Posted on 02/14/2017 10:22:59 AM PST by rktman
Got your six here.
Compared to the riots of the 60s and 70s these are very small gatherings, maybe 250 except Berkely which was about 1000. Very small potatoes.
Most of the riots have involved two to three blocks of action and are actually fails as a large percentage of the rioters are paid.
The large donors, who met with BLM after Ferguson, are paying organizers and a good number of the more violent rioters, shipping them in from other states. BLM isca business, not a cause. They will fade out as it becomes clear
Compared to the riots of the 60s and 70s these are very small gatherings, maybe 250 except Berkely which was about 1000. Very small potatoes.
Most of the riots have involved two to three blocks of action and are actually fails as a large percentage of the rioters are paid.
The large donors, who met with BLM after Ferguson, are paying organizers and a good number of the more violent rioters, shipping them in from other states. BLM isca business, not a cause. They will fade out as it becomes clear that the general populace does not support burning down businesses.
One of the very large factors here is that the mayors of most of these Demo towns are giving the rioters space in which riot and burn buildings. Those mayors should be sued in Civil court for dereliction and negligence.
My own answer would be to hose the rioters with a mixture of water and WD40. Very cold and slippery.
Besides my previoud posts, UC Berkeley is just weird.
Ammo is not cheap these days - and we learned our trade when it WAS cheap. 😀
The Right is like this large pit bull, chained to his dog house. The Left should pray every day that we don't get a good enough reason to break the chain.
The police are on the side of the people who control their paychecks and pensions. If these people tell the police to stand down while Leftists beat the crap out of us, then they will stand down. They HAVE stood down. They might like us, but for most of them, not enough to lose their jobs over it.
I went and looked up the video of that teacher on Tucker Carlson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJf_4BDHELQ
The police are on the side of the people who control their paychecks and pensions.
As others have mentioned, these are small groups. How do they grow? There is no majority support for their actions, at least not where it counts. Is California going to secede? This sort of tactic has succeeded in the past by having a supportive media that controls the narrative.
They do not have that overwhelming support in the media anymore. Yes, they have the Establishment media (which is being discredited even further) and more partisan media on the net.
I do not think they have enough to foster a mass movement, and they do not have the troops to do it on their own.
Bank robberies, identity theft, some property destruction, a few assassinations. Sure, could happen. But you do not make a revolution or a Civil war out of that.
We had far worse in the 70’s, with a more supportive media on their side (almost no conservative media), and they got nowhere with the violence. It was the media that got the Left elected and radicalized, not the violence.
>>The problem is that it will be some stupid young person ... when it should be Soros and friends who go.<<
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My nightmare is an invasion by a foreign military force — U.N. Blue Helmets INVITED IN by a future TRAITOROUS POTUS (i.e., a future Obama), putting our own military in an impossible bind.
In my opinion, this is the TRUE PURPOSE OF THE 2nd AMENDMENT . . . not the Marxist punks.
I think the key thing is to go after their sources of funding. The radicals get funding from Soros and various foundations. The radicals on the streets are just pawns for the elites. As long as elites are able to provide funding, there will be an endless supply of radicals.
It's like with terrorism. As long as there is funding, and a training base which uses that funding to turn out radicals, there will be an endless supply of terrorists, drawing us into a futile game of whack-a-mole.
The key is to identify the sources of funding, and go after THEM. No matter how wealthy, powerful, or "respectable", go after the funding sources.
One step would be to terminate government "research" grants going to radical professors. We do not need to fund research into "transgender influences in the music industry". Just cut out all those grants.
A next step is to roll up the people who organize and fund the "Black Bloc" groups, the BLM groups, etc. Use the laws that were used to go after the Klan, and make them liable for the actions of the groups they give funding and support to.
btt
Yes, the government has been funding the radical left for decades.
Funding is an important facet. Reform of non-profits is another way to reduce the funding.
Shining a light on who funds what helps reduce support for the violent groups.
We have plenty of laws to use. It is not hard to infiltrate these groups, and they are using the Internet and Cell phone system to organize.
Civil disobedience is breaking the law. That’s not a right.
right you are, King George the Third...
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