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Protestors: You’ve Been Duped
It’s been a lousy few months for everyone, especially for the black community. You’ve experienced more illness from COVID-19 than almost any other group. You lost your jobs right after the economy expanded and gave you work. Then you were stuck at home for weeks on end. And then George Floyd was killed. And your world exploded.
Your initial reaction is no surprise to many of us—for years you’ve listened to the litany of anger against law enforcement, so it only seemed right to join a protest. So you did. Except that in these protests, you can’t see the truth: you’re being used, so used.
What do I mean? For those of you who are sincere about protesting, I respect your right to do it. The problem is that, possibly without intending to, you are providing cover for criminals and terrorists. Those people who are burning down buildings in your town, who are attacking the police who want to protect your parents, who are destroying the businesses where you shop—they are using you. As you mingle with your friends, holding up signs, calling out for justice, the criminals are right there with you, hiding among you, destroying everything that you cherish—those monuments to your lives. And they don’t care that they are hurting you—they only want devastation and chaos.
We can argue about whether these terrorists are local or from out of town. It doesn’t really matter. What matters is that they don’t care a fig about social justice, and they don’t care about you. They are wiping out any chance for justice to rule, because they are using you as shields so they can meet their agenda which has nothing to do with justice, but only with annihilating any semblance of law.
That’s the truth of what’s happening. If you care about any of these outcomes, what can you do? One option is to stop the protests. Give law enforcement an opportunity to round up the real anarchists; once they are shut down, you can continue your protests, if you are so motivated.
Or if you don’t want to stop, go home before dark. You have several hours to make your point during daylight; let those who want to destroy your homes be arrested. Watch the action on TV. This is an opportunity to ensure that law enforcement actually works for you! Let the police and National Guard know that you want these monsters thrown in jail, and you won’t support them.
Protest anarchy. That’s demonstrating true power.
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On FoxNews, an Illinois man was arrested based on recordings he made of himself and posted on Facebook that showed him passing out explosives to people at a Minnespolis protest to light and throw at cops. His recording was over two hours long and on it he can be heard saying “we came to riot.” The man was white.
That sounds like chaos ready to happen! Did they arrest him, @raykujawa?
Did you see how he was handing out bombs to black folk to throw at the police?
Can’t be bothered to throw his own bombs. White privilege, right there.
Not quite sure what you mean by this. Are most people hobbled by a mentality where they blame others for their own failures? Based on people I have known, I have not found this to be true.
You might agree that this sort of mentality is probably most widespread among progressives, practitioners of identity politics, those twisted by an overdose of psychotherapy, and those bereft of a sense of accountability before the Divine.
I think what you describe is a general human failing. Some individuals exhibit less of it than others, to be sure.
Baden, of course, is paid by Ben Crump, the family lawyer as he was for the Trayvon Martin family. There are millions at stake. Baden did NOT find any evidence of asphyxia and strangulation. He looked at the video.
Thanks for adding your expertise, @michaelkennedy. I hate when these kinds of things get political. BTW, I’m reading your book; it’s a little technical for me in parts, but I so appreciate your stories and experiences.
No that is not true. He conducted a post mortem examination. You can read it here.
Our own elites are worse than the commies of other countries.
What about Soros? There’s not exactly a lot of caravans coming over the border at the moment.
Yes. He was arrested by Federal prosecutors. But the Feds are going to have to get more sophisticated to find these guys. Most of them won’t be so stupid to advertise their exploits. Total amateur.
He’s likely following some Antifa manual for newbies, ‘don’t let yourself be captured on video or camera throwing stuff if you want to keep your day job.’ Too self-important to get his own hands dirty.
By traveling to Minnesota during shutdown, he violated Gov. J.P’s shutdown order, so he is in real trouble now.
Sorry. Not true. He said in a press conference that he watched the video and made his diagnosis from that. I watched it. He also said he did not examine all of the heart since some had been removed. The toxicology is still to come.
I don’t know what’s true and I don’t know what you saw, but the article says he performed an examination. He could have used the video AND performed an examination. The two are not mutually exclusive.
Did you read his report ?
No. I’m quoting the article. If the article is lying then I stand corrected. But it strikes me as puzzling to say he examined and he only looked at the video. I’m sure the truth will come out.
@MichaelKennedy You were right. Baden never performed an actual examination. I owe you an apology. The media is for the birds. They don’t even attempt to put out the truth any more. I’m sorry I doubted you. Peace.
S.A.D.
The media is sad.