Razorfist on how the Democrat-caused riots got out of their control
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I like Razor, and he's usually on the nose when it comes to political issues -- that's where he made his start after all.
All the same, I feel that he's not entirely recognizing the severity of what's happening with these riots, and what they could lead to.
Yes, there is an ongoing conflict between the establishment Left and the hardliner socialist Left that is currently burning down Dem cities, and starting to put even Democrat politicians on alert, if Lightfoot's legion-strong police protection detail is any indication.
But just because they're currently concentrated in Lefty cities doesn't mean that's where this will end. The rioters -- ANTIFA, BLM, and unaffiliated belligerents alike -- are already starting to try an branch out to suburbs and other politically neutral to Red areas. Appropriately, they're meeting push back, both because they're no longer in areas where they're receiving overwhelming establishment support and protection, and because they're encountering people who aren't going to take their shit. But, they're still trying to expand outwards from the comfort of the chaotic sanctuaries afforded them by the Democrats, and it's likely they'll only get more brazen with their efforts as time goes on.
Additionally, we have to remember that these organizations have a mission -- tear down the US establishment and replace it with a Marxist system -- and foreign-sourced support in the form of money, training, and personnel. They're scarily effective at playing to sympathies and keeping their profile low when it counts while still managing to rack up some serious damage, obviously helped by an apathetic-if-not-allied media front. And although it's not extensive as of yet, they do have blood on their hands and are clamoring for more.
Admittedly, I could be overreacting, but I just don't want people to be blindsided by the New Red Guard tearing down everything around them because they were comforted by the belief that this is just a Leftist tamper tantrum, a political civil war that won't lead to anything other than a deeply-gutted Democratic party and a bunch of tuckered out, placated belligerents.
I'm 100% with you. The leftists and BLM Marxists are essentially using the Dem cities as a relatively safe training ground, building up their tactics knowledge and endurance for when they eventually push out into the rest of the country. The longer Republicans and other sane people wait to slap this insurrection down, the more people the Marxists will forcibly recruit into their cause, and the harder it will be to dislodge them.
Right now there's a 17 year old kid who took the advice to "slap this insurrection down" facing murder charges for defending himself from people who tried to do him harm. That is why people aren't out in droves trying to stop this thing: because the insurrectionists are protected, and apparently there is no will to defend those who go up against them.
That's something I really wanted to work into my original comment, but forgot to, although I certainly did allude to it multiple times.
And it becomes painfully obvious if you compare the earliest rioter actions to their behavior today, as they've clearly evolved in tactics: adopting better weapons; better cohesion among their 'operatives'; they've become virtual experts at stretching official response thin while also being able to disorient and overwhelm select targets with lasers, strobes, crowds; effectively becoming a self-contained insurgency by utilizing a mix of defensive and offensive agents who all dress in an identity-concealing uniform, making it hard to identify high-priority individuals; etc., etc., etc.
You can find AARs (After Action Reports) and articles (here's a decent one: https://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/2020/08/25/contextual-insurgency-lessons-from-a-week-observing-portland-black-bloc/) on the rioters which lays all this out perfectly. There's a story floating around (that sadly I can't locate at this time) of a former SF guy and his buddies being completely overwhelmed by an effective ANTIFA/BLM response which included the utilization of pepper spray and strobe lights. I had my suppositions before, but reading that was the lighbulb moment that made me fully realize how serious these Marxists really are, and how dangerous they can truly be.
So that's why I can't find any wisdom in Razor's rant this time; he's either willfully ignorant of what these riots truly represent, or is too damn eager to underestimate the rioters as the soy-guzzling, Twitter-spamming, crybullies they appear to be, rather than acknowledge them as the increasingly dangerous insurgent force they're developing into.
Strobe lights and tear gas are a lot less effective at a quarter mile away, and when you stop caring whether someone is a high-value target or merely an enemy combatant, all their tactics break down.
Once anyone in black with a mask is the perfect home for six shots from a .30-06, they realize this is dangerous and scatter like cockroaches when the lights go on.
I agree with you, and I think this is something Styx misses as well. These riots are being supported by the local governments, and the local DAs defend the rioters and prosecute citizens who fight back.
Right now there's a 17 year-old kid that took the advice to "take back your streets" and is now facing first degree murder charges filed by a corrupt DA. Hopefully he isn't found guilty of those charges, but there's a chance he will be; and his life would be effectively over before it hardly had a chance to start. That's a symptom of a far more rotten system than the simplistic analysis of "DNC Civil War" or "A handful of corrupt Dem cities". Where are the Feds to provide "checks and balances" to this corruption? Nowhere to be found. But they'll sure show up if a black person finds a "noose" in a garage, and no one says a word about "Federalism".
That's the BEST case scenario.
People have to realize these overcharging DA's are absolute morons, because they can't prove first degree murder.
If they were smart they'd pick a lesser charge, but instead they virtue signal and try to appear 'tough' then it backfires once it becomes literally impossible to prove.
You want them to overcharge, because that means instead of getting hit with a lower charge he's likely just going to win.
How much of a life do you think he's going to have whenever someone does a background check on him and sees "charged with first degree murder" pop up. Or when someone looks him up online and sees articles that say "far right nazi shoots peaceful protesters".
If he's lucky (people have gotten railroaded by the system before; overcharging is no guarantee he'll get off) he'll get out of this with his liberty intact. That doesn't mean his life returns to normal. His life just became 100x harder. Maybe he thinks it's worth it, but this is something anyone else considering taking the advice to "take back your streets" should know. You will be treated exactly like this by people who will sleep well at night doing this to you.
That's going to happen no matter what he does, the good news is by overcharging him he will now be INNOCENT.
As opposed to GUILTY of a lesser charge.
Always better to be innocent of something worse then guilty of something lesser.
What they've done when they've tried it before is camp out on someone's lawn (or on the sidewalk) and set off fireworks. Maybe every so often something that sounds like a firework is actually a gunshot. It terrorizes the people in the house, to the police it sounds mostly harmless, and the action probably wouldn't to a "reasonable observer" warrant lethal force since it'd be hard to make a case you thought your life was in danger.
These people have lawyers who tell them where the line is, and they are masters of going right up against that line to provoke you to do something they can get their lawyers to pressure the cops to charge you for. We need to be prepared for that style of legal maliciousness.
Demand trial by jury, educate prospective jurors about nullification. The State only wields as much power as we permit it to, and too many juries rubber-stamp the requests of prosecutors.