The Issue is the Revolution

By Daniel Greenfield @ Sultan Knish Blog 

“There is only one solution, intifada revolution,” mobs of college students chant at terror rallies.

What is there to ‘revolt’ against in New York City, Los Angeles or Chicago? The Hamas rallies like the BLM, environmentalist and other radical rallies take place in cities run by mayors and city councils who support their efforts and sometimes even show up to their events.

Even before New York City and other municipalities paid out millions in voluntary settlements to the BLM rioters who had assaulted police officers, the dirty secret of the radical mobs was that the authorities were on their side. And will continue to be on their side no matter what they do.

The revolution is also the thing that it’s revolting against.

Democrats secured control of the country’s major cities only to be faced with the timeless leftist challenge of making the intensification of their rule look like revolution rather than totalitarianism. The USSR and Cuba directed the ‘revolution’ outward by invading, conquering and intervening in other countries. Democrat cities nationalized their politics, building entire campaigns around Trump, abortion and (to their eventual regret) declaring themselves to be sanctuary cities.

As long as Republicans existed anywhere, urban Democrats could not sleep soundly at night.

Democrat control of cities and states didn’t end bipartisan politics, just turned it into a somewhat real and somewhat fake grudge match between the party’s really crazy and less crazy wings. Craziness was a variable like ‘X’ that was defined not by the common sense brakes of intellectual diversity, but by how far the really crazy wing could push the less crazy wing.

In 2010, open borders, freeing all the criminals, men pretending to be women and support for Hamas were fringe positions of the really crazy wing. By 2024, they’re Democrat positions.

The difference between the really crazy wing and the merely crazy wing is not that they have fundamentally different beliefs, but different tactics and comfort zones. It didn’t take long for the next generation to come home for winter breaks and win over the Democrat moms and dads to police defunding, drag queen story hour and the mass murder of Jews. But first the cultural establishment had to make these horrifying things seem respectable and normal.

Had to fit banning cars and Hamas on a lawn sign right under “in this house, love is love”.

What will the really crazy wing of the party normalize next? Check the academic calendar for the next year, social media for the year after and then the protest calendar for the next five years.

The ‘revolution’ is just about the radicals running the streets getting the feckless ex-liberals running the actual show to adopt some horrendous policy derived from the ravings of a 19th century philosopher and then given a glow up by activist academics and public intellectuals.

Classic town hall politics, limited constitutional government, and checks and balances in a bipartisan system would have prevented American cities from turning into the Paris Commune, but urban politics had made a rapid transition from Tammany Hall political machines to corporate consultants to Marxist struggle sessions with little democracy to be found in any of it.

Cities aren’t run by voters but by ‘stakeholders’. Lifelong community activists and their community groups, municipal unions and their members, and a few political clubs harvest ballots, turn out votes and then end up running cities. That 1% actually runs our lives.

A new generation of young radical activists with dot com money backing and social media savvy like AOC found it easy enough to harness the power of hipster grad students living in $3K a month walkups to disrupt the system and carve out their own extremist slice of the pie.

The new red guard, like the old, however had to find something to do besides stealing money.

The lofty promises of universal health care require more money than is available even if the wings of the old crazy party and the new really crazy party stopped stealing all the money. Defunding the police by moving money from law enforcement to their leftist activist social allies is easier. And a good pogrom against Jewish stores and synagogues is a great distraction.

The revolution isn’t about killing Jews (or not just about killing Jews) but wiping out entire classes of people, reactionaries, shopkeepers and whoever else ended up in the killing fields of Siberia, Guangxi and Choeung Ek for the power and profit of a rising new political elite.

The less crazy party thinks it will never have to come to that, but as with its views on men showering with girls or exposing schoolchildren to violent pornography, this is subject to change.

Life as an urban/suburban bourgeoise with regular stops at Starbucks, Crate and Barrel, and Whole Foods before charging the Tesla in the driveway is pretty comfortable, but being a pol commissar with a dacha in the Outer Banks and the power to gulag your enemies might just be better. All of that will require not just one revolution but a cycle of intermittent revolutions.

The causes matter less than the trajectory. One day it’s the police, the next day it’s car owners and then it’s the Jews. (Say what you will, but the Jews are always a popular one.) The issue, as a certain Marxist once said, is never the issue, the issue is always the revolution.

Causes provide narratives. Berkeley professors and Wall Street personal assistants who have no idea where the river or the sea may be are chanting for the destruction of Israel because it’s a nice change of pace. Like all of us, leftists like to feel that they’re growing as people by embracing new murderous causes. Freeing all the criminals didn’t work so well, but freeing all the terrorists to kill Jewish people thousands of miles away feels both heroic and safe.

But the exoticism of chanting for an “intifada” boils down to a call for revolution here and now.

Students for Justice in Palestine tweeted that the ultimate purpose of the anti-Israel BDS movement is “eradicate America as we know it.” Eradicating America as we know it might seem a bit off-putting to the suburban soy dads and wine moms who make up the middle class base of the party, but they’ll come around just like they did on turning Tim into Tammy and Tammy into Tim. What else are they going to do anyway: become Republicans and have people sneer at them in Whole Foods and risk their kids refusing to come home for the holidays?

The revolution is about eradicating America as we know it. A lot of it’s gone already, but there’s still plenty of work of destruction to be done until we’re all on the right side of history. Or dead.

Revolution is all about being on the right side of history. And the revolution consists of old liberals who are terrified of being on the wrong side of it, stammering their way through pronouns and handling popular critical race theory texts like they were the sacred scriptures of a religion they don’t believe in, and young radicals certain that they are on the right side of it.

But ‘revolution’ is also just dictatorship misspelled. As George Orwell wrote in 1984, “One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.” The dictatorship in urban and sub Democrat areas is already here.

The stream of monthly revolutions make the deepening totalitarianism, the higher confiscatory taxes, the daily government scrutiny of everything from trash content to social media posts (in cities where violent muggings earn thugs no more than a free therapy session) and the ideology tests for employment, seem like liberation. But that’s what the Russians called it too.

Each revolution makes us more enslaved and less free. We are not free to walk the streets, not free to think for ourselves and not free to even work for a living. We are however free to protest.

But only as long as it’s for the revolution of the political machine taking away all our freedoms.

The issue isn’t drug dealers shot while assaulting police officers. It’s not Israel. It’s not oil or illegals. Those are just the levers which make the dictatorships running our lives more extreme. They are also how those dictatorships pretend that there’s a vibrant system of political dissent.

The issue is not the issue. The issue is that the fake revolutions are a tyranny. The issue is that we have become the slaves of a system that keeps promising to liberate us from our freedoms.

The issue is that we cannot go on living this way.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine.  Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation. Thank you for reading.

 

The Issue is the Revolution

“There is only one solution, intifada revolution,” mobs of college students chant at terror rallies.

By Daniel Greenfield @ Sultan Knish Blog

What is there to ‘revolt’ against in New York City, Los Angeles or Chicago? The Hamas rallies like the BLM, environmentalist and other radical rallies take place in cities run by mayors and city councils who support their efforts and sometimes even show up to their events.

Even before New York City and other municipalities paid out millions in voluntary settlements to the BLM rioters who had assaulted police officers, the dirty secret of the radical mobs was that the authorities were on their side. And will continue to be on their side no matter what they do.

The revolution is also the thing that it’s revolting against.

Democrats secured control of the country’s major cities only to be faced with the timeless leftist challenge of making the intensification of their rule look like revolution rather than totalitarianism. The USSR and Cuba directed the ‘revolution’ outward by invading, conquering and intervening in other countries. Democrat cities nationalized their politics, building entire campaigns around Trump, abortion and (to their eventual regret) declaring themselves to be sanctuary cities.

As long as Republicans existed anywhere, urban Democrats could not sleep soundly at night.

Democrat control of cities and states didn’t end bipartisan politics, just turned it into a somewhat real and somewhat fake grudge match between the party’s really crazy and less crazy wings. Craziness was a variable like ‘X’ that was defined not by the common sense brakes of intellectual diversity, but by how far the really crazy wing could push the less crazy wing.

In 2010, open borders, freeing all the criminals, men pretending to be women and support for Hamas were fringe positions of the really crazy wing. By 2024, they’re Democrat positions.

The difference between the really crazy wing and the merely crazy wing is not that they have fundamentally different beliefs, but different tactics and comfort zones. It didn’t take long for the next generation to come home for winter breaks and win over the Democrat moms and dads to police defunding, drag queen story hour and the mass murder of Jews. But first the cultural establishment had to make these horrifying things seem respectable and normal.

Had to fit banning cars and Hamas on a lawn sign right under “in this house, love is love”.

What will the really crazy wing of the party normalize next? Check the academic calendar for the next year, social media for the year after and then the protest calendar for the next five years.

The ‘revolution’ is just about the radicals running the streets getting the feckless ex-liberals running the actual show to adopt some horrendous policy derived from the ravings of a 19th century philosopher and then given a glow up by activist academics and public intellectuals.

Classic town hall politics, limited constitutional government, and checks and balances in a bipartisan system would have prevented American cities from turning into the Paris Commune, but urban politics had made a rapid transition from Tammany Hall political machines to corporate consultants to Marxist struggle sessions with little democracy to be found in any of it.

Cities aren’t run by voters but by ‘stakeholders’. Lifelong community activists and their community groups, municipal unions and their members, and a few political clubs harvest ballots, turn out votes and then end up running cities. That 1% actually runs our lives.

A new generation of young radical activists with dot com money backing and social media savvy like AOC found it easy enough to harness the power of hipster grad students living in $3K a month walkups to disrupt the system and carve out their own extremist slice of the pie.

The new red guard, like the old, however had to find something to do besides stealing money.

The lofty promises of universal health care require more money than is available even if the wings of the old crazy party and the new really crazy party stopped stealing all the money. Defunding the police by moving money from law enforcement to their leftist activist social allies is easier. And a good pogrom against Jewish stores and synagogues is a great distraction.

The revolution isn’t about killing Jews (or not just about killing Jews) but wiping out entire classes of people, reactionaries, shopkeepers and whoever else ended up in the killing fields of Siberia, Guangxi and Choeung Ek for the power and profit of a rising new political elite.

The less crazy party thinks it will never have to come to that, but as with its views on men showering with girls or exposing schoolchildren to violent pornography, this is subject to change.

Life as an urban/suburban bourgeoise with regular stops at Starbucks, Crate and Barrel, and Whole Foods before charging the Tesla in the driveway is pretty comfortable, but being a pol commissar with a dacha in the Outer Banks and the power to gulag your enemies might just be better. All of that will require not just one revolution but a cycle of intermittent revolutions.

The causes matter less than the trajectory. One day it’s the police, the next day it’s car owners and then it’s the Jews. (Say what you will, but the Jews are always a popular one.) The issue, as a certain Marxist once said, is never the issue, the issue is always the revolution.

Causes provide narratives. Berkeley professors and Wall Street personal assistants who have no idea where the river or the sea may be are chanting for the destruction of Israel because it’s a nice change of pace. Like all of us, leftists like to feel that they’re growing as people by embracing new murderous causes. Freeing all the criminals didn’t work so well, but freeing all the terrorists to kill Jewish people thousands of miles away feels both heroic and safe.

But the exoticism of chanting for an “intifada” boils down to a call for revolution here and now.

Students for Justice in Palestine tweeted that the ultimate purpose of the anti-Israel BDS movement is “eradicate America as we know it.” Eradicating America as we know it might seem a bit off-putting to the suburban soy dads and wine moms who make up the middle class base of the party, but they’ll come around just like they did on turning Tim into Tammy and Tammy into Tim. What else are they going to do anyway: become Republicans and have people sneer at them in Whole Foods and risk their kids refusing to come home for the holidays?

The revolution is about eradicating America as we know it. A lot of it’s gone already, but there’s still plenty of work of destruction to be done until we’re all on the right side of history. Or dead.

Revolution is all about being on the right side of history. And the revolution consists of old liberals who are terrified of being on the wrong side of it, stammering their way through pronouns and handling popular critical race theory texts like they were the sacred scriptures of a religion they don’t believe in, and young radicals certain that they are on the right side of it.

But ‘revolution’ is also just dictatorship misspelled. As George Orwell wrote in 1984, “One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.” The dictatorship in urban and sub Democrat areas is already here.

The stream of monthly revolutions make the deepening totalitarianism, the higher confiscatory taxes, the daily government scrutiny of everything from trash content to social media posts (in cities where violent muggings earn thugs no more than a free therapy session) and the ideology tests for employment, seem like liberation. But that’s what the Russians called it too.

Each revolution makes us more enslaved and less free. We are not free to walk the streets, not free to think for ourselves and not free to even work for a living. We are however free to protest.

But only as long as it’s for the revolution of the political machine taking away all our freedoms.

The issue isn’t drug dealers shot while assaulting police officers. It’s not Israel. It’s not oil or illegals. Those are just the levers which make the dictatorships running our lives more extreme. They are also how those dictatorships pretend that there’s a vibrant system of political dissent.

The issue is not the issue. The issue is that the fake revolutions are a tyranny. The issue is that we have become the slaves of a system that keeps promising to liberate us from our freedoms.

The issue is that we cannot go on living this way.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine.Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation.

Defining the Federal Government in Two Words. Morally bankrupt!

By Rich Kozlovich 

Morally bankrupt are easily the two words that define the Biden administration, the Democrat party, Republican RINO’s, leftists in general, the media, academia, government bureaucrats, and even those in the commercial arena.  Congress is out of control bankrupting the nation, destroying the foundational Judaic/Christian principles America was founded on, and the Presidency is blatantly criminal.   

I think I can reasonably call that moral bankruptcy.

Laws are meant to prevent crimes, and punish those who ignore those laws. The aim of conservatives is the support of law. All this corruption, violence, rioting, rape, murder, and flaunting of American law by this government, it's officials, and these leftist rented rioters works to destroy the law, and it’s destroying the nation. 

Lawfare has made American justice a farce creating a two-tier justice system of kangaroo third world courts.  Judges, prosecutors, and even law enforcement officers have demonstrated a moral bankruptcy that is so blatant, so corrupt, and so obvious it’s now cannot be denied. America sees it, and America’s afraid. Rightly so.

The failure to deal with this corrupt behavior only creates more corruption until it metastasizes like a cancer spreading through body until the body dies.   That cannot be tolerated!

The challenge is to restore the wellbeing of the nation, and that can only be done in accordance with law, properly applied, and applied equally to all, publicly exposing the crimes being committing, and bringing those criminals to justice, including government officials, and absolutely refusing to accept anything less.  

No one is above the law! That's repeated unendingly by these corrupt prosecutors in order to justify their effort to destroy a Presidential candidate financially, or worse.  No one is above the law is the foundational truth of the nation, a truth the Constitution rests on. That, and only that, creates a nation of laws.  But what we’re seeing are those who are practicing the law of the jungle by ignoring the rule of law, ignoring the rights of others, ignoring justice, twisting the law to suit their own purposes, all while demanding "no one is above the law", while in point of fact, they're now above the law, acting like ravenous wild beasts.

The Constitution is the greatest secular document ever created by mankind, and it was written to guarantee the safety of each and every one of us. We stick to the principles of Constitutional law because it’s the foundation for a free stable society with individual God given rights that are recognized and guaranteed. 

We’re now seeing vicious wolves being turned loose on society, burning down buildings, destroying property, intimidating society, pouncing on Jews, conservatives, Christians, whites, the weak and helpless, and we’re even seeing public officials promoting it.  If we don’t put a stop to that soon there will be no boundaries that won't be crossed? Leftism is a cancerous growth, and it always has been so going back to the French Revolution, and from the beginning of this nation these leftists have consistently hated and plotted against America, which Daniel Greenfield covers in his article, The Left’s Plot Against George Washington.  

If we’re to be a stable society leftism must be crushed in all it's manifestations, and we must stick to the principles of those foundational truths as outlined by America’s founding fathers. Only that can guarantee safety for society. 

Justice is what we seek. Justice is what we long for. The law, correctly and honestly practiced, is the safeguard of justice. We have to believe in the law! We have to believe in the power of law, and the power of believing, and by believing we can make that happen by refusing to accept the twisted reasonings of those who are working to destroy the Constitution, and to publicly challenge them.   To save the law these corrupt wolves must be purged, and done so by the rule of law.

This is a war, and make no mistake, the choices are freedom, or tyranny.  

 “Walk toward the fire. Don’t worry about what they call you. All those things are said against you because they want to stop you in your tracks. But if you keep going, you’re sending a message to people who are rooting for you, who are agreeing with you. The message is that they can do it, too.”  ― Andrew Breitbart

 

It's "The Basics"! Enforce the Laws, and Put People in Jail

 By Rich Kozlovich

 

Many years ago when the EPA first came into existence the pest control industry went to the EPA and asked them to put on training sessions to make sure everyone understood their regulations.  The EPA said there's no training session as good as a good civil penalty.   Well, that's true of criminal activity also.  Jail, or the very real threat of jail, is a great life lesson, and a very real motivator for civilized behavior. 

Andrea Widburg is one of my favorite writers and recently published this piece, The House shouldn't have passed the Antisemitism Awareness Act, saying: 

Like every normal (as in “not leftist”) Jewish person, fear of another Holocaust exists in every cell of my body. They say that psychic trauma can be handed down through DNA, and I don’t doubt it. In the case of the Holocaust (and the millennia of pogroms and Jewish massacres that came before), Jews worry...a lot and always. Those who are philosemitic and who have been paying attention to the antisemitism sweeping academia want to help. But the Antisemitism Awareness Act, which purports to define antisemitism and that just passed in the House, is wrong. The federal government should never be in the business of defining and “grading” ideas.

While all these public antisemitic attacks are distasteful, the fact is these misfits are committing crimes of violence and more.....and it also appears they being funded to do so.   What needs to be done is to arrest them for crimes already on the books before starting a whole new book.  Especially since there's no way of knowing where it will lead.

Thomas Sowell once noted policy decisions that seem like really good ideas at the time so often fail is because there are too many unknowns. And make no mistake, the left will redefine and twist the clear intent of any law that imposes government mandates of society into something warped and twisted.  The twisted use of the 14th Amendment is an example of how these misfits can take perfectly clear and understandable laws and devise new interpretations to twist them to their corrupt ends.

 

Napoleon once said never interrupt an enemy when he's making a mistake, and the enemy is making huge errors on a lot of fronts.

 

These university protests have done more to convince Americans multiculturalism is a plague that will cause.... absolutely cause.... national suicide.  It's now clear there really is a worldwide conspiracy to destroy western civilization, and very wealthy powerful people are behind it.   

 

Do you doubt that?  

 

Take a look at Jack Hellner's commentary published today, Why would the public ever trust media outlets who are ‘surprised’ that leftists support both Joe Biden and the destruction of Israel?, where he lists all the vile things the left has done and is doing to society, and who's behind it all, more of which Jack demonstrates in this piece, Why are groups and individuals who support the destruction of America called philanthropies and philanthropists?

 

So then, who are these protestors?  Leesa K. Donner paints a disturbing picture of who they are, what they are, and what they're up to.  Make no mistake, there really is such a thing as a conspiracy!  The history books are filled with them, and this is part and parcel of an international conspiracy designed to destroy the American identity, the American culture, the American economy, and the Constitution, all of which stands as a bulwark for western civilization and a direct challenge to Marxism.  We really do need to grasp that as a fundamental truth.

 

These "protestors" need to be arrested, put in jail, kicked out of school and if they're immigrants, they need to be shipped back to the holes they crawled out of, and put a halt to all immigration forever from some countries, especially Muslim controlled nations. reinstitute the McCarran Walters Act of 1952, which prohibited the immigration of Islamists.  Understand this, there really is, An unholy alliance between Leftism and Islamism. 

 

As a result of all these riots, which they're calling protests, academia is being exposed as a sewer of vile destructive cultural emanations, and there will be no cancellation of these student loans.   Funding for these parasitic institutions will be reevaluated at all levels, demands for the firing of all these academic administrators will be shrill, rightly so, and some need to go to jail.  

 

See, simple.

 

Kinda like the  the scientific principle called Occam's razor, meaning the simplest solution is probably the right one.   So, let's try the basics first, then, if that doesn't work, look at creating new laws.  But as always, it's "the basics" that carry the day. 

Authorities Treat Pro-Hamas and Anti-Drag Protests in Very Different Ways

By Daniel Greenfield  @ Sultan Knish Blog

After years of riots, including the latest outburst of pro-Hamas attacks targeting synagogues, churches, and Jewish restaurants, it turns out that there is a way to stop them after all.

New Hampshire Attorney General John M. Formella recently filed civil rights charges against a Neo-Nazi group which had been protesting outside a drag event at a cafe.

In December, Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell filed civil rights charges against the same group for harassing drag events and migrant housing facilities. Campbell claimed that the Nationalist Social Club had “engaged in a concerted attempt to target and terrorize people across Massachusetts and interfere with their rights.”

The National Socialists didn’t actually do anything more (and arguably less) than BLM and Hamas supporters have spent the last three years doing to people around the country.

In New Hampshire, they were accused of banging on the windows and making intimidating gestures. In Massachusetts, they were charged with trespassing, intimidating hotel staff and disrupting the operations of hotels. They’ve also been accused of minor vandalism.  Name a leftist aligned protest movement that doesn’t routinely do all of these things.

The problem isn’t that Neo-Nazis are being charged when their behavior is illegal, it’s that the same kinds of behavior are treated as sacrosanct when practiced by eco-terrorists, BLM and now Hamas supporters who intimidate, threaten, interfere with operations and vandalize targets.

The two states claim that civil rights charges are legitimate because the Neo-Nazis targeted “minority groups”. But that’s exactly what Hamas supporters have been doing.

Massachusetts is the home of the ‘Mapping Project’ targeting Jewish institutions for protests which listed Jewish schools, synagogues and community groups.

This came after antisemitic incidents were at all time high in Manhattan.

In 2020, as part of a ‘Day of Rage’, terrorist supporters had marched to the offices of Jewish organizations while chanting calls for Intifada and the destruction of Israel. With a mob of 300, the Day of Rage had a much larger turnout than the paltry Neo-Nazi rallies.

No civil rights charges were filed.

Earlier in 2023, the National Socialists had been charged with a civil rights violation in New Hampshire for hanging up a “Keep New England white” banner. But at the University of New Hampshire campus, students had gathered to chant the “From the River to the Sea, Palestine Will Be Free” call for the destruction of Israel which was described as “protected speech”. Both are calls for getting rid of minority groups, but only one resulted in criminal charges.

Given the right political incentive, minor protest charges like trespassing, vandalism or disrupting a business that lead to nothing more than a desk appearance ticket (and usually not even that) for leftists are hooked up to civil rights laws that suddenly put real teeth into them.

Massachusetts and New Hampshire showed that the abusive behaviors we have been forced to take for granted from leftist protest movements have a legal recourse. Massachusetts had previously explored adding Neo-Nazis to gang member databases as an “unincorporated group”. Is there any reason that BLM rioters and Hamas supporters shouldn’t also be there?

During the BLM and pro-Hamas riots, the authorities insisted on describing any behavior short of blowing things up as “first amendment activities”. But they’re actually not. Blocking roads, streets and buildings is not a “first amendment activity”. And if you doubt that, try doing it while advocating for the Fourth Reich, Kim Jong-Un or some other socially unapproved cause.

The extended difference granted to leftist protesters is not a matter of law, but of privilege.

The same authorities that claimed that they are unable to do anything about even the most abusive protests enforce the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act under which even the most non-violent forms of civil disobedience in front of a Planned Parenthood clinic are a federal crime that can lead to serious prison time. In the last few years, the FBI has raided the homes of abortion clinic protesters who did the same things that leftist protesters routinely do.

Last year, Eva Zastrow, who sat in front of the door at an abortion clinic to block people from going inside, was charged with multiple FACE violations. Some of her fellow protesters were charged with engaging in a conspiracy against civil rights and face 11 years in prison.

How is that possible? The Clinton administration decided that access to abortion clinics was a federal protected civil right and protesting against them was therefore a civil rights violation.

Pro-abortion protesters who broke into the Supreme Court and disrupted hearings on abortion were sentenced to nothing more than unsupervised probation while anti-abortion protesters face 11 years in prison for doing less than that. Faced with a protest or a riot that they oppose, like Jan 6, the authorities find legal tools for throwing everyone involved in prison for a long time.

Break into Congress to oppose Biden and you will spend years in prison, but break into Congress to oppose Republicans or support Hamas, and you get off with nothing or less than nothing. That’s because the tools are there left over from the civil rights era, counterintelligence, counterterrorism, the war on drugs or other events that gave federal and local law enforcement extensive and arguably unconstitutional powers for dealing with the crisis of the moment.

Both the use of those tools and the failure to use them are themselves forms of discrimination.

In recent years, the Biden administration, under Secretary of Transportation Buttigieg began charging passengers with federal crimes for getting into tussles with flight attendants, yet Hamas supporters have been able to invade and besiege airports, and even fly a balloon to ground planes near JFK without a single word from Buttigieg or any threat of intervention. Have too many drinks and you’re a federal offender, attack an airport for terrorists, and you’re fine.

In every case there are selective reasons for applying the law and for choosing not to do so.

What is not true is that there are no legal remedies. Instead the authorities file the same problems and the same behaviors under different categories for political reasons. A BLM or pro-Hamas riot targeting churches and synagogues is filed as a first amendment protected activity because it is categorized as a civil rights protest, while Neo-Nazis doing the same thing outside a drag event get locked up because they are categorized as violating civil rights.

These are not differences in behavior or even intent, but in the politics of the perpetrators.

We don’t have to live in a country in which race rioters and terrorists can block roads and airports, harass churches and synagogues, and endorse violence and domestic terror.

All we have to do is start categorizing their behavior as a violation of our civil rights.
People have a right to leave their homes. They have a right to visit their chosen houses of worship. And they have a right to attend their university of choice without harassment.

The First Amendment does not extend to intimidating, terrorizing, threatening and preventing people from living their lives. Once people are being blocked, harassed or threatened, it is no longer a legal protest, but a civil rights violation. And it should be treated as such. The failure to do so has normalized radicals fighting police, blocking people and roads, and filming themselves stalking and harassing passerby before posting the videos on TikTok.

The authorities have shown us that the tools exist to end this nightmare. They just need to be used. And if elected officials and prosecutors refuse, then those ready to act will replace them.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine. Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation. Thank you for reading.

Mayhem in America the New Normal Under Dems—Parolee Murders Young Tech Exec, Mobs Ransack Philly

By Bob Hoge September 27, 2023 

It started with the George Floyd riots in the summer of 2020 when mobs took to the streets of America to loot, destroy, and kill with the tacit approval of the Democrat elite. Since-disgraced CNN anchor Chris Cuomo argued that sometimes such behavior was justified, while Vice President Kamala Harris endorsed bail funds to support rioters. You could argue that it goes back to the LA riots of '92 or the Detroit riots in the late '60s, but at least in those days, it was generally acknowledged that such behavior shouldn’t be tolerated. Now you could argue that it’s encouraged. 

Two more horrible stories emerged Tuesday night to underscore the decline of the United States. In one, a young tech executive with a bright future was brutally murdered in Baltimore by a violent convict on parole. In the second, massive mobs took to the streets of Philadelphia to destroy the already embattled stores of companies like Target. What have we come to?........

Meanwhile, in the deep blue city of Baltimore, 26-year-old rising tech executive Pava LaPere was brutally murdered in her apartment, and the suspect is 32-year-old Jason Billingsley who, wait for it… has a long history of sexual violence yet was let out early on parole. How many times do we have to hear this same story before people get the message?..........

Sadly, there will be others like her until the woke Democrat zealots and their entire worldview are voted out of office. I just pray that next time it’s not my daughter, it's not your daughter, it's not anybody’s… but it will likely be somebody’s as this perverse catering to criminals and lawlessness continues on unabated in our country.......To Read More....

Warning from France: Cold Civil War Will Intensify as Western Elite Cower

By Matthew Boose July 12, 2023

The recently concluded riots in France are a dark omen for Europe and the wider Western world. The Algerian teenager whose killing lit the fuse has been likened to George Floyd, and indeed, there are striking parallels. Both were criminals who died while refusing to cooperate with law enforcement, for starters. But that is not the story Western audiences are getting from their press. Instead, they are told he is a martyr, a victim of wicked Europe. His blood is on the hands of post-colonial France. No one has bothered to ask the native French how they feel about their country coming under attack by hostile foreigners, of course. The French must take the abuse and apologize for “systemic racism,” an American-ism that is now spreading like a cancer.

The scenes of chaos in France, and the perverse, sympathetic tone of the Western media coverage, are all too familiar in the United States. Three years have passed since the “fiery but mostly peaceful” Floyd riots that swept the country in a violent, revolutionary upheaval. A “burning car,” we read, was responsible for the attempted assassination of the family of a mayor in one of Paris’ suburbs.

Events in France concern the United States more intimately than whatever is happening in Ukraine. Treacherous elites are completely obsessed with “democracy” and “human rights” in a country far away, while they rob their own peoples of domestic security. A contrived perplexity on fighting crime, which is really a refusal to grapple with racial disparities, has left many cities uninhabitable for families. The word “racism” is deployed as a brute weapon, turned against the white inhabitants of every Western country, people who have done nothing wrong. The elites agitate for the revision of their history, the toppling of their monuments, and the radicalization of a browning population against them.

In America, people go about their lives knowing that passionate outbursts of arson and looting – and, heaven forbid, a racial “conversation” – may occur at any moment, if some woebegone police officer, or jury, should provoke the criminal underclass. So-called journalists fan the flames of this omnipresent terror. The wrath of the “oppressed” is treated like some natural disaster. The victims are left to reflect on their sins and appease the twin gods “democracy” and “equality,” whose destructive energies, it would seem, are virtually limitless....................To Read More...

Trump says he'll bring back 'travel ban' from Muslim nations to avoid 'same fate' as France

'We don't want people blowing up our shopping centers' 

By WND News Services  July 8, 2023 

Former President Donald Trump said during a Friday speech in Iowa that he would reinstate a travel ban to prevent riots like those in France from happening.  Riots broke out in France following the police shooting of a 17-year-old who refused to comply during a traffic stop in Nanterre, a suburb of Paris. Police have made over 180 arrests during the violence, which has seen dozens of buildings, including police stations and schools, burned..............To Read More...

What Has France Learned?

Jared Taylor, American Renaissance, July 12, 2023 

Editor's Note:  This appeared here with photos, videos, and internet images, all of which I've eliminated as all that gets in the way of reading the story.  RK

After the worst civil disturbances in more than a century.  France is now calm after Arabs and Africans rioted, looted and burned for eight days.   Ordinarily, they wreck only the outskirts of big cities, near their own housing projects in the suburbs. This time, they spread mayhem to small towns that had never seen it before. There was violence in no fewer than 500 cities, towns, and villages.  The police counted more than 2,500 buildings attacked, including 250 schools and 209 police stations. Some of these symbols of the French state were completely destroyed.  Trash bins are so much fun to burn that rioters torched 12,400 of them.

Metz, in the east of France, had never seen immigrant violence. This time, its main library burned to the ground. In Brest, at the very tip of Brittany, rioters incinerated a brand-new gymnasium and social center. A gay bar closed after social media posts threatened that “we burn faggots in hell on the Koran.”

Twelve thousand private vehicles went up in flames; drivers fretted about whether their insurance covered riot damage. Looters and arsonists were careful to smash 1,000 surveillance cameras.  In one of the still-white Paris suburbs, L’Haÿ-les-Roses, immigrants tried several times to burn down city hall. The white conservative mayor set up barricades and spent the night guarding the building.  So, rioters tried to burn down his house instead. They rammed a car through the front gate and tried to set it on fire. His wife and young child were injured as they fled.

Forty thousand extra police were put on the streets, and 700 officers were injured. They arrested 4,000 people; average age, 17. Insured damages are well over a billion dollars; uninsured damages, perhaps even more.  So many buses and trams went up in flames – tens of millions of dollars worth – that Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin ordered an end to transit service after 9 p.m.

In France, immigrants and their children riot just like blacks in the United States. France had its first race riot in 1979, and there were especially nasty ones in 2005, 2009, and 2017.  In the 1990s, immigrants started celebrating New Year’s Eve by burning the cars of French people. Police add extra patrols and drivers garage their cars, but about 1,000 still go up in flames every year. Last year’s headline was, “874 cars were torched in France on New Year’s Eve – fewer than in previous years.”

So, what touched off this year’s festival? A police stop.

At 7:55 in the morning of June 27 in the Paris suburb of Nanterre, two motorcycle cops saw a brand new, yellow Mercedes Benz speeding in a bus lane.  This model goes from zero to 100 km/hour (63 miles/hour) in 3.9 seconds and costs about $40,000.  The driver looked much too young to own one.  He stopped at a light and the officers turned on flashers and sirens.  The car then ran the light, and sped wildly through the streets for 20 minutes, nearly hitting a pedestrian and a bicyclist. It was forced to stop because of traffic, and the cops dismounted and told the driver to cut the engine. Instead, he took off, and one of the officers fired a single round.  He gave first aid at the scene, but the driver died. He was Nahel Merzouk, a 17-year-old Arab, too young even to get a license.

Police deal with his type all the time. He was a high school dropout. He never knew his father. He was “known to the police” for “resisting officers” five times just since 2021. He had 15 entries on his juvenile record, including illegal driving, false plates, and drug dealing.  According to a 2017 law, French police may shoot a fleeing driver if he is a danger to them or to others, and the officer claimed he was about to be run over.   Bad luck for him. A video turned up, showing the moment he fired, and the Mercedes is clearly not about to hit him.  Merzouk’s mother started calling for “a revolt for my son,” and Arabs answered the call. Mom, seen here, has become a media personality and grand marshal for demonstrations.............Even before the video came out, Merzouk’s grandmother showed up at the accident scene, where police overheard her saying, “The two policemen will not escape . . . . I will cut the throats of those who shot my [grand] son. There is a terrorist who will catch them all.”

It’s a dreary tale. A police officer risks his neck chasing a speeding car for 20 minutes. He finally catches the young thug – in what’s bound to be a stolen car – who then takes off on what could be another 20-minute chase. The officer fires in frustration, and cooks up an excuse before an awkward video appears. The country goes up in flames. This officer is charged with murder, and we have just seen what will happen if he doesn’t get a very stiff sentence.

This is the terrible plight of every white society that must deal with a hostile, crime-prone, non-white minority. Would the officer have shot a white boy? I don’t know, but Momma does: “He saw the face of an Arab, a little kid, and wanted to take his life.”

The UN knows, too. This lady, Ravina Shamdasani, has never lived in France, but she is brown and went to college in the United States, so knows by intuition that, “This is a moment for the country to seriously address the deep issues of racism and discrimination in law enforcement.”  The BBC scraped up non-white activists in France to say that the police are too white.  USA Today quoted a French professor who says that the problem is obviously the police.  France is run by idiots. President Emmanual Macron blamed video games.  Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said riots had nothing to do with immigration, because of the 4,000 people arrested, fully 90 percent were French citizens.

Bruno Retailleu, who leads the conservative opposition in the senate, shot back that sure, they are French citizens, but “for second- and third-generation [immigrants] there is a kind of regression to their ethnic origins.”  Lefties called him a “crass racist,” “dripping with racism.”  Marine Le Pen of the National Rally was silent for five days before she denounced “40 years of totally anarchic immigration,” but then said the problem one of “assimilation.”  Only Eric Zemmour, the Algerian Jew who ran to the right of Miss Le Pen in last year’s presidential elections, called the riots “early signs of civil war.”

He said his country has a nation within its borders that hates France. He insisted that France cut immigration to zero, end birthright citizen and family reunification, and deport all delinquents and criminals, as well as any non-citizen on the dole for more than six months.  Too bad young Marzouk was killed, he said, but being shot by the police is an “occupational hazard” for a “thug.”  The French police unions put out a statement denouncing the “savage hordes,” wrecking France. It’s conclusion: “Today, the police are in combat because we are at war. We put the administration on notice that tomorrow, we become part of the resistance.”............

But which way will they go? Copy us [France] and decide that police are the problem, and watch their cities collapse? Or realize that seven million blacks and Arabs – 10 percent of the population – cannot be assimilated and are incompatible with Western Civilization?

France isn’t alone. The US, Britain, Sweden, Germany, Canada all have seen enough to know the horrors of multiracialism – but do nothing. Let’s hope at least the East Europeans, who still have white countries, are paying very close attention.

What We're Seeing is Irreversible in America's Major Cities.

By Rich Kozlovich

I've spent the bulk of my adult life in the Cleveland, Ohio area, and I love it here and I've loved Cleveland with all its ups and downs, but things have changed dramatically since 1965 when the population in Cleveland was 1,875,000. As of July of 2022 it was 361,607.  Whites make up only 38% of the population, blacks 47% and are still granted minority status, and has the power in Cleveland’s administration.  

Violent crime in Cleveland is 17.4 per 1000. In all of Ohio it's only 3.76 and nationwide it's 4. And let’s face it, crime statistics clearly show those crimes are mostly being committed by blacks, most of them the product of illegitimacy.   In America's major cities, this is the pattern throughout America.

Democrats are in charge in Cleveland, and in any city in which they're in charge they're driving these cities in a massively destructive direction.  Improved race relations are in the dumpster, and rampant anti-white racism is rampant, for which Barack Obama and the Democrat party are directly responsible.

In 1965 illegitimacy in black America was 24% and 3% in white America. In 1990 it was 64 percent for blacks and 18 percent for whites. In black America it’s now around 70%, and around 30% for white America. That's an obscene voluntary abandonment of men to their responsibilities, and a unbelievable and active acceptance by the women.   That’s massively destructive, and that destructiveness is spreading. That’s an abandonment of all the foundational values that create stable societies.

While there’s been efforts to restore Cleveland's neighborhoods, that required tearing down entire sections of the city to put up new buildings. As of right now, entire sections of Cleveland are either vacant lots with everything torn down, or have blocks of empty buildings, businesses and homes, that are rat infested holes surrounded by slums. And surrounding suburbs are equally impacted by all this, such as East Cleveland, which is a disaster. 

Driving down Euclid Avenue, Cleveland's main street, once known as "Millionaires' Row",  is deceptive.  Go a few blocks to the left or right, and reality sets in.

How can you revive any major city if the inhabitants live in a culture that’s undisciplined, irresponsible, refuse to be educated, and violent? One in which a huge percentage of the inhabitants of the city think that’s just fine and dandy.

I don't think that's possible because they've abandoned all the Judaic/Christian values that make a society stable.  If there is no stable moral foundation for a society, there is no stability, and then society becomes a mob.  

The worst mayors in the nation?  In 2021 Daniel Greenfield listed 14 of them, and they were all black, and/or far left lunatics, but they were all Democrats, and each and everyone of of them were race baiting hustlers shouting America is institutionally racist, among other things, but clearly they all hate America and are destroying the cities they lead, or led.  

Part I: Chicago’s Lori Lightfoot.
Part 2: LA’s Eric Garcetti.
Part 3: DC’s Muriel Bowser.
Part 4: KC’s Quinton Lucas.
Part 5: SF’s London Breed.
Part 6: Philly’s Jim Kenney.
Part 7: St. Louis’ Tishaura Jones.
Part 9: Seattle’s Jenny Durkan.
Part 10: Minneapolis’s Jacob Frey.
Part 11: Charlottesville’s Nikuyah Walker.
Part 12: Portland’s Ted Wheeler.
Part 13: Atlanta’s Keisha Lance Bottoms.
Part 14: NYC’s Bill de Blasio. 

We all know Lori Lightfoot as mayor of Chicago is gone (All due to racism, homophobia, and misogyny and her incompetence had nothing to do with it) and her replacement is even nuttier.  Will he fix Chicago's downward spiral?  

Well, it turns out crime is so out of control in Chicago someone was murdered right across the street from his home, and 53 people were shot and 11 murdered over the holiday weekend.   

So, I guess the answer to my question is, "no". 

Philly’s “Pay-to-Riot” Gives $9 million to BLM Protesters

By Daniel Greenfield March 23, 2023 @ Sultan Knish Blog 

 Between May and June 2020, heroic PPD police officers, outnumbered, outmatched and with no support from local officials, battled the violent hateful BLM mobs rampaging through West Philly.

The racist mobs looted small businesses in the mostly black area, destroying lives and livelihoods, while assaulting police officers and anyone who tried to get in their way. Buildings were set on fire and mobs shrieking “Black Lives Matter” and other racist slogans hurled rocks, bricks and Molotov cocktails at officers who were risking their lives to stop the violence.

Some local residents who had enough also defied the rioting mobs and joined with a community group known as, “Take Back the Streets” to line up and stand in the way of the rioters.

“Shattered windows, burned clothes, businesses destroyed,” the Philadelphia Inquirer headlined its coverage of the aftermath. “In Philadelphia, residents couldn’t find the words and simply shook their heads as they stepped over piles of ash and peered into shattered windows.”

“‘I can’t stop walking or I’ll start crying,’ a woman told her daughter as they stepped over a scorched mannequin.”

The rioters had left behind graffiti taking credit for the attack and referencing the slogans of the BLM hate group, including, “I can’t breathe” and “Justice 4 Floyd” referring to George Floyd, a career criminal who had robbed a woman at gunpoint and whose drug overdose death while being restrained by police had been used to justify the latest round of race riots.

Now the payoff is coming, not for the small business owners, but for the rioting mobs.

New York City offered a record $6 million payout to “F___ the Police” protesters because while restraining them the NYPD officers “frequently failed to wear masks”, now Philly is offering another record $9.25 million payoff to the racist mobs in West Philly. Not to their victims.

“We hope this settlement will provide some healing from the harm experienced by people in their neighborhoods in West Philadelphia,” Mayor Jim Kenney, who has presided over record crime rates, said of the $9 million payoff snatched from the mouths of hungry children.

In 2014, the year before Kenney was elected, there were 248 murders in Philadelphia. In 2022, that number had more than doubled to 516. This year there have already been 92. In 2020, the year of the BLM pro-crime riots, murders shot up from 353 to 499. In 2021, they hit 562: the worst numbers in Philly history. That’s what real “harm” in West Philly looks like.

This $9 million payoff is based in part on a complaint that while police officers were ducking bricks and Molotov cocktails, they fired off tear gas which caused “difficulty breathing” and “mental trauma”.

The officers hit with bricks and explosive devices don’t get to sue for their “mental trauma”. And the small business owners and other civilians are entirely out of luck after suffering millions in losses and untold amounts of mental trauma at the hands of the rioting BLM mobs.

Nor do the more than 30 officers injured in the subsequent riots after they were banned from using rubber bullets and tear gas against the racist mobs trying to kill them. That included the 56-year-old female police sergeant hit by a black pickup truck leaving her with a broken leg.

Philly Democrats made it clear early on that there would be no justice after the riots. Soros DA Larry Krasner, whose pro-crime policies have been blamed for much of the city’s crime wave, announced that he would avoid prosecuting 80% of those arrested. Instead, they’d be routed through a pro-crime ‘restorative justice’ model in which the criminal offers some sort of apology and promises not to do it again. The rioters would then be referred to “education and job opportunities” before conveniently having their records expunged so they can do it again.

It was ultimately up to the feds to provide some accountability, indicting rioters like Derrick Weatherbe who filled shopping carts with looted goods before streaming himself trying to set the store on fire with a stolen lighter, doing the job that Krasner and Philly Dems refused to do.

The head of the Asian American Chamber of Commerce had protested that minority businesses targeted by the racist mobs felt abandoned. “There is no assurance from the city of protecting them. They seem to be more concerned with protecting the offenders.”

Now Philly isn’t just protecting them, it’s paying them.

$9.2 million divided evenly among 300 plaintiffs would amount to $30,000 a head. Meanwhile, small businesses which suffered hundreds of thousands worth of damages, often got nothing.

Philly Democrats are paying their base to riot.

In the aftermath, one store owner described how, “the parts of the floor that weren’t covered in glass and tossed clothing were flooded. Demonstrators had tried to light three fires inside the store.”

“I cried on the way down and tried to get it out then. And I go in and out of wanting to cry again.”

The message to police and business owners is that Philly Democrats will stand with the rioters, not with them.

“The Philadelphia Police Department did not simply harm and terrorize individual people exercising their right to protest,” Rachel Kleinman of the Legal Defense Fund, claimed. “It inflicted wanton violence and devastated a predominately Black community.”

The violence was inflicted by protesters on police.

As Councilwoman Jamie Gauthier, who is black and and an opponent of the police, wrote during the riots, “At first things appeared calm, but it quickly turned into a standoff, with protesters throwing bricks and other objects in the direction of the police. As protesters became more aggressive, police ratcheted up their aggression and intimidation”.

The fact is that the violence did not begin with the police. And the police heroically tried to get it under control. Instead of paying the cops, police-defunding Democrats are paying the rioters.

The New York City and Philly payoffs are part of a larger pattern of state-sponsored BLM violence. Wounded police officers and civilians have tried to sue BLM organizations and chapters in vain, but it may be time for them to sue the governments that have promoted, enabled and funded the race riots that took lives, wrecked neighborhoods and killed hope.

BLM has functioned as the contemporary equivalent of the KKK. Both BLM and the KKK were covert arms of local Democrat governments which used the violence to intimidate political opponents. Municipal governments have promoted BLM, undermined law enforcement efforts to stop the racist violence and offer record payoffs knowing that this will inspire future riots. It’s time for the small businesses devastated by government-backed riots to sue cities like Philly.

The riots won’t end until BLM’s state sponsors are held accountable for their crimes.  

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine. Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation.  Thank you for reading.

 

SPECIAL EDITION FRIDAY: Let’s Demand ‘Reparations’ From Blacks For Riots and Violent Protests

By Mychal Massie February 10, 2023 @ Daily Rant Economy / Education / Public Schools

The next time someone tries to guilt you about white privilege and the lies surrounding slavery; here are facts that I shared in a syndicated column from 2017 titled: “Let’s Demand ‘Reparations’ From Blacks For Riots and Violent Protests.”  It’s too bad these facts are not taught to children in Florida taking the ‘Advanced Placement African-American Studies Program.’  It is too bad Nikole Hannah-Jones didn’t use these facts to tell the truth, instead of the crock of fantasy and outright lies she spread like manure in a wheat field called The 1619 Project.

 

BEGIN MY ARTICLE HERE:

 

Certainly not all, but it’s safe to say the majority of blacks openly claim or quietly believe the lie that America was built by slaves. Many people, and especially many black people, are not interested in factual truths; they’re only interested in lies and distortions that augment and support their ignorance.

The truth about slavery in America is that it existed. It was immoral but it was not illegal. At no time did America supplant any Eastern country as having the most slaves or a country that supplied slaves to other countries. America participated in slavery only briefly and only in limited locales. America didn’t invent slavery any more than America created crazed jihadists.

 

When American Republic was founded in 1776, slavery not only literally existed everywhere on earth, but it was an accepted aspect of human history for centuries before Moses was born and eventually led Israel out of Egyptian bondage.

 

Following are facts about slavery that the purveyors of white guilt are ignorant of: Aristotle further opined that “it is clear that there are certain people who are free and certain who are slaves by nature, and it is both to their advantage, and just, for them to be slaves.” The Romans seized so many captives from Eastern Europe that the terms “Slav” and “slave” bore the same origins. 

 

All the great cultures of the ancient world, from Egypt to Babylonia, Athens to Rome, Persia to India to China, depended upon the brutal enslavement of the masses – often representing heavy majorities of the population. Contrary to the glamorization of aboriginal New World cultures, the Mayas, Aztecs and Incas counted among the most brutal slave-masters of them all — not only turning the members of other tribes into harshly abused beasts of burden but also using these conquered enemies to feed a limitless lust for human sacrifice. 

 

The Tupinamba, a powerful tribe on the coast of Brazil south of the Amazon, took huge numbers of captives, then humiliated them for months or years, before engaging in mass slaughter of their victims in ritualized cannibalistic feasts. In Africa, slavery also represented a timeless norm long before any intrusion by Europeans. Moreover, the Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch or British slave traders rarely penetrated far beyond the coasts: the actual capture and kidnapping of the millions of victims always occurred at the hands of neighboring tribes. 

 

As the great African-American historian Nathan Huggins pointed out, “virtually all of the enslavement of Africans was carried out by other Africans” but the concept of an African “race” was the invention of Western colonists, and most African traders “saw themselves as selling people other than their own.” (Six Inconvenient Truths About The U.S. and Slavery; Michael Medved; Townhall.com; 9/26/2007)

 

The myth that America became wealthy because of slave labor is just that – a myth. America became wealthy despite slave labor. The most prosperous states in the country were those that first freed their slaves. As Medved states: “Pennsylvania passed an emancipation law in 1780; Connecticut and Rhode Island followed four years later (all before the Constitution). New York approved emancipation in 1799. These states (with dynamic banking centers in Philadelphia and Manhattan) quickly emerged as robust centers of commerce and manufacturing, greatly enriching themselves while the slave-based economies in the South languished by comparison…All analyses of Northern victory in the great sectional struggle highlights the vast advantages in terms of wealth and productivity in New England, the Mid-Atlantic States and the Midwest, compared to the relatively backward and impoverished states of the Confederacy.”

 

Devin Foley, co founder and president of the Intellectual Takeout wrote: “Turning back to ‘Warfare In The Western World,’ we find statistics that show just how dramatic the differences in populations and economic power were between the free North and the slave South. … “But in a longer struggle the North’s advantages were substantial. With a population of 20 million, the Northern states obviously possessed a much larger military manpower base, but their industrial capacity was far greater as well. In 1860 the North had over 110,000 manufacturing establishments, the South just 18,000. 

 

The North produced 94 percent of the country’s iron, 97 percent of is coal and – not incidentally – 97 percent of its firearms. It contained 22,000 miles of railroad to the South’s 8,500. The North outperformed the South agriculturally as well. Northerners held 75 percent of the country’s farm acreage, produced 60 percent of its livestock, 67 percent of its corn, and 81 percent of its wheat. All in all, they held 75 percent of the nation’s total wealth.” (No, Slavery Didn’t Build America: It’s A Popular Narrative, But History Doesn’t Support It; 3/2/2016)

 

Foley also notes:

 

“That final statistic combined with the North’s victory in the Civil War should be sufficient to dispel the idea that America was built on slavery. Keep in mind, too, that not all of the wealth in the South was generated by slaves. Free men in the South also worked their own fields and industries.”

 

Medved further points out that: 

 

“Yale historian David Brion Davis in his definitive 2006 history ‘Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall Of Slavery In The New World’ notes that colonial North America…surprisingly received only 5 to 6 percent of the African slaves shipped across the Atlantic. Meanwhile, the Arab slave trade (primarily from East Africa) lasted longer and enslaved more human beings than the European slavers working the other side of the continent… when taking the prodigious and unspeakably cruel Islamic enslavements into the equation, at least 97 percent of all African men, women and children who were kidnapped, sold, and taken from their homes, were sent somewhere other than the British colonies of North America. In this context there is no historical basis to claim that the United States bears primary, or even prominent guilt for the depredations of centuries of African slavery.”

 

Armed with these facts it would be nice to enlighten “The National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America” to factual reality. Said Reparationists are in the midst of attempting to shake down and extort money from University of Chicago; because supposedly: “Like so many other venerable American institutions, the University of Chicago is built on slavery…Hundreds of enslaved people lived and died on [the Douglas] plantation to make the University of Chicago and its $7 billion endowment, possible. [Ergo,] reparations are long overdue.” This is based upon a published paper by four University of Chicago graduate students from the history department. The paper detailed the University of Chicago’s founding with profits from enslavements.

 

The very idea of this extortion attempt should be subjected to harshest rebuke. It’s time for blacks that bathe in the immiseration of lies and blackmail, to cease and desist. In the absence of that I say we should counter their arguments by holding them financially accountable for the cities and personal property they have destroyed by rioting, violent protest, and the looting that accompanies same.

Instead of allowing institutions and businesses to be blackmailed under the guise of being held accountable, I say we teach blacks what accountability is, by holding them financially responsible for the murder and mayhem they commit.

 

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About the Author

Mychal Massie

Mychal S. Massie is an ordained minister who spent 13 years in full-time Christian Ministry. Today he serves as founder and Chairman of the Racial Policy Center (RPC), a think tank he officially founded in September 2015. RPC advocates for a colorblind society. He was founder and president of the non-profit “In His Name Ministries.” He is the former National Chairman of a conservative Capitol Hill think tank; and a former member of the think tank National Center for Public Policy Research. Read entire bio here

 

How the Atlanta Riots Were Funded

By Daniel Greenfield January 29, 2023 @ Sultan Knish Blog

Even after an ‘Atlanta Forest Defender’ shot a Georgia state trooper in the stomach and his comrades set off race riots in the city, the leftist group at the center of it all is still fundraising.

This comes months after the leftists threw Molotov cocktails at police and nearly burned an elderly driver to death. Multiple members of the ‘occupation’ have been arrested on domestic terrorism charges. And yet the IRS and Georgia’s Secretary of State have done nothing.

Even Twitter suspended ‘Scenes from the Atlanta Forest’, an account calling for a “Night of Rage” and “reciprocal violence to be done to the police and their allies”, but the IRS has yet to take action to stop the ‘Atlanta Forest Defenders’ from taking in tax-deductible donations.

In Atlanta, small business owners are sweeping away broken glass and police have recovered explosive devices from some of the rioters. Yet the ‘Atlanta Forest Defenders’ are still raising money through Open Collective: a 501(c)(3) nonprofit fundraising platform that Front Page Magazine had previously exposed for providing fundraising for assorted ecoterrorists including the ‘Just Stop Oil’ vandals who glued themselves to ‘The Girl with the Pearl Earring’ painting.

That is despite the fact that Open Collective’s terms of service prohibit illegal activities.

The Open Collective Foundation has received funding for digital infrastructure grants from the Ford Foundation, George Soros’ Open Society and Pierre Omidyar’s Omidyar Network.

Meanwhile ordinary people have been suffering through another wave of leftist terror.

In November, an elderly man passing by the area was attacked. When he stopped his truck, “these people started coming out of the woods in camouflage stuff and blocked me in.”

Then they set the truck on fire.

“It seemed to me like they were going to burn the truck with me in it.”

Nobody’s fundraising for the man who lost his truck and now suffers from a medical condition, but the IRS is continuing to enable this domestic terrorist campaign. In Atlanta, rioters had marched chanting, “If you build it, we will burn it.” The riots show that they mean it.

A previous affidavit for the arrest of Atlanta Forest Defenders describes them as “participating in actions as part of Defend the Atlanta Forest (DTAF), a group classified by the United States Department of Homeland Security as Domestic Violent Extremists”. It went on to describe a variety of crimes including, “throwing molotov cocktails, rocks and fireworks at uniformed police officers; arson of public buildings” and “shooting metal ball bearings at contractors”.

Members of the ‘occupation’ charged with domestic terrorism were ordered not to maintain “contact with Defend Atlanta Forest on social media”. Despite that, neither Georgia nor the IRS, have revisited the legal status of Defend the Atlanta Forest, its fund and its fiscal host.

While the Forest Defense Justice Fund is not a nonprofit, its fiscal host, the Network For Strong Communities, is a 501(c)(3). Beyond the Atlanta Forest Defenders, Network For Strong Communities also acts as a host for Atlanta Resistance Medics. Manuel Paez, the leftist who shot at a state trooper and was killed in turn, was a member of the Atlanta Resistance Medics.

The ‘medics’, similar to other riot support groups, provide aid to rioters during street violence. The group’s blog suggests that protesters “always be prepared to face tear gas every time you go to a protest” and advises that the “key to avoiding arrest is to always know where all the police are — and more importantly, to know where they aren’t.”

An article about the alleged shooter described the group’s “leaderless nature, its focus on direct action, as well as its anarchist and Marxist leanings”.

“Don’t burn The Communist Manifesto!” the shooter exclaimed at one point after finding a copy of the book in a fire pit. “I mean, Marx isn’t perfect, but he’s OK.”

That’s whom the media and the rioters have been mourning.

One of the initiatives of the Network for Strong Communities is the Atlanta Solidarity Fund which bailed out protesters and rioters: including those charged with domestic terrorism.

Another is Copwatch: which provided training for the Atlanta Forest Defenders.

The publicly listed leadership for the group consists of Adele “Earthworm” MacLean, a local activist affiliated with Cop Watch House and Food Not Bombs, both operating under the NSC umbrella. Marlon Kautz, who serves as its CFO, is a member of Cop Watch, works with the Solidarity Fund, and is the owner of the Teardown House which is the NSC’s registered address.

The house, decorated with graffiti reading “Black Lives Matter”, “No Cops”, “Build Up Resistance” and “Smash the State”, has been featured in a number of articles.

“We build infrastructure for community solidarity and popular struggle,” Kautz has said.

Kautz, a self-identified anarchist, and MacLean, who has been named as his partner, moved to Atlanta and bought the house to “create infrastructure” for activism.

After a decade of this, they finally hit the big time and are all over the national news.

Meanwhile Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has yet to do anything about NSC. The organization was briefly dissolved by his office for failing to pay its fees, but is now listed as being in compliance.

The IRS, which determined that NSC, was a “public charity” has failed to revisit that finding even in the wake of the ongoing violence tearing apart Georgia.

As discussed in David Horowitz’s and John Perazzo’s important booklet: “Internal Radical Service”, the IRS has allowed leftist nonprofits to abuse the tax code by financing violence and terror. While conservative nonprofits are subject to ruthless IRS scrutiny, the organization has failed to hold leftist nonprofits accountable after even the most grotesque abuses.

There’s no way to understand what happened in Atlanta without following the money trial. And there’s no way to stop them without ending the abuse of 501(c)(3) nonprofits by the Left. That’s why the David Horowitz Freedom Center is continuing to track the leftist money behind the violence and expose its enablers at the federal and state level. And until the IRS does its job, we are going to hold it accountable for the violence it’s enabling in Atlanta and across America.  

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine. Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation.  Thank you for reading.

Black Lives Matter Led to a 62% Increase in Black Murders

Daniel Greenfield  October 04, 2021 @ Sultan Knish Blog

 The Black Lives Matter movement and the allied criminal justice reform movement which opened jails and decriminalized crimes led to a nearly 30% surge in murders in 2020.

The 29.4% increase is historically unprecedented.

The worst one-year percentage jump in murders was a 12.7% increase in 1968 during a crime wave that led Democrats and Republicans to embrace tough on crime policies. 1968 was the year that LBJ signed the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act into law. But the opposite happened in 2020 as Democrats and some libertarian Republicans colluded to dismantle the criminal justice system, open up the jails, and endorse Black Lives Matter.

The pro-crimers have the blood of thousands on their hands.

The FBI’s numbers are in and they show that Black Lives Matter and its corporate backers killed more black people in one year than anything short of an African civil war.

3,595 black people were murdered in 2019. But in 2020, 5,839 black people were murdered.

That's an additional 2,244 black people killed.

56% of the murder victims of 2020 were black.

While people of all races were more likely to be murdered in the year of Black Lives Matter, black people were disproportionately likely to be killed as a result of police defunding and the George Floyd Effect, as well as the pressure on the justice system to open up prisons, free criminals, and stop arresting new criminals in the name of fighting for the big lie of racial justice.

3,060 white and Latino people were killed in 2019, which rose to 4,167 in 2020. The 36% increase is devastating, but the number of black people murdered in 2020 shot up 62%.

The 62% increase in the murders of black people should be the headline in every single media outlet which currently treats the lack of black classical musicians or chefs as a major crisis.

While statistics like 135 "unarmed" black people being shot by police in 5 years becomes a cause for massive riots, violent assaults on innocent people, and the defunding of the police, a 62% increase in the murders of black people won’t even get a mention from the same media which regales us with claims that car accidents are racist because of disproportionate impact.

The 62% increase in the murders of black people is the biggest disproportionate impact statistic.

If the 2,244 black people had been shot by white people, Asian people, or Republicans, we could talk about it. Indeed, the odds are that we would never talk about anything else. Ever.

But unfortunately it’s the devastating result of black-on-black crime.

Black perpetrators were responsible for 5,832 murders or approximately 50% of the murders despite making up only around 13% of the population.

White people and Latinos who make up 76% of the country accounted for 3,981 homicides or 34%. American Indians were responsible for 116 murders and Asians for only 65 murders.

Black people both commit murders and are the victims of murders at disproportionate rates.

There is no escaping these facts.

Coddling criminals and defunding police hurts people of all races, but black people are the ones suffering the worst from the gang members and criminals in their communities.

The number of black murderers rose 38% from 4,208 to 5,832. That’s a sharp increase in black murderers, but it’s dwarfed by the 62% increase in black murders. The number of black crime victims is rising much faster than the number of black criminals.

Black people are becoming victims at higher rates than they are becoming criminals.

That is exactly why it was black communities who originally championed a crackdown on crime, why the NAACP had originally demanded the death penalty for drug dealers, and why black people are still far more likely to oppose police defunding and other pro-crime measures.

Even in the one category of violent crime, rape, that decreased overall in 2020, that was true of every group except one where the number of black rape victims defied the trend.

But black rape victims, like black lives, don’t matter to Black Lives Matter.

In Israel, the hashtag Arab Lives Matter took off after the rise in arab-on-arab crime to demand that Israeli police stop the criminals. In the United States, Black Lives Matter is a demand that the police allow gang members to shoot up black neighborhoods with no interference.

The additional 2,244 dead black people are a tribute to Black Lives Matter’s efforts.

While Robin DiAngelo cashes in preaching the cult of anti-racism, and suburban white liberals search their souls for systemic racism, what’s really destroying black people is in the numbers.

5,839 black people were murdered in one year.

Homicide doesn't even make the CDC's top 10 causes of death for men in America, but it's number four for black men. In 2017, it caused 5% of the deaths of black men, more than strokes, diabetes, or most diseases. The only things more likely to kill black men than black-on-black crime are heart disease, cancer, and accidents.

Among black men under the age of 20, homicide is the leading cause of death at 35.3%.

(Those were 2017 numbers, the 2020 numbers, if they’re released, will be much worse.)

It's also the leading cause of death for black men from 20-44 years old at 27.6%.

Only at the age of 65 does homicide drop out of the top 10 causes of death for black men.

There are no such numbers among any other group, including black women. They reflect a high rate of gang violence, drug dealing, and violent crime among a subset of black men. This crisis is not news. There has been ample research on the subject going back generations that the new wokeness decided to shut down, suppress, and penalize anyone who mentioned it.

In 2020, the Left used George Floyd’s overdose death to initiate a massive cultural revolution, supposedly on behalf of black people, but in reality to spread terror and seize power.

Just as the proletariat paid the price for the leftist revolutions conducted on behalf of the working class, black men are paying the price for the latest revolution being waged on their behalf. The people paying the price may be ordinary, or they may be gang members themselves. The dismantling of the criminal justice system also led to an unprecedented expansion in crime that recruited a generation of black teens into drug dealing, robbery, and carjacking. The police now routinely arrest armed carjackers as young as twelve years old as part of the new crime wave.

Even if a new anti-crime consensus is forged between conservative Republicans and moderate Democrats who shed the madness of criminal justice reform, the damage will be hard to fix.

Cracking down on crime increased property values in black areas, led to a growth in black small businesses, and made it more possible for black teens to go to college, and earn higher incomes. Black Lives Matter calculatedly undermined many of those achievements. The teens whom teachers’ unions kept out of school, joined gangs, and began to deal and steal will find it much harder to build stable lives. The women they might have married and the families they might have built are more casualties. It is hard to build things, but all too easy to break them.

The 5,839 dead black people are just the most obvious sign of the social wreckage.

While black people are the biggest victims of black crime, they are not alone. As these statistics show, we all pay a price. Some pay it directly in the forms of murders, muggings, and assaults. But we all pay for the social cost indirectly through our taxes, the price of goods and services, the cost of insurance, the broken social compact and lack of trust, and the diminished future of our cities and our country. The criminal justice reform movement, like all leftist propositions, was based on ignoring everything we had learned from the past about crime and how to fight it.

The Black Lives Matter movement terrorized cities and became the official dogma of Corporate America. Every major institution began accusing itself of systemic racism and purging itself.

Meanwhile thousands of black men died in the streets of major cities. The CEOs and university presidents heard the death toll reported on the evening news and paid no attention because it was taking place in neighborhoods and housing projects that they would never set foot into.

Now the sum total of the carnage is in. 5,839 black people killed. 2021 is on track to see more elevated murder rates. The question is how many black people have to die until the big lie of systemic racism, the scam of anti-racism, and the criminal justice reform killing fields end.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine.

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Daniel Greenfield is a journalist investigating Islamic terrorism and the Left. He is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center