After his death became public, and after it took the local authorities about a week to charge the cretin police officers reasonable for Mr. Floyd's death, the inevitable protests began. Well, at least they should have been protests. At some point on the night the protests began, they turned into riots. Looting, pillaging, attacking law enforcement...it's as if Attila's Huns had returned. And not just to Minneapolis. The riots spread across the country and, as of today, 2 June, they continue. New York, Nashville, Columbus, Los Angeles, Chicago...Businesses were torched, merchandise was stolen, lives were ruined.
The weird thing, though, is that it appeared to be a concerted effort not to protest police brutality but to destroy and rob. Video of people destroying Target stores, exiting with shopping carts filled with goods, are all over the news. Thieves in Santa Monica are seen exiting upscale stores with mutlitple pairs of blue jeans in their arms as they race to hide their booty.
Out of the blue, pallets of bricks are appearing on street corners to be used by these thugs to smash store windows. Unless there were some mass renovation projects going on across the country, these pallets of bricks are placed there for only one purpose, and it's not a good one.
Police officers are being shot, run over and battered with anything that's at hand. In turn, rioters are being shot and killed. Anarchy prevails.
Of course, the ignorant intelligentsia in Hollywood is taking up donations to assist rioters who were arrested with their legal defense. This they can do as they sit behind gates and walls protected by armed security.
The President is being assailed for being the cause of this unrest as well as the man unable to quell it. Had he stopped it immediately he would have been accused of violating people's First Amendment rights...
...But one thing has been missing from all the discussions on TV and radio about this. George Floyd's murder was despicable. I don't chalk it up to racism as much as I think it's police brutality. Lawful protests about police brutality and, perhaps, racism, are legitimate and welcomed. The rioting that has ensued is unexpected in this sense: Its fury and spread is beyond what has happened in the past.
When the president was elected in 2016, a segment of the population lost its mind. He was their anti-Christ, the devil incarnate, and he had to be removed at any cost. Conservative speakers were not allowed to proceed with their speeches...and buildings were broken into, burned and looted. U Cal Berkeley, once the bastion of the Free Speech movement, prevented speakers from giving their scheduled speeches. Safe zones popped up. Language was changed to protect feelings. Groups wearing bandanas to mask their identities attacked anyone wearing a Trump hat, or journalists who asked questions the masked marauders didn't like. Antifa -- short for anti-fascist -- was given a chance to gain a foothold and this is the result.
Antifa is allegedly busing people into cities to incite violence. Police report that of those that are arrested, very few live locally. Right there, that says something. This is an organized movement that has its own agenda that has nothing to do with righting the wrong of George Floyd's death. It's a parasitic group that has learned from Rahm Emanuel to let no crisis go to waste. See what a former member of Antifa says:
A former member of the radical Antifa organization told "The Ingraham Angle" Monday that the group's claim to be "anti-fascist" is a "false narrative."
Gabriel Nadales told host Laura Ingraham that he was in Antifa around 2011, and recalled it as the most violent group he had ever been part of.
"I think it has to do with the fact that so many college administrators and college campuses ... allow Antifa to work under their noses," he said. "[Campus Reform] reported on a story from the University of Florida [this past fall]. It was an Antifa group openly recruiting in broad daylight.
"Let me just say this very clear," Nadales added, "We don’t allow ISIS to recruit on college campuses and we should not allow Antifa to do that either."
Nadales said Antifa's misleading moniker hides its true identity as a vessel for far-left political activism.
"Antifa pretends to be about fighting fascism, but then they define fascism as basically anything that does not conform with their radical leftist agenda; which goes back to exactly what President Trump is doing," he said.
"I’m incredibly happy that he’s finally declared Antifa a domestic terrorist organization because that really helps fight against this false narrative that Antifa is fighting anything but for their failed leftist socialist ideology."
George Floyd's murder has been hijacked. What the police did was wrong and they should be held accountable. But these rioters, many of whom are white, are merely using his death to further their own sick agenda.
When and if they come by our house -- a very unlikely possibility -- it will be a target-rich environment that will allow me to use my rightfully owned firearms to defend my family. They won't be burning down whitey or stealing from him.
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