Authored by Harlan Hill via RealClearPolitics.com,
America is in the midst of one of the great moral panics in our nation’s history. If we don’t stand up for our nation’s core values, the situation could get even worse – and soon. If you’ve spent any time on social media in the last three weeks, you’ve probably noticed the organized campaigns to get college and even high schoolstudents expelled or denied admission based on their political views. You’ve also seen gleeful mobs celebrating as Americans lose their jobs for running afoul of someone’s momentary political obsessions.
In every sector of American society, people are having their careers destroyed to the pitiless baying of the “woke” masses. It’s happening in business. CrossFit CEO Greg Glassman spent 20 years building the fitness brand into a multi-billion dollar company, only to be thrown out of the empire he built for declining to go along with the “racism is a public health crisis” dogma.
It’s happening in journalism. New York Times editor James Bennet, a liberal, was fired for publishing an op-ed by a sitting Republican senator advocating for a military response to nationwide rioting — a position the majority of Americans agreed with. The same fate befell Philadelphia Inquirer editor Stan Wischowski, who was terminated for approving an article that condemned looting and arson.
It’s happening in entertainment, in academia, and pretty much anywhere someone can be found who is not sufficiently supportive of the Black Lives Matter movement.
It’s even happening to people who didn’t do anything at all. An L.A. Galaxy soccer player was forced to resign because his wife tweeted that rioters should be shot. A lawyer in San Francisco was fired because his wife was rude to a man she thought was spray-painting BLM propaganda on a building that wasn’t his (it was). On Thursday, this Stasi-esque trend reached another level when a company called Equity Prime Mortgage fired the stepmother of the officer charged in the controversial shooting of drunk driver Rashad Brooks after he fought with and fired a taser at police. The stepmother was apparently fired for no reason other than family loyalty.
On Monday, the panic reached what one can only hope will be its peak when a San Diego Gas and Electric employee lost his job for “making a white supremacist hand gesture.” We’ve long since debunked the notion that the OK sign is somehow racist — that was just a fiction perpetrated by internet trolls — but in this case, this man lost his livelihood despite the fact he wasn’t even making an OK sign. He was apparently cracking his knuckles as he drove.
What America is going through right now is not merely another, more intense round of “cancel culture.” We’re now in the midst of a full-force, totalitarian remolding of our society, one that seeks to place the petty resentments of an outraged minority of leftist activists above everything else in American life. Because of their willingness to riot, loot, and assault anyone they perceive to be insufficiently sympathetic to their cause, leftists are able to bully ordinary people into submission. As a result, television shows such as “Cops” and “Live PD,” classic films such as “Gone With the Wind,” and iconic brands such as Aunt Jemima, Mrs. Buttersworth, and Uncle Ben’s rice are consigned to the “dustbin of history.”
I used to speak frequently to nervous conservatives who were convinced that if we only allowed the left to tear down Confederate war memorials, they would be satisfied. How quickly events have disproved that wishful thinking. From Christopher Columbus, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and the western pioneers, activists are now coming after cartoon sports mascots and college fight songs. Everything — from the core of our country’s history to the values and norms undergirding American culture — must be uprooted to appease the mob.
They are tearing down dozens of statues and facing no consequences whatsoever for vandalizing our public spaces — including memorials to our nation’s greatest heroes. When private citizens try to do the job the government won’t and protect our culture, our history, and our public property from destruction, local officials step in and remove the statues on behalf of the vandals, lest they injure themselves while imitating Iraqis celebrating the fall of Saddam Hussein.
These people are not seeking change at the margins. They are demanding a total cultural revolution, and cowardly public officials are giving it to them. If you look at this national outpouring of hatred and recrimination with horror verging on despair, I assure you that you are not alone. Tens of millions of Americans feel exactly the same way.
President Trump is doing exactly what an American president should do in a crisis like this. He is working to maintain law and order and prevent cowed local officials from allowing political violence to flare again. He issued an executive order to add to his legacy of reform and address legitimate concerns about law enforcement in this country. He also issued a separate executive order targeting the systemic bias in Silicon Valley’s censorship offices, which has allowed our social media platforms to become echo chambers for left-wing extremism and “cancel culture.”
The only thing that could make the situation worse at this moment would be handing the White House to a doddering and unprincipled establishment politician beholden to the “cancel culture” mob. Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden would immediately delegate de facto control over the vast justice, civil rights, and regulatory apparatus of the federal government to the loudest voices in his coalition: the woke activist class.
At this moment, there is a veritable army of lawyers and bureaucrats who have spent the last three and a half years subsisting on resentment and salivating at the prospect of regaining power. Things are bad enough now, but conditions will become much worse if the “cancel culture” born on social media is augmented with the force of law and given the full attention of Biden appointees imbued with the sweeping powers of the federal bureaucracy.
Dark forces have been unleashed in this country. Even now, we are only seeing the tip of the iceberg. If we don’t want to find out how much damage it can inflict on the ship of state, we must prevent those forces from taking control of the federal government.
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The issue is not a federal level issue. It is a Main Street issue. The normals out there need to take back their towns, their cities, their states first. The crazies are kicking at the door. If people will not defend at a local level, the federal level is meaningless.
You can change things locally. No chance doing so federally.
No- it IS a Federal Issue. and DJT is an effing COWARD. Or a shill. Or both.
Two posters- one Tucker Carlson, the other- Cambria will not Yield.
“America has two standards of justice: when they do it to you it’s social justice, if you dare to defend yourself it’s a hate crime.”
“Rioting is a federal crime; so is arson…. Authorities could identify all of them (BLM rioters) and charge them. but they don’t.”
“Kill the colonizers, Kill Whitey”- written upon the statue torn down of Francis Scott Key in S.F. What does this mean? In other words, “Murder AMERICANS for the color of their skin.”- T Carlson
“Ask yourself, ‘Who is being targeted for destruction right now?’ Anyone who is not on board with their [Democrat] program…. that includes local police departments, gun owners, ‘Traditional Christianity.’ That’s not a random assortment… It’s the people standing in their way. There’s a reason that BLM Leader Shaun King called for the desecration of Churches…
None of this should surprise us; it’s obvious. Much of the poison emanates from the universities. We keep funding them, we send our children there.”
“Our Institutions are not serving us equally” Tucker Carlson broadcast
Next, Cambria:
“Recently I heard [Tucker] Carlson say, quite rightly, that the terrorists of Antifa and Black Lives Matter should be opposed. Language is sermonic: calling terrorists terrorists is certainly a good start; they are not ‘protestors.’ Carlson went on to say that Trump should do something. Yes, he should. But what should be done to stop terrorists? The answer is simple – terrorists should be shot and killed. No government that is still a government can tolerate what is now going on in the name of Black Lives Matter. “
“Truth is truth till the end of reckoning,” Isabella declares in Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure. And negro worship is demonism; that is and always shall be true till the end of reckoning. You cannot serve two masters. If your Christian faith consists of proclaiming the compatibility of Christianity and negro worship, you are not a Christian. If we are true to our Jesus, we must renounce the devil and all his works, even if that means we must stand alone against the demon-possessed liberal swine who command us to bow down before the sacred negro….We cannot avoid this thing called faith.
Do we serve Christ or the negro?”
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The solutions are local. You will accomplish nothing at the federal level.
Surely local is important since “from the bottom up” is the best kind of support. If we want it to reach the federal level we have to solidify things locally first.
The free shit army has gotten too large in many locales to overcome.
Apparently Blacks are not all on board or comfortable with their new status as objects of worship. I see Leo Terrell, a prominent civil rights attorney and liberal often on TV is so incensed by what the Demsheviks are pushing he is calling for Blacks to leave the Dhimmicrats and support Trump. This is pretty unusual. According to Rasmussen, since the rioting and destruction began, Black support for Trump has almost doubled, now at 39%. This is more than twice the support which supposedly makes a Dem victory impossible in a national election. Hispanic support for Trump is closing on 50%.
I still believe this hysterical rush to violence is because the internals are telling the Dems they cannot win a fair election.
Arson is federal crime only when the arson occurred on federal property. If it happens within a state or local government, it’s their baby.
Rioting is only a federal crime if the suspects traveled from another state, area, country, and those caught are currently being charged with federal crimes.
Burning, looting and destruction, if not on federal property, cannot be charged by the feds. Again, it’s the state or local government’s who have responsibility to do the charging, whether a church or a business.
I agree with the Cancel Culture concept if it is put to intelligent use, like cancelling Liberalism and Socialism. .
I don’t believe in any cancel culture. I agree with First Amendment rights to your opinion and open debate. Nobody’s speech should be canceled.
By the way, I also think yelling “fire” in a movie theater shouldn’t be a crime. But I also think if someone does that and people get hurt or killed or there’s destruction to property, the person who yelled “fire” should be sued and taken to civil court for the injury or death and/or destruction caused.
The last time the nation pissed it’s pants this bad was 1904-1907 when a massive, broad-based, coalition of religious and civic leaders fought and lost an epic campaign to remove a U.S. Senator due to his religious beliefs and affiliation.
Today the grandchildren of that same massive coalition of the righteous, and Americans at large, are now drowning in Communism, faggotry, radical feminism, depravity, and moral turpitude.
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Don’t think that you can come on here, and fill electrons with specious CULTIC BS, and not have everyone notice! While I can respect the Mormons for their works righteousness, I cannot, and WILL not, condone your heresy, wherever I see it. Your cult is totally complicit with the GLoboHomoSchlomo agenda, what with your abandoning B.Young’s (or was it Jos. Smith’s) denigration of the Knee-grow, your tacit acceptance of sodomy and ‘gay’ issues, not counting your faulty Christology, your heretical graceless sacraments, and all the rest.
Do you REALLY think that even the Fundie Mormons have ANY say, in this? Anathema.
Listen to a REAL Christian, talk about the entirety of the BLM charade:
“Silence in the face of evil it itself evil:
God will not hold us guiltless.
Not to speak is to speak; not to act, is to act.”
– D. Bonhoeffer
“Nature has made them slaves; all that law and government can do, is to regulate, modify and mitigate their slavery. – George Fitzhugh, Sociology for the South, or, The Failure of Free Society
“You can only tell what laws, institutions and governments will effect, when you apply them to the same race or nation under the same circumstances in which they have already been tried.”- ibid.
If all men had been created equal, all would have been competitors, rivals and enemies. Subordination, difference of caste and classes, difference of sex, age and slavery beget peace and good will.” ibid.
“We are but stringing together truisms, which every body knows as well as ourselves, and yet if men are created unequal in all these respects, what truth or what meaning is there in the passage under consideration? Men are not created or born equal, and circumstances, and education, and association, tend to increase and aggravate inequalities among them, from generation to generation. Generally, the rich associate and intermarry with each other, the poor do the same; the ignorant rarely associate with or intermarry with the learned, and all society shuns contact with the criminal, even to the third and fourth generations.” – ibid.
“ ‘Life and liberty’ are not ‘inalienable;’ they have been sold in all countries, and in all ages, and must be sold so long as human nature lasts. It is an inexpedient and unwise, and often unmerciful restraint, on a man’s liberty of action, to deny him the right to sell himself when starving, and again to buy himself when fortune smiles. Most countries of antiquity, and some like China at the present day, allowed such sale and purchase. The great object of government is to restrict, control and punish man “in the pursuit of happiness.” All crimes are committed in its pursuit. Under the free or competitive system, most men’s happiness consists in destroying the happiness of other people. This, then, is no inalienable right.” – ibid.
If the pursuit of happiness be inalienable, men should not be punished for crime, for all crimes are notorious committed in the pursuit of happiness. If these abstractions have some hidden and cabalistic meaning, which none but the initiated can comprehend, then the Declaration should have been accompanied with a translation, and a commentary fit it for common use, – as it stands, it deserves the timid yet appropriate epithets which Major Lee somewhere applies to the writings of Mr. Jefferson, it is, “exuberantly false, and arborescently fallacious.”
John – your holier than thou bullshit is just as bad.
Can we cancel Friar John?
I sure hope so.
Pretty sure the “good Father” is a certain regular.
Me Too. Something very familiar about him. Notice the absence of another regular for a few days?
GCP?
Yoji.
I like some of what you’re pedaling but I cannot get down with “Under the free or competitive system, most men’s happiness consists in destroying the happiness of other people.”
That’s not happiness.
Peddling.
Damn!
What a disgrace to quote Bonhoeffer alongside this piece of shit!
The most unethical, despicable piece of shit I ever met was a Mormon. Coincidence? I think not.
I picked him up by the throat, slammed him against the wall in the barracks, and told him he best never leave the base because if I caught him I would bust all his bones. Far as I know he never left the base while I was there. He was despicable but not stupid, because it was not an idle threat and he knew it. True story that.
BLM just shot someone in Provo, UT, home of BYU and the center of Mormon education. So much for Mormons being against communism.
BLM just shot someone in Provo
That right there is an indication that these ‘protests’ are nothing but an excuse to wage war on the citizens. If they are in the road, run them over and make sure you can get away. If they are armed they will kill you and will think nothing of it. You are the enemy and you must be destroyed. You may not think you’re at war with them but rest assured they are most certainly at war with you.
They are outnumbered but they have the media and democrats and big business on their side. Not sure why companies are kissing their asses but so be it. Note that the vast majority of BLM ‘protestors’ are white. They are the SJW brainwashed class that screams when it doesn’t get it’s way and, like any spoiled child, they will attack you for thwarting them. The women in those groups need some serious ass kicking, they seem to think their gender will protect them while they throw bricks and bottles. I know, it’s hard to tell the boys from the girls but generally they screech louder and higher.
As to what Llpoh said, he’s right. The little pukes tried to pull some shit in a smallish town south of me and the locals weren’t having any part of that. They leave right quick when confronted with armed and angry citizens.
And the string pullers at every level are helping to coordinate the violence and destruction using taxpayer dollars to facilitate their objectives-
Just a coinky dink that the spot was marked by pink spray paint.
Also beware the piles of fireworks that are making their way into maleficent hands.
https://www.infowars.com/video-black-men-shoot-white-man-with-fireworks/
I wish the guy would have watched and recorded that trashcan during the protests to see if the police gave them the location of where the rocks were.
That someone has been caught and arrested. A white liberal.
And yet. LENIN’s Statues still stand- even erecting new ones!
https://www.euronews.com/2020/06/20/statue-of-lenin-calmly-erected-in-west-germany
That’s all you need to (((know))). WHO’s behind all this- as it were?
Jew know the answer.
Anyone who thinks Trump is in control has not been paying attention.
Or that any President is in control.
This is deliberate, don’t look to anyone to ‘control’ it at present, TPTB need and want total upheaval and chaos to implement their plans. Look to the Communist manifesto for an inkling of what those plans are.
The armed couple standing in front of their house to prevent becoming victims of the “peaceful protesters…” Yeah; that’s where we start…
Progressives are never satisfied. Once they achieve a victory/attain a goal, they immediately move to the next objective. Conservatives believe in the system and that law and order will prevail, but if they do not wake up and take to the streets in massive numbers, it will be too late.
Sadly, FEMA says we will never revolt. We will continue to submit no matter what. Lokk at how they are creating a new Scami-Flu panic right in front of our eyes in climates “They” said Flu can’t survive. And we do nothing.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/australia-places-300k-under-lockdown-global-cases-near-105-million-live-updates
So, speaking of said flu….there’s an emergency clinic that’s part of the local hospital and, for some strange reason, especially during an epidemic, it’s ‘temporarily’ closed. Odd since we’re in stage two shutdown of the beer virus. One would think it would be needed for the overflowing infected.
The only thing that will get “conservatives” off their ass is to take away their money.
As long as they can count their shekels and pet their gun, they’re content. In the meantime they’ll keep the lazy-boy warm and the tv on ESPN.
They will eventually give up their guns too; Trump just hasn’t asked yet. It’s straight out of the communist psychopolitics manual – subject people to enough torture, humiliation and privation, and they will agree to anything.
Right now, unless you or your property are in danger, you shouldn’t do anything rash against these people. That’s what they want. They want to show you as the bad people.
At this time, there’s no reason to go offensive. But if you live in a liberal area, you either need to move pronto or be ready to defend yourselves when the time comes.
A pariah like this guy?
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/07/01/chris_cuomo_vs_st_louis_home_defender_mccloskey_you_are_the_face_of_white_resistance_black_lives_matter.html