Antifa is behind the anarchy & destruction; infiltrates Black Lives
Matter protests
Newsletter published on June 9, 2020
(1) US police became militarized through Israeli Training
(2) Minneapolis cops were trained by Israeli police, who often use
knee-on-neck restraint
(3) Most Millennials support riots, arson; egged on by AOC
(4) AOC urges protestors to wear nondescript clothing, cover tattoos, &
bring heat-resistant gloves
(5) Candace Owens: George Floyd was a Criminal, he was no Hero, don't
make him a Martyr
(6) Whoopi Goldberg condemns Rioters, Looters; says cops are overwhelmed
(7) Nationwide George Floyd riots are the price of liberalism - Miranda
Devine
(8) Antifa is behind the anarchy & destruction; infiltrates Black Lives
Matter protests
(9) Restoring order in the face of anarchy, Trump will win as De Gaulle
did in 1968 - Conrad Black
(10) Project Veritas reporter infiltrates Portland Antifa cell, reveals
their tactics
(11) Soros-funded GetUp! brings Black Lives Matter demos to Australia
(1) US police became militarized through Israeli Training
From: Mazin Qumsiyeh <mazin@qumsiyeh.org>
US Citizens and all people should demand an end to (Israeli)
militarization of their police! So far politicians (being influenced by
Zionist lobbies) are avoiding this issue but no "reform" of policing can
be successful without tackling this so please read key resources below
and act accordingly.
Amnesty International on US police "training" with Israeli military:
Knee on neck technique learned from Israeli occupiers:
The Israeli knee in USA: The Mineapolist poilice department regularly
gets "trained" by "Israeli" apartheid racists to consider the population
an enemt and to hate to the poingt of killing African Americans like
George Floyd. Minneapolis should end and reverse that brainwashing
provided by the "Israeli" racists.
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2012/06/25/minn-police-learn-from-israeli-counter-terrorism-conference
(2) Minneapolis cops were trained by Israeli police, who often use
knee-on-neck restraint
ALISON WEIR
JUNE 2, 2020
Minn cops trained by Israeli police, who often use knee-on-neck restraint
{photo} Israeli police officers detain a Palestinian protestor on March
12, 2019.
Over 100 Minnesota law enforcement officers attended a 2012 conference
organized by the Israeli consulate in which Israeli police trained them.
Israeli forces often use the knee-on-neck restraint on Palestinians.
(Meanwhile, Congress is poised to pass a bipartisan $38 billion package
to Israel)… Read two reports below:
Minnesota cops ‘trained by Israeli forces in restraint techniques’
By Jon Collins, reposted from the UK Morning Star newspaper (embedded
links added by IAK)
Officers from the US police force responsible for the killing of George
Floyd received training in restraint techniques and anti-terror tactics
from Israeli law-enforcement officers.
Mr Floyd’s death in custody last Monday, the latest in a succession of
police killings of African Americans, has sparked continuing protests
and rioting in US cities.
At least 100 Minnesota police officers attended a 2012 conference hosted
by the Israeli consulate in Chicago, the second time such an event had
been held.
There they learned the violent techniques used by Israeli forces as they
terrorise the occupied Palestinian territories under the guise of
security operations.
The so-called counterterrorism training conference in Minneapolis was
jointly hosted by the FBI.
Israeli deputy consul Shahar Arieli claimed that the half-day session
brought "top-notch professionals from the Israeli police" to share
knowledge with their US counterparts.
It is unclear whether any of the officers involved in the incident in
which Mr Floyd was killed attended the conference.
Israeli forces broke necks
But in a chilling testimony, a Palestinian rights activist said that
when she saw the image of Derek Chauvin kneeling on Mr Floyd’s neck, she
was reminded of the Israeli forces’ policing of the occupied territories.
Neta Golan, the co-founder of International Solidarity Movement (ISM)
said: "When I saw the picture of killer cop Derek Chauvin murdering
George Floyd by leaning in on his neck with his knee as he cried for
help and other cops watched, I remembered noticing when many Israeli
soldiers began using this technique of leaning in on our chest and necks
when we were protesting in the West Bank sometime in 2006.
"They started twisting and breaking fingers in a particular way around
the same time. It was clear they had undergone training for this. They
continue to use these tactics — two of my friends have had their necks
broken but luckily survived — and it is clear that they [Israel] share
these methods when they train police forces abroad in ‘crowd control’ in
the US and other countries including Sudan and Brazil."
The training of US police officials by Israeli forces is widespread.
Even Amnesty was compelled to report that hundreds of police from
Florida, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, California, Arizona, Connecticut, New
York, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Georgia, Washington state and
Washington DC had been flown to Israeli for training.
Thousands more have been trained by Israeli forces who have come to the
US to host similar events to the one held in Minneapolis. According to
the somewhat selective rights organisation, many of these trips are
taxpayer-funded, while others are privately funded.
Since 2002 the Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish Committee’s
Project Interchange and the Jewish Institute for National Security
Affairs have paid for police chiefs, assistant chiefs and captains to
train in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT), it said.
The Minneapolis Police Department was contacted for comment.
[Editor’s note: Anoka County (north Minneapolis region) Sheriff James
Stuart traveled to Israel last December for a similar training.]
(3) Most Millennials support riots, arson; egged on by AOC
POLL: Almost two-thirds of young Americans at least partially support
riots, arson
This comes after Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez encouraged ‘protesters’ to
bring "heat-resistant gloves."
Brad Polumbo
Washington, DC
4th June 2020
The death of an innocent African American man, George Floyd, at the
hands of a police officer received almost universal condemnation in the
United States. But the peaceful-protests-turned-viole
erupted in major American cities in the tragedy’s aftermath are proving
much more divisive.
As reported by Campus Reform, a new Monmouth University poll reveals
that some Americans support even the more radical actions of protesters,
which include vandalism, arson, and looting. In particular, young
Americans aged 18 to 34 had a more positive impression of the
protesters’ actions.
This poll asked respondents if they were aware of "the protests across
the country, including the burning of a police precinct in Minneapolis,
in reaction to a recent incident where a black man died when a police
officer kneeled on his neck." Then, it asked them "Given what happened,
do you think the actions of the protestors were fully justified,
partially justified, or not at all justified?"
So, this question was not asking respondents about peaceful protesters,
but about the actions of "protesters" including the burning of a police
station — which many would deem violent rioting, not protesting.
Even with the burning of a police station included in the question’s
framing, 22% of young Americans said they thought these actions were
"fully justified," and 40% said they were "partially justified." This
means that almost 2 in 3 young people said they at least partially
support violent protesting that includes arson.
This comes after the prominent young progressive Rep. Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez subtly encouraged protesters, and possibly rioters, with
social media posts telling "protesters" to bring "heat-resistant
gloves," "cover up identifying tattoos," and wear "nondescript clothing."
(4) AOC urges protestors to wear nondescript clothing, cover tattoos, &
bring heat-resistant gloves
AOC appears to encourage rioting and looting with Instagram post
The socialist congresswoman has posted one tweet calling for a
de-escalation of violence.
Brad Polumbo
Washington, DC
31st May 2020
As cities across the United States burn amid riots and looting in the
aftermath of the tragic police killing of George Floyd, American
lawmakers are weighing in on the controversy.
Some Democrats, such as Civil Rights Icon and Democratic Rep. John
Lewis, are urging peaceful protest and political action but insisting
that "rioting, looting, and burning is not the way." Yet other left-wing
stars, such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, are using their platforms
to fan the flames during the violent turmoil and chaos.
The socialist congresswoman has posted one tweet calling for a
de-escalation of violence.
We need rapid, real de-escalation and we need it right now. We cannot
descend into the chaos of violence.
Please everyone, stay safe.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) May 31, 2020
However, in an Instagram Live recording, Ocasio-Cortez said that "If
you’re trying to call for an end to unrest, but you don’t believe that
healthcare is a human right, you aren’t willing to say ‘Black Lives
Matter’… then you aren’t asking for an end to unrest. If you don’t ask
for those things, all you’re asking for is the continuation of quiet
oppression."
@AOC: If you're calling for an end to unrest, but not calling out
police brutality, not calling for health care as a human right, not
calling for an end to housing discrimination, all you're asking for is
the continuation of quiet oppression. pic.twitter.com/4qiCCxKvdl
— Public Citizen (@Public_Citizen) May 30, 2020 These comments seemingly
imply solidarity with those engaging in said "unrest," a group which
does include peaceful protestors, but is also composed of dangerous
mobs, looters, and vandals. It appears, too, that the congresswoman is
telling her millions of followers that you can’t authentically support
ending the riots unless you also agree with her on socializing US
healthcare.
Ocasio-Cortez also posted an alarming graphic to her Instagram page,
ostensibly a guide to "protesting safely." Nowhere does it explicitly
call for peaceful protesting or encourage her followers not to engage in
rioting or looting.
But more disturbingly, the congresswoman’s post encourages her followers
to wear nondescript clothing, cover-up identifiable tattoos, and bring
"heat-resistant gloves." It also suggests that "protestors" disable
their phone’s location and facial-recognition services.
It’s hard to fathom why any peaceful demonstrator not intent on looting
would need to hide all traces of their identity, or why anyone not
planning on burning things would need heat-resistant gloves. While
Ocasio-Cortez’s true intentions are unknowable, her post reads much more
like a guide for how to riot and get away with it unscathed and
unarrested than an encouragement to safely engage in peaceful
protesting. ...
(5) Candace Owens: George Floyd was a Criminal, he was no Hero, don't
make him a Martyr
Right-wing commentator Candace Owens divides with comments about George
Floyd A conservative black author has dredged up George Floyd’s criminal
past to declare he "was not an amazing person" in a live video that has
caused outrage.
Rohan Smith@ro_smith 140 commentsnews.com.auJUNE 4, 20208:57PM
Right-wing commentator Candace Owens divides with comments about black
Americans Conservative commentator Candace Owens took that stance in a
viral Facebook live video recorded earlier today titled "Confession: I
DO NOT support George Floyd and I refuse to... [...]
Confession: #GeorgeFloyd is neither a martyr or a hero. But I hope his
family gets justice. https://t.co/Lnxz0usrp5
— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) June 3, 2020 "It has been weighing very
heavily on my heart and on my mind," she begins.
"There was so much pressure for me to go with the popular opinion about
who George Floyd was.
"We are being sold a lot of lies at the detriment to the black
community, at the detriment to the white community and at the detriment
to America as a whole.
"So, I want to come out and say that I do not support George Floyd and
the media’s depiction of him as a martyr for black America."
The Trump supporter and vocal critic of the Black Lives Matter movement
said she arrived at her stance after "an idea was planted in my head" by
American conservative author Shelby Steele.
"Shelby Steele said that the black community is unique ... our culture
is unique from other communities because we are the only community that
caters to the bottom denominator of our society.
"Not every black American is a criminal. Not every black American is
committing crimes. But we are unique in that we are the only people that
fight and scream and demand support for the people in our community that
are up to no good," she said, a reference to George Floyd.
"You would be hard pressed to find a Jewish person who has spent five
stints in prison, who commits a crime and dies while committing a crime
and that the Jewish people demand justice for.
"You would be hard pressed to find this in white America ... even in
Latino America.
"What I am saying is not any defence for Derek Chauvin. The family of
George Floyd deserves justice for the way that he died but I also am not
going to accept the narrative that this is the best the black community
has to offer.
"For whatever reason it has become fashionable over the last five or six
years for us to turn criminals into heroes overnight. It is something I
find despicable.
"George Floyd was not an amazing person. George Floyd is being upheld as
an amazing human being."
She went on to say that Floyd was high at the time of his death and to
detail his criminal history.
"Everyone is pretending that this man lived a heroic lifestyle," she
said. "We are embarrassing in that regard. Nobody wants to tell the
truth in black America. Our biggest problem is us."
She ended the video by declaring: "I have no apologies to make. George
Floyd is not my martyr. He can be yours." [...]
(6) Whoopi Goldberg condemns Rioters, Looters; says cops are overwhelmed
JUNE 04, 2020
Whoopi Goldberg takes on and shames rioters and looters who are
exploiting the George Floyd protests: 'You've destroyed too many
people's dreams around the country'
In the middle of a thoughtful Instagram post about the ongoing protests
following the death of George Floyd, Whoopi Goldberg stopped to clearly
tell looters who are taking advantage of peaceful protests to knock it
off and understand how their actions are hurting people — including
people they care about.
What did she say about looters?
The liberal actress and co-host of "The View" recorded and posted a
video message Wednesday offering her take on the protests and the
progress that's going on in America in the wake of George Floyd's death
at the hands of four Minneapolis cops.
In it, Goldberg said that folks are "being forced to look at something"
that they've felt they were already able to see. But now that feeling is
"different." She lauded the fact that all sorts of people who aren't
black are peacefully taking to the streets to say "enough is enough" and
experiencing the "response that they're getting." She noted that
"parents — moms and dads — are walking with their kids."
Then she paused and spoke directly to the looters and rioters who have
been committing violence and destruction in cities nationwide.
And she was very clear that the criminality had to come to an end: They
have "destroyed" too many dreams and lives and are putting their own
families in danger.
"All you looters, you need to stop," she said. "Because you've destroyed
too many people's dreams around the country. You have made it impossible
for a lot of people to get back to their lives.
"I'm just saying, all you looters," she continued, "just know your
grandmother, your mother's mother, your brother's sister, your cousin's
baby can't get their medication because you burned down the pharmacy, or
you burned down the bus stop."
What else did she say?
After scolding the looters, Goldberg offered her take on how the country
might reconsider the process of handing out badges. She added that
knowing cops' state of mind and forcing them to talk about what they're
facing is a good thing — not something that should be ignored.
"I'm just saying, maybe better background checks on the people who want
to become police officers. Because, you know, that a big job to hand
somebody a gun," she said. "So I would rather know that their state of
mind is good and force this idea of having to talk to somebody about it."
And she was sympathetic to cops and the stress that comes with their
duties, noting that the nation is seeing good things happen when police
and the people talk about those stresses.
"There's nothing wrong with realizing you're overwhelmed. I can't
imagine that cops on the front line right now are not overwhelmed," she
said. "But they're talking to each other and they're talking to the
demonstrators. And they're saying the things that people need to hear,
like, 'What happened in Minnesota was unconscionable and we don't want
to be that to you. We don't ever want to be that to you. Let us start
this conversation.'"
Those kinds of conversations are what will lead to actual change where
it's needed because everyday citizens who are new to the discussions are
beginning to understand, she said.
"That's meaningful change, because when the police recognize that
there's a problem, we'll be able to change it," Goldberg said. "And now,
people are saying, 'We see it. I hear it. I understand it.'"
(7) Nationwide George Floyd riots are the price of liberalism -
Miranda Devine
Nationwide George Floyd riots are the price of liberalism: Devine
By Miranda Devine
May 31, 2020 | 10:28pm
The tragedy of the riots sparked by George Floyd’s death was brought
home by a distraught elderly black woman interviewed by the local ABC
affiliate in her ruined south Minneapolis neighborhood.
"These people did this for no reason," wept Stephanie Wilford, who lives
in an apartment next to where shops were looted and burned Friday night.
"They went straight to . . . every store over here that I go to. I have
nowhere to go now and I have no way to get there because the buses
aren’t running."
The violence "is not going to bring George back. George is in a better
place than we are. I’m going to be honest, I wish I was where George was."
But liberal agitators don’t care about Stephanie and the poor urban
communities that have been destroyed in the four-day orgy of
self-congratulatory violence they sanctioned.
They are too busy dreaming up fantasy scapegoats.
Videos abound on social media of shadowy figures, dressed in black,
systematically smashing store windows, but not looting, cutting through
fences outside police stations, but not pushing the fences over —
softening defenses for the rioters.
These are the domestic terrorists who have hijacked peaceful protests
across the country. Attorney General Bill Barr described them in his
Saturday press conference as "outside radicals and agitators [who] are
exploiting the situation to pursue their own separate and violent agenda.
"In many places, it appears the violence is planned, organized, and
driven by anarchistic and far-left extremists, using Antifa-like tactics."
This is why Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison pretends that the
external agitators in Minneapolis’ riots were Trump-voting "white
supremacists," because the former DNC deputy chairman is one of those in
his party who has normalized Antifa as a useful part of the political
process.
See his Twitter feed of January 2018, when he posed for a selfie at a
bookstore holding "Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook" and wrote: "I just
found the book that strikes fear in the heart of @realDonaldTrump."
No wonder he and the rest of Minnesota’s Democratic leadership are
trying to offload blame for their persistent policing failures.
Invariably, it is cities run by soft-on-crime Democrats where police
forces betray the people they are supposed to protect.
The Minneapolis police force is the creature of a city that has had
Democratic mayors for almost 50 years.
As former Mayor Rudy Giuliani told Fox News over the weekend, "Don’t
elect progressive Democrats if you want to be safe."
All you need to know about Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey is that he made
the decision for police to evacuate the Third Precinct station, allowing
it to be overrun by rioters and burned to the ground.
For four nights, criminals ransacked his city and terrorized its
residents while the police were nowhere to be seen.
Instead of nipping the violence in the bud, Frey set a terrible
precedent, allowing the contagion to spread across the country.
"Brick and mortar is not as important as life," he blithely told a press
conference Thursday night as the city burned.
It’s just property, say liberals who have never known a life without
plenty. But the property they dismiss so easily can be a life’s work,
like the sports bar in Minneapolis into which Korboi Balla, a black
firefighter, had poured his life savings. It was destroyed a few days
before he was due to open this week.
Stores and businesses are a community’s lifeblood, and many will never
come back, causing more misery for the most vulnerable.
In any case, the policing vacuum also unleashed terrible violence.
There are videos all over social media of mobs chasing defenseless
people, knocking them unconscious and kicking them in the head as they
lie on the ground. Looters punched a store owner in the head and beat
her with planks of wood in front of her husband. A man reportedly trying
to protect his store with a sword was beaten senseless.
Bad people exist. That’s why the vulnerable need police forces, which,
for some perverse reason, progressives keep trying to disempower.
With five months left until the election, Democrats are trying to
capitalize on mayhem and disharmony to make President Trump look bad.
But he is the avowed law-and-order president who vowed Saturday: "My
administration will stop mob violence, and we’ll stop it cold."
Just as the 1968 riots led voters who were worried about social disorder
to choose Richard Nixon as president, the 2020 riots are likely to play
in Trump’s favor.
Pols’ slams at police shameful
Four NYPD cops were almost burned alive when a Molotov cocktail was
thrown at their car over the weekend. Another officer was smashed in the
face with a brick. On Saturday night alone, 33 cops were injured in
pitched battles with anti-police protesters.
NYPD Chief of Department Terence Monahan described it as "an organized
attempt to attack police" with bottles, bricks, Molotov cocktails and
brass knuckles.
Considering the mortal danger they faced, the officers’ restraint was
remarkable.
At one point, when two police SUVs were surrounded by protesters trying
to block their passage, cops decided not to be sitting ducks for another
Molotov and gingerly drove though the mob.
There were no reports of serious injuries, but that didn’t stop Rep.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez from demanding the cops be "brought to justice."
Unlike in Minneapolis, the NYPD’s forceful action stopped the city from
being ransacked and burned to the ground and probably saved lives.
But instead of thanking them, Gov. Andrew Cuomo slams their behavior as
"disturbing" and wants to investigate them.
Shame.
Cuo bro’s act is wearing thin
It took a pandemic for the CNN audience to cotton to the fact that Chris
Cuomo is a vainglorious chump.
Maybe it was the tone-deaf back-slapping routines with his brother, the
"luv gov," that did it, with nary a mention of all the nursing-home
deaths that could have been avoided.
Or maybe it was his hypocrisy instructing viewers to wear masks while
famously refusing to wear one himself when he actually was infected with
COVID-19.
Either way, Fredo lost 50 percent of his audience in the last two
months. Now they know; it’s unlikely they’ll come back.
(8) Antifa is behind the anarchy & destruction; infiltrates Black Lives
Matter protests
Why it's likely to be antifa, not neo-Nazis, behind the anarchy in
America's streets
BY JAMES M. CASEY
06/03/20 10:30 AM EDT
Violence in U.S. streets in response to the death of George Floyd in
Minneapolis has highlighted the Black Lives Matter movement, but how
much do you know about two other groups — neo-Nazis and the
anti-fascists known as antifa — who are reported to be involved in the
riots spawned by Floyd’s encounter with police?
Black Lives Matter largely began to protest violence committed against
black Americans during encounters with police. Before Floyd, Michael
Brown in Ferguson, Ill., Eric Garner in New York and Freddie Gray in
Baltimore, among others, died from confrontations with police. The
movement begun in 2013 now has 16 chapters across the U.S. and Canada —
larger, perhaps, than most groups that people join. Since then, it has
played a leading role in police-brutality protests but never has been
accused as a group of fomenting the kind of violence, property damage
and looting seen in recent days.
Quite the opposite is true, however, of those other two groups — one on
the extreme right, one on the extreme left — that have turned violence
and mayhem into signature tactics.
Neo-Nazis in the United States are a more formal "group," because one
often can join an individual club. Formed worldwide in the aftermath of
World War II, they have roots in white hate groups such as the Ku Klux
Klan. Although the KKK still exists, other neo-Nazi groups such as the
National Socialist Movement, the Aryan Brotherhood and the Hammerskins
are more numerous and active today. The groups don’t work with each
other, but they are not necessarily rivals. Before the Oklahoma City
Federal Building bombing in 1995, a number of state and local "militia
groups" had elements of neo-Nazi philosophy, including their perceived
superiority of white people and the need to rid the U.S. of minorities.
After Oklahoma City, many militia groups largely faded into the
background because their members decided they were opposed to the mass
killing of innocents. Many neo-Nazi organizations that remained have
structure, membership lists and hierarchies. They plan events and
telegraph marches and rallies, often hoping to incite violence with
counter-protesters and law enforcement by spewing hate-filled rhetoric
and challenging the terms of what otherwise would be lawful First
Amendment activities.
Much of the violence we have witnessed over the past few days likely can
be attributed to antifa. The name and their anti-fascist claim are newer
than their ideology and violence. Antifa members are anarchists with a
bent for socialism. Many may not know what they want so much as what
they don’t want, such as the status quo, capitalism and private
corporations. Their roots reach back to the 1970s when groups such as
the Weather Underground and Black Panther Party rained down violence
across the country.
More recent anarchist activities by demonstrators who would come to be
called antifa include the destruction of parts of Seattle while
protesting the World Trade Organization’s meeting in 1999, the Animal
Liberation Front/Earth Liberation Front (ALF/ELF) crimes during the
1990s and 2000s, and the Occupy Wall Street movements of 2011 to 2012.
Formal membership in these groups does not exist, making it difficult
for law enforcement to track their unlawful activities. Leaders are not
well known, and they communicate via Signal and other encrypted
platforms. Members are generally younger, in their late teens and early
20s, so the groups evolve quickly. The moniker "anti-fascist" came more
into vogue after their appearance at the 2017 Unite the Right rally in
Charlottesville, Va., where they clashed with right-wing protesters,
resulting in at least three deaths and dozens of injuries. Antifa
members claim a tenet of their ideology is opposing fascist groups such
as neo-Nazis.
Unless and until law enforcement assigns blame for all the violence
across the country this week, nobody knows for sure who did what, though
individuals may be arrested. Many of the tactics of violence we've
witnessed are classic antifa methods, including vast destruction of
businesses, covert organization and planning to facilitate
transportation and logistics, and antifa symbols on clothing or
spray-painted on buildings. These generally are not the tactics of
neo-Nazis, whose ideology of hate is not conducive to joining a protest
that began in response to the death of a black man. Neo-Nazis typically
do not destroy commercial property as a tactic. Their tattoos, symbols
and Confederate battle flags are recognizable and easily spotted. If
this were a provocative "false flag operation" as some have speculated,
that would be out of character, too. [...]
Most likely, there are three agendas in play: The protesters who
organized marches to voice their outrage over Floyd’s and other deaths;
the looters and opportunists; and the anarchists who are rioting and
causing most of the damage. These anarchists are highly indicative of
groups that have engaged in similar tactics going back decades, for the
most part separate and apart from neo-Nazi, white nationalists groups.
James M. Casey was a law enforcement officer for 32 years, the last 25
with the FBI. He was assigned to the National Security Council in
2004-2005. From 1997 to 2003 he supervised an FBI squad in the Midwest
that investigated militia, neo-Nazi and anarchist groups. He is the
president of FCS Global Advisors, an investigative and crisis management
firm.
(9) Restoring order in the face of anarchy, Trump will win as De Gaulle
did in 1968 - Conrad Black
Pat Buchanan cites Nixon's victory in 1968 as a rteaction to the riots
of that year - Peter M.
Trump’s Greatest Challenge Now
Leadership in crises is preeminently what presidents do and the
effectiveness of their responses to crises largely determines how they
are evaluated in history.
By Conrad Black
June 1, 2020
President Trump faces the greatest challenge of his very eventful life,
and also an immense opportunity to silence his detractors. Not since
Charles de Gaulle faced a prolonged general strike in France in 1968 has
the leader of a large Western democracy faced something so closely
approximating an insurrection as the situation President Trump faces now.
Fortunately, as de Gaulle demonstrated, in such circumstances there is
almost always overwhelming support for the legitimate government as long
as it restores order with no more force than is necessary and in the
impartial national interest.
In May 1968, after a month of chaos, de Gaulle addressed the nation for
less than five minutes. As he had calculated, by this time the avarice
and prudence of the French bourgeoisie had asserted themselves and he
won the greatest electoral victory in 175 years of Republican French
history. The French take inexplicable pleasure in tearing up paving
stones and hurling them at the police and engaging in general disorder
and revolutionary sloganeering—but not for long.
President Trump’s challenge is less complicated—apart from the declining
but still lingering pandemic—as public opinion is almost unanimous in
opposition both to police brutality and mob violence. He has a precious
opportunity and absolute duty to speak for the whole nation and to act
decisively.
Virtually every single aware American is disgusted by the video of the
Minneapolis policeman holding his knee on the neck of George Floyd for
nearly 10 minutes, ignoring pleas from Floyd and advice from onlookers.
At least 95 percent of Americans deplore the wanton violence,
desecration, barbarity, and severe economic damage done mainly to
minority small business owners, on the fraudulent pretext of protesting
the apparent murder of Floyd, an African American, by a criminally
insouciant white police officer grossly abusing his position.
The president spoke eloquently from Cape Canaveral on Saturday,
repeating his condemnation of Floyd’s death, before there was any reason
to believe that violence would erupt on the scale that it has. The
leaders and former leaders of liberal Democratic America were taken by
surprise by the eruption of the violence. Their early spokesmen,
including former President Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
(D-Calif.) uttered the usual hackneyed platitudes and recriminations
about Trump failing to unite the country and being somehow responsible
for the homicide by a policeman in one of America’s liberal Democratic
citadels (Minnesota).
They did their best to incite the inference that Trump was indifferent
to racism, and flirted with the usual Democratic bunk about systemic
racism; at least 80 percent of white Americans strongly disapprove of
racial discrimination. As rioting erupted, the earnest youthful
Democratic mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, and his police chief
abandoned a precinct building on Friday night and enabled the mob of
hooligans who evidently had no more interest in the fate of George Floyd
than they did in global warming, to trash the police station and burn
down nearly 200 businesses. It was a shameful debacle.
The rioting spread and intensified throughout the country, and the great
majority of the violence occurred in cities governed by left-wing
Democrats who obviously hadn’t the remotest idea either how virulent the
nihilistic Left was in their communities nor how to instruct the police
to contain and deter it.
Joe Biden, for once, was considerably more astute than his former chief
and issued a statement suitably deploring the murder of George Floyd but
failing to imply, as Obama had, that the incident and police
mistreatment of African-Americans generally lent any justification
whatsoever to the havoc wrought in more than a score of American cities
in succeeding days.
Public opinion is overwhelmingly united on the issues involved and in
its desire for clear leadership from the president. By Monday evening,
he will have waited long enough for public impatience to ripen without
waiting so long that he appears ineffectual.
He may be expected to take the following steps:
The president should offer the Armed Forces to enforce curfews and
ensure the arrest and detention of all lawbreakers to all local
governments that need them. President Eisenhower demonstrated how
overwhelming the authority of professional soldiers is in times of civic
disturbance when he had the 101st Airborne Division integrate Central
High School in Little Rock Arkansas in 1957. President Trump should
promise special compensation for those who lost their businesses or
other important assets in the current violence. Since thousands of
people have been taken into custody in the many cities where there have
been disturbances, President Trump should ensure that those arrested are
the hooligans rather than conscientious protesters. And those hooligans
should be interrogated comprehensively so that all the organizers of
Antifa and other subversive organizations are identified and can be
brought to justice.
His designation of Antifa as a terrorist organization is correct. For
once, the tendency of American justice to convict virtually all accused
people regardless of guilt may be relied upon to decapitate these
sociopathic and seditious organizations and deter impressionable
malcontents who might have been tempted to join or emulate them. The
president would be correct to emphasize that the coronavirus shutdown
has greatly contributed to the financial vulnerability of those
victimized by the riots and has probably aggravated the level of
discontent upon which the rioters fed for a time. The country was
actively reopening anyway, and it would be appropriate for the president
to recommend that that process be accelerated.
Trump can acknowledge that the whole test and trace system which is
being established and in which the Democrats have invested such high
hopes for containing the COVID-19 threat is clearly unworkable and
incapable of anything more than a marginal impact on the level of
ultimate infection. Fortunately, only those with challenged immune
systems are in serious danger, and even they face quite promising odds
(only one in 800 of those over 65 perish from the virus in the United
States.). The fatality rate for the 80 percent of young and middle-aged
people who have been shut down for two months and shouldered such
immense inconvenience is statistically insignificant (one in 13,000) and
the sooner they return to their normal occupations the better.
A national code of conduct for law enforcement officers including severe
penalties for undoubted racist discrimination should be imposed and
where it is not adopted voluntarily by states and municipalities the
failure to accept this high standard of conduct should be publicized and
fiscally penalized. All municipalities of 100,000 people or more should
be financially assisted by the federal government in establishing riot
control and deterrence systems that are a great deal more effective than
the Keystone Cops bumbling that was much in evidence in many American
cities this past week. If the president makes these points or similar
ones—with no hint of partisanship, nor any self-praise—he will speak for
a united country in hostility to police discrimination and brutality, to
mob violence, and to undue delay in reviving the normal commerce and
social interaction of all who were not vulnerable to the pandemic. And
for the first time, he will have solid public opinion behind him.
Leadership in crises is preeminently what presidents do and the
effectiveness of their responses to crises largely determines how they
are evaluated in history. President Trump is a good executive and has no
fear of assuming responsibility for decisive action.
This ghastly sequence of events has shaken the country and embarrassed
it in the world—it is not true that there is systemic racism in the
country. The United States has demonstrated convincingly that there is
little prejudice against minorities. It must not allow the savagery of
an unrepresentative fringe of violent troublemakers to demoralize it or
distract or deter it from returning as quickly as possible to the full
prosperity that is the best assurance of a contented society.
The appalling Floyd killing must be used in a way that sharply reduces
the likelihood of any such outrage occurring again. All this is now
within the president’s grasp.
(10) Project Veritas reporter infiltrates Portland Antifa cell,
reveals their tactics
JUNE 04, 2020
Undercover Project Veritas video appears to expose Antifa's organized
recruitment and training effort: 'Practice things like an eye gouge' 'We
do not hesitate to either push back or incite some kind of violence'
A new Project Veritas video appears to show the inner workings of an
Antifa operation in Portland, Oregon, where recruits are trained on how
to incite violence in order to "destroy" their enemies.
In the video, an unidentified journalist who said he posed as an Antifa
recruit detailed how the local outfit, Rose City Antifa, or RCA, reached
out to him via ProtonMail, a free encrypted email service, to set up an
interview and enroll him in a process toward becoming a "full-fledged"
member.
The process included an interview and a series of secret lectures at a
local bookstore before opening hours, where recruits would be taught the
tactics of the trade, the undercover reporter said.
"If you ruin their day, if you like heckle them ... make them feel like
they look ridiculous, make them feel outnumbered, and therefore, their
whole 'yay yay America Trump' thing is gonna go by the wayside," alleged
Rose City Antifa lecturer Adam Rothstein said during one secretly
recorded session.
"The whole goal of this, right, is to get out there and do dangerous
things as safely as possible," another lecturer identified as "Ashes" said.
Lecturer Nicholas Cifuni can be heard instructing recruits to "practice
things like an eye gouge — it takes very little pressure to injure
someone's eyes."
The undercover journalist noted that RCA "[does] not hesitate to either
push back or incite some kind of violence," adding that "in our classes
and in our meetings ... we talk about weapons detail and what we carry."
He also described RCA as "structured ... much like a company or like a
business," adding that he suspects there are "outside funding,
influence, or resources being used."
The video identifies RCA's founder to be Caroline Victorin, whom the
undercover journalist said moved to Sweden with her dual-citizen
husband. He noted that this could be evidence of a European connection.
In a statement over the weekend, Attorney General William Barr blamed
far-left "Antifa-like" extremists for much of the violence that occurred
across the country during protests over George Floyd's death.
"In many places, it appears the violence is planned, organized, and
driven by anarchistic and far-left extremists, using Antifa-like
tactics, many of whom travel from out of state to promote the violence,"
the attorney general said.
"Groups of outside radicals and agitators are exploiting the situation
to pursue their own separate and violent agenda," he added.
The undercover Project Veritas journalist said he feared he could be the
subject of violence if he were to have his true identity revealed. ==
Project Veritas goes undercover to expose the domestic terrorist tactics
of antifa
In the footage, members of Rose City Antifa explain various strategies
for inflicting street violence while concealing it from the public.
Collin Jones
The Post Millennial
4th June 2020
James O'Keefe's Project Veritas has just released a shocking video
documenting the violent nature of the domestic terrorist movement known
as antifa in a documentary entitled "Expose Antifa."
Antifa is a loose organization that has spread violence and mayhem
throughout the country in the last week and a half amid the death of
George Floyd.
This is an expose that many people have been anticipating to see, as one
of Project Veritas' own goes undercover as an antifa agent to see what
the organization does and how they operate.
In the footage, members of Rose City Antifa explain various strategies
for inflicting street violence while concealing it from the public.
"Police are going to be like: ‘Perfect, we can prosecute these [Antifa]
f**kers, look how violent they are.’ And not that we [Antifa] aren’t,
but we need to f**king hide that sh*t," one antifa member named Nicholas
Cifuni said in the shocking video.
In another clip, one of the leaders says that "the whole goal of this
[antifa's efforts], right, is to get out there and do dangerous things
as safely as possible."
There was even mention of how to properly maim an enemy, where Cifuni
says to "practice things like an eye gouge, it takes very little
pressure to injure someone's eye."
Just saw the new @Project_Veritas Antifa video and it gave me chills
I can’t wait for it to drop
— Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) June 4, 2020
Andy Ngo took to Twitter today, revealing the identities of the key
antifa players that are exposed in the Project Veritas video.
"In #ExposeAntifa it is revealed that Caroline Victorin (née Gauld) is
one of the founders of Rose City Antifa, the oldest known antifa
organization in the US. With her Swedish husband, Johan Victorin,—who is
also antifa—they helped import European antifa extremism model into US."
In #ExposeAntifa, it is revealed that Caroline Victorin (née Gauld) is
one of the founders of Rose City Antifa, the oldest known antifa
organization in the US. With her Swedish husband, Johan Victorin,—who is
also antifa—they helped import European antifa extremism model into US.
pic.twitter.com/EPpMniKe23
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) June 4, 2020
Ngo added another tweet, saying "we learn that Portland bartender, Nick
Cifuni, led militancy training for #antifa recruits. He taught them how
to hide weapons to avoid prosecution. Cifuni is connected to popular
Portland bar Bit House Saloon."
And in a third tweet Ngo says that "another extremist unmasked as one of
the trainers for new antifa members & recruits in the #ExposeAntifa
video is Portland-based radical activist, Adam Rothstein."
The full footage can be viewed here:
The previous documentary Project Veritas released was about exposing CBS
News, where the network had staged a COVID-19 event in Michigan in early
May as an effort to make it seem that there were more people sick than
there really were.
(11) Soros-funded GetUp! brings Black Lives Matter demos to Australia
From: Larissa – GetUp! <info@getup.org.au> Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2020
08:42:46 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Black lives matter
Friends, last night, with the help of other Aboriginal community members
in Brisbane, I lit 433 candles.
One for George Floyd (whose story I hope you already know), and 432 for
every Aboriginal family who has lost loved ones here in custody or
because of police brutality.
Because black deaths in custody are not just a US problem. The
over-incarceration of black people is not just a US problem. There is an
ugly truth we must confront at home – this is a shared struggle.
Despite the loss of 432 black lives, there has not been a single
conviction for an Aboriginal death in custody in Australia.
So I lit a candle for Aunty Tanya Day – a Yorta Yorta woman who died of
a massive head trauma after just 4 hours in custody.1
I lit a candle for Ms Dhu – a Yamatji woman who died for an unpaid
fine. Police claimed she was "faking" illness and she later died of a
heart attack.2 Overwhelmingly Aboriginal people are 3 times more likely
to be refused medical care than non-Indigneous people.
I lit a candle for Mr Ward – who died when he was transported from a
watchhouse after not having a train ticket.3
We lit these candles because when Scott Morrison gets on the radio and
declares "we don't want to import things that are happening overseas to
Australia", he has absolutely no idea that something is already horribly
wrong or just how much we have already lost.
"I can't breathe" were not just the final words of George Floyd under
the knee of a police officer in Minneapolis – they were among the final
words of David Dungay Junior, a 26-year-old Dunghutti man who died from
a choking restraint by prison officers in Long Bay prison in 2015.
These words are a call to action — and the whole world is paying attention.
In the US, in Canada, in France and Germany, and here at home, millions
around the world are stepping up to demonstrate. Standing
shoulder-to-shoulder with black organisers and the communities they
represent. For George Floyd. For every black death in custody. For every
kid in detention. For the right to breathe.
We are, all of us, fighting for the same future. A future free from
racism, discrimination and state brutality.
Please, add your name to the petition calling for an end to black deaths
in custody in Australia.
We cannot remain silent in the face of injustice.
Yours in solidarity,
Larissa, Amy, and Nicole for the GetUp team
Larissa is a Widjabul woman who leads First Nations Justice at Getup
[1] Tanya Day inquest: coroner refers death in custody of Aboriginal
woman for possible prosecution, The Guardian, 9 April 2020
[2] Ms Dhu endured 'inhumane treatment' by police before death in
custody – coroner, The Guardian, 16 December 2016 [3] 'Cooked' to death:
Ten years after shocking death in custody, has anything changed?, NITV
News, 31 January 2018
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