Authored by Michael Snyder via TheMostImportantNews.com,
What we are witnessing all over the country right now is incredibly sad. In the aftermath of the tragic death of George Floyd, it would have been wonderful to see the entire nation unite behind an effort to make our society less violent, more just and more peaceful. But instead, we have seen a tremendous explosion of violence and lawlessness that doesn’t seem likely to end any time soon.
Violent crime rates are surging in major city after major city, and the 4th of July weekend was particularly bad. At least 41 people were hit by gunfire in New York City during the holiday weekend, and this continues a trend that we have seen throughout the first half of 2020. Just check out these numbers…
According to figures released by the New York Police Department, for the first six months of this year, there were 176 murders, an increase of 23 percent on the 143 killed during the same period last year.
The number of shooting victims has gone up 51 percent to 616 this year. In June alone, there were 250 shootings compared to 97 in the same month last year. Month-on-month, burglaries are up 119 percent and car thefts up 48 percent.
I don’t know which one of those numbers is the worst, because they are all quite horrific.
A tremendous amount of money has been shifted away from the NYPD budget, and that certainly isn’t going to help matters. For years, the hard work of the NYPD had helped to make New York safer than many of our other major cities, but now that is changing at a pace that is absolutely breathtaking. In fact, one British news source is now referring to the city as “lawless New York”…
Two bullet-ridden bodies lay sprawled on bloodstained concrete steps. Alongside, relatives of the victims are wailing and collapse to the ground. In another part of the city, a gang of youths use spray paint to disable security cameras before robbing a corner store. Later, video footage captures police officers sitting helplessly in their patrol car as a baying crowd hurls glass bottles at them.
This is lawless New York – a city that was once America’s glittering crown jewel but which risks descending into mob rule.
Of course New York still has a long way to go if it wants to rival Chicago. According to authorities, there are more than 100,000 gang members living in Chicago at this point, and the violence never seems to stop.
Sadly, the last couple of days have been particularly bad. Over the 4th of July weekend, at least 67 people were hit by gunfire in the Windy City…
At least 67 people were shot, including 13 fatally, over the Independence Day weekend in Chicago, according to authorities.
Nine of the weekend’s victims were minors, and two children died, officials told Fox32. That includes 14-year-old boy who was among four people who were killed in the South Side neighborhood Englewood on Saturday evening.
But instead of blaming the criminals, the Chicago Sun-Times seem to think that “cutting funding for police could lead to a better and safer Chicago”.
Seriously?
Do people actually believe such nonsense?
Philadelphia is another major city that is seeing a massive increase in violent crime at the same time funding for the police is being cut back…
Shootings are up 67 percent. Victims of armed violence are up 29 percent. Homicides are up 25 percent. So of course it makes sense to defund the Philadelphia PD by $19 million.
Most Americans desperately want their neighborhoods to feel safe, and this could be the one issue that could rescue the Republicans from a potential disaster in the November election.
Right now, most Democrats are extremely hesitant to speak out against the violent protests that we have been witnessing all over the nation, and that is a huge mistake.
And we definitely witnessed more alarming violence during the political protests that were held over the past few days. For example, protesters in Portland were launching projectiles and shooting fireworks at police officers in Portland for hours. If Democrats want to win over independent voters, they cannot be seen as siding with such violence.
Law enforcement in downtown Portland have been under attack for hours at the federal courthouse by antifa extremists. They hurl projectile weapons at police & when officers respond, go on social media tagging politicians & lawyers claiming police brutality pic.twitter.com/K6I3sxw7jS
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) July 3, 2020
By engaging in such utter lawlessness, these radical protesters are actually hurting their own cause, because it is only going to help President Trump.
The more violence that we see, the more the American people are going to want it to stop. If tens of millions of voters believe that “Joe Biden’s America” is an America filled with rioting, looting and violence, that could potentially be enough to push Trump over the top in November.
So Joe Biden’s unwillingness to strongly call for law and order may turn out to be his Achilles heel.
The way national elections are won in America is by winning over the millions of confused people in the middle, and right now the images of these protests that those confused people are viewing on their television screens are definitely not helping Democrats. For example, over the weekend protesters in New York were burning American flags as they chanted “America was never great”…
FAR left protesters have burned American flags outside Trump Tower and the White House.
Video shows the Stars and Stripes being burned just outside the White House as the demonstrators chanted “America was never great”.
Does anyone out there actually think that such stunts will make the confused people in the middle more likely to vote for Democrats?
Right now, Trump is way behind in the polls, but if he makes these protesters the central issue of the campaign over the next several months he may still have a chance of winning.
But no matter who wins in November, it appears that we have now entered a new era of violence and rioting in this country.
Many of our major cities already resemble war zones, and what we have experienced so far is just the beginning.
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Everyone of these cities will either re-elect the spineless political leaders that enable this or replace them in kind.
So who is really to blame?
Having worked near Chicago for two years, I am convinced the citizens are blinkered (a new term I learned on TBP). Before we blame these cities politicians; we need to hold the citizens accountable.
Case in point, we now have organized Republican Never Trumpers openly trying to get Socialists elected.
Exactly, it starts with the people. The only excuse the people may have is that indoctrination and propaganda does work. How do we break the cycle of these two deadly human infections of the mind?
I have an idea how to break the cycle, but it wont be pretty after the bodies hang for a few weeks.
” trying to get Socialists elected”
Communists, just say it.
Communists.
and now the anti trump republicans are going after republican senators 4 supporting trump–
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/07/05/never-trump-republicans-plot-give-democrats-senate-majority/
As horrible as it is to contemplate, the fastest way to the establishment of a new, just nation founded on worthy principles and myths is the (unfortunately ignominious) quick end of the old, diseased nation we currently inhabit. There is not “reform” on the way, nor a return to the halcyon days of the past. The wheel has turned. We either turn with it or get crushed.
Cops in places like Chicago should quit. They are protecting the wrong people and have been for a long time. Let the knuckleheads kill each other if that be their wont. It is harsh, and it is not fair, and weeping over any dead children is right, but the way to be done with that kind of people is to let them slog on until they see the light or leave the earth. And the faster the better for either.
We are in ugly times that will soon be much uglier. Let’s not prolong it.
Well, those cops draw good salaries and pensions. Why jeopardize that? Just sit back and let the inhabitants destroy one another and once the shooting stops, go in, unwrap the yellow tape and wait for the morgue guys. In cop parlance such areas as those in Chicago and elsewhere are known as ‘self-cleaning ovens’ and they are essentially engaging in population control.
Quite simple, really.
They* voted for it; They continue to vote for it; therefore They must like it. Let Them fucking choke on it.**
*The electorate.
**Now if only there was a vibrant and diverse , mostly peaceful, government approved, BLM; Antifa; Maoist; Trotskyite; jihadi; and anarchist demonstration and protest for St. George FLoyd or the black child just offed in CHicongo — in lovely toney The Hamptons or say Matha’s Vinnyid.
That would provide Lib-Prog and Ivy League Wall Street hedge fund managers, media whores, lawyers , art dealers, tech titans, and other Masters of The Universe, to have a splendid opportunity to make amends for 400 years of structural rayssissm by permitting some genuflecting at the feet of some BLM thug-lifers; maybe even give them a shine as the Shit-Fil-A owner had prescribed for penance. Have some post-Fourth fireworks, er fires, as main street E. Hampton could certainly use a facelift via the magic of graffitti, smashed glass and storefronts, looting (with a 100% discount BLM Race Card) and the pulse-pounding arsonist son et lumiére spectacular.
The police and fire departments can take a knee, pledge aliegance to BLM and stand down to the frolic as the elected officials of the upscale town look to mayors Bill De Blasio and the creature from Chiraq for guidance on how to best defund, dismantle and eliminate the rayssiss police and allow true social justice to reign.
Remember: “We are all in this together”.
Such a bullshit article. Nothing new under the sun…
All the more reason to stay out of big cities. Most are run by democrats and filled to the brim with dindus who depend on their baby mama’s EBT card.
Trump hiding in his bunker while the country burns to the ground is not helping his election odds. Why hasn’t he labelled Antifa and BLM terrorist organizations yet? He could end this shit tomorrow if he wanted to. We all know the answer, though some here can’t/won’t admit it.
Beware the black man, for he is the democrats pawn. . Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert of his home and yours. Do not turn your back to him, for he is the harbinger of death.’”
Progressives. Effing it up for everyone like no other, for fuck’s sake.