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To: Bill who wrote (825273)

12/24/2014 6:10:23 AM

From: FJB

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The Daily Beast ‘realizes’ that the Black Bloc blackshirts have infected the #ferguson protests.
RedState by Moe Lane

Took ‘em long enough.

Evidence from photos, videos, social-media posts and interviews suggest that a group—the New York chapter of the Trayvon Martin Organizing Committee, or TMOC—might have been involved. There is no definitive proof that TMOC led the call for dead cops, but there is a web of circumstantial ties with the group at its center. …The bedrock of TMOC’s politics, judged by their social-media output, is hatred for police and endorsement of violence against them. The group seems to blend “black bloc” anarchist street violence with social-media campaigns.

Ah, yes, the blackshirts. I would applaud the Daily Beast’s diligence in tracking down precisely which splinter group of the Violent Activist Left was responsible for helping to get two cops killed, but: what took the Daily Beast so long?

It was obvious even before the Thanksgiving protest-rioting that the ‘black bloc’ was going to take over the police protests.
It was obvious during the post-Thanksgiving store assaults in San Francisco that the ‘black bloc’ was involved.
It was obvious here and here that the ‘black bloc’s’ tactics of infrastructure hits and deliberate attacks on American/democratic/capitalistic/normal iconography were insinuating themselves through the protests.
It was obvious what was going on when the ‘black bloc’s’ old friend – the Molotov Cocktail – started showing up at protests.
And it certainly has been obvious for yearsthat the Left’s protests have been invariably infected by the ‘black bloc’ at every turn, to the point where the Left no longer knows what actual populists even look like.

Admittedly, one of the reasons why it took the Daily Beast so long is because the writers at the Daily Beast desperately need to pretend thatthis infection, this insinuation, this perversion is unique, a one-off, a dolorous miracle. But it wasn’t. Every single time the Left goes on the march in this country, the black bloc – or as I call them, the blackshirts – move in. They move in, and then they take over, and then the marches go down dark paths. The problem here? …Blackshirts hate cops. And this time the blackshirts’ charming habit of throwing sparks onto tinder led to a blaze that murdered two police officers.

So far.

In other words: as I’ve said in other contexts… the murder of two cops was not a function of a failure of the system. It is a function of the system. And it was the more mainstream Left’s job to keep these… people… under control. But apparently nobody on the Left actually knows how to do something like that.

Moe Lane ( crosspost)

PS: One last note: the Daily Beast called these people ‘monsters:’ not that I necessarily disagree (the blackshirts are humans, but humans can be monsters), but I was surprised that a house organ for the Left would use that language. And then I realized: they did that because the Left needs to turn the ‘black bloc’ into the Other. Not that it’ll work, of course, but what choice do they have?

The post The Daily Beast ‘realizes’ that the Black Bloc blackshirts have infected the #ferguson protests. appeared first on RedState.

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To: Bill who wrote (825273)	12/24/2014 6:14:52 AM
From: FJB	Respond to of 1578468

Communists Are Behind the Anti-Police Protests In New York Power Line by John Hinderaker Beginning way back in 2002, we wrote about International A.N.S.W.E.R., a Communist organization that was founded in September 2001 and that organized substantial antiwar demonstrations during the Bush administration. A.N.S.W.E.R. embodied within itself the seeming contradiction between the far left and Islamic extremism: it enthusiastically supported both Kim il Jung and Saddam Hussein, and is directed in part by the Muslim Student Association. Our earliest posts on A.N.S.W.E.R. have been lost in our various database moves; the first one that survives is this brief post from January 2003. At one time I did some research to try to figure out where A.N.S.W.E.R.’s money comes from. From publicly available filings I could deduce that they are supported by a handful of rich benefactors, but I couldn’t identify who they were. We haven’t paid attention to A.N.S.W.E.R. for a while, but their current web site suggests that the Islamic element has become more pronounced: A distinguishing feature of the organizing principles and work of the answer coalition, in contrast with the traditional U.S.peace movement was its uncompromising support in defense of the rights of the Palestinian people. In April 2002, the ANSWER Coalition organized the largest demonstrations in solidarity with the Palestinian people in U.S. history, of more than 100,000 people. ANSWER, which at its core included a partnership between Arab and non-Arab activists, fought a long and successful battle against excluding the Palestinian struggle for self-determination from the anti-war and peace movement. In the years since, we have mobilized across the country to stop the repeated assaults against and massacres of the people of Gaza. Most recently ANSWER lead a march of 50,000 people in Washington, D.C. on August 2, 2014 to protest the Israeli massacre against people in Gaza. ANSWER has mobilized against the illegal coup and UN occupation of Haiti, against the illegal blockade of Cuba, and the illegal ‘regime change’ war on Libya. We are actively fighting against the ongoing occupation of Afghanistan, the renewed assaults on Iraq and Syria, the drone attacks on Yemen, Pakistan and Somalia, among others. But that doesn’t mean that A.N.S.W.E.R. has given up on Communism. The front page of its site currently celebrates Barack Obama’s collaboration with the Castro regime with the banner headline “The Cuban Five Are FREE!” Given all of that, we shouldn’t have been surprised to see that the current demonstrations in New York against the police are being led by the Communist, pro-terrorist International A.N.S.W.E.R. This is from the organization’s Twitter feed: In front of the plaza now to #ShutDown5thAve #WinterOfResistance #JailKillerCops #every28hours pic.twitter.com/Q9zGxON7ke — ANSWER Coalition (@answercoalition) December 23, 2014 A.N.S.W.E.R. is close to unique, in that it advocates for pretty much every form of evil in the world. Who pays for it, what masters it serves, remains unknown. But that evil infuses its every act, is obvious.