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The Patriot Post Digest 8-13-2018
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On Aug 5 in Berkeley, California, antifa thugs smashed32 the windows of a Marine Corps recruiting post, damaged 21 city vehicles, tossed explosives at Berkeley Police and Alameda County Sheriff’s Office officers, and clashed with alt-right protesters. Twenty arrests were made33 and dozens of weapons were confiscated.
These leftist groups invariably justify their violence with the same assertion: Those who engage in “hate speech” must be silenced, even if it requires breaking the law to do so.
Thus on Saturday in Charlottesville, Virginia, and yesterday in Washington, DC, police maintained a heavy presence to prevent a similar outbreak of violence that occurred2 in Charlottesville last year. Violence the ACLU says34 was abided by police ordered to “not intervene until given command to do so.”
Law enforcement officials’ seeming disinterest in protecting the “wrong” Americans, or allowing the “right” ones to riot, hasn’t been confined to Charlottesville. Police backed off35 during a 2017 antifa protest in Berkeley, and the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco is allowing36 a lawsuit to proceed against the San Jose Police Department and the city for allegedly endangering the lives of Trump supporters at a 2016 rally at the McEnery Convention Center. Despite several exits being available, police allegedly directed rally attendees to leave from a single exit where anti-Trump thugs were waiting. And despite Trump supporters being beaten or struck by objects, no one was arrested except three people who assaulted the police.
All of these incidents pale in comparison to the machinations37 of Portland Democrat Mayor Ted Wheeler. For 38 days, a mob was allowed to maintain a makeshift camp from which they emerged to lead protests against ICE and demand the agency’s abolition. Signs were displayed calling ICE employees “Nazis” and “white supremacists.” Vandals wrote the names of staffers on a wall and encouraged others to publish agents’ private info online. One staffer was followed when he went to pick up his daughter, and protesters showed up at his home. Both ICE officials and area locals were harassed38, including a 53-year-old disabled resident whose wheelchair was damaged.
Wheeler’s response? “I do not want the @PortlandPolice to be engaged or sucked into a conflict, particularly from a federal agency that I believe is on the wrong track,” tweeted the mayor, who conveniently doubles as the city’s police commissioner. “If [ICE is] looking for a bailout from this mayor, they are looking in the wrong place.”
Even when federal police mobilized from out of state moved to reopen the office on June 28, Wheeler remained defiant. “I join those outraged by ICE actions separating parents from their children, and support peaceful protest to give voice to our collective moral conscience,” he asserted in a statement.
Collective moral conscience? Try government-endorsed thuggery.
One might think such overt lawlessness would elicit a response by the Department of Justice. Unfortunately, the DOJ is headed by a seemingly comatose Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Thus, as the Left moves seamlessly from law-defying sanctuary cities to consequence-free actions against ICE employees — employees whose 911 calls were deliberately ignored39 — one is left to conclude similar incidents will be forthcoming.
And while the nation waits, the “get in their faces” exhortations40 of a reliably unhinged Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) remain the order of the day.
Americans need to ask themselves why a “blue wave” might even be a possibility when 54% of Democrats41 support giving illegal aliens the right to vote, party leaders have called42 for abolishing ICE, and Democrat officials openly embrace43 socialism and tacitly embrace44 anti-Semitism.
In other words, where is the GOP? One gets the disquieting sense Republicans are either rank cynics who believe being the lesser of two really odious evils is good enough to maintain their congressional majority absent an all-out effort to do so, or insufferable hypocrites willing to lose that majority as a “reasonable” trade-off for reinstating the status quo upended by Trump’s America First agenda. And if GOP losses in November enable an impeachment-addicted Democrat Party to upend Trump’s presidency as well?
You have to break a few nationalist, patriotic eggs to remake a globalist, Ruling Class omelette.
https://patriotpost.us/articles/57618-anarchys-cast-of-enablers
MORE ANALYSIS FROM THE PATRIOT POST
Why We Should Oppose Andrew Cuomo45 — His anti-NRA crusade shows that a tyrannical government is possible unless voters stand for Liberty.
The Death Penalty and Christianity46 — Pope Francis declared to the world that the death penalty is never an appropriate punishment.
Video: What Was the Cold War?47 — It was cold only in the sense that the Russians and the Americans never came to direct blows.
OPINION IN BRIEF
Burt Prelutsky: “Mark Twain is credited with being the first person to say that rumors of his death were greatly exaggerated. In the case of God, it’s Friedrich Nietzsche, a 19th-century German wisenheimer, who first spread the rumor of His demise. It’s alleged that God replied, ‘I happen to be alive, but you’re kaput.’ Be that as it may, religion is definitely on the decline in the West. Both here and in Europe, young people are saying they refuse to believe in fairy tales or in things they can’t see. What makes it so odd is that a majority of the youngsters voice their belief in socialism, the biggest fairy tale of all. In many parts of the world, children have gone to sleep while their parents read to them tales of big rock candy mountains with soda pop streams and cotton candy trees only to wake up in Russia, China, Cuba, and Venezuela to find their legs and brains in shackles. These poor souls claim, in their rejection of God and all His trappings, that they are of a scientific bent, prepared to believe only what they can see with their own two eyes. But they then turn around and insist there are more than two genders, thus proving they don’t even believe what they can see.”
SHORT CUTS
The Gipper: “The Founding Fathers knew a government can’t control the economy without controlling people. And they knew when a government sets out to do that, it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose. So we have come to a time for choosing.”
Braying Jackass: “We’re not supposed to be the story; that’s not why I’m out there.” —CNN’s Jim Acosta, who routinely makes himself the story
Censorship: “Infowars is the tip of a giant iceberg of hate and lies that uses sites like Facebook and YouTube to tear our nation apart. These companies must do more than take down one website. The survival of our democracy depends on it.” —Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT)
Haters gonna hate: “Look, I think these guys are bad guys. … And if they went away, you know, I would offer my thoughts and prayers.” —New York Demo Gov. Andrew Cuomo on the NRA
Yep, he’s tone-deaf: “Tennessee Democrat Phil Bredesen, a Harvard University-educated man worth up to $358 million and the owner of five homes, has diagnosed his party with an ‘elitist’ problem.” —The Washington Free Beacon
Huh? “The whole country is further left than Congress. The whole country. The electorate is way further left than Congress, and we have low voter turnout.” —Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Non Compos Mentis: “Americans have the sticker shock of health care as it is, and what we’re also not talking about is why aren’t we incorporating the cost of all the funeral expenses of those who died because they can’t afford access to health care? That is part of the cost of our system.” —Ocasio-Cortez
And last… “Hey, by the way, a group of Muslims set up a compound in an American state where they trained a bunch of kids to carry out school shootings. This actually happened in real life and should be the biggest news story of the month, if not the year.” —Matt Walsh
https://patriotpost.us/articles/57620-monday-short-cuts
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