Guest Post by Patrick J. Buchanan
Friday evening’s Donald Trump rally in Chicago was broken up by a foul-mouthed mob that infiltrated the hall and forced the cancelation of the event to prevent violence and bloodshed.
Brownshirt tactics worked. The mob, triumphant, rejoiced.
And the reaction of Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz and John Kasich?
All three Republican rivals blamed — Donald Trump.
With his “dangerous style of leadership,” Trump stokes this anger, mewed Rubio, “This is what happens when a leading presidential candidate goes around feeding into a narrative of bitterness and anger and frustration.”
Rubio implies that if Trump doesn’t tone down his remarks to pacify the rabble, he will be responsible for the violence visited upon him.
Kasich echoed Rubio: “Donald Trump has created a toxic environment (that) has allowed his supporters and those who sometimes seek confrontation to come together in violence.”
But were the thousands of Trump supporters who came out to cheer him that night really looking for a fight? Or were they exercising their right of peaceful assembly?
Cruz charged Trump with “creating an environment that only encourages this sort of nasty discord,” thus offering absolution to the mob.
Friday night cried out for moral clarity. What we got from Trump’s rivals was moral mush that called to mind JFK’s favorite quote from Dante: The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of moral crisis maintain their neutrality.
As news outlets have reported, Friday’s disruption at the University of Illinois-Chicago auditorium was a preplanned assault.
Behind it were the George Soros-funded MoveOn.org, Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street, Hispanics hoisting Mexican flags and cop-haters carrying filthy signs to show their contempt for police.
People for Bernie, a pro-Sanders outfit, tweeted, “[This] wasn’t just luck. It took organizers from dozens of organizations and thousands of people to pull off. Great work.”
Now, Sanders did not order this assault on the civil rights of Trump supporters. But MoveOn.org has endorsed him and “Bernie” signs and T-shirts were everywhere among the disrupters. Hence, he has a duty to disavow this conduct and those who engaged in it.
If Sanders refuses, he condones it, and is morally complicit.
Can one imagine how the media would pile on Trump if working-class white males in Trump T-shirts invaded a Hillary Clinton rally and shut it down?
Can one imagine how the networks and cable TV channels that host town halls with the candidates would react if hell-raisers snuck into their audiences and shouted obscenities during discussions?
The keening over the First Amendment would not cease for weeks.
Some of us have been here before, and know how this ends.
When the urban riots broke out in the ’60s, Hubert Humphrey declared that, if he lived in a ghetto, “I could lead a pretty good riot myself.”
At his 1968 convention in Chicago, radicals baited and provoked the cops in the front of the Conrad Hilton, and as this writer watched, their patience exhausted after days of abuse, Chicago’s finest tore into the mob and delivered some street justice.
“Richard Nixon,” wrote Hunter S. Thompson, “is living in the White House today because of what happened that night in Chicago.”
Hunter got that one right.
That fall, Humphrey was daily assailed by the kinds of haters now disrupting Trump rallies. Everywhere he went, they chanted, “Dump the Hump!” At times, Humphrey came close to tears.
That fall, Humphrey realized the monster he helped nurture.
My tormentors, he said, are “not just hecklers, but highly disciplined, well-organized agitators … some of them are anarchists, and some of these groups are destroying the Democratic Party and destroying this country.”
In 1970, when President Nixon sent U.S. troops into Cambodia to clean out Viet Cong sanctuaries, and students rioted, Ronald Reagan called them “cowardly fascists,” and declared, “If there’s going to be a bloodbath, let it begin here.”
Not much Cruz-Rubio-Kasich equivocating there.
When radicals stomped down Wall Street desecrating Old Glory, construction workers came down from the building sites they were working and whaled on them.
Union president Peter J. Brennan was soon in the Oval Office — and in Nixon’s Cabinet. “Secretary Bunker,” we called him.
Prediction. Given their “victory” in Chicago, MoveOn.org and its allied nasties will try to replicate it, again and again. And as Americans came to despise the ’60s radicals, they will come to despise them.
And, as in the 1960s, the country will take a turn — to the right.
America has changed from the land we grew up in. But she is not yet ready to allow ugly mobs screaming obscenities at Trump and his folks inside and outside that hall in Chicago, or their paragons like socialist senator Bernie Sanders, to take over the country.
Those raising hell in the street in Chicago and that convention hall are unfit to be citizens of this democratic republic.
For as Edmund Burke reminded us, “Men of intemperate minds can never be free. Their passions forge their fetters.”
The actual Dante quote is: “Master, what is it that I hear? Who are
those people so defeated by their pain?”
And he to me: “This miserable way
is taken by the sorry souls of those
who lived without disgrace and without praise.
They now commingle with the coward angels,
the company of those who were not rebels
nor faithful to their God, but stood apart.”
Satan is trapped in the lowest place, embedded in ice, btw. So PB’s quote is not accurate.
Whether you detest or delight in his tone or positions, if Trump fails at any point in this election, I believe we’ll lose a generation of free speech and, given the technological advances, we may never regain that right. It’s ironic how the seemingly most authoritarian candidates is the only one representing free speech. In actuality, those who adhere to Patriot Acts and political correctness are the true authoritarians and they’re the ones supporting these anti-free speech activists. War is peace… Freedom is slavery… Ignorance is strength…
Personally, I ‘m fine with the fact that people who disrupt other people’s events might get their ass kicked. I’m very much old school, when and where I grew up, you watched your mouth when it could get you in trouble. These fools nowadays think some invisible right protects them from harm irregardless of their behavior. There’s an old saying, any two men are only ten sentences away from a brawl.
http://www.vdare.com/articles/send-them-a-message-immigration-patriots-must-punish-rubio-and-kasich
Snooze, Stupio and Kashit.. three hankies of coddled GOP snot…together they wouldn’t make a pimple on Trump’s ass.
Ted Cruz: “When the candidate urges supporters to engage in physical violence, to punch people in the face, the predictable consequence of that is that is escalates. Today is unlikely to be the last such incidence.”
Marco Rubio: Trump is not entirely to blame for tonight’s events but the Republican front-runner “does bear responsibility for other things that have happened at his events”
John Kasich: “Tonight the seeds of division that Donald Trump has been sowing this whole campaign finally bore fruit, and it was ugly.”
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Where does GOP find these coddled snot rags ?
Shithead Ed , Bea Lever’s vibrating butt plug has more value.
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Half-Honky from Harvard axe “Why does white life matter? … Our argument is that white life is wrong.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC-Cqkq6zWc
AdolfJoeBiden™ @Bidenshairplugs Mar 12
America is being raped by a pack of immigrants. Rubio wants to hand them a Viagra. Cruz wants to hand them a condom. Trump reaches for a gun
Controlled opposition BL…After Hillary wins all this class/race noise will quiet down as Trump fade into the background.Are you really that naive?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HuqDXf9V-o#t=21
I fear that the mask has begun to slip.
No worries HSF, when the anarchotoadies finally succeed in dissolving all traces of government and free the hordes by destroying borders, all race/class war will be replaced with the power of LUV, because Larken Rose wills it so.
All those disruptive attackers and protesters and such may think they are scoring great victories with their attacks on Trump, but I’m betting they are moving more people into the Trump camp that aren’t there yet than they are dissuading.
If I had any doubts about who I am going to vote for, and I admit I had very few, I no longer have them.
I’m in for Trump all the way now, his enemies have convinced me that it the right place to be.
@HSF
The mask is slipping…
Flash, WTF, don’t be so stingy with the credit. To John kasich’s credit, he was a big shot at Lehman brothers, and helped steer their implosion in 2008.
” So PB’s quote is not accurate.”
Typical of Pat’s writing. He sees clearly what a bunch of assholes his party wants to run for prez, and how treacherous and worthless the party leaders are, but he still stays loyal to the GOP like a battered wife.
STFU, flasher before I bitch slap your skanky little ass again. ahaha
HSF: “I fear that the mask has begun to slip.”
I am glad that the mask is slipping.
Ed… pretty lame even for a buttplug.
Starfcker…didn’t know that about Kashit , but not surprised. All banksters are pro-Amnesty, because cheap labor and entitlements.
Him and jebbie, big Lehman brothers guys at the time of implosion. I wonder if pat hates them, I saw him tell John mclaughlin he got crushed on his Lehman holdings.
“It’s ironic how the seemingly most authoritarian candidates is the only one representing free speech.”
Does anyone seriously think that Trump is going to be some great defender of civil liberties if he gets into office?
You ever see those movies where the villain gets help from a minor good guy and turns on him as soon as their shared antagonist is neutralized?
“Does anyone seriously think that Trump is going to be some great defender of civil liberties if he gets into office?”
And the better choice would be?
Again, this standard of conduct and outcomes that are demanded of this candidate as opposed to all others is remarkable.
The shared constituency of his opponents- the MSM, both political parties, Wall St., China, illegal immigrants, Narcos, the military industrial complex, the FSA, LGBT’s, Feminists, Hipsters, Big AG/PHARMA, etc. has got to make you ask the question; If all these people agree that this guy is bad news for the status quo, what can I do to help him?
What a wonderfully divided society. There is no reasoning, no critical thought, and soon, no civility. This appears as being stoked by the ruling class as they must have division and chaos before the markets crash, the banks fail, and the credit markets seize up. I believe those things will happen this summer/fall and they must have the citizens infighting and blaming each other as opposed to knowing who the real enemy is. If this violence escalates and carries into the general election, said election may be temporarily suspended. Of course, there is nothing more permanent than a temporary goobermint measure.
Greg-
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This is all the more reason to have 30 rd AR magazines.
@bb: plenty of those, yes, may want to add some Magpul 40’s or even a D60 or two. I think the 40’s are the best value – the drum costs 6-7 times more for 50% more capacity.
Thanks Greg, what a rare breath of wisdom among all the jingoistic false dichotomies that are the norm at TBP.
@HF: “And the better choice would be?”
There is no better choice. There are no good choices. It’s a shit sandwich and you can bite in from either side. Trump is entertaining and seems to be making some people nervous. I expect he’s all-in with some part of the elite; maybe a different part than the rest, like foreign international bankers vs. Wall Street. But any pretense that he’s really “for the common man” is absurd.
TINVOWOOT
Much like WOPR’s conclusion in War Games, the only winning move is not to play. Given your situation I think you reached that conclusion, at some level, years ago, and hopefully are well positioned to read the news from a distance as things fall apart and blow up. I’m not in your state but otherwise I am somewhat similarly positioned.
I liken the current situation to watching a major flood rise. You know what’s happening, it’s slow and you can see it progress, but you have no ability to stop it or prevent the damage. All you can do is try to get and stay out of the way.
I don’t vote in National elections, I was merely asking why these questions are being directed at Trump supporters instead of supporters for any other candidate. It seems intentionally obtuse.
Cdubbya
You offer nothing but disrespect to this place. You hate the opinions here. Why the fuck do you come here? Are you lonely? You need to jerk off in the presence of others?
We had an asshole on this site just like you ….. DP ….. a worthless dickfuk who contributed absolutely nothing ….. his only reason for existence was to criticize TBP and the folks therein.
He was eventually banned.
I hope you get the same fate.
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Starf said “There’s an old saying, any two men are only ten sentences away from a brawl.”
Star…here in the South it’s only one sentence….”Yo’ Momma ” !
It’s time for all Trump supporters to start playing the knockout game!
What really happened in Chicago:
The PCE, Pt. 11 — Donald Trump: The Left’s Worst Nightmare
Mar 13
Written by: Diana West
Sunday, March 13, 2016 8:41 AM
Bill Ayers protesting Donald Trump in Chicago with the rest of the Marx-hard Left (photo via Gateway Pundit from Rebel Pundit)
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Part 10 is here.
Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy threatens the Left’s strangehold in this country more than any other movement in American politics in my memory, if not modern history.
That’s the simple reason thousands of Leftists mobilized in Chicago last week to shut down the democratic process — to seize the space inside and around a Trump political rally and transform it into a morass of menace, sirens, chaos, and mobs.
Ted Cruz, John Kasich, Marco Rubio, Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Rachel Maddow, Jake Tapper, Megyn Kelly et al to the woeful contrary: Nothing, but nothing, Donald Trump has said from his podium about protestors disrupting his rallies (punch him in the face, get him out of here, beat the crap out of anyone that throws tomatoes at me, I’ll defend you in court — the works) drives the anti-USA agendas of these Leftist groups; nor did it inspire them to organize the mobs that “successfully” interupted the democratic process last week in Chicago.
So what is behind it?
It is Donald Trump’s political agenda that drove the Left to organize its Chicago assets to seize enough control of the streets and the auditorium to thwart peaceable assembly and disrupt free speech — constitutional rights both (which, by the way, “Constitution defender” Cruz, once again, is so quick to surrender).
The Left reviles Trump’s Wall. They revile his policy to deport illegal aliens. To halt Muslim immigration. To halt illegal immigration. To control legal immigration. Restore US sovereignty. Reverse globalizing trade policies, such as TPA and TPP. These sharp turns from our politics-as-usual-over–the-cliff is what drove the Left to the streets in Chicago. Leaders on the Right — Cruz, Kasich and Rubio — gave the Left cover by blaming Trump.
Below is a list of the groups and persons that helped organize or participated in the “protest” in Chicago, a city, I was surprised to find, that is nearly as Hispanic as it is black. Blacks comprise 32.9 percent of Chicago’s population. “According to the U.S. census,” the Chicago Tribune reports, “28.9 percent of Chicago’s population identify as Hispanic. About 21.4 percent are from Mexico.” More than one in five Chicagoans are from Mexico? No wonder there were Mexican flags flying over the anti-Trump throngs.
My list is cobbled together from the LA Times, Daily Caller, the Chicago Tribune, Politico, and my own perusing. It is probably not complete, given that Chicagomag.com estimated that some 60 groups and 100 student organizers put the shutdown together. Incomplete or not, however, the revolutionary Leftist agenda of the groups couldn’t be clearer.
Note the congratulations from People For Bernie, described by MSNBC as “a large unofficial pro-Sanders organization founded by veterans of the Occupy movement.”
Shafted political principles and naked politics aside: That Cruz, Kasich and Rubio did not grasp that the Chicago shutdown was the revolutionary Left acting to disrupt the democratic process is probably the biggest single indictment of their collective political acumen. How opportunistic, how myopic can they get.
1) The Illinois Coalition of Immigrant and Refugee Rights,
2) La Raza Chicago
3) Black Lives Matter Chicago
4) League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), Illinois
5) Bill Ayers
6) Rep. Luis Guttierez
7) MoveOn.org (which has endorsed Bernie Sanders). Note: the MoveOn.org petition for the Stop Trump event was written by self-described “undocumented” and “queer” UIC graduate student, Jorge Mena Robles, a member of Mijente (below).
8) University of Illinois Chicago’s Prof. Amallia Pallares,
9) Black Student Union
10) Muslim Student Association
11) The Fearless Undocumented Alliance (“which,” as the LA Times PC-puts it, “advocates for immigrants in the country illegally”)
12) Assata’s Daughters (named for escaped-to-Cuba Black Panther murderer Assata Shakur, aka Joanne Chesimard)
13) International ANSWER Chicago
14) Chicago Democratic Socialists of America (Chicago DSA)
15) SEIU Local 73
16) The Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (as reported by “Fight Back News: News and Views from the People’s Struggle”)
17) Mijente
18) Centro Sin Fronteras
19) Chicago Aldermen George Cardenas (12th), Raymond Lopez (15th) and Gilbert Villegas (36th), as reported by Progress Illionois
Reading this detailed account in Fight Back News, “How Students in Chicago Organized to Shut Down Trump,” it strikes me that the author, Joe Iosbaker, of SEIU Local 73, who was also on-site at the UIC venue on the night of shutdown, might well have been the veteran organizer who coached these students on how to disrupt the Trump event.
Cdubbya,
Until 1965 the USA was basically ruled like a nation-state. Rulers sought the respect of the citizenry and cohesiveness among the citizens was openly promoted from the top down.
That changed during the 1960’s, and by early 1980 we had numerous changes in place that intentionally Balkanized the populace.
In recent decades we have open attempts to set one faction against another. This is the same way the British ruled otherwise unruly colonies like India and the Middle East.
Get everyone divided up into factions, get the factions warring with each other and they won’t coalesce into a unit and kick your boot off their necks.
This condition is not stable.
And when the credit bubble finally ends, the reservoir of rage now filled will break its dam.
Do me a favor and think about what it might mean if Anders Breivik is the harbinger of things to come….
Look, people, the Occam’s Razor explanation for all this is the Dark Enlightenment.
We live in a theocracy.
The theocracy’s god is Equality (defined irrationally, but ignore that.)
The theocracy’s sacrament is Democracy.
The theocracy’s saints are Washington, Lincoln, MLK and FDR.
The theocracy’s Satan is Hitler (which is why anyone theocratic cultists want to smear is called…yep.)
Theocratic dogma rejects that people differ from each other.
It rejects that race exists even as it legislates racial set-asides, racial affirmative action, racial student unions, etc., etc. [NO ONE SAID THESE ASSHOLES ARE CONSISTENT.]
Theocratic dogma rejects biological fact.
Men with XY chromosomes can be women and women with XX chromosomes can be men. Women can, in fact, do everything a man can do (e.g., firefighter, combat infantryman.) IQ is a construct (despite the fact that it correlates quite well with racial disparities in wealth, education, etc.). Evolution stopped 50,000 years ago (despite the growing literature documenting a growing number of biological traits that assort by race and geographic ancestry.)
Theocratic dogma ignores anything that is inconvenient:
1. crime rates
2. persistent measures of social pathology
3. unequal performance in certain athletic pursuits (favoring blacks.)
Theocratic dogma promotes judging people by individual even as it enshrines judging people by race throughout the law, including the Federal Register.
Theocratic dogma is driven by emotion.
Emotion does not learn. 50 years of civil rights efforts to make groups of people equal have utterly failed, but EMOTION DOESN’T LEARN, so nothing is learned from the past except “we” have to double our efforts, our spending, our tax-slavery and set-asides so Equality Utopia can emerge.
Today’s Equalitarian Cult is a direct descendant of Martin Luther, the English Levelers, the Puritans and the Post-Millennial Christian Pietists who produced the Progressive Era.
It’s a 600 year Left Turn.
Flash- Kasich is a douche and a criminal but you are free to have man-love for him if you like. Admin’s article can back up that statement . ( Read Admin’s comments about Kasich and Lehman Bros)
Stupid Computer- did not get this in.
It looks like Kasich could be the GOP candidate. So you may have to vote for the douche to keep from handing it to Hitlery.
” So you may have to vote for the douche to keep from handing it to Hitlery.”
Cue:”What a Fool Believes”. 😉
tRumpf speaks things to rile up his base. Politically incorrect language.
Does anyone think his contracts, legalese, contain such language? His followers are being horn-swaggled, IMO, by their own emotion and a clever arrogant big headed shit strumming their strings.
O.
And Hilarity, queen midget, sucks also.