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…
No. Killing BLM in a kill zone could.
BLM is mostly White by my observations.
That said, I’m not headed into Philly with an AR.
Yes, but the LEFTIST propaganda machine wil spin it that it was an attack on Black Live Matter. The whites who fight for racial justice and have disavowed their white privelege etc, etc, etc. It’s too easy.
There is no point in waiting to defend *your home* after the Antifa arsonists have burned your neighborhood pharmacy, supermarket, shops, car lots, and neighbors’ homes without resistance.
Oh, but you’ll fight when they get to YOUR door.
Sorry, then it’s TOO LATE.
Thomas Sowell: “If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.”
YOU. That means if the politically hamstrung Police Dept stands down, it’s up to YOU to defend civilization.
No point at all.
“No. Killing BLM in a kill zone could.”
The majority of these rioters are not black, they are ANTIFA white kids. Besides, BLM is a Marxist organization. If we need them to win elections then let’s get this party started!
Doesn’t matter —BLM is a puppet organization for the communists—who are mostly whote. But the LeftIST propaganda machine will spin it as an attack on Black Lives Matter.
My family left Philly in the 1950s. It was a prescient move.
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. “
My Comment : The best way to self-defend from riot and arson is to organize a community of similar thinking folks, all from a common geographic area.
There is power and commitment when people are unified.
We have a God given right to defend ourselves , our family, our possessions, our community, and our livelihood.
I don't encourage vigilantism, in the absence of police protection,or the provocative act of going outside a threatened area
to seek out criminal participants except when their activities threaten the lives of others.
Arson of an occupied building, for all intents and purposes, is an attempt to commit a homicide, and is in most cases, legal justification for the use of deadly physical force.
Familiarize yourself with local and State laws to confirm when you can use physical force, and deadly physical force,
as the Castle Doctrine is not equally applied across various States.
Prepare your mind and contemplate in advance exactly how you will respond to various violent scenarios with the intent to self-defend.
" Prepare for the worst,.. and hope for the best "
The media doe not care about facts. An attack on Black Lives Matter will be trumpeted as a racist attack, day and night, electronic and print media, social media, hollywood, talk shows, etc, etc, etc.
You are rational. Propaganda is not.
We keep going further west or south in the Philly burbs.
This article is a mixture of defensive and at the end offensive action.
We need to be perfectly clear, no war was ever won on defense. Currently the Left is on offense. They get to pick the time, place and method of their engagement. That advantage will eventually win.
This war will not be over until civilized people go on offense and remove the Left’s will to fight.
Go to Andy Ngo's Twitter feed (link above) and you will dozens like them.
Do you think if folks like these were shot by local citizens while they were burning cars and businesses, that actual black Americans would hate Trump for it? Really?
Stop chugging the kool-aid. BLM-Antifa are almost all white Communists.
“The media doe not care about facts.”
So, why do we care about the media?? NEVER constrain your actions based on what the media might or might not do. You will never make them do what you need them to do. Keep moving forward and let them chase your tail.
The limitation on citizen use of arms to defend persons and property is not a moral quibble but rather concern about the consequences to citizens resulting from Local political officers (prosecutors, police, judges and other politically motivated officers of the law)who are acting in concert with the attacking mobs.
We need legislation effectively revoking any power in local law enforcement or administration to sanction use of arms by citizens in response to the threat of mob action.
“Yes, but the LEFTIST propaganda machine wil spin it that it was an attack on Black Live Matter.”
They already do and we haven’t done anything.
This article should shake a lot of people out of their normalcy bias. These leftists have been proclaiming loud and long that they were going to take their riots into places where people live. They’ve tried, with very limited success. Law enforcement is too exhausted and beaten down by their democrat overlords to keep it up much longer. And the bear is getting tired of being poked.
“The police don’t show up to deal with rioters
The citizens show up to deal with the rioters
And then the police show up to deal with the citizens
That’s going to get ugly.”
That’s what the left has been doing by getting into mayor, DA, judges, and police chief roles.
UP!!!
There was a recent vid of local town folk standing up to these masked thugs.
A good sized guy was being “threatened”/taunted by one of these masked AteeFa weenies.
Big guy keeps chesting the punk and finally pulls off the punks mask. Out pops a head full of blonde/white mop hair....as the little punk falls to the ground, in a fetal position, screaming like a baby, for the cops.
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