensions between China and Taiwan."  Barnes also indicated that the suspect, who wasn't a regular attendee and had no known ties or affiliation with the church, secured the doors within the church with chains and tried to disable the locks with superglue before he opened fire.

The bullying of America.  When are conservatives going to fight back against the violence of the left?  It's glaringly obvious that the radicals in the Democrat party are using tactics that put many people in fear of physical assault or damage to their property.  This became clear during the Trump presidency when proud Americans were beaten up in public for wearing hats supporting him.  Viral videos of hats being snatched from the heads of people in restaurants, in shopping malls, or just walking along a street became common.  Did we ever think the time would come when people wearing caps that read "Make America Great Again" would be subjected to vicious attacks?  Contrarily, those who displayed support for Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Al Sharpton, and even Fidel Castro would have no fear of reprisal for wearing political apparel.

Oxford shooting suspect Ethan Crumbley hoped massacre would get Biden impeached, records show.  Ethan Crumbley, the Michigan teenager accused of opening fire at his high school in November, allegedly wrote that he hoped the massacre would get President Biden impeached, new records show.  "Hopefully my shooting will cause Biden to get impeached," 15-year-old Crumbley allegedly wrote in a journal entry disclosed in a court filing Wednesday, the Detroit Free Press reported.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Signs Bill Banning "Picketing and Protesting" Outside a Private Home.  Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill into law on Monday that prohibits "picketing and protesting" outside a private residence.  Governor Ron DeSantis signed House Bill 1571 in the wake of abortion protests.  The bill will make it unlawful to picket outside Florida residences and be considered a second-degree misdemeanor.  "Sending unruly mobs to private residences, like we have seen with the angry crowds in front of the homes of Supreme Court justices, is inappropriate," said Governor Ron DeSantis.  "This bill will provide protection to those living in residential communities and I am glad to sign it into law."  The new law will take effect on October 1.

Are you sure you want to call the Roe protests "the summer of rage?".  During the BLM riots that swept the nation in 2020 and beyond, critics of the violence and mayhem took to sarcastically calling that period the "summer of love."  Now a new wave of angry protests is erupting in multiple cities targeting the Supreme Court over its anticipated ruling that would mostly overturn Roe v. Wade.  The topic may be quite different than the BLM marches, but the tactics are already starting to look similar.  Protest organizers have already announced that they want this period to be a "summer of rage."  But is that really the way to win the battle for hearts and minds?  If I had the chance to ask these organizers one question, it would relate to what precisely they hope to accomplish, since the public has no leverage over the decisions of the court whether they hand down a ruling you approve of or one that you loathe.

Protesters Scream Obscenities Outside Justices' Houses Following Washington March.  About 20 pro-abortion protesters directed their screams at Justice Brett Kavanaugh's children while walking by the justice's Maryland residence multiple times on May 14. [...] The protesters walked past the house in Chevy Chase, then circled back multiple times to scream obscenities again.  About a dozen police officers stood outside the house, but none took action to arrest the protesters, who continued to scream obscenities with every pass.  "No privacy for us, no peace for you," the protesters chanted.

Pro-Abortion Protesters Call for 'Mandatory Vasectomies' Outside Samuel Alito Event.  Pro-abortion protesters outside George Mason University's Antonin Scalia Law School Thursday afternoon called for "mandatory vasectomies" and claimed that "the Bible itself tells you how to perform abortions."  About 30 abortion advocates gathered outside the front entrance to the law school in Arlington, Virginia, to protest an address set to be given by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito at the school.  The address was being given by Alito remotely from the court building while fallout from a draft opinion overturing infamous pro-abortion case Roe v. Wade — written by Alito — was leaked, leading leftists to gather outside justices homes to protest.

Media Silent on Pro-Antifa "Journalist" Who Vandalized Synagogues, Set Fire to Mosque.  CNN's Don Lemon once comically defended Antifa, stating that they had to be anti-fascist because it "says it right in the name:  Antifa, anti-fascism."  But if the actions of a pro-Antifa "journalist" (along with 2020's 600+ riots) are any indication, the abbreviation certainly doesn't stand for "anti-fire and arson."  As Gateway Pundit reports, "In Portland (of course), deranged leftists have long blamed phantom 'white supremacists' for causing trouble in the city, fearing that neo-nazis are lurking around every corner, just waiting to strike.  Well, apparently these 'white supremacists' are so inactive that deranged leftists themselves have to commit the crimes that 'white supremacists' would otherwise be committing."  "The latest case in point involves a particular individual suspected of committing various acts of arson against various places of worship in the Portland area," the site continues.  "Pro-antifa 'journalist' Mike Bivins has been arrested for allegedly vandalizing and setting fire to two Synagogues and a Mosque, even attempting to burn people alive as they were inside the Mosque."

There Will Be Blood.  Progressive activists have long fallen on the tactic of resorting to violence, destruction, and even bloodshed to get their points across. [...] Already, they vandalized several Catholic churches last weekend, and firebombed a Right to Life group's headquarters.  A bullet was fired into the office of the Virginia Attorney General this week as well.  Violence is already here.  These were all pre-game activities as they warm up for what is to come.  In reality however, members of the far Left have consistently resorted to violence and sanctioned attacks against civilians.  Many of the Vietnam protests turned into riots.  Domestic terrorists belonging to the Weather Underground bombed school buildings, the U.S. Capitol, and the Pentagon.  The SLA robbed banks, set off bombs and murdered innocent people.  In recent years, staff of the Trump Administration, such as Sarah Huckabee Sanders, faced confrontational harassment and were asked to leave businesses — actions fully supported by politicians such as Maxine Waters.  Mad Maxine encouraged her followers to publicly accost Trump officials.

The Leftwing Insurrection.  According to the propaganda narrative of the media, Donald Trump and the Republican Party foment insurrection and illegitimacy in American politics.  Only the noble left, with its commitment to democracy, can defend America and its institutions and rule of law.  This is hogwash and anyone free from the tyrannic propaganda of the media knows it.  In reality, the left peddles insurrectionist language and promotes the idea of American illegitimacy so as to endorse insurrectionist behavior — "in the name of democracy" though.  Joe Scarborough, one of the most annoying individuals to ever purvey television propaganda, has recently called the Supreme Court "illegitimate."  So have other liberal opinion writers.  And what does all this talk of Court illegitimacy bring?  Insurrectionist beliefs.  It is an announcement for haters of America to begin burning property and launching violent protests aimed at desecrating the rule of law in the United States.  It is the go-ahead for the army of Bolshevik street-warriors to assail American institutions and the freedom they uphold.

Let the leaker pay for all the overtime incurred!
Garland directs U.S. Marshals to ensure safety of Supreme Court justices.  Attorney General Merrick Garland has ordered the U.S. Marshals Service to ensure the safety of Supreme Court justices amid protests sparked by a leaked draft opinion that would overturn Roe vs.  Wade.  "The Attorney General directed the U.S. Marshals Service to help ensure the Justices' safety by providing additional support to the Marshal of the Supreme Court and Supreme Court Police," the Justice Department said in a press release Wednesday.  The statement did not add further details about the security measures, noting that Garland "continues to be briefed on security matters related to the Supreme Court and Supreme Court Justices."

Youngkin Steps In to Offer Security for Supreme Court Justices as Biden DOJ Is AWOL.  Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin appears to be stepping into a gap created by the Biden administration's Justice Department to help ensure the safety of Supreme Court justices and their families.  Protesters have gone to the homes of conservative Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito, John Roberts and Brett Kavanaugh in Virginia and Maryland following the leak of a draft majority opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization.  Alito, who wrote the draft, Kavanaugh, Neil Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barrett and Clarence Thomas have reportedly signed on to the opinion, which would overturn the 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade.  Roe struck down all state laws banning abortion, making it a national right.

The Editor says...
[#1] The Supreme Court does not make laws or create rights.  [#2] Homicide is not a right.

It's OK to incite violence on Twitter — as long as it's against the right.  In the wake of an unprecedented leak from the Supreme Court of a draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, national Democrats have taken to social media appearing to encourage violence.  Earlier this week, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot issued a tweet calling on "friends in the LGBTQ+ community" to recognize this moment as "a call to arms," stating in a second tweet that "we will not surrender our rights without a fight."  Multiple verified Twitter accounts, including a senior correspondent at Vox, have tweeted calls to "burn it down," referring to both the country and the Supreme Court itself.  Notably, this rhetoric is taking place on a platform that purports to ban the "glorification of violence" and that infamously issued a permanent ban against a sitting president of the United States for, according to Twitter employees, doing just that — though with far less specific and anodyne tweets.

Leftists Rioters Serve Pelosi A Huge Dose Of Karma After She Encouraged SCOTUS Protests.  The White House on Tuesday [5/10/2022] said it encourages "peaceful" protests outside the homes of Supreme Court justices, while criticizing those on the right who have expressed "outrage" over Roe v. Wade demonstrations but were "silent" when protests against school boards, abortion clinics and the capitol riot.  Nancy Pelosi was on the same page and commended those who "channeled their righteous anger" over the Supreme Court's leaked draft decision that would strike down Roe v. Wade by organizing and marching.

3 Texas Catholic churches vandalized with pro-choice messages.  Three Texas churches were vandalized by pro-choice activists.  The graffiti was noticed by a church member early Monday when they arrived for an 8 a.m. meeting.  They discovered the message on the doors of the church's main entrance and side door reading:  "Pro-Choice is Pro-Life."  "It's very unfortunate that people would desecrate the church like this, take their frustration out on the church," stated Father Peter Damian Harris, pastor at Holy Rosary Catholic Church in Houston.

Lori Lightfoot issues a 'call to arms' against Supreme Court justices.  Chicago's incompetent Mayor Lori Lightfoot, presiding over a city devolving into violent, bloody anarchy on the streets, is encouraging violent protests at the homes of Supreme Court justices believed to be supporting a draft decision by Justice Alito overturning Roe v. Wade.  That is the logical interpretation if two tweets she issued that Twitter believes do not violate its "standards" that prohibit advocating violence:  [Tweet]

Left's Intimidation of Justices Is Illegal, but Will Biden Enforce the Law?  Irony doesn't begin to explain why pro-choice activists chose Mother's Day weekend to picket the homes of Justice Brett Kavanaugh and Chief Justice John Roberts, who appear ready to overturn Roe v. Wade.  In an age when there appear to be fewer consequences for violating moral or statutory laws, demonstrators and protesters outside the Supreme Court building seem to have violated at least two federal laws.  In the abortion-at-anytime Biden administration, which refuses to enforce immigration laws, it seems unlikely these laws will be enforced.  Here are excerpts from two federal laws, should the Justice Department need to be reminded of them.  The first, 18 U.S. Code 1507 "Picketing or Parading," states,  ["]Whoever, with the intent of interfering with, obstructing, or impeding the administration of justice, or with the intent of influencing any judge, juror, witness, or court officer, in the discharge of his duty, pickets or parades in or near a building housing a court of the United States, or in or near a building or residence occupied or used by such judge ... shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.["]  That seems clear, doesn't it?

Swalwell called GOP 'party of mass shooters' in attempt to argue for abortion — It backfired BIGLY.  U.S. Rep. Eric Swalwell has once again made a complete fool of himself, this time with a defense of abortion in which he brought up the completely unrelated issue of school shootings to blame Republicans for mass murder as justification for his support for the killing of the unborn.  Drawing on President Joe Biden's recent demonizing of nearly half of the American electorate whom he accused of being the "most extreme political organization" in the nation's history, the California Democrat upped the ante with his latest unhinged Twitter outburst.  "You know who had a heartbeat?  Every child murdered in their school because Republicans are the party of mass shooters.  This isn't about heartbeats.  This is about criminalizing women," wrote Swalwell.

What I Saw When Protesters Marched to Supreme Court Justices' Homes.  Dozens of furious marchers made their way through a Washington, D.C. suburb Saturday evening [5/7/2022], hellbent on demonstrating their rage towards conservative Supreme Court justices.  "No uterus, no opinion!" they cried as they disrupted the quiet streets, days after a leaked draft of a Supreme Court opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito indicated that five Supreme Court justices planned to strike down Roe v. Wade.  The protestors gathered outside a local market in Chevy Chase, Maryland.  Initially, it seemed like the poor weather was going to dent the number of marchers.

Antifa goons hurl Molotov cocktail into offices of Wisconsin anti-abortion group.  Antifa vandals hurled at least one Molotov cocktail into offices of an anti-abortion group in Wisconsin and scrawled a chilling message on the wall that read:  'If abortions aren't safe you aren't either.'  The damage was discovered on Mother's Day morning when a passerby called police and reported seeing smoke coming from the headquarters of the anti-abortion group Wisconsin Family Action in Madison.  The Antifa symbol — a capital 'A' inside a circle — was also scrawled on the wall, as well as the numbers 1312 — a code for the letters ACAB, which stand for 'All Cops Are B[...]s'

Radical Abortion Activists Block Entrance to New York City Church.  A group of radical pro-abortion activists blocked the entrance to Manhattan's Basilica of Saint Patrick's Old Cathedral days after a U.S. Supreme Court draft opinion leaked that signaled the Court will overturn Roe v. Wade.  Pro-Life Catholics in the community have gathered for Mass and a rosary procession to a Planned Parenthood one block away from the church nearly every month for the past 14 years to protest this nation's abortion laws.  However, the group of Catholics were met by pro-abortion activists who blocked the church doors on Saturday.

Biden is encouraging illegal intimidation of justices.  The right of the people peaceably to assemble is so fundamental to the foundation of our nation that it is enshrined in the First Amendment.  But the term "peaceably" is key.  And the "when" and "where" that people choose to protest absolutely speak to whether a protest is peaceable.  In the summer of 2020, a wave of protests sparked by the murder of George Floyd swept the nation.  While many on the Left have sought to downplay the violent nature of hundreds of these gatherings, it is undisputed that they caused over $2 billion in damage.  Passionate protests always have the potential to turn violent, which is why it definitely matters where they happen.  It is one thing to protest outside city hall, a police station, or the Supreme Court.  It is an entirely different act to protest outside a mayor's personal residence or a police officer's house.  In 2020, unfortunately, many Black Lives Matter protesters crossed this line, demonstrating in residential neighborhoods, especially outside of mayors' homes, many of which were vandalized.

Outside Kavanaugh's home, a neighbor rallies for abortion rights.  Lacie Wooten-Holway walked through Chevy Chase on Wednesday night, pausing to stick fliers on her fence, a tree and utility boxes.  She was advertising an abortion rights protest here, in her neighborhood, in front of the home of Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh.  A passing couple paused, reading her sign:  "HONK 4 REPRO Rights and Bodily Autonomy."  "Good!" the woman said.  "That I don't agree with," the man interjected.  "I think you vote, and you expand the court.  You don't go to a guy's house."  She had heard the argument before and responded:  "I organize peaceful candlelit vigils in front of his house. ... We're about to get doomsday, so I'm not going to be civil to that man at all."

The Editor says...
Just a few months ago, the same "Bodily Autonomy" people were pushing for mandatory Covid vaccinations.

The Roe Demonstrators:  Where Did They Get That Idea?  Much has been written this week about the pro-abortionists' plans to picket the homes of the six Republican-appointed justices over the egregiously leaked Alito draft overturning Roe v. Wade.  Those criticisms, which I summarize below, are certainly valid.  If we had an attorney general who cared about enforcing the law, he'd seek injunctive relief and criminal penalties for such conduct. [...] The relevant statute is 18 U.S.C. Sec. 1507 which reads:
  [1]   Whoever, with the intent of interfering with, obstructing, or impeding the administration of justice, or
  [2]   with the intent of influencing any judge, juror, witness, or court officer, in the discharge of his duty,
  [3]   pickets or parades in or near a building housing a court of the United States, or
  [4]   in or near a building or residence occupied or used by such judge, juror, witness, or court officer, or
  [5]   with such intent uses any sound-truck or similar device or resorts to any other demonstration in or near any such building or residence,
  [6]   shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

Do the Unhinged Protesters Know It's a Crime to Protest at a Supreme Court Justice's Home?  The Virginia Correctional Facility for Woman in Goochland awaits anyone who acts out their rage and shows up out of control at a Supreme Court Justice's residence in response to the unethical and unprecedented leak of a draft opinion in the Dobbs abortion case.  The people of Virginia have decided that it is a crime to protest at a Virginian's home. [...] In other words, civil society benefits by keeping homes about family, friends, and peace and not clowns in Handmaid costumes.  If you show up and protest a Supreme Court Justice near their home, you are committing a crime in Virginia.  And most of the Justices with any sense live in Virginia.

Quick Look at U.S. Code Makes Jen Psaki's 'Answer' on Targeting Justices at Home so Much Worse.  On Wednesday, [White House press secretary Jen] Psaki gave a very troubling answer when questioned on whether the Biden White House would view a majority opinion overturning Roe v. Wade as a "legitimate" ruling.  She refused to give a straight "yes" or "no" answer, and instead pivoted to how things would supposedly take a dire turn for women in at least "half" the states in America if the draft majority opinion held.  Things got even more shameful on Thursday when Psaki was asked about the admitted plans by the radical leftist group "Ruth Sent Us" to target and march outside of the private homes of some of the conservative Justices, whose addresses were partially shared complete with maps by the militant left-wing agitators in a clear attempt at intimidating them over the Mississippi pro-life case currently before the court.  Not only did Psaki decline to condemn the leak, but she repeatedly refused to condemn the planned "protests" outside of the Justices homes.

White House Resists Condemning Protesters Descending on Supreme Court Justices' Homes.  The White House on Thursday resisted asking angry pro-abortion protesters not to descend on the homes of Supreme Court Justices after a draft judicial decision on Roe v. Wade was leaked to the press.  "I don't have an official U.S. government position on where people protest," White House press secretary Jen Psaki replied when asked if the president condoned the actions of protesters sharing information on the home addresses of originalist Supreme Court justices.  The protest group Ruth Sent Us announced plans to direct protests at the homes of six Supreme court justices — three in Virginia and three in Maryland.  Psaki also resisted calling the actions of some protesters "extreme," despite reported violence and vandalism by some of the angry pro-abortion protesters.

WH Has Shameful Response to Leftists Targeting Churches and Homes of Justices.  The White House has not condemned the leak of the SCOTUS draft opinion, an attack on the integrity of the Court, and an attempt to intimidate the justices.  They wouldn't even say if they would accept the decision of the Court when it ultimately came down.  White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki was given another chance on Thursday to do just that, and once again, she pointedly refused to do so on behalf of Joe Biden.  A reporter asked why they refused and Psaki got huffy, saying that the leak was a "distraction" that wasn't at the same level as the SCOTUS non-decision.  They want to whip the left into a frenzy over it, to help their chances in November.

Pro-Abortion Protesters Hit Pastors Outside Supreme Court and Go Free.  Pro-abortion protesters outside the Supreme Court attacked four pro-life Christian activists who showed up to counterprotest.  Priests for Life Director Bryan Kemper, Rev. Patrick Mahoney of the Christian Defense Coalition, Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust Director A.J. Hurley, and Right to Life East Texas founder Pastor Mark Lee Dickson walked together into the nearly 300-strong pro-abortion protest at about 8 p.m.  The protest was on the left side of a set of barricades that took up most of the center of the Supreme Court grounds.  First, an unidentified protester hit Kemper.  "The police came in after I was punched," he said.  "The person that punched me is no longer here that I can see."

Overturning Roe v. Wade:  Will Democrats Instigate Another George Floyd Summer?  If the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, desperate Democrats hope they've found their next George Floyd.  In 2020, a presidential election year, Floyd's death while in the hands of Minneapolis police "sparked" protests (AKA bloody riots) in Democrat-run cities across the country.  Democrats may angle for something similar should Justice Alito's draft majority opinion overturning Roe v. Wade be issued.  Leaking Alito's draft upending Roe v. Wade was suggested as a rogue left-wing law clerk's attempt to scuttle the opinion's issuance.  Don't buy it.  The leak was orchestrated to impact the 2022 midterm elections.  At the very least, Democrats to fire up their feminist base.  Facing disaster in the midterms, Democrats aim to fall back on their 2020 playbook:  manufacture fear and uncertainty.  Lie — and lie a lot — in that ending Roe v. Wade, they'll claim, denies a woman her "sacred" constitutional right to kill the baby whom she acted to make.

Low-level domestic terrorism:
Liberal group calls for protests at conservative Supreme Court justices' homes.  Left-wing activist groups are planning to send protesters to the homes of conservative Supreme Court justices following a leak indicating the court may soon overturn Roe v. Wade.  The activists are organizing under the moniker "Ruth Sent Us" and have published the supposed home addresses of Justices Amy Coney Barrett, John Roberts, Samuel Alito, Brett Kavanaugh, Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch.  "Our 6-3 extremist Supreme Court routinely issues rulings that hurt women, racial minorities, LGBTQ+ and immigrant rights," the group's website reads.  "We must rise up to force accountability using a diversity of tactics."

Sacred Heart of Mary Church in Boulder vandalized with 'anti-church, pro-choice messaging'.  Statue by statue and wall by wall, crews worked to remove the graffiti, paint, and broken glass left behind after a night of vandalism at Sacred Heart of Mary Church in Boulder.  "We're disappointed that we can't have a peaceful conversation about such a hot topic and instead, people resort to violence.  But we kind of understand, at least I do," said parishioner Charlie Danaher.  Danaher has attended the church for years and says this isn't the first time this has happened.

Rioters Attack Cops, Smash Windows During Roe v Wade Protest in LA.  A group of rioters, some carrying Communist flags, threw rocks at police and smashed squad car windows last night during unruly protests against the Supreme Court's indication that it might overturn Roe v Wade.  The LAPD issued a citywide tactical alert in response to the disorder after a group of about 250 protesters became violent.  According to LAPD Chief Michel Moore, the protesters were ordered to disperse just after 9 pm, but their anger escalated.

'Insurrection' Trends After Hysterical Democrats at Long Last Get Hoist by Their Own Petard.  Agitators who the media will soon be calling "peaceful protesters" were screaming their heads off behind barricades just feet away from the steps of the Supreme Court building in scenes reminiscent of the brutal Supreme Court confirmation fight over Brett Kavanaugh, where at one point we saw radical leftists pounding on the doors of the Supreme Court to stop Kavanaugh from being sworn in.  But it's not just random leftists in Washington, D.C. and the verified ones on Twitter who are whipping the outrage mobs into a frenzy — it's powerful elected officials on the left and those who want to be who are using similar and in some cases worse language, language that if the words were coming from a Republican we'd have 24-7 wall to wall coverage for weeks on end about how Republicans were "inciting" folks to riot.

Antifa allegedly assaults Portland GOP rallygoers, understaffed police struggle to respond.  The resource-strapped Portland Police Bureau (PPB) reportedly took more than 20 minutes to respond when alleged antifa members assaulted a Saturday campaign event near police headquarters in downtown Portland.  By the time officers had "sufficient resources" to establish a crime scene near Southwest 3rd and Main Street, the black-clad demonstrators had already dispersed after hurling smoke grenades, paint-filled balloons and fireworks, according to police.  Two were injured by "mortars," police said.  The protesters' violence cut short the event in support of Republican gubernatorial candidate Stan Pulliam, whose platform includes refunding the police.

Antifa mob hurls smoke bombs at crowd of Republicans in Portland including children and old people, leaving two injured.  A black-clad Antifa mob in Prtland launched smoke bombs, paint, fireworks and rocks at Republicans supporting an Oregon GOP gubernatorial candidate who were demanding law and order be returned to the crime-plagued city.  Video shows the intimidating group waving black flags and lobbing smoke bombs at the conservative crowd, which included children and elderly people, during the rally near Southwest 3rd Avenue and Southwest Main Street on Saturday [4/30/2022].  'We're taking the city back.  We're funding the police,' one man shouted from a megaphone.  'No longer are we gonna have the crime and the mayhem.'

Climate Activist Celebrated for Self-Immolation Outside SCOTUS.  Climate change fanatics celebrated a man who set himself on fire and died to bring awareness to "the climate crisis," praising his suicidal "sacrifice" as a "fearless act of compassion."  [Tweet]  Boulder, Colorado man Wynn Bruce, 50, self-immolated in front of the Supreme Court on April 22, Breitbart reported.  The Capitol Police, the Metro Police Department, and the Supreme Court Police responded to the man's attempted suicide and airlifted him to a hospital, but he died from the burns shortly after arriving.

The Media Doesn't Want To Talk About Why These Educators Featured On 'Libs Of Tik Tok' Got Booted From The Classroom.  Legacy media outlets were quick to condone the exposure of the woman behind "Libs of Tik Tok."  What they didn't mention was exactly what the educators, who got fired after the account posted their videos, were saying to children in their classrooms.  The Washington Post's Taylor Lorenz revealed the identity of the individual behind the "Libs of Tik Tok" account in an article published Tuesday.  The article accuses "Libs of Tik Tok" of spreading "anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment" by causing teachers to lose their jobs over their own social media posts, although the article omits mention of the exact quotes that got the teachers fired.  Media outlets, like Rolling Stone and The Advocate, expressed support for revealing the identity behind "Libs of Tik Tok," but similarly do not mention the quotes in question.  The reality these media companies chose to hide was that the educators were dismissed, reassigned or forced to resign for everything from blaming kids for getting molested to suggesting people who didn't get the vaccine should be slaughtered.

MI Lawmaker Receiving Death Threats After Democrat's Speech Goes Viral.  A Michigan state lawmaker is receiving death threats after one of her colleagues spoke out against her earlier this week in a viral speech from the floor of the Michigan Senate.  Michigan Sen. Lana Theis (R) told The Daily Wire that she and her family has received death threats in the days following a speech by her Democratic colleague, Sen. Mallory McMorrow.  Theis said the threats have been forwarded to law enforcement.

Trans BLM Protester Puts His Hands On Cop During Protest In Pittsburgh — Big Mistake.  A Wilkinsburg police officer punched a trans-BLM protester to the ground during a demonstration against police brutality on April 16.  The group of around 20 people gathered to demand justice for Jim Rogers, a Black man who died in October 2021 less than 24 hours after Pittsburgh Police officers tased him eight times.  It was at the group's second stop at the intersection of Penn Avenue and Center Street in Wilkinsburg, while Diamond Rogers, the niece of Jim Rogers, started to talk about her uncle, that police from various departments, including Wilkinsburg and Edgewood, got on the speaker system and told protesters to leave, stating that it was an '"unlawful assembly."  [Video clip]

A Shooter Puts Critical Race Theory into Practice.  Mayor Eric Adams, who had called white people "crackers", claimed that he needed his brother to head his security because of an "increase in white supremacy" in New York City.  The New York City Board of Health falsely claimed that racism was a "public health crisis" and a public school told parents to abolish their "whiteness".  After all that time battling white supremacy, which is as easy to find in the city as good manners and parking spaces, the black supremacist subway terror attack came out of the blue.  29 people were wounded, including a pregnant woman and a 12-year-old, when Frank James, a racist gunman, opened fire on a Brooklyn subway train.  James was a racial supremacist, but not the one that New York City's political establishment had spent so much time searching for.  James was just "abolishing whiteness" by putting critical race theory into practice.  The black supremacist mass shooter has been charged with terrorism for a carefully planned terror attack, that included dressing up as a construction worker, deploying a smoke bomb and then opening fire.  The racist terrorist's victims included a pregnant woman, and a number of children and teenagers, some of whom were shot several times by the black supremacist.  Like the black supremacist Jersey City terrorists, James used a U-Haul as a base and was convinced that black people were being victimized.

Video Surfaces Of Brooklyn Subway Shooter Ranting On How Everyone Deserves To Be Exterminated Because We Don't Care About The Planet.  NYPD have released a photo of a person of interest in the Brooklyn subway shooting.  Frank James, 62, is described as someone they want to speak to regarding the attack.  In a video James uploaded in 2019, he rants on about the extermination of mankind over how it treats the planet.  [Video clip, profanity warning.]

The Debasement of our Professional and Political Classes.  Would a Republican-led House set up a special committee to investigate the racketeering and "conspiracies" across state lines that led to a near "coup" and "insurrection" marked by "the riots of 2020?" Would such watchdogs offer up criminal referrals for all those responsible for attacking a federal courthouse and torching a police precinct or for setting an historic church afire?  Or causing $2 billion of damage, over 30 deaths, and 1,500 law enforcement officer injuries — while carving out illegal no-go zones in major downtowns?

The Editor says...
Don't hold your breath waiting for the Republicans to address the 2020 riots, even when they hold all the cards.  And even if the Republicans take any action, the news media will call the riots "ancient history," among other things.

North Carolina medical school backs woke medical student who tweeted about deliberately injuring patient for mocking her pronoun badge.  A North Carolina medical school has backed a woke student who tweeted about injuring a patient for mocking her pronoun badge that said She/Her.  Wake Forest University has released a statement that includes groveling commentary from trainee medic Kychelle Del Rosario which suggests she'll be back on rounds soon.  Del Rosario sparked outrage last month after she implied she'd deliberately injured a male patient who mocked the 'she/her' pronoun badge she was wearing by missing his vein during blood draw.

Man Who Exposed Hunter Biden's Laptop Shares Disgusting Details.  While Hunter Biden has naturally taken center stage regarding the laptop he left at a computer repair shop in Wilmington, DE, few have asked exactly what happened to the man who exposed it all.  John Paul Issac, who owns the shop where the laptop was abandoned, has finally spoken out, giving an interview on Fox News on Friday evening.  In it, he revealed disturbing details about how he and his business were treated, what he thought about the laptop, and how the authorities handled the situation.  Sadly, Issac was targeted as a Russian disinformation agent after the Biden campaign and others, including 50 "former intelligence officials," rushed to label the laptop as such. [...] Things apparently got so bad that his business was physically targeted, with people throwing rotten food at his building.  According to Isaac, he had to have a police presence because he felt his life was in danger.  Those two factors led to a sharp decrease in his customer base.

A Hollywood Actress Just Threatened Violence Against Govs. DeSantis And Abbott.  Aging and increasingly irrelevant actress Sally Field is clinging to hope that someone will listen to her.  Fading fame has that effect on self-entitled losers.  Does anyone younger than 40 know who Sally Field is?  What has she done lately?  And by lately I mean decades?  Even Breitbart, which covers her violence-fueled rant below, could best connect its readers to her appearance in 1994's Forrest Gump and 1977's Smokey and the Bandit.  She's a washed-up joke.  She's also apparently cool with political violence.  Some might call that terrorism.

Teacher Goes On Disgusting Rant, Tells Conservative Students To "Jump Off A Bridge".  As a result of Florida's doesn't-go-far-enough bill that at least prevents five-year-olds from being exposed to gender identity, the left has absolutely lost its collective mind and exposed its open agenda that is pro-grooming, pro-sexualization, and pro-brainwashing of young children.  That should be enough right there to prove how corrupted our government schools are, but then recall that the Daily Wire breoke a story of how the rape of a teenage girl was covered up as a result of identity politcking in Virginia schools.  That's also bad news, but even then we are barely scratching the surface.

Rioting for fun and profit:
Twelve protesters awarded $14m after Denver police injured them during George Floyd demonstrations.  A judgment in the amount of $14 million was issued by a Colorado jury in a civil trial concerning twelve demonstrators who protested in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd and claimed the Denver police injured them and violated their First and Fourth Amendment rights.  The three-week trial ended after 5 hours of deliberation by the jury that awarded each of the dozen plaintiffs on Friday between $750,000 and $4 million each, The Denver Post reported.  Attorneys for the plaintiffs had asked for $17.5 million in damages for the injuries inflicted by bean bags and pepper spray while the city's attorney's argued that the jury should consider the totality of the chaotic and unprecedented situation where some protesters were launching projectiles at the officers.

Hot Mic Catches School Board Member Asking to 'Set Marsha Blackburn on Fire'.  During a meeting of the Metropolitan Nashville Board of Public Education this week, a hot mic caught board members apparently pondering "can we just go set Marsha Blackburn on fire?" — the latest instance of public school boards saying the quiet part out loud and revealing their partisan hostility against conservatives and Republicans.  Video from the meeting, posted here on March 23rd by the district, captures the moment starting around the 1:02 mark after the school board tried to bring its meeting to order but, still lacking a quorum, called for a short break during which a copy of the meeting agenda appears on screen but voices can still be heard, picked up by the mics on the dais.  [Tweet]

Hot Mic Catches Death Threat Against Marsha Blackburn After Ketanji Brown Jackson Hearing.  We truly live in the dumbest of times.  Naturally, that means asking any relevant question of Ketanji Brown Jackson, Joe Biden's Supreme Court nominee, is justification for wailing and moaning.  In that vein, no more triggering of a moment transpired over the last week's confirmation hearings than Sen. Marsha Blackburn asking Jackson what a woman is.  In true far-left fashion, the nominee responded that she didn't know because she wasn't a "biologist."  My seven-year-old can tell you what a woman is, but a person seeking a lifetime appointment on the highest court in the land can't.  It'd be hilarious if it weren't so sad and pathetic.  As I said, though, because everything must be stupid, it has been Blackburn who has borne the brunt of scorn for even daring to challenge Jackson's delusional worldview.

Yale Law refuses to condemn students who threatened to fight conservative debater at free speech event.  Yale Law School has defended a group of its students who snarled 'I'll hurt you bitch' at a conservative speaker during a debate on freedom of speech.  The Ivy League college claims the woke rabble-rousers have been 'spoken to' about their threatening behavior on March 10, raising concerns that they've only been given a slap on the wrist which will embolden them to continue their authoritarian behavior.  Despite the chaos at the college's Federalist Society-organized event, Yale Law said in a statement issued Thursday that school police 'assistance was not needed' and that students had followed the rules.

Group of Transgenders Attempt to Kill a Man Who 'Misgendered' them in a Subway.  Newsflash, just because you're obviously mentally unstable and want to believe you're something you're not, it doesn't give you the right to assault people who don't live in your land of delusion.  [Video clip]

Man Stabbed 2 MOMA Employees — MSM Silent As The Assailant Has Been Identified As A Democrat And Anti-Trump Lunatic.  Video from the Museum of Modern Art shows the moment a man leaped over a reception desk and stabbed two employees as they tried to flee Saturday [3/12/2022].  The video released by New York City police shows man police identified as 60-year-old Gary Cabana entering the museum lobby through a revolving door then climbing onto the desk and jumping over it as a man carrying what appears to be a walkie-talkie looks too scared to stop him. [...] The suspect was identified as Gary Cabana, 60.  Cabana's last-known address was a supportive housing residence in midtown operated by a nonprofit, Breaking Ground, offering shelter for the homeless, the mentally ill, and those diagnosed with HIV/AIDS, police said, and he had no prior arrests.

BLM Terrorist Who Threw an Explosive in a Cafe Gets 5 Years in Prison.  Diego Vargas, 27, received his sentence at a hearing in a federal court in Chicago today for the incident that took place on June 1, 2020, according to a press release by the U.S. Attorney's office.  Last June Vargas pled guilty to throwing a street pole through the window of the restaurant, then tossing a lit explosive in after it, resulting in two explosions.  The restaurant was closed at the time.  No one was hurt.  The incident took place following a day of peaceful protests against the police killing of George Floyd that turned into a night of civil unrest.  [Video clip]

Report finds little accountability after MPD officer shot protestors with rubber bullets.  The thousands of rubber bullets that flew through the air after the murder of George Floyd were fired by officers who faced little to no accountability, according to an independent review of the city's response.  A team of investigators hired by the City of Minneapolis presented their much-anticipated findings on Tuesday [3/8/2022], which included how police failed to follow its own rules regarding the use and reporting of less-lethal force.

The Editor says...
Media bias alert:  If you don't like the treatment you get at a riot, don't participate in it!  Where's the "accountability" on the rioters' side?

Tacoma woman gets 5 years in prison for torching police cars during Seattle riot.  A 26-year-old Tacoma woman was sentenced to five years in federal prison Tuesday [3/1/2022] after pleading guilty to arson stemming from the torching of five police cars during the racial justice protests that rocked downtown Seattle after the murder of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis in May 2020.  Margaret Aislinn Channon was arrested June 11, 2020, after an investigation by federal agents and Seattle police, who identified her from video showing an individual in distinctive clothing with tattoos on her hands setting fire to the vehicles.  During the sentencing, U.S. District Court Judge John Coughenour told Channon that her conduct had done "tremendous damage to Black Lives Matter in Seattle."  Channon was also shown breaking into downtown businesses and stealing clothing and other items.  According to court documents, she admitted smashing the window at a Verizon store and entering a sandwich shop and destroying the electronic cash register.

Violence is in the offing and it's the fault of our schools/.  This past week while President Biden puttered about the White House, addled and confused, in his rainbow-striped pajamas, two surveys were released that should chill the blood of even the most progressive among us who still think we live in the land of the free and the home of the brave.  The first survey was conducted by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education and reported that 23% of America's college students now think it's okay to use violence to silence those with whom they disagree, and 66% currently support shouting down a campus speaker whose ideas they don't like.  Yes, you read that correctly.  Nearly one-quarter of our precious darlings, whose education we helped pay for with hundreds of millions of our hard-earned tax dollars, now tell us they have no problem beating us into submission if they don't like our views.

Texas Middle School Teacher Caught Saying 'Those Conservative Christians Need to Get COVID and Die'.  A Colleyville Middle School teacher identified by school parents [...] was captured on camera saying that political opposition to the COVID vaccine prolonged the pandemic and added "those conservative Christians ... they need to die ... they need to get COVID and die."  The video was provided by a family of the school who asked to not be identified at this time.  [Video clip]

Hidden Footage Shows Angry Texas Teacher Saying Conservative Christians 'Need to Get COVID and Die'.  Over the past couple of years, many public educators have been exposed repeatedly to be the last people you want to entrust your child to.  Be they the type trying to push their politics on your child, expose them to radicalized ideologies, convince them to embrace mental illnesses, or even attempt to introduce pedophilia into their thinking, public school has become one of the hottest political battlegrounds.  The hard leftist teachers in Texas, especially, are having a very rough time as the state continues to crack down on radical social conditioning and forbid schools from implementing unnecessary COVID rules.  One teacher at Colleyville Middle School seems to be so upset by the state cracking down on overboard (and ultimately harmful) COVID precautions that she wished death on her political opposites.

Antifa Protest In Portland Sparks Dispute With Homeowner, Mass Shooting, 5 Shot, 1 Dead.  Police in Portland, Oregon, said they believe a shooting that left one woman dead and five people wounded at an Antifa protest over police violence on Saturday night was triggered by a clash between an armed homeowner and armed demonstrators.  The shooting took place as people gathered in northeast Portland on Saturday to protest the death of Amir Locke, the 22-year-old fatally shot earlier this month by law enforcement in Minneapolis during a no-knock apartment raid.  [Video clip]

Protesters Have Meltdown at Police After Mass Shooting Involving Their Members.  There's a story that hasn't been getting a lot of the network news yet, and it may not — because it involves allegedly armed leftists and an armed homeowner.  The leftists had gathered in Portland, Oregon at Normandale Park on Saturday night [2/19/2022] to march against the police shooting of Amir Locke that happened in Minneapolis on Feb. 4.  A homeowner confronted members of the group at the park.  A witness said that there was a lot of arguing between the homeowner and the group.  Another report said that the homeowner confronted them about blocking traffic, a common BLM action.  Then the shooting started.  The leftists did not come out well at the end of the encounter and neither did the homeowner.

Armed Portland Antifa Pick Fight With Violent Biker Gang Then Blame Police When Things Get Violent.  Gunfire erupted when violent Antifa militants appear to have picked a fight with a notorious Portland, Ore. area biker gang.  Antifa lost.  At least one person ended up dead and five others were injured in Portland Saturday night.  Portland Police are still sorting things out, but what we know is that police were called on Saturday night shortly after 8 p.m to a disturbance that quickly escalated into gunfire.  [Tweets]  As Portland Police Public Information Officer Lt. Nathan Sheppard attempted to update the media on the shooting melee in Northeast Portland, two known Antifa militants took over the news conference, commandeered the microphones, and began blaming the police for failing to do their jobs to protect them.

Woman is killed and five people are wounded in shooting at Portland park during protest over the police killing of Amir Locke.  A woman was killed and five others wounded in a shooting Saturday night at a Portland park where people had gathered to protest the police shooting of Amir Locke.  Police responded to reports of shots fired at a street intersection near Normandale Park just after 8 pm, before demonstrators could even begin a planned march, which was set to begin at 8, flyers posted on social media show.  Arriving officers found one woman dead, and two men and three other women were taken to the hospital, police said.

Why are the police we revere doing the tyrants' bidding?  The American left has made its contempt of our police abundantly clear for several years now.  Encouraging the BLM riots, excusing the damage done, decreeing no punishment for those who did billions of dollars in property destruction over the summer of 2020 was their coin of the realm.  Lacking common sense and any skill at predicting the consequences of idiotic policies, they have doubled down on stupid as cities like N.Y., Chicago, D.C., and L.A. rack up homicides committed by career criminals repeatedly let loose on an unsuspecting public.  On a daily basis, innocent victims are attacked, injured, or killed by violent perpetrators who have been released by cavalier lefty judges who have become self-appointed social justice warriors.  This explains the parade massacre in Waukesha, Wisconsin and nearly every other violent assault on innocent victims for the last year.  Our American left reveres criminals over law-abiding citizens.  There can no longer be any doubt about that fact.  The Democrat party is, quite simply, pro-criminal.

Judge sentences activists for torching NYPD van.  Two activists who torched an NYPD homeless outreach van on a Greenwich Village street in 2020 were each sentenced to six months in prison on Friday — as a federal judge chided the well-educated, radical duo for the "aberrant act."  The firebugs, Elaine Carberry, 38, and Corey Smith, 26, will also have to serve six months in home confinement when they're sprung from federal prison and pay more than $72,000 in restitution, Judge Lewis Liman ordered.  At the sentencing Friday morning, Liman credited both Smith and Carberry as being active members in New York's LGBTQ community and said he believed they are committed to social justice — but added their crime warranted a prison sentence.

BLM posts $100,000 bail for defund police activist, 21, honored by Obama who's now charged with attempted murder.  A BLM activist accused of trying to assassinate a Jewish mayoral candidate has been pictured with Barack Obama, as his alleged victim slammed the 'broken criminal justice system' for freeing the suspected shooter on bail.  Quintez Brown, 21, was one of 22 people chosen to meet the former President of the United States in 2019 as part of Obama's My Brother's Keeper Alliance, which is aimed at closing achievement gaps facing young boys and men of color.  Brown, of Louisville in Kentucky, was pictured smiling behind the president, and even named as a future star by the Obama Foundation website, but now finds himself accused of the attempted murder of Craig Greenberg.  And his case has attracted further outrage after it emerged a local Black Lives Matter chapter had put up his $100,000 bail.

Freedom Convoy:  Counter-Protesters Carry Communist Flags and Cause Trouble.  While the police cleared the Ambassador Bridge earlier on Sunday [2/13/2022] and arrested some of the Freedom Convoy protests who had been protesting there, some protesters still remained in the surrounding streets, refusing to leave.  Now, if the point was that they were blocking part of the Bridge and the Canadian government wanted it cleared, it is now clear.  Yet, the government showed that wasn't the only reason for targeting the people — since they are still going after protesters. [...] But police are still going after protesters even though they're on the sidewalks, and not apparently blocking anything.

Former Obama official encourages arrests and tire-slashing to punish Canada protesters.  A former Obama administration official is suggesting that Canadian authorities arrest members of the Freedom Convoy and encouraging people to "slash the tires" of their trucks.  Juliette Kayyem, who was assistant secretary of homeland security for intergovernmental affairs under President Barack Obama, tweeted the message Thursday [2/10/2022] in response to footage showing trucks creating gridlock on the Ambassador Bridge, which links the United States and Canada.  "Slash the tires, empty gas tanks, arrest the drivers, and move the trucks," Kayyem wrote.  [Tweet]

Update:
CNN analyst backtracks after calling for Canadian truckers to have their tires slashed.  CNN analyst Juliette Kayyem hastily backtracked her Thursday call for Canadian truckers participating in the protests against the Liberal government's coronavirus policies to have their tires slashed.  "Earlier today, I tweeted something that has been used by others to suggest I was promoting vigilantism.  I was not.  People have the freedom to protest.  Governments have the responsibility to protect public safety.  That was what I intended to say," Kayyem tweeted late Thursday evening [2/10/2022].  Earlier in the day, Kayyem railed against the truckers, declaring their protest an "economic and security issue," and calling for them to be stopped.

What the Jan. 6 Capitol Incursion Really Was.  To put the Jan. 6 event into context, let us ask this question:  What would have happened in Washington, D.C. if Donald Trump had won re-election?  We don't have to speculate much, because we have a lot of experience with leftist protests.  The 1968 Watts riots, for example, lasted for six days and killed over 30 people.  More recent incidents include, in 2011, the 17-day occupation of the Wisconsin State Capitol; in 2018 the storming of the Supreme Court, invasion of the U.S. Capitol, and seizure of the Hart Senate Office Building; and in 2020 the Black Lives Matter/Antifa riots.  So we know the playbook.  Here's what would have happened in Washington if Trump had won:  Tens of thousands of protesters descend upon the city.  Massive marches, some undertaken without permits, block bridges and roads.  Protesters leave mounds of filth behind them.  Many protesters riot.  Vehicles transport bricks and other potential weapons to strategic points to arm rioters.  Rioters use them, as well as weapons they brought with them, to smash windows and loot all throughout the central areas of the city.

Why Aren't Corporate Media Talking About The Car That Crashed Into The Freedom Convoy?  [Scroll down]  Thankfully, no one was killed in the incident.  Winnipeg police apprehended the suspect, a 42-year-old man from Headingley, this past Sunday.  He faces 11 counts of assault with a vehicle with failure to stop at the scene of the crime.  Although the police were able to quickly detain the suspect, why isn't there major media coverage of this?  Where's the legacy media calling out violence aimed towards peaceful protesters?  Corporate media would be talking of nothing else if this happened at a Black Lives Matter protest.  Yet apart from Fox News, local Canadian news outlets, and some British publications, there isn't much talk of this violence at all.  CNN published an article about the growing Freedom Convoy, offering only a brief summary about the Friday evening hit-and-run.

Provocateur Alert — SUV Runs Over People At Truckers Protest In Canada, Multiple Injuries Reported.  An active protest is underway at the Manitoba Legislature.  The protest, in support of the larger demonstration against COVID-19 vaccine mandates in Ottawa, formally kicked off at 9 a.m. [2/5/2022].  Police said they're working with the event's organizers to ensure the protest remains peaceful.  "The organizers have been pretty open with our members on the ground and pretty co-operative," said police Chief Danny Smyth.  "We'll just play it as it comes."  Unfortunately, the opposition to their movement has also escalated, as cowardly government leaders target the protesters as criminals, racists, and terrorists, essentially signaling it's open season on them.  Big Tech is also getting involved, deleting event organizing pages from social media, while GoFundMe has refused to distribute funds donated for the cause.

Man drives SUV through Freedom Truckers protest in Canada and injures four.  A Canadian man has been criminally charged after he drove an SUV through the Freedom Truckers protest of COVID-19 regulations on Friday evening.  Police in Winnipeg said the driver, who was not immediately named, use his Jeep Patriot to plow through the crowd for coronavirus mandate protesters at the Legislative grounds before fleeing the scene at high speeds.  The driver was eventually caught by police and arrested after a brief struggle, according to authorities.  'A 42yr old male is facing charges after driving through a group of protesters that were part of the Freedom Convoy at the Legislative grounds,' the Winnipeg Police tweeted Saturday.  'Four adult males were struck.'  Video of the horrific incident has since circulated on social media, showing a group of protesters as several are struck by the Jeep, with many chasing the vehicle as it sped from the scene.

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Man Who Rammed Car into Winnipeg Freedom Convoy Protesters is Antifa Activist David Zegarac.  On Saturday several freedom protesters were injured by a vehicle that appeared to intentionally ram into a truck and run over at least one protester in Winnepeg.  This was a brutal attack. [...] The masked man who ran over the Winnipeg Freedom Convoy protesters is an Antifa activist.

Suspect in Canada trucker protest hit-and-run is militant Antifa punk rocker.  The suspect arrested over the car-ramming attack against "Freedom Convoy" anti-vaccine mandate protesters in Winnipeg is an Antifa member with a long history of far-left militant activism in Canada.  David Alexander Zegarac, 42, of Headingley, Manitoba, allegedly sped off in his Jeep Patriot to try and escape after the incident last Friday, which injured four people and was caught on camera.  Zegarac ran multiple lights and resisted arrest when he was finally caught around 40 minutes later, according to the Winnipeg Police.  Zegarac was well-known as the frontman and vocalist of several Antifa punk bands since the early 2000s, most notably, Brat Attack.  He was vocal about his veganism and radical anarchist politics.  However, in 2015, record label Rebel Time records dropped the group because of multiple accusations of sexual assault and rape against Zegarac.  One of his anonymous accusers said she was only 13 when he allegedly groomed her and raped her.  Police said he does not have a criminal history in Manitoba, though he has also lived in British Columbia and Newfoundland.

Man who tried to burn Minnesota school during BLM riots gets probation.  A man convicted of attempting to set fire to a high school during the Black Lives Matter riots in Minneapolis following the death of George Floyd has been sentenced to five years probation.  Mohamed Hussein Abdi, 20, was handed the probation sentence in a U.S. District Court in St.  Paul, Minnesota, Thursday after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit arson, according to court documents obtained by Fox News.  Abdi was also ordered to pay just over $34,000 in restitution to Gordon Parks High School in St.  Paul.  Court documents state that the sentence was "imposed pursuant to the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984."  The presiding judge, Reagan-appointed District Court Judge David S. Doty, did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News.

Kenosha District Attorney Releases Photos of BLM-Antifa Looters from 2020 Riots that Destroyed the City.  The Kenosha District Attorney released photos of BLM looters from the 2020 riots.  Black Lives Matter and Antifa terrorists burned down the city business district causing millions in damage.  The FBI does not seem too interested in these rioters for some reason.  [Numerous photos]  Each photo has a specific number associated with it and can be reported on directly via email by clicking on the relevant image.  If you do not have email or would like to report something anonymously, you can do so via a form submittal page.

Biden's DOJ Say Arsonist Who Killed A Man Should Get Reduced Sentence Because He Was Rioting For BLM.  A BLM rioter who set fire to a pawn shop and killed a man is facing a shorter sentence than normal because, according to US Attorney W. Anders Folk, he was "caught up in the fury" of the Black Lives Matter riots.  On June 5, 2020, in Minnesota, BLM riots were breaking out and becoming violent.  Hundreds of people took to the streets and began looting local businesses, vandalizing private property, and recklessly setting fire to buildings.  Montez Terriel Lee Jr. was one of these violent actors. [...] Over two months after Lee burned down the shop, a 30-year-old man, Oscar Lee Stewart, was found dead among the debris.

Prosecutors win light sentence for man who set deadly fire during Floyd riots.  A man who set a deadly fire in a Minneapolis pawn shop during the 2020 George Floyd riots was spared a murder charge and sentenced to just 10 years after federal prosecutors invoked Martin Luther King Jr. and asked the judge to show leniency.  Montez Terriel Lee, 26, pleaded guilty to a single count of arson and was sentenced earlier this month to 10 years in federal prison — much less than the 16½1/2 to 20-year punishment outlined in the sentencing guidelines.

In the 1980s, a Far-Left, Female-Led Domestic Terrorism Group Bombed the U.S. Capitol.  Amidst the social and political turmoil of the 1970s, a handful of women — among them a onetime Barnard student, a Texas sorority sister, the daughter of a former communist journalist — joined and became leaders of the May 19th Communist Organization.  Named to honor the shared birthday of civil rights icon Malcolm X and Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh, M19 took its belief in "revolutionary anti-imperialism" to violent extremes:  It is "the first and only women-created and women-led terrorist group," says national security expert and historian William Rosenau.  M19's status as an "incredible outlier" from male-led terrorist organizations prompted Rosenau, an international security fellow at the think tank New America, to excavate the inner workings of the secretive and short-lived militant group.  The resulting book, Tonight We Bombed the Capitol, pieces together the unfamiliar story of "a group of essentially middle-class, well educated, white people who made a journey essentially from anti-war and civil rights protest to terrorism," he says.

Riots, Then and Now.  President Donald Trump was inaugurated on January 20, 2017.  In response, radical Democrats gathered in Washington to riot.  The riot was ugly and violent:  [Photos]  A number of police officers were injured, and the radical Democrats assaulted random passers-by.  The 2017 riot was, what? 1,000 times as destructive as the January 6, 2021 riot?  10,000 times as destructive?  And yet none of the rioters sat in jail for a year awaiting trial.  On the contrary: [...]

8 Times Left-Wing Protesters Broke Into Government Buildings And Assaulted Democracy.  Self-absorbed congressional Democrats held a group therapy session on Capitol Hill on Thursday as they work tirelessly to immortalize Jan. 6 as an annual day of doom, but the rest of us are old enough to remember a few more times when riots and protests overwhelmed government buildings with no such theatrical response.  More than a few times, actually.  The 2020 summer of rage was more or less "incited" by these same top Democrats, who race-baited as if their lives depended on it, and even our vice president, who helped bail violent rioters out of jail.  It featured a number of these attacks on the government (which strangely weren't called attacks on democracy at the time).  Not all of these demonstrations were allegedly a response to the Minnesota death of George Floyd, however.  Left-wing demonstrators have long made a habit of attacking, infiltrating, and occupying government buildings.  It started long before Jan. 6, 2021, and continued long after.

Alleged Antifa member targeted Florida rally with a bomb; more explosives found at his house.  A man in black bloc behaving suspiciously near a right-wing rally outside the Pinellas County Courthouse in Florida on Jan. 6 was apprehended by deputies after he tried fleeing on foot.  Garrett James Smith, 22, was arrested and found carrying an active pipe bomb, Antifa propaganda and a written document on what to bring for his direct action.  He had recently returned from Portland, Ore.  "He was running fast, he was running away from something," Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said at a press conference on Friday.

Democrat J6 Vigil Organized By Left-Wing Activist Behind Violent Disruptions Of Trump Inauguration.  The woman organizing a vigil on the National Mall to remember "the attack on democracy that occurred on Jan. 6, 2021," is the same Antifa-affiliated woman who planned disruptions for the inaugurations of both President George W. Bush and President Donald Trump.  She also co-founded and organized the group that terrorized Sen. Josh Hawley's wife and newborn baby last year over the Republican's objections to the 2020 election results.  Liz Butler is a "partner" with Movement Catalyst, the organization hosting the official Jan. 6 vigil in Washington, D.C., just one year after the infamous Capitol riot.  The event is part of an entire day of Democrat programming hoping to smear Republicans as the destroyers of democracy.

The Real Insurrection:  The BLM Riots-The corrupt January 6 Committee ignores it.  Riots?  What riots?  Insurrection in American cities in 2020? Nothing to see here, folks.  Move along.  Thus it is with the Stalinesque show trial that is the January 6 Committee.  As my colleague Melissa Mackenzie illustrated yesterday, "the Democrats are running their committee like a criminal trial."  It is indeed blatantly unconstitutional and no one is attempting to stop them.  Why?  What is particularly telling about the hysteria over January 6 is that infinitely worse riots took place across America in 2020 — a series of genuine and decidedly violent insurrections in the name of Black Lives Matter — and there is nary an investigation in sight.  So as January 6 of 2022 is upon us, let's do a little compare and contrast as the hysteria about January 6, 2021, is whipped up in the liberal media.

The hypocrisy of liberals hits a new low.  I hate double standards with a passion.  It was perfectly fine for Madonna to say that she wanted to blow up the White House after Donald Trump was elected.  Kathy Griffin held up a model of President Trump's decapitated bloody head.  Juli Briskman flipped off President Trump's motorcade and subsequently won a seat on a county board of supervisors in Virginia.  There were also the infamous pink hats, an attack on a seven-year-old wearing a MAGA hat, and Trump supporters Candace Owens, Charlie Kirk, and Sarah Huckabee Sanders driven out of restaurants.  None of these incidents of violence and hatred caused liberals to turn a hair.

Transgender Antifa rioter has federal case for assaulting Portland cops dropped after [completing] just 30 hours community service.  The federal case against an Antifa rioter from Portland accused of assaulting police officers was dropped after she completed just 30 hours of community service.  Eva Warner, who is transgender and was formerly named Joshua, was charged with felony civil disorder in September 2020 after she was arrested three times during Antifa riots in August.  Warner, 26, would have faced a maximum sentence of five years in federal prison if convicted.

Three 'What Ifs' We're Not Supposed to Ask.  [#3]  What if, instead of Black Lives Matter and Antifa burning down cities these last few years in response to perceived "injustices," Republican voters had continuously shown up in the streets to seek vengeance for court decisions or police actions they did not like?  What if they had responded to the unconstitutional imposition of Obamacare or the federal government's refusal to enforce immigration law or the FBI's decision to classify conservatives as "domestic extremists" by taking over highways, looting stores, and threatening innocent bystanders?  Would mayors and governors have sat back and said stoically, "Give them some space to destroy"?  Would the director of the FBI have testified that all these "mostly peaceful protests" organized by conservatives were really about some abstract idea of freedom, rather than anything that should be targeted by law enforcement?  Would pro-liberty Tea Partiers have been featured on the front pages of fashion mags and had their political slogans emblazoned on chic clothing lines just as BLM's are regularly today?

Teacher Fired After Call For 'Shooting' Anti-Vaxxers.  A Pennsylvania teacher lost her job after suggesting on Facebook that Americans who refuse COVID-19 vaccinations for religious reasons should be shot.  The General McLane School District in Erie County confirmed Monday that Mollie Paige Mumau has not been teaching at McLane High School or permitted in school district buildings since Dec. 8, a few days after she suggested in the Facebook post that the Republican Party "take those guns they profess to love so much and just start shooting all of their constituents who think this way."

Activism, Uncensored: 71 Arrested in "Build Back Better" Demonstrations.  The Poor People's Campaign traces back to Martin Luther King's 1967 plan for a march of poor people to D.C. to demand jobs, unemployment insurance, and a fair minimum wage.  This was after his famous Riverside Church speech in Harlem, around the time he was altering his focus to opposition to the Vietnam War and economic inequality.  In other words, after King started to lose the backing of more mainstream Democrats by leaving his "lane" to become more of a peace activist.  The new incarnation of the Poor People's Campaign, led by [Reverend William] Barber, insists it's not "left or right, Democrat or Republican," but a "moral fusion movement" that advocates for social spending while opposing things like defense spending.

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Defense spending is authorized by the U.S. Constitution.  Welfare programs are not.

10 Antifa members charged for alleged attacks on California pro-Trump protesters:  'Criminal acts'.  Prosecutors in San Diego filed charges against at least 10 anti-fascist protesters who allegedly tried to disrupt a pro-Trump rally earlier this year with "violent criminal acts."  "Video evidence analysis shows that overwhelmingly the violence in this incident was perpetrated by the Antifa affiliates and was not a mutual fray with both sides crossing out of lawful First Amendment expression into riot and violence," District Attorney Summer Stephan's office said in a news release, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune.  The defendants "are self-identified to be affiliated with Anti-fascists or Antifa" and gathered on Jan. 9 in San Diego to take "direct action" against a pro-Trump "Patriot March," according to the San Diego County District Attorney's Office.  "Direct action" is defined as "acts of violence such as assault, battery, assault with deadly weapons, arson, and vandalism," according to the DA's office.  Police declared an unlawful assembly the day of the clashes.

Yes, you're right:  The Department of Justice has a double standard.  The surest sign that you're living in a corrupt country is that people are not treated equally under the law.  Those who are politically disfavored are denied justice while those whom the government favors walk away from their crimes.  America is now a corrupt country if the legal treatment accorded January 6 protesters is compared to those on the left.  This was made perfectly clear when comparing the sentence given to Jacob Chansley (the "QAnon Shaman"), who dared to walk through Congress, and Thomas Alexander Starks, who attacked a senator's office with an axe.

Antifa Member Who Took Axe to Senate Office Given Probation and his Axe Back.  We have been discussing the continued incarceration of many individuals for their participation in the Jan. 6th riot.  Despite claims that the riot was an insurrection, the vast majority of defendants have been given relatively minor charges.  Nevertheless, the Justice Department has insisted on holding many without bail and some have received longer sentences, like Jacob Chansley (aka "QAnon Shaman") who was given a 41-month sentence for "obstructing a federal proceeding."  Thomas "Tas" Alexander Starks, 31, of Lisbon, N.D., faced a strikingly different approach by the Justice Department.  The self-avowed Antifa member took an axe to the office of Sen. John Hoeven's in Fargo on Dec. 21, 2020.  Federal sentencing guidelines suggested 10 [to] 16 months in prison but he was only sentenced to probation and fined $2,784 for restitution ... he then reportedly mocked the FBI for returning his axe.  Others declared him a hero and Democratic politicians pitched in for his legal defense.

The Politics of Weaponized Car Attacks.  As we learn more about the senseless SUV attack on the crowd attending a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin, some liberal media outlets are energetically attempting to spin away from the suspect Darrell Brooks and his left-wing politics on social media.  That's funny.  With Kyle Rittenhouse, they quickly dug into his social media activity.  The Washington Post warned last summer "the 17-year-old shadowed local law enforcement, filling his social media feeds with posts declaring that 'Blue Lives Matter' and photos of himself posing with guns."  For Brooks, the Post lamely mentioned Brooks wrote under the name MathBoi Fly and that "after multiple legal battles," he "started turning the life he lived in the streets into music."

BLM & Antifa Chant 'Every city every town, burn the precinct to the ground' in Brooklyn during a Protest.  Antifa and BLM are back to their chants to remove the police department so they can continue their reign of terror on black communities throughout the country.  This time after Rittenhouse was found guilty of all counts they took to the streets to chant for people around the nation to burn police stations to the ground.  [Video clip]

Six Things We Learned From The Kyle Rittenhouse Trial.  There were protesters in front of the courthouse from the beginning of the trial — an increasing amount of them, in fact — and while some were pro-Rittenhouse, the majority were anti-Rittenhouse.  Those protesters were demanding that Rittenhouse be found guilty and were extremely vocal in their pleas.  And while most of us have probably felt the urge to smack a reporter upside the head on occasion, we suppress those inclinations because we're rational human beings.  But such was not the case with one anti-Rittenhouse protester, who went so far as to physically body slam a reporter.  That assault led to the young man's arrest, after which it was determined that the body slammer had a felony warrant out for his arrest.  What nice bunch of concerned citizens, those anti-Rittenhouse protesters.  One of the protesters outside of the courthouse was carrying an AR-15, which is obviously not allowed, and jurors had expressed various fears from the very beginning of the process.  Additionally, the judge at the trial, Bruce Schroeder, received thousands of death threats and vile messages.  This type of nonsense has no place in our justice system, and it seems clear that such actions are increasingly common because they've worked in the past.

Kyle Rittenhouse's lawyer says he's received so many death threats he's no longer using his phone.  Mark Richards, Kyle Rittenhouse's criminal defense attorney, told Insider that he has received so many death threats that he was no longer using his own cellphone.  Richards said that he "can't count" the number of death threats he's received recently.  "It's too high," he added.  The attorney has since taken to using his wife's cellphone, which he used to speak to Insider, but added that her number has also been targeted by people making death threats.  Richards said:  "I would love for things to change, for people to talk to one another without fighting, but, unfortunately, I don't see it changing it any time soon."

Ex-member of black militia group The Brotherhood is kicked out of Texas school board meeting after threatening anti-CRT parents.  A former member of a black militia group was removed by police from a tense school board meeting after he said he had 'over a thousand soldiers ready to go' who were 'locked and loaded' in support of critical race theory — leaving anti-CRT parents feeling 'threatened' and 'scared.'  The incident took place during a board meeting held by the Fort Worth Independent School District on November 9.  The meeting was devoted in part to the teaching of critical race theory, which was opposed by some of the parents.  During the meeting, a man identified as Malikk Austin got up and spoke for a minute, defending the teaching of CRT. [...] School board meetings nationwide have become a flash point of controversy over the teaching of critical race theory, which critics say makes children feel guilty for being white.  Supporters of CRT claim that it is vital to 'center' the experiences of black people and other minorities in educational curricula which until now has been taught predominantly through the prism of white Americans.

CRT defender tells parents he's got 1,000 soldiers 'locked and loaded,' some see it as threat.  Fort Worth parents told Fox News that they felt threatened when a parent who defended critical race theory turned to the crowd during a school board meeting and said, "I got over 1,000 soldiers ready to go," before adding, "locked and loaded," as officers escorted him out of the room.  "Absolutely, it made me feel threatened," Hollie Plemmons, a stay-at-home mother of three, told Fox News on Sunday.  "I'm scared and I'm afraid he's going to do something."  In the Fort Worth Independent School District board meeting on Nov. 9, Malikk Austin turned to address the parents who had spoken up about critical race theory.  "For those who got an issue with this critical race theory equity, this is something I fight for, for my children," Austin, who is African American, began.  "How dare you come out here and talk about the things that my daddy and my grandparents went through, the lynching, the oppression, Jim Crow, and my kids are still being afflicted by this."  "We are not our ancestors," Austin added.  "I got over 1,000 soldiers ready to go."

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If the colors were reversed, this would be called an act of domestic terrorism at a school board meeting.

BLM NYC Leader Who Threatened 'Riots' and 'Bloodshed' Walks off Interview When Called Out.  New York City Mayor-elect Eric Adams vowed last week that he will reinstate plainclothes, anti-crime police units in his violently out-of-control city.  "Shockingly," the units were disbanded by the worst mayor in the history of the known universe, soon-to-be-ex, Bill de Blasio.  "I'm going to put in place a plainclothes gun unit.  We must zero in on gun violence in our community," vowed Adams, on Thursday. [...] Somewhat surprising, Newsome later agreed to an interview with Fox News host and former NYPD cop Dan Bongino, to discuss the announcement by Adams and the BLM leader's threat of violence in response.  Bad idea.  [Video clip]

Terrorisim: Nets Ignore BLM Threatening to Bring 'Bloodshed' to NYC.  The broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) routinely exercise their power to raise local stories to national attention when they decide it helps the narrative, or squash it if it doesn't.  So, obviously, Wednesday's terroristic threats from New York City's Black Lives Matter leader Hawk Newsome were conspicuously absent Thursday evening even though he had said his group would bring "riots," "fire," and "bloodshed" (emphasis his) if Mayor-elect Eric Adams (D) tried to bring back the "anti-crime" unit.  While they were ignoring how the socialist-extremist organization was threatening to launch terrorist attacks on New York City, ABC's World News Tonight, the CBS Evening News, and NBC Nightly News were busy touting snow in the Midwest.

Democrat-Run Chicago Braces for Rittenhouse Riots.  "The Chicago Police Department has canceled regularly scheduled days off starting Friday and through the weekend in apparent anticipation of civil unrest in the event that Kyle Rittenhouse is acquitted," the Chicago Sun-Times reported.  Allow me to translate that for you.  Because Chicago is run by Democrats, because the corporate media have been shamelessly lying about the truth of what's been revealed in the Rittenhouse trial, Chicago police know that if Rittenhouse is acquitted (as he should be), the left-wing terrorists in Antifa and Black Lives Matter, these dangerous babies who can't deal with things not going their way, are almost certain to take to the streets to loot and burn in the name of social justice or something.

Watch As Far-Leftists Hold Sen Manchin Hostage As They Surround His Car.  A gaggle of far-left environmental activists followed Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) from his DC houseboat to his car Thursday morning and attempted to prevent him from leaving a parking garage — the latest fit of progressive pique over Manchin's current opposition to the multitrillion-dollar Democratic social spending bill.  [Video clip]

Man Travels From Portland to Kill Matt Gaetz, DOJ Yawns.  How many FBI agents does it take to arrest the man who threatened to kill Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz?  Zero, you silly goose, because Gaetz is a Republican.  If Gaetz were a Democrat, the alleged hitman would likely have been arrested and detained without bail, like the 71-year-old Pennsylvania man who was stopped while driving to D.C. with plans to kill various Democrats in February 2021.  He is looking at a maximum ten-year sentence.  Rep. Matt Gaetz stated on the House floor that someone had threatened to kill him and the Department of Justice (DOJ) won't arrest the man, despite the Capitol Police recommending they do so.

Brooklyn lawyers who made Molotovs plead guilty to one count each, face years in prison.  The two Brooklyn lawyers who made Molotov cocktails and tossed one under a police car last year pleaded guilty to one count each of "possession of a destructive device." [...] Last July when these two were let out on bail I argued that the federal charges leveled against them, including one charge of "use of explosives during a crime of violence" which carries a 30-year minimum sentence, was too much.  Ultimately, what these two did was throw a firebomb at an empty car.  They deserve prison time for that but let's face it, a lot of murderers don't get 30 years.  That said, I'd hate to see the judge go too far in the other direction.

Hamstrung by New Law, Portland Police Make No Arrests in Latest Riot.  As a group of about 100 anarchists raged through a Portland neighborhood on Oct. 12, police reportedly remained in their vehicles.  Some say their inaction is a direct result of confusion over an Oregon police-reform law passed last summer, which restricts how they can respond to such crowds.  In less than two hours, the group did an estimated $500,000 of damage to 35 locations, including banks, retail stores, coffee shops, and government buildings.  Portland Police Bureau (PPB) officers issued verbal warnings through a megaphone.  "Those who refuse to leave the area are subject to arrest," the warning blared on a loop.  "The bureau will investigate crimes and will make arrests either tonight, or in the future."

Climate protesters swarm White House, vandalize Jackson statue, warn Biden.  Left-wing climate protesters hit the D.C. streets Monday [10/11/2021], vandalizing a statue of former President Andrew Jackson and swarming the White House while warning President Biden to take their demands seriously.  The Build Back Fossil Free coalition took to the DC streets Monday with their five-day-long protest's aim to spur action by the Biden administration against climate change, mainly by declaring a national emergency and ending projects involving fossil fuels.  Siqiñiq Maupin, director of coalition core member the Sovereign Inupiat for a Living Arctic, told Fox News in a Monday email statement that the protest was happening because they believe Biden needs to follow through on his campaign promises.

Antifa riot outside Justice Center in Portland.  Members of Portland's antifa movement started a riot Friday night outside the Justice Center in downtown Portland.  The riot followed a grand jury declining to indict an officer over the shooting of a man who brandished a replica pistol at police.  As a result, antifa blocked off the street and started a fire.  Videos have begun populating social media.  One such video shows Portland police behind a gate in downtown, Portland.  Another video depicts antifa moving to the nearby city hall and burning an American flag.  A final video depicts the violent scene outside the US federal courthouse, still boarded up more than a year after antifa tried to burn it down.

A Dog Whistle?  Biden Calls Disgusting Harassment of Sinema and Manchin 'Part of the Process'.  Remember when Joe Biden called for calm and civility in politics when he was running for president?  Well, I guess that's out the window now.  In recent days, Senators Joe Manchin (D-W.Va) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) have been targets of a harassment campaign.  Unhinged leftists have followed Sinema to her house and even into a public restroom.

Boulder County Catholic Church vandalized with pro-choice messages.  Pro-choice messaging and anarchist symbols were found spray painted on the building of Sacred Heart of Mary Catholic Church in Boulder County on Wednesday morning.  "It was way worse than I had pictured in my mind," said Mark Evevard, the youth director at the church.  The Boulder County Sheriff's Office said the vandalism happened at approximately 3:30 a.m. on Wednesday.  The vandalism was discovered along a truck in the parking lot and church signs on the property.

My Home, Family Were Targeted by Protesters.  This Must Stop.  I was surprised to read The Washington Post's recent editorial concluding that pro-choice protesters had crossed the line by demonstrating in front of the home of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.  After all, The Washington Post is not exactly a conservative or rational voice on these types of issues.  Almost all the points in the editorial made perfect and logical sense, including the concluding statement:  "Leave spouses, children and homes out of it."  As I finished reading the editorial, one overriding thought came to mind.  Where was this logical point of view in 2020 when many Trump administration officials, including me, had to endure months of protests outside our homes for simply doing our jobs?  My experience started in the summer of 2020, shortly after civil unrest began around the country in the wake of George Floyd's death in police custody.

After a Murder Over Mask-Wearing, Authorities Are Cracking Down on COVID Skeptics on Telegram.  After a gas station cashier was killed following an argument over mask wearing, the German government started pressuring social media platforms to censor groups over what has become known as "corona misinformation."  The State of Thüringen's Interior Minister George Mair specifically called for the urgent regulation and classification of Telegram as a social network in order to foist new rules on the platform.  Currently the "Netzwerdurchsetzungsgesetz" law in Germany requires social media platforms to delete whatever the government deems as "criminal" content, and even to report them to the Federal Criminal Policy Agency (Bundeskriminalamt).  Platforms such as Telegram, however, have typically been excluded as they are not classified as social networks but as messaging platforms.  Telegram has also been under pressure in the US, for what globalist policy makers call the spread of "misinformation" and for "coordinating" the January 6 "insurrection".

Washington Antifa Extremist Charged With Shooting of Coronavirus Mandate Protestor.  An Olympia, Washington Antifa extremist has been charged with the shooting of a man protesting coronavirus mandates earlier this month.  36-year old Benjamin Anthony Varela was arrested on Thursday [9/23/2021], and will face charges of first-degree assault while armed with a deadly weapon.  Journalist Andy Ngo broke news of the arrest on Monday.  Varela is accused of pulling the trigger in the shooting of Tusitala "Tiny" Toese, a Proud Boys member and anti-mandate protestor who was shot in the foot on September 4th.  The shooting was caught on tape, with members of the left-wing terrorist organization celebrating the violent act on social media following the event.

The New Yorker provides a platform for ecoterrorism.  David Remnick, of The New Yorker, put up a podcast over the weekend.  He opened by saying that, while the Biden administration and the UN are working hard on climate change, it's too late.  As the California wildfires show, catastrophic climate change is here. (Never mind that California has had cyclical droughts and fires for centuries.)  That's why Remnick respectfully gave The New Yorkers' bully pulpit podcast to Andreas Malm, a lecturer at Lund University in Sweden, who thinks it's time to blow things up. [...] Well, as Remnick explains, Malm's recent book is entitled "How to Blow up a Pipeline." And while "it's a bit more nuanced than the title suggests," even Remnick agrees that, "at its core, he really does want environmental activists to rethink their commitment to non-violence and embrace tactics of sabotage."  Then, Remnick has a polite and respectful interview with Malm, as the latter details his rage and the need to destroy property.

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Forestry student-turned-shaman, 30, faces nine years in jail for 'starting California's Fawn Fire'.  A former forestry student-turned-shaman and yoga teacher has been charged with starting a huge California wildfire that has destroyed 41 homes — and was being investigated in connection with other fires — after claiming the blaze was triggered accidentally while she tried to boil bear urine so she could drink it.  Alexandra Souverneva, of Palo Alto, was charged Friday with felony arson to wildland with an enhancement because of a declared state of emergency in California, Shasta County District Attorney Stephanie Bridgett said.  The 8,500 acre blaze the 30 year-old is accused of starting has wrecked 41 homes, and 90 other structures.  Souverneva pleaded not guilty but could face up to nine years in state prison if convicted.  She is also suspected of starting additional fires in Shasta County and throughout the state, Bridgett said.

What is it about academics and arson?  You've heard of "going postal:? Maybe the next odious term should be "going academic."  We're seeing an awful lot of arson as a cause for California's wildfires and at treasured institutions being perpetrated by academics.  Here's the latest going on near Redding, California from the Washington Post: [...] Nearly all of the accused have signs of drug abuse in their pictures as do these three, a lot of them are serial setters, and many have mental health issues.  But it's starting to stand out that some of the worst fire-starters are from the cool ivy halls of academia, as if something in the culture is telling the angry ones among them to go burn something.  What is it?  How is it that a profession that set such stake on telling America how to live seems to have so little capacity for cleaning house?

Survey: 23% of college students support violence to stop a speaker they disagree with.  In a worrying trend for free speech on college campuses, a growing number of students are expressing support for shouting down a campus speaker they disagree with, or even using violence to stop a speaker, a new survey finds.  The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), a nonprofit group that supports free speech in institutions of higher education, published its 2021 College Free Speech Rankings on Tuesday.  The rankings assess the free speech climate on various college and university campuses by surveying the students who go to school there.  The survey gathered the opinions of more than 37,000 students at 159 of "America's largest and most prestigious campuses," FIRE said in a news release.

Soros-Funded Group FCC Letter Included Question on Whether to 'Shoot' Republicans.  The George Soros-funded Free Press is in hot water after it submitted a leftist petition to the Federal Communications Commission that included a comment that questioned if Republicans should be shot.  The Free Press petition urged the FCC to "investigate its own history of racism and examine how its policy choices and actions have harmed black people and other communities of color."  The petition included the following violent comment:  "How come we have racist horseshit like FOX and the other ultraconservative outlets and Christians owning most of our media.  What happened to separation of church and state?  Are we going to have to shoot Republican[s] to reclaim our democracy?" Soros's Foundation to Promote Open Society and Open Society Institute gave at least $4,785,000 combined to Free Press between 2004-2019 alone.  FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr reportedly told The Washington Free Beacon that "'The only action the FCC should take on a request like this — one based on a comment asking whether Republicans should be shot — is to dismiss it with prejudice.'"

Peaceful Pro-Life Protestor Gets Brutally Assaulted On Camera By A Group Of College Students.  Little is known about this video making the rounds on social media.  It is not yet known which university this incident happened at.  A man with an anti-abortion sign with a murdered fetus is surrounded by some students.  One starts yelling at him, he responds by saying 'you shouldn't murder humans,' to which the female responds fetuses aren't humans.  The two large men get in front of the protestor filming and seem to count down to the assault.  They punch him in the face several times before stomping on him when he's on the ground.  [Video clip]

Florida nurse pleads guilty to threatening to kill Kamala Harris.  A Florida nurse has pleaded guilty to threatening to kill Kamala Harris, claiming she was going to carry out the sick plot because the vice president wasn't "actually black," authorities said.  Niviane Petit Phelps, 39, of Miami-Dade County, pleaded guilty Friday, admitting she sent her imprisoned husband six 30-second video clips of herself in February, claiming she accepted $53,000 for the "hit" to be completed within 50 days, court documents show.  "Kamala Harris, you are going to die," Phelps said in one clip, according to a complaint obtained by USA Today.  "Your days are numbered already."  Phelps, who is black, told investigators she made the threats because Harris, 56, who was born to a Jamaican father and an Indian mother, wasn't "actually black" and her belief that the vice president placed her hand on her purse rather than a Bible on Inauguration Day, according to the complaint.

Liberal Extremist Goes on Stabbing Spree at Recall Newsom Rally, Fractured Skull Reported.  During a "Recall Gavin Newsom" rally in San Rafael, CA, a knife-wielding Newsom supporter and liberal extremist stabbed a recall supporter, knocking him to the ground and fracturing his skull.  59-year old Chris Carpinello was the victim of the attack and was rushed to Marin County General Hospital, suffering a slash injury and a concussion after he was slammed to the ground.  It was later revealed that Carpinello fractured his skull and broke his jaw.  Liberal extremists are hunting down conservatives and the media is nowhere to be seen.

We are always having a "national conversation" about "right-wing violence".  [Thread reader] ... but everyone in the media either laughs about it or straight-up memory holes it when it happens to Republicans.  Rand Paul lost part of his lung.  Scalise, among others, almost died.  These were both, clearly and directly, targeted political violence.  No one even disputes this.  And yet, no discussions on left-wing political violence.  The media never demanded that. [...] If a Trump supporter shot up baseball field full of Democrat members of Congress and almost killed one of them, would the media have forgotten about it so quickly?  Or ever?  This is why no one trusts journalists.  People remember this stuff.  And oh hey, by the way, leftist are currently organizing a "direct action" plan to personally target Brett Kavanaugh's private residence where his family lives.  Try, just try, to imagine how the media would treat pro-lifers targeting Ginsburg's house.

Why Isn't the Attack on Larry Elder the Biggest Story in America?  A white woman in a gorilla mask threw an egg at a black man seeking to become the first non-white governor of our largest state, and the media shrug.  Do a search for "Larry Elder" and gorilla on the CNN website and nothing comes up.  Washington Post?  Zilch.  Nothing comes up on the New York Times site either, although if you make it to the 15th paragraph of a story entitled "The Vice President pushed back against the effort to recall Newsom in the Bay Area," you will find a bland passing reference to Wednesday's disgusting incident.

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'Hate Crime' Charges Filed After Racist Attack Against Larry Elder.  On Friday, two California councilwomen filed a complaint with the LAPD over alleged "hate crimes" committed by protestors.  On Wednesday, the women, Latina Soledad Ursua and Chie Lunn, were walking with California gubernatorial recall candidate Larry Elder as he toured a Venice Beach homeless encampment when a white woman wearing a pink-haired gorilla mask hurled both eggs and racial slurs at the group. [...] As of publishing time, Gavin Newsom has yet to denounce the racially and politically motivated attacks on Elder, Ursua, and Lunn.  That's no surprise.  In Newsom's California, these things are acceptable if they're against Republicans.

White racist leftist in ape mask assaults Larry Elder and take a look at how the LA Times covered it.  So is naked racism of Bull-Connor-era ilk against the man who may become California's first black governor O.K. so long as a Democrat is doing it?  Apparently so, based on how the Los Angeles Times is covering yesterday's egg-hurling incident.  A leftist white woman, unsubtle as she can get, wearing a gorilla mask, hurled an egg at the head of gubernatorial candidate Larry Elder in Venice, California, nearly hitting him, and then another leftist did the same as Elder was hustled off by his aides into an SUV.

California recall candidate Larry Elder targeted by egg-throwing hostile crowd.  At least one egg was thrown at Larry Elder, the Republican front-runner in the California gubernatorial recall election, during a confrontation with a hostile crowd while walking with his team on Wednesday [9/8/2021].  Local reporters posted video to social media that showed an individual wearing a gorilla mask and tossing an egg in the direction of the conservative radio host, who was in the Venice neighborhood of Los Angeles to tour a homeless encampment.

'If I were a Democrat they'd be calling it a hate crime': Larry Elder slams the left.  California governor hopeful Larry Elder has slammed Democrats for not calling attack on him a hate crime after a white woman in a gorilla mask was filmed throwing an egg at him on a campaign stop Wednesday [9/8/2021].  On Thurday night, the GOP candidate told Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight host Jesse Watters that he encountered the 'very angry and ugly scene' while he was touring a homeless encampment in Venice Beach.  'If I were a Democrat, obviously, this would be called systemic racism, they'd be calling it a hate crime.  I don't like to play that game,' he said.

Media ignore racial attack on Larry Elder because he's a black Republican.  Do a search for "Larry Elder" and gorilla on the CNN website and nothing comes up.  Washington Post?  Zilch.  Nothing comes up on The New York Times site either, although if you make it to the 15th paragraph of a story titled "The Vice President pushed back against the effort to recall Newsom in the Bay Area," you will find a bland passing reference to Wednesday's disgusting incident.  According to our nation's media leaders, it's not a story that a white person wearing a gorilla mask attacked Larry Elder, a black man seeking to become the first non-white governor of California, by hurling an egg that touched his head.  If Elder were a Democrat, the attack would have been instantly and with good reason dubbed racist.  It would not only be front-page news, it would be just about the only news you were hearing about today on CNN and MSNBC.

Assault On Black Gubernatorial Candidate Larry Elder Exposes Double-Standard On Race.  Imagine for a moment that a white woman wearing a gorilla mask threw an egg at the first black American with a serious chance of becoming governor of California as he visited homeless encampments with black and Latino community leaders.  Imagine that, seconds later, both the gorilla-masked woman and a white man punched the candidate's security guard.  And imagine that somebody fired a pellet gun into the crowd.  It is reasonable to expect that such an event would be instantly and roundly condemned as a racist hate crime by civil rights leaders, talking heads, and political leaders.  Some might demand an FBI investigation into whether the woman acted alone, and why the L.A. police had failed to protect the candidate.  And it is reasonable to expect that, within hours, there would have been protests in Los Angeles and across the country.  And yet, after this exact event occurred in Los Angeles yesterday before noon it aroused neither extensive news media coverage, widespread condemnation, nor protests.

LA sheriff on Larry Elder's gorilla mask assailant: 'How is this not a hate crime?'.  The gorilla mask-wearing woman who threw an egg at California recall candidate Larry Elder and slapped his security guard should be charged with a hate crime, said Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva.  The unidentified woman was seen in a viral video riding a bicycle next to Elder and his guards after a campaign event in Venice Beach.  She threw an egg that narrowly missed Elder's head, and then she slapped a security guard. [...] LAPD, which has jurisdiction over Venice Beach, issued a press release Thursday night saying two men also hit Elder's guard in the head.  Police asked for the public's help in identifying those suspects, along with the woman in the gorilla mask.  "She might be one of the 20,000 felons from our prisons released by our soft-on-crime governor," Elder quipped on Tucker Carlson Tonight about the woman.

Antifa starts to use guns.  Up until last weekend, Antifa thugs confined their violence to beatings, chemical "milkshakes," and mob violence.  But now, an Antifa member has been accused of shooting an antagonist, a member of the Proud Boys. [...] Interesting that the city manager doesn't identify which group's member pulled the firearm.  Just "one group" and "the other group."  This is how the left protects its own.

Professor wants white people to kill themselves.  Occasionally, I receive nasty notes.  My favorite are the hurry-up-and-die notes from lefties who hate white people.  It is no secret that leftists believe they will be in power forever once white people no longer are a majority in this country.  Which brings us to Professor Derek Hook.  Emma Colton reported, "A professor employed at a Catholic university in Pennsylvania [Duquesne] said on camera that there are merits to the claim that it's ethical for White people to commit suicide."  Any college that would employ and continue to employ a professor who promotes suicide is not Catholic.  Hook quoted a South African philosophy professor, Terblanche Delport, who said, "White people should commit suicide as an ethical act."  The Hook said, "There was something ethical in Delport's statements."  The message is clear:  Hurry up and die so socialists can take over and Make America South Africa.

Man is Arrested For Attempted Murder During The Mostly Peaceful Stabbing Of Anti-Vaccine Mandate Protester.  A 30 year-old Long Beach man was in custody Thursday in connection with a stabbing that occurred last month during dueling demonstrations in downtown Los Angeles over Vaccine mandates.  Eric Cohen of Long Beach, was arrested for attempted murder and booked into the Metropolitan Detention Center.  He is currently being held on a $1 million bond.  [Video clip]

Antifa And Proud Boys Go To War In Portland, Black Bloc Gets Beats, Several Cars Destroyed, Shots Fired.  Members of the Proud Boys on Sunday violently clashed with left-wing Antifa activists following separate demonstrations in Portland.  The Proud Boys attended a planned gathering in the parking lot of an abandoned Kmart in Northeast Portland on Sunday morning, as roughly 300 left-wing protesters arrived at Tom McCall Waterfront Park to protest the Proud Boys gathering, according to Oregon Live.  Proud Boys member Tusitala Toese told the outlet that the group moved the event away from downtown in the morning to avoid clashes with left-wing activists.  "We relocated the rally to avoid the altercation and the violence between us and the people on the left, but if they do show up here, we're going to defend ourselves," Toese said.  [Video clip]

Political Violence Report.  Violent Acts, Threats and Advocacy of Violence Against Trump Supporters

Massive brawl between Antifa rioters and anti-vaccine protesters outside Los Angeles city hall.  A man was stabbed and a radio reporter was attacked on Saturday [8/14/2021] when a massive brawl erupted outside Los Angeles City Hall between suspected Antifa activists and protesters decrying vaccine mandates.  At about 2 pm, a group of people holding American flags and signs calling for 'medical freedom' arrived at City Hall for the rally, the Los Angeles Police Department and local media said.  Counterprotesters quickly gathered nearby.  About half an hour later, a fight broke out between the groups of protesters and counter-protesters.

Keywords:  Incitement, agitator, instigation, abettor.
Eric Holder calls for left to take to the streets in voter 'fairness' fight.  The left will not give up on the "For the People Act," because they know the so-called voter rights bill will all but assure one-party rule for decades — for Democrats.  In furtherance of that quest, they continue to push the myth of voter suppression in America, falsely claiming that the right to vote for people of color is under attack at a time when access to the ballot box has never been greater — a claim that comes with the full confidence of the national media being on board.  This is where Eric Holder comes into play.  The left-wing ideologue who once said "when they go low, we kick them," the man who protected Barack Obama's backside as the former president's attorney general, is calling for people to take to the streets in the mythical "fight for fairness."

Minneapolis DFL chair calls burning of police precinct 'revolutionary moment,' 'act of pure righteousness'.  The chair of the Minneapolis Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party is defending a recent op-ed in which he argued that rioters' burning of the Minneapolis Police Department's Third Precinct headquarters last year was an "act of pure righteousness" in their minds and a "genuine revolutionary moment."  In an Aug. 2 opinion piece for Southside Pride, a local monthly newspaper, titled The cops started it, Minneapolis DFL Chair Devin Hogan argued that the burning of the Third Precinct on May 28, 2020, three days after George Floyd's death in the same city, was a "proportional response" to the treatment of Black people by police.  Four men have since been sentenced to prison and ordered to pay millions in restitution over their roles in the precinct's burning.

US House Candidate: 'We Should Be Allowed to Shoot' Anyone Who Doesn't Take COVID Seriously Enough.  We should be allowed to shoot anyone who makes practical arguments regarding COVID-19, according to one 2022 California congressional candidate.  The candidate is Steve Cox, an independent running to represent California's 39th Congressional District.  On Monday [8/9/2021], Cox responded to conservative commentator Matt Walsh on Twitter, writing, "Whenever anyone says 'we all die from something' (or a variation thereof) to justify not taking precautions to help protect others in this pandemic, we should be allowed to shoot them."

Portland Sees Antifa Descend On Christian Worship Event, Clash With Proud Boys In Streets.  Videos from Portland showed a crowd of demonstrators violently shut down an event where Christians gathered to pray on the waterfront, before another clash Saturday afternoon [8/7/2021] involved Antifascists and alleged Proud Boys members throwing projectiles at each other on a city street.  Police officers did not intervene in either confrontation, besides a squad car sounding its siren just feet away.  The first instance of violence happened Saturday at an open-air event planned at Tom McCall Waterfront Park near the Battleship Oregon Memorial to be hosted by Artur Pawlowski, a traveling preacher who's been arrested in Canada for holding in-person worship services in violation of coronavirus restrictions.  Several Antifa Twitter accounts tweeted about the planned event, the Post Millennial reported, and videos posted online showed that a crowd of demonstrators dressed in black bloc attire showed up at the waterfront to confront worshippers.

Two Women Plead Guilty To Hate Crimes After Video Showed Them Violently Confronting Trump Supporters.  Two women pleaded guilty to hate crimes and theft Monday nearly a year after Trump supporters were violently confronted and had their political gear stolen in Delaware.  Police arrested Olivia Winslow and Camryn Amy after viral footage showed the defendants tearing a Trump supporter's sign and grabbing a "Make America Great Again" hat.  The two women pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of theft, hate crimes and child endangerment, the Delaware News Journal reported Wednesday [8/4/2021].  The suspects will be sentenced in September, the outlet reported.  Prosecutors said that they will seek a probation sentence without jail time, the outlet reported.  Attorneys representing Winslow and Amy said probation is the "appropriate sentence."

The History of Capitol Violence.  In 1954, four Puerto Ricans opened fire in the House of Representatives, injuring five congressmen.  The attackers said they acted to demand independence for the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico.  The injured congressmen survived and the four shooters received prison sentences.  President Jimmy Carter commuted one of their sentences in 1977, and granted clemency to the other three in 1979.  On March 1, 1971, a bomb exploded in the Capitol building.  While the explosion did not injure anyone, it caused some $300,000 in damage.  A group calling itself the Weather Underground claimed to be behind the bombing and said it was in protest of the ongoing U.S.-supported bombing of Laos.  Susan Rosenberg was part of a terrorist group that bombed the Capitol in 1983.  The bomb tore through the second floor of the Senate wing of the Capitol.  The device detonated late in the evening and no one was harmed, but it caused an estimated $250,000 in damage.  A group calling itself the Armed Resistance Unit later claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it was in retaliation for military actions in Grenada and Lebanon.  Seven people were eventually arrested in connection with the attack.  Rosenberg had her 58 year prison sentence commuted in 2001 by President Clinton at the request of New Yorker congressman Jerry Nadler.  Rosenberg now sits on the board of directors of Black Lives Matter.

Antifa Journalist Tries To Attack A Black Trump Supporter At A Protest In West Hollywood.  The anti-forced vaccination protest was back at the doorsteps of Harlowe yesterday evening.  The protesters who were mostly Trump supporters are outraged over the restaurant's decision to require proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test result to enter their premise.  The second night brought more hostility as Antifa members decide to counter-protest which escalated into violence, forcing sheriff deputies to detain four individuals.  When confronted about the aggressive energy taking place that evening, several protestors said bottles were thrown at them and that they were egged by those who opposed them.  And they weren't lying at one moment a militant Antifa activist and journalist was punched to the ground by a person of color at the protest.

Watch As A Gang Of Antifa Terrorists Assault A Wi Spa Protester in Los Angeles.  Antifa militants attacked protesters again Saturday outside the Los Angeles spa where an outraged customer complained that a transgender individual's male genitals were exposed to women and young girls in the female section.  In this video, a group of Vanilla ISIS terrorists picks on one of the smaller, lone protesters, getting him down on the ground and kicking and punching him several times before two men in suits swoop in to protect him.  Armed security?  Other images and videos show other protesters with bruises and welts as they were beaten with clubs, one woman was cut near the elbow with a knife.  [Video clip]

The 'Silent Majority' Is Rapidly Becoming the 'Angry Majority'.  The "silent majority" was mentioned by President Nixon in 1969, who labeled middle Americans who weren't protesting the Vietnam war or joining the counter culture — two activities being over-reported by the media of the day.  The silent majority didn't speak up much but respected traditional American values with a good-natured approach to political issues.  They were silent, but they voted. [...] But after five years of hysteria over Donald Trump, the media have hyped so many radical liberal causes to the point where many conservative Americans feel they are an endangered minority.  If we speak up, we feel we will be ridiculed or ostracized by our friends and co-workers or even lose our jobs.  People with conservative bumper stickers have had their cars vandalized, and those wearing patriotic clothing have been harassed and physically assaulted.  There are so many issues that face us that we can easily be overwhelmed and simply give up on political discourse, which furthers the idea that liberals rule the day.

Two dozen cases of debris thrown at drivers in Seattle in two weeks, spurring calls for action.  Seattle is now averaging more than two cases every day with debris thrown at drivers, mostly near downtown Seattle.  Washington State Patrol, working with Seattle police, have arrested 4 people in the last couple of weeks.  Yet, another case of rocks thrown from an overpass happened just Friday morning near the Washington State Convention Center.  Troopers say no one was hurt in this latest case.

NAACP leader blasts parents who oppose critical race theory in fiery speech outside Virginia middle school board meeting.  An NAACP leader has been caught on camera blasting parents who oppose Critical Race Theory and shouting 'let them die' in a fiery speech outside a Virginia middle school board meeting.  NAACP Vice President Michelle Leete — who is also a member of Virginia state PTA — made the inflammatory comments to a crowd at Luther Jackson Middle School in Falls Church, Fairfax County, Thursday.  The crowd, who cheered in response to Leete's speech, had gathered to counter-protest a group of parents who were holding a 'Stop CRT rally' at the school.  Leete is Vice President of her local NAACP chapter, Vice President of Training at the Virginia state PTA and Vice President of Communications for the Fairfax County PTA.  The PTA said Friday night that Leete's words 'do not reflect the values' of the group and that she will be sent on 'sensitivity training' to learn about the 'impact of the words we use'.

Crime Victims' Families Harassed By Antifa And Activists During Anti-Violence March.  Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong and a group of friends and family of victims of gun violence led a pro-police, anti-violence march on Saturday to call for a unified stand against violent crime.  Anti-police demonstrators and antifa showed up and clashed with members of the group, leading to heated arguments between them and the crime victims' families and law enforcement supporters, video footage showed.  "Surreal moment in Oakland," Intercept reporter Lee Fang tweeted.  "About 200 mostly black families rally with police to call for an end to the epidemic of gun violence.  Mothers at the stage mourning recently murdered children.  In the back, less than a dozen mostly white antifa protesters assembled to jeer them."

Massive Group Of Antifa Battles Venice Police In The Streets Outside G20.  As the global elites meet in Venice to decide how to better control all of us, local police battled shielded Antifa in the streets.  [Video clip]

Rhode Island Columbus statue vandalized.  Two teenagers are being charged with vandalism and malicious damage to property after they allegedly vandalized a Christopher Columbus statue in Rhode Island.  This is one of many recent incidents regarding the vandalism of historical figures statues across the U.S., including a statue of Columbus in Boston that was beheaded and another Columbus statue in Richmond that was thrown into a lake last year.  A Columbus statue in Providence was defaced with red paint in 2019, and later placed in storage to avoid additional vandalism.

Canadian Civil Liberties Group Leader Calls for Citizens to Burn All Churches Down.  In a chilling tweet, the leader of the BC Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA) has called for more Christian churches to be torched in response to the discovery of unmarked graves on the sites of former boarding schools for Indigenous children, many of which were run by churches decades ago.  The Western Standard reports Harsha Walia, the association's executive director, responded to news reports of two more Catholic churches being burned down.  "Burn it all down," she tweeted.

Portland Antifa 'model' arrested for the fifth time at violent protest.  A Portland serial riot arrestee and local Antifa model was arrested for a fifth time last week as part of an anti-police mob that formed to stop law enforcement from responding to a series of 911 calls.  Simona Andrea Arteaga, 40, of Portland, and Olivia Morgan Massey, 20, of Athens, Ala., were charged with felony assault, resisting arrest, interfering with an officer and other crimes.  After midnight on June 30, police were repeatedly sent to an apartment complex in northeast Portland after receiving four emergency calls requesting assistance.  Each time that police responded, they could not find anyone in need of help.  When police arrived the second time, an anti-police group had assembled and began threatening them.

Scapegoats, Boogeymen, and Hobgoblins.  During 120 days of rioting, arson, and looting during the summer of 2020, the country suffered about $2 billion in property damage, roughly 25 deaths, and some 14,000 arrests.  Rioters burned down a Minneapolis police precinct.  They set afire a federal courthouse in Portland.  And they tried to incinerate the historic St. John's Episcopal Church next to the White House.  Downtown areas of Portland and Seattle were taken over by rioters, who occupied entire city blocks with impunity.  Most of those arrested during the violent summer were either released or eventually had their charges dropped or vastly reduced.  Although many of the Antifa and BLM rioters shouted revolutionary slogans, called for violence against the police, and carefully organized their rioting on social media, neither the media nor the government ever declared the rioters to be conspiracists or insurrectionists.  In contrast, when roughly 500 renegade Trump supporters, in buffoonish fashion, broke into the Capitol on January 6, 2021, the media and government immediately claimed it was a carefully planned "armed insurrection."  But no one was arrested for possessing or using a gun.

This year's Uptown Art Fair canceled due to unrest, safety worries.  This year's Uptown Art Fair has been canceled, organizers said Tuesday, citing concern for safety amid unrest and violence in the neighborhood.  It was a last-minute change for the Minneapolis fair, which was set to take place Aug. 7-8.  Jill Osiecki, Uptown Association executive director, cited "additional devastation" in the area, including the killing of Winston Smith Jr. on June 3 on Lake Street and the subsequent protests that have rocked the area.

Radical leftists call for armed confrontation for any state that enforces borders.  As states pursue rule of law at the border amid a record surge of illegal migrants and Biden administration inaction, open border activists are getting busy. [...] [T]hey don't want protection of the U.S. border from migrant surges, they want the feds to turn their guns on states that seek to do the job the feds won't do.  Which is pretty twisted logic.  It's almost as if the cartels have donned activist skin suits and advocated their invader agenda.  LULAC's Wikipedia page notes that the group, like the Cesar Chavez United Farmworkers, originally opposed illegal immigration.  Now they've switched, and seem to be doing the cartels' bidding.  Something funny happened to them.  What's more, the rage of these open-border activists — who are very well funded, by the way — likely comes with political muscle, an 'or else' to Joe, if he doesn't comply with their demands.

Are We Witnessing The Death Of America's Democratic Republic?  Public safety is perhaps the pre-eminent responsibility of government.  If a government cannot protect its citizens against criminal members of its society, or even against the unlawful behavior of government itself, that nation no longer deserves to call itself a functioning democracy.  Has the United States reached that point?  The Constitution, which is the primary document of the United States government, begins, "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare...."  These provisions are the basic tenets of the need to maintain civil order and public safety in a nation in harmony with itself.  It means providing law and order, protection, and safety for each lawful individual citizen.

Street Violence as a Political Tool.  This week, pro-Palestinian demonstrators auditioned for the chance to join already established Democratic Party militias antifa and Black Lives Matter by attacking Jews in New York and Los Angeles.  Apologists for the violence reason that the demonstrators are angry about the deaths of innocent Palestinian babies under Israeli fire in Gaza so they're taking their frustrations — admittedly misplaced! — out on American Jews.  That is not what's happening.  Who knows how many of the activists waving the Palestinian flag as they beat Jews and detonate fireworks in front of Jewish-owned businesses are genuinely Palestinian Americans?  Maybe some aren't even Arab or Muslim, but that's irrelevant — they are staking their claim to recruit, promote, and represent Arabs and Muslims as an interest group.  And so the flag they're really flying isn't for the Palestinians but rather for the Democratic Party.

The Genesis of Our American Collective Meltdown.  [Scroll down]  Our first self-induced recession came next and lasted over a year, destroying all the hard work of the prior three years.  Next ensued the death of George Floyd and a subsequent 120 days of rioting, looting, and arson.  The immediate costs were $2 billion in damage, over 25 deaths, 14,000 arrests, and a Lord of the Flies anarchy with no-go zones in our major cities.  A McCarthyite frenzy followed, as remote-controlled America hunted down the supposed "racists" among us — while career agendas, personal grudges, and ideological hatred fueled the cancel culture.

Antifa violence supports a mentally ill man who exposed himself to little girls.  The problem with staking out a political position premised on people's mental illness is that real people inevitably get hurt.  That's what happened on Saturday in Los Angeles when there was a clash between people supporting women's and girls' right to be in a locker room free from the presence of mentally ill men, on the one hand, and Antifa and other leftist activists claiming that the mentally ill have a transcendent right to do whatever the heck they want so that they can feel good about themselves, on the other hand. [...] I'm sorry for those who are mentally ill.  They deserve compassion and, up to a point, the right to be left alone to live out their deluded fantasies.  (And as I keep suggesting, maybe they should receive hormones aligned with their biological sex, instead of slice and dice surgery and potentially deadly opposite-sex hormones.)  However, the demand that we remake society to accommodate their delusions is and must be entirely unacceptable.  What happened over the past few days in Los Angeles shows how dangerous it is to force societies to believe lies.

Secret Service Arrested Dozens of Extremists at U.S. Capitol — But Nobody in the Media Cared.  The U.S. Capitol was the site of a gathering of hundreds of extremists earlier this week.  Protesters held aloft picket signs blaring 'No Compromise!' Blockades were erected at entrances.  Secret Service agents made dozens of arrests.  The media completely ignored it.  All extremists may be equal, but some extremists are more equal than others.  These were climate extremists demanding that President Biden take authoritarian action to keep the climate from changing.  Therefore, just as with Black Lives Matter torching cities and looting communities, and Antifa violently attacking civilians, they can be 'safely' ignored.  The radical activists were led once again by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, who had been the inciter of an 'insurrection' before.  In 2018, the notorious AOC had actually staged a sit-in at Nancy Pelosi's office.

Progressive King County Council candidate threatens to blow up school bus, calls children 'cowards' as they flee.  Footage exclusively obtained by The Post Millennial shows progressive candidate for King County Council Ubax Gardheere threatening school children while claiming she may have a bomb or a gun and then calling them "cowards" as they flee from her.  Ubax Gardheere boarded the Highline School District bus on Jan. 12, 2010 as it was about to begin its morning route to Chinook Middle School.  Gardheere can be seen walking on to the school bus filled with children.  She tells the bus driver not to drive because "it's a matter of national security."  She tells him the "bus is not leaving."  The driver then calls the police.  When the driver asks her if something happened to one of the kids, she says "if something happens it's going to happen to you."

Top 10 Examples of Leftist and Democratic Racism.  [#8] Yale University speaker fantasized about shooting white people — For this one, let's allow the words of the speaker, Dr. Aruna Khilanani to speak for themselves, "This is the cost of talking to white people at all — the cost of your own life, as they suck you dry.  There are no good apples out there.  White people make my blood boil."  She went on to add, "I had fantasies of unloading a revolver into the head of any white person that got in my way, burying their body and wiping my bloody hands as I walked away relatively guiltless with a bounce in my step, like I did the world a favor."  Sounds charming, doesn't she?

Food vendor, 66, attacked during out-of-control Pride party in Washington Square Park.  A 66-year-old hot dog seller has told of his terror as he was attacked by a woman in Washington Square Park on Sunday night [6/28/2021], describing how he feared he would 'bleed to death' as he was punched in the head and had hot sauce thrown in his eyes.  Nader Hassaneen, an Egyptian immigrant and street vendor, told The New York Post on Tuesday he would 'never go back' to the Manhattan park, which has been plagued by crime in recent weeks.  The trouble began during Sunday's Pride celebrations, he said, when just before 11pm a woman pulled an American flag from the cart, demanding it be replaced with a rainbow Pride flag.

Food Cart Operator Is Assaulted And Sent To The Hostpital In NYC Because Pride Paraders Thought His Prices Were Too High.  Crews were cleaning up a large mess of trash left at a New York City park following Sunday's chaotic Pride event where at least eight people were arrested.  Video footage posted online shows Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village littered with trash, including inside a fountain.  Many of the discarded items included plastic bottles and food containers.  Crews appeared to be using leaf blowers in an effort to move the trash.  [Video clip]

"The Suspect Was White" Is The Only Thing Saving Cities From Conflagration.  [Scroll down]  In both cases, nothing was out of the ordinary.  Antifa and Black Lives Matter were doing what they do best — cajoling their army of aimless, indoctrinated losers to inflict harm on a decent society.  Per the narrative, crowds organized because systemic murder once again took a young black life, a life that presumably would not have been taken if the suspect were white.  Any violence directed toward police and any destruction directed toward businesses was justified in the name of (fill in the blank [with the name] of the deceased).  There are just a few problems.  In the specific case of the Portland shooting, it turns out that the killed suspect was a white male.  Regardless, community organizers disseminated false information to rile up the base.  Either they are racist for assuming another black person was killed or they are twisted scum for knowingly spreading dangerous lies.  It's probably most accurate to suggest that both are true.

8 arrested, vendor attacked in chaotic night at Washington Square Park: cops.  Rowdy revelers were caught on video beating up a hot dog vendor late Sunday [6/27/2021] — as all hell broke loose at Washington Square Park, police said.  The chaos at the Greenwich Village greenspace resulted in the arrests of eight people, including a woman charged with biting an NYPD lieutenant, cops said Monday morning.  But no busts were made in the alleged beatdown of the 65-year-old vendor, who was attacked at Fifth Avenue and Washington Square North just before 11 p.m., according to police.  Disturbing video shows several people surrounding the man, in a bright yellow shirt, with one pummeling him in the face and knocking him down.  The attacker can be seen clocking him again as he tries to get away.  The vendor was left with a bloodied face and was taken to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition for cuts on his head, authorities said.

New Cal State LA ethnic studies dean previously said she hopes Clarence Thomas 'dies early'.  Julianne Malveaux, the incoming dean of Cal State University Los Angeles' newly created College of Ethnic Studies, has previously said she hopes 73-year-old, conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas dies an early death.  "I hope his wife feeds him lots of eggs and butter and he dies early, like many black men do, of heart disease," Malveux said during an appearance on PBS in 1994, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Ethnic Studies dean regrets publicly hoping Clarence Thomas 'dies early, like many black men do'.  Dr. Julianne Malveaux, who once learned that her words can indeed come back to haunt her, is poised to become the first-ever dean of Ethnic Studies at California State University in Los Angeles.  The announcement of the incoming dean's appointment raised eyebrows and criticism as a look at her past comments sparked questions about the move.  Her past comments about Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan as well as once wishing for the early death of a Supreme Court justice have resurfaced with the announcement of her stepping in as dean of the newly created College of Ethnic Studies.  A decade ago, Malveaux issued an apology after she expressed her disdain for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas by publicly wishing for his death during a 1994 appearance on PBS, claiming she had meant her words as a "wisecrack."

Portland cops tell Antifa that there's no need to riot, cause the guy we just killed was white.  So, please remind me again, which race is it that is so privileged? [...] In the bad old days of the Democrat-run Jim Crow South, the rumor that a White girl or woman had been attacked — or even looked at — by a Black male was sometimes enough to set off a mob.  Today, in the Democrat-run big cities, mobs once again are set off by rumors — now, of a death of a Black man at the hands of the police.  Democrats still run racist regimes, but the regions involved and the races persecuted or protected have flipped[.]

There are other ways to prevent riots.
Portland cops ID victim of fatal police shooting as 'white' to prevent Antifa riot.  Antifa militants attacked police in Portland, Oregon, after news broke of a deadly police shooting — forcing the department to quickly announce that it was a "white male" to prevent riots, according to police and reports.  At least 50 protesters, most dressed all in black and carrying anti-fascist signs, gathered at a Motel 6 late Thursday where police shot a suicidal man who charged at them with a screwdriver, The Oregonian said. [...] The officer who fired the fatal shot was black, and was placed on paid administrative leave, which is standard practice, The Oregonian said.

Rioting in Portland on Thursday Night After Police Shooting — Turned out They Shot a White Guy, So Everyone Left.  The headline is absurd, but so are things the way they happen in Portland.  What a screwed-up place.  On Thursday afternoon [6/24/2021] officers of the Portland Police Bureau were involved in a shooting incident at a downtown location.  The early rumors were that the subject was a "person of color" — spread by BLM to drive up rioter numbers.  No better excuse exists to kick off the night's rioting on Portland streets before sunset so in pretty much no time at all you had hostile encounters between police trying to maintain the perimeter of an active crime-scene investigation, and Portland's professional riot class, also known as the unemployed loser population.  Our good friend Andy Ngo was able to aggregate much video footage from the evening's events.  [Video clip]

BLM Protesters Commit Arson Attack on South Carolina Police Station after Arrest.  Hours after a video ignited on social media showing police arresting two black men, rioters set a fire outside the Rock Hill, South Carolina police station.  [Multiple tweets] [...] According to a police statement, officers were conducting surveillance targeting violent and narcotic dealing offenders when they saw a "known offender," Ricky Price, driving a black 2017 Mustang.  He was stopped after he allegedly made an illegal turn and "changed lanes unlawfully."  Based on the man's previous interactions with police, a call was made for a K-9 to conduct a vehicle sniff, which alerted the presence of illegal narcotics in the vehicle, police said, per Yahoo News.  "During the search, officers located two bags of Marijuana hidden in the driver's door panel," police said.  "Officers then placed Price under arrest and into handcuffs.  Officers also located a 9 mm pistol in the back seat of the vehicle."

Why won't the national media cover the story Americans care about most?  It's a very basic concept of journalism:  Cover the stories that impact your viewers and readers most, the stories they most care about.  But for one very big story, there's been relative silence from our national media, just passing mentions.  It is the skyrocketing violent crime that is paralyzing many major American cities while prompting record numbers of police officers either resigning or retiring. [...] Portland, Ore.:  Murders are up, not 8 percent or 80 percent, but 800 percent over the past year.  "Roving gangs of black-clad rioters do not speak for the hundreds of thousands of residents and business owners of Portland who want a safe and clean city.  Yet local politicians supported them," said Portland Police Association Executive Director Daryl Turner in a recent statement.  "These rioters, bent on destruction, hijacked social and racial justice movements.  These rioters burned and looted our city.  Yet local politicians supported them."

Some Antifa Tough Guys Tried To Storm A Flag Appreciation Event Outside Of Portland.  A coalition of Conservatives including Proud Boys clashed with Antifa at Clackamette Park in Oregon City Friday afternoon [6/18/2021].  The event began as an American "flag wave" but escalated into clashes when Antifa activists set fire to a flag of their own.  At least one individual who appeared to be on the left appeared to be seriously injured and was escorted away by police.  [Video clip]

Charges [have been] dropped for hundreds of alleged looters in New York City.  In late May and early June 2020, looters smashed storefronts in the Bronx and Manhattan boroughs of New York City.  Many were caught on tape, some with their faces visible.  Others even posted their own videos of their actions those nights on social media.  Hundreds were arrested.  But a review of NYPD data by the investigative team at WNBC, the NBC owned station in New York, shows that a large percentage of the cases — particularly in the Bronx — were dismissed, and that many convictions were for counts like trespassing that carry no jail time.

Portland's police riot team resigns after officer indicted over alleged assault on photographer.  All 50 of Portland police's highly trained rapid response unit voted unanimously to resign on Wednesday [6/16/2021] during a union meeting in response to the recent indictment of Officer Corey Budworth for allegedly assaulting a photographer with his baton during as an overnight riot broke out last August.  "Unfortunately, this decorated public servant has been caught in the crossfire of agenda-driven city leaders and a politicized criminal justice system," the Portland Police Association said in an initial statement Tuesday after a Multnomah County grand jury indicted Budworth on one count of fourth-degree assault related to an incident that occurred on Aug. 18, 2020.  That night, according to the police union, a group of about 200 demonstrators — many equipped with tactical helmets, faces covered, and armed with a variety of weapons — descended on the Multnomah Building in southeast Portland.  Multiple dumpsters were set on fire, buildings were defaced, and windows were broken.  A riot soon was declared at the planned event after someone from the crowd launched a Molotov cocktail into the Multnomah Building, setting it ablaze.

Biden Accidentally IDs Antifa And BLM As Domestic Terrorists.  The "fact sheet" accompanying Biden's "National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism," lists only two types of domestic terrorists: violent extremists who advocate for the superiority of the white race, and anti-government or anti-authority violent extremists. [...] Now, who do you think fits into these categories?  Which groups have acted in ways that are "dangerous to human life," want to "intimidate or coerce" as a means to "influence the policy of a government," and use "mass destruction" to get their ways?  Would it be QAnon and other right-wing groups, about whom the best team Biden can seem to come up with is that "they may be on the verge of carrying out more violence in real life on Democrats and others that they perceive, however falsely, to be threats"?  Or does that definition of domestic terrorism better describe what Antifa and BLM followers have already said and done?

Sometimes a Coincidence isn't a Coincidence.  Where does the support for Antifa and BLM originate?  They're both doing their part to destabilize America.  BLM is led by self-professed Marxists — making them useful idiots.  Antifa seems to believe in nothing but anarchy — making them useful thugs.  Whenever members of either group are arrested, there's plenty of money to bail them out — from somewhere.

Journalist Andy Ngo on Antifa Attack: 'I Knew If They Got Me, They'd Kill Me'.  Journalist and author Andy Ngo, who has spent years documenting the activities of the anarcho-communist group Antifa, on June 12 recounted the moment he was chased and assaulted by members in Portland last month.  Ngo, an independent investigative journalist and author of "Unmasked:  Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy," was attacked on May 28 while covering a rally on the one-year anniversary of George Floyd's death.  In an interview with NTD's "The Nation Speaks," Ngo said that as much of his reporting requires firsthand field observations, he decided to go undercover to observe how Antifa's tactics and strategies have changed since last year.  "The riots are still ongoing in Portland — not as intense and frequent, but they're still happening, and the consequences are still being felt," said Ngo.  "So I was out on the ground in disguise, marching along with them.  For whatever reason, they became suspicious."

The Grim Trade-Off Of BLM?  Why have murder rates spiked so badly over the last 12 months? [...] Well, surely the timing of the surge in murders counts.  And it can be timed quite precisely, in fact:  to the very end of May, before which there was little change and even some decline.  The National Commission on Covid19 and Criminal Justice report shows what University of Utah researcher Paul Cassell calls a "structural break" in the data timed exactly to the murder of George Floyd and the subsequent wave of mostly peaceful protests and subsequent looting, rioting and violence that raged across many cities.  Before Floyd, no big increase in homicides, aggravated assaults, and shootings.  After, a huge spike.  Of course, that is not causation.  But it's [quite] a correlation — and no other event seems relevant.  It's as if the Floyd murder, and the subsequent urban chaos, sent a signal:  the cops are on the defensive.  Which means murderers can go on the offensive.  And once lawlessness establishes itself, it tends to compound.  A few gang murders can soon morph into tit-for-tat urban warfare.

Could Lawsuits Stem the Tide of Violence Sweeping the Big Cities That Defund the Police?  Last summer, eight-year-old Secoriea Turner got killed because the SUV she was riding in came too close to a particular Wendy's in Atlanta.  Her parents have now filed a lawsuit alleging that city leaders Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, Police Chief Rodney Bryant, and City Council member Joyce Sheperd had been negligent in controlling the area, leading to their daughter's death.  The lawsuit also names the city government of Atlanta.

Jane Fonda Encourages Anti-Pipeline Activists in Minnesota to Mess with Critical US Infrastructure.  The 83-year-old Communist and traitor encouraged activists to "raise a ruckus" and create a headache for the Canadian oil company, Enbridge.  "Biden has taken a very clear and very beautiful position on the climate crisis," Hanoi Jane said.  "But we are really facing a potential catastrophe and the science is very clear — it's not enough to do something good here like shutdown Keystone XL, shut down drilling on the Arctic national refuge and then allow Line 3 to go through." "We can't do this in bits and pieces," she added.

The real targets of lefty street thugs like BLM and Antifa.  There are a lot of seeming contradictions in the street violence widely employed by the left.  Rioters destroy their own neighborhoods.  Look at Detroit, where the riots that started in 1967 have now devastated what was once one of the richest cities in the United States.  Rioters in Portland attack the federal courthouse, the bailiwick of the Department of Justice, which has become a virtual tool of the left — keeping dozens of January 6 demonstrators in solitary confinements as hordes of left-wing rioters are not prosecuted or even cut free after being arrested.  This raises the question:  why are they turning against their own?

Street Violence as a Political Tool.  This week, pro-Palestinian demonstrators auditioned for the chance to join already established Democratic Party militias antifa and Black Lives Matter by attacking Jews in New York and Los Angeles.  Apologists for the violence reason that the demonstrators are angry about the deaths of innocent Palestinian babies under Israeli fire in Gaza so they're taking their frustrations — admittedly misplaced! — out on American Jews.  That is not what's happening.  Who knows how many of the activists waving the Palestinian flag as they beat Jews and detonate fireworks in front of Jewish-owned businesses are genuinely Palestinian Americans?  Maybe some aren't even Arab or Muslim, but that's irrelevant — they are staking their claim to recruit, promote, and represent Arabs and Muslims as an interest group.  And so the flag they're really flying isn't for the Palestinians but rather for the Democratic Party.

Over two dozen suspected antifa rioters charged after enforcement shift from Portland district attorney.  Over two dozen suspected antifa rioters have been charged in Portland over the last two weeks on charges ranging from assault to using explosives.  Authorities have made arrests and filed charges against several suspected Portland antifa rioters in recent weeks, including the rearrest of 24-year-old Malik Fard Muhammad.  Muhammad, who was previously extradited to Oregon after being "indicted on two counts of attempted aggravated murder, two counts of attempted first-degree murder, four counts of felony riot, two counts of unlawful manufacturing of an explosive device, unlawful possession of a firearm and possession of a loaded firearm in public," was arrested again after the antifa-linked Portland Freedom Fund paid $212,500 in bail following his last arrest.

Amazon Worker Is Arrested After Beating A 67 Year Old Woman Over Her 'White Privilege,' Caught On CCTV.  A woman working as an Amazon delivery driver was arrested in Castro Valley after she repeatedly punched a 67-year-old woman wondering where her package was, authorities said.  Alameda County Sheriff's deputies took Itzel Ramirez, 21, into custody on Thursday [6/3/2021].  That's after they received a 911 call from the victim who said the Amazon driver punched her at least 10 times around the face and head.  Video shows the Amazon worker repeatedly striking the other woman.

Whatever Happened To Umbrella Man?  Who can take a city, burn it to the ground?  Umbrella Man can, at least according to the search warrant application/affidavit filed by Minneapolis police officer Erika Christensen in the summer of 2020.  Star Tribune reporter Libor Jany told me he came across Christensen's affidavit in a routine review of court filings.  Libor reported on the allegations of Christensen's affidavit in his July 28 story "Minneapolis police say 'Umbrella Man' was a white supremacist trying to incite George Floyd rioting."  The story made waves around the world.  According to Officer Christensen, Umbrella Man is a white supremacist who set off the week of riots and arson throughout the Twin Cities by knocking out the windows at AutoZone on Lake Street at Minnehaha Avenue in south Minneapolis on May 27.  Did Umbrella Man also burn the AutoZone down?  I can't tell who burnt it down from Libor's story, but it was in fact torched.

Minneapolis beset by protests for 3rd night over Black man killed in shootout with police.  Black Lives Matter protesters took to the streets in Minneapolis for a third straight night over the death of a Black man who was shot and killed by officers seeking to take him into custody for a felony firearms violation.  Demonstrators blocked streets Saturday night in the Uptown neighborhood where the shooting occurred following a Friday candlelight vigil that spiraled into unrest, resulting in Minneapolis police making 27 arrests on rioting and weapons charges, according to media outlets.  Winston Boogie Smith Jr., 32, was identified by family members and media as the man who was killed Thursday on the roof of a parking ramp with officers serving on a U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force, according to the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA).

The Amazon driver's attack on an older woman is an important warning.  On Friday [6/4/2021], a disturbing video emerged and instantly went viral.  It showed a young Amazon driver viciously punch an older woman who had been unhappy with a slow delivery.  While the video is shocking on its own, it's also a loudly clanging warning about the dangers of Critical Race Theory (CRT), especially when allied with other leftist doctrines commonly taught to the young, including the claim that words are violence.  As CRT expands throughout America, expect more attacks like this one.

"Unloading A Revolver Into The Head Of Any White Person": Yale Features Violent, Racist Diatribe By Psychiatrist.  An official event at the Yale School of Medicine featured a New York-based psychiatrist telling students she fantasizes about "unloading a revolver into the head of any white person that got in my way."  Disturbingly the talk entitled "The Psychopathic Problem of the White Mind" was held as part of the continuing program, the Child Study Center Grand rounds.  The event was held in April, but audio only late this week of New York-based Dr. Aruna Khilanani gleefully musing about murdering white people became available and was posted on journalist Bari Weiss's Substack.

Pride protesters smash window of famed NYC eatery Carbone.  Unruly protesters smashed a window at the famed Greenwich Village eatery Carbone on Thursday night — leaving one diner with minor injuries, police and sources said.  Police said they are investigating the vandalism to the outdoor dining structure of the Italian American hotspot that occurred as a group of demonstrators marched by at about 8:15 p.m.  One woman seated at an outdoor table suffered a cut to her shoulder, police and sources said.  She refused medical attention at the scene.

BLM Harass A Disabled Woman And Jump On Her Car While Blocking Traffic — No MSM Coverage.  Black Lives Matter protesters in Racine Wisconsin bullying an elderly disabled motorist, and disrupting the traffic during last night's demonstration were caught on video which also shows no police presence as the chaos unfolds.  The woman in the video that was sent to us this evening is desperately trying to call help!  Of course, the sender confirmed that he sent this video to every major news outlet but everyone ignored the fact that BLM harras a disabled person.

Sen. Rand Paul says he's gotten death threats over clashes with Fauci.  Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul said Friday [6/4/2021] his family had received five telephoned death threats over his recent confrontations with White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci — and over Paul's vocal opposition to gain-of-function research[.]  "This week, I've had five death threats just for being outspoken on it," the Republican told Fox News' "Hannity".  "I don't know what the world's coming to, you can't ask honest, difficult questions that in the end have proved out that Dr. Fauci was not being honest with us, but as a repercussion, my family had white powder sent to our house, and five death threats phoned in."  Last month, a package containing a threatening letter and white powder was reportedly sent to Paul's Kentucky home.  The envelope included an image of a bruised and bandaged Paul with a gun to his head and the message:  "I'll finish what your neighbor started [...]"

BLM Thug Killed By Police This Week In Minn. Sent Out This Message Encouraging Terrorism, Was Armed When Shot.  The man who was fatally shot by Minneapolis cops Thursday had demanded "war" after George Floyd's death, was wanted on a felony-arms rap — and appeared to have fired his weapon as authorities tried to arrest him, according to court records, online posts and officials.  Winston Boogie Smith, 32, was gunned down in the Midwest city around 2 p.m. when he "produced a handgun" and fired it from inside his vehicle as members of a US Marshals task force tried to take him into custody on the state warrant, officials said.  [Video clip]

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Not only does the guy not watch where he's driving, he speaks in an ethnic dialect that would be incomprehensible (except for the F-word in every sentence) without the subtitles.

Violent Minneapolis Black Lives Matter Mob Looting Sneaker Shop, Target, Walgreens, CVS and More.  A large mob of Black Lives Matter militants looted a Target late Thursday evening [6/3/2021] in response to a fatal police shooting in the city.  Winston "Boogie" Smith, 32, was reportedly wanted on a state warrant for being a felon in possession of a firearm.  After being stopped in his vehicle by law enforcement, the U.S. Marshals Service say he "produced a handgun."  [Video clips]

'Kill everything white in sight!': Shocking footage from 'National Black Power Convention' emerges online.  Video emerged online purportedly from an alleged black nationalist rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma as part of the National Black Power Convention this weekend.  It shows activists wearing black listening to speeches about black nationalism and white supremacy.  Hundreds of black men and women from across the country gathered in Tulsa and staged an armed march through the city on the centenary anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.  The New Black Panther Party was the largest group at the march.  "We're pushing death to white supremacy, death to capitalism, death to imperialism, and death to fascism.  We're pushing an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a head for a head, and a life for a life," a man shouts through a megaphone to the gathered crowd.

A Portland Antifa Death Squad Goes Head Hunting for Andy Ngo.  The communist antifa and Black Lives Matter, Inc. mobs have now elevated their war footing against western civilization and have begun deploying head hunting death squads it appears.  What else can you call it?  On Friday, May 28, the usual black masked mobs slithered "like water" — their favorite phrase for staying hidden and moving from cops — to hold another planned riot and torching in "grief-stricken" homage to the anniversary of their George Floyd riots. [...] The time for benefit of the doubt and pulling punches is over.  It's long past time the political, civic, and business leaders who run Portland to stop this before the next political assassination on their streets.

Court Rules Michigan Recall Effort Against Governor Can Proceed — Gretchen Whitmer Responds With Implied Violence.  A Michigan court has ruled that a recall effort against Governor Gretchen Whitmer, a woman with no moral or leadership character, can proceed.  That's good news.  However, it is the response from the governor that appears to be the buried lead.  Specifically because the statement also included "courts" and the "ballot Box", the third line of attack from the governor's office implies acts of violence "on the streets" against her political opposition.

NYPD Responds To Reports Of A Shooting In Harlem — This Is How They Were Received By The BLM Rioters.  A 28-year-old man was shot and killed by a man riding an e-bike in Manhattan Sunday morning, cops and police sources said.  The victim was in a parked car at 2253 Third Avenue in East Harlem around 11 a.m. when the suspect on a red and black e-bike shot him, the sources said.  A clerk at a discount store near the shooting scene heard the rapid gunfire and walked out to see the victim struggling to take his last breaths. [...] The same people that use BLM as an excuse to attack people and riot used this situation again and started riots.  The situation got out of control as the police arrived to respond to the shooting but an angry mob attacked the police and the scenes reminded of a new civil war.

Armed Black Supremacists in Tulsa: 'There Will Come a Time When We Will Kill Everything White in Sight'.  Black activists from the New Black Panther Party and other groups staged an armed march in Tulsa, Oklahoma on Saturday [5/29/2021].  Organizers held a Second Amendment "March for Reparations" and marched through downtown Tulsa.  "The struggle for Reparations must be escalated," a news release from organizers read.  "We must fight on every front to achieve redress and Reparations for the atrocities committed upon Tulsa Massacre descendants; and we must intensify the fight to achieve Reparations for all 40-million Blacks still grossly affected by racism, inequality, wealth disparity, police brutality and the like.  Tulsa will mark a new beginning in the upgraded fight for Reparations for Black people."  Activists shouted, "Black power!  Black power!"  Another supremacist threatened white people and said, "Because that time will come when there's a rat-a-tat-tat... black Americans will kill everything white in sight."  [Video clip]

California Democrat Rep. Says She Sleeps With Gun Next to Bed After Death Threats.  A Democratic U.S. House member from California said she now sleeps with a gun next to her bed after receiving death threats following comments she made that were critical of the governments of El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala.  Rep. Norma Torres (D-Calif.), who was born in Guatemala and came to the United States as a child, says people have staked out her house after she lambasted the three Central American countries' governments for official corruption and not doing enough to help their citizens.  Speaking to the Los Angeles Times last week, the California lawmaker said El Salvador President Nayib Bukele created a campaign to flood her district with calls and harass her staffers.  Her social media pages may have also been targeted, with supporters of Bukele allegedly sending her hateful images, negative messages, and death threats, Torres said, adding that she now sleeps with a gun nearby.

It's been a year of Antifa and unchecked anarchy.  It was one year ago on Friday [5/28/2021] that Minneapolis' soy-boy mayor, Jacob Frey, issued the order to police to evacuate the Third Precinct and leave the station to be overrun by the mob and burned to the ground.  Protests had quickly turned violent after George Floyd's death under the knee of police officer Derek Chauvin three days earlier, and the police surrender only empowered the domestic terrorists who were whipping up the crowd.  For the next four nights, criminals ransacked the city and terrorized its residents with little in the way of police intervention.  Frey's craven capitulation to the forces of violence had lit the match on a summer of rage across the country that really lasted beyond the November 2020 presidential elections, in lawless places on the West Coast like Portland and Seattle.  Statues were toppled, the White House was besieged, looters had a field day, and police were assaulted with bricks, Molotov cocktails, bottles of urine and lasers.

Five reasons not to be optimistic about America's future.  [#5] We are experiencing a complete breakdown of civil order.  In 2020, more than 500 violent protests resulted in the trashing of American cities and towns.  Democratic Party mayors and governors abdicated their responsibility to preserve order and, in some cases, supported the rioters, looters, and arsonists.  Ironically, Democrats are pressing for an investigation of the January 6 assault on the Capitol instead of looking into the lives lost and billions in damages resulting from literally hundreds of riots.  Murder, arson, and looting are being referred to by Democrats as nothing more than "peaceful protests."  Our cities may never recover from the carnage.  In 2022, you may not be able to leave your house without an armed guard.  Sadly, I have predicted massive civil unrest ever since I witnessed the 1960s riots in my hometown of Brooklyn, New York.  I knew if it could happen then, it could happen again at the drop of a hat.  In 2020, the hat dropped.

Is this now an annual event?
Riot erupts in Portland on anniversary of George Floyd's murder.  Militant protesters marked the anniversary of George Floyd's murder with yet another riot in Portland, Oregon — smashing up local businesses and trying to burn down the city's Justice Center, according to police.  More than 200 rioters — most fully clad in black and many wearing gas masks — trashed the troubled City of Roses soon after a peaceful march ended late Tuesday [5/25/2021], according to the Portland Police Bureau (PPB).  Some of the mob tried to torch the Multnomah County Justice Center by pushing flaming dumpsters against the building as at least two people tried to pry open the doors and get inside, the force said.

Extremists In Portland Attack Police Officers, Vandalize Businesses, Set Fires.  Extremists identified by journalists as being antifa reportedly attacked law enforcement officers in Portland on Tuesday night while vandalizing businesses and lighting fires along the road.  The riot happened after a separate peaceful rally had taken place earlier in the evening that Portland police described as activists "sing[ing] and chant[ing] as they walked peacefully."  A few hours after the peaceful event took place, a group of people "wearing helmets and carrying gas masks, backpacks and tote bags" arrived.

Anti-Semitic attacks leave the left wrestling with climate of hate argument they've loved in the past.  As recently as a few months ago it was common to see opinion pieces blaming the rash of hate crimes against Asian Americans on President Trump and rhetoric about the "Chinese virus."  Now, just a few months later, we have a spike in anti-Semitic attacks and the left is suddenly struggling to make the same kind of generalizations about who is responsible.  The climate of hate argument only seems to operate in one direction.

Envelope with white powder and death threat sent to Rand Paul's home.  Federal and local law enforcement are investigating after a suspicious package was sent to Sen. Rand Paul's home in Kentucky.  A large envelope with white powder in it was delivered on Monday, and it is being examined for harmful substances, Sergio Gor, a senior adviser to the Kentucky Republican, told Politico.  The details were confirmed to the Washington Examiner by the senator's office.

Man Starts Filming Large ANTIFA Gathering At Strip Mall, Gets Threatened And Harassed.  A man witnessed a large gathering of masked ANTIFA thugs at a strip mall in Oregon City and started filming.  As he walked around filming within the parking lot, one of the thugs walked over and told him to stop filming if he knew what's best for him.  Others came over and started the usual surrounding of victims they intimidate and sometimes assault.  The man filming kept walking and was threatened physically by the original harasser.  Another ANTIFA member tries the old black umbrella trick to block his camera.  [Video clip]

TikTok Party In Huntington Beach Turns Into Sodom and Gomorrah As City Imposes Curfew After Night Of Madness.  A chaotic scene erupted in Huntington Beach when hundreds of people showed up for a party on the beach and in the streets Saturday night [5/22/2021], resulting in nearly 150 arrests.  Authorities estimate more than 2,500 people showed up for the gathering after a Tik Tok video promoting a birthday party went viral.  Police had monitored social media posts and were prepared for an unruly crowd.  [Video clip]

Jew-hate attacks escalate in New York and Los Angeles; Democrats go AWOL.  Jews are suddenly being targeted in scary numbers in New York, Los Angeles, and even other parts of the country.  Worldwide, the escalation is 435% since Israel defended itself against Hamas rockets fired from Gaza.  Democrats, though, are AWOL.  Ace at Ace of Spaces has a collection of videos of some of these unbelievable assaults in the past few days, while a search of "anti-Semitic" and "attack" on Twitter yields a [...] lot more since then [...].  "Are you Jewish?" now holds a chilling undertone.  It's the question that precedes these organized thug attacks and smells as though some foul entity is directing them.  After all, "are you Jewish" is the same phrase Palestinian terrorists asked of targets back when they were hijacking jets, as on this horrific flight in 1985, where the heroine stewardess hid the Jewish passports.  Or [another] one, in 1986, where another heroine stewardess hid the American passports from other Palestinian terrorists.  Say their names:  Uli Derekson and Neerja Bhanot.

Pro-Palestinian Activists In Los Angeles Hunt Down And Assault Jews.  Authorities are investigating whether an attack on diners that occurred outside a Beverly Grove restaurant late Tuesday night [5/18/2021] was a Jewish hate crime.  The brawl occurred a little before 10 p.m. outside Sushi Fumi in the 300 block of North La Cienega Boulevard.  Witnesses said a mob of pro-Palestinians attacked a group of Jewish men who were dining at the restaurant.  Cell phone video showed a group of men get out of the car and start to attack them while yelling anti-Semitic slurs.  [Video clip]

Work of the Left:  Hamas thugs assault Jewish diners in Los Angeles.  [Scroll down]  It's also notable that they were so confident and brazen in this assault on Jews, unworried about defunded police, unconcerned about cameras, probably liking the cameras.  "Who here is Jewish?"  These Hamas thugs in Los Angeles were like just those 1986 hijackers asking who was American, as if they came from the same training book.  They didn't try to hide anything about what they were about, and they were confident there would be no repercussions.  It's as if they were sent in, which raises questions about some kind of plan.  Here's the vile thing we know for sure:  they've got the full support of the left, which is openly supporting Hamas and all its violence and murder in these days as Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu vows to wipe them out.  When I hear about that restaurant assault, all I can think about is Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's open braying for the Palestinian side, led by terrorists.  Or I think about the other members of the squad, particularly Rep. Rashida Tlaib, who are even worse.

Activist plans taxpayer-funded CHOP block party a year after murders, attempted rape.  An activist plans a block party to celebrate the deadly Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP).  How utterly disgusting.  What is there to celebrate?  CHOP, also known as the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ), came from a violent conflict with the police.  It directly caused the violent murders of two Black teenagers, the shootings of two others, attempted rape of a deaf woman, multiple assaults, vandalism, a riot, and more.

Veteran says riots have become part of Portland's landscape.  Gabriel Johnson, a retired Marine and the co-founder of the Coalition to Save Portland, explains the current "atmosphere" in the city on "Fox & Friends Weekend" and stressed the importance of investing in public safety.  The retired Marine Corps officer made the comments following a report that the police and the FBI are on the streets of Portland due to "imminent" efforts from outside groups to "engage and advance gun violence" this weekend, the Portland City Council reportedly announced, citing intelligence. [...] Officials reportedly said that groups involved in this violence have issued an order to shoot someone in the next 30 days or they be shot for not showing loyalty, adding that people from Washington and California are in Portland to engage in gun violence.

History Suggests that America is Ripe for a Conservative Resurgence.  Aging hippies have a penchant for recalling the 1960s as some amazing, idyllic moment in time.  As Jonah Goldberg writes in Liberal Fascism, it's "bizarre how many people remember the 1960s as a time of 'unity' and 'hope' when it was, in reality, a time of rampant domestic terrorism, campus tumult, assassinations, and riots."  Goldberg hits the nail squarely on the head when appraising why aging hippies feel that way.  Their "liberal nostalgia" for the 1960s is more about a longing "for victory" than an interest in "unity."  Leftists love the 1960s for the same reason that they love the 1930s, a decade also marred by "political unrest, intense labor violence, and the fear that one totalitarianism or another lay just around the corner."  Both decades were the times when leftists believed that "we were all in it together," writes Goldberg.

Anti-Israel Antifa Mob Swarms Police Car, Doesn't Go Well For Them.  Over 1,000 protestors, including those waiving ANTIFA flags, marched for Palestinian rights in Los Angeles on Saturday.  The march was in the Westwood area near the 405 Freeway.  At one point, ANTIFA protestors attempted to block a California Highway Patrol vehicle from moving.  It didn't work out how they planned.  According to the LAPD, no arrests were made.  Nobody ever accused mobs of 20 something jackass Antifa idiots of being smart.  Or any mob of jackass idiots, obviously.  But mobs of 20 something jackass idiot Antifa morons are especially idiotic.  They're used to singling out, surrounding, and attacking defenseless old people and other civilians to try to play tough, almost always under cover of darkness.

Antifa Supporter Calls For The Systematic Killing Of White People.  A purported Antifa supporter called for the systematic killing of white people.  The shocking incident was captured in a video shared on Twitter by independent journalist Andy Ngo.  [Tweet]  The incident occurred during a protest near Seattle this week against the Billy Graham Association.  The footage shows an unidentified protester confronting a group of passers-by, explicitly saying she hopes white people are murdered.  She then doubled down on those remarks when confronted.  [Tweet]

'Truly an act of hatred': Brooklyn Catholic church sees crucifix toppled, American flag burned.  New York police are investigating what they claim is a potential "hate crime" after a Catholic church in Brooklyn saw a large crucifix toppled and an American flag burned earlier this week.  The Diocese of Brooklyn said in a statement that a statute of the Crucifixtion of Jesus "was found toppled over and lying face down" at St. Athanasius Roman Catholic Church in Bensonhurst on Friday morning [5/145/2021].  "The statue of Jesus, the cross, and the display were all damaged in what is being investigated by the NYPD as a hate crime," the Diocese said.

Portland residents scared to visit 'trashed' downtown amid riots: poll.  The constant protest is taking its toll on the Rose City.  Residents in the metro area surrounding Portland, Oregon, say the city's downtown is dirty, unsafe and uninviting, and they don't expect to visit as often, a poll commissioned by The Oregonian found.  Residents described the city's core as "destroyed," "trashed," and "sad," and frequently referred to "riots" in discussing the city's economic and cultural hub.  The perception could have a serious impact on the city's recovery from the pandemic recession.

A Legal System Corrupted.  Since the press has quickly smothered this story, let me remind you.  In June 2017 [James] Hodgkinson, a Bernie Sanders supporter who had posted on Facebook that "Trump is a Traitor.  Trump has Destroyed our democracy.  It's Time to destroy Trump & Co," and had otherwise demonstrated his extreme hostility to Republicans, traveled to Virginia from his home in Illinois, and after learning that the men playing ball there were Republican congressmen, opened fired on them, wounding five people including Congressman Steve Scalise, who nearly bled to death and required multiple surgeries before he could return to Congress.  While Attorney General Merrick Garland claims that white supremacists are the biggest terror threat facing us, and the press regularly hypes such a danger, the truth is that this was the most serious partisan political terrorist act in recent years on our soil.

Three Women Arrested after Pig's Head, Blood Left at Former Home of Chauvin Defense Witness.  California police have arrested three women accused of vandalizing the former home of a retired police officer with a pig's head and blood smear last month after the officer testified on behalf of Derek Chauvin in the George Floyd murder trial.  The Santa Rosa police department said that it appeared the "suspects in this vandalism were targeting" the retired officer, Barry Brodd, for his testimony, in which he said Chauvin was justified in his use of force.  Brodd is no longer a California resident and has not lived in the home for years, so it "appears the victim was falsely targeted," authorities said.

3 women arrested after pig's head left at former home of Chauvin witness, CA cops say.  Three women were arrested after a severed pig's head was left at the former California home of a witness who testified at the trial of Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd, according to police.  A group of people threw a pig's head and splattered pig's blood at Santa Rosa home on April 17 before running away, police said.  The home is the previous residence of Barry Brodd, a former Santa Rosa Police Department officer who testified in Chauvin's defense, police said on Facebook.  Brodd isn't a California resident anymore and hasn't lived there in years, so it "appears the victim was falsely targeted," according to authorities.

Suspects Arrested For Bloody Vandalism Of Derek Chauvin Defense Witness' Former Santa Rosa Home.  Three suspects have been arrested in connection with the early morning vandalism of the former Santa Rosa home of Barry Brodd, who testified as a defense witness in the Derek Chauvin murder trial, that left the residence smeared with animal blood and had a severed pig's head dumped on the front porch.  Santa Rosa police said 20-year-old Rowan Dalbey, 34-year-old Kristen Aumoithe and 35-year-old Amber Lucas, all of Santa Rosa, were being held on felony vandalism and conspiracy charges.

BLM Protester:  "I can't wait until black people lynch white people!"  Video footage from Black Lives Matter and left-wing riots in Bellevue, Washington this week shows a female agitator repeatedly shrilling, "I can't wait until black people lynch white people!"  Other rioters also chime in to voice agreement with the insurrectionist, black supremacist narrative.  "I can't wait until black people hang you!" the protester screams at an onlooker, who is caught off guard and says, "Wait, what was that?  Do you want to say it again?"  "Um yeah," the female agitator responds, taking a deep breath before bellowing, "I can't wait until black people lynch white people!"  [Video clip]

One Year After Chicago Looting, Most Suspects Draw Probation Over Jail.  They were troubling images:  marauding gangs of looters roaming Chicago and the suburbs, smashing windows, stealing merchandise and wreaking havoc with little regard for who might be watching.  But a year later, an analysis of court records by NBC 5 Investigates indicates only a few dozen cases have made it through the courts, and only a handful have drawn terms in prison.

Former police chief:  If we lose the rule of law, we are going to lose America — and we're just about there.  The FBI is only one component of law enforcement, and the one which clearly isn't doing its job.  Meanwhile local and state police, trying to keep a handle on the unhinged anarchy and chaos taking place in their communities, are being undermined by political hack district attorneys, who have implemented policies which release criminals before the ink on arrest reports is even dry.  These policies however are those being embraced by Democratic politicians led by the current occupant of the White House, Joe Biden.  What we are witnessing in cities such as Portland, Seattle, Chicago, Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York will become the way of life in American cities if Democrats get their way.  Most suburban Democrats don't seem to care what happens in the cities, as long as it isn't occurring in THEIR city or town.  But what happens if this chaos leaves city streets and moves to the suburbs?

Driver Beaten Badly After Armed BLM Stop His Car in Frightening Encounter.  Over the past year, we've seen some very violent and/or out-of-control encounters because of the dangerous habit that the BLM has trying to block the street and stop drivers from going through a 'protest' area.  We reported on an incident in Plano, Texas, where there was an armed standoff and the police seemed more disturbed with the driver than they were the crazies blocking all the cars in the road.  But, that was just one of many.  BLM does this all over the country.  On Thursday afternoon [5/6/2021] in Portland, they severely injured a handyman, Joseph Hall, who was unlucky enough to turn into a street where one of their 'protests' was, according to the NY Post.  Hall said he was coming home from a repair job nearby when he was cut off by a moped.  Then the moped followed him and the BLM folks converged to stop his truck to cut off his truck.  As you can see from the video, multiple BLM folks were armed.

BLM Protesters Pull AR-15 And AK-47 On Motorists During Protest In Portland.  Portland, Oregon.  Thursday, the 13th of October.  Police have been called to investigate a group of protesters blocking traffic in North Portland at the intersection of N Vancouver and N Sacramento St.  The protest was for Patrick Kimmons, who allegedly died after being shot by police last year during a late-night shootout in North Portland.  Protesters blocked traffic and began getting aggressive when one driver with a pickup truck tries to get through the blockage.  Several protesters are seen with AR-15s and AK-47s aimed at the driver, demanding the driver get out of the car.  A mini van's tires seemed to have been slashed and the back window smashed out.  [Video clip]

Man Held at Gunpoint and Beaten by Portland's Antifa/BLM Terrorists Talks From Hospital Trauma Center.  The first question a Portland police officer asked the man beaten and held at gunpoint by antifa and Black Lives Matter "protesters" on a city street on Wednesday was "what did you do to agitate the crowd?"  And that tells you everything about why militant thugs run the streets of Portland with impunity.  The cops blame the victims.  Worse, victims who dare defend themselves become the bad guys.  Joe Hall is a former Marine and handyman, who currently lays his head in a Portland hospital trauma unit.  He's laid up with broken ribs, four fractured vertebrae, a dislocated shoulder, a partially collapsed lung, and a broken eye socket from when he was kicked in the face while he was down.

Jury convicts Florida man who issued 'call to arms' against Trump supporters.  A Florida man who in January called for people to surround Trump supporter at at rally has been found guilty on charges of threatening to kidnap or injure others.  Daniel Baker was convicted Thursday after issuing a "call to arms" for others on Jan. 20 to confront supporters of then-President Trump whom Baker said would storm Florida capitol that day.  "Armed racist mobs have planted the Confederate flag in the nations [sic] Capitol while announcing their plans to storm every American state Capitol on or around inauguration day," Baker wrote on Facebook on the "Defend Tallahassee" page, which he created, on Jan. 12, according to The Epoch Times.

New Jersey Police Officer Fired For Calling BLM Protesters "Terrorists".  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.

Heavily Armed Antifa Militia In Portland Stop Traffic, Assault Driver At Gunpoint While He Attempts To Defend Himself.  A heavily armed anarchist militia in Portland stopped traffic and assaulted a driver at gunpoint while he attempted to defend himself.  A video from Portland, Oregon, posted on Twitter Thursday showed armed Antifa activists assaulting a driver after threatening him with firearms in broad daylight while blocking traffic.  At two separate points, multiple participants pulled AR-15s, AK-47s, pistols, and possibly a shotgun and/or Keltec Sub 2000 on motorists who happened to be driving along.  [Video clips and photos]

Democrat problems in Texas compound after Democratic county leader called Sen. Tim Scott an 'oreo'.  Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina made an unusual splash with his response to Joe Biden's quasi-State of the Union address, declaring — with the weight of his life experience in the real Jim Crow era in comparison to today — that America "is not a racist country." [...] Ordinarily, people pay attention to the president's speech, not the rebuttal.  But Scott's rebuttal is what got the attention.  The left was vile, spewing out a slew of racist epithets against Scott for his "heresy."  When Scott said America wasn't racist, they sought to prove him wrong — by hurling every racist epithet they could think of at him, as if to prove him wrong by showing them their own stripes.  "Uncle Tim," "Boy," and pictures of Al Jolson in blackface were just some of the disgusting things I saw on Twitter, all of them posted by leftists.

Most Portland rioters have charges dismissed by US Attorney: 58 suspects of the 97 arrested have cases scrapped, while 32 more are left pending.  The majority of the people facing federal charges over last summer's protests in Portland, Oregon will not be prosecuted or spend any time at all behind bars, it haas been revealed.  Although 97 people were arrested and had charges filed against them in connection to protests that took place between May and October of last year, 58 cases have either been dismissed completely or will be scrapped under deferred resolution agreements.  A further 32 cases are also pending with many also likely to be dismissed, Fox News reports.

Pennsylvania Native, 29, Stabbed Dead By Seattle Neighbor For Not Wearing Face Mask.  A Pennsylvania native was stabbed to death near his Seattle-suburb home on Sunday [5/2/2021], according to police in Washington.  John Huynh, 29, formerly of Ephrata, was stabbed in the heart following a disagreement with a neighbor — over wearing a face mask — according to charging documents filed in King County Superior Court.  Huynh, two friends and his wife walked out of the Villas at Beardslee apartments in Bothell shortly before 7:30 p.m. Sunday, according to court documents.

Armed and Eating:  BLM/Antifa Stumble Into Bad Situation.  A group of angry BLM/Antifa protesters marched in front of Churchill Downs ahead of the 147th Kentucky Derby Saturday, chanting Breonna Taylor's name.  After a few minutes of continuing the march down Bardstown, some of the protesters began harassing diners at La Chasse.  As the protesters, some wearing body armor, moved into the outdoor dinning area and confronting those sitting, a man eating on the restaurant's patio pulled a gun while his associate argued with a clearly hostile protester.  [Video clip]

Antifa Floods The Streets Of Paris On May Day, Destroying Everything.  Hooded, black-clad demonstrators clashed with police in Paris on Saturday as thousands of people joined traditional May Day protests across France to demand social and economic justice and voice their opposition to government plans to change unemployment benefits.  Police made 46 arrests in the capital, where garbage bins were set on fire and the windows of a bank branch were smashed, momentarily delaying the march.  [Video clip]

BLM/Antifa Rioters Attack A Car During "May Day Protests".  The police in Seattle, Washington, said 14 people were arrested there when the May Day demonstrations saw protesters block traffic and clash with police.  Q13Fox reported that the group blocked traffic and put hazards — including flares — in the street.  The group threw bottles, flares, rocks, paint-filled eggs at police officers, according to police.  Those arrested faced charges ranging from assault to property destruction.  Police said at least one bystander was "pelted" by eggs on the street.  One individual was arrested for allegedly throwing a rock through an open police car window.  The driver was hit, the Q13Fox report said.  A video that was sent to USA Supreme by one of our fans who wished to stay anonymous shows a pretty efficient way to clear the intersections when BLM/Antifa rioters are in town.  [Video clip]

Trump supporter reveals Northern Calif.  Antifa hit list.  A Northern California chapter of Antifa got their plans foiled by a loyal supporter of President Trump.  On Thursday, the Trump supporter revealed documents, messages and recordings he accessed by infiltrating a far-left Antifa group in Sonoma County.  The leader of the Antifa chapter is said to be a 25-year-old college student who was arrested in 2020 for assaulting a police officer.  Furthermore, another member made shocking comments when discussing a potential Saturday, May 1 "May day" protest.  "It's May day baby, it's May day," the leader, dubbed Marb, said during a meeting.  "Come out and take something over with us.  Let's kill people!"  "Let's kill people!  Let's kill some cops," another member laughed along.

This man infiltrated and spent a year behind Antifa lines, and they have plans.  Antifa isn't a bogeyman or a figment or an idea or the D-Day troops, as the mainstream press would have you simultaneously believe.  They are "very real," says the man who infiltrated and spent a year recording and documenting one cell in California.  "And they're a big threat.["]  This video from ABC7 in San Francisco is amazing both on account of it showing their murderous hate and ill intent, and in the fact that it exists from a press outlet at all.

May Day has morphed from celebration of worker's rights to violence, says historian.  Police departments across the state have been preparing for May Day for weeks.  May 1 is known as International Workers Day, but in recent years the day has ended in cities like Portland with arrests, fires and destruction.  Police departments like the Portland Police Bureau and the Salem Police Department put out statements ahead of the day as a warning for what could be seen in their cities.  Local historians say destruction from recent May Days doesn't connect with the actual history of the day.  "May Day means something.  It's a memorial in a way to those who lost their lives in the 19th century fighting for something so simple as the eight-hour day.  It's easy to forget that," said Marc Rodriquez, a history professor at Portland State University.

BLM-Antifa Rioters Target Upscale Restaurant in Louisville, Kentucky.  BLM and/or Antifa goons targeted an upscale restaurant in Louisville restaurant in Louisville, Kentucky this evening.  The patrons were having none of it as they faced the mob and taunted them like, 'Come on, Let's go!" [...] Some tweets are coming out of Kentucky tonight indicating BLM and Antifa are in full force again.  It's spring so the rioters are gonna riot.  Noticeably none were wearing Trump hats.

Why Is the Left Allowed to Be 'Transphobic' and Racist?  Last week, I asked why there was no uproar from LGBTQ activists when Bruce "Caitlyn" Jenner was "misgendered" and mocked by the left after announcing that he would run for governor of California.  (In reality, some of the mocking came from LGBTQ activists, who painted Jenner as a fame-hungry reality TV star.)  And where was the uproar when Bill Maher questioned the "born that way" dogma, stating, "Wasn't always sure about the man-woman thing, but low capital gains taxes — born that way."  To be sure, there were some scattered voices of protest, but not a fraction of what would have happened had the mockery been pointed towards someone like Richard "Rachel" Levine, President Biden's appointee as assistant secretary for Health and Human Services.  But all that pales in comparison to some of the attacks on Sen. Tim Scott after he responded forcefully to Biden's address to Congress on Wednesday night.

Working-class people of color hate the riots the lefty elite keeps cheering.  When Americans fight about race or culture, the fight is almost always really about social class.  And that shows up in today's discussions about riots and policing.  The Daily Caller recently sent a video correspondent to Brooklyn Center, Minn., scene of many police-shooting-related riots, and to Washington, DC, home of America's ruling class, and asked people in both places when and if rioting was justified.  The answers differed sharply.  In Brooklyn Center, where the destruction was visible first-hand, respondents (nearly all black men of various ages) overwhelmingly opposed rioting.  An African-American man in an "Army Veteran" hat commented:  "We're human, and we want to be treated with respect," but we also need to show "respect."

Auburn man arrested for alleged threats to kill Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan.  Seattle police arrested a 43-year-old man for harassment after leaving a voicemail for Mayor Jenny Durkan in which he allegedly stated he wanted to kill her.  Court documents identify the suspect as Rashidi Slaughter of Auburn.  Detectives were told Tuesday the suspect left a voicemail at the mayor's office earlier that morning.  They were able to identify the man, determining the call was made from Auburn.  "It just shows again that we're in a very difficult troubled time right now, and this is just another thing that many officials face," Durkan said about the voicemail.

Minnesota Man Fined $12 Million For Police Station Fire At George Floyd Protest.  A Minnesota man has been fined $12 million for helping set fire to a police station during a protest last summer following the death of George Floyd.  Dylan Shakespeare Robinson, 23, pleaded guilty in December to one count of conspiracy to commit arson.  He was accused of lighting a Molotov cocktail that another person threw at the Third Precinct headquarters in Minneapolis.  He now faces four years in prison and a whopping fine for the damages to the police station — a penalty Robinson's lawyer argues he will never be able to pay.

The Editor says...
[#1] He may never pay the entire fine, but he can pay as much as he can, and perhaps some of his anarchist buddies will learn from his experience.  On the other hand, he pleaded guilty to conspiracy, which means someone else was involved, so why can't the other(s) involved share the cost?  [#2] Perhaps he will be pardoned by President Chelsea Clinton or President Jenna Bush.

In Chilling Video, Antifa Doxes, Threatens to KILL Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler.  Late last week Portland, Ore., Mayor Ted Wheeler took to video to plea for the community's help to "unmask" antifa.  The violence-prone anarchist-fascist group has terrorized Portland with months of violent and destructive insurrectionist riots despite Joe Biden merely calling antifa an "idea."  Someone purporting to represent antifa has responded to Wheeler with a new video.  In this video, the masked individual pushes anti-American themes and publishes Wheeler's home address.  The individual finishes the disturbing presentation with a veiled threat to kill Mayor Wheeler.  [Video clip]

Brainerd man who helped burn MPD 3rd Precinct sentenced to 4 years in prison, owes $12M in restitution.  A Brainerd man has been sentenced for his role in the arsons committed at the Minneapolis Police Department's Third Precinct building last year.  According to the United States Attorney's Office District of Minnesota, 23-year-old Dylan Shakespeare Robinson will serve four years (48 months) in prison.  As part of his sentencing, he will also serve two years of supervised release and owe $12 million in restitution.  Court documents state on the night of May 28, 2020, Robinson went to the Third Precinct where a crowd of hundreds had gathered.  At one point, the crowd began shouting, "Burn it down, burn it down."  Soon after, a fence that was designed to keep people out of the building was torn down.  Robinson, along with other co-conspirators, breached the fence and entered the building.  Robinson lit an object held by the unidentified co-conspirator who threw it toward the Third Precinct building with the intent that it would start a fire or fuel an existing fire.

Puyallup church cancels conservative speaker event, cites potential threats.  An East Pierce County church has canceled an event featuring a politically conservative activist after the senior pastor said police warned him groups opposed to the event were targeting the pastor and members of the congregation.  Motion Church's senior pastor, the Rev. Roger Archer, told The News Tribune the Puyallup Police Department and FBI contacted him about safety concerns over a planned appearance by Charlie Kirk.  The Puyallup Police Department did not return requests for comment from The News Tribune.

State of emergency declared in North Carolina as protests continues.  Hundreds of protesters took to the streets on Monday, April 26 to protest the shooting and call for the release of body-camera footage over Andrew Brown Jr.'s death in Elizabeth City, North Carolina.  Elizabeth City Mayor Bettie Parker declared a state of emergency in preparation for outrage of the public.  [Video clip]

WaPo Writer Doesn't Get Concerns About Driving Near Protesters, Here's an Explainer.  Washington Post opinion writer Radley Balko tweeted that he didn't quite get why some people were so worried about "inadvertently driving near a protest, getting stuck in front of a wall of protesters, then getting pulled out of their car and beaten."  [Tweet]  In his tweet, he referenced a ridiculous article from "The New Republic" which claimed Republicans wanted the "right to crash cars into people" and that Republicans were endorsing a "terroristic tactic" against "protesters."  [More tweets]  As I've covered the protests/riots over the past year, I've seen many encounters that have ranged from minor harassment to someone ending up dead.  I'm not sure what Balko has been watching over the past year, but BLM/Antifa people are constantly blocking cars in the street and getting into encounters with drivers.

Black Lives Matter Protesters Block Traffic on Brooklyn Bridge, Clash With Police.  Black Lives Matter and affiliated protesters blocked traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City on Saturday night, leading NYPD officers to make arrests.  Video footage showed the demonstrators crossing the Brooklyn Bridge from Brooklyn into Manhattan before squaring off with officers.  Some officers deployed pepper spray.  Other footage showed the demonstrators being told by officers to get off the bridge and pushing the crowd back.  According to officials, no injuries were reported, and about a half-dozen demonstrators were given appearance tickets for obstruction of vehicular traffic, reported the New York Post.

You've made your bed, now lie on it.
Black-owned businesses in Minneapolis autonomous zone — where police are kept out — plead for help.  The New York Post reported that black-owned businesses at the intersection where George Floyd died in May 2020, now known as George Floyd Square, are pleading for, among other things, help from police.  [Tweet]  Black merchants near the once-thriving corner of 38th Street and Chicago Avenue said police have abandoned the blocked-off intersection, creating a dangerous autonomous zone that has seen crime spoke and business evaporate.  Owner of Smoke in the Pit restaurant said:  "The city left me in danger."  The merchant, who asked to be identified only as Alexander W, for fear of reprisals, added:  "They locked us up on here and left us behind.  They left me with no food, no water, nothing to eat.  The police, fire trucks, can't come in here."

A Long and Sordid History of Crowds Threatening Violence in the Event of a Jury Acquittal.  It does not matter to due process whether the crowd is right or wrong, Black or white, well-intentioned or malevolent.  Nor does it matter whether the defendant is guilty, innocent or somewhere in between.  Oliver Wendell Holmes correctly pointed out: due process simply cannot be achieved for any defendant in the presence of hostile crowds ready for violence if a verdict of not guilty is rendered.  Every police chief and mayor of a large city understood that a verdict of not guilty for George Floyd's murder would result in demonstrations and perhaps violence.  They, along with the president, understandably prayed for the right verdict — which they defined as a conviction for murder regardless of whether the evidence supported that result, rather than a verdict of manslaughter, which the evidence clearly did support.  Like Oliver Wendell Holmes, every American should "very seriously doubt" if Chauvin had "due process of law."  He may well be guilty of at least manslaughter, but the process by which he was convicted was fatally flawed, in the same way that the process was flawed in the Leo Frank, Sam Sheppard and other cases.

Seattle Antifa Hate Group Threatens to Burn Down Church Over Event With Charlie Kirk.  A Puyallup, Wash., church has canceled an event featuring conservative speaker Charlie Kirk after antifa activists threatened to burn down all of its buildings and torch the neighbors' properties too.  Motion Church planned an event with Kirk, the head of Turning Point USA and a Christian speaker, on May 2.  The church, in a community south of Seattle, ministers to the homeless, lost, and addicted people in addition to hosting regular services and events at the church for families, and those seeking to know Christ more.

This bold pronouncement is about eight months late, Mr. Mayor.
Portland mayor says it's time take our city back' from violent mob.  The Mayor of Portland says he is determined to reclaim the city from the 'anarchistic mob' that has inflicted 'criminal intimidation and violence' on its streets over the past year.  Mayor Ted Wheeler called on the pubic to help him identify the people responsible for the rioting and destruction Portland so he could 'unmask them, arrest them and prosecute them.'  In a news conference on Friday addressing continuing violence in the city, Wheeler praised BLM leaders for showing 'the courage to stand up to this mob' and said that all Portland residents should do the same.

Portland's Pusillanimous Mayor.  In August 2020, then-President Donald Trump offered to assist the Democratic mayor of Portland, Oregon, in putting down the nightly riots that had ravaged his city for more than 90 days.  Given this choice between ending the systematic violence and arson that was wreaking havoc throughout his city and publicly signaling his virtue, Mayor Ted Wheeler chose the latter.  While the residents of Portland hid in their homes to avoid the violence, he responded to Trump's offer with a sanctimonious letter that included this delusional passage:  "No thanks.  We don't need your politics of division and demagoguery."  A week later, Portland police declared a riot and arrested 59 people.  Fast forward to last Friday.  Mayor Wheeler, having survived countless calls for his resignation and somehow managing to get reelected in November, is still presiding over a continuous wave of riots and is reverting to the same ineffective tactics that failed so spectacularly last summer.

Portland's mayor should resign first.  The invoice is coming and it's going to be big.  Last summer, cities, from Portland to Minneapolis let mobs destroy their buildings and even kill police officers for no reason at all.  The political class backed down and did not protect their citizens and businesses from criminals who used George Floyd's death as an excuse to burn and destroy.  It was a pathetic display of weakness and irresponsibility.  Well, Trump is gone and reality is hitting everyone between the eyes.  It's now time to clean up and do whatever they can to recover.

Protesters block traffic, clash with cops on Brooklyn Bridge.  Dramatic footage by The Post shows a crowd of protesters snarling traffic and squaring off with cops just a block from City Hall on the Manhattan side of the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday night [4/24/2021].  Six cops were seen corralling one man with his hands behind his back at the Manhattan mouth of the bridge from around 10:30 p.m.  "He's breaking my finger," the grimacing man claims.  "What am I being arrested for?," another can be heard asking, as swarms of officers disperse several dozen protesters coming off the bridge onto Centre Street.  Dozens of protesters had crossed the bridge by walking along its Manhattan-bound roadway, blocking cars.  About a half dozen protesters were given appearance tickets for obstruction of vehicular traffic, according to police.

The Editor says...
Jaywalking tickets?  That's it?

BLM storms Oklahoma Capitol over GOP bills, where's the media outrage?  Protesters shouting "Black Lives Matter" stormed the Oklahoma Capitol this week and there doesn't seem to be much outrage or mass coverage from the mainstream media.  Nothing like what we saw on January 6 when people called Trump supporters insurrectionists.  Aren't these protesters doing something similar?  Isn't it an insurrection when BLM storms a Capitol, or does that not fit in the liberal mainstream media's narrative.

The "Windham Incident" Death Threats.  Many know, I have been actively involved with a State Senator and others over the past few months — pushing for a forensic audit of Windham's voting machines and ballots from the November 3, 2020 general election.  A law mandating the forensic audit was passed on April 12th.  Part of my support for the Bill included keeping the public aware, and asking them to respectfully submit their thoughts to the appropriate government officials.  Their responses have been overwhelming.  It is the civic duty of every citizen to get involved with our government — especially when critical decisions are made regarding the integrity of our elections.  Citizen involvement is the foundation of our representative government.  This morning [4/23/2021], I was informed by the Chairman of the Windham Board of Selectman that he received "at least two veiled death threats".  He added, "the veiled death threats have crossed the line.  This is on you."  He then asked that I make a public statement.  I have had a good, healthy, and respectful relationship with the Chairman going back many years.  I agree completely with him that any sort of threat — veiled or not — crosses the line.  But I do not agree that "this is on me".  I am NOT responsible for the actions of any other person.  I have NEVER incited — nor condoned — violence.  It is irresponsible that I am being blamed for someone else's actions.

Leftists Dump Piles of Cow Manure at Biden White House in Earth Day Protest.  Leftist protesters led by Code Pink's token white male Tighe Barry and Extinction Rebellion D.C. marched through downtown Washington, D.C. Thursday morning pushing pink colored wheelbarrows filled with cow manure, heading to the White House to protest Joe Biden's climate policies on Earth Day.  This is one time when wearing masks outdoors might make sense.

The Editor says...
Did they drive right past the National Guard with a truckload of manure?  Do you think a Republican in a MAGA hat could do that without being questioned?

NYT Columnist Argues Mass Rioting, Looting Last Summer Was Just Something Republicans 'Believe' Happened.  Throughout last summer, Americans witnessed widespread rioting and looting many BLM demonstrations caused across the country.  Now, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman is arguing that all that destruction was just something Republicans "believe."  Krugman made the comment in a series of tweets criticizing Republicans for being most concerned about illegal immigration and the deficit, according to a Pew study.  "You might think that it would be hard to obsess over the deficit when it was actually Trump who blew the deficit up, to zero complaints from his party," Krugman tweeted.  "But that would be assuming that R voters know about that, or would even be willing to hear it."  "In reality, given that GOP supporters believe that rampaging mobs burned and looted major cities — somehow without the people actually living in those cities noticing — getting them to see facts about something as abstract as the deficit is a hopeless cause," Krugman continued.

New York Times columnist Paul Krugman suggests 'rampaging mobs' that looted cities were GOP make-believe.  New York Times columnist Paul Krugman suggested on Thursday that the violence that has plagued cities over the past year was a figment of Republicans' imagination.  Krugman knocked Republicans on Twitter for "only" being concerned about illegal immigration and the deficit in comparison to Democrats, who according to a Pew study are overwhelmingly concerned about gun violence, racism, the coronavirus, climate change, affordable healthcare, and economic inequality.  "You might think that it would be hard to obsess over the deficit when it was actually Trump who blew the deficit up, to zero complaints from his party," Krugman tweeted.  "But that would be assuming that R voters know about that, or would even be willing to hear it."

Protesters vandalize Central Park monument and clash with police.  Protesters clashed with police in Manhattan on Thursday night [4/22/2021] after a monument was vandalized by cop-haters in Central Park.  Six people were arrested in Columbus Circle near the USS Maine National Monument, which was defaced with anti-police graffiti, cops said. [...] The crowd was part of the Stonewall Protests, which gathers weekly outside the iconic Greenwich Village bar.  The group describes itself as "black queer and black trans activists centered on the acknowledgement of all black life" on Instagram.

LeBron James Incited Millions to Murder a Police Officer.  Will It Cost Him Anything?  As America learned that a Columbus, Ohio, police officer shot and killed a teenage girl while she was in the act of wielding a knife at two other girls, NBA star LeBron James took to Twitter and incited his followers against the police officer.  James has 49.6 million Twitter followers and is a hero to millions for winning basketball championships.  He is very influential.

Blacks At Floyd Memorial Want To Burn Down City No Matter What, One Hints Towards Killing Whites.  Radical black BLM supporters in attendance at A George Floyd's memorial in Minneapolis were asked about their thoughts on police, civil war and how they felt whites should be treated.  What follows is a collection of shockingly honest words from people who are actively looking to tear the country apart for no reason other than racism against white people, which despite what CNN would have you believe isn't really that big of an issue anymore as many races work happily together every day around the nation.  "Burn the whole city down, what does it matter?" one of the women asked.  "I say burn the city down, y'know?  So they can see that we're here," another woman asserted.  One person said that Derek Chauvin should not have received a trial at all.

BLM And Their Mob Surround A Truck After The Chauvin Verdict, Try To Pull Driver Out.  Protesters jumped on and surrounded a semi-truck after it drove near a crowd of people celebrating the guilty verdict against former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin on April 20.  The crowd was filmed jumping on the truck, trying to open the driver's door, smashing his window, one person in a suit and tie even jumped on the hood of the truck.  A voice in the video is heard yelling 'beat [him]' and 'disconnect the trailer.'  Jurors returned a verdict of guilty on all three charges against Chauvin, on trial for the death of 46-year-old Floyd, after less than 10 hours of deliberation

Fraternal Order Of Police Blasts LeBron James For 'Gaslighting' Attack On Cop Who Saved Black Girl From Stabbing Assault.  The National Fraternal Order of Police condemned LeBron James for using his influence to call for an attack on the police officer who shot and killed a teenage girl wielding a knife to save the life of another black girl.  "@KingJames, with his vast resources & influence, should educate himself and, frankly, has a responsibility to do so, on the facts before weighing in.  This is disgraceful & extremely reckless," the FOP wrote on Twitter.  "The officer saved a young girl's life.  No amount of gaslighting will change that fact."  In a now-deleted tweet, the famous NBA player posted a picture of the alleged Columbus officer involved in the fatal shooting captioned with the words "YOU'RE NEXT" and "#ACCOUNTABILITY."  James removed the post but it still received more than 6,000 retweets in the short amount of time it circulated Twitter.

'You're next': LeBron James tweets that the white cop who shot dead Ma'Khia Bryant should be held 'accountable' before deleting it after he was accused of 'inciting violence' against police.  NBA star LeBron James called for the Ohio cop who shot dead 16-year-old Ma'Khia Bryant to be held accountable for his actions in a now-deleted tweet on Wednesday [4/21/2021].  Bryant, a black teenager, was killed by a white Columbus police officer on Tuesday while charging at two people with a knife, sparking more outrage over the continued use of lethal force by cops just moments after former Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin was found guilty on murder and manslaughter charges over the death of George Floyd.  In response to Bryant's death, James, who is consistently outspoken about social justice issues, tweeted: 'You're next. #ACCOUNTABILITY.'

Oklahoma lawmakers confronted by more than two dozen protesters who swarmed house chambers to denounce a bill that shields motorists who strike 'rioters' with their car.  More than two dozen angry protesters swarmed the Oklahoma House of Representatives chamber during a session on Wednesday to demonstrate against several bills that target demonstrators and trans girls.  The House and Senate were forced to lock their chambers as the protesters entered the Capitol's House gallery on the fifth floor while lawmakers were in session.  Video shows the group chanting 'no justice no peace' and 'Black Lives Matter'.  But others heckled legislators, with one screaming 'you are a [...] disgrace to the whole country!'

Oklahoma Senate passes bill protecting drivers who hit protesters blocking roadways.  A bill meant to protect drivers who hit protesters during the course of fleeing a riot passed the Oklahoma Senate on Wednesday [4/14/2021].  House Bill 1674, which passed through the Senate by a vote of 38-10, would increase penalties for blocking roadways while also providing immunity to drivers who kill or injure motorists while fleeing the scene of a riot in fear for their lives, according to the Associated Press.  The bill comes in response to an incident in Tulsa, Oklahoma, last year in which a driver in a pickup truck drove through a group of George Floyd protesters blocking an interstate and injured several protesters.  The driver, whose family was in the car, was not charged.

Biden Falsely Describes Race Rioters Who Burned America as Marching "In Peace".  Biden's response to the legal lynching of Derek Chauvin for the drug overdose death of George Floyd came with the false claim that the racist rioters and looters of the black supremacist Black Lives Matter hate movement had protested "in peace and with purpose".  Purpose, yes.  Peace, no.  Unless Biden considers $2 billion in looting damage, at least 8 mostly peaceful murders, including that of a black 8-year-old girl, and the destruction of entire communities to be peaceful.

BLM Activists Suggest We Should 'Start Killing' All White People.  A shocking interview from the George Floyd memorial in Minneapolis reveals how many Black Americans think about White people in the US.  During the collection of interviews, journalist and filmmaker Ami Horowitz asked several people who were attending the memorial about their thoughts on burning the city down and using violence against white people.  The responses may be shocking but not surprising to those who have been paying attention.  "Burn the whole city down, what does it matter?" one of the women asked.  "I say burn the city down, y'know?  So they can see that we're here," another woman said.  One of the women went on to say that Derek Chauvin should not have received a trial at all, and should have just been sent right to jail for life.

The Editor says...
Yes, there was one party involved in this mess who should have been sent to jail for life, and it wasn't Derek Chauvin.

Antifa Chants 'Hit a Cop With a Baseball Bat' During Violent Frederick, Maryland Demonstrations.  A group of AntiFa radicals led threatening chants of "hit a cop with a baseball bat," during violent demonstrations in Frederick, Maryland; the latest instance of extreme left-wing activity in a community once known for the conservative streak that set it apart from other regions of the state.  "From the Nile to the Platte, hit a cop with a baseball bat!", the group, which reportedly goes by the name "Frederick Socialists," chanted through bullhorns during the "free the people, fight the power, fuck the police march" down a residential street in one of several short clips posted online by march attendees.

BLM Activist Says She Supports Mass Looting Because It's Payback For 200 Years Of What White People Have Done.  Activist Kim Brown, who hosts "Burn It Down with Kim Brown" on YouTube, says she fully supports the looting of Dollar Tree, and of Advance Auto Parts (which was burned down).  Why?  Because blacks could loot every store in America for 200 years and still not have their debt repaid.  Someone should tell her stores aren't going to reopen if they're continually looted.  "I support the looting of Dollar tree.  I support the looting of Advanced auto parts.  I support all that [...]... Because blk people could loot every store in this [...] country for 200 years and it would not even come close to what America owes us."  [Video clip]

The Editor says...
Excuse me for trying to inject logic into this discussion, but if you burn down somebody's store, how does that repay a debt?

Historic Church Goes Up In Flames Minneapolis.  A fire caused major damage to the century-old Sacred Heart of Jesus church in northeast Minneapolis Monday night.  Crews were called just before 7 p.m. to the church, located on the 2200 block of 5th Street Northeast, after reports of a fire on the first floor.  Firefighters rescued a few parishioners who had entered the church to try and put out the flames.  By the time they were taken to safety, the fire spread to the roof.  [Video clip]

Dems have abandoned all principle by telegraphing approval of some rioting.  Are some riots good and others unacceptable?  Surely not.  Those who destroy property and commit assaults, whether against law enforcers or civilians, ought to be punished, no matter the cause they claim to support.  But today's liberals reject this fair, universal standard.  Some riots deserve legal protection, they insist, while others must be harshly repressed.  It all depends on the politics of the rioters.  Some, such as the excitable Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), are cheering the prospect of another round of Black Lives Matter riots, er, "peaceful protests," if the Derek Chauvin trial doesn't go their way.  They're also up in arms about a new Florida law that strengthens punishment for those who take to the streets to commit violence.

Witness Intimidation, Racial Antagonists Throw Blood and Pig Head on Former Residence of Defense Witness in Derek Chauvin Trial.  As the closing arguments of the Derek Chauvin trial wrap up today those who want to advance racial hatred attempt to intimidate a prior defense witness.  Former police training officer Barry Brodd testified for the defense.  His former home in Santa Rosa, California, was attacked Sunday with a pigs head left on the blood-splattered front porch.  Fortunately Mr. Brodd had previously moved away from that location, but the current owner was obviously mortified.  The far-left is once again using every resource to trigger violence and hatred around this case.  Without a doubt the activists inside Obama's Chicago network are coordinating the effort.  They have been exploiting the death of George Floyd for maximum political value and antagonism from the outset.

Portland church damaged in riot says cost of repairs will take away from feeding the homeless.  Portland businesses and a church picked up the pieces Saturday morning between nights of unrest in the city following a number of police shootings nationwide.  Groups of around 100 people moved around the streets of Portland, either protesting or looking to cause damage on Friday night, leading police to declare a riot.  The mayhem marked the third night in five days that police have declared a riot in the city in the wake of police shootings nationwide, [...]

Governor's mansion, several homes vandalized in Denver.  The governor's mansion was among several homes hit during a vandalism spree in Denver overnight [4/18/2021].  Sister station CBS Denver reports most of the targets were the city's Cheesman Park neighborhood.

Signs that 2021 rioters will be attacking and burning wealthy neighborhoods.  Rioting is a frequent phenomenon, complete with a professional traveling cadre that moves into a city when a spark ignites anger — as most recently happened in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota. [...] With so many people and resources being expended, a bit of strategic thinking is being brought into play.  Poor Blacks burning their own neighborhoods hurts the (nonprofessional) rioters and their families and is a burden that does not affect most people.  It also doesn't win a lot of friends among the supposedly oppressed people the itinerant professional rioters seek to lead.  Now we are seeing signs that the urge to riot will be directed from above at the affluent and comfortable, a property destruction analogue of the slogan "Eat the Rich" that has enjoyed great popularity on some quarters.

Peaceful Protesters?  BLM Incites Crowd To 'Get Blood On Their Hands'.  With the scent of mayhem over the George Floyd murder trial verdict already in the air, Black Lives Matter is preparing to take to the streets for another round of rioting, looting, and mayhem that could result in bloodshed.  On Friday [4/16/2021], BLM activists and their Antifa allies took to the streets to denounce the police and to warm up for the violence that will be unleashed if the jury delivers anything less than a second-degree murder verdict against ex-cop Derek Chauvin.  In one of the rallies that were held across the country, a young activist speaking at Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington D.C. made it clear that there will be hell to pay for white America and issued a call for what sounded like a violent revolution.

Minnesota National Guard, Police Team Targeted In Drive-By Shooting Hours After Maxine Waters Incites BLM Protesters.  Hours after Sen. Maxine Waters (D-CA) urged protesters to 'get more confrontational,' a Minnesota National Guard and Minneapolis police team were targeted in a Saturday morning drive-by shooting, according to a press release by the National Guard.  The incident happened at approximately 4:19 a.m. local time when a light colored SUV drove by and unloaded.  Fortunately for the officers, only minor injuries were sustained — with two National Guardsmen suffering minor cuts from shattered glass.  They were taken to a local hospital.  A third Guardsman had "only superficial injuries" according to the statement.

Antifa "Panicking" About Police Informant Inside Network:  Andy Ngo.  Members of the infamous Antifa cell in Portland are anxious after an informant in their midst gave information to police, leading to arson charges, Antifa expert Andy Ngo says.  "They're panicking because this may possibly mean that somebody has infiltrated high... and there's a lot at risk, because this is a criminal cartel," Ngo said Saturday [4/17/2021] on NTD's "The Nation Speaks."

Maxine Waters Makes Inciting Comments, Goes All in With Rashida Tlaib on the Anti-Police Rhetoric.  Rep. Maxine Waters (Delusional-CA) joined a protest action in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, last night [4/17/2021] and made inflammatory comments, saying that people needed to "stay in the streets" and be "confrontational" if Derek Chauvin, the police officer on trial for George Floyd's death, is not convicted of first degree murder.  [Video clip]  Now, of course, this is completely irresponsible for a sitting member of the House to be encouraging "confrontation," especially when things are already at a fever pitch.  If she had been a Republican and said this, she'd probably already be accused of "insurrection."  If she had been President Donald Trump, she'd already be impeached.

Marjorie Taylor Greene Says She Will Introduce Resolution to Expel Maxine Waters From Congress.  Freshman Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) said Sunday [4/18/2021] that she plans to introduce a resolution calling on Congress to expel sixteen-term Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) over incendiary remarks Waters made at an anti-police protest in Brooklyn City, Minnesota late Saturday night.  Waters was recorded on video demanding a guilty verdict from the jury in the Derek Chauvin trial and urged protesters to "get more confrontational."

Republicans blast Rep. Maxine Waters over protest comments.  A chorus of Republicans blasted Rep. Maxine Waters Sunday [4/18/2021] for telling angry protesters to "stay in the streets" and "get more confrontational" during the seven-straight night of unrest in Minnesota — saying the California Democrat's fiery comments could incite violence in a state already on edge.  Waters stood alongside demonstrators in Brooklyn Center early Sunday morning, breaking a curfew set by police, to encourage them to make their voices heard following the fatal police shooting of Daunte Wright and ahead of as closing arguments in the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin for the death of George Floyd.  "We've got to stay in the streets, and we've got to demand justice," she urged the crowd, who earlier had been chanting:  "No good cops in a racist system!" "[...]!" and "No justice, no peace!"  "We're looking for a guilty verdict" in the Chauvin case, Waters said.  "And if we don't, we cannot go away, we've got to get more confrontational."

Impeach and remove Maxine Waters.  In supporting the second impeachment of President Trump, California Democrat Rep. Maxine Waters said he was "inciting" his followers, and was "trying to create a Civil War."  By her own standards, Maxine Waters should be impeached and removed.  On Sunday [4/18/2021] in Minnesota, Waters, breaking the law by violating curfew (because "she didn't agree with it") said that if ex-police officer Derek Chauvin is not found guilty of murdering George Floyd, "We've got to get more confrontational."  There's been rioting, looting, graffiti — what did Waters mean by "more confrontational?" In Portland, they set fire to an Apple store.  They're trying to take over government buildings.  This isn't the first time Waters has incited her supporters.  In 2018, she told them to harass Trump administration officials.  "Let's make sure we show up wherever we have to show up.  And if you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd.  And you push back on them.  And you tell them they're not welcome anymore, anywhere," she said.

Calls For Maxine Waters to Be Immediately Arrested Grow After She "Incited Riots".  Maxine Water, like all Dems, is hell-bent on tearing this nation apart in the twisted name of "justice."  Mad Max took to the streets of Minneapolis, wearing a mask, and a massive plexiglass faceguard (wasn't she vaccinated?) and whipped the crowd up into [a] frenzy, and basically told them to "burn it all down" if Derek Chauvin isn't convicted of the first-degree murder of George Floyd. [...] A sitting US Congresswoman is actually encouraging rioting and looting if our justice doesn't convict Chauvin.

Maxine Waters tells Minnesota BLM protesters 'to get more confrontational' one day after violent anti-police clashes erupted across US.  California Representative Maxine Waters joined protesters in Minnesota as demonstrations entered a seventh night on Saturday after the death of Daunte Wright.  Waters told the protesters at Brooklyn Center that she will fight for justice on their behalf and urged them to 'to get more confrontational' — just one day after protests descended into violence.  'I am not happy that we have talked about police reform for so long,' Waters said. 'We're looking for a guilty verdict,' she added in regards to the Derek Chauvin trial.  'If we don't, we cannot go away.'

Maxine Waters:  Derek Chauvin Must Be 'Guilty, Guilty, Guilty' or We Take to the Streets.  Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) joined demonstrators Saturday evening outside the police station in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, and told Americans to take to the streets unless Derek Chauvin is convicted for murder in the death of George Floyd.  Waters joined protesters who are angry over the shooting of Daunte Wright, 20, as he fled arrest after a traffic stop earlier this month. [...] The incident was followed by protests and riots, just as the Chauvin trial was taking place several miles away.  "We're looking for a guilty verdict," Waters said.  "And we're looking to see if all of the talk that took place and has been taking place after they saw what happened to George Floyd, if nothing does not happen, then we know that we've got to not only stay in the street, but we've got to fight for justice," she said.

Black's Law Dictionary, Sixth Edition, page 762.

Antifa Goes Wild in the Nation's Capital, but the Reaction Is Decidedly Different.  In the wake of the police shootings of Daunte Wright and Adam Toledo, protests have begun to routinely devolve into rioting, looting, and general violence and destruction.  Earlier in the week, we saw violent outbursts in Minneapolis.  Heading into the weekend, things had also gotten worse in places like Portland, Chicago, and Washington D.C.  In fact, these recent, disturbing videos show Antifa terrorists trapping and attacking police officers in the nation's capital. [...] Where is the National Guard?  We were assured they were in Washington D.C. to keep the peace.  There's a large contingent of them currently stationed there.  Why are they not being deployed to stop his anarchy?  You can speculate as to the reasons why, and I certainly have my theories.  Regardless, what really stuck out to me was the difference in reaction we are seeing from the left and their media allies compared to January 6th.

Florida Senate Approves 'Anti-Riot' Bill.  Florida's Senate has voted to approve an "anti-riot" bill supported by Republicans, and Gov. Ron DeSantis in particular, but criticized by Democrats and civil rights groups as limiting the right to protest in the state, the Orlando Sentinel reports.  The newspaper notes that Democrats and civil rights organizations specifically point to the provisions in the bill that "grant civil legal immunity to people who drive through protesters blocking a road; prevent people arrested for rioting or offenses committed during a riot from bailing out of jail until their first court appearance; and impose a six-month mandatory sentence for battery on a police officer during a riot."  The bill also states that a city cannot reduce its police budget without prior approval from the state, in an apparent response to the movement to redistribute some of the funding that goes towards police.

Antifa Informant Snitches To Portland Police, Results In Arsonist Arrest, Chaos In Antifa Ranks.  Antifa terrorists in Portland are panicking as one of their own has supposedly turned against them, ratting out criminal behavior to the police.  After Tuesday night's [4/134/2021] torching of the police union headquarters building, one of the rioters, Alma Raven-Guido, has been arrested and charged with Arson, Riot, and Criminal Mischief.  If you can believe it, pro-antifa district attorney, Mike Schmidt, is actually holding her to the charges.  Turns out one of their own ratted her out to police.  And this isn't the first time this person has snitched!

Tip From Portland Police Informant Leads to Arson Charges Against Woman for Torching Portland Union Hall.  Eyewitness testimony from a Portland police informant with a history of providing "credible and reliable information on multiple prior investigations" is one of Multnomah County prosecutors' strongest pieces of evidence in charging a 19-year-old woman with arson for allegedly setting fire to the Portland Police Association headquarters.  On Wednesday [4/14/2021], the district attorney's office filed charges of arson, criminal mischief and felony riot against Alma Raven-Guido.  The charges follow an April 13 protest against racist policing where some of the protesters marched to the union hall on North Lombard Street and set fire to a portion of it.  The most substantial information in the probable cause affidavit filed Wednesday by the Multnomah County District Attorney's Office comes from the alleged firsthand account of an unnamed informant.

FBI Director Wray Refuses To Disclose If Antifa Has Organized Finances To Launch Coordinated Attacks.  Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Christopher Wray refused to disclose whether Antifa has the capability to organize, receive funding, and coordinate attacks during the House Intelligence Committee's annual public World Wide Threats Hearing on Thursday [4/15/2021].  Wray began his answer about Antifa by declaring it is a "real thing."  "There are certainly local and regional nodes, individuals who self-identify with Antifa and commit violent attacks, citing that as their motivation, and we have a number of predicate investigations into such individuals and Antifa is a real thing.  It's not a fiction," Wray admitted, despite Democrats and their media allies previously calling Antifa a "myth."  When pressed by Republican Rep. Michael Turner of Ohio about the organizing, training, and financing of Antifa, however, Wray was reluctant to divulge information.

Shooting Breaks Out In Minneapolis During Looting.  Exact Location: 1526 East Lake Street Minneapolis, MN.  [Video clip]

Black Lives Matter activist Bree Newsome defends rioting and looting as 'a legitimate, politically-informed response to state violence'.  A prominent activist who supports the Black Lives Matter movement has appeared to support violent protests, arguing that rioting and looting are 'a legitimate, politically-informed response to state violence'.  Bree Newsome, 35, made the passionate remarks in a series of tweets this week, arguing that police are not limited to non-violence, and that a violent response to injustice can be appropriate and justified.  Newsome, a filmmaker and activist on racial justice issues, famously scaled a flagpole at the South Carolina State House to tear down the Confederate battle flag in 2015.  Weeks later, lawmakers ordered the divisive symbol's removal from the grounds.

FBI investigating Antifa for violent attacks, Director Wray says.  The FBI is investigating far-left Antifa radicals linked to violent attacks around the country, FBI Director Christopher Wray told Congress on Thursday [4/15/2021].  Mr. Wray was asked his views on whether Antifa, a leftist radical group that has triggered violent attacks in several U.S. cities, is an organized group.  "We consider Antifa to be more of a movement," Mr. Wray said during an appearance before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.  "There are certainly local and regional nodes, individuals who self-identify with Antifa who commit violent attacks, citing that as their motivation.  And we have a number of predicated investigations into such individuals."

The Arab street has come to America.  It's important to note that riots happen constantly.  If you type the word "riot" into YouTube, you get videos from every corner of the world.  Many of the riots in the Arab world were part of the Muslim spring, when liberty-seekers and Muslim Brotherhood despots alike took to the streets, anxious to unseat the governments then in charge.  In the West, riots tended to be focused on a specific political goal, complete with signs and the usual leftist street theater.  However, the notion of the "Arab street" connotes a specific type of riot, one in which imams and other activists stir up a mob to take to the streets in a blind rage. [...] The initial George Floyd protests, while they were built on a lie, had the indicia of a traditional protest:  people focused on an issue gathered together with signs and slogans to impress politicians with their numbers and, often, marched down the streets.  However, once those protests devolved into riots and looting, they took on the patina of the Arab street.  And when the people skipped the formal protest part entirely, as they did in Kenosha and are now doing in Brooklyn Center (and will certainly do in Minneapolis after the Chauvin verdict), we are witnessing pure Arab street theater: demagogues are whipping volatile crowds into frenzies that do not result in formal protest, but simply lead to anarchic street violence.

If I did this, it would be called "making a terroristic threat."
BLM Thugs Take Over Dallas Restaurant, Threaten To 'Burn [...] Down.  What's your definition of terrorism?  As Black Lives Matter agitators take over this Dallas eatery, their chants of "Who burn [...] down?  We burn [...] down" sure sounds like a threat of terrorism.  [Video clip]

Armed Democrats, Black Lies Matter take over Dallas restaurant.  [Same video as above, and a few more.]  [Video clips]

Attacks against journalists soar during Black Lives Matter protests.  At least 50 journalists in the US have been arrested during Black Lives Matter demonstrations across the US, while dozens of others have also been injured by rubber bullets, pepper spray and tear gas.  The US Press Freedom Tracker has collected nearly 500 incidents from 382 reports, from the unrest in Minneapolis in the wake of George Floyd's killing by police in late May, to demonstrations in more than 70 cities across 35 states since.  At least 46 journalists were arrested between the end of May and the beginning of June, according to data collected by the organisation.  Dozens of others reported injuries from law enforcement, firing "less lethal" projectiles, tear gas canisters and other weapons into crowds or directly at reporters during demonstrations, even when they had identified themselves and shown credentials, the organisation reports.  Two reporters have suffered permanent eye injuries.

Are Riots Okay Again?  Are riots a violent insurrection by radical groups which must be suppressed by any means... or a peaceful protest?  Obviously, it depends on who's doing the rioting and where they're doing the rioting.  A riot in congress is an attack on "our democracy" while looting, burning and trashing a bunch of stores in Brooklyn Center is a peaceful protest.  Attacking Capitol Police officers is a horrifying crime, but attacking Brooklyn Center police officers is a peaceful protest.  If a Brooklyn Center officer gets a job working for the Capitol Police and moves to D.C., then attacking him while he's in Minnesota is fine, but not in D.C., unless the attackers are protesting for some fashionable cause like falsely accusing a Supreme Court justice of rape or claiming that the world is about to end because not everyone drives a Tesla.

2021 BLM Riots, Day 2: Dollar Tree Looted for Daunte, Police Battle with Rioters in Minnesota.  [Numerous tweets with video clips.]

Nothing soothes the pain of a total stranger's death like a new pair of stolen sneakers.
Minneapolis Rioters Loot A Super Foot Locker In The Name Of 'Social Justice' After Police Shooitng Sunday.  A law enforcement officer fatally shot a young African-American man in the city of Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, which sparked a fresh wave of protests and resulted in clashes between protesters and police officers.  Hundreds of protesters marched to the Brooklyn Center police department to protest the officer-involved shooting of an African-American man, where they were met by police officers in riot gear; some took advantage of the turmoil and started looting shops, including a local Walmart.  Videos have emerged online showing some of the protesters looting stores near Brooklyn Center during the rally, which was declared unlawful by police.  [Video clip]

What it will look like for us if history repeats itself.  With but minor changes adapting it to the situation, the Derek Chauvin trial is reprising the George Zimmerman  dramatic production  trial.  Chauvin plugs in as Zimmerman, while George Floyd takes Trayvon Martin's place.  We're wearily familiar with the script; there will be riots no matter what's decided, with the same people rioting.  The lamestream media will pronounce Chauvin guilty with minimal regard for evidence, law, or common sense.  In the court of public opinion, Chauvin will ultimately be judged not on what he actually did, but on the narrative that somebody white has to pay for George Floyd's death.  Meanwhile, Minneapolis police shot and killed another black lawbreaker Sunday, bringing BLM rioters into the streets again.  These had been waiting for a spark to ignite another conflagration.  They probably were anticipating the decision in the Chauvin case, but pretty much any old spark would have served the purpose.

ANTIFA And BLM Crashes White Lives Matter Event In Huntington Beach, Massive Clashes Ensue.  Huntington Beach police Sunday declared an unlawful assembly after scuffles broke out between "White Lives Matter" protesters and Black Lives Matter counter-demonstrators near the pier.  Video shows at least two men carrying Trump 2020 flags and one going head-to-head with the counter-protesters who then surrounded him and ripped his flag down.  A small scuffle breaks out before police intervened and officers confiscated the man's flag and took him into custody.  [Video clip]

The "Woke" Corporations Received A Brutal Dose Of Reality As Shocking Videos From Minneapolis Reveal BLM Rioters Looting And Destroying Their Stores.  Shocking images emerged this morning [4/12/2021] from Minneapolis where BLM rioters destroyed most of the woke corporation businesses that send them support.  Stores from Target, Nike, Speedway, T-Mobile, and many more were ransacked yesterday.  They received a brutal dose of reality as many of them did send support to these violent rioters.  [Video clip]

People set fires at Portland, Oregon ICE building:  Reports.  Video footage shows fires burning at the Portland, Oregon U.S. Immigration and Customs Enformcent (ICE) building.  Video footage shows one fire that appeared to be burning along the outside of the building that had wood panels on it.  "On Sunday [4/11/2021], the Portland Police Bureau confirmed that officers were called out to the federal building in Southwest Portland around 11:30 p.m. to assist the Federal Protective Service once fires had been lit.  Officers arrived to find at least two fires, including one that appeared to be against the building," according to KATU News.  "Videos shared to KATU News by Independent Media PDX show the plywood that reinforced the exterior of the building ablaze.  Wooden pallets piled outside were also set on fire," the outlet said.

While Minneapolis Burns After Police Shooting, Must-See Video of Victim Emerges.  The mainstream media have seized onto another Black Lives Matter martyr:  A charismatic-looking young father all of just 20 years old whose innocent smile adds outrage to yet another tragic officer-involved death in riot-devastated Minneapolis. [...] But in the narrative battle over whether or not a police shooting incident was right or wrong, any one-sided image is going to be misleading.  What the media is less likely to show those who desire to fuel the outrage and further BLM protests is that Wright was shown on video blithely smoking and waving his handgun at the video in a menacing fashion.  [Video clip]

Minneapolis Looks Like A Warzone as Explosions Go Off Amidst Protests.  [Video clip]

Rioter Tries To Toss Cinder Block At Cops, Gets Taken Down With Rubber Bullets.  A riot is underway in the Minneapolis metropolitan area, and has already seen rioters injured, police property damaged, and an attempt to hurl a cement block at an officer's head.  The riot started in response to police-involved shooting of a man who had an outstanding warrant and was in the process of fleeing from police.  [Video clip]

Minneapolis Explodes in Rioting and Looting After Officer Shoots Black Man Escaping in Car.  Minneapolis is already a powder keg set to explode as millions await the trial of Derek Chauvin for the death of George Floyd.  On Sunday night [4/11/2021], activists set into action after 20-year-old Daunte Wright was shot and killed by police as he tried to escape an arrest.  Wright, who had an outstanding warrant for his arrest, was pulled over by police.  The suspect was shot after returning to his vehicle to flee, according to police.  "According to a statement from Brooklyn Center Police, officers stopped an individual shortly before 2 p.m. Sunday after determining the driver had an outstanding warrant," the Washington Post reported.  "Police said when they tried to arrest the driver, the driver reentered the vehicle and drove away.  An officer fired at the vehicle, striking the driver.  Police said the vehicle traveled several blocks before striking another vehicle."

A former Minneapolis police officer said he quit days before the Derek Chauvin trial because he thinks protesters will 'burn the city down' no matter the case's outcome.  A former Minneapolis police officer who quit the department days before the start of Derek Chauvin's trial said he did so fearing there would be riots in the city no matter the outcome.  The officer, a former sergeant, spoke on the condition that he not be named, but his identity is known to Insider.  The former officer said he was up for retirement soon and worried about his safety in what he predicts will be "riots and more destruction" when the jury reaches a verdict, which could happen this month.  Chauvin's trial in Minneapolis began March 29.  "If Minnesota had the death penalty and Chauvin got it, people in Minneapolis are still going to riot," the officer said.  "They're still going to burn the city down."

Riots following police shooting in Minneapolis suburb make a fair trial for Chauvin impossible.  The National Guard has been called out to control rioting in the wake of a police shooting in the northern Minneapolis lower-middle-class suburb of Brooklyn Center (whose Caucasian population is 44.5% according to Census Bureau estimates).  Rioters behaved with a hair trigger response, with at least one shot fired into the police station, and looting reported locally and many miles distant, on Lake Street in Minneapolis, which received the brunt of the riot, looting, and arson damage following the drug overdose death of George Floyd while in police custody.

Occupied Portland ICE building set afire by left-wing extremists during Saturday night insurrection.  Left-wing extremists reportedly set a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building on fire during another insurrection Saturday evening [4/10/2021] in Portland, Oregon.  Horrifying video footage from the insurrection showed the facility's entrance on fire and its doors shaking as agents were "trying to apparently get out."  Besides trying to burn down the facility and kill those inside, the left-wing extremists also reportedly launched fireworks at the building, lit a fire in its driveway and smashed its windows.  Yet as of Sunday morning, not a single media outlet in America save for Fox News had even taken note of the insurrection.  Even local media outlets in Portland appeared to be ignoring it.

Antifa-BLM Violently Attack Reporter, Put Him in Chokehold, Bloody His Face During Anti-Eviction March in Detroit.  Antifa-BLM thugs violently assaulted an independent reporter on Saturday who was covering an anti-eviction march through Greektown in Detroit, Michigan.  Marchers chanted, "Black homes are under attack, tell me what do we do, rise up fight back!"

Not Insurrection?  BLM Storm Iowa State Capitol, Fight With Police.  Troopers clashed with Black Lives Matter activists after they stormed the Iowa State Capitol on Thursday [4/8/2021].  Footage from the scene appears to show protesters wearing face masks, holding signs and chanting inside of the building in Des Moines.  [Video clips]

Protestors Storm The Iowa State Capitol Building.  The protest is against the Iowa Legislature, whom is trying to pass bills that are seen as racist by some groups.  [Video clips]

"Insurrection" Underway In Iowa As BLM Storms The State Capitol Building Arrests Are Being Made.  BLM activists have appeared to force their way into Iowa's State Capitol building they are there to oppose legislation that they find racist. [...] In videos posted to both Twitter and Facebook, one masked demonstrator is shouting in a government building while other protestors stage a "die-in."

Muslim ANTIFA Member Arrested On Attempted Murder Of A Poilice Officer For Throwing Molotov At Cop In Portland.  A suspect has been arrested in Indianapolis, Indiana, related to multiple firebomb attacks on police officers in 2020.  The Portland Police Bureau Arson Unit, Portland Fire and Rescue Fire Investigators, the Multnomah County District Attorney's Office, Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives , and Federal Bureau of Investigation have been investigating uses of firebombs, also known as Molotov Cocktails, used against police during riots in the summer and fall of 2020.  On Friday, April 2, 2021, 24-year-old Malik Muhammed was arrested in Indianapolis on multiple warrants, including Attempted Aggravated Murder, Attempted Murder in the first degree, Attempted Murder in the second degree, Unlawful Manufacture of a Destructive Device, Unlawful Use of a Weapon, Unlawful Possession of a Firearm, Unlawful Use of a Weapon, and Unlawful Possession of a Loaded Firearm in Public.  [Video clip]

An obvious attempt to interfere with the judicial system, intimidate the jury, and/or incite a riot:
Black Lives Matter Activist Warns "All Hell Will Break Loose" If Officer Chauvin Is Not Convicted in George Floyd Death.  Black Lives Matter activist Maya Echols, who is also a signed model with IMG Worldwide, warned in a recent Tik-Tok video that "cities will burn" if Police Officer Derek Chauvin is not convicted in the death of drug addict and thief George Floyd. [...] The autopsy report found that George Floyd had meth, fentanyl, cannabinoids and morphine in his system when he die.  Floyd was also COVID positive.

Antifa's Destructive Return Could Have Staying Power.  After weeks of relative silence, Antifa's destructive activism came roaring back to the Pacific Northwest.  And as the trial of a former police officer in the death of a black man is underway 1,650 miles away, this region worries that the violence not only will worsen but threaten to become a permanent fixture.  Violence erupted in both Seattle and Portland, Oregon, in mid-March as jury selection began for the trial of Derek Chauvin in the May 25 death of George Floyd while in the custody of Minneapolis police.  Yet this violence wasn't exclusively connected to anger related to the trial; it was merely a symbolic restart to the extremists' activism.  Their violence uses social movements for cover.  Their intent, however, is to dismantle our institutions and rebuild through a lens of radical social justice.

Black Bloc Protester Tries to Climb Chase Bank Building, It Doesn't End Well.  The activist was going up with black paint in a backpack, likely hoping to use it on the building.  While he climbed up, others were defacing the front window, calling for the bank to defund from the pipeline project.  A man who appeared connected to the building tried to encourage the protester to come down.  He came down, alright, hard, when he tried to cross over to an awning and then fell about 15 feet to the ground on his right arm, yelling in pain.  Thinking that hurt a lot.  The black paint in his bag spills everywhere.  His fellow activists rush over and yell, "Call 911" which is rather ironic, given that on any other occasion, you would likely find some of these folks marching with the BLM and calling to defund the police.  EMS responds and takes the guy to the hospital.  [Video clip]

Total Lunantic Leftist Assaults Man Protesting Lockdowns And Masks, Smashes Window With Bicycle.  This was the chaotic scene on Main st in Vancouver when a protester with a bullhorn was attacked by an Asian man on a bicycle.  The protester was protesting lockdowns and masks when the man on the bike starting throwing punches through his van window.  Then he used his bike as a weapon, eventually breaking his window.  [Video clip]

Protesters call for justice in Floyd death after opening statements made in Chauvin trial.  Groups calling for justice for George Floyd Marched in downtown Minneapolis Monday night [3/29/2021].  They say they will be protesting during key parts of the trial.  On Monday, lawyers in the trial of Derek Chauvin — the former Minneapolis police officer charged in the death of Floyd — made their opening statements.  "We're not asking for justice," Del Shea Perry said.  "We're demanding it."

The Editor says...
A noisy crowd outside the courthouse demanding a criminal conviction, as the trial has just begun, is almost exactly the same as a lynch mob.  The clear implication here is that rioting will break out if there is an acquittal.

"Not-Antifa Window Repair" is probably the funniest thing you'll watch today.  [Video clip]

Antifa 'armed' rioters descend on Oregon State Capitol in Salem.  Salem Police arrested at least three people and urged others to stay away from Oregon's State Capitol building Sunday evening as violence linked to Antifa-aligned protesters broke out.  The "heavily armed" crowd had grown to as many as 200 people, Fox 12 Portland reported.  The chaos unfolded as a planned right-wing protest and Antifa counter-protest were scheduled in Salem for the same day.  Police received reports of vehicles driving past the Capitol being struck with balloons filled with paint as well as green lasers being pointed at drivers.

Trump supporter pulls a gun on ANTIFA rioter who tried to smash his truck's windows during clash between rival groups.  This is the moment a Trump supporter pulled a gun on rock-throwing Antifa protesters after they vandalized his truck and maced him during a rally near the Oregon Capitol.  Footage captured the demonstrators spraying paint across the windshield of the man's truck and smashing the tail lights in Salem on Sunday [3/28/2021].  The driver, who was wearing an American flag sweatshirt, stepped out of his vehicle as he engaged with the protesters, who then appeared to mace him.  The video then shows him pulling out his gun and pointing it at the anti-fascist protesters. [...] As police arrived, the man could be seen putting his gun into the back of his truck before putting his hands up and kneeling on the ground.  The man was rubbing his eyes as the officer approached to arrest him.

ANTIFA Terrorists Throw Paint On Elderly Man's Car, Pepper Spray Him, Smash His Windows, Man Pulls Gun To Protect Himself, Salem Cop Arrests Elderly Man.  One thing has been made crystal clear by those who run Oregon:  STAY [...] OUT OF OREGON.  That is if you are one that believes in freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of not being assaulted at random, equal protections, those sorts of things.  This elderly man in Salam found out, none of those thing apply to him as ANTIFA terrorists destroyed his pickup for the crime of flying a flag off the rear bumper.  The gentleman's car first had paint tossed on it.  When he got out of the truck, he was pepper-sprayed, and then his passenger side window was smashed out.  At this point, the elderly man pulls a gun to get the mob away from his vehicle.  Now at this point of the story, you would have figured the cops, who were standing just about 50 feet away would have arrested a bunch of Black Blocheads but no, this cop pulls his gun and aims it at the victim, arrested the old man.  [Video clip]

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Update:
Drivers Have to Go Through Gauntlet of Antifa Attacking Them, It Doesn't End Well for the Radicals.  My colleague Brandon Morse reported earlier about some of the Antifa violence in Salem, Oregon, about an encounter that one driver had with some of them.  The Antifa people attacked him, throwing rocks at his car and yellow paint.  Then when he got out of the car to see the damage, they bashed parts of his car more and maced him.  Bad move on their part because at that point he pulled out his gun to get them to back off.  Then the anti-police radicals suddenly were all hot to have the police respond to protect them, which is so hypocritical and hilarious.  When the police responded, they temporarily held and questioned the victim, but he was the victim and he was not charged.

The Commonalities Between the Rise of the Nazis and the Tactics of the American Left Cannot be Ignored.  [Scroll down]  Fifth, in the 1920's and early 30's the Nazi Party routinely relied on street riots, property damage and gratuitous violence utilizing their militant cadre, the Sturmabteilung (SA), to project power through intimidation while blaming the communists for the violence.  Every time a riot was met with little or no response from the established authorities, the more emboldened they became.  While the Nazis ostensibly came to power through the ballot box, their ability to terrorize the citizenry and national political leadership played a major role as they promised peace on the streets if elected or given leadership positions in government.  The American left revealed in the summer of 2020 that they too have the wherewithal and inclination to provoke street riots, property damage and gratuitous violence utilizing their militant cadre, Antifa and Black Lives Matter, to project power through intimidation while blaming white supremacy and police brutality for the violence.  In the presidential campaign of 2020, the Democrat party implicitly promised peace on the streets if elected and insinuated there would be renewed violence if not.

Heavily Armed Antifa Clash With Drivers at Oregon's Capitol.  Armed members of the far-left Antifa network clashed with passing by motorists and counterprotesters outside Oregon's Capitol on Sunday [3/28/2021].  Video footage showed members of the anarcho-communist group assaulting people with pro-Trump and pro-law enforcement flags driving by the Capitol in Salem.  At one point, the crowd lobbed a rock directly at a driver, shattering his driver's side window.  Some of the group flew Antifa flags; the vast majority donned gear favored by the network, including all black clothing and items to obscure their faces from being identified by law enforcement.  Approximately 100 such individuals, armed with weapons such as guns, bats, and shields, arrived on the Capitol mall grounds shortly before noon, according to the Salem Police Department.  A police tweet described the group as "heavily armed."

Crackdown at Echo Park homeless encampment begins as LAPD moves in, clashes with protesters.  Authorities on Wednesday night [3/24/2021] moved to close down a homeless encampment in Echo Park that has become a highly charged test of city leaders' struggle to balance constituents' demands for clean streets and public spaces with the ever-growing tragedy of people who have no homes.  Scores of police moved into the area, where they were met by more than 200 protesters who oppose the sweep.  The Los Angeles Police Department repeatedly told protesters to leave, and by early Thursday morning, the crowd had dwindled and the protest had mostly wound down.

Facebook Scrubs Page Showing Supermarket Shooter Was Anti-Trump, Pro-Refugee Activist.  Facebook scrubbed a page belonging to Boulder supermarket shooter Ahmad Al-Issa that revealed the gunman was anti-Trump and had promoted pro-refugee, anti-Islamophobia activism.  Al-Issa was arrested after killing 10 people, including a police officer, during a rampage inside the King Soopers grocery store yesterday afternoon. [...] Journalist Andy Ngo reports that the page also revealed Al-Issa to be a "deeply religious Muslim."

Boulder Mass Shooting Suspect's Anti-Trump Posts Uncovered:  Obliterate 'Right-Wing Extremist' Claims.  The news broke on Tuesday [3/23/2021] that the name of the suspected mass shooter in the Boulder, Colorado supermarket incident was released.  The suspect, who is accused of killing ten innocent people, including a police officer, is named Ahmad al Alissa.  "Police have identified the suspect in the Boulder, Colo., shooting as Ahmad Alissa," the New York Daily News reported.  "The 21-year-old is charged with 10 counts of murder in the first degree in connection with the Monday afternoon shooting at the King Sooper supermarket, police said Tuesday at a press conference."  Reports also surfaced that the Biden administration has been briefed on potential ISIS sympathies.

Mainstream Journalist Sends Death Threats to Congressman Jeff Van Drew For Switching Party to Republican.  This morning [3/21/2021] on Maria Bartiromo's television program, congressman Jeff Van Drew shared details of death threats from a New Jersey journalist to himself and his family.  The reporter works for the Ocean City Sentinel and writes syndicated articles which are carried in numerous outlets.  [Video clip]

Minneapolis businesses rush to install security shutters after city changes rules to allow them.  Last week, for the first time in months, Dave Hautman took the plywood off his windows and rolled down new metal shutters to protect the Franklin-Nicollet Liquor Store from potential looters.  Though the retractable shutters cost more than $40,000, Hautman figures they will more than pay for themselves.  His store was hit by looters twice last year, racking up losses of more than $250,000.  "If we didn't have this kind of security, we'd just pack up and leave," said Hautman, general manager of the liquor store.  "You can't afford to keep going down this road.  It has just become lawless."

Rep. Van Drew addresses death threat from NJ columnist: 'Nobody's going to make me afraid'.  Rep. Jeff Van Drew, R-N.J., said he is reviewing his legal options after his office revealed a threatening voicemail by Ocean City Sentinel guest columnist John McCall in the wake of his votes not to accept Arizona and Pennsylvania's Electoral College votes.  Van Drew said "I believe" he will press charges against McCall and said he would confer with his attorneys about a possible lawsuit.  The Republican told "Sunday Morning Futures" [3/21/2021] that even though the threat was shocking to him and his wife, he said it "doesn't worry me."

Anti-Lockdown Protesters Get Jumped, Assaulted In NYC Over The American Flag, MAGA Hats, Of Course.  A rally held in New York City against Covid-19 measures devolved into shouting matches and scuffles as police tried to separate anti-lockdown activists and counter-demonstrators.  Several dozen people gathered at Union Square on Saturday to voice their anger over the pandemic restrictions.  Some protesters were seen wearing patriotic costumes and MAGA hats as they listened to impromptu speeches by members of the crowd.

Violence Is Out of Control in Portland.  Maybe Defunding Police Wasn't Such a Great Idea.  The city of Portland, Oregon, is a mess.  This week, the city witnessed a telling, if predictable, incident.  Police had removed a fence erected around the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse because it became a "symbol of divide" between law enforcement and the community, according to the Portland Police Bureau.  Rioters then descended on the federal courthouse and vandalized it.  [Video clip]  Now the fence is back up.

Texas museum removes wax Trump figure after visitors kept punching it.  A wax museum in downtown San Antonio, Texas, removed its wax statue of former President Trump after it was repeatedly vandalized, the San Antonio Express-News reports.  Louis Tussaud's Waxworks pulled the figure from public view after it sustained multiple beatings and transferred it into storage.  The scratches on the Trump figure's face were especially damaging, said Clay Stewart, the regional manager of parent company Ripley's Entertainment.

Criminalizing Protest at the Capitol.  [Scroll down]  A second group of "protesters" that unequivocally demonstrates Democrat treachery, are the people who organized and participated in the hundreds of riots that started last year after the death of George Floyd in March.  Democrats lauded the protests, excused the rioters, and then cooperated by telling police to stand down, or by not prosecuting the few protester/rioters who were arrested.  The small number who were arrested and prosecuted received light sentences considering the crimes committed: looting, arson, assault, vandalism, and murder.  The people of our country are now faced with a choice: will we allow our criminal justice system to be inverted so that the innocent are punished and the guilty go free?  Or will we object, make our voices heard, and reverse this evil trend?  Unfortunately, it isn't so simple.  As we saw in 2020, the people of this country no longer have a voice at the ballot box.

Will [the] Left's Violent Tendencies Lead To U.S. Breakup Or Dictatorship?  The Democratic Party's far-left wing — or is that redundant? — has pursued a relentless gaslighting campaign against conservatives.  It goes like this:  Pay no attention to the Democrat fringe's insane violence of the last year, members of the conservative right are the real troglodytes, prone to extreme political savagery.  The Big Media, ambling in their own leftist zombie trance, repeat the mantra over and over.  Only problem:  It's utterly false[.]  It should be no surprise that it's actually the left that has violent proclivities.  And now, new data clearly back up what we've known instinctively.

Minneapolis's No-Go Zone.  The Seattle "Autonomous Zone" got a lot of publicity before it was finally dismantled, but many people do not realize that Minneapolis has its own no-go area where law enforcement is absent and "militants" rule.  It is the area that surrounds the George Floyd Memorial.  A man was shot and killed in the Memorial area last weekend, the fourth such death since the zone was closed to law enforcement.

Two Men Arrested for Assaulting Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, Who Died After Jan. 6 Breach.  Authorities on Monday [3/15/2021] confirmed two suspects were arrested and charged for assaulting Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick, who reportedly died after the Jan. 6 Capitol breach, although his cause of death has not been disclosed.  In a news release from the Department of Justice, Julian Elie Khater, 32, of State College, Pennsylvania, and George Pierre Tanios, 39, of Morgantown, West Virginia, were taken into custody on Sunday in connection to the incident.  They were charged with conspiring to injure officers and assaulting federal officers, among other charges, during the Jan. 6 incident, the DOJ said.  Khater was arrested after he got off an airplane at the Newark Airport in New Jersey, while Tanios was arrested at his West Virginia home.

Joy Behar:  Antifa [is] 'an idea,' [and] 'not a real thing'.  "The View" co-host Joy Behar claimed Monday [3/15/2021] that Antifa is "an idea" and "not a real thing" during a heated discussion with co-host Meghan McCain.  During an on-air discussion about the Jan. 6 Capitol Hill riot, Ms. McCain noted the ongoing Antifa-led riots in Portland, Oregon, and how the left-wing, so-called "anti-fascist" movement has a history of property destruction and violence against law enforcement.  "Antifa does exist," Ms. McCain said.  "What separates Antifa is their willingness to use violence.  I have very good friends who have been reporting on Antifa for months, and months, and months. ... The idea that Antifa doesn't exist is just factually inaccurate and wrong and a lie."

Police detain more than 100 Portland protesters in apparent kettling.  Portland police detained a crowd of over 100 protesters during a Friday night demonstration, stemming a march only minutes after it began.  The mass detainment was an apparent use of kettling, a police tactic of surrounding a crowd and containing people within a perimeter.  Police told the crowd they were detaining everyone within the boundary for the "investigation of a crime" but did not specify the nature of the alleged crime. [...] The kettling of Portland protesters most recently garnered attention in January after two federal judges either dismissed or recommended throwing out civil suits, including one filed by the ACLU of Oregon, that challenged the police practice.

The January 6th 'Insurrection' that Wasn't.  The "attack" on the Capitol started well before then President Trump finished his speech at the rally at The Ellipse.  This attack was no spontaneous event as alleged by Democrats, the Media, and the Radical Left.  It is evident to any police officer who has been on a police line this attack was preplanned when coupled with the intelligence compiled by the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) and other agencies.  From the videos, this is self-evident, e.g., coordination, tactics in engaging the police lines, hand signals, gas masks, bear spray, goggles, helmets, knee pads, improvised weapons, and milk to neutralize crowd control gasses.  It is indisputable the Capitol Police were understaffed and immediately overrun within seconds of the attack.  The attack began some twenty-minutes before the former President finished his speech.  Others observed a noticeable lack of law enforcement presence that is usually SOP for these "peaceful rallies and protests" around the Capitol.

The *REAL* Insurrection Effort in Portland Oregon, Rioters Set Fire to Federal Courthouse, Break Windows.  The irony over the deployment of the national guard, fencing and barbed wire around the DC capitol exists because there never has been a "right-wing extremist" insurrection effort in DC yet the Biden administration and Democrats use that false narrative as justification for Speaker Pelosi's armed encampment.  The U.S. media are currently pushing that false narrative with every opportunity.  Meanwhile, on the other side of the nation in Portland Oregon, an actual "left-wing extremist" insurrection effort has been taking place for months; yet the national media ignore it and the Biden administration — together with Speaker Pelosi — pretend not to know about it.

It's time for Red States to start nullifying federal law.  Here are some of the issues that could be affected by the concept of nullification:  [...] [#4] Nullify the anti-police agenda.  During the Obama regime, his DoJ hamstrung city police departments all over the country with phony "civil rights" investigations, resulting in cities hesitant to arrest or prosecute violent thugs.  With anti-police activists surrounding Biden, his administration will do the same, thereby empowering leftist rioters in our cities.  The founders never gave the federal government a law enforcement role as they thought this responsibility best be carried out by local police and sheriff departments.  States should resist and ignore all federal anti-police regulations and DoJ harassment of local police departments.

Portland burns AGAIN: Federal agents shoot tear gas at Antifa protesters setting fire to American flags and smashing windows outside boarded-up courthouse.  Antifa protesters have burned American flags and clashed with cops outside the Federal Courthouse in downtown Portland.  The ugly scenes occurred Thursday evening, as dozens of the far-left protesters assembled in the area for a demonstration against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).  The Courthouse has already been boarded up with plywood after sustaining damage during destructive protests last summer, but shocking video shared to Twitter shows all remaining uncovered windows were smashed during the latest demonstration.

Cops detain an entire block of Antifa protesters on the second night of chaos in Portland:  Activists smash windows.  Police have clashed with Antifa protesters during a second consecutive night of unrest in Portland.  The ugly scenes occurred Friday [3/12/2021] after a group of activists assembled to march against the Department of Homeland Security.  One local journalist claimed that between 100 and 150 protesters started making their way through the city's Pearl District before they began 'breaking the windows of businesses' and 'attacking' anyone who was filming them.

Man arrested in string of incidents in Seattle in which brake lines, tires were cut.  The Seattle Police Department announced Friday [3/12/2021] that is has arrested a suspect believed to have slashed brake lines and tires on dozens of parked vehicles over the past three months, most of which occurred in the southern part of the city.  Police confirmed to KOMO News that Mowlid Mohamed, 36, was taken into custody in connection with the vehicle incidents and was booked early Friday morning into the jail in Des Moines on an outstanding felony warrant violation, according to a written statement by Seattle police.

Antifa Comes Back for More, Sets Fire to Portland Federal Courthouse.  Yesterday [3/11/2021], radical leftists attacked the federal courthouse in Portland during the day, trying to break in, smashing windows and throwing a liquid at one of the security officers.  They also stormed a Wells Fargo and a Chase Bank.  At Chase, there was a scuffle with a security guard causing him to pull a gun on them.  But that wasn't all.  Antifa came back last night to try to burn the building down again as they have been trying for months.

BLM/Antifa Folks Storm Banks in Portland, Try To Break Into Federal Courthouse, It Doesn't Go Well.  While Democratic politicians obsess about a three hour riot that happened months ago, leftist riots attacking the government continue apace, not that Democrats care or are paying any attention. [Numerous video clips] [...] Unfortunately what they're doing about it is absolutely nothing because leftists.  Even were any of these folks to be arrested, their charges would be dismissed.  They know they're completely free to do whatever they want without any fear of being locked up for anything.  Good thing the Guard is in D.C. where there's no threat and not in Portland which has been under constant threat for almost a year.  Paging Joe Biden!  This is the federal government being attacked.  What is your response?

My Democrat Friends are Getting Very Embarrassed.  My friends are belatedly realizing that the turmoil was not created by Donald Trump.  It was manufactured by the Democrats, simply to win an election.  The Democrats embraced socialists and anarchists (even though they never play well together) to create the turmoil, and now they can't turn it off.  Radical elements of the left are political vampires.  Once invited in, it's not so easy to get them to leave.  The Democrats are stuck with the radicals, even though the voters aren't.  But I don't get angry.  As my friends complain, I keep reminding them that this is what they asked for.

George Floyd memorial site [is] reportedly now an anti-cop autonomous zone.  Left-wing militants have reportedly turned a memorial site for George Floyd in Minneapolis into a "volatile" autonomous zone — where police and even other protesters aren't welcome.  The memorial, called George Floyd Square, popped up in the days after the 46-year-old's police-involved death on May 25 — the catalyst for a global movement against police brutality and racial inequality.  But since then, a militant-style group has taken over the blocks-long site, creating a hostile situation for authorities and protesters alike, NewsNation Now reported.  "The situation at the memorial, from what I understand, is its kind of volatile," Kim Griffin, a Minneapolis resident, told the outlet.  "People that want to go and support doesn't feel a sense of inclusion.  There is more of a like militant-type atmosphere over there and a sense of fear."

The Roots of Insurrection:  Antifa Exposed.  Antifa's recent rise coincides with that of BLM, which draws on the black power movement of the 1960-70s.  Now linked, they share the goal of upending liberal democracy and the rule of law while purporting to fight racism, sexism, homophobia, and capitalism.  They aim to abolish law enforcement, property rights, national borders, American jurisprudence, free markets, and free speech.  Antifa advocates window-breaking, looting, and arson as valid and powerful protests, deeming such actions "self-defense" against an "unjust" system.  Typically, Antifa announces a gathering to oppose an event it disagrees with through social-media blasts.  Members arrive in intimidating and protective black bloc — black clothing, ski masks, scarves, sunglasses, and helmets.  The use of pepper spray, batons, bats, brass knuckles, frozen water bottles, and "milkshakes" is encouraged.  Many carry weapons and are trained to gouge out eyes, break ribs, and deliver hits to the liver and kidneys.

The Feds Chose an Odd Time to Remove Protection Around Antifa's Favorite Riot Target in Portland.  The Department of Homeland Security has chosen a most odd time to take down the F-word and ACAB-festooned fencing and jersey barriers protecting the federal courthouse in Portland.  Last May, after a fentanyl-addled George Floyd was held down for an agonizingly long time (nine minutes) under the knee of Officer Derek Chauvin, riots broke out in his name, at first in Minneapolis and then across the country, especially in "woke" Portland.  Fast forward to now, when Chauvin's trial is underway.  Minneapolis has spent $1 million to secure buildings already trashed in last year's rioting and looting.  But Portland, where arguably the worst of the George Floyd riots occurred, is going in the other direction.  Floyd was busted for trying to pass a forged $20 bill to buy some cigarettes.  It was far from Floyd's first problem with cops, but it was his last.  His death touched off a conflagration in Minneapolis and the rioting and looting followed in Los Angeles, Louisville, Denver, Memphis, Seattle, and several other places, and, of course, the ground-zero of Wokistan — Portland, Oregon.

FBI Rleases New Video of Suspect Planting Pipe Bombs in DC on January 5th — But....  [Scroll down]  The FBI is in the business of creating, engineering and supporting political narratives.  The FBI is a political institution, that's why the request doesn't align with the system... they don't really want the public's help; because it is pushing and promoting the investigation itself that is the goal.  Once you accept the FBI is a political organization with political interests, expectations and objectives, then everything makes sense.

New FBI Footage Shows Suspect Connected To Pipe Bombs At DNC, RNC.  The FBI released new footage Tuesday [3/9/2021] of a suspect connected to two pipe bombs left at the headquarters for the Republican and Democratic parties before the Capitol riot on Jan. 6.  The video appears to show the suspect walking on a sidewalk with a backpack to the areas where the bombs were later discovered.  The footage occurred between 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Jan. 5, which FBI officials have said is when they believe the bombs were planted.  The suspect wore a gray hoodie and black and gray Nike Air Max Speed Turf shoes with a yellow logo, and had on a face mask, the FBI said.  It added that it was hoping the new footage would lead someone to recognize the person's "gait, body language, or mannerisms" to identify them.

Feds Quietly Dismiss Dozens of Cases Against Antifa Extremists Who Terrorized Downtown Portland Last Summer.  Federal prosecutors have "quietly dismissed" 34 of 90 cases stemming from the violent riots in downtown Portland last summer, and many more federal charges are expected to be dismissed soon, KGW8 reported this week.  Cases being dismissed include felony charges such as assaults on federal officers, court records show.  According to KGW, more than half of the dropped charges were "dismissed with prejudice," which means the case can't be brought back to court.  And at least 11 of the dismissed cases were reportedly dropped on or after the inauguration of Mr. Biden.

The Left's Revolution Is Just Getting Started — More Riots Are Planned.  The perhaps $2 billion in property damages suffered across the nation in 2020 were not the product of spontaneous, peaceful demonstrations designed to call attention to abuses and recommend reforms.  They were carefully orchestrated revolutionary actions by a wide, sprawling network of well-funded groups — Black Lives Matter (BLM), Antifa, Redneck Revolt, Liberation Road and many more, which seeks to destroy the existing capitalist and democratic system and replace it with an expressly Marxist state.

Merrick Garland Testifies That Antifa Attacks Against Portland Federal Courthouse Probably [was] Not Domestic Terrorism.  During Merrick Garland Senate Judiciary Confirmation hearing earlier today [2/22/2021], Garland testified that Antifa violence against law enforcement at the Portland Federal Courthouse may not be domestic terrorism since it happened at night.  His rationale appears to be that there was no intent to disrupt government or threaten lives, however the courthouse is occupied 24/7.

Capitol rioter who allegedly assaulted cops with fire extinguisher ID'd as Robert Scott Palmer.  A US Capitol rioter who allegedly assaulted police with a fire extinguisher says President Biden wants to "vilify the patriots" who breached the building, according to a report that revealed his identity Friday [3/5/2021].  Robert Scott Palmer, 53, was allegedly captured on camera spraying officers at close range then throwing the emptied canister at them while wearing an easy-to-spot American flag jacket on Jan. 6, the Huffington Post reported.  Reached by phone, the Florida father — who runs a cleaning business and has a criminal record — griped that cops at the Capitol launched crowd-control munition at him for no good reason, according to the outlet.

Trump supporters clash with ANTIFA in Manhattan after unfurling a huge flag of Pelosi as a demon outside Trump Tower.  Supporters of former President Donald Trump marched down Fifth Avenue in Manhattan on Friday [3/5/2021] as they carried enormous banners that read 'Trump 2024'.  The event was billed as a 'Trump Save America Flag Unfurling' and featured all sort of Trump signage including one banner that depicted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as a demon.  Towards the end of the event, the Trump marchers clashed with some angry New Yorkers and which the Right Side Broadcasting Network claimed was a group of 'Antifa' and Black Lives Matter activists, leading to the arrest of six people.

Forensic analysis shows internal components of pipe bombs found outside RNC and DNC.  An unclassified document from federal investigators shows forensic findings and analysis of a pair of pipe bombs planted blocks from each other outside the headquarters of the Democratic and Republican parties in Washington, D.C., and discovered by authorities on Jan. 6., the day of the U.S. Capitol riot.  The "Quick Look Report" by the National Explosives Task Force, obtained by CBS News, offers the most in-depth look at the internal components of the explosive devices that authorities believe were planted the night before the attack on Congress by a suspect who, to this day, eludes capture.  The FBI is offering $100,000 in reward money for information leading to the location, arrest, and conviction of anyone involved in the placing of the bombs, which were safely detonated at the scene by robots, according to CNN.

Feds quietly dismiss dozens of Portland protest cases.  Federal prosecutors have dismissed more than one-third of cases stemming from last summer's violent protests in downtown Portland, when protesters clashed with federal agents.  KGW reviewed federal court records and found 31 of the 90 protest cases have been dismissed by the U.S. Department of Justice, including a mix of misdemeanor and felony charges.  Some of the most serious charges dropped include four defendants charged with assaulting a federal officer, which is a felony.  More than half of the dropped charges were "dismissed with prejudice," which several former federal prosecutors described as extremely rare.  "Dismissed with prejudice" means the case can't be brought back to court.

The Left's Campaign Against Self-Defense.  Last week, federal prosecutors offered an undisclosed plea deal to two lawyers who firebombed an NYPD van and drove around passing out Molotov cocktails to protesters at a violent May 2020 Black Lives Matter (BLM) protest in Brooklyn. [...] In the name of "social justice," politicians and the judiciary in many cities and states are bestowing moral rights on violent left-wing and anarchist groups.  District attorney Mike Schmidt, for instance, announced in August that he won't prosecute most of the 550 people arrested during the 75 days of mayhem in Portland last spring.  He said the leniency was an attempt to "create a forum" to express "collective grief, anger, and frustration" at the death of George Floyd and the history of abuses endured by people of color.  Worse, he said using the criminal justice system against them would "undermine public safety" for those "demanding to be heard." Schmidt, his Democrat cohort, and leftist sympathizers in journalism, law, and academia willfully ignore the fact that such misplaced clemency condones and encourages militant groups' violence, their disrespect for the law, and their anti-American agenda.

Michigan National Guard [was] Served Undercooked, Moldy Food While in Washington D.C..  Politicians love to talk about solutions to problems that they helped create and while they do, everyday Americans get caught in the crosshairs of their idiocy.  For this story though, it is not just any everyday Americans but those who serve in the Michigan National Guard who have been entangled in a political mess not of their doing.

The Editor says...
The National Guard did not serve the food.  The food was served to them.  The omission of verbs is the difference between English and Headline-ese.

Raw chicken, moldy bread and Metal Shavings:  The disgusting meals which have hospitalized Michigan National Guard troops in DC.  Members of the Michigan National Guard complain they have been forced to eat raw chicken, moldy bread and meals containing metal shavings while they remain on guard in Washington DC protecting the US Capitol from attack.  More than a dozen soldiers on deployment have become ill — with some serious enough to be hospitalized — after reportedly being given undercooked and contaminated food.  Soldiers have blown the whistle on the sub-par food supplied by to troops stationed in DC by a National Guard contractor.  They shared photos of pink chicken, uncooked beef and moldy food with lawmakers and online while one staff sergeant revealed dozens of meals had to be thrown out when metal shavings were found inside dishes.  A group of bipartisan lawmakers are now demanding a new food vendor is brought in, or for troops to be given a daily allowance to buy their own food.  Some are calling for guard members to be sent home altogether.

The January 6 'insurrection'.  The disturbance at the Capitol on Jan. 6 is routinely described as a "deadly insurrection."  The riots that took place during the summer and caused between 1 and 2 billion dollars in damage and at least 17 deaths are described as "peaceful."  The only death that can be attributed directly to the violence on Jan. 6 was the death of a woman shot by police in violation of any law enforcement's rules of engagement.  It is clear that the government and the Deep State media are not giving an accurate picture of what took place.  You did not need a crystal ball to know that violent groups would use the gathering to promote violence.  Past experience with mass gatherings, such as Trump's inauguration in 2017 should have required increased security.  Yet, according to the Washington Post, "Capitol Police did not take the kind of extra precautions, such as frozen zones and hardened barriers, that are typically used for major events near the Capitol."  Former House Sergeant-at-Arms Paul Irving said "We all believed that the plan met the threat and that we were prepared."  Some of their confidence was based on previous Trump rallies.  Trump supporters had held dozens of mass meetings in the recent past.  Police were assaulted in none of them.

Merrick Garland Is in the Dark about Antifa.  [Scroll down]  Seriously, if you watched only the carefully curated national news, you'd have gotten the impression that (a) Antifa doesn't exist; (b) Antifa is a civic betterment movement led by the public-spirited Wall of Moms; and (c) The peaceful protesters of Antifa were the Gandhi-like victims of Trumpian brutality.  On the other hand, some of us who are Pacific time zone night owls watched hundreds of Andy Ngo videos of what was happening in Seattle and Portland during the wee hours long after the national media had called a lid on their coverage of the Peaceful Protests.  In Ngo's simple video footage, the Antifada sure looked extremist and terrorizing.

Think twice before you sign up for the National Guard.
Whistleblower: Poor food quality at US Capitol making National Guard members sick.  There's a disturbing problem facing Michigan National Guard troops guarding the U.S. Capitol — their food.  A whistleblower said nearly 75 meals were thrown out Sunday [2/28/2021] after metal shavings were found, other meals showed up undercooked making soldiers sick.  A staff sergeant with the Michigan National Guard, whose identity is being protected, says the problem is not isolated.  "Yesterday, for instance, there were 74 different meals found with raw beef in them," the sergeant said.  "Just yesterday, the lunches were, soldiers had found metal shavings in their food."

Whistleblower Points Out National Guard Troops Intentionally Targeted Via Undercooked Food and Metal Shavings.  The DC leftists have installed national guard troops throughout Washington DC to accompany the fencing and barbed-wire that now blocks access to Capitol Hill.  The intent of the effort has been to create and promote a political narrative that "extremists" are targeting the Biden administration.  However, the claims bear no factual evidence.  The justification for the continued deployment of the troops surround the originating fraudulent presentation of the "storming of the Capitol" that took place January 6th.  However, as almost everyone understands the far-left do not support the U.S. military; and as a result the stationed troops now appear to be targeted by twisted people contracted by DC politicians to feed our troops.

Hellhole Portland:  Defunded Police Were Too Busy With Shootings to Stop Antifa Rioters.  On Saturday night [2/27/2021], a mob of antifa rioters ravaged the Pearl District of Portland, smashing windows and spray-painting anti-police messages on businesses, including a Safeway, a Starbucks, and a Chipotle, among others.  Police resources to deal with the riot had been strained by multiple shootings in the city that same evening.  Rioters terrorized at least one person still inside the Chipotle when they attacked the building.  Rioters spray-painted "ACAB," which stands for "all cops are b[...]s," on the location.  [Video clip]

The Progressives are the extremists.  Progressives are the extremists when it came to the "mostly violent" riots that took place last summer.  Deep State authorities stood by and did nothing while insurrectionists killed and beat up innocent bystanders as well as stole, destroyed, and set fire to private property.  Deep State politicians like Kamala Harris did nothing to stop the riots except bail the rioters out of jail.

'When does it end?': Restaurant owner boards up windows ahead of planned rally in NW Portland.  A planned protest happening this weekend in Northwest Portland has some business owners on edge.  The Fields Bar and Grill was vandalized on Feb. 26, and now the owner is boarding up the windows and doors as a precaution.  The protest is planned at a park that is just a couple of blocks away from his restaurant.  "We have removed everything that could possibly cause damage tonight," Jim Rice, the owner, said.  "When these people come through, and we've lost an entire day of business which means that's impacting my team member's wages."  Portland Mayor Ted Wheelers and Commission Dan Ryan have filed an ordinance that would make it easier for businesses to install security lights and gates, which is set to be considered on March 3.

Portland protesters smash businesses as locals scream at them to 'go home'.  Protesters smashed up several businesses during the latest night of destruction in Portland, Oregon — with fed-up locals screaming at them to "go home," according to reports.  Around 150 black-clad protesters marched through the troubled City of Roses late Saturday, trashing businesses during "direct action" against Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Oregonian said.  "Windows were broken at a grocery store, restaurant, bank, shipping business, and multiple coffee shops," Portland police said of the two-hour rampage.  Targets included a Chipotle, Starbucks and even an Urban Pantry, KOIN News said, with social media images showing anti-ICE graffiti also scrawled across numerous buildings, including the ICE buidling.

Biden revokes Trump order to cut funding from New York City, Portland and Seattle 'anarchist' havens after BLM protests.  President Joe Biden on Wednesday [2/124/2021] formally revoked a series of presidential orders and memorandum signed by Donald Trump, including one that sought to cut funding from several cities he deemed 'anarchist' havens and another mandating that federal buildings should be designed in a classical aesthetic.  Since taking office last month, Biden has revoked dozens of Trump orders and issued dozens more of his own as he's sought to target foundational aspects of Trump's legacy and promote aspect of his own agenda without going through Congress.  The latest slate of revocations targeted a grab-bag of issues, including a few that Trump signed in his last months in office.

Feds offer plea deal to lawyers accused of tossing Molotov cocktail into NYPD vanduring George Floyd protest.  Two lawyers accused of tossing a Molotov cocktail into an empty NYPD car during the George Floyd protests last year were quietly offered a plea deal by federal prosecutors, according to court papers filed Saturday.  The offer was tucked away in a routine status report in the case and contained no details about the specifics of the deal.  The feds said they had extended plea offers to the two on Feb. 11, and that the defense was now looking it over.  The lawyers, Urooj Rahman and Colinford Mattis, faced life sentences when indicted in June by federal prosecutors in Brooklyn.  They were caught on video May 29 outside the 88th Precinct in Fort Greene on May 29.

Ex-Capitol Police, security officials testify at Senate hearing that riot was 'coordinated attack'.  Security officials testified Tuesday that they believe the Capitol riot on Jan. 6 was a "coordinated attack" as they were pressed by senators over the circumstances leading to the security failure.  Former U.S. Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund, former Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Michael Stenger and former House Sergeant-at-Arms Paul Irving, as well as Metropolitan Police Department acting chief Robert Contee, appeared before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Tuesday, in the first Senate hearing to examine the "security failures" that led to the breach of the U.S. Capitol last month.

Law Enforcement Confirms What We Already Knew About The Capitol Riots, Obliterates Democrats' Narrative.  Law enforcement officials testifying before a joint Senate hearing on Tuesday [2/23/2021] confirmed their belief that the Jan. 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol building was planned before the day of the event.  This information completely annihilates the Democrats' narrative regarding the assault on the Capitol building.  The Hill reported, "Top current and former law enforcement officials testifying Tuesday before a joint Senate hearing on the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol told lawmakers that evidence pointed to coordination and planning behind the mob of people that overwhelmed Capitol Police officers during the attack."  Former Capitol police chief Steven Sund told members of the Senate that several factors led the authorities to believe that the riots were preplanned, and not spontaneous as Democrats have suggested.

I Saw Provocateurs At The Capitol Riot On Jan. 6.  The deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol bore the markings of an organized operation planned well in advance of the Jan. 6 joint session of Congress.  A small number of cadre appeared to use the cover of a huge rally to stage its attack.  Before it began, I saw from my vantage point on the West Front of the Capitol what appeared to be four separate cells or units:
  [#1]   Plainclothes militants.  Militant, aggressive men in Donald Trump and MAGA gear at a front police line at the base of the temporary presidential inaugural platform;
  [#2]   Agents-provocateurs.  Scattered groups of men exhorting the marchers to gather closely and tightly toward the center of the outside of the Capitol building and prevent them from leaving;
  [#3]   Fake Trump protesters.  A few young men wearing Trump or MAGA hats backwards and who did not fit in with the rest of the crowd in terms of their actions and demeanor, whom I presumed to be Antifa or other leftist agitators; and
  [#4]   Disciplined, uniformed column of attackers.  A column of organized, disciplined men, wearing similar but not identical camouflage uniforms and black gear, some with helmets and GoPro cameras or wearing subdued Punisher skull patches.
All of these cells or groups stood out from the very large crowd by their behavior and overall demeanor.  However, they did not all appear at the same time.  Not until the very end did it appear there was a prearranged plan to storm the Capitol building, and to manipulate the unsuspecting crowd as cover and as a follow-on force.

"I Wish We Could Just Blow Up All The Trump Buildings." MSNBC Guest Wants to Cancel President Trump.  MSNBC guest and writer-at-large for The Bulwark Tim Miller said Wednesday that he wishes Americans could "blow up all the Trump buildings" and erase former President Donald Trump from their memory "Men In Black style."  Miller appeared on "Deadline:  White House" and listened as host Nicolle Wallace began the discussion with a video of Wednesday's implosion of the former Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

How to Push Back Against a Bully.  Did a Minneapolis policeman's decision to sit on the neck of George Floyd on May 25 really "cause" the summer of violence, namely the one that Antifa, BLM, and their Democratic sponsors unleashed in every major American city?  Did a single killing in Minneapolis cause organized wars against "systemic racism" here and in Canada and then in Western Europe, with accompanying looting and burning?  Were people cancelled and fired, statues toppled, streets and buildings renamed according to quickly ratcheted-up standards of political correctness all because of an event in Minneapolis last spring?  The obvious answer is no.  Crises are generated when those in power decide to generate them.  The media can throw oil on the flames whenever they decide it is in their interest to do so.  Universities and other "institutions of learning" will then join the fray, together with their comrades in the deep state, who are always eager to fight "prejudice."  The fact is, we are dealing with a power complex that can turn even minor incidents into violent demonstrations and calls for government action to end "discrimination" and to ferret out and punish "white supremacists."

2 from Rochester arrested in Mexico, charged with arson.  Two fugitives from Rochester were arrested in Mexico and have been charged with an arson indictment.  The U.S. Attorney's Office said 34-year-old Jose Angel Felan, Jr., and 22-year-old Mena Dhaya Yousif were detained by Mexican authorities for immigration violations on Monday.  A superseding indictment charges Felan with three counts of arson and Yousif with being an accessory to arson for their roles in multiple arsons on May 28, 2020, the attorney's office said.

Rioting for profit:
CNN And NBC Both Paid $35,000 To Left-Wing Activist For Footage Of Fatal Capitol Shooting.  A left-wing activist facing criminal charges for his involvement in the Capitol riots received $35,000 from both CNN and NBC for footage he recorded of a Trump supporter being fatally shot inside the Capitol building, according to records he filed in federal court on Tuesday [2/16/2021].  Lawyers for John Sullivan, a 26-year-old Utah native, disclosed the payments as part of the activist's argument that he was acting as a journalist in the Capitol rather than a rioter.  "Defendant is legitimately self-employed as a documentarian and it is oppressive to require that he not be allowed to continue his primary area of employment for an extended period of time," Steven R. Kiersh, the Sullivan lawyer, wrote in a court filing in which he argued for Sullivan to be allowed to continue using Facebook and Twitter.

Morning Joe Calls Businesses Destroyed in BLM, Antifa Riots Nothing More Than 'Taco Stands'.  'Morning Joe' Scarborough faced a growing backlash on social media Tuesday after diminishing family-run businesses destroyed in 'Black Lives Matter' and Antifa protests over the summer as nothing more than "taco stands."  "No, [...] I'm not going to confuse a taco stand with the United States Capitol.  I'm not going to confuse the selling of tacos with actually moving through a Constitutional process," said Morning Joe.  Economists say thousands of businesses were torched in major cities across the country resulting in tens of billions of dollars in damages and insurance pay-outs.

Massive Brawl During NYC BLM Event, 11 Arrested, 2 Cops Injured.  A Black Lives Matter march through Midtown Manhattan turned violent Friday night [2/12/2021], with 11 protesters arrested.  The NYPD reported that two officers suffered minor injuries during the protest, which was attended by about 100 marchers; officials could not immediately say how the cops were hurt.  At least some of those arrested were accused of attacking Daily News photographer Sam Costanza at the intersection of Sixth Avenue and 54th Street in the mistaken belief that he was a cop, sources said.

Downtown Nordstrom display windows valued at more than $50,000 each smashed Sunday.  Glass entrance doors and nine display windows running the entire length of the ground floor at Nordstrom's flagship downtown store were damaged Sunday night [2/14/2021], likely with a hammer, police said Monday.  Officers reported arriving at the scene at around 9:45 p.m. "after dealing with multiple protests earlier in the evening around the south end of the city," though the report did not say whether the vandalism was connected to the protests.  In the redacted report, the larger windowpanes were valued at "somewhere between 50-70 thousand dollars apiece due to their thickness and a protective film that internally self-adheres after strikes or damage," by an individual whose name was blacked out.

Waiting for the Umbrella Man or someone like him.  Who can take a city, burn it to the ground?  The Umbrella Man can, at least according to the search warrant application/affidavit filed by Minneapolis police officer Erika Christensen this past summer.  Star Tribune reporter Libor Jany told me he came across Christensen's affidavit in a routine review of court filings. [...] According to Officer Christensen, Umbrella Man is a white supremacist who set off the week of riots and arson throughout the Twin Cities by knocking out the windows at AutoZone on Lake Street at Minnehaha Avenue in south Minneapolis on May 27. Did Umbrella Man also burn the AutoZone down? [...] Officer Christensen's account of events was taken at face value in the numerous news accounts that immediately followed the Star Tribune story, but it is ludicrous.  Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey is responsible for the key event that led to the destruction wrought throughout the Twin Cities following the death of George Floyd.  The key event was the abandonment of the Third Precinct headquarters on May 28.

Waiting for the Umbrella Man or someone like him, cont'd.  Law enforcement has had the benefit of the Umbrella Man suspect's cell phone records for nearly seven months, yet no charges have been brought.  He remains at large.  According to the Minneapolis police, the investigation is continuing.

2 NYPD officers injured, photographer attacked during violent BLM demonstration — 11 arrested.  Two officers were injured and 11 protesters were arrested during a Black Lives Matter demonstration in New York City Friday night [2/12/2021], the New York Post reported.  Two NYPD officers sustained minor injuries and it was unclear whether other officers were injured while responding to the demonstration, the Post reported.  Some of the protesters were arrested for attacking Daily News photographer Sam Costanza because they reportedly thought he was a law enforcement officer.

Seattle Antifa Show How Childish and Dangerous They Are.  These are literally children in adult bodies.  That's my takeaway from this new video of Seattle Antifa acting like idiots from Andy Ngo.  The group piled up snow in front of the ramp where police vehicles are dispatched from.  This prevented Seattle PD from being able to respond to calls, at least with these specific units at this station.  Given people often call the police because they are in life-threatening situations, it can't be overstated how dangerous this is.  This is the equivalent of protesters a road and stopping ambulances from getting to a hospital.  [Video clip]  You may be asking yourself why there isn't a follow-up video of these people being put in handcuffs.  The answer is simple.  The Seattle government, from the Mayor, to the prosecutors, to the leadership at the police department, have taken a hands off approach with Antifa.

Portland protesters hit cops with snowballs, break businesses' windows.  Even winter has become a weapon for BLM and Antifa protesters in Portland and Seattle.  Antifa protesters reportedly shoveled snow into a tall heap to block a garage driveway at the Seattle East Precinct on Saturday night [2/13/2021].  The snow "prevented patrol vehicles from responding to calls," Katie Daviscourt, a local reporter and videographer for The Post Millennial, tweeted early Sunday, along with video of a blocked cop car.  In Portland on Friday night, a group of protesters took a break from smashing windows to pelt police officers with snowballs in a decidedly one-sided snowball fight, authorities said.  About 30 to 50 people gathered in downtown Portland around 8 p.m. Friday and marched to Central Precinct, where they began yelling and throwing objects at the officers, according to the Portland Police Bureau.

Team Trump Exposes Democrat 'Incitement' in Hard-Hitting Video.  On Friday [2/12/2021], lawyers for former President Donald Trump presented a few hard-hitting videos contrasting Trump's calls for peace and law and order with Democrats encouraging harassment and coddling Black Lives Matter and antifa rioters over the last summer.  "To claim that the president in any way wished, desired, or encouraged lawless or violent behavior is a preposterous and monstrous lie," Michael Van Der Veen, one of Trump's lawyers, argued.  Van Der Veen presented a video contrasting Trump's law-and-order remarks and remarks from Joe Biden, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.).  Pelosi had said, "I just don't even know why there aren't uprisings all over the country.  Maybe there will be."  Waters had notoriously encouraged supporters to harass Trump administration staff in public places.  Biden had said that if he was in high school, he would "beat the hell out of" Trump.

Senate committee should examine all types of political violence.  When political violence and lawlessness are allowed to thrive, it erodes the foundations of civil society and threatens the health of the republic itself.  If the nation is to avoid this grievous outcome, there must be a swift bipartisan response that deals with such violence in all of its forms.  Newly sworn in Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner, the New York Times reports, plans to "examine the influence of Russia and other foreign powers on anti-government extremist groups like the ones that helped mobilize the deadly attack on the Capitol last month." [...] But if Warner is serious, both about the investigation being bipartisan and about being concerned with foreign powers stoking violence, he should also look into the influences on the riots that tore through U.S. cities in the summer — lighting businesses on fire, toppling statues, assaulting police officers, attacking federal buildings, and beating innocent people.

Flashback: 41% of Democrats Said Violence May Be Necessary If Trump Wins.  Social media and the media operate using trends while ignoring and erasing everything that happened a year ago, a month ago, or a week ago. [...] NPR, like other media publications, never bother reporting on the level of Democrat support for violence.  That's a good reminder that our media literally operates like a propaganda service out of North Korea, China, or Russia.  And isn't even pretending to be anything else.  Democrat support for political violence may have dropped.  Not because Democrats have become more peaceful, but because they've taken power.  The Bolshevik support for political violence against the regime vanished the moment that they became the regime.  But even that's not clear.

Five Times Joe Biden Openly Urged Violence Against Political Opponents.  [#1] In 2018, Biden fantasized about hurting North Dakota Republican Sen. Kevin Cramer, who was then challenging a Democratic incumbent.  "I'd like to give him a high threshold of pain," Biden said.  "I'm serious.  I'm really serious."  [Video clip] [#2] Biden made the same remark at a campaign event for the state's Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, encouraging the president of a trade union in attendance to "show [Cramer] a threshold of pain."  [Video clip] [...] The Democratic Party itself normalized political violence as the primary means for individuals to make their voices heard after spending all last year justifying militant Black Lives Matter riots that erupted in repeated outbursts across the country, because racism.

Insurrection In Washington.  The fascist organization Antifa does not exist, according to Democratic Party orthodoxy, so our news media avert their collective eyes from its depredations.  Ignoring Antifa isn't so easy if you live in cities that are under siege, like Portland, Seattle, and, in this case, Bellingham, Washington, which is north of Seattle and south of Vancouver.  This police body cam video was filmed on January 28, released some days later and tweeted yesterday by one of America's few actual journalists — an almost extinct profession — Andy Ngo.  As Andy notes, during an Antifa attack on City Hall last month, the Mayor of Bellingham (unlike Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez) had to be evacuated.  Sounds like an insurrection, but for some reason it hasn't been in the headlines.  [Video clip]

Uncovering Maxine Waters' Full 2018 Speech:  Democrat Celebrated 'Kicking' And 'Stepping On' Donald Trump.  Since giving a speech in 2018, Maxine Waters has faced criticism for the alleged incitement of violence.  "If you see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd.  And you push back on them," Waters told a crowd of supporters at a Los Angeles rally in June 2018.  "And you tell them they're not welcome anymore, anywhere."  With Donald Trump being accused of inciting the violence witnessed in Washington D.C. in January, Waters has faced renewed accusations of similar incitement — accusations that often reference the widespread violence which exploded across multiple American cities throughout 2020.  Speaking with MSNBC, Waters — who is also chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee — was asked whether she could say that she had not encouraged violence against conservatives.

Two busted for dirty-diaper attack on conservative reporter.  Two men were busted for rubbing a dirty diaper on an independent, conservative reporter's face and attacking her during a Black Lives Matter rally in Madison Square Park last month, according to authorities and police sources.  Tara Anne Szczepanski, 33, was filming the rally around noon Jan. 10 when a group shoved her around, hit her on the head with an egg and knocked her cellphone to the ground with an umbrella, cops and the sources said.  The caught-on-video scuffle continued as Szczepanski ran from the group, cops said.  She was sprayed with silly string and whacked with a skateboard before someone rubbed a used baby diaper on her face, video shows.

BLM Mob Swarms D.C. Streets, Chants 'If We Don't Get It, Burn It Down'.  A mob of Black Lives Matter activists took to the streets of Washington, D.C. Saturday night [2/6/2021] to yell at police and harass outdoor diners while chanting insurrectionist slogans such as "if we don't get it, burn it down."  Like most similar incidents involving Black lives Matter, the corporate media took zero interest in covering the march and accompanying threats of violence.

CNN Hack Threatens Republicans on Live TV: 'Living On Borrowed Time'.  New York Times columnist Tom Friedman issued quite a threat to Republicans this week and CNN didn't do a thing about it.  During an interview Monday night on "Cuomo PrimeTime," Friedman told anchor Chris Cuomo that China was better than the United States because they had fast trains and didn't need to deal with Republicans.  After saying Republicans are "living on borrowed time," Friedman then arrogantly asked:  "But, you know what I've been thinking about, Chris, as I was listening to your show, the lead-in here.  I was thinking, like, what are they doing in China today?"  Friedman then praised China for having a bullet train while some Americans had chosen to elect freshman Georgia GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Michele Bachmann rips 'absolutely sick' media coverage on riots, reveals she was locked in Capitol for 5 hours.  Former GOP Congresswoman Michele Bachmann slammed vindictive Democrats and ripped into the mainstream media for the "absolutely sick" way the U.S. Capitol riot has been covered.  The former Republican lawmaker from Minnesota told guest host Mark Steyn on "Fox News Primetime" on Monday that the media has been on a mission to destroy the "legacy" of former President Donald Trump and his supporters and that Democrats are engaging in "bad political dinner theater" with their second attempt to impeach him.  Bachmann revealed that she was "locked-in" at the Capitol during the riot last month after spending time in prayer at the chapel on the grounds.

Newly Released Body-Cam Footage Shows ANTIFA Abusing, Spitting On And Assaulting Washington Police.  It has been a little over a week since BPD cleared the Civic Center Unauthorized Encampment in Downtown Bellingham which was met with violent Black Bloc Anarchists.  The homeless encampment had already been successfully cleared and the only people who remained at the camp were violent people who had answered a "Call to Action" ad on the internet, and that was also the reason The City decided to clear the encampment a day early.  [Video clip]

Owners of Minneapolis restaurant destroyed in riots file lawsuit against city, Mayor Frey.  The owners of a Minneapolis restaurant that was destroyed in the riots after George Floyd's death filed a lawsuit against the city and Mayor Jacob Frey.  In the lawsuit, filed in Hennepin County District Court on Monday, Kacey White and Charles Stotts, owners of Town Talk Diner & Gastropub, say the delay in response to the riots by the city and Frey allowed for more destruction and cost them their restaurant.  "Mayor Frey and the City's failure to control the significant (yet manageable) number of malefactors on Lake Street resulted in his failure to protect Town Talk," the lawsuit states, in part.  White and Stotts also state in the lawsuit that Frey and the city infringed on their property rights by "negotiating with and appeasing rioters," allowing the obstruction of public streets and "allowing pervasive vandalism and trespasses" on their property.  As a result, they say their restaurant was destroyed and they lost their business, building, revenue and future income.  The lawsuit seeks damages in excess of $4.5 million.

Mob Threatens Arson During March In DC.  Anti-police, BLM activists marched through the streets of Washington DC Saturday night [1/6/2021], where they yelled at police and harassed outdoor diners while chanting various slogans such as "Black lives, they matter here," and "if we don't get it, burn it down."  [Video clips]  Participants shined flashlights in the windows of local businesses and residences.  Meanwhile, DC police did virtually nothing to control or stop the march as the group confronted locals.  [Video clip]  Members of Antifa were present, joining up with the organizing group, "They/Them Collective," which describes themselves as "An anarcho abolitionist collective house based in occupied Piscataway land here for queer, enby, trans, BBIPOC liberation."

Black Lives Matter, Antifa March Through DC, Chant 'Burn It Down'.  Black Lives Matter protesters and Antifa agitators marched through Washington on Feb. 6 and threatened people as they ate dinner, according to video footage and reports.  "Burn it down," the demonstrators chanted.  "We are here tonight because black lives matter," members of the far-left group also said.  "Despite black lives mattering, black people are still dying at the hands of the police paid for by our tax dollars."  Other video footage uploaded by independent journalists on the scene showed Antifa types fighting with police officers, who were trying to keep them away from restaurants.  Some, clad in all black, could be seen holding the red-and-black Antifa flag.  At one point, police in Washington were seen forming lines around outdoor diners to separate them from the demonstrators and agitators.

BLM/Antifa March Through D.C. Calling to 'Burn It Down' If They Don't Get What They Want.  Democrats finally paid attention to a riot on Jan. 6 after ignoring and/or justifying violent riots for months because they were being precipitated by radical leftists.  But the protests and riots they've variously ignored or embraced have continued on in various cities including in Washington, D.C.  There are thousands of National Guard in D.C. now allegedly to deal with amorphous "threats" that haven't even been defined for the governors who sent them there.  That's part of the reason some of them have pulled their units.  But you didn't see them Guard anywhere around when BLM and Antifa people marched through the city last night chanting to "burn it down" during one of their frequent FTP marches.

'Inconsistent, Conflicting' And Ignored Threat Assessments Ahead of Jan 6 Capitol Attack.  A New York Times report has let the cat out of the bag:  that law enforcement either knew and did nothing about the potential for violence on January 6th, or issued conflicting and inconsistent threat assessments ahead of the events at the U.S. Capitol.  The news will raise questions as to why authorities allowed a predominantly peaceful Trump speech and rally in Washington, D.C. to be infiltrated and overtaken by forces who had planned for violence in advance.  Questions will also be asked about why authorities immediately claimed President Donald Trump had "incited" the riot with his speech at the Ellipse outside the White House when we now know much of the violent behavior was pre-meditated.

List of 20 Individuals at the Capitol on January 6th — All Appear to be Connected to Antifa or Far Left Groups.  For weeks the FBI, Democrats, and the fake news media have insisted there was no Antifa or far-left activist infiltration of the January 6th protests where activists stormed the US Capitol.  We already know this is false.  The individuals who entered the US Capitol and caused damage on January 6th were not all Trump supporters.  Known members of Antifa were inside the Capitol and there was even an Antifa event called for that day at 11 AM nearby at the Washington Monument organized by John Sullivan that was closer to the US Capitol than the Ellipse where President Trump spoke to half a million supporters.

Josh Hawley's wife Erin files criminal complaint against activist who organized a protest at the couple's Virginia home.  The wife of Republican Sen. Josh Hawley has filed a criminal complaint against the organizer of a protest which took place outside the couple's Virginia home.  Erin Morrow Hawley filed the complaint in a Fairfax County court on Friday [2/5/2021], with the defendant identified as Patrick Young.  On January 4, Young — who describes himself on Twitter as an 'organizer, agitator and educator' — led a noisy demonstration outside Hawley's home, angered by the senator's plans to object to Electoral College counts confirming that Joe Biden won the Presidential election.

Trump Supporter and Mother of Two Fears for Her Life and Her Children's Safety After Kathy Griffin Doxxes Her Family.  A Virginia woman is facing death threats and investigation by the FBI after liberal comedian Kathy Griffin doxed the mother of two and her family on social media.  In a desperate bid for attention, Kathy Griffin reposted the picture of her holding a fake, severed head of President Trump for the third time on social media in January.  "Just resign now.  You lost.  It's over," Griffin gloated in a tweet alongside the famous photo of her holding the plastic, bloody head.  Daniel McCarty, a 43-year old former Democrat, shot back at Griffin for promoting violence against the president and her world has been turned upside down since.

Chuck Schumer Used Violent Rhetoric To Sic A Mob On Two Supreme Court Justices.  When Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., spoke against the constitutionality of the Democrats' impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump, he reminded his colleagues that Democrat elected officials had recently told their followers to attack Republicans.  If Trump was to be impeached for asking followers to "peacefully and patriotically" make their voices heard by members of Congress on Jan. 6, what to do with Democrats' more incendiary rhetoric and actions, he wondered.  Sen. Kamala Harris solicited funds to bail out the rioters who destroyed Minneapolis during 2020's "Summer of Rage." Rep. Maxine Waters called on Democrats to seek out Republicans in public places and "create a crowd" and "push back" on them to let them know "they're not welcome anymore, anywhere."

When a Far-Left, Female-Led Domestic Terrorism Group Bombed the U.S. Capitol:  Forgotten in the wake of January 6.  In the furor over the January 6 riot, which Sen. Mitt Romney called an "insurrection incited by the president of the United States," a more serious assault on the Capitol has been overlooked.  For those who weren't around or may have forgotten, here's what went down on the evening of November 7, 1983.  "Listen carefully, I'm only going to tell you this one time," a caller from the "Armed Resistance Unit," told the operator at the Capitol switchboard.  "There is a bomb in the Capitol building.  It will go off in five minutes.  Evacuate the building."  A Senate document, "Bomb Explodes in Capitol," describes what happened.  The caller warned that "a bomb had been placed near the chamber in retaliation for recent U.S. military involvement in Grenada and Lebanon."  At 10:58 p.m. "a thunderous explosion tore through the second floor of the Capitol's north wing."  The device, hidden under a bench at the eastern end of the corridor outside the Senate chamber, "blew off the door to the office of Democratic Leader Robert C. Byrd.  The blast also punched a potentially lethal hole in a wall partition sending a shower of pulverized brick, plaster, and glass into the Republican cloakroom." The adjacent halls were virtually deserted, so "many lives had been spared."

Chris Salcedo Runs Montage of Democrats Threatening Violence Against Trump.  Democrats and their media are hoping to impeach private citizen Donald Trump next week for inciting a riot at the US Capitol on January 6th.  This will be quite a challenge for Democrats considering President Trump called for a peaceful protest and considering the violence was planned weeks in advance before President Trump's speech.  Then again Democrats will have one of their own senators presiding over the proceedings because the Supreme Court wants nothing to do with it.  On Monday night [2/1/2021] Chris Salcedo on Newsmax ran a montage of radical Democrat after radical Democrat promoting violence against President Trump and his supporters.

Antifa? Armed activists seize hotel in Olympia, declare it homeless sanctuary.  Did this stunt get conducted by Antifa, a local homeless-advocacy group, or both?  It's only certain that it resulted in a spectacular backfire.  No matter who gets credit or blame for this attempt to seize property for the proletariat, the result was 33 people getting kicked to the curb and at least a dozen arrests.  But hey, at least they did something.  I'm sure the homeless people who lost their rooms at the Red Lion in Olympia, Washington are duly impressed:  [Video clip]  It took seven hours to clear the occupiers from the hotel, after police got warrants to enter and conduct searches.  It's not quite certain why they would have needed a warrant, since the hotel itself called police to deal with the situation.

Slowing Killing The American Frog.  Under ordinary circumstances, rioting and destruction would be quelled.  But strategically placed mayors and DA's, elected with money from disruptors such as George Soros, ensured that would not happen, as did media complicity.  We saw news people standing in front of burning cityscapes, saying the riots were "mostly peaceful."  By not stopping the riots, we conceded that mayhem was the new normal.  By letting the rioters free afterward, without charges, good people lost hope.  Why do you know the names of the right-of-center people caught up in the riots, but not one name of the anarchists?  All but one have remained anonymous.  They've never been charged, including after the January 6th 'insurgency.' Does anyone know the name of any of the people who were chasing Kyle Rittenhouse?  Do you know who shot Ashli Babbit?  Do we have any idea who led the charge into the Capitol building?  Was the January 6th 'insurgency' pre-planned by the left to achieve exactly the purpose it served?  Were the actual insurgents far-left operatives who simply knew that, in a crowd that big, they would find some hotheads among the group to follow their lead, especially if they were dressed in the American flag, not Antifa gear?

12 arrested in Olympia after occupying Red Lion hotel near state Capitol.  Seven individuals arrested Sunday night in Olympia for forcibly occupying the Red Lion hotel near the state Capitol are appearing before a judge Monday [2/1/2021].  The individuals are facing various charges including burglary and assault, according to court documents from the Thurston County Prosecutor's Office.  The individuals are part of a homeless activist group known as Oly Housing Now, according to a city press release Sunday.  A woman, who has been identified as the leader of the occupation, had rented 20 rooms at the Red Lion the previous night and said it was for a wedding party, court documents said.  However, throughout the day Sunday, hotel staff noticed 20-30 people were inside the building who were dressed in all black and some were armed with batons and knives, court documents said.

A Tsunami of Hate.  [Scroll down]  How virulent is the anti-white and anti-American racism of the Democrat Party?  Consider this unhinged but also unchallenged statement by Vice President Kamala Harris defending the Black Lives Matters rioters whose "protests" caused billions in property damage, led to 25 deaths and injured 2000 police officers in the summer of 2020:  "The reality is that the life of a black person in America has never been treated as fully human... It's no wonder people are taking to the streets [to protest].  And I support them."

Be a tribe of one.  Suppose you're a die-hard Democrat.  What do you do about such issues as: [...] Urban violence versus urban order.  Do you side with radical groups like Antifa and the more extreme elements of Black Lives Matter — overwhelmingly Democrats — who candidly espouse attention-seeking violence for their causes?  Or do you side with the urban residents and businesses — also overwhelmingly Democrat — who suffer the results of that violence?  The same issue presents with regard to urban vagrancy, er, homelessness, er, persons experiencing homelessness.  Do you side with feral humans who seek attention by camping on the downtown sidewalks and pooping in the gutters and their enabling advocates who are overwhelmingly Democrats?  Or do you side with the urban residents and businesses — overwhelmingly Democrats — who are trying to live and work a few feet away from those make-shift toilets?

Are facial recognition programs being used against Trump supporters?  In 2020, the violence inherent in leftism exploded with the Black Lives Matter movement, especially when it became entwined with Antifa.  In Democrat-run cities across America, while many people did indeed march peacefully, thousands of them also rioted, looted, burned, assaulted, and murdered, along with destroying public art and statuary.  Minneapolis alone suffered a half-billion dollars in damage and large swaths of Kenosha were burned to the ground.  In Portland, Antifa is still engaged in nightly violent raids against businesses, government buildings, and law enforcement officers.  Just about the only physical opposition to the violence on the ground came from a group called the Proud Boys — which the left instantly characterized as a white supremacist group.  They did so even though the Proud Boys' leader, Enrique Tarrio, is black.  We also just learned that Tarrio is an FBI informant.  That tie to the FBI does leave a person wondering if the FBI infiltrated the Proud Boys in other ways, including sending in provocateurs to try to make the organization appear violent and racist.

Protesters and police clash over Bellingham homeless encampment.  Four people were arrested and three police officers injured during a clash between homeless advocates and law enforcement outside Bellingham City Hall Thursday [1/28/2021].  A large homeless camp has been growing since November outside City Hall.  City officials call it an "occupation."  Bellingham Police Chief Flo Simon said some of the protesters were members of antifa and other groups out to confront law enforcement.

So much for incitement by Trump.
FBI investigators:  Suspect planted pipe bombs night before capitol riot.  The would-be pipe bomber of the Democratic and Republican National Committees' headquarters planted the devices at the Washington, DC, buildings the night before the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, the FBI said Friday [1/29/2021].  In a wanted flyer, the FBI said it obtained new information about the bomber, writing that the agency now believes the would-be terrorist planted the bombs between 7:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Jan. 5.  The bombs were found the following day before they detonated, but law enforcement authorities have said they believe the bombs were viable — and could have exploded at the downtown buildings.  A reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the bomber has increased to $100,000, the FBI's flyer states.

Portland protesters burn dumpster, hurl rocks at feds.  A throng of violent protesters set a dumpster alight and hurled rocks at federal agents outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Portland, Ore. according to police and video of the chaotic scene.  Footage of the unrest shows a dumpster ablaze outside a boarded-up ICE building, where a team of Federal Protective Service agents in riot gear responded at about 10:30 p.m. Wednesday [1/27/2021] after it was pushed in front of the building, police said.  Federal officers responded with tear gas and pepper-ball rounds as police advanced on the demonstrators, the footage shows.  At one point, a large explosion occurs near the dumpster, apparently caused by fireworks.  Portland cops responded to the scene a short time later along with firefighters to extinguish the burning dumpster, police spokeswoman Officer Melissa Newhard said.

US Capitol police 'betrayed' by leadership in siege:  Union.  US Capitol police officers were "betrayed" by their bosses, who left rank-and-file cops poorly equipped to handle the storming of the Capitol building — and weren't told the violence was expected, the department's union chief said Wednesday [1/27/2021].  Nearly 140 cops were either physically injured or emotionally traumatized in the Jan. 6 assault, US Capitol Police Labor Committee Chairman Gus Papathanasiou said.  "I have officers who were not issued helmets prior to the attack who have sustained brain injuries," he said in a statement, according to a report in The Hill.  "One officer has two cracked ribs and two smashed spinal discs," he said.  "One officer is going to lose his eye, and another was stabbed with a metal fence stake."

The Editor says...
Violence against the police is a feature of every Antifa/BLM riot, and it has been a part of exactly zero Trump rallies.

Pro-Abortion Group Storms Catholic Church in Ohio, Knocks Over Table, Shouts Profanities.  A far-left pro-abortion group disrupted a church service at St. Joseph's Catholic Cathedral in Columbus, Ohio Friday on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade.  The group of Marxists barged into the church, knocked over a table and shouted profanities.  "Two, four, six, eight this church teaches hate!" the protesters shouted.  "Roe is the floor, we demand more!"  Security quickly rushed in and tossed out the screaming protesters.

The Editor says...
"Roe is on the floor."  That's catchy, but what does it mean?

Antifa rioters smash up Tacoma in rampage over cop driving through crowd.  Antifa rioters descended on Tacoma, Washington, starting fires and trashing buildings in outrage over viral video of a police officer driving his squad car through a crowd of illegal street racers.  Videos showed numerous fires and businesses smashed up late Sunday as at least 200 people took to the streets close to where the officer had sped through a crowd the previous night, running over at least one person.  At least two police cars were damaged during the rampage as some city buildings had to be evacuated, according to the News Tribune.  A cheering mob — dressed in all black and at one point seen toting an Antifacist Action flag — was also caught on video trying to pull away the gates protecting the Pierce County Jail, chanting, "Free them all."  Tacoma police said they also busted two people trying to get onto the roof of an unspecified secure building — saying they were armed with a handgun, double-bladed knives and batons.

Portland Antifa mob moves to Tacoma in response to cop running over man at Fast and Furious-style burnout on Saturday.  More than 200 Antifa protesters reportedly descended on Tacoma, Washington, where they busted the windows of buildings and set fires in the streets on Sunday, just a day after wreaking havoc in Portland.  Video footage and images showed broken glass scattered on the sidewalk outside of businesses and graffiti sprayed on the side of buildings.  Protesters started at least two fires in the area using a barricade for one and an American flag for the other.  Dozens of Tacoma police officers were seen lined up on bikes as protesters approached them.

Man charged in DC riot reportedly has brother in Secret Service who led Michelle Obama detail.  A New Jersey gym owner and former ultimate fighter who is accused of assaulting a federal officer during the US Capitol riots is the brother of a Secret Service agent who led former first lady Michelle Obama's security detail, according to a report.  Scott Kevin Fairlamb of Stockholm, NJ, who fought under the name "Wildman," was charged Friday in federal court in Washington, DC, according to court documents.  Now it has been revealed he is the brother of Preston "Jay" Fairlamb III and the son of retired New Jersey State Trooper Preston "Jay" Fairlamb Jr., who was killed in a 2012 motorcycle accident, the Huffington Post reported.  When Obama was first lady, she attended a memorial service for the elder Fairlamb, according to the news outlet, because of her relationship with Preston "Jay" Fairlamb III.

Antifa Terrorists Knock Out a Street Preacher with a Sucker Punch, then Rob him.  CNNs Headline will probably say the street preacher was a right wing nazi preaching hate speech and deserved it.  [Video clip]

FBI Agents Arrest 'Walkaway' Founder Brandon Straka.  FBI agents arrested 'Walkaway' founder Brandon Straka on Monday [1/25/2021] for his 'actions' at the US Capitol on January 6.  The 'WalkAway' campaign began on Facebook in the summer of 2018 after Straka, a handsome, gay hairdresser from New York posted a video explaining why he was walking away from the Democrat party.  The Walkaway movement attracted tens of thousands of people, making Straka a target of the Marxist left.  Straka, 44, was taken into custody on Monday [1/25/2021] by agents from the FBI Omaha Field Office and faces charges of impeding a law enforcement officer during civil disorder, knowingly entering and remaining on restricted grounds without lawful authority and/or engaging in disorderly conduct within proximity to a restricted building to impede official functions and engaging in disorderly conduct with intent to disturb a hearing before Congress.

The Editor says...
I presume the people who disrupted the Kavanaugh hearings got the same treatment.

A Gaggle Of Pro Baby Killers Interrupt Mass In Columbus, Demand Defunding Cops To Pay For Abortion On Demand.  About eight pro-abortion protesters disrupted the Respect Life Mass at St. Joseph's Cathedral in downtown Columbus Friday, where Bishop Robert Brennan was presiding at an event marking the 48th anniversary of Roe v. Wade.  "Two, four, six, eight, this church teaches hate," the protesters shouted, saying that abortion rights were under attack.  "Fund abortion, not cops," said one of their signs.  "Abortion on Demand.  End Hyde Now," said another, apparently referring to the Hyde Amendment, which bans most federal funding for abortion.  At least two protesters wore vests that read "clinic escort" on the back.  [Video clip]

Did Capitol rioters receive inside help?  While there is yet much to learn about what happened at the Capitol on January 6, some important facts are known beyond a reasonable doubt:
  [#1]   Most protesters who entered the Capitol encountered no resistance, and some were directed by police on where to go.
  [#2]   Some protesters who led the storming of the Capitol were leftist agitators.
  [#3]   The riot was planned, and foreknowledge of this event was reported to the FBI, the Capitol police, the NYPD, and even the Joint Terrorism Taskforce.
This raises the following questions:
  [#1]   If the police allowed protesters into the Capitol because they were overwhelmed, why did reinforcements fail to arrive? [...]
  [#2]   Why did CNN broadcast the account of John Sullivan?  Did they already know he was a BLM agitator who encouraged protesters to "burn down" the Capitol?
  [#3]   It is almost certain that Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell knew about plans to storm the Capitol because failure to notify them would have been an egregious failure of intelligence.

More Video Evidence Shows the 'Riots' At the US Capitol Were Infiltrated by Antifa and Other Radicals.  Antifa and others inserted themselves into the Capitol protests and framed Trump supporters.  There is now ample evidence to support this.  Antifa-BLM leader John Sullivan organized an Antifa protest at the Washington Memorial not far from the US Capitol on January 6th.  This was right before the violence at the US Capitol.  For some reason, the mainstream media refuses to report on this Antifa protest?  John Sullivan was later arrested for rioting inside the US Capitol.  No one has yet asked what happened to his cronies?  There is also video of Antifa handing out weapons from a bag during the Capitol Hill riots.  The media has also ignored this.

Protestors break into Bellingham City Hall, mayor rushed out for safety.  Protestors broke into City Hall in Bellingham on Friday [1/22/2021], forcing the mayor to be escorted out of the building for safety.  Mayor Seth Fleetwood said it is impossible to ignore the parallels to the storming of the Washington D.C. Capitol Building on Jan. 6.  "It was unsettling," Fleetwood said.  "They banged on the door and we got word they had somehow broken it open and were entering, and I was advised to leave," he said. [...] Video from inside City Hall also shows protestors ripped down an American flag outside the building, and people stomping on the flag before a man dragged the flag away.  Protestors said online they were there to advocate for the homeless who are staying at a large encampment of about 100 tents outside City Hall.

The Editor says...
People storming the City Hall to advocate for the homeless (camped outside), and tearing down a U.S. flag, sound like far-left rioters.  The only "parallel" to the January 6 disturbance at the U.S. Capitol is that far-left agitators were exerting most of the violence there, too.

Destructive protests by anarchists and extremists signal divided left as Biden administration begins.  The hundreds of far-left and anarchist demonstrators who gathered in protest mere hours after President Biden swore the oath of office Wednesday signal a fracturing on the left that could become a scourge for the new administration, political leaders and experts say.  Some activists are carrying their destructive tactics into a new administration to voice rejection of centrist ideologies they believe will do little to address existential worries over climate change, economic inequality, foreign wars and racism.  The vandalizing of the Oregon Democratic Party headquarters by extreme-left demonstrators on Inauguration Day has split Portland liberals, and federal agents' launching of tear gas at crowds that descended on the city's Immigration and Customs Enforcement headquarters produced scenes reminiscent of similar summer standoffs ordered by President Donald Trump.

Rand Paul:  Are They Going to Impeach Bernie Sanders for Inciting the Guy Who Shot Steve Scalise?  Friday [1/22/2021] on FNC's "Hannity," Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) questioned the validity of the impeachment process underway against President Donald Trump now that he has left office.  Paul argued there were other instances of where the standard of incitement could be used against sitting members of Congress, including Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), and questioned if Chief Justice John Roberts would show up to preside over the U.S. Senate's impeachment trial.  He also urged people to contact Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), the leader of the Republican caucus in the U.S. Senate, and voice their opposition to impeachment proceedings.

Violent anti-ICE protests continue in Portland after Biden inauguration.  Protests outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Portland turned ugly on Saturday night as federal authorities threatened mass arrests for trespassing.  Dramatic videos posted on Twitter showed the crowd chanting: 'No borders!  No nations!  Abolish deportations!'  Officers with the Federal Protective Service, a branch within the Department of Homeland Security, declared an unlawful assembly at about 10pm and ordered protesters to disperse.

Progressives aim to sink America.  [Scroll down]  Progressive tactics also have frequently included deliberate breaches of the rule of law, including violent demonstrations, property damage, car bombings, felonious assault, and elections cheating.  Committing such violence, as we saw over the last two years, is considered acceptable if it advanced progressive goals.  That's why several thousand riots and violent demonstrations were permitted in our nation's cities, with very few perpetrators facing justice.

FBI launches investigation after bomb is thrown at anti-LGBT church in California.  The FBI has launched an investigation after a bomb was thrown at an anti-LGBT church in California just weeks after the pastor received an arson attack threat.  Police and fire crews were called to the First Works Baptist Church at 2600 Tyler Avenue in El Monte in the early hours of Saturday morning to reports of an explosion.  The FBI said an improvised explosive device had been thrown at the building and it had also been covered in graffiti.  No one was injured in the attack, authorities said.  The church has been the center of controversy in the local area due to its stance against same-sex relationships and its teachings that residents have described as hate speech.

Now That Democrats Are In Power, Twitter Will Suspend Antifa.  What's the difference between Big Tech and the Democrat Party?  Same as the difference between the media and the Democrats.  If anyone needed evidence of the obvious beyond the money trail, the past three months provided evidence not only that Big Tech companies will suppress President Trump and conservatives, but that they will crackdown on leftists only when they inconvenience Democrats.  Big Tech cracks down on conservatives under the guise that they're misbehaving, but the selective crackdown on lefties can't be justified in any such way.  Why did Twitter wait until Biden was in power to finally crack down on Antifa social media accounts after another set of riots targeted Democrats?

Biden won't stop them, and neither will cops, until Portland is burned down.  The nation's capital was hard to recognize on Inauguration Day this year.  In response to the Capitol Hill siege on Jan. 6, thousands of police and National Guard troops were sent on the streets of Washington, DC, where they manned checkpoints and set up barriers.  The predicted right-wing violence by Trump supporters never materialized.  Joe Biden's inauguration went off without a hitch.  But in the Pacific Northwest, Antifa had other plans.  In Portland, Black Lives Matter-Antifa made good on their pre-announced "J20" (January 20) riot.  Around 150 Antifa dressed in black shut down traffic as they marched unimpeded to the headquarters of the Democratic Party of Oregon.

Group causes damage, continues march in downtown Seattle.  A group of people marching in Seattle Wednesday night vandalized buildings and caused property damage downtown.  Seattle police have made at least three arrests — two for property damage and another for assault.  Seattle police tweeted photos of the damage and said multiple sites were vandalized, including the William Kenzo Nakamura Courthouse at 6th Avenue and Spring Street.

Antifa militants smash up original Starbucks during anti-Biden protest.  They really don't want Joe.  Antifa militants chanted [against] President Biden during a rampage through Seattle after the inauguration — and smashed up the historic site of the very first Starbucks.  Seattle cops made at least three arrests as at least 100 protesters scrawled graffiti, smashed windows and even set fire to an American flag, according to the Seattle Times.  Videos showed the mob chanting their allegiance to "Antifa" and repeatedly decrying the election of a left-wing president, Biden.

Protesters smash windows at Democratic Party HQ in Northeast.  Crowds of people across Portland turned violent on Inauguration Day, smashing windows at the Democratic Party of Oregon and later targeting the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement facility where federal officers declared an unlawful assembly.  A crowd of around 150 people gathered at Revolution Hall in Southeast Portland around 2 p.m.  Less than an hour later, a few officers on bicycles rode into the parking lot and were quickly surrounded by dozens of people, Portland Police said.  The group took one officer's bicycle.  More officers arrived and they got the bicycle back but the crowd wouldn't let the officers leave.  Police said reinforcements came and they seized some long poles and a large knife from people in the crowd before setting off a smoke canister to escape.

Antifa Vandalizes Democratic Party Office in Portland.  Antifa thugs vandalized a Democratic Party of Oregon's office in Portland on Wednesday.  Townhall's Julio Rosas was on the ground and captured the chaos.  Members of the far-left group can be seen spray painting obscene political messages [...] on the outside of the building before other members shatter the office's windows. [...] During the first presidential debate, Joe Biden claimed "Antifa is an idea, not an organization."  Maybe the Democrats can sue the idea of Antifa for damages.

Biden Administration Tear Gassed 'Peaceful Protesters' Just Hours After Inauguration.  A Democratic Party headquarters was damaged, an American flag burned, and marchers filled the streets in Portland, Oregon on Wednesday, following Biden's inauguration.  Antifa was reportedly behind the activity, known during the summer as "peaceful protests."  The New York Times reported that "federal agents in camouflage — now working under the Biden administration — blanketed streets with tear gas and unleashed volleys of welt-inducing pepper balls as they confronted a crowd that gathered outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement building near downtown."

Antifa rioters smash windows at Oregon's Democratic Party headquarters in Portland, burn American flags in Denver and vandalize stores in Seattle.  Antifa rioters smashed windows at Portland's Democratic Party headquarters, burned US flags in Denver and vandalized store fronts in Seattle just hours after President Joe Biden was sworn in.  While some right-wing extremist groups had vowed to disrupt Biden's inauguration following the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol, only scattered protests and violence emerged on Wednesday [1/20/2021].  Federal police were forced to deploy tear gas in an attempt to disperse protesters who threw rocks and eggs at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Portland, Oregon, late on Wednesday night.

Video Shows Known Antifa Members Changing into MAGA Clothing Outside of the Capitol Just before the Attack.  As if you needed any more evidence that the attack on the Capitol was all staged by radical leftists attempting to make Trump supporters look bad.  Here it is!  Watch as known Antifa members change their clothing to look like MAGA supporters just prior to the attack on the Capitol building.  For those who don't know, the violence by Antifa actually started as President Trump was still giving his speech.  This is why the media was quick to remove all of the videos showing the violence until the Antifa clowns were dressed in the right attire.  [Video clip]

Biden administration will face its own Frankenstein's monster.  Demonstrations and riots will not stop with the Biden/Harris administration.  They present a real danger to government as we now know it.  Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are being sworn in today, 20 January.  It has been obvious for some time that this would take place.  On January 18 a protest in NYC resulted in 29 people being arrested and eleven police officers being injured.  Other protests broke out on January 19.  The election of Biden/Harris does not appear to have diminished the desire to demonstrate.

Now, the Left Owns It All.  That mob that split off from the Donald Trump rally of Jan. 6 to invade the Capitol has proven a godsend to the left.  The death of a Capitol cop has enabled the left — which spent the summer after George Floyd's death trashing "racist cops" and shouting, "Defund the Police!" — to posture as fighting allies of the men in blue.  Liberals who implored us to understand the grievances of the rioters, looters and arsonists last summer have become sudden converts to the church of law and order.  Elites who had condoned the smashing of statues and monuments to Columbus, Washington, Jefferson and Jackson as a needed cleansing of our hateful history have declared themselves sickened that Trumpists would desecrate the temple of democracy.  Had it been antifa or BLM that carried out the invasion, not one statue would have been left standing in Statuary Hall, and we would have been instructed that it was slaves who had, after all, built the Capitol building.

The Editor says...
If the January 6 event was so beneficial to the left, one must immediately wonder if it was orchestrated by the left.

On the other hand...
Oath Keepers Face First Conspiracy Charges Over Capitol Riot.  Three members of the far-right group Oath Keepers are facing the first conspiracy charges to arise from the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, with prosecutors alleging they plotted to disrupt the electoral vote confirmation of President-elect Joe Biden.  Thomas Edward Caldwell, Jessica Marie Watkins and Donovan Ray Crowl were charged Tuesday [1/19/2021] by federal prosecutors in Washington with conspiracy as well as obstruction of official proceedings and destruction of government property, among other charges.  Caldwell, 65, served as a leader in "planning and coordinating" the breach of the Capitol, the government claims.  The riot by supporters of President Donald Trump left five people dead and sent lawmakers fleeing for safety.

The Editor says...
[#1]  From where I'm sitting, it appears that most of the people rioting were not Trump supporters.  [#2] The riot "left five people dead," yes, but one of the dead was shot by police for no justifiable reason, one guy had a heart attack in the crowd, one woman was trampled, one was a cop who had a stroke after being pepper-sprayed and hit in the head (which doesn't sound like the actions of a Trump supporter), and the other person died from an unspecified "medical emergency." [1] [2] [3] [4]

"Mostly Peaceful" - Detaching Violence From BLM, Attaching It To Election Protests.  [Scroll down]  With the D.C. protest, in which a large number of people lawfully protested over the stolen election, the Capitol March, involving a smaller group, only a minority of whom clashed with police, and a much smaller minority of whom actually entered the building unlawfully, as opposed to being allowed in, the Democrats and their media used the opposite tactic, conflating everything.  Rally participants were accused of all being in on it.  Speakers are being investigated for "incitement", a European speech doctrine that has no place in America.  Peaceful protests are treated as criminal because of criminal behavior by a tiny minority who were there at the time.  Meanwhile violent protests are treated as peaceful even when the violence comes from the top.  The Black Lives Matter leadership never condemned the riots and the violence.  Instead they repeatedly excused it.

Film Crew Releases Never Before Seen Footage of 2017 Inauguration Riots.  The footage was gathered as part of an ongoing documentary about the fight for dominance playing out between establishment and independent news organizations.  The shocking footage exposes a coordinated attack on the 2017 inauguration of President Donald Trump.  Highlights include anarchists preparing for violent clashes with police (10:22), violent attacks on attendees (2:08), destruction of property (9:50), and the physical premeditated blockades that succeed in preventing voters from attending the Presidential Inauguration (3:29).  [Video clip]

Staten Island man arrested for his role in Capitol riot.  A Staten Island man who allegedly livestreamed his participation in the Capitol riot was arrested Monday, according to reports and the FBI.  Nicolas Moncada of Taunton Street was arrested at his home, with federal agents remaining at the scene.  "[Moncada] is now in custody for his role in assaulting the US Capitol while our representatives were inside performing their Constitutional duties," the agency said on Twitter.  The feds were able to track down Moncada because he livestreamed the Jan. 6 assault on the US Capitol building on Instagram, a law enforcement source told The [New York] Post.  He is due to appear in Brooklyn federal court on Tuesday [1/19/2021], the source said.

Maher Destroys Fellow Liberals:  Don't Link Rioting Thugs to 74 Million Voters.  Every now and then, Bill Maher shocks his fellow liberals with some common sense.  Friday night was one of those days as the HBO host closed Real Time with a commentary lecturing them to not equate the violent thugs who stormed the Capitol with 74 million Americans who may have voted for Donald Trump because of policy.  He also eviscerated left-wing California as a red tape-filled bureaucratic mess.  Maher, who has been very tough on Islamic extremism, got this zing in at the left:  "As bad as last week was... let's not confuse 5,000 people with 74 million.  Yes, even supporting the insurrection in spirit is, well, deplorable, but there's a difference between holding illiberal beliefs and acting violently on them — at least that's what they always told me about Islamic terrorism."

Is Antifa advertising for rioters for Jan. 20?  Independent journalist Andy Ngo posted an appalling group of rioter recruiting posters, purportedly from Antifa. [...] The posters depict sinister ski-masked creatures in shadow dancing around a bonfire circle while a little old Monopoly man figure is beaten and bruised and tied to the stake.  They depict a burning police car, and multiple soup cans hurled at a state capitol, some bearing hammers and sickle.  It's ironic, as it comes at a time when the press is all riled up about purportedly dangerous Trump supporters who are supposedly sure to try to shut the Biden inaugural down.

Meet John Sullivan, the Left-Wing 'Agitator' Arrested and Charged in the Capitol Riot.  Now that the fog of war is settling over Washington, D.C., details are emerging from the attack on the Capitol that were not reported correctly in the immediate aftermath — as they rarely are.  While news reports were denying that any counter-protesters were involved in the violence at the Capitol, an arrest has been made that shows at least one left-wing activist who actively participated in BLM was involved in leading and encouraging destructive behavior on January 6th.  John Sullivan was arrested and charged in federal court in the District of Columbia with civil disorder, being in a restricted area, and disorderly conduct.  Claiming to have been there only to document the event as a "journalist," Sullivan told police he was just an observer.  There is no record of John Sullivan working for any news outlet.  Video taken from Sullivan's phone shows much more than documenting events.

Left-Wing Terrorists Bombed The Senate In 1983.  Bill Clinton Let Them Out Of Prison Early — At Jerry Nadler's Request.  On his final day in office, Jan. 20, 2001, President Bill Clinton commuted the sentences of a pair of radical leftists serving time for bombing the U.S. Capitol building, where a 1983 blast shattered the second floor of the Senate wing.  Linda Evans and Susan Rosenberg each served 16 years of lengthy sentences, with Rosenberg escaping 42 years of a 58-year sentence and Evans cutting short a 40-year sentence by 24 years.  The FBI landed formal indictments on Evans and Rosenberg in the 1988 "Resistance Conspiracy" case for their involvement in the bombing of the Capitol along with five others.  Evans and Rosenberg had already been in police custody for other crimes of the radical left-wing terror group May 19th Communist Organization (M19), named for the birthdays of Malcolm X and Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh.  According to a historical chronology of the left-wing group by the Smithsonian Magazine, M19 also carried out successful bombings of an FBI office, the Israel Aircraft Industries building, the South African consulate in New York, and D.C.'s Fort McNair and Navy Yard. [...] According to the New York Post in 2001, New York Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler, who today serves as the House Judiciary Committee chairman, played a "crucial role" in Clinton's decision to commute Rosenberg's sentence.

Double Standard:  Amazon Is Still Selling 'Kill All Republicans' T-Shirts After Banning Parler For 'Violence'.  Even as Amazon took away Parler's right to exist by kicking the platform off Amazon Web Services (after AWS has become a near-monopoly in providing Internet access) after accusing Parler executives of allowing users to 'incite' the Capitol Building violence and rioting earlier this month, the gargantuan hypocritical gatekeepers of expression and speech appear to have no problem hosting a vendor who sells a t-shirt calling for the elimination of Republicans.

Protesters Turned Violent in Martin Luther King's Last March, Too.  So long ago — before the national holiday we observe today, before the monument in his honor was installed near the National Mall — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said he was getting too much of the credit for the civil rights movement.  He had a point.  In their dedication and bravery, Ralph Abernathy, Bayard Rustin, John Lewis, and other giants of that era arguably were everything he was, minus the smooth eloquence. [...] As happened in the Capitol riot that coincided with Trump's final rally on January 6, outside agitators reportedly played a role in the sabotage of King's final demonstration.  The violent criminality in Memphis was at first attributed to the Invaders, a group of young activists.  But was there more to the story?

Federal Judge Releases BLM Capitol Rioter Without Bail.  John Earle Sullivan, a far-left agitator who was present at the Capitol riots on Jan. 6 and recorded a woman's death at the hands of police, was released from jail on Friday [1/15/2021] without bail, according to Fox News.  According to Utah District Magistrate Judge Daphne Oberg, the motion for Sullivan's detention was denied because it didn't meet the court's threshold for a hearing.  Prosecutors had asked for Sullivan to be retained in jail at least until inauguration day.  Democrats including President-elect Joe Biden, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and incoming Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer have called the rioters "domestic terrorists" engaged in "sedition," crimes that can carry the death penalty.  Based on these claims, the U.S. capitol has been infused with some 20,000 U.S. troops in advance of Biden's inauguration Tuesday.  Federal judges have denied bail to others who took part in the Jan. 6 chaos.  Not Oberg.

D.C. AG Racine:  Trump, Rally Speakers Are 'Being Reviewed' for Inciting Violence Charges.  District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine said Sunday [1/17/2021] on MSNBC's "Velshi" that he was looking at charging President Donald Trump and others who spoke at the rally proceeding the deadly riots at Capital Hill on "inciting violence" charges.  Anchor Ali Velshi said, "You are considering bringing charges, that's what the reporting is, against people for inciting this riot."  Racine replied, "The reporting is accurate.  The office of attorney general has jurisdiction over a number of potential offenses, including weapons, ammunition, curfew violations, and the one that's gotten the most attention, of course, is the inciting violence charge.  We've brought that charge before.  It is law in D.C. since 2011.  It makes illegal the statements of individuals that clearly encourage, cajole, and otherwise, you know, get people motivated to commit violence.  We'll balance the First Amendment rights of speakers versus this law and will be judicious with whether to charge and who to charge but every single person at that rally is being reviewed."

Did You Forget 1000s Of Violent Rioters Attacked the Trump Inauguration?  Thousands of violent rioters attacked the Trump inauguration and other cities around the country.  Huge amount of damage to cars and buildings, hundreds arrested, hundreds injured:  [Video clips]

GOP Leaders in D.C. Don't Represent 74 Million Trump Voters.  The media lie.  All the time.  They lied about former President Barack Obama's economy; they tried to make us believe the worst economy since the Great Depression was a great economy.  Then they lied about President Donald Trump's soaring economy.  They tried to make us believe the best economy in 50 years, maybe the best economy ever for middle-class Americans, was a bad economy.  They lied about the Black Lives Matter riots.  For months, we saw radical communists, Marxists and violent thugs riot, loot, burn, mug and murder while attacking police officers with bricks, pipes and Molotov cocktails.  They burned entire downtown business districts to the ground, such as those in Minneapolis and Kenosha, Wisconsin. [...] They killed over 30 people.  They caused over $2 billion in damage.  Yet liberal politicians and the liberal media ignored it all, or made believe it never happened, or made believe it was "peaceful," or encouraged it, or supported it.  In many cases, they did all of the above.

The Antifa thugs shame America.  Last November the ineffectual Mayor of the city, Ted Wheeler, was re-elected over an Antifa-backed candidate.  To say that he has lost control of his city is an understatement; the city authorities have allowed rioting for months, even resisting federal requests to assist law enforcement.  Wheeler was chased out of his own apartment block and earlier this month was assaulted in a restaurant.  None of the placation seems to have worked.  But this week the activists of Antifa returned to one of their favourite targets:  the journalist whose factual reporting seems to get under their skin so much.

US Federal Employees Conspiring To Sabotage The Trump Administration On A Leaked Zoom Call.  Back in 2019, it was a huge revelation that the president has to "hide" his phone calls from much of his own administration to reduce leaks.  This move might seem to indicate guilt — and is certainly being spun that way by Democrats and the media — but for the knowledge that the president isn't wrong to mistrust his own workforce.  Federal employees are anything but neutral administrators of the law.  Fully 95 percent of donations from those working for agencies went to Hillary Clinton in 2016.  And a web of civil service laws built over the past century effectively inures them to the consequences of defying the elected and appointed officials tasked by our political process with captaining the ship of state.

Ocasio-Cortez Blames Facebook CEO Zuckerberg For Capitol Chaos.  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the former bartender whose ascendance to political stardom is a modern day retelling of the Cinderella fairy tale is accusing Facebook and CEO Mark Zuckerberg of being partially responsible for the chaos at the U.S. Capitol.  AOC who falsely claimed that she was nearly killed when the building where Americans are sold out on a daily basis was briefly occupied by pro-Trump protesters and Antifa provocateurs accused Zuckerberg of aiding and abetting what Dems are defining as domestic terrorism.  The narcissistic Twitter diva's stunning remarks came during a virtual town hall with constituents in her New York City congressional district.

In today's America, the wise person willfully suspends belief.  The violence in the capital was a setup.  Just as the Obama administration took extraordinary, and illegal measures to try to cripple or oust the incoming President, so too has the Deep State devised a plan to deface Trump's legacy while simultaneously reducing all his followers to the status of domestic terrorists.  It was brilliantly planned and executed, and altogether evil.  I would not have believed it possible four years ago, but after seeing the Russian collusion fiasco unravel with its illegal unmasking, spying, and politically motivated prosecutions, all orchestrated by the deep state and the opposition political party, and then to see all the actors that were caught red-handed walk away virtually unscathed, I can easily believe that political operatives with no scruples and nothing much else to do, could come up with this plan without any fear of being held responsible.  The Capitol scheme is already starting to unravel, with timelines not matching up and evidence of a preplanned attack coming to light.

Self-Avowed 'Hardcore Leftist' Arrested for Inciting Violence at Florida Capitol.  Federal agents arrested a self-admitted anarchist and "hardcore leftist" on Friday on suspicion of plotting to violently disrupt planned election-related protests at the Florida state Capitol.  Prosecutors said they "averted a crisis" at the Capitol by arresting 33-year-old Daniel Baker, taking him into custody on a charge involving making a threat to kidnap or injure, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Florida announced in a news release.  "Baker issued a call to arms for like-minded individuals to violently confront protestors gathered at the Florida Capitol this Sunday," prosecutors said.  "He specifically called for others to join him in encircling any protestors and confining them at the Capitol complex using firearms."

Buffalo Guy from the Capitol riots is exactly 427% crazier than we thought.  So I guess it wasn't just a crazy outfit.  Buffalo Guy from the Capitol riots is packing a whole worldview to match.  [Video clip]

Photojournalist for CNN-NPR Jade Sacker embedded with BLM/Antifa leader John Sullivan during siege on US Capitol while cheering "We Did It!" after inciting riot.  As soon as the siege on the Capitol took place every left winger I know was screaming about how bad boy Trump and all his riff raff followers had ruined yet another glorious day.  There was violence, there was chaos, people died, and according to them, it was all Trump's fault for "calling for violence."  Except he didn't.  Politicians and special interests groups have been marching on the Capitol for as long as I can remember and that's exactly what Trump asked everyone to do.  I listened to that speech at least a half dozen times and not once did I hear Trump even insinuate that the crowd should perpetrator what later ensued.  I didn't hear anything from him that I haven't heard dozens of times from a magnitude of speakers over various causes from that very spot.

Was the US Capitol attack planned with inside help?  Attackers in organised columns, a woman shouting instructions on a megaphone, and suspicious tours the day before:  Investigators are probing the possibility that the Jan 6 attack on the US Capitol was planned, with help from insiders.  Disturbing videos, photos and online communications point to potential conspiracy.  In one video, more than a dozen men wearing assault force-type garb push up the Capitol steps in a line, cutting through the dense crowd towards the building's doors.  In another, a woman in a pink hat gives directions via megaphone to others inside the building, telling them where to go.

Group caught on video planning riot at Capitol.  I'm going to start by saying that I don't know if this group is Antifa and I don't think that's been verified, despite what people are conjecturing online.  Even so, it does show a group planning and coordinating the riot at the Capitol:  [Video clip]

CNN Was In On It!  Reporter Disguised Herself As Trump Supporter And Plotted With BLM Member.  On Thursday night [1/14/2021], [...] new footage showed CNN's Jade Sacker inside of the Capitol with John Sullivan, the BLM member who was charged by federal prosecutors for inciting chaos on January 6th.  Sacker co-conspired with the liberal activist in order to cause chaos and make Trump supporters look bad.  The shocking video shows her and Sullivan celebrating and shouting "We did it!" when they got the footage they were looking for.  When she asked Sullivan if he was filming, he said was going to delete it.  He never did.

Roger Stone's Wife Hospitalized After Being Attacked By Leftist Goon While Walking Her Dog.  Roger Stone's wife was attacked by a leftist goon while walking her dog in her neighborhood on Thursday [1/14/2021].  Nydia Stone was attacked so viciously that she was hospitalized and will require surgery.  "Roger Stone's handicapped wife beaten badly by deranged leftist man while walking her dog in her own neighborhood, currently in hospital," the Proud Boys posted on Telegram, according to a report from Big League Politics.

Matt Gaetz Goes Nuclear On the House Floor and Dems Lose It as He Calls Out Their Hypocrisy for Months of Riots.  Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz didn't hold back and put up a very large, figurative mirror in front of the Democrats in the House on Wednesday and made it clear that while the riot at the Capitol was wrong, the Democrats were literally cheering on months of destruction and violence during the Black Lives Matter riots.  And the Democrats really didn't like hearing about it.

Democrats Have Called for Violence for the Last 4 Years Against Trump and His Supporters.  If you needed any proof that the lying liberals crying about Trump inciting violence is nothing more than a dog and pony show, here is your proof.  In their own words they repeatedly call for violence against both Trump and his supporters.  [Video clip]

Japanese Journalist Discovers Video Proof ANTIFA Coordinated Capitol Attack.  Independent Japanese journalist Masako Ganaha analyses videos from inside the Capitol building.  The behavior of several individuals suggests that there was coordinated action among the agitators.  [Video clip]

Propane Tanks and 2x4's Are Magically Appear Along Roads in DC the Trump Rally will Use.  Over the past 12 years we have watched Antifa terrorists engage in blatant acts of terrorism in order to turn the USA into a communist nation.  Now, the group seems emboldened and looks to be staging terrorist attacks using propane tanks as explosive devices along the route where Trump supporters will be walking during the Jan. 6th "Stop the Steal" rally.  As usual, the FBI is nowhere to be found.  [Video clip]

What Now?  When enemies of Trump, and of freedom, created violence and mayhem in cities around the country, they were whitewashed, protected, and even praised by the media, by Democratic politicians, and by police officials.  In a debate with Trump, Biden said Antifa was an idea, not an organization.  Congressman Jerrold Nadler called it a myth.  Meanwhile Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey gave BLM $3 million.  While the leftist gangsters went unpunished, citizens who tried to protect their homes and businesses from destruction by them were arrested by the police and demonized in the media.  If you tried to spread the truth about all this on social media, you were shut down by Silicon Valley bosses who said you were lying.

Cops, Kids, Reporters & Activists Were Murdered As Democrats Incited 2020 Riots; Now They've Accused Trump of Their Tactics.  The same media and Hollywood collective that derided American police in 2020 is now flooding the airwaves with their crocodile tears about the police who were on the front lines against trouble-making demonstrators at the nation's Capitol on Wednesday.  News networks sickly dedicated just a few seconds to the death of black police officer David Dorn, murdered at the hands of Black Lives Matter looters in June 2020.  Back then Joe Biden was silent about the killings, too, despite attacking President Trump and his supporters for Wednesday's violence at the Capitol.  There's certainly enough blame in America to go around.  But to be proportionate, let's analyze some things very clearly.

James O'Keefe Strikes Again:  PBS Counsel Michael Beller Caught on Video Promoting Violence.  James O'Keefe and Project Veritas scored another significant hit on the liberal mainstream media on Tuesday morning [1/12/2021].  Veritas recorded PBS Principal Counsel Michael Beller inciting violence against Trump supporters in a radical leftwing rant.

Antifa assault conservatives in San Diego.  A mob of antifa assault a small group of conservatives in San Diego, Cal.  The black bloc mob is also waving an antifa flag.  [Video clip]

Here's a Perfect Explanation of Why the Capitol Hill Riot Happened.  In truth, it's been made clear to some Americans that attempting to talk it out and even take their grievances to the voting booth isn't working.  However, they flip on the news and see riots happening as those involved scream things like "black lives matter" or "defund the police."  They see this and then see politicians, media, and "experts" heap praise on these violent radicals, and politicians both defend and even encourage them.  For some Americans, they see violence get results and a dangerous idea begins to formulate in their head.

28 Times Media And Democrats Excused Or Endorsed Violence Committed By Left-Wing Activists.  [Numerous video clips]

Antifa Hands Out Weapons from Bag During Storming of US Capitol.  A new video was released that shows Antifa terrorists handing out weapons to their comrades during the storming of the US Capitol.  This should come as no surprise for Gateway Pundit readers.  As we reported earlier today Antifa organized a rally near the US Capitol on Wednesday.  On Friday investigative journalist Millie Weaver ran into Antifa activist and protest leader John Sullivan in Washington DC.  She overheard him say he was not being charged.  [Video clip]

Crazy 2020 Is Dead!  Long Live Crazier 2021!  Of course, there is no such thing as "good" or "acceptable" violence of either Trump supporters or of the Antifa and BLM sort.  Yet the latter were largely exempt from any consequences for most of the summer — despite Joe Biden's demagogic implication that the now multibillion-dollar funded BLM was treated harshly in comparison to the rogue Trump rioters.  Do we remember the authorities' exemptions given to "warlord" Raz Simone and his armed thugs who, with absolute impunity, took over a Seattle "autonomous zone" known as CHOP or CHAZ, where four shootings and two deaths followed?  Who exactly destroyed or vandalized thousands of state and federal public monuments — some in Washington, D.C. — and burned and looted hundreds of buildings with impunity?  Those who wrongly demanded to defund the police, now rightly deplore the lack of a Capitol police presence.  Their only consistency is their own perceived political self-interest.

Video: Mob Savages Beat Capitol Police Officer Viciously.  For those who missed it yesterday when it was circulating on social media, here's what "back the blue" meant to some of the cretins who descended on the Capitol last Wednesday.  I don't know for a fact that the cop being attacked is Officer Sicknick but I'd be amazed if the person who took this beating survived it.  [Video clip]

Just Months Ago, Democrats Blocked a Resolution Condemning Mob Violence.  When a mob of rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol building on Thursday, leaders from both political parties universally condemned the historic act of political violence. [...] After months ignoring and justifying Black Lives Matter and Antifa riots, Democrats also condemned the Capitol violence.  "This assault is just that.  It shows the weakness of those who've had to show through violence what their message was," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said.  Senate Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., echoed the sentiment, arguing those who using political violence should face the harshest penalties available.  "Those who performed these reprehensible acts cannot be called protesters — no, these were rioters and insurrectionists, goons and thugs, domestic terrorists... they must and should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law."  The cross-party condemnations came as a welcomed move.  But that very the same Congress was anything but united on the issue of mob violence remarkably recently.  This July, those same congressional Democrats killed a resolution aimed at curbing mob violence.

There Was No Revolution.  There was no revolution.  There was no pro-Trump coup attempt.  Everyone knows it.  A couple of crackpots who pranked at the Capitol are now being called a "revolution."  As if that crazy, painted-face shaman with the buffalo-horn hat was leading — what are they calling it?  Ah yes, an insurrection.  There was a call by millions of Americans for election integrity.  It was met with "shoot to kill" behavior and then a great purge.  It wasn't a revolution; it was more like an ambush.  No one is asking who gave the shoot-to-kill order or who gave the order to invite protesters into the Capitol building.  We do know that the January 6, 2021 Capitol protesters were invited in.  See the video [online].  What we do know is that there were scores of Trump rallies attended by hundreds of thousands of people, with not one incident.  What we do know is our people are peaceful, respectful and law-abiding.  What we do know is we are a subclass — "Untouchables" — who have been brutally punished at every turn, most especially this past year, by Democrat despots.  We do know is that we witnessed months of "insurrection" — burning cities, government buildings, streets, and even sometimes homes, and were told it was peaceful and necessary.  That was insurrection.

Why Cowardly Republicans Got Hysterical about the Capitol Riots.  Over the last six months, Black Lives Matter (BLM) and Antifa riots caused two billion dollars in property damage, killed at least 25 people, and injured over 2,000 police officers.  Rioters occupied and burned a police station in Minneapolis.  They attacked a federal courthouse in Portland every night for months.  In Seattle, Antifa set up an "autonomous zone" where five people were murdered, including two teenagers shot to death when they drove "too fast" near an armed checkpoint.  Senator Kamala Harris applauded the rioters.  In June, amid the burning and looting of large swaths of Minneapolis, she said the riots were "not going to let up, and they should not, and we should not."  Then she raised money to bail rioters out of jail.  Seattle mayor Jenny Durkan called Seattle's Antifa autonomous zone a "summer of love" before five people died.  Two months after the riots began, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley called for more "unrest in the streets."

Democrats close in for the kill — not just Trump, but all Republicans.  When George Floyd, an ex-con convicted of a brutal crime died from a drug overdose while Minneapolis police restrained him in accordance with their department's training materials, Democrats across America went wild.  Minneapolis alone suffered half a billion dollars in damages, most to small business owners, many of whom are black.  The dam burst in all major Democrat-run cities.  Unhindered by lockdowns, Democrats rioted, looted, burned, assaulted, and murdered in New York, Chicago, Austin, Los Angeles, Portland, and Seattle, just to name a few places.  And let us not forget what they did in D.C., where they tried to burn historic St. John's church, tore down equally historic statues, smothered public property with obscene graffiti, and attacked the White House.  This wasn't the Democrats' first assault on D.C.  For just one example, Ed Driscoll reminds us that, back in 2018, Ocasio-Cortez and Nancy Pelosi applauded Democrats who stormed Pelosi's office.  According to Pelosi, it was a good thing to see activists "organize and participate in our Democracy." Indeed, they have had a habit of urging violence against Trump and his supporters.

Here's a disturbing video of people inciting violence if that's really Twitter's concern.  As Twitchy reported Friday [1/8/2021], Twitter has permanently suspended the @realDonaldTrump account, explaining, "We have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence."  There are a lot of videos like this one going around, but this one, put together by Caldron Pool, might be one of the best and most extensive.  While Democrats and the media are clutching their pearls over the president's alleged incitement of violence this week, here are some other people Twitter might want to take a look at if inciting violence is a bannable offense.  [Link to video clip]

Death of Capitol Police Officer After Protest May Not Be as Initially Reported.  The death of Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick was a tragedy.  But as it turns out, the facts originally reported about his death may not have been accurate.  The initial story implied that he died from an attack by protesters at the Capitol, it was even reported that he was hit with a fire extinguisher.  Apparently though, the facts as of this moment are not there to confirm that claim.  Yet that has gone everywhere as "facts."  Indeed, according to ABC, they are reporting that Sicknick's death may have been "driven by a medical condition." [...] Now his death may have been been related to interactions with the protesters, but we should wait until the evidence is in.  People are being whipped up based on unconfirmed or outright false reports, in a highly charged political climate.  Meanwhile, folks on the left on Twitter are spreading a video which they allege is Sicknick being beaten to death by Trump supporters, after his family asked people not to make his passing political.  It isn't him and it's not entirely clear what the video shows.

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[#1] Beating a cop with a fire extinguisher doesn't sound like something a Republican would do.  But it does sound like something an Antifa infiltrator would do.  [#2] I'm sure the Twitter Thought Police will remove the video if it's being used to spread misleading ideas.

Large Antifa Group Marches Right Down 7th Avenue in NYC In Full Black Bloc With Battle Shields.  With the Capitol protest, Democrats and media who had ignored or dismissed vandalism or violence at protests for months suddenly discovered the law again and they are using the incident to try to crush anyone related to the rally, despite the fact that thousands of people went with the intention to peacefully express their political opinions and only a smaller number of extremists broke the law. [...] During the inauguration of Donald Trump, thousands of radical leftists rioted in the streets of D.C., attacking police, setting things on fire.  Not only did Democrats not condemn that action against the government, they legitimized it by calling Trump illegitimate, with 71 members of Congress saying that and refusing to attend his inauguration.  Yet all their Twitter accounts are intact, no one has called their actions "inciting."  Meanwhile, now with a Democratic administration on the horizon, today, a large group of Antifa has come out of their normal actions in the darkness, to march boldly down 7th Avenue in New York City in the broad daylight, chanting, "Whose streets, our streets!"

Trump supporters, counter-protesters clash violently in Pacific Beach.  Counter-protesters clashed violently with supporters of President Donald Trump at a rally in Pacific Beach Saturday, and police ordered people to leave the area as they tried to maintain order.  The event, described in flyers as a "Patriot March," took place along Ocean Front Walk and began early Saturday afternoon.  A group of counter-demonstrators — including members of anti-fascist groups, clad in all black and holding sticks or bats — showed up to face off with the pro-Trump group, and at times the tense exchanges turned violent.

'Hang Mike Pence' trends on Twitter after platform suspends Trump.  Twitter saw a surprising item trending on Friday night when "Hang Mike Pence" hit around 14,000 tweets, according to reports.  The social media platform announced Friday night that it was permanently suspending President Donald Trump's Twitter account.  The decision was made "due to the risk of further incitement of violence," according to a statement on the company's blog.  Many users were confused, then, to see such a violent item in the trending section.

The Left Is Enjoying Its Reichstag Fire Moment.  [Scroll down]  The parallels to what is happening today are obvious.  In the wake of the January 6 riot at the Capitol, the Democrats are trying to criminalize opposition to their program, painting all support of President Trump and his America-First program as incitement to violence and tantamount to sedition.  He has been shut out of the major social media networks that exercise near-total control over the means of communication today.  And as Trump himself has pointed out repeatedly, for all the demonic frenzy of their desire to destroy him utterly, he is really not the target.  We are.  The National Socialists used the Reichstag fire to destroy all political opposition in Germany and assert total control over the lives of every German citizen. [...] The American Left of today has followed the Nazis' Reichstag Fire playbook to a T thus far.  What is to prevent them from attempting to implement the whole thing?  The one thing saving us from woke totalitarianism at this point may be the fact that the sinister authoritarians of the Democratic Party, the social media corporations, and the establishment media may already have overreached.

Twenty-First Century Rules for Revolutionaries.  #8: Ultimate victory in the revolution will go to that segment of the revolutionary body that is the best organized, best financed, and most ideologically dedicated.  A revolutionary movement can be composed of many divergent groups, each of which has a peeve with the central government.  In our country we have, among others, minorities, LGBTQ, and feminists all rubbing shoulders with liberals, socialists, anarchists, globalists, Islamists, and hardcore Marxist revolutionaries.  The last group is the best organized and funded.  They are completely devoted to the "righteousness" of their ideology and even have their own para-military group — Antifa.  Their goal is the complete destruction of the American political and economic system.

The Night of the Tech Long Knives.  [Scroll down]  In any event the Capitol has been the scene of worse.  It was set afire by the British in 1812.  In 1915 a Harvard professor planted dynamite near the Senate Reception Room which went off as "an exclamation point in my appeal for peace."  In March 1954 four Puerto Rican nationalists in the visitors' [gallery] shot and wounded five members of Congress.  President Carter later pardoned them.  In March of 1971 the Weather Underground set off a bomb in the Senate side of the Capitol causing hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage.  (Bill Ayers was the leader of the group.  He was a Chicago colleague of Barack Obama and is widely believed to have ghostwritten Dreams of My Father, improbably attributed to Barack.  Ayers's wife Bernardine Dohrn, also a member of the group, is a retired professor of law at Northwestern University.  The son of two other members of the group whom they raised while his mother was in prison, Chesa Boudin, is a George Soros-funded district attorney of San Francisco, where he's been successful in adopting policies causing significant increases in crime.)  Twelve years after the Weather Underground bombing, a leftist group set off a bomb which blew off the door of Senator Byrd's office.  In contrast to those events, videos show the Capitol police removing the barriers to the building and ushering through the mostly obedient and respectful crowd.

After Colin Kaepernick praised deadly BLM riots, Twitter CEO gave him $3 million.  Last year, former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick tweeted praise for the ongoing violent riots that were gripping the country at the time.  He stayed on Twitter and even got a $3 million donation from Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey.  This week, President Trump was kicked off Twitter for good for allegedly inciting violence among his supporters before they stormed the U.S. Capitol.  The contrast gained immediate attention, highlighted by the news site Not the Bee shortly after Trump was banned from Twitter on Friday [1/8/2021].  In one 2020 tweet highlighted by the site, Kaepernick said of the destructive demonstrations occurring across the country:  "When civility leads to death, revolting is the only logical reaction."

10 Times Democrats Urged Violence Against Trump And His Supporters.  While Democratic politicians and the corporate media blamed President Donald Trump for the mob riot at the Capitol on Wednesday, saying his rhetoric incited violence, many of these same lawmakers and bureaucrats have for years called for violence and physical action against those who believe differently than they do.  "Hate to break it to you but if Trump had won, there would have been violence on Wednesday, and it most certainly would have been worse.  How do I know?  Because Democrats have been endorsing violence as a political tactic throughout the Trump Administration," wrote Grabien founder Tom Elliott on Twitter.  In an extensive thread, Elliott outlined many examples of Democratic politicians and other leftists advocating for violence as a response to conservatives.  In 2018, Democratic Rep. Ted Lieu of California said on MSNBC that if Trump fired special counsel Robert Mueller, there would be "widespread civil unrest" as people would "take to the streets."  Similarly, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper agreed that if Trump fired Mueller, it would "set off a firestorm not only on the Hill but also in the streets."

Why Hypocrisy on Violence Matters.  As the whole nation and the entire world now know, the United States Capitol was violently overrun on January 6, 2020. [...] As the situation started to unfold, conservatives rapidly took to social media to swiftly condemn it.  Republican lawmakers did the same once they safely emerged from secure locations after being evacuated from the House and Senate floors.  Then, former Vice President and President-elect Joe Biden made a statement. [...] "The work of the moment and the work of the next four years must be the restoration of democracy — of decency, honor, respect, the rule of law, just plain, simple decency. [...] Decency, respect, tolerance — that's who we are, that's who we've always been."  It actually isn't "who we've always been," and look no further than Biden's side of the political aisle for proof.  Just last year, Americans watched as cities around the country were ransacked by Antifa and Black Lives Matter rioters.  People were killed, government buildings came under siege, and thousands of buildings owned by hard-working Americans were burned to the ground.  They were the most expensive riots in American history and lasted for months.

Rage at Capitol assault makes excuses for summer riots all the more disgraceful.  Wednesday's mob assault on Capitol Hill was shocking and brazen:  Hundreds of MAGA-hat-wearing rioters broke into the seat of American democracy.  They stormed the halls, looting property and assaulting law enforcers, all in service of an absurd political demand: reversing the outcome of an election.  Now where had I witnessed such scenes before?  The answer:  in blue-governed cities in my native Pacific Northwest throughout last summer and into the fall and winter.  The right-wing political violence was met with universal rebuke from politicians of both parties and the media.  But many of those who are loudest in condemning the Capitol Hill riot went radio-silent when rioters destroyed and looted in the name of Black Lives Matter.

The Left Finds Time for One More Big Lie Against Trump.  [Scroll down]  The reality is that the anarchists of Antifa and violent Leftist extremists of Black Lives Matter — and their Democrat, Mainstream Media, Hollywood, and Academia apologists — changed the rules of protest in America.  Martin Luther King taught us in the 1950s and 1960s about non-violent civil disobedience, and that became an American social norm for protest. [...] By contrast, this past year we saw one of the two major political parties unabashedly excuse and allow for Antifa destruction and Black Lives Matter violence, burning cities and violently attacking police.  It evolved into a tragic, newly accepted norm of American protest.  Democrat big city mayors not only excused rioters' brutal street violence, but even allowed anarchists to control whole street blocks of their cities.  Even in blue lockdown states where masks and social distancing were legally mandated, special dispensation excused BLM and Antifa rioters as they broke windows, looted stores, and tore down monuments of Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, other abolitionists — even defacing a memorial to Raoul Wallenberg who gave his life defying Nazis.

Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler assaulted at restaurant:  Police.  Portland, Oregon, Mayor Ted Wheeler was assaulted at a restaurant Wednesday evening [1/6/2021] during a confrontation with protesters, police said.  According to local news reports, Mr. Wheeler was having dinner with a woman in the outdoor dining area of a northwest Portland restaurant when he was approached by a group of protesters.  "I think you need to leave," Mr. Wheeler told one protester, who was recording the incident, according to footage posted on Twitter by a Defund the Police account.

Pipe Bombs Found in Republican, Democratic Headquarters in DC: Officials.  Police in Washington D.C. confirmed late on Wednesday that explosives were located near the U.S. Capitol in the midst of protests and as people stormed the complex.  D.C.'s Metropolitan Police Department said it recovered a pipe bomb from the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and another one from the Republican National Committee (RNC), said Chief Robert Contee in a press conference.  Molotov cocktails were also found in a vehicle on the Capitol grounds, Contee said.  The FBI confirmed that two explosive devices were found.

Remember when the Democrats rioted?  Throughout 2020, for months on end, in dozens of American cities, numerous mobs involving hundreds-of-thousands of left-wing thugs devoted to the Democrat party and its policies, rioted, burned, looted, and murdered.  The memorable images remind us of this carnage.  As a result of this rampant lawlessness, dozens of innocent Americans were murdered — including several police officers — hundreds of police officers were significantly injured, and billions of dollars of U.S. property — often minority-owned small businesses — was destroyed.  The property destruction was the "most costly manmade damage to American property" in U.S. history.  In spite of all of this, as they have done for years, whether through their silence or direct words, Democrat politicians across America, along with their apologists in the left-wing media, encouraged and enabled this evil.  House Democrats blocked a resolution that condemned the rioting and looting, and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris helped raise bail money for the many criminals arrested throughout the riots.

We Ain't Going To Submit and We Won't Forget.  After four years of a sustained coup attempt to destroy the Presidency of Donald Trump, the Washington establishment now wants us, the deplorables, to sit down, shut up and accept a steal.  Here's a news flash.  We will not. [...] When Black Lives Matter and Antifa ravaged some of our major cities over the last 9 months, these clowns did not denounce the rioting, looting and violence.  They lied and called it peaceful protests.  But the Silent Majority saw with their own eyes the desecration of statues, the assaults on law abiding citizens, the destruction of small businesses.  When disgruntled Democrats and Hollywood elite insisted, "Trump is not our President", the media did not denounce them as "insurrectionists."  When Madonna called for blowing up the White House the only outrage came from Trump supporters.  The rest of the establishment yawned and celebrated.  When Kathy Griffin, a low rent, untalented comedian, decapitated a model of Donald Trump, the media again shrugged this off as nothing of import.

DC police release photos of suspects in US Capitol siege.  Police in Washington, DC, have released dozens of photos of President Trump supporters who stormed the US Capitol on Wednesday, causing widespread damage and sending the nation's capital into lockdown.  The DC Metropolitan Police Department posted the photos online late Thursday, with images that include a man identified by media as Jake Angeli, a 32-year QAnon loyalist known in right-wing circles as the "Q Shaman."  "We still have a significant amount of work ahead of us to identify and hold each and every one of the violent mob accountable for their actions," DC Police Chief Robert Contee said at a briefing.  "We have collected numerous images of persons of interest that we are asking the community to helps us identify," he said.  "These images depict individuals engaged in various acts of violence or property destruction."  Contee said 68 people have been arrested — only one of them from DC.

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The 7th picture on the top row appears to be a photo of this guy,  And the 7th picture on the second row appears to be a photo of this guy.  I'm glad I could help.

Enough With the Outrage.  Do you remember when President Trump was inaugurated on January 20, 2017? Leftist Democrats rioted in Washington that day.  That riot was arguably worse, more violent and more destructive, than what happened in D.C. yesterday.  The liberal rioters destroyed stores, set vehicles on fire and battled with the police.  Six police officers were wounded.  Here is a video reminder:  [Video clip]  I don't recall a single Democratic office-holder denouncing the Democrats' Inauguration Day riot, and the Associated Press came perilously close to praising the rioters.  Over the ensuing four years, Antifa and Black Lives Matter rioted countless times, bringing devastation to cities like Portland, Seattle, Kenosha and Minneapolis.  Did any Democrats denounce these riots?  Not that I remember.  Many Democrats endorsed them, or seemed to do so.

Manhunt underway for suspect who left pipe bombs in DC during Capitol riots.  The FBI's Washington Field Office released a surveillance photo on Thursday [1/7/2021] of a person suspected of leaving pipe bombs near both the Republican and Democratic National Committee headquarters on Wednesday.  The grainy images does not have much detail, as the suspect is wearing a hooded sweatshirt and mask at the time the photo was taken.

We Desperately Need SOME Institution to Execute as Constitutionally Designed.  There have been hundreds of Trump gatherings.  All have been violence-free.  There have been hundreds of Antifa-Black Lives Matter gatherings.  Almost all have resulted in violence.  Yesterday, many Antifa-Black Lives Matter people were clearly identified in attendance of the Trump gathering.  Violence ensued.  On which group does logic dictate the blame falls?

California man sentenced to four years for assaulting man who wore MAGA hat.  A San Fernando Valley man was sentenced Monday after pleading guilty to assaulting a bar patron who wore a "Make America Great Again" hat inscribed in Russian, the Los Angeles Daily News reported.  Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Thomas Sokolov sentenced David Delgado to four years in jail, the Los Angeles Daily News reported.  Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced Delgado "pleaded no contest" to one felony count of "assault by means of force likely to produce great bodily injury," according to a March 4, 2020, press release.  Delgado had approached the victim at a bar restroom Labor Day Weekend Sept. 2, 2019, the Los Angeles Daily News reported.  Delgado kept punching the victim after he inquired what the wording on the hat meant, which caused the victim to fall to the floor, Hermosa Beach police Sgt. Robert Higgins said, according to the Los Angeles Daily News.

Washington Post Defends Leftist Mob that Terrorized Sen. Josh Hawley's Wife and Newborn at Their Home.  The Washington Post defended a mob of leftist protesters, who under the cover of night yelled through a megaphone and trespassed at the home of Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., while Hawley was away and his wife and children, including a newborn, were inside.  "Tonight while I was in Missouri, Antifa scumbags came to our place in DC and threatened my wife and newborn daughter, who can't travel," Hawley wrote on Twitter.  "They screamed threats, vandalized, and tried to pound open our door."

Antifa Reportedly Attacks Home Of GOP Senator Josh Hawley, Threatens Family.  Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) said late on Monday night [1/4/2021] that Antifa attacked his home in Washington, D.C., and threatened his wife and newborn baby.  "Tonight while I was in Missouri, Antifa scumbags came to our place in DC and threatened my wife and newborn daughter, who can't travel," Hawley wrote on Twitter.  "They screamed threats, vandalized, and tried to pound open our door.  Let me be clear:  My family & I will not be intimidated by left-wing violence."

Stashes Of Bricks Are Being Found In DC Near Freedom Plaza — Officially They Are For Construction Work But Locals Say They Were Left There Over Night.  Members of D.C. National Guard will respond when supporters of President Donald Trump protest the 2020 election results in downtown D.C. this week.  The D.C. National Guard will assist the Metropolitan Police Department with crowd management and traffic control, MPD's acting chief, Robert Contee, said at a news conference Monday morning.  The department is expecting a crowd larger than at two pro-Trump events in D.C. last year. [...] During a press conference on Monday [1/4/2021], Mayor Bowser asked that local area residents stay away from downtown D.C., and avoid confrontations with anyone who is "looking for a fight."  But, she warned, "we will not allow people to incite violence, intimidate our residents or cause destruction in our city."  It seems they are ready and will control the protests but why one day before the protests mysterious stashes of bricks are being found near a protest site.  Near Freedom Plaza stashes of bricks were left overnight.

Report: Person Working With Jovan Pulitzer on Voter Fraud Has His House Riddled With Bullets.  As a testament to how violent the left has become, one of the members of Jovan Pulitzer's team is reported to have had his house hit with bullets in a drive-by shooting.  The shots fired through a window of the house was said to be his "daughter's bedroom".  Pulitzer says this incident occurred just after he was granted with inspecting votes in Fulton County Georgia.  Pulitzer says he can examine 500,000 absentee ballots in a couple of hours and can determine which ballots are good and which ones are fake.  Should he be allowed to do this, it would be a devastating blow to Democrats like Gov Kemp and SOS Raffensperger who insist the election was fair.

Democrats scrape Antifa off their shoes.  Believing they succeeded in stealing the 2020 presidential election, Democrats are jettisoning the rioters they used this summer.  The Post Millennial reported, "Portland Mayor finally denounces Antifa following explosive New Years Eve clash with police."  Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler whined to the press, "Why would a group of largely white, young and some middle-age men destroy the livelihood of others who are struggling to get by?"  He was talking about Democrat Antifa rioters, not himself and a host of Democrat governors and mayors who imposed draconian and ineffective rules that closed about a million small businesses nationwide.  There were explosive clashes between Democrat Antifa thugs and the police all summer long, but Wheeler blamed President Donald John Trump for the Democrat riots.

Why the Left Always Wins.  [Scroll down]  Deconstructivism is simpler to learn, easier to embrace, and tons more fun to practice than patriotic sacrifice.  The leftist has only to dilate on racism to other smug communitarians, COVID air-hug in delusional moral superiority, and his work is done.  Furthermore, the streets have been filled with kids looting stores, beating people up, even killing people, and the police don't care.  So much fun!  The alternative is a conviction to stand for God-given liberty, respect the law, bear arms, and from time to time refresh the tree of liberty with the blood of patriots.  Who's buying that — especially when your professor tells you people who believe that stuff are deplorable racists.

Six months too late...
Portland Mayor Turns On Antifa, Vows To Battle 'Lawlessness And Anarchy'.  In July, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler thought he was in control.  As BLM protests raged across the country in response to the death of George Floyd, a black man who died while in police custody in late May, Wheeler decided to mingle with protesters — a mix of BLM activists and Antifa.  Yet, instead of a rockstar crowd-surfing moment or whatever fantasy he envisioned, Wheeler was mocked as he gagged on tear gas, until he was forced to flee.  [Video clips]  Two weeks later, Wheeler had changed his tone — calling protesters who attempted to burn down a police station with people inside "attempted murderers," as the city saw its most violent month in decades — which came after the Portland City Council slashed the police budget as part of an early July push to defund the police.

New Year's Eve vandalism of federal buildings in Philly leads to multiple arrests.  Several people were arrested Thursday night after police and city highway patrol officers responded to reports of large unruly crowds and vandalism at federal buildings in Philadelphia.  Police observed a crowd on the 900 block of Market Street at about 8:50 p.m. Thursday, on New Year's Eve.  A 25-year-old man threw a brick through a window of the Robert Nix Federal Building, according to police.  The man, along with another man, age 24, and two 23-year-old women, all dressed similarly in black clothing, tried to flee the scene, but were taken into police custody.

Left-Wing Journalist Threatens Anti-Maskers & Christians During Unhinged Rant.  If you don't believe masks work as much as the media tells you, left-wing journalist and NY Times bestselling author Kurt Eichenwald wants to literally "beat you to death".  Yes, that's what he tweeted.  In a New Years Eve twitter meltdown, Eichenwald blamed "anti-maskers" for the death of his brother in law, even though he provided no proof that a maskless person infected him.

Mitch McConnell's Home Vandalized With 'Were's My Money', One Day After a Pig's Head Was Left At Pelosi's House.  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's home in Louisville has been vandalized with "WERES [sic] MY MONEY" overnight.  The graffiti comes one day after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's was targeted with vandalism and a pig head was left at her door.  Other messages were also left for McConnell with white and red spray paint across his front porch.

Sen. Mitch McConnell's Louisville home vandalized.  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's home in the Highlands area of Louisville was vandalized overnight [12/2/2021].  Messages were written on the front of the home in red and white spray paint.  The words "Weres my money" were spray painted on the front door in reference to McConnell blocking an effort to increase COVID-19 stimulus checks from $600 to $2,000.

January 6th and the right to protest.  It should be anticipated that January 6 in D.C. will be wild.  It has been reported that D.C. mayor Muriel Bowser is working to suppress turnout and to punish attendees.  Several hotels have announced closure on the 4th, 5th, and 6th in an effort to limit accommodations.  It is also being reported that porta-potties are being withheld.  Antifa/BLM have threatened attendees.  These threats should be taken seriously, and attendees should be prepared to defend themselves.  I read countless op-eds and comments of how we (conservatives) will fight tyranny when pushed too far.  How much farther will we tolerate our long train of abuse?  Antifa/BLM are made up of pajama-boy, he/she miscreants, but they have one advantage against "the right."  They riot in packs.  When they decide to attack, they do so in groups, usually against easy targets (women, older men, young persons, etc.).  They count on us wanting to work things out without resorting to violence.

Portland kicks off 2021 with a riot for the new year.  Portland rang in the new year with a riot — as vandals wreaked havoc throughout the Oregon city, tossing Molotov cocktails and attacking law enforcement with rocks and bricks, police said.  The crowd convened around 7:45 p.m. near Chapman Square downtown, the heart of protests that raged in the city throughout 2020.  Portland police said at least two Molotov cocktails were thrown and commercial-grade fireworks were launched at the federal courthouse and Justice Center, which some rioters attempted to break into.

Pelosi's Home Vandalized with Pig's Head, Fake Blood; Antifa Has Been Accused!.  Nancy Pelosi's home in San Francisco has been vandalized.  Her garage was spray painted, fake blood was poured all over the place, and a pig head was involved. [...] It is highly suspected that the vandalism was due to anger over the stimulus package.  Antifa has been accused.  San Francisco is mostly Democrat, so it is widely believed that this vandalism was NOT carried about by conservatives.

Calling the Presidential Election — and Beyond.  If you're thinking Joe Biden will be seated behind the desk in the Oval Office on January 20, put that thought on hold.  I'm standing by my Sept. 26 prediction that President Trump will serve a consecutive second term.  What happens between now and inauguration day, and in the weeks following, will not be pretty.  I believe tensions will rise sharply after Jan. 6, and when it's finally announced that Joe and Dr. Jill will not be moving to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, you can expect to see violence across America like you've never seen before.  The Deep State, both the vanguard in Congress and their Marxist street guerillas, will not like being Trumped a second time. [...] Anyone who's thinking ahead has already stocked up on essentials.  That includes a few months' worth of food, medicine, and yes, toilet paper.  We can pray that it doesn't happen, but several sources with decades of experience in our nation's intelligence agencies told me they expect approximately 300,000 ruffians to hit the streets and vent their anger at the news of Trump's 2nd term, and they expect the violence to be intense and widespread.  However, those same insiders also say those numbers will dwindle relatively quickly.  As one former agent told me, "Half of those causing chaos will be basement dwellers who'd curl up in the fetal position after getting hit in the face with a bean bag."  He went on to predict that after a week, the number of "protestors" nationwide will drop to about 150,000.  He then predicted that the number of street thugs would continue to drop by about half each week until things settled down.

School Superintendent Accepts Apology of Teacher of the Year Rodney Robinson for 'Joke' Calling for Beating of Mitch McConnell.  Richmond, Virginia School Superintendent Jason Kamras accepted the "heartfelt" apology by 2019 National Teacher of the Year Rodney Robinson for calling for the beating of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY).  Robinson later said he meant the comment as a joke.  Kamras did not indicate whether Robinson will face any repercussions. [...] Robinson made his Twitter account private Wednesday evening [12/30/2020] after being called out for the McConnell tweet.  He posted an apology to Medium on Thursday that was accepted Kamras.

Teacher of the Year Rodney Robinson Posts 'Joke' Calling for Mitch McConnell to Be Beaten Up Like Rand Paul.  Rodney Robinson, 2019 National Teacher of the Year, posted a call to Twitter on Wednesday for someone to beat up Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) like was done to his fellow Kentuckian Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY). Paul had to have surgery to remove part of a lung that was damaged as a result of being attacked and beaten by a neighbor in 2017.  (Update at end.  Robinson now says he was joking.)

'National Teacher Of The Year': McConnell's Neighbors Should Attack Him Like Rand Paul's Neighbor Attacked Him.  On Wednesday, a man who was named "National Teacher of the Year" in 2019 by the Council of Chief State School Officers tweeted that the neighbors of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell should act like a "true Kentucky hero" the way that the neighbor of Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) violently attacked Paul in 2017, leaving him with six broken ribs and necessitating the removal of part of his lung.  Rodney Robinson tweeted, "Who are Mitch McConnell's neighbors?  I'm just saying Rand Paul's neighbor did what a true Kentucky hero should do.  It's your turn to step up."  Paul's wife Kelly Ashby Paul issued a fiery response, tweeting, "I am so disgusted by this I have no words.  The 2019 'National teacher of the Year' is celebrating the violent assault on my husband that resulted in 6 broken ribs and part of his lung being removed.  This hateful thug is calling for more violence on Sen McConnell."

"Teacher" of the Year, Rodney Robinson, Keynote Speaker for LCPS Teachers/Staff is a Fraudulent Racist.  [Apparently Mr. Robinson would rather go to the blackest oral surgeon in town than the best oral surgeon.  That's racism.]

You're It.  The idea of Donald Trump as a cult figure is being used to defame and dismiss a patriot's sense of duty to the republic.  It's just another communist plot to keep those patriots on the sidelines while they continue their all-out assault on the republic through corrupt government practices, including the election. [...] Now, the Democrats have more aggressive tools at their disposal like BLM and Antifa and they have used them.  They have engaged in anti-white propaganda and racism in order to brand any patriot as a racist or fascist.  One can always count on the communists to accuse one of what they are themselves.  None of this is new.  It's the communist playbook by the numbers and they operate by it with no sense of self-awareness or blushing awkwardness.  Communists hammer the opposition and count on sympathizers in the press to carry their message, when that isn't enough, they send their brownshirts (Antifa) in to break some legs and set fires.  Members of their militant wing are never arrested, or, if so, quickly released.  I wonder how many Antifa and BLM were counting votes for the Democrats.  So, why is this any different from the Tea Party?  Why would the communists ever think that they could not do with today's patriot what they did to them?  The communists know they will get support from MSM and the weaklings in the Republican Party, because their success with the Tea Party has enabled all other excesses of government.

You're It.  As it stands, patriots know that if they fight back against BLM or Antifa, they will be the ones arrested, even if those groups are busily destroying property or harming people at the same time, in the same place.  That when they go to trial, they are likely to get an antagonistic judge who will heartlessly, vindictively sentence them to the maximum of the law.  That acting to save the republic will be seen as the actions of a right-wing extremist terrorist, where BLM and Antifa are considered peaceful protestors.  That the admonition to "vote for someone else" means accept your role as a non-person, without rights, without voice, but full of assets to be taxed or confiscated.  The only thing left is to throw off a tyrannical government and institute new government more likely to restore these rights and respect freedom.

In Seattle, a riot-stoking socialist councilwoman may just find herself held accountable.  This past summer, widespread protests led to outbreaks of violent crime in major cities around the country.  Public officials around the U.S. mostly condemned the violence, with some calling for calm.  In Seattle, Kshama Sawant, the socialist politician who's been known to ruffle feathers at City Hall, had a different take on the violence.  Her office was directly implicated in the months of civil destruction that overwhelmed Seattle.  Now, the people of Seattle are responding in kind, and Sawant may be held to account for the possible crimes she committed during the dangerous riots.

Woman Charged for Allegedly Sending 'Graphic and Extreme' Message to Election Official Who Wouldn't Certify Biden Win.  A New Hampshire woman has been charged for allegedly sending "graphic and extreme" messages to one of two Michigan election officials who resisted certifying the presidential election results from Detroit last month.  Wayne County Republican canvasser Monica Palmer and her GOP colleague William Hartmann voted against certifying the election results showing Democratic Joe Biden won in the state's most populous county two weeks after the election, citing glaring irregularities.  Both eventually voted in favor of certification, and reports made it increasingly clear why that might have happened.

Violent crime in cities presents new-year challenge for Democratic mayors.  Mayors from around the country are facing a common threat that isn't just the coronavirus:  spiking violent crime.  Across virtually every large urban area, a wave of violent crime has plagued residents as they struggle to adjust to new pandemic-related restrictions and a general decline in their quality of life.  From bustling metropolises such as New York to sleepier cities like Salt Lake, violent crime has reached levels not seen for years or, in some cases, decades.  According to data analyst Jeff Asher, 51 major U.S. cities saw their murder rates increase this year by an average of 35.7% through September compared to 2019.  "Big cities tend to overstate national trends in crime, but the national change in murder in 2020 will be historically awful," he wrote on Twitter.

Feds Bust Four for BLM Firebombings of Police Vehicles, Including Public Radio Journalist.  After a months-long investigation by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), federal authorities have arrested four people in the firebombing of police vehicles with Molotov cocktails during BLM riots in Arkansas during the summer.  According to the Post Millennial, Renea Baek Goddard, 22; Brittany Dawn Jeffrey, 31; Emily Nowlin, 27, and Aline Espinosa-Villegas, 24 were charged with malicious destruction of property belonging to an entity receiving federal funding, conspiracy to commit those acts and possession of a destructive device.

Homeland Security Warns Of Possible Georgia Violence As Senate Runoff Election Nears.  A field analysis report from the Department of Homeland Security warns of potential violence in Georgia as the two runoff elections for the U.S. Senate near on January 5.  The Georgia run-off elections feature the crucial contests between incumbent GOP senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler and their Democratic challengers, Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock.  If the GOP retains either one of the seats, the party will maintain control of the Senate; if not, the Democrats will control the Senate, House of Representatives, and the White House as there would be a 50-50 tie in the Senate and vice-president-elect Kamala Harris' vote would break the tie, thus giving president-elect Joe Biden a clear path to implement his agenda.

What are the new SCOTUS justices thinking?  The threat of violence is always present in our country.  That is why we have laws against violence and law enforcement personnel to enforce those laws (at least we have had).  If SCOTUS makes rulings based on the threat of violence, then those who are willing to commit violence are in control, and our laws become inconsequential.  During the past year, we have seen governors and mayors refuse to confront violence and even condone it.  Consequently, it is only by free and fair elections that politicians can be held accountable and, if necessary, removed, so that responsible men and women can take their place.

North Dakota senator's state office vandalized by man with an ax.  Sen. John Hoeven's (R-N.D.) office in Fargo, N.D., was vandalized by a man with an ax.  Video of the vandalism posted on Facebook by the Fargo Police Department shows a man wearing a mask walking up a set of stairs to a door carrying an ax, according to the Grand Forks Herald.  Once he reaches the door, the man smashes the window next to it with the ax and walks away.

Police Finally Swarm Filthy Reincarnated Autonomous Zone in Seattle, It Doesn't End Well for Antifa.  As we previously reported, Antifa had been resurrecting a new "CHAZ" in Seattle, building barricades around Cal Anderson Park.  They were trying to prevent the police and the city from clearing out the park that they and the homeless had been occupying.  It's quite literally a filthy disgusting mess.  They also took over a vacant nearby yellow house and began barricading that up as well.  [Numerous tweets and video clips]

It is no surprise that lawless people are led by other lawless people.
Child sex offender served leadership role at Portland Antifa autonomous zone.  A serial sex offender and Black Lives Matter activist recently released from prison served a titular leadership role at the Antifa autonomous zone in north Portland.  Micah Isaiah Rhodes, 27, was convicted of three counts of second-degree sexual abuse of minors in 2018.  He was sentenced to two and a half years in prison after violating probation by being near children during an Antifa occupation of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility.

Portland News Crew Gets Stalked, Assaulted And Robbed By ANTIFA In New Autonomous Zone.  A gang of militant leftists were caught on video descending upon a Portland TV news reporter and videographer who dared to enter their "autonomous zone" — and they proceeded to bully, physically attack, and force out the news team.  Reporter Genevieve Reaume and videographer Ric Peavyhouse — both with KATU-TV News — on Tuesday [12/8/2020] walked past barricades set up around the foreclosed house on North Mississippi Avenue in an attempt to interview occupiers.

Media Just Dropped Some Interesting Info About the Family 'Fighting Eviction' Behind Portland Autonomous Zone.  We've reported on the new Portland Autonomous Zone that BLM/Antifa people have erected.  They're fighting, they claim, to prevent a family from being evicted from a red house that had been foreclosed on and sold in 2018.  But the people who live there are refusing to leave.  As we previously noted, Antifa has been camping out with them for months, causing all kinds of trouble in the neighborhood, generating a lot of criminal response to the area.  In the past week, Antifa has created an "autonomous zone" called RHAZ, the "Red House Autonomous," that has now taken up several blocks around the house.  They have reportedly been stockpiling weapons and even have armed guards patrolling.

Home of N.J. county sheriff vandalized amid ongoing ICE detainee hunger strike.  The home of Bergen County Sheriff Anthony Cureton was vandalized Tuesday night after someone spray painted the words "Free them all" in black paint on his garage door, authorities said.  Detectives from the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office were investigating the incident after they were notified about it Wednesday morning, according to a statement from the office.  The vandalism happened sometime after 9 p.m. Tuesday at Cureton's Englewood home, the office said.

Carnegie Mellon Students Target Ric Grenell with Death Threat.  Former Trump administration official Ric Grenell reportedly received death threats from two students that want Grenell removed from his visiting scholar role at Carnegie Mellon University.  Two female students reportedly discussed their plan to kill Grenell in a since-deleted convers[at]ion on social media.  According to a report by the Washington Examiner, law enforcement officials are investigating a death threat against Richard Grenell, the former Acting Director of National Intelligence under President Trump.

Setting Up a Siege?  Antifa Has Armed Guards, Stockpiled Weapons at Portland Autonomous Zone.  On Wednesday [12/9/2020], Portland's police chief reported that antifa has fortified barricades, stockpiled weapons, set up armed guards, and threatened to kill police officers.  Both the police chief and the mayor have urged the rebels to lay down their arms, but it appears they are refusing to do so.  "We want a peaceful & safe resolution to the occupation of public space on N Mississippi Ave.  We are greatly concerned about the fortification of barricades, stockpiling of weapons, armed sentries, attacks on journalists & threats to kill officers in graffiti in this public space," Chief Chuck Lovell tweeted on Wednesday.

State representative removed from House committees after alleged threatening video.  A state representative from the Detroit area has been removed from all Michigan House committees after posting a video video perceived as threatening toward Republicans on Facebook.  State Rep. Cynthia Johnson posted the three-minute video Wednesday morning.  She made several remarks in the video about hitting Republicans in the pocketbook.  Johnson ended with statements to President Donald Trump's supporters to "watch out" and called for her "soldiers" to "make them pay."

A Michigan State Representative seems to threaten Trump supporters.  During a live video, Michigan State Rep. Cynthia Johnson gave a rousing speech to her supporters.  It wasn't about going forth and making America a wonderful place, though.  Instead, she gave them chapter and verse about harassing and economically destroying Trump supporters, with strong undertones suggesting actual violence.  The Michigan House disciplined her by stripping her committees, but that was inadequate given what Johnson said.  Johnson had already made something of a name for herself as a thug more than a politician on December 2.  That was when the Michigan House Oversight Committee held hearings for Rudi Giuliani and his many witnesses about the massive amount and variety of fraud that took place in Michigan, especially in Detroit.

Detroit Thug Congresswoman Cynthia A. Johnson Makes Threats Against Trump Supporters, Order Her 'Soldiers' To 'Make Them Pay'.  A sitting Michigan State Representative is facing scrutiny this morning after a video surfaced of the rep. making clear and concise threats against Trump supporters telling supporters to "be careful" and to "wake lightly" while telling her "soldiers" to "make them pay."  [Video clip]

Update:
Democrat Rep Goes On Another Bizarre Rant After Threatening Trump Supporters With Violence.  Yesterday, we told you about how Michigan State Rep Cynthia Johnson declared open season on Trump supporters during a dark, threatening rant.  "So this is just a warning to you Trumpers.  Be careful, walk lightly, we ain't playing with you.  Enough of the shenanigans.  Enough is enough.  And for those of you who are soldiers, you know how to do it.  Do it right, be in order, make them pay," Johnson said on Tuesday night [12/8/2020].  That call to violence eventually led her to being removed from the committee she sat on, which is good news.  However, she wasn't done "making her voice heard".  Now, in a brand new video, Johnson adjusted her words, saying "Soldiers of Christ".  Yeah, right.  "All you soldiers!  Soldiers of Christ... soldiers against RACISM!  Soldiers against misogyny!  SOLDIERS against domestic violence and domestic terrorism.  Soldiers... RISE!  It's time for you to rise," she bizarrely exclaimed, while repeating herself over and over again.  [Video clip]

Portland explodes in violence again as hundreds of protesters attempt to set up an autonomous zone.  Protesters outraged with at least a dozen arrests at a home where a family was removed in September hurled rocks at officers, sprayed a fire extinguisher at them and damaged police vehicles on Tuesday [12/8/2020].  The violence happened in broad daylight, and by evening, Mayor Ted Wheeler sent out a statement saying he was authorizing Portland Police 'to use all lawful means to end the illegal occupation ... There will be no autonomous zone in Portland.'  'It's time for the encampment and occupation to end,' Wheeler said in a statement that also acknowledged the issues the protesters want to fix, such as housing and health care.

Media Don't Want You to Know About Alleged Shooting Attack on Trump Supporters.  A South Carolina prosecutor says a 23-year-old man shot into a crowd of Trump supporters in late August.  And — surprise, surprise — this is something our useless national media don't want anyone to know about.  Of course the corporate media don't want you to know.  What do you expect from a media that ask you to believe that when the terrorists in Black Lives Matter and Antifa loot and burn and assault, the looting and burning and assaulting is "mostly peaceful."  The corporate media lie to protect left-wing terrorists, lie to smear Trump supporters, and hide inconvenient truths such as this one.  And that's why New Media is here.  Not so much to complain about the corporate media.  That's a waste of time.  But to report actual news that matters, such as this story, which the Washington Examiner found in a local newspaper.

Nothing to See Here, Just an Idiot Throwing an Explosive Into a Trump Supporter's Home.  A Detroit-area man and his girlfriend were kicking back at home on Saturday night, nothing out of the ordinary going on — except for the explosive thrown into his home, that is.  The homeowner, who has chosen to remain unidentified for safety reasons, told WDIV-TV he thinks he was targeted because he is an "avid supporter" of President Trump.  [Video clip]

Antifa-Linked Washington State Democrat Field Organizer Faces Terrorism Charges For Attack On Railway.  Has anyone else noticed that there sure is a lot of overlap between Antifa activists and prominent Democrats? [...] They're all playing on the same team.  This time, the subset of Antifa that was in play is an 'anti-colonialist' group going by the name of 'It's Going Down'.  This group has claimed responsibility for either some or all of the 41 attacks against railways in Washington State.

Gen. Flynn:  Election Witness in ICU, Other Witnesses Had Tires Slashed, House Broken Into Twice.  Former National Security Advisor to President Trump Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn (U.S. Army ret.) spoke on Thursday about the price being paid by Americans speaking out about fraud and irregularities in the recent presidential election, saying that one was hospitalized in the intensive care unit while others have had tires slashed, their home broken into twice or been forced to move.

Georgia election official calls out Republican silence as threats of violence against government employees rise.  Gabriel Sterling has had enough.  The Voting Implementation Manager for Georgia, Sterling opened a press briefing today with a two-minute entreaty to outgoing president Donald Trump and Republican Senators to tone down their rhetoric and condemn the violence and threats being made toward election workers, Politico reports.  "Mr. President, you have not condemned these actions or this language," he said.  "Senators, you have not condemned this language or these actions.  This has to stop.  We need you to step up.  And if you're going to take a position of leadership, show some."

Sidney Powell:  Witness in Hospital After Beating.  Attorney Sidney Powell said on the Sean Hannity show on Fox News Monday night that a witness to election irregularities was beaten up and is in the hospital.  Powell spoke about the attack while speaking about witnesses needing protection as a reason some are not going public and signing affidavits.  Powell said some are in the government, others are in roles that require confidentiality, and that they need protection by the government.

Keith Olbermann says out loud what the fascist left is thinking.  Keith Olbermann never had much of a filter to begin with, and the loss of his former cable news platform seems to have unleashed his id even more than before.  Here he is on his YouTube platform, captured in a tweet by Ian Miles Cheong, laying out his desire for a totalitarian police state in which Donald Trump and his supporters, "flunkies," and "apologists" (by which he must mean me among many others) are imprisoned in such numbers that vast new prisons are necessary.  [Video clip - language warning.]  Don't expect Joe Biden or any other Democrat to be asked to comment by the media.  Don't hold your breath waiting for condemnation from anyone on the left.

Group breaks windows, tags SE Portland businesses with graffiti.  Police made three arrests early Thursday morning after a group of people walked through Southeast Portland, breaking windows and tagging businesses with graffiti, according to police.  At least 10 businesses, including grocery stores, banks, an auto service center, a package distribution and mailing center and local business storefronts were damaged, police said.  Police received multiple reports after 1 a.m. that a group of people, all dressed in black clothing, were walking down Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard and breaking windows as they went.  Officers responded and found a group near Southeast 37th Avenue and Harrison Street that matched the description provided by callers.

Police arrest 3 people after at least 10 businesses vandalized along SE Hawthorne.  Several businesses in southeast Portland were damaged during the early morning hours of Thanksgiving by a group dressed in black clothing, police said.  At around 1:22 a.m., Portland police responded to reports of people breaking windows and spraying graffiti at the New Seasons Market in the 4000 block of Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard.  According to police, multiple 911 callers said they saw a group dressed in black clothing walking west along SE Hawthorne, smashing windows in their path.

3 arrestados por presuntamente quebrar ventanas y realizar pintas en comercios de Portland.  [Translation by Google] Police arrested three people early on Thanksgiving Day after a group traveled several blocks in the southeast of the city, breaking windows and painting.  At 1:20 a.m., police received a report of a group dressed in black vandalizing businesses along Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard.  Soon after, officers found a group of people matching the description of the complaint near Southeast 37th Avenue and Harrison Street.  Police said some people "carried evidence that linked them to the vandalism."

Chaos and Anarchy in DC.  In case you missed it, over the weekend tens of thousands of protesters marched in the District of Columbia to voice their support of the president and opposition to voter fraud.  The "Million MAGA March," held Saturday afternoon, was a peaceful event.  But as the sun went down and the pro-Trump demonstrators left the protest, violent agitators and counterprotesters emerged and descended upon them to harass and, in many cases, to commit violence.  [Seven video clips]  Police arrested 21 people in connection to the violence, according to NBC Washington.  NBC Washington described some of the various charges of the suspects in this maelstrom, which included disorderly conduct and assault.  Though many local outlets covered these incidents extensively, the story gathered little attention from national media.  One would think that widespread violent attacks on peaceful protesters expressing their First Amendment rights would elicit a strong response from journalists.  But coverage was both lukewarm and deceptive, portraying the incident as if it was Trump supporters who were the originators of the violent behavior.

Florida Dem Arrested for Threatening to Shoot GOP Politicians.  A Florida Democrat has been arrested for allegedly threatening to shoot the state's governor Ron DeSantis, as well as Sens. Marco Rubio and Rick Scott, all of whom are Republicans, Fox News reported on Wednesday[.]  Karen Jones was arrested in her Palm Beach County home by police over the weekend on three counts of written threats to kill or do bodily harm after she allegedly sent a tweet stating that "DeSantis, Rick Scott and Marco Rubio are looting my state.  Imma shot them."  Jones admitted to the policemen arresting her that she wrote the tweet, but said it was a joke, the Miami Herald reported.

BLM protester seen assaulting Trump supporters at 'Million MAGA March' ID'd as journalism student: report.  A Black Lives Matter protester who was caught on video assaulting supporters of President Trump at Saturday's "Million MAGA March" is reportedly a journalism student at Howard University.  Brittany S. McAlister, 29, was filmed purportedly punching and kicking men and women several times over the course of the Washington, D.C. event, according to reporting from The Post Millennial.  In one incident, McAlister allegedly kicked an unconscious man who had been knocked out by 39-year-old Kenneth Wayne Deberry.  Deberry was one of four people the city's Metropolitan Police Department arrested for disorderly conduct.  McAlister has yet to be arrested, according to a recent press release from the department.

Black Lives Matter protester seen assaulting Trump supporters at rally identified as journalism student.  A Black Lives Matter protester who was caught on video assaulting supporters of President Donald Trump at Saturday's "Million MAGA March" is reportedly a journalism student at Howard University.  Brittany S. McAlister, 29, was filmed purportedly punching and kicking men and women several times over the course of the event in Washington, D.C., according to reporting from The Post Millennial.  In one incident, McAlister allegedly kicked an unconscious man who had been knocked out by 39-year-old Kenneth Wayne Deberry.

Brittany S. McAlister:  BLM Protester Seen Assaulting Trump Supporters Identified.  A female Black Lives Matter (BLM) protester seen in viral videos assaulting some supporters of President Donald Trump has been identified as Brittany S. McAlister.  Post Millennial identified the suspect as a 29-year-old third-year journalism student of Howard University, Washington DC, who also works as a freelance journalist.  Brittany S. McAlister was seen on video assaulting at least two individuals after Saturday's pro-Trump "Million MAGA March" in Washington DC.

Why Won't Joe Biden Condemn Antifa and BLM by Name for Attacking Trump Supporters?  On Saturday [11/14/2020], many thousands of President Trump's supporters came to Washington, D.C.  But Joe Biden, who fancies himself the president-elect who will "heal" this nation, was M.I.A. after antifa and BLM attacked peaceful "Million MAGA March" ralliers.  [Video clip]  And no Democrats condemned the violence, not even Joe Biden.  "Today, one week after Biden called for unity and his supporters took to the streets to celebrate his media-projected win, Trump supporters were attacked in our nation's capital by far-left protesters and Antifa," noted Breitbart contributor Kyle Morris.  "Not one Democrat member of Congress has denounced today's violence."

Rioter who punched out Trump supporter in viral video is registered child sex offender.  A protestor who was arrested after he punched a supporter of President Donald Trump is also a registered child sex offender, public records show.  The Metropolitan Police Department arrested 39-year-old Kenneth Wayne Deberry on Saturday [11/14/2020] for disorderly conduct, including inciting violence, aggravated assault, and felon in possession of a firearm after police found he was carrying a handgun, according to an MPD press release.  According to the MPD Sex Offender Registry, Deberry is a registered sex offender who was convicted in Washington, D.C. in 2008 of second degree child sexual abuse against a person under 16 years of age.

BLM Goons Assault Elderly Trump Supporter, Spit On Him Steal His Bike.  The man was pushed and fell hard to the ground, then spit on, and finally, had his bike stolen.  [Video clip]

Even Elderly Trump Supporters Weren't Safe From The Leftist Goon Squad.  Downtown Washington DC devolved into a banana republic as peaceful Trump supporters who descended on the city to celebrate with the Million MAGA March were harassed, assaulted, terrorized, and some even seriously injured by BLM and ANTIFA thugs.  Even the elderly weren't safe.  [Video clip]

Left-wing rioters are no longer news.
Lefties attack MAGA marchers in DC — and the media shrug.  If counter-protesters had triggered fighting across Washington, DC, in the wake of the January 2017 Women's March, the media would have erupted in fury.  Yet the morning after Antifa types went after MAGA marchers in the nation's capital, the press obsessed about ... Kayleigh McEnany's estimate of the crowd size.  The difference, plainly, is that no one felt the need to confront the anti-Trump marchers.  But a significant element of the left seized the opportunity to harass and even assault the pro-Trump crowd.

Female Attacked And Robbed by Mob.  Crowds are now attacking people at random in BLM Plaza.  [Video clip]

Where's all the rhetoric about healing and unity, Joe?
Biden Called Out For Silence As Leftists Attack Pro-Trump Demonstrators In Nation's Capital.  Democrat Joe Biden was called out on Saturday for his silence as left-wing extremists that journalists identified as being affiliated with Black Lives Matter and Antifa attacked pro-Trump demonstrators in Washington, D.C., who had gathered to show their support for President Donald Trump.  Various public figures called out Biden after he repeatedly campaigned on "unity" and "healing" America.  The Democratic Party tweeted on Saturday that Biden would "restore the soul of this nation and bring us together."  Most of the violence happened at night after the majority of Trump supporters had left the area after the "Million MAGA March," which featured a brief appearance by the president.  Later in the night, members of a purported right-wing group went after some of the groups that reportedly attacked innocent people.

#Antifa and #Black Lives Matter Are Evil.  Today the Million MAGA March took place in Washington, D.C. to support President Trump as he fights for honest election returns.  Predictably, activists/communists/criminals from Antifa and BLM — the groups no longer seem to be distinct — turned out to make trouble.  They attacked the Trump supporters; you can see a number of videos at ZeroHedge:  "BLM/Antifa Thugs Attack Trump Supporters, Including Children, After D.C. 'Million MAGA March.'"  Here, you see Antifa/BLM thugs attacking a Trump-supporting family.  They knock a little girl to the pavement:  [Video clip]  These leftists are simply evil people.  It is easy to understand why they want to defund the police:  if we had adequate law enforcement in America's cities, they would be in jail where they belong.

Violence erupts in D.C. at the 'Million MAGA March' with counter protesters throwing fireworks at Trump supporters in a restaurant.  President Trump called on cops to 'do your job' as he blasted counter protesters who turned up at the Million MAGA March as 'Antifa scum' as he joked that they 'ran for this hills' after violent scenes erupted in Washington D.C. on Saturday night.  The president claimed 'Antifa' had waited until the end of the march to attack 'elderly people and families' as he praised his supporters who 'aggressively fought back'.  'Antifa SCUM ran for the hills today when they tried attacking the people at the Trump Rally, because those people aggressively fought back,' he tweeted.

Antifa Accosts Women, Children, Elderly, and Restaurant-Goers After MAGA March.  Antifa and BLM wasted no time in accosting women, children, families, and the elderly as they walked down Washington, DC, streets after the Million MAGA March on Saturday.  Protesters threw large fireworks and projectiles at restaurant-goers eating outside and flashed laser lights into hotel rooms.  DC Metropolitan Police blocked off BLM Plaza so Million MAGA March attendees could not go through.  Trump supporters had to walk through a gauntlet of BLM, Antifa, and black bloc assailants in order to leave the area.

Protesters Stomp on Trump Supporter's Head After D.C. Rally.  A group of leftist protesters attacked numerous Trump supporters who had finished taking part in a rally on the streets of Washington, DC, on Saturday.  In one of the most graphic attacks, a man who tried to fight off an attack is hit from behind while at least two women kick and stomp his head.  Several videos captured numerous attacks by protesters that were chasing Trump supporters out of the rally area as the group made their way to their vehicles.  Earlier in the day, thousands of Trump supporters had gathered in D.C. for a rally supporting U.S. President Donald J. Trump.  Violence broke out as the rally ended and people attempted to leave.

The Fury of the Fatherless.  The frenzy that has been enacted in city after American city since May 2020 demands more scrutiny than it has yet received. [...] According to the first thorough examination of the street protests triggered by the death of George Floyd, undertaken by Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project in conjunction with the Bridging Divides Initiative at Princeton, more than 10,600 incidents of what is benignly called "unrest" were recorded between May 24 and August 22.  Of these, some 570 involved violence.  Of those, most have involved Black Lives Matter activists.  Preliminary insurance estimates show that the damage will surpass the $1.2 billion in damages accrued during the 1992 Rodney King riots.  And then there are the atmospherics that separate these protests from many that have gone before:  lusty screaming, ecstatic vandalism, the menacing of bystanders.  The ritualistic exhibition of destructive behaviors in city after city is without precedent in America.  Neither the civil rights demonstrations nor the protests against the war in Vietnam looked remotely like this.  The differences demand explanation.

We'd planned to live here our whole life.  Thanks to Democrat policies, we're moving.  [Scroll down]  Then, in May, a guy took a fatal overdose of multiple drugs, tried to pass a counterfeit 20, and died in the custody of the arresting officers.  Opportunity had knocked.  The "free press" jumped on that one, and before the sun set — and for days and days up to this very day — the Dems and the Republicans, too, in all their public comments have spoken of this event as if it were a given that the poor drugged guy trying to pass a funny 20 had been murdered by the Minneapolis police.  Never mind that the procedures the police used were part of their training.  Never mind that the autopsy said the poor guy was as good as dead before he was taken into custody.  In reaction, the "mostly peaceful" rioters burned down a swath through Minneapolis that is five miles long and extended that into St.  Paul for another three miles.  It turned out that the "mostly peaceful" rioters who were burning and looting and murdering are the foot soldiers of the Dems.  Throughout the riots, the governor and attorney general of Minnesota and the mayor of Minneapolis acted on the side of these "mostly peaceful" rioters.

Voting for Joe Biden Won't Save You From the Mob.  The poor fellow in this video probably voted for Joe Biden to end all the national drama, along with other reasons.  But on election night, BLM activists showed up in his neighborhood with drums, flashing lights, bullhorns, and obscenities.  The national drama not only failed to end, it showed up on his lawn and called him a "white supremacist" when he stood on his porch and asked them to be peaceful.  [Video clip]

Extortion Day.  In the days preceding last week's election, the downtown corridors of many American cities resembled coastal hurricane zones.  Business owners boarded up their stores, fearing that the election might unleash another wave of destructive rioting.  In Washington, D.C., luxury shops and office complexes constructed fortifications with boards, chains, fences, and barriers.  In the neighborhood surrounding the White House, the Secret Service, laborers, and left-wing protesters all prepared for Election Night.  Then something miraculous happened.  The following morning, as the election returns began to favor former vice president Joe Biden, the fences, boards, and chains came down.  Small business owners reopened their shops, and the anticipation of violence evaporated.  The national media, which had been stoking fears about Proud Boys and white supremacists flooding the cities with political violence, simply dropped the story — as if it had never been a story.

Gov. DeSantis Introduces 'Anti-Mob' Legislation To Allow Floridians To Shoot Rioters And Looters.  Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has proposed an "anti-mob" bill that would allow residents to shoot rioters and looters who target businesses following nationwide unrest.  The law would expand the state's self-defense law, which currently forbids "the use of force in defense of property," by increasing what constitutes a "forcible felony," according to the Miami Herald.  DeSantis seeks to make looting or "interruption or impairment" of a business such a felony, thereby justifying deadly force to prevent it, the local outlet reported.

Big mistake:
Target reopens E. Lake Street store heavily damaged in riots.  The Target store on E. Lake Street in Minneapolis reopens Wednesday [11/11/2020] for the first time since shutting down in May following riots that destroyed the business and many others along the normally bustling commercial corridor.  The multimillion dollar reopening restores some normalcy to a community hard hit by the civil unrest that broke out all along Lake Street in the wake of George Floyd's killing at the hands of Minneapolis police.  Target workers early Tuesday were busy nestling melons and bananas into place, adjusting lights, installing the last ceiling tiles and monitoring several newly expanded departments in advance of a limited soft opening later in the day before an official reopening Wednesday.

The Editor says...
[#1]  George Floyd was already dying of a drug overdose before the cops arrived, so it is misleading to say that he died "at the hands of Minneapolis police."  [#2] The entire cost of cleanup and restocking will be passed on to the customers.  Likewise, the costs reimbursed by insurance companies will be passed on to their customers.  [#3] Everything gained by this store's reopening will be lost in the next riot, and if Target rebuilds it again, that's a sign of mismanagement at the highest levels of the company.  In my opinion, the looted Target store should be left in place, with all merchandise and fixtures removed, roped off but still visible, to remind the neighborhood residents of what they've done, or what was done to them.  If you want to live in poverty and squalor, keep voting for Democrats.

Bill creating new charges to combat rioting, looting introduced by State Reps.  A bill aimed at creating new criminal charges to combat rioting, looting, and violence in Ohio has been introduced by State Representatives Sara Carruthers (R-Hamilton) and Cindy Abrams (R-Harrison).  House Bill 784 creates a new Riot Assault charge for a person who participates in an aggravated riot and causes physical harm that is punishable by a fifth-degree felony, according to the release from the Ohio House of Representatives.  The Riot Assault charge would be a fourth-degree felony if the assault is against a peace officer, the release reads.  It would be charged as a third-degree felony if the peace officer suffers serious physical harm, HB 784 states.  Peace officers would also be able to file civil suits against those responsible, the Ohio House of Representatives' bill says.

Hate Filled Monster:  Man Drives Car Into Trump Rally.  A Santa Maria man was arrested Sunday [11/8/2020] after driving his vehicle into a Trump parade, causing a rollover crash and two injuries.  Santa Maria police said the Trump rally was traveling westbound down Stowell Road around 2:10 p.m.  At the same time, a 20-year-old Santa Maria man was driving eastbound on Stowell when he made a U-turn and caught up with the rally, gesturing and shouting aggressively at participating vehicles.  Officers said the man even threw bottles and other objects at drivers as he passed.  [Video clip - language warning, as usual.]

Biden target of profane graffiti in Portland, as crowd smashes windows at Democratic campaign office.  Portland demonstrators identifying themselves as Antifa targeted a Democratic campaign office Sunday [11/8/2020], shattering windows and spray-painting messages like "[...]" and "no presidents" on the building.  A group of people met in Laurelhurst Park Sunday evening [11/8/2020] before marching north and gathering in front of the Multnomah County Democrats building located in the 3500 block of Northeast Sandy Boulevard.  Several members of the group began to tag the office with graffiti and broke out several of the building's windows, the Portland Police Bureau said in a press release.  Police released several photos showing the damage.

Nineteen people arrested in protest march from Stonewall Inn through Lower Manhattan.  Nineteen people were arrested during a Thursday night [11/5/2020] protest march from the Stonewall Inn through Lower Manhattan, including a man that tried to wrap a heavy metal chain around a cop's neck, the NYPD said.  Cops rounded up 13 men and six women during the tense clash where bicycle officers tried to corral demonstrators onto the sidewalk and into Union Square Park.  Ten people received desk appearance tickets for a variety of misdemeanor crimes, meaning they will have to answer the charges in court at a later date.  Another eight people received summonses.

Portland commissioner opposes $18M in police cuts, has home targeted by protesters.  The home of a Portland, Ore., city commissioner was targeted by protesters this week over his refusal to support $18 million in cuts to the police budget.  A group of around 60 people marched in the rain Thursday from Arbor Lodge Park to Commissioner Dan Ryan's home.  Once there, they smashed a window, broke a flower pot and threw burning flares and paint-filled balloons at the home, authorities said.  Dozens of state troopers and Multnomah County sheriff's deputies arrived at the scene and ordered the group to leave.  No one was arrested.  It was the fourth night this week that protesters had descended on Ryan's home, the sheriff's office said.

Finally, After Election, Oregon Dem Gov Asks For National Guard To Stop Portland Rioters.  On Wednesday night [11/4/2020], after months of violent rioting in the city of Portland, Democratic Oregon Governor Kate Brown finally ordered the National Guard to go to Portland.  Brown had directed the National Guard to be on standby on Monday.  The Multnomah County Sheriff announced the move on Twitter and explained the rationale: [...]

More than 600 arrested during anti-Trump march on I-94 in Minneapolis.  Law enforcement officials arrested more than 600 people after protesters blocked Interstate 94 in Minneapolis late Wednesday [11/4/2020] and early Thursday.  The Minnesota Department of Public Safety (DPS) said the arrests by State Patrol troopers and city police were necessary to clear the interstate of a people who stopped freeway traffic.  "No force or chemicals were used, and no protesters or law enforcement officers were injured during the incident," the DPS said in a statement issued Thursday.  Marchers gathered early Wednesday evening for a protest, led by multiple local organizations, dubbed "Don't Let Trump Steal the Election." Marchers went from downtown streets to I-94, where they caused closure of the freeway from Interstate 35W east to Hwy. 280.  The interstate was cleared and reopened at 1:23 a.m.  Thursday, the DPS said.

Police, protesters clash in NYC as demonstration turns chaotic.  Police clashed with an unruly mob of protesters in Lower Manhattan on Wednesday night as demonstrators created carnage, set a fire in the street and one even spat directly in the face of an officer.  The confrontations resulted in the arrests of 60 people after a peaceful protest in Washington Square Park took a violent turn once demonstrators worked their way through the West Village after 7:30 p.m.  Earlier chants of "Count the vote" were replaced with anti-police sentiments, inexplicable outbursts at outdoor diners and the setting of rubbish fires.

'Anarchist' Florida woman arrested for destroying Trump campaign signs, says she 'snapped'.  Florida authorities arrested a woman who identified herself as an "anarchist" after she damaged Trump campaign signs on private property.  A Flagler County Sheriff's Office deputy was on patrol along the Palm Coast Parkway on Saturday [10/31/2020] when he saw a woman trying to destroy the signs.  The woman told the deputy that she was "tired of the lies," the sheriff's office said in a statement on Facebook.  The woman identified herself as Tonya McRae, 42, after the deputy told her it was illegal to provide a false name, which she initially provided.

74 Times Leftist Protesters Engaged in Violence, Destruction, or Intimidation — In Past 30 Days.  Left-wing protests and riots created chaos in the lead-up to Election Day 2020.  Below are 74 incidents of violent protests, riots, intimidation, and acts of anarchy carried out by leftists. [...]

Radical left groups are already plotting a coup.  A new website is leaking internal documents, images, and videos from radical left groups and people working inside the federal government planning a coup if President Trump wins re-election.  The only way to defeat these people and their ideology is for Trump to have an overwhelming victory that establishes his mandate to restore America's constitutional order.

Leaked Video From Zoom Chat Exposes The Coming Insurrection By BLM And Sunrise Movement After Election.  Leaked Zoom video featuring individuals from Black Lives Matter and The Sunrise Movement, a far left-wing, Marxist organization, reveals the plan to take to the streets and try to force president trump from office.  Members on the Zoom call openly discuss how they will work together with federal employees, the intelligence community, the media, and Democrat members.  [Video clip]

As Businesses Board Up Nationwide, Why Aren't the Democrats Hanging Their Heads In Shame?  [Scroll down]  The point of this piece is to ask Democrats to take their own inventory.  Think about it.  Businesses in cities across the U.S. are presently boarding up.  They are as a precautionary measure against post-election rioting and looting.  About these precautions, does anyone seriously think cities known for a Republican lean will be battered if Joe Biden wins?  What about Democrat-leaning cities?  Assuming Biden wins, does anyone seriously think Republicans will wantonly break windows and loot in cities known to be majority Democrat?  Oh come on, the question answers itself.  And while it's possible there will be rioting assuming a Biden victory, would anyone bet me that those throwing rocks and stealing will be registered Republicans?  This question also answers itself.

Boots On The Ground In Philly.  National Guard troops arrive in Philadelphia.  Outstanding!  [Video clip]

Antifa gearing up for false flag violence disguised as Trump supporters.  With merchants in Democrat-run cities boarding up their storefront windows, the possibility of serious urban violence is well understood.  As horrific as that could get (ask anyone who lives in Minneapolis), the progressive fascists appear to have a plan in place to make it even worse: disguising their rioters as Trump-supporters in order to make the case that Donald Trump truly is a dictator that must be violently overthrown if he wins or arrested and prosecuted if he loses.

Will Election Day 2020 Go Down In History As Riot Night Of The Century?  When the Republicans took both chambers of Congress in the historic 1994 elections, ABC news anchor Peter Jennings said "the voters had a temper tantrum." He felt it necessary to portray GOP voters as children.  But they did it the right way.  If Americans want change, and feel the need to act up, the ballot box is the place to do it.  Democratic comrades, however, have decided that violence how they are going to get their way.  What we've already had plenty of is likely to erupt even more violently tonight and Wednesday morning, and continue for some time.  The political left is determined it will win the elections, even if winning means more fighting in the streets.

Portland BLM protesters armed with Molotov cocktails run riot on Election Eve, torching a Starbucks.  Protests in Portland continued on Monday as BLM demonstrators destroyed a Starbucks and clashed with police, amid fears that further violence could be sparked by the election.  At least two people were arrested amid the violence during which windows at Portland State University's public safety office were smashed.  Protesters also threw a flammable liquid inside the Starbucks, whose walls were graffitied with 'BLM' and 'ACAB', [...]

Trump puts potential rioters and looters on notice:  You will be 'prosecuted to the fullest degree'.  During one of his final pre-Election Day rallies Monday evening, President Donald Trump warned "Biden's far-left supporters" that federal justice awaits them if they choose to "loot and riot" either during or after Tuesday's pivotal election.  He issued the remarks from Kenosha, Wisconsin, where in August violent riots by Black Lives Matter extremists erupted following the non-fatal police shooting of a black suspect who'd had an open warrant for felony sexual assault, among other charges.

All that plywood tells you the real post-election fear is pro-Biden rioting.  There is one clear leading indicator pointing to Donald Trump still having a chance to win the election — stores around America are fortifying themselves in anticipation of election-related violence.  Businesses in cities like New York City, Washington, DC, Los Angeles and Chicago are boarding up as if a Category 5 hurricane is bearing down.  Everyone tends to be coy about the reason why.  The cops in Beverly Hills worry about "protest activity."  Tiffany refers to "potential election-related activity."  Saks Fifth Avenue says it's taking precautions "in the event of civil unrest due to the current election."

Election Day riots — how did we get here?  There's plenty of blame to go around.  Driving around Washington, D.C. a couple days ago was a shocking experience.  Block after block of businesses are boarded up and anything throwable or movable has been removed from the streets.  In the meantime, faculty, staff, and students at George Washington University (where I teach) have been told to stockpile medicine and food "as you normally would for a hurricane or a snowstorm."  The reason?  We are about to have a democratic election.  The expectation is that is, unless it is a landslide for Biden, there will be rioting and arson in Washington and other cities.  When exactly did election rioting become as forecastable as inclement weather?

This Week in Leftist Violence and Intimidation Vol. 10.  This week Portland continued to be a battleground between federal agents and Antifa militants, protesters in Brooklyn called for "death to America," and Philadelphia saw mass looting as well as the destruction of an immigrant church.  [Several video clips]

Here's What Police Are Doing Ahead Of Possible Election Unrest.  Police departments are set to cancel days off, prepare tactical response teams and gather intelligence about possible election unrest as Nov. 3 quickly approaches, according to two police union officials.  The New York City Police Department (NYPD) on Oct. 24 told businesses within the boroughs to prepare for possible political violence, The Wall Street Journal reported Oct. 24.  The department has reportedly been preparing for weeks to keep the city secure in the event of election-induced calamity.  Miami, Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis, Orlando, Chicago and other major cities have also reported prepping for possible violence, according to Fox News.

White House Lockdown:  Non-Scalable Fence Being Built to Protect Trump During Election Day Unrest, 250 National Guard on Standby.  Federal agents are set to begin building a non-scalable fence around the White House, Ellipse and Lafayette Square and 250 National Guardsman have been placed on standby to protect President Donald Trump during any election day unrest.  Major riots and destruction have been promised by leftist extremists should President Trump win reelection.

Summarizing Joe Biden.  [Scroll down]  Biden has generically condemned the violent riots that have engulfed cities such as Portland and Seattle for months.  But he has never called for the riots to be put down and order restored.  Nor has he condemned the Democratic governors and mayors who let the riots continue for months.  He and Kamala Harris (who tweeted in favor of a Minnesota group that was posting bail for rioters) don't side with those who want the law enforced and order restored.

Conflict Expert on Possible Trump Win:  Thousands Could 'Storm White House'.  J. Michael Waller, an expert on strategic communication and unconventional conflict and vice president for government relations at the Center for Security Policy, said at a webinar with reporters on Wednesday that federal officials should be prepared for violent mobs on the streets of Washington, DC, that could attempt to attack the White House if President Donald Trump is victorious in winning a second term.  "We have to prepare for these mobs by the tens of thousands if not more right in downtown Washington, DC ... and storm the White House," Waller said.

All of the cities where Election Day rioting is expected have one thing in common:  They're run by Democrats.  The next time a cable news anchor mentions the perpetual "growing threat of right-wing violence in America" (which, for some reason, never becomes much more than a "threat"), I'd like them to also name the list of cities preparing for mass rioting on Election Day.  Here's a hint:  None of them voted for President Trump in 2016.  CNN earlier this month reported that "police department leaders in cities from Baltimore to Seattle and Portland ... have prohibited officers from taking days off around the election."  Bloomberg reported likewise that "Chicago, Philadelphia and New York are among cities that have revealed plans to prevent violence on Nov. 3, when election observers worry polling sites could be targeted, or in the weeks that follow if historic levels of mail-in ballots preclude the declaration of an immediate winner."

Will Halloween Last for Weeks?  It's the night before Halloween and all through the District of Columbia, plywood is being placed on shop and bank windows.  Not because people fear rampaging trick or treaters but because in a few days we will have our national election and those who don't think they'll like the results are preparing mayhem again.  If local businesses believed polls saying Biden has it in the bag, I doubt they'd be doing this.  I suppose you might argue they fear joyful riots because Biden won.  I think it more likely the senescent Biden will lose and the businesses here fear a continuation of the left's bullying and temper tantrums.  Indeed, on a stupid pretext (as usual) the riots have already begun here with 14 injured policemen and more damaged businesses, businesses already reeling from the consequences of our blinkered mayor's lockdowns.  There are many demonstrations planned for the nation's capital in the coming week.

Rioters Move from Businesses to Residential Streets in Portland.  Rioters quickly moved from a business district in northeast Portland onto residential streets after police declared a riot condition.  Anti-capitalist, anti-police rioters marched through a neighborhood overturning trashcans and shouting at residents.  Rioters took to the streets of a northeast Portland business district and began vandalizing the windows of companies, Breitbart News reported Saturday night.  Portland Police Burear officials quickly declared the demonstration dubbed "Capitalism is Scary" to be a riot and ordered their immediate dispersal.

Portland ANTIFA Invade Vancouver Wash, Assault Diners And People Trying To Enjoy A Night Out.  A "large mob of BLM-antifa from Portland are marching through Vancouver, Wash," journalist Andy Ngô tweeted.  "They've attacked bar patrons on the way & confronted people at their homes."  [Video clip]

D.C. university warns students to stockpile 'a week of food' ahead of potential election unrest.  A major university just blocks away from the White House on Friday warned students to prepare for potential civil unrest on Election Day by stockpiling a week's worth of food and medicine.  George Washington University distributed a preparedness message to both on- and off-campus students, faculty and staff.  The message recommended that they prepare for Election Day as they would "a hurricane or snowstorm that would prevent you from going outside for several days."  The message cautions students to think about how much food they typically eat in a day and plan for a supply to last them a week.  University officials recommended students stock up on foods that have long shelf life including rice, pasta, canned fruits and nuts[.]

BLM and ANTIFA Thugs Smash Businesses' Windows, Destroy Property Until They Get To THis Well-Armed Bail-Bondsmen.  Notice how these fascists come to a complete standstill once they come face to face with some deadly weaponry during a night of wilding in Vancouver Washington.  Don't even mess with bail-bondsmen, they are used to dealing with thugs.  [Video clip]

Watch A Philly Looter Gets Back To Her Car To Find It Looted.  This was the moment a Philadelphia looter got back to her car just find it was plundered as well.  [Video clip]

Korean American business owners, among hardest hit by looters, feel victimized and alone.  For many of the nearly 100 beauty supply stores in Philadelphia, it was another rough week.  From Monday [10/26/2020] to Wednesday, thieves and vandals broke into at least 17 stores, making off with merchandise and even store fixtures.  The losses were in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.  In some cases, thieves struck again at shops that were damaged previously during a more widespread outbreak of looting that flared in May after police in Minneapolis killed a man there.  The damage and theft this week erupted after news broke Monday of how police had shot and killed Walter Wallace Jr. in West Philadelphia.

How to survive the riots if President Trump is re-elected.  Lunatics under the best of conditions, liberals and leftists have already promised mostly peaceful rioting and socially-just attacks on Trump supporters if the Donald prevails.  So, if you don't want your home or business burned to the ground with you in it simply because Trump won, there are several steps you must take now.  Like bulls, libs are enraged by the color red.  So now is the time to put away all your red Trump signs and paraphernalia, not to mention anything red like, say, a St. Louis Cardinals baseball cap.  Let's face it, the 2020 electoral cake is already baked; leaving that Trump sign on your lawn won't change any minds.  But it will make your home an easy target for anarchists, arsonists and Antifarians.

Chicago unveils Election Day security plan spanning 10 days.  Chicago city leaders unveiled a 10-day Election Day preparedness plan Friday, after a summer of unrest, surges in violent crime and lockdowns amid the coronavirus pandemic.  Mayor Lori Lightfoot said the city had been planning since the late summer, which she said was at times "humbling" but also "instructive."  "We've been focused on two issues when it comes to Election Day," Lightfoot told reporters.  "First is election integrity.  The second, of course, is public safety."

Be Prepared for Democrat-Sponsored Street Violence on Election Night.  A new USA Today poll finds that 75% of the American people are concerned about post-election street violence. [...] Business owners in the central districts of Washington, DC, New York City, Chicago, Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis and pretty much every other violent, Democrat-run city in America are boarding up their windows and taking other measure to protect their property as if a Category 3 hurricane were bearing down on them.  Because guess what?  That is essentially what is about to happen to them.  The scenes of rioting and looting out of Philadelphia this week were just previews of coming attractions.

Roots of Antifa:  This 'Idea' Has Violent Consequences.  As riots and looting consumed Philadelphia this week after a fatal police shooting, a radical left-wing group, the "Philly Socialists," began monitoring police scanners and relaying information to help protesters evade arrest.  At one point, the Philly Socialists tweeted out a clue as to their street allegiances:  "Do humanity a favor and learn what antifa stands for."  The scene in Philadelphia was similar to scores of violent protests around the country since May, which have often featured a common and shadowy element — black-masked men and women who seemed as intent on breaking windows and confronting the police as chanting social justice slogans.

Here's What People In DC Think Will Happen If Trump Gets Reelected.  The Daily Caller News Foundation spoke with people on the streets of Washington, D.C. about what they think will happen if President Donald Trump is re-elected in next week's presidential election.  Some Washington D.C. business owners have boarded up store entrances in preparation of possible unrest around the election, various videos show.  Protests and violent demonstrations have been ongoing in the U.S. since George Floyd's death in police custody in May and some residents expressed concern that the unrest could carry over into election-related chaos if Trump wins.

The Editor says...
Any post-election rioting will not be Trump's fault.

Philly Police Ordered To Not Arrest Looters.  As John pointed out yesterday [10/28/2020], the Mayor of Philadelphia imposed a curfew last night in an attempt to quell the ongoing rioting and looting.  Shockingly, many of the people who were already in the process of breaking any number of laws didn't follow his orders and set out to continue the mayhem. [...] So why would the looters continue emptying the shelves of all the city's stores after they'd been put on notice by the municipal government?  Perhaps it's because they'd heard that the cops had been ordered not to arrest any looters.  Yes, you heard that correctly.  The cops were told to simply "disperse" the looters and not take them into custody.  This comes from one of the local Fox News reporters who heard it directly from multiple police sources.

Philadelphia truck bomb:  Is Antifa escalating its war on America?  Against a backdrop of Antifa/Black Lives Matter rioting in Philadelphia, police found what looks like a truck bomb, an abandoned truck left in the middle of the street loaded with explosives, which, if they had gone off, could have been disastrous. [...] If it is what it looks like, it signals that the domestic terrorists' war on America is going to a newer and much more dangerous level.  A working analysis suggests that up until now, they've contented themselves with burning and looting shops, creating big fires, assaulting cops and the elderly, and terrorizing outdoor diners.  It may be that the impact of that has worn off, and nobody's paying as much attention now.  And with an election on, some Democratic pols suddenly are tut-tutting their looting and violence.  So to stay scary and relevant, they're taking it to a sickening new Weather Underground-style level with truck bombs.

Win or lose, Dems have big plans for America.  Only a victory large enough to preclude the theft of the presidency by the Democrats and their minions in the media can forestall their plans for America's future. [...] The Democrats already have a plan in place to flood the streets with "mostly peaceful" riots before, during, and after November 3.  A Trump landslide will open Americans' eyes to the left's usurpation of the nation and perhaps provoke action.  To expedite post-election thievery, riots will again become endemic.  Every judge that might rule against the Democrats' lawfare efforts to steal the presidency will be doxed and confronted.  Their families will be terrorized in their homes.  Special care will be taken to threaten members of the Supreme Court.  Leftist agents will confront congressmen and senators at their homes, offices, and out in public with their families.  If need be, they will block them from returning to Washington D.C. and resuming the functions of government.  The same will be done to governors and mayors, lest they try to use the National Guard to regain control.

The Proper Way to Deal with the Not-So-Peaceful Parts of Mostly Peaceful Protests™.  We already know that District Attorney Larry Krasner (D-Philadelphia) hates the police and will not seriously prosecute #BlackLivesMatter protesters who break the law and destroy property, so, to do the right thing, unfortunately, requires that the feds take action.  It's a good thing it was Donald Trump and not Hillary Clinton appointing United States Attorneys! [...] The Usual Suspects complained about the timing, just a few days prior to the presidential election, and during the Mostly Peaceful Protests™ over the killing of Walter Wallace, Jr, by two Philadelphia police officers as he approached them with a knife that he refused to drop.

Leftists Are Physically Attacking Trump Supporters Just Like They Did in 2016.  In the months before the 2016 election, Trump supporters were repeatedly physically attacked by members of the left, out in the open, sometimes as they left Trump rallies.  In 2020, we are seeing a repeat of this behavior as most of the media looks the other way, just as they did four years ago.  [Video clips]  The liberal media ignores stories like these while suggesting that Trump rallies are hate events and that his supporters are bigots.  Meanwhile, Trump is repeatedly asked to condemn white supremacy while Joe Biden is never asked to denounce Antifa.

Whitmer kidnap plotter also wanted to hang Trump, other politicians, FBI says.  A Delaware man accused of plotting to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer also threatened to hang President Donald Trump and posted a hit list on Facebook targeting other elected leaders, including former President Barack Obama, according to an unsealed search warrant affidavit obtained by The Detroit News.  The affidavit provides new details about how the FBI thwarted the alleged plot to kidnap Whitmer, a Democrat, and kill police officers by enlisting the help of confidential informants.  One of the informants was a militia member who met a group of men accused in the kidnapping plot and became so concerned that the individual agreed to become an FBI confidential informant, according to the court filing.

Police In Philadelphia 'Discover Van Loaded With Explosives, Suspicious Equipment,' Report Says.  Law enforcement officials in Philadelphia have reportedly launched an investigation into a vehicle that was discovered containing explosives and suspicious items, which comes as the city is rocked by left-wing anti-police riots and widespread looting.  "Action News has learned that police recovered propane tanks, torches and possible dynamite sticks from the van," ABC 6 reported.  "The bomb squad is on the scene at this hour." [...] "City officials say at least 200 businesses, many of them already struggling in the midst of the pandemic, were the targets of massive looting across the city," the report added.  "To assist police, an undetermined number of Pennsylvania National Guard troops will soon be arriving in the city."

BLM Thugs Just Handed Pennsylvania To Trump On A Platter As They Plunder And Destroy Philly, Here Are Some Lowlights.  A second night of unrest in Philadelphia began Tuesday night over the police shooting death of a Black man, just as his children recalled memories of their father in front of reporters and 1,000 looters reportedly began targeting businesses, police said.  Elsewhere in the city, looters ransacked a Foot Locker, Rite Aid and other retail stores.  At least one vehicle was set on fire.  The Philadelphia Police Department warned people to avoid the Port Richmond area where at least 1,000 looters were ransacking businesses that included a Burlington Coat Factory, Target and Dollar General.  [Video clip]

Journalist Gets Beaten For Filming Mass Looting In Philadelphia As City Devolves Into Madness.  BlazeTV reporter Elijah Schaffer was attacked Tuesday night inside a Philadelphia store while filming ongoing looting in the wake of the police shooting of Walter Wallace Jr., who was killed after allegedly charging at officers while holding a knife on Monday.  [Video clip]

Destructive Brooklyn protest, with trash fires and broken windows, leaves local residents shaken.  The manager of a small Brooklyn Yemeni restaurant, on the morning after a violent protest marked by trash fires and broken windows, wondered Wednesday [10/28/2020] what the demonstrators hoped to accomplish.  Mahmoud Alsafarini, 25, arrived at the Hadramout Restaurant for his shift just a few doors down from the shattered glass at an Urban Outfitters outlet.  Several black-clad demonstrators also smashed windows at a Starbucks and a Bank of America branch on Court St., along with the windshield of a green taxi, in a demonstration over the Philadelphia police shooting of a knife-wielding Black man.  "These businesses don't belong to them," said Alsafarini in the aftermath of the wild march where 39 commercial properties were damaged.  "Say what you need to say without violence.  I was worried initially because the employees were still here.  They didn't have anything to protect themselves."

Violence And Chaos Erupt In Brooklyn As Police Are injured, Stores Looted And Destroyed.  A large crowd gathered to protest in solidarity with Philadelphia protests over the death of Walter Wallace Jr.  Who was shot ten times by the police, he was holding a knife according to authorities.  The group smashed police cars and some civilian car windows, multiple large businesses such as Bank of America windows were broken and multiple fires set throughout the march.  Cops kettled the group on Atlantic Ave between Smith and Boerum Pl and moved in to make arrests, when they tried to stop one car that was following the crowd the driver said "I'm trying to go home," and closed the door.  [Video clip]

Shutdown DC Plans to Shutdown the Election; the Left's Agenda is no Return to Normal.  If the Left has anything to do with it, there will be no return to anything that resembles "Normal".  Sadly, the rioting and looting in Philadelphia is a precursor to this.  Protests erupted on Monday [10/26/2020] after police shot and killed Walter Wallace, Jr., a mentally ill young man.  Wallace wielded a knife at officers and refused to drop it even after repeated orders to do so.  Now there is unrest in the streets, and apparently someone planned for these "spontaneous" protestors to be well armed.

Trump Resistance Plans 'Mass Mobilization' After Election To Shut Down The Country If Biden Doesn't Win.  Riot and protest instigators plan to "make sure Trump leaves the White House" by any means necessary after the Nov. 3 election, according to website posts from the group Shut Down DC and their allies.  "[W]e're making plans to be in the streets before the polls even close, ready to adapt and respond to whatever comes our way," the group says on its website currently. [...] The group linked to protests at the homes of Trump administration officials tells its DC-area supporters to "Come to Black Lives Matter Plaza" on election night "to create serious disruption if Trump really tries to steal the election!" Black Lives Matter Plaza is the site of repeated anti-Trump summer rioting and defacement of the historic Saint John's Church one block away from the White House.  On the page, Shut Down DC sketches out its plans for election night and immediately following.  On Nov. 4-7, the group says it plans to "do whatever it takes".

Democrat Meltdown:  Rep. Max Rose Attacks Shopper at Staten Island Store.  Democrat Rep. Max Rose (NY) is slipping in the polls in a race against Republican Nicole Malliotakis, who has been endorsed by President Donald Trump.  And now the Democrat is facing backlash for cursing at a constituent outside a Staten Island grocery store when the man appears to disagree with him. [...] The news outlet [Shorefront News] reported Rose "may have snapped" as he faces a loss against Malliotakis, yet still referred to him as a "talented politician" who was "forced" by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to support Trump's impeachment.

Anti-cop protesters leave trail of destruction in Downtown Brooklyn.  Dozens of marching protesters were arrested in Brooklyn on Tuesday night after clashing with NYPD cops and leaving a trail of destruction in their wake in response to the Philadelphia police shooting death of an armed black man.  About 200 protesters met in Fort Greene Park before snaking their way through the streets, vandalizing police vehicles, torching an American flag and igniting at least one rubbish fire during their travels, according to footage posted to social media by video journalist Issa Khari.  "Burn the precinct to the ground, every city, every town!" the group, mainly clad in black, chanted as they marched near Boerum Place and Livingston Street in Downtown Brooklyn.  Near Willoughby and Jay streets, several protesters chucked rocks and bottles at police officers, sources said.  Others in the group wielded pieces of wood.

Left's Post-Election Agenda:  More Riots, 'Truth Commissions,' Other Punishment For Their Foes — That Means You.  You hear it every day.  Someone says, "I just want the election to be over," hoping out loud that things will somehow "return to normal" once the 2020 vote ends.  But it won't.  The left already has plans to ensure that.  By "return to normal," of course, we refer to an America not so riven by politics that families and neighbors no longer talk to each other because of the deep political divide.  An America where people again become friendly and human, politics recede in importance, the economy and schools reopen, and suspicion of others' political motives fade into the deep background.  Sounds great, the fabled tolerant America of yore.  But, sorry, whether Donald Trump wins or loses, the left has other plans.

Officer Run Over:  Philly Riots Over Man Shot Charging at Cops with Knife.  A black pickup truck appeared to hit a police officer in Philadelphia as unrest escalated in the Pennsylvania city following the shooting death of Walter Wallace Jr.  Wallace, shot earlier in the day as he was rushing at officers with a knife.  Dozens of officers were injured with rocks, bricks and other projectiles and this 56-year-old female officer, hit by a pickup truck and hospitalized with a broken leg.  [Video clip]

Biden Is Running a Protection Racket.  Joe Biden's big pitch is his promise to restore calm.  It's a con.  It's Antifa and Black Lives Matter — both on his side — that are stirring everything up.  He's trying to run a protection racket: vote Democrat, or the chaos continues.  Biden talks of calm, but it is not Trump-supporters storming restaurants and other public places across the country to demand obeisance to their agenda.  Instead, from Washington to Kentucky to Florida, it is the "Black Lives Matter" movement — which Biden has made a centerpiece of his campaign — that has smashed up restaurants, threatened their owners, and demanded that diners raise the black power fist.  As one headline put it, "aggressive mob of white BLM protesters threaten and film white diners at DC restaurants and DEMAND they raise their fist and show solidarity with them... or else."  Biden speaks of tolerance, but it isn't MAGA people marching into our schools, newsrooms, and even corporate boardrooms to demand absolute allegiance; it's Biden-supporting leftists.

Rioting Erupts In Philly, Police Are Attacked By ANTIFA And BLM Thugs.  Police officers fatally shot a 27-year-old Black man armed with a knife during a confrontation Monday afternoon in West Philadelphia that quickly raised tensions in the neighborhood.  Late into the night, growing anger, fueled by BLM claiming the man was unarmed, turned into a violent standoff at the local police district headquarters with several police officers injured by bricks or other objects hurled from the crowd.  There were reports of stores being looted and at least one police vehicle was set on fire.  [Video clip]

Black Man Charges Cop With A Knife, Gets Shot Dead, BLM Sparks Riots Soon After.  An investigation is underway after a man who police say was armed with a knife was shot and killed by officers in West Philadelphia late Monday afternoon [10/26/2020].  Police said they were called to Locust and South 61st streets shortly before 5 p.m. for a report of a man with a weapon.  When they arrived they say they found a man, later identified as Walter Wallace, who was holding a knife.  [Video clip]

Insane Violence and Mayhem Towards Jews, Trump Supporters And Cops In NYC This Weekend.  Fights, brawls, and arrests in a chaotic scene on Sunday [10/25/2020] in Times Square as Antifascists clashed with Trump Supporters.  The fistfights and brawls left some protesters bloodied and others arrested, at least one Trump supporter was seen taken away in handcuffs after the unlawful assembly has been declared.  Caravans started all over the city since the early morning, the Trump rally began at Trump Tower and marched, along with a caravan of vehicles to Times Square.  The counter-protesters hurled eggs at the caravan and pulled flags from their cars.  Rudy Giuliani was seen driving with the caravan and was then approached by a protester and Trump supporters on 5th Avenue.  [Video clip]

From the Army to Antifa:  Ex-private accused by feds of throwing explosive at Portland riot.  An ex-Army private has been federally charged for allegedly throwing an explosive mortar at law enforcement during a night of violent rioting in Portland in September.  Following an FBI investigation, 23-year-old Ty John Fox, of Astoria, Ore., was charged with felony civil disorder, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Oregon announced.  On Sept. 5, hundreds of Black Lives Matter and Antifa rioters descended on the Portland Police Bureau's east precinct.  Viral video recorded that night showed rioters throwing lit Molotov cocktails toward the line of police.  Two people were set on fire and one person was taken to hospital for injuries.  Amid the mayhem, a sergeant was struck and injured by a commercial-grade mortar firework.

Vehicle Rams Line of Police Officers in Philadelphia.  As protests in Philadelphia turn violent after a man armed with a knife was shot and killed by police, a line of police officers, who appear to have been containing rioting, was run down by a speeding truck that appears to have left the scene.  [Video clip]

Truck driver runs over a cop and protesters pelt police with bricks as BLM demonstrators and looters swarm Philadelphia.  Rioting, vandalism and looting erupted in Philadelphia on Monday night [10/26/2020] hours after police fatally shot a 27-year-old black man armed with a knife during a domestic disturbance call.  Late into the night, growing anger boiled over into a violent riot near the Philadelphia Police 18th District building.  Several officers were injured by bricks and other projectiles thrown at them by a crowd of demonstrators.  At least 30 officers have been hurt with 12 hospitalized including one female Philadelphia Police Sergeant, 56, who suffered a broken leg after being hit by a speeding pick-up truck that was videoed driving towards a line of officers close to the city center shortly before 1 am, according to Philadelphia Police.

Protesters hurl eggs at Rudy Giuliani, pro-Trump demonstrators in NYC.  Anti-Trump protesters hurled eggs and insults at supporters of the president — including former mayor Rudy Giuliani — as they rolled through Manhattan in a convoy on Sunday [10/25/2020].  Video posted on Twitter shows a flag-draped pro-Trump caravan — identified online as a Jews for Trump demonstration — led by Giuliani being bombarded with eggs, including one spot at 59th Street and 5th Avenue — with one protester yelling "[...]" at the former Big Apple mayor.  [Video clip]

Exposing Liberals' 'Tiny Fraction' Lie.  In a recent podcast, Michelle Obama, as she continues to shed her "no red state nor blue state America but just United States of America" skin to reveal a ruthless, myopic partisan looking to settle scores from fights unknown while making clear to those paying attention how America became so much more divided after the Obama presidency, complains that the opposition to the protesters is "once again patently false, morally wrong, and racist." After all, she insists, the violence is committed by just a "tiny fraction" of the protesters. [...] First of all, the assertion of a tiny fraction is an absurdity.  An estimated 570 riots were violent during the George Floyd protests, 19 people died during 14 days of those protests, and approximately 2 billion dollars of damage has accrued from all this peace.  The magnitude of damage from a tiny fraction strains credulity, especially given the opportunity for live viewing of so many of these riots, in which looters and harassers are clearly more than small fractions, while the other participants, if any, cheerlead with venomous gusto.

Antifa Repeatedly Threatens Andy Ngo's Life.  What Are the Portland Police Doing About It?  On Thursday [10/22/2020], the Post Millennial Editor-at-Large Andy Ngo and author Douglas Murray posed in front of a large graffiti death threat in Portland reading, "Kill Andy Ngo."  Ngo claimed he has reported many death threats to the Portland Police Bureau, but the police have yet to follow up with him on these threats.  "One of many such signs in Downtown Portland.  There is nothing normal about this.  It is a call for the murder of a journalist in an American city.  Shame on the Portland authorities for tolerating it," Murray tweeted.  "All death threats and incitements to violence against me have been reported to [the Portland Police] since last year.  I have not been followed-up with once," Ngo added.

Sounds to me like selective enforcement.

Bernie Bro with Van Full of Guns and Explosives Plotted to Assassinate Biden — Media Buries the Lede, as Usual.  Most of the time, the media doesn't outright lie to you.  Yeah, every once in a while they'll blurt out a huge whopper ("Russian collusion"), but usually it's more subtle than that.  They'll give you the facts, but they'll emphasize some facts over others to preserve the narrative they're selling.  They'll lie by omission.  They'll distract you with trivia while the real story slips by you unnoticed.  For example, did you hear about the guy they just arrested in North Carolina for plotting to kill Joe Biden?  Do you think you know why he wanted to do that? [...] What was [Alexander Hillel] Treisman's motive?  He must be one of those evil Proud Boys or crazy QAnon freaks we keep hearing so much about, right?  Wrong.  But to find out the actual motive, you have to go all the way down to paragraph 15 of the WaPo story. [...] He's a Bernie Bro.  He wanted to kill Biden to somehow help Bernie.

Republican Congressman And His Family 'Threatened' At Their Home.  Rep. Tom Reed (R-NY) released a statement on Friday afternoon [10/23/2020] indicating that he and his family were threatened at their home today by someone who left a dead animal and a brick with a family member's name on it at the residence.  "Today, my family and I were threatened at our home in Corning," Reed said in a statement.  "The cowards used a dead animal and a brick with a family member's name on it to try to intimidate us."  "We assure everyone such threats only energize us to stand stronger," Reed continued.

Massachusetts woman is charged with assault for 'pushing a 73-year-old Vietnam veteran into an intersection because he was holding a Trump sign'.  A Massachusetts woman has been charged with assault after she allegedly pushed an elderly veteran to the ground while he was holding a pro-Trump sign.  Kiara Dudley, 34, was taken into custody following the purported attack on 73-year-old George Griffin, which is said to have occurred in the town of Douglas on Saturday.  Griffin — who served in the Navy during the Vietnam War — was standing on the town's Main Street with his wife, Joann, brandishing a 'Veterans For Trump' sign.  According to Douglas police, the couple were subsequently approached by a small group who 'began to berate them with insults and demanded that they leave.'

Who made it necessary to use tear gas?  Look in the mirror, hippies!
Liberals' New Outrage:  ACLU, Environmental Groups Sue DHS Over Tear Gas Used In Protests.  Just when you think progressive liberal groups have exhausted all forms to express outrage over, there's more.  They always find a way; there's always a way.  While celebrities want to use their powerful status with fame and money to get criminals out of jail, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) found their own fight.  Protesters, rioters and looters in cities across the country have forced law enforcement and government agencies to combat their destructive behavior; at times, tear gas was used when the crowds grew aggressive.  The Associated Press reports that according to the ACLU, "human health and the environment are suffering the consequences" of the chemicals used in the tear gas.

Student newspaper publishes instructions on how to make a Molotov cocktail.  The student newspaper at the University of Wisconsin -Milwaukee posted an opinion-editorial containing instructions on how to make and use a Molotov cocktail.  The editor-in-chief of the UWM Post, Adam Kelnhofer, wrote an op-ed on June 14 going over the history of the Molotov cocktail after protests broke out in Milwaukee following the death of George Floyd.  The op-ed included instructions on how to "make a Molotov cocktail."

The Antifa Industry at Work:
Professional left-wing organizers, planning for post-election chaos, promise to "shut down" the capital and engage in "civil resistance."  Writing at the American Mind last month, Michael Anton, author of The Stakes:  America at the Point of No Return, brought attention to a war game report issued by the Transition Integrity Project, an ad hoc group associated with the George Soros-funded Democracy Integrity Project.  Anton's widely read essay, "The Coming Coup?" was heavily discussed on social media and by conservative talk show hosts including Dan Bongino, Mark Levin, Rush Limbaugh, and Glenn Beck.  What conservatives found so alarming was that the Transition Integrity Project urged Trump's opponents to wage a "street fight, not a legal one" in the near-certain event of a contested election.  In other words, forces arrayed against the president's reelection should abandon the American political system — and pin their hopes of election victory not on the Constitution-mandated quest for the most electoral votes, but upon the street mobilization and direct-action capabilities of Antifa and the Left's other professionally-staffed organizing groups.  As a heavily contested Election Day approaches, it is crucial for both conservative activists and officials in law enforcement to understand that left-wing organizing for direct-action and "nonviolent" civil disobedience is being planned by career organizing professionals working within well-funded, interlocking organizations.

BLM Activist Faces Hate Crime Charges for Knocking Out the Teeth of a Black Conservative.  On Saturday [10/17/2020], a Black Lives Matter mob targeted a free speech rally against Big Tech in San Francisco.  An assailant socked the free speech rally organizer, 25-year-old black conservative Philip Anderson, in the jaw, knocking out his two front teeth.  On Sunday, the San Francisco Police Department arrested a suspect, 35-year-old Androa "Dro" Anderson, charging him with mayhem and a hate crime enhancement.  Philip Anderson organized the protest on his website, "Team Save America."  He launched the protest after Facebook and Twitter took unprecedented steps to censor a New York Post article about Hunter Biden.

Liberals Threatening Violence If Trump Is Reelected.  It is worth reminding those that didn't watch that news pundits actually cried live, on-air, completely forgoing even the pretense of objectivity anymore.  Some have seen the video below, some haven't, but it is perfectly representative of how shocked media personalities, pundits, comedians and celebrities all freaked out on television, because they too had believed the pollsters who were almost all wrong, and allowed themselves to become over-confident, assured that their candidate cannot lose.  [Video clip]

Threatened in New Hampshire:  A warning to all Trump supporters.  "You have been identified as a Trump Supporter," the letter begins.  It asks if you have fire insurance, and ends with the statement, "you have been given fair warning." Not an implied threat, but an implicit threat to burn down houses of Trump supporters.  While these letters were delivered in two small in New Hampshire towns, they culminate four years of hatred of this president and everyone who supports him.  It is the expected outcome of the largest propaganda war launched against a nation since Joseph Goebbels ran the Reich Ministry of Propaganda of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945.  The lessons learned from Goebbels are being applied today by the legacy media, high tech media, and the Democratic party.  The key to the Goebbels' strategy was to have one voice.  And that is exactly what the combined Democratic propaganda machine is giving to America and, sadly, to the world.  One voice that hides any dissension, or variance from their talking points.

What Kenosha Looks Like After Riots and Looting.  In just 48 hours, over 40 businesses in the quiet city of Kenosha, Wisconsin were ravaged by violence, according to the Kenosha Area Business Alliance.  Rioters looted and torched shops on the nights of Aug. 23 and 24.  The Daily Signal traveled there to see what it looked like.  The city of 99,000, situated on Lake Michigan between Chicago and Milwaukee, is "a little big town," Kenosha local and business owner Scott Carpenter says.  Carpenter's business, B&L Office Furniture, was burned to the ground in riots after the police shooting of Jacob Blake, 29.  [Video clip]

Left Proposes "Truth and Reconciliation Commission" to Target Trump Supporters if Biden Wins.  Members of the professional left are now proposing a 'truth and reconciliation commission' to shame Trump supporters if Joe Biden wins.  These would be the same people who have spent four years calling Trump an authoritarian, a dictator, a fascist, a cult leader, and worse.  Those same people are now proposing Orwellian forms of public shaming for having the 'wrong' views. [...] Make no mistake about what is being suggested.  These people are talking about a vindictive form of retaliation for wrongthink.

Suspect Charged With Hate Crime For Attacking Black Pro-Trump Free Speech Rally Organizer.  A suspect has been charged with a hate crime after allegedly attacking a pro-Trump free speech rally organizer in San Francisco, a police report says.  The San Francisco Police Department arrested Adora Anderson, 35, Sunday [10/19/2020] and charged him with mayhem and a hate crime enhancement, according to the statement.

Man putting Black Lives Matter sign in his yard arrested after shooting at Trump supporters.  A Maryland man is being held without bond and has been charged for firing a shotgun as Trump supporters drove by in a pickup truck while he put a Black Lives Matter sign in his yard.  CBS Baltimore reports the incident happened Saturday afternoon in Kingsville, Maryland, a semi-rural community about 10 miles northeast of Baltimore.  Police have booked resident Douglas Kuhn with multiple charges, including assault.

Antifa man who hit Seattle officer with a metal bat said he wanted to 'slit every SPD throat'.  Yesterday [10/19/2020] Seattle PD announced the arrest of 19-year-old Jacob Greenberg in connection with multiple incidents of violence that took place at protests.  The best known of these was his use of a metal bat to strike an SPD officer in the back of the head.  Fortunately, the officer was wearing a helmet which probably saved his life.  The helmet was cracked by the impact from the bat. [...] As Ed pointed out when this happened last month, the anti-police individual who filmed the attack deleted their own video after Antifa complained it could be used to identify the people involved.  Unfortunately for Greenberg, the video had already been copied by others.  Using the clip police were able to tie him to multiple other crimes including throwing a Molotov cocktail at a police precinct on Sep. 1 and setting fire to dumpsters on Sep. 26.

Some media liberals urge revenge, payback if Trump loses.  Media commentators, who are unloading everything they have on President Trump, are no longer content with the idea of him merely losing.  Now, in their esteemed estimation, there has to be a "reckoning."  As part of a package of editorial condemnation, the New York Times declared that "Donald Trump's reelection campaign poses the greatest threat to American democracy since World War II."  Then the Washington Post's Outlook opinion section devoted its cover to two alternatives:  whether Trump and his minions should be prosecuted or merely investigated as part of a national truth commission.

Police investigate threatening letters sent to Trump supporters.  Milford police are trying to track down whoever is behind a series of letters that were sent to supporters of President Donald Trump threatening to burn down their homes.  Kelly, a Milford resident who asked to be identified only by her first name, said she received one of the letters.  "Dear neighbor," the letter read.  "You have been identified by our group as being a Trump supporter.  Your address has been added to our database as a target when we attack should Trump not concede the election."  The anonymous author went on to say Kelly should hope her home insurance has fire coverage.

Activist group plans widespread, 'disruptive' election activities to thwart potential Trump 'coup'.  An activist group is planning large-scale and widespread 'disruptive activity' starting on the night of the election, in an attempt to stop what it predicts will be an "attempted coup" by President Trump in the form of a refusal to accept the election results.  "Shut Down D.C." is setting the stage for mass gatherings in D.C., noting that the "resistance" must begin during the "muddied" legal and political debate over the election outcome.  "Trump will not leave office without mass mobilization and direct action," the group says on its website.  In a separate document, first reported by The Federalist, the group characterizes its planned movement as an "uprising," and calls for potentially blockading the White House, blocking traffic, shutting down government office buildings and even Amazon fulfillment centers.

Trump Team Accuses Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Encouraging Assassination of President Weeks Before Election.  Donald Trump's reelection campaign accused Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer of "encouraging assassination attempts" targeting the president on Sunday afternoon [10/18/2020], amid escalating conflict between the two political leaders.  Trump's campaign, which uses the handle "Trump War Room" on Twitter, based its allegations against Whitmer on a token with the numbers "8645" clearly visible.  The token appeared behind her during an interview with NBC News host Chuck Todd on Meet the Press Sunday morning.  "Governor Gretchen Whitmer displayed an '86 45' sign during her TV appearance.  86 can be shorthand for killing someone," the Trump campaign tweeted, alongside a screenshot from the governor's interview.  "Whitmer is encouraging assassination attempts against President Trump just weeks after someone sent a ricin-laced package to the White House."

Douglas Woman Charged With Attacking 73-Year-Old Trump Supporter.  A woman charged with assaulting a Vietnam veteran because he supports President Trump was released on $250 bail Monday.  Kiara Dudley, 34, was arrested after the weekend incident in Douglas.  The 73-year-old veteran and another person were at the intersection of Main and Webster streets just after noon Saturday with Trump flags and signs.  Police said Dudley went up to the couple and "began to berate them with insults" and told them to leave.  As the couple tried to move away, police said Dudley bumped the veteran with her body and then stepped on his "Veterans for Trump" sign.  As he bent over to pick it up, investigators said Dudley "knocked him to the ground causing an injury to his finger."  Several people called 911 and Dudley was later arrested.

Ordered Liberty is Not White Supremacy and Does Not Date from 1619.  In the midst of this election year we are seeing widespread assaults on freedom of speech of those who do not share the leftist dogma.  Dissenters from the doctrine are labeled "racist."  The assaults on freedom of speech have been accompanied by rioting and violence in mostly Democrat-run cities under the guise of protests against "institutional" or "systemic" racism in policing and law enforcement.  These riots are being conducted by Marxist-anarchists, and leaders of the Democrat party only began to condemn them when the polls reflected negatively on the Party's chances for November.

The Brownshirts Are Back.  Some American cities, like Portland, Seattle and San Francisco, are starting to look like Germany in the 1930s.  Yesterday a free speech rally was held in downtown San Francisco.  Those marching for free speech were attacked by fascists from Antifa.  Zero Hedge has collected photos and videos.  Event organizer Philip Anderson was attacked by the Brownshirts, who knocked out his front teeth.  White mob attacks black man and knocks out his teeth?  It's OK, they're Democrats.

San Francisco Conservative Rally Attacked By Antifa Mob.  When you think of San Francisco, a conservative rally in support of the President and law enforcement probably isn't the first thing that comes to mind.  But a group called Team Save America somehow managed to pull one off yesterday.  Or at least they did so briefly.  The group was displaying Thin Blue Line flags, along with American flags as they protested Twitter's suppression of free speech and the blackout of news unfavorable to Joe Biden.  The reason the rally didn't last long was that hundreds of Antifa thugs showed up almost immediately and began attacking both the protesters and the police who were attempting to keep the two groups apart.  At least one protester was taken to the hospital and multiple officers were injured.

Free speech rally marred by violence as counterprotesters storm event, beat pro-Trump demonstrators.  A rally called to promote free speech and denounce big tech censorship turned ugly Saturday in San Francisco, when hundreds of alleged Antifa counterprotesters showed up and berated and attacked demonstrators, leaving one missing a tooth.  The conservative group Team Save America organized the event to protest Twitter, which it argues censors free speech.  They planned to rally at United Nations Plaza before moving the protest to Twitter's headquarters a few blocks away.  But the event quickly devolved into a shouting match and violence as hundreds of counterprotesters stormed the scene.  Video shows one counterprotester punching Philip Anderson, an organizer of the event, knocking one of his teeth out.  Anderson posted a picture of the aftermath on social media and said he was attacked by Antifa.

What Happened to the Riots?  According to the Bridging the Divide Initiative, a Princeton think tank that conducts U.S. protest modeling with a wink and nod to the left, there was a free fall in the number of BLM-associated demonstrations and uprisings from a late-May peak to an October low.  Who or what was responsible for this plunge? [...] CNN anchorman Don Lemon, who has often made light of the mob violence for CNN's two million primetime viewers, suddenly called for an end to hostilities.  He fretted not over the loss of life, attacks on police officers, or the destruction of small businesses.  Instead, he lamented that it wasn't polling well for the Biden campaign.  Lemon's apostasy and reproach was a warning shot to upper-crust Democrats that their reluctance to censure street anarchism was becoming a clear reflection of their support for the violence.

Truck With Trump Flags Torched By Arsonists Near Portland.  Another day, another fuzzy picture of a night time fire set by violent leftists suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome.  Today's edition features a pickup truck in Vancouver, Washington, just north of Portland (duh), that was adorned with Trump flags.  That is until crazed arsonists decided to light the flags afire, and the flames spread to torch the whole truck.

Antifa rioters who targeted Portland cafe 'solidified' his Trump vote, military veteran says.  A cafe owned by a military veteran was shot at during a chaotic demonstration in Portland over the weekend after being deemed by rioters as unfriendly to the Black Lives Matter movement.  Heroes American Cafe was targeted for being an "unfriendly business" by so-called Antifa-linked Twitter accounts, owner John Jackson told Fox News.  Two windows in the cafe's downtown location were shot at and another was struck with a blunt object — possibly a baseball bat — said Jackson, a Black man who served in the Army and Marine Corps.

New and Troubling Questions About Murder of Trump Supporter at Rally in Denver.  In this story yesterday I wrote about the discovery of the left-wing protest connections of Denver murder suspect Matthew Dolloff, who shot and killed Lee Keltner, an attendee at the "Patriot Muster" pro-Trump rally. [...] There is a lot more to the story this morning [10/12/2020].  First, Dolloff was not a licensed security guard.  The City of Denver has a municipal ordinance requiring anyone employed as a "security guard" to possess a city license authorizing the person to work in that capacity inside Denver city limits.  To get the license the applicant must complete the specified training.  If the applicant is to be armed as a security guard, he must undergo some additional training, and pass a firearms proficiency course.  If the security guard is going to work in a "plain clothes" capacity — as Dolloff was — he must undergo even more training before getting the license.  An official for the City of Denver licensing department responded to a news inquiry that they have no application or file for anyone named Matthew Dolloff as holding the necessary license issued by the City of Denver.

Trump Supporter Shot Dead in Denver, Media Tiptoes Around It.  You wouldn't know it if your only news source was the legacy media, but on Saturday, a Trump supporter was shot and killed in broad daylight outside the Denver Art Museum.  There was a Black Lives Matter rally and something called a "Patriot Muster" going on at the same time, and when the two groups clashed, someone was shot.  The shooting was in full view of a crowd of people, and there's footage of the attack from multiple angles.  [Video clips] [...] I'm no lawyer, but this does not look like self-defense to me.  The shooter was reaching for his gun before the victim started pepper-spraying him, and the victim was backing away as the gun came out and up.  It actually looks like the victim was trying to defend himself from someone who was about to shoot him.  But even if it were the other way around, pepper spray is non-lethal and there's no justification for lethal force in response.

About that so-called 'security guard' who gunned down a Trump supporter in Denver.  Was a local Denver television station hiring violent Antifa supporters to act as their personal security guards?  That's what it's starting to look like, given that Saturday, an apparent radical leftist was hired as a 'security guard' by local news station 9News/KUSA, who then got into a shouting altercation with an anti-communist group member, pulled out a gun, and opened fire on Lee Keltner, shooting him dead. [...] Much of the focus now is on who was to blame, or whether the 'security guard' was somehow provoked.  But how [...] did this guy have a role as a security guard for newsmen covering protestors?  Matthew Dolloff was a non-employee "contractor," supposedly connected to the Pinkerton agency, according to 9News, and he acted as the 'security guard' for newsmen covering the yelling and screaming rallies.  However, he had no security certification, as required by law.  He was just a scruffy character with an Occupy!  Denver past with a gun.  Was he really a security guard, or was he a leftist protestor?  Based on the filmed sequences here, it appears he was acting as a leftist protestor.

Denver Murder Victim Incorrectly ID'd As Part of "Right-Wing Patriot Rally".  Lee Keltner, a 49-year-old Navy veteran, was murdered in Denver on Saturday.  He was killed by 30-year-old Matthew Dolloff, who claimed to be a private security guard.  Keltner sprayed mace at Dolloff, who drew his weapon and shot Keltner in the head.  The victim was pronounced dead at a local hospital.  Johnathon Keltner, Lee's 24-year-old son, told a newspaper reporter that his father was not part a specific group.  He said his father was "there to rally for the police department."  News reports immediately claimed that Keltner was part of a "Right-Wing Patriot Rally."  Dolloff, who shot Keltner from about six feet away, was immediately surrounded by police and taken into custody.

Alleged Denver shooter Matthew Robert Dolloff is a proud radical leftist.  A man accused of shooting and killing Trump supporter Lee Keltner in Denver yesterday [10/10/2020] has been proclaimed by both law enforcement and mainstream media as definitely not being associated with Antifa, the radical progressive domestic terrorist organization that Joe Biden has said is just "an idea."  But his past social media posts and direct affiliation with Antifa precursor, Occupy Democrats, seem to indicate that if he was not a member of Antifa, that his ideology closely aligned with theirs at the very least.

Keith Olbermann:  Trump Supporters Are 'Maggots,' Must Be 'Prosecuted'.  Former ESPN host Keith Olbermann lashed out at Trump supporters Friday night, calling for the prosecution and conviction of all those connected with the president.  Mr. Olbermann called Trump supporters "maggots," the new insult du jour to replace 2016's "deplorables" in the 2020 presidential election.

9 Warning Signs of Democrat Radicalization.  If you threaten strangers and destroy property in the name of Black Lives Matter or Antifa, then local Democrat prosecutors will make sure you never answer for your crimes.  If you exercise your Second Amendment right to protect the lives of your family and secure your property, those same Democrat prosecutors will threaten your liberty and future.  If you riot in the name of "justice," then you are performing a public service.  If you seek spiritual salvation by attending church or synagogue, then you are a public health threat.  When Democrats are in office, there are two tiers of justice in America, one for protecting Democrats and one for harassing Republicans.  Former attorney general Eric Holder aptly articulated this reality when he argued that the fight against Republicans is "not about principle" but about the "acquisition and use of power."

Here's every Antifa goon arrested in Portland last night during their BLM anti-police protest.  Notice anything they all have in common?  The Antifa dweebs were out in Portland last night, dressed in black and covered in body armor (and body odor, no doubt), and 26 of them got themselves arrested.  Just curious:  Do you notice anything they all have in common? [...] Armored attire or not, judging by the mugshots, those must've been the easiest 26 arrests ever made.  I honestly feel bad for these lost souls.  They are desperate for a cause to believe in.

Leftists Want Us Dead... And Our Culture.  Reports say a history professor at the University of Rhode Island sees nothing wrong with killing a fascist.  The problem is:  Extreme leftists have a very broad understanding of who may be identified as a fascist.  But what did professor Erik Loomis actually say?  "[Reinoehl] killed a fascist.  I see nothing wrong with it, at least from a moral perspective."  [Why Was Michael Reinoehl Killed? by Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns & Money, September 4, 2020]  The "fascist" murdered by Michael Reinoehl was Aaron "Jay" Danielson.  Danielson was a member of the Patriot Prayer group, which supports Donald Trump.  That, apparently, qualifies him as a fascist and worthy of death.  Danielson was gunned down on a street in Portland, Oregon, where he organized a caravan to support the president.  The murder occurred August 29, 2020 and was video recorded.  Days later Reinoehl, himself, was fatally shot by police when he resisted arrest.  Who else does Loomis consider fascists?  "The police is [sic] shot through with fascists from stem to stern," he wrote.  "They were openly working with the fascists in Portland, as they were in Kenosha which led to dead protestors."  Seriously?  Does Loomis consider it a capital offense to support President Trump or to be a police officer?  So it seems.

Denver 'Patriot Rally' shooter railed against Trump on social media.  The unlicensed security guard accused of fatally shooting a Navy veteran at a Denver "Patriot Rally" railed against President Trump and shared left-wing political content on social media.  Matthew Dolloff's ex-girlfriend, told the Daily Mail, she dated Dolloff from 2010 to 2013, and during that time period, the former couple were both heavily involved in Occupy Denver — the local branch of Occupy Wall Street.  Dolloff, 35, a registered Democrat, includes dozens of political posts on his Facebook profile dating back to 2011 in which he railed against Republicans including President Trump in June 2016, [...]

'Murdered because he backed the police': Man shot and killed during Denver rallies identified.  The man shot and killed during dueling political rallies in Denver has been identified as a veteran and local hat maker, Lee Keltner.  "My son Lee was at the patriot rally today in Denver," Keltner's mother, Carole, posted on the Northeast Arkansas Tea Party Facebook group.  "He was murdered because he backed the police."  "His 24 year old son was with him," she continued, which was reported by the New York Post.  "I moved to Arkansas because Colorado got too expensive and liberal.  The left has gotten out of hand."  Keltner had been living in Denver and was a hatter at Crossfire Hats in the city's historic district for more than 20 years.  The Sun reported he was shot and killed in front of his son.

Suspect in Denver shooting [is] not a licensed security guard.  The private security guard who has been jailed on suspicion of first-degree murder stemming from a deadly shooting on Saturday in Denver during dueling protests was reportedly not properly licensed to work in the position.  Matthew Robert Dolloff, 30, was reportedly working as a contracted security guard for 9News at the time of the shooting.  The local news station reported late Sunday that he was contracted through another company to accompany its news staff to the protests.  The station reported that it later found out that it appears that Dolloff was not actually employed by the company it used and the company did not provide additional information about his actual employer.

Shooter At Pro-Trump Rally in Denver Has Longstanding Ties to Left-Wing Protest Groups.  Social media sleuths have uncovered the name of the shooter in the murder of a "Patriot Muster" Rally attendee in Denver on Saturday.  Online booking records for the Denver Police Department show only one person arrested for First Degree murder on October 10, 2020, and his name is Matthew Dolloff.  His identity has now been confirmed by the Denver television station that hired him for security.  More on that below.  The identity of the victim has now been confirmed by his family. [...] Some websites are already canvassing the shooter's social media history and his numerous expressions of support for various left-wing causes — which is extremism seeming to have increased in recent years.  One of the first social media messages connecting him to left-wing groups was his confirmation that he would be attending an "Occupy Denver" protest rally in 2011.  He's also a vocal supporter of Bernie Sanders on social media.

If Biden/ Harris Win, A Crackdown On Whites Is Coming.  Two recent events show us that a victory for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris on November 3 will unleash a war on whites.  First was the alleged "white supremacist" plot, inspired by President Trump's "rhetoric," to kidnap the tyrannical Leftist governor of Michigan, Gretchen Whitmer.  Second is Twitter's suspension of Lauren Witzke, the anti-immigration, America First candidate who has already won the GOP Senate nomination in Delaware, merely for criticizing mass Third World immigration. [...] Truth is, Brandon Caserta, leader of the group, is a NeverTrump, anti-cop anarchist.  "Trump is not your friend," he says.  "He's shown over and over and over again that he's a tyrant.  Every single person that works for government is your enemy."  [Video clip]  Yet somehow that man is acting on Trump's orders?!  Ridiculous yes, but that's what we're told by people who want to suppress Trump and his supporters.  Witzke's crime:  telling an obvious truth.  Import Third World immigrants and you'll soon be living in the Third World.

'White Supremacist' Suspect In Michigan Kidnapping Plot Is Actually A Trump-Hating Anarchist.  A new video of one of the 13 men arrested and charged in an alleged kidnapping plot against Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer shows the suspect is a Trump-hating anarchist despite media claims the plot was hatched by pro-Trump white supremacists.  "You know Trump is not your friend, dude," said Brandon Caserta, with a large anarchist flag hanging on his wall behind him.  "And it amazes me that people actually, like, believe that.  When he's shown over and over and over again that he's a tyrant.  Every single person that works for government is your enemy, dude." [...] In another video from Caserta, the anarchist asserted, "[police] are oppressing you for a paycheck."  "If you're still supporting law enforcement... you are supporting the people who are enforcing slavery on everyone else."

Democrat Governor of Delaware Pardoned One of Gov. Whitmer's Kidnap Plotters.  The whole story about these clowns who were exposed last week in a foiled plot to kidnap Governor Whitmer keeps getting a tad bit stranger as more comes out.  As I wrote here last week on this, thankfully the plot was foiled by the police before she was able to defund them. [...] Now comes word that one of the idiots planning on doing this was just pardoned by her fellow Governor, and Democrat to boot, just last year in the State of Delaware.  You know Deleware, where Joe Biden served as a Senator forever and not Scranton, Pennsylvania as you might believe from all of the commercials. [...] Now, this pardon did not release him from jail but it did clear his record to possibly give him the clearance to purchase some things he would not have been able to do before.  This will undoubtedly come out in the following months as this case is continued to be laid out.  Yet doesn't it seem that the Democrats are the ones pandering to people who are all about defunding the police and destroying property and life and calling it peaceful?  Including bailing them out of jail or even pardoning people.  That might be a strategy they rethink going forward.

Delaware suspect in Whitmer plot was pardoned last year.  The Delaware man charged in federal court with conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has a long criminal history and was pardoned just last year by Delaware's governor for crimes dating to 1994, according to state records.  Barry G. Croft Jr., 44, was taken into custody this week after being arrested by the FBI in Swedesboro, New Jersey.

A Riot In The Suburbs:  Inside The Changing Face Of Wisconsin 2020.  [Scroll down]  This shooting wasn't a case of police killing an unarmed black youth.  The victim, 17-year-old Alan Cole, had been armed when police tried to arrest him on Feb. 2.  The officer, Joseph Mensah, is also black, and fired only after Cole discharged his weapon, inadvertently hitting himself in the arm.  Further complicating matters is Mensah's record:  This is the third time the officer has killed someone in the line of duty in the last five years — and the third time Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm has cleared Mensah of wrongdoing in a fatal shooting.  After the decision, hundreds of protesters first took to the freeway downtown and then made their way towards the scene of the shooting in Wauwatosa.  When police in riot gear blocked their path, they turned onto North Avenue and began indiscriminately smashing windows.  The police eventually deployed tear gas and pepper balls, the crowd lobbed bricks at the police, and at one point a group of rioters looted a gas station until the police arrived and the guilty scattered.

At Least Two of Gretchen Whitmer's Kidnapping Conspirators Appear to Be Anti-Trump Anarchists.  It didn't take long for the internet to dig up what the FBI didn't feel was necessary to mention in its complaint about at least one, if not more, of the conspirators indicted in a frightening plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer in a planned assault at her vacation home.  After the FBI revealed the plot in an indictment on Thursday, Governor Whitmer irresponsibly accused President Trump of stirring up the hatred against her by his support for the Proud Boys.  For the record, the Proud Boys, a right-leaning group, was not mentioned in the indictment.  No one involved in the plot is stated to be a part of the group, and President Trump reportedly didn't know who the Proud Boys were until the past few days — nor did President Trump give them instructions, as Whitmer claimed in her inflammatory news conference following the news of the indictments.

BLM rioters move into rich, liberal suburb as resident complains that they are supporters.  Affluent liberals deceive themselves that they will get a "pass" from violent radical revolutionaries if they sympathize enough with their causes.  The latest group to begin to learn the hard way lives in swing state Wisconsin.

BLM Rioters Raid The Suburbs, Smash Random Homes' Windows During Night Of Wilding in Wauwatosa.  Windows were broken at Colectivo Coffee and Swan U-Serv Pharmacy, and the Kumon Math and Reading Center of Wauwatosa at the corner of Swan Boulevard and North Avenue.  Videos from Julio Rosas, a conservative reporter with Townhall.com, shows young men throwing bricks in the windows of businesses and appearing to break the windows of several residences near the scene where police fired tear gas at the crowd.

BLM mobs smash windows in residential homes during Wisconsin protests.  Black Lives Matter mobs protesting in Wisconsin over the decision not to charge a black cop for fatally shooting a gun-firing teen turned their rage on innocent homeowners — lobbing rocks through windows on a residential street.  Troubling video showed up to a dozen people running up to homes in Wauwatosa, the sound of breaking glass and celebratory horn blasts as they repeatedly hurl heavy objects through windows.  "That's people's houses!" at least one distressed-sounding woman screamed, as others tried to get the rampaging mob to stop, as filmed by Julio Rosas, a reporter for the conservative publication Townhall.  "That's their [...] home — it's not their fault!" shouted another man in the crowd.  Wauwatosa police tweeted warnings to locals to "shelter in their homes, lock their doors, and move away from windows."

BLM Rioters Attack Businesses and Private Homes in Wisconsin.  Those "peaceful protesters" who Michelle Obama was talking about were at it again tonight in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin.  The riots have been continuing elsewhere, while we've been covering the debates and the president getting ill.  They haven't stopped.  But they got another "spark" off today.  Not that they really need any more, because truthfully facts don't matter to these rioters.  On Wednesday[,] we found out that an officer would not face charges in the death of 17 year old Alvin Cole because there was sufficient evidence to believe that the Wauwatosa officer, who was also black, Joseph Mensah, had reason for self-defense.  That kicked them off.  As Julio Rosas reported for Townhall, a group then went on a smashing rampage throughout the town.  First, they smashed up the windows of businesses including Kumon Learning.  Because apparently helping kids to learn is offensive to the BLM.

Chris Cuomo Coldly Says on Air He Wants to Choke, Punch His Critics at Fox News.  CNN Prime Time anchor Chris Cuomo coldly said on air Tuesday night he wants to violently hurt his critics at the Fox News Channel, saying he wants to put them in a "naked choke" hold and "punch them in the sternum."  Cuomo was talking with Don Lemon during the change of programs at the 10 p.m.  Eastern hour.  Lemon was trying to explain away the lack of yard signs for Joe Biden compared to Trump signs being seen all around the country by saying that Biden supporters were ignoring President Trump.  Odd reasoning, but this is Don Lemon.

Defending Trump from a Tornado of Liberal Lies.  The media's whitewashing of the riots is mind-boggling.  The words we use are important in accurately conveying a message; using words to sugarcoat reality is wrong.  The left is using the phrase "peaceful protests" to describe burning down cities and bludgeoning business-owners who guard their stores from the looters.  Commentators are earnestly lamenting the deprivations of poverty that supposedly are driving the poor to steal in order to be able to eat; actually, the visuals show footage of those stealing luxury items — everything from elite athletes' signature sneakers to big screen TVs — and partiers who are just grabbing whatever — frequently alcohol — for the bragging rights.  Then there are the serious analysts who are using the riots as a pretext to attack Trump.  And for what?  Blaming him for the failures of Democrat mayors and governors to maintain order because... Trump's hate-filled racist rhetoric caused the riots.  The rioters are obviously left-wingers, out-of-work students intoxicated by Marxist rhetoric and bored inner-city kids being manipulated in anarchy by Antifa.  All the talk about "white supremacy" groups is a smokescreen and an insult to the viewers who can see what is actually happening despite all of the gaslighting about "mostly peaceful protests."

Triggered Democrat Party Media Guy Pulls a Knife on 'Oregon Women for Trump' Convoy.  Don't worry, Democrats.  The local Democrat Party communications guy who was caught in photos and video threatening and intimidating the women of "Oregon Women for Trump" with a knife on Sunday is just fine.  He's out of jail and everything, as you would expect in the second largest county in the People's Republic.  So don't worry.  This is Oregon, and — quick look... here's a white supremacist over there! — so this whole episode will go down the collective media memory hole in no time, just like that Hispanic "white supremacist" murdered by antifa.  Or at least that's the fear being expressed by the Oregon Women for Trump, who were confronted by Clayton John Callahan on Sunday afternoon [10/4/2020] in the lovely Portland suburb of Hillsboro.

Oregon Democrat Official Pulls Knife On Trump Supporter.  Clayton Callahan is the communications director for the Washington County Democrat party and was allegedly following a Trump car cruise organized by "Oregon Women for Trump". He was making sexual gestures and yelling at the women.  One of the men helping with security went up to his car to take a picture and Clayton got furious and pulled his knife and started chest bumping him.  The video shows that he is obviously mentally ill and unhinged.  This is concerning because he is a C.O. for a women's prison at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility.  [Video clip]

BLM Co-Founder Claims Joe Biden Is Part Of "Violent White Supremacist" System.  Vice President Joe Biden would like America's youth to believe that he has bent over backwards to 'really listen' to the demands of young progressives/cryptomarxists, including the activists in "Black Lives Matter".  Unfortunately for him, the transparent pandering hasn't been all that convincing.  Even after Biden and his fellow Democrats tacitly indulged the worst excesses of these so-called "activists" — anarchic rioting and violence in cities big and small across American — it seems the former VEEP, who played second fiddle to America's first black president for 8 years, has failed to win the BLM crowd over.  The latest evidence of this an be found in an ABC News interview with several young activists who are 'still out in the streets' peacefully protesting tell the press that they might consider voting for a third-party candidate instead of Biden.  [Video clip]

Antifa violence escalates as movement goes mainstream.  Antifa's profile is rising so quickly that it even got name-checked at last week's presidential debate.  As the movement enters the mainstream, its sympathizers are escalating the violence from throwing rocks and blocking doors to physical assaults and, for the first time, killing.  The rising level of violence from the group marks a sinister evolution from minor street crime to guerrilla tactics usually reserved for revolutionaries.  "The fear is that we are witnessing the beginning of something that could be more violent over time," said Michael Kenney, a University of Pittsburgh professor who has interviewed Antifa sympathizers.

DHS: White supremacists are the most lethal domestic extremist threat.  Last year was the deadliest for incidents of domestic extremism in 25 years — and White supremacists were responsible for the vast majority of people killed in them, Homeland Security said Tuesday in a new threat assessment.  The long-awaited report labeled White supremacists "the most persistent and lethal" domestic threat to the country — though acting Secretary Chad F. Wolf also warned of an "alarming" rise of violent protests trading on anti-authority messages.  For more traditional threats, Mr. Wolf labeled Russia the "primary" enemy when it comes to injecting disinformation into the election — though he said Moscow's aim is less about selecting a candidate and more about weakening the U.S.

'Protesters' Get 'Mostly Peaceful' Outside LAPD Headquarters.  Dozens of ANTIFA and BLM agitators gathered in Downtown Los Angeles for a demonstration near the LAPD headquarters on Monday night.  At one point, 'mostly NOT peaceful' protesters were occupying streets and gathering in front of the headquarters.  Some burned an American flag and windows were smashed at a building near where the group was gathered.  [Video clip]

In rooting for the virus, the Left is just like Hitler.  The Left now actively roots for the virus to kill people they don't like, such as President Trump.  Drunk on their fantasy, they hope that his death is painful and humiliating and that his wife dies too.  They express their sick sentiments not just in the dark recesses of their troubled minds and not just over bad frou-frou coffee at Starbucks.  They boast of their wicked wish openly to the world. [...] These are the people who, simultaneously, are addicted to signaling their virtue by driving electric cars, banning plastic straws and turning our once-great cities into burning anarchy zones and vagrant toilets.

What lovely people!
Academics Call For Trump To 'Die A Long, Lingering, Painful Death Alone'.  Sarah Churchwell, who serves as a Professor of American Literature and Public Understanding of the Humanities at the University of London, shared to her over 33,000 Twitter followers that she wants President Trump to "die a long, lingering, painful death while we prosecute his children, his vicious wife, and his entire [...] administration".  The Chair for the Public Understanding of the Humanities Department continued her public wishes for President Trump's death, labeling a tweet from David Rothkopf, a Professor at institutions such as Georgetown and Columbia, "correct."  Rothkopf's tweet appears to be an allegory attacking President Trump's coronavirus response, insisting "don't lament the fate of the arsonist who is singed while burning down your home".

Dallas Police Dept. headquarters vandalized.  Texas police are questioning community members following the vandalism of the Dallas Police Department headquarters.  According to investigators, the incident occurred Thursday night when protesters covered the walls and windows of the police department building in red hand prints. [...] Shortly before the damage was discovered, a group of roughly 30 people had gathered outside the building for unknown reasons.  Less than a mile away, the Dallas Police Association building was also defaced with similar markings.

Hillary Clinton/Barack Obama alumna Zara Rahim weighs in on Trump's COVID19 diagnosis with the grace you'd expect.  Libs are having a normal one following Donald Trump's COVID19 diagnosis.  And by "normal," we of course mean "awful."  There's been no shortage of nasty takes from the Left — as well as conspiracy theories — but some takes are extra-nasty.  Like this now-deleted tweet from former Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama staffer Zara Rahim: [...]

Speculation mounts about the source of President Trump's illness.  [Scroll down]  Lin Wood, a high-profile lawyer representing Nick Sandman and Kyle Rittenhouse, tweeted, "Many leaders in administration of @realDonaldTrump are quarantined by what almost appears to almost be targeted strike of Covid-19."  He later tweeted, "There are no coincidences.  Zero.  None.  Hard stop."  Deanna Lorraine, who ran for Congress against Nancy Pelosi, also picked up the theme of a "targeted strike" in her tweet, "Does anyone else find it odd that no prominent Democrats have had the virus but the list of Republicans goes on and on?"  And Omar Navarro, a Republican politician in California, developed the theme:  "1. RBG dies.  2. Trump announces he will nominate new justice before election.  3. Pelosi makes "Arrow in our quivers comment to stop him."  Week later Trump, his top aide, his campaign manager, two Senators all come down with COVID[.]  5. Schumer immediately requests to delay nomination." [...] In the almost four years since Trump has become president, Republicans have suffered three potentially mass fatality events.

Most of the Leftwing Media Tweets Out Gloating Death Wishes for Trump, Then Deletes It and Hides the Evidence.  When people tell you who they are, listen to them. [...] Here's a thread of Blue Ticks praying for Trump's death.  Update:  Twitter is now blocking the posts found there!  They're not blocking the death wishes, but the person gathering up the death wishes to expose the left!  You can wish death on the president at Twitter — but you're not allowed to expose the death-wishers.

Hemingway: We Should Pray, Avoid Unnecessary Hysteria In Reacting To Trump COVID-19 News.  Federalist Senior Editor Mollie Hemingway responded to the news of President Donald Trump and the first lady's positive coronavirus diagnosis on "Fox and Friends" Friday morning, noting she was "genuinely disappointed" to see many people cheering and responding to the news with glee.  "I was disappointed — genuinely disappointed — to see the glee with which some people responded to this news," Hemingway said, referring to a number of political figures and verified Twitter users tweeting comments such as, "I hope he dies."

Survey Finds Disturbing Results On How Democrats Feel About Trump's Coronavirus Diagnosis.  A new poll released late this week revealed that a large percentage of Democrat voters are "happy" or "excited" over the news that President Donald Trump has been infected with the coronavirus, which originated in China.  "General shock and concern over the commander in chief's positive diagnosis were the most dominant voter emotions, according to the new poll:  2 in 5 said the word 'surprised' described them 'very' or 'somewhat' well, while a similar share said the same of the word 'worried,'" Morning Consult reported.  "The emotion with the largest partisan gap was sadness.

Poll: 40% of Democrats 'Happy' Trump Contracted the Chinese Coronavirus.  Forty percent of Democrats are "happy" that President Trump contracted the Chinese coronavirus, according to a Morning Consult/Politico survey released on Friday [10/2/2020] — less than 24 hours from the official confirmation of his positive test results. [...] Additionally, 55 percent indicated that they do not trust the president to provide accurate updates on his health, although 44 percent said they trust White House physician Dr. Sean Conley to provide accurate updates.

Satanic Imagery, Curses Appear with Trump's Tweet on COVID Diagnosis.  The public response to President Donald Trump's positive COVID-19 diagnosis went a step beyond the malicious Friday morning, as strange accounts flooded the social media announcement with Satanic imagery and apparent curses.  Trump had taken to Twitter on Thursday evening to directly inform the nation that he and first lady Melania Trump had both contracted the coronavirus and would be quarantining at the White House, effective immediately.

Celebs Pile On the Hate After Trump Transferred to Walter Reed.  Hollywood elites have refused to stop heckling President Donald Trump following his revelation Friday that he and First lady Melania tested positive for COVID-19.  Unencumbered by empathy or decorum, wealthy elites used the coronavirus to attack the president in sniggering fashion even after he was transferred to Walter Reed Army Medical Center.  "Praying for Trump's speedy recovery so he can go to jail," actor Michael Ian Black said, setting the tone for the torrent of hate from the Hollywood left.

Some Business Leaders Should Face A Firing Squad, Former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo Suggests In Angry Tweet.  Many harsh words are traded on Twitter each day.  Dick Costolo, the former CEO of the company, added some of his own tonight [10/1/2020].  Costolo was responding to a debate that has consumed tech's elite on Twitter over the past few days, an argument about whether the industry should actively promote social justice causes and encourage political conversations at work.  Costolo's comments had the effect of dumping a jerrycan's worth of fuel on the fire.  "Me-first capitalists who think you can separate society from business are going to be the first people lined up against the wall and shot in the revolution," he tweeted.  "I'll happily provide video commentary."  Costolo's extraordinary language — suggesting he'd like to see some of his peers face a firing squad — was jarring and reinforced the profoundly unusual and troubling circumstances that have enveloped corporate America this year.

Texas State Rep:  Hard to Imprison Trump If He Dies from Coronavirus.  Texas House of Representatives member Gene Wu (D-Houston) lamented on Twitter Friday evening [10/2/2020] that it would be "hard to serve a prison sentence" if President Donald Trump dies of Coronavirus.  Not long after, the tweet was deleted and replaced with well wishes for a full recovery.  The southwest Houston politician did not offer an apology for the original statement.

Photojournalist Seeking To Expose White Supremacists During Riots Discovers Something Much Different.  The New York Times' Farah Stockman penned a column last Wednesday about the experience of Jeremy Lee Quinn, who started photographing a Black Lives Matter protest in Santa Monica, California, on May 31.  Upon arrival, he saw looters running out of stores carrying shoeboxes as masked men wearing black supervised the thefts.  The photographer saw a black-clad white man shatter a store window using a crowbar the next day, although he did not steal anything from the store.  Quinn began reviewing videos of riots across the country and saw that other groups dressed in a similar fashion were engaging in the same type of activities.  After he noticed the similarities between groups operating in different cities, he decided to infiltrate one of the protests.  He believed that he would find that he was dealing with white supremacists engaging in racially-motivated violence.  But it did not take long before he realized he had linked up with a group of "insurrectionary anarchists."

Hey Joe Biden, If Antifa Is an 'Idea,' Who Is Burning Down American Cities?  In the first presidential debate on Tuesday, Democratic nominee Joe Biden cited FBI Director Christopher Wray in claiming that "antifa's an idea, not an organization."  The Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA) released a powerful ad exposing just how absurd Biden's statement was, in light of the violent and deadly riots across America this summer.  "If Antifa is only an idea then who is burning down our cities, assaulting our law enforcement officers, and causing the violence we've seen over the last four months?" Adam Piper, RAGA's executive director, asked in a statement.  "Biden's remarks don't come as a surprise to anybody who has paid attention to the Democrats' recent rhetoric.  As lives and livelihoods are being destroyed by lawless liberal mobs across the country, Democrat attorneys general are either encouraging the violence or downplaying its existence," Piper warned.  "Voters this November must hold Democrats up and down the ballot accountable for their recklessness and incitement of this violence."

Trump haters rejoicing in his testing positive for COVID-19.  Some prominent Donald Trump-haters — including "The Wire" actor Dominic West and a former spokeswoman for Hillary Clinton — are openly rejoicing over the president catching COVID-19.  West, 50, told "Good Morning Britain" on Friday that he felt "joy" at the news of Trump's illness.  Ex-spokeswoman Zara Rahim, who has also worked for Barack Obama and Vogue magazine, said in a since-deleted tweet that she "hopes he dies."

Who are the Proud Boys?  In Tuesday's presidential debate, moderator Chris Wallace tried to corner President Trump:  "Are you willing tonight to condemn white supremacists and militia groups and to say that they need to stand down and not add to the violence in a number of these cities as we saw in Kenosha and as we saw in Portland?"  "Sure." responded Trump, before noting that all the violence he saw was the fault of ANTIFA and other left-wing groups.  Both Wallace and Biden then implied that white supremacists and Proud Boys were responsible for the violence in Kenosha and Portland, which Trump rebutted by referring to ANTIFA.  "ANTIFA is an idea, not an organization." Biden responded.

The Editor says...
Ideas usually don't set fire to buildings and throw bricks through windows.

Portland Shield Maiden Attempts To Block Police Motorcycle Officer From Pursuing Vehicle.  Its the old story you've heard so many times before — Police Officer on a motorcycle pulls up to two cars blocking a public street to protect protesters.  As the Officer speaks with the occupants of one car, a crowd of protesters moves in around him and begins to interfere with him in the performance of his duties.  The driver of the car takes advantage of the opportunity to drive off.  The Officer disengages from the crowd and gets on his motorcycle to pursue the vehicle.  A "Shield Maiden" jumps in front of the motorcycle to impede his efforts to follow the car.  The Police Officer runs over the Shield Maiden. [...] The woman was injured.  Do I feel bad for her?  Not really.

The Editor says...
If she shows up at a hospital, she should be arrested.

With Trump's COVID diagnosis, leftists are showing their inner ugliness.  At 1:00 a.m. on Friday, President Trump notified the world that he and Melania have tested positive for the Wuhan virus.  All decent people should hope he recovers quickly because he is a fellow human being and because he is the President of the United States of America.  The left, however, has a massive cohort of indecent people.  Within minutes of Trump's announcement, leftists, many of whom are clearly Biden supporters, went on the ugliest Twitter rampage I've ever seen.

The Truth About Today's Anarchists.  [Jeremy Lee Quinn] arrived to find young people pouring out of the store, shoeboxes under their arms.  But there was something odd about the scene.  A group of men, dressed entirely in black, milled around nearby, like supervisors.  One wore a creepy rubber Halloween mask.  The next day, Mr. Quinn took pictures of another store being looted.  Again, he noticed something strange.  A white man, clad in black, had broken the window with a crowbar, but walked away without taking a thing.  Mr. Quinn began studying footage of looting from around the country and saw the same black outfits and, in some cases, the same masks.  He decided to go to a protest dressed like that himself, to figure out what was really going on.  He expected to find white supremacists who wanted to help re-elect President Trump by stoking fear of Black people.  What he discovered instead were true believers in "insurrectionary anarchism."

Antifa Thugs Arrested In Louisville Also Attacked 2017 Charlottesville Rally.  Did Soros Pay Them?  Where Is FBI?  Recently, I pointed out that the Antifa groups that attacked the 2017 Unite The Right rally in Charlottesville VA were also key to this summer's BLM riots.  Now arrests during the current Breonna Taylor riots in Louisville KY have proved my point: notably Sean Gerwing Liter and his girlfriend Holly McGlawn-Zoller — who was notoriously caught In a video clip unloading a U-Haul filled with riot supplies. [...] Holly McGlawn-Zoller and Sean Gerwing Liter are both co-founders of Louisville Anti-Racist Action, an integral part of the Antifa Torch Network, explicitly known for being "militant"[.] [...] Video footage shows that Zoller's riot shields and barricades were used in violent brawls against law enforcement.

California prosecutor:  Driver tried to kill Trump supporters.  The organizer of a Southern California rally against police brutality and racism was charged with attempted murder Tuesday [9/29/2020] for driving her car into counterprotesters and running over a woman's head.  Tatiana Turner deliberately drove into a crowd of President Donald Trump's supporters with the intent to kill the woman and also seriously injured a man who broke his leg, Orange County prosecutors said.

Antifa protester who attacked Trump supporter pleads guilty to assault.  An "Antifa" street thug can now look forward to continuing his fight — from jail.  David Campbell, 32, copped a plea for his role in a 2018 beatdown outside the Night for Freedom party in Manhattan organized by right-wing activist Mike Cernovich.  Campbell pleaded guilty to two counts of felony assault and will be sentenced on Oct. 23 to 18 months in the slammer, reps for Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance Jr. told The [New York] Post.  Campbell was arrested near the venue, a nightclub at West 50th Street and 12th Avenue on Jan. 20 2018, after he punched and choked a 56-year-old man he had followed out of the event, police said.  He was one of about 80 Antifa agitators protesting the gathering.

Teenager arrested during Capitol Hill riots suspected in arson attack on East Precinct.  KOMO News has learned a teenager arrested for one of the fires set during recent riots on Capitol Hill is suspected of additional serious crimes.  This comes amid growing concern and frustration that people accused of serious crimes during protests aren't being held accountable.  19-year-old Jacob Greenburg faced a judge Monday after Seattle Police said he lit dumpsters on fire during the 'Every Night Direct Demonstration' last weekend.  Now, according to court documents, Greenburg is a, "strong suspect for another arson attack on the East Precinct," where several people threw Molotov cocktails Sept. 1 at the precinct while officers were inside.

Portland Mugshots: 30 Arrested Following Saturday's Protests.  Authorities arrested 30 people on Saturday night in Portland after a relatively calm day of protests, despite dueling demonstrations which Portland Police Chief Chuck Lovell said were "free from serious violence."  Gov. Kate Brown (D) declared a state of emergency prior to the expected dueling protests in the city on Saturday.

David Hogg Apologizes For Denouncing Violence, Saying His Message Only Applies To 'Young White People'.  David Hogg, the 20-year-old anti-gun activist who attended Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School during the school shooting in 2018, criticized violence as a way to "seize power" in a Monday tweet thread — and was then forced to apologize to a Twitter mob of angry left-wing activists.  Hogg wrote in his original Tweet, "We must not fall for the slander espoused by those in power that says violence will solve our problems, they only say that so they can have an excuse to grow their authoritarianism."

Portland Police Mopping The Streets With ANTIFA Terrorists.  Portland, Oregon:  Officers went in hard pushing back protesters and rioters — specifically targeting the sea of live-streamers and Antifa fake press.  As seen before when going full ape on rioters it brings collateral damages in the form of real press getting caught in the middle of it.  [Video clip]

Black Lives Matter supporter charged with attempted murder for driving her car through group of Trump supporters.  A Black Lives Matter supporter was arrested and charged with attempted murder after she reportedly drove her car through a crowd of Trump supporters in California.  Black Lives Matter-aligned protesters attending a "Caravan for Justice" event clashed with Trump supporters Saturday afternoon in Yorba Linda, California, which reached a tipping point when Tatiana Turner, 40, allegedly drove her sedan through the group of Trump supporters.  Turner was reportedly in the area to protest in the "Caravan for Justice" over the death of Breonna Taylor in Louisville earlier this year.  Video of the incident was posted to Twitter, garnering hundreds of thousands of views.

Seattle ANTIFA Try To Create A New CHOP/CHAZ, Police Storm In As Fires Are Lit Everywhere.  People have smashed windows and set fires in Seattle after a protest on Saturday night [9/26/2020].  Seattle Police have arrested seven people for assault and property damage.  SPD says people in the group have set fires at 11th and Pine Street.  They're asking people to avoid the area.  They issued a crowd dispersal order in the area due to "public safety concerns."   About an hour later, SPD issued a second order for dispersal at 11th and Olive over fires.  Seattle Fire was able to extinguish both fires.  [Video clip]

Skyline News Reporter In NC Is Surrounded By ANTIFA/BLM Thugs, Eventually Knocked Out.  A well-known local figure was seriously injured during protests in downtown Asheville on Wednesday night [9/23/2020].  Chad Nesbitt, the administrator of SKYline News on Facebook, was livestreaming protests that erupted following a grand jury's decision to not charge Louisville, Kentucky police for the killing of Breonna Taylor when the incident occurred.  A statement from a Mission Hospital spokesperson said Nesbitt suffered a traumatic brain injury and is in serious, but stable, condition.  [Video clip]

The Upside-Down World of the Woke.  After a grand jury decision yielded no indictments for murder against the officers involved in Breonna Taylor's death, social justice warriors sprang into action.  Strategically placed U-Haul vehicles, full of protest signs and riot shields, were located by the rioters after the decision was announced.  Like so many other American cities in 2020, the city of Louisville was beset by arson, thievery, and violence at the hands of woke mobs, AKA Democratic Party voters.

San Diego ANTIFA Terrorize Restaurant Patrons, One Man Stands Up To Them, Gets Beaten.  ANTIFA was out in full force in downtown San Diego this weekend after the Breonna Taylor decision.  Patrons to several eateries were terrorized and bullied.  One man just trying to enjoy his night pushed back and was promptly beaten down to the ground.  [Video clip]

Multiple Injuries After Car Plows Through Crowd of Trump Supporters in Yorba Linda, California.  A vehicle plowed through a crowd of Trump supporters in Yorba Linda, California, on Saturday [9/26/2020].  The incident reportedly took place in a parking lot.  Violence broke out as supporters of President Donald Trump staged a counter protest against a Black Lives Matter demonstration organized by the Urban Organizers Coalition.

Life In a Blue City.  In the video below, filmed in Hollywood, a Prius driver is stopped by a mob of Antifa/BLM criminals.  They try to haul him out of his car, but he gets away.  They pursue him in multiple vehicles, and pickup cuts him off.  Again the criminals try to assault him, and again he saves his life by driving away.  The video ends with the victim being arrested and handcuffed by the police.  [Video clip]

We're in the Midst of a Violent Revolution Started by the Left, Not by Us!  The rioting and the looting, the destruction of private property, all of this is happening because it's being committed by people on the left.  Those are the people engaged in this activity.  They are the ones looting.  They are the ones firebombing.  They are the ones that are destroying.  They're the ones threatening.  They are the ones literally trying to grab people out of their cars and beat them up.  They are the people who are attacking people in public, in restaurants and other places and harassing them and bullying them and threatening them physically.  This is all being done by people on the left, and it's all being done by people who are going to vote Democrat.

EPA Chief Threatens to Pull Offices Out of NYC Over 'Unwarranted, Violent Activity'.  On the heels of the Department of Justice deeming New York City and two other U.S. locations "anarchist jurisdictions," Environmental Protections Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler is threatening to pull its offices out of Lower Manhattan over concerns about the safety of its employees.  "If you cannot demonstrate that EPA employees will be safe accessing our City offices, then I will begin the process of looking for a new location for our headquarters outside of the City that can maintain order," Wheeler wrote in a blistering letter to Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio.  The EPA administrator blasted the Democrats for failing to act during the July "Occupy City Hall" protests that not only made the building inaccessible to employees but damaged the office and other buildings.

Kentucky lawmaker arrested on rioting charge, accused of setting fire to public library.  Kentucky State Representative Attica Scott was arrested Thursday night during a Black Lives Matter protest that turned into a riot.  Scott is the author of Breonna's Law.  She was booked on three counts after failing to disperse when police ordered her to do so.  The three counts are one count of unlawful assembly, one count of failure to disperse, and one count of riot in the first degree.  The arrest report alleges she "caused damage at multiple locations, including setting fire to the Louisville Public Library." She was one of a large group of protesters who refused to disperse.  The protesters were seeking sanctuary at First Unitarian Church.  Scott's daughter was also arrested.

Kentucky state Rep. Attica Scott charged with felony rioting.  Kentucky state Rep. Attica Scott was arrested and charged with felony rioting Thursday night [9/24/2020] during a second night of violent protests sparked by the grand jury decision in the Breonna Taylor case.  Louisville Metro Police Department investigators said Ms. Scott, a freshman Democrat, was part of a group who caused property damage to multiple locations and tried to start a fire in the Louisville Free Public Library's downtown branch.  Ms. Scott, the state's only Black female legislator, told The Courier Journal following her release from jail Friday that she is "disgusted and offended" by the allegations.

DOJ Announces Mass Charges for Suspects They Say Committed Crimes 'Under the Guise' of Peaceful Protest.  The Department of Justice announced Thursday [9/24/2020] that more than 300 people are now facing federal charges stemming from the violence that has occurred in cities across the country since May.  In a news release, the department said individuals in 29 states and the District of Columbia would face federal charges related to a wide range of crimes.  The crimes in question, according to the release, were "committed adjacent to or under the guise of peaceful demonstrations."

Where was he in July?
Al Sharpton encourages demonstrators to keep protesting, but 'keep it nonviolent'.  Left-wing activist Al Sharpton had a "message" for social justice demonstrators who have been protesting after a Kentucky grand jury's decision on the case of Breonna Taylor.  The MSNBC host urged activists to "continue protesting" during an interview Thursday [9/24/2020] with anchor Hallie Jackson, but as downtown Louisville descended into a second night of protests, sometimes turning violent, Sharpton suggested that people keep the demonstrations "nonviolent."

Seattle police officer attacked by mob, hit in back of head with baseball bat.  Seattle police are searching for a suspect accused of striking an officer in the head with a baseball bat during riots Wednesday night sparked by the death of Breonna Taylor.  Shocking video on social media shows an officer on a bicycle falling to the ground as black-clad protesters cheer.  In the video, as the officer tries to get up, a demonstrator pelts him with an orange traffic cone and another grabs his bike.  As the officer is trying to wrestle his bike away from the protester, another man in a gas mask runs up behind him and cracks him in the back of the head with a baseball bat, the video shows.

Portland Protesters Threaten to Burn Down Home for Displaying an American Flag.  Protesters in Portland, many of whom have taken their activism to residential areas of the city, threatened to burn down a home for displaying an American flag.  The city has experienced well over 100 days of protests, and in that time demonstrators have moved into residential areas of Portland.  Terrance Moses, a black veteran who runs a nonprofit in Portland, said he observed protesters marching in the streets of his neighborhood.  However, the demonstration took a turn after activists noticed an American flag displayed on one of the homes.

America [is] in peril if RBG's SCOTUS seat is not filled before the election.  Rioters showed up outside of McConnell's home in Kentucky.  Police arrested at least one person.  Twitter has lit up with threats of physical violence if Republicans proceed.  This threat of physical violence is precisely why Republicans must proceed.  This violence is terrorism, and the purpose of terrorism is to force people to alter their own behavior.  When a church or synagogue is bombed, the appropriate response is for people to flood their churches and synagogues.  When Palestinian suicide bombers blow up Israeli Jews to advance their agenda, the Israeli Defense Force cracks down hard to suppress that agenda.  The more the left resorts to criminal behavior, the more Republicans must be emboldened to restore law and order.  A great way to do that is to appoint judges who will ensure that those trying to destabilize the American way of life are severely punished.

Police: 77-year-old veteran attacked for wearing MAGA hat.  A 77-year-old military veteran described how he was attacked in Red Bluff, apparently because he was wearing a 'Make America Great Again' (MAGA) hat supporting President Donald Trump.  The attack happened Friday, September 18 in broad daylight at the Red Bluff post office.  The victim did not want to be identified.  He told KRCR-TV the attack caught him completely by surprise.  He was wearing a MAGA hat and a 'Back the Blue' mask with a blue line in support of police.  He was approached by a man and woman.

Leftists Vandalize Minnesota Trump Supporter's Garage Then Torch His Vehicles and Camper.  A Trump supporter woke up on Wednesday [9/23/2020] after the sound of an explosion to see his garage and vehicles on fire.  The Minnesota Trump supporter lost his garage, two vehicles and a camper in the arson.

Are Liberals Responsible For the Consequences of Their Death Threats?  Incendiary and violent language is used constantly by liberals, including the most important Democratic politicians.  Thus, no one should have been surprised when Bernie Sanders volunteer James Hodgkinson tried to assassinate a group of Republican House members in 2017, and would have succeeded in killing Steve Scalise but for the miracles of modern medicine.  Since Hodgkinson's assassination attempt, things have only gotten worse.  Implied or explicit death threats from liberals, not just random nobodies on Twitter and Facebook but people with standing in the liberal world, have become rather common. [...] In today's world, that is no laughing matter.  One American city after another has gone up in flames set by left-wing arsonists.  Violence by BLM and Antifa is rife.  Talk of "burning America down" is in the air — again, not just on the "dark internet," but on CNN.

Breonna Taylor Protesters Run to Parked U-Haul Full of Supplies After Charges Against Cop Announced.  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." [...] Chaos immediately erupted after charges were announced.  Breonna Taylor protesters ran over to a parked U-Haul containing supplies for a (possibly violent) demonstration.  According to the reporter on the scene, the U-Haul contained signs, shields, water etc.

Bullets Over Louisville.  [Scroll down]  The time has come to say clearly what many of us have muttered for a long time:  BLM, the Marxist-led Black Lives Matter, is the modern version of the KKK.  The skin colors may be different but the murderous instincts and racist loathing are the same.  The veneer of social justice is less than paper thin.  "No justice, no peace," is the hollowest slogan imaginable.  It's all about acting out like a bunch of crazies in a Hieronymus Bosch painting, except now they're drugged out on fentanyl, meth or whatever.  Evil is on the march in this country.  The question is who is putting the rioters, looters, and destroyers up to their mayhem?  Who, for example, rented the U-Haul from which, video shows, all sorts of ad hoc weaponry was disgorged to the supposedly peaceful protestors before the Taylor decision came down?  And who paid that person and so on?  It should all be tracked down now.

Woman who rented the U-Haul full of weapons in Louisville may have ties to Soros.  Following the Breonna Taylor decision Wednesday afternoon, a U-Haul truck began handing out supplies to Antifa and BLM protestors.  But, where did the U-Haul come from, and what was inside?  The answers may shock you.  The U-Haul filled with shields, riot gear, signs and weapons was rented by a George Soros-connected "bail disruptor" by the name of Holly Zoller.  According to The Right Scoop, a U-Haul employee leaked the logs that show she was the one who rented the truck.

Identified: Woman who rented U-Haul handing out weapons and shields in Louisville may have Soros ties.  It turns out that the U-Haul we reported on earlier passing out signs, shields and weapons for rioters in Louisville was rented by a George Soros-connected "Bail Disruptor".  According to GWP, a U-Haul employee leaked the logs that show Holly Zoller was the one who rented the truck:  [Photo]  Here's Zoller's bio which shows she works for the "Bail Project":  [Photo]  Here's a photo of her on the U-Haul:  [Photo]  Now how do we get from here to Soros?  GWP posted this screenshot of the woman who is the Community Outreach Director the Bail Project and it clearly states she was/is a Soros Justice Fellow:  [Photo]

U-Haul that supplied riot gear to Louisville protesters reportedly rented by Soros-connected bail project.  The U-Haul truck captured on video distributing riot gear for Louisville protesters following a grand jury decision in the Breonna Taylor case was reportedly tied to the Louisville Bail Initiative, a left-wing activist group stacked with George Soros Justice Fellows.  Almost immediately after the grand-jury announcement, protesters swarmed a U-Haul truck in a parking lot and took out riot gear, weapons, gas masks, and anti-police signs to use during clashes with police.  Multiple media outlets posted videos on Twitter, with many users commenting that the activists had prepared to protest no matter what happened.  [Video clip]

Black's Law Dictionary, Fifth Edition, 1979, page 5.

Dem Officials Lash Out At Trump Over Designation Of Cities As "Anarchist Jurisdictions".  Democrat mayors who have allowed their cities to be overrun by criminals and wrecked by rioters are furious that the federal government would hold them accountable.  On Monday [9/21/2020], Attorney General William Barr followed through on his word by labeling Portland, Seattle, and New York as "anarchist jurisdictions" cities that would deprive the cities of federal funding.  It was a decisive move by the Trump administration to restore order in areas where law-abiding citizens are being terrorized by violent anarchists and street thugs while local officials handcuff and defund the police.

NYT Discovered Protesters/Antifa Are Harassing Residential Neighborhoods, Even Threatening to Burn Down Couple's Home.  Sounds like The NY Times may have just discovered Antifa in Portland, so we wanted to take note of that fact.  Also they've discovered Antifa has moved into harassing people in residential neighborhoods.  [Tweets]  Now of course Antifa has been in residential neighborhoods for months bothering people and the Times is identifying these people as "protesters against police brutality."  But they do mention Antifa in the story and how Antifa in black bloc are involved.  So we welcome the Times for finally catching up to at least part of the story.

Contrary to appearances, sometimes karma does get leftists.  What's been frustrating for four years is that Democrats are escaping well-deserved consequences.  Those behind the Russia hoax, which is easily the most serious political scandal in American history, have not only walked free, they've gotten rich through book deals and speaking engagements.  In America's Democrat-run cities, Soros-funded prosecutors won't charge people who have acted violently and, often, seditiously.  This sense of karmic passes may explain the enthusiasm for a video showing a driver so busy signaling her disdain for Trump supporters that she crashes into another car — only to learn that the police were eyewitnesses. [...] This video is one more in a series of videos showing screaming, white, leftist women.  At the beginning of the Black Lives Matter protests, I wrote that leftism harms white women.  I included in that article several videos showing deranged, self-righteous women.  With the election drawing near, it's getting worse.

Crazed Woman Frantically Flips Off Trump Rally, Then Something Hilarious Happens.  Friends don't let their friends drive while suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome.  Unfortunately for the woman in this video, she must not have any friends willing to speak sanity into her life.  Upon seeing a Trump rally on the side of a road, she decided it'd be a great idea to let her foot off the brake, hang out the window, and frantically throw up the bird at people.  That didn't go well.  Be sure and watch to the end because it gets even better.  [Video clip]

Ricin suspect was a "solution finder" — used the hashtag 'killTrump'.  The ricin story is ignored by the media.  Ricin is a deadly poison and it was sent to President Trump in a letter but intercepted before it got to his desk.  A woman is being held in connection to this crime.  Pascale Ferrier is a 53-year-old Canadian woman who was arrested in connection with a letter containing ricin that was sent to President Donald Trump last week, CBC reported.

University Professor Suspended After Wishing Trump Supporters Die Of COVID Before Election Day.  Marshall University has suspended one of its faculty members after a video clip in which she says she wished Trump supporters would catch the COVID-19 virus and die before the election went viral on social media.  Professor Jennifer Mosher, of the school's Biology department, was teaching a virtual class session Wednesday when she commented on supporters of President Donald Trump at an indoor political rally not wearing masks.  [Video clip]

Governor DeSantis wants rioters and supportive cities to pay the price.  As every parent knows, if you don't instantly penalize bad behavior, the child will continue the behavior.  The same holds true for criminals.  That's why, in Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis held a press conference on Monday announcing that he's proposing a new law that will impose instant, mandatory, and severe penalties for the destructive and dangerous behaviors we've seen across America as BLM and Antifa have taken to the streets.  His goal is to prevent Florida communities from suffering as Minneapolis and Kenosha have.

Florida Governor DeSantis Proposes Law with Harsh Penalties for Rioters including 6-Months Jail Time for Hitting a Cop, Cutting Off Welfare.  Florida's Republican Governor Ron DeSantis announced a law he is proposing where rioters will face harsh penalties and city leaders who encourage rioting will be liable for damages. [...] For those who can't tell the difference between protests and riots, a Florida sheriff provided guidance:  [Video clip]

DeSantis proposes law to quash 'disorderly assemblies' in wake of Floyd, other protests.  Florida leaders plan to crack down on protesters involved in what Gov. Ron DeSantis called "disorderly assemblies," including making it a felony to block a road, topple monuments or gather in a small group where violence breaks out.  DeSantis on Monday proposed a tough new law, which opponents swiftly labeled unconstitutional, in response to demonstrations that erupted nationwide after the death of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer.  The legislation will be filed for the next session that convenes in March. [...] DeSantis, a Republican, said anyone arrested during protests would not be eligible for bail before their initial court hearing.  There also would be efforts to identify any groups that are funding or organizing such protests.

The Riot Party.  America's present crisis is driven in large part by the Left's rejection of the rule of law.  Those in charge of the riots are not merely blackmailing their fellow citizens on particular issues like defunding the police.  Rather, they seek to overthrow the electoral process itself. [...] Hysteria has supplanted reason in the public square; public discourse no longer exists.  The tactic leftists were advocating in 1995 has today become commonplace.  Riots are not only being justified: they are being made into a staple of our judicial system and our public life, the threat of them used to install routine fear and racial supremacy in our homes and cities.

Portland Antifa Rioters Break Into Starbucks and Chipotle, Calling It a 'Big Sale'.  On Saturday night, an antifa mob of about 200 people marched in Portland, smashing windows at a Starbucks and a Chipotle, forcing a truck driver to make a black power salute, and at one point burning a "Thin Blue Line" flag, chanting "blue lives splatter." [...] The Portland Police Bureau reported that a march of roughly 200 people began around 9 p.m. on Saturday evening.  "The group marched around in the street for several hours, stopping at various locations to demonstrate and in some cases damage property and apply graffiti.  Individuals in the group broke windows on businesses, including a bank in the 400 block of Southwest Harrison Street, a restaurant in the 1900 block of Southwest Broadway, and coffee shop in the 1000 block of Southwest 6th Avenue," the police reported.

DOJ declares New York, Portland and Seattle 'anarchist jurisdictions,' moves to cut federal funding.  The Justice Department on Monday declared New York, Portland and Seattle "anarchist jurisdictions," the first step toward revoking federal funding from those cities.  President Trump earlier this month ordered federal agencies to look for ways to cut off federal funding in Democratic-led cities besieged by violence this summer.  The Justice Department's move escalates the criticism Mr. Trump has been leveling at Democrat leaders, blaming them for the rising crime and violence.  The list of cities is expected to be updated periodically, the Justice Department said.

Arrests made at Mitch McConnell's Kentucky home after hostile protesters defy police.  Angry liberal Democrats carrying "Black Lives Matter, "Wanted" and "Revolution" signs showed up outside Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's home in Louisville, Kentucky this Saturday [9/19/2020] to protest.  They were upset over his decision to abide by hundreds of years of established Senate precedent and move forward with nominating and confirming a Supreme Court justice during an election year.

Attorney General Barr Is Serious About Federal Prosecutors Using the Sedition Statute.  [Scroll down]  We know from anecdotal information that federal law enforcement has placed undercover agents inside the protest groups, likely to secure telephone numbers and engage in conversations with persons using those numbers to create probable cause to wiretap those phones.  Monitoring phones, email, text messaging, and other forms of communication has certainly helped identify the infrastructure that clearly exists for Antifa and similar groups.  Nearly every night, for over 100 days, Antifa and BLM staged protests on a nightly basis in Portland.  A couple of days after an Antifa supporter, Michael Reinoehl, killed a "rival" agitator from an Antifa opposition group in Portland, Reinoehl himself was shot and killed by officers on a federal task force who were staged outside an apartment where he was hiding.  It seems that not long after, the recognition seemed to set in that the Antifa/BLM organizers and agitators could be easily identified with open-source information, and given the speed with which federal agents were able to pinpoint Reinoehl's location, the organizers and agitators in Portland seem to have decided that going underground is necessary at this moment.

Inside the Free State of George Floyd.  The degradation and decline of the city of Minneapolis proceed apace.  5 Eyewitness News has posted the report by Jay Kolls (video below) from inside the city's "autonomous zone," a/k/a the Free State of George Floyd.  Whatever you do, you don't want to be in need of police help in the Free State of George Floyd [...]  [Video clip]

George Soros is indeed an enabler of U.S. street violence.  Fox News saw a bit of a dust-up this week when Newt Gingrich, former speaker of the House, referred on air to the influences of billionaire George Soros on the violence that's gone forth in the streets of mostly Democrat-controlled communities — only to have his comments shut down.  Censored, some might even say.  Apologies and clarifications soon after came.  But let's be clear and let's stay clear on this:  Soros is indeed diddling in America's political and legal systems.  And his diddling is indeed having a "have at it" effect on those who would take to the streets, with bricks, to express their frustrations with President Donald Trump.  This is no conspiracy theory.  This is no tin foil hat moment.  This is a fact — a traceable, verifiable fact.  What's more, it's not too hard to trace and verify.

Proud Boys Promote Fake Rally to Expose Violent Antifa Lunatics — and it Worked.  The Proud Boys advertised a fake rally in West Philadelphia's Clark Park on Saturday [9/19/2020], causing Antifa to flood the streets.  When the Proud Boys did not show up, they attacked conservative independent media instead.  As the Gateway Pundit reported earlier in the day, the militant leftists attacked two conservatives who were filming the protest.  They also attacked a vehicle they believed to belong to the conservatives, but actually belonged to someone who was there in support of their cause.

Turns Out There's an 'Autonomous Zone' in Minneapolis and It's Blocking Emergency Calls to Victims.  Turns out that like Seattle, there's been a continuing smaller barricaded 'autonomous zone' in Minneapolis that hasn't gotten a lot of attention.  But of course it's not good for the folks in Minneapolis and particular the businesses in the area being occupied.  The owner of an auto repair said he was violently attacked while in his office by someone who came from this nearby zone which they are calling "the free State of George Floyd."

Why So Much Anger?  This year's pre-election rioting, looting, and shootings in many American cities is not only a consequence of the failure or refusal of politicians to fix problems; it is also a failure by too many citizens who look to government to find solutions for things it was never created to address.  It is not the fault of a train that it cannot fly.  A car mechanic should not be blamed because he can't perform open-heart surgery.  Government has a purpose, but it is not to solve problems only an individual can address.  People who are angry at government, instead of looking to Washington, should be looking in the mirror.

Here's Why Blue Check Twitterhawks Are Threatening Violence Over Ginsburg's Supreme Court Seat.  Well, that didn't take too long, did it?  Mere hours after the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was announced, progressives on Twitter and other social media platforms had a collective meltdown in response to the reality that that mean guy in the Oval Office might be appointing another judge on the highest court in the land.  True to form, they took to Twitter to express their holy outrage at the thought of having another judge who isn't a rabid progressive take Ginsburg's place.  Some of these intrepid individuals have taken action that only the bravest of us could even consider:  Going on Twitter and calling for political violence from the comfort of their home.  Dr. Jessie Christensen, an Australian astrophysicist, claimed that he would riot if President Trump and Republican members of the Senate push to confirm an appointment. [... But] None of these people will participate in any of the violence they hope to incite with their social media platforms.  If there is more rioting and looting, it'll be done by Antifa peons acting out their faux angst.

The left threatens death, destruction and fire if President Trump dares nominate a replacement for RBG on SCOTUS.  The news of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's passing has driven much of the left bonkers.  They know that President Trump may nominate a constitutionalist replacement and rather than a robust opposition, are vowing death and destruction in response: [...] It's strange stuff, given that they no longer believe in debate, persuasion, or even congressional maneuvers — they just want to menace, burn, and kill, which is the sort of thing totalitarian mobs in nasty third world hellholes do, if not National Socialists in action.  And they speak of it as if they haven't already been to that well once, burning and looting to demonstrate their supposed calls for what they claim to be racial justice, frequently targeting small black-owned buisnesses in inner cities to make their mendacious claims.  Basically, it's full blown civil war they want and like overconfident Confederates, they may be surprised how quickly they get it.  Unlike the Confederates, they lack courage, so it could be over quickly.

Apple helps FBI track down protester accused of firebombing cop cars.  Anyone who believes Apple and the FBI are at an impasse over investigations into the iPhone maker's criminal customers should think again.  In Seattle, Apple has given the feds vital evidence from one of its iCloud users who was arrested for firebombing cop cars during the George Floyd protests in late May.  The case shows how Apple is willing to help even where the context of the crime is controversial, namely the Black Lives Matter protests.  That's despite President Trump and Attorney General William Barr lambasting the company for failing to help track down serious criminals while caving in to the demands of the Chinese government.  Their comments came after Apple said it wouldn't help the government get into the physical iPhones of a Saudi national who shot and killed three on a Pensacola, Florida, naval base in December 2019.  (The FBI hacked into the phones anyway.)

Accused Seattle Looter Now Facing Federal Gun Charges.  Things just went from bad to worse for Al Talaga.  The 32-year old Washington man was already facing charges of looting after he allegedly smashed the windows of a sneaker store in Seattle during riots back on June 1st, and tried to take off with merchandise from the shop.  Now he's facing federal charges of being a felon in possession of a firearm, which likely would never have been discovered if he hadn't allegedly decided to go looting in the name of justice.  Once officers arrived at the Sneaker City in downtown Seattle, several witnesses told them that one of the looters had been stashing merchandise in a Dodge Magnum parked nearby.  Police ended up impounding the car, and after a court order, searched the vehicle.  Not only did they find some stolen sneakers, they also found a stolen handgun; a .40 caliber pistol that had been reported stolen from a Tacoma home during a home invasion robbery in 2019.

Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan to Possibly Face Federal Charges Over CHOP/CHAZ.  Heavy emphasis on the use of "possibly" here, but reports are that Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan could face federal charges for her role in encouraging and coddling the CHOP/CHAZ, an "autonomous zone" that ultimately left several people dead, never mind all the destruction and harassment of local businesses.

George Floyd Riots Caused Record-Setting $2 Billion in Damage, New Report Says.  When George Floyd died while in police custody in late May, most agreed his premature death was a tragedy.  Yet the discussion on criminal justice reform that emerged in the weeks after Floyd's passing was quickly overshadowed by the rioting, looting, and violence that broke out in major cities such as Minneapolis, Seattle, and New York.  Dozens of people were killed or injured in the violent unrest, and thousands of businesses and properties, many minority-owned, were looted, torched, or otherwise vandalized.  Only now are we beginning to realize the full cost of the destruction.  New reporting from Axios reveals that the total insured property losses incurred during the George Floyd riots will come in at $1 billion to $2 billion.

Portland riots:  Justice Department considered pursuing charges against city officials in violent unrest.  The Justice Department explored possible criminal or civil charges against local officials in Portland, Ore., after weeks of clashes between federal law enforcement and violent protesters, spokeswoman Kerri Kupec told Fox News.  Kupec declined to comment on whether the department ultimately will bring charges.  She said there were no specific charges in mind, rather, DOJ officials were looking at the way Portland officials "were handling, or not handling" the riots and violence.

Campaign staffer, 17, for Ilhan Omar's Republican congressional opponent is shot and killed in Minneapolis.  A 17-year-old boy who had worked for a Republican congressional candidate running against Democratic Rep Ilhan Omar was shot and killed in an attack outside a gas station on Minneapolis' north side.  A second person who also had worked for Republican Lacy Johnson was wounded in the shooting on Monday [9/14/2020].  Earlier this morning, police in Minneapolis arrested a suspect in the fatal shooting following a high-speed pursuit.  He is now in custody but has yet to be named.

Joe Biden and the Democrats' lies about cops spawned sickening shooting.  The targeted attack on two LA cops last weekend is the inevitable result of the despicable lie Joe Biden and his party have been pushing all summer for political advantage — that police are "systemically" racist murderers of black people.  That lie has driven violent anti-cop BLM-Antifa riots in Democratic cities from New York to Seattle.  Police are demoralized, and resigning in droves, leaving the poorest, most crime-ridden communities less safe.  Violent criminals are emboldened.  Crime rates are surging.  As of Friday, 37 law enforcement officers have been "feloniously killed" — a/k/a murdered — this year, according to the FBI.  That's 25 percent more than the same period last year.  In New York, police response times are delayed.  Who is surprised?  As the riots raged, Democratic mayors and councils voted to abolish, "reimagine" or defund their city's police departments.  A billion dollars was stripped from the NYPD.  American voters don't want this.  That is the case, especially, for black Americans, 81 percent of whom wanted police presence in their community to stay the same or increase, according to a July Gallup poll.

Barr Tells Prosecutors to Consider Charging Violent Protesters With Sedition.  Attorney General William Barr told the nation's federal prosecutors to be aggressive when charging violent demonstrators with crimes, including potentially prosecuting protesters for plotting to overthrow the U.S. government, people familiar with the conversation said.  In a conference call with U.S. attorneys across the country last week, Mr. Barr warned that sometimes violent demonstrations across the U.S. could worsen as the November presidential election approaches.  He encouraged the prosecutors to seek a number federal charges, including under a rarely used sedition law, even when state charges could apply, the people said.  The call underscores the priority Mr. Barr has given to prosecuting crimes connected to months of protests against racial injustice that have at times become violent and led to major property damage, as President Trump has made a broader crackdown on demonstrations a key campaign issue.  U.S. attorneys have broad discretion in what charges they bring.

BLM Thugs Threaten Man Live Streaming, Say They Don't Want Police To Track Their Movements.  This live streamer was stalked and threatened by a group of Black Lives Matter thugs after they noticed he was filming the event in Lancaster.  The group leader yelled through a bullhorn for the man to turn off his phone and stop recording because the group didn't want police to know what they're up to.  The Live Streamer had to flee and ask for help.  [Video clip]

Mostly NOT Peaceful Leftists Attack Pro Trump Vehicles In Sacramento, At Least 3 Of Them Were Injured.  President Trump landed at McClellan Airport on Monday to receive a briefing from state officials on explosive wildfires burning statewide.  During the event, hundreds of people could be seen surrounding the area, with a majority of those gathering were President Trump supporters.  Mostly not peaceful leftist troublemakers tried to attack a police cruiser and here, in this video, several Trump-supporting vehicles were assaulted and taunted by the mob.  [Video clip]

They're Not Gonna Stop.  It would seem that Kamala Harris and Joe Biden have now made explicit what was always implied in their campaign:  as Joe becomes less and less compos mentis, the Democratic proposition on the table becomes, in the words of the candidates themselves, a "Harris-Biden administration."  So it behooves the American people to be as clear as possible not only about who Biden is, but who his VP (read: replacement) pick really is.  Both Biden and Harris have recently issued tepid, nonspecific calls for an end to ongoing street violence.  They don't really mean it of course, which is why they couldn't bring themselves to explicitly name Black Lives Matter or Antifa as the perpetrators and organizers of the ongoing civil unrest.  The reality is that Biden has no ability to fulfill this promise.  The nature of extortion requires the victim have some reasonable assurance that you really can keep his store from burning down.  But Biden could not call off the dogs even if he wanted to, as his own vice-presidential candidate has already told us.

Lancaster Riots Prove the Nationwide Unrest Isn't About 'Police Brutality'.  There is a gigantic, deadly game of "Let's Pretend" going on in America.  Politicians, the media, and activists are all pretending that the violence, the arsons, the beatings, and the mayhem in our city streets actually have a purpose.  They pretend that the mostly peaceful protests are only being made violent by the mere presence of police officers.  The media pretends that the rioters are "enraged" or fed up with "oppression" and "systemic racism" so that the chaos and thuggery is a completely normal response to the problem.  Do these people really believe the riots are all about poor, drug-addled George Floyd?  Do they really think all police are racist and out to kill all black people?  Do they really think the rioters give a hoot about "systemic racism"?  When leftists are not busy denying that the rioters are using the innocent peaceful protests as cover to loot and burn, they are pretending the real problems they want to be addressed are far, far, worse than they actually are.

Poof! The Portland Riots Just Stopped.  Why?  I certainly don't want to tempt these thugs, but it can't go without saying that Portland's 100 plus days of riots appeared to end after Wednesday, September 9th.  That was the last time the Portland Police Bureau warned about protests.  The usual live-streamers decamped to other riots and fires.  By September 10th, the overworked cops from Portland Police Bureau were offered out to assist other agencies.  Suddenly, instead of being required to work the riots lines, they were free. [...] Riot-weary Oregonians aren't necessarily mollified by the concerted effort to shut down these reports.  Until last Wednesday night, they'd seen the antifa rioters and arsonists in action on the news every night in Portland.  And now some of them swore they saw those people in Estacada, Sandy, Molalla and other parts of the burning Clackamas County.  Indeed, documents from the Department of Homeland Security show that whatever antifa rioters are doing, they're doing in concert, organizing with other like-minded people.

Beer bandit BLM protester is charged with harassing diners along with two others.  Three people are now facing criminal charges for harassing diners at a restaurant in Pittsburgh during a Black Lives Matter protest over Labor Day weekend.  Misdemeanor charges were filed against Monique Craft, 35, Kenneth McDowell, 33, and Shawn Green, 24, on Monday [9/14/2020]. [...] Police identified McDowell as the 'ringleader' and said he used a megaphone to scream obscenities at diners sitting outside Sienna Mercato and others passing by, as seen in the video.  McDowell was also accused of getting into an alteration with a McDonald's manager in another protest video that went viral.

Protesters demand cops let themselves be stabbed or shot.  If the nation's police officers walked off the job today, it would be hard to blame them.  Sunday's anti-cop riots in Lancaster, Pa., have made the current de facto rules of engagement clear:  Officers may never defend themselves against lethal force if their attacker is a minority.  They should simply accept being shot or stabbed as penance for their alleged racism.  In Lancaster, an officer responded to a domestic violence call at a residence where a man had stabbed four people last year.  As the officer approached the house, a female escaped out the front door.  A man — the suspect from the previous slashings — then emerged and ran at the officer, brandishing a knife over his head.  The officer shot him, as the officer was by all appearances legally authorized to do, to stop the threat of deadly force.  Twenty-seven-year-old Ricardo Munoz died from the officer's gunfire.

Fox Host's Must-Read Thread Nails Why Rioters Feel Emboldened To Shoot Officers — and How They Can Be Stopped.  "Fox and Friends Weekend" co-host Will Cain took to the Twitter machine Monday morning [9/14/2020] and posted a must-read thread where he pointed out why rioters and others who hate the police feel emboldened to commit these type of despicable acts against members of the law enforcement community — and how they can be stopped.  He started off by referencing the attempted assassinations of the young deputies in L.A. County from Saturday, noting that while we didn't yet know the motivation of the shooter (though it's not hard to guess, considering the "ACAB" environment that infests the city of Los Angeles) that the incident drove him to talk about some inconvenient truths.

Throw away the key:
Lancaster protesters held on whopping $1 million bail each after alleged riots.  A Pennsylvania judge threw the book at several protesters — setting their bail at $1 million each — for allegedly rioting in the wake of the police shooting of a knife-wielding Lancaster man.  Lancaster police nabbed a dozen people and one juvenile for staging the riots around 3 a.m. Monday in clashes that culminated in police deploying tear gas at the crowd.  The overnight violence came on the heels of the death of Ricardo Munoz, the mentally ill 27-year-old who was seen on body cam footage charging at a cop with a knife in hand.  The officer shot and killed Munoz Sunday afternoon outside his mother's house in downtown Lancaster.

It Votes Biden Or It Gets The Riots Again.  The quiet part is becoming very loud.  Threats of left-wing political violence if President Trump is reelected have gone from subtext to the plain text.  Writing at The Atlantic, Shadi Hamid warns of "mass unrest and political violence across American cities" if Trump wins.  The Democrats are embracing their inner movie villain:  It votes for Biden, or it gets the riots again.  Not that the rioting and related violence have stopped — from the attempted assassination of cops in Los Angeles to "mostly peaceful" protests in New York, the mayhem continues — but it is less intense than it was earlier in the summer.  Now, prominent outlets of establishment liberalism are warning that the destruction can, and will, be turned up if the nation votes "incorrectly."

Kids at pro-Trump rally pelted with eggs in Wilmington, Delaware, say police.  Delaware State Police are searching for three men accused of pelting young children and adults with eggs at a pro-President Trump rally in Democratic rival Joseph R. Biden's hometown of Wilmington on Sunday [9/13/2020].  Police said three children ages 10, 7, and 5 and three adults ages 41, 44, and 70 were "struck by raw eggs" while attending a "Republican political rally" outside the Crossroads Restaurant.  "The victims were standing on a concrete wall adjacent to westbound Kirkwood Hwy attending the event when they were struck by eggs thrown by three male suspects hanging out of the window of a passing by vehicle," police said in a statement Tuesday.  "The suspects were described as males approximately 20-25 years old and operating a gold or white SUV.  There is no other identifying information at this time."

DHS Has 'Overwhelming' Intel That Portland Violence 'Organized' By 'Violent Antifa Anarchists,' Leaked Email Says.  A leaked email from a former top official at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) says that the department has "overwhelming intelligence" that the extremist violence in Portland was "organized" by individuals with an ideology categorized as "Violent Antifa Anarchist Inspired" (VAAI).  CBS News reporter Catherine Herridge tweeted out a letter that she obtained that was written by Brian Murphy, former Acting Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis at DHS, that said in July that the violence in Portland had reached a level that officials could no longer state that the violence was "opportunistic" but that it was "organized."  Murphy stated in the email that the individuals who were attacking the federal facilities in the city did so "based on those ideologies."

Candace Owens blames BLM, athletes, media for ambush on L.A. police.  Conservative commentator and BLEXIT founder Candace Owens blamed the Black Lives Matter movement, the media, and athletes for an ambush on two Los Angeles sheriff's deputies on Saturday. [...] Two LASD deputies were ambushed and shot while in their patrol car on Saturday evening.  Both deputies are "fighting for their lives," according to the LASD.  Owens also blamed athletes for the attack.

Lynwood Won't Fire City Manager Who said Shooting Deputies is "Expected".  During these past few months of Black Nationalist cultural terror, people have been fired for the slightest offenses against political correctness.  And I do mean the very slightest.  But you can hold a top position and defend violence, and that's okay.  Jose Ometeotl, the city manager of Lynwood, California, responded to the shooting of two LASD deputies in Compton, with a hateful post, which claimed to disavow violence, but then ranted that, "that communities like Compton have been plagued by deputy gangs that inflict fear and violence in the community.  These deputies murdered, framed and stole from the community just because they could. [...]" [...] After the two deputies were shot, they were brought to a hospital in Lynwood, where Black Lives Matter racists gathered outside to shout, "We hope they die".  Has the city of Lynwood suspended Jose or fired him?  Nah.  They've "disavowed" his comments.

Do you want to be controlled or do you want to be free?  The Black Lives Matter and Antifa riots are about control.  These "activists" want to control the narrative and shift the conversation, any conversation, to always be about their demands.  Some Americans truly desire the types of controls these "activists" are demanding.  They want to be told what to do in an effort to maintain their social justice credibility.  Others want the freedom to drive down a highway with a reasonable expectation that "protesters" aren't causing mayhem and affecting people's lives by blocking the roads.

Antifa and BLM, the Democrat party's stormtroopers.  When the tactics of Black Lives Matter coincide with the ideology of NPR, Americans should realize that the left has crossed yet another line on the indecency scale.  A reporter for an NPR station showed up at the Los Angeles hospital where two sheriff's deputies who had just been shot while sitting in their car were taken.  A BLM crowd had miraculously appeared within minutes to block the emergency entrance, some of them shouting "I hope they [...] die."  Some were vowing to "[...]"  The NPR station's reporter allegedly interfered with the police attempts to control the "protesters."  This is the nadir to which the radicalized Democrat party has brought this nation as the election nears.  Can it get worse?  Most assuredly.

How The 1960s Riots Foreshadow Today's Communist Weaponization Of Black Pain.  [Scroll down]  Elsewhere, dozens of angry protestors surrounded Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and his wife Kelley as they left the White House grounds.  Eventually, more police officers arrived and escorted the couple to the safety of their hotel.  Sen. Paul later reported:  "After we got back to our hotel room and some safety we heard something frightening.  The 'protesters' were staying on our floor — including the room next door to us.  They were talking about their mob activities and even saying they thought we were here on this floor.  We had to develop a 3 a.m. plan with the Capitol Police to get to safety."  Paul asks, "Who are these people?  Who paid for their hotel rooms?  Who flew them in?"  What he saw that night led him to conclude, "It's organized.  It's paid for.  It's violent."  Several days later, Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf announced the Justice Department had launched an investigation into the organization and funding of the violent protests that have wracked cities across America for months.

$100,000 reward offered in ambush shooting of two deputies in Los Angeles County.  The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department offered a 100,000 reward Sunday [9/13/2020] in its search for a gunman who walked up to two deputies sitting in their patrol vehicle and shot them multiple times before fleeing.  The lone gunman ambushed the woman and man Saturday night at the Martin Luther King Transit Center in Compton, California, approaching their vehicle from behind and firing several rounds, the department said.  The deputies were in critical condition Sunday after undergoing surgery.  The 31-year-old mother of a 6-year-old boy and the 24-year-old man had graduated from the sheriff's training academy about 14 months ago, sworn in by Sheriff Alex Villanueva, who held a news conference after the shooting.

LA Sheriffs:  NPR Reporter Arrested For 'Interfering' With Cops As They Tried To Control BLM Protests Outside Hospital.  A Los Angeles National Public Radio reporter was arrested early Sunday, Los Angeles County Sheriffs said, after she "interfered" with police trying to prevent alleged Black Lives Matter protesters from storming the hospital where two severely wounded L.A. County Sheriffs deputies were taken following a horrific ambush attack.  Saturday night [9/12/2020], two sheriffs deputies, a 31-year-old female and a 24-year-old male, were shot in what law enforcement officials are calling an "ambush attack," according to earlier reports from The Daily Wire.  The pair were sitting in their parked vehicle outside of a train station when they were approached by a suspect who opened fire without apparent cause, leaving the two deputies severely wounded.

How Detroit's Police Chief Saved His City from Black Lives Matter.  Compared to the conflagrations BLM has incited in cities like Minneapolis, Portland, Seattle, New York, Chicago, and even Kenosha, Detroit Will Breathe has been an epic flop.  Drawing mostly small crowds and desperate for media attention, DWB's been stifled from the get-go by Chief Craig's zero-tolerance approach to thugs and looters posing as demonstrators.  The first three nights after George Floyd's death, when radicals — most from out of town and some armed with bricks and railroad spikes — ignored a curfew and tried to turn the city into another Minneapolis, Detroit police pushed back hard, using tear gas and making over 140 arrests.  That quieted things.

The Left's New Martyrology.  [Scroll down]  George Floyd, another "Gentle Giant" whose criminal record included the robbery of a woman at gunpoint, is somewhat more controversial.  There are serious questions as to whether the officers who arrested him fulfilled their responsibility to ensure his safety and well-being once he was in their custody, and we will have to wait for the legal system to determine this.  The "woke" left lost no time, however, in turning Floyd into yet another Horst Wessel with a wide array of posters that portray him as some kind of saint, while universities have established George Floyd scholarships.  Left-wing extremists used Floyd's "martyrdom" as an excuse to re-enact the Night of the Broken Glass in Minneapolis.

Have The Democrats Encouraged Urban Violence?  Democratic politicians are now trying to distance themselves from the rioting, looting, arson and murder that have beset American cities — not because they object on principle, but because urban violence is hurting them in the polls.  But is the Democrats' disavowal of rioting and arson sincere?  This short video reminds us that for years, and more intensively in recent months, Democratic politicians and celebrities have been promoting violence.  [Video clip]

Federal prosecutors take over Seattle protester cases, concerning local attorneys.  This week the U.S. Attorney's Office in Seattle announced its eighth arrest related to events during this summer's protests against racism and police brutality.  Defense attorneys say the Justice Department is going out of its way to try to discredit the protests.  But U.S. Attorney Brian Moran said his Seattle office is focused on cases like arson or firearms violations that he says are hurting the protest message.  That includes the big protest in Seattle the night of May 30.  People took guns out of police vehicles and set the cars on fire, leading to three federal cases so far.  The next night, a man was arrested after being accused of striking a police officer in the face with a can of beer, and of carrying an improvised firearm.  Stephanie Knightlinger, a senior deputy prosecutor with the King County Prosecutors Office, said she was preparing to charge that man, Devinare Parker, in King County Superior Court.

Portland Mayor Bans Police Use of Tear Gas After 100 Days of Rioting.  Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler has banned the use of tear gas on rioters in the Oregon city.  Wheeler, a Democrat who is also Portland's police commissioner, banned the use of tear gas munitions on rioters Thursday, despite ongoing riots that have surpassed the 100-day mark, a press release from his office says.  Wheeler wrote that the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office and the Oregon State Police have used tear gas to quell riots over nearly four months.

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Here's my free advice:  Use the tear gas anyway and let them fire you.  Do your job and let them complain.  If you're fired, sue the city for wrongful termination.  If they want friction, give it to them.  No jury anywhere else in the country would take the city's side in such an argument, and it might also work in Portland.  And if it doesn't, well, you didn't want to work in a city like that anyway.

Man Who Threatened to Kill Trump Supporters Pleads Guilty.  A man who threatened to kill supporters of President Donald Trump and brandished a rifle at a Black Lives Matter protest pleaded guilty to making threats, authorities announced Friday [9/11/2020].  According to court documents, Emmanuel Quinones, 25, posted on Facebook on May 28, "Gonna get some more of these to off racists and MAGA people."

Richfield man charged with arson of Target Headquarters.  A Richfield man has been federally charged with arson at the Target Headquarters that took place on Aug. 26 during unrest in Minneapolis. [...] According to U.S. Attorney Erica H. MacDonald's office, Shador Tommie Cortez Jackson, 24, was arrested Thursday, Sept. 10 after surveillance video allegedly shows him lighting a fire inside the store.  Jackson made his initial appearance in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis on Friday, Sept. 11.  According to the complaint, Jackson was stopped by Richfield police later that night and was in possession of stolen merchandise.  Jackson is scheduled to make his next court appearance on Sept. 16.

Minnesota Man Charged for Allegedly Setting Fire to Target's Headquarters.  A 24-year-old Minnesota man was arrested and charged this week for allegedly lighting Target's headquarters on fire during rioting in Minneapolis on Aug. 26.  During widespread looting following false rumors regarding the death of a homicide suspect, Shador Jackson allegedly used a sign to smash one of the glass doors of the headquarters building, according to court documents.  Authorities said Jackson then entered the building's mail room, where he ignited a fire on the top of a desk before pouring liquid from a bottle onto the fire.  About 5 minutes later, the man ran out of the building.  He was seen walking away on a sidewalk before stopping and looking into the main Target entrance door in the direction of the fire.  Surveillance cameras captured Jackson committing the criminal act, authorities said.

Minnesota Police Group Withdraws Democrat Endorsements After Video of Union Chief Beaten in Effigy.  The Minnesota Police and Peace Officers Association board has switched its endorsements of Democrat candidates to Republican after one Democrat candidate was purportedly caught on video beating a piñata with the likeness of top police union official Bob Kroll. [...] Brian Peters, who serves as executive director of the police association, expressed concern over DFL caucus' support of Thompson after he was identified as beating the Kroll effigy.  "The endorsements that we rescinded, my issue was those candidates did not stand up to their leadership and put pressure on and ask why are we supporting a candidate who did this in Hugo," Peters said.  "If this is the future of the Democratic Party, my organization is going to support elsewhere," he added.  Peters did not identify which Republicans were endorsed by the police group.

Man arrested and charged with firebombing Republican women's club office.  A California man has been arrested and charged with attempted arson after allegedly trying to firebomb a Republican organization office building.  Police say Carlos Espriu, 23, broke the windows of the East Valley Republican Women Federated office in La Quinta, California, on May 31 before lighting several Molotov cocktails and setting the building on fire, according to Fox News.

Palm Desert man charged with firebombing La Quinta Republican Headquarters.  A Palm Desert man was in custody Thursday and has been charged with the May 31 firebombing of the East Valley Republican Women Federated (EVRWF) office in La Quinta, according to the Department of Justice.  Carlos Espriu, 23, was named in a federal criminal complaint that charged him with attempted arson.

Left-Wing Agitator Arrested for Starting Fire in Washington, Suspected of Starting Two Other Wildfires.  A Washington man with a history of left-wing agitation was arrested Wednesday evening [9/9/2020] after he allegedly started a fire in the brush along a highway near Tacoma.  Jeffrey Acord, 36, was charged for reckless burning in the second degree.  He is now reportedly also a suspect in two other Washington wildfires. [...] The suspected antifa militant has a history of anti-police protesting and encounters with law enforcement, court records show.  According to his Facebook, Acord also attended a Black Lives Matter march in Seattle on June 5 of this year.

President Trump may be battered by the waves, but he will not sink.  [Scroll down]  What ails the left is that leftists believe everything they think, and their thinking is characterized by pomposity and intolerance.  One has to look no farther than Twitter to be clobbered by the gross intolerance of Democrats.  They are rude, profane, wholly without manners or grace.  There are the vicious rioters in the streets whom the Democrats refuse to condemn, and there are the equally vicious boors who drive the contempt in which social media is drowning.  Those often anonymous haters hide behind their not so clever handles like schoolyard bullies who cry for their mothers if their true identities are discovered.  That's when they cry "racism," or "white supremacy," or "white privilege," even if, as most of them are, they are white.  There is nothing more absurd than watching a young white female carrying a Black Lives Matter sign shouting obscenities in the face of a black policeman to illustrate the depth of the left's vacuity.

Portland Bans Facial Recognition Technology to Protect Peaceful Rioters.  Portland has some really, really strange things going on.  On Wednesday [9/9/2020], amid a record-setting season of chaos, arson, vandalism, and violence in the streets, the city decided to ban the use of facial-recognition technology by local law enforcement. [...] What's the technology good for?  Well, it "could help with tasks ranging from solving crime to checking student attendance at school."  But it "comes with fundamental privacy issues."  In addition to the cops, "private entities in places of public accommodation" are now barred from using it as well.  That means businesses that serve the public — restaurants, grocery stores, etc.

Women Who Stole Kid's MAGA Hat Charged With Hate Crime.  Two Delaware women accused of accosting a 7-year-old boy outside of the Democratic National Convention and taking his MAGA hat are facing up to 15 years in prison for a hate crime.  [Tweet]  Yes, it was "shameful."  It was also mean, stupid, small-minded, and wrong.  But do the women really deserve to spend 15 years in prison for it?

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They could spend up to 15 years in prison.  That's what juries are for.  That's what parole boards are for.  Maybe the perpetrators should have thought of this about a month ago.

Fight — or the Dems Will Steal This Election.  Schools have been teaching identity politics to our children for decades.  The left seeks to abrogate of our nation's moral fiber with the deliberate destruction of absolute right and wrong under written and duly enacted law.  While we seek to debate, they seek to silence.  While we accept differences of opinion, they cancel.  While we would live and let live, they will burn it all down.  We see the consequences of this in the disaffected youth playing "resistance" dress-up and burning down our cities.  The process of using identity politics to maximize victimhood has damaged the values and principles this nation was founded upon and its citizens have lived by.  Self-sufficiency, taking responsibility for one's own actions, equality under the law, property rights, and law and order have been cast aside in favor of Critical Race Theory and the 1619 Project.  It is the left's attempt to see anarchy reign in our streets as rioters run amok, steeped in the victimhood and righteous violence taught to them all their lives.  It is all part of their plan to steal the presidency, one way or another.

LASD deputies arrest 17 'anarchists' at South LA protest following shooting death of Dijon Kizzee.  For the fourth night in a row, a crowd of protesters gathered near the South Los Angeles Sheriff's station over the fatal shooting of Dijon Kizzee.  Deputies arrested three dozen people who were looking to stir up trouble after engaging with what authorities described as a more "aggressive, anarchist" group than in previous nights.  LASD told FOX 11 they gave the crowd an order to disperse when the crowd began "gearing up" and was standing in the street at the intersection of Imperial Highway and Normandie Avenue.

Chad Wolf Sets the Record Straight on Portland, 'Mostly Peaceful' Riots, and COVID.  Acting Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Chad Wolf set the record straight on the violent antifa riots in Portland in his 2020 State of the Homeland speech on Wednesday.  He explained just how dangerous the riots had been for federal law enforcement and he excoriated Gov. Kate Brown (D-Ore.) and Mayor Ted Wheeler (D-Portland) for refusing to cooperate with federal officers as they protected the federal courthouse from rioters.  Wolf also condemned the ridiculous assertion that the violence in Portland has been "mostly peaceful."

'You're Not Allowed To Film': The Fight To Control Who Reports From Portland.  You can assert that, yes, you can film; you can point out that they themselves are filming incessantly; you can push their hands away from covering your phone; you can have your phone record them stealing your phone — all of these things have happened to me — and none will have any impact [...] I wondered, the first time I attended the protests at the federal building back in July, who all these young people with PRESS emblazoned on their jackets or helmets were.  I asked one such guy who he worked for.  "Independent Press Corps," he told me.  As it turned out, dozens of other young PRESS people happened to work for the same outfit, which I at first assumed was a fancy way of saying "I want to report stuff and stream it on my Instagram."  This turned out to be naive.  The IPC is an organized group in league with the activists, and it is usually their footage you see streamed online and recycled on the news: mostly innocent protestors being harassed and beaten by police.

Why I'm Voting for Trump, Even Though I Don't Want To.  I want to vote for law and order and against Antifa and BLM.&Nbsp; The violence, looting, and destruction in our cities is intolerable, abetted by weak Democrat mayors.  Joe Biden recently came out against violence — three months after the riots started.  He has never condemned Antifa or BLM.

Dem Staffer Arrested by the Portland Police During BLM Riot, Dem Response Says It All.  Democrats are now trying to spin away any blame for the BLM riots after they unreservedly embraced the group and tried to downplay the actions as "peaceful protest."  Democratic leaders refused to properly address them or hold rioters accountable.  In fact, there have been multiple Democrats from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Rep. Maxine Waters and Rep. Ayanna Pressley encouraging calling for unrest in the streets.  On top of all that, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), the Democratic candidate for vice-president contributed to a fund to help bail out people arrested during the riots.  At least 13 Biden staffers also contributed to the fund.  They also encouraged others to contribute as well, helping the fund raise $35 million.  That enabled violent criminals to get out, including one who allegedly committed another assault, leaving a victim with a traumatic brain injury.

Delaware women accused of stealing MAGA hat indicted on robbery, hate crime charges.  Two Delaware women accused of stealing a MAGA hat outside the Democratic National Convention were indicted Tuesday on charges including second-degree robbery and felony hate crimes.  Olivia Winslow and Camryn Amy, both 21, were indicted by a grand jury on charges of second-degree robbery, second-degree conspiracy, endangering the welfare of a child, third-degree assault, attempted third-degree assault, offensive touching and felony hate crimes, Delaware Online reported.

Antifa Reality Check:  This Is A Problem Of RUF/ROE.  Good men, home owners, fathers who want to protect their families, and business owners, are progressively being backed into a corner.  I suspect they will not allow themselves to be put into a position of no escape from that corner.  At that point, the Antifa/BLM project becomes very dangerous for everyone involved.

Coalition of more than 50 leftist groups preparing for "mass public unrest" if election results are unclear, or Trump disagrees with reported Biden win.  An association of more than 50 left-wing organizations is discussing and preparing a variety of strategies for potential responses to the results of the 2020 election.  According to a report by The Daily Beast, a recent virtual meeting of the group, which calls itself the Fight Back Table, included discussions of how to initiate large-scale public civil disobedience if it believes Democratic nominee Joe Biden has won the election, but President Trump is contesting the result.  "It is very obvious that Trump is laying the groundwork for claiming victory no matter what," said Rahna Epting, a participant in the call and the executive director of a group called MoveOn.

Antifa riots may be part of Democrat power grab.  Whether or not all rioters are Democrat voters, they increasingly are associated with Biden's campaign in the minds of voters who fear violence is coming to their suburb.  This rolling campaign of anti-police street violence is killing Biden's bid for the presidency — just look at private polling in crucial swing states such as Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, where law and order has become a decisive issue.  So why don't Democrat leaders do more to condemn the violence and call for calm?  To understand their inaction, you need to step back and see street violence as one element of a coordinated "playbook" to dislodge President Trump, regardless of the outcome of the election.  This is the thesis of political theorist Dr. Darren Beattie, a former Duke University professor and White House official.

Democrat Supported Marxist Group Plans Siege on White House Starting September 17.  Leftist operatives with the support of Democrats are burning and pillaging cities across the country.  Stores are looted and government buildings are attacked on a weekly basis by far left terrorists.  This past week Leftist operatives announced a 50 days siege on the White House.  They plan on starting the siege on September 17th, to continue for 50 days, until the election on November 3.  Leftists hope this will get them more votes for Biden.

Fostering massive social disorder is no way to protest.  It's increasingly obvious that far too many people out causing havoc in the name of Black Lives Matter are in fact just wallowing in the chance to bully people and break stuff, or worse.  And the ranks of Antifa, in particular, are packed with utter thugs (mostly white) who are devastating mainly black neighborhoods in towns like Kenosha, Wis.  Yes, many protesters try to stand up to the extremists:  In the videos of ruffians trashing restaurants and threatening diners up in Rochester, you see some people trying to stop the mayhem.  But they fail, badly — and so the cause is set back, badly.  And for that, all these movements' leaders are to blame.  The civil-rights movement understood that it could only succeed by appealing to the nation's conscience and ruthlessly policed its own ranks.  Black Lives Matter organizers seem to think otherwise — why else sit by as its followers harass restaurant-goers across the country?

Organizers Of "White House Siege" Predict" Things Could Turn Very Ugly" — Predicts New Civil War.  As November draws closer, President Trump has indeed adopted a more ominous tone about the election.  In speeches and interviews, he complained about "voter fraud" and warns that Democrats will use millions of fraudulent mail-in ballots to steal his second term.  A few days ago Bernie Sanders said that he fears President Donald Trump will refuse to leave office if he loses reelection and is calling on Congress and the media to take action to prepare for that scenario now, he said in an interview with POLITICO. [...] Of course, the Dems have other foot soldiers to do their dirty work for them.  With the chances of a legitimate election win by Joe Biden slowly slipping away, allies of the Democrats are positioning their forces for the chaos that will be unleashed by the reelection of President Trump.

A vote for Joe Biden is still a vote for radicalism, not normalcy.  [Scroll down]  Second, Biden is finally bothering to address the months-long rioting that the news media have been trying to cover up.  Urban violence, and the related spike in violent crime due to police being preoccupied or even defunded by radicals in city government, is suddenly emerging as a defining election issue.  Leftist agitators continue after three months to damage or destroy businesses and private and government property in such cities such as Portland, Chicago, Washington, New York, Seattle, Denver, and a host of others.  Biden's acknowledgment that this issue exists is a start, even if his initial response has not been intelligent.  At first, he tried to blame it on right-wing extremist groups, taking his cue from an absurd conspiracy theory that has spread among liberals seeking to justify or cover up rioters' behavior.  Subsequently, Biden and other Democrats have sought to emphasize that this is all occurring "on President Trump's watch," as if Biden were proposing to take the necessary steps to restore law and order (which of course he isn't).

Fanning the Flames.  For months, Biden and his media allies have abetted #BlackLivesMatter activists in inciting racial fear and hatred, claiming that "systemic racism" by police accounts for the deaths of black suspects at the hands of police.  Even though research clearly disproves such claims, the facts haven't stopped Democrats from trying to exploit this slanderous narrative in their effort to defeat President Trump.  Last week, after a self-declared "100% Antifa" radical murdered a Trump supporter in Portland, Oregon, Biden doubled-down on this anti-police rhetoric, blaming "bad cops" for "racial injustice in America," while bizarrely accusing Trump of "stoking violence in our cities."  Contrary to Biden's claims, however, the "violence in our cities" — mobs rioting in Portland and Seattle, looting in Chicago and New York, and attacking police everywhere — clearly has been fomented by anti-Trump activists, including the "trained Marxist" leaders of #BlackLivesMatter.

Not in Our Town?  How About 'Not in Our Country'?  American law enforcement is now caricatured as the Gestapo or as brainless, heartless automatons marching in lockstep to the commands of "systemic racism."  Different communities and different religions are taught not to look for common ground, but to instead wall themselves off from each other in celebration of their own grievances.  Yes, celebration.  Identity politics has turned Americans into us and them, and we are taught to celebrate "us" and fear "them."  How [...] can Americans sit back and watch as gangs of dangerous extremists maraud through our cities — burning buildings, throwing rocks, bottles and explosives at police, and attacking the elderly?  Why make excuses for the bullies or justify their violence?  Looting is wrong.  Vandalism is wrong.  Lawlessness is wrong.  Yet too many people will not say so.  Has the country completely lost its moral center in the last 25 years?  If one is being honest, the answer must be yes.

"You're Not Allowed To Film": The Fight To Control Who Reports From Portland.  "YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO FILM!" is a cry you hear incessantly at protests in Portland, Oregon, always shouted at close range to your face by after-dark demonstrators.  You can assert that, yes, you can film; you can point out that they themselves are filming incessantly; you can push their hands away from covering your phone; you can have your phone record them stealing your phone — all of these things have happened to me — and none will have any impact on their contention that "YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO FILM" and its occasional variation, "PHOTOGRAPHY EQUALS DEATH!"  I cannot say who came up with these anti-camera battle cries.  But it's easy to understand why protesters use them: to shape the narrative the country sees about the protests.

"It has been my experience that whenever a leader — whether elected, anointed or media-appointed — does not want you to see something, that's probably the time when you should go out of your way to see it."

— Clarence Page    

BLM-Biden Supporters Scream at Elderly Couple Dining Outdoors in Pittsburgh, Steal their Drinks Off Table.  This is how Biden supporters treat elderly Americans.  Black Lives Matter terrorists screamed obscenities at elderly people dining outdoors in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on Sunday [9/6/2020].  So much for worrying about Covid-19!  Other violent Biden supporters were breaking glassware and intimidating diners.

The Mayors Whose Names You Don't Know.  [Scroll down]  Take, for example, Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan.  For more than 80 days, Black Lives Matter protesters and Detroit police observed a tense but durable truce, and the conditions for preserving the peace were simple.  As long as the movement was moving — literally, maintaining forward motion — there would be no interference with the protests from law enforcement.  That peace was shattered in the final week of August when demonstrators turned violent and attempted to "occupy" a downtown street.  "I am not going to let any group set up a Seattle zone of lawlessness here in the city of Detroit," said Detroit Police Chief James Craig during a news conference.  "That is non-negotiable."  That day, riot gear-clad police swarmed the section of the city in which demonstrators had gathered, arresting at least 44 protesters, confiscating weapons and body armor, and charging many of them with a variety of misdemeanor offenses.  As of this writing, Mayor Dugan continues to sleep well in his home, free from the fear of forcible ejection by a violent mob.

Starbucks barista teaches how to make poisonous 'Blue Lives Matter' drink.  Pranks have turned more and more deadly in recent months as many, in particular radical leftist youths and young adults, have started ramping up efforts to engage in full-blown murder.  Law enforcement officers are often their targets, as was the case with a barista who made a video showing how to put together a poisonous "Blue Lives Matter" drink.  The barista, identified as Van Greyson Hart, is seen in the video demonstrating how to mix a lethal dose of bleach with other ingredients to make it look like a standard Starbucks drink.  According to Starbucks, the Target in which Hart works is licensing the brand and directly employs Hart.

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"Licensing the brand" is no defense.  If you permit a franchise owner (after recieving a hefty fee) to use your well-establish brand name to lure customers, you share in the responsibility for whatever happens in that franchised location.  I was in a jury pool once, and one of the defense lawyers tried to play this card, and when it became clear that I wasn't buying it, I was excused.

What if, in those violent big cities run by liberal Democrats, the politics were different?  [Scroll down]  What if Republican mayors, rather than restore order in their ruined cities and towns, just hid in publicly subsidized fortresses, or bunkered behind police walls while the rest of you were left on your own, and then those mayors just ran off?  It was Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden's staff that raised bond money for rioters in ruined Minneapolis, back when his campaign saw the street anger as politically beneficial.  Biden floats like a cork on the sea roiled by the hard left that runs his party.  And Republican President Donald Trump hammers him for it.  "We have not lived at home for two months," Krewson told the St. Louis Post Dispatch.  "We did it to de-escalate the situation ... and importantly because our neighbors were being disturbed and threatened."  Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler fled his home from riots there that never stop.  The Oregonian reported that Wheeler apologized to his neighbors for the damage to his home.

Portland mayor facing resignation calls, questioned leadership as election looms.  Two months before the November election, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler faces calls to resign from sources as wide-ranging as liberal constituents who once supported him to the nation's Republican president, who cite what they say is his lack of clear leadership as the city hit 100 days of protests.  Many critics say they're frustrated that Wheeler, the city's police commissioner, expresses support for police reforms yet hasn't come out strongly when officers appear to use excessive force on people during protests.  Many others are frustrated he hasn't done more to end the nightly demonstrations and the property damage, small fires and provocations of police that usually accompany them.  Still others feel he has said more about his disagreements with President Donald Trump than his solutions to aid a city reckoning with a pandemic, a recession, homelessness, unaffordable housing, increased gun violence and other racial and economic inequalities.

Rochester, New York Is Now Trying To Turn Into Portland.  While this story hasn't garnered as much national attention as George Floyd or Jason Blake, it's quickly picking up steam.  Back in March of this year, Daniel Prude, a 41-year-old Black man from Rochester, New York, died after being taken into police custody.  The fact that he was naked in the middle of a street (obviously unarmed) and that the police had put a bag over his head until he was apparently asphyxiated made for an ugly set of visuals.  He was pronounced brain dead at a local hospital and died roughly one week later.  Recently, video of Prude's arrest showed up in the media and the response since then has grown like wildfire, following a similar pattern that we've seen in Portland, Minneapolis, Kenosha and other locations.  The first night after the video went viral, a few dozen protesters showed up near a local police precinct.  By Saturday night, their numbers had grown into the thousands and the police were under direct, physical assault.  But as with so many of these stories, there is more to the tale of Prude's demise than might first meet the eye.

Where are the rioters coming from?  Data shows mix of locals and out-of-staters converging on cities.  West Hollywood; Seattle; Portland; Pasco, Wash.; and Palos Verdes Estates, Calif.  These are just a handful of the cities where recently arrested Kenosha, Wis., rioters are listed as coming from.  And as riots continue to pop up across the United States, such data has fueled speculation about the origins of the agitators and how they might be organized.  The records released so far reveal a mix — of out-of-towners, of people whose home city police do not know and also locals.  Records reflect plenty of Kenosha residents have been swept up in the arrests there, just as Washington, D.C., and Minneapolis residents have taken part in the unrest in those cities.

Comic book writers' son arrested in BLM rampage in NYC.  One of the Black Lives Matter protesters busted in a window-smashing rampage over the weekend is the son of a New York Times best-selling comic book writer whose creations inspired the show TV show "Stumptown."  Elliot Rucka, 20, of Portland was among the eight people arrested on rioting and other charges in the spree Friday that damaged and vandalized banks, Starbucks and Duane-Reades from Foley Square up to 24th Street.  The protest — which was organized by the groups "New Afrikan Black Panther Party" and the "Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement" — escalated to a three-hour marathon of destruction that caused at least $100,000 in damages, authorities said.

"Stumptown" Creator's Son Arrested in NYC BLM Riot.  Another privileged young revolutionary was arrested at the latest social justice riot in NYC, Elliot Rucka.  Rucka was arrested in NYC on rioting and other charges in the spree Friday that damaged and vandalized banks, Starbucks, and Duane-Reades from Foley Square up to 24th Street, the NY Post reported.  Ironically, Elliot Rucka, the 20-year-old son of a successful comic book writer, is from the capital of social justice violent riots, Portland.  This young, idealistic window smashing crusader's father, Greg Rucka, is a New York Times best-selling author.

Pundits gaslight the American people on violent riots.  Though Joe Biden has now accepted that violence is occurring in many major American cities and has started blaming Donald Trump for it, many of his supporters haven't gotten the memo.  A new trend among some high-profile left-wingers is to gaslight Americans by posting daytime photos of well-to-do areas of cities undamaged by the riots as proof that the riots aren't real.  Meanwhile, tear gas and fires engulf entire blocks at nighttime.  Josh Campbell, a former FBI agent and CNN contributor, kicked off the trend by tweeting September 1: 'Good morning from wonderful Portland, where the city is not under siege and buildings are not burning to the ground.  I also ate my breakfast burrito outside today and so far haven't been attacked by shadowy gangs of Antifa commandos.'

Why do You Support Joe Biden?  There are a lot of unanswered questions for Biden supporters.  Part of the frustration with the left and those that support it is that they never offer a convincing rationale for their actions.  Why are you voting for him? [...] How do you anticipate Joe Biden responding to the deadly and damaging riots in American streets effectively when he's been here before and it is known that his anti-police rhetoric only encourages more entitled lawlessness to build?  Recall that President Obama and Vice-President Biden nurtured the growth of Black Lives Matter with their baseless and divisive responses to the Cambridge police incident, the Trayvon Martin death, the Michael Brown death, and the Freddie Gray death.  Feel free to also to weigh in on the belief that Trump sending in troops to an already burning city like Portland somehow increases the tension, or the fact that when they pull out the burning continues.[...] How can you support the looting and riots, even writing them off as "mostly peaceful," knowing full well you would never accept it in your own community and backyard?  What right do you have to safety while others do not?

"Bipartisan" Washington Insiders Reveal Their Plan for Chaos if Trump Wins the Election.  A group of "bipartisan" neoconservative Republicans and establishment Democrats have been "simulating" multiple catastrophic scenarios for the 2020 election, including a simulation where a clear victory by the incumbent provokes "unprecedented" measures, which the Biden campaign could take to foil a new Trump inauguration.

Criminal Who Was Bailed Out of Jail by Nonprofit Funded by Biden's Staffers Violently Assaults Man.  A 32-year-old accused felon committed another violent assault against an innocent man after being bailed out by the nonprofit funded by Biden's staffers.  The Minnesota Freedom Fund received $35 million in donations during the George Floyd riots and Biden's campaign staffers were among the people who made substantial donations.  Lionel Timms was bailed out of jail in July thanks to the Minnesota Freedom Fund touted by Biden's running mate Kamala Harris.

50+ Questions No Reporter Dares Ask Joe Biden And His Campaign.  On Rioting And Violence:  Will you ever directly condemn Antifa and the Black Lives Matter rioters as the cause for the violence ripping through the nation's cities?  Would you allow the National Guard into cities like Portland that have seen 100 days of violence, rioting, and even death?  What, if anything, can be done to stop the epidemic of violence in Chicago and other cities?  Have their Democrat leaders failed the citizens there?

Advice For Rioters If You're Visited By The FBI.  [Scroll down]  The feds are not playing "whack a rioter" every night in the street.  Each night is another step in building a larger case against organizers of these riots.  These consensual interviews are meant to identify participants and gather whatever information they can gather on other participants.  I'm 100% confident there is a significant database already in existence that is documenting the identities and photographs of dozens or hundreds of individuals.  In addition to the agent resources devoted to dismantling the "command and control" network of the Portland groups, the Portland FBI office is certainly dedicating a substantial amount of analyst work.  All day long, while rioters are resting up and getting ready for the nighttime festivities, numerous FBI analysts are going over audio, video, cell phone traffic, and any other communications they can monitor to track the individuals who are planning and providing the logistical resources being used to sustain these protesters.  It is a laborious process of linking participants and documenting their activities.  But when the necessary investment of time and resources are made on the front end, bullet-proof cases against the most significant participants emerge at the end.  The protesters really have no understanding about the resources that have been devoted to breaking them up.

Black Lives Matter activist suckerpunched a Trump supporter at the Beverly Hills protest.  Not all heroes wear capes. [...] Flashback to Aug. 22nd, when a crowd of Black Lives Matter extremists descended into the Beverly Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles and, as usual, began causing trouble.  [Video clip]

Data: 48 of America's 50 Largest Cities Hit By Black Lives Matter Riots.  New data from Princeton University show that riots associated with the Black Lives Matter movement took place in 48 out of the 50 largest cities in the United States. [...] Within the largest 100 cities by population, 74 experienced riots.  Several smaller communities have also experienced riots, including — most recently — Rochester, New York, and Kenosha, Wisconsin.

Antifa's violent, organized tactics are getting exposed.  Based on the arrest photos of apprehended Antifa rioters, the impression is out there that the group is little more than a bunch of extremist fringe crazies.  Sadly, it's not so.  Report after report shows that Antifa is highly organized, in its rioting, its killing, and its press coverage. [...] Besides the atrocities, they also have help.  Apparently, someone on the inside in Portland's government is providing shelter for them on the city's dime, in the form of a homeless tent camp.  They deny it, of course, but it certainly does seem to explain how Antifa, with all its pan-United States cast of characters, can operate for 100 nights of mayhem in Portland alone.  They also have the press.

The Democrats' tragic romance with the rioters.  [Scroll down]  But the left's fondness for theater invariably leads them to act up, and then overact.  Predictably, they escalated their theater from drama to melodrama to Rambo movies.  Peaceful protests grew into riots.  Buildings were burned, stores were looted and people were killed. [...] The rioting culminated at the commencement of the Democratic National Convention which was held, virtually, in Joe Biden's basement.  Or wherever.  People wondered, what will they say about the riots?  We soon learned what they would say.  Not a [...] thing.  They never mentioned the riots that worsened nightly through their convention.  The apparent reason was that the rioters hate Trump (and America too) and so do the Democrats.  Under the tribal shibboleth "the enemy of my enemy is my friend," the Dems figured that the rioters were their friends because both were enemies of Trump.  Friends don't call out friends just because they're looting, burning and murdering.  At least Democrat ones don't.

Black Lives Matter protesters smash NYC Starbucks window in stunning video.  Manhattan business owners vented anger and frustration Saturday [9/5/2020] as they surveyed the damage and cleaned up another mess caused by riotous members of Black Lives Matter, whose protest the night before devolved into a lawless rampage of destruction through the Big Apple.  "I'm sick of this [...]!" raged Kevin McGrath, owner of the Five Points Academy boxing gym across the street from a beseiged Starbucks at Lafayette and Grand streets in Soho.  The java giant was among several businesses damaged Friday night by BLM demonstrators during a planned protest march north from Foley Square to Chelsea and across to Flatiron, resulting in what authorities said was $100,000 in damage to stores and banks.

Judge Orders Detroit Police Not to Use Batons, Tear Gas Against Protesters for Two Weeks.  A federal judge in Detroit has ordered the city's police not to use batons, tear gas, shields, chokeholds, rubber bullets, sound cannons, or any other type of non-lethal force against protesters for the next two weeks.  The late Friday [9/4/2020] ruling granted a temporary restraining order to the activist group Detroit Will Breathe, which sued the city on Monday, claiming that excessive police force infringed upon their protesters' First Amendment rights, the Detroit Free Press reported.

Wealthy NYC woman busted in BLM rampage.  One of the Black Lives Matter protesters now facing felony rioting and misdemeanor graffiti charges — after a window-smashing free-for-all in Manhattan — is a wealthy Upper East Sider whose mother is an architect and whose father is a child psychiatrist.  Clara Kraebber, 20, is one of eight people arrested Friday night [9/4/2020] after a roiling, three-hour rampage that police say caused at least $100,000 in damage from Foley Square up to 24th Street.  "Every city, every town, burn the precinct to the ground!" the group chanted as it moved up Lafayette Street while busting the plate glass facades of banks, Starbucks and Duane-Reades.  The protest was organized by groups calling themselves the "New Afrikan Black Panther Party" and the "Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement." [...] She is now facing a maximum of four years prison on her top charge of first-degree riot.

20-year-old college student from wealthy elite family facing possible 4-year prison term for violent BLM rampage in Manhattan.  [Scroll down]  Young Ms. Kraebber is no dummy.  She is a student at Rice University, one of the most selective schools (a mere 9% of applicants were admitted in 2019) in the country and is a graduate of Hunter College High School on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, whose students score in the top one-quarter of one percent of students based on test scores.  Her parents are members of the nation's academic elite — her father is a psychiatrist on the faculty of Columbia University, while her mother is the principal of an architectural firm bearing her name whose clients include Columbia and NYU. Her family lives in the Upper East Side in an apartment for which they paid $1.8 million 4 years ago, and also boasts a house in Connecticut with 4 fireplaces.  On Friday [9/4/2020], young Clara was arrested for participating in a 3-hour rampage that did an estimated $100,000 in damage, smashing store windows and doing other damage to lower Manhattan.

For America's Mayors, Home Is No Longer Safe.  In San Jose, Calif., a group of about 100 people spray-painted an obscenity on the front door of Mayor Sam Liccardo on Aug. 28, threw eggs and burned an American flag as they demanded that he defund the Police Department.  In Portland, Ore., protesters threw burning material into the lobby of the apartment building where Mayor Ted Wheeler lives.  In Seattle, they marched to the home of Mayor Jenny Durkan, who as a former federal prosecutor later expressed alarm that her previously undisclosed address had been made public.  In Chicago, activists descended on the home of Mayor Lori Lightfoot, prompting the city to begin enforcing a statute banning protests in residential neighborhoods.  Most of the mayors are Democrats who support Black Lives Matter protests and have said they want to see some law-enforcement reform.  But they are attempting to draw the line at damage or threats to their homes, putting liberal leaders in the unusual position of confronting activists on their side of the political spectrum, instead of opponents on the right.

Portland 'riot' declared after Molotov cocktails tossed.  At least three Molotov cocktails were tossed in the direction of Portland, Ore., police late Saturday, prompting yet another night of unrest in the city to be declared a riot, according to reports.  Video posted on social media showed people scattering after a fiery object hurtled through the air and crashed on the ground, resulting in a huge fireball and smoke.  In another video, a rioter is seen scrambling for help after his feet catch fire while trying to escape flames.

ANTIFA Member Tosses Molotov At Cops, Ends Up Lighting BLM Activist On Fire Instead.  On what seems to be day number 1000 of rioting in Portland, ANTIFA tried to up their game against a seemingly more aggressive Portland PD.  A Black Bloc member tried tossing a Molotov cocktail at some officers but seems to have had bad aim as the flaming bottle landed by some BLM activists, lighting one's legs on fire.  [Video clip]

Brutally Honest Campaign Ad — "Meet Joe Biden Supporters".  An effective ad showcasing the major issue within the 2020 election cycle.  [Video clip]

President Trump:  U.S. marshals [were] called in to locate Portland killer due to inaction from local authorities.  President Trump has expressed his support for a recent law enforcement operation, which resulted in the death of the man suspected of murdering a conservative protester.  On Friday, the president suggested federal agents were needed due to inaction from local authorities.  On Thursday, U.S. marshals located 48-year-old suspect Michael Forest Reinoehl near his home in Lacey, Washington.  Reinoehl was reportedly armed at the time.  Authorities attempted to take him into custody when shots were fired.

Minority-owned security company hired to watch Seattle park quits on first night after being harassed by Antifa.  Cal Anderson Park in Seattle is a large open space immediately adjacent to the former CHAZ/CHOP zone.  For weeks the park has been a kind of home base for protesters/rioters who would gather there each night before marches.  Some people had set up tents and were sleeping there.  There was even some kind of store full of donated items.  Earlier this week the city finally cleared the park and found a tent serving as a kind of Antifa armory: [...] After the park was cleared, the city contracted with a private security firm to keep an eye on things at night.  I'm not sure what the thinking was here.  I guess it was cheaper to hire private security than to use police officers.  In any case, the first night the private security officers arrived they were immediately hounded out of the park.  [Video clip]

Portland Police Aren't Fooling Around Anymore.  During night number 99 of rioting and mayhem, Portland PD put their foot down on the neck of ANTIFA hard.  Several Black Bloc-heads were tackled and arrested and one female was even unmasked.  Dozens were arrested.  [Video clip]

BLM Punk Tries To Storm #WalkAway Stage, Gets DESTROYED By A GIANT Black Trump Supporter, Arrested.  This altercation happened today during the Pro-Trump rally, #WalkAway Rescue America Rallies in Downtown Dallas.  The event was peaceful until this clash took place, as both President Trump supporters, and counter-protesters were letting their opinions be known.  Brandon Straka, organizer of Walk Away Rescue America, have emphasized that security is in place at all rallies — in order to make it safe for supporters to participate.  Last time in San Francisco, Black Lives Matter tried to 'crash the party', today in Dallas, Texas security had to move in and pacify BLM agitators that became violent.  [Video clip]

Joe Biden Supporters March, Threaten, Trash Restaurants and Businesses in New York.  Joe Biden supporters made things very uncomfortable for diners in Rochester New York last evening as they overturned tables, threw chairs and threatened patrons.  [Video clip]

Rich White Leftists Encourage Black People to Loot Their Neighborhoods.  A hardcover copy of "In Defense of Looting" will run you 21 bucks at Amazon and 28 bucks at Barnes and Noble.  That's just how capitalism works for the distribution and sales of a product from one of the biggest publishing companies in the world that's part of the Lagardère empire.  Why is the largest publishing company in France pushing what Publishers Weekly called, "a provocative, Marxist-informed defense of looting" to Americans?  Because it makes money.  Learn why private property is just a social construct for only 21 bucks.

The Racist Left Feels Entitled to Riot.  Events have compelled lifelong swamp denizen Joe "Joey Basement" Biden to scurry into the sunlight and read from a teleprompter.  In a duplicitous performance worthy of Pravda, Biden blamed the leftist riots roiling Democratic "governed" cities on — spoiler alert — President Trump and his "right-wing" supporters.  Attempting to dispel any doubts about his newfound concern for the lives, limbs, and property of American citizens, Biden declared that rioters should be prosecuted.  This must have surprised his running mate, Senator Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), who previously helped to fund the rioters' bail; and the Democratic prosecutors who largely have refused to prosecute the rioters.  Apparently, Harris and Biden's campaign staff have a soft spot for lawless MAGA supporters.  Naturally, since the Left's new narrative (read "lie") is how Republicans' hobnailed wingtips are on the throats of the law-abiding, Biden couldn't bear to mention Black Lives Matter or Antifa, the latter of which the Left argues doesn't exist, though a "100 percent Antifa" murder suspect (lately deceased) disagreed.

Portland shooting suspect followed right-wing activists after spotting them downtown, unsealed arrest warrant says.  Prosecutors in Oregon released recently unsealed court documents Friday alleging that self-described anti-fascist Michael Forest Reinoehl hid in a parking garage before following two supporters of the right-wing Patriot Prayer group after spotting them during street protests last weekend.  Moments later, the records allege, Reinhoel shot and killed one of the men, Aaron "Jay" Danielson.  The records were made public a day after a fugitive task force fatally shot Reinoehl near Lacey, Thurston County.

In Your Face:  Portland Cop Pulls Off Gas Mask.  I suspect she didn't see that coming or going.  [She also recieved a free fragrance sample.]  [Video clip]

Black Lives Matter protesters riot in Manhattan, cause $100,000 damage:  NYPD.  Eight people were arrested Friday night when a group of 150 Black Lives Matter protesters smashed windows and graffitied the storefronts of Lower Manhattan chain stores and banks, police sources said.  At least two Starbucks, five banks and a Duane Reade had their windows busted, causing an estimated $100,000 in damage.  Police recovered two stun guns, smoke grenades, and burglary and graffiti tools.  The protest had been advertised on Twitter by groups calling themselves the "New Afrikan Black Panther Party" and the "Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement."  One of the arrested protesters was from Portland, Ore., and another was from Iowa, the sources said.

Round One Goes to Trump.  The tragedy of Kenosha, along with the response of the presidential candidates, reveals much about the core issues Americans will vote on in November.  A properly functioning Democratic Party would have called for calm and restraint, whilst offering sympathy to those who have suffered harm and loss. [...] In effect, this will be read by millions of Americans, whatever their color, as meaning that the Dems have put American voters on notice: vote for us or this will happen where you live.  The Dems are claiming that only they can stop the riots, and the logical conclusion is that they can do this because they know how to get in contact with the people organizing them.  The evidence for this is that when these riots occur in Dem-controlled towns and cities the local authorities do very little by way of stopping them until the destruction is bad enough to provide useful political propaganda against Trump.  And as soon as this aim has been fulfilled, suddenly the rioting stops, as quickly as it began.  That's pretty much all any reasonable, morally competent person needs to know about the Democrats and race-riots.

Rioters Burned Her Minneapolis Business to the Ground, She's Received No Help.  For nearly 30 years, Flora Westbrook owned a salon in Minneapolis.  In June, rioters took over the neighborhood and destroyed her livelihood by burning the business to the ground.  Months later, she's still received no help from local officials.  In fact, they've made things worse by sending her a $200,000 bill for building removal.  "Here we are 100 days after your place was torched and how much help have you gotten from your local and state officials," Fox and Friends co-host Steve Doocy asked during an interview Thursday morning [9/3/2020].  "I haven't gotten anything, not a penny," Westbrook said.  "They never showed up.  I didn't see any police at all patrol my area."

Feds begin prosecuting rioters in Portland.  Federal prosecutors have started filing civil disorders charges against violent protesters in Portland, Oregon.  They are filing the charges under a federal statute enacted in 1968 in response to the rioting of that era.  It's interesting, I think, that the Congress that passed this statute was controlled by Democrats.  In 1968, the GOP was outnumbered in both chambers to a much greater degree than it is now.  Back then, Democrats were serious about stopping riots.  These days, they prefer to give rioters space to destroy.  That space is turning out to be wherever [...] they please.  In Portland, the following three people have been charged by the feds under the 1968 law.

Democrats Destroy America, Blame Trump.  [Scroll down]  During the four days of the Democratic National Convention, not a single word was said to condemn the violence.  Instead, a gloomy and ominous atmosphere of anti-Americanism prevailed.  America was again and again called racist, unjust, misogynist, and a dangerous place.  Not a word was said to pin violence on Trump — because the old narrative was still in place that there was no violence.  But the Democrats either miscalculated or completely ignored the basic human feeling of self-preservation.  They also went too far in their "black lives matter" hypocrisy.  Outrage over the death of one black man has already cost hundreds of black lives and livelihoods across the country.

Florida Thug Arrested for Rand Paul Attack Outside RNC.  Authorities have arrested a man from Florida over the attack on Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) and his wife outside the Republican National Convention last week.  27-year-old Brennen Sermon was arrested and charged in connection with an attack, the District of Columbia U.S. Attorney's Office announced.  The incident reportedly left one of Paul's police guards with severe injuries to his face after he was allegedly punched by Sermon.  Sermon is from Orlando, Florida — quite a distance from Washington, D.C.

Secret Antifa tent city found, and Portland is paying for it.  Where do Portland Antifans rest during the day between riots at night?  In a hidden tent city near downtown, paid for and serviced by the city, according to a local citizen journalist.  [Video clip]

Man Finds Secret ANTIFA Tent City In Portland, They Start Slingshotting Stones At Him.  A man came upon a tent city that houses hundreds of ANTIFA rioters in the Star Park Festival parking lot by the Hawthorne Bridge Junction.  The man films what he sees and taunts the Black Bloc members who seem to be just waking up.  Near the end of the video, a member with a slingshot with stones is used to try and get rid of the man filming.  When that doesn't work, they chased him away, which was not caught on video.  [Video clip]

'This Is Where They House the Rioters!' City of Portland Houses Some Antifa Rioters Destroying the City.  Portland is wittingly or unwittingly housing some of the very same destructive rioters who have been tearing apart the city since May 28.  Let me repeat.  The taxpayers are paying for their own demise and it's all under the auspices of the city.  One month before the riots started, ostensibly to allow grieving over the death of George Floyd — remember him? — the City of Portland opened three homeless tent cities, one of which is the "Harbor of Hope."  The camp is situated close to the Willamette River, just a simple, short walk over the Hawthorn Bridge to downtown Portland, where it spills out onto riot central.

Rochester police involved in Daniel Prude suffocation and death followed training 'step by step', union head says.  Police officers involved in the suffocation of Daniel Prude — who died in March after a bag was placed over his head — were following their training, their union chief has said, as it emerged that Prude's brother Joe said he was hallucinating and suicidal before he died.  Prude, 41, from Chicago, was naked running through the streets of Rochester, New York — where his brother lives — in the early hours of March 23 when he was arrested.  He had taken the drug phencyclidine, known as PCP or angel dust, and was ranting at the officers, telling them he had coronavirus, saying they should just put him on a plane, and asking for their guns.

Signs of trouble before police pinned Prude naked on street.  Daniel Prude appeared to be spiraling into crisis in the hours before police handcuffed him on a city street in March, then pinned the naked man face down.  The 41-year-old had been thrown off a train the day before for disruptive behavior.  He was sent to a hospital for a mental health evaluation after he was said to have expressed suicidal thoughts.

Rochester, NY police use pepper spray on Daniel Prude protesters.  More than 200 protesters gathered in front of the Public Safety Building to demand justice for Daniel Prude on Thursday night [9/3/2020].  But the gathering and ensuing standoff with police — the most contentious since unrest on May 30 ended in vandalism, arson and looting — intensified as the night wore on.  Eight people were arrested and two officers were injured outside the Public Safety Building early Friday, said Rochester Police Capt. Michael Callari.  All eight protesters were charged with disorderly conduct, a violation.  Two of those protesters were also charged with resisting arrest, a misdemeanor, and one was also charged with second-degree harassment, a violation.  Callari said protesters threw rocks and bottles at officers.

Gov Cuomo attempts to walk back perceived threat Trump 'better have an army' to protect him in NYC.  New York Governor Andrew Cuomo was slammed after he appeared to threaten President Donald Trump over his plan to pull federal funding from some Democrat-run cities.  The Democrat leader declared that the U.S. President had "better have an army'" to protect him if he ever plans to visit New York City, claiming residents want nothing to do with him.  Cuomo later reportedly clarified his remarks after igniting scathing criticism for his shocking rhetoric.

My run-in with the New York Times.  [T]here's a now infamous video from last week where a mob of enraged millennials with their fists pumped in the air surrounded a lone young woman sitting outside a Washington restaurant where I often eat.  Like a scene from the Cultural Revolution, the crowd demanded she shout certain slogans and raise her clenched fist in solidarity — or be damned as a racist.  Most of her fellow diners took the path of least resistance.  She wouldn't.  The chants grew louder: 'White silence is violence!'  They started screaming in her face.  She wouldn't cave.  Wokeness, in case you hadn't noticed, has entered a more intense phase.  Not so long ago, you were canceled for something you did or said or wrote.  Now you're canceled just for saying absolutely nothing at all.

Antifa Members Flying Around the Country to Engage in Rioting:  Barr.  Members of the extremist Antifa network are flying around the country and participating in riots, Attorney General William Barr said in a new interview.  "I've talked to every police chief in every city where there has been major violence and they all have identified Antifa as the ramrod for the violence," Barr said in an appearance this week on CNN's "Situation Room."  "They are flying around the country.  We know people who are flying around the country.  We know where they're going."  "We see some of the purchases they are making before the riots of weapons to use in those riots," he added.  "So, we are following them."  Crossing state lines to engage in rioting is illegal and a federal offense, the attorney general said.

For the Good of the Country, the Democrats Must Accept a Drubbing.  We need to make the riots stop.  They are getting too dangerous. [...] We've always had idealistic youth running around pretending they are Che Guevara.  The Socialist Revolutions always fail.  What's different this time [...] is that the current crop of Socialist Revolutionaries have been getting aid and funding and organizational help from what appear to be actual, honest-to-goodness Socialist Revolutionaries.  Perhaps they are Russians.  Maybe they are Chinese.  They could be "Americans" like George Soros.  It doesn't matter.  Before these creeps showed up, we didn't have pallets of bricks being mysteriously dropped off along the parade routes.  We didn't see dozens of amateur Guevaras wearing identical protective vests and gas masks.  Somebody is buying this stuff and running a distribution operation to handle the logistics, and it isn't the idealistic youth with their toy revolution.  Somewhere in the back there are Serious Adults with Serious Money.

Portland Police Assn. president:  City Council holding police back from dealing with violence.  The president of Portland's Police Association has called on city officials to allow police to do their jobs.  On Wednesday [9/2/2020], Daryl Turner said the police could proactively stop a lot of violence if the City Council and police commissioner would step back.  Turner previously claimed the city was set up for tragedy after $15 million was cut from the police budget.  He reiterated police don't have the ability to step in and help.

Why Trump Doesn't Just 'Send In the Troops'.  The devil is in the details, and the devil here makes Trump pulling the trigger on the troops in the current situation a very bad idea.  We should support his strategic patience and not do what the Democrats want by getting mad at the president for refusing to stumble into an ambush.

Details of '100% Antifa' Portland Shooter's Death Emerge, Possible Large Shoot-Out.  Last night [9/3/2020], Michael Forest Reinoehl was shot and killed by federal authorities after evading capture for nearly a week.  He is the man who allegedly murdered a Trump supporter in cold-blood while "protesting" in Portland, OR. The original chilling video shows Reinoehl responding to someone saying "we've got one over here" by pulling a gun and executing a man in the street at near point blank range.  At first, misinformation spread, claiming the police killed Reinoehl in revenge.  That was, of course, nonsense. [...] In reality, U.S. Marshals moved in to make the arrest after Portland PD and state agencies failed to apprehend him.  That ended badly for Reinoehl, who reported pulled a gun and reportedly had a fairly large shoot-out with the authorities.

Suspect in deadly shooting of right-wing activist in Portland killed by officers in Lacey.  A man suspected by police of fatally shooting a Trump supporter in downtown Portland last weekend was killed in Lacey Thursday night when authorities tried to arrest him during a traffic stop.  A spokesperson for the Pierce County Sheriff's Department said officers responded to a home in Lacey to find Michael Forest Reinoel, 48, a suspect believed to be involved in Aug. 29's fatal protest shooting in Portland.  Authorities said the suspect exited the house and got into a vehicle when officers tried to stop the car.  Shots were fired and the suspect was killed in the gunfire, authorities said.  No officers were injured in the shooting.

Authorities Kill Far-Left Extremist Accused Of Murdering Trump Supporter In Portland, Report Says.  Law enforcement officials reportedly killed 48-year-old Michael Forest Reinoehl, an antifa and Black Lives Matter extremist, on Thursday night [9/3/2020] when they closed in to arrest him for allegedly murdering a right-wing protester in Portland.  Officials said that Reinoehl "was killed during the encounter in Lacey, Wash., southwest of Seattle, when a federal fugitive task force moved to apprehend him," The New York Times reported.  "An arrest warrant had been issued by the Portland police earlier Thursday."

A Pathetic Psychosis Afflicts The Left.  Michael Reinoehl was a mentally disturbed individual.  His family had been estranged from him for more than three years.  His sister described him as having a temper, behaving irrationally, and that he would not be able to deal with the intense situations such as those at the nightly Antifa/BLM protests where he claimed to provide "Security" for protesters.  At some point this week Reinoehl made contact with Portland independent journalist — that's a euphemism for not having a job — Donovan Farley and agreed to an interview.  Farley contacted Vice News, who sent two camera crews to record the interview for broadcast tonight.  Sometime during the day on Thursday a Judge in Portland signed a warrant for Reinoehl's arrest.  It's quite possible that Reinoehl's videotaped admission that he was the shooter solved a prosecution problem of having a witness who could identify him as the shooter.  The video shows someone dressed in the same manner Reinoehl was dressed earlier in the evening, but so far there has been no public disclosure that anyone at the scene of the shooting had positively identified Reinoelh as having fired the fatal shots — that is until Reinoehl himself confirmed it to Farley.

Portland Shooter Dead Hours After He Confesses On Vice TV — Federal Fugitive Task Force Near Seattle.  [Scroll down]  Given that the warrant was issued sometime on Thursday, and that a federal fugitive task force — likely based out of the US Marshal's Office in Seattle — already had solid information on where he was strongly suggests that Reinoehl had been under surveillance in anticipation that a warrant would be forthcoming.  It is unknown exactly what time the warrant was issued, but it does not seem coincidental that it was issued in the same general time frame as the publication of the teaser for the Vice interview.  It is likely that Reinoehl's admissions in the interview resolved one key issue still facing the prosecutor — a positive identification that Reinoehl was, in fact, the person who fired the fatal shot.

DOJ Begins Indicting Portland (and National) Rioters With Federal "Civil Disorder" Charges.  18 U.S. Code § 231.  "Civil Disorders" is a charge defined under federal law as a "public disturbance involving acts of violence which causes an immediate danger of or results in injury to people or their property."  Apparently this federal statute is now being used by U.S. attorneys across the country.

Save Washington, D.C..  D.C. mayor Muriel Bowser must think she's clever.  Maybe she's just desperate.  After weeks of lawlessness in D.C., she's "pleading" with Acting U.S. Attorney Michael Sherwin to lower the boom on not-so-peaceful protesters.  In typical Democrat fashion, the violence and destruction plaguing a city — in this case, a very special city — isn't the mayor's fault.  Voters aren't buying this pap.  By Election Day, they really won't be buying it.  Ask conservatives why mobs are running D.C.'s streets, and the typical answer is that Bowser isn't doing her job.  They're right about that.  Say conservatives, if D.C. can't handle the mobs, Bowser should request help from the president.  Trump is ready to intercede.  Law and order could be restored in hours.

New York Governor threatens President's life.  You may have already heard the latest hot rumor suggesting that the President is looking into cutting off funding to various "anarchist" cities that are moving to defund or otherwise dismantle their police forces. [...] As it turns out, that didn't sit very well with New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (the more successful brother of "Fredo").  The news hadn't been out for more than a couple of hours yesterday [9/2/2020] before Cuomo called an emergency press conference.  In it, he lambasted the President over a variety of policy issues while slipping in attacks of a personal nature on both Donald Trump and his family.  He calls the President "a clown" at one point while insisting that the Pandemic's severe impact on New York City was somehow Trump's fault.  (Ironic, coming from the guy whose disastrous nursing home policy probably killed more people than were murdered on the streets of New York in the past decade.)

Portland man repeatedly struck federal officers with car:  Justice Department.  A Portland man is accused of chasing two federal officers on an Oregon roadway and trying multiple times to hit them with his car — successfully crashing into their vehicle twice, the U.S. Justice Department announced Wednesday [9/2/2020].  A U.S. magistrate judge released Lonnie Vantewa Albert, pending future court appearances, following his Tuesday hearing in connection with the allegations he assaulted two Federal Protective Service officers with a sports utility vehicle early Sunday morning, according to a Department of Justice press release.

"If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun."

— Senator Barack Obama,    
June 14, 2008.    

"I want you to argue with them and get in their face."

— Senator Barack Obama,    
September 17, 2008.    

Salon Forced To Relocate Due To 'Death Threats' After Owner Exposed Nancy Pelosi.  On Wednesday's [9/2/2020] broadcast of the Fox News Channel's "Tucker Carlson Tonight," Erica Kious, the owner of the San Francisco hair salon that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) visited, reacted to Pelosi's claim that she was set up by stating that Pelosi or her staff made the appointment and wondered, "if she's in there comfortably, without a mask, and feeling safe, then why are we shut down?" Kious said Pelosi "had called a stylist in, or her assistant did, and made the appointment.  So, the appointment was already booked.  So, there was no way I could've set that up.  And I've had a camera system in there for five years.  I mean, I didn't go in there and turn cameras on as soon as she walked in to set her up.  So, that's absolutely false."  The video shows Pelosi entering a room followed by another person — the stylist, according to Fox News — who is wearing a mask.  It is not clear whether she subsequently put her mask back on.

To Destroy America.  The protests that sprang up in the wake of George Floyd's killing in Minneapolis seemed like spontaneous outpourings of grief and anger.  They weren't entirely.  Though many who joined their ranks may have been moved by outrage at the images of Floyd's death, those operating behind the scenes have prepared for this moment for a long time.  Indeed, the leaders of the Black Lives Matter organizations fueling this summer's disturbances were trained by self-described Marxist revolutionaries who have long used the plight of black Americans as justification for overthrowing America's constitutional order.  They frankly admit that such "organizing" is the key to their goal of world revolution. [...] But who initiated this demand for change?  After the initial protests following Floyd's death, public outrage was channeled — by trained activists working from a playbook — into manifestations that often grew riotous.  The Black Lives Matters Global Network and Movement for Black Lives organizations have been the nerve center of the protests.  They have been laying the groundwork for years, carefully cultivating a network of groups that could organize protests when the moment came and amplify the message through social media.

Pushing back against Biden's claim that Trump caused the violence.  In Seattle, the mob set up a murderous autonomous zone.  Chicago's downtown has been repeatedly trashed.  Portland's been the site of downtown warfare for three solid months.  Most recently, little Kenosha, Wisconsin was turned into a war zone after police were forced to shoot a violent rape suspect who fought them, had a knife, resisted being tased, and reached into a car for an unknown but potentially lethal reason.  In every case, the mob violence comes with demands to defund the police, cries of systemic racism, unbridled hatred for Donald Trump and his supporters, demands for the overthrow of the federal government, anti-white racism, and demands for redistribution of wealth.  In other words, it's a leftist package deal.

Portland Rioter Allegedly Stabs Two to Death Just One Week After D.A. Dropped Other Charges Against Him.  Portland rioter Phillip Lawrence Nelson is now a suspect in a double-stabbing murder that occurred just one week after he was caught and let go by local law enforcement.  The original charges against Nelson of interfering with a peace officer were dropped the day after his first arrest in early June, and he was released.  Cassy Leaton and Najaf "Nate" Hobbs were found stabbed to death in Portland on June 16 after an apparent dispute over the building Nelson had been squatting in.  Nelson faces two murder charges and is being held without bail.  Nelson is hardly the first — or last — left-wing rioter to be freed under an unofficial "catch-and-release" program by district attorneys in some of America's most violent Democrat-run cities.

Foundation With Biden Campaign Ties Funding Leftist Agitators On U.S. Streets.  Last Sunday, the site of the Republican National Convention in Charlotte witnessed a night of violence leading to at least five arrests.  Since Friday, Black Lives Matter activists terrorized the Queen City, including beating police officers, in an effort to intimidate GOP attendees and business owners.  By contrast, the Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee brought only a small gathering of peaceful activists, who declared:  "We decided that it would make sense for us to make the emphasis of our action the one point of unity that deals with police crimes."  Here we have a real "tale of two cities."  To understand the disparity of these two convention host cities separated by only a week, let's examine some financiers of organizations fomenting the riots now taking place across the country.

Biden's Laughable Pivot.  Democratic Presidential Candidate Joe Biden has sat silent while roving bands of outlaws tore American cities to shreds.  He said nothing when an Antifa leader in Portland called for "the abolition of the United States as we know it."  His own vice-presidential pick, Kamala Harris, grinned as she warned that the riots are "not gonna stop.  And they should not."  Until about five minutes ago, Harris and Biden thought they could use the Marxist revolutionaries of BLM and Antifa as their own pet militia.  They thought that once the brownshirts had made a hellscape of America, they could come sailing in to convince voters that Grandpa Joe and Mamala were going to make it all better.

A Clutch of Fools.  Reporters standing in front of scenes of arson, flames billowing behind them, not very far from scenes of shooting and murder, insist that the protests are "mostly peaceful."  National Public Radio and a multi-billion-dollar global media conglomerate team up to bring you an illiterate "defense of looting."  The president comes to the defense of a dangerously stupid teenager who went looking for trouble illegally armed with a rifle in his hands and, to no one's great surprise, found the trouble he was looking for.  The lesson of the summer is that intellectual and moral anarchy eventually bring with them political anarchy, that chaos in the democratic mind unleashes chaos in the streets.

Boulder police:  Woman assaults 12-year-old boy for carrying Trump campaign sign, tries to steal it.  The Boulder Police Department is investigating after a woman allegedly assaulted a 12-year-old boy and tried to steal a political sign he was carrying.  According to BPD, the incident occurred shortly before 2 p.m. Monday [8/31/2020] at Folsom Street and Glenwood Drive.  The boy was riding his bicycle and carrying a yard sign in support of President Donald Trump's reelection campaign.  A woman riding a gray-blue moped drove past the boy and saw the sign.  Police said the woman made a U-turn, approached the boy and "began assaulting him because of his political banner."

Joe Biden Hits the Campaign Trail, It Hits Back.  [Scroll down]  The good news, if you care to spin it that way, is that the mostly peaceful ransackers also probably don't know if this specific black-owned office they're setting on fire has people living above it.  Maybe someone will die of smoke inhalation, but, hey — maybe not!  There's much more at the Twitter thread, and [the writer] encourages you to watch all the videos.  Also please take note of how calmly and systematically these antifa thugs go about the business of destroying someone's business, someone's life.  They aren't angry or aggrieved or oppressed.  Antifa just firmly believe that ruining people's lives will advance their political agenda, and so that's what they do.

Oregon State Troopers were deputized by the feds so they can make arrests on federal charges.  There are a lot of moving parts to this one so let's quickly recap.  There have been 95 straight nights of protests in Portland since the death of George Floyd and on 25 occasions those have been declared riots.  Mayor Ted Wheeler has been more vocal lately about denouncing the violence and in response the mob has targeted him at his home with occupations, vandalism, arson and rioting.  Mayor Wheeler has now told his neighbors that for their safety he plans to move.

The Editor says...
Ri-i-i-ight.  I'm moving for your safety.  Perhaps at your expense, too.  It's a public service!

DOJ and DHS Confirm Active Federal Probe into Criminal Activity and Funding Related to Violent Riots.  The Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security confirmed this week that the DOJ is investigating the organizers and funders behind the violent riots that have engulfed the country since May.  "We are investigating coordinated, criminal activity — not First Amendment activity — and violence related to riots, destruction of federal property and violence against law enforcement officers," said DOJ spokesperson Kerri Kupec on Tuesday.

Kerri Kupec Discusses Ongoing DOJ/FBI Investigative Efforts of Coordinated Domestic Political Violence.  DOJ Spokesperson Kerri Kupek appears with Martha MacCallum to discuss the ongoing DOJ and FBI efforts to track, trace and identify the groups and individuals carrying out domestic political violence.  Ms. Kupek focuses discussion on FBI investigative efforts to follow the funding mechanism and money trail behind violent groups like Antifa and Black Lives Matter.  Personal Note — Ms. Kerri Kupek is a committed, solid and professional person representing the institution of the DOJ and her immediate boss, Attorney General Bill Barr.  As such Kupec is not obtuse, intellectually disingenuous or prone to subject avoidance; however, she is also representing a flawed and fractured institution that still contains considerable elements of corruption.  [Video clip]

Here's How We Know Biden Isn't Sincere About 'Condemning' Violence.  Joe Biden wants the public to believe that he's always deemed violence "unacceptable," even when it's perpetrated by leftists.  But when he and his party held the national spotlight just two weeks ago, they were cheering on the same thugs as "peaceful protesters."  "I condemn violence of every kind by anyone, whether on the left or the right," Biden said on Monday [8/31/2020].  That's certainly news to anyone of the millions who watched his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention.  Biden had absolutely nothing whatsoever to say about the ongoing violence around the country. [...] By the time he made his acceptance speech, more than two dozen people had died in "protests."  Dozens of police officers had been injured and at least one lost his life.

DC Police Won't Say Why They Did Not Protect Politicians, Guests Leaving RNC.  Washington, D.C.'s Metropolitan Police Department refused to comment on why protesters were allowed to harass Republican National Convention attendees outside of the White House Thursday night, according to a Daily Caller report.  "Protesters harassed Florida Rep. Brian Mast, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul and his wife, RNC guests and police officers, multiple videos from the night show," Daily Caller reported[.]  Washington D.C.'s Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department Peter Newsham said in a press conference Monday that the department had to plan for the convention on "short notice."  "When you throw bricks, and rocks and bottles and urine and you set fires, there is going to be a police reaction," Newsham said at the press conference.  "So folks who want to suggest or paint the picture that this was somehow peaceful, and the police indiscriminately used munitions against them, they're not being honest," Newsham added.

BLM protester arrested for recklessly driving his spray-painted van in DC was also at Portland and Kenosha riots.  A BLM protester who was arrested in Washington DC on Saturday night has also been at riots in Portland and Kenosha, police said on Monday, as they revealed they were looking into whether groups were being funded to travel to protest hot-spots.  Jeremy Vajko, 27, a Microsoft engineer, was arrested on Saturday night during violent clashes between police and protesters in the nation's capital.  The Metropolitan Police Department incident report into his arrest claims he was driving recklessly near the Hay Adams hotel and drove 'into a crowd of over one hundred individuals'.

New York Had It Coming.  In the wake of the riots and vandalism things aren't so wonderful in the Big Apple anymore.  Some have said the city is dead and isn't coming back. [...] Thousands of productive New Yorkers have left the City, and [James] Altucher thinks they won't be coming back.  Even so, many are taking their jobs with them.  They don't need to commute to work, as they can telecommunicate to work.  That's because of the huge increases in bandwidth, Altucher tells us.  Why ride the subway to work when one can fire up one's computer and Zoom to work?  Altucher himself held out on moving from his beloved NYC until June, when the riots began.  He has kids, and upon seeing videos of rioters trying to break into his building after curfew, Altucher had had enough and decamped for Florida.

'Mostly Peaceful' ANTIFA Rioters Try To Set Apartment Building Full Of People On Fire In Portland.  Police declared a riot Monday night after people broke windows, burglarized a business, and lit a fire in an occupied apartment building in the Pearl District.  In the evening, a gathering began in the North Park Blocks near Northwest Park Avenue and Northwest Couch Street.  At around 10 p.m., the group marched in the street to the area of Northwest 10th Avenue and Northwest Glisan Street, where Mayor Ted Wheeler lives.  Monday was Wheeler's birthday, and it is not known at this time if Wheeler was home.  [Video clip]

Don't Be a Victim of Democrat Abuse and Voter Endangerment.  [Scroll down]  This last Saturday, an Antifa operative walked up behind a Trump-supporter in Portland and shot him dead.  There was no heat-of-the-moment fight leading to the murder.  It was a cold-blooded political assassination, and Antifa immediately cheered the result and began fundraising for bulletproof vests while the victim still lay on the street.  Both Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler and "Joke" Biden immediately blamed President Trump, while giving Antifa and their murderous allies another pass.  It was murder most foul, and Democrats took sides with the murderer. [...] The lives of Trump-supporters just don't matter.  This type of Democrat political violence should have been highlighted and eradicated back in 2017, when a Bernie Sanders-supporter and frequent emailer of Democrat Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois attempted to carry out a mass political assassination that could easily have ended with two dozen dead Republican congressmen.  That attack nearly changed the balance of power in Washington and the course of national history, but still Jeff Flake and other apologists found it easier to blame President Trump rather than call out the relentless Democrat campaign to tar his presidency as illegitimate and a national threat.  Because the press and the Democrats ignored the violence breathing life into their political party, they implicitly sanctioned all the acts of violence that have continued to the current day.

Suspect Tried To Set Boat With Trump Banner On Fire At Bridgeport Yacht Club.  A city man has been charged with arson after officials say he was seen with a gasoline can on a boat with a Trump flag at the East End Yacht Club.  Olajuwon Johnson, 25, of Bridgeport, was charged with third-degree arson.  His bond was set at $10,000.  The charges stemmed from a 911 call around 2:30 p.m. Monday.  The caller reported a person with an apparent can of gasoline on a boat at the yacht club that had a flag on it supporting President Donald Trump, according to Scott Appleby, the city's director of emergency management and emergency communications.  [Video clip]

Democrats need to face the enemy to their left.  Last week, a mob of white protesters swarmed a white woman eating dinner in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of Washington, DC.  Video of the bullies demanding that patrons raise their fists in solidarity with the movement went viral.  Pro-Trump and right-wing media personalities were quick to insist this verbal assault was emblematic of the entire Democratic Party and the broader American left.  Never mind that the victim, Lauren Victor, was a fellow progressive who told a Washington Post reporter, "I'm very much with them.  I've been marching with them for weeks."  Among the funny things about this decidedly unfunny event is that it would have been almost impossible for this roving rhetorical goon squad to find the kind of victims they surely wanted.

Portland mayor says he'll move soon, after protests at his condo building.  Portland, Ore., Mayor Ted Wheeler says he's looking for a new place to live.  Wheeler's disclosure came Tuesday [9/1/2020] in an email to other residents of the high-rise condominium building in the city's Pearl District where he resides, which has been a frequent site of protests in recent months, OregonLive.com reported.  "I want to express my sincere apologies for the damage to our home and the fear that you are experiencing due to my position," Wheeler wrote, according to an image of the email that was sent to the news outlet.  Incidents at the 16-story building have included a violent clash Monday that saw crowd members breaking windows and setting fires near the property, OregonLive.com reported.

Portland Cops Finally Come To Life, Take Down ANTIFA HARD.  Portland police called tonight's protest a RIOT after ANTIFA members attacked a dentist office next to Mayor Wheeler's apartment.  Portland PD was filmed rushing Black Bloc members, tackling some.  One officer was seen pounding some face as well.  After over 3 months of abuse at the hands of ANTIFA, as well as a Trump supporter assassination, we may have come to a tipping point.  [Video clip]

Green Bay Police:  Antifa Member with Flamethrower Cried in Fetal Position When Caught.  A suspected member of Antifa — who was allegedly armed with a flamethrower — cried in the fetal position before his arrest during a Saturday evening protest in Green Bay, Wisconsin, according to law enforcement. [...] "It's worrisome when people associated with Antifa come here to Green Bay from out of town for the purpose of protesting here or for the purposes of committing violent acts," said Green Bay Police Chief Andrew Smith.  "An unlawful assembly is three or more people who gather in such a manner where property damage, or personal injury is likely to occur," Smith added.

Kenosha Was a Wake-Up Call for Democratic Leaders across the Country.  After a summer of seemingly unending chaos in America's cities, Kenosha just may have been the tipping point.  For three nights, the city burned in rioting after the officer-involved shooting of Jacob Blake, while Democratic governor Tony Evers refused to deploy a Wisconsin National Guard contingent large enough to quell the violence.  For three days, Evers issued inflammatory statement after inflammatory statement — even going so far as to say that a Kenosha police officer "mercilessly" shot Blake — and refused to either condemn the violence or urge calm.  Laughably, the sternest warning he gave rioters was to remind them to "wear your mask and keep social distance as best you can."

Teachers Unions Support Guillotines, Strikes & Closures Over Children's Welfare.  Americans are sometimes accused of ignorance over history and geography beyond their own shores.  It was no different last week after the Chicago Teachers Union tweeted support for a protest outside Jeff Bezos' home, where an effigy was placed in a guillotine.  However, any history teachers among them might have pointed out that the French Revolution ended up turning on its leaders.  The protestors, who were virtue signaling for a $30 minimum wage outside the house of a man who reputedly earns $4,000 a second, clearly had violence on their minds.

Portland's '100% Antifa' Killer Was Previously Arrested Twice for Illegal Possession of Loaded Firearm.  The left-wing agitator who allegedly shot a Trump supporter in Portland over the weekend, is a proud member of antifa who has been arrested and set free twice in recent months for charges that included the illegal possession of a handgun.  "I am 100% ANTIFA all the way!  I am willing to fight for my brothers and sisters!" the alleged shooter, [...] posted on social media back in June.

The Democrat Party's Riots.  CNN anchors Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon have the collective brain capacity of rising third graders.  OK, fair point — there's no reason for me to insult our children like that.  But the one upside of the tumbleweeds blowing through their minds is that sometimes what the Left is really thinking accidentally rolls out of their mouths.  Don Lemon recently called on Joe Biden to make a speech addressing the riots and explaining how when it comes to reforming the police, he and Kamala Harris "will take care of this problem" after being elected.  "But guess what: the rioting has to stop."  Lemon then revealed the problem:  "Chris, as you know, and I know, it's showing up in the polling, it's showing up in focus groups.  It is the only thing — it is the only thing right now that is sticking."  Think about what he's really saying here.  "Rioting is fine — but only if it helps us win."

The Democrats' Laughable 'President Chaos' Strategy.  CNN's Don Lemon, one of the dumbest and [most eristic] Trump-haters, blurted out that as the polls were moving unfavorably, it might be wise for Democratic candidate Joe Biden to criticize mob violence, something he and his partisans had conspicuously failed to do at their convention the week before.  He did this within a day of his colleague Brian Stelter, who will enter the Guinness Book of World Records for the frequency of his utterance in reference to President Trump in the last three years, "The walls are closing in," righteously wagging his glabrous head at the viewers as he told them that the urban guerrilla violence sweeping the country really was "peaceful protest."  The same assurance was given by correspondents of CNN and the other anti-Trump networks reporting from riot-torn cities, even as largely minority-owned businesses torched by the "peaceful protesters" belched flame and smoke behind them.

Report: Portland Shooting Suspect '100% Antifa'; Cited, Released on Weapons Charge in July Riot.  The Oregonian reported Sunday night that the man under investigation in Saturday's fatal shooting of a right-wing protester after a pro-Trump caravan in Portland is a supporter of Black Lives Matter and Antifa who was arrested on weapons charges and released earlier this year.  The victim of the attack has been reported to be Aaron Danielson, known also as "Jay." [...] Many of the rioters who have been arrested in Portland over the past several months have been released shortly thereafter.

Democrats have directly encouraged violence on the streets.  Winding it back isn't going to be easy.  Protests and riots have spiraled out of control in the US.  However, these aren't spontaneous demonstrations.  Instead they're egged on by Democrats, who seem hell-bent on burning America to the ground.  To those fed a diet of mainstream media disinformation, the protests sweeping the US are just that:  protests.  They're grassroots affairs, expressions of discontent and resentment at a status quo that oppresses African Americans and denies them the rights and privileges afforded to whites.  That may have been true for all of about a day following the death of George Floyd back in May, and some of the protesters no doubt still feel that they're fighting the good fight.  But far more have taken to the streets to commit brazen acts of violence, looting, and criminality.  Thousands have been injured, and more than 32 people have been killed, [...] If any Democrat can claim credit for inspiring violent street harassment, it's California Congresswoman Maxine Waters.  Back in 2018, Waters told her supporters that if they come across an ally of President Donald Trump in public, "you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them, and you tell them they're not welcome anymore, anywhere."  [Video clip]

Is it now okay to kill people we find offensive?  The use of guns is becoming a common feature of the protests and violence raging in many parts of the United States.  The way in which the Wisconsin city of Kenosha has been turned into a veritable warzone suggests that some people now see destructive behaviour as a way of gaining attention or making a point.  The recent shooting dead of a man in Portland, Oregon highlights the growing trend for dehumanising people who are on the other side of the political divide.  In this instance protesters celebrated the fact that a 'Nazi' had been killed.  The man was a member of the right-wing organisation Patriot Prayer — which means social media was soon full of claims that it was only a piece of 'fascist scum' who got killed. [...] What disturbed me most about the shooting of this member of Patriot Prayer was not simply the taking of a life but the manner in which it was reported and discussed.  Numerous commentators treated it as no big deal.

Suspect Identified In Portland Murder.  The Oregonian reports that a suspect has been identified in the murder Sunday night of Aaron Danielson, a Donald Trump supporter, in Portland: [...] The effort by Joe Biden and the Democrats to blame leftist violence on President Trump is contemptible, but doomed to failure.

Six Arrested for Assaulting Cops as Disorder Reigns in D.C..  Six people were arrested for assaulting police officers in Washington, D.C., over the weekend as the nation's capital was gripped by the worst unrest it has seen since early June.  The D.C. Metropolitan Police Department arrested a total of 27 over the course of a chaotic four days, which began Thursday as protesters grew violent after President Donald Trump broadcast his acceptance of renomination for the presidency from the White House lawn.  In total, 15 MPD officers sustained injuries, Chief of Police Peter Newsham announced during a press conference Monday, including one officer whose nose was broken.

Portland's left-wing turns on Mayor Ted Wheeler.  Left-wing groups in Oregon demanded Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler resign after the death of a right-wing protester over the weekend, saying Mr. Wheeler has allowed the city to spiral out of control.  Portland's Democratic Socialists of America, Oregon's chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Portland's Resistance and other groups said they feel Mr. Wheeler has sided with the right wing folks over them.  They lamented the man killed Saturday — a member of the right-wing Patriot Prayer organization, according to fellow members — but said his death after a day of clashes between the right and left was Mr. Wheeler's fault.

Man Charged With Stalking, Threatening Devin Nunes' Wife, An Elementary School Teacher.  A criminal complaint was filed against a California man earlier this month for sending threatening messages to Elizabeth Nunes, wife of Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), who is the ranking member on the powerful House Intelligence Committee and one of the driving forces behind exposing the false narrative that President Donald Trump colluded with Russia to steal the 2016 election.  A misdemeanor criminal complaint was filed on August 13, 2020, against William Joseph Burden (also known as William Joseph Terrell) after he allegedly sent threats and harassed Elizabeth, identified only as "E.N."  in the complaint obtained by The Daily Wire, which can exclusively report that E.N. does, in fact, stand for Elizabeth Nunes.  Burden is accused of "unlawfully, and with intent to annoy," calling or electronically contacting Elizabeth with "obscene language," including a "threat to inflict injury" to her or her property and family.

Trump suggests 'some very stupid rich people' are funding protest groups, rioters at RNC and across US.  President Trump told Fox News' Laura Ingraham in an exclusive interview Monday night that he believes demonstrations outside the White House on the final night of the Republican National Convention last week were bankrolled by "some very stupid rich people."  Trump added on "The Ingraham Angle" that an RNC attendee had traveled to Washington "on a plane from a certain city, and in the plane it was almost completely loaded with thugs wearing these dark uniforms, black uniforms with gear and this and that."  The president declined to say who had told him the story, but promised Ingraham he would reveal it "sometime."

'Antifa' militants set fire to black-owned business in Portland, bombard mayor's apartment with fireworks.  A crowd of roughly 200 people surrounded Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler's home and demanded his resignation.  After multiple fires were lit and nearby businesses looted for fuel, police declared a riot.  On the 96th consecutive night of protests in Portland since the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis Police in May, hundreds of protesters, agitators and activists gathered outside the mayor's home in the Pearl District condominium tower demanding his resignation.  The crowd reportedly wore party hats, it was the mayor's birthday on Monday, and sang "happy tear gas to you" while they launched fireworks at the building before a bonfire fire was lit in the middle of the street.

FBI says dozens of Chicago street gangs formed 'pact' to kill any cop seen drawing weapon on suspect — report.  The FBI has issued an alert to Chicago police warning that nearly three dozen street gangs may have struck an agreement to shoot any officer seen with their gun drawn in public "on-site," according to a local news report.  FBI officials in Chicago recently issued a "situational information report" to Chicago law enforcement, pointing to a possible multi-gang pact to gun down officers in the streets, a local ABC affiliate reported on Monday [8/31/2020].  "Members of these gang factions have been actively searching for, and filming, police officers in performance of their official duties," the FBI alert said.

Must See Video Shows Democrats Continually Called for Uprisings and Violence.  Democrats and the media have made a sudden turn the last few days.  After months of excusing the riots and even actively encouraging them, the new narrative is that it's all Trump's fault.  They ignore that Trump has offered assistance to Portland, for example, and has been viciously rebuffed even as the city continues to suffer chaos.  They also ignore that when Gov. Evers did accept Trump's help in Kenosha, the violence dwindled almost immediately.  No matter, though.  The media believe they are the vanguards of information and the Democrats know they have them in their pocket.  So you get insanity like this must-see video which succinctly shows just who has really been stoking the flames.  [Video clip]

Americans chant 'Death to America' in streets of Oakland.  A large group of demonstrators took to the streets in Oakland over the weekend to protest alleged systemic racism in part by chanting "Death to America," which drew a heavy negative response.  Several videos of the protests were posted online to social media, and a number of people expressed their disagreement — not with the act of protesting, but with the message.  "The left has created a monster that they have lost complete control of," Jason Howerton wrote.  "I never thought I'd see people chanting "death to America" in the streets of America."

Here are Joe Biden Supporters Chanting 'Death to America' in Oakland.  In the olden days, "Death to America" was something you would hear in Iran.  Not Oakland.  But this is who Joe Biden supporters are now.  Call it Antifa, Black Lives Matter, or a ham sandwich.  It's all the left, and Joe Biden is the empty vessel the left is using right now, as Nancy Pelosi/Bernie Sanders try to "Weekend at Bernie's" Biden all the way to the White House.  He, and they, own this.

Joe Biden's America being burned down ... by Joe Biden's supporters.  Certainly, America is deeply divided today.  But every bit of the horrifying images and footage of burning, looting and violence we see today comes exclusively from Joe Biden's America.  The carnage in Joe Biden's America is the result of Democrat mayors and governors unwilling and unable to stand up to the lawless, rioting mob that outwardly claims it is motivated by the very same fevers and political positions that motivate Mr. Biden himself.  In fact, Mr. Biden's vice presidential pick, Sen. Kamala Harris, worked so hard to ingratiate herself with the increasingly unruly mob that she went on record a few weeks back raising money "to help post bail" for those arrested during the riots — riots they now claim to oppose.

Democrats Tell Supporters To Punch People Then Blame Trump When Riots Start.  Democrats have recently joined forces in blaming President Trump of fanning the flames of violence.  While this is nothing new, it is concerning evidence of a pattern among the left.  More particularly, the party that seeks to lead the nation is unwilling to take responsibility for the misdeeds of its members and is always looking to blame others.  Americans should not trust this party to lead them.  As reported by The Hill, Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.) recently slammed the president's scheduled visit to Kenosha, Wisconsin in wake of protests over the police shooting of Jacob Blake.  "I think his visit has one purpose and one purpose only, that is to agitate things and make things [worse]," said Bass.  "What happened in Portland, [was] you saw a parade of Trump supporters actively shooting paintballs at peaceful protesters, and the president, in my opinion, encourages that.  He actually retweeted the people firing paint guns, I think he only means to agitate things."

Democrats Sent Their Rent-A-Mob to Destroy Kenosha.  [Scroll down]  In Ferguson, Missouri, during the Michael Brown episode, those people were mostly from Oakland, California.  They are destroying downtown Ferguson, Missouri.  They were not from Ferguson, Missouri, and they were not from St. Louis.  Some of them were, but the vast majority weren't.  That's why there's a term for these people:  Rent-a-mob.  There are many who think that the primary funding source is George Soros.  Could be.  Don't know.  To me, it's enough to know that these people are not from Kenosha. [...] It is not native.  But the media want you to believe that it is the native citizenry that's erupting in outrage at Republicans and at Donald Trump.  When in fact, they're bused in.  They're paid for.  And a lot of it is known as to who is paying for them and so forth.  But just the fact that it's not legitimate is really all anybody needs to know.  It isn't legitimate, and it's not the result of whatever action took place.

Kenosha car dealership owner says nothing [was] done to prevent damage during unrest.  Unrest following the police shooting of Jacob Blake left vehicles and businesses throughout the downtown Kenosha area badly damaged, including one local car dealer that estimates its losses in the millions.  Car Source, a car dealer in the city, was attacked when a mob descended into its lot and begin smashing cars on the first night of unrest last Sunday.  There was an explosion and subsequent fire that spread from one vehicle to the next, one resident told Kenosha News.  "It was a terrifying time," said Josie Rodriguez, who lives next to Car Source.

Antifa Killer of Trump Supporter in Portland Was Arrested Last Month with a Gun But Charges Were Dropped.  We reported yesterday that the anonymous message board 4chan once again, beat the media to identifying a violent rioter. [...] Within minutes of the shooting, 4chan users got to work, and within hours, they had a name. [...] Now it is being reported that the shooter, Reinoehl, is a member of Antifa and was arrested at the Portland protests last month on allegations of possessing a loaded gun in a public place, resisting arrest and interfering with police" but the charges were promptly dropped.

Suspect, 48, in fatal shooting of Patriot Prayer supporter describes himself as '100% ANTIFA'.  The suspect under investigation following the fatal shooting of a Patriot Prayer supporter has been named as a father-of-two who describes himself as '100% ANTIFA' and was previously cited for bringing a loaded gun to a different protest.  Michael Forest Reinoehl, 48, was named by The Oregonian Sunday evening as someone police are investigating.  He had already been accused of taking a loaded gun to an earlier Portland protest and social media posts show him attending Black Lives Matter protests.  [The suspect] has not been charged nor have police commented on his connection to Saturday night's violence but his relatives also told the local newspaper that he was the person in a video of running away from where Aaron Jay Danielson, a supporter of the right-wing group Patriot Prayer, had been shot dead.

Antifa man eyed in deadly Portland shooting took teen daughter to protests.  The Antifa security guard reportedly being probed in connection with the deadly shooting of a President Trump supporter in Portland was photographed at a rally the night before — alongside his baseball bat-wielding teenage daughter.  Michael Forest Reinoehl, 48, was pictured late Friday [8/28/2020] at a Black Lives Matter protest outside the condominium building that is home to the Oregon city's mayor, Ted Wheeler, The Oregonian said.  He caught the attention of a photographer because he was there with his 16-year-old daughter, who stood beside him carrying a dark baseball bat, the paper noted.

Man under investigation in fatal shooting after pro-Trump rally allegedly took loaded gun to earlier Portland protest.  A 48-year-old man who was accused of carrying a loaded gun at an earlier downtown Portland protest is under investigation in the fatal shooting Saturday night of a right-wing demonstrator after a pro-Trump rally.

Man suspected in deadly Portland shooting calls himself '100% ANTIFA'.  An ex-military man who calls himself "100% ANTIFA" and ready for "war" is being investigated over the deadly shooting of a President Trump supporter in Portland, according to a report.  Michael Forest Reinoehl, 48, is being investigated over the death of Aaron Danielson, a "supporter" of the right-wing Patriot Prayer group who was part of a caravan of Trump supporters who flooded the city Saturday, police sources told The Oregonian.  He was identified in part by a distinctive tattoo on his neck of a "black power" fist — as well as a call from his estranged sister who recognized him in video and photos of the deadly attack, the paper said.

Pernicious incitement to looting being pushed by NPR.  The twisted logic of author Vicky Osterweil's new book, In Defense of Looting, would be laughable were it not so dangerous.  Yet it is being taken seriously by NPR and other media outlets that should know better.  In her interview with NPR featuring no pushback from the taxpayer-funded network's interviewer, Osterweil says of looting:  "You're mass shoplifting.  Most stores are insured; it's just hurting insurance companies on some level.  It's just money.  It's just property.  It's not actually hurting any people."  Nobody gets hurt.  At least, nobody Ms. Osterweil cares about.  Like the shop-owners with no insurance because they can't afford it.  And shop-owners whose insurance rates skyrocket or have their coverage dropped because of the increased risk.  How about the law-abiding residents of the community, who now have lost their stores and restaurants as well as their jobs when the owners move away and don't rebuild.

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The person known as "Vicky" is a confused young man who used to be known as Willie Osterweil.  [Source]

Latest Chicago and Minneapolis riots broke out over police killings that never happened.  How do you restore order when people start riots over injustices that never happened?  Tragically, as riots sparked by disinformation unfold in Minneapolis and Chicago, this is the question we now face as a country.  Things are spiraling out of control.  The riots that broke out in late May and June after the death of George Floyd in police custody were destructive beyond description.  At least 15 people were killed during the wanton arson and looting.  Meanwhile, thousands of businesses, many owned by people of color, were destroyed, looted, and vandalized.  The economic fallout of this violence will haunt riot-torn urban communities for decades.

Kenosha police arrest food distribution volunteers.  Nine people arrested by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, for allegedly being outside agitators were in town city to distribute food to protesters, a director of the nonprofit kitchen said Saturday [8/29/2020].  Jennifer Scheurle, who serves on the board of directors for Riot Kitchen, based in Seattle, said Kenosha police were mistaken when they arrested the volunteers Wednesday for investigation of disorderly conduct.  "We're not there to stir up anything," Scheurle said.  "We just want to feed people.  We support protesters of any kind."  The nine were released from jail Friday on about $150 bail each, paid with the help of donations, she said.

Welcome to Antifastan.  Remind me never to visit Portland, Oregon.  Long associated with the brand of outré hipster leftism deliciously satirized in TV's Portlandia, Oregon's largest city is now a zone of mass political violence.  It isn't quite Beirut-on-the-Willamette, to be sure.  No suicide bombs are ripping through the farmers' market at Shemanski Park, and the city's radicals don't store rockets in schools and hospitals.  Even so, Portland is fast emerging as America's answer to those benighted lands where "politics" involves roving gangs of masked fanatics terrorizing the average citizen, checkpoints operated by the henchmen of competing extremisms, cityscapes divided by unbridgeable ethnic and sectarian fault lines, the central authority indifferent to the mayhem and powerless to stop it.

Jim Banks:  U.S. Must Stop Giving Taxpayer-Funded Unemployment Benefits to 'Antifa Thugs'.  Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) says American taxpayers should not be paying to provide federal unemployment benefits to "Antifa thugs" and those associated with Black Lives Matter (BLM) who have started riots across the United States.

Pressure mounts on Barr DOJ to identify funders, organizers of violent riots.  Conservative pressure is mounting on Attorney General William Barr and his Justice Department to ratchet up investigations of violent rioters across the country, specifically to identify those funding and organizing the mayhem.  Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo., and Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, made weekend appeals for DOJ to take action to cut off funding and logistical support for the groups of rioters that have terrorized and destroyed American cities for months.  "Law enforcement needs to look at the funding of violent criminal activity like this.  And national Democrats need to confront it.  It's organized.  It's paid for.  It's violent.  It's not about Black lives or any lives; it's about anarchy and destruction," Paul wrote in a Fox News op-ed on Saturday.

175 arrested during civil unrest in Kenosha, 104 had addresses listed outside city, police say.  At least 175 people have been arrested during the recent civil unrest in Kenosha, Wis., with 102 having addresses listed outside of the city, according to numbers released by police on Sunday [8/30/2020].  The arrests were related to the protests that have occurred every night, and have sometimes turned into destructive rioting, following the police shooting of Jacob Blake on Aug. 23.  Kenosha Police said in a media release that the arrests were from people located in 44 cities, although authorities didn't elaborate which states they came from.  A total of 69 people were arrested for curfew violations.

4Chan Users Appear to Have Identified Portland Rioter Who Shot and Killed Trump Supporter.  The anonymous message board 4chan may have, once again, beat the media to identifying a violent rioter.  On Saturday night, a Portland Black Lives Matter militant shot and killed a member of the pro-Trump group Patriot Prayer.

New Video Angle Further Points to Targeted Murder of Trump Supporter In Portland.  As RedState reported earlier, a man was shot and killed in Portland, OR during the ongoing rioting in the city.  The person shot was apparently a Trump supporter participating in a counter-protest which started as a drive through by various vehicles.  Later in the evening, the victim in question was murdered in what appears to be cold-blood.  It also appears he was targeted.  The man was reportedly a member of "Patriot Prayer," which is a group that is constantly labeled as a dangerous "far-right" entity by the media when no evidence really exists to back that claim up.  Unlike the "Proud Boys," which actively look for fights, this group doesn't seem to be on that level.  The shooter has been possibly identified due to the very distinct vest he was wearing.

Portland BLM/Antifa Rioter Shoots And Kills Man Because He Supports Trump.  On Saturday night, a Trump-supporting man was shot and killed in Portland, Oregon, after a caravan of Trump supporters clashed with BLM/Antifa protesters (they have been identified as associated with either/both groups). [...] The victim was shot because he was a Trump supporter or at least thought to be a Trump supporter.  Just before he was shot, a BLM/Antifa protester screams, "We got a Trumper right there." Seconds later, another leftist shoots and kills, the alleged Trump supporter.  [Video clips]  When word got out that the victim was a Trump supporter, the BLM/Antifa terrorists celebrated.

Watch antifa dance with joy to the murder of Blue Lives Matter supporter.  A Trump supporter who participated in the Portland caravan rally was shot and killed in downtown Portland.  If the video below is accurate, he was murdered in cold blood.  The victim was wearing a Patriot Prayer hat.  The left says the Patriot Prayer is far-right but reporter Andy Ngo says they are conservatives.  Antifa and Black Lives Matter revolutionaries physically blocked the ralliers on the road and threw projectiles.  After the man's death was known, the communist-anarchist mob celebrated and danced.  "Portland Police officers heard sounds of gunfire from the area of Southeast 3rd Avenue and Southwest Alder Street.  They responded and located a victim with a gunshot wound to the chest.  Medical responded and determined that the victim was deceased," the Portland Police Bureau said in a statement.

Man 'in a Patriot Prayer hat' is shot dead in Portland during violent clashes between Trump supporters and BLM.  One person was shot dead in Portland on Saturday night as tensions between pro-Trump supporters and Black Lives Matter counter-protesters boiled over.  The victim was pictured lying on the ground wearing a Patriot Prayer baseball cap, appearing to show support for the far-Right group which is frequently present during Portland protests.  The Portland protest was one of many that Donald Trump's supporters staged across the country on Saturday, with hundreds of people congregating in Los Angeles, Georgia and beyond to celebrate their president and rally for his re-election.

Portland Black Lives Matter Monsters Cheer and Celebrate Murder of Patriot Prayer Member.  The rioters in Portland let their true colors shine on Saturday night as they cheered and celebrated the murder of a member of Patriot Front by one of their peers.  For a while, rumors were circulating online that a rioter had been killed by a supporter of President Donald Trump, but there was a big celebration when they found out it was actually the other way around.

Trump Unloads On Portland Democrat Mayor After He Refused Federal Help, Protester Killed.  President Donald Trump unloaded on Portland Democratic Mayor Ted Wheeler on Sunday morning after a right-wing protester was killed in the city following Wheeler's decision to reject federal assistance from the Trump administration.  "The shooting happened after right-wing protesters drove trucks around the city with American flags and Trump flags and were met by far-left antifa activists who blocked traffic and threw things at the vehicles, which often elicited a response from the vehicles," The Daily Wire reported.  "Video of the attack that was posted online showed the shooting and, according to two journalists, appeared to show someone saying, 'we got a Trumper right here,' before two fatal shots were fired at the victim."

Trump supporter shot dead in downtown Portland.  On the 95th day of riots and protests in Portland, Ore., a Trump supporter was fatally shot.  He was identified by his "Patriot Prayer" hat and his shooting death was caught by multiple livestreamers.  [Video clips]  After the man was murdered, his death was celebrated as a victory over Trump, and the dead man was assumed to be a Nazi.

BLM/Antifa Celebrate the Killing of a Trump Supporter in Portland:  We 'Took Out The Trash,' Video of the Alleged Shooter.  On Saturday [8/29/2020], hundreds of Trump supporters gathered in the outskirts of Portland in a "Cruise Rally" in pick-up trucks with a lot of Trump 2020 flags decked out all over the cars.  After their rally, they then decided to drive into Portland.  They were set upon, in the words of the media, by "counter-protesters" otherwise known as radical leftists/Antifa folk.  Leftist tried to block some of the cars, other cars they threw things at, threatened or stole flags from.  Some of the Trump supporters defended themselves with pepper spray or paintball guns.  There were multiple fights between the two groups.

Corporate Media Didn't Report What It's Really Like In Kenosha, Wisconsin, So I Will.  Kenosha became a very different place after police shot Jacob Blake in the back seven times.  Subsequent video footage showed that Blake was armed with a knife and had been wrestling with officers, threw off a Taser, and was disregarding police commands to stop after they were called to address a domestic violence complaint.  Following the shooting that left Blake paralyzed, rioting erupted in the city.  Although the first night was relatively peaceful, after the second night, things were "spiraling out of control," said Steil.  Fire and looting consumed uptown and downtown Kenosha, and Steil said the city was no longer the "Kenosha we know."  In uptown Kenosha, on Tuesday night, a woman, who said she has lived in Kenosha for more than 40 years, broke down in tears, saying her city felt like a "war zone" and she was "terrified."

The Attempt to Overthrow America.  The death of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020 might appear, looking back, as a pretext for mayhem.  His reported killing by a white police officer was immediately followed by a wave of riots during which neighborhoods in several major cities were devastated.  Stores were looted, buildings were burned and people were murdered as mayors and other local public officials chose to let the rioters run wild, whip up racial conflict and protect the criminals rather than the citizens being brutalized.  The riots quickly appeared to have nothing to do with Floyd's death and everything to do with groups seeking to overthrow America.  In the past, members of the radical organization Antifa had committed acts of violence, but never before had been able to sow terror throughout major cities.  This time, they could and they did.

Taco Bell employees cheer assault of Trump supporter.  Taco Bell employees cheered from the back of restaurant as trump supporter was assaulted before Sandy Oregon flag wave.  [Video clip]

Criminals are openly attacking police officers in De Blasio's New York City.  Violent criminals are openly attacking police officers in De Blasio's New York City for citing them for parking violations now.  This guy parked at a fire hydrant and proceeded to brutally assault police officers.  [Video clip]

Florida Democrat suggests it's 'open season' on killing Republicans and President.  Politics is hardly ever pretty when it comes for folks racing toward an election, and thus that means the election for Florida's 18th congressional district is not immune from the likes of nasty rhetoric from people trying to get a seat at the table.  But when you have people calling for an "open season" for killing your political opponents, then that is where a line has been crossed.  The person who crafted a hypothetical call for murdering the likes of President Trump, Roger Stone and AG Bill Barr is Pam Keith.  This Democrat is vying to land Florida's congressional seat for the 18th district, [...]

Another night of obnoxious protesters has diners seeing — and likely voting — RED.  Political commentators warn Democrats that Black Lives Matter's mob-bullying of random people and attacks on Trump supporters will backfire bigly on them, since it's igniting support for President Trump.  During the past three months, BLM and Antifa thugs have threatened, beaten, and bullied Trump supporters and everyday Americans, trying to get them to bend the knee to their mob tactics.  One example is the escalating harassment of random people eating at restaurants.  Here's an alarming video showing aggressive BLM protesters threatening and harassing diners in Washington, D.C., a liberal city populated by Democrats.  [Video clip]

A Tyranny Perpetual and Universal?  [Scroll down]  All that, though, was child's play compared to the nightly horrors Antifa — and their BLM allies — have wreaked on America's streets for three straight months with close to zero official attempt to rein them in, and often with officials cheering them on.  Examples — from Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to Governors Gavin Newsom, Andrew Cuomo, and Tim Walz, to Mayors Bill de Blasio, Eric Garcetti, Lori Lightfoot, Jenny Durkan, Ted Wheeler, and Jacob Frey — are too numerous to catalog fully.  The latest atrocity came from Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers, who, the instant a career criminal wanted on an active warrant was shot while resisting arrest and, it appears, reaching into his car for a knife, took to Twitter to fire up the mob.  His state's fourth-largest city has burned every night since.  It took him days to make even a token appeal for calm.

Portland Mob Shines Strobe Lights Into Ted Wheeler's Condo at Night.  On the ninety-third night of violent antifa riots in Portland, a group of protesters occupied the lobby of Mayor Ted Wheeler's (D-Portland) apartment building as a mob held a block party outside and activists shined strobe lights into Wheeler's window.  The mob demanded the complete abolition of the police by 2022.  Meanwhile, a group of rioters set fire to the Portland Police Association building, targeting the police union for what appears to have been the fourth time since the police killing of George Floyd.  This unrest came the day after Wheeler sent a letter to President Donald Trump, declining his offer to send federal officers.

Why Democrats and their liberal media minions are running scared.  The Democrats and their media handmaidens are starting to panic about Joe Biden's prospects.  The proof comes in their efforts to wish away the wave of crime and violence engulfing many American cities.  Their argument can be boiled down to two false claims.  First, it's President Trump's fault.  Second, it's not that big of a wave.  The first is patently absurd on its face.  Democratic mayors running nearly all those cities are pulling back cops and rejecting federal help.  The blood is on their hands.  The second claim is outrageously cold-hearted.  It means the left sees hundreds of murders, mostly of black men, and the wholesale destruction of property as small prices to pay for putting Biden in the White House.

Minneapolis: Rioter Chucks Trash Can Lid into Back of Officer's Head.  A video posted to social media on Thursday shows a Black Lives Matter rioter throwing a trash can lid at a police officer's head, knocking him to the ground.  A Minneapolis police officer was struck in the head with a trashcan lid and knocked to the ground on Wednesday night during instances of "confusion, unrest, looting and damage downtown," according to a report by Fox 9.  Protests, looting, and riots have sparked in cities across the country since late May, starting in Minneapolis, where George Floyd died in police custody.  Amid Black Lives Matter protests, extremist activists have repeatedly assaulted police officers, sometimes fatally.

The Chaos in Urban America Is Bad Now — But Can Only Get Worse With Biden.  People used to accuse Democrats of being "soft on crime."  Now, Democrat-run cities can't even properly identify crime, let alone punish it.  (Except, perhaps, the ultimate sin of defending your life and home from the mob).  The eccentric, oddball, strange and perverse crew of mayors that run these urban cesspools are intransigent in their refusal to fight crime.  President Donald Trump is increasingly at war with America's Democrat-run cities — but only because their mayors refuse to fight the war with the crime on their streets.  This week, the President announced that he was sending 200 federal agents to Chicago and Kansas City.  He has already sent U.S. Customs Border Security guards to Portland in an attempt to alleviate the lawlessness and chaos in that city.  At least he can still distinguish between legitimate protest and rioting.  Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, apparently, cannot.

Concrete barriers put up around Seattle Police East Precinct after arson, vandalism.  People going by the Seattle Police Department East Precinct on Capitol Hill will notice some big changes to the building, including the installation of concrete barriers.  Over the next several days, the precinct will be undergoing structural upgrades in an effort to "protect the facility from arson and other damages" as well as protect officers inside and residents who live nearby, according to a statement from city of Seattle officials on Friday.

Facts emerging on Jacob Blake shooting contradict the narrative that sparked riots.  It is stunning how many recent riots over purported racial injustice have been based on phony stories.  Ferguson, Missouri was pillaged and burned over the false contention that Michael Brown was gunned down with his hands up (the Obama Justice Department confirmed that he was struggling to kill the police officer arresting him for a strongarm robbery he had just committed by grabbing his gun when he was fatally shot).  Baltimore was sacked over the contention that Freddie Gray was assassinated by police officers deliberately tossing him around in a police van (a jury acquitted the officers).  Just this past week, rioters looted downtown Minneapolis on the false story that police had gunned down a suspect who had, in fact, committed suicide.  Which was captured on surveillance video.  Yet, Target, Saks Fifth Avenue and Nordstrom were still looted.

Owner of Brit's Pub says downtown Minneapolis no longer safe for customers.  The morning after more civil unrest struck Downtown Minneapolis, businesses are assessing the damage to their property and starting to pick up the pieces.  One of those trying to figure out what comes next is Kam Talebi, owner and CEO of Kaskaid Hospitality, the parent company that owns Brit's Pub on Nicollet Mall, along with several other restaurants incuding Crave, Union and BLVD.  Talebi spoke to News Talk 830 WCCO's Mark Freie outside of Brit's Thursday morning where looters broke into the building, eventually starting a fire inside the complex.  Talebi tells WCCO the pub is devastated.

Antifa are the Ugliest Americans to Have Ever Existed.  Antifa are undoubtedly the ugliest Americans to have ever existed.  It is no wonder why they are angry, they look like some of the most miserable people you would ever meet.  In this article, we will present to you some of the sorriest looking Americans you have ever seen.

Bongino shows video of him and wife harassed by 'paid, organized mob of lunatics'.  Fox News contributor and leading conservative podcaster Dan Bongino and his wife were two of several people harassed by mobs of protesters as they left the White House Thursday after President Donald Trump's speech to close out the Republican National Convention.  On Friday [8/28/2020], the former NYPD officer and Secret Service agent shared video of the incident involving a number of people he described as "BLM terrorists" harassing him and insulting his wife, Paula.

Antifa.com now redirects to Joe Biden's campaign website.  [Scroll down]  Joining the dots, it looks like some actual Antifa "non organisation" got enough serious money to buy this domain in Jan 2020.  It went live with english text and german Antifa logo in the week after the Floyd homicide.

When Will Sen. Kamala Harris Condemn The Attack On Her Colleague Rand Paul?  Now that the GOP convention is over, we can take a deep breath and relax to catch our collective breath in the anticipation of sprinting to the finish line with the election only 67 days away.  Unless, of course, you are a recognizable political figure in ANY American city with a roaming BLM mob just lurking around being peaceful waiting to go not so peaceful.  My colleague Jennifer Van Laar covered the video earlier today of Sen. Rand Paul and his wife literally being surrounded by a mob threatening them and the D.C. police protecting them with their bodies.  [Link to video clip]  The video above clearly shows that a recognizable elected official and his spouse were put in danger by people who are radicals and obviously supporters of Joe Biden and Sen. Kamala Harris.

Homeland Security Secretary Confirms ANTIFA Meets Standards Of Domestic Terrorism.  Chad Wolf, the current Secretary of Homeland Security made a public statement yesterday clarifying that Antifa "absolutely" meets the standards to be classified as domestic terrorists.  "The issue with ANTIFA," said Wolf, "it's not just one singular group.  It's a loosely knit organization that's very hard to define, very hard to define who's a part of it."  He also stated, "I think what we see with them individually targeting law enforcement, individually targeting certain officials for certain reasons, that is the definition of domestic terrorism."  There is a growing public concern regarding ANTIFA and it's recurring involvement in violent incidents all over the US, and indeed, in Canada and in many other places in the world.  Recently, even top brass at Facebook finally realized that ANTIFA were promoting violence, and shut down many of their accounts and groups.

Jim Banks to Introduce Legislation That Strips Rioters of Unemployment Benefits, Makes Them Pay For Police.  [Congressman Jim] Banks appeared on local radio for an interview about the Support Peaceful Protest Act on Friday [8/28/2020], and talked about what led him to craft the legislation.  "Antifa thugs are descending on suffering communities, disrupting peaceful protests and leaving violence, looting and vandalism in their wake.  They turned Milwaukee, Seattle and Portland into warzones, and now they're moving the chaos to Kenosha, Wisconsin," Banks said.  "Who knows which community is next?"  "Due to enhanced federal benefits, taxpayers are giving wages to jobless rioters that are destroying our communities.  We need to cut them off from their funding and make them feel the full financial consequences of their actions."  Banks also noted that "Many of these people are not working.  They have the time to show up every day at some of these violent protests like in Washington, D.C. and they're getting $600 a week of unemployment to do it, and that's got to stop."

Portland goes eerily silent after reports the FBI is hot on Antifa's tail.  According to journalist Andy Ngo, who's been on the ground in Portland, Oregon throughout the past three months of left-wing rioting, Thursday evening marked "the first time in 93 days" that downtown Portland didn't succumb to rioting.  In a tweet posted early Friday morning [8/28/2020], he speculated that the silence may be a result of reports that the FBI's Portland branch has begun actively investigating the Black Lives Matter and Antifa extremists responsible for the rioting.

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The riots can be stopped in a matter of minutes, just by enforcing the law and arresting the rioters.  In this case, the word got out, and the thugs and vandals didn't want to play the game any more if there was a substantial threat of incarceration.

19 Videos of Left-Wing Protesters Harassing People After the Republican National Convention.  Protesters harassed people in the streets of Washington, DC, following the last night of the Republican National Convention at the White House.  Many of the individuals harassed were Republican politicians and RNC guests who were leaving the convention's closing ceremonies and were met by protesters shoving, cursing, and shouting Black Lives Matter slogans at them.  Breitbart News reporters and various others on the scene captured video of the confrontations.

Videos Show Kenosha Protesters Burn Flag, Shout 'Kill the [...] Police' and 'Death to America'.  Another city is burning this week as America-hating anarchists riot under the guise of fighting racial injustice and police brutality.  This time, it's happening in Kenosha, Wisconsin, where violence erupted in the streets after police shot 29-year-old Jacob Blake on Sunday [8/23/2020].  The exact circumstances are still unclear, though initial video evidence shows that police, who were were responding to the scene of a domestic disturbance call, shot Blake after he apparently ignored their commands, walked toward his vehicle and appeared to reach inside of it.

Seattle Antifa group arrested in Kenosha with riot gear, controlled substances.  Members of Riot Kitchen 206, "a no charge kitchen serving protestors, activists, movements and those in need in Seattle WA" have been arrested by authorities in Kenosha, Wisconsin after police suspected that they were "...preparing for criminal activity related to the civil unrest."  Kenosha police released a statement following the arrests that acting on a tip, they had surveilled the vehicles with out of state plates fuelling gas cans.  The vehicles contained gas masks, helmets, protective vests, illegal fireworks and suspected controlled substances.

Police arrest 8 during DC protests, including 5 for allegedly assaulting officers.  Police in Washington, D.C., arrested eight people, including five accused of assaulting police officers, during protests late Thursday night into Friday in the wake of President Trump's Republican National Convention speech at the White House, police said.  The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) arrested people ranging in age from 18 to 37 early Friday, according to MPD data, after hundreds gathered around the White House on Thursday night during and after Trump's Republican presidential nomination speech at the RNC.

NPR Claims That Calling a Riot a "Riot" is Racist.  NPR published an article claiming that calling a riot a "riot" is offensive because it's "rooted in racism."  Yes, really.  The article was written by Jonathan Levinson for Oregon Public Broadcasting, the Portland NPR affiliate.  Portland has experienced 93 days of continuous rioting — last night was the first time in that entire period that the city has not seen unrest — but according to Levinson, merely calling a spade a spade is a racist dog whistle.  Levinson's argument for this position is vague to the point of being non-existent.  He appears upset that police are able to declare a riot and use crowd control measures to disperse violent BLM mobs.

The Fools of Kenosha.  On Sunday [8/23/2020], a black man named Jacob Blake was shot seven times by a police officer in Kenosha after Blake refused to comply with his orders.  The details of what happened remain murky.  We know that the cops were called in response to a complaint by a woman who claimed that Blake had taken her keys; we know that there was a warrant out for Blake that cited sexual assault, trespassing, and disorderly conduct; and we know that Blake had a knife "in his possession" at the time of the shooting.  Beyond that, however, we remain largely in the dark.  The nature of these cases depends heavily on the details, and, at the moment, those details are few and far between.  One would not know this by the reaction.  Within hours of the video of the shooting hitting the Internet, the city of Kenosha was on fire.  Cars were torched.  Businesses were destroyed.

Rand Paul, BLM and DC's street harassment laws.  Over the past week, Washington, DC has turned into a truly dystopian nightmare.  Diners at several area restaurants, including the famous Martin's Tavern in Georgetown, were accosted by a Black Lives Matter mob that bullied them into raising their fists in solidarity with the movement.  Restaurant patrons who refused to comply faced further verbal abuse and harassment.  The trend continued outside the White House on Thursday night.  Attendees of President Trump's acceptance speech during the Republican National Convention were thrown to the wolves as they left the event, and were chased and screamed at as they made their way back to their hotels.  Kentucky senator Rand Paul and his wife Kelly received some of the most aggressive harassment.  Police officers formed a human barricade to protect them from the protesters, who repeatedly shoved the officers and threatened the senator.

This is why Jacob Blake had a warrant out for his arrest.  The cops involved in the shooting of Jacob Blake — which touched off a fresh wave of angry, anti-police sentiment across the country — were attempting to arrest him for violating a restraining order stemming from an alleged sexual assault, The [New York] Post has learned.  Blake, 29, was forbidden from going to the Kenosha home of his alleged victim from the May 3 incident, and police were dispatched Sunday following a 911 call saying he was there.  The responding officers were aware he had an open warrant for felony sexual assault, according to dispatch records and the Kenosha Professional Police Association, which released a statement on the incident on Friday [8/28/2020].  That police union statement also claimed that Blake was armed with a knife at the time of the shooting — and had put one cop in a headlock and shrugged off two Taser attempts while resisting arrest.

Lotus Restaurant owner describes intense confrontation with looters.  In the height of all the looting in downtown Minneapolis Wednesday night, one restaurant owner had an enormous decision to make.  Watching his business being destroyed, he pulled out his gun during an intense confrontation, before ultimately deciding not to pull the trigger.  The Nguyen family started the Lotus Restaurant in 1984.  It's the American dream, which was almost shattered in one night by a few people looking to destroy their hard work.

It's a little late now, isn't it?
Democrats worry about voter backlash in suburbs.  Democratic strategists are worried scenes of violence in Kenosha, Wis., and the "defund the police" debate could give Republicans and President Trump a boost with suburban voters.  The issue has come back to the forefront amid new incidents of violence, property destruction and protests this week after another unarmed Black man, Jacob Blake, was shot in the back by a police officer.  Some Democrats worry the continuing unrest could give Trump an opening with swing voters in Wisconsin and other key states that voted for Trump in 2016.

Anchorage man whose brother was killed in a police shooting faces federal arson charges linked to fire at Seattle police building.  A 19-year-old Anchorage resident whose younger brother died in a shooting by police in February now faces a federal arson charge for setting a fire outside a Seattle police station with officers inside.  Desmond David-Pitts was arrested early Tuesday morning in Seattle during protests over Sunday's police shooting that paralyzed Wisconsin resident Jacob Blake.  Police broke up a crowd of protesters in the Capitol Hill area, the Seattle Times reported.  Some climbed over a chain-link fence and set a fire next to the building, the Seattle Police Department said in an online post.  "Individuals also placed quick-drying cement in exterior precinct door locks."

BLM in D.C. Assault People in Streets, Accost People Leaving Republican Convention Including Vernon Jones, Brian Mast.  President Donald Trump gave his final acceptance speech of the RNC acceptance at the White House on Thursday evening with many people in attendance on the lawn.  But outside the White House, the BLM mob was gathering.  The BLM had hoped to be so loud that that they might drown out the event.  They failed at that which made them incredibly frustrated as one can see in this picture.  [Numerous photos and video clips]

Father of Man Murdered by CHAZ Security Files $3 Billion Lawsuit Against Seattle Authorities.  The father of a 19-year old man who was shot dead in Seattle's now-defunct Capital Hill Autonomous Zone is filing lawsuits against state and local government, accusing the authorities of enabling the death of Lorenzo Anderson by tacitly permitting the self-declared anarchist commune to exist in downtown Seattle.  Horace Anderson is Lorenzo's father.

Shopping Minneapolis Saks 5th Ave [and] Gucci.  [Video clip]

Rand Paul calls for FBI arrests, investigation into 'mob' he believes 'would have killed us,' if not for police.  Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., told "Fox & Friends" he believes he would have been killed if not for the police when he and his wife were surrounded and attacked by a "mob" yelling threats and pushing police upon exiting the White House after President Trump's acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention (RNC) Thursday night [8/27/2020].  "It was horrific," the Republican senator — who had part of his lung removed due to a complication from the 2017 assault by his neighbor — told host Steve Doocy of the "unhinged" mob that continued to get bigger and bigger.

BLM Mob Starts Looting to Protest Police Brutality After Black Murder Suspect Commits Suicide.  It appears Black Lives Matter activists are so anxious for an excuse to riot that they won't even make sure the police were the ones who pulled the trigger when a black man loses his life.  On Wednesday night, a large crowd started breaking windows and looting stores like Target at Nicollet Mall in Minneapolis following news of a black man dying after police pursued him.  As it turned out, the man was a suspect in a murder case and he committed suicide to avoid arrest.

Antifa's 'Riot Kitchen' gets busted.  Who knew that looters had their own food trucks?  Who would have guessed that Antifa had its own soup kitchen to come to after working up an appetite after a hard day's rioting?  Turns out they did, and when they headed out to Kenosha, Wisconsin, the cops shut them down. [...] Turns out the "Riot Kitchen," — yes, it's really called that — may have had some unusual cuisine on its menu:  ["]Police said they recovered helmets, gas masks, protective vests, illegal fireworks and suspected controlled substances from the vehicles.  Nine people were arrested on disorderly conduct charges.  Police did not immediately release their names.["]  The cops said they busted the leftist food truck for being "suspicious" after its denizens broke curfew and were seen buying a lot of gasoline at a gas station, apparently in cans.

Sen. Rand Paul thanks DC cops for saving him from 'crazed mob' after RNC.  U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said he was attacked by a "crazed mob" of more than 100 people after leaving the White House following President Trump's acceptance speech at the Republican Convention.  "Just got attacked by an angry mob of over 100, one block away from the White House, he wrote on Twitter early Friday.  "Thank you to @DCPoliceDept for literally saving our lives from a crazed mob."  Video on social media appeared to show a crowd chasing and jeering Paul, who was escorted by D.C. police as he returned to his hotel.  An officer was captured on video being shoved by a protester and was nearly knocked over.  Paul appeared to help steady the officer.

Chaos v. Order on the Ballot — Again.  Richard J. Daley, the old-school mayor of Chicago, told the city's superintendent during the riots that followed Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination to "shoot to kill any arsonists" and "shoot to maim or cripple anyone looting." [...] They don't make Democrats like they used to.  But occasionally years, and usually not the good ones, reincarnate.  Vice President Mike Pence summed up 2020 as "this year like no other" during his Republican National Convention speech this week.  But a 1968 vibe, when riots challenged a shared ethos of law, order, and patriotism, reverberates in the 2020 campaign.

74 face federal charges from Portland protests.  Seventy-four people are now facing federal charges related to protests that have rocked Portland, Oregon, for three months since George Floyd was killed.  The misdemeanor and felony charges include assaults on federal officers, arson and damaging federal property.

Biden Faces Backlash For Misleading Attack On Trump Regarding Violence In Democrat Cities.  Biden's attack, featured in a tweet, came in response to Trump hammering him during the Republican National Convention on the issue of violence in the inner cities.  "We must never allow mob rule, we can never allow mob rule," Trump said.  "In the strongest possible terms, the Republican Party condemns the rioting, looting, arson, and violence we have seen in Democrat run cities all, like Kenosha, Minneapolis, Portland, Chicago, and New York, and many others Democrat-run.  There is violence and danger in the streets of many Democrat-run cities throughout America."  "This problem could easily be fixed if they wanted to," Trump continued.  "Just call; we are ready to go in.  We will take care of your problem in a matter of hours.  Just call.  We have to wait for the call.  It's too bad we have to, but we have to wait for the call.  We must always have law and order."

The Democrats Face the Inferno They Created.  With Antifa, the paramilitary arm of the Democratic Party, BLM, its ideological arm, and the media, its propaganda arm, the Democrats have confected a riotous monster they are no longer able to control.  When you allow people to run rampant in the streets with no repercussions, the anarchy, looting, and arson that result awakens within the faux revolutionaries their "woke muscles," allowing them to feel "big," and, most importantly, in charge.  Breaking stuff and burning stuff is fun.  Looting is not only fun, but profitable.  Being able to order people around is empowering.  For the aspiring sociopaths roaming free in our streets, hurting people with impunity is a dream come true.  Why would they ever want to stop now?  Democrats will now seek to add tepid disapproval of rioting and rioters to their active and avowed support of protestors just as Americans have come to the conclusion that they are one and the same, and are beginning to take to the streets to fight back.  At some point, Americans will have had enough and are going to confront the attackers themselves.

Narrative Set on 'Vigilante White Supremacist Militia' Shooter.  Yesterday [8/26/2020] Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old accused of shooting three rioters in Kenosha, Wisconsin, killing two and injuring one, was arrested.  He was charged with first-degree intentional homicide.  President Trump has since sent in the feds and the national guard after the useless governor of Wisconsin previously turned down offers of support.  Hooligans are rioting because a black man with a criminal record of violence was shot by cops when he resisted arrest, marched to his car and appeared to reach into grab something.  A knife was found in the car.  Was Jacob Blake was trying to grab a gun?  I wouldn't want to wait and find out.

Kenosha Burning.  Antifa/#BlackLivesMatter rioters seem determined to riot in every city in America (or at least every Democrat-controlled city), and this week it was the turn of Kenosha, Wisconsin, a city of some 100,000 on the shores of Lake Michigan between Chicago and Milwaukee, two other cities that have gotten to experience the same violence. [...] The man over whom rioters were destroying Kenosha was a repeat offender wanted on 3rd degree sexual assault charges and accused of rape.

Craven Democrats invite violence.  An army of lawyers descended on the Wisconsin city of Kenosha on Tuesday to prey on the family of Jacob Blake and fan the flames of mob violence.  Sure enough, a few hours later, two people were shot dead in another night of rioting, arson and destruction, spurred on by politicians, lawyers and other faithless opportunists.  Another Democrat-run American city suffering at the hands of the violent BLM-Antifa wing of the Democratic Party, which has been deputized to influence the outcome of the November election.  After two nights of mayhem, the predatory attorneys, led by George Floyd lawyer Ben Crump, staged a press conference designed to maximize anger about Sunday's police shooting of Blake, who reportedly was wanted on warrants for domestic violence and sexual assault, and appeared on video to be resisting arrest.

Waking the Sleeping Giant.  [Scroll down]  None of this is a surprise to anyone who is actually paying attention, regardless of what side you vote for.  If you don't see how lawless and dangerous the riots have become, then you're not willing to see.  On a daily basis, the police are being attacked with rocks, frozen water bottles, bricks, Molotov cocktails, improvised explosive devices, and all manner of other weapons.  The attacks are coming from "peaceful protesters" clad in military style body armor and riot gear and are being directed at anyone who displeases them or seems to disagree with their narrative.  Or for that matter, anyone who is just trying to pass by, either on foot or in their vehicle. [...] In several instances, Antifa has been very promptly and swiftly (and sometimes violently) ejected from towns or neighborhoods who knew what their intentions were and collectively decided to take a stand.  Those stories are wonderful to hear, because to me it means that regular people — you know, those crazy people who have jobs, families, responsibilities, maybe faith in God and a love of their country — are starting to tire of the violence and overall nonsense.

Cornered murder suspect kills himself; mob accuses police of killing him and sets off looting downtown Minneapolis.  Last night offered a warp speed example of mob violence triggered by utterly bogus charges of police misbehavior resulting in the sack of the premier shopping district of a major American city.  The disgraceful incident happened in Minneapolis, where I grew up, and there is a personal connection to one of the targets of the phony outrage that I will explain below.  The incident began just after 6 PM, when a murder suspect killed himself rather than be apprehended by police.  The incident was captured on surveillance cameras which the police quickly shared with local news outlets. [...] Three was no doubt that police were blameless, but that did not stop bystanders from immediately castigating the police with the same sort of bogus claims that led to mob violence in Ferguson, MO and elsewhere, even as they attended to the bleeding corpse of the suicided perp.

Lefties trying to get Tucker Carlson fired over Kenosha commentary.  Last night provided more evidence that Tucker Carlson is the most important political commentator of the current crisis.  Ankle biting critics, jealous of his status as host of the eponymous top-rated cable news show, seized upon perfectly reasonable comments he made on Wednesday's edition of his show and launched a campaign to boycott his advertisers (they are close forcing me to buy one of Mike Lindell's pillows) and thereby pressure Fox News into cancelling him.  Tucker proudly tweeted out the segment in question, with Twitter cautioning viewers that it may be sensitive and [requiring an] extra click in order to view the 7 minutes or so.  His tweet summarized his point, that when authorities stand down and allow mob rule, the situation devolves into violent anarchy, with people taking up arms to defend themselves, with terrible consequences.

Minneapolis homicide suspect reportedly commits suicide, as angry crowd suspects police shooting and riots.  A homicide suspect reportedly took his own life near Nicollet Mall in Minneapolis on Wednesday, August 26, according to local police.  In the aftermath of the suicide, people gathered around the scene and rumors spread on social media that the man was shot by police.  To refute social media rumors that the man was shot by police, Minneapolis police held a press conference and shared video of the incident from a city surveillance camera.  [Video clip]

Video Of Black Murder Suspect Who Shot And Killed Himself In Minn.  That Caused Mass Looting.  Gov. Tim Walz mobilized the Minnesota National Guard on Wednesday night after people looted downtown Minneapolis businesses, in the wake of a homicide suspect shooting himself.  Police released a graphic video, which showed the man's suicide, after a crowd gathered and believed it was the police who killed the suspect.  [Video clip]

Thugs Loot The Nicollet Mall In Minneapolis After Black Suspect Kills Himself.  Hundreds descended into the heart of downtown Minneapolis Wednesday night to decry the death of a man who killed himself on Nicollet Mall as police closed in on him, sparking unrest and property damage along the corridor and leading to a National Guard mobilization.  Police almost immediately shared surveillance video of the suicide, but it did little to calm the crowds who broke windows at retail stores, restaurants, bars and coffee shops, prompting Gov. Tim Walz to declare a Peacetime Emergency in the City of Minneapolis and mobilize the Minnesota National Guard.  [Video clip]

Rioters Loot Saks 5th Avenue In Minn.  Because a Thug Killed Himself Before Cops Could Arrest Him.  A suspected gunman fatally shot himself Wednesday as Minneapolis police were moving in to arrest him for a slaying committed hours earlier, sparking looting in the downtown area, police told Fox News.  The man was with a female at a parking garage around 2 p.m. when they encountered another man, Minneapolis police spokesman John Elder said.  The couple got into a confrontation with the man, who was fatally shot by the man who was with the woman.  [Video clip]

Third night of RNC 2020 puts the onus squarely on Joe Biden.  Mike Pence put it on the line in his speech on the third night of the Republican Convention:  "You will not be safe in Joe Biden's America."  As he spoke, Kenosha was reeling from the violence of the past four days while rioters were trashing Minneapolis yet again.  The embrace of law and order was one of the key themes of the night, and Pence was at his most dramatic as he said, "The violence must stop, whether in Minneapolis, Portland, or Kenosha.  Too many heroes have died defending our freedoms to see Americans strike each other down.  We will have law and order on the streets of America."  He said that the men and women of law enforcement "are the best of us," and that "we will always stand with those who stand on the thin blue line."

CNN Chyron On Kenosha: 'Fiery But Mostly Peaceful Protests After Police Shooting'.  A CNN chyron reporting on the riots exploding in Kenosha, Wisconsin, during the early hours of Tuesday morning [8/25/2020] appeared to have gone unnoticed.  "Fiery But Mostly Peaceful Protests After Police Shooting," the news network's television headline blared while its reporter, Omar Jimenez, stood in front of several burning cars.  The footage features Jiminez explaining to viewers that while the city burns to the ground behind him, the so-called protesters destroying the blue-collar midwestern town were being "mostly peaceful."

Positive Signs.  Democrats are getting nervous.  After encouraging rioting and arson for months, CNN's Don Lemon is now worrying that Antifa- and BLM-led violence is hurting Joe Biden in the polls.  Do tell! [...] I assume that the Kenosha riots will put Wisconsin in President Trump's column, and the riots here in Minnesota have, at a minimum, put the state in play.  There is another factor that hasn't gotten much attention:  Kanye West has made it onto the Minnesota ballot.

Don Lemon says, out loud:  Riots have to stop now because it's 'showing in the polling and focus groups'.  CNN's Don Lemon and Chris Cuomo finally spoke out against the rioting that continues in some U.S. cities but not for the reasons many Americans condemn the violence.  Lemon accidentally said the quiet part out loud when he lamented how ongoing leftist riots need to stop because they are hurting Democrats in the polls.  Criticizing riots not for damage to human lives and property, but for the toll they are taking on the Democratic Party, Lemon called on Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden to address the unrest, warning that the issue is a "blind spot" for the party.

In Kenosha, The Seeds of Civil War.  [Scroll down]  What did you morons think was going to happen?  That you could continue burning down a small city in middle America without any resistance?  People are going to defend their lives and property sooner or later, you know.  You may have caught a break in that your nemesis turned out to be a 17-year-old you can cancel as a crazed would-be school shooter, but the next incident might very well run your people up against decorated Navy SEALS or Marines or retired cops with unblemished service records.  Or just plain pillars of the community well-versed in firearms.  Particularly in a place like Wisconsin where those with hunting licenses represent a fighting force as large as the army of many a small nation.  The citizenry will eventually fight back.  And when it does, nobody ought to be surprised.  The make-believe revolution must at some point become real.  In Kenosha it became real.  And in real revolutions people get killed, because more than one side is fighting.

Kyle Rittenhouse, charged in Kenosha protest homicides, considered himself militia.  Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old charged with shooting three people — two of them fatally — during a Kenosha protest Tuesday night [8/25/2020], considered himself a militia member trying to protect life and property, according to videos, interviews and social media posts.  Video recorded in the hours before the shooting shows Rittenhouse hanging out with older armed men who say they're protecting a car lot.  Rittenhouse, of Antioch, Illinois, also did a video interview with the Daily Caller in front of a boarded up building.  "People are getting injured and our job is to protect this business," Rittenhouse says in the clip.

Kyle Rittenhouse Was Right to Fire His Weapon.  [Scroll down]  [Video clips] Both of these pieces of footage [show] Rittenhouse was firing with the intention of self-defense, not assault.  He is always moving away, attempting to flee pursuers and never fires until his pursuers are right on top of him.  If that's the case then no death that occurred as a result of Rittenhouse firing his weapon was not his fault due to Wisconsin's "Castle Doctrine" law.  He was clearly under attack and as such, was within legal bounds when he pulled the trigger from his legal firearm.

The behavior we are witnessing from the mob is nothing new; what's different is the degree.  Tearing down statues and other public symbols of "white supremacy?  Check.  Lobbing rocks or Molotov cocktails at police?  Check.  Smashing windows and committing acts of arson in the name of Black Lives Matter?  Check.  Looting?  Check.  Add the latest offense — storming restaurants and harassing customers — and the list is complete.  All of these relics of revenge-mob mentality, supposedly carried out over police shootings of black men, date back to the Obama era.  In fact, there was one additional symptom that happily hasn't carried forward: the wholesale assassination of police officers as they sat in their cars.  If there is one difference between then and now it is the level of depraved indifference exhibited by the mob.

'Broke his jaw:' Man in his 70s attacked while trying to protect burning Kenosha mattress store.  A man was injured after attempting to protect a Kenosha mattress store before it burned down during violent protests Monday night, Aug. 24, a day after the police shooting of Jacob Blake.  The man in his 70s was hurt while trying to stop people from burning the building down, but fire leveled the building and the longtime owners are angry and emotional.

Rioters tried to burn Seattle police alive, sealed door during fire at East Precinct.  Seattle rioters used a substance suspected to be quick-dry concrete to seal shut the door to the East Precinct, the Seattle Police Department has confirmed.  At the same time, the rioter attempted to set fire to the building.  Photos reviewed by the Jason Rantz Show show the concrete mix and tools used.  Now, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is working with the Seattle Police Department on this investigation.  Rioters assaulted Seattle's East Precinct on Monday night [8/24/2020].

The mob wasn't satisfied with destroying statues, so now they're coming for your homes and families.  Statues starting coming down in June.  It's mid-August, and the "peaceful protestors" are roaming through residential neighbourhoods yelling at people in their homes.  We heard from activists and agitators that the statues had to come down, that they were symbols of an unsavory past and could not blight our town centers any longer.  In dozens of instances, the statues came down, but the protestors have not been appeased.  Protestors are no longer intent on destroying statues and public property; they are now moving on to people.  We hear so often that property damage isn't violence.  Ariel Atkins tells us that looting is merely reparations.  The New York Times' Nikole Hannah-Jones said that "Yes, it is disturbing to see property being destroyed, it's disturbing to see people taking property from stores, but these are things."  So when the fight moves from statues, government buildings, and town squares out into neighbourhoods, is that violence?  Or is it merely people making use of their right to freely assemble on residential streets?

The rioting mobsters are turning into Trump's useful idiots.  Protesters have been setting fire to yet another American city today to tell us that black lives matter.  This latest eruption is in response to a disturbing video that shows a black man being shot repeatedly in the back by police as he reaches into his car in Kenosha, Wisconsin.  The man in question is called Jacob Blake.  He is reported to be in a serious condition, but still alive in hospital this morning.  An investigation into the shooting is taking place, but the mob smashing up Kenosha doesn't care about that — it cares about rage and destruction.  We see the now familiar liturgy of so-called protest:  cars on fire; windows shattered; shops looted and tagged with 'BLM' and 'ACAB' graffiti.  Rioters even threw a brick at a police officer's head, knocking him out.  It all makes for 'viral content' online and that's sort of the point.

Police pepper spray protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin after mayor John Antaramian's speech.  Police in riot gear used pepper spray on protesters on Monday in Kenosha, Wisconsin, shortly after mayor John Antaramian made a speech and walked back inside into a building.  (August 24)  [Video clip]

Kenosha rioters "Just Discover" a pile of broken concrete.  Convenient how these piles always happen to show up right around rioting time.  [Video clip]

National Guard called out to Kenosha as protesters wreck largely black neighborhood.  The National Guard was called in to quell fiery riots in Kenosha, Wisconsin — as protesters defied a curfew to loot and destroy a mostly black business area they are supposedly trying to defend following the police shooting of a local black man.  Democratic Gov. Tony Evers summoned 125 members of the National Guard Monday after protesters set cars on fire, smashed windows and clashed with officers in riot gear Sunday after the shooting of Jacob Blake.  But that and a dusk-to-dawn curfew did not stop the city from exploding once again on Monday night — with blazes set near the scene of Blake's shooting as protesters clashed with law enforcement in riot gear.  Videos on social media showed some protesters using baseball bats to systematically smash a line of parked cars.  Another clip showed a man calmly lighting a fuse to torch an already smashed-up garbage truck as explosions went off around him.

Kenosha:  Officer Knocked Out with Brick.  Officers from the Kenosha Police Department are surrounded by rioters as bricks and large rocks are thrown.  As the officers try to move past the rioters blocking the road, one officer is struck in the head.  He falls to the ground and appears to lose consciousness.  Other officers come to his aid.  [Video clip]

Heavily armed civilians take to the streets of Kenosa to protect locals businesses as city braces for a third night of rioting, arson and looting.  Heavily armed civilians have been filmed patrolling outside businesses in Kenosha after arsonists set buildings alight, torching much of the black business district Monday [8/24/2020].  In footage taken by a local reporter, a small group of men can be seen carrying rifles and wearing combat gear as they protect local shops.  They deny they are part of a militia.  The Wisconsin city became the nation's latest flashpoint in a summer of racial unrest after police shot unarmed black man Jacob Blake, 29, in the back Sunday.

Shots Fired:  Armed Citizens Now Unloading in Kenosha.  Several shop owners and Kenosa citizens are now patrolling the streets as riots continue.  [Video clip]

Rioters stomp on cars as chaos reigns overnight in Kenosha.  People jump onto cars in this used car lot, smashing windows as the crowd moves through the streets in a chaotic night of protesting turned rioting in Kenosha, Wisconsin on August 24.  [Video clip]

Portlanders in Need Had to Fend for Themselves, and You Won't Believe Just One Night's Crime.  You've seen the violence in Portland.  You've witnessed the chaos caught on tape.  The cops have their hands full.  So what happens, then, when people outside the chaos need police?  It turns out they have to go it alone.  As reported by The Daily Caller, on Sunday night, 35 officers had to abandon patrol duty after a riot was declared.  That led to 80 other emergency calls being put on hold.  [Video clip]  On Monday [8/24/2020], the Portland Police Bureau issued a statement detailing the night's insanity.  Twenty-three people ages 19 [to] 44 were arrested, for crimes including assaulting a public safety officer, interfering with a peace officer, and escape in the third degree.

Chief: Detroit police prevented 'Seattle zone of lawlessness'.  Officers used force to prevent protesters from setting up a "Seattle zone of lawlessness" during demonstrations that turned violent Saturday, the city's police chief said Monday [8/24/2020].  Detroit police chief James Craig made the comment while there are multiple internal investigations to determine whether any officers acted improperly during the skirmishes.  "I am not going to let any group set up a Seattle zone of lawlessness here in the city of Detroit," Craig said.  "That is non-negotiable."

Minneapolis businesses fight ban on exterior shutters owners wanting to protect their windows after riots face obstacle.  After looters crashed through his floor-to-ceiling windows and stole $1 million worth of booze in May, Chicago-Lake Liquors owner John Wolf wanted to protect himself from a repeat occurrence.  Like property owners throughout the world, he wanted to install security shutters on the outside of his building.  The investment would not only prevent rioters from entering his store, it would protect his windows — which cost $50,000 to replace.  But Wolf ran into a big obstacle:  The city of Minneapolis has barred security shutters on building exteriors since 2004.

BLM Burns Down Kenosha — A City of 100,000 — With Police and National Guard Deployed.  The only option tonight for Police and National Guard was to use deadly force — or just let the rioters have their way until they exhausted themselves.  They chose the latter.  The Kenosha Police Department has only 185 officers.  The Sheriff's Office is significantly larger, but even if it is twice as large, that is still only in the neighborhood of 600 or so officers.  The National Guard deployment was only of 125 members, and the task they were publicly given by Gov. Evers was to provide security for fire and emergency personnel.  The public announcement did not seem to include any support for law enforcement agencies dealing with the riots.

Denver's Turn In The Riot Barrel.  Saturday night [8/22/2020], downtown Denver got to experience the same joy that antifa and #BlackLivesMatter has brought to places like Minneapolis, Portland and Seattle.  [Video clips]  These riots aren't about police brutality, they're about a hard-left, anti-police activism that's rejected by the overwhelming majority of American citizens.  In Austin, state troopers and APD quickly clamped down on this stupidity before the idiots could do much damage.  Other cities should follow their lead[.]

Finally, They're Honest About It:  BLM 'Protester' Charged With Terrorist Activity in Florida.  One of the reasons that Portland and Seattle have so gotten out of hand is that the local Democrats running the show aren't willing to hold the radical leftist rioters there fully accountable for their actions.  While they have arrested some, many have caused trouble repeatedly without consequence as the rioters have tried to burn down police buildings and attacked dozens of police and other citizens.  But the actions are clearly terrorist activity — violence and intimidation for a political purpose.  Can there be a more accurate description?  There's been a lot of terrorist activity going on in Portland that hasn't been charged as such.  But just to show you the difference in how BLM/Antifa crimes are treated, there has been a BLM 'protester' charged with terrorist activity in Florida.

Over 42 Rioters Arrested in Detroit Over Weekend.  A Black Lives Matter riot was ultimately broken up by Detroit police on Sunday, with over 40 rioters arrested, according to USA Today.  The incident was started by a Detroit-area Black Lives Matter-affiliated group called "Detroit Will Breathe," which has been causing trouble in the area ever since the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.  One of the leading organizers of Detroit Will Breathe, a far-left radical named Tristan Taylor, claimed without evidence that police attacked "peaceful protesters."  The riot was broken up shortly after midnight on Sunday, after multiple rioters began blocking traffic on major downtown roads.  The initial protest started with about 400, before eventually dwindling down to about 100 who stayed to block the roads.

Portland BLM Thug Who Kicked Innocent Man in the Face Arrested, Charged With 3 Felonies.  The Black Lives Matter rioter who was caught on-camera kicking a truck driver in the face in a vicious, unprovoked attack last weekend in Portland, has been arrested on multiple felony charges.  Marquise Lee Love, 25, "turned himself in Friday morning after detectives and the Multnomah County District Attorney's Office coordinated with his attorney," Fox 12 reported.  The Black Lives Matter agitator was booked into the Multnomah County Jail on charges of "second-degree assault, coercion, and riot," according to Portland Police.  His bail was set at $260,000.

Why the Violence Would Increase Under Biden.  It's easy to see why Joe Biden omitted even a glancing reference in his presidential nomination acceptance speech to the violence that's overwhelming so many of our cities.  He couldn't figure out how to do it without exposing his party's egregious policies in those cities.  From Portland, Oregon, where the bloody uprisings have been going on for 80 days with no end in sight, to New York City — once the envy of the world, turned into a public garbage dump and latrine for the drug-addicted homeless and child molesters, its citizenry fleeing in droves — Democratic officials have proven to be a collection of virtue-signaling prima donnas lost between their sympathies for the demonstrators (including violent ones with whom some seem to identify) and an absolute cluelessness about what to do about the escalating situation.  Whatever they do, they dare not offend the sainted demonstrators by calling for law enforcement lest they (Democratic mayors, governors, attorneys general, and so forth) be accused of racism — a fool's game if there ever were one, since everybody is, eventually, declared a racist.  That's how it rolls in today's America.  Exceptions are, of course, the mayors of Seattle and Chicago who — with mind-bending hypocrisy — suddenly screamed for the cops when their own homes were under assault, something they never did for the benighted people of their cities, especially the poor they pretend to support.  In the case of Chicago, we have been watching the bodies pile up for years, turning the city into a virtual killing field for black people.  Meanwhile, those working stiffs known as the police, under constant assault by the moral narcissists of the left, are retiring across the country at a record rate — who could blame them — leaving cities undefended while Antifa and Black Lives Matter leadership continue their pursuit of revolution.

Helpful tip:  Using the grammar of a six-year-old hillbilly doesn't advance your cause.
Chicago BLM Militant Issues Threat:  "We Have Demands and They Need to Be Met... You Can Listen to Us Or Get Ran Over".  A Black Lives Matter militant in Chicago this week issued what many have interpreted as a terroristic threat.  Taylor Norwood this week unleashed on Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot during a press conference for allowing the police to arrest her 'innocent friends' who were just exercising their Fist Amendment right.  Norwood accused Lightfoot of protecting the whites in North Chicago from blacks in Southside Chicago by blocking off exits to the north following back-to-back weekends of BLM terrorists looting Magnificent Mile.

Antifa And Black Lives Matter Intelligence Report.  Just who is Antifa?  The American manifestation of the "Black Bloc" isn't new.  Antifa existed before now in Europe, but appears to have morphed into a more ad hoc conglomeration of people who have certain ideologies in common, some of whom appear to have been overseas. [...] There is indeed indication that some of these insurgents may have been imported with help from Obama administration officials (See also here and here; additionally, 13 Biden staffers have donated to organizations that fund the riots, so this may carry forward to a future administration).  It has a flat organizational structure, but it is obviously getting funding for bail, legal support and logistics in Portland and Seattle (and possibly elsewhere).  Their tactics have evolved and increased in sophistication as their encounters with law enforcement have increased. [...] The mob tactics they have employed (along with BLM) include arson, looting, attacks on vehicles, busting windows, beatings of innocent people in the street, trashing businesses, and destruction of structures not associated in any way to politics.  Of late, Black Bloc has taken to neighborhoods in Portland.  They seek an end to the American system, and in fact an end to Western culture in general.  They are clearly Marxists and anarchists.

A swarm of 'armed anarchists' wielding axes and guns descends on Denver Police HQ.  Dozens of armed 'anarchists' descended on the Denver Police Headquarters late Saturday [8/22/2020] and damaged buildings, set fires and injured an officer, city officials said Sunday.  The group, consisting of between 50 to 75 demonstrators, were said to be wielding a varying degree of weapons — from axes to guns — during the incident yesterday evening.

Yes, This Is a Revolution.  [Scroll down]  As of this writing, Portland, Oregon, has endured more than two months straight of anarchist violence directed at federal buildings and employees.  In other cities — New York, Los Angeles, Richmond, Omaha, and Austin, to name a few — mob violence continues to erupt regularly, always connected to cries for justice and sometimes resulting in death.  Accelerating the general dissolution, police forces have been successfully hobbled in response to the killing of George Floyd, and the resulting spike in murder and violent crime shows no sign of abating.  All the while, armchair lynch mobs have continued to claim the scalps of those who veer from or merely stumble on the path to social-justice enlightenment.  It is the full-time job of any American with a public presence to bow down before the identity cult. [...] 62 percent of all Americans, according to a poll by the CATO Institute, now say they're afraid to voice their political views lest they be punished professionally.

Proud Boys VS ANTIFA Yesterday In An Epic Battle For A Once Great City.  It looks like some Americans have had it and figured, since the mayor and city council won't do anything, everyday citizens will have to.  [Video clip]

More details and arrests in the case of the hat-stealing Biden women.  [Scroll down]  Taylor's statement about these two harpies confirmed another suspicion of mine:  That these two women exemplify the Democrat trend of having women as the frontline soldiers.  They are not forced into the frontline.  Instead, the Democrat establishment, starting in public schools and continuing into colleges and universities, creates angry young white women who feel victimized by society.  At the same time, they feel guilty about their alleged white privilege.  This combination of anger and guilt plays out in remarkable viciousness.  These women are also willing to engage in violence because, despite their abandonment of traditional codes of femininity, they expect men to continue to respect the cultural prohibition against striking women.  This double standard appears in the video when one of the women strikes Taylor, and he doesn't retaliate.

In the Soup!  [Scroll down]  If you're black, it's even worse.  The person shooting you does so from a refuge of protection provided by the same political machine that pumps lead infused water into your tenement, ensures that you never have any positive role models like Justice Clarence Thomas, Economist Thomas Sowell or National Security Advisor Condolezza Rice, but continually fall back on drug dealers, rappers and sports figures to show your young men the way to prosperity.  The gun you are disallowed from owning to protect yourself in the cities with the highest murder rates in the world are pumped into the hands for juvenile delinquents in gangs by those who campaign all day long on "gun control."  Those of you who are trying to sleep at night in order to get up, go to work and pay for all of the largesse funneled out to those who hold you in contempt, are now awakened by Antifa/BLM/Revcom soldiers just to let you know that they will show up in the middle of the night to harass you if you do not enthusiastically obey their outlandish demands on a daily basis.

A Navy Seal Instructs Americans on How to Deal With a Violent Mob.  The mob is out there, and I don't mean on Twitter.  Across the nation, violent crowds are setting fires, blocking traffic, hospitalizing residents, and — in some cases — shooting drivers.  So what should you do if you find yourself the fixation of an unruly horde?  On Tucker Carlson Tonight Friday [8/21/2020], author and former Navy SEAL Jack Carr laid out instructions.  [Video clip]

Vehicle -"Protest" Encounters:  Politics, Legal Jeopardy, Defense.  In the seeming never-ending riots portrayed as "peaceful protests" by the Progressive left, including most of the Media, there are an increasing number of drivers/passengers involved in vehicle encounters with agitators/protestors.  There are numerous responses on Internet forums about how to handle a situation where a person or persons in a vehicle encounter, often unexpectedly, agitators/protestors who are aggressively blocking a public right of way.  Many of these responses are very dangerous.  It seems to be precisely what is desired by the Progressive left, such as Antifa and BLM, their organizers, handlers, and political theorists.  This article explains some of the dynamics observed from the reporting of these events, and a framework of how to respond with the least risk to the driver/passenger(s) involved.  The design of many of these events is to deliberately block public right-of-ways, to inconvenience large numbers of the public, and to show the public the participants can break the law with impunity.  Part of the design is to trap drivers/passengers and provoke a violent response to further the Antifa/BLM agenda.  In nearly all of these events, the local government, which may include the local prosecutor, mayor, and or city council, are complicit, sympathetic, or compromised on the side of those organizing the event and the violence.

Portland riots intensify; balloons with feces thrown at cop cars.  Heeding the advice of critics, Portland police say they repeatedly tried to deescalate with protesters Friday night.  It didn't work.  As many as 200 demonstrators rampaged near a police station in the Oregon city, pelting a protective line of unoccupied police vehicles with golf balls, softball-sized rocks, metal railroad spikes, paint-filled plastic eggs and balloons filled with feces.  A torn-up street sign was also used to smash cars, with tires slashed and windows broken, police said.

Leftists Storm Suburbs, Shine Lights Into Homes While Screaming: 'Out Of Your House, Into The Streets!'  Hundreds of far-left activists stormed a residential neighborhood in Portland, Oregon on Friday night as they shined lights into people's home and screamed, "out of your house, into the streets!"  Videographer BG On the Scene captured numerous videos of the night's action and identified those who were marching as Black Lives Matter protesters.  Journalist Andy Ngo identified them as being part of antifa.  The far-left activists wore black and carried shields, at least one of which could briefly be seen with a hammer and sickle symbol on it.  "Out of your house, into the streets!" the activists screamed as they marched through the residential neighborhood.  They repeated the chant countless times throughout the area.

Video of all the assaults and robberies by BLM last Sunday in Portland and it's worse than you thought.  This is complete footage shot from myself of the violent events that took place on the night of 8/16/20 in Downtown Portland.  This footage is for all media and law enforcement to observe.  [Video clip]

Portland riot:  Vandalism, naked people, poop balloons and nine arrests.  Another riot was declared in Portland last night.  I think that makes four this week.  Last night the focus was the north precinct and Antifa vandalized a police car.  While they were there they also vandalized a van for the Boys & Girls Club which is not part of the police bureau.  [Numerous video clips]  Police have been wasting their time (and the city's money) with these idiots every night for months.  They've vandalized city property and injured officers and they are forming shield walls to resist orders to disperse.  And yet, the moment someone gets pushed they are outraged.

Two Women were filmed harassing a mother and her child for wearing MAGA hats.  Just outside the DNC convention, two brazen women were filmed harassing a mother and her child for wearing MAGA hats.  Tearing up signs and one woman then stole the MAGA hat off the 7-year-old child, who's name is Riley.  [Video clip]

Update:
Woman who stole 7-yr-old boy's MAGA hat and terrorized him is charged cuffed and arrested.  One of the women allegedly seen in a video berating a boy and stealing his MAGA hat in Delaware was arrested by police in Wilmington.  Olivia Winslow was arrested by Wilmington Police on Friday after the 21-year-old was allegedly identified in a video that's gone viral showing her and another woman involved in the incident with a 7-year-old boy on the last night of the virtual Democratic National Convention this week.

These Videos And Images Foretell The Future Of America.  We are going to begin a little differently with this article and provide the first video in question at the beginning, offering other related incidents after the video, all showing that America is not going to go back to normal after the November presidential election, and that "normal" no longer exists.  As an FYI, while tempers are hot and everyone is trying to talk over each other at some point or another, there is no outright violence, except an after-scene shot of a woman that according to the people in the video, exited her car to attack the Trump supporters, and managed to get herself either maced or pepper-sprayed.  [Video clip] [...] It is almost as if they simply cannot stand that anyone that isn't a Democrat could gather and present a message, and they must attempt to destroy the entire event.  After the years of reporting on Antifa, it truly isn't a surprise to see people supportive of them, or even members of one the many Antifa groups, acting out like children having a temper tantrum because someone is espousing ideology that they do not like.

Democratic Convention Ignores the Elephant in the Virtual Room:  Big-City Violence.  As I keep telling you, when you hear politicians talking, pay attention to what isn't said.  Train your eye to see the negative space between the dancers, because that, too, is often the story.  Urban violence threatens the peace of targeted Democratic suburban voters, like those soccer moms who've just installed police scanner apps on their cellphones.  Trump is taking advantage of this, but he didn't create it.  What America is witnessing in cities like Portland, Seattle, Chicago and New York is a clash between the hard left and the liberal Democratic mayors who lead those cities.  And this Democratic infomercial is all about the swing vote, if there is such a thing, in battleground states, like Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.  Naturally, Democrats accentuate the positive.  Yet as the DNC infomercial makes plain, this new left Democratic Party of 2020 sees only two types:  The Oppressed and The Oppressors, a formula that invariably leads to rising conflict and anger that can't be covered over with virtual kindness and virtual empathy.

'We, the People' Have a Duty to Stop the Violence.  We already have the power in our hands to throw out governments that have not cared enough about the people to act effectively against violence.  We already know enough not to accept as normal this unending violence.  We will say the names of those whose lives were ended and whose dreams were destroyed by those who accept no responsibility for their actions.  And we will use our power to remove governments that accept no responsibility for delivering positive results, who demand loyalty on the basis of identity alone, and who never deliver even the most elementary responsibility of those who are empowered only to serve the public — protecting the lives and property of the citizens.  Public servants who are loyal to the government at the people's expense have proven their incompetence and disloyalty.  It is our sacred duty to remove power from their hands by the means we the people have put at our own disposal.

Women Steal Child's MAGA Hat, Tear Up Trump Posters Near DNC Event.  An incident captured on video appeared to show two women who were protesting President Donald Trump on Thursday taking a "Make America Great Again" hat from a child and tearing up pro-Trump posters.  The incident continued to escalate throughout the video as the women and the child's mother shouted back and forth and threatened each other with physical injury.  "They attacked my son.  I have it on video," the boy's mother can be heard telling a man at one point during the video.

'Listen to him cry': Women attack a mom and 7-yr-old Trump supporters, steal his MAGA hat.  Two women appeared to steal a seven-year-old boy's MAGA hat and yell obscenities at him and his mother after tearing up signs supporting President Donald Trump.  In a video of the incident, the unidentified mother captures the two women accosting her and, allegedly, her son as they destroy their homemade signs and take the boy's hat.  The video carries a "Students for Trump" label and was tweeted by Benny Johnson of Turning Point USA, who wrote in a Twitter post accompanying the footage that the incident occurred outside the Democratic National Convention, which is being held in Milwaukee, though most 'attendees' are appearing only virtually.

ANTIFA and BLM Rioters Try to Storm the ICE Building in Portland.  It's starting to look like a war-zone in Portland... wait it already was.  Once again rioters have nothing else to do besides terrorize the city of Portland in the name of Social Justice.  This time the rioters assembled outside the ICE building where there were met by federal agents.  [Video clip]

Reclaiming Our Culture from the Left.  Everyone knows it: the death of George Floyd was just a pretext.  The rioters who continue every night to wreak havoc in Portland, and who are poised to engage in new orgies of destruction all over the country don't know much and care less about Floyd.  They're quite open about engaging in a "revolution" with the goal of destroying the existing order and replacing it with an authoritarian Marxist regime.  But what we are seeing today is not new.  Its seeds were planted decades ago.  Now the question before us, if we want to preserve the United States as a free society, is what we must do to counter this violent, hate-filled movement.  There will be no easy fix.

Portland protester with long rap sheet who is on the run from cops.  A Black Lives Matter protester on the run from cops after being 'positively identified' as the man who kicked a truck driver in the face in Portland on Sunday is begging for cash.  Police are searching for Marquise 'Keese' Love, 25, after he fled the scene of a brutal attack on Adam Haner, who was knocked unconscious and suffered two black eyes in the vicious beating.  Haner was identified as the victim in a GoFundMe campaign, which claimed he was trying to defend a transgender woman from being robbed before he was set upon by protesters.  Since fleeing the scene, Love has been posting messages on Snapchat, according to The Sun.

Accused Portland attacker Marquise Love has lengthy rap sheet.  The attacker being sought by Portland authorities for allegedly knocking a man out cold during a chaotic demonstration over the weekend has a lengthy criminal record that includes arrests for domestic assault and criminal trespass.  Marquise Love, 25, has been arrested in Washington County, Ore., which borders Portland to the west, seven times since 2012, according to records provided to Fox News.  In 2017, he was arrested for domestic assault and domestic harassment.  He wasn't prosecuted, The New York Post reported, but a judge signed a protective order against him.  His rap sheet also includes two separate arrests in 2016 for providing false information in connection with the transfer of a firearm, and domestic assault and criminal trespass.  In 2015, Love was arrested for interfering with public transportation.

When are Local and State Governments Illegitimate?  This descent into hell is enabled by so-called progressive Democrats in the aforesaid cities and Minneapolis, Chicago, New York, and wherever next.  The progressives have names:  Ted Wheeler, Jenny Durkan, and Jacob Frey — all mayors — along with numerous council members.  And governors, Kate Brown, Jay Inslee, and Tim Walz.  Add Lori Lightfoot, J.B. Pritzker, Bill de Blasio, and Andrew Cuomo to the roster.  All — all — have taken oaths of office to uphold the law and attend to the public safety.  They are glaringly derelict in their duties.  These elected leaders aren't simply craven, they're complicit in the violence and destruction that bedevils their cities.  They see the mobs in the streets.  They witness the destruction.  They are apprised of the violence.  They know innocents are being harmed.  They know citizens cower behind locked doors. [...] Yet they permit the mayhem.  They let the mobs roam.  They fiddle as their cities burn.  These elected leaders are, in fact, aiding and abetting insurrections.

Another riot is declared in Portland on 83rd night of trouble.  Portland police declared yet another riot Tuesday night on the 83rd consecutive day of protests after a 200-strong mob of protesters torched the city's famous Multnomah Building.  The group had marched to the county seat of government for the first time, smashing windows and sparking a blaze by pushing lit newspapers through the windows.  One image shows the protesters had marked a window to the building with the graffiti: 'Aim here.'  Demonstrations that often turn violent have racked Oregon's biggest city for more than two months following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.  Video taken Tuesday night shows protesters calling for 'no cops, no prisons, total abolition'.

Chicago PD arrests woman who live-streamed herself looting stores.  On a couple of occasions, we have lamented the lack of arrests being made following the mass looting and destruction taking place when "peaceful protests" transform into riots after dark in several American cities.  This is particularly true in Chicago, where even Mayor Lori Lightfoot has complained that the rioters who destroyed and emptied the Miracle Mile seemed to have "no fear of consequences" for their actions.  Well, perhaps there is a light at the end of this particular tunnel.  The Chicago PD has managed to arrest one of the looters from the Miracle Mile carnage on Monday, August 10.  Of course, in the case of Taeshia Rochon, perhaps they didn't have to call in their top detectives to crack the case.  Rochon fired up her camera and live-streamed herself robbing two stores on Facebook.  Hang on for the video because it struck me as quite educational.  [Video clip]

Manhunt underway for attacker in Portland truck assault: police.  Portland police on Tuesday identified a suspect in Sunday night's attack on a truck driver who was seen on video being pulled from the vehicle and violently beaten.  The Portland Police Bureau is on the hunt for Marquise Love, who also goes by the name "Keese Love," for his alleged involvement in the vicious assault that was caught on video and circulated on social media.  Officials said in a press release they have made several attempts to find 25-year-old Love, but have so far been unsuccessful.  They have said they have probable cause for his arrest.

More than 200 charged with federal crimes, 1,000 arrested in Operation Legend, AG Barr announces.  At least 207 people have been charged with a federal crime, and more than 1,000 arrests have been made in major metropolitan cities since the Department of Justice launched Operation Legend in July, U.S. Attorney General William Barr announced on Wednesday [8/19/2020].  Nearly 400 firearms have been seized by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.  Barr launched Operation Legend on July 8 as "a sustained, systematic and coordinated law enforcement initiative in which federal law enforcement agencies work in conjunction with state and local law enforcement officials to fight violent crime," the DOJ said in a release. [...] The latest figures on charges and arrests do not include Indianapolis, whose operation was first announced last Friday.  The arrests of more than 1,000 people include those charged in state and local courts.

Man Pulled Gun On Group Not Wearing Masks:  Police.  A Bourbonnais man has been arrested on accusations he threatened to shoot three people in a Jewel-Osco parking lot Tuesday night for not wearing masks inside the store.  According to the Daily Journal, 60-year-old Marc L. Bourdreau was in a checkout line inside the store in the 600 block of Main Street NW while three people were behind him, not wearing masks, Bourbonnais Deputy Police Chief Dave Anderson said.  Bourdreau is accused of pulling a handgun on them in the store's parking lot after he waited for them to come outside, and asked them, "How would you like to get shot in the head?"Anderson said, according to the Daily Journal.  Anderson told the Daily Journal that Bourdreau had a concealed carry permit and valid FOID card.  Bourdreau was stopped by officers while trying to drive from the parking lot.  He faces aggravated assault and unlawful use of a weapon charges stemming from the accusations.

Portland, Seattle, Chicago, New York:  No End Of Violence In Sight For These Liberal Cities.  Late Sunday [8/16/2020], downtown Portland, Oregon was the scene of a vicious attack.  A man driving a pickup truck was reportedly chased by a mob, forcing him to crash his vehicle.  He was then removed from the truck and violently beaten.  Multiple videos have emerged from the scene showing the attack.  "The driver could be seen getting punched, kicked and ordered not to leave in the middle of a city street.  The man in the video, at one point, appeared dazed after the initial assault, but suffered the worst blow when he absorbed a roundhouse kick to the side of the head," reported Fox News.  This was all done in front of the female passenger.  Sunday marked Portland's 80th consecutive night of protests, during which "more than 60 emergency calls to police went unheeded overnight... as officers were preoccupied with hundreds of demonstrators downtown and were pelted by rocks," reported Fox News.  Much of the evening was police defending their own lives while being attacked and assaulted by rioters.  Two officers were hospitalized and a photo shared by the police bureau shows "a 9.5-pound rock that was thrown by a person posing as 'press' as the officer 'prepared to ride away on a truck.'  Several arrests were made."

Seattle Residents Voting for Trump After Democrats Refuse To Stop Rioting.  The state of Washington isn't in play in any substantive way this election season, which makes it an odd place to pay attention to voter sentiment. [...] Neither of Washington's Senate seats are up for being voted on this year.  Only one of the state's congressional districts — Washington's 8th, a suburban Seattle district flipped by the Democrats in the 2018 midterms — is remotely competitive.  However, while all of America will have been changed in some way by the events of 2020, the state of Washington in general — and Seattle in particular — will look the most different, particularly politically.  It's seen some of the most radical of the post-George Floyd foment, particularly in the lawless CHAZ/CHOP "autonomous zone" and in a series of mostly unpoliced demonstrations-cum-riots that followed.

Breaking: 4Chan Identifies One of the Portland Rioters Who Attempted to Kill Driver as 'Keese Love'.  The anonymous message board 4Chan has once again proven to be one of the nations best intelligence services, as they have seemingly identified the man who dealt the final kick to a man who was savagely beaten by rioters in Portland on Sunday evening.  The rioters appeared to be attempting to murder the man after beating a white woman who may or may not have been with him.

7 Big Stories Corporate Media Is Ignoring Because The Truth Might Help Trump.  [#7] Riots?  What Riots?  The media also finds itself struggling to cover the riots occurring throughout our country.  The "mostly peaceful protests" spin remains strong because any acknowledgment of the violence confirms Trump's criticism of Democratic-run cities and his decision to use federal law enforcement officials to protect federal property.  So the press bypasses or shades these major stories.  At any other time and under any other president, the media would have descended on the Portland federal courthouse to report the insurrection taking place.  Reporters would have infiltrated the autonomous zone and covered the rampant crime and violence occurring.  Profiles of the small business owners whose livelihoods were destroyed by the riots would run.

Innocent Protester? Or, Trained Assault Team Member?  [Scroll down]  The masses that gather are being trained to commit assault on those opposing them, inflicting crippling pain and damage.  I had seen rioters on the news over the last several weeks, clutching skateboards.  From my knowledge of urban youth, I knew that skateboard use wasn't all that common.  So, why were so many holding them?  [#1] Use as a shield if physically challenged.  [#2] Wielding it as a weapon against police.  Unlike other weapons (such as the common sock of bike locks), the skateboard can argued to be an innocent means of transportation, not an intentional weapon.  Other seemingly innocent devices have been deployed:
  •   Leaf blowers — used to re-direct tear gas/smoke back at the police
  •   Umbrellas (I'd seen this, and thought it quite odd to be carrying them to a riot).  [Umbrellas are often used to block the view of surveillance cameras. -Ed.]  In a pinch, the bumbershoots can also be used to jab agressively.
  •   Note the 'soccer moms' — all wearing bike helmets.  Seemingly without nefarious use — but, could easily be taken off, swung by the straps, and used to batter opponents.  That polymer material is meant to stand up to a lot of abuse.
  •   Flags on poles — not only a great optic (hey, we're just patriotic Americans!), but also leaves them with wooden poles to use as a weapon.
  •   Lasers — depending on the type of light (green are quite harmful to eyes), can blind.  They are deliberately using these in coordinated attacks on the police.  This was planned — most people use the red lasers for innocent purposes.
  •   The usual lighters, gasoline/bottle/wick combos, fireworks, IEDs, metal batons, bricks, etc.
Understand, most people, even on the Left, don't actively participate in these violent actions.  But they DO spread the lie that these are peaceful protesters.  They are allies of the Left.

Stop America's Endless Kristallnacht Before It Destroys Our Country.  [Scroll down]  America has been in its own version of Crystal Night for many months now, from broken windows to looting to destruction of myriad stores and other places of business, police stations, and government edifices, not to mention considerable physical harm to persons.  Although not yet of Nazi (i.e., National Socialist) proportions, it's pretty bad and doesn't seem to be getting better.  For the most part, nothing is being done about it, especially on the state and municipal levels.  As in Nazi Germany, it's unchecked.  Furthermore, the U.S. populace, as it did in 1930s Germany, is becoming inured to the violence.  A video from Aug. 14 of remarkably passive Seattle citizens looking on as Antifa wreaks havoc to their city says it all.  (It's worth watching also for the confident bravura of the Antifa thugs and, it goes without saying, the absence of police.)  In other recent news reminiscent of Kristallnacht, the Ronald McDonald House in Chicago, where parents of hospitalized children stay, had its door smashed and windows broken by looters (if that's what they were) on Aug. 9, preventing a 2-year old with stage four cancer from leaving for his birthday.  It's hard to know how anyone would want to live in Chicago anymore.  Of course, these events and many others like them are barely being covered by our mainstream media.  They don't fit their narrative.  Omertà must rule before the election.

Portland:  Attempted Murder Of Portland Man Kicked In The Head By ANTIFA Thug, Left Comatose.  A disgusting incident in Portland last night when a couple driving a pickup truck confronted some individuals robbing a man.  The mob turned on them, beating the woman, chasing her away.  When the man sped off, he crashed and the mob chased him down.  This individual came running from behind and kicked the unsuspecting man full force in the head.  [Video clip]

Store windows smashed in Brooklyn during march in support of Stone Mountain protests.  Violence broke out in Williamsburg, Brooklyn on Saturday (August 15) as dozens marched in supports of the Stone Mountain protests in Georgia.  Footage shows masked individuals attacking an Apple store and a Whole Foods.  The filmer told: "Antifascists marched through Williamsburg, Brooklyn for two hours in solidarity with Stone Mountain protests in Georgia.  "Windows were broken and walls tagged with messages such as 'Murder Bezos.'"  [Video clip]

The correct way to deal with 'Protesters'!.  Threatens the Police, dealt with accordingly.  [Video clip]

Mass brawl breaks out between far-right and anti-fascist groups in Stone Mountain.  Far-right groups clashed with anti-fascists at Stone Mountain in the US state of Georgia on Saturday (August 15th).  Various right-wing groups were planning to converge at the Confederate monument in Stone Mountain Park but when they found the park closed, took to the streets.  Anti-fascists had also gathered there and a large brawl broke out between the opposing sides.  [Video clip]

Video Journalist Gets Assaulted By ANTIFA, Hit With Baseball Bat, Spit On In Portland.  [Video clip]

Antifa Is Evil.  Portland is a dead city, a nightmarish dystopia ruled by criminals associated with Antifa and Black Lives Matter.  (Is there still a distinction between those groups?  They seem effectively to have merged.)  We are all indebted to Andy Ngo for documenting the depths to which Portland has descended.  Here, Antifa/BLM criminals viciously assault a man who was driving a truck, finally kicking him in the head, knocking him unconscious and leaving him for dead.  [Video clips]

ANTIFA Show Up To Sturgis Bike Rally, Things go Bad, Then They Ask the Police to Protect Them.  [Video clip]

'Antifa' protesters trash Williamsburg Whole Foods, Apple over weekend.  Dozens of protesters, including suspected members of the anti-fascist group Antifa, rampaged through Williamsburg over the weekend, trashing several national chain stores and spraying anti-police graffiti, according to police and sources.  The rowdy mob marched through the Brooklyn neighborhood late Saturday [8/15/2020], with police first receiving a 911 call at 8:20 p.m. about vandalism at an Apple Store on Bedford Avenue, where they found broken windows and the letters "FTP" — typically meaning "[...]" in this context — spray-painted on the wall, cops said.  The protesters, who also targeted a Whole Foods store in the neighborhood, tagged one building with the message "Murder Bezos," according to reports.

BLM And ANTIFA Crash Latinos For Trump Event In Tujunga, CA.  [Video clip]

ANTIFA and BLM Terrorize Seattle Ihop.  When cops come to protect, one member suggests throwing a molotov.  [Video clip]

Scenes From The Destruction of New York City.  The New York City riots were just a blip in the largest series of coordinated antifa/#BlackLivesMatter riots sweeping the country then, but this video indicates that the looting and destruction in de Blasio's New York City was far more more extensive than the media let on.  [Video clip]  I had a friend who recently visited NYC, and he says from the Holland Tunnel to the Williamsburg Bridge through lower Manhattan almost everything was still boarded up and covered with graffiti, with lots of trash on the sidewalk.  "Looked like a scene from an early Scorsese movie." Is it any wonder that people are fleeing the city in droves?

LAPD Release Footage Of Mostly NOT Peaceful Protesters.  [Video clip]

Antifa Goes To Sturgis!  Sadly, as you probably might have guessed, it was only a handful of Antifa protesters, and they relied upon a ring of Sturgis Police officers to keep them safe from the crown which would have likely "tarred and feathered" them — hey, it's all black — had they had the chance.  That is right up to the point where the Antifa leader decided he wanted to incite the crowd, so the Sturgis Police took him down.  [Video clip]  This seems to be the only incident that took place, and the Police were well prepared to not let things get out of hand.  As you can see it looks like only 5-6 Antifa-clad protesters were involved — and about 10,000 motorcycle enthusiasts.

More than 60 Portland 911 calls go unanswered overnight as police respond to 'violent, tumultuous' riot.  A riot was declared around midnight Sunday in Portland as protesters flocked to a law enforcement builing, continuing a nightly ritual in Oregon's biggest city.  Over 60 calls to Portland police went unheeded overnight as officers were deployed to quell the protests where officers used crowd control munitions to disperse demonstrators outside the Penumbra Kelly building.  Protesters threw 'softball-size' rocks, glass bottles, and pointed green lasers at officers' eyes, the police department reported on Twitter, documenting the unrest that has continued for 80 consecutive nights following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

'Social Justice' Is Extortion.  The Democrat Party pretense that mostly there are only "peaceful protesters" is a blatant lie, particularly when elected Democrat officials encourage the looting and arson and attacks on police.  The claim that rioting is all about police reform and justice for African Americans no longer has any credibility.  The truth is that there is no light between Democrats and rioters, the antifa rioters serving as the militia of the Democrat Party.  The Democrat "defund the police" movement, which has hobbled the police in many Democrat-run cities, does not enhance "black lives," which are threatened by a high rate of black-on-black crime, particularly shootings and murders, but also theft, robbery, assault, and rape.

How Race Politics Burns Out.  [Scroll down]  The kind of racialized violence now taking place reflects what historian Fred Siegel called "the riot ideology", which has been deleterious to the progress of African Americans.  The rioting in the 1960s weakened urban economies and led to devastating losses for minority property owners and businesses.  Even today many areas burned down in the 1960s in Chicago, St. Louis and Detroit have never recovered.  Indeed despite massive expenditures to redress huge past inequities, high-poverty areas in cities have grown steadily, doubling in population between 1980 and 2018.  Looting and mayhem, long-term, don't work.  After the 1992 riots, there were pledges of massive corporate and government support for south Los Angeles.  Now, almost three decades later, the area, site of two of the worst riots in American history, has experienced a growing gap with the rest of the county in terms of homeownership, income and educational attainment.  The more recent disorders also are unlikely to spark much long-term inner-city investment.

When 'Woke Muscles' Meet Men Who Fight.  The one Bronx neighborhood, which is residential but has many small businesses on the main thoroughfare, did not suffer the riots, looting, arson, and violence that have been prevalent in cities and towns across America.  When Antifa came for it, the Italians, Irish, and Albanians, armed with pistols, rifles, baseball bats, swords, and knives, merged onto the main thoroughfare, blocking it and other tertiary streets.  Faced with armed resistance, Antifa's forces were compelled to accept who and what they are, a band of spoiled white college kids who like to break things, play dress-up, and pretend they are a force to be reckoned with.  Threatening to "cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war," they turned and fast-walked away in different directions.  They most likely decided that it would no longer be fun if they were required to pay a price in blood for their pernicious urgings.  I am told they never returned.

Riots should re-elect Trump.  Bill Ayers turned 75 the day after Christmas.  This summer, he saw his decades-long dream come true.  No, not the election of his protegee Obama (whose memoir Ayers "edited" — i.e., wrote). [...] This summer, Ayers got his wish for a race war.  The death of George Floyd provided the excuse to roll out the nightly riots, which used peaceful protests in the daylight to soften the PR.  But the press in 2020 is not what it was in 1970 when Ayers first began blowing things up.  Back then, most journalists were men who served in World War II or later.  Today's press is mixed sexes with mixed up ideas about America.  Veterans are newsroom oddities now.  Degrees from Marxist universities — such as the one that employs Ayers — make journalists easy targets for communist propaganda.  And so for 2 months, rioters had a jolly good time trashing the cities and blinding officers with lasers.

Chaos erupts in Portland on the 79th night of violence after police declare an unlawful assembly and clash with BLM protesters.  Chaos erupted in Portland for a 79th consecutive night on Friday after police declared an unlawful assembly during a peaceful demonstration and stormed a protester shield line, beating people with batons.  About 300 protesters had gathered in the city's Peninsula Park around 9 pm for a peaceful march across North Portland that was expected to end at the Police Association building on N Lombard Street.  But even before demonstrators could begin heading toward their destination, cops — changing tactics from the previous nights — cut off access to the streets leading to the police union headquarters.

Minneapolis Tells Residents With Riot-Wrecked Buildings They Can't Clean Up Until They've Paid Their 2020 Property Taxes in Full.  The city of Minneapolis suffered around 1,500 heavily damaged buildings, with 150 set fire to and dozens burned to the ground.  The city suffered half of a billion dollars in estimated damages from the riots following the police murder of George Floyd.  Defenders of government's necessity argue that the protection of life and property is allegedly one of the goods government uniquely provides and for which we pay taxes, yet Minneapolis demonstrably did a terrible job on this task.  But whether the government delivers on what it promises, it will always be diligent in insisting we pay for those promises.  Today the Minneapolis Star Tribune takes a long look at one reason why the aftermath of rampant destruction, as yet untended to, continues to haunt the city.  As social scientists understand, such riot damage can have dire effects on development and poverty in an area for decades down the line.

Feds Stepping in to Prosecute Portland Rioters Charged with Crimes as Local DA Stands Down.  The Multnomah County District Attorney announced earlier this week that dozens of people arrested over almost three months of rioting in Portland, Oregon, will not be prosecuted, but as local officials stand down, federal prosecutors are taking on cases.  D.A. Mike Schmidt said his office would not prosecute rioters arrested unless the charges against them included property damage, theft or the use or threat of force against another person.

Oregon State Police Leave Portland After Woke Prosecutor Refuses to Charge Rioters.  For weeks, the Marxists who run Portland complained about the outsized presence of federal agents and officers sent to protect the Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse.  It was an invasion ordered by President Donald Trump, you see. [...] That's nonsense, of course, but to sane people, little of what emanates from Portland these days makes much sense.  In any event, in response to the constant harping and whining from people like Mayor Ted Wheeler and Gov. Kate Brown, the Trump administration cut a deal to gradually redeploy federal protective service officers and other DHS agents out of the courthouse and out of Portland, replacing them with local and Oregon State Police.  Well, no sooner than that happened, the Antifa thugs that have been allowed to run wild through Portland streets re-focused their attention back on local cops — and State Patrol officers — as nightly riots continued.  Now, according to The Daily Wire, the Oregon State Police has had enough of the Left-wing lunacy in Portland after the Marxist district attorney announced he wouldn't be prosecuting anyone for the 'peaceful' act of violent rioting.

Oregon State Police Pull Out of Portland — Local DA's Refusal To Prosecute Behind The Move?  Return of Feds At Hand?  Very interesting development earlier today [8/14/2020], as the Oregon State Police announced they were leaving Portland. [...] Local reporting says that the move is a result of the announcement by Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt's that his office does not intend to prosecute most of those arrested. [...] The deployment of the State Police in support of the Portland PD was the product of an agreement reached between Democrat Oregon Governor Kate Brown, and officials of the Trump Administration, which came after weeks of escalating violence in the rioting at the Hatfield Federal Courthouse in Portland.  Prior to the agreement being reached two weeks ago, the Portland Police Department had been ordered by Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler to leave federal law enforcement agents defending the courthouse to fend for themselves, and did nothing while rioters organized themselves and provided for their logistical needs in the parks across the street from the courthouse.

Democrats Dance with the Devil.  No one realized how weak the mainstream Democrat Party had become, or how powerful Black Lives Matter and Antifa had become, until they destroyed downtown Minneapolis.  Until then, they had done little more than make nuisances of themselves. [...] The riots that started in Minneapolis quickly spread to Seattle, Chicago, New York, Portland, and dozens of other Democrat-run cities.  Local authorities didn't know how to react.  After all, the rioters were presumptive Democrat voters. [...] Black Lives Matter and Antifa seem to have thoroughly cowed the Democrat Party.  Whatever they wish, Democrats shall do.  You want us to defund the police?  Sure.  Paint BLM "murals" on city streets?  Hand me a roller.  Don't want us to prosecute rioters?  Wouldn't think of it.  Looting is payback for long-overdue reparations?  Well, yeah.  Okay.  Democrats must surely worry about the optics of bowing to the rioters' will.

The Fiasco of "Go Ahead, Break Our Windows" Policing.  After looters struck downtown Chicago on Sunday night, officials literally raised the bridges to prevent rioting hordes from roaming so easily.  They also blocked road access and stopped public transit.  So, we have come to this: a major American city is replicating the strategy of medieval castles: flood the moats and raise the drawbridges. [...] As we suffer through this summer of discontent, we can see a split emerging among big-city Democrats.  Most, like Portland's Wheeler, Minneapolis' Jacob Frey, Seattle's Jenny Durkan, and New York's Bill de Blasio, favor drastic concessions to protesters, beginning with sharp reductions in police budgets.  Seattle just passed a new budget cutting up to 100 officers, slashing salaries for department leaders, and dismantling the special team that removes homeless encampments, one of the city's worst problems.  Seattle's police chief, Carmen Best, responded by announcing her retirement.  She was the first black woman to head the department.  No matter to the city council, which was busy congratulating itself for taking what it called "a first step" toward upending the city's law enforcement.  Still, the vote wasn't unanimous.  One council member was angry because the cuts didn't go far enough.  This isn't sensible policy; it's senseless self-parody.

Feds now investigating Florida man accused of making bombs.  Federal agents are taking over the investigation of a Florida man who was arrested after police found more than two dozen pipe bombs near his home, including some that contained nails, screws and metal pellets.  Boynton Beach police said Thursday that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is now the lead agency investigating Gregory Haasze, 34.

Florida man arrested after pipe bombs found near strip mall.  A Florida man admitted to making more than two dozen bombs that were found near a strip mall Wednesday night, authorities said.  The explosives caused a scare that led police to evacuate a strip mall and nearby homes.  Gregory Haasze, 34, of Boynton Beach, is facing 26 counts of making, possessing, throwing, projecting, placing, or discharging a destructive device, WPEC reported.  According to online jail records, Haasz was booked at 5:27 a.m.  Thursday [8/13/2020], His bail was set at $26,000.

The True Victims of the Chicago Riots.  The riots rocking American cities have received less coverage lately, but they never really stopped.  On Sunday, Chicago, Illinois suffered another rampage that left 13 police officers injured and entire city blocks in ruins.  Coordinated via social media, a large group of looters converged in downtown Chicago around 1:00 a.m. on Sunday morning and began smashing windows and ransacking storefronts.  The looters initially focused on high-end stores such as Tesla, Louis Vuitton, Gucci, and Coach, as the criminals made their way through Chicago's "Magnificent Mile" shopping district.  But soon enough, the marauding spread to shops like Walgreens and Old Navy.  U-Hauls were spotted being loaded with spoils and multiple shootings broke out.

Portland Residents Worry as Protests Spread to Residential Neighborhoods.  The streets of downtown Portland were quieter on Tuesday [8/11/2020] as nightly protests approach 80 consecutive nights of unrest but that is not because protesters are giving up.  Instead, they are heading into residential areas, and people who live there are worried.  "The main action has shifted from downtown to residential neighborhoods on the east side of the Willamette River, bringing crowds of demonstrators and a heavy police force onto usually quiet nighttime streets," the Oregonian newspaper's online portal Oregon Live reported.  "People who live and work in areas where protests have taken place are not happy."

'It Was a Planned Attack.' Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Says Looting Was Organized.  A day after looters smashed-in retailer's windows, carried away loads of high-end merchandise and overwhelmed police officers in downtown Chicago, Mayor Lori Lightfoot says the violence was an organized raid and not a demonstration of angry protest.  "When people showed up on Michigan Avenue in the downtown area with U-Haul trucks and cargo vans, and sophisticated equipment used to cut metal, and the methods that were used, and how quickly it got spun up... that wasn't any spontaneous reaction," Lightfoot told TIME in her fifth-floor offices at Chicago's City Hall on Tuesday [8/11/2020].  The chaos that unfolded Sunday night, and into the predawn hours Monday, was initially blamed on a police shooting in the city's southside Englewood neighborhood.  News of the incident — along with misinformation that a minor had been shot — pinballed on social media, resulting in "caravans" of cars headed north downtown, Lightfoot says.

The real world reasserts itself.  [Scroll down]  What has happened in Portland, and across much of America, was predictable, and predicted.  First, the progressives tolerate and even celebrate civil disobedience, because the cause is just and noble.  Then, to hold onto public attention, the protesters march and block traffic.  Next comes the cursing of cops, the throwing of trash, water bottles and rocks.  Then there's the smashing of store windows, looting and arson, and Molotov cocktails.  Finally, there's instigating violence with cops to get footage of police fighting back so the law enforcement officers can be painted by the progressive press as stormtroopers and the Gestapo.  In Portland, we reached the point where "peaceful protesters" tried to set a building ablaze with cops barricaded inside.  This, as the mayor said, is attempted murder.  Today, people watch their leaders in city after city fail to keep the peace and restore order as protesters riot at will, and they make plans to move out.  In the suburbs and country, they quietly observe the inability of cops to quell the violence, and they buy guns.

Elected Officials Need To Quell Riots Or There'll Be Bloody Street Justice.  Everyday Americans, seeing the savagery committed without consequence by Antifa, and in the name of Black Lives Matter, are fed up.  They've seen the looting, the destruction, the assaults, and the death that the "mostly peaceful" demonstrators are leaving behind.  They understand the difference between constitutional, peaceful protests and barbaric riots that are intended to destabilize and crack apart our society and Western civilization.  And they've watched elected officials not only approve of the violence but in some cases encourage it.  But if those elected officials don't soon take back the streets from the criminals, everyday Americans might soon do the job for them.

Footage of ANTIFA Setting Fire To Police Union Hall.  On 9 Aug. 2020, ANTIFA rioters in north Portland set the Portland Police Association building on fire again.  The building was also set on fire the previous month by rioters.  A mob of rioters threw burning debris inside the Portland police union building Saturday, sparking a riot declaration by police, who then advanced on the hundreds who gathered nearby.  [Video clip]

After 75 days, Louisville has had enough of its too-often violent protests.  Protests over the past few months in cities like Portland, Seattle and even New York have led to violence all too often.  Louisville, Ky., has had enough.  On Sunday [8/9/2020], its police department banned street marches and caravans that block city streets, restricting protesters to sidewalks.  It's more than reasonable; it's wise.  Clashes with police have led to injuries and arrests, and though the right to assemble is guaranteed by the First Amendment, public safety matters, too.  After 75 days of protests, no one can say Louisville doesn't allow dissent.

William Barr's truth bombs about media's 'peaceful protester' narrative MUST be heard.  You're being lied to by mainstream media.  If you're reading this on NOQ Report or listening to it through our podcasts, then hearing about fake news media's propaganda is probably not a new topic for you.  But if you haven't heard Mark Levin talking to William Barr about the issue as well as our EIC JD Rucker breaking down what's really happening in the world today, then set aside 30-minutes for this.  It'll be worth it.  Antifa and Black Lives Matter "peaceful protesters" are generally neither peaceful nor protesting.  They are rioting, looting, vandalizing, burning, destroying, and generally being menaces to the lawful society we crave, the lawful society we had achieved before this whole 2020 series of unfortunate events occurred.  Now, they are seizing on the opportunity to promote their agenda and mainstream media is falling in line with the supporting narratives.

Portland Police Officers Wounded In "Mortar Attack".  Sunday night a riot was declared in Portland once again after "mostly peaceful" protesters injured police in a mortar attack.  Two officers were injured in the attack, according to the Portland PD.  [Video clip]  "When the march reached the PPA, Portland Police made sound truck announcements to the crowd warning them not engage in criminal activities such as vandalism or attempting to set the building on fire," the Portland Police said in a statement.  "These types of activities would not be permitted and will result in arrest and potential use of force such as riot control munitions and tear gas."

Mayor Lori Lightfoot Says [the] National Guard [is] Not Needed After Looters Ransack Downtown Chicago.  A security guard was shot in Chicago as widespread violent rioting and looting overwhelmed the city.  The rioting began on Sunday evening in response to a black man who was shot by police after reportedly shooting at them first.  The guard, who has not yet been identified, is said to be in stable condition.

Massive Rioting And Looting Rocks Chicago After Police-Involved Shooting.  There are now videos circulating online that show widespread rioting, looting, and other forms of violence erupting all throughout the city of Chicago in light of a police-involved shooting that left a young man wounded.  Social media users on various platforms posted up videos of people in the city looting Walgreens, Macy's, Gucci, Louis Vuitton, among many other stores.  There was even an exchange of gunfire between looters and police at some point during the evening.  No officers were harmed.

DHS Exposes the Horrible Truth About Violent Antifa Riots in Portland.  Friday marked the 70th consecutive night of violent antifa riots in Portland.  Early this month, the rioters shifted the focus of their violent attacks from the federal courthouse in downtown Portland to the Penumbra Kelly police building in a residential neighborhood.  Since the clashes no longer center on federal property and federal law enforcement, the Democratic narrative of excusing or ignoring the violence in order to demonize federal officers and President Donald Trump has fallen apart.  But myths about the federal involvement persist.  This week, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released a document dispelling three big myths about the riots and the federal response.

Did Chicago Really Think this would Stay in the Black Neighborhoods?  When I visited Chicago a few years ago I asked the resident of the suburbs that I stayed with about the danger in the city and how they managed it.  I was told that the worst of it was confined to certain areas and as long as you avoided those areas you were generally safe.  Not anymore. [...] Closing thought:  The last republican Mayor in Chicago left office in 1931.

Magnificent Mile Riots, Looting Hit Democrat-Run Chicago.  "Hundreds of people swept through the Magnificent Mile and other parts of downtown Chicago early Monday, smashing windows, looting stores," reports the Chicago Tribune.  There was also gunfire and violence against police officers.  As of this writing, downtown Chicago is all but closed to those trying to get to work on a Monday morning.

Green Laser Eye Protection In The Wild.  We've all seen that Antifa/BLM has blinded the border patrol agents sent to protect federal property in Portland.  Andy Ngo has been directly attacked with a green laser, and he points out that the threat is expanding.  [Video clip] [...] This is remarkable video.  The communists have found an effective weapon short of using firearms.  So the question is necessarily posed, what can you do about this threat?  The answer isn't easy or clear short of deadly force (and this in fact may be the best option, but it may be difficult to effect that end for reasons we'll discuss below). [...]

Bezos discovers that $17 million doesn't buy much protection from the mobs.  Nobody has benefited more from the riots destroying retail stores in major cities than Amazon, which has seen the brick-and-mortar competition shrinking even faster than before.  And the company, founded by Jeff Bezos, has not been shy about donating $10 million to "organizations supporting justice and equity" and subsequently increasing the total to $17 million by matching employee donations.  If Bezos thought that such virtue-signaling would buy immunity for his Amazon empire from the mobs, he was mistaken.  Less than two hours ago, Andy Ngo posted video of a Seattle mob attacking an Amazon-owned Whole Foods retail outlet in Seattle, "us[ing] hammers to break windows one-by-one."

Widespread damage reported throughout Chicago after night of looting.  Chicago's top cop said about 100 people were arrested and 13 police officers were injured after a night of looting in downtown Chicago.  Widespread damage was reported throughout Chicago after looting and rioting began around midnight Monday [8/10/2020].  Witnesses reported hundreds of people smashing their way into stores throughout Michigan Avenue, areas in the South Loop and the near North Side.  Chicago Police Supt.  David Brown said the looting started as a result of misinformation following a police-involved shooting in Englewood.

Chicago rocked by widespread looting caught on video after police-involved shooting.  Videos circulating online show widespread looting and clashes with police across Chicago's Magnificent Mile shopping district early Monday [8/10/2020], sparked by an officer-involved shooting hours earlier that left a 20-year-old man wounded.  Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown said as of Monday morning, responding units have arrested more than 100 people so far on charges ranging from disorderly conduct to battery against police.  He added that 13 officers were hurt in the unrest, including a sergeant struck in the face with a bottle and an officer who had his nose broken while scuffling with a group of looters.  "This was not an organized protest.  Rather, this was an incident of pure criminality," Brown told reporters.  "This was an act of violence against our police officers and against our city."

Chicago police return fire as looters hit Mag Mile, smashing windows and confronting officers.  Hundreds of people swept through the Magnificent Mile and other parts of downtown Chicago early Monday, smashing windows, looting stores, confronting police and at one point exchanging gunfire with officers, authorities said.  More than 100 people were arrested as of 9 a.m., according to Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown.  Thirteen officers were injured during the unrest, including a sergeant who was hit by a bottle.  A civilian and private security guard were shot and wounded.

Insurance payouts fall far short of what's needed to rebuild Twin Cities.  Though Gov. Tim Walz has estimated that total losses will exceed $500 million, insurance companies have informed the Minnesota Department of Commerce that they will be covering a maximum of $240 million in riot-related damage.  In the 5-mile stretch of Minneapolis that sustained the heaviest destruction, uninsured losses among local small-business owners are at least $200 million, according to the Lake Street Council.

Should Motorists Run Over Anarchists at Impromptu Roadblocks?  Anarchists' widespread use of roadblocks to attack motorists requires citizens, and especially potential jurors, to understand the full implications of these incidents.  This is especially true given the propensity of some district attorneys and prosecutors to, as I see it, virtue-signal by filing charges against the motorists rather than the potential carjackers and highway robbers.  A "hasty roadblock" as deployed frequently by anarchists can often be construed as prima facie evidence of violent intent, and, as motorists cannot read the anarchists' minds, they must act on the situation as they find it. [...] There are videos of anarchists using "hasty roadblocks" to stop vehicles, which, at least as I see it, puts their drivers in reasonable fear for their safety.  This does not entitle drivers to take the law into their own hands by running over anarchists who are not trying to prevent them from escaping, or even those who have desisted from whatever violent acts they were committing but a moment ago.

Antifa gets WRECKED in Colorado neighborhood: 'You guys came to the wrong city, boys and girls'.  While it's certainly easy picking on and beating up elderly people, one group of black-clad Antifa and Black Lives Matter extremists just learned the hard way that it ain't so easy picking on and beating up grown, die-hard American patriots.  During a pro-police rally Saturday in Fort Collins, Colorado, a contingent of left-wing extremists reportedly showed up and stepped into the neighborhood across from the Fort Collins Police Services building where the rally was being held.  In response, the rallygoers apparently rushed into the neighborhood and chased the extremists right out, but not without first treating them to some fist sandwiches.  [Video clip]

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More evidence that Americans are fighting back.  One of the points I've made to anyone who will listen is that the Antifa and Black Lives Matter insanity we're seeing is a purely leftist phenomenon.  This leftism is not just because of the obvious fact that the activists are leftists; it's also because the cities that host their often theatrical violence are leftist too.  The truth is that, over the last two months, most American cities and towns have been peaceful, and most Americans are hostile to this street theater.

How to Stop Children Intent on Destruction.  President Trump has labeled today's protesters "anarchists," and rightly so.  They stream through the streets, breaking windows, bashing cars, setting fires, blocking highways, occupying city blocks, beating up innocent bystanders, and disobeying and attacking the police.  This is not the behavior of peaceful protesters who are only out to express their opinions.  It is the work of anarchists bent on destruction.  The question is, what's behind this behavior?  Is the violence purposeful, perhaps an effort to defund police; influence this year's presidential election; or bring about a coup at the local, state, or even national level?  Or is it violence for the sake of violence?  It's impossible to get inside the minds of individual protesters, and most of those individuals are not very articulate — they can't get beyond chanting three words.  So one must infer a motive based on their actions.

Far-Left Extremists Burn Police Building In Portland, Violently Attack Police Officers.  Far-left rioters attacked law enforcement officials in Portland on Saturday night and set an arson fire inside of a police building that they breached.  The group of rioters, estimated by police to have numbered in the hundreds, marched to toward the Portland Police Association (PPA) Office and "illegally block[ed]" traffic along the way.  "People within the crowd committed crimes when they erected a fence, pushed dumpsters into the street to block traffic, set a dumpster on fire, vandalized the PPA office with spray paint, and destroyed security cameras," the Portland Police Department said in a statement.  "At 11:35 p.m., people within the crowd broke the window to the PPA Office, unlawfully entered, and started a fire, committing the crimes of criminal mischief, burglary, and attempted arson."

More Than 100 NYPD Officers Injured In Protests Since June 10.  Approximately 111 New York City Police Department (NYPD) officers have been injured in demonstrations across NYC's five boroughs since June 10, a law enforcement spokesperson told the Daily Caller News Foundation.  A total of 461 NYPD officers have been injured since the start of violent demonstrations on May 26 [...], NYPD spokesperson Sgt. Mary Frances O'Donnell told the DCNF in an email.  NYPD First Deputy Commissioner Ben Tucker told the city council on June 10 approximately 350 officers had sustained injuries since the start of the unrest, according to NBC 4.  Since his remarks, around 111 additional officers were hurt by demonstrators, according to O'Donnell.

Portland mayor unleashes police on violent demonstrations.  Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler, who for weeks had blamed President Trump for fueling riots in his Oregon city, on Thursday acknowledged that the violence has continued even after the federal presence was curtailed, and told peaceful protesters to stay home.  Mr. Wheeler, who is also the city's police commissioner, said he's authorized officers to "do whatever is necessary" to gain control after another night of rioting against officers.  And he used a base political appeal to try to get the riots to stop, saying they're inadvertently helping Mr. Trump.

A protester tried to ID a cop on Twitter.  Now he faces a felony — along with four who retweeted him.  When Kevin Alfaro noticed a masked police officer befriending a counterprotester who had threatened him at a Black Lives Matter demonstration in Nutley, N.J. on June 19, he whipped out his phone and took a picture.  Then he tweeted:  "If anyone knows who this b---- is throw his info under this tweet."  Now, Alfaro and four others who retweeted the post have been charged with cyber harassment, a 4th degree felony that carries up to 18 months of incarceration and a $10,000 fine.  A complaint sent July 20 to Georgana Sziszak, who retweeted the post, first reported by the Verge and reviewed by The Washington Post, claims that the tweet caused the officer to "fear that harm will come to himself, family and property."

CHOP shooting suspect fled Washington state, prosecutors say; warrant issued for his arrest.  An arrest warrant was issued Wednesday for an 18-year-old man who King County prosecutors say fled the state immediately after he fatally shot a man in June in the six-block area then known as the Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP) zone.  Marcel Long, who remains at large, was charged Wednesday with premeditated first-degree murder in the death of Lorenzo Anderson, a 19-year-old Seattle man who was pronounced dead at Harborview Medical Center 33 minutes after police received the first 911 calls about the early-morning shooting on June 20, the charges say.  The murder charge also carries a firearms enhancement.  Long, who also goes by the name Marcel Green and is known as "Celly Cell" on social media, has a last known address in Renton, according to the charges.  His bail was set at $2 million and he is scheduled to be arraigned Aug. 19.

Commercial Grade Fireworks, Concrete, Rocks, Eggs Launched at Officers During Mass Gathering at Kelly Building.  [Scroll down]  Because of the criminal behavior occurring in the group, public address announcements were made declaring the event an unlawful assembly.  The crowd was told to disperse to the east immediately.  Despite the public address announcements, the crowd continued to block traffic on East Burnside Street and several continued to trespass on the Kelly Building property.  At 10:05 p.m., certain members of the group began taking concrete pieces off of a retaining wall nearby the Kelly Building.  These people then smashed the concrete on the ground into smaller pieces which were thrown at officers.  Certain people in the crowd shined lasers at officers, which can cause permanent eye damage. [...] Around 12 a.m., a vehicle was stopped and an occupant was arrested for shining a laser at the PPB's air unit.  At 12:10 a.m., individuals in the crowd gathered outside of the Kelly Building began throwing or launching frozen or hardboiled eggs, rocks, and commercial grade fireworks at officers positioned in the parking lot.

Portland PD Runs Antifa Right Off The Streets of Portland — Literally.  The video out of Portland tonight is almost comical.  Rather than dutifully march down the street and "persuade through movement" the rioters to give ground and disperse, Portland PD tonight [8/7/2020] performed a full-on charge in order to get Antifa/BLM rioters running away from the scene.  [Video clips] [...] It is hard to make a definitive judgment just from the videos, but the level of kinetic force being applied by the Portland PD and Oregon State Police seems to be escalating bit by bit.  Whether that is deliberate is hard to know.  It could be a tactic intended to "persuade" some number of protesters to quit before they personally suffer an injury or arrest.  If could also be a reflection of law enforcement frustration at facing the same problems night after night.

Democrat Domestic Terrorism Can No Longer Be Ignored.  It's become so normal for Democrats to engage paramilitary "brown shirts" to intimidate voters and coerce government officials before any big election that nobody is surprised when American cities begin to explode right on schedule.  For months, "blue" cities from Seattle and Portland to Minneapolis and New York have been little war zones, where Antifa insurrectionists throw Molotov cocktails and bricks at police officers by night and an apologetic army of Walter Durantys write glowing accounts of their revolution in the Democratic Party press by day.  They block major highways and terrorize passing motorists and replace American law with their own, and Democrat prosecutors applaud their tactics, just as they did for the Ku Klux Klan a century before.  Every election season, Democrats bring us Beirut, and every time, their organized violence goes unpunished.

Utah protesters face charges with potential life sentence.  Some Black Lives Matter protesters in Salt Lake City could face up to life in prison if they're convicted of splashing red paint and smashing windows during a protest, a potential punishment that stands out among demonstrators arrested around the country and one that critics say doesn't fit the alleged crime.

'You're not helping my Black friends': Neighbors confront destructive protesters, get splattered with paint.  On the second night in a row of vandalism and protests outside the Portland Police Bureau's East Precinct, two neighbors — both in their 70s — stood up against protesters responsible for the destruction.  "Wednesday night they broke windows, it was a real mess," said 73-year-old Penny.  By Thursday, Penny had had enough.  As protesters lit a fire outside East Precinct, Penny grabbed her fire extinguisher, her homemade Black Lives Matter sign, and with the help of her walker, made her way to the precinct to put out the flames.

The Perils of Pretending a War is Something Else.  [Scroll down]  Here's an equally scary current charade:  the straight-faced claim by Democrat leaders and their media enablers that there are only "peaceful protests" in the streets of our 400 torched cities — no riots, looting and arsons, no rioters, looters and arsonists associated with Black Lives Matter and Antifa communists.  Instead, the denial that the mayhem which has injured thousands and cost more than a dozen lives are only possible because of the support of lawless Democrat mayors and city councils who are preoccupied with disarming the police. [...] The fact that there have been no serious attempts by "peaceful protesters" to denounce the violence and the organizations that perpetrated it — speaks volumes to the effect that they consider themselves allies of the rioters and share their agendas.  Defunding the police, leaving the most vulnerable in society without protection against criminals is the goal of rioters, arsonists, looters, and so-called "peaceful protesters."  The charade protects the criminals and their crimes.

Trucking Company Owner:  Cities That Defund Police Are in for a Big Surprise.  Cities that decide to cut their police funding could be cutting their own supply lines, too.  That was the message a trucking executive carried to "Fox & Friends First" on Wednesday [8/5/2020], and it's something urban politicians — in the thrall of Black Lives Matter rioters and antifa anarchists — should be seriously considering unless they think citizens can start growing their own food.  Because if it's not safe for truckers to carry goods — they just might not do it.  And trucking companies won't be willing to risk the business.

Portland Descends Into Rioting Again, ANTIFA Attacks Police Station, Try To Set It On Fire.  Portland police declared a protest outside its East Precinct on Southeast 106th Avenue a riot late Wednesday night [8/5/2020] and said an explosive device may have been left outside the building.  The area around the unknown device was cleared and was later determined to not be an explosive.

BLM Thug In Austin Threatens Restaurant Patrons Laughing At Him And His Stupid Bullhorn.  Looks like someone needs a father figure but isn't getting one in this Austin restaurant.  BLM protesters made total fools of themselves as they fought amongst themselves turning their ire on each other at times this weekend.

Mazie Hirono, Pro-Antifa Democrats Walk Out of Hearing, Refusing to Utter a Single Word Against Their Violent, Racist Paramilitary Thugs, Antifa.  Kyle Shideler, an analyst for the Center for Security Policy and an expert in terrorism including the doctrines and tactics of Antifa, testified before Ted Cruz's panel of antifa violence yesterday [8/4/2020].  He says he was expecting the Democrats to demur about their paramilitary allies' violence — but he was shocked to find Democrats outright supporting antifa.

Always Victims, Never Bullies.  The Portland mayor cited Donald Trump sending in federal troops as the culprit for violence in Portland.  We are supposed to believe that before federal law enforcement arrived in Portland, "peaceful protesters" were holding hands, singing "Give Peace a Chance."  We are not to ask what led to Trump sending in federal troops or make any mention of rampant violence and burning buildings prior to Trump's actions.  When protesters tried to blockade a public road, a female driver attempted to maneuver past the crowd.  Aghast at the audacity of anyone unwilling to comply with their decision to ban any public street, at any time, the "peaceful protesters" miraculously transformed into a violent mob.  While jumping on the car, kicking, and hitting the vehicle, some rioters urged to get the "license plate and face" of the driver as they recorded the incident.  Why do they tell others to get a view of the license plate number and driver's face on camera?  To report her to the police.  Ironically, the violent rioters fighting for the abolition of law enforcement are incredibly eager to report any resistance to the authorities.

Journalist describes riot damage in cities across US: 'Beyond anything ... since at least the 1960s'.  Mainstream media outlets have failed the public by declining to spotlight the devastation left behind by rioters in cities across America, independent journalist Michael Tracey said Tuesday on "Tucker Carlson Tonight."  In a self-published article titled "Two months since the riots and still no 'National Conversation,'" Tracey traveled to cities affected by violent protests and documented his findings using photographs and conversations with store owners and residents.

No Doubt About It:  Democrats Are Part Of The Riot Problem.  Qui tacet consentire videtur is the Latin phrase that means he who remains silent appears to consent.  The Democrats' silence when asked to condemn Antifa violence is coming through louder than a deranged Joe Biden outburst on the campaign trail.  New York Democrat Jerry Nadler didn't hit the mute button when he absurdly claimed Antifa was "imaginary," then later said its role in the Portland riots was a "myth that's being spread only in Washington D.C."  But the congressman set the tone for his party.  During Tuesday's [8/4/2020] Senate hearing — titled The Right of the People Peaceably to Assemble:  Protecting Speech by Stopping Anarchist Violence — Democrats had a wide open opportunity to state their position.  Instead, they went quiet.  "It is unbelievable the Democrats will not come out and say violence is wrong, breaking the law is wrong," Tennessee Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn told Fox News.

Protester busted for allegedly trying to cut NYPD van's brake line.  A cop-hating protester was busted by the FBI on Wednesday [8/5/2020] for attempting to cut the brake line on an NYPD van, officials said.  Jeremy Trapp was also charged for allegedly telling a paid informant — who was embedded at a demonstration — that he wanted to blow up the Verrazzano Bridge, according to federal prosecutors.  "Had the NYPD not been watching him the consequences here could have been tragic," Assistant US Attorney Francisco Navarro said at Trapp's arraignment Wednesday on charges he tampered with a police vehicle.

BLM Rioter Gets Nailed After Allegedly Setting Fire to Courthouse on Camera.  It's probably not the best idea in the world if you're going to try to set fire to a courthouse that you do it on camera.  What's even worse is if you were posing for a picture with the very sign that you allegedly later use during the arson to set the fire so they could identify you from the protest.  [Video clip]

Terrorism Expert:  Antifa Developed From Communist Terrorist Movements Like Weather Underground.  A counterterrorism expert testified at a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing on Tuesday [8/4/2020] that antifa developed from communist domestic terrorist groups like the Weather Underground and has the goal of overthrowing the United States Constitution.  In his testimony before the Senate Subcommittee on the Constitution, Kyle Shideler, Director and Senior Analyst for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism for the Center for Security Policy, said that antifa is an anarcho-communist movement that uses physical violence and intimidation to keep American citizens from engaging in the political process.  "While they do this under the cover of antifascism, the reality is that antifa defines the entire American political system, regardless of party affiliation, as fascism," Shideler explained during the hearing [...]

Crazy Mask Karen Goes Berserk in Walmart, Screams at and Punches Teen Boy For Not Wearing Face Mask.  A crazy mask Karen went berserk in a Post Falls, Idaho Walmart over the weekend when she spotted customers without their faces covered.  The enraged, overweight woman began screaming at a group of teenagers:  "You guys are abusing your freedom!  Stop it!" the woman screamed as she punched the teen boy who was recording her with his cell phone.

Shots fired at latest Portland riot.  Shots were fired early Wednesday morning [8/5/2020] as violent protests continued to rock Portland, Oregon, with demonstrators breaking into the Portland Police Association's offices and setting it on fire.  Police declared the event a riot and said they had to use "crowd control munition" to restore order — though they said no tear gas was used.  While they were dispersing that crowd, they said shots were fired nearby in what appeared to be two separate exchanges.  One vehicle was struck, but officers said they didn't find anyone hit, and no witnesses would speak to officers about what happened.

Documentary:  Love Trumps Hate.  In August 2019, Millie Weaver (AKA Millennial Millie) went to a Trump rally in Cincinnati, Ohio.  She carried with her a microphone emblazoned with Alex Jones's InfoWars logo.  Whatever one feels about InfoWars is irrelevant.  What is relevant, instead, is a 50-second-long clip of the video revealing that it is Trump's supporters, not the left, who truly embrace the idea that "love trumps hate."  Millie's goal last year was to get some of the anti-Trump protesters to walk over to the Trump-supporters and see if they were as bad as the protesters claimed they were.  Eventually, Marco, a black American, took her up on the challenge.  After he spent time with the Trump-supporters, Millie asked Marco to escort her back to the anti-Trump protesters so he could compare his experience with Trump-supporters to Millie's experience with the protesters.  The resulting video lasts 44 minutes and, if you have the time, is worth watching.  The difference between the welcome Trump's supporters offer Marco and the spittle-flecked, obscene, threatening invective that the protesters hurl at Millie is shocking.  [Video clip]

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Just watch the first five minutes of the video clip, and you'll get the idea, very clearly.  You can spare five minutes, if you can withstand all the profanity from the hateful leftists.

What or Who Decides This Election?  [#4] The riots.  We at nearing peak Jacobinism, the point where the public is growing tired of Antifa/BLM and skeptical about the surreal Democratic denial in which the endless violence, vandalism, looting, killings, injuries, and statue-toppling are described as "intensified peaceful protests," or the work of only a "small number of lawbreakers."  The continuance of anarchy and chaos is being politically leveraged to create a general sense of civil unrest purportedly caused by Trump's controversial nature.  The Democratic strategy is to have protests that are violent enough to frighten the public, but not quite violent enough to destroy daily life, so swing voters will go into a collective fetal position, hands over ears, and shout that if they just vote out Trump, "it will all go away."  But if Antifa/BLM intensify or just continue the violence — Bible-burning is the latest addition to their repertoire — more police are killed or injured, and the Democrats keep denying the obvious, it could be a disaster for the Left.

Seven Major October Surprises Awaiting Democrats.  [#4] The riots.  Yes, Virginia, there really are riots, they really do hurt people, they really do burn and destroy property, and they really are evil people, not "moms" and "vets."  (One video of the "vets" showed them unable to even perform a simple about-face.  Yeah.  "Vets.")  Despite a quarantine on all violent riot activity footage by Hoax News, it still seeps out.  Barr's agents have arrested and charged hundreds.  Probably to be effective, he'll have to add some zeros to those numbers.  Still, this is a winning issue for Trump.  All it will take is a September murder of a cop or an innocent bystander by the fascist so-called Antifa or the Black Lives Murder thugs and public sentiment will swing rapidly.

BLM protesters say costly gear to protect them from cops prices them out of civil rights.  Five Black Lives Matter demonstrators in Seattle claim they're being priced out of their right to protest.  In a lawsuit filed Monday [8/3/2020] in federal court, they say that clashes with the Seattle Police Department have made it impossible for them to exercise their right to protest without expensive personal protective gear.  "Because protesters now must purchase expensive equipment to be assured that they will be able to protest safely, the indiscriminate use of weapons by SPD implicates equal protection," the lawsuit says.  The plaintiffs — Jessica Benton, Shelby Bryant, Anne Marie Cavanaugh, Alyssa Garrison and Clare Thomas — say helmets, gas masks, goggles, gloves, boots, umbrellas and other gear are needed against pepper spray and nonlethal projectiles used for crowd dispersal.

Chicago Dunkin' Donuts worker is fired and arrested after Illinois State Trooper finds 'large, thick piece of mucus' floating in his coffee.  A Chicago Dunkin Donuts employee was arrested and faces charges for allegedly spitting into an Illinois state trooper's coffee.  Illinois State Police said Vincent J. Sessler, 25, of Chicago, was arrested and charged Friday [7/31/2020] with disorderly conduct, reckless conduct, and battery to a peace officer following the incident which occurred the previous night.

Seattle Police Chief Slams City Council After Activists Target Her Home: 'You Must Forcefully Call For The End Of These Tactics'.  Seattle's Chief of Police called on Seattle's City Council to stand up against "mob rule" after "aggressive" activists reportedly targeted her home over the weekend, which scared her neighbors.  "I wanted to update you on recent events, particularly those that occurred late last night," Best wrote in a letter addressed to City Council President Lorena González and Public Safety Chair Lisa Herbold. [...]

Nadler Calls Riots 'Myth' — Then Blames Them on Trump and Barr.  [Scroll down]  Though Mr. Nadler attended law school, it is not clear if he was ever a terribly successful lawyer.  Somewhere along the line, however, he got struck with just enough common sense to realize that the rioting in the streets that he and fellow Democrats refuse to condemn and Mr. Nadler is on record calling "a myth" does not look very good heading into an election.  So, Mr. Nadler sought to blame the riots on Mr. Barr and, by extension, on Mr. Trump.  Yes, Mr. Nadler — AKA the exploded airbag — blames the riots on the only people who are lifting a finger to curb the riots and enforce, you know, the laws.  You know, the ones arresting rioters for assaulting innocent people, firebombing public buildings, torching police cars, and using lasers to blind officers.

More than 150 rounds are fired during a shooting outside a Portland apartment, as city suffers its deadliest month for 30 years.  More than 150 rounds were fired during a shooting in a Portland neighborhood on Friday, ending the city's deadliest month since the 1980s.  The Portland Police Bureau said Saturday that the shooting occurred around 11.08pm outside an apartment building near the 600 block of NE 87th Avenue.  A woman was struck in the arm by one of the rounds, police said.  Responding officers applied a tourniquet and she was transported to the hospital by ambulance with what are believed to be non-life threatening injuries.

John Oliver Lies About Portland Violence, Reporters Run to His Defense.  The far-left talker insists 60-plus days of riots in the city are, all together now, "mostly peaceful."  Eh, it's just some graffiti and "light property damage," the highly paid NBC talent told his viewers earlier in the week.  The latter evokes a tipped-over lamp, a shattered end table or framed art that fell to the ground and splintered.  Want the truth?  Here it is:  [Video clip]

Overnight Riot Report:  Texas Police Don't Even Wait for the Sun to Go Down.  Word on the net tonight was that the action was going to be — supposedly — in Austin, Texas as Antifa/BLM was holding a memorial for Garrett Foster, the moron who pointed the business end of an AK-47 at active duty Army Sargeant Daniel Perry, who is well trained to not wait for the other guy to shoot first once engaged.  The not-so-well-trained former Air Force mechanic Foster ended up on the losing end of a shootout due to his failure to get off a shot.  Perry was driving for a rideshare company during his off duty hours on Saturday night last weekend when he turned down a street in downtown Austin, only to encounter protesters blocking his path.  Foster was among the group of protesters who moved to surround Perry's car.  Foster was openly carrying an assault rifle over his shoulder, legal in the State of Texas.  Foster approached the driver's side of the car and — using the assault rifle barrel — motioned for Perry to roll down his window. [Numerous video clips]

Minneapolis Police Advise:  Give Up Your Property To Criminals And Obey Them.  Minneapolis City Government's 'robbery prevention tips' include giving up your wallet and obeying criminals.  Police are encouraging residents to surrender to criminals as part of their "robbery prevention tips" willingly turn over your valuables, and no matter what, don't resist.

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How is that a robbery prevention tip?

Minneapolis police tell residents to obey criminals and 'be prepared' to be robbed.  Officials are now telling residents to be ready and willing to comply with the demands of criminals in an email sent to Third Precinct residents.  "Be prepared to give up your cell phone and purse/wallet," the police said in their email, a copy of which was obtained by Alpha News.  The email said citizens should listen to criminals and "do as they say."  The message warned that "some victims have been maced, dragged, assaulted, and some threatened with a gun."

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Minneapolis will probably end up under the control of Sharia police, who will be immune to criticism.

Trump-supporting grandmother outs 18-year-old as suspect who threw explosive at Portland courthouse.  A teenager in Portland charged with arson over the bombing of a federal courthouse was arrested after his grandmother tipped off police.  Gabriel Agard-Berryhill, 18, appeared in court in the Oregon city on Friday, and faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted.  He was arrested after his Trump-supporting grandmother Karla Fox saw footage of Tuesday night's attack, and tweeted that her grandson was behind it.  She had bought him the vest he was wearing during the attack.

As They Turn To Burning Bibles, Portland Rioters Show Their True Colors.  While rioters previously attacked federal buildings, businesses, and even officers, this weekend, they found a new target:  Bibles.  A video posted to Twitter on Saturday shows rioters holding Black Lives Matter signs tossing Bibles into a fire.  Bystanders stood and watched as the flames licked away at the pages of the books.  "Left-wing activists bring a stack of Bibles to burn in front of the federal courthouse in Portland," wrote the Twitter user, Ian Cheong, who posted the video.

If you still aren't sure what the riots are about, here's video of rioters burning bibles.  Videos are still pouring out of Portland and Seattle where the riots continue with no major effort by the mayors or the governor to stop them.  There has been a slight increase in the ability of cops to do their job, after President Trump set a timetable for the National Guard to come in and take care of business, but it isn't even close to enough.  And what are the riots about?  Why are they doing it?  There are a lot of answers, but sometimes you just need to let them tell you what they're about by their own actions.  So watch this video of them burning a stack of Bibles.  [Video clip]

Portland Rioters Burn Bibles.  While they didn't really attack the police, they did attack religion.  [Video clip]

Man Gets 20 Years in Prison for Threatening Donald Trump, Prosecutor.  A Pennsylvania man convicted of threatening President Donald Trump and a district attorney was sentenced to 20 years in prison Thursday [7/30/2020].  "Authorities charged 28-year-old Shawn Christy of McAdoo with threatening to 'put a bullet' in Trump and then-Northampton County District Attorney John Morganelli and threatening 'lethal force' against police," according to the Associated Press (AP).

Let Portland and Seattle burn.  [Scroll down]  In a clinical case of psycho-denial, the lefty Seattle mayor declared it a "Summer of Love."  Until they came for her, anyway.  The rioters went to her house after a city council member even more radical than the mayor apparently gave them her address.  They were armed with the usual collection of bricks, bats, guns, bottles and bombs.  From the street outside her house, they called her vile names and threatened her.  Did she really think the mob would settle for one police station?  Why would they, when even the mayor offers to surrender?  That's the one hand — the Dems denying the existence of the violence that we can see for ourselves on our television screens.  Who you going to believe, the Dems or your lying eyes?  On the other hand, even as the Dem politicians deny the existence of any violence, they contend that this violence which they deny exists is the fault of the police which they plan to abolish.  And, of course, the fault of Trump.

The Leftist/Violence Nexus.  Human dignity begins with the rule of law and is followed by behaving as if it applies to everyone.  But Philadelphia district attorney Larry Krasner don't seem to see it that way.  At about 6:30 p.m. on May 30, I bore witness to heinous violent acts at Chestnut Street between 16th and 19th where people were bullied, threatened, and harassed with veritable impunity by roving bands of rioters.  I witnessed no law enforcement presence.  I surmised they had been besieged by rioters setting police cruisers aflame to the north and east some time before.  Scenes such as these should frighten every American.  Both mayor Jim Kenny and Krasner are charged with the protection of all who live and work in Philadelphia.  By their intransigence, they failed abjectly and deliberately.  What little law enforcement there seems to have been in effect at the time missed the point while the ravening behavior of the mob missed the form.  Most alarmingly, the police did not immediately arrest those committing criminal acts, very probably at Krasner's behest and on political pretext.  Krasner, therefore, contrived the chaos that day to unfold exactly as it did.

The Violence Is the Point.  Let me give you a few scenes from the past few weeks — vignettes of a nation seemingly falling apart.  Protesters go online to boast about surrounding the car of a "white woman" and to complain that police came to her rescue and wouldn't allow them to imprison her in her vehicle.  Same with the protesters who blocked a couple in their car in order to shut down a bridge.  All of this was originally posted by the protesters themselves on social media, not as a shameful admission of their bullying and intimidation of random passersby, but as chest thumping.  This is the use of force as virtue-signaling:  "Look at me, I'm a good person who really cares about important issues, and you can tell that because I terrorized an elderly couple in their car." [...] The main thing to note about the resurgent violence is that there is no plan or program to it. [...] The current wave of demonstrations does not appear to be not tied to any particular reform agenda and it has no recognizable endgame.

This Is ANTIFA, This Is Portland, This Is Terrorism.  This shocking video took place on the evening of July 24th.  It is in chronological order and shows the level of violence happened at the Portland courthouse by ANTIFA.  The violence in Portland has now passed the 60 day mark with no signs of ebbing.  [Video clip]

The Video The MSM Will Never Show You:  The Massive Violence BLM and ANTIFA Have Brought The Past 2 Months!  This is the first compilation of just some of the violence we've documented the past 60 days since the death of George Floyd.  This 50 plus minute video doesn't even have the monument toppling and the newer violence footage from Portland and CHOP.  This video would be hours long if we included it.  [Video clip]

Democrat Who Volunteered To Work At Arizona Headquarters Ends Up Torching The Place.  A man who volunteered for the Arizona Democratic Party has been arrested for his involvement in setting the party headquarters on fire on July 24, police say.  Matthew Egler, 29, has been accused of arson, and sources say he had worked for the party from 2016 to 2017, but had been banned for unspecified reasons.  [Video clip]

NYPD Are Now Sending Unmarked Vans To Snatch Up 'Mostly Not Peaceful' Protesters.  A video showing a protester being taken into an unmarked NYPD Warrants Squad van went viral on social media on Tuesday [7/28/2020].  The protester is seen being taken into an unmarked van by plainclothes Warrant Squad officers in Kips Bay while other uniformed officers keep other protesters away.  Police confirmed that NYPD officers are seen making an arrest in the video.  [Video clip]

Four Months of Unprecedented Government Malfeasance.  Over the last four months, Americans have lived through what is arguably the most consequential period of government malfeasance in U.S. history.  Public officials' overreaction to the novel coronavirus put American cities into a coma; those same officials' passivity in the face of widespread rioting threatens to deliver the coup de grâce.  Together, these back-to-back governmental failures will transform the American polity and cripple urban life for decades.  Before store windows started shattering in the name of racial justice, urban existence was already on life support, thanks to the coronavirus lockdowns.

Leftist rioters, like their Marxist muses, are literal revolutionaries.  [Scroll down]  The rioters, by their own admission, are implacable.  They have no demands that can be met, short of overthrowing our entire societal framework and constitutional system.  They're not rioting over slavery, which was ended years ago.  They're not demanding equal opportunity under the law or the advancement of civil rights laws, which were enacted decades ago.  They don't seek dialogue.  How can you reason with young white leftists who abuse and assault cops, and call African American cops racist?  How do you reason with spoiled, self-indulgent and sanctimonious malcontents?  Think about it:  While rioting over alleged white privilege and white racism against blacks, they lecture, malign and bully blacks.  It is tragically surreal.

How It's Done:  Colorado Reporter Puts on a Clinic in How to Accurately Report on Violent Rioters.  As we've previously documented, the gaslighting from the MSM on the violent left-wing riots that have taken place in Democrat-run parts of the country over the last two months has been absolutely out of control.  There is literally not a day that goes by where there is not some glaring instance of a media outlet like the New York Times or Reuters painting protests as "mostly peaceful" or otherwise "dying down" until federal law enforcement officers have the nerve to step in to stop the anarchy.  Violent agitators in these reports are almost always referred to as "protesters."  Along with that, excuses are often made for their violent actions, as though just the mere presence of state and/or federal law enforcement officers on the scene to protect innocent citizens and federal property is excuse enough for the agitators to try and blind them with laser beams and hurt them with the nail-studded projectiles they hurl.  One Colorado reporter, however, went against the MSM "peaceful protester" grain in a recent report he filed on the Aurora, CO protests and riots that happened over the weekend.

Hell's Angels member believed to be 'Umbrella Man' spotted inciting violence during George Floyd protests.  A man who was spotted inciting violence during the George Floyd protests, known as "Umbrella Man" due to the umbrella he was carrying, is believed to be a member of the Hell's Angels and an associate of the Aryan Cowboys biker gang, according to an affidavit.  A search warrant application filed Monday [7/27/2020] in Hennepin County District Court states, on the afternoon of May 27, a man seen wearing all black and carrying an umbrella was spotted walking along the front of a Minneapolis AutoZone and smashing out the windows with a sledgehammer.  The AutoZone was kitty-corner from the Minneapolis Third Police Precinct.

Democrat Sanctioned Terrorism:  Antifa-BLM Protesters are Packing Their Fireworks Bombs with Nails.  Antifa-Black Lives Matter protesters attacked the Atlanta Field Office of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) with nails embedded in fireworks bombs.  The left claims these people are peaceful protesters.  The Democrat-sanctioned protesters ransacked the Atlanta ICE office last weekend.  Notice the Marxist flag they displayed.

The Awesome Power Of 4Chan.  Peak Oregon.  ["]Apparently the guy who threw an explosive at the federal courthouse in Portland has been identified in a review of the vest his grandma bought for him to riot in.  You couldn't make this up.["]

ACLU sues Portland Police:  Stop filming, broadcasting riots.  The American Civil Liberties Union is suing the Portland Police Bureau to stop them from documenting the nightly riots that have besieged the city for more than 60 days.  The lawsuit, which was filed on late Wednesday [7/29/2020], contends that the police union's practice of filming and broadcasting the riots — which are filmed and broadcasted by numerous journalists, independent documentaries, and livestreamers — violates an Oregon state law that bans police from collecting or even maintaining information about the political, religious or social views, associations or activities of people who are "not suspected of criminal activity."

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Rioters are not only suspected of criminal activity, they are engaged in criminal activity.  The moment you commit a crime, you are guilty.  Moreover, anyone on a public street is likely to be photographed by all kinds of people at any moment, especially when engaged in violent sedition.

ACLU Sues Portland Police to Block Them [from] Videotaping Protesters.  On Wednesday [7/29/2020], the American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon sued the Portland Police Bureau, trying to block them from livestreaming protests.  The ACLU claimed in their lawsuit, "By livestreaming videos of protesters, PPB collects or maintains information about their political or social views, associations and activities."  "Plaintiffs have no adequate remedy at law for PPB's violations, which pose a serious and imminent threat of irreparable harm to them and other protesters alike," the lawsuit continues.  "Specifically, PPB cannot 'undo' a video through which its officers identify or otherwise collect information about a protester.  Nor can it force a third party to 'un-learn" information about a protester that the third party obtains by watching PPB's live stream.  Moreover, any damages associated with such conduct by PPB would be, by their very nature, extremely difficult or impossible to quantify."

6 Big Takeaways From the Attorney General's Capitol Hill Testimony.  [Scroll down]  During his opening remarks, [Rep. Jim] Jordan presented a video showing TV reporters proclaiming the peacefulness of the summer's protests before cutting to a press conference with the family of David Dorn, 77, a retired St. Louis police captain who was shot and killed by rioters.  [Video clip]  The video then went to mass riots in which participants set fires, looted stores, broke windows, and tore down fences.  Jordan played the video days after Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., declared on camera that Antifa, an extremist group believed to be behind much of the violence, was a "myth."  Later in the hearing, Rep. David Cicilline, D-R.I., showed his own video of what he called peaceful protests that followed the police killing of a handcuffed black man, George Floyd, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The Democrats Surrender in Portland.  The Democrats' surrender in Portland, coming so precipitously after the appearance by Attorney General Barr before the Judiciary Committee in the House, looks like a favorable development, insofar as it goes.  It may be too soon for victory to be declared by America's government and other allies of moderation, law, and order.  We'd like to think, though, that the capitulation in Portland suggests that principle can prevail.  The deal was struck Wednesday, the day after Mr. Barr laid down the law before the House Judiciary Committee:  "Since when is it okay to try and burn down a federal court," Mr. Barr now famously said.  Five days earlier, a United States district judge had tossed out a lawsuit filed by the Oregon's state attorney general seeking an order to curb the actions of federal officers.  The judge said Oregon lacked standing.

Riots for thee, but not for me.  Mayor Jenny Durkan of Seattle experienced her own 'come to NIMBY' moment in June.  After shrugging off weeks of vandalism, riots, the terrorizing of local businesses at the CHOP (Capitol Hill Occupied Protest) encampment, and even two murders, as a 'Summer of Love', Durkan was confronted with bullhorns on her doorstep.  Led by the militant city council member Kshama Sawant, rioters marched to the mayor's home.  Incensed, Mayor Jenny demanded an investigation into Sawant for daring to disturb her domestic sanctum, far from the colorful and homicidal 'street carnival' on Capitol Hill.  Durkan took immediate action to break up the CHOP menace. [...] As Fidel Castro once said, you have to break a few eggs to make an omelet.  The key is to make sure it's not your egg that gets cracked.

Do Burning Cities Mark Start Of Democrats' 'Civil War 2.0'?  It's become obvious to one and all:  The left media and so-called progressive Democrats would rather see urban bonfires than lose to Donald Trump in November.  Asked recently about 59 straight days of protests and violence in Portland, New York Rep. Jerry Nadler called reports of Antifa rioting there a "myth."  Not to be outdone, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi likened the federal police sent to quell the disturbances to "Nazis." This is today what passes for leadership in the Democratic Party, which since losing in 2016, has undergone an extreme makeover to become the most radical "mainstream" party in the U.S. in modern times.  To find its equivalent, you'd have to go back to ... let's see, 1860 and 1861, when the very same Democratic Party convinced 11 states to secede from the union, thus setting off the Civil War.

The Seditious Among Us.  By refusing to condemn and, instead, implicitly encouraging the ongoing riots and violence, as well as meekly acquiescing to the demands of the left-wing extremist, the Democrat party establishment, which includes the mainstream media, has exposed their spinelessness for the world to see and signed on to government by mob rule.  The Marxist ideologues in the nation's professoriate, Antifa, Black Lives Matter, the media and the extreme left-wing of the Democrat party have unabashedly declared their primary objective is to overthrow the government and radically transform the nation.  Yet, there is no condemnation or repudiation of these goals from Biden, the Democrat party hierarchy or the mainstream media.  By their silence they have wordlessly endorsed sedition. [...] There is but one word to describe this cabal:  traitors.  Not because they wish to see Trump defeated or choose to not vote for him in November but that they are willingly and openly in league with those implacably bent on overthrowing the government and radically transforming the United States.

The Purpose of Government.  The term "domestic Tranquility" refers to peace and order; the ability of citizens to be secure from harm, and for property to be safe from destruction.  Tranquility centers on local governments establishing and enforcing laws that create good order and discipline in the community.  This goes to the very heart of government which is to provide security and stability.  Who would open a restaurant or a trade if security cannot be guaranteed?  Or open a business if officials did nothing to lawbreakers?  Answer — nobody.  Right now, across the nation, Democrat mayors and governors are failing to provide domestic tranquility.  Portland, Oregon has experienced 60 consecutive days of rioting in which large areas of downtown are occupied by anarchists who loot businesses and burn cars; people who interfere are beaten.  Yet Portland's Mayor Ted Wheeler does nothing.  Actually, Wheeler supports the rioters in that he told the police to "stand down."  Wheeler even showed up to riot with them and was tear-gassed.  The same thing is happening in Seattle, Chicago, and New York.

Outrage after NYPD hustles protester into unmarked van.  The New York Police Department's use of plainclothes officers and an unmarked minivan to haul away a vandalism suspect during a protest Tuesday created confusion and drew outrage from people who compared it to covert tactics used recently by federal agents in Portland, Oregon.  Bystander video of 18-year-old Nikki Stone's arrest spread quickly on social media, along with comments such as "nypd is out here KIDNAPPING protesters off of the street."

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Apparently Suzie Snowflake has never seen anyone get arrested before, since she can't differentiate an arrest from a kidnapping.

Federal agents to begin leaving Portland's downtown:  DHS, Oregon governor.  The federal agents who have clashed with protesters in Portland will begin a "phased withdrawal" from the city's downtown area starting Thursday, Oregon's Democratic Gov. Kate Brown announced.  Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf said in a statement that he and Brown have been in contact over the past 24 hours and reached a joint plan to end "the violent activity in Portland directed at federal properties and law enforcement officers."  "That plan includes the robust presence of Oregon State Police in downtown Portland," Wolf said.  "State and local law enforcement will begin securing properties and streets, especially those surrounding federal properties, that have been under nightly attack for the past two months.  Oregon State Police will coordinate with Federal Protective Service (FPS) officers to ensure all federal facilities remained protected and secure."

Antifa Terrorist Who Threw Bomb at Federal Agents in Portland is Identified — By His Grandmother!  As reported earlier this morning by Cassandra Fairbanks — An Antifa militant in Portland threw what appears to be an improvised explosive device at the federal courthouse in Portland on Monday evening [7/27/2020].  Rioters have been attacking the building for over 60 days. [...] The bomber has been identified — Thanks to his grandma!  Thanks to the internet sleuths at 4Chan.  Here is video of the terrorist throwing the bomb at federal agents!  [Video clip]

Democrat Liars Are Barely Even Trying to Fool Us Anymore.  [Scroll down]  There simply are not that many people rioting.  They only manage to round up a few hundred cretins a night in Portland, but if you dive below the surface you see that this fight is an idiot magnet for losers across the country.  This is a nation of 330 million people, and maybe 2,000 are involved in the violence the mainstream media shows every night (albeit in a sanitized and curated form designed to convey the official narrative).  That's nothing.

School social worker placed on administrative leave, accused of attacking state senator.  One of the women accused of attacking state Sen. Tim Carpenter has been put on administrative leave by the Mount Horeb Area School District.  Samantha Hamer, 26, is employed as a social worker for Mount Horeb schools, according to the district's website.

Oregon is in talks with the White House to pull federal troops OUT of Portland.  The Trump administration has initiated talks with the Oregon governor's office about withdrawing federal agents deployed to quell protests as Portland officials reveal the city is fining the government $500 every 15 minutes for erecting an unauthorized fence around its courthouse.  The White House said it would agree to draw down the presence of troops if the state stepped up its own enforcement, an anonymous senior White House official told AP Tuesday [7/28/2020].  The talks are with the office of Democratic Gov. Kate Brown and are in the early stages and there is still no agreement.

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What leverage does the City of Portland have over the federal government, so that they have any hope of collecting arbitrary fines?

Wolf vows federal agents won't leave Portland until courthouse at center of rioting is 'safe and secure'.  Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf told "Bill Hemmer Reports" Wednesday [7/29/2020] that federal agents will not leave the city of Portland, Ore. until a federal courthouse that has been repeatedly attacked by rioters is "safe and secure."  "We will continue to keep law enforcement officers in the area to make sure that that courthouse is secure at the end of the day," Wolf told host Bill Hemmer.  Earlier Wednesday, Oregon Gov. Kate Brown announced that federal agents would begin a "phased withdrawal" from Portland Thursday.  Wolf said that he and the governor had agreed on a plan to end "the violent activity in Portland directed at federal properties and law enforcement officers" that called for "the robust presence of Oregon State Police in downtown Portland."

Portland's Wall of Moms crumbles amid online allegations by former partner, Don't Shoot PDX.  Portland Wall of Moms, a group formed in recent weeks and quickly recognized as a staple of nightly downtown protests, was accused publicly Wednesday [7/29/2020] of "anti-Blackness" by leaders of an existing, Black-led community group.  Wall of Moms, whose members said they aimed to support and protect other Black Lives Matter protesters near the fence in front of the federal courthouse, announced Friday that its white leadership had rescinded their positions to allow women of color to be in charge.  New leaders announced Friday include Teressa Raiford, executive director of Don't Shoot Portland, Demetria Hester and Danialle James.  But less than a week later, Don't Shoot Portland took to Instagram to urge people against supporting the Wall of Moms, saying that it was no longer working with the moms group.

Portland business owner on impact of riots, coronavirus: 'It's terrifying'.  Two months of daily and nightly protests and rioting have devastated the city of Portland, Ore., leaving many residents and businesses in a state of fear and uncertainty.  On Tuesday night's edition of "Fox News @ Night," host Shannon Bream talked with Stacey Gibson, owner of five fast-food restaurants in the Portland area, including one in the troubled downtown section.  "It's terrifying," Gibson said about trying to keep her businesses alive — and her employees in their jobs — amid the twin disasters of the coronavirus and the rioting, which Bream described as a "one-two punch."

Are You Sure 'Vote for Joe Biden or We'll Kill You' Is the Best Campaign Pitch?  Supporters of a candidate with confidence in the politician's ability to win based on making the better argument don't usually use the heckler's-veto-on-steroids to coerce people to their point of view.  Yet that is precisely what Ronald Brownstein did in an article in The Atlantic.  The underlying tone of the article is:  "Vote for Joe Biden or the national temper tantrum will only get worse."  He accuses the president of positioning blue cities as a threat in order to rally voters to his law-and-order agenda.  A brief scroll of Twitter will show you that riots in cities like Seattle and Portland are absolutely a threat to safety and security.  No one needs President Trump to point it out.

Rep. Jordan Opens AG Barr Hearing with Brutal Video Highlighting Antifa Violence, Looting and Rioting.  During a House Judiciary Committee hearing with Attorney General William Barr Tuesday morning, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) the ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, went over the heads of the corporate media to show a brutal video highlighting the violence and mayhem of the Black Lives Matter and antifa mobs.  Rep. Jordan opened his remarks by skillfully running through all of the evidence that proves the Obama administration spied on the opposition party and President Trump during and after the 2016 election.  Jordan then played the nearly eight minute video, which starts out with a montage of media and Democrat politicians describing the riots as "peaceful protests."  The video goes on to expose what Democrats and the media don't want the American people to see — the horrific violence on streets across the nation being perpetrated by their domestic terrorist allies.

Reckoning With the Riots.  America's toleration of a completely unjustifiable level of general violence compared to anything in its past demonstrates considerable progress in civility and restraint in the past 50 years.  In 1968, the legendary mayor of Chicago, Richard J. Daley, attracted great controversy but not majority disapproval when he publicly told his police not to hesitate to fire live ammunition at violent demonstrators and rioters.  As the immense disturbances surrounding the Democratic National Convention in that city evolved, the mayor indicated that he was not exactly urging his officers to shoot to kill but to shoot to stop the rioting, and implicitly, not to be overly concerned if some lawbreakers died as a result.  There was widespread support for this position.  Eleven people were killed, about 500 injured, and more than 2,150 arrested in Chicago; four months earlier, in the riots in at least nine major cities after the assassination of Martin Luther King, 43 were killed, more than 3,000 injured, and over 20,000 arrested.

Ted Cruz:  Democrats Are 'Letting Their Cities Burn'; It's Time They Paid the Price.  For Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, it's time Democrats paid the price.  As the long, hot summer of 2020 spirals into more street violence by rioters posing as protesters against police violence, the Republican senator is pushing one way to hold Democratic officers responsible for allowing the continuing chaos.  It's a federal bill, introduced last week, to make cities liable for damage to businesses and personal property that's being allowed to take place because the Democrats who control them are holding police back from their duty.  [Video clip]

Democrat Leaders Abandon Citizens to the Violent Soros Mobs.  Everyday citizens in Democrat-run cities have been subjected to two straight months of mob violence this summer.  This is an information warfare operation being conducted against the American people.  Cops in every American city could push back and stop the riots tomorrow.  Instead, the Democrat mayors in charge of these cities are tying the cops' hands.  Seattle is just the latest example of this, where the Chief of Police just sent out one of the saddest press releases ever.  Out of all the black lady police chiefs in America right now, Carmen Best of Seattle seems like one of the most competent.  She's never held a press conference about her nails or her hair.  She seems genuinely concerned with the welfare of the cops on her force and the people in her city.  When Antifa moved in to set up CHAZ or CHOP or whatever it was called, Chief Best didn't want to abandon the police precinct, or the 12 city blocks that the smelly insurgents occupied.  She pushed back against her bosses and fought against it, but in the end she lost.

The mob comes for Seattle's mayor.  [Scroll down]  The "protesters" aren't going to overthrow the U.S. government, but there are no limits to the barbaric tactics they are prepared to use in the attempt or to their willingness to turn on anyone not fully on board.  The "protesters" in question are anarchists who hate America.  At root, Durkan is their target because she heads up, albeit ineffectually, the city government, and isn't willing to cede complete control of it.  Has this reality dawned on Durkan yet?  I don't know.  It doesn't seem to have dawned on her counterparts in Portland and Minneapolis who waded into the mob only to be jeered at and driven away.  Reality certainly hasn't dawned on Tammy Morales, a member of the city council.  Morales, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, is trying to accommodate the anarchists.

Two women charged with beating Wisconsin lawmaker during protest.  Two women accused of assaulting a Wisconsin state senator as he took photos of a crowd that toppled two statues during a protest last month have been arrested, police said.  State Sen. Tim Carpenter, a Democrat from Milwaukee, was attacked in Madison on June 24 as he pointed his phone at a group of protesters who tore down two statues on Capitol grounds.  He was repeatedly punched and kicked in the head and later required surgery for his wounds, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.  "I don't know what happened ... all I did was stop and take a picture ... and the next thing I'm getting five, six punches, getting kicked in the head," Carpenter told the newspaper last month.

Seattle Police Release Body-Cam Footage Of Them Being Shelled And Assaulted By ANTIFA, 50 Injured.  Police bodycam footage shared Sunday shows a supercut of protesters throwing rocks, bottles, wood, and explosives at officers during Saturday's protests in the Capitol Hill neighborhood.  Police said 59 officers suffered injuries ranging from cuts and bruises to burns.  One officer was treated at a hospital for a torn meniscus.  Photos showed several officers' fleshy wounds.  [Video clip]

Upper Class White Women Discover Rioting Hurts.  Imagine the children that spawn from women like this.  Oh, you don't have to imagine it.  You can see them wearing all black, armed with mace and flashbangs, hitting Trump supporters with bike locks or injuring cops with lasers.  These BMW driving women who have had it too good for themselves in all white suburbia need a few months in jail.  [Video clip]

Grandmaster Jay, Head Of The Radical NFAC Admits They Are Getting Paid To Protest.  Video shows the leader of the Not F---ing Around Coalition, Grand Master Jay, revealing he and his organization is getting paid to show up with weapons to events.  Remember, NFAC was the group that shot each other accidentally at an event in Louisville last Friday [7/24/2020].  NFAC is also the organization that demands a state for blacks only, they recently targeted Texas for this destination.  [Video clip]

BLM Thugs Terrorize Elderly Woman In Her Car Then Act The Victim In Front Of Cops in DC.  These low IQ dopes who support BLM made the huge mistake of actually recording their acts of terror and posting them online.  These women blocked this elderly lady's car, then one jumped on the hood as the others assaulted the vehicle.  When the woman tried to slowly drive away they ramped up their rage.  [Video clip]

Los Angeles Protester Tackles Cop Making An Arrest, Protests Turn To Riots.  Los Angeles Police Department officers and protesters got into violent clashes Saturday in downtown L.A., one of several cities nationwide with demonstrations the same night.  During L.A.'s protests, people gathered outside City Hall and in front of the Federal Building on North Los Angeles Street, which was left with smashed windows and spray-painted markings on its exterior.  One message read:  "Bacon gets fried."  An officer says something to a woman holding up her phone before appearing to push her.  A man then runs toward the officer and knocks him to the ground.  Other LAPD officers and a few protesters rush toward the man, some of the officers waving their batons.  [Video clip]

Woman Maces Couple Enjoying Lunch In Park For Not Wearing Masks.  A woman maced a couple who were eating — obviously without a mask — at a San Diego dog park.  According to the couple, the woman called them "idiots" and flipped them off.  She came up to the table where they were having lunch, pointed the mace canister in the woman's direction, and sprayed her.  Her husband then got a heavy dose before wrestling the can away from her.  [Video clip]

Only a Trump Administration Can Restore Law and Order.  At every point during this outpouring of violence and hatred, throughout every insult to our nation and history, the American people have responded with patience, understanding, and restraint.  The federal government, under President Trump's leadership, has always tried to protect legitimate protestors' right to assemble and make their grievances heard.  Even on the president's own doorstep outside the White House, law enforcement response has been measured and focused on defending our country's most hallowed monuments with minimum force.  Even when insurgents took over a section of Seattle and declared independence from American law and sovereignty, this administration refrained from using force to intervene and permitted Mayor Jenny Durkan's "summer of love" to go on unhindered.  Her decision to allow the "autonomous zone" eventually cost two young black Americans their lives.  Patience has not been rewarded.  Left-wing political violence continues to flare up, each time more organized, more brazen, and more explicit about its desire to overthrow the American system.

The lunacy of the 'largely peaceful protest'.  The great conundrum facing the anti-American left at the moment is how to react to the violent protest ripping up various Democratic-run cities.  What is the preferred narrative?  The two main choices are 1) it's all peaceful protest, the 'right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances'? or 2) let 'er rip:  we're out there destroying stuff and hurting people because the country's falling apart and the sooner the better.  Just so, a contributor to the Oregonian, announcing his fears of an impending 'anti-democratic, racist police state', wondered whether he would find 'the courage to resist racism and fascism', by which I suspect he means a free, open, and democratic election in which a candidate he does not favor has the indelicacy to win.  For it should go without saying that the overriding criterion for choosing which narrative to plug is this:  which story will do the most damage to Donald Trump and Republican prospects in the November election?

The Seditious Among Us.  In the world of politics, repetition is almost without fail the key to winning elections.  The dominant campaign issue in the upcoming election that President Trump, the Republican Party and the conservative media must relentlessly repeat is the now irrefutable fact that Joe Biden, the Democrat party and the mainstream media have tacitly sanctioned sedition and have betrayed the American people.  Consequently, if Biden and the Democrats win in November, they will be incapable of preventing the Marxist ultimatums of the radical left from becoming the law of the land.  By refusing to not only condemn but implicitly encouraging the ongoing riots and violence as well as meekly acquiescing to the demands of the left-wing extremist, the Democrat party establishment, which includes the mainstream media, has exposed their spinelessness for the world to see and signed on to government by mob rule.

Portland protesters face off with Trump but are they eclipsing Black Lives Matter?  Teal Lindseth surveyed the sea of mothers she was about to lead into the firing line.  "I look at this crowd and I don't see many black people," lamented the 21-year-old African American activist. [...] Portland has another reputation alongside its radical image.  That of the whitest large city in America in a state with a constitution that once barred African Americans from living there.  An 1850s law required black people to be "lashed" once a year to encourage them to leave Oregon, and members of the Ku Klux Klan largely controlled Portland city council between the world wars.  Housing was effectively segregated in large parts of the city.

DHS agent in Portland:  Protesters seek to embarrass, defeat Trump, 'Catatonic with hate'.  Hatred of President Trump is fueling protests in Portland, Oregon, prompting activists to threaten the lives of federal police in hopes of driving them away and handing the White House a major embarrassment, according to an agent who broke the code of silence to describe the situation.  "As the night goes on, the rioters become so hateful it is surreal.  Their voices hoarse, their sentences jumbled, they seem almost catatonic with hate," said the agent of the Portland clashes that have nearly reached 60-straight nights.

If you climb on top of and beat an innocent stranger's car, you're a violent criminal who deserves prison.  Not even the nicest parts of the American city is safe.  The riots have come to Georgetown, the picturesque enclave of some of D.C.'s most decadent denizens, on par with Brentwood or the Upper West Side.  According to the organizing group, Saturday night's Totally Peaceful Protest was predicated on criminal behavior.  The rioters planned on obstructing Georgetown traffic, a feat explicitly forbidden by D.C. law, while engaging in a "noise pollution" campaign.  Because George Floyd, or something.  That the rioters could have obstructed emergency vehicles was bad enough, but soon the demonstration escalated as rioters climbed on top of and beat the car of a woman who, according to one of the rioters, had simply tried to avoid the riots by driving through a gas station.

Feds protecting Portland's courthouse 'fear for their lives' after 61 nights of unrest.  Federal officers who are protecting Portland's courthouse under the orders of the Trump administration have revealed that they 'fear for their lives' after 61 nights of protests in the city, but demonstrators say they are fighting back to protect themselves from the agents.  President Donald Trump sent federal agents to Portland earlier this month and has since said he would be sending 100 more troops into the city to protect federal property.

Are Leftists Literally Addicted to Hatred?  Enthusiasm and passion have been a hallmark of political action over all of history.  Stating something strongly and with conviction gets attention and almost forces people to listen.  But the last three years have seen political passion turn into an explosion of hatred and anger like never before.  Why is this?  Psychologists say that anger arises when we have an unmet demand.  Some angry reactions are reasonable, such as objecting to bad service at an expensive restaurant, or protesting against an injustice, but others are irrational, such as shooting a gun at someone who just cut you off in traffic.  We use emotions such as anger to help us survive in difficult situations.  Scientists have found that all emotions cause neuro-chemical changes in the brain and hate and anger have a larger impact.

Gunfire reported near Portland protest site before another chaotic night.  The 60th consecutive day of protests in Portland was punctuated Sunday night by the discovery of a bag of rifle ammunition and Molotov cocktails by police responding to a chaotic scene in Lownsdale Square Park.  Around the same time the ammunition and destructive devices were being uncovered, Portland police responded to reports of gunfire at the same park.  Two people were taken into custody near SW 4th Avenue and SW Salmon Street and have since been released.  A person arrived at a hospital by private vehicle with an apparent gunshot wound but the injury was not life-threatening, the Portland Police Bureau said in a statement.  A photo of the items found in the bag was shared in a tweet from the police bureau saying someone pointed out the bag to officers at the park late Sunday.  No further information was immediately released.

We need water cannons in our cities.  Time to clean the streets.  Footage from the Venezuela riots of 2017.  [Video clip]

'Peaceful': I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means.  The definition of "peaceful" has been radically altered by the Left and media.  Now I have a very uneasy feeling.  The media tells us the protests in Portland (and elsewhere) are peaceful.  Or at best "mostly peaceful," which is one awful euphemism.  Read this tweet from ABC News carefully.  "Protesters in California set fire to a courthouse, damaged a police station and assaulted officers after a peaceful demonstration intensified."  That's like tweeting, "Japan Bombs Pearl Harbor After Peaceful Flight Intensifies."  It's not just Orwellian.  It's Swiftian.

AP Reporter Describes Being Inside Portland's Besieged Courthouse With US Marshals While 4,000 Rioters Attack.  Rioters aren't protesters and this story is proof.  They're out for blood and destruction, not peace or justice.  Reading the description of what Associated Press writer Mike Balsamo experienced during his night at the Mark O. Hatfield Federal Courthouse in Portland, Oregon is like reading something straight out of a war novel.  Thousands of people descending on the building in order to bring it down as inside, federal agents brace for a long night of defending the building.  Balsamo described the scene around him, such as the defenses erected by police in order to help them repel the attackers.  He paints a picture of a castle-like structure under siege: [...]

Democrats Rush to Change the Narrative as the Rioting They Encouraged Backfires.  The chaos in cities like Portland and Seattle continues, not to mention the skyrocketing murder rates in places like Chicago and New York.  Unfortunately, the Democrat and media response has been to tacitly enable the violence, whether we are talking about their encouraging of the riots, their trashing of Trump for trying to stop them, or their push to handicap the police, which is directly costing the lives of the very minority citizens they claim to care about.  Now, as the political winds show signs of shifting, they are looking to change the narrative.  Byron York chronicled some of the recent examples.

Ben Shapiro accuses Democrats of using unrest as 'a pressure tactic' against voters.  Rioters in cities across America are engaging in a form of "political terrorism," and Democratic officials have show complicity through their response, Ben Shapiro asserted Monday [7/27/2020].  "If you are burning cities because you're trying to apply pressure tactics ... then you are in fact engaging in a form of political terrorism," said "The Ben Shapiro Show" host in response to another weekend of lawlessness and unrest.  "And for cities to stand by and cave to that is not only the height of irresponsibility, it's incredibly dangerous and it makes them complicit in this act."  Shapiro told his listeners that Democrats are "rooting for the chaos" and allowing the destruction of their cities in the hope that the havoc submarines President Trump's re-election bid.

Cities [are] in [a] Bind as Turmoil Spreads Far Beyond Portland.  A series of strident new protests over police misconduct rattled cities across the country over the weekend, creating a new dilemma for state and local leaders who had succeeded in easing some of the turbulence in their streets until a showdown over the use of federal agents in Oregon stirred fresh outrage. [...] The latest catalyst was the deployment of federal law enforcement agents in Portland, Ore., whose militarized efforts to subdue protests around the federal courthouse have sparked mass demonstrations and nightly clashes there.  They have also inspired new protests of solidarity in other cities, where people have expressed deep concern about the federal government exercising such extensive authority in a city that has made it clear it opposes the presence of federal agents.

America's Major Cities Are Being Turned Into War Zones, And It Is Not Going To End In November.  The civil unrest that we witnessed all across America this weekend was extremely alarming.  For a few weeks, it seemed like the chaos that erupted in the immediate aftermath of the tragic death of George Floyd was subsiding, but in recent days there has been a dramatic resurgence.  Within the last 48 hours, there have been eruptions of violence in major cities such as Seattle, Portland, Atlanta, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Oakland, Louisville, Austin and Richmond.

We Asked Our Readers to Send Photos of the Democrat Party Sanctioned Destruction and Rioting in their Community.  For weeks now since the death of George Floyd in May Antifa, Black Lives Matter, Marxists and other far left groups with the support of the Democrat Party have been looting, rioting and destroying businesses, homes and public property across America.  The mainstream media HAS YET to air this destruction from the weeks of Democrat-endorsed violence and destruction.  The Democrats don't want you to see the destruction.  On Friday we asked our readers to send photos of the Democrat sanctioned devastation in their communities.  We were overwhelmed with the response.

Bombs and Ammo Found Near Where Man Was Shot at 'Mostly Peaceful' Portland Riot.  Portland police are investigating a shooting at what Democrats constantly tell us are "peaceful" riots by people that New York Congressman Jerry Nadler insist are mythical creatures like unicorns.  The mythical creatures also stored a cache of Molotov cocktails and ammo at a park across the street from the federal courthouse that antifa and Black Lives Matter peaceful rioters have been assaulting for more than 60 days straight.  Portland police say the shooting and the cache "appear to be unrelated."

22 people facing federal charges in connection with Portland protests.  Twenty-two more people have been arrested and charged over their alleged roles in Portland protests, federal prosecutors announced Monday [7/27/2020].  The charges of criminal conduct were in connection to demonstrations outside the Mark O. Hatfield federal courthouse between July 23 and early on July 28, U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams said.  The protests, which began after the May 25 death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, "have been followed by nightly criminal activity including assaults on law enforcement officers, destruction of property, looting, arson and vandalism," his statement read.  Two of the protesters, a man and a woman in their 30s, are accused of assaulting federal officers during a demonstration that started Thursday night and lasted into Friday morning.

Fed-up motorist and black-clad militant pull guns on each other as leftists riot in a smaller Oregon city over weekend.  Indeed leftists are showing their solidarity with Portland militants by staging riots of their own in various U.S. cities — and things heated up over the weekend in a smaller Oregon city as well.  Hundreds showed up in Eugene on Saturday night [7/25/2020] — less than two hours from Portland and with only 177,000 residents — and set off fireworks at a county jail and federal courthouse while attacking businesses with employees trapped inside, Fox News reported.

Seattle property owner fears his building could be next target of rioters: 'Enough is enough'.  Seattle property owner Joseph Wanagel told "Fox & Friends" on Monday [7/27/2020] that "enough is enough," following a violent weekend in the city.  "It's a rough situation," Wanagel said.  Seattle police said at least 59 officers were injured during protests on Saturday when they were struck with explosives, rocks, bottles and wood.  They added that the injuries include burns, bruising and a torn meniscus.  Most of the injured officers were able to return to work, police said in a Twitter message.

Anger:  The Best Medicine.  [Scroll down]  Conservatives can, at least, set our own minds straight when the Democrats, the media, the Black Lives Matter movement, Antifa, and the rest are losing theirs.  We know, for example, that the awful death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police doesn't justify defunding or doing away with the police force there or anywhere else.  We know that the Democrats' moves to defund the police in places such as Minneapolis and New York City will result in more, not less, crime and violence.  We know that Floyd's death doesn't justify riots such as those that are tearing apart Portland, Oregon, every night.  We understand that anarchist thugs such as Antifa and their ilk aren't peaceful protesters; they are criminals.  We know that when the media tell us that the "protests" are "mostly peaceful" that those "protests" are — in whole or in part — violent and must be put down by police, state, local, or federal.  Mayors of cities such as Minneapolis, Portland, Seattle, and New York are working against the police and on behalf of the rioters.

Police release photos of suspect in Trump super-supporter Bernell Trammell's murder.  Milwaukee police have released images of the man suspected of killing a Trump supporter in broad daylight.  The Milwaukee Police department asked for the public's help in identifying a man they believe is connected to the slaying of Bernell Trammell, the well-known black man who had been a vocal supporter of President Donald Trump.  The motive for the shooting is still under investigation as officials are searching for the suspect, a man believed to be in his 30s.

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Earlier reports called this crime a "drive-by shooting."  The perpetrator was on a bicycle!

Murder of black Trump super-supporter Bernell Trammell leads to calls for federal probe.  The murder of a 60-year-old black supporter of President Donald Trump in Milwaukee last week just hours after he gave an interview to local media has led to calls for a federal investigation from Wisconsin lawmakers.  Bernell Trammell was shot and killed at the same location where he was interviewed, explaining why he supports the president, leading local police to suspect the murder may have been politically motivated.  Some Wisconsin Republicans have the same suspicions and they want the U.S. Department of Justice to look into it.  "Because of Trammell's well-known political activism and the possibility that his murder could be politically motivated, I respectfully request that United States Attorney Matthew Krueger open an investigation," Andrew Hitt, chairman of the Republican Party of Wisconsin, said late last week following the murder.

Liberals are never scared to speak up.  Why are conservatives?  A handful of friends and I have spoken privately about the crippling anxiety apparently only experienced by independents and right-leaners when politics comes up in a social setting.  Right up until now, it was just a theory.  A new study confirms what we suspected all along:  Liberals really do feel like they can spew their thoughts freely, while everyone else quivers with fear that anything they say might offend.  The Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, published a study this week showing that overall, 62% of people in the United States believe that the current "political climate" keeps them from sharing their political opinions.  Broken down by ideology, however, self-identified liberals and "strong" liberals were significantly more likely to feel comfortable airing their opinions than centrists or conservatives.

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Marxists are bent on violent overthrow of our government.  Socialists and Marxists proudly engage in violent insurrection every night in Seattle and Portland, among other places.  Violence and hate speech come from the political left, not the right.  Just ask Bernell Trammell.  Socialists have a propensity for physical violence.  It is therefore no surprise that those of us on the right refrain from expressing our views.

Black Trump supporter, 60, is shot dead in Milwaukee:  Detectives are investigating 'political' motive.  Detectives are investigating whether a black Donald Trump supporter was shot and killed in Milwaukee over his politics.  Bernell Trammell, 60, was gunned down in a drive-by shooting on Thursday at 12.30 pm in the neighborhood where he was known for his signs that said 'Vote Trump 2020' and recited Bible versus.  He was found dead in front of his business where he sold his eXpressions Journal and had handmade placards backing a range of movements including Black Lives Matter in the window.

Black Man Shot 'Execution Style' In 'Broad Daylight' After Giving Interview About Supporting Trump.  You can't be black and a supporter of President Trump.  The radical left won't allow it.  To them, you are considered a race traitor.

Murder of black Trump supporter Bernell Trammell spurs call for federal investigation.  The shooting death of a black Trump supporter in Milwaukee has state Republicans calling for a federal investigation.  Bernell Trammell, 60, a dreadlocked activist known for carrying handmade signs through the streets reading "Vote Donald Trump 2020," and posting them on his storefront, was gunned down by an unknown assailant on his sidewalk Thursday afternoon [7/23/2020], police said.  "Because of Trammell's well-known political activism and the possibility that his murder could be politically motivated, I respectfully request that United States Attorney Matthew Krueger open an investigation," said Andrew Hitt, chairman of the Republican Party of Wisconsin, late Friday.

Portland City Officials Order Feds to Remove Protective Fence from Courts Building to Aid Rioters in their Ransacking.  Mayor Ted Wheeler and Portland, Oregon officials have made it clear whose side they're on and it's not the side of law and order.  For over 50 straight nights antifa-BLM rioters have ransacked the downtown and destroyed public property.  [Video clip]  When the leftist mob took aim at the Hatfield United States Courthouse that President Trump sent in federal agents.  Now Portland officials are ORDERING the federal government to remove it's protective fencing around the Hatfield Courthouse.

Why You Need to Stay Out of Seattle This Weekend.  If you think Seattle is bad now, you're right.  But the BLM-inspired chaos will get even worse.  From a letter Chief of Police Carmen Best sent to the Seattle City Council:  ["]SPD [the Seattle Police Department] has confirmed with the City Attorney's Office that the City Council ordinance banning the use of less lethal tools — including pepper spray — commonly used to disperse crowds that have turned violent, will go into effect this weekend as written.["]  Such tools were recently used to get the saw-wielding maniac Shane Vordelmicha Green under control in Seattle's sister city Portland. [...] Under Democrat rule, Seattle has succumbed to anarchy.  The whole city is CHAZ/CHOP now.  Residents are still expected to pay taxes, yet there will be no attempt to preserve property or public safety against the violent mobs that have been running amok in the name of Black Lives Matter.

45 Arrested During Rioting in Seattle.  Rioters set fire to a construction site and attacked police officers

Day 58 Riot-Center Highlights:  Portland PD Rejoins the Fray in a Game of "Whack-A-Rioter".  As I have said a few times now, if the rioters want to pick this fight every night, the federal law enforcement agents will be there to accept the challenge.  Backing down and surrendering the courthouse to the mob is NOT an option.  The feds have manpower and resources.  The officers inside the building are rested, fed, hydrated, and fully briefed.  When they come out to meet the rioters it is not ad hoc.  They have a tactical plan, and they execute it.  These men and women TRAIN for this.  The rioters are giving the agents what they want — it's like going to Disneyland every day for the agents. [...] The rioters are amateurs, too dumb to know when to quit, and are being used as proverbial "cannon fodder" by the Marxist Antifa and BLM organizations.  Those groups exist to create chaos.  The federal agents welcome the chaos.  [Numerous video clips]

Rioters Torch Justice Center Construction Site In Seattle, Attack Stores At Apartment Complex, Hit Store Owners.  Violent rioters torched a construction site at a justice center in Seattle and attacked a Starbucks store that was at the bottom of an apartment complex on Saturday as far-left rioters caused significant damage in other cities across the U.S. The Seattle Police Department reported that a large group of rioters arrived at the site of the King County Youth Service Center/Judge Patricia H. Clark Children and Family Justice Center, near 12th Avenue and Alder Street around 4 p.m.  "Approximately a dozen people then entered a construction site at the facility, set fire to portable trailers and other equipment, and broke out windows on personal vehicles in the area and court facilities," the department said.

Black Portlander Changes His Mind About the Nightly Protests After He Attends One.  A Portland resident who is black and lives downtown a block away from the Justice Center thought the nightly protests had been completely peaceful.  Then he attended one and had a rude awakening.  Gabe Johnson, a 48-year-old black man who served in the Marines, now says that Portland police should use any means necessary, including force, to sweep the riots off the streets and end the nightly violence.  In an interview with PJ Media, Johnson said he considers himself a patriotic American, and that the United States flag should be a symbol of unity for all Americans.  He laments how some have turned it into a symbol of racism and division, especially in Portland.

Hundreds March In Oakland; Windows Smashed At OPD, Fire Ignited Inside Courthouse.  Hundreds marched in downtown Oakland Saturday night, demanding social justice and showing solidiarty for protesters in the streets of Portland who have been in a standoff with federal agents for more than a week.  While the majority of crowd peacefully protested, a handful of demonstrators turned violent, vandalizing Oakland Police headquarters and setting a fire inside the Alameda County courthouse, breaking windows and covering the building with graffiti.

Riot in Seattle:  Police Injured, Multiple Fires.  On Saturday [7/25/2020], protesters in Seattle organized a march in a show of support for protesters in Portland who have been attacking the Hatfield Federal Courthouse on a nightly basis.  Much like in Portland, the Seattle protest quickly turned violent.  The Seattle Police Department is reporting that several officers have been attacked by rioters and that emergency crews are responding to reports of multiple fires, including one at the East Police Precinct.  According to the Seattle Police Department, rioters are throwing rocks, mortars, and other explosive devices at officers, including bottles and balloons filled with unknown liquids.  Demonstrators have also targeted businesses and police officers have made multiple arrests.

American mayhem:  More rioting and lawlessness in cities across US.  Another night of rioting and lawlessness exploded in more than half a dozen U.S. cities Saturday night — with the mayhem including damage to federal buildings, local police precincts, and a fatal shooting in Austin, Texas. [...] Early Sunday [7/26/2020] local time, rioters broke through a reinforced fence that surrounded the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse in the downtown area, OregonLive.com reported.  Federal agents assigned to guard the building deployed tear gas and the Portland police declared the scene a riot around 1:15 a.m. local time, the report said.  Saturday night's demonstration followed what the news outlet said was a familiar pattern:  Hours of peaceful protests that eventually devolve into destruction and attacks against police.

Antifa militant arrested for stabbing black Trump supporter in Portland.  Antifa militant and convicted pedophile Blake David Hampe was arrested in the early hours of Saturday [7/25/2020] following his alleged stabbing of a black Trump supporter in Portland.  The Trump supporter and conservative, who goes by the name Black Rebel on social media, posted several updates to his condition from the ambulance and hospital.  In the Periscope livestream, he alleged that Hampe had stalked him and his group of friends for several blocks in Portland before stabbing him.  Black Rebel stated that Antifa militants doxed his identity and posted his location on social media and advised each other to "watch out" for him.

Seattle Rioters Break Into Businesses, Loot, and Set Fires.  A group of about 150 rioters in Seattle gathered late July 22 to cause significant damage in the former so-called autonomous zone, setting fires, breaking into businesses, and looting, police said.  Video footage and photographs showed rioters breaking into the Rove Vintage clothing store before dragging clothes onto the street and setting them on fire.  Protesters said they targeted the store because it's owned by the wife of a police officer.  Seattle officials had tolerated the autonomous zone, known as "CHAZ" or "CHOP," for weeks before clearing occupiers earlier this month. [...] Police officers are facing increased pressure to keep the peace while limited in the tools at their disposal.

These are the innocuous words progressives want to ban you from using.  Trying desperately not to get canceled, bosses are trying to think ahead about what words might create a fake Duraflame firestorm of anger, and preemptively ruling ordinary words out of bounds.  At the Los Angeles Times, for instance, an editor has said the word "looters," which has been used many times in the paper, now has "a pejorative and racist connotation" and that anyone who is inclined to use the word should "talk to your immediate supervisor."  Translation:  Best not use the word at all, if you want to stay employed.  So what to call looters?  Non-paying shoppers?  That doesn't quite tell the story:  Ordinary shoplifters don't usually bust up all the windows.  How about self-appointed retail-justice-commandos?  Revolutionary mass goods-redistribution agents?

Louisville protests descend into chaos when armed protester accidentally shoots members of his group, injuring 3.  Gunshots erupted during a planned protest in Louisville, Ky., Saturday [7/25/2020] and three members of the heavily armed militia group, the "Not F---ing Around Coalition" (NFAC), were injured by shots fired from one of their own member's guns, police told Fox News.  The shooting took place near Baxter Square Park around 1 p.m. and all of the victims were transported to the University of Louisville Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, the Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) told Fox News. [...] Protesters from various groups have demanded justice for [Breonna] Taylor, a 26-year-old EMT who was shot eight times as officers burst into her home on Springfield Drive, firing off more than 20 rounds, as they were conducting a narcotics investigation on March 13[.]  No drugs were found in the house.

Car Drives Through Mob of Protesters on Colorado Highway, Protester Shoots Fellow Protesters While Trying to Shoot Driver.  A car drove through a crowd of protesters that were walking on I-225 in Aurora, Colorado, and a protester shot other protesters while trying to shoot the driver.  At least two protesters were hit or grazed by bullets as a fellow "protester" tried to shoot the driver.  There were multiple gunshots on the car, but the people inside did not appear to be injured.

Seattle police declare riot after crowds injure officers, cause 'explosive' damage to Capitol Hill precinct.  Police declared a riot Saturday afternoon after another day of peaceful protest was hijacked by looters who injured 21 police officers, lit "explosive" fires and caused widespread damage in the city's Capitol Hill neighborhood.  Hundreds of people gathered about 2 p.m.  Saturday for a peaceful march in solidarity with protesters in Portland who are facing arrest by federal agents.  By 4 p.m., crowds had broken away from the peaceful protest, setting fires to five construction trailers at the Juvenile Detention Center and attacking camera crews.  One officer was hospitalized with a knee injury caused by an explosive.  A Harborview Medical Center spokesperson said the officer is in satisfactory condition as of Saturday evening.  SPD said as of 10 p.m., 21 officers were injured by bricks, rocks, mortars and other explosives.  At least 45 people were arrested for assault on officers, obstruction and failure to disperse.

Police declare riot at Seattle protests; more than two dozen arrested.  Seattle police declared a riot Saturday following large demonstrations in the city's Capitol Hill neighborhood and deployed flash bangs and pepper spray to try to clear an area near where weeks earlier people had set up an "occupied protest zone" that stretched for several blocks.  Via Twitter, police said they had made more than two dozen arrests for assault on officers, obstruction and failure to disperse.  They also said they were "investigating a possible explosive damage" to the walls of the city's East Precinct police station.  Authorities said rocks, bottles, fireworks and mortars were thrown at officers as they attempted to clear the area over the course of several hours.  One officer was hospitalized with a leg injury caused by an explosive.

Oakland Mayor Victimized By BLM Vandals She Supported; Turns To The Police She Did Not.  Oakland, California Mayor Libby Schaaf just received a hard dose of reality about the Black Lives Matter movement.  Mayor Schaaf has been vocal about defending the protesters in all their glory; looting, rioting, destruction and all.  Additionally, she has joined the movement's mass mentality and supports defunding the police.  Despite her kinship, the Black Lives Matter activists extended her the same courtesy as they did all other personal property.  They vandalized her home.  Spray painted messages on her stone walls read "wake up Libby" and other slogans associated with the Black Lives Matter movement.  Must have been a shock for the Mayor to be told she, in fact, is not "woke."

Warzone - Portland Oregon.  Plenty of tear gas for everyone.  [Video clip]

Looters break into shoe store in Seattle.  Looters were seen breaking into a shoe store in Seattle, Washington on Wednesday night (July 22).  Footage filmed on 11th avenue in Capitol Hill shows the shop windows being smashed before the looters are seen entering the store and leaving with items in hand.  The filmer said:  "The police disappeared from the place and let the mess happen."

Lawless Democrat-Run Cities Preview Joe Biden's America.  Mobs light churches on fire.  They attack federal police officers with bricks, urine, feces, and pigs' feet.  They blind law enforcement officers with lasers.  They burn down pawn shops with a man still inside, only discovered months after the news cameras left town.  Yes, people — radical, America-hating domestic terrorists, to be precise — do evil things.  When Democrats let them.  This is what is happening in countless Democrat-controlled cities.  In Portland, Seattle, Chicago, Minneapolis, Atlanta, and New York crime is skyrocketing, police are defunded and ordered to disengage.  Law-abiding citizens suffer, while Joe Biden and Democrats give cover to so-called "peaceful protesters" who are sharpening PVC pipes to use against cops protecting public property.

Black Trump Supporter Shot to Death in Milwaukee Hours After Pro-Trump Interview.  Black Trump supporter Bernell Trammell was murdered on Thursday [7/23/2020] just hours after a pro-Trump interview.  Trammell was gunned down shortly after giving an interview on his support for President Trump.

Federal agents likely permanently blinded by Portland protesters' lasers, White House says.  Three federal agents who were sent to Portland, Ore., to try to help quell the city's violent protests were "likely left permanently blinded" from clashes, White House officials said Friday [7/24/2020].  "A federal agent's hand was impaled by planted nails, another federal agent was shot with a pellet gun, leaving a wound deep to the bone, and tragically, three federal officers were likely left permanently blinded by the rioters using lasers pointed directly into their eyes," White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany told reporters Friday.  All five of the injured federal agents were hurt Monday during ongoing protests at the Multnomah County Justice Center and a nearby federal courthouse in Oregon's largest city.

Justice Department Announces Charges Against Rioters at Portland Courthouse.  Leftists in Portland are routinely committing violence in the downtown area.  This week, the rioters have set their sights on the Hatfield Federal Courthouse, which is a mistake since vandalizing federal property isn't handled by the pusillanimous officials of Portland but by folks at the U.S. Department of Justice.  U.S. Attorney Billy Williams announced on Friday that 18 individuals arrested during attacks on the Hatfield Federal Courthouse this past week are now facing federal charges.  Court documents say protests in downtown Portland have been followed by criminal activity that includes assaults on law enforcement officers, arson, looting, destruction of property, and vandalism.  The federal courthouse has become a target of leftist vandals and has sustained extensive damage.

What to Do About Portland.  To say that recent events in Portland are "troubling" understates their seriousness.  We are witnessing the breakdown of law and order, with almost two months of riots, which the media whitewash as "mostly peaceful."  It is hard to know from a distance what is really happening on the streets of Portland, but certainly rumors are circulating, and being widely believed, that federal agents are arbitrarily arresting innocent people and brutalizing them.  This is reported as fact without any attribution or source by people who should know better, including Fox News's Judge Andrew Napolitano.  But even more disturbing than mostly peaceful protests that occasionally turn violent and destroy property, we are seeing the breakdown of the United States as a functioning polity, with local governments refusing to follow national government policies because they despise the current occupant of the White House.

Numerous businesses looted and vandalized on Seattle's Capitol Hill Wednesday night.  The Seattle Police Department (SPD) said a group of around 150 people caused "massive amounts of property damage" on Capitol Hill Wednesday night [7/22/2020].  Police said the group broke windows, looted businesses, shot off fireworks and started fires.  According to police, the group gathered in Cal Anderson Park around 9 p.m. and started roaming the neighborhood.  Police said people in the group broke the windows of a business on the 1400 block of East Olive Way and started a fire inside.  Seattle Fire was able to put the fire out.  The group broke windows of businesses as they walked to the 1500 block of 11th Avenue.  The SPD said people from the group broke into Rove Vintage on that block, taking merchandise and then setting it on fire in the middle of the street.

Thousands Gather In Portland For Another Night Of Protests.  A large crowd of people gathered Thursday in Portland, Oregon, for another night of protests, which have been ongoing in the city for over a month and a half.  A night that began with largely peaceful crowds singing eventually devolved into tear gas, smoke canisters and fires on Federal courthouse property.  Video showed the large crowd on the streets singing "hands up, please don't shoot me" with their phone flashlights in the air.  More people continued to arrive as the night went on.

Denver Police Union Head Confirms 'Stand-Down' Order was in Place at Pro-Cop Rally.  The president of the police union in Denver, Colorado, Nick Rogers, confirmed on Wednesday that there had been a "stand-down" order in place during a pro-police rally held by conservative activists, as reported by Fox News.  Rogers, head of the Denver Police Protective Association, explained in an interview with local radio host Peter Boyles, on 710 KNUS. As a result of the order officially being in place, Denver police were prohibited from protecting attendees of the "Back the Blue" rally when Antifa, Black Lives Matter, and other far-left terrorist organizations suddenly appeared and began attacking the demonstrators.  One of the leaders of the pro-cop rally was conservative commentator Michelle Malkin, who described the attackers as wielding collapsible batons as they attacked her and others who were speaking onstage when the chaos began.  Numerous fistfights broke out, and at least one pro-police demonstrator walked away with a massive bleeding gash in his forehead.

Why Trump is winning the national policing argument.  The mayor of Portland and the governor of Oregon might not like it, but President Trump has a winning issue with his federal law enforcement deployments.  The simple truth, one that Democratic politicians such as Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot need to grasp quickly, is that most people don't want to get shot dead.  Their ignorance of that reality, willful or otherwise, reflects a quite stunning failure of political leadership.  The facts are clear.  The chaos in Portland is a direct consequence of Mayor Ted Wheeler's appeasement of roving criminals.  But rather than confront the destruction of private property and attacks on police officers and city residents, Wheeler is playing to the idiotic Twitter meme that the federal law enforcement officers are actually the Gestapo.  In Chicago, Lightfoot is playing the same game.

Rioters Outside Portland Federal Building Set Comrade Ablaze.  Rioters accidentally set one of their own on fire Wednesday [7/22/2020] in yet another night of Portland, Oregon, rioting, which has spanned weeks.  [Video clip] [...] The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) sent federal officers to aid colleagues already on the ground who have been battling protesters as they try to destroy property and injure law enforcement personnel.  According to Chad Wolf, acting secretary of DHS, the nightly riots are not connected in any way to peaceful protests but involve criminals who should be held accountable.

If Democratic mayors want to keep feds away, they should govern their cities.  Joe Biden seems to think that federal law enforcement is "brutally attacking peaceful protesters" and using "egregious tactics" in Portland, Oregon.  He ought to get out of his basement more often.  On Saturday [7/18/2020], over 50 days into a riot that has done millions of dollars in damage to downtown Portland and caused tens of millions of dollars in economic losses, rioters broke into the headquarters of the local police union, the Portland Police Association, and set it on fire.  Up to that point, they had been laying siege to the city's federal courthouse, barricading police inside, and engaging in pitched street battles, firing ball-bearings with slingshots and air rifles.  So much for the "peaceful protesters."

Want To Know Why ANTIFA Carry Umbrellas?  Police released bodycam footage Monday evening showing Sunday afternoon protests in downtown that turned violent.  Authorities said a dozen Seattle police officers were hurt and one was hospitalized from the protests.  The video shows protesters approaching the West Precinct and a man holding an umbrella to intentionally block the view of a security camera.  Police said officers moved in to escort the person away from the doors and were immediately assaulted with bottles, street cones, and fireworks.  [Video clip]

BLM Agitator Gets Instant Justice Outside Of Police Station.  This loudmouth harassing police at this station got a quick blast of pepper spray to his empty head.  It's like blasting a cockroach with Raid.  [Video clip]

ANTIFA 'Wall Of Moms' Help Attack Federal Courthouse In Portland.  A group of radical mothers, otherwise known as MomBloc formed a 'Wall Of Moms' to help kick in a boarded-up section of a Federal Courthouse in downtown Portland.  The women also created a human wall to protect ANTIFA members from the federal police.  [Video clip]

Social And Mainstream Media Tells You ANTIFA Is Peaceful, Watch This Video And Share.  Contrary to mainstream media reports, the protests in Portland this summer have been anything but peaceful.  If you go into this city with a differing viewpoint, you will be attacked.  It is not a matter of if, but a matter of when.  Antifa attacks people wearing Trump gear, USA flags, and people that do not bow down to their Marxist, racist, communist ideology.  Please see Andy Ngo on twitter to see what is really going on here in Portland.  [Video clip]

Dems:  The Antifa Party.  [Scroll down]  Democrats and the media want the federal government to brutally crack down on people who don't wear masks — whatever the states say — but faced with an actual violent rebellion, the feds are supposed to stand back and let the governors lead!  Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler called the federal officers protecting American citizens "an attack on our democracy."  Yes, Orval, Portland is "occupied territory" — just like Little Rock in 1957!  Democrats don't care that they are mimicking monstrous figures from the nation's history.  They don't care that they are taking sides with antifa, whose express mission is to kill police officers and destroy America.

Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf's home vandalized as threat of federal troops looms.  Police are investigating an act of vandalism at Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf's house.  "Defund OPD," "homes 4 all," and "blood on your hands" were all spray-painted on the garage, sidewalk and stone wall outside Mayor Schaaf's Oakland home overnight.  Witnesses say 30 to 40 people dressed in black and wearing masks shot projectiles and set off fireworks around 2 a.m. [7/23/2020]

Michelle Malkin demands Denver cops' accountability for not protecting pro-police rally from violent attacks by BLM/Antifa/Marxist mob.  The premeditated attack by violent leftists on Sunday that shut down a pro-police rally in Denver, injuring several of the speakers, is not being forgotten.  Yesterday [7/22/2020], Michelle Malkin, the best known invited speaker who was roughed up and had to run for her life to safety, filed a formal Colorado Open Records Act Request addressed to the Denver Police Department.  It asked for the following: [...] The request is based on video and other evidence, much of it linked from Malkin's Twitter account, that the Denver police did nothing to stop the leftist mob from attacking and shutting down the legal pro-police rally, allowing mayhem, injuries, and the squelching of free speech to go forward unchecked.

A Tale of Two Arsonists.  Among the dozens of anarchists arrested over the past two months, few have gotten a more vociferous defense from the anti-police left than Colinford Mattis and Urooj Rahman, two "public interest" lawyers accused of firebombing a police car.  Their defenders, who argue that the criminal justice system is stacked against the poor and underprivileged, were the first to invoke Mattis and Rahman's elite credentials when pressing the courts to cut them slack.  Mattis and Rahman are high achievers:  He is a Princeton and NYU Law grad with a corporate legal job, and she graduated from Fordham Law after spending a summer in "occupied Palestine."  These credentials, of course, didn't protect them from federal charges after they lobbed Molotov cocktails into an NYPD patrol car, but their defenders now cite them in pleas for leniency and special treatment, both in the courtroom and in the press.

Totally Bonkers Woman Shows Up To Scream About White People, Hates Trump, Starts Assaulting People.  This crazy woman in California who seems to have had one too many during happy hour starts fights with everyone under the sun over, well, the Jews, white people, Trump, you figure it out.  [Video clip]

Battle of Portland:  Mayhem Erupts as Leftist Rioters Clash with Federal Agents.  Well, after weeks of lawlessness in liberal cities, federal law enforcement agents are moving in to restore law and order.  The situation in these places has been downright chaotic.  In Seattle, armed thugs seized portions of the city, which was quasi-endorsed by state and local leaders — all Democrats.  In Portland, a federal courthouse had to be barricaded to prevent vandalism and other forms of destruction from these lefty mobs.  Rioters actually set fire to the building.  And these mayors and governors are totally aloof to the situation. [...] These people don't know what they're doing.  They can't get these clowns under control, so the federal government should step in and restore some sanity here.  Portland raised some eyebrows after it was reported that federal agents in unmarked vehicles were rounding up rioters.  First, that was not true, but it didn't stop House Speaker Nancy Pelosi from mouthing off, smearing these fine officers as "stormtroopers."  At the same time, let's say it was true — I would have zero issues with it.

Photo Appears to Show Black Lives Matter Supporters Holding Down and Kneeling on Neck of White Baby.  A photograph of a [black] man kneeling on the neck of a white baby while another person holds the diapered child's arms is stirring up a massive amount of rage on social media.  The shocking and disturbing photograph, which was captioned by the abusers as "Blm now mf" is beginning to make the rounds after being uncovered by Vincent James of Red Elephants.

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Who Are These People?  The pillagings, shootings, arson, rape, robbery, murder, not to speak of other minor crimes such as trespassing, is off the charts.  Yet under pretext of protesting the death of George Floyd, this abject anarchy has been allowed to continue. [...] Before going any further, let's immediately recognize some basic facts.  For weeks after his death, we've seen rioters, not protesters, gleefully carrying 50-inch TVs out of broken store windows along with any other merchandise they could get their hands on.  Was it to memorialize George Floyd?  Let's get real.  Constitutionally recognized protest doesn't include people spitting, throwing Molotov cocktails, and attacking police officers with impunity.  Make no mistake, these unrestrained thugs, under the banner of social justice, less repercussions, enjoy the excitement of plunder and nihilism.  They are basically willing idiots of Black Lives Matter and Antifa.  These two groups are ideologically aligned in their endemic hatred of the United States, law enforcement, and President Trump particularly.  Along with tacit compliance of Democrat-run states, left wing media, and major corporations filling their coffers, they are the puppeteers of this criminality.

Action Network bonds Antifa, BLM riots, and DNC at the hip.  Over the weekend, the Trump Administration made a strong move to re-establish law and order in the face of violent, far leftist "protests."  The flash point is Portland, aka Antifa central.  Over the past 50 days, Antifa has established ground superiority over Portland.  The Trump Administration, no longer willing to tolerate the constant violence and destruction, against the wishes of local authorities, sent the specially trained law enforcement BORTAC- Border Patrol Tactical Unit- to defend areas within Federal jurisdiction.  Not surprisingly, the Democratic Party chose the side of Antifa, claiming what was occurring in Portland were peaceful protests that were winding down, only now to be stoked back up by the President's actions.

America Held Hostage.  Things we thought were sacrosanct, the icons of our national identity, now are scorned.  We can pretend that this doesn't matter.  They're just statues, after all.  But they do matter.  Not for the pleasure they give the rioters so much as for the pain they inflict on patriots who love America.  Nor has it stopped with the vandalism.  We've gone to the next level, with the looting and rioting.  In the last month major cities have become unsafe, as rioters work out the logic of what "resistance" means.  American stores lost hundreds of millions of dollars, and merchants boarded up their stores for protection.  Nothing to see here, folks, said the liberal media, which gaslighted the looting and the boarded-up storefronts, and portrayed the riots as peaceful protests against an illegitimate president. [...] We're in the middle of a chicken game, where the Left tells us they'll let this go on as long as Trump is president.  The liberal media will ignore the riots, the liberal mayors will tell the local police to stand down, the liberal prosecutors will promptly release anyone arrested.  Try to defend yourself, and you'll find yourself prosecuted.

Can President Trump Really Send In The Troops To Chicago And Other Cities?  We have previously discussed how President Donald Trump has repeatedly asserted constitutional authority that he does not have in dealing with the pandemic.  The President routinely ignored the principles of federalism in such claims of control over states in their internal health and policing decisions.  He is not alone.  Cities like Portland have demanded that federal officers leave the city and stop making arrested.  While there are legitimate questions raised about the conduct of federal officers in putting people into custody and the use of force in Portland, those concerns related to the use of federal powers, not the basis for those powers.  The federal government has full authority to protect federal buildings and to carry out arrests for federal crimes in any city.  Current reports coming out of the White House appear to refer to surging law enforcement personnel, not sending military personnel.  That would be constitutional if used for protect federal assets or enforce federal laws.  That is the flip side of federalism.  But how about the recent claims that the President is about to take over policing from cities like Chicago?  The answer is that such a federal deployment without a request from the governors would be unwise but would be legal.  However, there are practical and legal reasons why such any massive deployment is unlikely.

Michelle Malkin beaten by BLM thugs and prevented from speaking at Denver pro-police rally.  Conservative author and activist Michelle Malkin was brutally assaulted and prevented from speaking as she made her way to the speaker's platform at a pro-police public rally in downtown Denver on Sunday [7/19/2020].  The patriotic event, the 6th Annual Law Enforcement Appreciation Day billed as "family friendly," was advertised in advance on social media including at Malkin's Twitter, where she has 2.2 million followers.

Denver disgrace deepens as Michelle Malkin calls out perps and enablers of attack on Sunday's aborted pro-police rally.  On Monday, the day after the violent leftist attack on Michelle Malkin and her fellow conservatives at a pro-police rally in Denver, more information about the assailants came to light.  For a refresher, my blog yesterday at American Thinker was the first draft of the history of this disturbing event.  On Monday, an article by Lance Hernandez at KMGH-TV channel 7 Denver identified the anti-police "counter protesters" who succeeded in violently shutting down the 6th annual pro-police rally, where Malkin was to be a featured speaker, as representing "the Party for Socialism and Liberation, and other Black Lives Matter supporters, including the Afro-Liberation Front."  In other words, revolutionary Marxist communists.

Noisy Black Lives Matter supporters crash Pro Police rally at Civic Center Park, bring it to an end.  Black Lives Matter supporters verbally, and in some instances physically, clashed with law enforcement supporters, during a set of dueling rallies Sunday afternoon [7/19/2020] at Civic Center Park.  Police later said they used pepper balls and a can of pepper spray to disperse part of the larger BLM supporters crowd, after some people "made aggressive moves" toward officers.  The protesters said there was no reason for police to use the spray.

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If you go downtown to start a riot and participate in violent insurrection, don't expect to be met with Nerf bullets and Silly String.

Seattle rioters seen damaging, looting stores; police say fire sparked at precinct, officer hospitalized.  At least two people were arrested in Seattle and a dozen police officers were injured — including one who was hospitalized — on Sunday, after a march through downtown devolved into property damage and looting, police say.  Police said the demonstrators had broken out several windows of the East Precinct, then threw a device into the lobby that ignited a small fire.

'Not an unprecedented thing': DHS says it is in Portland to protect federal property.  Amid weeks of nightly attempts to destroy a federal courthouse in downtown Portland, the bigger clash between the Trump administration and local city officials is overshadowing the initial issue of restoring peace in the Oregon city.  Portland's Democratic Mayor Ted Wheeler has accused the Department of Homeland Security of overstepping its authority by sending in dozens of federal agents and officers amid the riots.  The DHS employees have been observed seemingly arresting random people on the street and using tear gas to disperse people outside the Hatfield federal courthouse.  DHS data provided exclusively to the Washington Examiner revealed 20 people have been arrested by federal law enforcement in Portland this month for attacking personnel or the courthouse itself.

Portland leaders plead for [a] 'moratorium' on street violence as police [are] targeted.  Protesters have drawn national attention after setting a fire inside the Portland Police Association building Saturday night [7/18/2020].  Portland Police said around 10:45, protesters broke into the PPA's building and almost immediately started a fire.  The building on North Lombard Street is still covered with graffiti and remnants from the fire set Saturday night are still scattered inside.  Ash Leabenworth lives a few houses down from the PPA and said while it's scary to see this happening on his street, he says dramatic action needs to be taken in order for change to happen.

Portland Was Peacefully Rioting Until the Feds Came In.  The mayor of Portland and the governor of Oregon have decided that violent leftist thugs should have the right to smash and burn anything they want.  The Federal government however has the right to protect its property.  As Fort Sumter ought to have taught Democrat states last time around.  Democrats, predictably, claim that Federal law enforcement preventing violent attacks on Federal institutions is escalating the situation.  "Their presence here is actually leading to more violence and more vandalism," Mayor Ted Wheeler insisted.  The obvious question is what does Mayor Wheeler propose to do?  Nothing.  Correction, he's going to cut off the feds from being able to cooperate with local law enforcement because Portland and Oregon would like to double down on seceding from the Republic.

Nancy Pelosi and Democrats have it exactly wrong on feds vs. protesters in Portland.  If only mobs were allowed to destroy federal property without consequence.  Then, there wouldn't have to be any dispute over federal agents defending a federal courthouse in Portland, Ore.; it could simply be over-run and burned to the ground with no unwelcome resistance from the government.  As it is, Portland's mayor, Ted Wheeler, who presides over a city that has become a watchword over the years for left-wing thuggery unchecked by municipal authorities, has roused himself to a state of high dudgeon — over federal officers trying to counter ongoing assaults on a federal building.  He calls the feds "a direct threat to our democracy" and argues that they are engaging in unconstitutional arrests and inflaming protests that he had hoped "would end within a matter of days."

"Portland Moms" Help Antifa To Break The Barrier Protecting The Federal Courthouse — Hardly Any Media Coverage.  The crowd gathered outside the Portland Justice Center Monday night [7/20/2020] initially started out with about 1,000 protesters before quickly doubling in size by 9.45 pm.  Demonstrators were shown singing 'Hands up!  Please don't shoot me' to the tune of 'Ring around the Rosie,' in footage taken of the peaceful protest.  This is what we heard from the mainstream media and the news becomes viral all around the world.  But not one mainstream media decided to report about the "Portland Moms" when they help Antifa as they try to break the barrier protecting the federal courthouse.  [Numerous video clips]

Portland protesters are protected by their MOMS who form human wall in face-off with Trump's federal officers.  Portland protesters were protected by their moms who formed a human wall during a face-off with Trump's federal officers.  At least 30 parents linked arms with one another on Saturday chanting "feds stay clear, moms are here!" and "leave our kids alone."  The women, who were seen wearing bike helmets, demonstrated outside of a federal courthouse for a few hours, before officers used tear gas and flashed bangs to get them to leave the area, Buzzfeed reported.

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Most of these "moms" appear to be roughly the same age as the "kids" — young adults old enough to know better.  The females are being pushed to the front lines under the mistaken assumption that nobody will fire tear gas or rubber bullets at women.  Nope.  You am woman, hear you roar.  You want equality, you'll get equality when the dogs are released and the fire hoses are turned on.

Two New York deputies' vehicles set on fire in driveway, blaze spreads to house.  Vehicles owned by deputies in a western New York county were torched overnight in an incident that is still being investigated.  The Monroe County Sheriff's Office is reviewing video surveillance footage taken from the area after a fire was started in a personal vehicle belonging to a deputy in the early morning hours on Sunday.  The fire began in one vehicle in the driveway of the Clarkson home, then spread to another and a portion of the house, WROC-TV reported.

Activist cuts brake line to NYPD van in latest deadly act of violence against cops.  An activist taking part in New York City's "Defund the Police" effort has been caught attempting to cut a brake line to an NYPD van, an act that could have caused the vehicle to crash, injuring or killing occupants.  Local media reports that Jeremy A. Trapp, 24, was charged with reckless endangerment, criminal mischief, and additional charges after police said they caught him in the act Friday afternoon in the Sunset Park neighborhood.  NYPD officers were watching and videoing the van after spotting someone underneath it.  Officers took Trapp into custody after he emerged and attempted to run away, WNBC-TV reported.

Antifa and Black Lives Matter Rioters Smash Amazon Store in Seattle, Attack TV News Crew and Police Precincts.  Antifa and Black Lives Matter rioters attacked an Amazon store in Seattle on Sunday.  Video posted by conservative activist and citizen reporter Katie Daviscourt shows an Antifa and BLM mob smashing windows and spray painting the store's front window and wall.  The video is cut short as an Antifa goon orders the filming to stop.  Other stores and the Seattle Police West Precinct were attacked by the rioters, resulting in a wounded officer being taken to the hospital.

Violent Portland Rioters Chant 'Every City, Every Town, Burn the Precincts to the Ground' During Black Lives Matter 'Protest'.  Portland rioters chanted "every city, every town, burn the precincts to the ground" on their 51st night of "protests" in the city.  The message deeply contradicts the "we just want reform" narrative that liberals and their media lackeys are trying to push.

Federal police in Portland are marked and acting lawfully; meanwhile, Pelosi, ACLU, and state of Oregon side with Antifa.  The Portland Police Department tweeted a devastating video on 8 July, showing clearly the methods by which rioters were attacking police, property, and the occasional innocent bystander in the city's besieged downtown.  These are not political "demonstrations."  They're massed attacks on soft targets.  One of the targets has been the federal courthouse in Portland (chief among the federal properties that have come under attack).  At the beginning of July, additional federal police were sent there to beef up the courthouse's minimal defenses.

Law Enforcement Got Serious About Ending The ANTIFA Riot Shortly After The Portland Police Association Building Was Burned.  The Portland Police Association building was set on fire as unrest in that city continued to escalate, according to Portland police and a video posted on social media.  The blaze came as Portland and Oregon leaders heightened their rhetoric against President Donald Trump for deploying federal agents to the streets of that city.  The Oregon Department of Justice is suing federal agencies alleging they're detaining people without probable cause.

Fires set, fences moved:  Police call Portland protest a riot.  Protesters broke into a building, set it on fire and started dumpster fires late Saturday night [7/18/2020] in Oregon's largest city, police said, as demonstrations that have been taking place since the death of George Floyd intensified for another night in Portland.

Warfare In Grant Park.  Last night Communist and Anarchist rioters attacked the statue of Christopher Columbus in Grant Park, Chicago.  Police tried to guard the statue, and a pitched battle ensued, with 18 police officers injured and a dozen rioters — nowhere near enough — arrested.  The rioters gained temporary ascendancy over the police, got control over the statue and attempted to pull it down, but without success — unlike the vandals who tore down the statue of Columbus on the grounds of the Minnesota State Capitol.  [Video clip]

Leftist Antifa Terrorists and BLM Mob Hurl Frozen Bottles, Sticks, Cans, Fireworks at Chicago Police.  Black Lives Matter and Antifa terrorists swarmed the Columbus statue in Chicago tonight.  They vandalized the statue and attempted to pull it down with ropes.  They were ready to rip it down.  The Chicago Police then moved in and took control of the area.  That's when the Antifa and Leftist mob started hurling frozen bottles, sticks, cans, rocks and fireworks at the Chicago police!

Let's Go All-In With Communism In Minneapolis.  Powderhorn Park, an older neighborhood consisting of upper-middle-class, white leftist families in South Minneapolis, is a microcosm of what happens when leftist policies are actually implemented without restrictions.  You may recall a New York Times article from a few weeks back that quoted local resident Mitchell Erickson as saying he regretted calling the police after a few young, black thugs held him at gunpoint while demanding his car keys. [...] A more recent piece on a tent encampment that began with about 20 or so when Erickson was held at gunpoint has now swelled to an estimated 560, according to the author.  Growing with the physical presence of tents are the daily interactions related to alleged prostitution, drug use, and drug trafficking.  There have been three rapes, with two of the victims being minors in the past nine days alone, and deaths related to overdosing.

The Anarchist Who Set a Seattle Police Precinct on Fire Has Been Arrested.  The man who set fire to a Seattle Police Precinct during rioting in June has been arrested and charged with arson.  If convicted, Isaiah Thomas Willoughby faces a mandatory minimum of five years in prison with the possibility of 20 years.  "This is the third case we have charged federally for the criminal acts that tainted otherwise peaceful protests.  Other crimes remain under investigation and may result in additional federal charges," U.S. Attorney Brian Moran released a statement.  "Those who worked to turn protests into riots will not escape accountability for their criminal conduct."

Riot reparations.  I live in a suburb of Los Angeles in the golden state of California.  Like other states, the place I call home has been hit hard by the Wuhan Flu.  Unemployment is high, businesses are closing, and our state's budget is in freefall.  If that weren't enough, California has accrued millions of dollars in damages from the George Floyd riots.  Now, I'm all for doing my part to help my state recover from this current economic crisis.  But paying for riot repairs?  Not so much.  As a homeschooling mom who walked away from a lucrative career in high-tech to raise and educate my children, I'm not down for this costly revolution.  Instead of cheerfully contributing my husband's hard-earned wages towards the payment of National Guard troops and cleanup crews, I demand reparations.

Why Is Hillary Clinton Support In 2016 Correlated With Cities' 2020 Riots?  In a soon-to-be-released book, Republican Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan says when President Obama called him during the 2015 riots in Baltimore, he expected the president to offer federal assistance.  Instead, Obama urged Hogan to back off.  Hogan ignored Obama's advice about the violence following the death of Freddie Gray, and worked to restore order to the state's largest city.  More than $20 million of damage was done after Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake told reporters the city would provide space to "those who wished to destroy."  If Baltimore's Democrat leaders gave $20 million of "space to destroy" in 2015, the price tag ballooned 100-fold in cities governed by the hard left in the 2020 round of urban violence.

Convicted Child Rapist Arrested for Baton Attack at Washington ANTIFA Protest.  A man arrested and charged with felony assault for a baton attack on a bystander during an ANTIFA left-wing protest at Olympia, Washington's City Hall is a convicted child rapist and registered sex offender.  Shaelyn Reed, 20, has been arrested and charged with fourth degree assault for attacking a conservative demonstrator with a baton.  Reed pled guilty to second-degree rape of a child in 2017, and is a registered sex offender in Thurston County, Washington.

Black Lives Matter Is Not A Peaceful Protest Group.  It is a cultural revolutionary Marxist mob pursuing the total transformation of modern society under the new woke world order.  In reality, Black Lives Matter don't actually care about black lives, otherwise there would be more outrage over recent spikes in community violence leaving more black people dead rather than chasing an anarchic quest to "defund police" that will demoralize law enforcement and increase homicides. [...] Since the killing of George Floyd at the knees of Minneapolis police, Black Lives Matter have exposed its true colors as an anarchic movement terrorizing the nation.  Within the last three months, mob rioters have burned down minority businesses, destroyed minority neighborhoods, killed a black police chief, desecrated civil rights monuments, launched deadly occupations of downtown centers, and set fire to churches.

Fight for Freedom.  [Scroll down]  Black Lives Matter is responsible for her death, for the absence of a mother in her son's life.  No one will make them pay for that life as it would be seen as a racist act.  She is the first casualty in the war against communism.  If there is anything systematic in America today, it is systematic communism.  It permeates every aspect of society.  Communists abound without knowing they are communists.  Ask anyone in state government and they will say they are not a communist, but they work all day enforcing communist principles with relish.  It gives them a sense of individual power to enforce state dictates.  The mask is a symbol of that systematic communism worn by those who do not see the connection, who no longer recognize the individual as supreme, the only way it can be in a republic.  Communism killed this young woman and all I can do is see my daughter's face in hers. [...] Jessica deserves more from us than a few tweets and a strenuous lament.  We need to fight for the freedom to say anything, be anything, pursue our dreams and provide that freedom to our posterity and hers.  Jessica stood against these bullies and communists are nothing, if not bullies.

Democratic Strategist Calls GOP Sen Marsha Blackburn 'Inbred Racist Trash'.  A Democratic strategist called a Republican female senator "inbred racist trash" for criticizing the founders of the Black Lives Matter group.  Republican Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn critiqued the nonprofit Black Lives Matter national organization in a Monday tweet, saying that BLM is run by "trained Marxists."  She clarified in a later tweet her comment referred to BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors, who has called herself and her fellow BLM organizers "trained Marxists," according to the New York Post.  "We cannot allow our great country to be destroyed under the pretense of social justice," Blackburn tweeted.

BLM Mob Attacks 58 Year Old Man With Cerebral Palsy.  Columbus Police is asking for the public's help identifying persons in this video.  The incident involves a vehicle take-over by people protesting in the downtown area on May 31st, 2020 at approximately 7pm at the intersection of High St and Broad St.  The video documents people engaging in violent behavior directed at a victim with Cerebral Palsy and his vehicle as well as others who actively came to his rescue and attempted to stop the violence.  [Video clip]

Black Lives Matter Terrorists Cut Down 9/11 Memorial for Fallen Firefighters in New York.  Black Lives Matter (BLM) rioters have targeted a 9/11 memorial in Washingtonville, N.Y. honoring fallen firefighters who lost their lives as first responders during the World Trade Center attacks.  Washingtonville Police Chief Brian Zacarro said that the terrorists severed a flag pole near the base of the memorial using a large saw.  They vandalized the bottom of the statue with a message that law enforcement is currently refusing to release to the public.  Community members are outraged at the defacing of the monument, which occurred as part of a coordinated marxist movement to rape what's left of America.

Seven ANTIFA Militants Facing Federal Charges for Attack on Portland Courthouse.  Seven ANTIFA-linked left-wing rioters are facing federal charges for a mass attack on the Hatfield Federal Courthouse in Portland last week.  A press release from the Department of Justice names the criminal suspects, announcing that they would be charged federally for their sophisticated and aggressive attack on the federal building.

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How many hundreds of people were rioting and looting in Portland last week?  And the feds are bragging that they filed charges against SEVEN of them?

The Communists Attack Church In Troy, NY.  [D]on't buy the lies that any of this is about race.  It's a communist revolution intent on tearing down Western civilization.  Churches stand in their way.  You'd better attend worship services armed.  This was peaceful compared to what I'm sure they have planned.  [Video clip]

Antifa Guy Finds Out the Hard Way He Opened the Wrong Motorist's Door.  There's no question that Portland is a hotbed of the radical leftist action going on now.  Antifa has been attacking police in the city for over 45 days, concentrating in the past couple of weeks on the federal courthouse, the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse, trying to burn it down.  They have so far been unsuccessful, although it is all boarded up on the outside from all the attacks and it has been spray painted with obscene phrases and threats against law enforcement by Antifa. [...] Antifa/protesters/rioters have a habit of harassing people while trying to stop cars.  At least two people have been shot by protesters, others have been injured.  But when one of the Antifa tried to open the car door of a motorist's SUV that was stopped outside the Courthouse, the Antifa guy found out the hard way that was the wrong door to try to open.  [Video clip]

Young mom, 24, shot dead 'after telling Black Lives Matter protesters "all lives matter" during argument about movement'.  A young mom was shot dead in Indianapolis in front of her fiancé after an argument about the Black Lives Matter movement.  Jessica Doty Whitaker was walking with her partner Jose Ramirez and two friends at 3 am on July 5 when they came across four men and a woman and an argument broke out.

Young White Mother Killed By Black Lives Matter Mob for Allegedly Saying 'All Lives Matter,' National Media Fully Ignores.  A 24-year-old mother was killed by a Black Lives Matter mob in Indianapolis last week, allegedly for saying "All Lives Matter."  Unlike Charlottesville, or any violence from the right, this killing was reported so quietly that barely anyone even noticed.  Jessica Doty Whitaker was shot and killed following an altercation with Black Lives Matter thugs who were upset that she and her fiance had said "All Lives Matter" last Sunday.

Trump denies Minnesota governor's request for $500M to repair damage from riots.  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.

Did Seattle Left Wing "Security" Murder and Assault Black Children?  At 3:00 a.m. [6/29/2020], in the Seattle lawless zone, known as CHAZ or CHOP, two children were killed by what some refer to as CHOP security. [...] The Seattle Police Chief said it was obvious the crime scene had been disturbed by numerous people.  No one has reported finding any weapons at the scene.  The car window on the passenger side of the Jeep was rolled up, as can be seen by the shattered glass around the frame. [...] The last 10 shots do not appear to be justified at all.  The driver seems impaired.  No gunfire can be discerned coming from the vehicle.  After the vehicle is stopped, it seems the last 10 shots are fired into it to finish off the occupants.  Given the rolled up passenger window, the idea that shots came from the vehicle first, if at all, seems unlikely.  Two members of the Seattle City council refused to express any responsibility for the deaths, or to hold anyone in CHAZ/CHOP responsible.

Trump Tells Minnesota Governor to Go Jump In a Lake, Denies Request for 'Disaster' Relief After Riots.  Some weeks ago, Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota made a request for federal disaster relief after hundreds of millions of dollars in destruction occurred in Minneapolis.  That damage came at the hands of rioting and looting in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd.  Those cities burned because Walz and the local leadership refused to stop the carnage, even as people were injured and killed in the chaos.  The President had urged Minnesota to deploy troops early on, something that wouldn't happen until later, after the damage was already done.  Instead of accepting Trump's offering of active duty troops, Walz refused while Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey trashed the President's urging to get tough and stop the anarchy.

Feds deny Walz's request for aid to rebuild after riots.  The federal government has denied Gov. Tim Walz's request for aid to help rebuild and repair Twin Cities structures that were damaged in the unrest following George Floyd's death.  Walz asked President Donald Trump to declare a "major disaster" for the state of Minnesota in his request to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) on July 2.  More than 1,500 buildings were damaged by fires, looting and vandalism in the days of unrest that followed Floyd's May 25 death in Minneapolis police custody, racking up more than $500 million in damages, according to Walz.  The governor's spokesman, Teddy Tschann, confirmed late Friday [7/10/2020] that the request for federal aid was denied.

Portland Rioters Surround Car and Driver Shoots His Way Out.  Every night for the past six weeks in Portland, Oregon, antifa and Black Lives Matter rioters, looters and vandals have turned what used to be a nice neighborhood in downtown into a war zone.  Portlanders are sick of it.  The police commissioner/mayor and the new BLM-approved police chief have done little about it.  The Portland Police Officers Association held a scathing news conference, issuing a no-confidence throwdown to City Hall and begging elected officials to stop defending antifa.  But next to nothing has been done by local Portland police.

Man arrested after allegedly pointing gun at Walgreens customer for not wearing a mask.  A Boston man has been arrested after police said he pointed a gun at a man in a parking lot for not wearing a face covering inside a store.  Todd Goulston, 59, has been charged with assault with a dangerous weapon, disorderly conduct, and disturbing the peace for allegedly aiming a gun at a man who did not wear a face mask inside a Walgreens despite a statewide coronavirus mask order, according to the Boston Herald. [...] Ghoulston's license to carry a firearm and the firearms he kept in his home were seized by police.

Madison Ave.  Business Sues Cuomo, De Blasio for Riots, Estimates $100M in Damages.  On May 29, George Floyd protests in New York City devolved into looting, riots, and arson.  Between May 29 and June 9, looters and rioters damaged more than 450 businesses.  During that lawless destruction, the NYPD union president blamed Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-N.Y.) and Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) for publicly attacking police and for not sending reinforcements to restore order.  Now, at least one business is filing a lawsuit to hold them accountable.

Madison Avenue shop sues Governor Andrew Cuomo over looting.  The Gov's being thrown a fat lawsuit.  The thrower's lawyer Sal Strazzullo.  The damages?  He estimates $100 million.  Co-defendants: the NYPD, Commissioner Dermot Shea, NYC, Bill de Blasio, the state of New York and others.  I'm told that an official Notice of Claim has been filed with the Court of Claims.  The claimant?  Domus Design Center aka DDC, 134 Madison Ave.  The issue deals with May 29's frightening night when looters, rioters and thieves terrorized our city, vandalized our streets, burglarized our shops.  Strazzullo:  Cuomo should have worried about hospital reform instead of bail reform.  Getting a free pass, some criminals were not able to be detained pending trial and now we have looters.  Who'd have imagined we'd have to board up our stores?  We're not in Afghanistan.  Places like Saks Fifth, Louis Vuitton, Prada, Rolex being bombed out?

Vandals Cut Down Flag Pole at 9/11 Firefighter Memorial.  A flag pole at a memorial honoring four firefighters who lost their lives in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center was found cut down by vandals in Washingtonville, New York.  The defunct pole was discovered on Wednesday and, according to Washingtonville Police Chief Brian Zaccaro, a tool was used to cut the pole.  Four to five feet of the pole was left standing in the ground and a message, which has not been released by authorities, was written on it with a marker.

How Antifa and Black Lives Matter Compare with Satan.  It is impossible to know just what goes on in the mind of a young protester while he is looting, setting fires, and engaging in other violent crimes.  But it is possible to know what he is attacking.  He is after those who are affluent, those who believe in goodness and decency, and those who support law and order.  One of the primary objects of attack is the police.  So far in 2020, over 30 police officers have been murdered by gunfire or other means.  Far more have been seriously assaulted, many of them by Antifa or other protesters.  Based on calls to defund the police in many cities, our police officers have become a special focus of attack.  Obviously, there have been cases of excessive force, but those rare events cannot explain the animosity of the young toward the police.  Most adults realize that the police are all that stand between themselves and criminal violence, and most of us deeply respect the men and women who protect us.  But there are thousands of protesters who truly despise those same police officers.  To a person attacking others, looting, and burning, the police are all that stand in his way.

'This Is No House of God!' Black Lives Matter Activists Yell as They Harass Church in Upstate NY.  Amid nationwide riots following protests over the horrific police killing of George Floyd, Black Lives Matter activists harassed a Baptist church in Troy, N.Y., a suburb of Albany.  Videos of the harassment went viral on Twitter, and the church confirmed to PJ Media that the harassment did, in fact, occur.  "On Sunday, June 28, the Marxist thugs screamed, chanted, harassed, blocked our steps from allowing people to enter the church, and then physically assaulted our church members," John Koletas, pastor of Grace Baptist Church, told PJ Media on Thursday.  The harassment did not end on Sunday, however.

BLM Agitator's Advice Could Turn Road Blockers into Road Kill or Lifers.  A (Caucasian, by the way) woman in a Black Lives Matter hat posted a video in which she describes a simple method for breaking a car window, cutting the driver's seat belt, and "removing" the driver "if necessary."  It looks as though her idea will work in terms of (1) getting the driver beaten like Reginald Denny or (2) death or serious injury for the perpetrator along with potential felony burglary or murder charges.  While nothing in this article constitutes legal advice, we will see how this individual has advised Black Lives Matter rioters (not "protesters") on how to commit acts that could turn them into roadkill or get them sent to prison for life.  In addition, possession of the tool in question for forcible entry into (rather than escape from) a vehicle could be construed as possession of burglary tools, which can be charged as a felony in some jurisdictions and a misdemeanor in others.

Utah protests erupt after 2 police officers cleared in suspect's shooting death: reports.  Utah Gov. Gary Herbert declared a state of emergency Thursday evening [7/9/2020] after "civil unrest" broke out in Salt Lake City in reaction to two police officers being cleared of wrongdoing in the May shooting death of an armed suspect.  Images posted online showed dozens of handprints, in what appeared to be red paint, splattered across a sign at the entrance to the Salt Lake County District Attorney's Office.

The Fragility Of The Woke.  [Scroll down]  Black Lives Matter, antifa and their large numbers of imitators and loosely organized wannabes are mostly made up of middle-class youth, often either students or graduates.  They deem themselves the brains of the rioting, the most woke of the demonstrators, the most sophisticated of the iconoclasts.  In truth, they are also the most paranoid about being charged or being hurt.  What explains the passive-aggressive nature of these protesters and rioters?  Many no doubt are indebted, with large, unpaid student loans.  Few seem in a hurry to get up at 6 a.m. each day to go to work to service loans that would take years to pay in full.  While some of those arrested are professionals, many are not.  Few seem to be earning the sort of incomes that would allow them to marry, have children, pay off student loan debt, buy a home and purchase a new car.  Historically, the tips of the spears of cultural revolutions are accustomed to comfort.  But they grow angry when they realize that they will never become securely comfortable.

Alderman says home vandalized, arson attempted in overnight attack.  A vandal threw a brick through the window of Ald.  Ray Lopez's (15th) home early Thursday before coming back an hour later and setting a nearby garage on fire.  Lopez believes that what happened overnight at his home was a direct result of an experience that he had with FOX 32 News about six blocks away from his home earlier in the day.  Lopez was giving an interview to FOX 32's Dane Placko when he says that a number of gang members told him that he does not control what happens in the neighborhood, they control what happens in the neighborhood.

Let's Talk about Black Privilege.  Would it be fair to say all participants of Black Lives Matter are violent?  No, but it's not the peaceful ones I'm worried about.  When Black Lives Matter colludes to tear down statues and monuments, they're not doing so to rewrite their Democrat history — they don't know anything about history.  They destroy and deface because terrorists kill, annihilate, and terrorize just for the sake of it, indiscriminately.  What we're discovering about the professional Democrat protest class is that they think quite similarly to Islamic supremacists.  The Woodstock generation has produced lite versions of Osama bin Laden — this is the actual legacy of the Democratic Party.  Islamic supremacists always recruit the young, the vulnerable, and the ignorant and always seek to expand.  The only substantive difference between Democrats and Islamic supremacists is that the latter have just been doing it longer.

Know Your Enemy:  Undeniable Truths About the Left.  [E]verything that is happening now is because the left's plans to remake the United States from a Constitutional republic into borderless global state were thwarted by the people electing Donald J. Trump for president.  As a result, the left not only hates Trump for beating their savior Hillary Clinton, it also loathes the citizens who voted for him.  Once you honestly grasp the level of hatred the left has for us, you begin to understand that the Wuhan virus extended lockdowns and the Black Lives Matter/Antifa led riots are for express purpose of bringing misery and terror to those who dared to vote for Donald Trump in 2016 and those who are planning to vote for him in November.  The left has turned up their intensity to eleven in their ongoing effort to isolate Trump from his base.  Democrat governors and mayors are holding your Constitutional freedoms hostage and the unspoken ransom for you to make all this desolation go away is to vote Democrat.

BLM protestors crash church service, assault worshippers.  A church service was interrupted at Grace Baptist Church in Troy, New York by a Black Lives Matter protest.  The small worship service was underway when about ten or so protestors walked into the church and announced "black lives matter."  [Video clip]

Mob Violence Must Not Be Tolerated.  Hold Accountable and Punish the Wrongdoers.  Orderly protest is part of our American tradition.  It is an exercise of our constitutional rights of free speech and peaceable assembly.  It is one way we the people can make our voices heard, our views known to those in power.  But rioting, looting, destroying property, and attacking fellow Americans have no place in orderly protest.  They are, in fact, the very antithesis of orderly protest.  And in the end, these patently illegal actions not only undermine the moral standing of legitimate protests.  History shows that they also wind up hurting most of the very people that true protesters aim to help.

Do the lives of innocent city residents not matter?  In Atlanta this weekend, an 8-year-old girl was shot and killed while riding in a vehicle with her mother.  The driver was trying to enter a parking lot where a group of people had illegally placed barricades.  Someone in the group reportedly opened fire.  Elsewhere in Minneapolis, a pregnant woman was shot while in her car.  Doctors were able to deliver and save her child, but the woman died shortly thereafter.  And in Seattle, where a teenage boy died last week, another young woman was killed after a car drove into a group of protesters on a closed highway.  We don't know much about the perpetrators or their politics, but we do know this:  Violence will continue to escalate in cities that refuse to check and put down lawless behavior.

CHAZ Leader Chased By Cops Across Highway, Cries Like A Baby When Caught.  When they aren't walking around with AR-15s, beating people they deem unfit for CHAZ or painting graffiti all over the police precinct, these so-called leaders are crying [...] when they get pinched for their thuggishness.  [Video clip]

Suspected Antifa Anarchist Accused Of Inciting Riots Turned In To Police By His Parents.  A suspected Antifa anarchist accused of inciting riots in Pittsburgh was turned in to police by his own parents Monday evening [6/29/2020].  Brian Bartels, 20, is accused of inciting violent protests in the city on Saturday in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd.

Heavily armed Black Panthers threaten car driver in Stone Mountain.  A large group of armed protesters on Saturday marched through Georgia's Stone Mountain Park, calling for the park's massive Confederate carving to be removed.  The group menaced several cars just trying to drive through.  [Video clip]

Armed Black Militia March Up Stone Mountain To Surround KKK Headquarters.  The BLM movement along with ANTIFA and their propagandists in the mainstream media have been inflaming America's race relations.  It is clear these groups are pushing for a race war and it seems they will get it.  [Video clip]

Armed Black Militia Known As NFAC Marching At Stone Mountain With Their Hitler Praising Leader.  [Video clip]

BLM Thugs Show Up Again To The McCloskey's Residence To Harass Them.  The McCloskey's made top headlines last week after pulling guns on BLM and ANTIFA thugs who broke into their private residence in St. Louis.  Another mob of terrorist thugs came back to that PRIVATE residence to harass and threaten the family.  [Video clip]

We're Experiencing an Attempted Revolution by Entitled, Privileged Snobs but How Will It Play Out?  Unless you've missed it, we're seeing the formation of what could become an active insurrection.  A lot of it is straight out of the unconventional warfare classroom.  The radical Marxist group Black Lives Matter provides the direction.  There are establishment figures, like Nancy Pelosi, like Chuck Schumer, like Rachel Maddow, like Jake Tapper, who think by mouthing correct slogans they will buy influence and loyalty, but, if this project succeeds those folks and their face-diaper wearing colleagues will be among the first to the scaffold (assuming anyone in BLM has the mechanical skills to erect one).  The rent-a-mobs are composed of three easily identifiable segments:  the provocateurs and street soldiers composed largely of antifa and black bloc stooges; the 'mostly peaceful' protesters who think they are participating in a legitimate act of protest; and the opportunists who show up to carry off big screen televisions, throw bricks at cops, and commit vandalism for the sake of destroying stuff.

Nothing Is Off Limits to Defeat Trump.  We are facing nothing less than the Democrat/Antifa/BLM usurpation of our Constitution and the overthrow of the United States of America.  We must fight for our republic if we wish to keep her.  The riots, the arson, and the toppling of statues have nothing to do with George Floyd, systemic racism, or the Confederate past.  They are about one thing only — inaugurating a Democrat as president on January 20, 2021.  They seek to desensitize regular Americans to the violence, anarchy, and breakdown of even the pretense of civil order, hoping that with bloodshed, they can also frighten those who might choose to fight back when they steal the election or overthrow a duly reelected President Trump.

The Grim Lessons of CHOP.  Early this morning [7/1/2020], Seattle police began dismantling the barricades, tents, and signs that demonstrators had used to control several city blocks for most of the last month.  The area was originally known as the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ), but had recently been renamed, for reasons nobody could quite explain, the Capitol Hill Organized Protest (or Occupied Protest), producing the ominous acronym CHOP — as in what happened to dissenters during the French Revolution.  In recent weeks, the area had begun to acquire a correspondingly evil reputation, particularly after nightfall.  This reached a breaking point about a week ago with two shootings in 48 hours.  In one of them, a 19-year-old kid who was trying to get other protesters to stop setting off dangerous fireworks was shot and killed.  The protesters prevented police and ambulances from arriving at the scene.  The victim died after being taken to the hospital by CHOP "medics," and no suspects have yet been identified in his death.

Minnesota Gov. Walz asks Trump for disaster declaration after George Floyd riots trigger over $500M in damages.  Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has asked President Trump for a federal disaster declaration in his state due to "extensive fire damage" and other destruction in the unrest that followed George Floyd's death in Minneapolis police custody on Memorial Day.  "We need to come together to ensure Minnesotans who were victims of this destruction have access to critical infrastructure they need so they can go to the grocery store, pick up their medication, and live their lives," Walz said in a statement Thursday.  "Together, we will rebuild."

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The riots could have been immediately quashed by the Minneapolis mayor or the Minnesota governor, but they weren't.  Now they expect the rest of us to pay for the cleanup — together.  Let the city of Minneapolis rot!

Seattle Mayor Admits CHOP Antifastan Caused Crime Wave, 'Alarming' Spike in COVID Cases.  When Mayor Jenny Durkan (D-Seattle) finally ordered police to clear out the antifa instigators in the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP), which has been dubbed "Antifastan" (no offense to Central Asian countries), her order made some very fascinating observations about the occupation she had allowed to fester for three long weeks.  As it turns out, a lawless rebellion protest/anarchist commune might be bad for... public health and safety.  Specifically, CHOP appears to have caused both a crime wave and an uptick in coronavirus cases amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Harvard grad blames Trump supporters for being fired from her 'dream job'.  The Harvard graduate who went viral for saying she'd 'stab' anyone who told her 'all lives matter' in a TikTok video has tearfully returned to the video-sharing site to reveal that she's been fired from her dream job at Deloitte.  Claira Janover, who graduated in May with a degree in government and psychology, posted a TikTok video this week where she said angrily:  'The next person who has the nerve to tell me All Lives Matter... Imma stab you.  'Imma stab you and while you're bleeding out, imma show you my paper cut and say, "my cut matters too."'  She says it was a 'satirical analogy' that was taken at 'face value' when it shouldn't have been.

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When a Harvard graduate says, "Imma stab you," it means her tuition money was wasted.

Update:
Deloitte says Harvard grad who wept dramatically over loss of 'dream job' was NEVER an employee.  The story involving Harvard graduate Claira Janover has taken on bizarre elements of a Seinfeld episode after the company she claimed she was fired from said that she never worked for them.  A teary-eyed Janover said she was fired from her "government and public-service analyst" job at Deloitte amid the fierce backlash over her threatening to stab anyone who dare to say "All Lives Matter," rather than Black Lives Matter.  The only problem with Janover playing the victim is that Deloitte confirmed that she was never an employee of the company, the Daily Mail reported Friday [7/3/2020].  Deloitte managing director Jonathan Gandal told the British tabloid that Janover "has never been an employee of our organization."

Seattle sees 525 percent spike in crime thanks to CHOP: Mayor Durkan.  Seattle saw a staggering 525 percent spike in crime as a result of the violence that swept through the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest zone, according to Mayor Jenny Durkan.  Durkan's emergency order booting protesters from the six-block cop-free zone makes mention of the "narcotics use and violent crime, including rape, robbery, assault, and increased gang activity" within the CHOP since it first emerged in early June.  June 2 to June 30 saw the 525 percent jump in crime compared to the same period last year.

Teen shot dead in Seattle's CHOP was being chased after stealing Jeep.  The teenager shot dead in Seattle's Capitol Hill Organized Protest area was being chased after stealing a Jeep at knifepoint — and sobbed, "I don't want to die" after he was shot, according to a report.  Antonio Mays Jr., 16, said that he and a 14-year-old boy were being chased and shot at early Monday after they "beat someone up and took" their vehicle at knifepoint, his so-called "street sister," Ciara Walker, told DailyMail.com.  Walker told the pair to head to the police precinct in the CHOP zone, telling them, "You will be safe there — nothing will happen to you."

Never Give an Inch.  We don't have any inches left.  We can't compromise or concede anything.  They're destroying our history, our economy, our connections with God.  They want to tear apart our families and they've already made mockeries of our schools.  This last spate of riots has to be the end.  We can tolerate this Mad Hatter's tea party no longer.  "Black Lives Matter?"  Whoever said they didn't?  What does that even mean?  Two hundred years ago when most American blacks were slaves — even then — black lives mattered — they were money.  There's nothing even remotely rational in that slogan.  What would they have chanted had Floyd been white?  It looked to me like a terrible miscarriage of justice no matter what the color of his skin, so had he been, say, Jewish, would the rioters have been stealing TVs and torching cop cars?  Would they have been chanting, "Jewish Lives Matter?"  So what does it mean?  Not much.  We abort black babies more often than babies of any other race, but those lives evidently don't "matter."  The cruelty of the abortion procedures evidently isn't an issue to these miscreants.  The black cops on the street are treated with even worse disrespect than the white cops, so it's not their lives that matter. [...] It's never been clearer that this has been fit-throwing for fit-throwing's sake — and for the sake of stealing the coming election.

Media narrative of peaceful Seattle CHOP zone turned upside down as mayor sends in police to stop violence.  As protesters and armed anarchists seized control last month of a swath of Seattle's downtown that includes a police station, dubbing it Capitol Hill Organized Protest, the local and mainstream media largely echoed elected leaders by insisting it was a peaceful protest — until people started getting killed.  The spin by the Seattle Times and national outlets that covered it belied the violent and dangerous origin of the area that began on June 8, when Seattle police abandoned their own station and allowed self-described anarchists to create a "police-free" zone.  On Wednesday [7/1/2020], police went back in and finished clearing out the area, after multiple shootings, an alleged rape and at least two murders.

Veteran Oklahoma police officer killed, rookie in critical condition, after suspect shoots both in the head.  A veteran Tulsa, Oklahoma, police officer died Tuesday after a traffic stop went wrong.  Six weeks after Officer Aurash Zarkeshan completed training with the Tulsa Police Department, he made a regular traffic stop on East 21st Street early Monday morning, police said.  After Zarkeshan ran David Anthony Ware's information into the system, he called for backup.

Against the Police:  Nets Skip Death of Tulsa Officer Shot in the Head.  On Tuesday, 15-year Tulsa Police Department veteran and Sergeant Craig Johnson died at a hospital after sustaining a gunshot wound to his head on Monday.  Six-week rookie Officer Aurash Zarkeshan was also in critical condition after also being shot in the head during the same struggle with a suspect.  Though Monday's [6/29/2020] CBS Evening News was the only broadcast newscast to report on their hospitalization, neither they nor ABC, or NBC informed their viewers about Sgt. Johnson's passing.

CHOP Chopped:  Hypocrite Seattle Mayor Finally Lets Cops do Their Jobs.  It turns out that all you had to do to get the CHOP cleared out of the midst of Seattle was to send in the police in force, and do it before noon, while all the depraved occupants were still sleeping.  This morning [7/1/2020], after a fellow Marxist on the Seattle City Council had organized a protest action in front of the Mayor's home, she sent in the cavalry to rid her city of the armed militants who had illegally occupied the area for the past month or so.  Obviously, the only way to convince a commie Democrat mayor to let the police do their jobs is to make he or she [sic] feel personally threatened, a mistake the Antifa/BLM thugs made Sunday evening.

Arrests Made After Mayor Orders End of CHOP.  Seattle police cleared the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP) on Wednesday [7/1/2020] following an emergency order from Mayor Jenny Durkan (D).  Numerous arrests were made as the city retook possession of the Seattle Police Department's East Precinct, citing violence and lawlessness in the area as their primary motives for shutting down the insurrection.  Durkan issued an executive order declaring the cop-free zone an "unlawful assembly" on Wednesday that gave protesters 48 hours to vacate the six-block zone.  At 5:00 a.m., dozens of officers with the Seattle Police Department (SPD) moved onto the scene, some wearing riot gear.

Jesse Taggart, 33, Charged With Attempted Murder For Allegedly Shooting Driver at Provo BLM Protest.  Black Lives Matter activist Jesse Taggart, 33, was arrested for allegedly shooting an elderly man during a riot in Provo, Utah on Tuesday [6/30/2020] and hit with a host of charges including attempted aggravated murder.  According to Provo Police, Taggart was charged with attempted aggravated murder, aggravated assault causing serious bodily injury, rioting, threatening use of a weapon in a fight or quarrel, criminal mischief and firing a weapon near a highway.

Provo Police Arrest Black Lives Matter Agitator Who Allegedly Shot SUV Driver.  A 33-year-old Black Lives Matter supporter was arrested Tuesday night [6/30/2020] in connection with the shooting of an SUV driver during a riot in downtown Provo.  Jesse Taggart, of Salt Lake City, "was booked into the Utah County Jail and held on charges of attempted aggravated murder, aggravated assault causing serious bodily injury, rioting, threatening the use of a weapon during a fight or quarrel, criminal mischief, and firing a weapon near a highway, according to Provo Police.  As American Greatness reported on Tuesday, video footage of the altercation on Monday showed someone shooting into a white SUV while it was being mobbed by violent agitators.

Virginia Democrats Propose Reducing Charge For Assaulting Police Officers.  Virginia Senate Democrats are proposing the reduction of the charge of assault on a police officer from a felony to a simple misdemeanor offense.  The proposal, one of 28 championed by the Virginia Senate Democratic Caucus to reform the state's law enforcement systems, would get rid of the current law that considers an assault of a police officer a Class 6 felony and imposes a mandatory minimum term of confinement of six months.

Seattle Police Finally Clear Out the CHAZ (After Radicals Came to Mayor's Home).  Finally the mayor of Seattle decided to drop the hammer on the Seattle autonomous zone.  Last night [6/30/2020] the Seattle Department of Transportation began removing some of the barricades.  The radicals tried to put substitutes like couches and other things to block off the area again.  But Mayor Jenny Durkan issued an emergency order today, demanding that the radicals leave the Capitol Hill area.

CHAZ/CHOP Turns Into A Warzone, 3 Shot One Dead, Leadership Hides In Police Station For Safety.  One man has died and another remains hospitalized in critical condition Monday following the latest shooting near Seattle's Capitol Hill Organized Protest, or CHOP.  Two males suffering gunshot wounds arrived at Harborview Medical Center's Emergency Department.  [Video clip]

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Yes, but aside from the shooting, look at the trash and debris and graffiti and garbage everywhere.  It's like they've occupied the City Dump.

Can't Stop The CHOP: Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan Loses Control.  This weekend, two men were shot inside CHOP — one died, and the other is in the intensive care unit at Harborview Medical Center.  Let's not forget that last weekend a man was shot dead and another injured.  Thus far, three of the four are listed as teenagers.  Meanwhile, no one is talking.  Authorities are unable to ascertain what happened and why in both incidents.  In referencing last weekend's murder, the Seattle police blotter states, "The victim refused to provide any information about the circumstances surrounding the shooting of a suspect description to officers."  With real police held at a distance, no one is in custody for either shooting.

Obama admits it:  Riots and protests are 'tailor-made' for electing Joe Biden.  Joe Biden is hiding in his basement, but maybe that's because the rabid-left looters, rioters, and protesters are carrying out his presidential campaign just fine for him.  What else can be concluded but that, given that President Obama has cynically admitted that the civil unrest covering the U.S. is "tailor-made" for electing Joe Biden? [...] Perhaps the idea is to beat the public down to such an extent that it feels that only a Democrat can solve it.  Perhaps he sees in the polls that the public is blaming Trump.  The New York Times reported just a couple days ago that Obama is obsessed with ousting President Trump.  That being the case, it's not unlikely that he will continue with his old Alinsky training, to oust Trump by any means necessary.  If riots will do it, Obama and his Democrats will be happy with more riots.

Seattle mayor slams protesters for showing no 'regard for' her 'safety' as demonstrators circle her home.  A group of protesters marched to the home of Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan on Sunday afternoon [6/28/2020], upset that she pledged to dismantle the police-free "Capitol Hill Organized Protest" zone, known as CHOP.  Seattle City Councilwoman Kshama Sawant joined a group of dozens of demonstrators gathered at Durkan's home who were holding signs, chanting, and demanding she leave the area alone or meet protesters' demands.  Durkan said last week that police would soon return to Seattle's East Precinct, which has been overrun by protesters who set up the CHOP zone, but gave no timetable.

The Most Noble Experiment in Human History is on a Ventilator.  So how did the completely senseless and tragic death of George Floyd devolve into the anarchy pulsing through America's cities today?  Is this really about George Floyd?  I posit for your consideration that the professional agitators and extremists have leaped upon Mr. Floyd's death to do what they do best.  Namely, this is their time to destroy the United States and all that has made it the country of hope and opportunity for hundreds of millions of people.  I do not know if China, Russia, or internal fomenters of destruction are funding this wanton violence and destruction.  I do know that George Floyd was just the excuse.  The attack on police, institutions, and statues are not about him.  They are being orchestrated by those who wish to radically change the United States.

BLM Protester Admits, Violence [is] Pre-Planned and Scripted.    [Video clip]

Detroit Police Car Drives Through Swarming Mob as Protesters Cling to Hood.  A Detroit police SUV drove through a swarming mob of protesters Sunday night [6/28/2020] who tried to block the police car and then hung on the hood as the officer drove through the mob to escape down the street.  A second police SUV followed.  The attack by protesters came as police, who had been escorting the protesters, tried to redirect the Black Lives Matter march away from a busy street.  One police car reportedly had its rear window smashed in.

Black teen, 16, is killed and a 14-year-old boy is wounded after gunmen fired into their Jeep at Seattle's CHOP zone.  Surveillance video of a shooting at Seattle's CHOP zone that left a black 16-year-old boy dead and a 14-year-old seriously injured shows gunfire ringing out as the Jeep the teens were in plowed into a barricade and a man screaming: 'Oh you're not dead yet?'.  Homicide detectives said they are investigating after the two teenagers were shot in a white Jeep near a makeshift barrier around the Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP) zone at about 3am on Monday.  Those inside the zone say CHOP security guards, who are self-appointed and heavily armed, started shooting at the Jeep only after the teens opened fire on them and drove into a barricade.

Another shooting in Seattle's protest zone leaves 1 dead.  One man was killed and and a teenager was wounded early Monday in Seattle's "occupied" protest zone — the second deadly shooting in the area that local officials have vowed to change after business complaints and criticism from President Donald Trump.  The violence that came just over a week after another shooting in the zone left one person dead and another wounded was "dangerous and unacceptable" police Chief Carmen Best said.

Another Shooting in Seattle's CHAZ/CHOP, Another Dead Body.  We've lost count of the number of shootings that have taken place inside Seattle's cop-free Summer of Love block party, AKA the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest zone or CHOP. CHOPanistas seem to have a propensity of gunplay and shooting and killing each other. [...] It isn't clear how many more people will have to be shot and killed before the Mayor will order that the CHOP and be taken down, allowing the city's police to retake their abandoned precinct building.  Or how many more lawsuits locals will have to file to push her to act.

Seattle City Council Member Blames 'Capitalism's Brutality' for CHOP Murders.  Things aren't going so well inside the "CHOP," the autonomous zone that Seattle's government is currently allowing to exist contrary to the law.  We've already had one murder in just two weeks inside an area no bigger than six city blocks.  Now, there's been another one.  A man was killed and a 14 year old is fighting for his life after a drive-by shooting within the CHOP.  Rumors are circulating that it was CHOP's own self-proclaimed security that was involved.  Unfortunately, the crime scene has already been tampered with and it's unlikely many witnesses will cooperate.  There is video of the incident that may help with the investigation.

CHAZ/CHOP Now the World's Most Dangerous "Nation".  After a handful of reported sexual assaults, violence against outsiders, and numerous thefts, the Seattle Autonomous Zone known as CHAZ and/or CHOP suffered their first reported homicide over the weekend on Saturday [6/20/2020]. [...] While the media has been portraying this modern rendition of Lord of the Flies as peaceful (or as they sometimes comically put it, "mostly peaceful"), due to their low population, this single murder already makes CHAZ/CHOP the most violent "nation" in the world.  CHAZ/CHOP is estimated to have a small population of only 200, implying a murder rate of 500 per 100,000.  In 2019 Venezuela was the world's most dangerous country with a murder rate of 60.3 per 100,000, 88% lower than CHAZ/CHOP.

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Not that I really care all that much, but I spent about five minutes searching for the "population of CHAZ/CHOP" and found no numbers.  (I suppose conducting a census would look too much like the work of a bureaucracy.)  Without knowing the population, it's a little difficult to calculate the murder rate per capita.

Black Lives Matter update: 100% of CHAZ/CHOP homicide victims are black.  Good job Democrats!  CHOP is currently the most dangerous country on earth based on per capita crime statistics.  Also of note, the racist leadership inside the terrorist nation has attempted to cover up the severity of the crimes against blacks by refusing to cooperate with American authorities. [...] One man has died and another remains hospitalized in critical condition Monday following the latest shooting near Seattle's Capitol Hill Organized Protest, or CHOP.  Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best said the death marked the second African American man to die in the area that claims to believe Black Lives Matter.

Driving Conservatives Underground.  Cultural tyranny reigns in America, the last step before full-fledged political tyranny.  Lurking beneath the surface of virtue signaling leftists are tyrants seeking to exert their will over those they despise.  The defining leftist culture enables them to ruthlessly use all the power at their disposal, both real and imagined, to enforce a single acceptable viewpoint on society.  In some geographic areas, this is more obvious than in others, but no area will ultimately be spared.  This week, my wife volunteered during the Virginia Republican primary.  As people came by the booth to get information on the candidates, she offered these Republican voters an opportunity to sign up for yard signs.  Most whispered that they could never put something like that up in their neighborhood.  That's understandable.  Unless a family is willing to stand guard 24/7 over their property, a Trump bumper sticker or sign here is a risky proposition at best.

CHOP's 'security' growing more 'contentious' with nearby residents: report.  Seattle residents said Sunday that despite rumors that the city was going to reclaim the "occupied" area known as CHOP, little has changed on the ground and the "security" at the protest zone has actually gotten more "contentious" with residents who live nearby.  "They won't let people in the neighborhood sometimes at night," Matthew Ploszaj, who lives there, told KOMO News.  He told the station that he supports the Black Lives Matter movement, but said it is a "terrible precedent" that "any political message can come in and occupy a neighborhood."

BLM mob takes aim at praying Christians and Catholic statue as anarchy spreads to the heartland.  Counter-cultural protests continued into the weekend around the country, including the heartland city of St. Louis where an angry mob of Black Lives Matter demonstrators threatened a Catholic priest and attacked at least one person who attended a prayer rally.  At a demonstration sponsored by The Gateway Pundit in support of preserving the St. Louis Statue on Art Hill in Forest Park, police had to separate BLM counter-protesters who attempted to disrupt the group as they prayed with Catholic priests.

Mob Rule Imperils Western Civilization.  Now's the Time for Courage and Leadership.  The war on history has spread across our country and has even spilled over to other parts of the Western world.  Now, on a daily basis, we see scenes of lawless mobs attacking and tearing down statues, and defacing monuments of every type — often as authorities stand idly by.  But this violence has hardly been reserved just for statues.  After toppling a statue of an abolitionist who gave his life to the cause as a member of the Union Army, a mob in Madison, Wisconsin, mercilessly beat a Wisconsin Democrat state senator who supported the protests.  Mob rule is indeed coming to America.  It must be stopped.

500 Investigations Probe Arson, Destruction of Property in Riots, Attorney General Says.  Attorney General William Barr said Thursday that the Department of Justice is conducting about 500 investigations into acts of arson and destruction associated with the protests and riots over the past several weeks.  The DOJ is ramping up investigations into the activists who participated in destruction of private and public property over the last several weeks, Barr said during an episode of the "Verdict" podcast with Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas.  We've had scores of indictments so far for such things as arson, destruction of federal property," Barr said, adding that the DOJ is going full bore on a probe.  "We have right now about 500 investigations underway, so it's picking up pace.  We are committed to holding accountable the people who engaged in this."  He added:  "State and local are not doing their jobs."

Shutting down CHOP: Seattle's leftist mayor now up to her keister in alligators.  Where do liberals get the idea that if you just talk nicely to warlords, expropriators, pirates, and invaders, they'll do what you say?  That's the approach Seattle's Trump-hating mayor, Jenny Durkan, took, and she's about to learn the hard way how that works, except that she doesn't learn.  She called for the shutdown of CHOP, and its defiant and entitled denizens have since walked all over her, making her look like a fool.

Off-duty Dallas police officer beaten to ground after trying to disperse crowd, police say.  An off-duty Dallas police officer was attacked from behind Thursday night after telling a group to leave a closed pool area at an apartment complex, authorities said.  The assault unfolded around 9 p.m. at the Allure apartments complex in North Dallas, police said Friday in a news release.  The officer, who was in plainclothes, identified himself as a Dallas police officer and tried to disperse the crowd, police said.  As he walked away, police said multiple people attacked him from behind and he fell to the ground.  The officer lost consciousness during the attack, police told WFAA-TV.  When he wokevup, he called 911 and told responding officers that a group of three or four men had struck him in the back and kicked him several times, police said.

Rabid leftists of CHOP refuse to quit their Seattle squats.  After supporting Seattle's CHOP and declaring it a "summer of love," Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan had no choice but to bow out of it, given that it had become a killing zone and police were obstructed from tending the gunfire victims bleeding in the streets.  The lawsuits from destroyed businesses were looming, plus there was President Trump, a man she rabidly hated herself, threatening to come in and hose that hellhole out if she wouldn't.  Only a little bit of egg on her face, she tried to tell the media lackeys, as she backed down and declared the CHOP over.  No more block party, summer of love done, and summer hadn't even officially started.  Clearing her throat, she announced that community organizers would clear the streets and direct the homeless to 'services' and lefty-ism could happily go on.  Just one problem:  The rabid leftists embedded at CHOP have no intention of leaving.

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"In 2020, the June solstice occurs on Saturday, June 20, marking the start of summer in the Northern Hemisphere." 

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Watch Antifa Run When Portland Police Rush Them, It Doesn't End Well for Them.  Early Friday morning [6/26/2020], hundreds of Antifa attacked police and the North Precinct in Portland.  They tried to set up another autonomous zone around the precinct with fencing and dumpsters, tried to lock police in the precinct and light it on fire, and pelted the police outside with objects like glass bottles. [...] I think it's plain to see the Portland Police have had enough of these characters.  They rushed them and the Antifa kids were so taken aback they fell all over themselves trying to get away.

In First Weekend Of Riots, Looting Damage In 20 Major Cities Exceeded $400 Million.  Looting costs in America's 20 largest metropolitan areas exceeded $400 million from the first weekend of rioting, according to a new report from the Anderson Economic Group.  "This includes property damage, lost inventory, cleanup and reconstruction costs, and closure-related lost wages," the report stated. "[The study] did not assign any costs to peaceful protests or demonstrations."  The report, published June 5, used "news publications to identify where looting occurred... and estimate the total costs of looting between May 29 and June 3."  The report authors say this value could be severely underestimated.

Man shot inside Seattle's CHOP claims racists attacked him in 'hate crime'.  A man critically injured in one of the shootings inside Seattle's chaotic, cop-free CHAZ claims it was a hate crime committed by racist infiltrators who dropped the N-word.  DeJuan Young told KIRO 7 that he was fleeing the sound of gunshots from where a teenager was shot dead early Saturday when he was accosted by at least four men who dropped a racial slur when they shot him.  "I'm not sure if they're Proud Boys or KKK," Young told the station of the attack in the so-called "Capital Hill Autonomous Zone."

CHOP Protesters Stop Seattle Workers From Removing Barriers.  City workers that arrived at the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP) on Friday [6/26/2020] to remove the barriers that currently separate the zone from the rest of the city were met with resistance from protesters, culminating in the clean-up crews departing with the barriers still in place.  Workers from Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) were on the scene at about 6:00 a.m. local time with trucks and heavy machinery, setting up around the edges of the "autonomous zone."  But activists from the occupied area lay down in front of the machinery, impeding the crew from doing their job.  Two hours later, at 8:00 a.m., the workers left without having removed the barriers.

Seattle union chief:  Residents, businesses held 'hostage' by CHOP 'criminals' need leadership.  The residents and business owners surrounding Seattle's Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP) "police-free" zone are effectively being held "hostage" by a "criminal element" that controls the six-block area and beyond, Seattle Police Officers Guild President Michael Solan reported Saturday [6/27/2020][.]  In an interview on "Cavuto LIVE" with host Neil Cavuto, Solan said that the protests have gone "way too far" and that Seattleites — dozens of whom are now suing the city — have "every right to be angry."

The left is always destroyed by its lies.  [Scroll down]  It's a lie that mobs calling themselves "anti-fascists" are in fact anti-fascists.  The truth is that they're actually no more anti-fascist than the various "people's republics" ruled by communist tyrants were actually for the people.  The truth is that these so-called anti-fascists are violent anti-anti-fascists who burn cities, rape women, beat those who disagree with them and seek to impose a Reign of Terror intolerant of any dissent from their diktats.

The Russian Origins of Black Neo-Marxism.  This is a systematic, canonical, and "ideologically correct" approach to the class struggle, designed to accomplish a dogmatic Marxist wealth redistribution.  Why?  Because since the 60s, all leftists have known the maxim:  "The issue is never the issue.  The issue is always the revolution."  That is why the two paramilitary wings of the Democrat party — the "white" Antifa and the "black" BLM — perfectly understand each other.  After all, the race is not a problem.  The main goal is the revolution.  (By the way, the "white" wing of the stormtroopers was also created by the communist:  Soviet agent Ernst Thalmann established Antifa in Germany in 1932.)  BLM stormtroopers are trying to provoke a racial war in America in the hope that it will develop into a civil war — simply because it is much easier to make a revolution during a war.  One of the founders of BLM, Patrisse Cullors, does not hide the fact that BLM members are "trained Marxists" who "read Marx, Lenin, and Mao."

According to Ted Cruz, Attorney General Bill Barr Is the Honey Badger.  The interview opened with Barr answering questions about federal law enforcement agencies' role in addressing the unrest and lawlessness that has been occurring nationwide. [...] He did note that when the violence began at the end of May, the thirty-five Joint Terrorism Task Force teams were activated nationwide.  These are cooperative teams of local, state, and federal agencies that are built to deal with terroristic threats.  Barr shared that these teams are conducting investigations and cranking out indictments.  Citing scores of indictments and arrests for crimes such as arson and destruction of federal property, Barr stated there were at least 500 investigations underway.  When asked about evidence of coordination in the riots, he confirmed this is part of the picture.  Barr stated anarchistic groups associated with the antifa movement are acting as provocateurs among legitimate protests.  He also confirmed there is coordination close to the event.  Often the day before or the morning of, law enforcement is seeing:
  •   Communications between groups
  •   Organization among the members
  •   Pre-planning of activities
  •   Pre-positioning of materials

Terrorized Virginia Woman, Being Attacked by Black Lives Matter Mob, Told to "Call City Hall" by 911 Operator.  Fox Host Tucker Carlson broadcast a stunning example showing how average Americans are being terrorized by rampaging mobs as local and state officials do nothing.  In the example a woman driving with her daughter through Fredericksburg, Virginia, is attacked by a mob of Black Lives Matter thugs.  Panicked the lady calls 911 for help, the response from the 911 operator is to chastise the woman and tell her to "call city hall" with her complaint.  This is a prime example of what Marxist Democrats support.

Attorney General Barr Confirms Over 500 Federal Investigations into Rioters.  Attorney General William Barr confirmed on Thursday that there are currently over 500 investigations being carried out by the Department of Justice against those who have been involved in widespread rioting over the last month, as reported by The Daily Caller.  Barr made the announcement on Senator Ted Cruz's (R-Texas) podcast "The Verdict," stating that "we've had scores of indictments so far for such things as arson, destruction of federal property," and that they are "picking up pace."  As has been previously reported, there have already been over 70 indictments across the country on federal charges.  Barr's comments come nearly one month after President Trump officially declared Antifa a domestic terrorist organization, which gave the federal government greater leeway to pursue federal charges against those involved in the violence.

Black Lives Matter Leader Threatens to 'Burn Down' America.  Trump Responds in Kind.  On Thursday [6/25/2020], President Donald Trump condemned Greater New York Black Lives Matter leader Hank Newsome in the strongest possible terms.  Newsome had told Fox News's Martha McCallum that the United States was "built on violence" and warned that if America "doesn't give us what we want, then we will burn down this system and replace it." [...] "Black Lives Matter leader states, 'If U.S. doesn't give us what we want, then we will burn down this system and replace it'.  This is Treason, Sedition, Insurrection!" Trump tweeted.

Seattle Autonomous Zone Begins to Disband as Protesters Leave the Area.  The "Capitol Hill Occupied Protest" (CHOP) moved towards disintegration on Thursday [6/25/2020] as protesters began leaving the area.  Four shootings have occurred in the CHOP over the past several days, leaving one person dead.  The area, which covers six blocks in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood, has also been referred to as the "Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone," or CHAZ.

Jim Jordan Absolutely Goes off After Jerry Nadler Gaslights Antifa as 'an Imaginary Thing'.  The mainstream media and Democrats simply can't seem to make up their minds when it comes to the radical left-wing anarchistic group Antifa.  They're either 1) modern-day versions of the WWII Normandy beach heroes and saving America from alt-right racists, 2) a fringe group joining up with white supremacist agitators to disrupt peaceful protests in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd, or 3) they simply don't exist.  That they are a mythical creation was posited by Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) during a Thursday [6/26/2020] debate on the Democratic-led House's police reform bill.  Nadler, the House Judiciary Committee Chairman, stated on the House floor that Republicans were "dealing with imaginary things like Antifa".

ATF increases reward to $20K for info leading to arrest of St. Paul arson suspects.  The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is now offering $20,000 for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of a man and woman wanted in connection with several St. Paul business fires during recent unrest in the Twin Cities.  Jose Felan, Jr., described as being a felon with multiple convictions, was captured on video setting fires at numerous St. Paul locations, including Gordon Parks High School.  The ATF reports Mena Dyaha Yousif, Felan's girlfriend and accomplice, is believed to be helping Felan evade law enforcement officials.

As They Disband CHOP, Its Leaders Insist Their Anarchy That Enabled Rape And Murder Was Successful.  "CHOP," Seattle's lawless Capitol Hill Occupied Protest, is no longer occupied.  The "Solidarity Committee" of CHOP, the six-block cop-free area previously named CHAZ for Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, addressed their "Comrades in the struggle" on Twitter Wednesday [6/24/2020] to break the news:  "The CHOP project is now concluded."

BLM/Antifa Violence Is Prelude for November.  The left is going to riot in November no matter who wins the presidency.  Leftists have established by precedent the premise that "mostly peaceful" rioting, arson, assault, and rampant property destruction are not only acceptable, but necessary in order to purge our nation of imagined original sin.  George Floyd was merely a stroke of luck for the left; if it were not for his murder, they would have needed to conjure up another excuse for the studied and deliberate anarchy we are experiencing today.

Why Are We Letting Democrats Steal from Us?  We cannot ignore that these anarchists are robbing us of the law and order required for our safety and prosperity.  When police forces are defunded, police are told to stand down, and the public supports the criminals over law-abiding citizens, the outcome is clear.  No-go zones like CHOP in Seattle, murder rates like those of Chicago, and riots and looting like those across our cities will become commonplace.  The leftists cannot explain how destroying peaceful and nonviolent co-existence, civil discourse, critical thinking, respect for differing opinions, and an honest teaching of American history is problematic for the black community because this is not about BLM. It's about power and keeping it in the hands of Democrats.  That would be the same party that has controlled our inner cities for decades, leading to the mess we're now seeing on display.

The Left Craps Out.  There is no move that the Dems or their leftist allies can make that is not even more catastrophic, more humiliating, and more revealing.  The Antifa mob holds downtown Seattle?  Let them keep it.  The people of Seattle, and Milwaukee, and Chicago, voted for this — have been voting for it for decades — and now here it is.  It's time to pay the piper.  They deserve whatever they've got coming, and I have no sympathy for them.  No city and no state has any right to put the nation as a whole in jeopardy, and that is the end of it.

Crowds tear down statues, attack Wisconsin state senator in Madison.  Wisconsin's governor activated the National Guard on Wednesday to protect state properties after a night of violence that included the toppling of two statues outside the state Capitol, one of which commemorated an abolitionist Civil War hero.  Protesters also attacked a state senator, threw a Molotov cocktail into a government building and attempted to break into the Capitol Tuesday night, only to be repelled by pepper spray from police stationed inside.  The violence broke out as a group of 200 to 300 people protested the arrest of a Black man who shouted at restaurant customers through a megaphone while carrying a baseball bat.

Tampa Police Chief Says Two Officers [were] Injured During [an] 'Ambush' Saturday.  Police officers in Tampa, Florida, were ambushed Saturday [6/20/2020] while responding to a call, according to Tampa Police Department (TPD) Chief Brian Dugan.  The chief said "officers were called to the intersection of 15th Street N and 26th Avenue E for a report of shots fired with a possible victim," according to Fox 13.

Black Lives Matter leader states if US 'doesn't give us what we want, then we will burn down this system'.  Greater New York Black Lives Matter president Hawk Newsome joined "The Story" Wednesday to discuss the direction of the movement in the wake of George Floyd's death in police custody and the subsequent demonstrations across the country, many of which have sparked destruction and violence.  "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."

Domestic Terrorists Have Now Resorted to Lynching Pig-Faced Mannequins in NYPD Uniforms.  The anti-law enforcement sentiment in America has gotten so bad that someone in Jacksonville, Florida dressed up a mannequin with a pig face in a New York Police Department uniform.  They then hung the mannequin from I-95 around 6 a.m.  Lamont Ross and his wife, Keva, came around the corner on I-95 and saw the mannequin.  At first they thought they saw the body of someone who had committed suicide.  "At first I thought it was a body and my heart — our heart — completely dropped," he said.  The pair, who work as medical transportation drivers, turned around to help what they thought was a person."  When the couple got to the overpass they filmed the video of what they saw.

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Man Gets Kicked Out of CHAZ / CHOP For Being a White Christian With Privilege.  Imagine that, getting deported from America's largest mental institution.  [Video clip]

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Whether it's at CHAZ or Mardi Gras, it takes a special kind of person to wade into the sewer to seek and save the lost, and it's painful to watch a street preacher getting cussed out.  Aside from the politics, it is disturbing to see that young people today are unable to express themselves without the use of profanity and without shouting.  The idea of rational debate is completely unknown to them.  There is a word for people like this:

Business Owners Within CHOP File Class Action Suit Against City of Seattle.  It was inevitable.  As normal Americans have watched the utter disintegration of civilized society within the Capitol Hill area of Seattle, facilitated by their idiotic, feckless "Mayor Jenny" Durkan, many have thought to themselves, "If I owned a business or lived in that part of the city, I'd refuse to pay taxes," or, "I'd sue the crap out of the city."  Now it's happening.

Seattle CHOP zone prompts lawsuit from businesses, residents: reports.  Numerous Seattle businesses — including an auto repair shop, a tattoo parlor and a property management company — sued the city Wednesday, alleging city officials were complicit in allowing an "occupied protest" that has made them feel unsafe in their neighborhood, according to reports.  Workers and residents also joined the lawsuit over CHOP, the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest, which drew scorn from President Trump and other critics who accused Mayor Jenny Durkan, the city's police chief and other city leaders of turning the area over to "anarchists."

2020 Election Will Be a Contest of the Angry.  For nearly a month, the nation has been consumed by massive protests and chronic riots, looting and arson.  The catalyst for the demonstrations — the violent and wrongful death of an African American man, George Floyd, while in the custody of Minneapolis police — is itself fading from connections with the ensuing upheavals.  Statues are toppled.  Names are abruptly changed.  Careers are canceled.  Police are both reviled — and walking off the job.  Retired generals are no longer seen as conservative traditionalists but radicals themselves who dare to take on the commander-in-chief.  Downtown Seattle is no longer in the control of the city government. [...] The people's energy, tranquilized by a two-month national quarantine and the terror of the coronavirus, has suddenly exploded in both massive protests and silent seething at the lawlessness.  The result is that for good or evil, the 2020 election is no longer really about Biden and Trump, Democratic or Republican policies, or progressive and conservative agendas.

Downtown Madison [is] not safe following unrest in city, sheriff reportedly says.  A Wisconsin sheriff reportedly said the downtown Madison area was not safe Wednesday after a turbulent few days that included violent protesters vandalizing buildings, toppling statues and attacking a state senator.  Dane County Sheriff David Mahoney said his agency stands ready to deploy additional resources to assist in handling any new protests.  More than one hundred demonstrators gathered in Madison again on Wednesday night, according to Madison's WMTV.  The recent violence prompted Gov. Tony Evers to activate the National Guard.  Both Evers and Mahoney have been criticized for their early responses to these protests.

Daily Caller Reporter Shelby Talcott Attacked, Surrounded By Protesters.  Police Pull Her To Safety, Handcuff Her For Protection.  Daily Caller reporter Shelby Talcott was surrounded by protesters and attacked Monday [6/22/2020] in Washington, D.C.  While some accused Talcott of being a police officer, one woman attempted to grab her phone.  Police ultimately pulled her back, handcuffed her and detained her briefly for her own safety.

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How does being handcuffed make one safer?

Tucker Carlson: 'The mob' is controlled by Democrats, and 'this is their militia'.  Tucker Carlson opened Tuesday's [6/23/2020] edition of "Tucker Carlson Tonight" blasting liberal leaders for tolerating, if not supporting, the destruction of statues and historical monuments by far-left and anarchist protesters.  "How many stores and parks and statues and public buildings have been destroyed recently by rioters?  How many churches and memorials and monuments to our fallen soldiers have been desecrated by them?  Too many to count," Carlson said.  "Now ask yourself, how many people have been held accountable for these crimes?  Some?  A few?  No, hardly any.  Politicians applauded this destruction.  Law enforcement has ignored it.  Why is that exactly?  "Democratic politicians don't fear the mob," Carlson continued.  "Why?  Because they don't need to.  They control the mob.  The mob operates with their permission.  These are their foot soldiers.  This is their militia.  In unguarded moments, Democrats make it very clear that they know this."

D.C. protesters declare 'Black House Autonomous Zone,' desecrate St. John's Church.  Demonstrators outside the White House have declared a "Black House Autonomous Zone," in apparent imitation of the secessionist enclave in Seattle.  According to video from on-scene reporters at Lafayette Park, the demonstrators are marking the Zone by, among other things, desecrating St. John's Episcopal Church.  One video from the Daily Caller showed the letters "BHAZ" spray painted on the columns holding up the traditional "church of presidents."

Rioters Clash With DC Police, Try To Tear Down Andrew Jackson Monument, Set Up 'Black House Autonomous Zone'.  Rioters gathered Monday [6/22/2020] in Lafayette Square before the White House where they clashed with police as they attempted to tear down a monument to former U.S. President Andrew Jackson and set up a "Black House Autonomous Zone."  Video footage from [Daily Caller reporters on the ground] shows rioters attempting to pull down the monument to Jackson early on in the evening.  The protesters chanted, "Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho, Andrew Jackson's got to go," Fox News reported.  The rioters were unsuccessful in tearing down the monument before police arrived on the scene.

Protesters attack Wisconsin state senator in chaotic night at capitol: report.  A Democrat state senator from Milwaukee was pummeled by a group of protesters at the Wisconsin State Capitol late Tuesday during a violent clash that included two statues being toppled, a report said.  Sen. Tim Carpenter told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that he was beaten after taking a photo of some of the protesters.  "I don't know what happened," he told the paper.  "All I did was stop and take a picture and the next thing I'm getting five-six punches, getting kicked in the head."

We Spent A Few Hours On Black Lives Matter Plaza — Here's What It Looked Like.  Protesters have continued to lock down one block near the White House, which many are now calling the "Black House Autonomous Zone" (BHAZ).  The Daily Caller spent hours in BHAZ on Tuesday [6/23/2020], observing what the scene would be like in the daytime after a long night of massive protests, during which a Daily Caller reporter was surrounded and police were forced to use force to save her.  Check out what a day is like just blocks away from the White House.

Seattle police investigate THIRD shooting near CHAZ where one man was injured.  Seattle police are investigating a third shooting in the Capitol Hill neighborhood near the city's 'autonomous zone,' a day after the mayor vowed to dismantle the encampment set up by anti-racism protesters.  Police tweeted the shooting took place on the edge of the Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP), or Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, where demonstrators set up a police-free zone in the wake of George Floyd's death in Minneapolis police custody.  A man was taken to Harborview Medical Center at 5am on Tuesday after being shot near Cal Anderson Park and was in satisfactory condition, hospital spokeswoman Susan Gregg said.

Christianity becomes next battleground in cancel wars.  Christian figures and symbols have increasingly become the subject of debate as protesters across the country demand a reckoning on racial justice, pulling down statues and criticizing controversial figures along the way.  Christianity, like nearly every long-standing institution in the United States, has a complicated history with racism, prompting several leaders of the Black Lives Matter movement to call for its symbols to be adjusted or removed.  In some cities, protesters have taken matters into their own hands, pulling down statues or taking over churches.  Protesters on Monday [6/22/2020] occupied the exterior of St. John's Episcopal Church near the White House, refashioning it as the "Black House Autonomous Zone," a reference to the police-free zone in Seattle, Washington.  The church's exterior was vandalized, the second time the building has been defaced since protesters burned its basement in early June.

Lefty Seattle mayor moves to shut down CHOP, blames everyone but herself.  So much for the "block party atmosphere."  So much for the "summer of love."  Summer hadn't even started on the calendar when Seattle's Mayor Jenny Durkan was forced to shut down the whole dumpster fire of lawlessness in the heart of her city down.  She praised it and praised it — and somehow never guessed that a police-free zone might just be an attractive place for criminals.  After turning six blocks of prime downtown land to armed warlords who chased out an entire police station and then set up their own "autonomous zone," they did the predictable, turning the area into a hellhole, and the bodies piled up.  Durkan now is attempting to wipe the egg off her face after bona fide killings in the abdicated area, known as "CHOP," got to be too much.

Tom Cotton Gives a Must-Watch Speech for the Ages on the Dangers of Mob Rule and Cancel Culture.  If you're like many Americans, you've watched in horror over the last several weeks as protests for justice in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd have been used by anarchistic left-wing mobs in cities across the country to take over city streets for days or even weeks at a time.  Businesses have been looted, set on fire, and communities destroyed by thugs who have no use for law and order, who prefer to settle their differences with others by way of violent and dangerous mob rule.  Innocent people have also been assaulted.  Sadly, some have even been murdered, including law enforcement officers.  Historical statues have been vandalized and pulled down by angry leftist mobs while police and sheriff's deputies stood down and watched as it happened.  Instead of condemning these heinous actions, the so-called "leaders" in these cities and states — many of them Democrats — have either looked away, or have justified them by saying in so many words the abhorrent behavior was acceptable due to pent up frustrations over past social injustices.  Some have even absurdly suggested the mobs are merely exercising their First Amendment rights.  This is pure nonsense.

Resisting the Mob and Restoring Order.  Decent Americans might come to support this solution because of the growing disorder in America.  We see growing disrespect for law enforcement in our "premier" cities, such as New York, where hooligans douse policemen with buckets of water.  Years before the current spate of lootings, New York experienced flash mobs (aka flash robs) where gangs of young people swarm and overwhelm stores to steal merchandise.  We all pay for such theft in higher insurance premiums that get passed down to the customer as higher prices.  Such behavior should not go unpunished.  And part of that punishment could be a public flogging, performed just before perps are sent to prison.  Recidivism would get perpetrators extra lashes.  As with everything else, if we want order and domestic tranquility, there's a price to be paid.  However, Amendment VIII of the Constitution forbids "unusual punishment."  Well then, let's make corporal punishment usual again, something that lawbreakers can expect.  Some elements in American society feel they can do the most atrocious things with impunity.  That's partly because they (correctly) see the authorities as weak, too namby-pamby to do anything about their vile deeds.  They can steal, destroy property, and beat their fellow citizens senseless, and they rightly figure that the government isn't going to bring them to account.

WWII monument in Charlotte defaced with hammer and sickle.  A World War II memorial in North Carolina's largest city was reportedly defaced over the weekend with a hammer and sickle.  The 20-foot-tall memorial, located at Evergreen Cemetery in Charlotte, contains the names of more than 500 county residents who died fighting in WWII, WBTV reported.

After Being UNFAIRLY Stopped by D.C. Police From Toppling Andrew Jackson Statue, Female Rioters Go Berserk.  'It's just really unfair when you put all that effort into pulling down a statue of President Andrew Jackson and the cops stop you.'  Townhall reporter Julio Rosas watched the drama unfold on Monday night [6/22/2020] in Washington, D.C's Lafayette Park.  The first clip shows the scene after police had dispersed the mob with pepper spray.  In the second video, Rosas recorded two extremely angry young women who were shrieking at the police officers. [...] The most noteworthy takeaway is just how brazen the rioters are.  They've been stopped by the police in the act of destroying public property, which is illegal, and instead of being placed under arrest, they are acting like petulant children.  It is their constitutional right to protest peacefully.  It is not their right to deface property that doesn't belong to them.  And one wonders why these women haven't been arrested.  One of them is clearly out of control.

Seattle will move to dismantle 'CHOP' zone after shootings, mayor says.  Seattle will move to end the police-free zone known as the "Capitol Hill Organized Protest," or "CHOP," after two recent shootings, one of which was deadly, Mayor Jenny Durkan announced Monday — signaling that a stunning chapter in the city's history could be drawing to a close.  The mayor said the violence was distracting from changes sought by thousands of peaceful protesters seeking to address racial inequity and police brutality.  Activists set up "CHOP" in the city's Capitol Hill neighborhood about two weeks ago, barricading off the area after police evacuated a ransacked precinct building there.  "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," Durkan said at a news conference.  "The impacts have increased and the safety has decreased."

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The mayor could have made the same statement a week earlier.  Her tepid response is an announcement of her own weakness.  She should have had all the occupants of CHAZ arrested for insurrection and mayhem, and then dismantled the hippies' commune.

Democrats and fellow leftists are snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.  Much as Democrats would like to deny it, the reality is that Americans were unanimous in condemning how George Floyd died at police hands in a Democrat-run city.  Even after learning that Floyd was a career criminal hopped up on drugs when he met his death, Americans were willing to accept the Democrats' (and their fellow leftists') demands for police reform.  Had Democrats stopped there, they could have achieved yet another incremental leftward push for their political agenda, a victory they could have put toward their next moment of political theater.  The problem is that Democrats have trained their army of college grads, minorities, and other victim groups to view words as violence, to hate America's institutions, and to believe that hysteria is persuasive.  Once you unleash these emotionally unstable and factually ignorant foot soldiers on the world, they are unstoppable, even if it's in the best interests of their cause that they stop.

What Happens When the Madness Ends?  Recently, there was murder in the CHAZ/CHOP-shop summer of love, and more random violence.  Soon average Seattle citizens will want their city's core back if only to reclaim their full 911 response.  When the police begin not showing up for assaults, thefts, and break-ins, and criminals do what criminals do without consequences, the proverbial victims and vulnerable will have had enough and either move away or organize. [...] When pistol-packing, AR-15 toting Raz Simone declares himself exempt from his own past homophobia and repulsive N-word vocabulary, and struts armed to the teeth at the head of his posse while blocking the police from aiding those shot and dying, then there is no society left.  And those who want society back at some point will act, whether silently or visibly.  Either Raz will be arrested — or bought off by a social justice Seattle billionaire and retired to a gifted lakeside home.  Either way, he will go soon.

NYPD Cops Poisoned at Shake Shack:  Where Are We Heading?  Americans are now facing a new reality:  Three New York Police Department (NYPD) cops had their drinks poisoned with bleach at Shake Shack.  This comes on the heels of National Guardsmen who found shards of glass baked into a pizza they ordered while deployed at the Washington, D.C. protests.

So much for Seattle's 'summer of love'.  So much for Seattle's 'summer of love.'  That's some 'block party atmosphere' they've got in the CHOP.  Less than two weeks after Seattle's mayor allowed warlords to declare an autonomous zone over six blocks of Seattle in the name of 'abolishing' the police, the place is already starting to look like Liberia.

For second straight night, shooting reported in cop-free Seattle protest zone.  At least one person was shot on Sunday night inside Seattle's autonomous protest zone, where demonstrators have settled during the civil unrest sparked by the death of George Floyd at the hands of police officers.  The Seattle Police Department said in a tweet at 11:26 p.m. that one person had suffered a gunshot wound while inside the area and that a second shooting may have taken place.  "Police investigating reported shooting inside CHOP zone," the department wrote.  "One person at HMC with gun shot wound."

CHAZ doesn't deserved to be saved by taxpayer dollars.  In a series of shocking and stunning turn of events, the cop-banning, anarchy-baiting Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone of Seattle has devolved into death and violence.  The illegal settlement known as "CHAZ" suffered a shooting resulting in one person killed and at least one other injured, and that's after a slew of rapes and robberies the Seattle police chief claimed that the police couldn't respond to in the region.  Raz Simone, the supposed "warlord" of the CHAZ, claimed that paramedics, terrified of entering the region, let the slain person bleed out, though the claim hasn't been independently corroborated.  Regardless, that is what you get for illegally declaring an "autonomous" zone.  If you're going to break the law and our social contract to illegally occupy land that is not yours with the sole purpose of living out of the purview of law enforcement, you give up your right to people still abiding by our social contract entering.  That includes paramedics.

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Who's paying for the water and electricity being used in the CHAZ?

After early morning shooting in CHOP, occupied area returns to its new normal.  A shooting on Capitol Hill early Saturday left one teenager dead, another person critically injured and raised new questions about the city's capacity to provide emergency and medical services to the protest zone that has taken over the heart of the neighborhood for the last 12 days.  There is no public evidence to suggest the shooting was connected to the protest, but neither Seattle police detectives nor Seattle fire medics reached the scene after the shootings, according to city officials and videos of the aftermath.

"Some White People May Have to Die for Black Communities to Be Made Whole" — Far Left UGA Teaching Assistant on Black Lives Matter Movement.  Irami Osei-Frampong, a University of Georgia graduate student and teaching assistant recently wrote that some white people may have to die before black communities will be made whole. (Note:  His name is spelled Irami Osei-Frimpong on Twitter.)  Osei-Frampong made the comments on Facebook and says he's confused on why his words are so controversial.  [Video clip]

Murder in The Lawless Seattle Autonomous Zone — Police Blocked From Responding After Two People Shot.  The Mayor of Seattle Jenny Durkan now has blood on her hands after two people were shot last night and one killed inside the lawless Seattle Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP) zone.  After two people were shot the responding police and paramedics were blocked by the lawless occupying mob.  One of the people died; the other was taken to the hospital by occupiers.  Obviously, the autonomous zone has become a severe danger to those within it.

My terrifying five-day stay inside Seattle's cop-free CHAZ.  On June 8, Seattle police frantically loaded what they could from the east precinct onto trucks and cars.  Within hours, they boarded up and abandoned the station.  That night, left-wing protesters from Black Lives Matter and Antifa declared ownership of the six-block neighborhood in the middle of the Pacific Northwest's largest city.  They named their new territory the "Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone," or CHAZ.  No laws or rules applied here except for one:  "No cops allowed."  During five undercover days and nights in the zone, I witnessed a continuing experiment in anarchy, chaos and brute-force criminality.  In order to avoid being exposed as a journalist — several reporters have been barred or expelled — I slept and showered outside the zone.  (Those inside have no showers but they do have portable bathrooms.)  I took meals, and most of my water breaks, elsewhere because I was reluctant to remove my mask and risk being recognized.  Every day I entered the zone twice through its semi-porous borders — once in the early afternoon, and again after sundown, staying until the wee hours.  Crime has surged inside and outside the zone.

"Pure terror": Live Streamer Manhandled While Reporting On CHAZ.  Say, wasn't the point of the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone to show how we could all live without police?  If so, then the wan clucking of tongues from the CHAZ "leadership" over this assault seems to indicate that some responsible authority is needed to keep the peace in an urban setting.  Seattle's KOMO-TV reports on the manhandling received by Shawn Whiting when he attempted to live-stream life within CHAZ or CHOP in what had been a public park.  KOMO has not made the video embeddable, but Whiting has it up on his own YouTube channel.

Black Lives Matter:  Democrats Can't Live With Them, and Can't Live Without Them.  What do these people want?  The rioter wants to have fun, which to him means stealing as much cool stuff as he can and destroying whatever he wants.  Probably he's a bit amazed at the topsy-turvy world he's created.  The people he used to fear — the cops — now fear him.  He can see it in their eyes.  And when the cops take a knee, he sees surrender.  For him, these are the best of times.  He knows this can't last forever, but he also knows that whenever it does end, he'll own lots more stuff and probably be immune from prosecution.

CHOP Activists Construct Giant Black Power Fist Statue But Can't Lift It Into Place.  You're going to just love your new country when it comes to your neighborhood.  The far left citizens of CHOP, formerly CHAZ, attempted last night to hoist a giant Black Power Fist statue inside their commune.  But the statue was too heavy for the far left activists and feminist allies so they abandoned their project.

Suspect wanted for burning of 3rd Minneapolis Police Precinct arrested in Colorado.  On Tuesday, the U.S. Marshals Service, alongside with the ATF, announced a 22-year-old suspect has been arrested in connection to the fire set at the Minneapolis Police Department's 3rd Precinct last month.  According to a tweet, Dylan Shakespeare Robinson was arrested in Breckenridge, Colorado.  He is one of several suspects wanted for the burning of the police station on May 28. Breckenridge police told KSTP that Robinson was arrested at around 2 p.m.  Sunday in the parking lot of a recreation center.  The arrest was a joint operation between local police and the ATF.

Observations By The Enemy Forces.  [Scroll down]  You see a number of important things in this sitrep, including: [a] the willingness to use human shields (what he calls peaceful protesters) in order gain a tactical advantage, [b] total disregard for property belonging to other people, and the willingness to steal it for tactical advantage (since it's obvious that there was no logistical planning involved, logistics had to be acquired on the spot), [c] the ease with which police were completely outnumbered (here the police didn't rely on what the tool the constitution and state laws gives states, i.e., the militia), [d] the total disregard for collateral damage (fires could easily have expanded to other areas, and in fact did so), and [e] the intent to foment this kind of violence in order to produce anarchy. [...] I maintain, as I always will, that none of this would have been possible, and that almost every bit of it could have been suppressed, except for the willingness of politicians to allow, and even foster this.

Wife of Police Officer Posts Video of Threats She and Her Husband Receive Because He Is a Police Officer.  Kimberly Bauer is married to a police officer. [...] Because she is open about her marriage to a police officer Kimberly and her family receive death wishes and abuse.  Kimberly spoke about a few of those vile threats in a recent TikTok video.  This is outrageous and heartbreaking.

Seattle man living in CHOP sounds alarms over safety: 'We're sitting ducks in here'.  Business owners and residents in Seattle's so-called "Capitol Hill Occupied Protest" zone, or CHOP, are growing increasingly concerned about safety inside the area, according to local reports.  Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best declared this week that there's no "cop-free zone" in the city, but stakeholders in the neighborhood around the abandoned East Precinct police station say otherwise.  And response times to 911 calls in the surrounding area have tripled since police vacated the building, according to authorities.

Seattle police officers will only enter CHOP if matter of 'significant life-safety,' mayor says.  Seattle police officers have agreed to only enter the Capitol Hill Organized Protest, or the CHOP, to respond to "significant life-safety issues," according to the mayor's office.  "The Seattle Police Department's definition of life-safety issues may include an active shooter incident, an assault, a structure fire, significant medical emergency (i.e. heart attack, stroke, trauma) and other incidents that threaten a person's life safety," the office of Mayor Jenny Durkan said on Tuesday [6/16/2020]. City officials and organizers occupying the area previously called the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, or the CHAZ, reached an agreement to remove temporary roadblocks set in place by protesters and replace them with concrete barriers, reducing the size of the zone from about seven city blocks to just three.

CHAZ devolves into a Fyre festival, a really bad band camp that didn't quite get the Porta-Potties up.  The Capital Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ), is now being rebranded as the Capital Hill Organized Protest (CHOP), and still disgusting as ever.  That's a sign of a public relations problem and the pictures are clear enough from journalist Andy Ngo: [Tweet] [...] But I like the band camp comparison even more.  Because far from being pioneers of any sort, people creating something new out of the raw wilderness, these Antifa-led denizens are infantilized babies, begging others to provide their food and diaper changes for them.  They don't build or produce anything of value, so they just beg.  Their only 'autonomy' is in their toddler-like tantrums demanding to get whatever they want.  The authorities play momma, as do their more productive peers on the outside with cash or commodities to donate to their upkeep.  But they themselves are perpetual dependents, and Momma Government can shut them down any time were she not so adoring of them.  They exist by the leave of others.

Raging mob of protesters violently attack, threaten to kill man until he pulls out his gun.  Why is he the one arrested?  A member of a violent New Mexico rage mob brought a skateboard to a gun fight, with the expected outcome occurring.  As seen in a viral video, a man is beating a hasty retreat from a left-wing protest at a monument of conquistador Juan de Oñate — the mob was calling for the statue to be removed, and began to take matters into their own hands with a pickax, according to the Albuquerque Journal.  This being a fair representation of the left-wing chaos in American streets today.  Members of the armed New Mexico Civil Guard, a civilian group, tried to protect the monument, intervening when the pickax was deployed, the newspaper reported — why local police were not involved is another question.

CHAZ Occupier Suggests 'Rounding Up All the White People' into Work Brigades.  A post that appeared on the subreddit for the Seattle 'CHAZ' autonomous zone that has been taken over by left-wing extremists suggests rounding up all the white people and organizing them into forced work brigades.  That's right.  Some of the very same people protesting against racism and slavery want to enslave people based on their skin color.  So progressive!  The discussion appears to be focused around identifying potential 'white supremacists' who are trying to infiltrate CHAZ, a 6 block area of downtown Seattle occupied by Antifa and BLM supporters after the police force fled their precinct.  The area now seems to have been renamed 'CHOP' after some of the occupiers wanted to send a message to anyone who resisted that their fate would resemble what happened during the French Revolution when adversaries were beheaded.

Over 431 Police Officers Injured or Killed in Recent Far Left Black Lives Matter Protests and Riots.  On Monday June 1, 2020, four police officers were shot in St. Louis City.  The far left rioters threw gas on police.  The 7-11 downtown was looted and torched.  Across town retired Police Captain David Dorn was shot dead while protecting a pawnshop.  The looters shot Dorn and he bled out while being filmed on Facebook live.  The killers understood no police would be coming.  The video of the shootout between street thugs and police was later posted on YouTube.  This was like something out of Afghanistan except that it was St. Louis City not far from downtown St. Louis.

America's Choice:  Chicago or MAGA Country.  As societal unrest and economic anxiety grip our land, the ascendant and increasingly aggressive leftists seek a wholesale transformation of America into the harsh realities of Chicago, a place afflicted by violence, bereft of opportunity, and committed to stifling statism.  In recent weeks, agitators have deployed street violence to achieve political power in ways unseen in this country since at least the 1960s, and perhaps since the Civil War.  Amazingly, a litany of establishment media voices are providing explicit approval and cover for them.  CNN anchor Chris Cuomo declared, "Show me where it says protests are to be polite and peaceful."  Well, Chris, human decency and common sense dictate that protests in a civil society entail neither violence nor vandalism.  But, if you are too conscience-challenged for such awareness, the First Amendment to our Constitution also protects, explicitly, "the right of the people to peaceably assemble."

A viral video reveals the black lives that Black Lives Matter destroyed.  [Scroll down]  The unnamed woman narrating the video says every grocery store she's gone to looks like the one in her video.  To the extent there's food left, it's some random produce (which did not attract the marauders).  All the other food — fresh, refrigerated, frozen, or boxed — has been hurled to the floor and trampled.  The non-food aisles have also been ransacked.  Walking through aisle after aisle, she implores the person viewing the video to "look at this."

Anarchy in Downtown Seattle Not a 'Festive Zone'.  Most revolutions don't end in liberty; rather, they typically end in bloodshed and merciless tyranny.  The Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone ("CHAZ"), which was created in Seattle, is being billed as a cop-free zone (or something along those lines), and is being treated by more than a few media organizations as little more than a social justice street festival. [...] So, what exactly is the Seattle autonomous zone, and what does it stand for?  On June 8, some of the protesters drew up a list of what my colleague GianCarlo Canaparo called "foolish and dangerous policy proposals," including abolishing courts, prisons, and the police.  They also demanded citizenship for illegal immigrants, socialized medicine, and reparations for black Americans.  The zone has a mix of peaceful occupiers and some not so peaceful ones, combining that so-called social justice street festival with the threat and occasional eruptions of robbery, property destruction, and bloodshed.

Now What?  Peaceful protest in any cause is as American as apple pie, but what we saw in the wake of George Floyd's murder is as despicable as anything recently seen in our nation.  What makes it worse is the silence and seemly support in many quarters for anarchists who have highjacked the protests to promote their own ends.  These are the white liberals and leftists groups like Antifa who could care less about the major problems that exist in black communities and made worse by the rioting and looting. [...] The recent looting and property destruction, as well as the high crime rates in many black neighborhoods, have the effect of a law that outlaws economic growth and opportunities.  During the recent mayhem in black communities, stores of many types were looted and destroyed.  CVS pharmacy has closed 60 stores in 21 states amid looting and protests.  Large stores like Walmart were looted and burned.  Many smaller stores and businesses were looted and burned.  Who will bear the ultimate cost of the rioting?  If you said black people, you are right.

Progressive Mayor Who Supported Black Lives Matter Gets Home Vandalized During Riots, Calls It 'Domestic Terrorism'.  It's all fun and protests until someone vandalized your home.  Olympia, Washington, Mayor Cheryl Selby has been a vocal supporter of Black Lives Matter and those protesting and rioting across the nation, yet when her own home was vandalized during the demonstrations, she called it "domestic terrorism."  The Olympian reported late last week that "two groups converged in downtown Olympia, and some became destructive, burning flags, smashing windows, and spray painting businesses" before moving into Selby's neighborhood and vandalizing her home.

Progressive, BLM-supporting Mayor of Olympia, WA calls riots 'domestic terrorism' after her home is vandalized.  Mayor Cheryl Selby of Olympia, Washington just got her consciousness raised. [...] Rioters never stop to check the politics of the owners of buildings that they trash.  The gay rainbow banner boght her no immunity.  But many liberals somehow seem to think that they are exempt from the chaos they unleash by offering their support to violent radicals.  The owners of businesses looted and burned have suffered a lot more than she did, annoying though it is to be spray painted.  Many have had their life savings and life's work destroyed, though guilty of nothing.

Will CHAZ Become a Cradle of America's 'Color Revolution'?  Six blocks of the Seattle downtown that were ceded to protesters after several tense nights of standoffs with police were declared the "Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone" (CHAZ). It resembles a commune and is centered on the East Precinct building, which the police abandoned on June 8. [...] On June 12, the mayor of Seattle, Jenny Durkan, compared CHAZ to a block party rather than an armed takeover and described it as "no threat right now to the public."  In his tweet, President Trump demanded that Washington Governor Jay Inslee and Seattle's mayor take their city back:  "If you don't do it, I will."  Both have hit back by advising Trump to "go back to his bunker" and "stay out of Washington state's business."  The horror of the situation is, they have every right to say that.  The media and the politicians like Durkan and Inslee described Trump as a dictator and pure evil comparable to Hitler, but he still won't use the military to suppress what local authorities call a "peaceful protest."

Seattle Installs Concrete Barriers to Protect #CHAZ #CHOP Armed Leftist Occupation Zone.  The government of Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan (D) on Tuesday installed concrete barriers on city streets on the boundaries of the area occupied by armed leftists to prevent vehicles from entering.  One lane is reported to be left open to allow access by emergency vehicles.  Police will not be allowed in except to respond to life-threatening crimes.  The concrete barriers are encased in plywood so occupiers can paint the new barricades with slogans and 'art'.

The State of CHAZ.  Over the past week, following Seattle mayor Jenny Durkan's decision to abandon the Seattle Police Department's East Precinct Building, left-wing protesters have transformed the surrounding neighborhood into the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ), hoping to create a new political authority based on social-justice principles. [...] Almost immediately, activists established a social structure based on a "reverse hierarchy of oppression": Native American, black, and trans women are the highest authority; diversity determines individual social status; and whites are called upon to perform rituals of atonement.  Through a series of speeches and community gatherings, activists have sought to implement the social theory of "decolonization," which, in the words of Black Lives Matter activist Nikkita Oliver, means overthrowing capitalism, eliminating the structures of "patriarchy, white supremacy, and classism," and returning the land of the autonomous zone to displaced Native American tribes.

What It's Actually Like inside Seattle's Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone.  Media outlets left and right have turned their spotlight to an emerging "nation" in one Seattle neighborhood:  the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ), a six-block occupied space that a group of Antifa, anarchists, and progressive community activists took by force.  But a lot of them are getting key details wrong in their coverage. [...] When fights break out, nearby activists caution you not to record them for posting online, as it may bring the wrong kind of attention to the commune they're portraying as peaceful.  When I recorded the Saturday afternoon fight, one of the CHAZ security members repeatedly bumped into me to try and prevent me from doing so.  He used the same strategy to stop a colleague from another outlet trying to film the fight.  And on Twitter, self-proclaimed Antifa groups and other CHAZ activists post the photos and names of people in the crowd so they can be targeted for possible harassment or watched in case they cause trouble.  In CHAZ, you're welcome to deliver ideologically driven speeches preaching the most extreme left-wing positions.  But free-speech rights are not universally respected.

Black Lives Matter for Democrats — But Only During the Six Months Before an Election.  The worst tragedy is that which regularly hits and pulverizes the Black community.  People get sold on a narrative, fashioned and shaped by manipulators with political agendas, and they get suckered into joining the crowd.  In the tragic case of George Floyd, he is being leveraged for political gain.  It all is cynical politics.

The Kountry is Korona Krazy.  [Scroll down]  In Seattle, people calling themselves anti-fascists stormed a police station and took over a neighborhood.  They're extorting money from small local businesses in exchange for "protecting" them.  They expel the people they don't like from their little utopia.  Now they're threatening to form their own nation in downtown Seattle comprised of only people they like.  They call it Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, or CHAZ (how hip is that?).  This bit of socialist paradise is ruled by a homophobic criminal warlord who prances around with an AK-47.  The Seattle police chief wants to expel these criminals and return the neighborhood to the residents.  For that, Seattle libs want to cancel her.  In their eyes, the fact that she is a black and a woman is not enough; if she opposes people who trespass, loot, riot and steal in the name of a protest, then she's a racist.  The Seattle mayor is more woke than the police chief.  Unlike the police chief, the mayor supports the rioters.  Because the rioters hate America and she does too.

Will CHAZ Be Death Knell For America's Big Cities?  The takeover of a chunk of downtown Seattle — renamed the "Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone," or CHAZ, by one group of far-left protesters, and "Capitol Hill Occupied Protest," or CHOP, by others — has been treated as a joke in some quarters.  It's no joke. [...] Seattle's ditzy left-wing mayor, Jenny Durkan, wants to, well, just let folks hang there for a while.  She likened the violent capture of part of her city to a "block party" and the infamous "summer of love."  More like a summer of hate.  Reports that the heavily armed extreme-left Puget Sound John Brown Gun Club has been engaged to protect BLM leaders inside CHAZ/CHOP is a bad sign.  If Seattle police finally decide to take back their precinct, will they have their hands tied by extreme restrictions imposed by the mayor and the equally far-left city council?  The answer is yes.  And the likelihood of a tragic outcome will be increased.  You can bet the John Brown Gun Club won't have any such restrictions.

Don't Clean Up the Left's Mess.  Democrat mayors and governors are rushing to sweep the riots under the rug, pretending they never happened or branding them as "peaceful protests."  It should go without saying that the looting and rioting we witnessed recently was not justified by the death of George Floyd.  Nowhere in the legal code does it say that one unlawful act can provide an excuse for other unlawful acts.  Anyone who picked up a brick and chucked it through a window, anyone who torched a police car, anyone who stole a big-screen TV — anyone who engaged in lawless behavior because George Floyd died a wrongful death is a criminal, not a hero.  Their behavior cannot be sanctioned, nor should it be covered up.

Video appears to show a white woman setting fire to Wendy's in Atlanta where Rayshard Brooks was killed as black protesters shout 'it wasn't us'.  Video footage appears to show a masked white woman setting fire to a Wendy's restaurant near where a black man was shot dead by police, as authorities offer a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of arsonists.  The fast-food outlet was torched late on Saturday during demonstrations that erupted over the killing of 27-year-old Rayshard Brooks by police officers on Friday [6/12/2020].  A video clip filmed by a protester that appeared to show a woman fanning the flames.

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No matter who started the fire, there is plenty of footage showing black rioters trashing the restaurant and looting a nearby gas station.  If a white instigator started the fire, that doesn't excuse the black mob that followed.

Three Species of Protesters.  [Scroll down]  The last species on my list of demonstration fauna, the barbarous, hardly needs an introduction.  He is a creature fundamentally unfit to live in civilized society.  Whether this is because he grew up without a father or, like Jeffrey Dahmer, simply happened to be born without a conscience is of little practical relevance.  When the cinderblock hits the bystander's skull, we really need to stop talking about what the perpetrator might have been and deal bluntly with what he is.  Where the radical is an ideologue, motivated by manipulating the crowd, the barbarian is clearly present for the pure bestial excitement of looting, mayhem, and bloodshed.  Far from being outraged by events, the barbarian delights in the opportunity to riot and would riot every day if no one were there to stop him.  When liberal mayors engage in conciliatory tearful sympathy toward an uncoordinated mob of looters, eagerly engaged in wrecking everything in sight, they are simply conflating the barbarian with the sincere.

Uncle Sam Just Started Delivering Payback for Terror Riots.  The Department of Justice has filed what looks to be the first tranche of charges against violent antifa protesters from coast to coast following weeks of rioting in the wake of the killing of George Floyd by police. [...] More than 50 people have been indicted on various charges in La Mesa, Calif., Minneapolis, Austin, Dallas, Baton Rouge, Philly, St. Paul, and Tacoma.  Conspicuously absent in this wave of indictments is anyone from Portland, Ore., arguably the area most seeded with members of the group designated as domestic terrorists by the Trump administration.

Shakedown:
Protester in Seattle's CHAZ demands white demonstrators give out cash.  A protester in the police-free district set up by demonstrators in Seattle demanded that white demonstrators fork over $10 to their black counterparts.  A video, uploaded to Twitter Saturday, shows a man inside the city's Capital Hill Autonomous Zone, or CHAZ, urging protesters to donate the cash.  "I want you to find by the time you leave this autonomous zone, I want you to ... to give $10 to one African American person from this autonomous zone," said the unidentified protestor speaking to dozens inside the area near the city's East Precinct that was abandoned by police last week following two weeks of clashes after the death of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis last month.  "If you have a hard time giving $10 you got to think are you really down with this struggle, are you really down with the movement," he said.  "If that is a challenge for you, I'm not sure you are in the right place."

The Goth ISIS Utopia and Other Leftist Nonsense.  A group of anarcho-communist-BLM nitwits surrounded and "occupied" six city blocks in Seattle's Capitol Hill.  David Burge "Iowahawk" refers to this as the "Goth ISIS Utopia," a description so apt I've appropriated it for the headline of this article.  The mayor of Seattle, older but just as dumb as that of Minneapolis, laughed it off as a "block party."  Civilians and business owners trapped inside the borders aren't too happy.  Neither is the chief of police, who was forced to abandon a precinct there, blames the mayor for making her abandon it, and asserts she plans to take it back.  The various elements in the enclave are already fighting each other and within days a man called Warlord of CHAZ (Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone) controlled the area.  He's black; most of the denizens are white.  He is the judge and jury there, it seems, and in one documented incident, caught someone drawing unauthorized graffiti on a wall and his gang punched out the author of the message, broke his glasses and confiscated his cell phone.  The Warlord is reportedly the only one in the commune who's armed.

A Bad Rap.  In the newly formed principality of CHAZ (the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone), the only thing actively being produced is irony — and plenty of it.  The leader (an admittedly hazy distinction) is a local rapper with an AK-47 and enough gold rings to pay for all of the commune's needs, if he was willing to give them up, which he's not.  Apparently seizing his property for the people is still unacceptable.  CHAZ has erected border walls to keep out foreigners and demands voter-unfriendly (and likely racist) photo IDs at checkpoints.  The local citizenry divides its time between demanding that all land be seized for communal farming, and begging for food that someone else has produced.

Chaz Utopia Lives On.  Chaz abolishes alphabet and math.  End systematic oppression now! [Numerous video clips.]

I went to visit the country of CHAZ near Seattle today.  You may have heard otherwise but it seemed more like a tourist attraction than a protest to me.  There was no check point at the border, people were coming and going freely.  I never saw a gun.  The place was full of tourists looking around and taking pictures.  The locals are really into defacing the property of their new country.  Spray paint is their national past time.  It was mid afternoon on Thursday [6/11/2020] so the unemployment rate is about 99%.  The people with homes there voted for a Communist city council member so they approve of their neighborhood being turned into a zoo.   [Two video clips]

Police Fire Tear Gas And Rubber Bullets At Protesters.  San Luis Obispo California.  [Video clip]

New letterhead, already?  CHAZ purportedly changes name to CHOP amid infighting.  CHAZ has 99 problems, and all of them involve fighting.  First, some of the left-wing activists who inhabit the so-called Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) in Seattle are reportedly trying to rename it the Capitol Hill Occupation Protest (CHOP), and the evidence suggests it's because they're embarrassed.  The thing about autonomy is it denotes self-reliance.  Yet the Chazistanis, as they've been mockingly called, displayed zero self-reliance when they called the Seattle Fire Department late Thursday to help them with a dumpster fire.

Antifa doesn't have to TURN violent.  It's always violent.
Antifa Faction Of Occupy Seattle Group Turns Violent — CHAZ Community Attacks and Chokes Christian Speaker.  Things are slowly devolving into violent confrontation in the nation of CHAZ Seattle.  However, the violence is not with law enforcement; the violence is internal as Antifa factions within the occupy movement begin doing what they are famous for, being violent.  An openly christian man walks into the occupied zone within Seattle, the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone or CHAZ, to share the message of Jesus Christ.  The Antifa elements immediately confronted the man, threw him to the ground and began choking him.

Seattle's CHAZ: Non-conformist Utopia, or Politically Correct Hell?  Secession is considered treason by mobs hauling down Confederate statues in other cities, but it's the very basis of CHAZ, Seattle's separate "autonomous zone."  Signs at the barricades read "Property of the People" and "Leaving USA."  But from a video tour of the new country, it doesn't look promising so far. [...] CHAZ was created after a ten-day standoff between police and angry protesters ended with the police abandoning their precinct house and seeing it taken over by the mob.  "This is an exercise in trust and deescalation" was how Seattle police chief Carmen Best explained the situation.  John Carlson, a talk-show host on Seattle's KVI radio, says that CHAZ is only the latest capitulation by city leaders:  "They've allowed homeless encampments and petty crime to overrun the city.  The people taking over CHAZ knew no one would push back no matter what they did."  Indeed, a report by a former official in the Seattle mayor's office found that a mere 100 "prolific offenders" among the homeless were responsible for more than 3,500 criminal cases.  Often they were released from jail the same day they were taken in.

You can't rally, but we can riot.  Are you ready for the second blame wave?  As the country braces itself for an inevitable repeat surge in COVID-19 infections, we're told red-state governors 'opened too soon'. The next outbreak, we can be sure, will be something to do with the fact the President decided to resume his political rallies, approximately two weeks from now.  What nobody says is that individual or social behavior is the cause.  It can't possibly be the thousands of people closely together marching down city streets yelling and chanting, some with masks, some not.  The guidelines fell completely by the wayside for the Democrats and much of network cable news.

Chicago students take over police HQ, tried to mimic CHAZ, but they got hungry and had to pee.  "Autonomous zones" cropping up around the country appear to be Occupy Wall Street redux, only with a different cause than the 2011 campaign — both share one common element, that being a left-wing maneuver leading up to a presidential election.  With the People's Republic of Seattle setting the tone, progressive zealots in Chicago gave it the old college try, though you could say they are making a mess of it. [...] The students want officers disarmed of guns and non-lethal weapons and an ultimate plan to disband the department by 2022, The Hyde Park Herald reported.  According to one of the organizers, they want to replace law enforcement with "investment in genuine care — student counseling, services that genuinely make this community more inclusive and more safe for everyone, not just an illusion of safety that excludes some people."

Antifa Deathwish.  The first wave of protests spread out from Minneapolis and brought thousands and then tens of thousands of people into the streets.  Rioting and looting followed, first in Minnesota and then in other states as the protests spread.  The protests grew even larger, appearing in almost every major American city and spreading quickly upward, leveraging rapid changes from previously reluctant or disinterested local legislatures and elite cultural institutions.  The de facto motto of the protests has become "defund the police," though no one can agree on exactly what that means.  The editors of Bon Appetit magazine and the Times' opinion page have both resigned in disgrace, for different reasons.  With an incredible speed that seems at least partly connected to the lockdowns they are bringing to an end, the protests spread across the globe. [...] The argument over who is responsible for the wanton destruction gets one thing right:  There are many different groups in America right now who want to see the country burn, each with their own reasons.  The secret to understanding antifa is not a hidden connection to Soros or the DNC or a map of clandestine brick deposit sites, it's that the group's influence is a function of its strange abusive romance with the media establishment and political elites.

Anarchy, Seattle, and All That CHAZ.  CHAZ is a mixed commercial and residential neighborhood that contains one of Seattle's principal police stations.  That station was surrendered to the rioters who have occupied it for about a week.  The anarchists have set up barriers to entry (and exit?) around the CHAZ.  Seattle police are reportedly not responding to reports of rape and other serious crimes committed inside the CHAZ.  According to Police Chief Carmen Best, rapes, robberies, and all sorts of violent acts were taking place in the CHAZ. Earlier, an assistant Seattle police chief told reporters that there were complaints that the anarchists have imposed fees on business owners and residents for the privilege of living and operating there.  She said that was extortion and invited reports to the police (who won't do anything). The Wall Street Journal wrongheadedly wrote that these fees were a "tax."  No, the cop was right: they're extortion.  The rulers of CHAZ have no legal authority to impose any taxes.

Trump and Barr Fooled Them All.  Peaceful protests across the country about the death of a black man named George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis quickly turned into a series of violent nationwide riots.  It turned out much of this rioting seen across America was orchestrated by anarchist groups loosely referred to by the name "Antifa."  President Trump and Attorney General William Barr on May 31 announced that Antifa had been designated as a terror group and that all federal law enforcement agencies were now coordinating their efforts through the 56 FBI Joint Terrorism Task Forces to "identify criminal organizers and instigators."  While the Democrats and the media anticipated getting the optics they so desperately craved of Trump sending in soldiers with bayonets fixed charging at the "peaceful protesters," what they got instead was the sudden appearance of a bunch of federal tactical units from the FBI, the Secret Service, the DEA, ATF, the U.S. Marshals Service, the Bureau of Prisons, and other agencies, in full gear, many with no rifles, and certainly no bayonets.  As the entire nation is about to belatedly discover, federal agents do not need the permission of governors or mayors before they can enter a state or a city to enforce federal laws and arrest those who are breaking them.  And it happens to be a federal crime to conduct terror attacks against American communities.

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When the leaders of this insurrection go to trial, they might argue that it's not terrorism if the people of the city aren't terrified.  The city leaders in Seattle seem quite sympathetic to the rioters, not terrorized.

CHAZ offers useful insights into the practical realities of revolutionary communes.  It appears that someone has prevailed upon Seattle Mayor Jenny "Summer of Love" Durkan to bring to an end the glorious revolutionary commune that is Seattle's Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (aka CHAZ). Many of us would have liked to see this race-based, criminal-friendly, socialist experiment last a little longer.  Still, even during its short time as an independent nation within America, CHAZ provided useful insights into what happens when you abandon both the framework of civil society and the free market.

Irony Overload:  Autonomous Zone 'Warlord' May Soon Be Canceled after Old Homophobic Tweets Surface.  As we've previously reported, the Democrat/media-driven rush to "cancel" anyone who decides to think for themselves instead of participating in left-wing groupthink in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd is at a fever pitch, with professors, media figures, and pro-sports icons among those being tossed into the fire left and right.  But in an ironic twist of fate, a cancel notice may soon be coming for Raz Simone, the "warlord" of the radical Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) in Seattle, Washington as old homophobic tweets from his Twitter account have surfaced that appear to be legit based on various web archive websites (language warning): [Tweets]

Seattle Resident Speaks Out About Life On The Border Of CHAZ.  A Seattle resident living in Capitol Hill, where activists have taken over a roughly six-block radius and turned it into the "Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone" (CHAZ), spoke with the Daily Caller in an exclusive interview about life on the border of the commune.  The man, who asked to only be referred to as Brandon, said he has been terrified since the protests began.  Brandon said protesters are at his gates every night, adding that his "own government" has abandoned the people.

Crackdown on autonomous zones:  Tennessee governor says he won't tolerate protester camp in Nashville as North Carolina cops tear down barricades.  Demonstrators in Nashville, Tennessee and Asheville, North Carolina have attempted to emulate protesters in Seattle by establishing police-free 'autonomous zones' protected by barricades, as police union officials in Seattle warn that their city is on the verge of 'lawlessness'.  The efforts in Tennessee and North Carolina were met with a strong response from local authorities, in contrast to Seattle where demonstrators in the 'CHAZ' have taken control of a police precinct and remain manning the barricades armed after five days.  In Asheville, activists say that about 100 people gathered Friday night on Lexington Avenue under the Interstate 280 overpass, where they attempted to block the street with barricades and take control of the area.

Texas Prepares for Rioters: 'Don't Mess with The Alamo'.  Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush warned rioters who might be planning to target the Alamo in a tweet saying, "Don't mess with The Alamo."  The Texas General Land Office is responsible for the care and safety of the Texas shrine.  "The Alamo is the Shrine of Texas liberty.  And it will be defended," Bush began in the tweet below.  "Rest assured we have already deployed, for several weeks and will continue to do so, the Alamo Rangers in partnership with the SAPD (San Antonio Police Department, The Department of Public Safety, and the National Guard to protect this sacred site."

The Protests May Have Started Out Legitimate, but They've Been Hijacked.  This mayhem has thus far taken the lives of at least 11 people, many of whom are black Americans.  Hundreds of others have been injured in the chaos, with police officers getting shot and protesters struck with rubber bullets.  As the carnage, looting, arson, and assaults have been allowed to continue in Democrat-controlled states and municipalities, it has become undeniably evident that the wrongful death of George Floyd has morphed into anarchism.  As lives, businesses, and personal property have been driven asunder, the criminal perpetrators are buoyed by pusillanimous Democrat politicians too timid to take back their own streets.  Whether it be Crown Heights, August 1991; Rodney King, May 1992; Ferguson Missouri, August 2014; Baltimore, April 2015; or one of many others, the script has remained the same.  In concordance with fawning state and local officials, a legitimate protest is hijacked by a throng of anarchists.

Seattle Officials Planning to Take Back CHAZ Occupied Zone — Mayor Jenny Now Worried About Safety.  A report from KOMO News tonight [6/12/2020], highlights Seattle officials planning to take back the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, or nation of CHAZ, from the occupying anarchists and Antifa elements.  However, it's more than a little funny to see Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan saying her administration is determining "when it would be safe for the Seattle Police to move in there" considering she was just claiming last night on CNN the occupation was merely a small group of festive citizens having "a block party".  According to the report police Chief Carmen Best and her top commanders surveyed the inside of the East Precinct building, she and Mayor Jenny Durkan discussed how and when the department could reassert control of the building but they didn't give a timeline.

The dangers of bowing to the mob and defunding the police.  [Scroll down]  What once was a call for racial equality and an inward inflection on systemic racism has quickly transformed into a socialist wishlist funded, organized by groups that have a vested interest in taking down the great power that is the United States.  Venezuelan dictator, Nicholas Maduro has deployed and funded foreign protesters to help destabilize the US and incite riots.  America's enemies have used this moment to seize global positioning to legitimize authoritarian regimes.  Russia, China, and Iran are all taking great pride in fanning the flames of these protests.  If America's institutions are dismantled by a combination of bad actors and "useful idiots" under the guise of racial equality, this generation of social justice warriors will one day wake up to the harsh reality of a failed state, and as seen in the aforementioned countries; it won't be the beautiful, majestic, equal utopia that leftists promise.

Nashville Trying to Set Up the Next Radical Autonomous Zone.  Are the anarchists trying to do Occupy 2.0?  Reports were that activists were going to try a repeat of the Seattle Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone in Nashville, Tennessee.  This was circulating on social media, indicating their intent to replicate Seattle in Legislative Plaze in Nashville across the street from the Capitol.  But Republican Gov. Bill Lee is not Washington Governor Jay Inslee, he was having none of that.  He issued a warning today [6/12/2020] that Tennessee would not tolerate such a "zone."

Asheville, NC Protesters Attempt an Autonomous Zone, Police Immediately Dismantle It.  As my RedState colleague Nick Arama reported, the attempts in Nashville and Chicago by protesters to set up "autonomous zones" similar to the one that was set up in Seattle in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd have not gone so well.  The situation Friday night [6/12/2020] in Asheville, North Carolina was no different.  Except in this case we have videos of the police department actually dismantling the encampment not long after occupiers in the area attempted to set it up.

Three indicted for allegedly throwing Molotov cocktails at NYPD vehicles, face life in prison.  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.

Dispatch from 'CHAZ': Tweets call for guns, Gatorade and cigarettes as cops struggle to figure out who's in charge.  Activists and police have clashing views regarding the activities going on inside the so-called "CHAZ," a six-block area of Seattle that has been taken over by protesters — and authorities are still scratching their heads as to who is actually running the rabble. [...] One CHAZ supporter, identified as Armani on Twitter, encouraged protesters to "buy guns."  Police have repeatedly said they have "heard, anecdotally, reports of citizens and businesses being asked to pay a fee to operate within this area" while others have complained about armed guards asking to see identification for people to enter their homes, according to Assistant Chief of Police Deanna Nollette.  Police have also said their response time to 911 calls has tripled over the last few days because they are unable to access the downtown region and are being blocked out by protesters.

National Guardsmen found shards of glass in order from DC pizza shop.  Two National Guardsmen who were deployed to Washington, DC, during the George Floyd protests were delivered a pizza containing shards of glass in the dough and cheese, according to a report.  The two soldiers from South Carolina were staying at the Marriott Marquis during their stay in the capital when they ordered the pie using Uber Eats, the Post and Courier reported, citing a Defense Department report.  They did not bite into the pizza and no other service members received a similar item, according to the news outlet.  "The command says that the soldiers are OK, and that this was the only incident to their knowledge," Capt. Jessica Donnelly, a spokeswoman for the South Carolina National Guard, told the paper.  The Guardsmen were advised to file a police report, Donnelly added, but a spokeswoman for the DC Metro police said there was no report on file.

Seattle Police Chief:  Rapes, Robberies And All Sorts Of Violent Acts Occurring In Autonomous Zone, Not Able To Get To Them.  Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best says rapes, robberies, and all sorts of violent acts have been occurring in the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone.  "Our calls for service have more than tripled," she told reporters.  "These are responses to emergency calls — rapes, robberies, and all sorts of violent acts that have been occurring in the area that we're not able to get to."

Amazing! Trump Just Got Democrats to Defend a Criminal, Anarchist Mob.  Whether he meant to do it or not, Trump has gotten two prominent Democrats, a governor of a state and a mayor of a large city, to defend what can only be described as the unlawful actions of a violent, anarchist mob.  They hate Trump so much and are so fervent in their desire to oppose his every utterance they have gladly defended the indefensible.  All Trump had to do was make a common-sense condemnation of anarchy, theft, violence, and hooliganism in Seattle and Democrats reflexively attack him and defend the criminals.  So now the political lines are drawn.  Trump opposes and condemns the mob that has commandeered several blocks of a major American city as their own.  Prominent Democrats have defended the action and even praised it as patriotic.

Edward Colston, Kente Cloth, and Cleansing Fires.  After the May, 2020, killing of George Floyd by police officers in Minneapolis, Minnesota, fire and vandalism swept the nation and the world.  Those participating in riots alleged that America and Western culture were stained with white supremacy.  Violence would even the score and purify the land.  My liberal Facebook friends insisted to me, "It's just property.  Insurance will pay for it all.  It will be replaced."  In fact it wasn't just property; human beings, including African Americans, have died in these riots.  I posted photographs of the victims.  My liberal friends did not pause to type a word of mourning or second thoughts about the price of civil unrest.

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Poorly-educated Socialist Democrats seem to think that if insurance companies (or the federal government) reimburse an individual or a business owner (or an entire city) after a loss, then it costs nothing.  This is a mistaken belief.

The Real Reform We Require.  We saw Antifa at Berkeley, Portland, and Charlottesville in 2017 and saw that it had its adherents and emulators elsewhere, but it is clear that none of the municipal governments in the many cities that have been afflicted in the last two weeks — and apparently not the U.S. Justice Department either — had any idea of these movements' ability to exploit peaceful demonstrations in such a hugely destructive and well-organized manner.  It is sobering for Americans and shocking to the whole world to see how powerful and numerous are the forces of nihilist, almost mindless, destructive, anarchy in American society.  It would never have been imagined prior to two weeks ago that any such forces would be capable of wreaking the damage they did in the most prosperous areas of America, on some of the most famous avenues in the world.

Has America ever had a more crazed mayor than Seattle's Jenny Durkan?  It's no longer big news that Black Lives Matter, Antifa, anarchists, sex offenders, and criminal opportunists seized a six-block area in Seattle's chi-chi Capitol Hill district.  The same people who protested against Trump's walls built walls around their Utopian paradise, the gun-haters armed themselves, and the ones decrying identification at elections demand identification for anyone seeking to enter the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (or CHAZ).  Most mayors would be horrified, but not Jenny Durkan.  She likes it.  According to Wikipedia, the Capitol Hill district is a densely populated area known for its counterculture and LGBT communities.  It's in sync with the 87% of Seattle's population that supported Hillary in 2016.  It's in this neighborhood that BLM has brought forth a new nation, conceived in hysteria and violence, and dedicated to the proposition that all black people are created better than everyone else (because only their lives matter).

Riots In Defense Of The Narrative Are No Vice.  It's widely known that our betters say it's OK to protest in massive groups despite the risk of coronavirus transmission, but small gatherings not in support of Black Lives Matter are still unacceptable.  Now we're told that it's also fine for protests to turn violent as long as it happens for the "right" reason. [...] While the media are generally ignoring Seattle because, says, DePauw University professor and media critic Jeffrey McCall, it "is a bridge too far for even a sympathetic media to cover," the lack of coverage is tacit approval.  In Latin, the phrase is "qui tacet consentire videtur."  In English, we'd say "silence means consent."

Loretta ["Tarmac"] Lynch to Oversee Investigation of NYPD.  New York, which was set on fire, looted, and vandalized has brought in Loretta Lynch, former AG under Obama in case you forgot, will be investigating police behavior during the protests/crime sprees.  New York city doesn't have bail so all the criminals who were caught destroying the city have long been released.  They'll never come back, but the cops do not have that luxury.  As the defund police movement plows along, there won't be any police left to defund because people will and are leaving the police forces.  Why would they stay?  They have to go out and face mobs of people who are throwing things at them and screaming at them and they are under a microscope for the way they treat violent criminals wrecking havoc on their beat.  If it were me, I'd leave the police force.  The residents don't seem to care, perhaps they want their city destroyed.  Let them have it.

Andy Ngo reports from Seattle: 'Hard for me to overstate the anarchy that is on the streets'.  The Post Millennial editor-at-large Andy Ngo told "The Story" Thursday that it was "hard for me to overstate the anarchy that is on the streets" of Seattle following the establishment of an "autonomous zone" by anti-police protesters in the city's Capitol Hill neighborhood earlier this week.  "You have here a group of several hundred people who have laid siege to a territory and have claimed it as a separate political entity from the United States," Ngo told host Martha MacCallum.  "And, aside from images of then dancing and having a good time, they also have people going around who are armed and acting as security, and also border checkpoints.  So to go through, you have to go through these physical barriers that have been set up, and it is complete anarchy, because the police precinct has been boarded up, the police have abandoned it."

Inside The Latest On Seattle's Downtown 'Autonomous Zone'.  Seattle police say they are not responding to calls for assistance while reportedly armed protesters operate checkpoints and have declared a portion of the city as "cop-free" and an "autonomous zone."  The area is called the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) by the forces who have occupied it, KOMO News reported Thursday morning [6/11/2020].  Antifa-affiliated groups seized control of the neighborhood, according to the City-Journal, which also reports that they set up barricades with a cardboard sign declaring "you are now leaving the USA."

Twelve statues, memorials vandalized during National Mall rioting:  National Park Service.  As antifa militants have taken over six blocks of Seattle's Capitol Hill district, calling it the "Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone" or the "People's Republic of Capitol Hill," Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan has refused to act, and Gov. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.) actually laughed about this open revolt, claiming he hadn't heard about it.  He did say, however, that he was demobilizing the National Guard.  President Donald Trump told Durkan and Inslee to get their acts together, stat. [...] Roughly 500 Americans live in the six city blocks that antifa militants have claimed in the name of their revolution.  The anarchists in the "Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone" appear to have set up an extortion racket to blackmail local businesses into forking over supplies.  Yet Jay Inslee appears to think it is a game.

Where are the gutless Republicans?  [As in] previous riots, the rioters have set their own communities back decades.  The riots spread to New York; Washington, D.C.; Los Angeles; Chicago; Santa Monica; Beverly Hills; and elsewhere.  There have been protests in nearly every other city in America.  Hundreds of millions of dollars in losses due to looting and damage to buildings have been incurred.  The crisis has devolved into more destruction of historical statues; Columbus has been executed over and over again.  In nearly all cases, the police have been ordered to let the rioters have their way; they were not allowed to do their job.  Nearly all the rioting took place in cities chronically and badly run by Democrats, public officials who have for years implemented every misguided progressive policy known to man.  They are all destined to fail.

The New York Times Loves The Seattle Autonomous Zone — Here's What They're Not Telling You.  The New York Times published an article fawning over the "Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone" (CHAZ) in which protesters have taken over six blocks downtown in Seattle.  "Free Food, Free Speech, and Free of Police," is how the Times described the zone in a Thursday article.  Police abandoned the six-block area earlier this week, leading protesters to repurpose police barricades to defend the area.  NYT described protesters as having "liberated" the streets to create a "homeland for racial justice." [...] But what the article doesn't mention are the reports of rampant crime and armed vigilantes stalking the area.  "We've heard, anecdotally, reports of citizens and businesses being asked to pay a fee to operate within this area.  This is the crime of extortion.  If anyone has been subjected to this, we need them to call 911," Assistant Chief of Police Deanna Nollette said on Wednesday, according to Fox News.

Seattle's Autonomous Zone Gets a Warlord and He's Doing What the Cops Should've Done.  Things in the newly declared 'autonomous zone' in Seattle are just going swimmingly.  This zone was established yesterday when antifa/BLM protesters took over about 6-8 blocks of downtown Seattle and established a nascent People's Republic in the best Bolshevik tradition.  It wasn't much of an accomplishment as the protesters were facing a feckless and sympathetic political structure and the police who weren't deeply compromised were totally neutered. [...] I hope that until whatever passes for authority in Seattle decides to end this nonsense that these people are ruled by an iron rod.

The Left Will Destroy America to Regain Power.  The left is desperate.  The lockdowns, Russiagate, and impeachment failed to rid them of Donald Trump.  Hence the rollout of their militia, Antifa, with new uniforms and advanced tactics and BLM as propagandists.  Using Antifa and BLM now is also great practice — call it wargaming for November.  Because if the Democrats cannot steal the election "fairly," they will burn this country to the ground. [...] They spent the last few years training and organizing Antifa as paramilitary units capable of running planned operations at designated targets, while BLM honed the message explaining the reasons for the coming violence.  They parceled power out wisely, as a partnership, letting the larger and better trained Antifa run the military ops: breaking windows to start the looting, gaining access and setting buildings on fire, attacking police and police cars, and breaking whatever would be highest impact, both politically and publicity-wise.  BLM supplies the issues this revolution is purportedly founded upon, while running amok as well, thereby preserving the illusion that the pillaging was spontaneous and not organized.

The Seattle 'Autonomous Zone' Is Basically an Insurrection and It's Time to Shut It Down.  What if I told you a group of violent anarchists took over eight blocks of a downtown city, banished law enforcement, started shaking citizens down, and even garnered their own warlord?  You'd probably call that an insurrection, right?  Well, that's exactly what's going on in Seattle right now.  As my colleague streiff wrote earlier today, things are already well out of hand. [...] These revolutionaries couldn't even manage to feed themselves for more than 24 hours.  The peace and love they were all hoping to spread has turned into more violence.  Meanwhile, nothing they are doing is sustainable.  But I think we have to look past how stupid this all is, because precedents that are set have long lasting consequences.  What kind of country allows a bunch of people to take over entire parts of a city, including the capital building?  Where's the line, and how long do you let this cosplaying as Bolsheviks carry on before it encourages more people to try this?  Portland has already had a similar issue, with Antifa essentially running areas of the city.

Anarchy in Seattle.  [Scroll down]  The following day, a coalition of black activists associated with the autonomous zone released a more specific list of demands, including the total abolition of the Seattle Police Department, the retrial of all racial minorities serving prison time for violent crimes, and the replacement of the police with autonomous "restorative/transformative accountability programs."  Activists pledged to maintain control of the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone until their demands are met — setting the stage for a long-term occupation and the establishment of a parallel political authority.  The city government has not developed a strategic response to the takeover of Capitol Hill.  According to one Seattle police officer with knowledge of internal deliberations, the city's "leadership is in chaos" and "the mayor has made the decision to let a mob of 1,000 people dictate public safety policy for a city of 750,000."  The officer said that Chief Best had dispatched high-ranking police officials to the autonomous zone to establish a line of communication, but the officials were immediately sent away by armed paramilitaries at the barricades.  "The tide of public opinion is on the side of the activists and they're pushing the envelope as far as they can," said the officer.  "It's not hyperbolic to say the endgame is anarchy."

Seattle terrorists issue insane demands, they're armed, & extorting businesses.  As we reported yesterday [6/9/2020] and this morning, Antifa seized a police precinct and a six-eight block area in Seattle Capitol Hill.  Black Lives Matter is also involved and took over the City Hall with Antifa.  Thousands are moving in to the Antifa 'cop free zone.'  The Mayor, Jenny Durkan, ordered the police to abandon the precinct.  She sent porta potties in to these domestic terrorists. [...] The demands include defunding and abolishing the police, the abolition of youth jails, reparations, the retrial of all people of color in prison for a violent crime, decriminalize protests (riots), decentralized elections, free college, and various educational demands reflecting their far-left views such as re-education of teachers and political leaders.

New York and California Freed Thousands of Criminals and the Riots Began.  New York City released over 2,650 criminals from prison to protect them from the pandemic.  But they didn't stay home or wash their hands.  They went back to their old jobs and 100 of them accounted for 190 arrests for crimes like burglary and robbery.  A rapist was released and he went back to raping.  One of the freed criminals was responsible for 18 burglaries at closed eateries.  And when he was arrested, the end of bail meant that he was set loose.  This looting was going on long before the riots.  Now as the rioters and looters rule the streets of Manhattan, when the police manage to arrest them, they have to quickly let them go.  "When it comes to a burglary, a commercial store, which is looting, they're back out," Chief Terrence Monahan said.  "Because of bail reform, you're back out on the street the next day.  You cannot be held on any sort of bail."  Of the 650 thugs arrested, almost all will be released back on the street to riot and loot again.

Jay Inslee Laughs About Antifa's Rebellion in Seattle as He Demobilizes National Guard.  As antifa militants have taken over six blocks of Seattle's Capitol Hill district, calling it the "Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone" or the "People's Republic of Capitol Hill," Gov. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.) laughed about this open rebellion, saying he hadn't heard about it.  Inslee added that the National Guard is demobilizing, and his chief of staff suggested that even if an open rebellion had broken out on the streets of Seattle, it would be up to "local authorities" to fight it.

Jay Inslee Had No Idea Anarchists Had Taken Over His State's Largest City.  Washington Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee was oblivious to the anarchist insurrection taking over Seattle Wednesday when he was asked about the rogue militia during a coronavirus press briefing.  "Governor, I'd like to ask you about what's going on in Seattle.  There's this thing called the 'Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone.'  What's your thought about the fact that the protestors have taken that over and not allowing people to come and go freely?" one reporter asked.  "Well that's news to me," Inslee said caught completely blindsided by what was happening in his state's largest city.  "I'll have to reserve any comment about it.  I have not, I have not heard anything about that from any credible source."

Lawless In Seattle:  All That CHAZ.  The Seattle Police — who, remember, ran away from the precinct — say that they are getting reports that armed people within CHAZ are extorting the people living there.  While it is tempting to say these radical fools get what they deserve, the fact is that the authorities in Seattle, and in Washington State, have allowed Antifa to take over a portion of a major American city, and run it according to the law of the street.  This is what happens when you let the mob rule.

Let Seattle stew in its own excrement.  The news out of Seattle is that Antifa has captured a seven-block area in central Seattle that they've dubbed the Capital Hill Autonomous Zone, or CHAZ for short. [...] While my friends on social media are clamoring for the president to send in the National Guard and reclaim the city, I believe that a different tack is in order — let the people of Seattle stew in their own excrement. [...] Let Antifa have as much land mass as it can acquire through the weekend, invite as many of its brethren to enter the autonomous zone as it wishes, then cordon off their booty and blockade any and all raw materials and supplies from entering the, ahem, zone. Setup a checkpoint, à la East Berlin, and require any and all those wishing to return to America to pledge allegiance to our Constitution and our flag.  Those unwilling to re-enter civil society can remain in the autonomous zone until they come to their senses or perish.  Seattle suburbanites need to be made to suffer for the consequences of their choices at the ballot box.  You want to subvert our Constitution, attempt to run roughshod over civil society?  Pay the price.

The Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone has already had its first incident of self-appointed-police violence.  [Scroll down]  We've seen all of this before, sadly.  If you were around when the Occupy protests were a thing, they also believed they had created a new utopia of equality for everyone to emulate.  And then it became clear that people were being assaulted, threatened and even raped inside the camps.  The lead camp in Zuccotti Park even set up a women-only tent in an effort to protect women from sexual assault.  But, hey, I'm sure the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone will work out great.  Instead of all that messy due process and police we'll just have an armed rapper and his guys wandering around smacking and threatening to kill people who get on their nerves.  What could possibly go wrong?

Seattle's Autonomous Anarchist Zone Learns a Hilarious Lesson About Theft.  Have you heard that a six-block section of Seattle has become an anarchist "capitol hill autonomous zone," or "CHAZ" for short?  It has.  Police and firefighters vacated their premises and bugged out with a Twitter blessing from Mayor Jenny Durkan.  Durkan dithered over the descent of protests into violence for a week before doing much, and when she did much, her choice was to tweet in hasty retreat.  Anarchists quickly set up CHAZ to be and do its own thing, as long as that thing conformed with diktats of the CHAZ hierarchy.  They put up makeshift signs saying, "You are now leaving the U.S.A." [...] The CHAZ collective thanked the mayor for her gift of a six-block area of America the mayor does not personally own (and which includes about 500 homes of actual Americans) by storming city hall and demanding that she resign unless she disbands the police.

Dr. Birx Says George Floyd Protests Have Resulted in the Destruction of 70 Covid-19 Testing Sites.  Dr. Deborah Birx, President Trump's coronavirus response coordinator, warned the nation's governors on a conference call that 70 coronavirus testing sites had been destroyed amid widespread protests in the wake of the death of George Floyd.  During the Monday [6/8/2020] call, a recording of which was obtained by the Daily Beast, Birx said governors should "scramble now to make sure there is testing available in urban areas."

Biden Campaign Director, James Clyburn, Says:  There Was No Violence, Looting, Riots, Arson or Police Attacks in Washington DC Last Week.  Joe Biden's Campaign Director James Clyburn takes denial of truth to never-before-seen levels of avoidance and lying.  During an interview earlier today the Biden campaign architect claimed there was no evidence of violence in Washington DC last week.  According to Clyburn there was no violence, rioting, looting, arson or attacks against police.  The burned out cars, buildings and churches, the videos of rampant looting, and the 150 police officers taken to the hospital were apparently staged and made up.  According to his claims, none of what you saw actually happened.  Clyburn seems confident media will protect him and not call him out on his false claims.  Judging by the non-response of Neil Cavuto, his confidence is accurate.

Antifa Activists Take Over Six City Blocks in Seattle Washington — Create Lawless "Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone".  It is really quite stunning how the U.S. media have avoided reporting on a group of activists in Seattle who have taken over part of the city surrounding the abandoned East precinct police station.  No one is being allowed inside what they are calling a "Free Capitol Hill Zone" or "Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ).  The activists have barricaded the streets and will not let any journalists or city officials inside their declared zone of control.  The region expands across six blocks as outlined by the occupying groups.

A $500 Million Bill Comes Due in Minneapolis.  Call it the most expensive street party of the decade.  Preliminary estimates of the property damage caused by the riots, lootings, and arson in the Twin Cities region of Minnesota come to about $500 million across more than 500 businesses, according to the Star Tribune.  This potential price tag represents a dramatic increase from an earlier cost of $55 million cited by officials for Minneapolis.  The half-billion figure, if it holds up, would make the Twin Cities riots the second most destructive civil disturbance in the country's history.

California Homes Flying American Flags [are being] Targeted by Arsonists.  Four homes in the Sungarden neighborhood of Citrus Heights in California were reportedly targeted early Saturday morning.  Each of them was displaying Old Glory.  Police are asking Sungarden residents to assist them in identifying those responsible for setting fire to four American flags on Saturday morning [2/6/2020].  Authorities have yet to identify a motive, but in each case, the flags were specifically ignited.

Systemic Racism and Bigotry Are the Lifeblood of the Left.  [Scroll down]  If one wants to find systemic hate in America, you will find it among outliers on the right and within the very core and system of the left.  The hate that has been shown in burning down even minority-owned drug stores and clothing stores.  The looting and the physical violence that awaits us all if the Left and its Ocasio-Hyphen anarchists ever attain their dream of defunding ICE at the border and the police in our cities.  And when the mob strikes, nowhere do they let their hate demonstrate itself more manifestly than when they go after the Jews.  First they go after the Jews who will not bow, just as Stalin did.  And eventually they get to the Schumers and Bernies just as Stalin got to the anti-Semitic Jewish apostates of another time like the Trotskys, Kamenevs, and Zinovievs.  The Left media have been so enthralled covering a few troubling but isolated cases of police roughness that they conveniently have refused to cover the anti-Jewish pogrom that took place in Los Angeles in the name of "Black Lives Matter."

Antifa Seizes Seattle PD, Sets Up 'Autonomous Zone' Just Like ISIS and the Paris Commune.  Just as the Islamic State (ISIS) claimed territory in Iraq and Syria, antifa militants have claimed territory in Seattle, Wash.  According to reports on the ground from The Post Millennial's Andy Ngo and Townhall's Julio Rosas, protesters and antifa instigators have seized land in the Capitol Hill area around the Seattle Police East Precinct.  Like ISIS, the rioters appear to have decided on setting up a government in their occupied territory, naming it "Free Capitol Hill."

Watching in real time as Seattle descends into anarchy.  On Tuesday, the police in Seattle's Eastern District had initially battled with the rioters, using tear gas and flashbangs.  Eventually, recognizing that anything short of a military-style defense was a waste of police time and put police lives at risk, the police abandoned the Eastern Precinct.  They shredded important and confidential documents, boarded up the windows, and walked away, leaving the people whom they serve to the mob's mercy.  The mob set up barricades around the streets and announced a new independent community called the "Capitol Hill autonomous zone" or "Free Capitol Hill."  Because this is Seattle, residents of the city, rather than looking at the probably and imminent end of a comfortable life predicated on the smooth functioning of modern civil services (law enforcement, food delivery, garbage pick-ups, street cleaning, etc.), immediately donated huge amounts of food, water, and medical supplies to allow the anarchists to settle in for a long siege.

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The city could easily turn off the water and electricity to the whole area, starting with the police station.  Moreover, the National Guard could set up a perimeter around the seized area, to make sure that all the participants are captured.

Engineering a Race War:  Will This Be the American Police State's Reichstag Fire?  Watch and see:  this debate over police brutality and accountability is about to get politicized into an election-year referendum on who should occupy the White House.  Don't fall for it.  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's the Reichstag Fire all over again. [...] 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.

All the 'News' That's Fit to Apologize For.  I've often joked that the enemies of America didn't need to bother trying to destroy our country, that the political left would eventually do it for them from within.  The only thing I got wrong was the timing.  I thought it would be the long con — an extended timeline of chipping away at rights through the legislative process.  Instead, Democrats are throwing everything behind the short con — pushing for violent insurrection right now, another progressive burning of the Reichstag, hoping it will carry them through November and into power.  But much of that anger is directed inward, a circular firing squad of wokeness, and I, for one, am enjoying it all.  As the people who created and encouraged the angry mob scramble to appease it, hoping to be spared its rage, they're failing miserably.  In fact, more left-wing scalps have been claimed in this mess than anyone else.

Twin Cities:  A few words of advice.  I have spent quite a bit of time in the Twin Cities and always found the place lovely — wonderful restaurants, cultural events too numerous to mention, beautiful in summer, smartly plowed streets in seriously frozen winters. [...] But that all went by the wayside when justified peaceful protests devolved into mass thuggery and mayhem.  We've all seen the result.  Minneapolis looks like Somalia — maybe Ilhan Omar feels more at home now.  Here's a few things the people of the Twin Cities might want to consider:  First, they should understand that Antifa and a whole bleeding chunk of BLM are not interested in police reform.  They're interested in hurting people and breaking things while deceiving all who will swallow their line that they are "peaceful protesters."  They're not.  Never will be.  They want to silence, intimidate, hurt, and maim people who don't agree with them.

Abraham Lincoln monument torched in Chicago: 'An absolute disgraceful act'.  Abraham Lincoln has joined George Washington on the list of those targeted by Chicagoans in a national debate over Civil War-era monuments.  Alderman Raymond Lopez took to Facebook Wednesday night to decry the defacing of a statue representing the nation's 16th president in the Englewood neighborhood.  The giant bust appears to have been damaged after someone in the 15th Ward sprayed and ignited a flammable liquid.  "What an absolute disgraceful act of vandalism.  This bust of Abraham Lincoln, erected by Phil Bloomquist on August 31, 1926, was damaged & burned," Mr. Lopez wrote, a local NBC affiliate reported.

LAPD officer shot with crossbow during barricade in North Hollywood.  An LAPD officer was injured Sunday night after being struck by an arrow fired from a crossbow during a standoff with a man in North Hollywood, authorities said.  Officers were initially called to a residence on Bakman Avenue near Ostego Street around 6:45 p.m. after reports of an assault with a deadly weapon, LAPD Officer Mike Lopez said.  Police were alerted to a man wielding a rifle.

Factory Burned In Floyd Riots Will Leave Minneapolis, Owner Says.  The owner of a manufacturing company based in Minneapolis has decided to move his factory after law enforcement was unable to protect the plant from burning during riots.  The plant shut down early in anticipation of the second night of riots and to ensure the safety of employees, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported.  President and Owner of 7-Sigma Inc.  Kris Wyrobek said a production supervisor and maintenance worker who live near the plant kept watch over the business and reported a fire at an apartment complex next door.

Buffalo Officials Duped By Professional Antifa Provocateur — Arrest and Charge Two Police Officers.  Martin Gugino is a 75-year-old professional agitator and Antifa provocateur who brags on his blog about the number of times he can get arrested and escape prosecution.  Gugino's Twitter Account is also filled with anti-cop sentiment.  Last Thursday Gugino traveled from his home in Amherst, New York, to Buffalo to agitate a protest crowd.  During his effort Gugino was attempting to capture the radio communications signature of Buffalo police officers.  CTH noted what he was attempting on Thursday night as soon as the now viral video was being used by media to sell a police brutality narrative.  Today, a more clear video has emerged that shows exactly what he was attempting. [...] Unfortunately in the modern era the professional agitators have become very sophisticated and use technology to help create chaos.

Did an aged activist set up the Buffalo police?  Many Americans understand that the riots aren't righteous protests but are, instead, leftist activism aimed at destabilizing America and (the activists hope) destroying Trump's chance at reelection.  Still, people found shocking a video showing police in Buffalo pushing an old man to the ground where he lay with blood pouring from his ear.  Don't believe everything you see, though.  The old man was a leftist activist looking for trouble and may have staged the whole thing. [...] Almost immediately after the video appeared, the police officers who pushed the man were charged with assault and suspended from the force.  This tweet illustrates how effective the man's fall was in advancing the anti-police narrative.

Left-wing mayhem.  The Democratic Socialists of America conducted an internal membership survey after Sen. Bernie Sanders's loss to Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential primary.  Its purpose was to reassess its priorities and expand its electoral coalition.  What it found was not far from the caricature of a modern left-wing radical, and a preview of what the rioters and looters sacking major cities across America in 2020 would look like.  We're in the midst of those riots now, and it's long past time to get acquainted with the extremists who have taken to the streets to turn protests against police violence into violence of their own.  According to the Democratic Socialists of America's own data, nearly a third of its members in 2017 earned over $100,000 a year.  Just 6% belonged to a union.  A vast majority boasted a college or post-graduate degree.

Mayhem made in Venezuela?: Take a look at the photos of BLM leaders whooping it up with Nicolas Maduro in Harlem and Caracas.  The mainstream media would have you think the riots and looting that have erupted across the country are just spontaneous explosions of pent-up anger over the callous killing of a black suspect, at the hands of a blue-city Minneapolis police officer.  Well, I've covered a lot of riots — from Indonesia to Argentina to Russia to East Timor to Thailand to Venezuela, plus domestic ones in Seattle, Los Angeles, and San Francisco — as a journalist.  The one thing that's always come out in the aftermath is that none of these mass rioting and looting events was ever a simple spontaneous eruption.  All big riot events are man-made.  If the press had any curiosity at all, it would look to where the current mayhem is coming from.

Actor Tom Arnold Calls For Armed Insurrection Against Trump Supporters.  Desperately trying to stay relevant, Hollywood has-been Tom Arnold has taken to twitter to call for an armed confrontation with Trump supporters by urging black men and "us white liberal men" to borrow their dads' hunting rifles and go "nose to nose with Trump's gang of misfit tools."

Massachusetts Trump supporter, 82, 'violently assaulted' by motorist, 27, police say.  Nobody should be attacked for their political views, Charlie Chase says.  But according to authorities, that's exactly what happened last week to the 82-year-old U.S. military veteran and supporter of President Trump.  The Fall River, Mass., man says he was holding a Trump sign and wearing a Trump hat when suddenly a motorist allegedly got out of his car and charged toward him.

Minneapolis Mob Turn on Mayor Frey For Not Being Woke Enough.  Last week Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey allowed the mob to burn the police precincts in an expression of his alignment with their woke demands.  However, the Minneapolis mob was not satisfied with his permission to riot, loot and torch the city, the mob wants more.  The mob always wants more.  You can never be woke enough.  The mob has an unquenchable blood lust for power.  Today [6/6/2020] the social justice warriors demanded Mayor Frey prove his virtue by promising to eliminate all police officers and allow the woke community to take over the organization of their politically correct civic society.  The Mayor could not make the promise.  So the mob turned on him and forced him to do the walk of shame through the crowd.

Protester caught with axe taped to sign Saturday arrested in Manhattan.  A protester was arrested in Manhattan Saturday for marching with an axe taped to his sign calling for justice in the police killing of George Floyd.  The axe served as a handle and was duct-taped to the sign, which read, "Boomers asked 4 justice, millennials demand justice."  The man was also carrying a small knife in his backpack, police said.  "We respect the right to peacefully protest, but remain vigilant for these type of threats," the NYPD tweeted.

The ACLU's New Curfew Position Unmasks Their Hypocrisy.  After months of silence, the ACLU has finally taken a stand to protect civil liberties during the COVID-19 pandemic.  Their stand, however, is not against the draconian lockdowns of society which have destroyed millions of jobs and ruined millions of lives.  No, instead of supporting freedom-loving, law-abiding people who want to work, eat out, travel, and educate their children, the ACLU is standing up for violent rioters and anarchists who want to burn down American cities.

GA Police:  Three Protesters Tracked Cops to Their Homes, Threw Molotov Cocktails at Their Cars.  According to the Gwinnett County, Georgia police, three protesters are under arrest for tracking cops to their homes and tossing Molotov cocktails at their cars.

3 protesters tracked officers to their homes, threw Molotov cocktails at police cars, authorities say.  Three protesters are in jail Thursday after being arrested for trying to set police cars on fire with Molotov cocktails.  They were denied bond in court Friday [6/5/2020].  Police say the vandals tracked those officers down at their homes and tried to torch their cars.  Both fires were put out quickly, leaving minor damage to the vehicles.

Three Rioters Arrested For Allegedly Tracking Cops to Their Homes And Firebombing Their Cars.  Three rioters were arrested last week in Gwinnett County, Georgia for allegedly following police to their homes and firebombing their police cars with Molotov cocktails.  The media is remarkabl[y] referring to the alleged assailants as "protesters."

If You Find This Mark on Your House, Antifa May Have Singled It Out.  An insider document from the nation's highest law enforcement agency is reportedly warning of a secret code used by far-left activists.  The mark, which could be overlooked for its simplicity, has already been found on at least one structure.  According to an FBI situation report obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation, it's believed that antifa activists are behind the graffiti-based code.  The mark, a simple black line painted around buildings, allegedly designates potential arson targets.

'Orgy of violence': Ami Horowitz talks to Minneapolis protesters who support looting, killing cops.  Documentary filmmaker Ami Horowitz embedded himself in the Minneapolis protests-turned-riots and said the majority of protesters he spoke with supported an "orgy of violence," including "killing cops."  Horowitz, who previously covered police protests in Ferguson, Mo., in 2014, spoke to "peaceful protesters" Sunday night in the city where George Floyd died while in police custody on Memorial Day.  He found that, while they acted peacefully, they supported the looting and violence that started there and continued in other cities.  "What I saw was really shocking," Horowitz told Fox News.  "It was a city on fire and full of chaos.  Anarchy was reigning across the streets, and you saw police officers chasing roving bandits all over the city."

Black Lives Matter terrorists attack Police Officer in Atlanta.  [Video clip]

St. Louis police release surveillance video of 7 'persons of interest' in death of retired officer David Dorn.  Surveillance footage capturing a group of men breaking into a pawn shop around the same time of the killing of a retired police captain attempting to prevent looting was released by St. Louis authorities Friday [6/5/2020].  The video shows seven "persons of interest" running into Lee's Pawn & Jewelry on Tuesday during a night of widespread looting and rioting following a mostly peaceful protest over the death of George Floyd.  The men all have their faces covered — six with masks and one with another covering.

Rioting, looting, arson and violence have become a civilization-destroying pandemic.  The United States is calmer, though still threatening, following days of rioting that spread with lightning speed across the nation, with murderous assaults on police officers and civilians and the ecstatic annihilation of businesses and symbols of the state.  Welcome to a real civilization-destroying pandemic, one that makes the recent saccharine exhortations to "stay safe" and the deployment of police officers to enforce outdoor mask-wearing seem like decadent bagatelles.  This particular form of viral chaos was inevitable, given the failure of Minneapolis's leaders to quell the city's growing mayhem.

The Cost of Riots.  It's weird that this needs to be said, but here we are.  Then again, the pundit who reprehensibly claims that destroying property "is not violence" risks nothing.  She agitates for revolution from the safety of her apartment.  Much the same, I suspect, most of those excusing the destruction of our cities — either contending that businesses "have insurance" or peddling false choices about life being "more valuable than property" — have never built a business themselves.  Nor have I.  Yet, I do know that having a business destroyed can be devastating, and "having insurance" won't make victims whole.

'Get a good liver or kidney shot': Antifa 'fight club' exposed, radical leaders train members for violent mayhem.  A new undercover video from Project Veritas shows, for the first time, Antifa instructors training members how to fight and disable opponents, which would likely include law enforcement officers sent to quell riots.  The undercover video posted Friday [6/5/2020] as part of Project Veritas' "Expose ANTIFA" project contains footage of instructors and students who belong to New York City's "RefuseFa" group, which is aligned with the loose-knit Left-wing anarchist movement that was declared a terrorist organization last month by President Donald Trump.  In the newly released video, a 'fight club' instructor is seen teaching students how to kidney-punch and how to break 'floating ribs' so as to disable them at a location known as "The Base Anarchist Political Center."

Molotov cocktail-tossing Brooklyn lawyers' home detention revoked; appeals panel sends them back to lock-up, for now.  Two Brooklyn lawyers accused of tossing a Molotov cocktail at an empty NYPD car during a chaotic George Floyd protest last weekend are getting tossed into lockup themselves — for now.  Princeton grad Colinford Mattis, 32, and his alleged accomplice and fellow lawyer Urooj Rahman, 31, lost their home detention status late Friday when three federal judges ordered them returned to official custody pending a further review of the feds push to get their bail revoked for good.

Rioters Don't Want Criminal Justice Reform — They Want A Revolution.  These rioters aren't Martin Luther King Jr. or even Malcolm X.  They are Alex and his droogs from "A Clockwork Orange" out for a night on the town, albeit with less style and a duller patois.  Violence is the point.  Protests responding to the cruel police killing of George Floyd have been turned into nationwide riots and looting.  This is not about Floyd anymore.  His killing was universally condemned, the cops involved were fired, and homicide charges have been brought against the officer who knelt on Floyd's neck.  More should be done, and what has been done could have been done sooner, but folks are not looting the Nike store in downtown Chicago for greater justice.  They just want to smash things and take stuff.

New York Looters and Hoodlums Attack Guardian Angels Founder Curtis Sliwa — Break His Jaw with a Hammer During Riots.  Looters and hoodlums attacked the founder of the Guardian Angels, Curtis Sliva, during the riots this week in New York City.  The looters broke Sliva's jaw with a hammer and another Guardian Angel lost his eye during the attack.  The Guardian Angels stated goal is to keep order and protect the community.

The Bloodletting and Wilding Is Part of An Agenda To Tear Down The Country.  I haven't had much time to reflect on the looting and riots that swept mostly (but not exclusively) large Democrat cities.  It was a wilding on a scale we've never seen.  It was a bloodletting and release of criminal fury.  We should be clear what is happening.  It is not protest over the death of George Floyd.  That is the spark, but not the fire.  This has been a long time coming.  At least a generation, maybe two.  The left methodically has taken control of key institutions to implement an anti-American, anti-Capitalist agenda.  You send your kids to public schools and college, where they are taught from their earliest years that America and capitalism are the sources of evil in the world, that we are a systemically racist society that consumes 'black and brown bodies,' while socialist and communist systems are more equal and fair.  It's all a lie, but it's a lie told by the teachers, professors, and administrators with power.  The real racists are the people who obsess about race, and who judge people based on the color of their skin.  When your kids emerge from the social justice warfare meat grinder, you don't recognize them anymore.

Retired St. Louis Police Officer Assassinated Live on FaceBook By Mostly Peaceful Protesters.  Was he wearing a Hawaiian shirt?  Oh?  He was black?  So we can't claim it was justified.  So we'll just ignore it.

These Images Are Not From A War Zone, But 'Liberal America' That Is Literally Burning.  As America burns after nearly a week of massive riots all throughout the nation over the death by cop of George Floyd, a man we now know via autopsy had coronavirus and found to have "Fentanyl Intoxication" And "Recent Methamphetamine Use," we note that outside groups have infiltrated the "peaceful" protesters and are committing acts of domestic terrorism.  Make no mistake, people should not die in police custody, but the entire picture does need to be acknowledged, and the fact that Floyd was not exactly the poster boy for the boy scouts, is something the media and liberals refuse to acknowledge, so we mention it not as an excuse or justification for his death, but as part of the fact pattern.  Images from around the country look like they have come from a war zone, they haven't, this is America.  Antifa, Black Lives Matter and other groups known for their use of brutal violence in the name of "anarchy," with claims they are "anti-fascist," yet use fascist tactics at every turn, have decided to literally light America on fire.

I fear we are witnessing the death of New York City.  [Tweet with video clip]

AntiFa is hilariously failing in the suburbs.  AntiFa has done terrible things over the past week, where they can run free with protection and encouragement from law enforcement, but in the suburbs where most normal Americans live, they're hitting a few road bumps.  [Numerous video clips]

James O'Keefe Strikes Again!  Latest Undercover Video Exposes Antifa Terrorist Movement:  Recruitment, Combat Training and International Connections.  James O'Keefe and Project Veritas released their investigative report on the domestic terrorist group Antifa on Thursday morning [6/4/2020].  Antifa is a violent left-wing Communist faction that uses a black bloc tactic where they dress in black from head to toe and cover their faces with black masks.  The tactic is meant to make it more difficult for police to identify those who break the law during a riot.  Portland has one of the largest and most active populations of Antifa members in the United States. [...] President Trump just announced that the United States will be designating Antifa as a terrorist organization.  Their latest undercover report reveals how the leftist terror group Antifa practice eye gouging, beating their opponents and create an environment of fear and terror.

Project Veritas exposes Antifa's violent tactics and chilling plot to destroy America.  A shocking undercover video by Project Veritas exposes Antifa's chilling plot to destroy America from the inside-out and to harass and provoke Trump supporters in the process.  Project Veritas is an independent media outlet founded by James O'Keefe.  In the four-minute exposé, an Antifa operative reveals that he was with the Rose City Park, Oregon branch of the domestic terrorist organization for some time.  He has since left the group.  The operative said stealth violence and mob bullying is part of Antifa's modus operandi.  In the video, an Antifa leader admits that the group is violent, but its members should try not to get caught in photos showing them beating people or vandalizing property [...] At one point, a group leader instructs members how to hurt people during their so-called peaceful protests.  "Practice things like an eye gouge.  It takes very little pressure to injure someone's eyes," the leader advises.

Retired police captain killed on Facebook Live while protecting friend's pawn shop.  David Dorn was trying to help a friend.  The retired St. Louis police captain was shot to death early Tuesday [6/2/2020] during a violent night of protests in which four active St. Louis police officers were also shot.  Dorn, who also served as police chief in Moline Acres, was 77, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.  The shooting took place around 2:30 a.m.  Tuesday as Dorn tried to protect Lee's Pawn & Jewelry from looters, the Post-Dispatch reported.  He was shot in the torso and died on the sidewalk in front of the shop.  His killing was captured on a Facebook Live video. [...] The video of Dorn's death was taken down shortly after it was broadcast, according to The Associated Press.  A Facebook spokesperson told the Post-Dispatch, however, that the removal was a mistake because the video did not expressly violate the platform's policy on violent or graphic content.

The Nation Has Gone Mad.  The current moment has fully exposed the extent to which ugly divides have gone mainstream, illustrating the lunacy of our new woke-obsessed culture and the incompetency of our leaders.  "This is how nations collapse," Fox News' Tucker Carlson observed Monday night in a 32-minute monologue that will go down as a defining moment in prime time cable television.  Rioters claiming to be obsessed with racial injustice are committing gross racial injustices themselves, exerting their ruthless fury on their own.  For the sake of black progress, protestors are destroying minority businesses, leaving poor neighborhoods devastated and ruining the livelihoods of those who barely emerged alive after two months of pandemic lockdowns.  An estimated 100,000 small businesses had already permanently gone under.  Minorities are even being targeted themselves amid the chaos.

Right-wing extremists arrested for planning riots at protests in Las Vegas.  A trio of right-wing extremists with military backgrounds have been busted for plotting riots at George Floyd protests in Las Vegas — part of a plan to overthrow the government, according to federal prosecutors.  Army reservist Andrew T. Lynam Jr., 23, former Navy man Stephen T. Parshall, 35, and former Air Force man William L. Loomis, 40, were being held on $1 million bond each on terrorism-related charges.  The trio were part of the "boogaloo" movement, "a term used by extremists to signify coming civil war and/or fall of civilization," prosecutors said in a release.

Counterfeit Money Is The Motive Behind Gangland's George Floyd Arson And Looting Riots.  [Scroll down]  After defending the circulation of Made-in-China counterfeit dollars, which may be just a criminal enterprise and hopefully not strategic financial warfare against the American economy, these supporters of George went on to torch local businesses, exactly when employees were expecting to go back to work towards the tapering off of the lock-down.  Trashing strip malls, torching mom-and-pop shops and restaurants is reckless vandalism, an evil assault on the U.S. economy at a most crucial moment, dashing hopes of recovery.  Every rioter who's not shot on sight during curfew should be thrown into prison for many decades for their own good, and hopefully do some hard labor to teach them the virtue of word instead of theft.  Ineffective mayors and governors should not only be dumped at the polls, but investigated and prosecuted for dereliction of public duty and as accomplices to murder and mayhem.

Texas Man Wanted to 'Off Racists and MAGA People' at George Floyd Protest, Say Feds.  The man arrested by police in Lubbock, Texas, after he brandished a semi-automatic rifle in front of a George Floyd protest posted a threat on Facebook saying he wanted to "off racists and MAGA people," officials stated.  He allegedly shouted, "President Trump must die" and "this is a revolution" as authorities took him into custody.  Lubbock police officers arrested 25-year-old Emmanuel Quinones on Saturday after he was captured on video purportedly brandishing a loaded Smith & Wesson .223 semi-automatic rifle in front of protesters, KCBD NBC11 reported.

'Abolish the police!'? What happened when a major American city tried that a century ago.  Nothing better reveals the depth of the madness afoot in the land than the demands to defund or completely abolish the police. [...] Fortunately, there is a real-life experiment in complete withdrawal of police protection that occurred a century ago that is available to learn from.  The Boston Police Strike that began September 9, 1919 led to immediate looting and chaos as soon as the sun went down.  In August, Boston police had voted to form a union affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, but ran up against opposition from Boston Police Commissioner Edwin Curtis, backed by Massachusetts Governor Calvin Coolidge.  After attempts at compromise failed, the cops walked off the job at 5:45 PM.  In the language of the day, "hooliganism" broke out, with widespread looting.  The following day, the mayor of Boston asked Governor Coolidge to supply force of state militia, and he agreed.  But in the time it took to raise a force that eventually numbered 5,000, about 3 times the size of the Boston Police, looting increased on September 10, and continued for 9 days until the militia was able to quell it.

A group getting millions in state tax money is leading Madison's protests and calling for defunding of police departments.  Freedom Inc. isn't shy about pushing its radical rhetoric.  The Madison-based nonprofit has advocated for the release of all African Americans from jail and the defunding of police departments.  As for the current protests, the group's leaders say "all actions against racist state violence are justified."  "Stop murdering black people, and your glass will be safe," Monica Adams, co-executive director for Freedom Inc., said while leading the third day of police protests in the state's capital on Monday [6/1/2020].  "Thank all the youth freedom fighters who were in the streets fighting (Sunday) night and Saturday night," said Mahnker Dahnweih, community power-building coordinator for Freedom Inc.  "Every action is a contribution to liberation."  So where does a group like this get the money it needs to promote its agenda?  A lot of it comes from you.

Obama-era ex-intel official secures bail for NYC lawyer suspected of hurling Molotov cocktail in George Floyd unrest.  A former high-level Obama administration intelligence official has guaranteed the $250,000 bail for the New York City lawyer who allegedly firebombed an unoccupied NYPD police cruiser early Saturday, calling the suspect her "best friend," Fox News has confirmed.  The Washington Free Beacon first reported that Salmah Rizvi, who served in the Defense Department and State Department during the Obama administration, went to bat for Urooj Rahman, who was arrested this weekend alongside Pryor Cashman associate Colinford Mattis. [...] The Free Beacon noted that, according to her biography at the Islamic Scholarship Fund, Rizvi's "high-value work would often inform the president's daily briefs."

NYC Arsonists to Be Instantly Freed from Jail Thanks to 'Bail Reform' Law.  Arsonists who set fires in New York City, New York, during multiple nights of riots will be instantly freed from jail if ever arrested thanks to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's (D-NY) bail reform law.  For many nights now, arsonists have set ablaze New York City Police Department (NYPD) vehicles, city dumpsters, and rubble on the streets of New York City.  Those arrested for arson, if arrests are made, will spend less than 24 hours in jail.

Nearly All Rioters Freed from Jail in D.C., Most Avoid Felony Riot Charges.  Nearly all rioters have been freed from jail in Washington, D.C. and most have had felony riot charges dropped against them, and now they are only facing burglary, destruction of property, and curfew violation charges.  Arrest records obtained by WUSA 9 reveal that hundreds of rioters have been arrested over the last week in riots and looting sprees across the nation's capital.

Riots, looting and America burning — the end of the progressive dream.  There is a big debate about designating Antifa a terrorist group and what if any steps the federal government can take to stop the rioting.  But we all know who the real culprits are for turning America's streets into a war zone:  progressives and liberals.  They have filled the mind of America's youth with ideological nitroglycerine that is now exploding in our streets, while also setting the conditions that make it almost impossible to stop it.  The terrible events that have unfolded in the wake of the death of George Floyd represent the systematic failure of five decades of progressivism and liberalism.  The end of the progressive dream has now brought us all to the brink in three ways. [...]

Lefty pols have put cops everywhere in peril.  On Tuesday night [6/2/2020], as Mayor Bill de Blasio went on CNN to lie to Chris Cuomo that all was "calm" in New York, the exhausted men and women of the NYPD were being bruised and battered for the fourth night by criminals running amok under the cover of George Floyd protests.  "It's been a good night," de Blasio said.  As he spoke, the reality on the streets was revealed in a video going viral on Twitter of a "looting party" in Soho, with hundreds of revelers milling around looted stores and dancing on cars.  At the same time, over on Fox News, NYPD Sergeants Benevolent Association chief Ed Mullins was making an extraordinary plea for the President Trump to intervene to rescue a mighty police force that has been hobbled and abandoned by its political masters.

Yes, George Soros Sent Money to Fund the Riots — and So Did Taxpayers.  Ever since the protests turned to riots over the death of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis, rumors have flown that George Soros and his Open Society Foundation had to be involved.  After all, OSF funded Black Lives Matter in 2015.  It didn't take long to reveal the financial ties to current riots and to show that OSF and George Soros directly support the movement today.  Particularly infuriating are the taxpayer-funded grants received in conjunction with the Soros funding.  Daniel Bice of the Milwaukie [sic] Journal-Sentinel reports that a group called Freedom, Inc. has received grants from the Wisconsin Department of Justice:  ["]The Madison-based nonprofit has advocated for the release of all African Americans from jail and the defunding of police departments.  As for the current protests, the group's leaders say "all actions against racist state violence are justified."["]

Democrats at War.  Virtually all the mayhem was centered in Democrat-controlled states and cities.  The same mayors who had jailed local business people and ordinary citizens for congregating in groups of more than ten were utterly silent as crowds of thousands formed to tear their cities apart.  Meanwhile not a single word was uttered, not a single arrest made, by these same Democrat governors and mayors to prevent the protesters and rioters from violating the social distancing ordinances they had used to close churches and houses of worship the week before.  While stores, apartment buildings and even police stations were torched by violent radicals, while ordinary citizens were being terrorized, Democrat governors were reluctant to call out their National Guard and nip the riots in the bud.  This reluctance became active resistance when they defied the president's appeals to them to take every measure necessary to stop the the terrorists in their tracks and restore law and order to our cities.  One of the most frightening sights amidst all the mayhem was the direct threat the street terrorists posed to the White House.  Thousands of rioters and protesters gathered in front of the White House.  What were the protesters doing at the White House in the first place?  The president had condemned the murder of George Floyd and called his family immediately after the event.  There wasn't a politician or public figure in the entire nation who was defending the killer cop.

Democrats and Antifa:  Fighting Racism with Racism and Riots.  An ugly incident of police brutality has yet again brought the topic of race to the center of public discussion, peddled by the leftist media.  Violent riots accompanied by looting, arson, and destruction of property in dozens of American cities were presented my media and leftist politicians as legitimate protests and expression of the black community's pain — because America is racist. [...] Somehow, it's the white people who should be accountable for everything bad that happens, which fully corresponds with "identity politics" promoted by the left.  Constant oppression of "people of color" by their evil white counterparts indeed has been at the heart of the leftist discourse for decades.  Leftists talk about "systematic" and "institutional" racism that exists in America.  When asked for examples, the answer from the apologists is usually "Google it."

As in the 1960s, violent rioting hurts the most disadvantaged.  "America is burning.  But that's how flowers grow."  So spoke Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey.  "Riots are an integral part of the country's march toward progress."  So read a statement from the Democratic Committee of Fairfax County, Virginia, the affluent Washington suburb that has a population of 1 million.  "Please, show me where it says protesters are supposed to be polite and peaceful," asked CNN's Chris Cuomo.  He's apparently been too busy interviewing his brother, the governor of New York, to reread the First Amendment, which protects "the right of the people peaceably to assemble."  I take a different view.  I know how violent rioting, and that's what we've been seeing, despite media attempts at hiding it, can destroy a city and ruin the lives of its residents.

Prosecute actions, not thoughtcrimes.  The notion that Mr. Floyd was purposefully killed by the policeman because he is colored must not translate into illegal actions, looting the local stores, building fires, assaulting people, and destroying property.  To allege that the illegal looting and rioting actions are appropriate is the worst form of racism, alleging that because of their color, these people are incapable of controlling their behavior.  The actions of rioting and looting must be aggressively shut down to maintain an orderly society.  Anarchy cannot be an appropriate answer.

Why hasn't Antifa been infiltrated yet?  With a hate group like the KKK, it seems that no three Klan members can meet without at least one of them being a FBI informant.  So how [...] does a violent anarchist group like Antifa, which has been around in its present form for over ten years, manage to fly under the radar?  Why hasn't Antifa been infiltrated and its organizers exposed?  It can't be that hard to do.  These people are not like the Mafia or the hardcore communists of the '40s and '50s with their cells and codes.  Antifa is composed of pampered punks.  And yes, Antifa is mostly white radicals who use black anger as their pretext for violence.  These multi-city riots and demonstrations across the country don't happen by accident.  Antifa people come from across state lines, assemble, and sometimes seem to have target areas.

NYC Police Union President: 'We Are Losing the City'.  The president of the New York City police union wrote Tuesday [6/2/2020] in a letter to his fellow sergeants, "I know we are losing the city," amid the violent protests and riots occurring in the wake of the death of George Floyd at the hands of police officers in Minneapolis.

Looters, rioters not being prosecuted by circuit attorney, says attorney general.  Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt says St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner has not charged any of the people that St. Louis police officers have arrested during recent violent protests and, as a result, they've all been released.  "To see that kind of level of violence and rioting that went on, police officers being shot and shot at, a retired police captain being murdered, people throwing rocks and gasoline and frozen water bottles at police officers, firefighters being assaulted and blocked from doing their job, businesses that have served the community for years being burned to the ground, it's unfathomable that every single person arrested that night has been released.

Feds investigating whether criminal actors exerting 'command and control' over unrest as bricks thrown at cops.  Federal law enforcement officials are probing whether "criminal actors" are coordinating violent activities during protests and are looking into reports that "rocks and bricks" have been dropped off to throw at police and other law enforcement as cities across the country grapple with the uptick in violence, a senior Justice Department official said.  "You see the hallmarks... We're trying to see if there's a coordinated command and control, you see those bread crumbs and that's what we're trying to verify," the DOJ official said.  Another DOJ official said the feds have seen signs of "very organized" coordination from "professional" agitators, some linked to Antifa.

Ben & Jerry's calls on Americans to 'dismantle white supremacy' in forceful statement.  Let there be no doubt where Ben & Jerry's stands.  The ice cream maker has called on Americans to "dismantle white supremacy" and "grapple with the sins of our past" as nationwide protests against racial injustice stretch into their eighth day.  In a forceful statement posted to the company's website late on Tuesday [6/2/2020], Ben & Jerry's describes the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, at the hands of a white police officer as the result of "inhumane police brutality that is perpetuated by a culture of white supremacy."  "What happened to George Floyd was not the result of a bad apple; it was the predictable consequence of a racist and prejudiced system and culture that has treated Black bodies as the enemy from the beginning," said the brand, which is owned by Unilever.

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I am happy to say that I have never tasted any of the stuff produced by Ben and Jerry.

Yes, Trump Can Use Military To Quell Spreading Riots — And He Should, If States, Cities Fail To Do The Job.  President Donald Trump says he may call out the military to quell riots if the states refuse to do their duty to protect their citizens.  But can he even do that?  His harshest critics say no, but they're very wrong.  The riots and looting that have taken place across the country are anything but "peaceful."  And while all of us agree peaceful demonstrations are acceptable, even if we don't agree with them, the recent orgy of violence has been driven by far-left anarchists and others bent on taking down a democratically elected government.

Democrats Are Using Antifa to Foment Revolution.  Barack Obama started the "fundamental transformation of the United States of America."  Yet, this is not Obama's Antifa.  A failure as president, he did manage to accomplish one important prerequisite for this rebellion.  He instilled in the left the understanding that "change" must be forced upon an unwilling electorate.  With this insight, Antifa has transitioned from pajama-boy blobs of perpetually offended miscreants, mostly drawn from misanthropes who were picked last in high school, into a trained guerilla force with cool uniforms.  Fascists like cool uniforms.  Antifa, the paramilitary arm of the Democratic Party, has spent the last three years recruiting, and organizing.  They have mobilized and learned tactics.  They have a plan and are working hard to cover all the bases.  Starting slow, they probed to find what government would allow, media would trumpet, and the public would endure.

Retired St. Louis police captain killed by looters.  A retired St. Louis police captain killed by people who broke into a pawn shop after protests turned violent was a gregarious and outspoken leader who mentored youths and insisted on strict ethical conduct among his employees, a longtime colleague said Tuesday.  David Dorn, 77, was found dead on the sidewalk in front of Lee's Pawn & Jewelry about 2:30 a.m.  Tuesday.  No arrests have been made.

American carnage:  These aren't protests — they're riots.  Someone must end the lawlessness.  Police sirens wailed up and down 8th Avenue in Manhattan, and New York Police Department helicopters hovered overhead Monday night [6/1/2020].  The rioters, according to my social media feeds, were several blocks away from my home, pillaging a clothing outlet.  A family member sent me a photo he took, from his window, of a jewelry store being ransacked, with no cops in sight.  New York City, like so many others across the country, is under siege.  The police here are not in control of the streets.  Anyone can turn on the television or open up social media and see rioters chanting profanely, destroying public and private property, or even attacking women shop owners.

The Sole Justification Offered for the Riots Is a Fiction.  It is true that there are injustices in the United States.  It is true that there is tension and distrust between the police and racial minorities, and that this has terrible human costs, George Floyd's death prominent among them.  But the rioters and looters and their apologists are advancing a more specific claim still:  that Floyd's death is not just an individual tragedy worthy of particular outrage, but part of an epidemic of lethal violence perpetrated against unarmed black men by police officers.  That such tragedies happen with startling frequency.  That black men cannot leave the house without getting shot by racist cops.  "It's important to be here today because we're dying," one protester told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.  "It's an epidemic."  This is not supported by the data.

Federal Officials Arrest Illinois Man Accused Of Distributing Explosives, Inciting Riots In Chicago And Minneapolis.  Federal officials say they've arrested a Galesburg, Illinois, man whom they say traveled from his home to both Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Chicago, Illinois, to hand out explosives and incite riots.  Matthew Rupert was arrested by the Chicago Police Department on Sunday [5/31/2020] after breaking the city's curfew[,] and when police searched his car, they found evidence of explosives and other incendiary devices.  An eventual search of his Facebook page yielded a number of videos, which Rupert had set to "public," showing Rupert encouraging rioters to burn buildings and attack police officers, according to CBS News Chicago.

Town Fights Antifa: 'They Just Beat the Ever-Loving Snot Out of Them'.  A small gang of Antifa thugs tried to stir up trouble in Yucaipa, California — but it turns out they messed with the wrong town.  Video shows citizens turning out in large numbers to chase the thugs out of town.  "They just beat the ever-loving snot out of three or four guys," said an unidentified man who was filming the beat down.  "The Antifa guys are not doing well at all here. [...]"  [Video clip]

Useful Idiots Give Rioters The Thumbs Up, End Up With Living Room Window Smashed Anyway.  [Language warning]  [Video clip]

Masked Looter Thug Picked The Wrong Asian Business To Target... Owner Makes Him Beg For His Life.  [Language warning]  [Video clip]

Must See Exclusive:  Mysterious Stacks of Bricks Are Being Delivered to Numerous US Cities — More Evidence Riots Are Organized!.  In cities around the US bricks are being delivered to riot locations and used to destroy property.  In Boston and Houston bricks are being delivered. [...] Citizen Free Press says 'follow the bricks' — there you will find who is subsidizing these riots.

Saks Fifth Avenue is wrapped in razor wire to prevent looting.  Saks Fifth Avenue surrounded its flagship Manhattan store with razor wire on Tuesday to keep thieves from smashing their way in and making off with troves of expensive merchandise, The [New York] Post has learned.  The luxury retailer has also hired private security guards with specially trained dogs to protect the premises in the wake of Monday night's looting of Macy's iconic Herald Square location.  At Saks, workers on Tuesday afternoon began attaching chain-link fencing to plywood that was previously installed to cover the luxury store's famed display windows.

I Watched Antifa Grow, Let Me Warn You About These Terrorists.  I absolutely knew the Antifa attacks would come one day.  Now, the President is aware these attacks are designed to spread.  He is acting, as he must, designating Antifa a domestic terror group.  Because I work in the heart of radical progressivism, I have tracked Antifa for years.  These people are very serious.  They are terrorists aligned with the radical leadership of Black Lives Matter, who traded learnings with Hamas, and, the founding philosophy of which Professor Jacobson has exposed, based upon the work of Anne Sorock of The Frontier Lab.

Armed Looter Shot Dead Trying to Rob Philadelphia Gun Store.  According to Fox29, the shooting happened "approximately 4:11 a.m. on the 1500 block of Front Street in the Pennsport section of the city."  The deadly failed robbery reportedly happened at Firing Line Inc when the owner was keeping guard of the store following an attempted break in on Sunday night [5/31/2020].  The owner saw a small group of armed robbers attempt to make it into the store on the premises' surveillance camera and heard them coming up the store stairs before he dealt with the intruders.

How's that progressive virtue signaling working for 'ya now, Nike?  Here's Nike's latest sacrifice:  [Video clip]

Cops in the Cross-hairs — Antifa Declares War on Police.  There was a time in our country when not even the Mafia dared kill a cop.  But those times are long past.  Well-funded and highly organized anarchists have used the protests over the killing of George Floyd as an excuse to burn private and government property and loot businesses across the country.  In the beginning, these terrorists focused on destruction and inciting others to riot.  But now, these provocateurs have ratcheted up their mayhem by taking aim at police officers and attempting to kill them.  The rule of law has fallen by the wayside.  The guerrilla war now is being waged with lethal intent.

6 Cities Where Looters Are Ransacking Minority-Owned Businesses.  Minority-owned businesses are among the worst-hit targets of looters and rioters who rampaged in Minneapolis and then other cities after a black man died in police custody, according to news reports.  "Expressing grievances to our elected officials in the form of protest is a time-honored tradition," Stacy Washington, co-chairwoman of the board of Project 21, a black conservative group, said in a public statement Monday [6/1/2020].  "But what we are watching unfold across the country is a coordinated effort to destroy the rule of law and order in our communities and to gin up racial tension," Washington said.  "In video after video, we see masked white protesters dressed all in black destroying property in black neighborhoods.  And it's blacks who are trying to stop the Antifa protesters from defacing small businesses."

Crates Filled with Pipe Bombs Discovered Near Korean War Memorial.  Jack Posobiec reported that authorities had discovered a crate filled with pipe bombs near a Korean War Memorial in Washington, D.C. As of Tuesday evening [6/2/2020], law enforcement is said to be pursuing a suspect in their placement.

All Is Going According To Plan For The Leftists Long Working To Take Down & Destroy America.  Martin Luther King, Jr. was wrong when he declared, "A riot is the language of the unheard."  No, a riot is the language of the unhinged, the unlawful, the uncouth, the uneducated, and the uncivilized.  It is always an attack upon the culture, the community, the commandants, and civilization.  It is a throwback to when "men did that which was right in his own eyes."  Riots are a message of hopelessness and an admission that thousands of years of advancement have failed, and all hope is gone, so we have given up and are regressing into a New Dark Age.

Secretary Esper: 'I do not support invoking the Insurrection Act'.  During a series of remarks made Wednesday morning, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper said that he does "not support invoking the Insurrection Act" as a way to quell the riots that have overtaken cities across the country in the wake of George Floyd's death.  In the wake of the riots, President Trump suggested that he may deploy the U.S. military to cities that need help protecting their citizens and infrastructure, which began a discussion of whether or not he would invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807.  "The option to use active-duty forces in a law enforcement role should only be used as a matter of last resort and only in the most urgent and dire of situation.  We are not in one of those situations now."

'Resistance' Has Become Insurrection.  Make no mistake: we are at an inflection point in U.S history, one that's already blown past the political and race riots and Hong Kong flu of 1968 and is barreling toward Fort Sumter, Shiloh, and Antietam.  For decades, a number of blue states have been in open defiance of federal law, especially regarding drugs and immigration.  They've created "sanctuary" cities, and have refused cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), resulting in needless deaths of many Americans.  And they don't care.  Today, from their bastions in New York City, Albany, Los Angeles, Sacramento, California, Chicago, and Lansing, Michigan, they have openly trashed the First Amendment's guarantees of the free exercise of religion and peaceable assembly in deliberate overreaction to COVID-19, while simultaneously finding a "right" to violent mass protest and property destruction.  They are no longer demanding a "redress of grievances" — they see the country as the grievance itself.  Designating the masked cowards of Antifa as terrorists is a good first step.  It will give the feds valuable new tools to put them away.  But neither should the feds shrink from confrontation.  This is no time to play patty-cake with the rainbow coalition of terror now being visited upon us.  The only thing violent thugs understand is overwhelming force, brutally applied — a principle that Grant and William T. Sherman came to understand in their conduct of the Civil War.

Another Night in Lootopia.  Race riots usually begin with criminality and end with criminality.  They're protests by criminals on behalf of a dead criminal.  The stores with smashed windows aren't a means of expressing outrage, but the end.  The purpose of criminality is criminality.  The police exist so that stores can remain unrobbed and random pedestrians can remain unbeaten.  The protests express opposition to that policy by robbing stores and assaulting random people.  Riots and looting are not a distraction from the protests.  They are the essential point of the protests and the radical movement that they represent.  The police were never the problem.  The looters and rioters were.

'Random Piles of Bricks' Magically Appearing at Protests While Agitators Hand Out Cash to Rioters.  A video from New York City shows a protester heaving a brick through a window.  This is a common sight the last few nights as riots have broken out in the wake of protests over the killing of George Floyd.  Ever wonder where those bricks come from? [...] What's a stash of bricks doing in the middle of a Manhattan street with no construction project around?

Trucker attacked by mob on I-35 was delivering fuel to black-owned business.  It was an indelible image, etched in my young brain, that I wished I had not seen.  Watching the nightly news with my parents on April 29, 1992, I, along with millions of others, witnessed Reginald Denny being dragged out of his truck at a Los Angeles intersection and beaten in an unspeakable manner in retaliation for the Rodney King beating.  I never thought I'd see something like that again outside a place like the Middle East, but here we are again, staring down the barrel of unbridled anarchy.  Are fundamental rights so contorted that rioters now have the right to block streets and freeways too, demand that anyone stop for them, and then beat them out of their cars?  And then the innocent drivers are the ones who get in trouble, not the murderous mobs?

New America:  Cops get punished for self-defense; rioters set free.  George Floyd's family is getting swift justice against the cop who killed him by all levels of the Minnesota justice system.  Now who will deliver justice for the American citizens, including cops, beaten and killed and all the damaged property and disruptions?  Well, prosecutors in major cities are now dropping charges even against the few rioters arrested, while pressing charges against cops involved in very dangerous self-defense situations.  David Dorn was a retired cop, with the St. Louis police department for 38 years.  He was helping his friend defend his pawn shop when he was shot dead on the sidewalk Monday night by rioters.  Dorn was African-American.  Police currently have no suspects.  His family will likely never see justice.

Rioters Burn Down Home, Block Firefighters, Trap Children Inside.  A Virginia police chief delivered an emotional statement when recalling an incident where firefighters were prevented from reaching a burning house by rioters amid the chaos that ensued following the recent George Floyd protests. [...] In spite of the dreadful incident, thankfully, police were able to rescue those trapped inside the burning house.  Speaking about the weekend's protests, Richmond mayor Levar Stoney said:  "Peaceful protests in solidarity against the injustices of black men hijacked by bad actors.  As soon as you loot a store or set a public bus on fire, you're not demonstrating.  You've made it about you.

Riots Aren't Just Destroying Businesses, They're Taking Lives.  While we've all been captivated by the images of looting and pillaging taking place in dozens of American cities, off-camera, homicides have been soaring over the past week as police are expending almost all of their energies trying to quell civil unrest.  As cops try to get a handle on the riots, criminals are taking full advantage.  In Chicago, there were 22 homicides over the weekend, including 11 homicides just on Sunday [5/31/2020] alone.  In the greater Cook County area the numbers are even worse.

Woman charged with inciting riots after posting Facebook Live video.  A Michigan woman faces up to 10 years behind bars for encouraging others to loot and throw bricks at buildings in a Facebook Live video, according to a report.  Alexandria "Ally" Lyons posted the livestreamed video over the weekend during riots in Grand Rapids that left more than 100 businesses damaged, MLive.com reported.  In the video, Lyons is seen swigging beer — likely stolen from a bar called Mojo's in Grand Rapids — and showing off clothes allegedly swiped from F. David Barney Clothiers, according to court records.  At another point, "she is heard multiple times encouraging her friends and others to throw bricks or other objects at windows of multiple businesses downtown and at one point picks up a brick herself and mentions heading 'back to the courthouse,'" the arrest affidavit said.

How NYC looters pull off 'well organized' scheme to target high-end stores.  The looters ransacking luxe stores in Soho appear to be large, rival groups engaged in a "very well-organized looting scheme," according to a local who has been watching them across several days.  Jarrod Jordan told The Post he has monitored two groups — one of which has a caravan of luxury vehicles including Bentleys and Mercedes — as they prowled the neighborhood and broke into high-end stores amid the chaos of unrest over the police custody death of George Floyd.  "This is a real business.  This isn't angry protesters in any way shape or form," said Jordan, who is a chief digital officer of a multinational food company.  "This is organized crime happening really, really well."

Black woman shames looters for destroying her Brooklyn store and tells them 'get a job'.  An elderly black woman has slammed looters saying they 'lied' when they said 'Black Lives Matter' and telling them to 'get a job' after her Brooklyn store was destroyed in riots.  Shocking footage posted on social media shows the distraught New Yorker blasting the actions of looters as she stands in front of her shell of a store with its front now exposed and wires seen dangling down from the ceiling.  'The problem that bothers me?  You said Black Lives Matter,' the emotional black woman is heard saying while other people cleaning up the destruction look on.

Black Woman Store Owner Rips Looters: 'Tell Me Black Lives Matter.  You Lied.  You Wanted To Loot The Store'.  The protests, rioting, looting and anarchy that the Left has enthusiastically promoted has destroyed the livelihoods of blacks, whites, Hispanics, Asians, Arabs, and every other racial group from Atlantic to Pacific.  In New York on Tuesday [6/2/2020], a video went viral featuring a black woman store owner standing outside her now-ransacked place of business condemning the rioters and looters that destroyed her livelihood.

Thousands of Protesters March on the Home of NYC Mayor de Blasio, Demand He Resign For How He's Handled the City.  Thousands of protesters have marched on the home of Mayor Bill de Blasio calling for him to resign.  It was actually even larger than that would appear, it reportedly stretched for 19 blocks.  They reached the home and demanded he go.

More than 20 shot over 12 hours in Chicago as gun violence remains high for second week.  More than 20 people were shot in Chicago over 12 hours Tuesday through early Wednesday [6/3/2020] as gun violence remains high across the city for the second week in a row.  In two of the overnight shootings — on the Far South Side and South Side — three or more people were wounded, according to police.  Shootings started spiking in Chicago over the long Memorial Day weekend, when at least 50 people were shot.  The next day, 28 more people were shot, including a 5-year-old girl standing with her family.

The Editor says...
There is no such thing as "gun violence."  The guns are not violent.

Bumfight: As New York burns, Cuomo blasts de Blasio, de Blasio blasts Cuomo.  In an unprecedented blue-on-blue round of finger-pointing, New York's Democrat Gov. Andrew Cuomo, has blasted New York City's far-left mayor, Bill de Blasio for allowing criminals under the guise of 'protest' to take over New York City and smash, burn, and loot the place into rubble. [...] It's not just the marquee places in New York that look like warzones either.  Here a tweet showing how Caracas-like it looks in what was once a nice part of the Bronx:  [Video clip]  De Blasio has literally lost control, and clearly has no idea what he is doing.