It is clear that mayhem in more than 70 cities across the United States is not merely a spontaneous outburst of public anger about the…
It is clear that mayhem in more than 70 cities across the United States is not merely a spontaneous outburst of public anger about the terrible death of George Floyd, a black man who was killed at the hands (and knee) of a white Minneapolis police officer.
It is true that there have been many large, peaceful demonstrations of justified outrage. But in an ironic act of cynical cultural appropriation, to which many commentators turn a blind eye, these have been traduced by white, left-wing militants, many dressed in antifa black, who visit vandalism, beatings, and even death on innocent citizens and the police.
There has also been a squalid orgy of mass looting, some organized and some opportunistic, which shows that even though genuine revolutionaries make up only a small minority, their ideology that all property is theft has spread and infected our culture like a pandemic.
Let’s focus on the revolutionaries. New York City’s deputy police commissioner, John Miller, says they operated with detailed targeting, advance scouts, encrypted communication, resupply routes for weapons (such as rocks, bottles, gasoline, and other fire accelerants), the raising of bail money for people who have been arrested, and medics in key locations.
“Disorder, property damage, violence, and violent encounters with the police [were planned] before the first demonstration or before the first arrest,” Miller concluded. This is obviously true.
We’re watching a social crackup linked to decades of leftward drift, moral relativism, and education displaced by propaganda. Generations have been inculcated with the fabrications of Howard Zinn, a professed Marxist and anarchist whose textbook on America is still in schools persuading children that their country is uniquely terrible, with an unbroken history of base betrayal, self-delusion, and hypocritical ideals.
