“Let’s Not Get Caught with Our Pants Down”

We better be ready. They are coming for us! Progressives like Obama and Biden will “continue to feed the Crocodile until it eats them last.”

By George Mcclellan ——Bio and Archives--November 5, 2023

This bears repeating again. It’s been said before: after years of being chastised by our progressive government leaders, who are weaklings wallowing in the self-loathing of their white skin, their hearts bleeding out for innocent Palestinians, our personal self-defense mechanisms have been so battered down for fear of being classified as Islamophobes or racists, that we’ve reached the point we don’t even recognize the real dangers when they are swirling around us, i.e., Biden’s imported Jihadists.

Considering the indescribable massacre of Israeli citizens by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023, it should be evident who the enemy of Western society is. It’s not MAGA Trump voters; it’s failed Progressivism, failed Socialism, and an Islam that demands acceptance or death. They don’t quit!..........

The growing number of Americans arming themselves has alarmed the Progressives, not because of the increasing potential for attacks by Jihadists, Antifa, and BLM thugs, but by demonstrating a willingness to challenge their authority. Many states, except blue ones, have allowed their citizens to be armed without the state's permission..... the daily news is filled with reports of individual house breakings or small store robberies almost exclusively by young black men looking for ways to fund their appétites........

The militant Islamic threat is also growing here. They are among us practicing their faith, laying low as it were, according to how it’s written in the Quran until ordered into action. ........... It means that if you are a nonbeliever a non-Muslim, then you are an infidel, a nonentity, a slave, to be treated as Islamic law allows........As Westerners, we fail to understand that Islam is unconcerned with Western laws, economics, or culture............They are coming for us! Progressives like Obama and Biden will “continue to feed the Crocodile until it eats them last.”............To Read More....

My Take - In a war between the barbarians and the wimps, the barbarians win every time.   

Keep Your Head on a Swivel - By J.B. Shurk  November 6, 2023 - This is an essay about surviving.  We should be living our lives today with an expectation that something bad will soon happen.  That feeling should not dominate our existence or preclude us from pursuing rich and joyful lives, but it should keep us mentally vigilant and physically prepared before disaster strikes.  In this Obama-Biden America of open borders, out-of-control violent crime, economic fragility, and international provocations, it is only a matter of time before conflicts abroad become conflicts at home.  It is vitally important to keep your head on a swivel.

The October 7 Hamas terror attacks on Israeli civilians serve as a shocking reminder that evil is raring to go when people least expect it.  One second, concertgoers were enjoying festival music, the next second they were struggling to escape slaughter.  One moment, families were asleep in their beds, and the next moment gunmen were breaking into their homes.  Life-and-death situations require critical thinking without the luxury of time; therefore, those who have already mentally prepared for the worst put themselves in the best position to prevail............

 MUST-SEE VIDEO: Why Muslim nations don’t want ‘Palestinians’ - November 5, 2023 By Andrea Widburg - There’s a good reason that the same nations insisting that Israel must bow before the Arab “Palestinians” refuse to accept them in their own lands............Intriguingly, no one in the Muslim world seems to be burdened with this moral sense that the right thing for them to do is take in their co-religionists from Gaza. After all, Hamas is telling the world that thousands of Gazans have already died and that tens of thousands more will die. Yet no one wants them. Of course, Hamas doesn’t want them to leave, a policy it's enforcing with ever-increasing, murderous brutality:.............

 The Awakening of Jewish Christian Mutual Support -Jonathan Feldstein  Nov 06, 2023 - Like many Israelis, I have had the privilege over the last few weeks of stepping up and doing things on behalf of others in a particularly uplifting way, especially at these challenging times. Making things even more uplifting is that I represent the Genesis 123 Foundation, which builds bridges between Jews and Christians and Christians with Israel. Arguably, this has never been a more significant time to do so, nor have we ever seen the outpouring of Christian support for Israel at this level............

 

Death of Archimedes: The Left-Islam Alliance

 By Gary Gindler November 4, 2023 @ American Thinker and Gary Gindler Chronicles

One legend about Archimedes, a famous Greek mathematician and physicist, states that he was killed during Syracuse’s siege in 212 B.C.  According to the most common narrative, he was sketching geometric figures when a bounty-seeking Roman soldier burst into his study.  “Do not disturb my circles,” said Archimedes, but the simpleton Roman legionnaire, who knew nothing about mathematics, struck him with a sword.

History has repeatedly evidenced over the last two millennia that ignoramuses often change history.  Geniuses who fall victim to uncivilized invaders, uncultured neighbors, or moronic rulers are well known.  Postmortems cannot alleviate the loss of a great mind to humanity, and many contemporaries recognize that.  For example, Marcellus, a Roman general who conquered Syracuse, apologized to Archimedes’s relatives.

Who will apologize to whom when Israel becomes Judenfrei?

Israel is at war with Gazans, one third of whom marry their first cousins.  Due to traditionally high inbreeding levels, their average I.Q. is about 68.

Israel pencils circles and formulas, endeavoring at 21st-century technologies.  How many young Archimedeses perished in the October Hamassacre?

Unfortunately, the story does not stop here.  It surprised many, but Hamas has a lot of supporters in the West.  Pundits and politicians in the West often have (presumably) high I.Q.s.  Many of these high-I.Q.ers are blindsided by beheadings and other atrocities committed by Muslims and, as such, cannot comprehend Islam’s “peaceful nature.”  It is “peaceful” because, according to the Quran, the extermination of all Jews, Christians, Buddhists, and all other kafirs (infidels), including atheists, will finally establish peace on the planet.

Followers of the Moon God have been working tirelessly on this program since the 7th century.  The recent barbarism of the Gazan population does not deviate an iota from the dogmas enshrined by Mohammad, the successful caravan robber.

Beheading infidel babies has been Islam’s modus operandi for centuries, so why the sudden harsh reaction from the West?  Islam sees nothing wrong with dismembering or baking babies alive in an oven as long as they are infidels.  Knowledgeable Muslims will point out that Allah prohibits inhumanness, but it is just a semantic juggling of well known contradictions in Islam’s holy texts, the Quran and Hadith.  To Muslims’ delight, the Quran — like any other foundational text in all religions — has so many inconsistencies that one could find opposite opinions about hot subjects.

Pro-Hamas rallies in all European capitals and major American cities are not the only catalyst for the emotional reaction from the West.  Unfortunately, the hysterical backlash of Western leaders is not about the tortured Israelis.

The resonance we hear is the sound of the left-Islamic fabric ripping apart.

The Soviet Union cultivated the alliance between the International Left and Islam since the 1950s.  The immensely significant triumph was getting communist radicals and Islamic radicals on the same team.  The overwhelmingly atheist left had entered into a marriage of convenience with religious forces.  And not just Islamic corps: aside from the well known cozy relationship with Islamic radicals, though it may seem improbable, leftist radicals sneaked an acknowledged communist into the Dalai Lama’s position.

Besides, a Marxist pope is at the helm of the Vatican.  That misalliance birthed the ideological chimera — a hybrid ideology composed of different, seemingly incompatible, and non-combinable parts.  Moreover, Muhammed's fatalistic teachings are reminiscent of Marx’s stoical indoctrinations.  As a result, the arrested development of predominantly Muslim vs. non-Muslim countries mirrors the arrested advancement of socialist countries vs. capitalistic ones.

However, the left’s multi-decade-long, burgeoning strategic alliance with theocratic regimes and groups had peaked.  Radical leftists are in short supply in the 21st century, thus ending the era of militant Islam and radical leftism exchanging tactics and strategies.  Instead, the paths of Islamic imperialism and leftist imperialism are starting to diverge.  The Abraham Accords, orchestrated by then-president Donald Trump, signify such divergence.

The political consequences of Hamas’s actions are difficult to overestimate.  First, the political left has been effectively wiped out of the Israeli political scene, at least for the time being.  Second, massive rape, torture, and beheadings by the unenlightened mob of Palestinian Arabs suddenly awakened the West from its woke-induced coma.  As Israel experiences unprecedented existential enlightenment, the West will, most likely, follow.

As for the Jews associated with leftism, it is always “Leftism Uber Alles.”  Since Napoleon Bonaparte closed Jewish ghettoes in occupied Italy and granted French Jews full civil rights, Jewish existence has been entangled with left-wingers.  Metternich-Winneburg, the Austrian consul in Paris, wrote in 1806: “All Jews look upon Napoleon as their Messiah.”  Since then, many Jews have worshiped false gods, false prophets, and false Messiahs — as long as they exhibit a left-wing stance.  However, many American Jews got red-pilled by the cauchemar of the latest anti-Semitic atrocities, demonstrations, and threats and decisively shifted into the conservative column.

Leftists in Washington, D.C. have cardinally altered American import and export articles.  Currently, our exports are primarily various forms of appeasement, and our main imports are strains of anti-Americanism.  Unfortunately, these insanely genocidal Middle Easterners have support from many insanely suicidal Westerners.  New York City used to be the Jewish-American metropolis; now it is openly anti-American, anti-Israel, pro-Hamas land, transforming into Newyorkistan in front of our eyes.

Leftists policies have made America a borderless, leaderless country.  Rephrasing Clausewitz, uncontrolled and unvetted immigration is jihad by other means.

The massive de-platforming, de-banking, de-monetization, and cancellation of conservatives appear to be a Pyrrhic victory for the left.  They became a conglomerate of marginal congregations (like LGBT and anti-Israeli Jews) and pro-Hamas activists (like BLM and The Squad).  However, the avalanche of de-financing by wealthy donors of primary leftist bastions — universities — in the wake of Hamas savagery is several orders of magnitude larger than any de-monetization experienced by right-wingers.  Maybe — just maybe — it will reorient universities from cultivating heinousness back to education.

Hamas demonstrated that the Muslim world has reached a level of depravity that the rest of the world could not imagine possible.  It looks as though many modern leftists have realized the danger of the jihad association in any shape or form.  They might have decided to flee their abusive partner.

Finally, Hamas’s blatant bloodthirstiness has forced Israel to abandon all attempts to please or beg for public sympathy from the world.  As the West’s self-inflicted cultural degradation has reached the bifurcation point, it must choose one path from the only two available: back to the 7th century or back to the future.

Gary Gindler, Ph.D., is a conservative columnist at Gary Gindler Chronicles and a new science founder: Politiphysics.  Follow him on Twitter/X.

 

The World as I See It: In a War Between the Barbarians and the Wimps, the Barbarians Win Every Time!

By Rich Kozlovich

Let's try and get this right for once. Just once! Please! 

In a war between the barbarians and the wimps, the barbarians will win every time. You can't fight barbarians with paper work, or rules of law because they refuse to recognize any restrictions on their activity. And what happens when the barbarians are in charge?  They become the Obama and Biden administrations and create a Deep State that's corrupt beyond reason and belief, but it's nonetheless very real in every level of our society.  

 The result?  

We have massive

Why is that so hard to grasp?  The evidence is abounding! 

Andrea Widburg's  article, The Royal Marines defeat the U.S. Marines at the ‘Battle of the Mojave Desert’, is a clear example of what's happening to our military, and make no mistake about it:  This is the real pandemic in America today, in and out of government.   She notes: 

 

The American military has had another force bearing down on it that may be an even greater enemy than Islamists the world over. That force has been wokeism. Beginning with Obama, the American left has been using the military as a social justice experiment. According to James Hasson, author of Stand Down:  How Social Justice Warriors Are Sabotaging America’s Military, Obama purged the officer class of old-timers and brought in progressive ideologues.........Navy ships went green (when they were just meant to be mean)...........

Obama ended “don’t ask, don’t tell” in favor of openly homosexual military service and invited mentally ill, so-called “transgender” people into the military to serve under their “identified” gender. That policy, more than any, affected troop fitness and deployability.

At the military academies, the focus wasn’t on military history, tactics, and strategy, it was critical race theory, gender theory, and anti-Americanism. The elite Rangers were forced to lower their physical standards so that women could be admitted............Janet Levy summarized Hasson’s findings:

When Marine infantry units integrated women, the male-female units had higher injury rates, slower casualty-evacuation times, poorer marksmanship skills, poorer preparation of fortified fighting positions and overall lower battle-essential skill sets than all-male units. Although all-male units outperformed coed units in 70% of combat tasks and mixed units were not recommended, Obama still issued a directive to integrate the Marine Corps infantry companies. Hasson characterizes this policy as “fulfilling the dreams of progressive ideologues at the expense of a service member’s life.”

Royal Marines commandos ‘dominated’ US troops and forced them into a humiliating surrender just days into a mass training exercise in the Mojave desert, it has been revealed today..........Combatants used paintball-style training ammunition, which fires with reduced pressure and velocity, along with hi-tech simulators for heavier firepower like artillery, and live ammo on expansive ranges...........

 She ends by saying:

........our Marines couldn’t survive a paintball battle is just devastating news for America’s national security and for the free world generally.

•  Army Doc Had to Ground 3 Pilots Over 'Vax Injuries' in One Morning, But What Happened Next Is Worse

The nation is being destroyed by these barbarians, and as the Canada Free Press' tag line states, Because without America, there is no free world.  We really do need to get that!

In a War Between the Barbarians and the Wimps, The Barbarians Win Every Time.

America In Crisis!

By Rich Kozlovich

America is in crisis, and we need to understand this one incontrovertible fact:  We're in war with Barbarians, along with their Democrat enablers and excusers.  Of course there's no excuse for attacking the homes of these misfit politicians like Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot. However, murder, mayhem and destruction is just fine for the rest of society. Other enabler mayors didn't act like Lightfoot though.  Some just fled town.

This war has created a new foundational morality.  Looting is not looting, any longer.  That's right, it's not a crime, it's a right!  And the cops had better get in line with that.  Because what used to be known as looting, which is ....or used to be....illegally breaking into stores or homes and taking someone else's property, which also used to be known as stealing, but it isn't now.  Now it's taking care of these "looter's needs". 

And we know this because: "Diana Becton, first-term Costa County (California) District Attorney, states that law-enforcement officers must consider if looters “needed” the merchandise they stole before charging them.  This is a new directive.  But then again, these criminals aren't funding their "needs" by taking her stuff from her house.

Okay, but let's say I'm a cop, and I catch someone "fulfilling their needs" and before I arrest them I consider their "need" to take someone else's property, and then after fully evaluating this "need", along with their thinking that justifies their fulfilling that "need" I decide ..... it's still looting!    And since looting is still a crime, I arrest them.  What are you going to do Diana?  Let them go?

Let's get real Diana, they're thieves, period! And you need to find another job, and in fact, even in California they might find you're fundamentally.....wellll....nuts......and kick you out come election time.  Finally California would get something right.

• Oregon sheriffs refuse governor's request to send deputies to Portland's endless Antifa riots
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Andrea Widburg notes: 

Even as the rioters in Minneapolis and other cities savaged businesses, they claimed that they weren't doing anything wrong because insurance companies would come in and save the day. The fact that these leftists had such faith in a capitalist institution would have been charming were it not for the fact that they were wrong.

For most of those people whose livelihoods these little Marxists destroyed, there is no insurance coming to save the day......... They're so focused on "feelings" that they cannot comprehend notions such as reason, the rule of law, or a functioning society.

Up until now this kind of activity was criminal.  If you got arrested, you usually went to jail, and rightly so.  But we find that's not the case any more.   Debra Heine reports:

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, Michael Forest Reinoehl, posted on social media back in June.

Being a left wing misfit means what he does isn't a crime! It's defending his brothers and sisters in the movement.  Now, there are a lot of people who think that's kinda ....well.....nuts too!  And a lot of people seem to think the Democrat party is responsible, especially when the leaders of that party, like Kamala Harris who, dog whistles support to rioters, looters, and arsonists, calling their rioting "protests"!  Now, protests aren't illegal, and encouraging others to fund it and join in is one thing,  but what if these aren't protests.  What if they're burning buildings, attacking innocent people, breaking to buildings and stealing anything not nailed down, leaving murder, theft and mayhem in their wake?  Well, that's a riot, and that's illegal, and there's not any way Kamala and her Democrat mob don't know that.

• Kamala Harris again proves that her only principle is ambition 

As pointed out in this piece: 

Harris's dog whistle to rioters and looters is not an isolated incident.  The rest of the Democratic Party is "trying to find the right balance between their support for the racial justice protests and their opposition to the destructive elements of the demonstrations[.]"  If Democrats think there is some kind of acceptable "balance" between lawful and peaceful freedom of expression, and arson, vandalism, looting, aggravated assault, murder, carjacking, and rioting, there is a real problem.  The former is an absolute constitutional right, and the latter are criminal activities.  There is no gray area between them in which one can find a "balance."

And this isn't an isolated incident. Julie Kelly believes the Democrat party is being aided in this insurrection by NeverTrump "conservatives" inciting political violence saying:

These turncoats are as much to blame for the current climate as the news media or the Democratic Party.  As their preferred candidate crashes in national polls and the race tightens to a dead heat in Joe Biden’s must-win states, NeverTrump “conservatives” are once again taking their marching orders from Democrats. The death, destruction, and mayhem besieging Democratic-run cities across the country, NeverTrump dutifully recites, is all Donald Trump’s fault.

Well of course it's Donald Trump's fault. Blaming the Democrat party and their lapdogs in the media or the Republican party just won't do.  Therefore, it "must" be Trump's fault!  And we know it's Trump's fault because  Adam Schiff says it's Trump's fault.  He claims the President is willfully fanning the flames of this violence'.   And we know how trustworthy his pronouncements are.

Ooh, ooh, wait....wait....I just had a thought.

Did he call these protests "violence"?  How can they be protests if they're violent?  How can there be violence if it's just a protest?  Oops! There you go again.  Poor Adam just can't seem to get anything right.  He's let the cat out of the bag hasn't he.  They're rioting!  And that's not the Democrat party narrative is it?   Protests aren't illegal, violence is!  And Adam now confirms....it's violence....that makes it all riots!  That makes all this illegal.  Would you call that a Freudian slip?

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There's been something that has always bothered me about these protestors.  Where do they work?  Where do the get their money?  How do they have the time for all this day after day?

I've been heavily involved in my industry's affairs for many years, and even to a much smaller degree at the national level, and I can honestly say it's time consuming.  But I owned my own business, and could work it out if I wished to, most of the time, but not always.  But, whether a person is an owner of an employee, who can financially devote so much time to these "protests"?

They must have to eat.   They can't steal everything they're eating. They must have a home somewhere.   They must have to pay rent or a mortgage.  They have to shower every once in a while.  They have to change their clothes.  Where do they keep their belongings? They still have to live some kind of life that requires money!
 
Where's their money coming from?  

Patrick Goodenough quotes the President saying, ‘Some very stupid rich people’ are funding elements involved in unrest.  Goodenough goes on to say:

President Trump has depicted corporations that have pledged money to elements involved in unrest on American streets as weak, naïve, and deluded.“Money is coming from some very stupid rich people that have no idea that if their thing ever succeeded – which it won’t – they will be thrown to the wolves like you’ve never seen before,” he said in an interview with Laura Ingraham that aired on Fox News on Monday night.

“The people paying them, those people will be overthrown, their lives will be taken away, their lives will be endangered. They’re all going to be gone,” Trump said. “They’re just stupid, foolish people that made a lot of money.”

Let's try and define this properly, because if we keep playing the "new speak" game, we're doomed.  This is an insurrection by barbarians that's organized and funded by people who want to destroy America.  And in a war between barbarians and wimps, the barbarians win every time.  If it isn't treason, it certainly borders on it.

Why is that so hard to grasp? 

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• This Civil War - My South Carolina Tea Party Convention Speech January 26, 2018
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South Carolina college student and stepfather fatally shot in head following car accident

This is absolutely heart wrenching. 

Paul Sacca August 28, 2020

Charles Nicholas Wall, 45, and his stepdaughter Laura Ashley Anderson, 21, were shot and killed following a car accident on Monday in Georgetown, South Carolina. A third shooting victim, Paul McConnell, survived the road rage attack, according to WPDE-TV.  The Georgetown County Sheriff's Office identified the suspect as Ty Sheem Ha Sheem Walters III, 23, from Moncks Corner.

The shooting happened around 5 p.m. on Aug. 24 when the stepfather went to deliver keys to Anderson after she accidentally locked herself out of her newly purchased home. She had just moved in and was selling an old set of bunk beds to someone online, who was coming over to pick up the items.

Wall's car was allegedly rear-ended as he turned into the driveway of Anderson's home. Walters reportedly got out of his vehicle and shot Wall, Anderson, and McConnell.

"It actually happened in her yard, waiting for the keys to get to her," Lynn Lambert, a close friend of the family, told WPDE-TV...........To Read More....

My Take - Once again they fail to state the murderer is black and his victims were white. The picture of course tells it all, but that doesn't change the issue. So...when do the riots start? There won't be any because only barbarians act that way. But how long before civilized people are forced to be come barbarians just to survive? 

Remember, in a war between the barbarians and the wimps, the barbarians always win.

Something Is Rotten In America

By Ray DiLorenzo —— Bio and Archives--July 4, 2020

In writing this article, I had to constantly remind myself that what is happening in America today is not an outlandish work of fiction that few people would find conceivable, but a harsh reality that is happening now. On one hand, I am fortunate to be a witness to history, but on the other hand, sick at heart that this could happen here, the country I love..

It is not hyperbole to say that we are witnessing the culmination of decades of massive corruption. It is so fantastic in size, scope, and evil as to be worthy of the most heinous crime organizations that have ever existed. Mass Murder, Treason, Insurrection, Sedition

It involves mass murder, treason, insurrection, and sedition.

A large contingent of the most barbarous group of men and women have literally declared war on the United States. They are an army of embedded bureaucrats otherwise known as the Deep State, current and former political leaders, a cooperative and collusive disinformation media, several well-indoctrinated generations employed as useful idiots, and a foreign power working in concert, having been given comfort and assurance. That foreign power is China. What they are collectively willing to do to seize power is unimaginable.

I only suspected this back in March, but I am beginning to believe that the COVID-19 pandemic, the rioting, the deaths, the destruction of property and the crushing of an entire nation is the result of a well-planned, well orchestrated hoax. It is like a massive injection of chemotherapy in an otherwise healthy patient, for what is considered by the Left to be a cancer on their power and control…Donald J. Trump. The Left is willing to see the host die rather than take any seat other than at the head of the table. They have decided that it is better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven..........To Read More....

The End of Chaz

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In Seattle’s “autonomous zone,” lives are destroyed under the banner of social justice.
 

Christopher F. Rufo July 1, 2020 

Early this morning, a phalanx of Seattle police officers, armed with long batons and semiautomatic rifles, cleared out the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ), also known as the Capitol Hill Occupation Protest (CHOP). Unless Antifa militants stage an unexpected counterattack, this marks the end of the 24-day occupation of the Capitol Hill neighborhood. Seattle can now begin to reckon with the damage.

The CHAZ saga began on June 8, under the premise that capitalism, police brutality, and the “fascist regime” of Seattle mayor Jenny Durkan were upholding a social order that systemically oppressed African-Americans. Black Lives Matter and Antifa-affiliated activists hoped to create a new regime based on familiar social-justice principles of recent years: they established a social order based on a “reverse hierarchy of oppression,” implemented race-based segregation in public spaces, and maintained a “police-free zone” that they believed would protect “people of color” from the depredations of the state.

As it turns out, however, maintaining public order is a complex undertaking and can’t be replaced by academic symbolism. BLM activists might despise George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison, but a regime based on the principles of Nikole Hannah-Jones, Ibram X. Kendi, and Robin DiAngelo doesn’t work too well. As CHAZ’s experience demonstrates, when left-wing radicals shift from protest to governance, things fall apart.

Ultimately, the problem of violence—and a dangerously naive understanding of policing—doomed the CHAZ. Over its 24-day history, the autonomous zone saw two gun homicides and four additional shooting victims. All the identified victims were black men—precisely the demographic for whom the CHAZ had claimed to offer protection. In the absence of a legitimate police force, armed criminal gangs and untrained anarchist paramilitaries filled the void. Almost every night, gunshots rang through the streets. The first homicide victim was killed in an outburst of gang violence; the second, reportedly unarmed and joyriding in a stolen car, was gunned down by the “CHAZ security force.”
In the end, the homicide rate in the CHAZ turned out to be 1,216 per 100,000—nearly 50 times greater than Chicago’s. Though that’s obviously not a strict apples-to-apples comparison—the small sample size of the CHAZ creates an exaggerated statistical effect—it’s instructive nonetheless, as it invalidates the entire premise of the autonomous zone. By instituting a “police-free zone,” the CHAZ didn’t become peaceable; it became lawless, brutish, and violent.

As the national media conducts its autopsy of the CHAZ, one tragic detail has escaped notice: the police department’s East Precinct building, which radicals saw as a symbol of “white supremacy,” was originally constructed under the leadership of Seattle’s first African-American city councilman, Sam Smith, who wanted to provide faster response times to the city’s Central District, where black residents had demanded greater police protection. The irony is cutting: Smith, who grew up in the Deep South during Jim Crow, saw policing as a public service; today, college-educated, white radicals see policing as an evil that must be abolished, whatever the consequences for African-Americans.

What are the ultimate lessons of the CHAZ? Don’t be fooled by rhetorical premises of radicals and don’t cave to mobs. For more than three weeks, Durkan insisted that the CHAZ was a “block party” or a “Summer of Love,” and entered negotiations with activists and armed gangsters attempting to capitalize on the cultural cachet of BLM. In the coming weeks, when the barricades are cleared and the graffiti is washed away, the true legacy of the CHAZ will be the memory of two black men who died under the false promise of utopia: Lorenzo Anderson Jr., 19, and Antonio Mays Jr., 16. When the television cameras disappear and the bourgeois-radicals go home, who will remember them? Who will say their names?

Christopher F. Rufo is a contributing editor of City Journal and director of the Discovery Institute’s Center on Wealth & Poverty. He’s directed four documentaries for PBS, including his new film, America Lost, which tells the story of three “forgotten American cities.” Follow him on Facebook and Twitter.

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The McCloskey Story, and Crisis in America

By Rich Kozlovich

This video surfaced on the internet showing Mark McCloskey and his wife standing up to the barbarians who standing outside home with guns, and that's when this mob "turned mostly peaceful".  Becca Woods posted an article yesterday entitled,  Neighbors Sign Letter Condemning St. Louis Gun-Bearing Couple.

She notes that nearly three dozen of the McCloskey's neighbors signed the letter condemning the McCloskey's with a lot of meaningless drivel as she notes:

The letter explains that Westermore Place and the adjoining street Portland Place are historic neighborhoods with the City of St. Louis representing many walks of life. "As the undersigned, we condemn the behavior of anyone who uses threats of violence, especially through the brandishing of firearms, to disrupt peaceful protest, whether it be in this neighborhood or anywhere in the United States," the letter reads. The residents wrote that they seek positive action and constructive dialogue to build a civil society. 

Okay, that really sounds nice, but what exactly does it mean when they claim they would "seek positive action and constructive dialogue to build a civil society"?

These "protesters" were armed, violent, destructive, they made threats to these people's lives and property" but after they smashed through the gate they were "mostly peaceful".  Especially when guns there were aimed at them.  Exactly what "positive action and constructive dialogue" do they think would have worked on these barbarians.  What would have worked to prevent them from wreaking havoc on this now broken into, no longer secure, no longer safe, gated community that would "build a civil society"? And why did they separate themselves and live in a gated community in the first place?  Do I detect the faint odor of hypocrisy?  Imagine that!

Based on their letter, we have to assume they have some sort of system in mind!  Right?  If that's so, and since they're shooting off their mouths, it must be so, then I have to ask why didn't they go out into the streets and confront these barbarians with their "positive action plan with its constructive dialogue"?   Afraid?  Why?  Weren't the "mostly" peaceful? 

It's easy to be brave when someone else has driven the barbarians off.

Let's face it, this letter, beyond the leftist pandering narrative, never states how they would have handled that mess.  But one thing we absolutely know, they never once stepped out into the streets and stood up to do anything, let alone "seek positive action and constructive dialogue" with this armed band of thugs.

However, it seems the McCloskey's are a lawsuit happy couple and a pain in the butt on the best of days, at least it appears that way in the article, Neighbors From Hell? The Insane Drama Behind the Gun-Toting St. Louis Lawyer Couple.  The author outlines all the issues between the McClosky's, his neighbors, the local homeowners association and others.  They even sued forcing the previous owner to sell the house to them, and the turmoil has never ended, including pulling guns on people before. People who did not represent harm to them. 

I've often wondered why would anyone want to live in a gated community with people who don't want you living there, and then, after moving in, stirring up strife.  Who wants to live that way? Some things are worth standing up for, and some things just aren't worth the aggravation, and the McCloskey's don't seem to have a aggravation filter.  If all that's being said about them is true, I wouldn't want them as neighbors either.

But all that's a separate issue!

The real issue is the willingness to defend society against barbarians, and the one thing history has shown beyond contestation is this: In a war between the barbarians and the wimps, the barbarians will win every time, and the McCloskey's are living amidst a society of wimps.

But now they're not only facing the neighbors.  As Andrea Widburg points out in this article:

A mob, some members of which appeared to be armed and dangerous, trespassed on the McCloskeys’ property. The McCloskeys used guns to warn the mob off their property but did not fire the guns. Now, a prosecutor who won her election with help from George Soros, says that the McCloskeys’ conduct constituted a “violent assault” that may justify a criminal charge. Missouri is a “stand your ground” state.

She goes on to show time after time how corrupt left wing politicians are siding with barbarians and thugs against peaceful citizens defending themselves against violent out of control black and white leftist radicals.   And that's in states with right to stand laws

As she notes at the end of her piece.

With Democrats defunding the police or driving them off the streets, people of all colors are going to resort to self-defense. It’s legal in one form or another across America,and people's lizard brains are going to react hard when threatened. We’re at a perilous moment in America if leftists first deprive people of police protection and then activist prosecutors criminalize self-defense only when whites do it. If people do not believe they are getting the benefit of equal protection under the law, they will stop complying with the law entirely.

It's crisis time in America!