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Darkness Falls: The collapse of the rule of law across the country, intensified by Antifa radicals, is terrifying.
City Journal ^ | May 31, 2020 | Heather Mac Donald

Posted on 06/01/2020 7:16:22 AM PDT by karpov

Savagery is spreading with lightning speed across the United States, with murderous assaults on police officers and civilians and the ecstatic annihilation of businesses and symbols of the state. Welcome to a real civilization-destroying pandemic, one that makes the recent saccharine exhortations to “stay safe” and the deployment of police officers to enforce outdoor mask-wearing seem like decadent bagatelles.

This particular form of viral chaos was inevitable, given the failure of Minneapolis’s leaders to quell the city’s growing mayhem. The violence began on Tuesday, May 26, the day after the horrifying arrest and subsequent death of George Floyd. On the night of Thursday, May 28, Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey ordered the city’s Third Police Precinct evacuated as the forces of hatred, distinct from legitimate forms of protest, descended upon it for a third day in a row. The building was promptly torched, sending a powerful sign that society would not defend its most fundamental institutions of law and order.

On Friday, May 29, Minnesota governor Tim Walz explained his reluctance to mobilize the National Guard as an unwillingness to seem “oppressive.” Naturally, he apologized for his white privilege—“I will not patronize you as a white man without living [your] lived experiences”—and explained the feral violence as an understandable response to racial injustice: “The ashes are symbolic of decades and generations of pain, of anguish, unheard.” Few arrests were made after five days of rampant crime.

The media, visibly exhilarated by this latest explosion of black rage, had its own explanation for the chaos: people were outraged that the officer who had kept his knee on Floyd’s neck for a sickening eight-plus minutes had not yet been arrested and charged.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial
KEYWORDS: civilunrest; heathermacdonald; minnesota; obamalegacy; riots
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1 posted on 06/01/2020 7:16:22 AM PDT by karpov
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I’d just like to put in a good word for right wing radicals, too.


2 posted on 06/01/2020 7:18:24 AM PDT by babble-on
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To: babble-on

Go away troll


3 posted on 06/01/2020 7:19:56 AM PDT by cowboyusa (America Cowboy Up)
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To: karpov

Aunt Teefuh? Surely the author means Oath Keepers, proud boys, kkk, white Naught-Zee supremacists, evangelical bible thumpers etc., etc. Or russians as suzee rice thinks.


4 posted on 06/01/2020 7:20:11 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: karpov

What is far more disturbing is the traitorous betrayal by Demonicrat and RINOcrat governors and mayors who are willingly giving aid and comfort to the insurrectionist enemies of the United States by allowing them to pillage, burn, riot, rob, beat, murder, and attack the lives and property of U.S. citizens.

Such governors and mayors belong in jails awaiting capital charges for their crimes.


5 posted on 06/01/2020 7:22:01 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: karpov

What is far more disturbing is the traitorous betrayal by Demonicrat and RINOcrat governors and mayors who are willingly giving aid and comfort to the insurrectionist enemies of the United States by allowing them to pillage, burn, riot, rob, beat, murder, and attack the lives and property of U.S. citizens.

Such governors and mayors belong in jails awaiting capital charges for their crimes.


6 posted on 06/01/2020 7:22:05 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: karpov

What is far more disturbing is the traitorous betrayal by Demonicrat and RINOcrat governors and mayors who are willingly giving aid and comfort to the insurrectionist enemies of the United States by allowing them to pillage, burn, riot, rob, beat, murder, and attack the lives and property of U.S. citizens.

Such governors and mayors belong in jails awaiting capital charges for their crimes.


7 posted on 06/01/2020 7:22:05 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: babble-on

“I’d just like to put in a good word for right wing radicals, too.”

I haven’t seen any. Who do you think they are?


8 posted on 06/01/2020 7:23:36 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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To: karpov

Good time to mention again that “antifa” is just a re-branding of the same violent anarchists who have been fomenting public disorder since the 1990s


9 posted on 06/01/2020 7:23:56 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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Such governors and mayors belong in jails awaiting capital charges for their crimes.

They should also make good business losses (except for companies like Target, who are encouraging the insurrection).

10 posted on 06/01/2020 7:24:21 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (With every passing day, I am a little bit gladder that Romney lost in 2012.)
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To: karpov

Vote Democrat!


11 posted on 06/01/2020 7:24:33 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: karpov

Direct result of ignoring that the Kenyan from Indonesia is not a natural born citizen.

Words have meaning or the Constitution is an illusion.


12 posted on 06/01/2020 7:24:41 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Carl Vehse

More incentive for law-abiding citizens to move away from large urban areas, to rural ones.

Unfortunately, this rent-a-riot phenomenon is only going to get progressively worse.


13 posted on 06/01/2020 7:25:15 AM PDT by BrexitBen
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To: Carl Vehse

It almost seems as though Democrat governors and mayors are using these riots to punish the citizenry for not embracing leftism.


14 posted on 06/01/2020 7:25:16 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: karpov
This is the beginning of a revolution.

Numbers 32:20 So Moses said to them, "If you will do this, if you will arm yourselves before the Lord for the war,
Numbers 32:21 and all of you armed men cross over the Jordan before the Lord until He has driven His enemies out from before Him,
Numbers 32:22 and the land is subdued before the Lord, then afterward you shall return and be free of obligation toward the Lord and toward Israel, and this land shall be yours for a possession before the Lord. Numbers 32:23 "But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against the Lord, and be sure your sin will find you out.

We must turn back to God, pray that He save us, go out and crush this rebellion, or we will lose the country.

15 posted on 06/01/2020 7:26:39 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: BenLurkin
How dare they!

how did he mean that?

16 posted on 06/01/2020 7:27:16 AM PDT by BipolarBob (Johnny Cash " I coughed on a man in Reno, just to watch him die" on the Covid Prison Blues album)
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To: BenLurkin

Their roots go back way before the 1990s or even the 1960s. The destructive power of American Progressivism goes back to the early days of the communists.


17 posted on 06/01/2020 7:27:17 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: BenLurkin
Good time to mention again that “antifa” is just a re-branding of the same violent anarchists who have been fomenting public disorder since the 1990s

You must be young. Try the 1960s.

18 posted on 06/01/2020 7:27:28 AM PDT by libertylover (Socialism will always look good to those who think they can get something for nothing.)
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To: karpov
The media, visibly exhilarated by this latest explosion of black rage

Led by the likes of race agitator Gayle King.

19 posted on 06/01/2020 7:27:45 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (#openupstateny)
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To: Carl Vehse

There is only one way to stop this. Use the force necessary to arrest the instigators and the rest will fade away.

Instead we have leaders telling police not to intervene, threatening to investigate the police’s behavior while they are getting pelted with rocks, urine, bottles, spit, and even Molotov cocktails, and for those arrested for rioting they are slapped on the wrist and released immediately from jail.

The riots will continue under these circumstances.


20 posted on 06/01/2020 7:28:18 AM PDT by volunbeer (Find the truth and accept it - anything else is delusional)
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