Posted on 08/26/2020 8:33:13 AM PDT by Heartlander
Lets say youre a rookie cop working desk duty at an urban police station. A woman stumbles through the door. She has a black eye, a split lip, and bruises around her throat. She manages to tell you that her husband just did this to her. And he has threatened to keep on doing it.
At what point should you ask her, Well, maam, what did you say or do to bring this on?
My instinct is to say 2. Theres no justification for domestic violence, or the initiation of force against someone weaker than you. Probably if I were a cop they would teach me 3., as part of proper police procedure. But I trust that no police department outside Pakistan or Afghanistan would answer 1.
But thats the Democrats answer, to the hundreds of business owners whose life savings have gone up in smoke at the hands of Black Lives Matter and Antifa. To the thousands of civilians assaulted, imprisoned in their homes, terrorized and bullied by the thugs who control the streets of major American cities ruled by Democrats. Senator Mazie Hirono refused to condemn Antifas brown-shirt assaults on American citizens and law officers. Joe Biden has said not a word. Nor has Kamala Harris, or any other Democratic leader.
The victims of the riots are as innocent as any domestic violence victim. Using them as punching bags for outrage over police actions isnt the behavior of civilized human beings, but out-of-control animals.
Rioters lastest catchphrase is Silence equals violence! Applied to ordinary citizens, regarding alleged police abuse of suspects, this is gibberish. But in the case of mayors who wont give the order to arrest and prosecute rioters, it is true. Public officials who enable acts of theft, arson, assault, or mayhem are complicit in them, and ought someday to face both civil and criminal courts.
But what about the motives of the rioters, the arsonists, the looters attacking citizens? What did a few police officers do to provoke this violence?
What did the battered wife at the precinct do to provoke a beating?
The question is irrelevant, even vicious. The victims of the riots are as innocent as any domestic violence victim. Using them as punching bags for outrage over police actions isnt the behavior of civilized human beings, but out-of-control animals. Let’s put on a face on one of their victims and hear what he has to say:
Its emotionally hurtful, but we didnt do anything to anybody. Why did we deserve it?
Near tears, a store owner explains how his family business of 40 years was destroyed by #BLM & Antifa arsonists last night
The city is hurting this morning #KenoshaRiot pic.twitter.com/PHrzqMmCHx
ELIJAH RIOT (@ElijahSchaffer) August 25, 2020
Was George Floyd the victim of police abuse? Were cops wrong to shoot Jacob Blake in Wisconsin? Those are important questions for members of the juries in the relevant court cases. And for local voters, choosing which representatives will make the laws and appoint police officials in those municipalities.
They are not questions that mobs in the street get to decide by wielding violent force against innocent strangers, or police officers totally uninvolved in the incidents. Those rioters have no more right to burn somebodys car dealership over this than a man has the right to beat up his wife because his team lost the Superbowl.
These arent protests, they are tantrums, and they need to be smacked down with firm, resolute force. If the local mayors prevent the police from doing so, citizens militias should form to protect their own neighborhoods.
So I have a simple question for anyone to pose a potential Biden voter.
If Democrats DON’T intend to give mobs of urban criminals permission to litigate every police shooting in the streets with riots, fires, and mass destruction … what exactly ARE they offering us?
John Zmirak (@JZmirak) August 25, 2020
Seriously, pose this question to people who blame Donald Trump for this wave of nihilistic destruction. What would President Biden do to stop it? Take the same steps as Democrat mayors across the country, and let the riots burn themselves out, and whole neighborhoods with them? Disband or defund the police, while keeping in place their local gun bans? That way their cities can be run by the mobs that are menacing white people eating outdoors in Washington D.C, demanding that they raise a Black Power fist or face a beating?
1) In a scene that played out several times Monday, a Black Lives Matter protest that began in Columbia Heights confronted White diners outside D.C. restaurants, chanting White silence is violence! and demanding White diners show their solidarity. #DCProtests pic.twitter.com/fJbPM76vb0
Fredrick Kunkle WaPo (@KunkleFredrick) August 25, 2020
This is the kind of street tyranny citizens face in a place where Democrats have stolen their Second Amendment rights, and told the police not to protect them. And we have every reason to think its Joe Bidens plan for America after he has commissioned Beto ORourke to seize our guns.
What is the Democrats plan for ending this national wave of violence and destruction, other than flipping on our backs and showing our bellies, like a beaten cur in a dog-fight?
Do the Democrats really expect Americans to vote for this? Michelle Obama seems to hope that we can threatened into it. She warned in her Democrat convention speech that re-electing Trump would just mean much more violence. That was the dog-whistle contained in the following phrases:
If you think things cannot possibly get worse, trust me, they can; and they will if we dont make a change in this election. If we have any hope of ending this chaos, we have got to vote for Joe Biden like our lives depend on it.
Nice country you got there. Itd be a real shame if something were to happen to it.
Are we so beaten down, so afflicted with “battered wife syndrome,” that we roll over and play dead, come November?
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it is essential that Republicans show the connection between the riots and the Democratic Party. These are the Democrat riots. Republicans should say just that. A practically endless procession of Democrat mayors and city council members, Democrat district attorneys and attorneys general, Democrat governors, and Democrat politicians at all levels have, on camera and in writing, sanctioned the rioting. Republican leaders must make sure the American people see and hear that. And never forget it.
- Thomas D. Klingenstein
Headline should read: “The Communist/Democrat Program: Mayhem, Street Thugs, and Threats of Civil War
The Democrat Platform also contains the Diversity Plank.
Namely, their Presidential Candidate has dementia.
The Delusional Lying Left ALWAYS loses an actual debate in the forum of ideas, so like their Marxist, Leninist, Stalinist, Communist predecessors, they resort to mayhem, street thugs, and threats of war
Anyone who votes for mayhem, street thugs, and civil war is a fool.
Are we so beaten down, so afflicted with battered wife syndrome, that we roll over and play dead, come November?
No. Safety is higher on the hierarchy of human needs than President Biden.
This guy gets it though. Many of us have been saying this was the democrat election plan for months. Some of the democrats are realizing they have badly miscalculated the strategy though, but its too late and the narrative has formed for the majority of voters.
P.S. - I really think they believed “they” could control their mobs. How is that working out so far? Where is the damage the worst?
The riots by Democrat Biden supporters are quite troubling for Bidens chances as suburban women voters are not pleased with riots and murders by his supporters and his policies and those of his party.
The riots by Democrat Biden supporters are quite troubling for Bidens chances as suburban women voters are not pleased with riots and murders by his supporters and his policies and those of his party.
The push to close schools will not help Biden either with the voters he is targeting.
It’s basic math -
“He sends mean tweets” is not as impactful as “your kids school is going to be shut down”
and Threats of Civil War
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Threats??? The threats have passed. It’s ON!!
Maybe this crap will be wake up call to all those “soccer moms” across the fruited plain that put these jackasses in the House to start with....or do their houses and business need to be looted and burned down first? Inquiring minds would like to know.
Meanwhile, the feds can shut this stuff down, even over the protests of Democrat governors. They aren’t. This is a weird situation, especially since the riots are probably helping the President.
If the GOP can’t rally around Law and Order, then what good are they?
“... it is essential that Republicans show the connection between the riots and the Democratic Party.”
YES!
Agree, the unions are hurting their own candidate by causing school closing chaos.
President Trump needs to address this TODAY!!! Dont let the mediapukes form the narrative!!! TODAY!!! Blame Nancy Pelosi for inflaming the situation further along with the Governor rejecting trumps help to send the national guard! Trump has to nail this sucker once and for all!
Threats? They’ve already played their hand. Be expecting a move of secession.
Where’s the militia?
Democrat Mayors and Democrat governors have said, "NO - they don't want help" because they think riots work for them and for Biden....
If they want their cities to burn, that's their call. They were elected by the people of their cities...and by their states.
If citizens DON'T WANT TO LIVE IN DEMOCRAT HELLHOLES they can elect Republicans...
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