op ed review 6/28
“This election no longer is about Donald Trump’s tweeting.
It’s not about Joe Biden’s cognitive impairment. It has nothing to do anymore
with the lockdown, the virus, the economy, foreign policy. It’s an existential
question, a Manichaean choice whether you want civilization and you believe
that America doesn’t have to be perfect to be good and we’re not in this third
century gonna destroy all that people died for. Or you feel it was inherently
flawed with a cancer and we have to use radiation chemotherapy and kill the
host to kill the cancer and that’s the choice we’re looking at. And I’m gonna
vote for civilization.”
-Victor Davis Hanson
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
Black Lives Matter Founder: “We actually do have an
ideological frame….myself and Alicia, in particular, are trained organizers……We
are trained Marxists.” In the “What We Believe” section of the official
BLM site, the organization calls for the “national defunding of police” and for
the “disruption” of the nuclear family.
"Tear Them Down": BLM Activist Shaun King Calls
for Removal of All Statues, Murals and Stained Glass Windows of "White
Jesus and his European Mother."
Archbishop
of Canterbury declares the Church must rethink depictions of Jesus as a white man.
Christianity becomes next battleground in cancel wars
Uneducated Leftist Lunatics in San Francisco Tear Down
Statue of Union General Ulysses S. Grant, who famously led the Union Army to
victories that brought down the Confederacy.
Other monuments toppled include a statue of Junípero Serra, an 18th
century missionary recently declared a saint in the Catholic Church, and
Francis Scott Key, the author of “The Star-Spangled Banner”.
49ers Fly Black Lives Matter Flag over Stadium
University of Idaho backs Black Lives Matter effort with
university ‘resources’.
Black Lives Matter in Wisconsin Destroys Statue of Immigrant
Who Died Fighting Slavery
Protesters try to topple Andrew Jackson statue near White
House
Vandals
Deface Statue of Brigham Young - at Brigham Young University
Theodore Roosevelt statue will be removed from the front
steps of the Museum of Natural History
At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, students demand
removal of a campus statue of Abraham Lincoln.
President Trump announced Friday that he signed an executive order to
protect American monuments, memorials and statues and threatened those who try
to pull them down with “long prison time.” It also withholds federal
support tied to public spaces from state and local governments that have failed
to protect public monuments, and withdraws federal grants for jurisdictions and
law enforcement agencies that fail to stop their desecration.
Mannequin in police uniform, pig mask hung from I-95 overpass
in Florida.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jun/21/mannequin-police-uniform-pig-mask-hung-i-95-overpa/
Nearly 3 out of 4 DC police officers ready to leave the
force: police union poll.
Baseball Field Dedication to Slain Sacramento Police Officer
Tara O'Sullivan put on hold.
Austin Protesters Storm Police HQ, Haul Down American, Texas
flags and burn them.
Protesters demand police defunding at Denver City Council
meeting
'Fortnite', one of the world’s most popular videogames, removes
police cars.
Blasphemy: MIT
chaplain forced to resign after citing George Floyd’s rap sheet to students.
Here's
What the M.I.T. Catholic Chaplain Got Fired Over
Destroyed Cleveland cupcake store owner gets threats to shut
up or her business will be looted again.
Don’t these (mostly) black lives matter? 60 Shot, 9 Fatally, so far this weekend in
Chicago.
NYC sees staggering shooting numbers; top cops warn of
'storm on the horizon'
4th shooting in three days in Seattle CHOP
district. So much for Mayor Durkan’s
“summer of love.”
Due to Seattle's unrest, billion-dollar investment firm
moving to Phoenix
Police Data Shows 1,600 Minneapolis Gunfire Reports Within
30 Days
Here
it comes: Calls to replace The Star-Spangled Banner with “a more
inclusive message”
“Petition Draws Support To Rename Columbus, Ohio,
‘Flavortown’ After City Removes Christopher Columbus Statue”
Portland strippers demand equitable scheduling for non-white
strippers.
L'Oreal to remove words like 'whitening' from cosmetic products.
“Is this the stupidest time in American history?”
Courageous Mike Pence refuses to say 'Black lives matter,'
instead says 'all lives matter'.
Poll: Public Vastly Prefers 'All Lives Matter' over 'Black
Lives Matter' by 2:1
Appeals Court Orders Dismissal Of All Charges Against
Michael Flynn.
New Peter Strzok handwritten notes show Obama directed Flynn
investigation and Logan Act was Biden’s idea.
Accountability?
AG Bill Barr: “Effort to Push Trump From Office Closest
Thing to Coup Since Lincoln Assassination”
The
“noose” found in the team garage of black NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace on
Sunday turns out to be a garage door pull rope that had been installed in 2019. Oops. It took a full two days and an investigation by 15 FBI
agents for this information to be disclosed. That was enough time for the
hysteria over this imagined hate crime to metastasize into a full-blown media
circus.
Another
“wild noose chase.”
Nolte: A History of the Woke Taliban's 'Noose' Hoaxes
Local Arizona leaders tell visiting Trump his wall is
working.
DOJ Has Been on an Indictment Spree Against Violent
Anarchists
President Trump signed an order temporarily barring new immigrants
on a slate of employment-based visas, including H-1B for high-skilled workers,
from coming to the U.S. amid the coronavirus pandemic. This will help unemployed Americans, but business
lobby is horrified.
Yet Another Study Reveals Bias in Google's News Search.
(Bing is less biased)
China develops weapons to fry US electric grid, eyes
high-tech ‘Pearl Harbor’ attack
Whistleblower Claims Chinese Communists Pay Vatican $2
Billion for its silence concerning Chinese atrocities.
Empty seats at BOK Center Trump rally. “Here is how a corrupt convention center
management team kills attendance at the Tulsa Trump Rally. I was there and saw
most of it first hand.”
Hope springs eternal for the New York Times: “Trump Rally Fizzles….Attendance Falls Short……attempt to revive his
re-election bid sputtered badly…..small crowd…….disjointed speech.”
Unhinged CNN Spends Two Hours Mocking Rally, Questioning
Trump’s Health
What they ignored: 500,000+
people watch Trump's Tulsa rally on YouTube
Trump rally gives Fox News largest Saturday night audience
in its history.
CBS News trying to stir up more hate: runs headline
saying police killed black man, leaving out that he reportedly fired first. “CBS wants a race war”
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COLUMN(S) OF THE WEEK
Ben Domenech 6/23 The Federalist
Where Are Conservative Leaders In This Moment?
When
I see the images from Lafayette Square last night or from the weekend across
the country of radical leftists and anarchists tearing down or defacing
memorials to some of America’s greatest heroes, what I keep wondering is: where
are the conservative leaders who have said so much and done so little to defend
our history?
For
decades, the conservative movement has profited off the invocation of the
American Founding. Multiple political analysts have said over the years that
the biggest mistake Democrats made was letting Republicans have The Bible and
the Flag, and the right has certainly profited from it. Wrapping themselves in
the language of the Founding Fathers, filling their buildings with quotes,
books, busts, statues, and artist’s renderings, conservatives have thrived by
making themselves the defenders of American history against a verbally
iconoclastic left. But in practice, they spent more time advocating for lower
taxes, feel-good donor interests, and pro-business regulatory reforms than the
cultural defense they used to make the money roll in.
Meanwhile,
the left has marched through our institutions of power: the schools and the
academy, the media, the creative arts, and the central authorities of our
greatest cities, amassing near-total control and influence over our culture.
They have tried to grasp permanent hold of the narrative, audit conservative
activists, and subdue religious defiers. Now they intend to subjugate the
nation’s children to a woke ahistorical conspiracy about our founding and
inculcate them with the idea they are permanently stained by irredeemable acts
of racism that happened long before they were born, and for which they are not
guilty.
This
is power, amassed intentionally over half a century, and they are wielding it
now in destructive ways. Now that the left has become not just verbally
iconoclastic, not just changing the names of streets or buildings but
physically assaulting the past, why have conservatives gone quiet? Why are they
standing back instead of standing up to defend our history? Why is it that a
bunch of South Philly Italian bros have more gumption about a statue of
Columbus than the people who have spent decades invoking Washington, Jefferson,
Lincoln, and more to raise money for their causes and win elections?
Other
than a handful of members of Congress, Republicans seem content to sit back and
leave the response to President Trump. In Tulsa, speaking about the lawlessness
in Seattle, Trump said: “All of these places I talk about are Democrat, every
one of them. I have an offer out, any time you want, we will come in and
straighten it out in one hour or less. I may be wrong, but it’s probably better
for us to just watch this disaster.”
Well,
that disaster cost lives and sexual assault. Now the mayor finally announced
vague plans to dismantle the occupied protest zone after a shooting where cops
were prevented from coming in to help. Sitting back and watching things simmer
have consequences. If not for the intervention of law enforcement in Washington,
D.C. last night, protesters would have pulled down the statue of Andrew Jackson. It is a priceless
artifact sculpted by Clark Mills in 1852 – the first bronze-cast statue and the
first equestrian statue in the history of the United States.
I
used to eat lunch by it when I worked at the White House. At the base is an
inscription from a toast Jackson once gave: “Our Federal Union, It Must Be
Preserved.” So who will do the preserving? Not our conservative leaders in
Washington, who are too busy gathering signatures for pointless letters. Last
night it was a multi-ethnic group of working class DC cops who stood guard,
their facemasks flecked with the spittle from woke white women. Being
taunted by woke white men with man buns. And getting called a traitor to their race…..
Last
night our staff writer Tristan Justice tweeted: “MIA Republicans really face a crucial choice in a pivotal
moment right now: stand up to the mob or surrender the nation to anarchists.
Right now, I’m not so convinced Republicans are choosing the former.”
Who
will take a stand to prove him wrong? And when I say that, I don’t mean sending
out a tweet drafted by your comms shop. I mean proving to us all that you
aren’t scared. The Shaun Kings of the world are so emboldened that they’re
calling for destroying statues and stained glass of Jesus. Will Republicans wait around to
find out that Catholic nuns have bigger stones than they do in defense of what
they value? Because I assure you, they do.
Theodore
Roosevelt, for whom they are coming now to complete the degradation of all the
presidents on Mount Rushmore, was the 37-year-old president of the Board of
Police Commissioners of New York City when he wrote: “To sit at home, read one’s favorite
paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is
markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men’s doing.” So
conservative leaders must stop doing it. Because if there’s one rule we’ve
learned about the modern day woke mobs, it’s that they only start with the
statues. Next, they come for the people.
Conservative Cowards Are To Blame For Falling Statues: “There
is no need to name names. The so-called conservatives who have been coddling
mindless calls to destroy public art know who they are. So do the rest of us.
These are the reasonable conservatives, the good ones, so ever careful not to
be called racist. They had a compromise in mind because they always do. Throw
the Confederate statues under the bus and we can save the rest. Well?.....”
Who
Will Defend Western Civilization? The riots are not about George Floyd, police
reform and accountability, or justice. The riots are the systematic attempt to
exterminate Western civilization and culture from the very lands in which its
roots are planted.
The always colorful writing of Kurt Schlichter, lawyer and retired
Army officer: “Why Trump Isn't Taking
Action in Seattle Do not get frustrated because Donald Trump has
not sent the 101st Airborne in to powerwash the human grunge from Seattle’s
feces-bedecked streets. That’s what the Democrats want. And Trump – a better
strategic thinker than all the media geniuses, hack politicians, and Afghan War-losing
generals who cry about him – is not only not going to give them the victory
they crave.”
Lifson: “Timing is
everything in handling the insurrection….. the insurrectionists….are
overplaying their hand. The fanatic support of the media ensures that they are
blissfully unaware of the revulsion from the general public to tearing down
statues of George Washington, Christopher Columbus, Abraham Lincoln, and even
abolitionists…… The visceral parts of my consciousness want action
now. But the strategic elements of my mind counsel that the enemy is
self-destructing, if only we allow it the time to complete the task and reap
the consequences.”
But Tucker Carlson warns conservatives that President Trump
may lose the election over inaction: “….it may be “tough” for Trump to win
reelection if he does not adequately respond to civil unrest in the country.”
And
the Wall St Journal says he is headed for defeat if he doesn’t come up with a
better message.
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
“They sent 15 federal agents to investigate a rope in a
garage, meanwhile violent mobs are burning buildings, tearing down statues, and
assaulting people, and nothing is done about it.”
-Matt Walsh
“When you elevate victimhood as virtue, you will have people
tripping over themselves (and their garage door openers) to be oppressed.”
-Allie Beth Stuckey
“If you have two parents in the household, you reduce
poverty in the African-American community by 85%. That’s a stunning truth that
needs more oxygen.”
-Senator Tim
Scott
“Government should do its job of protecting constitutional
rights. After that, black people should be simply left alone as opposed to
being smothered by the paternalism inspired by white guilt.”
-Walter Williams
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BOOKS, FILM
Talk show host Larry Elder has made a movie: “Uncle Tom: An Oral History of the American
Black Conservative” In a collection of intimate
interviews with some of America's most provocative black conservative thinkers……examines
self-empowerment, individualism and rejecting the victim narrative.
“Remarkable documentary shows trials of black conservatives
in a liberal world”
“The Strange Death of Europe” by Douglas Murray is a dire
warning to the European elites of their impending demise. “In the U.S., there was a ‘race problem’, and
there was an ‘immigration problem,’ and the two did not always have much to do
with one another. Even if they were sometimes confused, they could generally be
disentangled by the people of good faith. In Europe, the immigration problem
was the race problem. So, declaring
immigration a success and an ‘enrichment’ became the only acceptable opinion.
To hold immigration a failure was to reveal oneself a racist; to express
misgivings about immigration was to confess racist inclinations… People still
talked about immigration and its consequences, but only along preapproved
lines. Real discussions – about increasing ‘diversity’ of European society, and
whether it was a good or bad thing – were all but shut down.”
Two interviews on Life, Liberty, and Levin:
“The Breakdown of Higher Education: How It Happened, the
Damage It Does, and What Can Be Done” by
John Ellis. “America’s public
universities are engaged in large-scale theft….they fraudulently divert funds
appropriated for education to the improper purpose of political indoctrination…..inculcating
in students a hatred of Enlightenment values and the American project.”
“Left Turn: How Liberal Media Bias Distorts the American
Mind” by Tim Groseclose. “….the most thoughtful,
comprehensive and scientific evaluation of media slant in America that anyone
has done thus far…..measures the degree to which it is slanted and offers a
persuasive case that it matters; that media bias does have an impact on
culture, elections and public policy.”
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MORE TUCKER
"The Joe Biden you remember no longer exists. The babbling husk you see may have the same
name and similar features, but behind the mask there is nothing but a jumbled
collection of talking points from the 70s. 'Turn on your record player, no
malarkey'. The candidate has no independent thoughts of his own." Biden's actual function is to serve as a
"perfect Trojan horse" for the grave intentions of the activist wing
of the Democratic Party.”
"Democratic politicians don't fear the mob. 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…..Career bureaucrats in the federal agencies support the
Democratic Party. That means they support the mob as well. It's their militia
too. Virtually every American power
center now stands on one side of the political divide….What you're watching in
the streets is an attempt to crush the holdouts."
(any doubt about this?
A few days after Seattle mayor Durkan asked CHOP occupiers to leave,
they were mostly gone)
“FBI Won’t Arrest Rioters, But They Sent 15 Agents To
Investigate ‘Absurd’ Bubba Wallace Noose Story at NASCAR”
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BLACK VOICES
The
Black Lives Matter Movement is the Enemy of African-Americans: “The first thing that I have to say is that I am an
African-American man living in the Minneapolis area. I have to state this now; otherwise, I would
probably be called a racist. Most people think Black Lives Matter is a
grassroots, black-created, black-run organization dedicated to fighting racism.
It most certainly is not. The Black Lives Matter movement is the
creation of a group of a few very wealthy individuals, non-profit corporations,
and the corporate media. (Incidentally,
90% of the U.S. media is controlled by only six corporations.) Who funds Black
Lives Matter? It's funded by
billionaires George Soros (Open Society Foundation), Rob McKay (Taco Bell
heir), the Ford Foundation, the Borealis Philanthropy, the Democracy Alliance,
and many others. Not exactly what I
would call a black-run grassroots organization. If these facts alone don't cause you to
rethink the whole Black Lives Matter thing, then you just aren't paying
attention.”
Allen West: “I am
tired of our Nation cowering, appeasing, acquiescing, and surrendering to this
absurd organization calling itself Black Lives Matter (BLM). There is nothing
true or sincere about this ideologically aligned progressive socialist,
cultural Marxist organization….I do not need any white person in America to
kneel before me, apologize, wash my feet, or as the insidious comment of
Chick-fil-A CEO, Dan Cathy, shine my shoes. I did a doggone good job of shining
my own boots during my career in the US Army -- that was my individual
responsibility, in which I took great pride.”
Walter Williams Insults
to Black History, “Many whites are ashamed, saddened and feel guilty about our
history of slavery, Jim Crow and gross racial discrimination. Many black people
remain angry over the injustices of the past and what they see as injustices of
the present. Both blacks and whites can benefit from a better appreciation of
black history. Often overlooked or ignored is the fact that, as a group, black
Americans have made the greatest gains, over some of the highest hurdles, and
in a shorter span of time than any other racial group in history.”
Walter Williams salutes Dr. Thomas Sowell, who turns 90 on Tuesday. “An Underappreciated American Scholar”
Muhammad Ali’s only biological son says that his father
would be against Black Lives Matter, calling the movement “racist” and the
protesters “devils.”
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BLM
Pew Analysis Shows Only 1 In 6 BLM Protesters Are Black ??
Black Lives Matter Co-Founder: 'Our Goal Is to Get Trump
Out'
Black
Lives Matter leader states if US “doesn't give us what we want, then we will
burn down this system”
In an indication of what was to come, the founder of the New
York Times’ 1619 Project penned a lengthy racist screed attacking all white
people in 1995. Nikole Hannah-Jones, the lead essayist on New York Times
Magazine’s 1619 Project, wrote a letter to the editor in Notre Dame’s The
Observer stating that “the white race is the biggest murderer, rapist,
pillager, and thief of the modern world.”
Vatican Hails BLM as ‘Non-Violent’
Iran supports BLM:
Turns George Floyd Into a Shi’ite Muslim Saint
“You destroyed the statue of Ulysses S Grant? What kind of
ignorant idiots are you?”
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PROGRESSIVE WATCH
Deranged: Prof. Noam
Chomsky is the godfather of the Left. Chomsky
claims President Donald Trump is “undeniably” the “worst criminal in human
history.” Question: He’s speaking to his
antifa followers; is this a “dogwhistle” for violence against the President?
MSNBC's O'Donnell Calls Trump 'America's Dracula' in Insane
Rant
Hollywood Rob Reiner: “A Vote for Trump Is a Vote for Death”
Virtue signaling by the world’s richest man: Amazon has
purchased the naming rights to Seattle's KeyArena, which will now be known as
“Climate Pledge Arena.”
Former
KGB spy and state media propagandist who defected to Canada in 1970 explains
four steps to ideological subversion.
The first step is known as demoralization and it takes 15-20
years -- the span of time needed to educate one generation by indoctrinating
them to the "ideology of the enemy."
The
second step is destabilization….can be accomplished in as little as five
years and the focus is on "destabilizing sectors such as the economy, law
enforcement(!), foreign relations, media, and defense systems." The third
stage is the crisis stage: after society is destabilized, it collapses
into chaos, and inevitably the people will call for the government to step in
to enforce stability. Either a foreign
nation comes in, or the local group of leftists, Marxists et al. take over. The
last step is normalization: (the
subverting forces) seize control of the target country….the chaos is
stabilized, and the situation "normalized"
MSNBC: Trump Fans 'Super-Spreaders' But BLM Protesters Show
'Extraordinary Courage'
Upcoming movie Cracka imagines America in which whites are
enslaved.
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“WOKE” EDUCATION
“My Kids' Public School Held A Workshop Teaching The Police
Are Racists”
Colleges teaching idiocy:
Poll: 94% of College Democrats Want to Defund the Police
Why Are University Students So Stupidity-Friendly?
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COVID
In order to support the most important Democrat strategies
in the 2020 election, COVID-19 hype is essential. Here’s a list of nine reasons they need it,
examples: 1. Without COVID-19 panic
Democrats cannot easily achieve ‘mail-in’ voting; which they desperately need
in key battleground states in order to control the outcome. 2. Without COVID-19
panic Democrats cannot shut down rallies and political campaigning efforts of
President Trump……
Coronavirus Death Rates Stable or Falling, Even in States
with Rising Cases
The COVID-19 Data the Corrupt News Media Won’t Report
https://dbdailyupdate.com/index.php/2020/06/22/the-covid-19-data-the-corrupt-news-media-wont-report/
Coronavirus has significantly weakened, could disappear
without vaccine, top doctor reveals
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ARTICLES
A young woman from Venezuela, who has seen the
statue-topplings before — and the street-renamings, (and the flag-alterings,
and the name-changings) along with the destruction of history, knows exactly
where it leads.
“The movement to tear down
statues or even just to deface them was misconceived in its earliest stages and
has now, like most aspects of the self-flagellating fever over “systemic
racism,” evolved from just concerns about offending African-American
sensibilities into an assault on the entire body of achievement of Western
civilization.”
The Right Must Defend Our Monuments “Republicans
and conservatives appear remarkably unconcerned with this war on history.”
Defund
the Thought Police “Due process is not the strong suit of mobs.
Neither is nuance, open discussion, or disagreement. These inherent defects
should be painfully obvious as mobs pull down statues, seize sections of
cities, and demand the public approach them on bended knee, literally. Anyone
who dares push back, perhaps with a mild tweet saying “All lives matter,” faces
immediate censure. If the mob is successful, any offenders will lose their
jobs. Feckless employers are all too eager to appease the mob and hope it turns
on another target.”
“The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision this week in Bostock
imposes on Americans a rule of greater import than any ever asserted by any
government. Its adoption into law of a meaning of the word “sex” that is at war
with that of the dictionary, of biology, and of common use, and enlists the
U.S. legal system against the way of life of most Americans.”
VDH: Like it or not,
2020 is going to be a plebiscite on an American version of Orwell’s Nineteen-Eighty-Four.
That was then, this is now:
Do you remember how Democrats were openly scheming to help nominate
Donald Trump during the 2016 Republican primary? Paul Krugman wrote a Labor Day
column back in 2015 defending Trump from Jeb Bush and praising his economic
platform. Jimmy Carter told the British Parliament the following February that
he preferred a President Trump to a President Cruz because Trump would be a
pragmatic and non-ideological leader. A Democratic National Committee email
released by WikiLeaks later that year revealed that the Clinton campaign and
the DNC were colluding to ensure that Trump won the nomination.
Dig deep this year if you care about America: Barack Obama and Joe Biden raise $4m from one
Democrat fundraiser.
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SATIRE
Cities Protecting Statues By Disguising Them As Karl Marx
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OTHER STUFF
RNC releases a new ad designed to highlight how “left-wing
anarchists are using chaos to destroy America” as Democrats watch sometimes
with tacit approval and other times with beaming support. “This isn't about
justice, it's about destroying America.”
Biden’s
Mental Capacity: Check the new Trump ad:
“In a world losing it’s mind, we don’t need a president who’s already
lost his.”
Coeur d'Alene, Idaho stands up, Antifa stands down. “…..armed citizens walking on the sidewalks
and the streets are packed with cars and trucks with guys in the back with
AR-15 and American flags everywhere. We saw two protesters wearing their little
black clothing and black masks and sitting on a step quietly with their little
poster board sign saying “our system sucks!” Guess why they’re being so
polite.”
Naturally the left wing press
denounces “right wing vigilantes” for protecting their city.
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WISE
WORDS
“They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a
little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
-Benjamin
Franklin
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