Every patriot should read the article linked to above ("AP finds most arrestedi n protests aren'te leftist radicals".)
If you didn't know it already (!), you'll see the dishonesty of the mainstream media, where politics is concerned, on full display.
You read the headline and think, "Oh ... they weren't leftists ... they weren't radicals..." ... and indeed, you can find, at the end of the article, references to a few rightwingers [let's call them that for the sake of argument] who were involved in violence. But the great majority were like this fellow:
"
Brian Bartels, a 20-year-old suburban Pittsburgh man who is described by prosecutors as a “self-identified left-wing anarchist,” was flanked by his parents when he turned himself in to authorities. Bartels, who lives at his parents’ house, spray painted an “A” on a police cruiser before jumping on top of it and smashing its windshield during a protest in the city, prosecutors said. He pleaded guilty in September."
Sounds like a leftwinger to me, and smashing up a police car sounds pretty radical to me.
So, what is the AP really saying: that the majority of people arrested
were not members of a leftist organization. An honest headline would have been something like "AP finds most of those arrested in protests were not formal members of a radical leftist organization."
There
are some radical leftist organizations around: the Socialist Workers Party, the Revolutionary Communist Party, the Progressive Labor Party, Workers World Party, Party for Socialism and Liberation, Socialist Equality Party .... but these people are not stupid, and their members rarely commit felonies. They're often present at demonstrations and riots, but they're not dumb enough to throw Molotov cocktails or jump up and down on police cars while a dozen mobile phones, not to mention police helicopters, are videoing them.
And of course some of the rioters were just out to get a flat-screen TV.
And as regards Anti-Fa, we need a new word to describe it: it's not an organization where you sign up, get a membership card, pay dues, sell a newspaper at factory gates, and go to study groups to read the anarchist classics.
But it is a real thing. Perhaps the closest thing on the Right is the 'militia movement' -- not the Three Percenters or the Oath Keepers (both of which self-destructed over the 6 January insanity), but the little groups of people around the country which get together from time to play soldier-boy and provide employment for FBI informants.
It's real, but not a national organization with formal membership. [I'm being overly harsh towards the militia movement here: most are good patriots and well-meaning. And some militia groups are doing the right thing, for example, the Houston branch of the Texas State Militia: [
TSM Houston Militia – Houston Militia ]
If you must call yourselves a militia, this is the way to be one -- involved in things like Habitat for Humanity. (I'm not kidding:
[
Community – TSM Houston Militia ] )
But better to follow the example of the former Oathkeepers in Arizona, at [
YCPT ] and become a 'Community Defense Team'. Juliet had it right [
Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Scene 2.]
We
have to read the mainstream media, AP, the
New York Times, the
Washington Post, etc. When they're not reporting on sex, race or American politics, they're pretty good.
Certainly at present there is no equivalent on the Right, unfortunately. In fact, the very worst media can be found on the Right, preying on us for money. So ... read all, trust none.
Not in this life Hot shot.
