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How to Stop Children Intent on Destruction
American Thinker.com ^ | August 10, 2020 | Jeffrey Folks

Posted on 08/10/2020 6:21:58 AM PDT by Kaslin

President Trump has labeled today's protesters "anarchists," and rightly so. They stream through the streets, breaking windows, bashing cars, setting fires, blocking highways, occupying city blocks, beating up innocent bystanders, and disobeying and attacking the police. This is not the behavior of peaceful protesters who are only out to express their opinions. It is the work of anarchists bent on destruction.

The question is, what's behind this behavior? Is the violence purposeful, perhaps an effort to defund police; influence this year's presidential election; or bring about a coup at the local, state, or even national level? Or is it violence for the sake of violence?

It's impossible to get inside the minds of individual protesters, and most of those individuals are not very articulate — they can't get beyond chanting three words. So one must infer a motive based on their actions.

To begin, violent protesters have no interest in legitimate protest. They have seized on the death of George Floyd and other grievances as an excuse to engage in violence. And they are not "peaceful." They are instigating violence by attacking the police and destroying property. At the center of their thinking is violence itself. That mindset is the very definition of anarchy.

Anarchy is derived from the Greek word "anarchos," which means "having no ruler." In the absence of all authority, the anarchist can do as he likes: burning, looting, killing, and raping. Because he hates authority, the anarchist's particular target is the police and all others associated with authority. Even friendly officials such as Portland's mayor, Ted Wheeler, are despised because of the positions they hold.

Photographs of Antifa protesters show groups of black-clad, helmeted youths carrying communist-era flags and wearing backpacks filled with projectiles and other weapons. T

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1 posted on 08/10/2020 6:21:58 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
snowflake hysteria = hatred, anger, and fear.

hatred, anger, and fear of the good for being the good = evil

2 posted on 08/10/2020 6:27:30 AM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: Kaslin
In the absence of all authority, the anarchist can do as he likes: burning, looting, killing, and raping.

And so can everyone else.

3 posted on 08/10/2020 6:28:59 AM PDT by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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To: Kaslin

These aren’t children. These are people who are getting $600 per week to live in mothers basement and go out to riots at night. We need to get rid of the unemployment $600. We are literally paying them to riot. This goes for government employees too. Teachers are out there bashing heads and hoping their schools don’t open in the fall.


4 posted on 08/10/2020 6:29:00 AM PDT by poinq
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To: Kaslin

How to stop them? Try punishment.


5 posted on 08/10/2020 6:29:55 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (#openupstateny)
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To: Kaslin

If they trash the employers, they’ll not be able to get a job, so they can continue on unemployment that pays better than employment.


6 posted on 08/10/2020 6:29:56 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Kaslin

BE PREPARED to be UNCIVILIZED toward the UNCIVIL

My group is tight. I’m square with the Lord. Father Time is UNDEFEATED.


7 posted on 08/10/2020 6:30:27 AM PDT by PGalt ( Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Kaslin

IMHO many if not most of these rioters are under the influence of some intoxicant during their nightly riots. Sure the organizers are providing the lunatics with amphetamines and opiods. Over the last fifty years widespread drug use, whether it be “recreational” or addictive has done more to destroy American culture and enhance depravity than any other single factor. Losing the “war on drugs”, that is failing to maintain the high moral standard of sobriety as an essential virtue has as much significance as if the US had lost WW II.


8 posted on 08/10/2020 6:34:38 AM PDT by allendale
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To: 1Old Pro
Try punishment.

Further more, make sure the punishment hurts. A slap on the wrist won't get the point across that these idiots are doing things that are evil. The point needs to be made.

9 posted on 08/10/2020 6:34:54 AM PDT by hoagy62 (DTCM&OTTH)
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To: Kaslin

HOW? MASK ON, GUNS GONE - The Clapper; Deep State

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRWtFVFSx5I

1984 commercial...Wait...Wut?

Light out, America?


10 posted on 08/10/2020 6:38:22 AM PDT by PGalt ( Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; azishot; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; ..

https://www.worldboxingnews.net/2020/07/15/mike-tyson-internet-trolls-truth/

11 posted on 08/10/2020 6:39:11 AM PDT by bitt (Our rights donÂ’t end where your feelings begin.)
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To: bitt

Tyson really is a surprisingly smart guy.


12 posted on 08/10/2020 6:40:52 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: bitt

wow iron man mike speaks the truth!


13 posted on 08/10/2020 6:41:50 AM PDT by rolling_stone (tshf)
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To: Kaslin

Lead


14 posted on 08/10/2020 6:46:02 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: bitt; All

: ) Yep, EVERBODY has a plan, until they get PUNCHED in the face. - Mike Tyson

De plan...de plan...here’s de plan, boss...(RIP Herve)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1x_QbVDlLbI

Fantasy Island? Used to be. Now it’s Gangster’s Paradise and WE THE PEOPLE ARE NOT THE GANGSTERS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPO76Jlnz6c&list=RDfPO76Jlnz6c&start_radio=1&t=25


15 posted on 08/10/2020 6:51:17 AM PDT by PGalt ( Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Kaslin

The police cannot contain this. Thanks to our overwhelmingly marxist-educated, self-indulgent, godless, grossly immoral, and propagandizing media and political leaders, police now have to fear for their jobs, reputations, and families’ safety. If law enforcement cannot enforce the laws to restore peace and order to society, it will be up to the majority of society to do so themselves. A counter-revolution seems increasingly inevitable.


16 posted on 08/10/2020 7:04:27 AM PDT by mikeus_maximus
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17 posted on 08/10/2020 7:11:08 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: poinq
Pretty much

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16149/antifa-history-part-2

Violent left-wing agitators are predominantly male, between 21 and 24 years of age, usually unemployed, and, according to BfV, 92% still live with their parents. Anecdotal evidence suggests that most Antifa members in the United States have a similar socio-economic profile.

18 posted on 08/10/2020 7:12:02 AM PDT by Pollard (whatever)
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To: allendale

Watching the videos of the Portland rioters you can definitely see that some are crazed on the combination of drugs and evil.


19 posted on 08/10/2020 7:39:47 AM PDT by Cold Heart (Legalize Hydroxychloroquine)
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To: Kaslin
How to Stop Children Intent on Destruction

Shoot the ones in front - the rest will run away.

20 posted on 08/10/2020 7:50:45 AM PDT by tomkat
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