Escalating Violence @ New Normal Protests

[beez]

Calm, rational approaches are the best.  Use reason, critical thinking.

The harvest is coming.  Followed by the Election.  Followed by Winter.

Look into your crystal ball, Bunny, and tell us what you see in there.

I see it fading and failing this winter.

The level of commitment needed to fight an actual war just isn't in most people.

I'd like to advance another scenario.

Marxists are not lacking in commitment. Brush fire war after brush fire war has demonstrated that. Marxists are the ones pushing this agenda, If they have the level of commitment to keep killing the rest of us off, we have only two choices - fight, or die. That sort of thing works wonders for a fella's commitment issues when bullets are apt to start buzzing past his ears any second...

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Marxists have never lacked in commitment, but I think even they are beginning to realize that they are literally surrounded.

[F2d5thCav]

I think we're in for decades of urban guerilla activity once the rioting / looting / arson settles down.

Sorry if I repeat myself.  Germany went through something very similar in the 1970s and 1980s.  Affluent white youth who were taken with Marxism and who thought they could topple their government through violent action.  Those youth, too, had their sources of funding.  And in fact, their movement only fell apart upon German unification, because it was the East German government that was funding the activity of those groups in West Germany.

I'll say one thing in favor of the black radicals of the 1960s and 1970s.  At least some of them were bold enough to emigrate -- guys like Stokely Carmichael went to Guinea to live out his idea of an African dream.  But the discontented crew we have now (I mean white Antifa operators) don't want to emigrate to a communist country like China; they want to be the 2% that forces the 98% to do their bidding.

This all may have been predictable.  In hindsight (= LONG VIEW), the sudden fall of the Berlin Wall was a huge indication that massive change was upon us.  But the "elites" in the USA grasped neither the implications nor the opportunities of that moment.  Not knowing what else to do, they kept us on the same glide path we had followed during the Cold War.  Now, 30 years later, generations have grown up with no connection to those times and no connection to any kind of heritage.  What to do?  Burn everything down and see what rises from the ashes.

Cheers

[Mystic Wanderer]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Thursday, September 24, 2020

The Department of Justice announced today that more than 300 individuals in 29 states and Washington, D.C., have been charged for crimes committed adjacent to or under the guise of peaceful demonstrations since the end of May.


To date, of the 94 U.S. Attorneys’ Offices (USAOs), more than 40 USAOs have filed federal charges alleging crimes ranging from attempted murder, assaulting a law enforcement officer, arson, burglary of a federally-licensed firearms dealer, damaging federal property, malicious destruction of property using fire or explosives, felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, unlawful possession of a destructive device, inciting a riot, felony civil disorder, and others.  Violent opportunists have exploited these demonstrations in various ways. 

Approximately 80 individuals have been charged with offenses relating to arson and explosives.  Approximately 15 individuals have been charged with damaging federal property. In some instances, these individuals are alleged to have set fires to local businesses as well as city and federal property, which will regrettably incur millions of taxpayer dollars to repair damages to the Portland Courthouse, Nashville Courthouse, Minneapolis Police Third Precinct, Seattle Police East Precinct, and local high school in Minnesota; and, to replace police cruisers in South Carolina, Washington, Rhode Island, Georgia, Utah, and other states.

Corporate and local businesses were also targeted, including a Target Corporate headquarters in Minneapolis, Boost Mobile Store in Milwaukee, Champ Sports Store in Tampa, and local restaurants including a pizza parlor in Los Angeles and a sushi bar in Santa Monica.  Through these acts, these individuals have shown minimal regard to their communities and for the safety of others and themselves.

In Washington, D.C., outside of the U.S. Supreme Court, a man was engulfed in flames after he poured a liquid from a gas can onto three U.S. Supreme Court Police vehicles; he suffered severe burns. In Virginia Beach, authorities identified a man who is alleged to have threatened to burn down an African American church.  

Approximately 35 individuals have been charged with assaulting a law enforcement officer and related offenses.  One of these cases was charged in Massachusetts; the rest of these individuals were charged in Oregon.  The assaults have targeted local and federal law enforcement officers.  In Portland, a man is alleged to have approached a U.S. Marshals Deputy from behind and struck the deputy in the upper back, neck, and shoulder with a wooden baseball bat; another man, allegedly assaulted a Deputy U.S. Marshal with an explosive device.  In Boston, a man allegedly shot at least 11 times toward officers, including a deputized federal officer.

Approximately 30 individuals have been charged with offenses related to civil disorder.  In several instances, these individuals leveraged social media platforms to incite destruction and assaults against law enforcement officers.  In Cleveland, two Pennsylvania men are charged with driving to the city with the intent to participate in a riot and commit acts of violence.  In their possession, authorities found a black backpack containing a hammer, two containers of Sterno Firestarter Instant Flame Gel, a can of spray paint, a glass bottle of liquor with a bar-style pour top, a Glock semi-automatic firearm and two magazines loaded with ammunition.  In Knoxville, one individual allegedly instructed his social media followers to, “bring hammers bricks whatever you want.” The same defendant allegedly used a trashcan lid filled with an unknown liquid to strike a law enforcement officer in the head while the officer was seated in a police vehicle.

Charges have also been filed against individuals accused of committing burglary and carjacking.  In Pittsburgh, two individuals allegedly attempted to burglarize a Dollar Bank.  In Louisville, two individuals were charged with conspiracy to commit burglary involving controlled substances at a local Walgreens. Another Louisville individual was charged with carjacking; at the time of the carjacking, the individual was on a felony diversion as a result of a February 2020 conviction for charges that were initially filed as complicity to murder and complicity to robbery. 

Several of these charges carry significant maximum prison sentences. For example, felony assault of a federal officer with a dangerous weapon is punishable by up to 20 years in prison.  Arson is punishable by up to 20 years in prison with a mandatory minimum sentence of five years in prison.

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