Selwyn Duke
The continual anti-Trump leftist violence that began before even the
president’s inauguration saw another chapter written Sunday, when black-clad
anarchists attacked peaceful demonstrators at a Berkeley rally.
The scene was the California
city’s “No Marxism in America” protest. While it was met by a larger left-wing
“Rally Against Hate,” the trouble didn’t begin until approximately 100
anarchists showed up and, apparently, were given minutes of free rein by
police. As eyewitness Lizzie Johnson, a San Francisco Chronicle reporter, related in a tweet, "The #Berkeley police have stood
down. A sea of black masks as far as I can see. This is what WAS NOT supposed
to happen."
A bizarre explanation was
offered for this. As Fox News writes:
Berkeley police chief Andrew
Greenwood defended how police handled the protest, saying they made a strategic
decision to let the anarchists enter to avoid more violence.
Greenwood said to The
Associated Press: “the potential use of force became very problematic” given
the thousands of peaceful protesters in the park. Once anarchists arrived, it
was clear there would not be dueling protests between left and right so he
ordered his officers out of the park and allowed the anarchists to march in.
There was “no need for a
confrontation over a grass patch,” Greenwood said.
The chief’s excuse sounds much
like the upside-down, “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength”
propaganda in George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984. As the violence
proved, there was a “need for a confrontation over a grass
patch,” and it was clear there would be violence once the anarchists arrived.
The label “anarchists” suggests anarchy, after all. Or did the chief think
miscreants dressed like Islamic State terrorists had an Amish philosophy?
One of the men attacked was
Joey Gibson, leader of the unfairly maligned Patriot Prayer movement. He, too,
noted the apparent police complicity. After cancelling a free-speech rally he’d
planned for the day before due to concerns over violence, he said, “‘At the end
of the day I had to make that decision because it just felt like it was a set
up — the way everything was set up,’ Gibson said from an undisclosed
location where he spoke with a handful of reporters on Saturday,”
Breitbart related.
Gibson determined that the
“logistics set up by city officials and police would put the people at the
rally in danger,” the site further explained.
This isn’t the first time
police in liberal jurisdictions have been accused of allowing leftists to attack
conservative protesters. Below is videos of incidents from earlier this year.
Of course, in certain cases
this government inaction could be attributed to liberal policing “theories.”
Yet many suspect that these jurisdictions’ leftist politicians often are
allowing the fellow-traveler thugs to do their dirty work, to silence voices of
which they disapprove. It’s reminiscent of the Mississippi Burning case, in which police purposely handed off three
civil-rights workers to KKK members who had murderous intent.
Also forgotten, however, is
that many, if not most, of these violent acts are orchestrated by well-funded
professional agitators. This was proven conclusively via a 2016 Project Veritas
sting operation in which Democrat operatives were caught on hidden camera
plotting to foment violence at Trump rallies. One of them, Scott Foval, called
this “conflict engagement” and unabashedly stated, “We’re starting anarchy
here” (Video below. Warning: foul language).
Aside from the above “AstroTurf” activism, these often-successful efforts at shutting down free speech
reflect a troubling societal trend. My elementary school teachers would often
emphasize, “Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me.”
Of course, words can bruise feelings, but it was a way to cultivate the sufficiently
thick skin necessary to tolerate unwelcome, free-speech-born opinions.
Today children hear a far
different message: Words can be “criminal” and that so-called hate speech
(there's no such legal category in the United States, mind you) must be purged
from every tongue. The result? Many Millennials are now amenable to limiting free speech — and some
are willing to use sticks and stones to do so.
This is folly. When people
can’t talk something out, they’re left to fight it out. As retired police
commander Charles “Sid” Heal told SFGate.com while addressing police inaction, “The first and fundamental
reason government exists is for protection. When government fails, the people
take the matter in their own hands.” Or as John F. Kennedy put it, “Those who
make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”
Increasingly, though, those
desiring a violent revolution that may visit tyranny are getting their way.
Selwyn Duke, The New American, 29-8-2017
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