The Enemy at the Gate

          Black Lives Matter is not about ending police brutality.  “Defund the Police” is not about re-training the police but eliminating law enforcement altogether. The death of George Floyd was merely a pretext for launching BLM’s campaign against our democracy. Protests are a means to humiliate everyone into paying homage to BLM, to give it legitimacy, to enlist ignorant youth to join the ranks, to force political leaders to their knees, and to extort financial support from corporations and foundations.

            We should have no doubt that Black Lives Matter is a serious ideological movement that seeks to overthrow our values and our culture. The toppling of statues by the BLM-inspired mob is a clear signal that our very history will be erased. And if you think that Black Lives Matter will be happy when all statues it finds offensive have been torn down, read what BLM activist Shawn King wrote:

            “All murals and stained-glass windows of white Jesus and his European mother and their white friends should also come down. They are a gross form of white supremacy created as tools of oppression. Racist propaganda. They should all come down.”

            Black Lives Matter intends nothing less than the destruction of western civilization. The arson, looting, and property destruction by its Antifa brothers is a message that violence and anarchy will go on until BLM’s goal is met.

            What is that goal? We need go no further than listening to Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi, the co-founders of Black Lives Matter. They boast of being radical Marxists whose avowed goal is completely removing democracy and capitalism from this country. They want a totalitarian communist state, and they will achieve that goal unless someone stops them.

            But first, let’s try appeasement. Let’s rename Washington’s 16^th Street NW, call it Black Lives Matter Plaza, and paint the new name in bold, yellow letters on the pavement. Let’s evacuate and not defend that Minneapolis police precinct under attack by the mob. Let’s not object to the creation of an armed autonomous zone in the heart of Seattle. Let’s apologize to Colin Kaepernick and kneel with him when he returns to the NFL Let’s remove the likeness of Aunt Jemima from our box of pancake mix.

            We have become a nation of cringing, guilt-ridden apologists. The enemy, I’m afraid, is well inside our gates.

         

Madness n the Streets

            The proximate cause of the protests raging around the country was the gruesome video of George Floyd gasping for breath under the knee of Derek Chauvin.  But the cauldron of anarchy had been brewing for a long time.

            Black Lives Matter, the radical anti-police organization, was launched in 2012, but the cowardly, black-clad Antifa thugs responsible for the arson and destruction of property trace their ideological Marxist origins all the way back to the Soviet Union in 1921, with re-incarnations in 1932 Germany and Britain’s Anti-Fascist Action in 1985. Antifa’s long-term objective has always been to abolish capitalism in favor of a communist world order, and its methods have always been characterized by extreme violence. By goading authorities into action, they become ideal partners in Black Lives Matter’s crusade to abolish the police.

            The protesters in the streets, however, are not all black, and only a few resort to torching police cars and throwing bricks through windows. They are mostly in their 20s and 30s, many of them college graduates whose minds were shaped by the leftist educators who dominate university culture.

            Academia, then, carries much of the blame for what is tearing our country apart. So many of the youths now marching in our streets were never trained in the intellectual pursuit of the truth or about civic virtue. Instead, they were indoctrinated in the radical view of America as a capitalist and imperialist nation of racists, sexists, and homophobes with a history of oppressing people of color. It’s no wonder these protesters have bought the lies of Black Lives Matter and cannot see the destructive agenda of Antifa.

            A photograph I saw of a protester in Brooklyn says it all. The young, black woman is holding up a sign that says, “No Justice, No Peace, Abolish the Police.” Her open jacket reveals a T-shirt with the hammer and sickle communist symbol across the front. She is surrounded by young men and women—all white.

            Exactly how do protesters like these think that abolishing the police will result in justice and peace? Are they so ignorant of history that they would end the freedom and prosperity we enjoy and replace it with communism? Have they never been taught about the tens of millions killed by the likes of Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot?

            Sadly, these champions of “justice” are the same ones cheering as statues are being torn down in San Francisco, Boston, and Richmond. And not just of Confederate generals, but of historic American figures like Junipero Sierra and Francis Scott Key. And what did Miguel Cervantes ever bequeath to us that his statue deserved to be defaced? Christopher Columbus? Washington and Jefferson? Even Abraham Lincoln? What kind of justice demands that all of them must be found guilty of racist oppression and erased from our collective memories? What madness.

The Lies of Black Lives Matter

            The image of Derek Chauvin pressing his knee to George Floyd’s neck was horrific. But when the brutal act resulted in Floyd’s death, it became a gift from heaven for Black Lives Matter.

            The radical protest movement that adopted the slogan of Black Lives Matter was launched in 2012 after the shooting death of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman, although there was no evidence to show that Zimmerman acted in anything other than self-defense.

            The shooting of Michael Brown by a policeman in Missouri in 2014 led to cries of “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot.” The facts proved this to be a lie, but Black Lives Matter had found its true motivator: the killing of blacks by racist police. BLM organized protests in cities and university campuses around the country, even though BLM’s charge of systemic racism was not supported by data on police killings of blacks.

            In Staten Island later that year Eric Garner died after a police choke hold. The officer was accused of murder but was not prosecuted, and a new slogan was born: “I Can’t Breathe.” It would resonate once again in Minneapolis.       In the meantime, protests grew louder and more violent, In December 2014, two officers were assassinated in Brooklyn in a revenge killing for Eric Garner’s death.

            BLM led more protests when Freddie Gray died in police custody in 2016. It didn’t matter that the three officers involved were found not guilty; the movement had a new life. And protests grew more violent yet. Five officers were assassinated in Dallas, three more in Baton Rouge.

            Covid-19 took center stage in the news in 2020 until May 25, when the world saw an 8-minute video of George Floyd losing his life under the brutal knee of Derek Chauvin. And since then we have been witnesses to the worst violence and destruction in our country’s history in response.

            Lost among the impassioned eulogies for George Floyd was the hushed truth about what led to his death. One immense painting of Floyd shows him wearing the wings of an angel. But he was no angel. George Floyd had a history of criminal trespassing and theft with a firearm. He was jailed multiple times and sentenced to five years in prison for aggravated robbery. On the day he died, he was arrested for passing a counterfeit bill. Handcuffed and high on fentanyl and meth, he resisted arrest for three minutes before being forced to the ground by officers. None of this was on the 8-minute video that went viral.

            “No Justice, No Peace,” cried the mob. Derek Chauvin was arrested and charged with murder and will likely spend most of the rest of his life in prison. But that was not enough for Black Lives Matter. It now called for defunding the police.

            To ensure that its objectives were met, BLM intimidated politicians, academics, corporations, and Hollywood elites to bow abjectly in obeisance to BLM’s “truth.” Nancy Pelosi and Congressional Democrats donned African garb and knelt in submission. Even some cops prostrated themselves in admission of guilt. The mayor of Washington renamed a plaza for Black Lives Matter. Armed radicals created an autonomous zone in the heart of Seattle.

            The ultimate BLM lie is that America, from its very founding, is guilty of systemic racism. Statues of Confederate heroes must be pulled down. Military bases named after Confederate generals must be renamed. Even monuments to George Washington and Thomas Jefferson must not be spared. History must be re-written, and reparations paid.

            Are there bad cops and racists among us? Of course, there are. But that fact does not justify the radical movement to anarchy. And it doesn’t excuse the silence of leaders who should be challenging BLM’s lies. What is happening to my country?

The Enemy Is Us

          China (the Chinese Communist Party, not the Chinese people) is our mortal enemy. It has vowed to become the world’s number one superpower, and to achieve this it must first destroy America. And it is well on its way to doing just that.

          For at least the last decade, but especially since the accession of Chairman XI Jinping, it has put together a multi-faceted strategy to defeat us on every front. It has used its cheap labor to shut our factories; it has flooded our shores with cheap products; it has created a virtual monopoly on pharmaceuticals; it has stolen our intellectual property; it has sent its diplomats to spy on us, and sent its 4students to our universities to learn from the best of our academies; it has taken the lead in advanced technological developments.

          On the international front the Chinese have brazenly built and armed islands in the South China Sea to control shipping routes in that area; it has funded North Korea’s nuclear weapons program; it has allied itself with America’s opponents, like Iran, Cuba, and Venezuela; it has launched a massive Belt & Road initiative to advance its interests in—and eventually control—third world countries.

          Then it seized on a brand-new strategy that just fell into its lap by accident. When Wuhan became infected with Covid-19, it immediately closed the city to prevent the spread of the disease to the rest of China, but allowed infected people to travel abroad to infect the rest of the world, all the while colluding with the WHO to prevent others from learning the truth and taking steps to control the virus. China intentionally infected the rest of the world, and its leaders are now rubbing their hands in glee at seeing how well their strategy has succeeded in America.

          China could not possibly have imagined a better way to destroy our economy and impoverish our citizens; it could not possibly have found better allies than our governors and mayors to do their dirty work by shutting down our schools and businesses, by locking our citizens indoors, by denying them their constitutional rights to assemble, to worship, and to work.

          President Trump called this the worst attack on our shores since Pearl Harbor. And he was right.        

          Now Chairman Xi and his cohorts are laughing even harder as they see the United States doing their dirty work for them. They are no doubt cheering for the rioters who are burning, looting, and destroying our cities. And they couldn’t be happier at seeing our impotent leaders actually justify the protests, as they are powerless to stop the violence.

          Again, President Trump, for all his hesitation, is the only one to call for all our resources, even our military, to engage in the fight to stop the thugs and the criminals—and yes, the terrorists—from destroying our country.

          It’s about time all of us realize that The United States has found a new mortal enemy. And that enemy is us.