Guest Post by Pat Buchanan
Query: How does “systemic racism” permeate a blue state dominated for decades by liberal Democrats? What explains the failure of Democrats who have long run Minnesota to root out racism?
On the fifth night of rioting, looting and arson in Minneapolis, the criminal elements were driven from the streets.
By whom? By the same cops who had been the constant objects of media derision and mob hatred.
Without the thin blue line, far larger sectors of dozens of America’s cities would be in ruins, burned to the ground by the mobs that showered police and their vehicles with rocks, bricks, bottles, Molotov cocktails and any debris that could be thrown at them.
Because they were the first responders in these riots, the cops were the first targets of criminal assault and the last line of defense of the law-abiding.
Wherever they had to draw back or pull back, anarchy ensued.
Consider the decision of Mayor Jacob Frey and Police Chief Medaria Arradondo to surrender and abandon the 3rd Precinct. As police cars pulled out and the cops fled, the exhilarated rabble invaded, pillaged and burned the precinct.
And America saw, in astonishment, a triumph of anarchy.
One wonders what the world thought as it, too, watched.
Now, consider the political coloration of Minneapolis.
Frey, who ordered the surrender, is a far-left Democrat. Gov. Tim Walz is a liberal Democrat, as are both U.S. senators including Amy Klobuchar. Minneapolis Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is a soul sister of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Minnesota was the political home of Vice Presidents Hubert Humphrey and Walter Mondale and Senators Eugene McCarthy and Paul Wellstone, liberal icons all. The state has not voted Republican for president since 1972. Even Ronald Reagan never carried Minnesota.
Yet, of his home state, this citadel of liberalism, Walz said last week, “Systemic racism must be addressed if we are to secure, justice, peace and order for all Minnesotans.”
Query: How does “systemic racism” permeate a blue state dominated for decades by liberal Democrats? What explains the failure of Democrats who have long run Minnesota to root out racism?
Why have liberals failed to exorcise racism where they rule? Are even good Minnesota liberals infected with the virus?
What we witnessed this week in Minneapolis is a failure of liberalism. The leadership of the city and state could not persuade the protesters it claims to represent to remain peaceful. And when rioting, looting and arson erupted, and attacks on police began, that leadership sat morally and politically paralyzed.
The elites could not condemn both the killing of George Floyd and, with equal moral vehemence, the violent and criminal element that came to permeate the ranks of the protesters.
They failed to get sufficient law enforcement or the National Guard into the city on time, or to declare and impose a curfew, or to use requisite force to halt the rioting and looting.
As a result of their incompetence or cowardice, the custodians of the lovely city of Minneapolis let her be gang-raped by a criminal mob.
Why have those leaders not turned in their resignations?
Comparisons have been drawn to the 1960s.
In the summer of 1964, LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act. In 1965, the Voting Right Act was enacted after Selma. Then came one Great Society program after another, as LBJ declared at Howard University, we are moving beyond equality of opportunity to “equality of result” in America.
However, in August 1965, Watts exploded, the worst race riot since Lincoln sent Union troops to put down the New York draft riots of 1863.
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Newark and Detroit had uprisings of similar magnitude in 1967.
In April 1968, for days after the assassination of Martin Luther King, U.S. cities were pillaged and burned, Washington, D.C., among them.
LBJ’s Kerner Commission said the cause of the riots that had come out of the black community was actually “white racism.”
Said Richard Nixon speaking for the silent majority: They seem to blame everybody for the riots but the rioters themselves.
Liberals of that era, too, seemed morally disarmed and politically paralyzed when it came to confronting criminal elements that emerged from minority communities and voted Democratic.
Such situations invariably seem to produce in liberals a paralysis where the crimes are attributed to a “few bad apples” hiding among all those “peaceful protesters.”
There is much chatter about “speaking truth to power.”
What does that mean today?
At the least, the recognition that while the killing of George Floyd was an atrocity that cries out for justice, so, too, does the rampant criminality that exploded in its aftermath.
But because of the failure to condemn that criminality, and the paralysis of Minnesota’s political leadership class, the black community in Minneapolis has lost hundreds of businesses — some forever — that had provided them with the necessities of a decent life.
Liberals may equate the term “law and order” with racism, but without law and order, there is no justice and no peace.
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The cops saved Assembly Row, Somerville, MA and the South Shore Mall, Braintree, MA last night.
Hundreds of cops staring down a teeny-tiny handful of “protesters.”
That being said;
Pat Buchanan (1989);
The way to prevent such civic disorder is to kill anyone who is doing it. Right then, right there. My town hasn’t had any kind of civic disorder since what happened about 40 years ago. A group of Hells Angels instigated a public gun fight at the Ohio State Fair where people got killed in front of everybody to see. They decided to head South, and when they got to the Ben Williamson Bridge, the Ashland City Police were waiting for them. They shot them dead right there on their motorcycles. One even wrecked and went into the Ohio. None of them got to the Kentucky side.
It turns out that George Floyd was a career violent criminal imprisoned at least 5 times including 5 years for entering a woman’s home and pushing a gun into her stomach whilst his accomplice beat her in the head with his pistol.
Why am I not surprised? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8366533/George-Floyd-moved-Minneapolis-start-new-life-released-prison-Texas.html
I don’t doubt that.
It’s hoaxes, on top of hoaxes, inside of hoaxes now.
The only way to know which way is up, is gravity, and even that is pole-shifting.
$9 million for a junkie who OD’d while being held down/not suffocated?
Could it be Philoniose Floyd couldn’t breathe due to a Corona infection?
Larcenia Floyd? As in LARCENY? Wow, the names these people pick for their chillllren.
Jontbril and Tywaz are two of my favorites.
What we are looking at is an attempt to bankrupt corporations and bail them out. Making the government the new owner. Remember , once the first one is bailed out, private capital will flee.
We know their playbook. I suggest we have to look at strategic hoarding of essentials such as food. Maybe, we can starve the cities and give them something else to riot about.
I can’t think of any out solutions. We need solutions.
The meltdown is underway no matter what They try to do. Any place controlled by the Democratic Communists is dangerous and it will only escalate. Places in Flyover Country will remain largely peaceful, unless troublemakers from their shithole cities go there and try to cause trouble.
“As a result of their incompetence or cowardice…”
– Pat Buchanan
How about the riots and failure to respond to protect the citizens and fair city are as a result of their idiocy, impotence, and most importantly, their – the liberal political operatives of Minneapolis and Minnesota – poisonous ideological position…
These politicians and their tools are Trotskyites and have the destruction of The Republic as their objective. Rioting Negroes, burning cities, mass violence are implements to achieve that goal.
You have effectively defined the modus operandi of any Democratic shithole city.
Pat is working overtime to MISDIRECT folks.
I’ve been tell you this for ages.
Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?Ps 2:1. They rage because they are enabled by the communist factions that have hijacked America and are working diligently to turn it into a third world shithole, where only the oligarchs live lives of unimaginable indulgences and wealth.
Before any battle begins, it is imperative that the enemy be identified. In this case, it isn’t the raging heathen that have been causing havoc throughout the major U.S. cities this past week.
The true enemy is their enablers, whose agenda includes the elimination of the white, indigenous populace that provided the foundational heritage and cultural norms that made this a White, Christian nation. The heathen are only the foot soldiers that are paid to cause disruption and chaos wherever they are directed.
The mayor of Minneapolis is allied with this rabble and also marches with the homosexuals in their parades of depravity. He is also Jewish, which identifies him as a communist agent that was installed to create the conditions that the city of Minneapolis now finds itself. Remove the enemy and the nation will heal. Remove the agent provocateurs and the calm will be restored. Research who were those behind the civil rights movement. Research who heads up the homosexual movements. Find out who owns this nation lock, stock and barrel.
The old adage of the golden rule has been changed from “he who has the gold makes the rules,” to he who controls the printing press and can create trillions of debt/usury monopoly dollars makes the rules.
This has nothing to do with “equality” it has everything to do with submission and eventual elimination of the white, European race throughout the entire world. This is the kill shot coming to your neighborhood soon. Prepare to be “culturally enriched.”
White America has been subjugated to the tyrannical forces of evil, because white Americans spend most of their time bending over backwards in guilt-ridden anguish, so that they aren’t deemed to be racist by the worst racists on this earth; the communist Jew.
Don’t fret.
The United States of America has the ultimate, divine, insurance policy.
Tasty boots, yes?