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Obama's Three Lynch Mob Movements
Front Page ^ | November 17, 2015 | Matthew Vadum

Posted on 11/17/2015 2:09:05 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife

Barack Obama's demagogic presidency has unleashed state-sanctioned mob violence to a degree not seen since the Jim Crow era.

Obama-approved lynch mobs have been helping to force the fundamental transformation of America that the radical left-wing community organizer promised on the campaign trail in 2008. Creating little armies of malcontents has long been the way Obama's fellow Marxist agitators have turned groups in society against each other in order to generate the civil unrest and societal instability needed to effect unwanted change. Sometimes thugs get things done that elections can't.

Obama's presidency is a case study in defining deviancy down by attempting to de-stigmatize criminality, including the legitimization of street justice. It has had a Maoist flavor to it as violent mobs in the streets have assisted in carrying out Obama's political objectives. And those fomenting the chaos, such as the community organizers of the Justice Department's Community Relations Service (CRS), have often been on the government payroll.

Also underwriting these subversive activities is anti-American hedge fund manager George Soros who publicly likens the U.S. to Nazi Germany and considers this nation to be the greatest threat to peace and order in the world. Like many leftists, Soros praises the brutal totalitarian government of the People's Republic of China for its supposed vision and efficiency.

This year has seen crazed, largely incoherent student mobs rise up against campus administrations to demand the suppression of free speech and persecution of dissenters. Before that, the virulently racist, cultish, neo-communist movement, Black Lives Matter, founded on false claims of systemic police brutality against black Americans, began taking it to the streets, scapegoating whites for the various pathologies that ravage black communities. And before that there was Occupy Wall Street, a Sixties-style revolutionary movement calling for the overthrow of capitalism and the supposedly unjust American system of governance.

The antisocial activists of these three seemingly distinct protest movements bear more than a passing resemblance to the Red Guards of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, the brutal street enforcers of Mao Zedong, history's most accomplished mass-murdering dictator. They have a fondness for blaming those they victimize, along with class warfare, mass meetings, mock trials, and ritualized denunciations.

These movements are really just three different faces of an insidious Marxist hydra that seeks to bring America to its knees for its supposed sins.

If nothing else, the Occupy Wall Street movement, which was born in the streets of Lower Manhattan in 2011, has helped to advance socialism by forcing the phony political issue of "income inequality" into the national political debate and making it more or less socially acceptable to espouse communist ideas in public.

Before Occupy -- the home of rapists, arsonists, destructive squatters, and police car defecators -- came along, very few Americans spoke in Marxist terms, pitting the super-rich "one percent" against everyone else. Now just about everybody does it. Even among conservatives who reject the frame, few challenge it.

This national brainwashing through the power of repetition has boosted left-wing causes such as organized labor's destructive push for a $15 an hour minimum wage. It has helped greens advance their anti-energy, anti-economic growth platform. It has emboldened left-wingers to push for student loan forgiveness and step up their attacks on the First Amendment by pushing a constitutional amendment that would reverse the Citizens United ruling and overturn the ancient legal principle that corporations are "persons" capable of raising funds and suing and being sued. In other words, the Left is waging a full-scale war on both the Bill of Rights and the legal concept of limited liability, the beating heart of free enterprise.

Black Lives Matter grew out of the vicious lie that "white Hispanic" neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman killed his young black attacker, Trayvon Martin, because he was African-American. Mobs in Sanford, Fla., agitated until the state agreed to pursue a doomed prosecution of Zimmerman.

The movement idolizes unrepentant cop killers Mumia abu Jamal and Assata Shakur and maintains that lawless violence and bloody insurrection are necessary to secure so-called social justice.

One of the movement's leaders, Twitter star Deray Mckesson, is teaching students after being rewarded by the Left with a special appointment at prestigious Yale Divinity School. "Looting for me isn't violent, it's an expression of anger," he lectured last month "The act of looting is political. Another way to dissolve consent. Pressing you to no longer keep me out of this space, by destroying it."

Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, a black left-winger who is secretary of the Democratic National Committee, apparently agrees. After the riot-sparking death in police custody of black career criminal Freddie Gray earlier this year, the mayor ordered police to let looters and vandals go about their business unhindered.

And finally, there are the humorless, ultra-politically correct mobs that now rule many college and university campuses across America.

At Columbia University, leftist enforcers are intimidating students into joining solidarity protests against the invented racism that activists have been hallucinating at Yale and the University of Missouri.

The New York Post reported on Sunday that

Columbia student activists are pestering peers to attend campus protests and walk-outs in solidarity with college students at Missouri and Yale or risk social isolation, students say. Organizers posted flyers and sent Facebook messages inviting undergraduates to wear black clothing and join two demonstrations last Thursday to support people of color who are "marginalized and threatened."

But some students worried they would be "ostracized" if they did not participate or dress in sync, one college parent said. "There's been a campaign of intimidation, where students are going dorm to dorm, floor to floor and asking students to go back to their dorms and put on black if they're not wearing black," the parent said.

"My daughter told me people are uneasy and fearful," she added. "Her personal politics are left-wing and she shares their sympathies, but she doesn't like to feel that she can't wear blue if she wants to wear blue."

A protest leader led an angry mob in a series of chants, including "I love black people," "I love queer black people," "I love black criminals," and "I love black people who steal."

At Yale and elsewhere, student mobs have been spitting on conservatives and gunning for administrators' heads.

Campus leftists disrupted a Yale conference on free speech named after alumnus William F. Buckley Jr. a week ago and terrorized attendees as part of a lingering protest against school administrators' allegedly permissive attitude toward culturally insensitive Halloween costumes.

After Yale's Intercultural Affairs Committee urged students to steer clear of Halloween costumes that could be perceived as having racial overtones such as "feathered headdresses, turbans, wearing 'war paint' or modifying skin tone or wearing black face or red face," a lower-level administrator countermanded that advice, urging students to lighten up.

Lecturer Erika Christakis, associate master of Yale's Silliman College and spouse of Silliman College Master Nicholas Christakis, urged students not to worry about whether costumes might offend someone. "If you don't like a costume someone is wearing, look away, or tell them you are offended," she wrote in a mass email. "Talk to each other. Free speech and the ability to tolerate offense are the hallmarks of a free and open society."

Of course this led to a tense confrontation with students in which an unhinged young black woman hysterically demanded Mr. Christakis be ousted.

In a profanity-laden tirade captured on a now-viral video, she accused him of creating an "unsafe space" at the university. It was his "job to create a place of comfort and home for the students who live in Silliman," she said.

"You should step down! If that is what you think of being headmaster, you should step down! It is not about creating an intellectual space! It is not!" she cried out.

At Mizzou, not doing enough about alleged incidents of supposed racism that were likely fabricated or staged by activists, cost university president Tim Wolfe his job.

Wolfe took "full responsibility for this frustration" and said he hoped his resignation would help to "heal" whatever it was he did. Red Guards may as well have put a sign describing his crimes around his neck and paraded him about campus.

The same day, R. Bowen Loftin, the similarly embattled chancellor, said he would resign at year's end. A month ago Loftin announced mandatory "diversity and inclusion" brainwashing for students, faculty, and staff.

President Obama is fine with all of this mob activity. He offers perfunctory denunciations of violence in a monotone while expressing his sympathy for the mob and whatever its current cause may be. The unspoken message to his fellow rabble-rousers is: bombs away!

Without his blessing, Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, and the newly emboldened iteration of the campus thought police might never have arisen.

And if Obama weren't president right now, he would be out in the streets orchestrating the violence instead of leaving all the fun to the other community organizers.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: blacklivesmatter; collegemobs; education; obama; occupywallstreet

1 posted on 11/17/2015 2:09:07 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: All
November 17, 2915: Victor Davis Hanson:

The University Gone Feral

On campus, social norms no longer apply.

The university, long exempted from social norms and rules, has gone wild in the 21st century - or rather, regressed to pre-puberty.

The University of Missouri campus police now request that students - a group not known for polite vocabulary - call law enforcement if someone disparages them with hurtful names....."

2 posted on 11/17/2015 2:12:43 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Good post.


3 posted on 11/17/2015 2:16:50 AM PST by JimSEA
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To: JimSEA; All
.... Creating little armies of malcontents has long been the way Obama's fellow Marxist agitators have turned groups in society against each other in order to generate the civil unrest and societal instability needed to effect unwanted change. Sometimes thugs get things done that elections can't. ........

July 6, 2011 - J.R. Dunn: Democrats Unveil the Weapon of the Future

".....This is an extraordinary series of events, of a type that we haven't witnessed before. Even more singular is the legacy media's insistence on covering the story (with the exception of the siege of Madison, which got the standard "unions unbound" treatment) as if it were commonplace to the point of boredom. It is no such thing; it is an ideological campaign of a magnitude and breadth that we have not seen in quite some time, if ever.

What all this amounts to is the baptism of fire of what I have taken to calling the "liberal superstructure." This superstructure is the vast constellation of advocacy groups, think tanks, single-issue outfits, unions, and various other flotsam constructed by the left over the past half-century or so. There are literally thousands of these groups, ranging from the ACLU and the Sierra Club with their hundreds of thousands of members to the local "Friends of the People's Venezuela" outfit which amounts to a retired feminism professor and her six cats. These organizations are ubiquitous, universal, and networked to a fare-thee- well. They are also liberalism's last great hope of controlling politics in the United States.....

So what is a political movement to do, particularly one as fanatic and apocalyptic as this one? Well, if you have an alternate system made up of outside organizations not subject to governmental oversight, a system populated with self-selected fanatics and true believers, a system poised and ready to march, you can do what was done in Wisconsin. You can turn the superstructure loose to threaten the public peace, smash things up, abuse the electoral process, create a media spectacle, and pressure the state to do things your way. You can use nonpolitical organizations (in the electoral sense) to get a political result....

4 posted on 11/17/2015 2:26:46 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Obama-approved lynch mobs and Obama-approved AG Loretta Lynch ... coincidence?


5 posted on 11/17/2015 3:16:58 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

I see a future of chaos and fragmentation if this continues much longer. Especially with obama leading the mob for the next 30 years or so.
Balkanization with vengeance.


6 posted on 11/17/2015 3:56:02 AM PST by Tupelo (Honest men go to Washington, but honest men do not stay in Washington.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

I think that this will be the defining legacy of the Obama Presidency — the feeling that Obama was a failure as a president (zero lasting accomplishments) and a series of reverberating Red Guard type uprisings to plague his successors.

I hope Obama enjoys his exile.


7 posted on 11/17/2015 3:59:56 AM PST by Tallguy
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To: Tupelo

Creating “little armies of malcontents has long been”......odumbos way.........

After all, he was a “community organizer”.

When the SHTF, he just might be one of the first to “go”.


8 posted on 11/17/2015 4:02:44 AM PST by DaveA37
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
The University of Missouri campus police now request that students - a group not known for polite vocabulary - call law enforcement if someone disparages them with hurtful names....."


9 posted on 11/17/2015 4:39:11 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Tallguy

Hello; Barak is it?



10 posted on 11/17/2015 4:41:21 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
July 6, 2011...


The same is true of the White House once the messiah gets the bum's rush come 2012.

Oops!


11 posted on 11/17/2015 4:49:11 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

I know. Dunn had it right about “liberal superstructure,” but like the rest of us, he couldn’t see how Obama would get a 2nd term. It’s a compelling piece.


12 posted on 11/17/2015 4:54:18 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

And if Obama weren’t president right now, he would be out in the streets orchestrating the violence instead of leaving all the fun to the other community organizers.
THE ABOVE IS TOTALLY UNTRUE
OBAMA NEVER ORGANIZED ANYTHING ANYWHERE...
HIS SELECTION BY THE LEFT WAS BASED ON RACE AND THEY FIXED AND MANEUVERED HIM INTO OFFICE...
OBAMA IS AN EMPTY SUIT WHO WOUDL RATHER SNORT COKE OR SMOKE POT..
HE IS AS HE SAID LAZY AND INEFFECTIVE AS AN INDIVIDUAL
HE IS A PUPPET THEY PARADE AS A FRONTMAN FOR THE REAL ACTIVISTS WHO REMAIN INTHE SHADOWS...... FUNDED BY GEORGI SCHWARTZ/AKS SOROS AND HIS ILK....

I have to laugh when he accuses the USA of being NAZIS and China as enlightened... this shows the depravity and lies of the left..... the “workers paradise” and nirvana that does not exist except in propaganda talk to the dim witted who believe it...


13 posted on 11/17/2015 6:49:38 AM PST by zzwhale
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

the LEFT’S goal is to call for MILITARY LAW.... suspend the Constitution.... and start “re-educating” as Bill Ayers envisioned requiring 25-30 million to be carted away to “re-educaiton centers...


14 posted on 11/17/2015 7:03:17 AM PST by zzwhale
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Obama has been instigating racial tensions and egging on race riots from the very get-go. In every case where there's a conflict between a black criminal and a policeman (or a non-black civilian), Obama and his circle have acted as judge, jury, and executioner before any of the facts were in, condemning the policeman and making a martyr out of some street thug.

The race riots driven by the #BlackLivesMatter movement would never have gotten where it is today without Obama's words granting them political legitimacy. His words made the media and establishment opinion embrace looters and vandals as "activists." Now we also have the #BlackonCampus movement to serve as an "Obama youth" organization, spreading mayhem at universities where they probably have no business being if it weren't for affirmative action.

15 posted on 11/17/2015 8:45:10 AM PST by ek_hornbeck
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To: ek_hornbeck

Yes. He has indeed. He’s poked Americans repeatedly in the chest to provoke and divide (diminish and defeat).


16 posted on 11/17/2015 8:51:28 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
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"Death to America!"


17 posted on 11/22/2015 8:23:04 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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