Enough of this crap ...

Haven’t we all had enough? 

It’s well past time, to start kicking ass and taking names. The only question now is why the hell it’s taking so long to do what was inevitable from the very start. 

The protests were never about Black Lives Matter.  We all know this.  We knew this when the protests started. Nor were they about George Floyd.  And while many initial protests were “peaceful” about 80% of the day, at night the other 20% was just about destroying things.

Tearing down statues was never about Confederates and pro-slavery politicians. Nor was pulling down statues of Jefferson, Lincoln, and Christopher Columbus.   It was about destroying things, plain and simple. It was about showing that mobs can destroy whatever they want, whenever they want, and spineless, gutless state and local politicians will do nothing to stop it; even to the point of throwing their own police under the bus, and making it impossible for them to keep order.

Portland, Seattle, DC, NYC, Minneapolis, Louisville, Chicago, and too many other American cities are standing aside and letting everything burn. The politicians in those cities are cowards, too frightened to put an end to this carnage. Some of these weasels have even gone out to join the protestors and call for all Federal agents to stop defending Federal property – which the Feds have an obligation to do under the law – and to leave their cities immediately. 

But before the Feds leave, these same politicians are demanding that the Feds clean up all the graffiti on Federal buildings placed there by the protestors. That’s chutzpah. 

The “peaceful protestors” have upped their game, knowing these nutless wonders running the cities are too afraid to do one damn thing to stop them. One of the latest tricks is deploying the Wall of Moms or the Wall of Vets.  This way, “Moms” or “Vets” act as a human shield behind which the protestors can throw frozen water bottles, rocks, fireworks and more serious explosive devices at the police and agents. It’s just a matter of time before they deploy the Wall of Kids.   

“Peaceful protestors” have lately wielded black umbrellas in their “peaceful” interactions with police and Federal agents.  One use is to hide behind while throwing things at the cops and agents.  Another is to fend off rubber bullets and other impact weapons used by law enforcement. Another is apparently to use as a sharpened-tip stabbing weapon against police and agents. 

Face it, it’s open season on cops everywhere. And nobody in power is doing squat. When the highest-ranking uniformed officer in the NYPD is attacked and bloodied by a “peaceful protestor” while other “protestors” record it on their phones, you know things are out of control.  Then when the culprit is caught and released the next day by NYC courts, it’s a complete shit show.   

To make matters worse, if that’s even possible, District Court judges, appointed mostly by Clinton or Obama, are now issuing rulings to prevent law enforcement from forcing anyone supposedly a “legal observer” or holding a press credential to follow their directions to disperse. 

Go ahead, guess the result:  violent protestors all in black wearing tactical gear, helmets, gas masks, and armed with weapons like rock hammers and electric saws suddenly have press credentials. Wow, is anyone surprised? 

But wait, there’s more. 

In the latest escalation, there are now heavily armed black militias forming in support of BLM. They call themselves the Not Fucking Around Coalition, or NFAC.  Unfortunately, their members are just as inept at handling firearms properly as the gangbangers in Chicago; in their first outing in Louisville, one of them accidently shot three of their own militia members. 

While they were proudly strutting their stuff, another militia appeared – clearly not on the side of BLM or Antifa like NFAC.  I didn’t see the other militia’s name, but I suspect it’s probably something along the line of Enough Of This Bullshit.  That would be my choice. 

Finally, is there any doubt by anyone with the good sense God gave a sweet potato that BLM, Antifa, the Democrats, and the left-leaning media are all in this together?

Anyone? Anyone? Speak up now …

Of course they are.  Nancy is so happy she can hardly keep her teeth from falling out. Chuck Schumer, doing his best impression of DC Comic’s Penguin, can hardly control himself. The media can’t get enough of showing heavily edited pieces of “peaceful protestors” set upon by police and Federal stormtroopers sent in by Dictator Trump. But, the same media have no time or interest in showing the protestors beating up police and other civilians, smashing windows and looting, setting cars and ambulances on fire, attacking Federal property and burning businesses. 

It's time for the inevitable finally to happen.

It’s time to say, in the immortal words Dick Cheney said to Patrick Leahy: Go fuck yourself. 

This needs to be said to every BLM member and supporter. To every Antifa asshole.  To all the lying Democrat politicians and media types. 

Three little words that convey so much. We’re not putting up with this crap anymore. 

Local and state politicians need to be told in no uncertain terms that if they won’t support the police and let the police do their job and keep order, then someone else will take over that task. You can be absolutely certain that someone won’t be social workers; more likely in the absence of police it will be ordinary folks and homegrown militias taking the law into their own hands.

Instantly, more crimes will automatically carry the death penalty. And all the big talk from Democrats and progressives about gun control and seizing guns from legal owners goes out the window immediately.  Try it and there will be a civil war.  Seriously, there will be.    

Next up, to BLM:  Take your ridiculous demands and shove them up your ass. There will be no reparations. Zero. We’re not getting rid of police departments (see above).  We’re not going to close down all our jails and prisons.  We’re not going to cancel everybody’s student loan debt. We’re not going to become a Marxist society. We’re not going to get rid of the nuclear family.  We’re not going to cower and worry you’ll be offended by something. 

We don’t care what you want anymore. Period. Any elected official who supports giving you any of those things doesn’t deserve to keep their job. And probably won’t.    

Your blatant hypocrisy about which black lives actually matter makes the name of your organization a sick joke. Be honest for a change:  black lives only matter if they are killed by cops and not by another black criminal.  Those black lives matter more to you than other black lives, including the lives of black cops, black business owners, and black children. 

You don’t have massive street protests, riots and looting for weeks when their lives are lost, most often at the hands of a black criminal.  You don’t have a gold coffin for each of them, do you?  Al Sharpton doesn’t deliver a eulogy at their funerals, does he?  You’ve tapped into the black grievance industry for all it’s worth, but only selectively.  So stop expecting any of us to still believe you think all black lives matter.  You clearly don’t. 

We know your organization’s a fraud; you know it, too. But the days of shaking down stupid gutless corporations and trying to cash in on manufactured white guilt are over.  Feds should file RICO Act charges against BLM for running a criminal enterprise across state lines.

Whatever sympathy we once might have had is gone.  We aren’t all racists; most Americans never were.  No American still alive ever owned slaves. We believe everyone – black, white, Asian, Hispanic, Aleut, or whatever – deserves impartial, equal justice under the law.  Equal justice for everyone is something everyone agrees on.  That should be enough. 

If it’s not enough for you, go fuck yourself. That’s all we’ve got.     

And if you come to our cities, towns and neighborhoods and threaten us, our families, our property, or our neighbors, to get more from us than that, you will regret it. That’s not a threat, that is a sincere and honest promise.   

And now, Antifa.  We’ve dealt with hooded clowns like you before; gutless bozos who hid under robes and hoods to terrorize and intimidate others.  Just like you’ve been doing.  That’s why there are ordinances on the books in at least 18 states that forbid masks and hoods to disguise yourself.  Originally designed to take on the KKK, these laws are applicable to you also.  

After all, the KKK and Antifa are pretty much the same type of domestic terrorists. 

That’s exactly what Antifa types are, and should be treated as such, under Federal law, not some woosie local ordinance.  If Feds start enforcing that, you could be facing from 10 years to life in a Federal prison.  There will be no black ninja outfits there, no Pop Tarts or Hot Pockets from your mom, and kneeling there may have much different consequences, depending on your cell mate.

Also, like BLM’s demands, we don’t care what you want anymore either. Assuming, for that matter, that you know what you want beyond destroying things.  Right now you appear to have the thought process and reasoning skills of zombies.

If you’ve seen the movies, you know what stops zombies. 

I suspect it works in real life, too.  It’s up to you if you want to test my theory. 

Nope? Then go fuck yourself.  I’m done. We’re all done with the lot of you.     

Back from BLM Re-Education Camp ...

It’s good to be home again.  And to be so enlightened.

I haven’t gotten my Participation Certificate yet, but I feel pretty good about the week I spent at BLM’s Re-Education Camp.  I learned so much. I’m certainly a better person now. 

Frankly, my first impression was that I had arrived in the wrong place.

I expected most people at a BLM camp to be black, or as the media have recently decided Black (with a capital B).  But most of the people there were White. (See, I learned.)

Like really White.  Blindingly White.  Whiter than me, by far.  Like so White they were almost a light blue. Unhealthy looking, too, like shoppers in a health-food store.

My first thought was they probably never spent much time outside.  They probably never did anything more strenuous than texting.  Or maybe walking up the stairs from their mom’s basement to get money from her purse to pay the Domino’s or Grub Hub delivery person.    

But here they were, in all their pale glory. In their black (Black?) T-shirt with the screen-printed Black Power Fist or Black Lives Matter text they bought online with mom’s credit card.  Ready to learn how to be taken seriously. Ready to discover how they could fit in with racial and economic groups that normally terrify them, and maybe routinely shook them down for their lunch money.  Ready to take on “The Man” to fight for racial justice, whatever that was.

And maybe, just maybe, get laid.  Because, honestly, that’s the hope of a lot of adolescent and socially awkward Whites marching in protests. If you’re an unattractive White string bean or a porker you may think a protest could be your best shot at getting laid without having to pay for it. Especially when you’re wearing a face mask that hides your zits.  

Anyway, I digress.  I only brought that up because most of the Whites, male or female or somewhere in between, in camp didn’t look like they’d ever had sex with a real person other than themselves, or were likely to anytime soon.   

But back to my studies.  My first course was Sloganeering.

It was taught by a self-described “radical Marxist transvestite self-loathing anti-Semite atheist” (born as Jane White to a bourgeois WASP family in New Jersey) now listed on the course outline as Patrice Lumumba Kanesha Rosenstein-Castro-Guevara-Rivera.

Or just “Pat” for short because that was an appropriately gender-fluid name.

Pat rejected such patriarchal pronouns as he/she, him/her, his/hers, and used only they/their to describe themselves (Pat).  Yeah, it got a little confusing at times. But most of us in their class eventually got the hang of it. We used first names a lot. 

I often wondered how this gender-neutral thing would work in countries with languages where ordinary inanimate items have a male or female gender and verbs to match. I never brought this up in class because Pat had a tendency to punish anyone who was overthinking. 

Anyway, about Sloganeering.  The theory behind it all is that the slogan must be offensive enough that media types won’t be able to resist it, even if they have to bleep out curse words.  Actually, the more bleeps the better. Listeners could then imagine the worst.   

Yet it also must be simple enough even a four-year-old, or a teen or adult with the intellect of a four-year-old, can easily remember it, even if they don’t understand it. 

That’s harder than it seems. Most great slogans are short and memorable, like “Pigs in a blanket; Fry ‘em like bacon.”  Easy to remember; hard to forget.  Hard to replicate, too. A classic.     

Next was Situational Protest Tactics, taught by an aging hipster named Moonbeam McDuster (probably a nom-de-guerre).  McDuster was a legend in the protest industry.  He’d managed some of the biggest protests:  fighting voter ID laws, school vouchers, Chick- fil-A store openings, racially insensitive dress codes, gender-specific school restrooms, and – lest we forget – his courageous stand against Subway’s five-dollar-foot-long ripoff.  (It wasn’t a full 12 inches long.)

From him we learned tips on how to prearrange events on social media.  How to blend in with ordinary protestors until the time was right and then working up everyone into a frenzy.

We also learned effective media manipulation techniques.  Like co-opting local politicians, creative taunting, distance spitting, faking an injury, inciting a riot and looting on cue, how to set up a “money shot” (i.e., cop cars on fire; smashing windows) for camera crews, and how to avoid harming media folks once a riot starts. 

Now, perhaps like many others, I’d always wondered why no CNN, MSNBC, ABC, NBC, and CBS reporters or camera crews ever got hurt even in the most violent BLM protests. And why the cameras always seem to be at the right place at the right time, too.  The secret, it turns out, is wireless earpieces – you know, like the curly-wire jobs on Secret Service details – linking the media and protest organizers in real time. Who knew? 

In other courses, we also learned that while Black Lives Matter – probably the most – we still needed to convince more White people that everything bad is and has always been their fault. Black poverty. Black illiteracy.  Black unemployment. Black males in prison.   

Because everything is the fault of Whites.  And their legacy of enslaving Blacks.   

The public-school system saw the irrefutable truth in this early on. Lesson plans and textbooks had for decades reflected how slavery shaped American history from the beginning. 

Instead of a proud history as some claimed, America had in fact a shameful past. It included rapes of Black slaves by white masters, lynchings of innocent Blacks, secretly infecting Blacks with syphilis to study its effects, segregation, miscegenation laws, murders of civil rights activists, assassinations of Black leaders like MLK, Jr., and suppression of Black votes and racial discrimination even today. 

There wasn't much else in American history worth noting.   

If it weren't for slavery, America wouldn't be the racist nation it remains today. Nor as rich; that is, just for the Whites. Also because of slavery, Blacks never shared in that prosperity.  

The New York Times and its award-winning 1619 Project spelled it all out.    

Whites in the media and among Democrats in Congress, as well as all Blacks in the House and Senate (except one), agreed.  Blue-state governors and big-city mayors also concurred that Whites were ultimately responsible for everything bad in the country, and especially in their cities, even for Black on Black crime and the high number of Blacks killing other Blacks every day.

Blacks couldn’t be held to the same standards as Whites because Blacks never recovered from their enslavement by Whites.     

It was time for Whites to admit their guilt. And pay up. Not just with money – although that would be nice – but also with perpetual special treatment of Blacks.  Until reparations come through, Blacks should get everything for free – free college, free housing, free guaranteed minimum income, and whatever else they decide – and the right to discriminate as they wish on the basis of race, as just restitution for slavery at the hands of Whites.  Because it’s owed to them.       

That’s what the entire movement is really about.  And why convincing Whites is the struggle.  Many older White people remember reading books years ago that claimed a different view of history.  Not all Whites watch CNN or read The New York Times; some even watch Fox News.

On top of that, older Whites are notoriously stubborn and won’t easily give up the marks of their Whiteness.  Like that “Protestant work ethic” thing.  Their notion that children do better in two-parent households.  Their insistence on personal responsibility.  The high value Whites place on being on time, being polite, and speaking proper English.  Their belief in objective, rational linear thinking; cause and effect relationships; and their reliance on quantitative analysis.

It's so ingrained in Whites we may have to intimidate them until they accept the blame for everything and give up these foolish and oppressive notions of White culture.

Hence, the riots will continue and cities will continue to burn.    

Now, before anyone thinks BLM Re-Education Camp was nothing but hard work, it wasn’t.  There were a lot of games and contests to break up the workload.

The most challenging was the brick toss – especially difficult for a lot of the noodle-armed pasty White guys; frankly, the bigger, heftier White girls embarrassed them. 

The skateboard window smash game – my favorite – had competition between teams.  White team members smashed the windows so their handful of Black team members could race in and steal stuff. We got points for highest number of useless items stolen in a minute or less. 

My team won mainly because we were lucky enough to draw a Michaels craft store as our assigned target, which was, as always, crammed full of completely useless stuff. I’ll admit the teams that drew an ABC liquor store, or even the Dollar Store, got better stuff, but a win is a win. 

And it was about the only time we Whites had a chance to interact with Blacks. Which was nice.  The rest of the time the camp leaders kept us segregated.  

So anyway. It’s good to be back.  Mom and Dad said it’s good to see me again and have me back in their basement.  While I was away, they’d restocked my minifridge with all my favorite juice boxes. They also refilled my supply of my favorite Pop Tarts and bought me a new PlayStation.

Then they asked if I had fun at camp. If I made any new friends there.  And I just snapped. 

Fucking oppressive White people.  Always with the questions.  

How does all the chaos and violence end ...

This is a question many of us are asking …

Some think they know, even now. 

Democrats think it ends when they win the House, Senate, and Oval Office in 2020. 

They think the chaos will help them get there.  They are counting on the “energy” and anger of the protestors to help them win big across the nation. They’ve clearly publicly supported the demands of those protesting the shootings of black men and women by police. That’s supposed to help them hold the black vote and gain more young, white and Hispanic voters. 

That, along with the media’s cooperation in successfully – and erroneously – sticking the entire blame for the coronavirus pandemic and the economic shut down on Trump and Republicans, should be enough for a Democrat sweep at the Federal and state level in 2020. 

Democrats believe that when they win control, the chaos and destruction will stop. 

Even if they do win everything, things won’t get any better. The riots will continue. Statues will continue to come down.  Monuments will continue to be vandalized.  Cities will continue to burn. Businesses will continue to be looted. 

That’s because what’s driving the BLM and Antifa folks has little to do with police shootings of blacks, much less with party politics. They don’t like Democrats any more than Republicans, despite what Democrats want to believe.  For that matter, they don’t like the media, either. BLM blacks openly mock the white kids and aging white hippie lefties marching with them.

Candidly, BLM wants everyone to bow down before them and give them whatever they want, which will never happen because what they want is absurd.  BLM knows this, so they’ll settle for terrorizing and intimidating everyone until they are stopped, extorting millions in protection money from big companies until then.  Antifa is more straightforward: it just likes to destroy things. 

Any election is not going to stop them, either way.    

To their credit, Republicans are under no illusion that if they keep the White House, the Senate, and get a majority in the House, the protests will end.  Nobody on that side of the aisle expects the violence and destruction to end anytime soon.   So until the election most Republicans in Congress will do what they usually do in a crisis:  blame Democrats and continue to cower hoping that a show of submission and  ignoring a problem will make it go away.   

The simple truth is that the violence and destruction will not end until ordinary American citizens decide they’ve had enough and refuse to be intimidated by the mob anymore.  This will happen when the protestors do something so egregious, so reprehensible, that the public will no longer tolerate or have any sympathy for the protestors. Even the media will be appalled.

Then the public will demand police and the Feds step in and stop the madness. This will occasion a great deal of pearl clutching among the elites about the need for compromise and reason.

But that ship will have sailed. The line will have been crossed.  

I’m not certain what the dramatic trigger it will be. I am certain however it will happen soon, well before the 2020 election.  BLM and its supporters, and Antifa, keep stepping up the attacks on statues and memorials to people most Americans still believe deserve respect.  They are even attacking monuments to abolitionists like Frederick Douglass and those who fought to free the slaves such as Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant.  They’ve also vandalized the  monument to the all-black regiment that fought courageously on the Union side in the Civil War.  Why? 

It’s only a matter of time before someone within the BLM supporters or an Antifa thug goes too far and commits an act that galvanizes the public against both entities. 

The 1963 bombing of the South Baptist Church in Alabama that killed four innocent black girls, the murder of the black and white civil rights activists in Mississippi in 1964, and the actions of Bull Connor against civil rights protestors in Birmingham in  the 1960s, helped to change the opinions of millions of white citizens about recognizing and addressing racism against minorities. 

I’m hoping something as gruesome doesn’t happen by a BLM supporter or some black-clad Antifa wannabe. But it could.  There’s already been an videoed incident at a children’s hospital in Houston where the car of a father and his child was pelted with bricks and bottles by protestors as he and his screaming and clearly terrorized child tried to get out.  This is a very bad trend.   

I believe whatever the trigger is, it will happen well before the election. 

If local and state officials order their law enforcement agencies to continue to stand down after that, more police will resign or retire.  With fewer police around, crime will go up even more. With more crime, and unabated violence and destruction by the BLM and Antifa types, armed citizens will start confronting criminals and the mobs to protect their own property. 

Because no one else will, apparently. Not local officials. Not state officials. 

If you doubt people are already arming themselves because they're scared of how the chaos they see on the news might spread to their neighborhood, you’re not tracking the soaring rate of gun and ammunition sales and requests for concealed-carry permits over the past few months.

Ordinary citizens are already arming themselves to the teeth. They’re also stocking up on ammo. 

It’s a mistake to dismiss these buyers as merely far-right gun nuts and survivalists. The media would love to promote that narrative.  The facts on the ground say otherwise.   

A large number are first-time gun owners. Many live in liberal-run cities. Many live in the liberal-leaning suburbs; some may also be fervent supporters of bans on assault weapons.  They aren’t all right-wing loons, white supremacists, or fanatics preaching the end of days. Far from it.  

They are remarkably ordinary Americans. The one thing they have in common is they are increasingly scared that the chaos will reach them and their families. They are getting a firearm, just in case the very worst happens. They hope it never comes to that.  

But until then they want to be prepared. They'll discover a lot of their neighbors feel the same way. And a lot of them now have firearms, also.  Just in case.          

When they realize so many of their friends and neighbors are armed, they’ll start more confidently confronting criminals and any mob whenever these threaten to appear nearby.     

However, it's also a short hop from that to start taking justice into their own hands. As someone stated succinctly, if the police disappear more crimes will suddenly carry the death penalty. 

In Florida, where I live, people here have a lot of legal latitude to defend themselves and their families with the use of deadly force.  Google “stand your ground & Florida” and “castle doctrine & Florida” if you doubt me.  Along with our high level of gun ownership, and the large number of former cops and military who retire here, especially in Central Florida, Florida is an extraordinarily poor choice to see how far you can go with threatening anyone with violence.   

It's almost inevitable that someone or some group will eventually try. They'll be sorry.  

I also believe where police have been ordered to stand down, violence and destruction by the protestors will increasingly be met by the threat of violence from the public. It's already happened, when neighbors from largely Italian South Philly stood off protesters who wanted to loot their neighborhood Target; another group guarded a Christopher Columbus statue. 

There’s only so much reasonable people will take.  And reasonable people with guns who fear for their lives and property will take even less.  We are getting close to that point. 

If the attacks and destruction continue across the country, and if the police and Feds don’t intervene soon, I’m fairly certain the general public will. 

All it’s going to take is a trigger event.