op ed review 6/14
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
Antifa Sets Up ISIS-Style Insurrectionary State on Capitol
Hill in Seattle. “You are now leaving
the USA”.
New
York Times thinks it’s great: “Part
street fair, part commune.” Good revolutionary fun, like students taking over
the admin building.
Seattle
Mayor Durkan says she hopes this spawns another “summer of love”, the 1967 birth
of the counterculture movement in San Francisco.
The new nation of “CHAZ” demands elimination of the Seattle
Police Dept., closing of prisons, free public housing, free college for all,
and citizenship for illegal aliens.
Biggest media story in the country, but Governor Inslee claims
he wasn’t aware of the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone in Seattle, his state’s
largest city.
Socialist Councilwoman Unlocks Doors For Protesters To Flood
Seattle City Hall, Demand Democrat Mayor Resign Amid Calls To Defund Police
Watching in real time as Seattle descends into anarchy.
New York Times Columnist Demands White People Shun Family
Members Who Don’t Support Black Lives Matter
White children 'don't deserve innocence': CNN guest pushes
pounding shame into kids at a young age
Blue Lives Matter website to be shut down because it offends
the Left.
The top editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer has resigned
after his "Buildings Matter, Too" headline.
NYT editorial page editor has to resign after publishing an
op-ed by Arkansas Republican Senator Tom Cotton arguing that the government
should “send in the troops” as a last resort in response to the wave of riots
and looting that swept the country.
“The thought police are seizing control of America’s liberal
newsrooms”
California Homes Flying American Flags Targeted by Arsonists
Georgia "protesters" track down police to their
homes, firebomb vehicles.
Drew Brees is on his 3rd apology for defending the American
flag.
NBC News Publishes Op-Ed Saying Our American Flag Means
Nothing…. “It’s a flag of conquest for white people, not of mercy or freedom
for all.”
NFL now says they were WRONG for 'not listening' to Colin
Kaepernick's protests.
Calls for the NFL to “drop national anthem, embrace change”
Etsy Joins Amazon, Selling ‘Blue Lives Murder’ Merchandise
Father of six fired from his job at a Catholic high school
for calling out looters and rioters. One of his children has a disability and
is recovering from major brain surgery. “We’re watching America burn and the
Church is kneeling to extremists.”
After 30 years, the TV show “Cops” has been canceled; a
casualty of the George Floyd protests. “too
sympathetic to the officers.” The
popular “Live PD” also cancelled.
The Left
denounces the popular children’s show “Paw Patrol” as "copaganda"
for portraying the police in a positive light.
Lego pulls all ads for police and White House related toys,
promises to donate $4M for “social justice”
Washington Post: Let's cancel all the cop shows on TV
LA Mayor appears to call cops “killers.” LAPD union calls Mayor “unstable”
https://www.foxla.com/news/lapd-union-blasts-garcettis-killers-remark-mayor-says-words-being-twisted
Deputy Killed, 2 Other Officers Shot in California Ambush
Minneapolis City Council Promises to Abolish the Police;
'Police-free Future'
LA homicides up by 250 percent over last week, LAPD reports
Shootings and murders rise dramatically in NYC last week.
Nearly 300 New York City officers have been injured amid
protests, police say.
Chicago’s most violent day in 60 years: 18 murders in 24
hours. From Friday night to Sunday night,
25 people were killed in the city, with
another 85 wounded by gunfire. “Most
homicide victims in Chicago are young, black men, and the suspects are, too.” Black
lives should matter, but no protests over this.
This is what really frightens Democrats: Rasmussen: Black Approval For Trump Surges to
Over 40%.
GOP showcases record number of women, minorities running for
Congress in 2020
Poll: Eight in 10 want police funding increased or
maintained.
Poll: 56% Of Americans Believe Police Are Behaving
Appropriately Or Not Being Aggressive Enough
Donations, Including International Funding, to
BlackLivesMatter.com Go Directly to the DNC - This Is Money Laundering.
Mayhem made in Venezuela?: Take a look at the photos of BLM leaders
whooping it up with Nicolas Maduro in Harlem and Caracas.
Trump Campaign to Resume Iconic MAGA Rallies Within Weeks
Outrage at congressional Democrats wearing kente cloth and
kneeling for 8 minutes at the Capitol: 'So Woke it Actually Feels Racist'
Liberals in charge of the military now: SecDef Esper Orders National Guard in D.C. to
Disarm, Wear Caps Not Helmets
The Trump recovery is ahead of schedule, economy adds 2.5
million jobs in May, largest one month jump in history.
‘Astonishing’: Dumbfounded economists struggle to describe
today’s jobs report surprise.
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COLUMN(S) OF THE WEEK
Peter Kirsanow, longest serving member of the US Civil
Rights Commission: “The riots are a
result of the narrative that the Floyd and Arbery killings are but the latest
of increasing examples of innocent blacks being disproportionately shot by
white cops and targeted by racist white civilians. The narrative is played
hourly on cable news shows. It’s embellished by major
newspapers across the country. Cynical and opportunistic politicians advance it
every election cycle. Hollywood perpetuates the narrative in television and
theaters. It’s a mantra of high-school teachers and college professors,
regardless of academic discipline. Major corporations apologize for their
nebulous complicity. The narrative is a staple of diversity and inclusion
offices. It’s ubiquitous on social media. The narrative has been repeated so
frequently, so universally, that it’s an unassailable given, a fact not to be
challenged. Indeed, it’s an article of faith which, if
questioned, exposes the heretic to rage, venom, and ostracization. Some fear
losing their jobs. Best therefore, not to even consider questioning
the narrative. (But) the narrative is false. In fact, it’s not just false, it’s
upside down. And it’s been false for quite some time.”
Civil rights veteran Shelby Steele: The Idea Of ‘Systemic Racism’
Is A ‘Corruption,’ Blacks ‘Have Never Been Less Oppressed’ In America
“(George Floyd) validates their claims that America is a
wretched country….it feeds this old model of operation that we’ve developed
that America is guilty of racism, guilty of this sin and has been for four
centuries and minorities are victims who are entitled. And so when people start
to talk about systemic racism built into the system, what they’re really doing
is expanding the territory of entitlement: We want more; we want more; we want
the society to give us more to help us. Society is responsible for us because
racism is so systemic. Well, that’s a corruption; it’s a corruption because the
truth of the matter is, blacks have never been less oppressed than they are
today. Opportunity is around every corner.”
Top 10 Reasons I Won't Support the #BlackLivesMatter
Movement
Ryan Bomberger 6/5
>The premise isn’t true. I hate racism. And I hate when it’s used as a
political weapon. According to the FBI’s latest homicide statistics, I’m 11
times more likely to be killed by someone of my own brown complexion
than a white person. Also, a comprehensive 2019 National
Academy of Sciences study concluded: “White officers are not more
likely to shoot minority civilians than non-White officers.” Every loss of life
is tragic, but Washington Post’s database on police-involved deaths puts things
into further context. In 2020, among those killed were (all males): 2 Native
Americans, 9 Asians, 46 Hispanics, 76 blacks, 149 unlabeled individuals and 149
whites (whose deaths don’t get reported by national mainstream media). Only nine
black individuals were actually unarmed.
>There is no goal of
forgiveness or reconciliation. None. It’s never mentioned on
their sites. You can’t talk about the sins of the past and expect to move
forward if there is no intention of forgiveness……
>They completely ignore fatherhood. From BLMF: “We
disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by
supporting each other as extended families and ‘villages’ that collectively
care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers,
parents, and children are comfortable.” Well, every “village” that has
fatherless families is a village that suffers higher crime rates, higher drug
usage, higher abortion rates, higher drop-out rates, higher poverty rates, and
so much more. #DadsMatter.
>They demand reparations. Ok. Sooooo, I guess the white
half of me will have to pay the black half of me? If progressives want to push
reparations, start with the Party of Slavery and Jim Crow—the Democrat Party!....
>They want to abolish prisons and police forces. And…cue
utter chaos. MFBL asserts: “We believe that prisons, police and all other
institutions that inflict violence on Black people must be abolished...” Defund
and remove the police have been rallying cries. That would be anarchy in
any community. I advocate some needed police reforms and better
community/police relations, but this is just foolishness.
>They are anti-capitalism. “We are anti-capitalist. We
believe and understand that Black people will never achieve liberation under
the current global racialized capitalist system.”
>Colin Kaepernick supports it. A “biracial” adoptee,
Kaepernick is now obsessed with his “blackness.” He idolizes the late murderous
Fidel Castro and Che Guevara and worships Malcolm X (just see his social media
feeds). Malcolm X was anti-integration, pro-violence and a member of the
virulently racist Nation of Islam (who forced him out). Kaepernick makes
millions from Nike—a company whose entire Executive Leadership Team is
white (isn’t this white supremacy???)—that makes its shoes in the most murderous
regime in the world. Kaepernick, of course, is completely silent on that. But
you know, #SocialJusticeWarrior.
>Apparently, not all black lives matter. Pro-abortion
BLMF declared: “We deserve and thus we demand reproductive justice [aka
abortion] that gives us autonomy over our bodies and our identities while
ensuring that our children and families are supported, safe, and able to
thrive.” Aborted children don’t thrive. BLM groups announced “solidarity” with
“reproductive justice” groups back in February 2015. You cannot simultaneously
fight violence while celebrating it.
Candace Owens, not afraid of controversy, sets social media
on fire:
“There were so many emotions and so much pressure for me to
go with the popular opinion about who George Floyd was…..We are being sold a
lot of lies at the detriment to the black community, at the detriment to the
white community and at the detriment to America as a whole. So, I want to come
out and say that I do not support George Floyd and the media’s depiction of him
as a martyr for black America,” Owens continued, going on to note something
written by American conservative author Shelby Steele who said that the black
culture is unique because it is the only community that caters “to the bottom
denominator of our society.” “Not every
black American is a criminal. Not every black American is committing crimes.
But we are unique in that we are the only people that fight and scream and
demand support for the people in our community that are up to no good……..You
would be hard-pressed to find a Jewish person who has spent five stints in prison,
who commits a crime and dies while committing a crime and that the Jewish
people demand justice for…..What I am saying is not any defense for Derek
Chauvin…..The family of George Floyd deserves justice for the way that he died
but I also am not going to accept the narrative that this is the best the black
community has to offer. For whatever reason, it has become fashionable over the
last five or six years for us to turn criminals into heroes overnight. It is
something I find despicable…”
“Why are the cities burning? African Americans have been a
part of our history since our nation’s founding -- they fought for independence.
They are found on the Supreme Court, in military leadership, as prominent mayors,
Members of Congress, academics, authors, cabinet secretaries, ambassadors, police
chiefs, surgeons, business owners, entertainers, athletes, astronauts, and CEOs.
A 75% white America even voted twice to choose an African American leader. If
so much progress has been made, why are the nation’s cities -- some led by
African American mayors, with a diverse police force often led by non-white
police chiefs -- burning?
Could this be the end result of choices made over time by
some of our leaders to bankrupt America and African-Americans economically,
morally, educationally, and spiritually?
'Defund the police'? The method to the Left’s madness
“Dismantling the police, a measure already proposed in
Minneapolis, makes about as much sense as eliminating doctors or farmers, and
would likewise lead to pain and death. But if there is method to the madness,
and I suspect there is in some Machiavellian quarters, it’s perhaps this:
Certain leftists want to eliminate the police because they want to become the police. Or, at least,
they want their foot soldiers to fill that role…..if you’re a power seeker, you
attack those whose power you want for yourself. And upon
attaining police power, enforcing a political agenda becomes much easier.”
“More than the rampant looting and the street battles, more
than the clashes between police and protesters, these scenes of white people genuflecting
in mass public affirmations of their own guilt is the key to understanding
where all this is headed. The model at work here is the Chinese Cultural
Revolution, with its mass “struggle sessions” in which anyone deemed
insufficiently sympathetic to the proletariat, or thought to have an
excessively bourgeois lifestyle, was subjected to public humiliations, paraded
through the streets, assaulted, denounced, and put on display as objects of
scorn.”
“Do
some people really think that the impeachment, the corona-gulag, and the riots
all occurred in America one after another in a completely random pattern of
events? Why did pre-planned and synchronized riots and looting suddenly arise? Because
the adventure with the coronavirus hysteria failed. Why did the coronavirus
hysteria suddenly lead to a corona-gulag being created? Because the impeachment
failed. Why did impeachment suddenly arise? Because "Russiagate"
failed. Why did "Russiagate" arise? Because leftism was defeated in
the 2016 elections. The preparatory work has been well done, comrade Democrats!.....In
2020, the Democrats managed to simultaneously shoulder on America the analog of
the 1918 epidemic, the analog of the 1929 depression, and the analog of the
1968 riots..”
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
“As this once great land descends even further into this
“check your privilege” wokescold madness the lawless not only want to govern
your actions, but your thoughts as well. What so many are hailing as a
transformative moment in American history is really a dystopian
thought-policing nightmare.”
-Stephen
Kruiser
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BOOKS
“In Their Own Words” - by Terry Turchie, Donagh Bracken “…a chilling account of how our society is
swerving far left into a socialist form of Government, where liberty and due
process give way to socialist agendas. Corrupting the Department of Justice and
the FBI is a step in the process. The authors have done a masterful job of
plotting this dangerous course. We stand in the Abyss” -Danny
Coulson, Deputy Assistant Director, FBI, Retired.
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TUCKER CARLSON ON A ROLL
Wed. monologue: “….this
is a dark moment in the history of the country. People will attack you if
you dare to tell the truth. They'll denounce you. They'll target your family.
They'll try to turn your friends against you and deny you the ability to earn a
living.
The only solution in the face of something like this is to tell the truth
unapologetically. On Monday night, we told you that the mass movement engulfing
America right now run by the left isn't really about
protecting black lives. Certainly, there are many sincere people participating who
think that it is. But the people running it -- no, it's not. That's 100 percent
true. How do we know that? Well, right now, the chief demand of the Black Lives
Matter movement is to get rid of the
police-- defund them or abolish them entirely. Police, not criminals, they say, are the greatest threat
to the well-being of African-Americans -- and THAT is a lie.”
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BLACK VOICES SPEAK OUT
Star Parker: Don’t
tell me I am indifferent to George Floyd’s death. Poor police behavior must be
punished. A good start is to diminish the influence of police unions. But the
only systemic racism that poisons and divides our country is the insistence of
the powerful to see everyone through the lens of race, placing one’s race ahead
of one’s humanity. The result is the isolation and separation of the “black
community” that they claim to care so much about from the community of the nation
and the entire community of God.
“If black Americans are victims of anything, it is that they
live in a country that has become a wasteland of moral relativism.”
-Star
Parker
Law-and-Order African Americans Stand With Trump
Black Americans Overwhelmingly Oppose Defunding the Police
Terry Crews Warns Against ‘Black Supremacy’; Gets Slammed
With Backlash
Larry Elder: “Black
lives matter. Black businesses, not so much……The No. 1 cause of preventable
death for young white men is accidents, like car accidents and drownings. The
No. 1 reason for death, preventable or otherwise for young black men, is
homicide, almost always at the hands of another young black man.”
Walter Williams: “While
it might not be popular to say in the wake of the recent social disorder, the
true plight of black people has little or nothing to do with the police or what
has been called "systemic racism."
Instead, we need to look at the responsibilities of those running our
big cities.”
A brave Wash. D.C. resident and USAF reservist confronts
Black Lives Matter (BLM) protesters at a demonstration , calling them
“hypocrites.” “Black Lives Matter is a joke. You are the racists,” said
Nestride Yumga, an American citizen originally from Africa. “Go to Chicago…..they
die every day. They don’t matter [to you] because you can’t get attention from
that,” she told protesters. “I’m proud of my country, and I don’t want my
country to be portrayed like this….I am not oppressed.”
Rev. Bill Owens: ‘Civil Rights Movement Hijacked by
Manipulative Politicians’
“Nothing to Lose: Unlikely Allies in the Struggle for a
Better Black America” Pastor Darrell Scott demolishes entrenched stereotypes
and political boundaries with his candid, revealing, and often surprising
story: how a devout Christian and African American has become one of President
Donald Trump’s leading supporters and advisors.
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PROGRESSIVE WATCH
Political director for NBC News, Chuck Todd, seems to agree
with guest that nation ‘Will Not Survive’ Trump reelection.
Broadcast nets spend over 700 minutes on George Floyd
protests, 5 minutes on riot deaths.
While Defending Rioters, The Media Ignores Slain Black
Police Officers
“This isn't just about lockdowns and riots. This is about a
long-standing plan to deconstruct America. This is a revolution. At least
that's what the radical left hopes it is.”
Remember Hillary’s deplorables? Joe Biden says '10 to 15
percent' of Americans are 'just not very good people'
More deplorables:
Hillary Clinton questions how anyone 'with a beating heart and a working
mind' supports Trump.
In the UK, 'Topple The Racists' website has named 78 statues
and monuments that 'celebrate slavery and racism' and must be removed. Among those: Lord Baden Powell, founder of
the Boy Scouts. “Former Scouts, some
from more than 100 miles away, had rushed to Dorset and formed a ring of steel
around the bronze monument…”
Mizzou Students Demand Removal of 'Racist' Thomas Jefferson
Statue
“If you thought “abolish the police”—or it’s more moderate
iteration, “defund the police”—was just some asinine slogan blue-check
journalists, woke academics, and pandering public officials post on Twitter to
show they support the Black Lives Matter movement, then you’re not keeping up
with the revolution.”
“…..why are so many people acting as if it were their knee,
not Derek Chauvin’s, that pressed down on George Floyd? The answer lies in the
concerted effort of radical leftists and their unwitting accomplices to
normalize the collectivization of guilt.”
https://thefederalist.com/2020/06/05/how-lefts-normalization-collective-guilt-ripping-america-apart/
“Is it a sin to be white?”
Jesuit magazine calls on “white Catholics especially, to conversion,
repentance and reconciliation.” Apparently, every white Catholic must go to
confession and seek forgiveness for the systemic societal and cultural violence
he has supposedly inflicted onto the black community. Apparently, white
Catholics are culpable in such social sin due merely to the color of their
skin.
“The riots have exposed the depth of America’s
civilizational crisis. Yet where are the supposed religious leaders of that
civilization to decry it? They are difficult to find. To the extent that clergy
have been visible at all in the crisis, they emerged not to stop the mob but to
join it.”
From
Israel: “Being white has been turned
into a form of original sin which the West has accepted, and it is madly
engaging in a mass penance.…grotesque Western infantility”
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COVID-19
1,200 “public health officials” say it’s not OK to protest
the economic shutdown from the coronavirus pandemic, but it’s fine to do so if
you’re denouncing “white supremacy.” Because that is “vital to the national
public health.”
CDC estimates COVID-19 death rate of 0.26%. USAToday didn’t like this number; felt
compelled to fact check the CDC. ??
Up to 80% not even susceptible to Covid-19
The Green New Deal Dress Rehearsal: “….where many see disaster, others see opportunity…..ambitious
activists see the lockdown as a blueprint or dress rehearsal for a total
energy, economic and lifestyle transformation to “save the planet.” If three
months of Covid lockdowns can reduce fuel use and greenhouse gas emissions,
they argue, permanent fossil fuel bans are not just possible; they should be
undertaken immediately.”
Asymptomatic spread of coronavirus is 'very rare,' WHO
says. Whoops, that would mean the
lockdowns were unnecessary…..WHO doctor walks back the story the next day.
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ARTICLES
“Law Enforcement Is Not the Enemy: Trite though it is, the sensitivities of our
time nonetheless deem it necessary to preach the axiom that there are some bad
cops. The self-hating elites in our ruling class would have us believe that
this is some sort of profound insight. It is not. There are some bad cops, just
as there are some bad teachers, accountants and grocery clerks.……. The
overwhelming majority of cops in America today are good people who put their
lives on the line every day to defend the rule of law in the most just nation
ever conceived. Stop rioting and be grateful for what you have.”
An open letter to a protester from a Baltimore County police
officer
“An August 2019 study published in the Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences found “no significant evidence of antiblack disparity
in the likelihood of being fatally shot by police,” and “the more frequently
officers encounter violent suspects from any given racial group, the greater
the chance that a member of that group will be fatally shot by a police
officer.” Sadly, blacks commit more than 50 percent of homicides, mostly on
their own race, yet they make up just 13 percent of the population. The only
thing preventing a more tragic outcome is the same police force leftists want to
dissolve…..”
Ret.
Marine General James Mattis, who served as Trump's defense secretary, resigned
over a year ago but has apparently been nursing a grudge since then. Last week,
he took to the pages of the left-wing Atlantic magazine to air that grievance. Mattis
revealed a small mind. His facts were wrong and his arguments foolish and
simplistic. The Democrat media, of course, celebrated the article despite its
fundamental flaws. Retired Marine
captain John M. Dowd, however, decided that he wasn't going to sit there and
take that nonsense, so he struck back. What he wrote is red meat for
conservatives and Trump-supporters.
Gorka: General Mattis
Has Betrayed the Marines and America
Hayward: Democrats Embrace the ‘Four Stages of Ideological
Subversion’
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SATIRE
Motorcyclist Who Identifies As Bicyclist Sets Cycling World
Record
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OTHER STUFF
The 17 people who have died in the protests and riots so
far, most of them black.
Handy Dandy List Of Organizations Funded By George Soros
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WISE
WORDS
“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes,
our inclination, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state
of facts and evidence.”
-John Adams
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