Posted on 05/02/2017 4:32:11 AM PDT by Kaslin
In a recent column, I made the case that Americans are fighting the Second Civil War. The deep chasm that has opened up between the left -- not liberals, the left -- and the rest of the country is so wide and so unbridgeable that there is no other way to describe what is happening. But I noted that at least thus far, unlike the First Civil War, this war is not violent.
Unfortunately, there is now reason to believe that violence is coming. In fact, it's already here. But as of now, it's only coming from one direction.
Left-wing thugs engage in violence and threats of violence with utter impunity. They shut down speakers at colleges; block highways, bridges and airport terminals; take over college buildings and offices; occupy state capitals; and terrorize individuals at their homes.
In order to understand why more violence may be coming, it is essential to understand that left-wing mobs are almost never stopped, arrested or punished. Colleges do nothing to stop them, and civil authorities do nothing to stop them on campuses or anywhere else. Police are reduced to spectators as they watch left-wing gangs loot stores, smash business and car windows, and even take over state capitals (as in Madison, Wisconsin).
It's beginning to dawn on many Americans that mayors, police chiefs and college presidents have no interest in stopping this violence. Left-wing officials sympathize with the lawbreakers, and the police, who rarely sympathize with thugs of any ideology, are ordered to do nothing by emasculated police chiefs.
Consequently, given the abdication by all these authorities of their role to protect the public, some members of the public will inevitably decide that they will protect themselves and others.
This ability of the left to get away with violence is one of the gravest threats to American society in its modern history. Since the Civil War, I can think of only two comparable eruptions of mob violence that authorities allowed. One was when white mobs lynched blacks. The other was the rioting by blacks, such as the Los Angeles riots 25 years ago, and the recent riots in Ferguson, Missouri, and Baltimore, Maryland.
Today, authorities in what we once proudly proclaimed the "Land of the Free and Home of the Brave" are intimidated to the point of paralysis.
And exactly what do they fear? Not violence -- they have made peace with left-wing violence. What they fear is the left-wing media. If the Black Lives Matter movement is forcefully prevented from blocking tens of thousands of cars from entering or leaving San Francisco, the police and local authorities will be labeled racist by black leaders, a smear that will then be echoed by The New York Times and rest of the left-wing media.
Likewise, if a college president requests enough police to come to a college campus so that a Heather Mac Donald, a Charles Murray or an Ann Coulter can deliver a lecture, some of the student-gangsters engaged in violence might be injured -- and that college president will then be pilloried by the mainstream media.
Furthermore, left-wing violence doesn't only succeed where it takes place. It succeeds where nothing happens. The left can now shut down places and events just by threatening violence. This is what happened last week in Portland, Oregon. One leftist called in a threat to the 82nd Avenue of Roses Parade, saying that the Republican Party contingent marching in the parade would be beaten up. The business leaders organizing the parade canceled the whole event for the first time in its 10-year history. If they'd had any reason to believe that the police would have adequately protected the marchers in left-wing Portland, one assumes (hopes?) that they would not have canceled the parade.
An email sent to parade organizers perfectly summed up the left's dominance of America through violence. It said, "You have seen how much power we have downtown and that the police cannot stop us from shutting down roads so please consider your decision wisely."
Meanwhile, the press lies about alleged white supremacists in President Trump's administration and an alleged massive surge in anti-Semitism in order to do what the left has done since Lenin: blame others while it alone organizes violence.
So, here's a prediction: If college presidents, mayors and police chiefs won't stop left-wing mobs, other Americans will. I hope this doesn't happen, because electing conservative Republicans and not donating money to colleges will be more effective. But it is almost inevitable.
Then the left-wing media -- the mainstream media -- will enter hysteria mode with reports that "right-wing fascists" are violently attacking America.
And that's when mayors and college presidents will finally order in the police.
The just use of force in self-defense of one’s life or the lives of one’s family is not violence.
It is a just use of force by police when they use it against leftist domestic terrorists who violently threaten the lives of innocent people and the destruction of property and constitutional government.
Happening as we write. May Day......May Day!
Good article but the writter is incorrect on one crucial point. The mayors and police chiefs support the goals of the rioters not they are afraid of the press.
The politicians, administrators and media may want to consider that the mob may not be the most strategic target.
"Send a message" can work both ways.
Trump won the revolution. The globalists are trying to start a war and paying mercenaries to riot in a psychological operation against we the people.
Of course they realize it. That's why the violence.
The left riot routinely now
they had another riot just yesterday
http://komonews.com/news/local/rowdy-crowd-slinging-rocks-at-police-officers-in-olympia
Something to consider.
I see no end to the lefts violence except total surrender .
I myself will fight to the end ,,, I will not surrender ,, and I refuse to live in an environment where I share an equal amount of leftist misery . Constitutional patriots need to advance to the front line of this battle and fight hard to win ,, there is no suitable compromise .
Conservatives are apathetic and have no appetite for getting off their butts and acting.
Oh give me a break!
The 60s were far worse than these bored people slapping each other around at Berkeley every other week. You just think it is “bad” because the internet brings everyone that got a cramp at a protest right into your home.
When you see cities destroyed and thousands dead, then you will have a real civil war.
The WHCD event was clear evidence that they still believe they are in charge and there is very little evidence to refute their belief.
It looked like a scene from The Hunger Games.
Destroyed cities is the reason for the civil war
I wish I could start a new political party.
The name would be “No More!”
It’s symbol would be crossed pitchfork and torch.
The platform would be - Bring back public flogging!
The slogan would be - “Make Tar And Feathering Great Again!”
Whichever side of the cultural divide won the war is gonna have the juice to do as it pleases to the losers.
It is very much a pick a side and fight like your life depends on it, because it does, situation.
There’s nothing more disgusting than those craven and morally bankrupt souls who think they can sit in No Mans’ Land and ride this out as neutrals. Fortunately for everyone else, such persons are actually simply legit targets for both sides of the coming fight.
Mr. Prager is apparently an idiot. Why is pc education still being funded when Republicans control 2/3 rds of the state houses/ stare legislatures?
The left will win because Republicans including conservatives are spineless traitors. If there were to be a shooting war, more on the left would die, but those on the right will eventually swing from the gallows. Not a reason not to fight it, but there will be no Grant or Sherman this time.
“You have seen how much power we have downtown and that the police cannot stop us from shutting down roads so please consider your decision wisely.”
The correct response is GFYS.
When you allow intimidation, they win.
We do not bow to such trash.
It already has
But it would never succeed in the first place.
The precedent has already been set. If a State attempts to secede, it will be militarily conquered, a military government put in place for a decade, those who promoted secession not allowed to hold office, their votes not counted.
This would be followed by putting through Constitutional Amendments to solve the original problem...
Hmmm... Maybe a #Calexit *attempt* would solve a lot of problems...
I thin we are all aware that Lincoln screwed up big time. There will be no war over secession, ever again.
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