Category: Antifa

I’m Tired Of Revolution. Can We Go Home Now?

The German substacker Eugyppius recounts his secret mission to infiltrate an “anti-Nazi” protest in Dresden. It seems that the revolution is short on both enthusiasm and logic these days.

Yesterday I finally went to one of these unceasing ritual protests “against the right.” I’ve been planning to do this for a while, and the time had finally come. I donned a sensible cap and a wool overcoat in an effort to look the part of a random sympathetic leftist academic, and set off into the night.

The human chain defended liberal rights and freedoms for ten minutes, starting at 6pm. Thereafter, organisers invited the links of their chain to stick around and “positively occupy” city squares. Our good liberals, in other words, having finished their extremely correct commemoration of bombing victims and taken a stance against the “instrumentalisation” of 13 February “by the right,” were then told to join the “Dresden Wi(e)dersetzen” demonstration, whose organisers had smeared them in the press as “new Nazis” just five days previously. You might be thinking that this is all very stupid, and you would be right. Towering unbelievable stupidity was the order of the night.

The Venomous Poison of the Woke & Violent Left

SDA regular, William McNally, has written an important piece about recent events:

Since the October 7th Simchat Torah pogrom, you might have noticed a lot of antisemitic hate at universities. Do you wonder where the hate comes from? It comes from post-colonial theory, the topic with the lexical word salad including ‘decolonisation’, ‘imperialism’, ‘settler’, ‘cultural appropriation’, ‘resistance’ and ‘indigenisation’. Post-colonial is one of a number of critical social justice (CSJ) theories which have infiltrated and occupy North American universities. You may not know what CSJ is, but you probably know its fruit: DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion), anti-racism, gender theory (what is a woman?) and unconscious bias training.

I want to draw your attention to a recent tactical move by the critical theory folks at a college in my town: the University of Waterloo (UW). This is relevant to the current moment, because it is all of a piece with the pro-Hamas blood lust. Critical theory is what unifies people who chant “from the river to the sea” and those who punch TERFs at Posie Parker events, who advocate men competing in women’s sports, who topple statues, burn churches and who want to defund the police. The event I am about to describe demonstrates the power and malign intent of CSJ activists.

Transgender Is A Stalking Horse For The Normalization of Pedophilia

Change my mind.

Following the disappearance of a Canadian child last month, a 40-year-old Portland-area man and radio host on the left-wing station, KBOO, has been arrested for child trafficking and child rape.

Noah Whitefield Madrano, of Gladstone, Ore., allegedly kidnapped a 13-year-old girl from Edmonton, Alberta. She was reported missing by her family on June 24 after never showing up for school and was finally discovered in an Oregon City hotel room more than a week later by local police and agents with the FBI. Oregon City is about 12 miles south of Portland.

Madrano is currently being held on a $500,000 bond in Clackamas County, Ore. on felony charges of first-degree sexual abuse, second-degree rape and second-degree kidnapping.

Madrano used male, female and nonbinary pronouns and the monikers, “Bud Jackson,” “NoMad” and “Noah Zark.”

Antifa, of course.

It’s pretty sick stuff, you may regret clicking the link.

Police, Defunding Themselves

Post Millenial;

The Rapid Response Team, a unit within the Portland police department, voted unanimously to resign on Wednesday during a meeting with the police union. This follows the criminal indictment of an officer for assault stemming from a riot in August 2020, sources within the police bureau told The Post Millennial.

Officer Corey Budworth was on the Rapid Response Team, a group police officers that volunteer for the post, and are deployed to respond to riots, civil unrest, and demonstrations in Portland. Budworth was indicted and charged with one count of fourth degree assault, a misdemeanor by Multnomah District Attorney Mike Schmidt’s office on Tuesday.

On the night of August 18, 2020, Antifa militants threw a Molotov cocktail into the County Sheriff’s Department Headquarters as the Rapid Response Team struggled to contain the riot.

In a statement released after the indictment, Schmidt said “In this case, we allege that no legal justification existed for Officer Budworth’s deployment of force, and that the deployment of force was legally excessive under the circumstances.”

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“Now that the riot team is no more, we have no clue what’s going to happen. We don’t have enough patrol officers to be pulled from the road to handle huge crowds,” a Portland police officer said. “We are only backups with no gear like the riot team has.”

This is ahead of massive demonstrations and protests that are planned for this upcoming weekend.

Tim Pool and Michael Malice discuss.

Biden Brings The Troops Home

Biden administration dismisses federal charges against Portland rioters;

They have dropped charges such as assault on a law enforcement officer, arson, and other violent crimes. Many have been dropped with prejudice, meaning they can’t be re-litigated in the future. According to a local news outlet, federal prosecutors have dismissed more than one-third of the pending charges from last summer’s violent protests in Portland.[…]
 
The local news report takes great pains to quote those involved who claim that these decisions were not motivated by politics, but rather by limited resources, large caseloads, COVID-19, and other factors. It strains credulity, however, to think a new direction has not taken hold among the federal law enforcement system as a new president has taken over and begun reversing every Trump agenda item it can target.
 

President Trump very publicly made law and order a theme of his reelection campaign, and a centerpiece of his agenda to get America back on track. With this quiet, under-the-radar move to cease the pursuit of justice for violent riot crimes, the Biden administration is sending a subtle, yet very clear, opposite message. To the new administration, law and order are selective, arbitrary, and dependent upon the politics of the offender.

(Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!)

Just An Idea

Olympia mayor calls forcible occupation of hotel ‘domestic terrorism’

City officials in Olympia, Wash., on Tuesday condemned the actions of activists aligned with the group Oly Housing Now, after the forcible occupation of a hotel over the weekend to demand pandemic housing for the homeless, according to a report.
 
“I’m calling this crime an act of domestic terrorism,” Olympia Mayor Cheryl Selby said at a city council meeting on Tuesday, according to the Olympian.
 
The group of approximately 45 people barged into the Downtown Olympia Red Lion Hotel around 11 a.m. local time Sunday “armed with items such as hatchets, batons, knives and had gasmasks, helmets, and goggles apparently in preparation for a confrontation,” the city announced in a press release.

I’ve reached out to Bill Blair’s office.

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