We have previously discussed how some media organizations told their journalists not to call violence after the death of George Floyd “riots,” including the recently much mocked headline of CNN calling the looting and violence in Kenosha “fiery but mostly peaceful.” Now, Chris Cillizza, an editor-at-large for CNN, is under fire for criticizing President Donald Trump for labeling the violence in places like Kenoska as “riots.” Critics have noted that the picture posted by Cillizza with his tweet shows a building engulfed in flames. Lawyers notoriously parse terms in ways that often deny their obvious meaning but this effort by some in the media would make a Philadelphia lawyer blush.
Cillizza tweeted “Trump’s efforts to label what is happening in major cities as ‘riots’ speaks at least somewhat to his desperation, politically speaking, at the moment.”
I do not deny that both sides are using these riots for political purposes. Trump is using the violence to reinforce a law-and-order theme while Democratic politicians are blaming him for the violence and calling for the 2020 election to be a referendum on racial justice.
It is the parsing of the term that intrigues me. In Portland, the Portland police have reportedly declared 13 riots in 80 days. Newspapers in these cities have referred to rioting from Portland to Minneapolis to Kenosa. David Brown, the Chicago Police superintendent, said, “This was not an organized protest, rather, this was an incident of pure criminality.”
The coverage of recent looting and rioting has been uneven with networks like CNN spending comparatively limited time reporting on the violence while Fox is covering it exhaustively. Other outlets like NPR have run segments on how the word “rioting” has racist roots. Whether there are riots depends on what news outlet you use. It is the new reality of echo-journalism.
Of course, this dispute turns on a noun that is clearly defined as “public violence, tumult, or disorder.”
The law often turns on subtle distinctions as discussed by Blackstone in his famous account of a case where English court interpreted a 1547 statute criminalizing the stealing of “horses” to be inapplicable when a defendant stole just one horse. William M. Blackstone, 1 Commentaries * 88. The Parliament had to enact a new statute to cover one-horse thieves.
Such arguments often lead to frustrating moments in courts or depositions like this exchange:
D: When you say “photocopying machine,” what do you mean?
PL: Let me be clear. The term “photocopying machine” is so ambiguous that you can’t picture in your mind what a photocopying machine is in an office setting?
It would seem that rioting is equally difficult to picture in one’s mind even with a picture of a burning building in the background.
Courts often apply a plain meaning rule to such terms. Justice Antonin Scalia once opined in a dissenting opinion that “the acid test of whether a word can reasonably bear a particular meaning is whether you could use the word in that sense at a cocktail party without having people look at you funny.” He noted that in that case, “[t]he Court‘s assigned meaning would surely fail that test, even late in the evening.” Johnson v. United States, 529 U.S. 694, 718 (2000) (Scalia, J., dissenting). Since “no dictionary we have examined defines ‘device’ to encompass an animal,” the court concluded ruled out a DUI involving a “vehicle” that turned out to be a horse.
Nevertheless, courts continue to grapple over issues like whether a horse is a “device.” In one case, the court explored a DUI case on the basis of the definition of a vehicles as defined in Utah as “every device in, upon, or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway.” State v. Blowers, 717 P.2d 1321 (Utah 1986).
Just as “a rose by any other name would smell as sweet” in Shakespeare, a riot by any other name would seem just as violent.
We have been discussing the concern by many that networks like CNN shape the news to fit a narrative. Fox and MSNBC have been accused of the same practice. Many in the public do not know where to turn for unbiased reporting on the left or the right, according to various polls. Even in acknowledging the importance of the media to our system, the majority of citizens believe that the media actively misrepresents facts. Roughly half view the media as biased.
This is why.
Of course, this is looting and rioting. Ironically, the effort to call its “fiery protesting” only undermines the majority of peaceful protesters. It is not that difficult. You acknowledge the looting and rioting while saying that the majority of protesters remain peaceful. While it does not fit any particular narrative, it has the added benefit of being true.
I was required to do law courses in college and I worked as an expert witness alongside attorneys for decades. I have to admit that the term racial justice offends me.
As a black man In my 7th decade, I am painfully aware of the denial of justice we have historically experienced but maybe someone can tell me how justice can be assigned to race? Justice is blindfolded for a reason. The instant she peeks under the cloth and starts seeing gender, race, or any other immutable characteristics, justice she dies.
Racial justice is anathema to the concept of justice.
Convince me otherwise.
Justice being blindfolded is an aspiration, not an established fact, and is a metaphor, not a reality. Surely you wouldn’t deny that justice has not been met out without regard to race, gender, or other immutable characteristics. When that occurs “justice” needs to recognize it and take action to mitigate the injustice.
Cilizza resigned from journalism years ago and accepted a job as low rent shill.
No point elevating his status by referencing him by name. A simple “CNN correspondent says” would suffice.
Last night they had another Fiery but mostly peaceful riot in Portland.
https://www.infowars.com/they-hunted-him-down-friend-of-murdered-trump-supporter-speaks-out/
This is great! J H Kunstler:
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Bill of Particulars
The few times this Covid-19 year of seclusion that friends have come over for dinner, they’re horrified to hear me say that I will do whatever I can to prevent the Democrats from winning the election. I was never a big thumper for Donald Trump, and didn’t vote for him in 2016, but I will this time.
I’m in favor of his policy stands for defending the US border and stopping the flow of illegal migrants, on ending our foolish misadventures in foreign lands, on reducing the government’s stranglehold on private enterprise, and on opposing the matrix of rackets that make up the “DC swamp.” I admire Mr. Trump’s resilience in the face of a relentless assault by “the Intel Community,” the DC cabal of Lawfare seditionists, and the despicable confabulations of The New York Times and other media voices-of-authority captive to the Left.
I still view Mr. Trump as the designated bag-holder for the catastrophe of our economic quandary, but his political opponents would surely make things worse with their crypto-Marxist fantasies of a totalist American nanny-state. Few in any quarter of US leadership understand the long emergency we’ve entered, and most who do are too timid to spell out what it will actually require of us in the way of rigor and fortitude.
But here is my bill of particulars against the Democratic Party and what it has come to represent in recent years (and I write as someone who has remained a registered Democrat since 1972):
When their basic philosophy is not incoherent, it presents as explicit hypocrisy and bad faith. For instance, their Orwellian insistence on shutting down free speech in the name of “diversity and inclusion.” This malignant jive has just about destroyed higher education across the land. But it has also managed to infect business, government, and the arts, and turned the general population into cowering hostages willing to lie about their convictions to avoid “cancellation.”
The key to understanding the Democratic “progressive” ethos is this: the drive for coercion, the wish to push everybody around, to tell them how to think and what to do. There is an evil purity about the pleasure they appear to take in it, like children who enjoy tearing the wings off flies. They like to see their enemies squirm and plead in torment before “cancellation” makes them disappear from the scene. They like to extract confessions and apologies, not for the sake of redemption, but as grounds for further persecution. In short, they’re sadists.
They seek to erase every boundary of behavior that makes civilized life possible and overtly campaign to overthrow science and reason in the name of a new-and-improved form of racism. Math, history, and literature are too hard because they are products of “white supremacy.” Better get rid of all that — and while you’re at it, cancel white people on the basis of their sheer whiteness. Relations between men and women are not difficult enough; better gin up a campaign of grievance and resentment against men, disable them wherever possible, and militate against masculinity per se — turning America into a nation of pliable eunuchs.
Under their banner, anything goes and nothing matters. Violent anarchy is “mostly peaceful.” Looting is a form of “joyful liberation.” Anybody’s property is just their free stuff. (What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is mine.) Crime is the new entitlement. Self-defense is insulting to mobs. Thugs with long rap-sheets are exemplars of virtue and must be honored in violent rituals of civic destruction.
Those are general principles.
At the official level since 2016, they’ve played out in a set of pernicious campaigns against the public interest and common decency by the self-proclaimed “Resistance.” RussiaGate was, in the strict sense of the word, a conspiracy to overthrow a president carried out by a coordinated effort of high-ranking government employees across many agencies, who knew exactly what they were doing. It was an exercise in perfidy, bad faith, and lawlessness run by the very Department of Justice entrusted with enforcing federal law, including attorney Andrew Weissman’s clean-up crew fronted by the dishonorable figurehead Robert Mueller. It remains unresolved due to the tensions in that department and the obdurate resistance of the federal courts — for example in the three-year persecution of General Flynn. The eventual day that the hammer comes down on the perps of RussiaGate, if ever it does come, will be a moment of historic moral and ethical clarification in this sore-beset country.
The 2019 impeachment fiasco was a parallel ruse run by Representative Adam Schiff, former Department of Justice lawyer Mary McCord, and Lawfare warrior Daniel S. Goldman, with help from Resistance intriguers in the National Security Council, Eric Ciaramella and Alexander Vindman, and Hillary Clinton’s holdover confederates in the State Department. Mr. Ciaramella’s pretense to be acting as a “whistleblower” was a nakedly false act, illegally abetted by Intel Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson, himself a former DOJ RussiaGate player. It is amazing that neither of these two has been indicted for sedition.
Add to these matters the associated misdeeds in the FISA courts, the ridiculous, scurrilous charges against Supreme Court Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh by the mendacious Christine Blasey Ford, the ongoing schemes of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer to rig the vote with unverifiable mail-in ballots, and the wholesale acts against the public interest by Democratic mayors and governors such as Ted Wheeler, Kate Brown, Bill DeBlasio, Andrew Cuomo, Lorrie Lightfoot, J.B. Pritzker, Ralph Northam, Jacob Frey, Tim Walz, Muriel Bowser, Eric Garcetti, Gavin Newsome, Tony Evers and a wider rogues’ gallery of other Democratic party subalterns such as Minnesota AG Keith Ellison and NYC education Chancellor Richard Carranza and you have a nearly complete picture of this odious faction.
Finally, add the cherry-on-top: Democratic candidate for president, Joe Biden. Does anybody still believe he is a plausible chief executive — even in his own degenerate party? I doubt it. Why they engineered his nomination may remain one of the great mysteries of human existence. Except perhaps to speculate that their sadism has turned inward and become a suicidal death-wish. They are finally so miserably contemptible that they just want to end it all.
Personally, I don’t want to see any of these people anywhere near the levers of power in this country. Quite a few of them deserve to be in jail, and I believe before Mr. Trump’s second term is up, they will be — if they don’t try to wreck the United States altogether with new treasons in the November election. I’m against them heart and soul, and I no longer care what my old friends think about it.
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Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
To “Squeeky Fromm, Girl Reporter”:
A link? Quotation marks?
I know that you’d like to have written it, but you didn’t. You just copied it, “Squeeky Fromm.”
You can’t link it because wordpress will filter out the name of his blog. That is why I put his name on it. If you wish to find it, simply google “j h kunstler blog”.
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Kuntsler’s blog:
https://kunstler.com/
“Squeeky Fromm says:August 31, 2020 at 11:06 AM
You can’t link it because wordpress will filter out the name of his blog. That is why I put his name on it.”
While it may filter out links with references to ‘clusterf*ck’, it’s easy to link to the blog.
Yep, it is the “f” word that caused me problems posting it here. I did not notice he had the other option. Glad somebody pointed it out to me.
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
This fool is too stupid to have a keyboard in his hands.
All the sins of “Democrats” that he lists are not beliefs that our candidate and our platform favor. How he gets to a centrist democrat who beat the Bernie wing easily, suddenly favoring things which even Bernie rejects is proof of the writer’s idiocy.
Just keep on telling yourself that. While Portland and Kenosha burn. Oh look! A squirrel!
Seriously, you need to face up to what an insane and delusional bunch of freaks that the Democrats have become. I used to be a Democrat, so I can reassure you that you will feel better when you don’t have to be a part of that Bizarro Universe anymore.
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Interesting persuasion technique on the part of Cillizza.
What we are seeing is the post-disconfirmation period of the Democrats’ cognitive dissonance (CD) problem. They are like the UFO cult in the 5o’s that was the basis of the CD study. The Midwest was not flooded, and the Aliens did not come to pick up the cult, and yet they did not want to admit they were mislead and wrong and stupid. Sooo, they changed the story to being that the Aliens were testing their faith.
The Democrats delusions about blacks being broke and stupid and violent because of white oppression, and not their own lousy life choices, has been disconfirmed. But, the Democrats can’t let go of that narrative. Some out of a cynical desire for votes, and others because they are really stupid. So now, looting a Nuke Store has become a de facto form of reparations. Rioting and burning car dealerships has become “peaceful demonstrations”, and Democrat prosecutors are refusing to prosecute black looters and rioters. Their Race Narrative does not permit them to do anything else. How can you prosecute a black criminal when it isn’t their fault, but instead the fault of Robert E. Lee, slavery, the electoral college, rebel flags and White Supremacy???
You are going to see more ridiculous mischaracterizations and intellectual zaniness just like you did back in the 1800s with the Millerite End of the World Cult. More and more people are going to begin laughing at Democrats and seeing them as the delusional idiots they truly are. If you view this as a fantastic exercise in mass delusions becoming unwound, it can become morbidly fascinating. But stay well-armed in the meantime.
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Get the jacket with the really long arms. She’s out and off her meds.
I am NOT off my meds! I took my Red Pill just this morning!
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
If that’s you on reds, for crissake state away from the whites.
“Riot” is pronounced as “rye utt”.
I have 2 family members who are lifelong liberals and they have both stopped watching CNN because they no longer trust the reporting. One lives in Portland, so that person has plenty of other sources of information to compare to CNN’s coverage.
I know it’s a small sample size, but I wouldn’t be surprised if was happening more and more.
Try reading Reuters, BBC, CBC only for a month. Then read WAPO, NYTimes, Foxnews, Washington Times. You will see, clearly, just how polarized America is. You can blame in on either party. However, no one exploits division as much as Trump. The root cause is having only two parties/choices, one more than a dictatorship. The reason for this dysfunctional system is that the US is an oligarchy and an oligarchy to function must remain in the background. What greater a smokescreen than the chaos, lies, and division created by the present two party system. When certain foundations of a true democracy are not treated as consumer items, costing what the market will bear and subject to graft, grift, and functioning by the golden rule, ‘charge as much as the market will bear’ or get away with as much untruth as possible, a democracy dies.
So where would you prefer to live and why don’t you go there?
It’s not about changing places but changing the place where you live. Any true patriot knows that society to survive has to evolve, progress, get better. First thing is to get rid of all the ‘If you don’t like it why don’t you leave.’ idiots. Then, get rid of the ‘My country right or wrong.’ disasters. And so on, evolving, progressing, to a higher level of social consciousness. For then, and only then, the individual can be free.
I am not telling you to leave. I am asking why you don’t go to wherever you think you would like life more. I would. Most of the folks storming our borders are trying to do the same. They are smarter than you. They go where the grass is greener. You prefer to not move and sit and poop in your own nest.
” However, no one exploits division as much as Trump. ”
You could be right because there is such a sharp divide. Trump supports the people and our Constitutional Republic. The democrats support criminals in governement and place our national interests and the people behind China, Russia and Iran. Thank you Issac for pointing that out.
People like you always blame Trump for the divisions in this country. The reality is that everything Trump does is interpreted in the worst possible way and then parroted as fact. This has happened the whole time and is why so many people feel comfortable calling him a racist – not because of any credible evidence, but just because it’s been said so many times and based on complete BS. Then, with those ‘facts’, the left blames all social unrest on his ‘divisiveness’ on race, etc. while they throw gas on the fire at every turn.
Trump can be a jerk, but there are far more real villains out there and they’ve literally trying to tear apart the country in an effort to regain power.
Both Conservatives and Progressives benefit from the U.S. Constitution’s legal prohibition on “Guilt-by-Association” tactics by police and prosecutor (officials that swear an oath not to do this). So both sides should tell their representatives in state legislatures and Congress to uphold the “supreme law of the land” and stop using illegal “Guilt-by-Association” tactics.
For example: if a single nut, belonging to the NRA or Tea Party, committed violence at a rally, does that allow authorities to violate the 4th Amendment rights of the other million members of a group? Does just belonging to the NRA or Tea Party, allow warrantless searches, of the millions of peaceful members of that group that would never commit violence? Is there any harm in searching the computers and Facebook posts of those millions of Americans? Officials will tell you “if you have nothing to hide, why mind if an unelected bureaucrat snoops into your private affairs”. If one nut commits violence is it okay to beat up the peaceful demonstrators?
If it’s illegal authority to violate the rights of NRA and Tea Party members, why is it acceptable for officials to break the law using “Guilt-by-Association” tactics on Black Lives Matters protesters? More than 90% of BLM supporters are non-violent and law abiding. Maybe you disagree with their legal 1st Amendment activity but why support illegal practices by some (not all) police chiefs and attorneys general? It hurts your cause also.
There needs to be investigation into who is organizing and funding the looting and riots, especially in light of many participants not being local.
I disagree with JT’s statement about Trump in which he says “Trump is using the violence to reinforce a law-and-order theme while Democratic politicians are blaming him for the violence and calling for the 2020 election to be a referendum on racial justice.” Trump isn’t “using the violence” — he didn’t “create” the violence or “instigate” the violence or “encourage” the violence (the latest Democrat talking points) — rather the Democrat mayors and/or governors were derelict in their duties of protecting the people and their homes and businesses. This strategy is being done to help Biden win, and for Trump to not call for law and order makes no sense–it would be surprising if Trump had not called for it. The part of JT’s statement about the Democrats claiming the the riots are a “referendum on racial justice” is true, but I don’t think many of the public is buying into this at this point because the card has been dramatically overplayed.
The next phase of BLM are taking the intimidation marches and crime that ALWAYS follows them into the small towns and suburbs.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-08-30/black-lives-matter-in-small-town-pennsylvania
We knew this was coming and we better be ready. Call your local police and ask them what anti-riot measures are planned if BLM and ANTIFA come to a neighborhood near you.
If your local sheriff has none, then YOU MUST VOTE THEM OUT.
Take the temperature of this NOW and makes notes and organize local political efforts accordingly. Get to work. God helps those who help themselves.
Wisconsin Oath of Office for Public Officials:
“I, (official’s name), having been elected or appointed to the office of (title) swear (or affirm) that I will support the constitution of the United States and the constitution of the State of Wisconsin, and will faithfully and impartially discharge the duties of said office to the best of my ability. So help me God.”
Are the burned out business owners of Kenosha getting protection under the US constitution?
Semantics, the warm and fuzzy place for lawyers, their refuge.
Arrest and jail those: who show up at demonstrations armed with guns, bottles, clubs, weapons of any sort. Arson=10 years in the slammer. Vandalism=5 years in the slammer. Looting=10 years in the slammer. Found with a gun=5 years in the slammer and felony/never allowed to posses a firearm for life. Etc. etc….
If you’re going to protest then it should only be legal if you do it with your voice=freedom of speech. There is nothing in the Constitution that gives anyone the right to protest with fire, looting, guns, etc.
When a legal protest turns illegal, it is a riot of anything else you want to call it.
I guess your solution is for Trump to stop using these “riots” for his political gain. He should just stop commenting, go about his business in other areas and allow the situation in Portland to burn Itself out. I wonder when the Portland Mayor would ask for aid?
There’s a difference between Trump commenting and Trump inciting. Trump goes over the line to reinforce confrontation. Trump has always fostered division. Trump’s strategy is if he can divide and get an advantage, then screw the half of America that is not represented. This has been his way from the beginning, no morals, no justice, no fairness, no admission of guilt, just winning at any cost. Except the cost is to America.
You are projecting — this is the Democrat and mainstream media MO.
JT must own stock in MSNBC. Nothing else explains his obsessive bird dogging of CNN, as though the other cable “news” networks were paragons of fairness, reserve, and error free news coverage.
What a joke!
Our major problems are not with any of these networks – and especially not with just one – but with the political leaders with real power, most of whom – not all – we voters put there.Why are you wasting your time on this twiddle JT, other than finding red meat for your right wing base and indirectly helping MSNBC?
Btb, buys the notion that if riots aren’t reported they never happened and democrat mayors and governors couldn’t be blamed.
Bythebook,
“Our major problems are not with any of these networks – and especially not with just one – but with the political leaders with real power, most of whom – not all – we voters put there.”
It’s a corporatist system, so our problem is with all of the above.
Prairie, we have had a press dominated by business interests and rich guys for practically all of our history. If we can’t handle it as citizens we are doomed and it is our responsibility alone. What is the alternative?.
THE TRUTH….But corporate media has no business with the truth, it just does not make a profit telling facts and the truth. If those media behemoths told the facts they know their would be riots from both sides of political aisle.
Fish, what is the alternative that yields “the Truth” as you imagine it? Do you think Americans were previously told “the Truth” more than they are now? When they had more choices for sources?
They are in the business of selling soap, not controlling the world and always have been. If they can do that and spin the news in a way to the liking of the owners they’ll do it, but if they can’t keep selling soap they won’t do it very long. This is where we come in. We are the ones buying the soap.and keeping them on the air and printing papers.
“If those media behemoths told the facts they know their would be riots from both sides of political aisle.”
+100
But corporate media has no business with the truth, it just does not make a profit telling facts and the truth.
I won’t disagree with your point. What’s missing from your comment however, is why they profit from telling lies. The straight answer is, because people are buying it. Caveat Emptor. Whether it be what politicians are selling, what the media is selling, what the neighborhood lemonade stand is selling. This experiment in citizen government should have come with a warning label: Citizens should never trust what they are told, especially without supporting evidence. The risk of government abusing their power was known from the very beginning. For this fact alone, we should never have permitted the government to control our system of education. The bottom line is this; politicians and the media will continue to sell whatever people will buy.
By the Book,
It is not our responsibility alone. They, too, have a responsibility.
“They are in the business of selling soap, not controlling the world and always have been. If they can do that and spin the news in a way to the liking of the owners they’ll do it, but if they can’t keep selling soap they won’t do it very long. This is where we come in. We are the ones buying the soap.and keeping them on the air and printing papers.”
We are not the ones doing the advertising or the marketing. People would buy soap regardless. Of course, if this changed, the market would very likely decrease because we’d no longer be ‘consumers’.
“We are the ones buying the soap.and keeping them on the air and printing papers.” I do agree with this. However, who sells the advertising to the media outlets? Which brings me back to it’s a corporatist system. The grasshoppers are steering us. Remember the Maine.
Good question book. the alternative is to re-open the internet by using antitrust to force the big oligopolies of Facebook & Twitter to treat their public comment spaces as utilities and not their own private property.
Or if they want to keep on actively editing away all the stuff they don’t like, then they lose section 230 protections.
This won’t solve every problem but it will solve some of the recent abuses shutting up voices they don’t like.
And these modest actions would have no First amendment problems at all.
I own cigarette and pot stocks. I own gun and weapons manufacturer stocks and casino stocks. I am not very picky about such things. However–
I WOULD NEVER LOWER MYSELF TO OWNING ‘MASS MEDIA STOCKS” and that includes the AI enhanced lie machine called “Twitter”
I believe ATT owns CNN via Time Warner LLC. I would NEVER own ATT shares just because of all their excessive leverage. To say nothing of the disgusting lame money losing asset CNN which is itself an enemy of the people of America. SELL & SHORT ATT
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Professor, there may be distrust of the media because of reporting but I don’t think that distrust should exist when the news shows that democrat mayors and governors in different states are refusing to put down riots that are destroying entire neighborhoods. Of course this news should be plastered all over until the mayors and governors act reasonably to end the rioting and violence.
Are we going to believe our lying eyes?
It is racist to deny the party line and trust what you see for yourself.
Free speech is fine but not taxpayer subsidized like ultra left NPR.
Right, there’s nothing to see here, folks, just a group of peaceful protesters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bspah3Zcs8k
What Glenn Reynolds said: the media are mostly garbage people paid to lie for the benefit of the Democratic Party.
We know they are mostly peaceful RIOTS!
Stopping violence and maintaining law and order is part of government’s responsibilities. Trump advocates for law and order the Democrats do not. That tells us that Democrats do not have the mindset to lead this country.
All the demonstrations, RIOTS are so similar from start to finish that it appears there are larger forces at work. Planning, funding, types of offensive weapons used by Protestors who is in control? I personally think there should be a Nation wide blue flu day for all the cities experiencing riots, let the mob rule as in France in late 1700’s.
BLM is a paid nationwide criminal conspiracy, not a charity. They are a massive racketeering operation, which involves protection rackets shaking down businesses for illegal street tax, and, a nationwide voter intimidation campaign. The leadership should be rounded up and imprisoned and charged under RICO. The financiers who helped plan this, are suspect co-conspirators as well. Soros perhaps or whomever their books will show has doled out the big money, once all assets and books are seized.
Failure to take action against this criminal operation is not very impressive, but, we understand they are acting for the benefit of Democratic national committee’s benefits, the top Dem candidates, and so they are comitting their crimes with apparent impunity
Voting for the federal Democrat candidates is now basically voting for BLM to continue its riots and intimidation and voting for crime against Americans who disagree with the Dem leadership agenda. I know a lot of local Dem candidates are against these crimes and not on board with it. It varies a lot. There are local Democrats right in my neck of the woods of flyover who are intimidated by the BLM scoundrels and there are Democrats who are enraged with them. Trust me it is not just Trump voters who dislike crime and criminals, there are yet still decent and law abiding Democrats out there.
But the choice between Trump and Biden, is crystal clear. Want BLM ANTIFA riots and looting and arson and violence? Vote Biden. Want an end to it? Vote Trump. Come a clear mandate , Trump will be able to act with greater energy to put these scoundrels away.
“appears there are larger forces at work. ”
I have little doubt. I believe the core of Antifa and BLM travel from one place to the next and recruit people along the way. They have a lot more violent people since the jails were opened up.
Look at the three that were shot in Kenosha. All three had records. That can be considered more than coincidental.