Prepping for Woke apocalypse: the violent Left is loaded for bear and ready for war.
The investigation and prosecution of their members, methods, and funding must commence now.
On May 30, 2020, about ten blocks from my townhome in relatively sleepy Omaha, Marine veteran Jacob Gardner, 38, shot and killed Black Lives Matter rioter and convicted felon, James Scurlock, 22, who’d viciously and unjustifiably attacked Gardner, his father, and his popular music venue The Hive as well as at least one neighboring Old Market building. Acting out of legitimate self-defense after being gang-tackled by Scurlock’s mob of rioters reaching for his gun, Gardner was not initially charged in the killing. After a series of lies, smears, and disinformation from prosecutors and BLM activists, a few months later Gardner was charged with manslaughter.
Fearing he would be murdered in custody or that costs to mount an effective legal defense would bankrupt him and his family, Gardner committed suicide far away from Omaha in Hillsboro, Oregon. No marches, “peaceful protests,” or monuments were dedicated in his honor. Unlike George Floyd, who also did not deserve to die, Gardner was a hard-working, responsible, if imperfect business owner who had served his country in uniform and just happened to be the wrong color on the wrong night.
Nearly a year later, Gardner’s tragic death was still on my mind as the one-sided, Pelosi-picked, January 6 kangaroo committee was jammed through Congress. To his interminable shame, GOP Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy failed to leverage his office to get fair-minded Republicans on the panel. Still, I posited to Democratic friends and colleagues on and off Capitol Hill that any investigation into political violence should be bipartisan and comprehensive. “What about the far more virulent, destructive, extensive, deadly, and lengthier political violence from Antifa, BLM, and their anarchistic ilk? Shouldn’t we look into that too?” I naively queried. “We’ll get to that,” responded gleeful, bloodthirsty, TDS-infected judges, professors, teachers, Democratic reps, and staff. “First, let’s get Trump.”
Predictably, Democrats, let alone the January 6 committee, never got to left-wing political violence, which Democratic leaders enabled and supported––even naming streets in honor of the very terrorists that engineered the maelstrom of barbarity and illegal occupation that terrorized America. Instead of addressing political violence in total, the January 6 Committee inflicted upon America a year-long, unchecked, prime-time J6 infomercial, ensuring their outsized performance in the 2022 midterms. I would have applauded their Bolshevik strategic genius if it hadn’t been so catastrophic for due process, election integrity, and the rule of law.
In today’s progressive hive mind, the abhorrent and ghastly Summer of Insurrection is still perversely justified under the all-forgiving gamp of “social justice.” The MAGA Capitol rioters thought they were fighting for justice too, which did not excuse their crimes. Political violence under any pretext should always be verboten. But under today’s Woke censorious tyranny, that standard only applies to one side, a staggering hypocrisy that Trump-deranged Democrats refuse to acknowledge.
A simple at-home test should be made available to determine if one is Trump-deranged: “Should the orchestrators and actors of the 2020 Summer of Insurrection across dozens of American cities have faced at least the same relentless prosecution and maximalist sentencing as the January 6 trespassers?” If you answer no, then two pink/purple lines will appear on your forehead: one on the top half, one on the bottom half. You have tested positive for TDS.
Given the viral spread of Trump Derangement Syndrome, most of those who rampaged through American cities, murdering police and civilians, burning down businesses, and attacking, invading, and torching police precincts and federal buildings received little or no punishment. They still walk free, their far worse political violence forgiven and forgotten. As the pro-infanticide, pro-pot, pro-anarchy, pro-criminal, open-border, cancel-culture, DEI Left prepares to defeat Trump “by any means necessary,” they are legitimizing even further violence by their anarcho-racialist stormtroopers. Their tired “saving democracy” nostrum will again become the media-reinforced aegis under which Left-wing violence, rioting, and anarchy will be conveniently, smugly, and reflexively unleashed.
The Left’s anti-Israel, anti-Semitic, pro-Hamas violence we just witnessed on city streets and college campuses was merely the dress rehearsal for the great big Woke rumble to come. With law enforcement hand-tied by defund-the-police Mayors, the Justice Department politicized by TDS-infected anti-Trumpers, and Democrat-run cities already open range for wanton criminality, almost no one is taking the threat of left-wing civil unrest seriously. But they should.
City Journal explains the threat perfectly: “Progressives are restless and ready. Left-wing activists have established a constellation of institutions to support public demonstrations. Protest NGOs, media entities, research centers, black-bloc (Antifa) networks, and bail funds are all finely tuned to mobilize mass movements. The Left carefully manages its licit and illicit factions: progressive political leaders tacitly delegate the dirty work to anarchist and racialist factions, which can change costumes—for example, from a BLM mask to a Palestinian keffiyeh—at any moment.”
Knowing this, what should we do about it? Proper preparation for the Left’s insurrectionist plans should start with a congressional committee tasked with doing what the partisan January 6 Committee deliberately failed to do: investigate and infiltrate Antifa, BLM, and other left-wing terrorist nodes and cells currently prepping for civil war. A rigorous 9/11-style investigation of their funding and weapons should begin immediately with ensuing prosecution––using federal anti-riot statutes––of all Summer of Insurrection criminals, even as we protect the Left’s constitutional rights to peaceably assemble and advance whatever hateful CRT, BDS disinformation warms the sick counter-factual cuckolds of their anti-American, anti-Enlightenment hearts.
The rhetorically challenged, not-yet-presidential, but effective Florida Governor Ron DeSantis gave us a prototype for a proactive response. During the 2020 Summer of Insurrection, DeSantis ensured that comparatively little of the Left’s reign of terror touched the Sunshine State. He immediately activated the Flordia National Guard and, in contradistinction to BLM-enabling Democratic mayors and governors, declared “zero tolerance” for left-wing mayhem. No surprise that during the Summer of Insurrection Florida witnessed far less per capita rioting, looting, arson, and other violence compared to most other states.
In 2021, DeSantis also signed the Combating Public Disorder Act, which made rioters pay restitution and face second-degree felony charges for damaging memorials and monuments, added penalties for mob intimidation (especially important for minority small business owners, who are most adversely affected by Woke Marxist violence), and increased penalties for crimes like assault, battery, battery on a law enforcement officer, criminal mischief, burglary, and theft when these crimes are committed during, or in furtherance of, a riot. As DeSantis said after Hurricane Ida, “You loot, we shoot.”
Similar anti-rioting laws must be enacted across the fruited plain before the Left’s well-financed bedlam gets underway with this summer’s nominating conventions. These anti-riot initiatives must be combined with extensive and robust stand-your-ground laws that allow innocent civilians to defend their homes, families, and businesses from violent Woke mobs. There must be additional protections for drivers who accidentally kill or maim attackers in their attempt to escape mob violence directed at them and their vehicle.
Independents, non-TDS Democrats, Libertarians, Trumpers, Conservatives, and Paul Ryan supply-side Republicans all see the need to stop the untrammeled, un-prosecuted, and increasingly emboldened violent Democratic Left. But the Left has the potent forces of Big Tech censorship, partisan media, revisionist entertainment, DEI-extorted Wall Street, gullible Woke donors, big city mayors, tenured professors, and unionized teachers all in their corner. They are immensely powerful and completely in cahoots with the radical terrorism they are enabling. They will keep playing their broken January 6 record to distract voters from their more organized and threatening insurgency. Ignore them, enable them, and go to sleep on them at your peril.
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