Posted on 09/10/2020 4:15:22 AM PDT by Travis McGee
In societies living under the Rule of Law, sworn Law Enforcement (LE) officers have always been considered fully justified in applying lethal force against violent mobs during arson riots, such as those which have been occurring with regularity in American cities during the terrible summer of 2020. This was the intent and meaning of police officials publicly “Reading the Riot Act,” announcing over a loudspeaker that a violent mob had been declared to be an unlawful assembly, that is to say, a riot. Rioters who lingered on the street after that final warning could be engaged by LE at any level up to and including the use of deadly force, with no further announcement.
This was, in prior more civilized times, a basic understanding of all citizens living under the Rule of Law. This is why a police officer’s standard-issue pump shotgun was traditionally referred to as a “riot gun” long before the development of modern less-than-lethal munitions. This is also why arson riots were uncommon and short-lived. Everyone understood the ground rules. There was no right to burn, loot or murder.
Thomas Sowell put it this way: “If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.”
ABR, my own acronym for the current working coalition of Antifa, BLM and the Revolutionary Communist Party of the U.S., are now routinely using Molotov cocktails (gasoline bombs) and other incendiary/explosive devices as offensive weapons in both an anti-personnel and anti-property (arson) role. As far as the BATFE is concerned, a Molotov cocktail is an illegal explosive device, and so are powerful high-altitude fireworks, when they are deployed at ground level as anti-personnel and anti-property explosive/incendiary grenades.
ABR deliberately uses the anonymity of their black-clad and face-masked mobs to conceal the identity of their individual bomb throwers, in exactly the same way that 19th Century Ku Klux Klan night riders carrying torches on arson missions concealed their identities with white robes and masks. There is no moral or ethical requirement for either police or ordinary citizens protecting their communities from violent mobs to identify and ferret out the individual bomb throwers, when the rest of the mob is intentionally surrounding them in order to shield them from that identification. Because of the deliberately created synergy of bomb throwers utilizing the anonymity of the mob, the entire ABR mob becomes a legitimate target for police arrest or armed community self-defense.
Furthermore, at this writing in September of 2020, there is no moral or ethical requirement for a law-abiding American citizen to wait for a lit Molotov cocktail or any other incendiary or explosive device to crash through the window of their home or business, while ABR mobs are rampaging through the streets conducting arson attacks. Once the fires begin, morally and ethically, the same Rules for the Use of Force (RUF) should apply that would attach to a lynch mob, or to Ku Klux Klan night riders on their way to burn homes or businesses. Both KKK night riders bearing torches in olden times, and violent mobs of ABR terrorists with Molotov cocktails and other incendiary devices today, can and should be engaged by armed citizens with any necessary level of force required to halt their terroristic depredations.
In numerous recent cases, law enforcement under Leftist political control has repeatedly abdicated its traditional and expected role in breaking up violent riots and preventing arson and other terror attacks. Week by week, the level of ABR violence has been steadily escalating, and it’s logical to assume that it will only worsen as the hotly-contested presidential election draws near.
So let me be very clear: if Democrat Party governors, mayors and DAs have hamstrung their police for political reasons, and won’t allow them to protect the lives and property of their local citizens using all required force, abandoning their primary mission in order to bow to the ABR mob, then it is time for their undefended citizens to apply the clear intent of the Second Amendment. There should be deep regret about the abandonment of the Rule of Law by the Democrat Party political ruling class, but there should be no moral quibbles or hesitation by American citizens concerning the legitimacy of armed community self defense, in the absence of expected law enforcement protection.
Therefore, it is my carefully considered opinion that black-clad and masked ABR mobs, rampaging and terrorizing innocent citizens under the cover of darkness in the style of the KKK of old, may morally and ethically be taken under preemptive fire by armed citizens at any level necessary to drive them out of their peaceful neighborhoods and away from their businesses, before the terrorists can reach their targets and throw their Molotov cocktails and other explosive and incendiary devices.
As an historical note, it should be understood that the National Rifle Association was founded after the last American Civil War by former Union Army officers, (and Republicans at that), in order to empower freed African-American former slaves to defend themselves with firearms against KKK night raids. In the 19th Century, the Democrat Party, then allied with the Klan, (as the Democrats of today are aligned with Antifa and BLM), had favored strict gun control, in the form of narrowly written laws restricting the legal ownership of firearms by free black citizens.
The more things change…
I’ll be tuning in, bet on it.
Always, always, order a steak knife with your dinner when out. And watch the crowds for danger.
Local BLM started posting they were going to burn the Sheriff's office to the ground and they planned a 'protest". The day of that protest, our entire town turned out against them. Our citizens were fully armed, the Sheriff's deputies were in riot gear, and our local militia were also assisting.
Not many of the BLM were brave enough to show up. We essentially ran them out of town by working together. Of course, we are one of the most conservative counties in NV.
Thanks, Matt. I’ll be listening.
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TO counter your thought, look at the folks protesting/rioting. From mug shots they are mostly white-sh (some green and blue) disaffected Millenials.
POC arrests and incidents appear to have subsided.
NET: Popping ABR types won’t incite a race war.
So, just wait until the mob gets to YOUR home, after they have burned your neighborhood pharmacy, supermarket, car lot, and a few of your neighbors’ homes?
Nope. Sorry. Not going to do that.
Did you even read the column?
I wanted to tie Antifa/BLM directly to the Klan, and their alliances now and then with the Democrat Party.
Plenty of folks have made and are making the brownshirt/red guard analogy.
I want to brand and weld the Antifa-Klan to the Democrats.
That’s an excellent daytime model for scheduled events, totally excellent.
But when an unscheduled arson mob arrives unexpected and starts burning cars and businesses, the arson rioters should be SHOT by any citizen in range.
The arsonists in Kenosha should have been SHOT.
It’s the only way to put them down. Anything else is negotiating with an insane rabid dog.
You don’t say, “Here, doggy, doggy,” and try to slip a collar onto a rabid dog, to gently lead it to the vet. No.
You shoot it.
Anything less just encourages arson riots to spread nationwide.
To quote my own column:
>>This was, in prior more civilized times, a basic understanding of all citizens living under the Rule of Law. This is why a police officer’s standard-issue pump shotgun was traditionally referred to as a “riot gun” long before the development of modern less-than-lethal munitions. This is also why arson riots were uncommon and short-lived. Everyone understood the ground rules. There was no right to burn, loot or murder.<<
Thomas Sowell put it this way: “If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.”
Hope ya had AC in the command tent ...
There is zero percent chance Trump gets 30% of the Black vote...zero.
TO support your intent —
“It’s not a bridge too far to expect sober citizens to exercise their ancient right to self-defense when governments cannot or will not meet their responsibilities to protect and defend. Government exists principally for that purpose. When governments fail to do so their legitimacy melts away. But that fact is too elemental, too grounded in the realities that govern human affairs. The upside-down morality that infects the Ted Wheelers and Jenny Durkans is a perversity, which has been rarely encountered so brazenly in America. It informs Democrat policies and governance. Right is wrong, wrong, right.
As things now stand, citizens banding together for their safety isn’t a bridge too far. It isn’t what anyone wants but may be. On the other hand, the differences between left and right are dramatic and growing. “
excerpted from https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/09/a_bridge_too_far_.html
Absolutely spot on, as usual.
It’s already past time. Every community should have a force ready to act, if their police can’t or won’t.
Do it smartly. OPSEC and discretion. But get it done.
It's a better argument than Brownshirt, Red Guard comparisons that many say "it couldn't happen here in the USA".
The Klan night riders, burnings, and bombings, poll taxes, Jim Crow laws, alliance with Sangers black genocide via planned parenthood, 60s voting rights violations....not only could it happen here, it did and still does.
And these demonic ties are what Candace Owens and Blexit are putting out there to the black communities.
The Democrat Party is like the old Soviet controlled COMINTERN, showing the public tip of the iceberg with 90% hidden or operating under various aliases, the useful idiots or Red Fingers. The Democrat party owns it.
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There is zero percent chance Trump gets 30% of the Black vote...zero.
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Even if he only gets 20+ it’s a win!
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One observation if I may, I have noted that the violence often begins under the guise of a “peaceful” march. When a citizen presents themselves in a manner that defies the mob, they immediately fixate on that target.
As difficult as it may be to let a useless pack of commies march peacefully past your neighborhood, I think it may be a smarter option than making a defiant show of force. I see no logic in revealing my position by brandishing my weapon and getting into a shouting match.
In other words, I will not be seen outside with my weapons until I am using them. I can’t suggest that for everyone, but I would suggest it to anyone that is not with a group of armed citizens that they fully trust to act professionally.
I would be happy with 12.
We had armed citizen patrols all night figuring if there was really going to be problems, it would be at night. Others of us were at home ready to help if the call came. If the larger cities followed the example of some of our more rural towns, this would have been stopped long ago.
I did not know that.
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