Posted on 06/01/2020 7:27:59 AM PDT by karpov
Leaving my Manhattan apartment last night, I saw a glow down the street: someone had shoved two large street planters and some garbage cans into the intersection and set them ablaze. People milled around, looking at the scene as fire trucks rolled up. A man started to shove the burned-out waste toward the curb and got into an argument with a fireman. “I just want to get it out of the street so people can move!” he said. The fireman shrugged, and together they pulled the scorched street furniture out of traffic.
Roving groups of youngish black guys walked and biked around, hyped-up, eying the police presence. On 13th Street, I passed the remains of an NYPD van—incongruously parked in its place between two civilian vehicles—that had been torched and burnt to its skeleton. One of the clutches of kids walked by, cooing admiringly, “Oooh, they lit it up. Black lives matter, y’all.”
On 14th Street, a few dozen protestors, all white, blocked traffic while police stood by a paddy wagon and a handful of arrestees sitting on the curb. The protesters desultorily chanted, “How do you spell racist? NYPD,” until the cops moved on them suddenly, clearing the street.
As Mayor Bill de Blasio, to his credit, has acknowledged, an element of organized provocation is at work here, largely driven by anarchists and Antifa types—not the white supremacists or Russian infiltrators of liberal fantasy. The provocateurs are employing aggressive “Black Bloc”-style tactics of integrating themselves into crowds, only to lash out violently, hoping to set off a mob-style chain reaction or a disproportionate show of force from the police. The troublemakers then retreat into the mass in order to disguise themselves.
The Shader sisters exemplify this phenomenon of outside agitation.
(Excerpt) Read more at city-journal.org ...
Where ever the cops have been asked to stand down, the government is on the side of the rioters. They almost have to stand down because they will get killed from behind if they don’t. Cops know there are spies in their back office. City workers who are giving their plans to the enemy. Antifa is just under the top people of government and the democrat party. Biden is not involved but just under him there are lots of people involved. Lori Lightfoot may not be involved, but just under her there are lots of city workers helping the rioters. These are Bernie bros,young turks, combined with BLM and Occupy groups, they are very well funded. They have hundreds of millions. But its all hidden money available if need be. But more important they have lawyers, and city workers and teachers unions all ready to become a flash mob. And they are using the black population. They even buss them to the looting sights, rent vans for them to carry their stuff. And they provide the bricks.
The looters and arsonists are being ALLOWED to do this. Nothing will be done to stop them. It will continue until the savages get tired.
They want lawlessness and to destroy this nation.
ANTIFA agrees...
Fine , stand down, let the criminals take over. This is the left’s idea of utopia.
Maybe this was the “silent war” Trump was talking about when Covid first atarted. Maybe our national or military had gotten wind this was coming down the pike after softening us up from Covid, quarantines and unemployment, and had warned Trump That communists would use violence and anarchy as the next step.
When will we actually start fighting back and cleaning house from top to bottom? We are so infiltrated now.
The cops should say they will stand down if the rioters want to burn or loot these “critics’” homes and businesses and places of employment, since after all these critics support that behavior. Give it to the ones who want it, not the innocent small business owners already struggling to stay afloat.
Washington D.C. Mayor Bowser tweeted that she stands with the protesters besieging the White House, “While he hides behind his fence afraid/alone, I stand w/ people peacefully exercising their First Amendment Right after the murder of #GeorgeFloyd & hundreds of years of institutional racism.”
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