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The Intersection Between Civilization and Barbarism
American Greatness ^ | 24 Jan, 2020 | C. Bradley Thompson

Posted on 01/25/2020 10:45:58 AM PST by MtnClimber

The forces of savagery are closer than you think.

Last week, I was in Santiago, Chile, delivering eight lectures at the Universidad de los Andes on “The Moral Foundations of a Free Society.” I was speaking to a group of 50 students, most of whom were from Latin American countries from Mexico to Patagonia.(snip)

At the end of my week, I got into an Uber and headed for the airport. My driver, for reasons I don’t understand, did not take the fastest and safest route.

Instead, he decided to drive through the heart of the city and through the area known to host the most violent street protests. Traffic was backed up and moving at a snail’s pace. I was growing increasingly concerned that I would be late for my flight. Off in the distance, we could see smoke billowing up in the sky. We both assumed it was some kind of fire.(snip)

And then we finally got within about 25 yards of the intersection and realized that we were driving into a violent street protest and had nowhere to go but forward into the breach.

As we approached the intersection, it was clear that we were now at Ground Zero of a violent anarcho-Communist street riot with no way to escape. (Their ideology was clear from their placards and the graffiti in the immediate area.) My driver was visibly and audibly worried.(snip)

At the intersection, about 20 masked and armed vandals had put spiked chains and barbed wire down on the road, thereby preventing cars from either moving forward through the intersection or turning left.

Five masked thugs wielding bats and large rocks then surrounded our car and started pounding and rocking it. They also had big red fire extinguishers that they were spraying cars with and threatening to throw through car windows. They screamed at us in a way reminiscent of a scene from the film “The Killing Fields” as the Khmer Rouge entered Phnom Penh. The driver pleaded with them to let us through, which only made them angrier.

Even though these thugs were wearing bandanas over their faces, you could clearly see their eyes—and the eyes are the entry point to the soul.

At the crucial moment, as they were banging the car and car windows, one of them pressed his face up on my passenger side window. His face was no more than a few inches from mine. In that single moment, I saw the deranged eyes of a rabid jackal setting on its prey. I have never in my life seen this kind of ideological non compos mentis. It was sheer savagery.


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: anarchists; chile; communism; culture; violence

1 posted on 01/25/2020 10:45:58 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

A preview of what antifa has planned for us.


2 posted on 01/25/2020 10:46:46 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

See my tag line.

L


3 posted on 01/25/2020 10:47:54 AM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: MtnClimber

20 dudes...

One magazine change.

Just saying.


4 posted on 01/25/2020 10:49:17 AM PST by 2banana (My common ground with islamic terrorists - they want to die for allah and we want to kill them.)
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To: MtnClimber

The forces of savagery are closer than you think.

Just walk down the streets of LA... In a HazMat Suit!


5 posted on 01/25/2020 10:50:14 AM PST by Bob434
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To: MtnClimber

[[I have never in my life seen this kind of ideological non compos mentis.]]

did you miss the impeachment hearings?


6 posted on 01/25/2020 10:52:23 AM PST by Bob434
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To: MtnClimber

Uber?


7 posted on 01/25/2020 10:53:04 AM PST by goodnesswins (Want to know your family genealogy? Run for political office...")
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To: 2banana

Yes, very sadly, it may be what we have to do in the future to protect ourselves from these ideological demons.


8 posted on 01/25/2020 11:04:33 AM PST by Amberdawn (Want To Honor Our Troops? Then Be A Citizen Worth Fighting For.)
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To: 2banana

I may reconsider my decision to not make an AR pistol part of my EDC.


9 posted on 01/25/2020 11:05:18 AM PST by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: MtnClimber

Looks like Violent White Nationalists have invaded Chile.


10 posted on 01/25/2020 11:10:34 AM PST by eyeamok
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To: MtnClimber

Bookmark


11 posted on 01/25/2020 11:14:49 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care!)
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To: MtnClimber

The Intersection Between Civilization and Barbarism

The California State Line??


12 posted on 01/25/2020 11:19:27 AM PST by eyeamok
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To: MtnClimber

At the intersection of your life and your untimely death is a WEAPON TO PROTECT YOUR LIFE.


13 posted on 01/25/2020 11:43:37 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Bob434
[[I have never in my life seen this kind of ideological non compos mentis.]]
did you miss the impeachment hearings?

Tell me about it! FARCE-ORAMA.

14 posted on 01/25/2020 11:44:08 AM PST by cloudmountain
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To: goodnesswins

Do you not know what that is?


15 posted on 01/25/2020 12:06:42 PM PST by EEGator
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To: EEGator

YES...I KNOW what UBER is.....but, you never know WHO is DRIVING an UBER....


16 posted on 01/25/2020 12:08:05 PM PST by goodnesswins (Want to know your family genealogy? Run for political office...")
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To: goodnesswins
And taxi drivers are wonderful people?


17 posted on 01/25/2020 12:09:57 PM PST by EEGator
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To: EEGator

And, I did NOT say that....


18 posted on 01/25/2020 12:35:56 PM PST by goodnesswins (Want to know your family genealogy? Run for political office...")
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To: goodnesswins

You like your caps.


19 posted on 01/25/2020 1:23:44 PM PST by EEGator
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To: MtnClimber

Chile needs to again ‘pacify’ their local leftists.


20 posted on 01/25/2020 4:25:36 PM PST by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't tell anyone.)
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