Just a few examples of the crass immaturity and narrowness of vision to which I referred in my last entry:
It has just been reported that Boston BLM activist Monica Cannon-Grant last week posted on Facebook a vicious diatribe against Republican Rayla Campbell who is challenging radical Leftist Ayanna Pressley for her seat in the House of Representatives. Both Cannon-Grant and Campbell are Black women. That the latter is married to a White man with whom she has three children led the former to accuse her of betraying her heritage, indeed of perhaps being a closet White Supremacist. Campbell, fearing the mobs in the streets, fled her home with her children in tow. Cannon-Grant will no doubt escape relatively unscathed from her ignorant, racist rant.
Oregon Democrat Earl Blumenauer said Tuesday that those rioters rampaging through the streets of Portland for the past 50 days are not really “out of control” but merely have some very “strong feelings” on the issues at hand. Armed with mortars, lasers, clubs and bottles, they managed to injure 49 cops in their exuberance last Friday. One cannot help but wonder at his level of concern had the rioters been members of the “Alt-Right.” The hypocrisy of his ridiculously understated assessment of the situation, his palpable lack of concern for the Rule of Law would be laughable were it not so very dangerous.
John Catanzara, president of Chicago’s Fraternal Order of Police, has just called Lori Lightfoot, the city’s mayor, unprofessional, childish and pathetic. Trump has assigned 150 federal agents to the city to help stem the tide of violence by which it has been engulfed but Lightfoot is convinced their presence will merely exacerbate the anger of the mobs. Yes, Lori, when those intent on breaking the law are met with opposition, they tend to get angry! I have a multitude of reservations with Trump as a person but the use of government force to quell rampant disrespect for the rights of others is hardly, as is so disingenuously suggested by those on the Left, a threat to Democracy. I awoke this morning to the report on a Chicago T.V. station that 15 people had been shot last night outside a funeral home in what appeared to be a Black neighborhood. Whatever the color of the victims, violence is clearly out of control in the country to the south, cities across the States citing ridiculously inflated levels of crime and violence since the murder of George Floyd. Yet not a day goes by when I am not treated to some Leftist simpleton declaring that the Police are not necessary, that they are in fact the main cause of the problem, even as ugly, mindless, racially motivated violence grows more and more aggressive day after day after “progressively” sanctioned day.
The ultimate absurdity of the political Left, of course, is that the very natural, very rational resentment of law abiding White citizens towards the disgusting antics of Antifa and BLM will inevitably be denounced as racist. It’s the only stratagem in their playbook, a stratagem whose sheer irrelevancy is manifest in the millions of law abiding Blacks who share the same opinion.