Collection – George Floyd Protests May 30 – June 1,
2020
June 1, 2020
What started as legal protests under the first amendment, of
the killing of a black American in Minneapolis by the police, is no longer
that. It has become a full bore,
seditious insurrection by domestic terrorists.
Nearly one hundred percent of our cities that have been
attacked for the past seven days are governed by democrats, and have been
designated by their leaders as “sanctuary cities”. So are many of the states democrat run, and
are also “sanctuary states”.
The one thing that is increasingly evident from the riots
and breaking and entering and looting taking place across these cities, is that
these democrat-run state and local governments are incapable or unwilling to
control the extremist left-wing anarchists and other agitators inciting and
fomenting these riots and destroying our city infrastructure, monuments and
even places of worship. One would think
that the fact that the democrats cannot or will not keep our cities safe would
be a major point in upcoming elections.
The fact that nearly all of these cities and states
literally being destroyed by extremist left-wing mobs, are being administered
by democrats is not something you’ll hear on Don Lemon or Rachel Maddow or
Chuck Todd. Neither will you hear this
fact on your local ABC, NBC or CBS local news broadcast, or read about it in
the New York Times or Washington Post. You may hear about it on Fox and read
about it in the National Review or the Wall Street Journal if you trend toward
the right of politics.
Every American should remember how horribly inept the
democrat administrations have been in keeping our cities safe. The democrats have replaced common sense
administrative and law and order practices with weakened identity-politics based
mismanagement.
June 1, 2020
I think we need to remember that there are essentially two
types of groups taking part in the protests and riots in our cities. The first of these group are legal First
Amendment protesters demonstrating against the death of a black American while
in custody of the Minneapolis police.
The second group or groups are what appear to be extreme external
left-wing anarchist, Antifa style agitators, that have come into various
cities, from outside, to incite and participate in criminal rioting and
violence. Also, there seems to be some
overlap between the two groups, because some of the legal protesters have been
incited to riot by the agitators.
There needs to be a federal effort to determine who is
financing the outside agitators and bring them to justice. These outside agitators don’t just
simultaneously appear on their own, in 50 plus U.S. cities, with professional
protest signs, back packs and other tools to facilitate rioting, without
somebody financing them.
June 1, 2020
Voices of reason. One
of the reasons that I am partial to the National Review.
June 1, 2020
We have to be sympathetic to American citizens who have a
darker skin color, because bigotry does still exist in parts of our American
society, and unfortunately this includes some of our law enforcement. That’s not to say, as identity politics professes,
that racism is “systemic” across our culture.
The vast majority of Americans in the 2020’s are tolerant and
fair-minded people that accept the equality and equal rights of all Americans,
regardless of skin color, ethnicity and ancestral origin.
But we continue to hear stories of, particularly, black men,
being harassed by the police simply because of their skin color. This is an example of that residual bigotry
that needs to be dissipated in our society.
But how? These racist beliefs are
ingrained in a small segment of our society, and that includes some police, and
cannot be blasted out with laws, social mores or any other immediate social
niceties. Only long-term education can
slowly wear down these unhealthy beliefs.
June 1, 2020
Do the authorities know, specifically, who is responsible
for the rioting, violence and criminal behavior over these last five days? Some of this, no doubt is spillover from
legal protests by hotheads, perhaps spurred on by external agitators. And there have been numerous and increasing
reports of extreme left-wing anarchists and Antifa agitators inciting,
fomenting and participating in much of this criminal activity. Right wing groups have apparently also been
sighted, but these seemed to be more observational, rather than participating
in criminal activities.
There have been multiple arrests around the country for a
variety of crimes related to the rioting.
Its time for the forensic accountants in the Justice Department to
“follow the money”. Who funded these
criminal agitators? Of course, the
pathways from the deep pocket activists financing groups like Antifa and other
anarchist groups have been obscured, but surely these are not beyond the scope
of modern forensic techniques to unravel.
Let’s put the FBI, Treasury, NSA, and whoever else, to work, and find
out the origin of the money to finance such massive criminal disruptions to our
society. The organization,
transportation, professional signs and other trappings necessary to sustain the
violence and riots did not just magically appear. They were financed by someone. Let’s find out who, and bring them to
justice.
May 31, 2020
Infogalactic is an unbiased information web site which is normally
more neutral than the corresponding Wikipedia source. These are the relevant links about the George
Floyd riots in the U.S.
May 31, 2020
C’mon Trump and Barr, get off your rear ends and invoke
Article IV of the Constitution. Dozens of U.S. cities are being desecrated,
primarily by anarchist, Antifa style mobs that have nothing to do with the legal
protests of George Floyd’s death. Our
national monuments in D.C. have been “graffitied”. This is no longer a Federalist issue. It is a country-wide, seditious
insurrection. Time to act federally, and
not to leave the issue to the weak, democrat, sanctuary cities and states. The federal government has the legal right to
stop this. Time to stop the tweeting and
the rhetoric, and time to act, to stop the rioting, thievery and destruction.
“Under Article IV of the Constitution, the United States
guarantees every state a republican form of government, protection against
invasion, and — “to suppress, in any State, any insurrection, domestic
violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy.” Obviously, suppressing such
attacks requires deploying the United States armed forces as needed. Article IV
endows the president with unilateral authority to put down insurrection and
invasion. “Insurrection,” of course, is a violent uprising against the
authority of the state. Therefore, it encompasses the concept of broad-scale
domestic violence. The Insurrection Act codifies this reality by expressly
empowering the president to suppress domestic violence and conspiracies to
carry it out.”
May 31, 2020
There is rioting in cities all over the country this weekend,
fueled by a smartphone recording that purportedly shows a Minneapolis cop
killing a helpless black American, George Floyd, by kneeling on his neck, while
Mr. Floyd pleads for living breath. The
recording by itself, is damning to the Minneapolis cops in its racist
brutality. The situation has apparently
been made more incendiary by the presence of external, extreme left-wing Antifa
type agitators, inciting an already angry public, to violence, rioting and
physical destruction in motr than 50 U.S. cities.
Derek Chauvin, the cop kneeling on Mr. Floyd’s neck in the
recording has been arrested for third degree murder, and is in jail awaiting
arraignment and trial.
But apparently, all is not as it first appears in the
smartphone recording that has been spread all over the mainstream media. This analysis by Andy McCarthy, a former
Assistant U.S. Attorney for the New York Southern District, is a rational and
legal analysis of the charges against Mr. Chauvin, the cop in question. While not trying to detract from George
Floyd’s death while in the custody of the Minneapolis police, the charges
against Mr. Chauvin raise numerous issues that cannot be derived from the
incendiary smartphone recording. We
should have learned by now that a rush to judgement should never be the answer
to charged emotional issues, but apparently our mainstream media never proceeds
with caution, and always exacerbates the situation.
May 31, 2020
There are two corrosive elements at play in the riots taking
place across our cities in the aftermath of the apparent murder of George
Floyd, a black American citizen in Minneapolis by several racist policemen.
The first of these is the bigotry that is endemic to a
relatively small, but not insignificant portion of our population. This ingrained bigotry still spans our
country, North and South, East and West, rich and poor, and across ethnic and
racial lines. This bigotry has been
historically ingrained, and adherents are slow in joining the rest of the
country in accepting the fact that we are (legal} Americans, with equal rights
under the law, no matter our ethnic origins, our skin color, and what we look
like.
This bigotry cannot be ameliorated by rhetoric from our
politicians, by equal rights laws, or any other external attempts to change
it. This bigotry is the product of
generations of ingrained beliefs that will not change because someone external
to the group doesn’t like these beliefs. Only long-term education in our schools,
churches and society in general will ultimately break through these corrosive
and self-serving belief systems.
Some of the valid first amendment protesters are
demonstrating against this bigotry as “racism”.
But, for the most part, they have targeted all Caucasians of being
racist, without acknowledging that targeting a whole ethnic group exemplifies the
same type of unfair bigotry.
The other elements at play in the riots in our cities (riots,
in this case - not first amendment protests), are external groups, (anarchists,
Antifa, communists), that are just using the legal demonstrations as cover to
further their own political ends. They
could care less about George Floyd, other than as a cover for their own
activities. These are the extreme
left-wing political agitators that we see burning police cruisers, breaking and
entering and looting stores, and otherwise destroying infrastructure and
inciting riotous behavior. Arrests have
shown that most of these agitators are not from the cities where they are
operating, but have travelled there from out of town or out of state.
We’ve seen these agitators before. In Ferguson, Charlotte, Baltimore, Milwaukee,
and in the anti-Trump riots in 2016-17.
Left-wing politicians and their mainstream media accomplices play down
the presence of these leftist political agitators and lump them together with
legal first amendment protesters. When
identified for what they are, (left-wing political operatives), the
preponderant leftist machine cries “right-wing conspiracy theory”, or worse. But who pays for these agitators and political
operatives to travel into our troubled cities?
Who pays for the professional-looking signs? Who organizes these people? It is beyond credibility that the same types
of political agitators show up simultaneously at 50-odd U.S/ cities on any
given time and day. Someone has to be
financing them.
George Soros has been mentioned as being responsible for
funding subversive groups, always to vehement denials by Soros and his minions,
loudly proclaiming, “right-wing
conspiracy theory”. Soros does donate to
left-wing causes, but so do many others.
This is a short list of major donors to left-wing causes:
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2020
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Rank
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Contributor
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To
Dems & Liberals
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1
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Steyer,
Thomas & F. & Kathryn Ann
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$36,988,295
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Fahr
LLC/Tom Steyer
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San
Francisco, CA
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3
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Sussman,
S. Donald
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$20,893,700
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Paloma
Partners
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Ft
Lauderdale, FL
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5
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Bloomberg,
Michael R.
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$19,273,084
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City
of New York, NY
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New
York, NY
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6
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Jurvetson,
Karla
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$18,524,275
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Karla
Jurvetson MD
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Atlanta,
GA
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8
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Eychaner,
Fred
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$12,733,500
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Newsweb
Corp
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Chicago,
IL
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10
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Simon,
Deborah J.
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$10,060,193
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Simon
Youth Foundation
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Carmel,
IN
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12
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Simons,
James H. & Marilyn H.
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$8,946,201
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Renaissance
Technologies/Simons Fdtn
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New
York, NY
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13
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Marcus,
George M. & Judith
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$8,540,700
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Marcus
& Millichap
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Palo
Alto, CA
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14
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Laufer,
Henry B. & Marsha Z.
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$8,344,770
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Renaissance
Technologies
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Lantana,
FL
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15
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Soros,
George
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$7,756,236
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Soros
Fund Management
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New
York, NY
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17
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Bekenstein,
Joshua & Anita
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$6,689,265
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Bain
Capital
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Wayland,
MA
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19
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Klarman,
Seth A. & Beth S.
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$6,035,200
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Baupost
Group
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Chestnut
Hill, MA
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22
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Broad,
Eli & Edythe
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$4,974,200
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Broad
Foundation
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Los
Angeles, CA
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23
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Hoffman,
Reid Garrett
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$4,739,914
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|
Linkedin
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Mountain
View, CA
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26
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Skjodt,
Paul
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$4,390,100
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Samerian
Foundation
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Carmel,
IN
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27
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Spielberg,
Steven & Capshaw, Kate
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$4,340,648
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DreamWorks
SKG
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Los
Angeles, CA
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29
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Goldman-Fowler,
Amy P. & Cary Fowler
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$4,306,296
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Sol
Goldman Investments
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New
York, NY
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31
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Schwartz,
Bernard L. & Irene
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$3,746,756
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Loral
Space & Communications
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New
York, NY
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32
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Mandel,
Stephen Frank Jr. & Susan Z.
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$3,485,233
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Lone
Pine Capital
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||
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Greenwich,
CT
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34
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Abraham,
S. Daniel & Ewa
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$3,385,800
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Slim
Fast
|
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West
Palm Beach, FL
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36
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Jordan,
Wayne D. & DeLaney, M. Quinn
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$3,286,179
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Jordan
Real Estate Invest/Akonadi Fdtn
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||
|
Oakland,
CA
|
||
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39
|
Jacobs,
Irwin M. & Joan K.
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$2,855,875
|
|
Qualcomm
Inc
|
||
|
La
Jolla, CA
|
||
|
40
|
Minsky-Primus,
Lisa S.
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$2,842,999
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|
Jane
Street Capital
|
||
|
New
York, NY
|
||
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41
|
Saban,
Haim & Cheryl
|
$2,669,552
|
|
Saban
Capital Group
|
||
|
Los
Angeles, CA
|
||
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Totals
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$209,808,971
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This spate of rioting in our cities will pass until the next
democrat inner city incident is blown up to national proportions. Unfortunately, the people that will be hurt
most by these riots are the minority small business owners and residents in the
inner city areas destroyed by the rioting. More unfortunately, no matter what
the Trump administration does to improve the economic well-being of minorities
in the inner cities, Trump will never be given credit for this, and will always
be called a “RACIST”, for parsed statements taken out of context by the biased
“hate-Trump” media.
May 30, 2020
I’ve been watching more demonstrations and riots across many
cities in the country. So far, there
seem to be two distinct groups – the first being a valid, constitutional,
protest group, demonstrating relatively peacefully against the killing of a
defenseless George Floyd in Minneapolis.
The other group, or groups, seem more concerned with rioting, destroying
property, breaking and entering and looting, and causing bodily harm. These are the violent, extreme left-wing anarchist
or Antifa types that are there, more to sow political discord, then out of any
concern for George Floyd.
The authorities in various cities seem to have identified
these groups and are acting accordingly.
But there is another real danger in this volatile situation which has
not happened yet, and that we can only hope will not happen.
That is the extreme right wing, which has been dormant so
far, but elements of which I’m sure are itching to get out into the streets
with their AR’s and AK’s, “an teach them pinko sumbitches a lesson”. The right-wing redneck types are normally
pretty dormant, although they are blamed for a lot more than they actually do,
by the leftists and the media. But they
can be fierce if they get fired up and bring out their torches, stars and bars,
swastika-like symbols and guns.
Neo-fascism, although nearly extinct, is still a living example of the
extreme end of the bigotry that still haunts our country.
May 30, 2020
The salient feature of Antifa groups is that they are known
for their militant protest tactics, which includes property damage and physical
violence. They tend to be
anti-government and anti-capitalist, and they are predominantly far left and
militant left, which includes anarchists, communists and socialists. George Soros is known to back and fund the
U.S. Antifa movement.
Ray Gruszecki, June 6, 2020
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