Seattle’s CHOP Worse Than The ‘Complete And Total Anarchy’ Of Occupy Wall Street, NY Police Union Exec Says

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  • Vice president of Sergeants Benevolent Association Vincent Vallelong compared the Occupy Wall Street protests of 2011 to the present-day Seattle occupation known as CHOP.
  • He fears the Seattle occupation is far more grave than what he saw in 2011 in Manhattan and suggests Seattle PD is being stymied by local officials. 
  • Vallelong said Seattle law enforcement missed a critical opportunity to quash this occupation early on and the presence of armed demonstrators complicates law enforcement efforts to take control of the situation. 

The mass encampments in the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations of 2011 were far less dangerous and appalling than Seattle’s autonomous zone protest, according to a New York police union executive.

Vice president of the Sergeant’s Benevolent Association Vincent Vallelong witnessed the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations that protested economic inequality in Manhattan first hand, observing rampant filth and crime in the tent city. The armed encampment in Seattle now better known as the Capital Hill Organized Protest (CHOP) is even more dangerous, he told the Daily Caller News Foundation in an interview.

Vallelong noted that Occupy Wall Street demonstrators only commandeered a single New York City block, while Seattle demonstrators have assumed control of multiple city streets and buildings, including a police precinct. He suggested the Seattle activists are far more entrenched.

“In New York, they were contained to a park. They only had one long city block where they set up their tents. It was like a flea market in a sense, and they brought their own fleas with them. Over in Seattle, they gave up city buildings and city streets,” he said.

“I’ve been involved in numerous demonstrations, numerous catastrophes that have happened in New York since the ’90s. I’ve seen a lot,” he said. “I have [police] friends in Seattle that I just got off the phone with earlier today and it’s like their will is broken. Some of them are just talking about leaving and not coming back.”

To Vallelong, all of this was preventable in the early hours of the insurrection. Instead, it was allowed to persist and grow.

“[The] right course of action would of been the same thing that they should’ve did in New York here when the demonstrations got out of hand. Should’ve went in, should’ve locked up all the people who they deemed as being the leaders and they should’ve been kept in jail for two to three days before seeing a judge,” he said.

Occupy Wall Street — a series of demonstrations protesting economic inequality — had its epicenter in privately-owned Zuccotti Park in Manhattan. Protesters camped in a one-block area for months on end, according to a 2011 CBS News report.

Vallelong — who’s been involved with police work since 1990 — called the 2011 encampments in Zuccotti park “disgusting.” He said fecal matter lined the streets and the tent city was akin to the embodiment of “anarchy.”

“We’re talking like fecal matter — just people were not washing,” he told the DCNF.

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JAKE DIMA

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VIDEO: On the Shooting at Wendy’s in Atlanta

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Rayshard Brooks was shot in the Wendy’s parking lot on Friday night after he scuffled with officers and ran away with one of their stun guns, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation )GBI). See the GBI press release below.

Here’s my take on the shooting.

PRESS RELEASE: GBI Investigates Officer Involved Shooting in Atlanta

Update #2 (June 13, 2020)

The GBI has obtained additional surveillance video from the Wendy’s restaurant.  Agents have also reviewed video posted on social media.  These new videos indicate that during a physical struggle with officers, Brooks obtained one of the officer’s Tasers and began to flee from the scene.  Officers pursued Brooks on foot and during the chase, Brooks turned and pointed the Taser at the officer.  The officer fired his weapon, striking Brooks.

A copy of this video will be released to the public.

An earlier account of this incident was based on the officer’s body cam which was knocked off during the physical struggle, preventing the capture of the entire shooting incident.

The GBI is continuing to conduct an independent investigation.  We are encouraging any witnesses to contact 1.800.597.TIPS (8477).

Update #1 (June 13, 2020)

The deceased subject has been identified as Rayshard Brooks, age 27, of Atlanta, GA.

Atlanta, GA (June 13, 2020) – On Friday, June 12, 2020, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation was requested by the Atlanta Police Department (APD) to investigate an officer involved shooting.

Preliminary information indicates that at approximately 10:33 pm, APD was dispatched to the Wendy’s located at 125 University Ave, Atlanta, GA. Officers were responding to a complaint of a male in a vehicle parked in the drive thru asleep, causing other customers to drive around the vehicle.  A field sobriety test was performed on the male subject.  After failing the test, the officers attempted to place the male subject into custody.  During the arrest, the male subject resisted and a struggle ensued. The officer deployed a Taser.  Witnesses report that during the struggle the male subject grabbed and was in possession of the Taser.  It has also been reported that the male subject was shot by an officer in the struggle over the Taser.

The male subject was transported to a local hospital where he died after surgery.

One officer was treated for an injury sustained during the incident and was subsequently discharged from the hospital.

The GBI is working to identify the next of kin.

The GBI will continue its independent investigation.  Once completed, the case will be turned over to the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office for review.

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‘Blue Flu’ as Atlanta Police Walk Out. Will Other Pushbacks Follow?

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Last week reports trickled in on Wednesday of Atlanta police synchronizing a refusal to come into work or calling out sick, dubbing the event a “Blue Flu.” The walkouts are suspected to be a response to the murder charge assigned to a fellow officer following the killing of Rayshard Brooks before an investigation was concluded.

Trying to minimize the PR damage, the Atlanta Police Department formally tweeted that it wasn’t a “walkout,” but a “call out,” adding that they had confidence that operations would be maintained.

However, information continued to pour in, pointing to a “blue wall” of solidarity within the Atlanta Police Department.

As people shuffled through information, one thing stood out: On Wednesday night, police scanners for Zone 6 were dead silent.

By Thursday morning, it was announced that every Atlanta police officer was slated to receive a one-time $500 bonus as thanks for their hard work during protests and COVID-19 courtesy of the Atlanta Police Foundation.

However, critics noted that it was perhaps a desperate attempt to retain law enforcement on the job to protect a city that could nosedive into open violence without a lack of police presence. Significantly, this pushback by law enforcement is the first institutional counter-demonstration since the riots and attacks of law enforcement.

What Happens When the Cavalry Quits?

The trickle-down effect of the open extremism being displayed in the U.S. via Antifa, the open riots and the pressure to conform to the protesters’ dictates, is impacting the other side of the country as well. In Los Angeles, on the same day, transit officers didn’t show up for work after it was announced that they could no longer be given overtime pay.

Law enforcement isn’t the only industry impacted by open extremism in the United States. Trucker drivers have also voiced their concerns, adding that they won’t deliver to cities which have defunded their police departments:

“…if something was to happen and you have to take matters into your own hands, and then you risk being prosecuted for protecting yourself.” – Truck Driver

Additional concerns for truckers included questions of basic safety in an industry where many are already hassled for parking, getting a meal or using a restroom. They were also concerned about unloading for vendors in cities where looting has taken place.

Los Angeles and New York have already significantly cut spending on police. They are also two locations where residents rely on truck drivers to deliver everything from food to medicine and basic household goods. Minneapolis, on the other hand, is not only defunding the police department but disbanding it altogether.

Whether disbanded or compromised, lack of law enforcement presence puts all citizens at risk. The owner of Car Tender, an auto shop bordering the Seattle Capitol Hill Autonomous Free Zone (CHAZ — now renamed CHOP, the Capital Hill Organized Protest), says he called 911 several times last Sunday but no police officer ever showed up.

The shop was being broken into by a protester who tried to steal cash, keys to the cars and set the shop on fire. Auto shop owner John McDermott and his son eventually detained the suspect themselves after over a dozen calls to 911. Even though the 911 operator indicated (at least during the first few calls) someone was being sent over, no one showed up — neither the police nor the fire department.

Eventually, the operator said to McDermott that no one would be coming to the call, indicating it was too dangerous, that the police had to preserve their own lives and they had families they had to go home to at the end of the day, as well.

In attempting to detain the suspect, the suspect attempted to slash McDermott’s son with a box cutter. Soon other protesters arrived on the scene and demanded the suspect be released.

“I don’t know what to expect next. If you can’t call the police department, you can’t call the fire department to respond, what do you have? Heartbroken. I mean, they are the cavalry.” – John McDermott

McDermott’s right. At the end of the day, law enforcement is the cavalry. What do you do when the cavalry walks out?

As protesters riot against America and its institutions, they often don’t stop to consider the security those institutions provide. While reforms may be needed across many sectors, radically dismantling infrastructure is an extreme reaction that puts everyone’s lives at greater risk and opens the country to greater vulnerability to foreign extremist agendas.

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FULL VIDEO: President Donald J. Trump Rally — Trump Takes Tulsa, OK

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During a Make America Great Again rally at the BOK Center in Tulsa, President Donald Trump addressed several topics, such as the coronavirus pandemic, schools reopening amid the pandemic, protests across the country against police brutality, desecrating the American flag in protest and removing names and statues connected with the Confederacy.

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Antifa Offers Perfect Cover for Jihad

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Within the ocean of rising humanity, composed of some 1.5 billion Muslims, each individual believer—a drop—through a combination of choice and forces beyond his control, ends up in one of its many waves. It is the jihadist wave that is highly attractive to the deeply-indoctrinated and poorly-adjusted in dealing rationally and independently with life. And it is the violent verses of Islam that concerns American law enforcement.

While American people go about their daily business, Muslims and Muslim organizations across the United States are busy and work “stealthily” to change and alter America from within in what is called “Soft Jihad,” or “Cultural Jihad where the sword of jihad is not advisable, where Muslims are not powerful enough to unsheathe their sword.

They have been active in several ways. The number of non-Muslims who are converting to Islam is rapidly growing. In the U.S., the majority of converts are African-American but there have also been significant numbers of others who convert as well, many of them well-educated. Muslims in non-Muslim lands proselytize relentlessly and convert others while any Muslim who leaves Islam is considered an apostate and automatically condemned to death.

America slowly has been going through a process called subversion . Regrettably, not many Americans have a slightest clue that this takes place daily here at home. Muslims have become calculatingly meek and mild in their demeanor. They have learned how the American system works. For now, they are not openly resorting to violent jihad although we know Islam cannot be separated from its most powerful tool, Jihad. Without Jihad, Islam would go through a slow death. Jihad is perpetual in Islam. They both need each other for their survival.

Here is the disturbing question, what if this violent domestic group known as Antifa offers perfect cover for jihad and secretly works with the Islamic organizations as an arm of violent jihad?

According to Diana West, “here is more on Antifa/jihad connections from Edward Klein’s book, All Out War: The Plot to Destroy Trump. Note that in Portland they were chanting, “Allah-u Akbar, smash these Nazi scums.”

President Trump in the wake of the recent violent rioting, involving Antifa, the militant wing of the Democrat Party, suggested to designate this group as domestic terrorist.

Gary LaFree shed more light on this group in an op-ed: Is Antifa a Terrorist Group?

On numerous occasions, Antifa  has openly threatened to massacre American patriots and even President Trump. This group is one of Obama’s legacies, created  to inflict more pain on the American people. “Eight years of Obama’s leadership has left America demonstrably weaker and more divided. Rather than the promised “healing”—racial and other—the Obama era frayed the ties that bind us.”

Katie Pavlich also agrees with the President. She said: Antifa Should Be Designated a ‘Domestic Terrorist Organization.”

There are antifascists and then there is Antifa.  In any case, we have had a few years to objectively evaluate their modus operandi. How they work and operate.  They are mostly reactionary, not proactive. But that could change as the group grows. Antifa despises America, our flag and what it stands for. They appear out of nowhere to any peaceful conservative gathering and disrupt it.

If we closely pay attention, we realize that Antifa has adopted the ways of the Islamic jihadist and resorts to intimidation tactics and violence. They call anyone and everyone Nazi.

“For as long as there have been fascists, there has been debate over the way to respond to them.

“In his new book, Antifa, historian and organizer Mark Bray traces various leftist anti-fascist movements from the 1930s Europe to the “Antifa” movements we see on the streets today. The history of anti-fascism, it seems, is stuck on repeat, with the same arguments over free speech and uncompromising resistance cropping up repeatedly.”

According to the Washington Examiner: “while we’re not investigating Antifa as Antifa – that’s an ideology and we don’t investigate ideologies – we are investigating several what we would call anarchist-extremist investigations where we have properly predicated subjects of people who are motivated to commit violent criminal activity on kind of an Antifa ideology.”

“President Obama allowed Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter to run wild during his reign. Obama even rewarded riot-inciters   and those who support killing police were hosting them at the Obama’s White House. Instead of protecting citizens and their property, some politicians even admit pro-rioting policies openly as when then-Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake (D), at the time a DNC executive, acknowledged in 2015 that authorities “gave those who wished to destroy space to do that.”

In short, Antifa appears to be just as violent as the jihadist and offers perfect cover for jihad.

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The Long Racism of the Sex Industry

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The sex trade is a haven for racial violence in this country. It violates the most basic human rights of women and girls of color, largely with impunity, as it has for centuries.  Under chattel slavery in the antebellum South, enslaved black women were commonly raped by their owners and owners’ friends.  Sometimes they were abused so that their forced reproductive labor would produce children that the owner wouldn’t have to bother to buy.

Some women, particularly those who were light-skinned, were sold as sex slaves to white men in the euphemistically-named “fancy” trade.  Just outside Washington, DC, Isaac Franklin and John Armfield had the largest, wealthiest slave trading firm in the United States in the 1820s and 1830s.  Franklin was one of the main pimps for the New Orleans sex trafficking market. Both men joked in their letters to each other about the women they routinely raped.

This pervasive sexual violence was not only admitted by the perpetrators, but decried by numerous abolitionists.  Harriet Jacobs, a formerly enslaved woman, wrote that as a 15-year-old she was subjected to daily sexual abuse at the hands of her owner.  Frederick Douglass called slave owners legalized brothel keepers, and averred that at least a million enslaved women were “consigned to a life of revolting prostitution” in the South.

Abolitionist Fanny Kemble, who eventually divorced her slave-owning husband, wrote after observing his plantation that “almost every Southern planter” had a family of color from sexual abuse of enslaved women.  In other words, American slavery’s sexual exploitation was well known and not disputed, even if it is not prominent in contemporary memory.

And race-based sexual exploitation did not end with slavery.

During the Jim Crow era, red light districts were placed in black neighborhoods and segregation did not stop white men from frequenting them.  A similar story played out in the North, with Southern black women being promised big city factory jobs and then forced into prostitution when they arrived. This sex trafficking was legal, as black women were unprotected by early anti-prostitution laws.

And race-based sexual exploitation and violence continues today.

Those sold in prostitution are disproportionately women and girls of color and those buying prostituted people are disproportionately white men.  Survivor-leader Vednita Carter notes that strip clubs and massage parlors are “typically zoned in Black neighborhoods” and white men still go to them to buy sex.

According to Rights4Girls, 52% of children trafficked for sex in King County, Washington are black and 84% are girls – even though “Black girls only comprise 1.1% of the general population.”  Similarly, in South Dakota, Native people comprise 8% of the population, yet 40% of sex trafficking victims are Native women.  And in Louisiana, 49% of sex trafficking victims are black girls (who only make up 19% of the state’s youth).

Relatedly, girls of color are disproportionately represented in the criminal justice system, often as a direct result of sexual abuse. Girls of color are often arrested because someone is prostituting them when they should be treated like child sex trafficking victims. They are also charged with truancy after running away from abusive homes.  In South Carolina, 81% of girls in the juvenile justice system are victims of sexual violence. The same is true for 76% of girls in Oregon’s juvenile justice system.

 And race-based sexual exploitation and violence flourishes online.

The pornography industry traffics in racist themes, including racial stereotypes and verbal abuse directed at black women, on top of the violence that is already present in pornography.  There is no form of degradation, humiliation, torture, or abuse that pornography hasn’t sexualized and racism is no exception.  In the days following the terrible police-perpetrated murder of George Floyd, Pornhub – a massive mainstream site – hosted and monetized George Floyd and police-brutality-themed pornography.  Pornhub also has Holocaust pornography and slavery role play targeting black women, such as these videos.

When racism is labeled “sex,” it apparently becomes politically invisible.

But it is textbook feminism that private violence – including when it is commercialized, and especially when it is sexual  – is still violence.  Hundreds of American cities are protesting racial violence committed by police right now.  The American sex industry is rife with sexual and racial violence, human rights abuses with roots deep in American slavery.  Black women continue be sold, tortured, used, and sometimes killed.

To echo Vednita Carter’s cry from thirty years ago:  when will we be outraged about it?

COLUMN BY

Christen Price, Esq.

LEGAL COUNSEL FOR THE NCOSE LAW CENTER

Christen Price serves as Legal Counsel for the National Center on Sexual Exploitation Law Center. Christen has been passionate about using the law to stop violence since she first encountered the issue of trafficking in persons in college, and now engages in legal advocacy to end impunity for all forms of sexual exploitation.

In her role at NCOSE, Christen works to influence courts and legislatures toward protecting human dignity and equality on behalf of sexual exploitation survivors, through legislative advocacy, litigation, and providing support to other attorneys, particularly with respect to sex trafficking, prostitution, child sexual abuse, and pornography.

Prior to joining NCOSE in 2020, her human rights focus was on conscience protections as Legal Counsel at Alliance Defending Freedom for over four years, where she specialized in First Amendment law.

Christen was also an associate at Wiley Rein LLP, where she worked in a variety of practice areas, including employment law, international trade, white-collar defense, and government contracts.

While in law school, Christen worked for the Department of Justice’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, and was a Law Fellow with Shared Hope International, where she analyzed state law protections across the United States for domestic minor sex trafficking victims.

Christen received her Juris Doctor and a certificate in transnational legal studies at Georgetown University Law Center in 2012, and a bachelor’s degree in philosophy at Cedarville University in 2009. She is admitted to the bar in New York and the District of Columbia.

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In These 11 Incidents, Gun Owners Defended Life and Property

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The last week of May proved just how quickly the seemingly stable peace of our world can devolve into chaos and near-anarchy. Many of us, already concerned that police departments were stretched thin by COVID-19, watched in horror as law enforcement seemed to lose control of protests in major cities.

For several nights, police officers scarcely could keep their own precincts from being overrun, much less respond to calls for help from terrified civilians.

In many instances, civilians were forced to take matters into their own hands, relying on nothing more than their Second Amendment rights to protect their lives and livelihoods from violent rioters who sought to co-opt peaceful protests for their own benefit.

It should come as little surprise that Americans would be willing to protect their communities in this way. In fact, in 2013, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention concluded that almost every major study on the issue has found that Americans use their firearms in self-defense between 500,000 and 3 million times a year.

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For this reason, The Daily Signal has published a monthly series highlighting some of the news stories of defensive gun use that you may have missed—or that might not have made it to the national spotlight in the first place. (Read accounts from 2019 and 2020).

The 11 examples below of lawful defensive uses of guns represent only a small part of the many stories we found in May. You can explore more examples in The Heritage Foundation’s Defensive Gun Use Database, an interactive map that allows users to find recent defensive gun uses from all over the country quickly and easily.

  • May 2, Pensacola, Florida: A concealed-carry permit holder drew his handgun in self-defense after a group approached and threatened him while he was trying to leave the beach. He attempted to get into his car and flee, but the group prevented him from doing so, police said. That’s when the permit holder began to fear for his life, pulled out his firearm, and told the group to let him go. They apparently complied.
  • May 3, Madison County, Alabama: A woman who fatally shot her former fiancé acted in self-defense when the man attacked her, police said. The woman had called 911 just before midnight to report that the man—who had a long history of domestic violence convictions—had showed up at her home. By the time police arrived, the woman already had relied on her firearm to defend her life.
  • May 5, Port Arthur, Texas: A man out catching crabs fatally shot a would-be robber who had pointed a rifle at him and a woman with him, demanding money. Minutes earlier, police said, the assailant had robbed a grocery store and fled in a stolen car. The crabber retrieved a handgun from his truck, and after an exchange of gunfire, shot his assailant in self-defense.
  • May 8, Casselton, North Dakota: A man acted in lawful self-defense when he shot and killed an acquaintance who began choking him during an argument, police said. The man immediately called 911 and placed his gun in a safe while waiting for law enforcement.
  • May 12, Buffalo, South Carolina: A woman, fearing for her safety because of a violent ex-husband, had invited an armed friend to stay at her apartment and protect her and her two children. When the ex-husband kicked open the front door and opened fire on the woman, the armed friend shot and killed him before anyone else could be harmed. Police said they had been searching for the ex-husband for several days because he was wanted on charges of domestic violence and assault.
  • May 16, Houston, Texas: A man shot and wounded his brother when, under the influence of narcotics, he assaulted their mother. The man initially tried to calm down the brother, who was damaging the residence. He shot his brother when he began hitting their mother with large chunks of concrete.
  • May 20, Fulshear, Texas: A homeowner used his handgun to defend himself when an intoxicated man kicked in his front door and aggressively confronted him. Neither the gun owner nor his family members were harmed.
  • May 22, Eureka, California: When several people got into an altercation outside a man’s home at 2:40 a.m., the homeowner went out onto his porch and asked them to leave the area. Some of those involved became hostile and tried to force their way onto the homeowner’s property. He tried unsuccessfully to deter his attackers with pepper spray. When they continued to enter his home and assault him, the homeowner retrieved a handgun and fired in self-defense, killing one attacker and wounding another.
  • May 25, Mesquite, Nevada: A father shot and killed his son after the son attacked his mother with a knife. Police said the son’s mental state recently had deteriorated and he may have been intoxicated when he pulled the knife on his mother. Officers determined that the father’s actions were justified and that, had he survived, the son would have been charged with assault with a deadly weapon.
  • May 26, Panama City, Florida:  An elderly homeowner, standing outside his house, was approached aggressively by a man who had been acting erratically while walking down the street. The homeowner retreated inside, but the man pursued him, smashing a glass door and entering the home. The homeowner told police that he grabbed a handgun and fatally shot the man when he assaulted his wife.
  • May 31, Cleveland, Ohio: As peaceful protests over the death of George Floyd devolved into violent riots, owners of Corbo’s Bakery took the defense of their livelihood into their own hands. Video from bystanders captured the moment that the bakery’s owners, armed with shotguns, forced back looters who smashed front windows with rocks. The bakery, shut down for almost two months due to COVID-19 restrictions, had been scheduled to reopen June 1. The owners’ actions spared the bakery from the destruction experienced by many other businesses in downtown Cleveland.

Of course, as gun owners our impulse should be to avoid confrontation and rely on law enforcement when it’s possible to do so.

But as these stories clearly show, police officers are not always there to protect our homes or our communities when we need them the most.

Although we know the battle over our Second Amendment rights is far from over, May provided an eye-opening reality check for many Americans.

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CNN Puts Up Fence Outside Atlanta Headquarters Amid Ongoing Protests

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CNN put up a fence around its headquarters in Atlanta on Friday amid ongoing “Black Lives Matter” protests.

Demonstrations continued outside the Georgia state capitol Friday over the death of Rayshard Brooks, who was fatally shot June 12 in Atlanta by a police officer after running away with the officer’s taser. Photos posted by Townhall reporter Julio Rosas show CNN’s nearby headquarters surrounded by the new barrier following damage from an earlier protest that turned into a riot.

The building was attacked by rioters in late May, with the damage including a number of broken glass windows and spray paint on the CNN logo. A video showed the crowd cheering as people threw objects at the windows.

Nationwide protests and riots erupted after the death of George Floyd, a black man who died May 25 after Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin kneeled on his neck for more than eight minutes. Peaceful demonstrations turned into riots in many cities, and the situation has escalated in Atlanta following Brooks’ death.

Protesters burned down the Wendy’s where Brooks was shot when riots began Saturday.

The Atlanta Police Foundation, a charity established to support the city’s mayor and police forces, gave officers a $500 bonus Thursday due to their work during the protests and replaced the vehicles that were destroyed.

After former Officer Garrett Rolfe was charged with murder Wednesday for the shooting of Rayshard Brooks, Atlanta police officers reportedly walked off the job mid-shift.

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JORDAN LANCASTER

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VIDEO: Trump Momentum in Florida — 20% of Blue Counties Turn RED!

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Florida has 67 counties. At the beginning of 2016, there were 32 Republican majority registered counties. Today, there are 46 counties that are Republican counties, with another flipping any day now.

That means that over 20% of the counties in Florida have flipped from Democrat to Republican since Donald Trump became our nominee!

This is a result of the enthusiasm generated by President Donald Trump’s record coupled with our County Republican Parties and local volunteers in each of our 67 counties working hard to register Republicans.

WATCH: Swing state Fla. flipped whopping 20% blue counties red.

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The Betrayal and the Programming behind Covid 19 – A UK Perspective [Part 3]

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(These are my views as a woman living in England, on how the culture and spirit of my country has changed over 50 years.   Why the country does not feel protected or strong any more, how it has lost, and is losing it values and decency, and how we are daily losing our free speech.)

But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet and the people are not warned, and the sword comes and takes any one of them, he is taken away in and for his perversity and iniquity, but his blood will I require at the watchman’s hand.  Ezekiel 33:6

Disturbing the Nation

Sir Winston Churchill has now officially gone into isolation; he has retreated to within the four walls of boxed confinement with absolutely no contact whatsoever with the outside world.  The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan has decided the very best protection for him against demonstrators who consider his image ‘offensive’, must be hidden away.   It is for his own good.   Does this sound familiar?

I’m wondering how he is surviving inside there, caged up like a trapped bird, dark, with no cool breeze or sunlight on his face, no vision or hope of release whilst perpetrators roam indignant, justified, and apparently free.  Does this sound familiar too?  Despite Churchill’s country welcoming people of all races, colours and religions; for some, he is now the epitome of hatred.

The same hatred has also been applied to the Cenotaph, a war memorial in London, dedicated to fallen soldiers during two world wars.  There are also other monuments and statues which are apparently on a hit-list of sites to be destroyed across the UK.  Some local resident’s who still possess the spirit of patriotism towards their country, are attempting to physically defend the attack’s being planned.

Many people have also called for the resignation of Sadiq Khan.  They believe the monuments should not have been boarded up.   They are part of this country’s heritage.

In relation to London’s historical landmarks, the London mayor had stated that London is:

 “One of the most diverse cities in the world”, but recent Black Lives Matter protests have highlighted the fact that the city’s statues, plaques and street names largely reflect Victorian Britain.

“We must ensure that we celebrate the achievements and diversity of all in our city, and that we commemorate those who have made London what it is – that includes questioning which legacies are being celebrated”

This is very convenient.  One can only imagine what type of statues, plaques and street names may replace Victorian Britain when every single vestige of British history has gone?  Some people may also be wondering what may happen to the statue of Nelson Mandela?

This aside, there are some historical facts about Winston Churchill that are indeed alarming, which although were historically accurate in the early 1900’s may not necessarily detract from his later staunch support and encouragement for Great Britain for which he is more well known?

According to Sir Martin Gilbert who is the honorary member and trustee of The Churchill Centre and also the official biographer of Winston Churchill, it is stated:

When he was Home Secretary (February 1910-October 1911) Churchill was in favour of the confinement, segregation, and sterilization of a class of persons contemporarily described as the “feeble minded.”

The feeble minded, which is the mentally ill or disabled person according to eugenicists, are a burden upon society and a threat to the human race.

It is reported that Winston Churchill sought to implement the sterilization of the feeble minded under the pretext that it was of a Christian and a Scientific duty to help them now they were in this world.   It is reported that Roman Catholic leaders denounced it as contrary to Christian morals and basic human rights and in view of this between 1913 and 1959 detention and not sterilization was chosen for the legislative path for Great Britain and no legislation along any lines was made whilst Churchill was at the Home Office.  It was in 1911 he left his role as Home Secretary and he was made First Lord of the Admiralty in charge of the Royal Navy.

Divide and Conquer

The current demonstrations taking place within the UK have not been peaceful.  There were many police officers who were injured attempting to control the crowds who were taking it upon themselves to deface property and harm others.

It is also shocking that thousands can attend a rally in London to protest about a man who was sadly killed thousands of miles away in another country, but that they cannot see their own enslavement to a form of dictatorship which is currently taking place today in the UK under Covid -19 and how they are being used.

The incitement towards the hatred of white people (because of the color of their skin) plays perfectly into the hands of the puppeteers who are currently using it as a distraction, whilst at the same time creating a further sense of fear by the lawlessness which is currently taking place.  The separation from loved ones which many people are suffering from is being further enhanced.  Mental health issues are naturally increasing.   The puppeteers care nothing for black or white people.  Fear and confusion is their missile.      Elites see us all as ‘feeble minded’.

Unfortunately, The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby recently emerged from his own self-isolation, also decrying the ongoing evil of ‘white’ supremacy and systemic racism.  Thank you Mr Welby for dividing the races and putting lives at further risk.

Conveniently, he made no mention of the millions of Christian lives, both black and white, worldwide, who have died because of their faith, or those who laid down their lives for their fellow man.

Maybe it should have been a time of reminding people of another clergyman and civil rights leader, Martin Luther King, who peaceably made history by stating we are known by our ‘character’ and not the color of our skin?   Decent people most certainly walk arm in arm and kneel together in prayer with that type of attitude.   Together we can be a majority against the unseen minority who are playing games with our lives.

Beware of Eugenicists!

Those who believe in culling the nation and who think they are superior and do not really value human life, no longer have to make their intentions more widely known.  World wars do not have to be created to get rid of men, although civil wars can be useful.  Psychological warfare and race relation wars can be created from afar so that men can destroy each other instead.   This is currently being played out now.

Eugenicists can also hide behind the mask of having your best interests at heart.  They come in many shapes, sizes and colors.

Human experimentation, hormone blockers, sterilization by way of vaccine, lethal injections, euthanasia, abortion and even birth control has all played into the hands of eugenicists, who worship death.   Sexual immorality, starting with the indoctrination of the very young, has also created sexually transmitted infections which have damaged and killed many people, as well as damaging their souls.  Some of our foods and our waters are also intentionally poisoned.

Eugenicists have simply found a way of making it ‘our choice’

In light of what is being orchestrated and planned under Covid-19, people need to research history more thoroughly and then research the beliefs of those who are imposing decisions to be made upon our lives today.  Eugenicists do not die, they just change their strategy.

Disarming Police Forces/Identity Cards/Curfews

In light of how eugenics was used in Nazi Germany to ethnically cleanse the country, important points for all citizens today to discuss are:

  • Is the extreme social distancing which people are being asked to carry out a form of pre-programming to segregate people from each other?
  • Is mask wearing, which is also a form of disguise and a symbol of slavery appropriate in areas ‘outside’ of clinical settings?
  • Should contact tracing and vaccination passports be enforced upon adults and children to identify your perceived cleanliness in society?
  • Should police officers be told to stand down when damage is being done to destroy certain buildings?
  • Should curfews for certain groups of people be put in place?
  • Should the collective worship of an organization outside of a religious building be encouraged or questioned?
  • Should all discussion be banned in favor of what we are to be told?

At the weekend, a Jewish rabbi was stabbed in Stanford Hill, London in an unprovoked attack whilst waiting in line at the bank.  As stated in the article by Jewish Press it was difficult to find any mention of this by the mainstream media.

In view of the lawlessness which is already being created and in light of the rapid destruction and the dismantling of Christian principles within society, on which the order of life and law would perfectly flourish, it should now be perfectly clear that the battle is spiritual.

Chaos has filled the gap, and any order that is now being built upon is evil.  The One World Order is not the order that God created.

When people enquire as to why people did nothing to stop the holocaust which took place in Germany between 1939 and 1941, we may one day ask ourselves the very same question.

What did we do about people who believe in sterilization and de-population?

Churches take note.

John 16:3-4:

They will do such things because they have not known the Father or me. I have told you this, so that when their time comes you will remember that I warned you about them.

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Note:

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Molotov-throwing Lawyer was Trained by Palestinian Radicals

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For several days I’ve been meaning to give you an update on the pair of Brooklyn lawyers, both new Americans, who were caught tossing an incendiary device into a police cruiser in a recent Antifa/Black Lives Matter riot in New York.

See my previous post here.

There is a lengthy discussion about the fools at the New York Times  where they are identified as being from immigrant families. He is Jamaican and Rahman was born in Pakistan according to the NYT. I wonder how many of our tax dollars went into educating this pair.

The New York Post published a video of Ms. Rahman extolling the virtues of violent protests.***

Here is Joshua Klein at Breitbart telling us more about where Fordham-educated attorney Urooj Rahman, 31, got her terror training.

Molotov-throwing Lawyer in Brooklyn Was Intern for Soros-funded Anti-Israel Group

One of the two lawyers accused of trying to torch an NYPD cruiser during protests that engulfed Brooklyn over the weekend spent a summer in the West Bank as a fellow and intern with radical Palestinian activist organizations.

Two attorneys, Colinford Mattis, 32, and Urooj Rahman, 31, reportedly were caught attempting to distribute homemade Molotov cocktail devices to protesters who were clashing with police near the 88th Precinct in Fort .

Rahman attempted to distribute Molotov cocktails to the witness and others so that those individuals could likewise use the incendiary devices in furtherance of more destruction and violence,” a witness was quoted as saying to authorities in a detention memo from federal prosecutors for the Eastern District of New York.

Rahman was captured in a photo obtained by the New York Daily News wearing a Palestinian keffiyeh on her face and holding a makeshift Molotov cocktail. The keffiyeh, a chequered black and white scarf, has become a symbol of Palestinian nationalism.

Rahman is a graduate from Fordham University law school. In 2014, she did a summer fellowship internship program at the Israel based Mada Al-Carmel’s Arab Center for Applied Social Research in a partnership program with Palestine Works.

The Mada Al-Carmel center is heavily financed by George Soros through his Open Society Foundations.

[….]

Rahman called for an “overhaul of policing in America” to end “gentrification’s violent effects on communities of colors,” echoing the central demand of some of the protest movement over George Floyd’s death.

Appearing before Judge Margo Brodie, Salmah Rizvi, a former high-level Obama intel official reportedly posted $250,000 bail to secure the release of Rahman.

Rahman reportedly had to return to federal custody after the U.S. Court of Appeals decided to reverse the decision by the District Court to allow her to post bail.

When she first posted bail, Rahman’s friend, Rizvi, told the court, “I earn $255,000 a year.” “Urooj Rahman is my best friend and I am an associate at the law firm Ropes & Gray in Washington, D.C.”

According to a report from Law360, the judge noted the strong evidence against Rahman, who was additionally accused of distributing incendiary devices to other rioters, but agreed to grant her bail due to the “willingness of family and friends to sign on as suretors.”

The Washington Free Beacon reported that Rizvi “served in intelligence posts in the Defense and State Departments during the Obama administration, where her high-value work would often inform the President’s Daily Briefs.”

To learn more about Rizvi, Rahman and the Soros connection, continue reading here.

On Friday the feds upped the charges against three bomb-throwers including Rahman. She and the two others face sentences of life in prison.

See the indictment here.

Bail was earlier revoked for Rahman and Mattis.  See here.

Endnote:  If one went behind the scenes to see the Leftists training their journalists, I expect the number one instruction is for them to tell the stories of the lives of individuals—poor immigrants, poor abused African Americans, poor____ (fill in the blank)—to play on the emotions of the reader or viewer.

Why aren’t we doing more of that—telling the sad stories of those abused and injured by the Leftists and their policies? 

***Just as I was wrapping up, the link to the video at the NY POST was not working, but here is the entire clip at Youtube:

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NYPD Cops Poisoned at Shake Shack: Where We Are Heading?

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Americans are now facing a new reality: Three New York Police Department (NYPD) cops had their drinks poisoned with bleach at Shake Shack.

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This comes at the heels of National Guardsmen who found shards of glass baked into a pizza they ordered while deployed at the Washington, D.C. protests.

It is interesting to note other cases where shards of glass were weaponized against political opponents. During Ayatollah Khomeini’s Islamic revolution in Iran, a band of women drove around searching for women who deviated from the new norms. If they found a woman wearing lipstick, they would hand them a napkin to wipe it off. The napkin would be laced with shards of glass.

Taking things by force is at the heart of what extremists do. It’s a repeated pattern that crosses all extremist ideologies. While its current incarnation started with good intentions, there is unfortunately an extremist undercurrent steering its direction, which includes taking things by the illegitimate use of force and cancelling all other points of view.

This isn’t happening in a vacuum

In addition to reporting and training communities about how to prevent violent extremism in the next generation, Clarion Project also studies and reports on the trends that romanticize and glamorize extremism.

What we can say is that the current situation in America is not happening in a vacuum.

We all remember that Rolling Stone cover of the Boston Bomber in 2013 that portrayed terrorist Dzhokhar Tsarnaev much in the same way as previous magazine covers of rocks stars like Bob Dylan or Jim Morrison.

Then there was the 2018 TV series called Waco, which retold the story of cult leader David Koresh, the Branch Davidians and their stand off with law enforcement, which was a psychological power struggle asserted ultimately through physical force.

The show pretends to be nuanced, offering alternative points of view that give insight into the extremist cult. However, it leans heavily in favor of highlighting the Brand Davidians as rebels looking to find belonging outside an empire, while portraying law enforcement as brutes save one exception.

Ryan Mauro, director of Clarion’s Intelligence Network, weighs in:

“The series would leave anyone with the perception that the government is essentially tyrannical and evil, holding little regard for human life. If I belonged to a group urging preparation for an armed revolt against the government, I’d play Waco on loop in my compound.”

Koresh’s cult, jihadism, white supremacism and anti-government extremism are all predicated on the idea that the U.S. government is evil, is planning to extinguish all resistance, and an armed uprising is inevitable and necessary.

If you believe the U.S. government is evil, you’ll interpret everything law enforcement does in the most malicious way. All these ideologies require the dehumanization of law enforcement.”

Dehumanizing law enforcement has been a theme in our society since at least the 1960s. It is one that is pressed into our collective subconscious long before anyone takes to the streets or pours bleach in a drink.

Last year, Clarion pointed to a popular new show that inverted the most iconic role of superhero into psychopath. Amazon’s successful and entertaining new show The Boys had a message that couldn’t be ignored: Superheroes are the villains and vigilantes are the real heroes.

Right now, we’re seeing that plot line playing out on our streets. It features a mass movement that has turned all law enforcement into the villain and all opposition to it into the hero — without discrimination between protester, rioter and now attempted murderers.

In real life, first responders are human beings, some who take the high ground morally and some who don’t. Oftentimes, our men and women in blue are the closest thing we have to heroes in our communities. There are a unique set of individuals willing to put their lives on the line for us every day they come to work (and even when they are off duty or retired, as we saw in the case of Captain David Dorn, who was shot and left to die defending his friend’s store from rioters).

Of course there is a very real need to deal with corruption in our police forces. No doubt we need change, but how that change happens matters very much. Yet, it is a form of mass societal self-sabotage to dismantle the only barrier that stands a peaceful civilians and those who choose to be a threat.

What we  can start with is a common premise: extremist ideology from any direction will not point us forward, and that includes New York’s new bail law that lets even the most violent criminals back out on the street within hours without posting bail.

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Candidate Biden Suggests Police be Trained to Shoot ‘an Unarmed Person’ in the Leg

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Unscripted Joe Biden, as we have all come to realize, is must-watch TV. When the presumptive Democrat Presidential candidate speaks off-the-cuff, his message regularly goes off the rails. We all anticipate Biden will say something odd, confusing, or even incomprehensible during interviews and live appearances, but we are often still shocked by what comes out of his mouth.

Even scripted Biden can be a curious misadventure.

On Monday, June 1, he upped the ante by not just saying something strange, but something potentially dangerous.

While addressing a crowd at the Bethel AME Church in Wilmington, Del., Biden suggested that law enforcement training could include “teaching a cop when there’s an unarmed person, coming at him with a knife or something, to shoot him in the leg instead of the heart.”

First, it’s certainly odd to characterize someone as an “unarmed person” if they are “coming at (you) with a knife.”

Biden is very vocal about his desire to ban most semi-automatic rifles. Perhaps he is unaware that rifles of any kind are used less frequently in homicides than knives or blunt objects.

We have long known that Biden simply does not like guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens, as he appears to not trust them to be responsible or remain law-abiding. But who knew that mistrust also applied to law enforcement? It’s certainly an odd position for someone who has been protected by armed government agents for decades.

And what about that suggestion to abandon over a century of firearms training to, when faced with a deadly threat, “coming at him…to shoot him in the leg…”?

Targeting center mass, is done to best ensure all rounds fired hit their intended target for the safety of all innocent parties involved and to stop the threat.

Sadly, candidate Biden seems to get much of his firearms education from Hollywood, where big-screen heroes regularly shoot with unachievable accuracy. If Clint Eastwood’s Man with No Name character could fire his single action revolver from the hip, while on a horse, with pinpoint precision, surely those with more modern firearms and training could easily match this feat.

Much like Biden’s ideas about biometric firearms, though, life is not going to imitate art when it comes to the defensive use of firearms.

Even if it could, it still would not be advisable. The reality is that any time a gun is fired at another person, a lethal outcome is possible. A leg wound from being shot can be just as fatal as a wound to the body. A gun should therefore never be used in any circumstance other than one that would justify lethal force.

This rule reserves the use of a firearm for the most serious of encounters. Biden’s “leg shot” rule ironically could lead to more uses of firearms under the flawed assumption that the injured subject would eventually recover.

“Shooting at a person is deadly force regardless of what part of their body you aim at,” said Jason Johnson, the president of the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund, as reported in the Washington Free Beacon.

He went on to explain, “[Police are] trained to shoot center mass but there is no option to shoot somewhere else and have it not considered deadly force.”

Firearms training has been refined for decades, and when it comes to using lethal force to stop a violent threat, targeting the body is proven to be the best way to ensure striking the intended target, ending a lethal threat, and minimizing the chance of misses that endanger innocent third parties.

But this dangerous suggestion from Biden is nothing new, when it comes to the use of firearms. We could call it Chapter Two in his book of what not to do with a gun if you are concerned for your safety.

Chapter One involved the use of shotguns, and included two bits of advice that would likely land anyone who follows them in jail. First, in February 2013, Biden told women who wish to defend their home and loved ones from intruders to walk outside with a double barreled shotgun, and fire two blasts. He followed that up later in the same month by telling anyone who wants “to keep someone away from (their) house, just fire the shotgun through the door.”

These suggestions are as preposterous, and dangerous, as telling anyone to “shoot [an attacker] in the leg.” Perhaps the best advice when it comes to defensive use of firearms would be to NEVER listen to Joe Biden.

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Florida Alert! Young Americans for Liberty Force Nikki Fried to Reopen Concealed Weapons License applications in Florida

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Young American for Liberty declared VICTORY today after forcing Florida Agriculture Commissioner to back down. Their Press Release follows:

Victory! YAL forces Nikki Fried to reopen Concealed Weapons License applications in Florida

Tallahassee, FL — Under pressure from YAL President Cliff Maloney, Florida Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Nikki Fried has finally reopened the Sunshine State’s online application process for concealed weapons licenses.

The controversy began on March 23, 2020, when Fried — Florida’s only statewide elected Democrat — completely froze the online application process for concealed weapons licenses, citing concerns that Floridians won’t be able to obtain fingerprinting and might become “frustrated.” Then, in May, Maloney filed suit against Fried, arguing that Fried’s preference for her own agenda over the Constitutional rights of Floridians cannot be tolerated.

“Nikki Fried tried to use COVID-19 as an opportunity to advance her authoritarian, gun-grabbing agenda. She lost and the people of Florida won,” said Maloney. “Let this victory serve as a reminder that our right to self defense is non-negotiable and that millions of law abiding gun-owners will not sit idly by while tyrants attempt to silence us.”

View the Official Press Release Here

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Tucker Carlson: ‘Black Lives Matter Believes In Force … When They Want Something, They Take It’ [Video]

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Fox News host Tucker Carlson said Monday that Black Lives Matter (BLM) has established a new style of politics that is based not on votes nor legality — but on force.

“Black Lives Matter doesn’t make legal arguments. They are not trying to convince you of anything. Black Lives Matter believes in force. They flood the streets with angry, young people who break things and they hurt anyone who gets in the way. When they want something, they take it,” he said on “Tucker Carlson Tonight.”

Carlson decried what he sees as the lack of leadership in the U.S. since protests, riots, looting and a city occupation have continued to be the response to the death of George Floyd.

“Our leaders are happy to talk about everything but the collapse of the centuries old civilization tumbling down around them. They have no idea how how little credibility they have. They have no sense of how irrelevant they have become. If you can’t tell the truth when the truth actually matters, then nothing you say matters. Meanwhile, Black Lives Matter becomes more powerful and more popular with the public.”

Carlson said the group is gaining power and popularity because the group is winning and achieving “exactly what they want.”

He noted that BLM continues to demand that police forces be either abolished or defunded and that many American cities are obeying.

“That’s not bluffing, it’s not posturing, it’s not tweeting; that is real power,” Carlson said. “Make them mad and they will set your business on fire. Annoy them and they will occupy your downtown and declare a brand-new country,” adding that people will be afraid and will “not do anything about it.”

Carlson said the message BLM is promoting is that “force is more effective than voting. Elections change nothing. Rioting, by contrast, makes you rich and powerful.” He noted that people are rioting across America without fear of prosecution because charges are either being dropped or not laid.

“It works. Violence works. That’s the message … Until violence stops working, violence will continue.”

COLUMN BY

DAVID KRAYDEN

Ottawa bureau chief.

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