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Watching Kenosha Burn
I’ve never been there, but I feel as if I know it. Kenosha is the size of my home town, a little dot of civilization eked out in short order, built up with pride, home to people who work, worship, and enjoy the pace and pleasures of a small town. It burned last night and it is burning tonight. I’m watching the feeds, and I’m pretty sure someone’s going to get shot. The Marxists are showing up with rifles; there are reports of a militia en route to confront the protestors.
Does Kenosha have a large number of people who want to burn down their town and bring Death to America? I’m thinking they may have imported some people who wished to help out. I’m thinking they’d head up to Fargo if they were needed there. I’m thinking they’d be more than happy to burn downtown Fargo. For justice!
Actually, no; for Revolution! Justice comes later.
Actually, the Revolution is justice! So burning downtown Fargo is, like, a jury returning with its verdict. Totally justice.
The feed of mayhem comes in short bursts on Twitter. I watched videos of rioters showing up with rifles, American flags burned while someone screeched “Death to America.” CNN right now:
MSNBC ‘s homepage at 11:47:
WaPo’s home page has a huge headline:
The sole Kenosha story:
Jacob Blake’s family calls for officer’s arrest, peaceful protest The father of five young children was shot in the back by police, which has left him paralyzed from the waist down.
The “Father of Five” note is interesting, since people who have large families are usually excoriated for killing the planet.
It seems that the destruction in Kenosha is not important. But it is a matter of dire national importance that you think about the Tiki Torch rally in Charleston every day, because those chucking fargleheads were representative of everyone to the right of David Frum. The destruction of Minneapolis neighborhoods was a righteous reaction, if regrettably enthusiastic. But it is a matter of vital concern to the future of our democracy that you remember armed men entering the Michigan state capitol.
We’ve been told that concern over burning down cities amounts to prioritizing mere bricks over lives. This is a popular retort amongst those who reveal they cannot contain two ideas in their head simultaneously. They will charge the National Guard and scream “fascist” with the assumption that they will not be shot by people who value bricks over lives. Then they will throw a brick with the intention of ending a life.
I watched a Kenosha clip that showed a man – as distinct from the males who were rioting – attempting to protect his job from arsonists. He is not a member of the landlord / exploiter class, but he suffers from false consciousness, so he is not subject to consideration as a fellow human being. He is a parasite-adjacent, so it is permissible to kill him. Or at least induce a state of actual unconsciousness. He was struck with a a heavy object, possibly a bottle of cement, and fell to the ground inert. The woman filming the attack laid into the rioters, and said “this is wrong” – whereupon one of the rioters said “We’re trying to protect ourselves.”
Defending yourself against the revolutionaries is an offensive act. And why wouldn’t it be? If the cause is just, anyone who stands in its way has forfeited their right to live.
The man has a broken jaw. The protestor has a broken moral compass. One will heal, and the other will sicken for the rest of her days.
Okay, let me check the feed to see if anyone’s been shot in Kenosha.
Why, yes.
Imagine that.
Can’t tell who shot who, but from the screams and sounds of shock and surprise, it seems that an antifa-associated individual took a round. He is screaming for a MEDIC, like they do in video games, and counting on someone to apply all the tools and techniques of Western Civilization to save him.
He may be crying out for an ambulance. This will be a problem, since some protestors may believe that the ambulance is there to rescue someone on the other side, and will set upon it with rocks and clubs. Someone will have to arrange safe passage and assure the protestors that the ambulance is cool.
Like I said, I don’t live in Kenosha. Never been there. I don’t live in New York. I don’t live in Chicago. I don’t live in Portland. Except that I do, because I am an American citizen. What’s the line? This land is my land, right?
Update: from what I’m reading on Twitter, the rioter was shot by someone defending his business. And I’m thinking about our family business, how my Dad would have run out to protect what he had built, and how they would have thrown a brick at his head. And someone with an iPhone streaming it all live would have shouted WOO, and maybe cursed the way the stream wasn’t uploading to Facebook right away, and taken a drink of fresh clean water from his canteen, wondered if the blood would come off his shoes, and shouted F*CK CAPITALISM before heading off to the next target. What town is this again?
Doesn’t matter. Burn ’em all.
Published in General
Kill’em all, let Gaia sort them out.
Father of five? By how many baby mommas?
There were more than one person shot. Apparently, piecing together twitters, a car dealership was being protected by at least one boogaloo boy armed with an AR. BLM showed up and I believe were smashing windows and intent on torching the dealership. The boogaloo boy shot one of the protesters in the head and ran off.
Another tweet showed a man (perhaps the same boolgaloo boy who shot the rioter at the dealership) being chased down the middle of the main road by a half dozen or more rioters, when he tripped and fell to the ground. The rioters tried to disarm him and he fired several shots up at them. The first man who was shot ran ten feet or so and fell down. The others scattered and the man on the ground got up and walked away.
Another tweet showed a man who was shot in the arm. I think this was the same rioter who was shot while trying to disarm the fleeing man. He was tended to by another man (who also was armed with an AR) until the police showed up and told to him to move away.
This is the best I could figure out. It’s likely wrong in several assumptions.
From Daily Wire: https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-shots-fired-during-kenosha-blm-riots-after-democrat-governor-reportedly-refused-federal-help
Figures.
God save us from Democrat governors.
“Father of five” with a big knife….
Arsonists and looters deserve to get shot.
And they need to understand this is going to happen more and more frequently.
There are multiple videos showing what happened, on Andy Ngo’s twitter page and other places. All four shootings appear to be in self-defense, and possibly by the same person (some of the militia members were dressed similarly, but it certainly appears to be the same guy). He showed tremendous mental discipline, quickly but carefully aiming at specific imminent threats as they presented themselves. He then proceeded toward the police to turn himself in (the cops did not appear to be in any particular hurry in that regard).
WARNING! Very graphic, NSW content (though parts are blurred out): this will probably be deleted by Youtube, so view it while you can:
Edit: Actual shootings start at 1:43; the short, confrontational bald man in a red shirt is the first person shot, while he was apparently chasing after the militia member. The videos are inconclusive as to what immediately preceded this incident. Oh, and the man who took off his shirt to try and staunch the bleeding is a Daily Caller reporter.
Enemy combatants.
Correct me if I am wrong, but did not Blake’s wife call the cops? Were the police not responding to a DB call? That is relevant.
At some point as this spreads, more and more citizens will shoot back.
This is how you get sectarian war, folks.
Defense against raiders does not work as a strategy. If the raiders continue, thenonly way to stop them is take away their secure base.
The time is coming when citizens are going to do this on their own if it does not stop.
You called that one.
Meanwhile, leaders of both parties are warning that the other is trying to steal the presidential election. Estimations of the virus vary wildly, but the lockdowns have no end in sight. Everything is more expensive as a result, while so many jobs are gone or paying less. Risk of civil war is increasing.
WaPo’s home page has a huge headline:
There is, ironically enough, a nice Civil War Museum on Lake Michigan in downtown Kenosha. I’ve taken our youngest son there several times as he’s a history lover.
It was inevitable that someone would be killed. These deaths, injuries and property damage are 100% owned by the Democrats & The Left.
I’m afraid that my sympathy for those two victims is nonexistent. The Left has been calling down the thunder for months now.
Those two fools “touched the elephant” in pursuit of a really bad and evil cause.
The sad part is as citizens that defend themselves they will be jailed with maximum penalties of the law. The protestors will be either not found, or catch and release. It is becoming obvious this is a government sponsored / sanctioned events.
He fathered a child at 16, then has other kids with other women. How many? At least two.
It hasn’t been revealed who made the call. Blake has never been married. It was a domestic incident call. He was wanted on a warrant issued July 7 for felony sexual assault, but police do not seem to have been executing the warrant at the time of the call.
I listened to the police feed for a while. Vehicles were showing up with blacked out or missing plates; officers were running plates on every car parked. A homeowner called and said suspicious people were in tall bushes on the property; police found an ammo cache. Police, or US Marshals (who were there), made numerous reports of people wearing all black carrying long guns. Police complained that the night before, National Guardsmen did not have radios so it was difficult to coordinate.
The Civil War museum is outstanding. The opening setting filmed at Old World Wisconsin putting you in the battle rivals anything I’ve seen elsewhere.
We need facts, not Twitter hot-takes.
I’ll wait. The problem with that strategy is that there needs to be reliable media that deals in facts. This includes facts that run counter to the “narrative.”
Not if I’m on the jury.
I am waiting for anyone voting for Joe Biden to show me why a vote for him is not a license for BLM, etc. to continue this in more American cities and towns.
I think it is interesting that the media now consists of people with cell phones uploading video snippets, and the so-called media that talks about squirrels.
This is a metastasized lynch mob. They used to wear pointy hats, now they wear all black.
The prosecutor marks them nol. pros. and there is never a jury.
With all of the visible long guns, it is a wonder only two people were shot.
After hundreds of stores have been looted or burned to the ground, after innocent men and women and police have been attacked all over America – Joe Biden finally makes a vague statement about protecting America – AFTER A LOOTER IN KENOSHA GETS SHOT!
Oh, no…looters are getting shot!
Strange. They dismiss logic and reason as “tools of the oppressor,” and still expect that “all the tools and techniques of Western Civilization” will continue to function and progress. Fix COVID for me. Do it now dammit. But do it without resorting to (shudder) logic and reason.
This calls for a . . .
I was going to mention that too, but the reference might have been to jury nullification of charges against people who were defending themselves, defending others, or defending property.
Second City Cop reporting that the felony sexual assault warrant was for statutory rape of a 14-year-old girl (which you have to add nowadays).
But let’s have anarchy to support a rapist.
The Democrat Party and Joe Biden and his minders have had ample opportunity for months to denounce months of looting, vandalism, violence, and arson in very specific terms…but chose not to. Instead Democrats in Congress tried to play up the threat of white supremacist violence whenever the word, “Antifa” was mentioned. Now, one of the most prominent white supremacists, Richard Spencer has heartily endorsed Joe Biden for President. (Must really upset and frustrate Mona Charen, and Bill Kristol, Max Boot and the rest of the Lincoln Project gang).
The Democrat deflection effort has only backfired on them as Americans are witnessing night after night of violence and anarchy from Antifa and BLM rioters. Biden is only offering tepid comments now because his internal pollsters have seen their numbers dropping. Their numbers are dropping because of the endless rioting, the dismal DNC telethon, and the success of the Republican Convention coverage in the last two days. But it’s also telling that he posted a basement tweet only after a couple of looters in Kenosha got shot.