Showing posts with label antifa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label antifa. Show all posts

Friday, June 5, 2020

Reflections on Defunding the Police

Writing is an amazing mental exercise. Sometimes, we grasp a subject, we decide to put our ideas into words and in the process typing, we go off in a different direction. We invent a widget that looks nothing like the blueprint.

When I read that Minneapolis had threatened to defund the police, my reaction was to make a few snarky remarks. I shall take a NIMBY approach but thank you, Minnesota, for serving as guinea pigs in this bold social experiment. Then I got to the keyboard and my fingers took over. and they repeatedly asked, "Why should we fund big-city police forces?"

Things are different in small-town America. There, we have police who behave in a traditional and predictable manner. I tend to think of the police in much of the same way as people think of Congress. In the abstract, we might not hold a strong opinion of such institutions but we usually reelect the incumbents. I have a low opinion of the law enforcement industry but local cops--especially in the small towns and cities where I have resided --have been consistently great.

Throughout America, we tolerate a level of police predation, parasitism, and pension because we know that we can press a button and the police will stand between us and an AK-47. A favorable cost-benefit analysis tilts the scales. But how does the balance sheet look when the police are no longer willing to stand between the sniper and the citizen? Short of that extreme, what happens when police are no longer willing to stand between brick and plate glass?

Remember when we had to read the British tabloids to find out about Barack Obama's secret life or when we had to watch Dutch TV to find a Julain Assange interview? I have been watching Australian coverage of American riots. The foreign journalists are not compulsively honest but they are not as blatantly partisan or dishonest as their highly-paid American counterparts.
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The Aussies have yet to tell me that Donald Trump murdered George Floyd. I have not heard the horse shit lines about "mostly peaceful protestors" juxtaposed with a backdrop of arson. I have not been treated to insults about systemic racism juxtaposed with looted pharmacies and liquor stores. What they did tell me, somewhat innocently I suppose, is that New York had a strong police presence but that the police and looters clustered in different places. Huh?

Let's back up a step or two. Why should a citizen of a sanctuary city fund a police force? The sanctuary police force has already surrendered to globalist criminals and has ceased to make public safety their primary objective. Returning to that aforementioned balance sheet, even if the police cannot deport the serial rapist, the citizens are still afforded some protection and the smiles return to the faces.

Now let's revisit present-day big city America where the police are not offering merchants and citizens any protection at all. We have witnessed scenes where police officers have "taken a knee" in ugly displays of servitude to the criminal mobs. Why don't the citizens step up and say, "Let Antifa fund your pension, blue boy. You are fired."

While we are on the subject of defunding fat cat pensioners, should we abolish the FBI? Maybe we could hold our noses and look past the country's largest organized crime cartel if they defended us against Terror Incorporated. You know, the old Whitey Bulger might have been a sinner but the streets of Southie were always safe. No crime in Little Italy. Little old ladies have nothing to worry about in Angelo Bruno's neighborhood. This time around, the Hoover Gang did not step up.

There was a time, not too long ago, when some questions were too ridiculous to entertain. For instance, if you proposed to replace the metropolitan police with street gangs in 2005, you would not have been granted much attention. In 2020, that idea does not seem so ridiculous. If we replaced the Seattle or Chicago or Houston Police Department with the Killaz, would things be any worse? Would it make any difference?  Maybe it's time we found out.










Sunday, August 20, 2017

Taking Antifa At Their Word

Let's get one thing clear. Antifa is an Anarcho-Communist cause. Those on the left who call us "patriots", step the FUCK away. 


Hat tip to Pacific Pundit 

Ignorant "Anti-Nazis" Attack Man Draped In Israeli Flag



More Boston Coverage From datechguy

David Horowitz: Charlottesville Is Fake News

What "Unite the Right" actually demonstrated was that the assortment of neo-Nazis, pro-Confederates, and assorted yahoos gathered under the banner of the "Alt-Right" is actually a negligible group.
This supposed national show of strength actually attracted all of 500 people.
Compare that to the tens of the thousands who can readily be marshaled by two violent groups of the left — Black Lives Matter and Antifa — and you get an idea of how marginal "white supremacists" are to America's political and cultural life.
Yet "white supremacy" and its evils became the centerpiece of all the fake news reporting on the event, including all the ludicrous attacks on the president for not condemning enough a bogeyman the whole nation condemns, and that no one but a risible fringe supports.
Talk about virtue signaling!


Antifa Is A Terrorist Organization

You might have missed this item: The blue state of New Jersey declared Antifa a terrorist organization.

  • Jersey-based anarchist groups are affiliated with the Antifa movement and are opposed to “fascism,” racism, and law enforcement. Antifa groups coordinate regionally and have participated in protests in New York City and Philadelphia. There are three loosely organized chapters in New Jersey, known as the North Jersey Antifa, the South Jersey Antifa, and the HubCity Antifa New Brunswick (Middlesex County).
     
  • In December 2016, a group known as the Antifascist Action-Nebraska engaged in a doxing campaign against a prominent member of American Vanguard, a white supremacist organization. The group published his personal information on several social media platforms and posted fliers on the University of Nebraska Omaha campus, calling for his expulsion.
     
  • On March 28, a small fight occurred between Antifa members and supporters of the US President during a rally in Seaside Heights (Ocean County).  Because of advance publicity about the event on social media, local and state law enforcement officers were able to keep altercations to a minimum.

ANTIFA: INCITING VIOLENCE TOWARD FAR-RIGHT EXTREMISTS

Violent confrontations between Antifa members and white supremacists—as well as militia groups—will likely continue because of ideological differences and Antifa’s ability to organize on social media. In the past year, Antifa groups have become active across the United States, employing a variety of methods to disrupt demonstrations.  
  • On April 18, following the Patriots Day Free Speech Rally in Berkeley, California—which turned violent—an Antifa member wrote, “Every Nazi that gets punched is a victory. . . . We must realize that these days are going to become more and more common, unless we put a nail in this coffin once and for all.”  On March 29, as a response to an Antifa post on social media, a national militia group wrote in an online article, “Whenever their kind [Antifa] assumes power, individual freedom, including of speech and worship, is brutally suppressed.”
     
  • Beginning in March, the Philadelphia Antifa Chapter used Facebook to encourage followers to disrupt a “Make America Great Again” event in Philadelphia, resulting in over 300 participants. Antifa’s presence resulted in law enforcement shutting down the event early for safety concerns. As of May, a manual on how to form an Antifa group—posted on a well-known Anarchist website in February—had approximately 13,500 views.
     
  • On February 1, the University of California Berkeley canceled a controversial speaker’s appearance following a protest by approximately 100 Antifa members. In response, far-right extremists assembled at a free-speech rally, which Antifa members disrupted, resulting in 10 arrests and seven injuries. Additionally, on April 15, Antifa and far-right extremists clashed at a demonstration, leading to 23 arrests and 11 injuries.

Meanwhile, there is a petition to have Antifa formally recognized as a terrorist organization: Given the SPLC/CNN impulse to label all dissenters as "hate groups"  I will hold off signing this one. It is a dangerous precedent, even if Antifa is a terrorist organization. And they are.

Tuesday, August 15, 2017

"The Atlantic" Acknowledges (But Justifies and Glorifies) The Rising Violence From The Left



In the days leading up to the planned parade, a group called the Direct Action Alliance declared, “Fascists plan to march through the streets,” and warned, “Nazis will not march through Portland unopposed.” The alliance said it didn’t object to the Multnomah GOP itself, but to “fascists” who planned to infiltrate its ranks. Yet it also denounced marchers with “Trump flags” and “red maga hats” who could “normalize support for an orange man who bragged about sexually harassing women and who is waging a war of hate, racism and prejudice.” A second group, Oregon Students Empowered, created a Facebook page called “Shut down fascism! No nazis in Portland!”

Next, the parade’s organizers received an anonymous email warning that if “Trump supporters” and others who promote “hateful rhetoric” marched, “we will have two hundred or more people rush into the parade … and drag and push those people out.” When Portland police said they lacked the resources to provide adequate security, the organizers canceled the parade. It was a sign of things to come.